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FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 2013 • OREGON STATE UNIVERSITYCORVALLIS, OREGON 97331 DAILYBAROMETER.COM VOLUME CXVI, NUMBER 108
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Mike Rich, famous for screenplays including “Radio” and “Finding Forrester,” spoke at LaSells Stewart Center Thursday night.
Rich writing: From the page to the silver screen
‘‘ ‘‘The first problem is that there are only certain
types of topics that work online. i took a 200 level Russian class and it’s very difficult to be immersed in
a language online.
Michael RobbSenior, political science, communications
Ecampus adapts OSU courses A healthy discussionn Active Minds supports,
communicates concerns about mental health on campus
By Ryan DawesThe DaiLy BaRoMeTeR
Beginning with early childhood, every human being experiences inju-ries, illnesses and other physical problems at some point in life.
Oregon State University’s chapter of Active Minds points out there is a spectrum of afflictions many people refuse to acknowledge: men-tal illnesses.
“People talk about their diabetes, and broken legs and other physical ailments all the time,” said Dave Downing, a senior in psychology. “I don’t see why it can’t be the same for mental ailments as well.”
Active Minds is a 10-year-old non-profit organization that has spread through campuses internationally. OSU’s chapter opened seven years ago, and is dedicated to providing help for anyone with any form of mental illness, as well as seeking to open up discussions on the reality of mental illnesses on campus. This is an issue that, according to Active Minds, is often neglected, despite how many it has personally effected in some way.
Becca Smith, vice president of active minds and a junior in public health with a psychology minor, joined the group at first to simply help build her resume. Later, how-ever, her mother developed a serious case of clinical depression, to the point where she was unable to even get up from the living room couch, a two-year-long trial that significantly affected Smith.
“The education I’ve received through Active Minds on helping oth-ers deal with clinical mental illnesses, such as depression, significantly helped me through the situation,” Smith said. “I was lucky I joined early at the time I did.”
While not having the same per-sonal struggle as Smith, Downing also joined the group to help show the community the importance of being open about mental health.
“I think it’s necessary to destig-matize the topic of mental illness,” Downing said. “I want to help people
OSU student death still an open investigation
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The Corvallis Police Department is still investigating the death on Monday of Oregon State University student Matthew William Anderson. Anderson, 23, was a senior engineering student at OSU. Corvallis police received a call from Anderson’s girlfriend at his resi-dence, 1113 NW 13th Street, at about 5 p.m., and she reported Anderson was not breathing. Anderson was taken to Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center in Corvallis after paramed-ics failed to resuscitate him. He was pronounced dead after his arrival. As of Thursday, Captain Dave Henslee of the Corvallis police said they were still waiting for the state medical examiner to issue a report.
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n Ecampus lands top honors with ranking from SuperScholars, receives varied reviews from educators, students on online courses
By Jack LammersThe DaiLy BaRoMeTeR
Oregon State University Ecampus has transformed the classroom experience to look a lot different than it did 30 years ago.
Ecampus recently ranked eighth on SuperScholar’s list of the best online colleges in the United States for 2013, a “greater emphasis on degree selection diversity” than the 2012 ranking, according to the SuperScholar website. This is the second consecu-tive year the program has made the top 10 rankings.
Ecampus goes back to the 1980s, when the univer-sity first considered an online focus for education. The program currently has students from across the world, with a main focus on adult non-residential workers.
Using animations, readings, videos and confer-ences, administrators and faculty have put together Ecampus as an alternative system of academics.
“Some of these students cannot get to traditional classes,” said Lisa Templeton, Ecampus executive director. “Online education is a real solution for adult students.”
The financial cost of Ecampus courses for students is one area where students carry misconceptions. The per-credit tuition cost for Ecampus courses is the same as the cost of courses on campus, $185, but the fees differ. Ecampus courses are not included in the on-campus tuition plateau, meaning all Ecampus courses are full-price, regardless of the number of credits taken by the student.
The tuition plateau applies to on-campus courses only, allowing students to take anywhere from 12 to 16 credits without additional costs.
While on campus students hit a plateau when taking 12 to 16 credits, which totals $2,712.57, the Ecampus price per credit continues to build on itself. In other words, an Ecampus student must continue to pay $185 per credit and $75 per credit for the distance education fee even after paying for 12 credits.
The distance education fee replaces the student fees — like the building fee — paid for by on-campus
students for those only taking Ecampus courses. If students enroll in both on-campus classes and online classes, they will be charged both student fees and the distance education fee.
Templeton, and other proponents of Ecampus, look at the flexibility of the classes as an advantage for people with demanding work schedules. With more than 30 bachelor’s and graduate programs, including top-ranked agriculture and fisheries and wildlife degrees, Ecampus covers much of what the university offers.
“We want to develop departments that will meet the marketing need, like computer science, business and engineering,” said Jessica DuPont, Ecampus director of marketing and communications.
Templeton argues that the online classes can be even more engaging than those on campus.
“These classes can be so much more interactive,” Templeton said. “Right now, when we do an online course, the students can discuss with other students and faculty, and aren’t limited to the class meeting times.”
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‘‘ ‘‘i took two summer classes online. it was nice to get some classes out of the
way, especially since i am working, and the classes
overall were nice.
Layla HubbardSenior, graphic design
‘‘ ‘‘i didn’t like the online classes at all. it’s way
different. i took my first math class online and
it was a waste of money. i am here to get help,
not to help myself.
Fares almutairiPre-civil engineering students
‘‘ ‘‘i think ecampus works in some cases. i took classes online to save
time. For some classes, it’s just more efficient to take them online.
alyssa HershSenior, public health
n Mike Rich, a renowned screenwriter, talks about his reach from radio to screenplay
By katherine choiThe DaiLy BaRoMeTeR
Many of Mike Rich’s screenplays have a common theme: Ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
In Rich’s first screenplay, “Finding Forrester,” an ordinary student learns to pursue his dreams as a genius writer and basketball player, while befriending a Pulitzer Prize winning author.
This award-winning film was screened to the public as a part of Rich’s visit to Oregon State University on April 4 at the LaSells Stewart Center. A question-and-answer session followed the film.
“Finding Forrester” is a story about Jamal Wallace, the ordinary student, who scores exceptionally high on a stan-dardized exam and finds himself sent to a prestigious school. There he meets William Forrester, a reclusive writer who helps Wallace pursue his dreams as both a writer and basketball star. Along the way, Wallace in return helps Forrester confront his past.
“It speaks to what a lot of us want,”
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said Heather Brown, a graduate student pursuing a master of fine arts in poetry at OSU.
Rich’s visit was a part of the School of Writing, Literature, and Film’s Visiting Writers Series, where nationally-known writers are brought to OSU each year. The Office of the Provost and the College of Liberal Arts fund the series every year.
Little did Rich know that he’d be awarded the 1998 Nicholl Fellowship for “Finding Forrester.”
“That latter part of 1998, when I got to go on the air a month later and say, ‘I’m a semi-finalist,’ and then a month after that, a finalist, now I value that experience even more,” Rich said.
The screenplay sold to Columbia Pictures in the same year, and “Finding Forrester” was released in Christmas 2000.
Rich first got his idea for “Finding Forrester” while work-ing at KINK Radio in Portland. One morning, a guest talked about reclusive writers, and what
she said sparked Rich’s ideas for his screenplay.
