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n Yes, it’s the time of the term to avoid Nerf guns, chases through the quad marshmallows flying through the air

By Evan AndersonThe Daily BaromeTer

Starting April 13, zombies will begin roam-ing the streets and halls of the Oregon State University campus. Humans vs. Zombies — commonly referred to as “HvZ” — is a student-organized, week-long game of modified tag, commonly played at OSU in the fall and spring terms.

The idea for the game was originally con-ceived in 2005 at Goucher College, Maryland, but it quickly spread over the next few years, and is now played internationally by more than 650 universities. Its popularity has grown so much, in fact, that a movie based off the game, aptly titled “Humans Versus Zombies” has been scheduled for release to DVD and Blu Ray in May 2012.

Oregon State’s own version of the game began in 2008, and has steadily increased in popularity since then, with some recent games having over 700 participants.

Once began, all participants are broken up into two teams: the initially large human resis-tance and the small but quickly growing zombie horde. The only objective of the game is survival.

Zombies survive by “feeding” every 48 hours; that is, physically tagging a human player, at which point they, too, join the zombie team. Humans survive by evading the zombie horde and staying “alive” until the end of the week.

Human survival is accomplished by perhaps the most noticeable aspect of the game: an unrestrained use of the wide arsenal of Nerf toys manufactured by Hasbro. Human players are allowed to fire the Nerf projectiles at any approaching zombie player, who, if hit, is then stunned for 15 minutes, and unable to tag any human for that duration.

The game is not designed to stop at any point during the week it is played. Humans are expect-ed to defend themselves on their way to class, the library, lunch and at any time of day. The game boundaries are anywhere outside within

the greater campus area, barring a few safety precautions, such as stairways and crosswalks.

Not only does basic play continue for the whole week, but frequently special missions are held in the evenings, pitting large groups of both the teams against each other, with special objec-tives and rewards for the winning team.

Because of the heavily team-oriented style of play, many participants find themselves meet-ing new people and making friends over the course of the game. The official website for the game says it “creates deep bonds between play-ers, instantly removing social boundaries by forcing players to engage as equals and cooper-ate for their survival.”

Orientations for the game will be held Sunday, April 8; Monday, April 9; and Tuesday, April 10. Registration will continue to be open until the start of the game, and can be accomplished by visiting the website specifically dedicated to OSU play: osundead.com.

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Members and supporters of the Coalition of Graduate Employees delivered a petition to President Ed Ray during an action yesterday in Kerr Administration Building. The petition had been signed by 24 state legislators and urged the President to voluntarily recognize the Coalition of Graduate Employees as the union for all graduate student employees. The union recently filed a motion with the state Employment Relations board after it collected authorization cards from 485 unrepresented graduate student employees of the university.

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Cheba Hut is set to open a new franchise at the former Big Town Hero spot on Monroe. The shop is the 15th for the franchise to open.


Gadzooks! There are zombies afoot ! Participants run from chasing zombies.

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Monroe, will offer post smoking munchy themed eats, treats

By drew Wilson-McGrathThe Daily BaromeTer

In February, the once illuminated windows of Big Town Hero were covered with black tarp as the sandwich shop closed down for good. For the past month and a half, the blackened windows have been in a state of refurbish-ment, with another sandwich shop taking its place.

Cheba Hut, a chain of marijuana themed sandwich shops, is taking the place of Big Town Hero and will be celebrating its grand opening April 13. The Corvallis restaurant will be the fifteenth Cheba Hut restaurant to open since its beginning in 1998.

“It’s about the interaction, not the transac-tion,” said Matt Trethewey, the Chief Operating Officer of Cheba Hut Toasted Subs.

As the name may dictate to some, Cheba Hut is a counter-culture themed quick service restaurant with a focus on marijuana and those among us who get what some refer to as “the munchies.” According to Trethewey, the marijuana theme was initially just a highly successful marketing strategy instituted by Cheba Hut president and CEO Scott Jennings when he first decided to start the budding franchise in the neighborhood of Arizona State University, where he attended school.

“Our client base is a moving target,” said Trethewey. “We see a lot of people in our stores. It’s America. Sure we see students and stoners, but it’s really everybody. Our core demographic ranges from ages 18 to 34.”

Like any business hoping to garner success in a college community, not only does the food need to be tasty and affordable, but it also needs to be able to satisfy a variety of dif-ferent palates. Cheba Hut offers a wide array

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CalendarThursday, April 5SpeakersCollege of Forestry, 3:30-5pm, 107 Richardson Hall. 2012 Starker Lecture Series – Watershed Moments: People, Forests & Water. “Forest Watershed Research: Management Under the Microscope” - Dr. George Brown, Dean Emeritus, OSU College of Forestry and Dr. George Ice, Fellow, National Council for Air and Stream Improve-ment (NCASI).

Monday, April 9SpeakersSocratic Club, 7pm, Milam Auditori-um. A debate titled “Have Science and Technology Made God Irrelevant?”

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EventsPublic Health Club, 5-8pm, Dixon Recreation. Public Health Week Vol-leyball Tournament.

Friday, April 13EventsOSU Center for Civic Engagement and The Public Health Club, 11am-3pm, MU Quad. Fun and engaging activities that promote regular par-ticipation in healthy activities. Learn about ways to improve your health and the resources that will allow you to do so!

Public Health Club, 8pm, Dixon Recreation or Valley Library Help Desk. Turn in your Eat the Rainbow sheet.

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Tuesday, April 17MeetingsASOSU Senate, 7pm, MU 109A. Convenes to discuss student issues. Students and student organization del-egates are welcome to attend.