“She said: They put up a wall around themselves and nobody got through the wall,’ and for me it was: ‘What would happen if somebody got through the wall?’” Rich said.
Typically, Rich’s creativity and ideas stem from personal stories, an article in the paper, a photo-graph and anywhere else Rich finds a spark in a general idea.
In addition, “Finding Forrester” is named after Rich’s high school English teacher.
“She was the one who really instilled in me the love of read-ing, of stories, of writing,” Rich said. “It just felt natural to try and honor that.”
“The Rookie,” “The Nativity Story” and “Secretariat” are some of Rich’s other screenplays that have succeeded in the Hollywood industry.
With Rich’s success in writ-ing screenplays, one may be surprised to hear Rich had never attended film school. Rich attended OSU as a business and marketing major, but didn’t start writing screenplays until his 30s.
“‘Finding Forrester’ was my film school and my professors were Sean Connery and Gus Van Sant,” Rich said.
Before “Finding Forrester,” Rich wrote several screen-plays, which didn’t make it to Hollywood, but helped him learn as a writer.
“You have to give yourself per-mission as writer to write poorly,” Rich said. “You have to give your-self permission to experiment, learn, and in the process of that, you’ll get better.”
katherine choi, news reporter
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CalendarFriday, April 5MeetingsStudent Incidental Fees Committee (SIFC), 3pm, MU JPLC Talisman Room.
Monday, April 8EventsTerra Magazine, 6pm, Old World Deli. Science Pub: Sex in Play: From dolls to sports, how sexualized culture affects youth with Aurora Sherman and Eliza-beth Daniels, psychologists at OSU and OSU-Cascades.
Tuesday, April 9MeetingsASOSU Senate, 7pm, MU 211. Weekly meeting.
Wednesday, April 10MeetingsASOSU House of Representatives, 7-8:30pm, MU 211. Weekly meeting.
EventsOSU Divest!, Noon-1pm, MU 206. Should OSU be investing in fossil fuels? Informational meeting about campus fossil fuel divestment cam-paigns. Free pizza!
OSU Socratic Club, 7pm, Milam Audi-torium. Debate - “Hell and the Love of God,” by speakers Todd Miles from Western Seminary and author Chris-tian Piatt. Free and open to the public.
Thursday, April 11MeetingsBaha’i Campus Association, 12:30pm, MU Talisman Room. Rethink-ing Leadership - Devotions and discussion.
Saturday, April 13EventsAssociation of Latin American Students (ALAS), 5pm, MU Ballroom. The “Flower Festival.” Live music and entertainment. Dinner will be served. Seats are limited, first come, first served basis.
Tuesday, April 16MeetingsASOSU Senate, 7pm, MU 211. Weekly meeting.
Wednesday, April 17MeetingsASOSU House of Representatives, 7-8:30pm, MU 211. Weekly meeting.
Tuesday, April 23MeetingsASOSU Senate, 7pm, MU 211. Weekly meeting.
Wednesday, April 24MeetingsASOSU House of Representatives, 7-8:30pm, MU 211. Weekly meeting.
Thursday, April 25MeetingsBaha’i Campus Association, 12:30pm, MU Talisman Room. Is a Universal Religion Possible? Devotions and discussion.
Tuesday, April 30MeetingsASOSU Senate, 7pm, MU 211. Weekly meeting.
Wednesday, May 1MeetingsASOSU House of Representatives, 7-8:30pm, MU 211. Weekly meeting.
Thursday, May 2MeetingsBaha’i Campus Association, 12:30pm, MU Talisman Room. The Spiritual Covenant - What does God promise to humankind? Devotions and discussion.
Tuesday, May 7MeetingsASOSU Senate, 7pm, MU 211. Weekly meeting.
Wednesday, May 8MeetingsASOSU House of Representatives, 7-8:30pm, MU 211. Weekly meeting.
Thursday, May 9MeetingsBaha’i Campus Association, 12:30pm, MU Talisman Room. Universal Language. Devotions and discussion.
Tuesday, May 14MeetingsASOSU Senate, 7pm, MU 211. Weekly meeting.
Wednesday, May 15MeetingsASOSU House of Representatives, 7-8:30pm, MU 211. Weekly meeting.
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with anxiety or other mental health issues realize that they are not alone.”
Smith was able to see firsthand the importance of helping others realize there is help out there for those who need it. At an annual nation-wide Active Minds conference, a woman approached Smith and told her how she had been plagued by schizophrenia, depression and suicidal thoughts. Other people in the past had told the woman to just try to get over it, but through the information and community provided by Active Minds, the woman was able to get the help she needed and is alive and doing well today.
“To see her relief made me feel amazing about what Active Minds is doing, and the part that I get to have in it,” Smith said.
The Daisy Project is a large event on campus — second in size only to their National Stress Out Day, which will hap-pen this year on April 25 — held by Active Minds every year where the pathways in the Memorial Union quad are lined with 1,100 daisies in memory of the 1,100 total suicide victims from American college campuses. The event also emphasizes the reality of suicides on campus and the need to provide open communication, allowing those needing help to receive it.
While working a booth at the Daisy Project, a woman approached Downing picked up a paper regarding dealing
with depression, and proceeded to tell Downing about her husband’s severe depression and thanked him for the information.
“You do change lives through this group,” Downing said. “People get involved at first to build a resume. They stay because they see how they are making an impact on campus.”
Active Minds hosts a meeting open to all OSU students every other Monday at 6 p.m. in the CAPS conference room on the third floor of Snell Hall, where students can learn more about mental health and about Active Minds’ future plans for the OSU community.
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The courses still require a deal of adaptation on the part of the students. Those enrolled in online courses must hold themselves more accountable, DuPont said.
“Everyone has to participate and spend more time on-task,” DuPont said. “Not everyone is comfortable asking questions and doing research, but the extra time to complete assign-ments allows them to be more thoughtful.”
Greg Thompson is the depart-ment chairman for Ecampus’ general agriculture, which has been ranked first in the United States. More than 100 students are currently enrolled in the program, and about 50 have graduated since 2008.
“Different courses have differ-ent ways of handling the hands-on aspect,” Thompson said. “The goal is to take the field to the learner through technology. Some have students go out and videotape themselves doing the hands-on work, and others have the hands-on features modeled to them online.”
Ten years ago, the makeup of the Ecampus student body had a female majority and students had an average age in the upper 30s. Today, the average age is in the lower 30s.
DuPont said Ecampus has become more appealing to younger, motivated students with increasingly busy schedules.
“Students in these programs should be extremely self-moti-vated,” DuPont said. “Not every-one is equipped to be an online student.”
Jami Kenyon, a liberal studies major dual enrolled through Linn-Benton Community College and OSU has had a var-ied experience with Ecampus classes. After satisfactory experi-ences in a sociology and art class in 2007, Kenyon took a geology course in 2012 and had a com-pletely different take.
“The teacher would put up links that did not work, her pages were disorganized, you had to go looking for working links and ... she was giving quizzes from an old version of our textbook,” Kenyon said. “I want to take another online class, but it does worry me now that I will get the nightmare that I had in GEO 300.”
After withdrawing from the geology class, Kenyon received a refund from Ecampus, part of the program’s response to
complaints about the course’s workload.