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Fresh off a three-prima-ry sweep that bolstered the perception he is the inevi-table Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney on Wednesday blasted President Barack Obama for running what he called a “hide-and-seek” campaign that lacked candor.

In remarks to a media con-vention that Obama addressed the day before, Romney responded to the president’s harsh attacks on Republicans by accusing Obama of trying to divert attention from his own failed record through “straw men” arguments.

Citing Obama’s recent com-ment to Russia’s president, caught by a still-live micro-phone, that he could be more flexible after his re-election in November, Romney told the gathering of newspaper pub-lishers and editors that the incident “calls his candor into serious question.”

“He does not want to share his real plans before the elec-tion, either with the public or with the press,” Romney said. “By flexibility, he means that ‘what the American public

doesn’t know won’t hurt him.’ He is intent on hiding. You and I will have to do the seeking.”

Romney also took aim at Obama’s speech Tuesday, saying the president “railed against arguments no one is making — and criticized policies no one is proposing.” “It’s one of his favorite strate-gies — setting up straw men to distract from his record,” Romney said, later adding: “With all the challenges the nation faces, this is not the time for President Obama’s hide-and-seek campaign.”

The competing speeches effectively launched the fall presidential campaign, pit-ting the Democratic president running on a populist theme of sticking up for the middle class against the Republican businessman and former Massachusetts governor proposing traditional GOP policies of smaller govern-ment, lower taxes and less regulation to drive economic growth.

“Almost every measure that the president has taken made it harder for small business to decide to grow in America

or for big business to stay here,” Romney said of Obama in response to questions after his speech. “I don’t think that is what the president intend-ed it to do but that is what it has done.”

Overall, Romney said, “I don’t think this has been a great presidency.” While eco-nomic recovery has taken root after the 2008 recession, Romney scoffed that it only happened after “three and a half years” and the expira-tion of government stimulus programs championed by Obama.

“Every recession ends and people get back to work,” Romney said, repeating a line from the campaign trail that this recovery has been the slowest in U.S. history.

On Tuesday, Obama deliv-ered what amounted to his strongest campaign speech so far and referred to Romney by name for the first time in an address.

In attacking a Republican budget plan passed by the U.S. House of Representatives, Obama said that “one of my potential opponents, Gov.

Romney, has said that he hoped a similar version of this plan from last year would be introduced on day one of his presidency” and that Romney was “very supportive of this new budget.”

To Obama, the Republican proposal prepared by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin is a “Trojan horse” disguised as a deficit reduction plan that actually imposes a “radical vision” far to the right of the party’s mainstream heroes such as Ronald Reagan.

“It is thinly veiled social Darwinism,” Obama said. “It is antithetical to our entire histo-ry as a land of opportunity and upward mobility for everyone who’s willing to work for it — a place where prosperity doesn’t trickle down from the top, but grows outward from the heart of the middle class.”

He added that “by gutting the very things we need to grow an economy that’s built to last — education and train-ing, research and develop-ment, infrastructure — it’s a prescription for decline.”

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President Barack Obama signed legis-lation on Wednesday aimed at restoring Americans’ faith in the nation’s public institutions at a time they rank at record lows in opinion polls. The act bans insid-er trading by members of Congress and many executive branch employees.

In a ceremony at the White House, the president referred to the need to address public skepticism about an uneven system.

“The powerful shouldn’t get to cre-ate one set of rules for themselves and another set of rules for everybody else,” Obama said. “If we expect that to apply to our biggest corporations and to our most successful citizens, it certainly applies to our elected officials, especially at a time when there is a deficit of trust between this city and the rest of the country.”

The STOCK Act — the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act — is a rare bipartisan measure coming out of a deeply divided Congress. It makes it clear that members of Congress, their aides and many members of the execu-tive branch cannot use inside informa-tion they learn on the job to trade stocks

or other securities. The law makes such practices criminal and requires public disclosure of any trades within 45 days. It also requires those reports to be made available online in a database that mem-bers of the public can search.

The new law also limits members of Congress and executive employees to participating only in those initial public stock offerings that are available to the general public.

But many public interest groups call the final version weak, because it omit-ted a provision in the Senate version that would have regulated “political intelli-gence,” the practice of gathering infor-mation from lawmakers and Hill aides that could be used to make investment decisions.

Obama pledged to work on additional reforms that would “limit the corrosive influence of money in politics.” He sug-gested that elected officials should not own stock in industries they can affect in their positions, and those who bun-dle campaign contributions should be banned from lobbying Congress.

Although New York Democratic Rep.

Louise Slaughter introduced the legisla-tion six years ago, it didn’t have many supporters or much traction on Capitol Hill until a story that aired on CBS’s “60 Minutes” in November. The report raised questions about whether the access sev-eral high-profile members of Congress had to inside information on legislation helped them profit from financial trans-actions involving companies that were affected. After the report, both House and Senate leaders, mindful of the low public regard for Congress, fast-tracked the measure.

Originally, the bill’s restrictions applied just to members of Congress and their staffs, but Republicans expanded it to cover many executive agency employees.

Despite the overwhelming vote in favor of the bill in both the House and the Senate, none of the top GOP Hill leaders attended the White House bill signing ceremony on Wednesday. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, who worked on the final version that was enacted, was invited but had events already scheduled in his Richmond, Va., district.

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By don ilerThe Daily BaromeTer

Beginning on time at exactly 7 p.m., the House of Representatives of the Associated Students of Oregon State University jumped into the business at hand after singing the Alma Mater after four minutes of discussion.