Looking to the future, OSU Ecampus plans to offer an online master of business adminis-tration degree. While students on campus may have a varied response in their more limited interactions with Ecampus class-es, Templeton said the reception from degree-seeking students has been positive.
“The responses at our gradu-ation parties have been very touching,” Templeton said. “This gives them access and, overall, we want to keep up with online degree programs as they become a growing trend nationally, not just at Oregon State.”
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Saturday, March 23It makes no cents: At 9:50 p.m.,
Corvallis Police Department broadcasted that two males were possibly breaking into parking
meters downtown near 3rd Street and Adams Avenue. Police asked them to identify themselves, and as the officer did so, one of the suspects dropped a lunchbox he was carrying and started to run. Police were unable to locate the individual. The other sus-pect remained still and was placed under arrest. He was cited for rheft II, possession of burglary tools and criminal conspiracy .
Tuesday, March 26Out of place: At 5:23 p.m., OSP dispatch received
a call reporting a male on the third floor of the Gem — part of university-related off-campus housing —who appeared to not be a student and intoxicated. A record check revealed a valid exclusion for the man, Darren Perreard, from all OSU properties. Perreard was arrested for criminal trespass II. During a search of his backpack, a pipe with marijuana was located. He was also cited for possession of marijuana.
Tuesday, April 2Not a happy camper: In the evening, a woman
observed a subject in what she described as a pick-up/camper RV following her to the Sackett resident hall. She described the subject as a white male, late 30s to early 40s, with a baseball cap and scruffy facial hair. Her place of work has been receiving anony-mous calls asking when she is working.
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a large audience received Mike Rich in his Corvallis presentation on Thursday.
n Japanese Student Association to host its biggest cultural event of the year, Japanese Night, in the MU ballroom
By Hannah JohnsonThe DaiLy BaRoMeTeR
This Sunday, the Japanese Student Association will hold Japanese Night in the Memorial Union Ballroom from 5:30 to 9 p.m.
Japanese night is the largest event for the Japanese Student Association at Oregon State University.
This year, the Japanese Student Association decided to have a “school festival and cherry blos-som” theme. School festivals are generally large, student-led events for schools in Japan.
The purpose of the theme this year is to welcome other com-munities and give them a taste of Japanese culture while closely representing a typical Japanese school festival.
“I don’t think there’s any way people in the United States can experience what Japanese stu-dents do at their school festival besides our Japanese Night,” said Ayako Tabeya, president of the Japanese Student Association.
During Japanese Night, artists will present classical Japanese performances. The event will also include photo booths where people can wear Japanese clothes, take pictures and have pictures taken with the Japanese Student Association’s members, who also will be wearing Japanese cloth-ing. During the event, authentic Japanese food will be provided for vegetarians and non-vegetarians, and drinks will be provided as well.
“I’m so excited to see people at and enjoying our event,” Tabeya said. “We have worked hard for the past three months because we wanted to see people having fun at Japanese Night.”
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Understanding Fisheries, Wildlife
DepartmentThe Oregon Department
of Fisheries and Wildlife (ODFW) department man-
ages the populations of fish, various wildlife and their habitat. According to the ODFW website, “Our mission is to protect and enhance Oregon’s fish and wildlife and their habitat for use and enjoyment for present and future generations.” Also included in their field of operations are managing fish-ing and hunting licenses.
The ODFW also manages the many different fish hatcheries and fish propagation sites throughout Oregon. Specifically, according to their website, they manage, “33 fish hatcheries, four rearing ponds, eight acclimation facilities and nine adult trapping facilities.” These fish hatcheries sustain fish populations, including native species of fish in the Northwest.
In addition to the management of fish populations, the ODFW also manages wildlife populations and habitats as well. This includes man-agement of species on the endan-gered species list and their environ-ments, hunting licenses, manage-ment of wetlands, marshes, wildlife habitat, wildlife viewing areas and eco-regions.
Conservation work is one of the top priorities for the ODFW. Habitats, eco-regions and various species are areas the department has organized a conservation plan for — which
The ethics behind dating a friend’s sisterAm I morally obligated to tell
my friend I am dating his sister? Or can I just hide it and pretend it’s not happening?
— Consuela, Corvallis
Thanks so much for your ques-tion, Consuela.
Though this is reframing your question, why are you solely responsible for making this deci-sion? Why are you the one who has the obligation to share this information? Why isn’t there a shared responsibility?
Because of the name on your submission is gender neutral, and to be thorough, I have to take a moment to sculpt the set of assumptions we should be working with when addressing your question.
If the relationship in question is a same-sex relationship, the moral contours may be consid-erably more complicated. This question is not more complicated by any notion that same-sex rela-tionships are necessarily morally dubious or lesser, but because partners in the relationship may or may not be formally “out.” If it is the case that you or your part-
ner are not out, and considerable discomfort could be accumulated by outing one or the other, certain precautions may be necessary. This unfortunately highlights the currently existing prejudices against LGBTQ folks, which are not acceptable and should be encouraged to evolve.
OK, that’s not enough. People who we call homophobic, aren’t. Homophobes are not afraid of something, they’re jerks. And yet, they exist, and the choice to expose one’s self to them is a per-sonal and political choice.
In the event you two are each consensually with someone who identifies as the gender(s) others would identify as the gender(s) you publicly court, another set of concerns sit below the surface of this floating premise.
In either case, it is important to consider why the two of you are keeping your relationship private. Perhaps Romeo and Juliet had good reasons to keep their relationship hidden. Does
your relationship suffer from the “dilemma of the secret beach?” Will the Montagues and Capulets disrupt the world in a harshly negative way?
Barring good reasons, and per-haps “it’s no one else’s business” is a good reason, the moral concern seems to be about trust. Are you concerned your friend will not approve of your relationship? Is there a good reason for this? Are you a trustworthy person? Does your friend have any good rea-sons to be concerned that your relationship will be harmful to one or both of you?
If you are confident that your relationship is positive and mutu-al, then be bold.
If you don’t trust your friend, what are you afraid of? You two are adults, and your friend does not own either of you. Be good to each other and prove the malcon-tent wrong.
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Thomas Mcelhinny is a master’s student of applied ethics. The opinions expressed in his columns do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Barometer staff. Mcelhinny “ask the ethicist” column will run weekly, every Friday. he can be reached at, and questions can be submitted at [email protected].
providing syllabi
Students deserve a new syllabus on first dayWhen did it become acceptable for instructors
to not provide an accurate syllabus on the first day of a course? This is not simply an inconvenience,
it is disrespectful to students, and it is lazy, unpro-fessional and frankly incompetent. As students, our education is the most significant financial expenditure of our lives to date. We deserve to receive, at the very least, the minimum of effort from our instructors. Given what is expected of us,
this disturbingly widespread practice of offering a three-year-old syllabus for a class that met on dif-ferent days of the week than the class you are taking is an insult, and a significant obstacle to success.
Jeff HollySenior, history
Yeas & NaysYea to April being the cruelest
month, breeding lilacs out of the dead ground, mixing
memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.
Nay to returning to school. Spring break is never quite long enough.
Yea to red meat.Nay to putting on weight from far too
many delicious home-cooked meals over spring break. We need to get hun-gry and angry again.
Yea to opening day. In fact, yea to all the days. We love baseball.
Nay to being far too distracted to really think about anything else besides baseball and the warm weather outside. Our grades are going to slip this term.
Yea to catching your long-awaited first foul ball.
Nay to losing too much money at the blackjack tables in Vegas.
Yea to being nine weeks away from graduating.
Nay to senioritis. Yea to sweatpants when worn in
appropriate settings, whether it is while working out or lounging about your home.
Nay to all-grey sweatpant suits, espe-cially when they are worn to class.
Yea to all the flowers blooming, the trees growing leaves and the grass turn-ing wonderfully green.
Nay to the impending allergy season.Yea to easy classes that aren’t going to
require much work. We’re glad you want to slack as much as we do, teachers.
Nay to taking classes you should have taken as a freshman later on in your college career. We know we don’t need them, especially now.
Yea to getting some sun in the last few days.
Nay to still looking like you didn’t. Yea to syllabi. We appreciate knowing
ahead of time all the days it would be perfectly OK to sleep in or skip class to day-drink.
Nay to spending the whole first day reading through syllabi. Guess what professor, even though you may have evidence to the contrary, some of us have made it this far because we can read. No need to waste class time on that nonsense. We’re paying you to teach us.
Yea to ASOSU election campaign season beginning.
Nay to it not being as exciting as we thought it was going to be.
Yea to the Corvallis City Council deciding to go with a property tax for the public safety tax instead of tacking it onto utility bills. Making it part of utility bills would have caused undue hardship for many students.
Yea to also deciding to send the tax increase to the voters to decide. Such decisions should be made by the people.
Nay to bacc core classes. We under-stand the need to be well-rounded indi-viduals, but some of us just don’t care that much about a bunch of nonsense in other areas of the university.
Yea to it being Friday. Since there aren’t any papers due, tests to study for or group projects to half-heartedly work on, we expect to see the children out in full force this weekend, popping bottles and carrying on. Stay frosty.
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introducing ‘ask the ethicist’Greetings members of the Oregon State
University community. My name is Thomas McElhinny, and, with the help of my cohorts in the applied ethics master’s program here at OSU, I would like to help address any ethical conundrums, concerns and/or challenges we might face.
Discussing ethical concerns, and morality more generally, are often volatile conversa-tions. Questions concerning what it might mean to live a “good” life, how to act when values conflict, and how to cultivate ethical habits are long-standing and important avenues of inquiry. Every week, I intend to offer my perspective on situations sourced from the OSU community, and perhaps punctuate answering emails with original content I find important, interesting and nutritive.
Speaking of emails: I need your help. Do you have an interesting ethical ques-tion or situation in your life? Email me at: [email protected]. It can be anything from a concern about lifestyle choices, conflicts with neighbors or business practices here in Corvallis. Surely this is not an exhaustive list and I expect to see some novel questions.
My aim in this column is not simply about “solving” ethical puzzles, but about engaging the OSU community in a discourse centered on ethical issues. I hope this column will not only unlock some of the expertise already available in our networks, but expand it.
See you next week.
The Daily BarometerThomas McElhinny
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Freshman first baseman Natalie hampton catches a throw in Wednesday’s 4-3 win against No. 14 Stanford. oregon State travels to take on No. 17 Washington today.
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oregon State celebrate Brittany harris’ 9.950 on uneven bars during the Pac-12 Championships. The Beavers host regionals on Saturday and need to finish in the top two to advance to nationals.
Gymnastics seeks 8th straight nationals berthn The No. 10 Beavers need to finish in
the top two at NCAA Regionals this weekend to keep their season alive
By Warner StrausbaughThe DaiLy BaRoMeTeR
After setting the highest team score in program history, the No. 10 Oregon State gymnastics team has a tough act to follow.
The NCAA Regional Championships will take place in Gill Coliseum on Saturday as the Beavers attempt to reach nationals for the eighth consecutive season.
On March 23, OSU’s 197.850 team score gave the Beavers their second Pac-12 Championship in the last three years.
Finding a peak performance late in the season has been OSU’s mission, and it appears they did just that in the Pac-12
Championships.But the team feels they still can improve
upon their record-setting night.“We had a great meet at the right time,”
said senior Kelsi Blalock. “I wouldn’t call it ‘peaking.’ Everything came together, but we still had falls. Peaking is when you hit 24 for 24, and we can say, ‘All around, we had a great performance.’”
“I still don’t think we had our best meet at Pac-12s,” added associate head coach Michael Chaplin. “There are places we can get better.”
Getting through regionals could prove dif-ficult, too. No. 4 Georgia, No. 16 Arkansas, No. 21 Boise State, Arizona State and California represent the rest of the field. The top two teams advance.
History is on OSU’s side, with many appear-ances at nationals recently. Last season, at the Auburn, Ala., regional, it came down to
the final routine of the night — Leslie Mak’s 9.925 on balance beam — to secure the Beavers in second place. OSU bested third-place Michigan by just 0.125 points.
“We all know what’s at stake and we don’t rest on our laurels,” said head coach Tanya Chaplin. “We know the teams that are com-ing in are very good and we have to do our jobs.”
Being at Gill gives the Beavers the benefit of the home crowd, a possible benefit when dealing with subjective judges. Two years ago, OSU cruised through the Corvallis Regional with a first-place finish to advance to nationals.
“It’s always helpful to be able to not have to travel and be able to be on your home court with your fans,” Tanya Chaplin said.
OSU faces another challenge at UWn Oregon State travels to take on
No. 17 Washington for a three game series starting Friday
By grady garrettThe DaiLy BaRoMeTeR
Sometimes all it takes is one win to get a team back on track.
That’s what members of the No. 24 Oregon State softball team hope is the case after their six-game losing skid came to an end Wednesday.
This weekend against No. 17 Washington, the Beavers (24-11, 1-5 Pac-12) will look to further prove that their inauspicious start to conference play was an anomaly.
“I think [getting a conference win] is a big sigh of relief,” said sophomore second baseman Ya Garcia. “It’s also a push-starter. That’s just the begin-ning. We go into this weekend against Washington with our confidence up, we know we can do it, so I think it
Baseball faces UCLA in important conference seriesn No. 6 Oregon State travels to No. 10 UCLA for a
three-game series starting todayBy andrew kilstrom
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Oregon State’s first two Pac-12 series came against teams that were ranked at the time — Arizona was No. 21 and Arizona State was No. 20.
It is only fitting that the third Pac-12 team No. 6 OSU (23-4, 5-1 Pac-12) faces is even better, as the Beavers travel to Los Angeles to take on No. 10 UCLA for a three-game series.
The timing is less-than-perfect for a Beaver squad that has lost three of their last five games.
Defense has been an issue as of late. Even after return-ing home to a turf infield, OSU almost threw Tuesday’s win against the University of Portland away with a couple errant throws in the ninth inning.
Junior catcher Jake Rodriguez cited the poor defense as the reason for the recent losses.
“Oregon State is typically a defensive and pitching team, and the past four games have kind of been brutal on defense, to be honest,” Rodriguez said. “Guys are just sitting back on their heels. We’re letting plays eat us up and it’s shown in the last week.”
With senior shortstop Tyler Smith expected to be unavailable during the series, the infield especially will need to step up against the Bruins (18-7, 6-3).
Smith is hitting .316 and has drove in 13 runs as the everyday shortstop. Add in Smith’s defense — only 25 errors in 184 career games — and replacing his impact is no easy task.