During standing com-mittee presentations, the Ways and Means Committee stated that prior to spring break, they discovered that the ASOSU executive branch had not taken steps to rectify pay discrepancies that were revealed last term.

According to testimo-ny given by Speaker Pro-Tempore Kevin Dunn, after some discussion and dis-agreements during finals week with the executive branch over who had the fiduciary power to set execu-tive employee pay, pay was then set according to the amounts described in the ASOSU statutes.

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Overpaid amounts will be garnished in thirds over the next three months, with employees being garnished one-third of the amount each month, beginning with March paychecks.

The House also passed Joint Resolution 71.02 unani-mously after it had been tabled prior to spring break. The resolution, called the “get out the vote act,” resolves that ASOSU will help regis-ter voters for the upcoming elections.

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Vice President Joe Biden and Education Secretary Arne Duncan spoke at a high school in Norfolk,Virginia, on Tuesday. The reason: To discuss student loans and college tuition. If that sounds familiar, it’s because the cost of higher education has been a major focus of the Obama administration.

One of the president’s education goals is for the U.S.to have the world’s highest proportion of college graduates. America is ranked behind Russia, Canada, and several other countries in this category, according to the College Board.

But one of the effects of the Great Recession is that it sent many Americans back to school. Attendance and tuition are up at college campuses across the country, and two priorities of the Obama adminis-tration are encouraging this college atten-dance and keeping tuition costs in check.

Starting in 2014, students who take out college loans will have an advantage: Many won’t have to pay them back in full. Part of

President Obama’s 2010 health care reform law limits student loan repayment.

In the years ahead, graduates who go into the public sector (taking jobs as teachers and nurses, for instance) will only have to pay back 10 percent of their discretionary income for 10 years. The government will forgive any remaining balance. And in the private sector, graduates will also pay back no more than 10 percent of their discretion-ary income for 20 years before the remain-ing debt is forgiven.

So if graduates don’t have to pay back their loans in full, who covers the balance? New loans will come directly from the feder-al government, which will stop subsidizing the banks that currently offer these loans to students. The administration says that the money saved by stopping these subsidies will cover graduates’ remaining balance. If it doesn’t, critics of the law say taxpayers will be chipping in.

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versities to contain their tuition — in part by threatening to deny them some fed-eral funds if they don’t. Lower (or stagnant) tuition sounds great to today’s high school students. But for many universities, tuition has increased because state funding has decreased. Some states hit hard by the recession have actually authorized universi-ties to increase tuition to make up for the funds that the state could no longer provide.

“There’s no one villain or savior in this,” says Pat Callan, president of the Higher Education Policy Institute. “The cuts in higher education are incredibly deep. The states have cut too deeply, and the col-leges are too quick to turn to tuition as a first resort in dealing with the cuts.”

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of sandwiches, ranging from vegetarian options such as the Train Wreck or the Humboldt to subs that can cure even the worst case of marijuana induced hunger, such as The Kind, The Chronic, or the AK-47. Sandwiches come in three lengths, affectionately known as a Nug (4”) Pinner (8”) or Blunt (12”). Meals range from six to 10 dollars per individ-ual, and Kool-Aid is served on tap.

While the marijuana theme is threaded thick like hemp rope throughout the menu and art of Cheba Hut, its real hope is to offer a laid back, relaxed environment for people to hang out and eat in between classes or after a long day of work. They offer beer, food, music and entertainment in a 60’s-70’s throwback style.

“It’s just the atmosphere,” said Adam Tolbert, one of the owners of the nearly complete Corvallis location. “It’s nice to eat at a place where people know you by name. The marijuana theme is fun, and was just a kind of tongue in cheek thing to begin with. Then we ran away with it. But what really keeps folks coming back is the food and the people.”

That is what initially attracted Tolbert to work-ing with the company. While he lived in Eugene, he made frequent trips to the Cheba Hut location there. He quick-ly became good friends with many members of the staff, and when a job opened up one summer, he jumped at the chance. It didn’t take long before he moved up to management.

“I was going in the back even when I wasn’t work-ing; singing and washing dishes just for the hell of it,” Tolbert said on Friday. “You get regulars. People you come to know by first name and become friends with. It’s real-ly special.”

Tolbert, a Portland native, was recruited by the Cheba Hut to start scouting loca-

tions for a Portland store. It was in the process on waiting for calls back from landlords of Portland business real estate that the opportunity to start a site in Corvallis pre-sented itself in the way of the now closed Big Town Hero location.

The shop is planning a soft opening for the week of April 2, with the grand open-ing scheduled to take place on April 13, where the man-agement in conjunction with the Linn-Benton Food Share, will be hosting a grand open-ing party with raffle prizes, chances to donate and win free food, and an opportu-nity to meet some of the staff members.

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Generation Y isn’t lazy, just approaching life differently

Oral contraception is not purely sexual promiscuity

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Lazy, lost, unmotivated, screwed up, irresponsible — these words have all been

used to describe Generation Y. Most of the undergrads reading this are among the youngest members of Generation Y — the generation char-acterized by its understanding of technology and its propensity for social networking.

However, somewhere along the way, our use of computers got confused for laziness. Why are we described this way? I could not tell you, but I must say, hearing our generational predecessors call Generation Y the laziest generation is a bit hurtful.

I think one of the main reasons Generation Y is perceived as lazy is that we are really good at looking like we do not do anything. How many of you have had parents wonder how you actually accomplish anything? We are really good at accomplish-ing things without anyone noticing. Maybe it is because we are used to things happening quickly, and when it comes to getting things done, we have the same mentality.

Or maybe people think we don’t do anything because we forgo sleep in exchange for finishing that extra work we put off. My point is proven by those of you that have been at the library for three days straight asking

yourself what sleep is. It could also be that we are so connected we can pool the work of multiple people in a matter of seconds, making it easy to “borrow” an answer to a math problem here, or a topic sentence there. Additionally, we pride our-selves on our multitasking abilities and employ those often.

We still do work though, and just because we are not always seen working, does not mean we do not work. I have survived too many late night study sessions and hair-wrenching projects to think even for a moment that our generation does not work a great deal.

Another reason people think we are lazy is we don’t learn the same way our predecessors did. School systems have had to change drasti-cally to accommodate a generation of students that have access to the amount of information we do, and as such, our education systems have become foreign to our generational predecessors.

For the Baby Boomer Generation and Generation X, research used to involve going to the library and actually looking at books — shud-

der. We can find a dozen legitimate research sources in five minutes with a simple computer and websites like our library website. These sources are not just ravings of madmen with access to computers (usually). These sources are books that have been converted to web format. We can peruse hundreds of titles with our computers from the safety and soli-tude of our bedrooms.

Because we understand the use of our many informational connec-tions we can learn at a much faster rate. It is now standard to introduce trigonometry and algebra freshman year of high school in an attempt to get students learning differential and integral calculus by their junior or senior year. My parents would not have thought to attempt calculus before entering college. They also did not begin studying literature such as Shakespeare before their junior year of high school. We studied Shakespeare our freshman year. Our generational predecessors do not really understand our learning style. We grew up in a much different way than they did, and for some reason this was misinterpreted as laziness.

Finally, we are probably thought of as lazy because we have not had much of a chance to do anything. The oldest members of Generation Y (born around 1982) are still fresh

in the work force. They cannot have been working for much more than five years. Many jobs are still held by Baby Boomers and Gen X members, and most of the jobs Generation Y members hold are low level jobs. We are only the peons right now, but once the Baby Boomers are out of the picture we will start to climb the ladders, and I have no doubt that once we are all out of school the workforce will not know what hit them.

The generations before us have put huge weights on our shoulders, expecting us to solve problems like economy crises, outbreaks of war, fossil fuel depletion and global warming. However, just like when our parents ask us to solve their com-puter problems, the older genera-tions need to step back and give us some space to work. We know what to do; it is just easier when there is no one breathing down our necks. We might not seem like we do anything, our learning style might be strange to older people, but with the right amount of space, an Internet con-nection and a fresh can of Monster we can get a lot done.

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With the recent controver-sy surrounding contra-ception coverage in the

legislature, it has become necessary to highlight why contraception is important — it is an integral part of women’s health and well-being.

Scientifically, new research into female contraception shows that preventing ovulation and menstru-ation not only prevents ovarian and endometrial cancer, but can also drastically reduce the risk of Breast cancer, one of the largest killers of women in the United States. Instead of viewing birth control as purely an expression of women’s sexuality (and thus a tool to police said sexuality) politicians should be viewing contraception as a medical necessity, on top of the cost-effec-tive benefits family planning has on social resources like welfare.

There is no doubt that children are expensive. The medical costs from the birth alone are staggering, but 18-plus years of constant medical, social, emotional and financial sup-port is a big responsibility. For many of the poorer in society, this means that having children isn’t possible without help from the government, usually in the form of welfare.

With many politicians lobbying for the reduction of welfare pro-grams, it is more important than ever to be encouraging responsi-ble family planning to reduce the need for these shrinking resourc-es. Family planning includes birth control such as oral contraception,

which wouldn’t be accessible for poorer families if not covered by insurance, let alone those who are uninsured. It doesn’t make much sense for the same politicians who are reducing welfare to also be cut-ting the access to resources that reduce the use of welfare in the long run. Policies that do so end up implying that sex not intended for reproduction is a luxury poor people can’t afford.

Outside the societal implications and benefits of increased access to contraception, new research also shows new forms of chemical contraception may reduce the risk of breast cancer drastically. Breast cancer is one of the leading health costs in the country, around $14 billion in 2006. Naturally, ways to prevent cancer and the many costs associated with it should be high

on lawmaker’s priority lists. New research into menstrua-

tion and contraception gives some hope in cancer prevention. The incidence rate of breast cancer has risen over the past century because women are pregnant less, so men-struating more. The increased hor-mones from menstruation is the major factor behind this rise in breast cancer, but telling women to go back to having lots of children isn’t a solution.

The use of oral contraceptives reduces risk of ovarian and endo-metrial cancer by more than 50 percent in women from the cessa-tion of ovulation and reduction of hormones, although the current hormonal contraceptives are either neutral or slightly increase risk of

Spring has arrived in Corvallis — well, that’s what the cal-endar says, although I have

my doubts as I look out my window at the never-ending rain and gusts of bone-chilling wind. Sunday is Easter, and I write the word “Easter” in defiance of what is considered politically correct in our modern world of “terminology pitfalls.” Sad as it may seem, another traditional term bites the dust; “Easter” has been relegated to the great book of “no-no” terms.

In Seattle, an elementary school renamed their Easter eggs “spring spheres.” City parks in the area took the word “Easter” out of their egg hunts and the Easter Bunny has now become the Spring Bunny. Walnut Creek and Boca Raton have long ago taken the word “Easter” out of commission.