Junior Andy Peterson will slide over from second base to play shortstop and junior Kavin Keyes will take Peterson’s spot at second. The tandem has struggled in the last four games, committing nine errors combined.
Peterson accounted for five of the errors, three more than he committed in the first 23 games of the season.
Head coach Pat Casey expects improvement this weekend.
“He hasn’t played well and he’s capable of playing at [shortstop],” Casey said. “We expect him to play better going forward and he will play better. He just needs to stay aggressive and he’ll be fine.”
Senior left-hander Matt Boyd will get the start tonight, followed by freshman right-hander Andrew Moore on Saturday and junior left-hander Ben Wetzler on Sunday.
Those three will make up the weekend rotation going forward. What is notable about that is the absence of junior right-hander Dan Child, who was a mainstay in the rotation last year.
Since the emergence of Moore, Child has seen action primarily out of the bullpen and as the Tuesday starter. Casey says this could be Child’s role for the foreseeable future.
“Dan Child’s stuff is plenty good he just needs to throw strikes,” Casey said. “I thought he had a better outing
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Men’s Golf @ Arizona State Thunderbird Invitational All Day, Tempe, Ariz.
Women’s Golf @ SMU/Dallas Athletic Club Invitational All Day, Dallas, Texas
Saturday, april 6Women’s Track @ Willamette Invitational 9:30 a.m., Salem, Ore.
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No. 6 Baseball @ No. 10 UCLA 2 p.m., Los Angeles, Calif.
No. 10 Gymnastics NCAA Corvallis Regional Championships 4 p.m., Gill Coliseum
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really helps.”Perhaps the biggest reason the Beavers were
able to break into the win column was because they didn’t find themselves in need of a late-game rally for once.
Prior to the series finale with Stanford, OSU had entered the sixth inning with a lead just once in its previous 10 games.
The Beavers scored the first four runs of the game against Stanford on Wednesday and entered the sixth inning with a lead for the first time since their last win, a 13-3 defeat of Cal State Bakersfield on March 25.
“In the Pac-12 it’s definitely very important to get up in the beginning of the game,” said senior outfielder Lea Cavestany. “You can’t wait for the other team to score first, because once the other team is on top they’re going to stay on top. That’s just how the Pac-12 is.”
The Beavers rallied to win several games in
nonconference play, but know the come-from-behind routine is tougher to pull off when facing Pac-12 pitching.
“It’s especially tough when you’re playing against All-American pitchers, like [Arizona State’s Dallas] Escobedo, [Cal’s Jolene] Henderson, [Washington’s Kaitlin] Inglesby and some of the freshmen they’ve got at Washington,” said head coach Laura Berg.
Against Arizona State in the first conference game of the season, the Beavers scored two runs in the seventh inning when they needed three, los-ing 5-4. In game two against Stanford, the Beavers entered the sixth inning trailing 7-3 and ended up losing, 8-6.
Senior Marina Demore was able to make OSU’s lead hold up Wednesday against Stanford, pitching three scoreless innings in relief to pick up her first save of the season.
“It’s so much easier to pitch when we get runs right away,” Demore said. “When we have a lead, it’s pitching with relief. It was nice to have a lead for once.”
In Washington (28-10, 6-3), OSU will face a team fresh off a three-game sweep of No. 15 UCLA in Los Angeles.
Last year, the Beavers took two of three games from the Huskies in Corvallis. All three games were decided by one run.
“I expect they have a big target on our backs,” Garcia said. “I expect them to come out hungry, ready to beat us. Just like last year, we’re coming in as the underdog and we’re ready to beat them.”
“We’re not really looking at what Washington’s going to be bringing,” Cavestany added. “We just know what we’re going to bring, and we’re going to make sure we do our job.”
OSU pitcher Tina Andreana was key in last year’s series win over the Huskies, allowing just four earned runs in 13 innings pitched.
After taking a backseat to Demore for the major-ity of nonconference play, Andreana has logged a team-high 17 innings in Pac-12 play.
“She does very well against certain teams in the Pac-12,” Berg said. “She threw very well against ASU, just like she did last year. We expect Tina to come out and throw five, six, seven innings every time she pitches.”
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Freshman Natalie hampton makes contact against Stanford on Wednesday.
Brittney harris and hailey Gaspar hug during the Pac-12 Championships on March 23.
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“That makes a big difference.”Mindset is fundamental in the sport of
gymnastics. And the mindset OSU has always carried under the tutelage of Tanya and Michael Chaplin is to not focus on scores and not treat one meet any different than another.
“The main thing we’re focusing on is not treating it like regionals like we did at Pac-12s — treating it like another home meet,” Blalock said. “Staying consistent. That’s why we’ve been doing so well. Our scores have built, but our gymnastics has been so on for the last [couple] weeks.”
Things were different three months ago. Coming into the season with a No. 9 preseason ranking, the Beavers had a disappointing start — a 193.600 in the season-opener in Cancun,
Mexico. Having that meet to start the season, rather
than in the middle, proved to be just what the team needed. Scores have been bested each week since Feb. 3, and the Beavers have topped 197 in their last three meets.
“We struggled [in Cancun], and we learned a lot from that, which is sometimes good,” Michael Chaplin said. “It’s better to struggle early, learn from that and grow. They took the challenge on, accepted it and realized, ‘We’re better than what we just showed,’ and kept trying to get better each week.”
Regionals commence at 4 p.m. on Saturday at Gill Coliseum. Being the No. 2 seed in the event, OSU will begin with a bye, and will open on uneven bars and end on vault.
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the Field for nCaa gymnastics regionalsNo. 4 GeorgiaHigh score: 197.800 (March 17 @ NC State)Low score: 195.425 (Jan. 5 vs. Oklahoma)Event rankingsVault: 8th (national ranking)Uneven bars: 3rdBalance beam: 4thFloor exercise: T-10thNo. 10 Oregon StateHigh score: 197.850 (March 23 @ Pac-12 Championships)Low score: 193.600 ( Jan. 4 @ Cancun Classic)Event rankingsVault: 10thUneven bars: 5thBalance beam: 10thFloor exercise: T-19th
No. 16 ArkansasHigh score: 197.100 (Feb. 22 vs. Alabama)Low score: 193.075 (Jan. 18 @ Kentucky)Event rankingsVault: 16thUneven bars: T-14thBalance beam: 22ndFloor exercise: 9thNo. 21 Boise StateHigh score: 196.575 (March 1 vs. Southern Utah)Low score: 194.700 (Jan. 26 at BYU)Event rankingsVault: 14thUneven bars: T-14thBalance beam: 35thFloor exercise: T-17th
Arizona StateHigh score: 196.025 (March 15 vs. Bridgeport)Low score: 193.425 (March 23 @ Pac-12 Championships)Event rankingsVault: 38thUneven bars: 28thBalance beam: 25thFloor exercise: T-30thCaliforniaHigh score: 196.525 (March 16 vs. Nebraska)Low score: 192.750 (Feb. 9 @ Utah)Event rankingsVault: 18thUneven bars: T-34thBalance beam: 46thFloor exercise: 23rd
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Women’s golf needs late season pushn Oregon State heads to Dallas for the SMU/
Dallas Athletic Club InvitationalBy Mitch MahoneyThe DaiLy BaRoMeTeR
The Oregon State women’s golf team is in Texas prepar-ing for their second-to-last regular season event.