In San Rafael, Calif., they have renamed their Easter egg hunt the Alice in Wonderland Spring Festival and it is recommended that not only do you bring your own eggs but you hide them too. In the movie “Hop” the Easter bunny has been named EB, as if the word “Easter” has become taboo. Sadly, there is a “de-Easterization” going on in our nation.

Why all the controversy over the

word “Easter?” Why make such a big fuss over the Easter Bunny? Some say it is because of religious connota-tions, but it is obvious there are no religious connections between a rab-bit and a resurrection.

In fact, the word Easter has Pagan beginnings. The festival of “Eastre” was celebrated by the Saxons as the return of spring. It was common practice to incorporate Pagan ritu-als into Christian traditions; there-fore, the Council of Nicaea, which was ruled by Emperor Constantine, decreed that since the resurrection of Christ coincided time-wise with the celebration of “Eastre” — the two celebrations were combined becom-ing “Easter.” Although the Easter egg traces its roots back to the Pagan symbolism of fertility, it wasn’t until the 16th Century that the story of the Easter Bunny laying eggs was pub-lished in Germany, making its way into American folklore in the 1700s.

Now, we have decided to eliminate

the word from our culture. Of course, the loss of a word may not seem like a huge deal. After all, doesn’t the bunny still exist, even if the word Easter has been removed? Just one small word can’t affect any major change, can it?

But it can. Political correctness has become the new McCarthyism of our era. We are always hunting for witch-es — from the days of our puritan roots to the era when Communism was the politically incorrect word. We have found a way to censure, even when freedom from censure was one of the foundations from which this country was built.

Becoming politically aware is our new trend, but what it really amounts to is that because we are afraid of not seeing the forest for the trees, we solve the problem by removing the trees. If we are proclaiming free-dom from censure and freedom of religion, why are we suppressing any word that is associated with either one? In a country that prides itself on freedom from religious persecution, are we not persecuting the Easter Bunny by not allowing him to retain his true name? Are we not endanger-ing the loss of certain cultural val-ues by insisting on erasing their very

roots? So the eradication of a word

may not seem like a major issue, and the loss of the word “Easter,” “Christmas” or any other word from our everyday vocabulary may not impose a threat to national security or inhibit the well-being of a nation, but think about it — if we remove these words from our culture, what happens to all the books, poems and songs that feature these words? Do we remove these, too? And if we remove these words, what comes next?

If our fear is that we cannot see the forest from the trees, and our solu-tion is to remove these trees, then we leave ourselves with a very barren landscape of a culture with no toler-ance to diversity. And as anyone who has taken biology knows, diversity is the very thing that makes us unique and adaptable. Think about it — this nation was founded on one word: freedom. If a nation can be founded on just one word, then maybe the loss of one word can mean all the difference for our future.

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Reality in recovery?According to the Commerce

Department, personal expen-ditures rose 0.8 percent last

month — the largest increase by a month in nearly a year. However, per-sonal incomes rose only 0.2 percent, and wages and salaries rose about 0.3 percent — both typical fluctuations from month to month.

By the looks of things, the economy is getting better, or at least there’s evi-dence people have greater confidence in spending whatever money they do have.

Unfortunately, with it being an elec-tion year, some have suggested the administration has toyed with the economic numbers, making the situ-ation seem more positive than reality. While the obstruction is doubtful — one could not prove or disprove, judge or misjudge a possible tampering with the numbers, especially being outside the government — there are a couple of factors which actually support some sort of economic recovery.

First, consumer spending was cer-tain to go up in the past month; the gas prices are higher. If the spending con-tinues to rise in the coming months, then there may be some hope in a recovering market. But when gas prices go up, rarely do consumers change their habits within a month.

Of course, spending more on the same amount of gas per month is not growth in an economic sense. But if consumers decide to drive just that much less, use alternative modes of transportation, in a few months, an increase in gas prices may actually lead to further consumer spending. It can also lead to the exact opposite, as said before, and consumers instead save that much more money to continue to pay for the higher prices.

Another factor at play, a more obvi-ous and direct one, would be the increase in jobs. According to the ADP National Employment Report for March, the private business sec-tor increased by 209,000 jobs over the past month, a little less than January to February, but more than December to January. The construction industry brought on 13,000 jobs last month.

Jobs numbering in the thousands sounds small given our population — mediocre increases, but increases nonetheless. Simply, more people at work means more people have money to spend. A much better indicator of actual sustained growth than increased gas prices.

For opponents to suggest the admin-istration has toyed with the federal numbers and outside sources on the job numbers would be ignorant; debate the actual significance of the growth, not the legitimacy of the statistics.

For the ordinary citizen, it’s difficult to interpret reality from fiction on the national political stage. And given the year, anything said, written or heard by a public official can only be taken with a grain of salt.

Real evaluation of the situation goes beyond numbers and professional analysis; it’s all about personal satisfac-tion. And frankly, no one is ever going to be truly pleased with their situa-tion — and that’s why it’s so difficult to define a “recovering” economy.

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breast cancer. Chemicals called GnRHAs may provide the answer, as they do not contain hormones that affect breast cancer risk. These con-traceptives may completely eradicate the risk of breast cancer by putting the body in temporary menopause and halting the flow of hormones that encourage cancer. Thus we can see how oral contra-ceptives are not a sexuality enhancing tool, but a preven-tative maintenance medica-tion, much like vitamins.

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The bill is thought to enjoy majority support in each chamber of the state legisla-ture, which are both Democrat-controlled, and would replace death penalty sentences with life imprisonment.

Gov. Dannel Malloy, a Democrat, has vowed to sign the measure into law should it reach his desk, his office said.

State senators could vote as early as Wednesday, though officials say they expect the debate to drag on well into the evening hours and could possibly surface for a vote on Thursday.

If passed, the bill would go to the state house next week where lawmakers are over-whelmingly expected to vote in its favor.

“For everyone, it’s a vote of conscience,” said Senate President Donald Williams Jr., a Democrat who says he’s long supported a repeal. “We have a majority of legislators in Connecticut in favor of this so that the energies of our

criminal justice system can be focused in a more appropriate manner.”

In 2009, state lawmakers in both houses tried to pass a similar bill, but were ultimate-ly blocked by then-Gov. Jodi Rell, a Republican.

Sixteen states have abol-ished capital punishment, with California voters expect-ed to take up the measure in November.

Capital punishment has existed in Connecticut since its colonial days. But the state was forced to review its death penalty laws beginning in 1972 when a Supreme Court decision required greater consistency in its applica-tion. A moratorium was then imposed until a 1976 court decision upheld the constitutionality of capital punishment.

Since then, Connecticut juries have handed down 15 death sentences. Of those, only one person has actually been executed, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, a nonpartisan group that studies death penalty laws.

Michael Ross, a convicted serial killer, was put to death

by lethal injection in 2005 after giving up his appeals.

“It’s not a question of whether it’s morally wrong, it’s just that it isn’t work-ing,” said Richard Dieter, the group’s executive director. “I think when you hear of 15 to 20 years of uncertain appeals, that’s not closure and that’s not justice. It’s a slow, grinding process.”

Eleven people are currently on death row in Connecticut, including Steven Hayes and Joshua Komisarjevsky, who both were sentenced for their roles in the 2007 murders of the Petit family in Cheshire, Conn.

The high-profile case drew national attention and sparked conversations about home security and capital punishment.

Dr. William Petit, the sole survivor in that attack, has remained a staunch critic of repeal efforts.

“We believe in the death penalty because we believe it is really the only true, just pun-ishment for certain heinous and depraved murders,” Petit told CNN affiliate WFSB.

Advocates of the existing law say capital punishment can

act as a criminal deterrent and provides justice for victims.

Opponents say capital punishment is often applied inconsistently, can be discrim-inatory and has not proven to be an effective deterrent. They also point to instances in which wrongful convictions have been overturned with new investigative methods, including forensic testing.

“Mistakes can be made and you may not know about it until science later exposes them,” said Dieter.

But a recent Quinnipiac poll found that 62 percent of Connecticut residents think abolishing the death penalty is “a bad idea.”

“No doubt the gruesome Cheshire murders still affect public opinion regarding convicts on death row,” said Quinnipiac University Poll Director Douglas Schwartz.

That number jumps to 66 percent among Connecticut men, and drops to 58 percent among the state’s women, according to the poll.

The Senate’s proposed law is prospective in nature, meaning that it would not apply to those already sentenced to death.

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The chairman of the club that hosts America’s most pres-tigious golf tournament skirted the prickly issue of women’s membership Wednesday, say-ing it is a private matter.

During his annual media session, Billy Payne, chair-man of Augusta National Golf Club, did not comment spe-cifically on Ginni Rometty, the top executive at IBM and, undoubtedly, one of the cor-porate world’s most powerful women.

IBM’s sponsorship of the Masters tournament guar-antees club membership for its officers, but Rometty is a woman, and the club does not allow women to join.

“Well, as has been the case, whenever that question is asked, all issues of member-ship are now and have histori-cally been subject to the pri-vate deliberation of members,” Payne said. “That statement remains accurate; it remains my statement.”

IBM spokesman Ed Barbini told CNN Wednesday that the company would not comment on the controversy.

The question of Rometty’s membership has again brought the gender controver-sy to the forefront.

Women’s rights activist Martha Burk tried to change the exclusionary policy nine years ago when she showed up at the Augusta entrance to lead a series of protests against men-only membership.

Her efforts were in vain.Now, she says, “the boys” at

Augusta, members and spon-sors alike, find themselves in a big bind.

“The ‘woman problem’ is back,” she wrote in a column for CNN on Tuesday.

Burk says there are only two choices at hand: Augusta can open its doors to women, or IBM can yank its money and force its male executives to resign from the club.

“Those are the only two options that are viable that are going to wash with the public,” Burk told CNN last week.

Augusta’s membership — which includes titans of indus-try and finance — has been male-only since the club’s opening in 1932.

When Burk tried to change things in 2002, Augusta’s then-chairman, Hootie Johnson, resisted, saying that gender integration would not come “at the point of a bayonet.”

In 2006, Burk was among a group of Exxon sharehold-ers who accused the company of violating its discrimination policies by supporting the tournament.

Nonmembers can play on the course only when hosted by members.

Augusta is famously secre-tive about its membership, and the club declined to com-ment on the issue, as did IBM spokesman Chris Andrews.

“Augusta is a private club, and their personal member-ship is an internal matter,” he said.

— CNN

Rescuers plan to search the Dallas area again Wednesday for anyone trapped after violent tornadoes flattened homes, sucked up tractor-trailers and sent debris swirling in the air.

Between six and 13 tornadoes may have touched down in north Texas on Tuesday, the National Weather Service in Dallas-Fort Worth said. The number is an estimate pending a survey and damage assessment.

There are no reports of deaths so far, according to the mayors of Dallas and Arlington.