The Beavers will be one of 15 teams competing in the SMU/Dallas Athletic Club Invitational, a three-day long tournament featuring teams from all over the nation.
“Golf is a little different than a lot of sports,” said head coach Rise Alexander. “It’s a mental game. These girls are all talented, physically. It’s how they emotionally manage their games that really makes a difference in their scores. In this tournament, there are 15 teams, and if they do what they’re capable, we should finish in the top five.”
Each team in the Dallas Invitational is comprised of five players, and they will play the same 18 holes on three dif-ferent days. Each team will drop its highest score on each day, so four individual rounds will be used to calculate the team score.
The Invitational will host six teams that are ranked in Golfweek/Sagarin’s top 50. The Beavers are 72nd.
For Oregon State, the lineup will be comprised of senior Rachael Fischer, juniors Lauren Sewell and Seshia Telles, sophomore Anica Yoo and freshman Ashlee Pickerell.
The Beavers have benefitted from the strong play of Telles all year. Last weekend, when the team competed in Hawaii, she posted a 2-under-par in the final round to lead OSU to a 14th place finish. It also marked the sixth time this season that Telles’ individual score placed her in the top 20.
She leads the team with a scoring average of 74.25 strokes per round.
“Seshia Telles is our number one player,” Alexander said. “She has had good finishes all through the year, and she definitely is someone to really look for going into the postseason.”
Second and third on the team are Sewell and Yoo, who post almost identical averages of 76.52 and 76.56 strokes, respectively.
Pickerell (79.10 strokes) and Fischer (79.53 strokes) round out the lineup.
“They’ve accomplished a lot for a young team,” Alexander said. “We don’t have any seniors playing in the lineup regularly, but we do this week. They’ve done quite a good job. I would say our weakness has been that we haven’t had a really good fifth score a lot of the times. We’re still looking for that maturity and experience.”
The Beavers could jumpstart that sort of growth by clos-ing out the season on a strong note. If they do well enough this weekend in Dallas and then again in their final event of the year, the Beavers could qualify for the postseason.
It’s important for Oregon State to place ahead of some of those top-50 teams to move on to the postseason.
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Track heads to Willamette Invitational
Men’s golf competes in weekend invitationaln Oregon State travels to Tempe, Ariz., to compete in the
Arizona State Thunderbird InvitationalBy Mitch MahoneyThe DaiLy BaRoMeTeR
In what may be a preview of things to come, the Oregon State men’s golf team will head to Tempe, Ariz., to compete in the Arizona State Thunderbird Invitational.
The Beavers will send their lineup of David Fink, Nick Chianello, Scott Kim, Nick Sherwood and Matt Rawitzer to the three-day tourna-ment. Once there, only the four lowest scores of each round will count toward the overall team score.
The teams will play at the ASU Karsten Golf Course, which the Beavers have never played before. Because they will be playing on unfamiliar territory, the team hopes to benefit from Fink, a junior, who has been torching golf courses throughout the season.
“The play of David Fink over the last four events has been very good,” said head coach Jon Reehoorn. “He’s finished in the top 10 in the last three, and two of those were second-place finishes in two of the strongest golf tournaments of the year. For him to finish second, that was great.”
Fink’s most recent event was at the Oregon Duck Invitational in Eugene, where he scored 2-under-par for the tournament and placed eighth individually. His score helped OSU finish in a tie for fourth place. Fink did so after missing the two previous tournaments because of an illness.
For the year, Fink leads the Beavers with a scoring average of 71.75 strokes per round. He is followed closely by Chianello with 72.43 strokes and Sherwood, who averages 72.63 strokes.
“The goal for the season is to end the year in Georgia at the national championship,” Reehoorn said. “I think right now the team is moving in a direction that I’m really happy with. I’m excited to see how we do at ASU this coming week.”
The Thunderbird Invitational will host a field of teams that includes two of the top three teams in the nation, No. 1 California and No. 3 New Mexico.
California will be without one of its top golfers, Michael Weaver, who is preparing to play in the Masters as one of three amateurs. Even so, the Golden Bears will field three players that have been ranked as the nation’s best NCAA golfer at some point this year.
Arizona and host Arizona State, along with OSU and California, are the four teams that will represent the Pac-12 in the tournament. There are 18 teams in total.
For the Beavers, the tournament could provide valuable experience for the coming month. Postseason play will begin the week after the Pac-12 Championships, and while nothing is set in stone yet, the ASU Karsten Golf Course is expected to be one of the host courses.
“This is kind of a preview for our guys,” Reehoorn said. “We don’t know where we’ll get shipped for regionals, but since ASU is one of locations for the Regional Championship, we could be playing this course again in a month or so. Since none of the guys on the team have seen the course, it’s kind of why we scheduled this tournament.”
There are a number of teams that will provide a healthy challenge for the Beavers, and the experience will be valuable, regardless of where they finish.
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n Oregon State travels to Salem in the last meet before the Pac-12 season begins
By alex MccoyThe DaiLy BaRoMeTeR
After 25 years without its own track facility, Oregon State hasn’t missed a beat.
The program is having a breakout sea-son with athletes in all events and hopes to continue its success at the Willamette Invitational on Saturday in Salem.
“It’s another opportunity to go compete hard, and we hope as the season progresses we get better and better marks,” said assis-tant coach Travis Floeck.
The Beavers are sending 17 athletes to Salem this weekend, including freshman high-jump standout Sara Almen. Almen had a breakout indoor campaign earlier in the season, just barely missing the mark to go to the national tournament, and ending the indoor season ranked at 18th in the nation. Saturday will mark Almen’s first outdoor meet this season.
Freshman Maureen Tremblay and junior Ashley Mayfield will also be making their outdoor season debuts this weekend. Both have had physical rehabbing complica-tions that have postponed their seasons this year. Saturday’s meet will be both Tremblay and Mayfield’s second race in their collegiate careers.
Freshman Michele Turney will join Almen in Salem this weekend to compete in the triple jump. At the Oregon Preview at Hayward Field in Eugene earlier this season, Turney jumped 38-6 1/4 to break a 29 year-old school record previously set by Colleen Gibson in 1984.
The Beavers will also be sending thrower Mary Claire Brenner for Saturday’s meet. Two weeks ago, at the Beavers’ first home meet this season and first in 25 years, Brenner threw for personal records in all three throwing events: Javelin, discus and shot-put. Brenner just finished her eligibil-ity with the Oregon State softball team and is using her last year to participate for the track and field team.
Senior distance runner Lauren Graebner
will be competing in the 1500-meter race. This weekend will be Graebner’s third meet of the outdoor season, and after taking a week off, is ready to get back on the track.
“It’s still the beginning of the season for us, and the first couple of meets are nor-mally just warm-up meets,” Grabner said. “By now we should be running significantly faster times.”
Saturday’s invitational is the beginning of a vital month for the OSU track team. After this weekend, the Beavers will be compet-ing every weekend through the month of April, hosting their second home meet of the season on April 26.
“The month of April is really critical to have good marks and get prepared for Pac-12s,” Floeck said. “Then we have to get prepared for regionals in May.”
Saturday’s events will kickoff at 9:30 a.m. in Salem, with the Beavers competing in the women’s javelin, shot-put and long jump.
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[against Portland] than he’d had in the past, so that’s a good sign, but he’s going to have to be a lot better to get into the weekend rotation.”
Offensively, OSU has enjoyed some hot bats in the last few games. The Beavers scored 41 runs in the past four games, a trend that will need to continue against a UCLA team that bolsters one of the best pitching staffs in the nation.
“Their pitching is outstanding,” Casey said. “It always is and is always going to be. They’re going to have good starters, good setup guys and good closers, so we have to play miles and miles better than we played at San Diego in order to play with UCLA.”
Junior right-hander Adam Plutko gave OSU fits last season and will be a challenge once again as the probable starter tonight.
“Plutko’s pretty good down there,” Rodriguez said. “He got us last year, so we need to go get him. We’ve been swinging
it pretty well, but he’s always a challenge.”OSU is currently in second place in the
Pac-12 standings behind No. 11 Oregon. A series win over one of the elite Pac-12 teams will spark the Beavers going forward.
“We know they’re a great club,” said junior third baseman Jerad Casper. “We’re going to work our butts off to try and get a sweep down there.”
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The Oregon Nearshore Strategy’s mission is, “To look at nearshore fish and wildlife and to address man-agement issues in a broader social and ecological con-text in Oregon.” Reasons for the necessity of such a project include increasing human pressures and the inadequate information of conservationists.
The Nearshore Strategy, which has been acknowl-edged as a malleable plan for conservation of near-shore species and habitat, developed 16 recommenda-tions for department actions. These range from improving the ODFW Marine Resources Program website, developing new and expanding commu-nication and education on nearshore topics, developing stock assessments and trade stock status indicator strate-gies for nearshore groundfish and shellfish species, and developing conservation and harvesting management plans for commonly and rec-reationally harvested shell-fish. An executive summary of the Nearshore Program can be found at the ODFW website under the conserva-tion and Nearshore Strategy tab.
The Nearshore Startegy is hardly the only conserva-tion project the department partakes in. A conservation project headed by ODFW restored seven miles of East Hambug Creek in Clatsop County, returning salmon spawning areas of the creek. The project was a collabora-
tive effort led by ODFW staff, state and federal agencies, the watershed council and local businesses.
The Snake River also was a site of restoration. Since 1978, the river has been the site of numerous restoration projections, and has proven to be a research site for sci-entists. Research in the area has shown that since a dike was breached in 1996, which restored tidal waters to 75 acres of marshes, the juve-nile salmon grow quick-er in this restored marsh than in other areas sur-rounding it, because of the high-energy flies the young salmon feed on.
ODFW also manages wildlife and has management plans for bighorn sheep, wolves, cou-gars, Rocky Mountain goats, black-tailed deer, Canada geese, sage grouse, mule deer, wild turkeys and elk. Extending beyond the wild-life that inhabit it, manage-ment of land is also a top priority for the ODFW. The Jewel Meadows Wildlife Area covers more than 1,100 acres on the Oregon Coast, 1,760 Acres in the Ken Denman Wildlife Area north of Medford, Ore., and other wildlife management areas in the Columbia Basin, Snake River, E.E. Wilson, Elkhorn, Fern Ridge, Klamath, Ladd Marsh, Lower Deschutes,
Riverside, Sauvie Island, Summer Lake and White River.
The role of the ODFW is largely to conserve the envi-ronment and wildlife, man-age hunting licenses and protecting endangered ani-mals. Without the efforts of the department, endangered species would not receive protection, efforts such as the Nearshore Project may have not come to fruition, and management programs
such as those for elk, wolves and wild tur-key may not exist. With the department’s efforts, salmon have returned to streams they had not been to in years past to spawn, endangered species were given a chance
to survive and thrive and wildlife populations have been effectively managed.
The ODFW affects agricul-ture in ways most may not understand. Management of wolves affects ranchers in Oregon, management of the habitat of animals that are beneficial to agriculture, watershed management affects the way agricultur-alists may attain water for their animals or crops and the management of various other resources, which may benefit agriculture.
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(CNN) — At a time when the United States is trying to figure out how to respond to threats from North Korean leaders, America and Israel are synthesiz-ing their intelligence assessments of Iran's nuclear capability, and Americans are marking the 10th anniversary of the Iraq war, it is useful to remind ourselves of the central role that intelligence plays in trying to understand our nation's greatest threat, an enemy armed with weapons of mass destruction.
Whether this intelligence turns out to be accurate or inaccurate, when trying to figure out the capabilities and intentions of hostile countries, our leaders turn to clandestinely collected information simply because they have no other way of knowing.
But it is also worth remember-ing that the picture that intel-ligence paints is not a factual depiction. With solid sources and analysis rigorously tested for bias, it can be very good. But a lack of these can produce intelligence analysis that is far less certain and therefore open for interpretation from policymakers.
The general public is not aware of the quality of our nation's intelligence at any given moment because it is not shared with the public, and we are forced to rely on the president's representation of the information. Not an ideal situation for a democracy — and one that proved disastrous in the case of the Iraq War.
As an intelligence analyst at the CIA, I was privy to all the intelli-gence analysis on Iraq in the lead-up to that war. My office covered the country analysis while other offices covered WMD and ter-rorism, but we read each other's work. I remember thinking at the time how paradoxical it was that we were working so hard to be thorough in our analysis for
the president, but then he gave the public only a few pieces of raw intelligence reporting from a handful of sources as well as the administration's own judgments that did not reflect the complexity of our assessments.
Thus the general public was given only the intelligence the Bush administration judged was most useful to characterize the danger of Saddam Hussein's regime. This was done by unilat-erally declassifying secret intel-ligence for speeches, talk show appearances and Colin Powell's famous U.N. Security Council speech.
There is a far better way to give the public a more accurate reading of threats to our national security. One needn't look any further than the Constitution. The framers created Congress to be another body, unaccountable to the executive, to be entrusted with the nation's security and with the exclusive power to make war.
But for Congress to play this role in today's WMD reality, con-gressional leaders need to have access to the same intelligence the president has. This would allow Congress to challenge a president's characterization of a threat with the public (as well as call out a president if he isn't addressing a threat). This would provide the public a more accu-rate understanding of the real threats it faces and with that a greater certainty as to when we need to act.
While some congressional members on the intelligence committees are getting more intelligence information today than they were before, the President's Daily Brief, with information from the nation's most sensitive sources, is still for presidential eyes only. This puts the president in the driver's seat
to define our threats, determine our enemies and tell the public what he thinks we need to do about it.
In the case of the Iraq war, by the time Congress began to take a more active role and summoned the now infamous National Intelligence Estimate, they were not in a position to function as a "balance" to the executive branch and "check" that branch's characterization of Hussein as an imminent threat. The Bush administration had already released most of the damning intelligence to the public, creating enough fear to convince many Americans that Hussein was "very likely" to give WMD to terrorists.
It would have been far better to have trusted the public with the CIA analysts' full assessments than for the individual, some-times uncorroborated pieces of raw intelligence to be released to the public without any analysis or context. The public would have had to wrestle with the complex-ity, the uncertainties and in some cases the limited availability of sources that was the intelligence picture on Iraq in 2002-2003.
I am not advocating for this type of complete intel-sharing with the public in the future. Releasing top secret informa-tion to the public risks lives and collection methods and is clearly unwise. Congress, as the body representing the public, can and should serve this function.