Three people were taken to a hospital in Arlington and at least 150 homes were destroyed, said Mayor Robert Cluck.

“We’ve dodged a bullet,” he said. “We’ve done the primary search. We feel as though we have everybody now, but they won’t give up until they have done all the other searches.”

Residents described scenes of horror and devastation.

“It was like ‘The Wizard of Oz,’” said Gwen Dabbs, who was not able to make it to an interior room before the storm blew her windows out. She huddled in a corner of her living room covered with blankets as the tornado passed.

“My body is sore from being in the corner. But I don’t have not a cut, not a scratch, and I’m so thankful. Thank you, Lord,” she said.

Before the flurry of twisters touched down, massive hail pounded the area.

“Once the hail stopped, our electricity went out. I thought, ‘That’s it, we need to get into the bathtub,’” said Nicole Lawrence. “It’s only by God’s grace that I’m here.”

Lawrence said her home was reduced to rubble. She took shelter in the bath-room with her two sons, who covered

their mother with their bodies to avoid debris. By the time the tornado swept through, all that was left of her house was her son’s tuxedo hanging in what used to be the closet.

He was planning to wear it to the prom.More than 100 aircraft at Dallas-Fort

Worth International Airport were dam-aged by hail, airport spokesman David Magana said.

Wednesday morning, more than 200 departures were canceled as a result of yesterday’s storms, he said.

In all, some 1,400 passengers spent the night in the terminals. The airport passed out cots, blankets and pillows to those sleeping there, Magana said. Thousands of others went to local hotels, he said.

Airport officials on Wednesday were asking travelers to check with their air-lines before arriving at the airport.

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of the Pac-12 can tumble to the bottom half.That being said, winning this series could be

additionally beneficial for the Beavers, because it would knock one of the better teams even further down in the standings, a task that cer-tainly won’t be easy playing on ASU’s home turf.

“I would definitely think that they’re going to be ready to go and attacking us this weekend at their yard,” said junior shortstop Tyler Smith. “They’re a very good team and they’re going to be really hungry after getting swept.”

Another positive for Oregon State University going into the series has been the vast improve-ment of the starting pitching. At this point in the season, sophomore lefty Ben Wetzler, soph-omore right-hander Dan Child and freshman southpaw Jace Fry have solidified themselves as the clear three-man rotation.

This past weekend, the three allowed only one earned run in a combined 22 innings of work against the University of Washington. Wetzler earned a no decision in the first game of the series, in which the Beavers lost in extras, Child moved to 3-1 on the year with his impres-sive victory, and Fry improved to 2-0 in a domi-

nating performance.

“Our starting pitching has been good lately,” Casey said. “Wetzler’s been consistent, Child looked good, and Jace is at a point where he has a big pitch count again. If those guys can go deep into ballgames, we’ll be real competitive.”

Oregon State is coming off of a win over the University of Portland that included 21 different players seeing action for OSU. Eleven different Beavers had hits in the 8-2 victory in what can only be described as a complete team effort.

The outcome still wasn’t satisfactory for the young ball club, however.

“Our pitching probably walked too many guys but was good for the most part,” said senior pitcher/catcher Ryan Gorton. “Our defense was good tonight, but at the plate we need to get better. We need to be more aggres-sive while swinging at the right pitches.”

OSU will look to put all of the pieces together starting today at 6:30 p.m. Oregon State plays Arizona State Friday and Saturday as well, before traveling to Reno, Nev., Monday to take on Nevada.

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For the second consecutive year, senior Leslie Mak was honored with Pac-12 Gymnast of the Year (previously Pac-10). It is the first time in the history of the conference, that a gymnast has won the award in back-to-back seasons.

In a conference filled with talented gymnasts and teams, Mak was taken aback by receiving the award once again.

“It’s just a really humbling experience,” Mak said. “The fact that the coaches vote on that means that they saw potential and they saw my hard work throughout the whole season. It was just a huge honor, especially to get that my senior year.”

Teammates agree with the coaches of the conference in their pick of Mak as Gymnast of the Year again.

“If anyone deserves to win it back-to-back, it’s Leslie,” Vivian said. “Personally to me, she’s been a true inspiration.”

“She’s an amazing athlete, she represents us with that,” Vivian added. “She’s a good student. She kind of is that representation of Gymnast

of the Year in that all-around sense. If anyone deserves to win it another year, it’s Leslie.”

Mak is also nominated for the American Athletic, Inc. award for top senior gymnast in the nation. Mak is one of six finalists, and the only one coming from the Pac-12.

***Besides the big award going to Mak, six

Beavers were honored with All-Conference selections. Melanie Jones, Makayla Stambaugh and Leslie Mak were first-team all-arounders. Olivia Vivian was first-team on uneven bars. Sophomore Brittany Harris was second-team on uneven bars. And junior Kelsi Blalock was second-team on vault.

The team has suggested in the past that OSU is perennially overrated. All of these honors are a step in the right direction to receive that much-deserved recognition.

“I do think that we’re kind of seen as the underdogs, but in a way I kind of like that because we turn more heads when we do achieve those things that we know we can,” Mak said.

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At the onset of spring football practice last year, Ryan Katz was the entrenched starter at quarterback, and Sean Mannion was just the third-string QB.

A lot can change in a year.Now, Mannion heads in as the top

dog, and now comes in with a differ-ent mindset than he did one short year ago.

The biggest differences the sopho-more quarterback feels between the first day of spring ball in 2011 versus 2012?

“Just confidence,” Mannion said. “I think that just comes with being here an extra year, and getting to play last year. You just feel a lot more comfortable.”