But unless Congress' access to intelligence is on par with the president's, you can forget what you read in the Constitution; information is power and the branch with the most classified intelligence is king and alone makes war. Congress, and by default, the public, are largely irrelevant.
Presidents should share secrets with Congress
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Recent announcements of American military deployments in response to belligerent state-ments by North Korea may have contributed to escalating tensions between the two coun-tries, Pentagon officials told CNN on Thursday in explaining an effort to reduce U.S. rhetoric about the reclusive state.
“We accused the North Koreans of amping things up, now we are worried we did the same thing,” one Defense Department official said.
They spoke on the same day a U.S. official first told CNN that communications inter-cepts indicated North Korea may be planning to launch a mobile ballistic missile in the coming days or weeks.
Classified images and com-munications intercepts show that North Korea has moved up to two mobile missiles, launch-ers and fuel tanks to its East coast, another American official with knowledge of the matter told CNN.
South Korean Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin told a parliamentary committee in Seoul that the activity sig-
naled an imminent test firing or military drill, according to the semi-official South Korean news agency Yonhap.
One U.S. official said it is believed any launch this time would be a test.
The activity is consistent with a Musudan missile, the official said.
The Musudan is based on a Soviet-era system and has a 2,500-mile (4,000-kilometer) range that can threaten South Korea, Japan and Southeast Asia, but not U.S. forces based on Guam.
As a vital ally to South Korea since the Korean war in the 1950s, the United States has pledged military backing to Seoul in the event of an attack by North Korea.
In addition, North Korea has been developing nuclear weap-ons technology, raising con-cerns of rapid proliferation in the region and even a possible nuclear strike by Pyongyang.
The fraught situation on the Korean Peninsula stems from the North’s latest long-range rocket launch in December and underground nuclear test in February.
In response, the United States helped bring tougher U.N. sanctions on North Korea and took part in joint military exercises with South Korea, prompting Kim Jong Un’s government to ratchet up its threats in recent weeks.
That caused the United States to display its military strength in the annual drills taking place now, flying B-2 stealth bombers capable of carrying conven-tional or nuclear weapons, as well as Cold War-era B-52s and F-22 Raptor stealth fighters over South Korea.
On Thursday, a North Korean army official warned that “the moment of explosion is approaching fast.”
“No one can say a war will break out in Korea or not and whether it will break out today or tomorrow,” said the spokes-man for the General Staff of the North’s Korean People’s Army (KPA).
“The responsibility for this grave situation entirely rests with the U.S. administration and military warmongers keen to encroach upon the DPRK’s sovereignty and bring down its dignified social sys-
tem with brigandish logic,” the KPA spokesman added in a statement published by the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).
A spokeswoman for the White House National Security Council said Thursday that the United States continues to closely monitor the situation.
“Threats and provocative actions will not bring North Korea the security, international respect, and economic devel-opment it seeks,” said the NSC spokeswoman, Caitlin Hayden. “We will continue to urge the North Korean leadership to heed President Obama’s call to choose the path of peace and come into compliance with its international obligations.”
Ear l ier, a Defense Department official told CNN that from a communications point of view, “we are trying to turn the volume down” on U.S. rhetoric about North Korea. The official, speaking on condition of not being identified, said the change referred to public state-ments by the Obama admin-istration instead of how U.S. military hardware were being deployed in the region.
According to the official, some Pentagon officials were surprised at how U.S. news releases and statements on North Korea were generating world headlines and there-fore provoking a Pyongyang response.
“We are absolutely trying to ratchet back the rhetoric,” the official said. “We become part of the cycle. We allowed that to happen.”
At the State Department, spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Thursday the United States needed to take the defensive steps it did in view of North Korea’s threats, but she focused on a diplomatic solution avail-able if Pyongyang changed its behavior.
“It was the ratcheting up of tensions on the DPRK side that caused us to need to shore up our own defense posture. We have done that,” Nuland said. “But we have also been saying all the way through that this does not need to get hotter, that we can change course here if the DPRK will begin to come back into compliance with its international obligations, will begin to cool things down, take
a pause.”To Bill Richardson, the for-
mer U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, the admin-istration’s response so far has been “appropriate — cool, calm, but at the same time putting our military resourc-es ready in case there’s an emergency.”
He told CNN on Thursday that a North Korean military attack on U.S. interests would be “suicidal,” adding: “That’s not going to happen.”
Diplomacy should be the “end game” for the administra-tion’s policy regarding North Korea, said Richardson, one of the few U.S. politicians to have visited the country.
“I think the administration’s response does make sense in the sense that you don’t want to continue this huge rhetoric and at the same time pro-voke some kind of incident,” Richardson said. “The danger is not a war with the United States or South Korea, I think. The danger is some kind of military altercation in the Yellow Sea, a naval skirmish of some kind.”
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is expected to travel to South Korea, China and Japan this month to meet with his counterparts there.
Previously, the Obama administration established a “playbook” of pre-scripted actions and responses to the last several weeks of North Korean rhetoric and provoca-tions, an administration official said Thursday.
The scripted actions includ-ed an increased show of U.S. military force — such as the flying of B-2 bombers — during the annual U.S.-South Korea military exercise, the Foal Eagle.
“Eyebrows started to go up when it was clear Foal Eagle was going to be protected from the budget cuts of sequestration,” the official said, referring to the forced federal spending cuts that went into effect in March.
The playbook planning began under former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta but was picked up and support-ed strongly by his successor, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, the official said.
Details of the playbook were first reported by the Wall Street Journal. The administration official declined to be named because of the sensitivity of the situation.
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(CNN) — Rutgers men’s assis-tant basketball coach Jimmy Martelli resigned the same day his boss was fired after ESPN broadcast a lengthy video of play-ers being physically and verbally abused, the university told CNN on Thursday.
Rutgers gave no reason for Martelli’s resignation Wednesday.
The outcry over the treatment of the players arose after ESPN on Tuesday showed footage of head coach Mike Rice shoving and berating players.
ESPN reported Thursday that Martelli also was involved, in a handful of instances where he shoved players and at least one instance where he called a player “a f***** fa**ot.”
The network posted a different video on its website that showed Martelli getting physical with players and an interview with Eric Murdock, a former director of player development for the Scarlet Knights, who said Martelli was known as “Baby Rice.”
Martelli, son of longtime St. Joseph’s coach Phil Martelli, joined the Rutgers staff in May 2010 after three seasons as an assistant under Rice at Robert Morris, which twice made the NCAA tournament.
In a statement obtained by CNN, Martelli said, “I am sickened that as an assistant coach I contributed in any way to an unacceptable culture. Wednesday I resigned from Rutgers and I hope that coaches on all levels will learn something important from these events. For my actions, I am deeply sorry and I apologize to the players from the bottom of my heart.”
The news comes the same day Rutgers revealed the university will pay Rice a $100,000 longevity bonus, according to a university spokesman.
Rice said after he was fired that “there’s no explanation for what’s on those videos because there’s no excuse for it,” according to CNN affiliate WABC.
“I can’t say anything right now except I’m sorry, and there will never be a time where I’m going to use any of that as an excuse or will there be any excuse,” he said, according to the station. “I’ve let so many people down, my play-ers, my administration, Rutgers University, the fans, my family — who’s sitting in their house, just huddled around because of the fact that their father was an embarrassment to them.”
Rutgers assistant coach resigns