Now that Mannion actually has the entire offseason to build up the repertoire with his offense, spring ball will be utilized to develop those relationships.

Mannion isn’t a natural vocal leader, and needs to show leader-ship through his performance on the field, and that is exactly what he’s looking to do this spring.

“A lot of it is just leading by exam-ple, having a good attitude out here every day, ready to work,” Mannion said.

Head coach Mike Riley liked what he saw out of Mannion on day one — Tuesday.

“Sean has always had a great demeanor,” Riley said. “I thought

that that was evident even more so today in the first day of spring ball. He is always well-prepared, makes mostly good decisions.”

While Riley made it clear that Mannion is the starter at quarter-back, he also made sure to note that the backup, junior Cody Vaz, is still right there competing.

“I’m encouraged by what Cody Vaz did today, too,” Riley said. “I don’t

want to leave him out at that posi-tion. Like last spring, he did good again.”

Both Mannion and Vaz impressed considering it was their first day out on the field for formal practice since late November.

“They looked really good coming back,” senior wide receiver Markus Wheaton said of the quarterbacks. “I feel like last year at this time we didn’t

look as good, we were a little rusty coming in, but they looked really good [Tuesday].”

From his own personal experience, Mannion knows well not to assume his starter’s job is locked up. After all, it was Mannion who took over for Katz, who is now at San Diego State University, during the first game of the season last fall. Vaz looked good Tuesday, and Mannion is cognizant

of having to compete to maintain his job as the starter.

“Absolutely,” Mannion said. “That has to be my approach every day, from here until whenever, look at every day like I’ve got to win each day.”

The development of Mannion at quarterback is going to be vital for this team to improve upon last sea-son. Spring ball is going to be the starting point for his development to start blossoming. From there, what he improves on in spring ball should only be refined during the summer and fall.

Warner Strausbaugh, sports writer Twitter: @WStrausbaugh [email protected]

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This time last year, Sean Mannion took snaps behind Ryan Katz and Cody Vaz. This year, he’s the unquestioned leader of the pack.

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The Oregon State baseball team enters this weekend’s series a game out of first place in the Pac-12.

For Sean Mannion, what a difference one year can makeQuarterback depth chart

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Starter: Sean Mannion, Soph.Backup: Cody Vaz, Jr.Third string I: Richie

Harrington, Fr.With Katz’s departure to San

Diego State, and Peter Ashton’s conversion from QB to safety last year, the true freshman Harrington has moved up the ranks and now settles in as the No. 3 QB on the depth chart.

Third string II: Jack Lomax, Jr.Two years ago, Lomax was

ahead of Mannion on the depth chart, but he never quite moved up like expected. Lomax is behind Harrington now and it doesn’t appear he has a chance to touch the field at the moment.

Gymnastics catch-up: Mak honored, six named All-Pac-12n The Beavers, who compete at the

Auburn Regional tomorrow, finished third at the Pac-12 Championships

By Warner StrausbaughThe Daily BaromeTer

With one day until the Oregon State University gymnastics team heads to Auburn, Ala. for NCAA regionals, let’s take a look back to what’s happened since students left for spring break.

In the Pac-12 Championships, the No. 7 Beavers finished third in the conference behind No. 4 UCLA and No. 8 Utah.

While they didn’t have a repeat of their first-place finish at conference champion-ships of 2011, the performance was still one of their best of the season. The team mark of 197.050 was their second highest mark of the year.

“We had a couple bobbles on the first two events, but the rest of the team picked up,” recalled head coach Tanya Chaplin. “You’re going to have that in a meet. They got stron-ger as the competition went on. It was an environment where it was loud — 10,000 fans there screaming. It was a great arena to compete with that noise level there to help prepare us for postseason.”

The third-place finish didn’t quite paint the picture this OSU team saw in their show-ing at Pac-12s.

“Personally I thought this team did every-thing we could,” said senior Olivia Vivian. “We had a couple mistakes here and there but it seemed like we take every event one at a time. We didn’t let any mistake bring us down; we didn’t let scores affect our perfor-mances at all.”

Juniors Makayla Stambaugh and Melanie Jones both set season highs at the meet (Jones’s was a career-best) in the all-around.

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Baseball heads to Tempe for top 25 showdown

n ASU has struggled, but OSU knows the Sun Devils are capable of turning it around

By Andrew kilstromThe Daily BaromeTer

The No. 20 Oregon State base-ball team will begin a three-game series with a No. 24 Arizona State team that is notorious for being a consistent baseball juggernaut.

In the past four seasons, they

have an overall record of 195-55 and have reached the College World Series three times.

This year, despite an overall record of 16-12, the Sun Devils have struggled in Pac-12 play, amassing a record of only 3-6, and were swept by the University of Oregon in Eugene this past weekend.

It would seem as though this is the perfect time for an Oregon State team riding a three-game

winning streak to take on the struggling Sun Devils. While this might be the case, head coach Pat Casey and the Beavers (18-8, 6-3 Pac-12) certainly don’t expect to see the same team that’s lost six of nine games.

“I would assume in their own yard, in the 90 degrees as opposed to the 45 degrees they had in Eugene, they’ll probably play a little better baseball than they did this weekend,” said Casey after

Tuesday night’s win over Portland. “We have higher expectations for ourselves than the way we played [Tuesday] and we need to play bet-ter to win down there.”

With six of the 11 teams in the conference ranked in the top 25, it’s no secret that every series is exceptionally vital, Arizona State being a perfect example. One bad series and a team sitting at the top

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