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GYMNASTICS: Looking to return to nationals this year

SPORTS8 – Gymnastics season preview7 – Men’s basketball notebook

NEWS2 – Willamette River discussed at science pub6 – Romney wins NH primary

FORUM4 – Thoughts on primary season

The future of solar panels: thin, cheap, safe

Artwork inspires dialogue on Capital Punishment, earns honorablen Professor of Art’s painting

questions the death penaltyBy Martin Forde

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Artwork is a very powerful asset when portraying controversial subjects and topics, something which Oregon State University professor Julie Green used to her advantage on her most famous project to date. “The Last Supper” is a collection of ceramic plates that have the last dinner requests from death row inmates across the nation painted on them.

Professor Green’s dedication and persistence on this project has paid off, as she was recently selected as one of the recipients of a $25,000 grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation. According to Green, “the Joan Mitchell Award for Painters and Sculptors is one of the most prestigious grants in the United States; over a hundred artists are nominated to apply, yet only twen-ty-five are selected and given a cash award of 25K. Past recipients include some of my favorite artists. I am deeply

honored to be selected.” The foundation’s website says,

“grants are given to acknowledge painters and sculptors creating work of exceptional quality.” Generally, those selected are under-appreciated for their work, and their careers will benefit enormously from the grant.

Green said this distinction will help bring recognition and needed atten-tion to the wonderful work being done by OSU fine art students and alumni.

One of her main motivations for the project is to spark both interest and discussion regarding the death penalty. “Our country is re-examining the sys-tem of capital punishment. Many share my concern for possible errors that could lead to a wrongful conviction. Life without parole is a less expensive, and in my opinion, a saner option.”

Green’s peers and colleagues share similar outlooks on her work. Christy Turner, a current student and a sup-porter of Green’s work said, “The Last Supper is a really powerful project. It addresses a controversial topic in a manner that is elegant, intimate and tasteful, not to mention inherently

interesting. Each individual plate is a story unto itself. It’s very exciting to see Professor Green recognized for her work, and I think the OSU community should be proud of her achievement.”

Former student Ben Buswell, an artist and professor in the Portland area, shares a similar viewpoint. “The Last Supper places the viewer direct-ly between two conceptual poles in different visual ways and asks for a thoughtful (rather than rash) response,” Buswell said. “It is politics without rhet-oric, emotion without cliché and beau-tifully smart.”

The simplicity of Green’s work offers a new way of looking at capital punishment.

“This artwork alters our mental pic-ture of those legally executed in the United States. I now have a mental pic-ture of a large wall crowded with plates when thinking about the death penalty, rather than some abstract statistic,” said John Whitaker, Green’s former stu-dent. “Each plate is a small catalog of the humanity of each individual.”

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Green, pictured to the right, received a

$25,000 grant for her painting,

“The Last Supper.”

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n Scientists design thin films based on computation of periodic table compounds for safer solar energy panels

By Michael MendesThe Daily BaromeTer

A collaborative effort between Oregon State University researchers and Colorado’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory has discovered a new material that could potentially be used to construct cheaper and safer solar panels.

The photovoltaic, or PV cell, is an individual light col-lector on the solar panel that would use a crystalline sheet composed of iron, sulfur and silicon or germanium to absorb sunlight and generate electricity. It is possible for these sheets to be constructed of much thinner layers than previous absorbers.

Additionally, the materials themselves would be cheap. “Iron, silicon and sulfur are maybe the three least expen-

sive elements in terms of their cost and availability,” said Douglas Keszler, a distinguished professor of inorganic chemistry at OSU and the director of the Center for Green Materials Chemistry.

The research stemmed from investigation of iron pyrite, commonly called Fool’s Gold, which was once seen as having high potential for capturing energy from the sun. However, when the iron-sulfur crystalline panels were cre-ated and tested, they performed far lower than projected.

Now, these researchers have performed tests that show that the iron-sulfur crystal sheets separate into two differ-ent “phases,” one of which consists of an imperfect crystal with less sulfur. This greatly decreases the crystal’s ability to absorb sunlight.

But researchers have found a potential solution. “Theoreticians at NREL select materials from the peri-

odic table and run a large computation specifically looking for properties that are attractive for solar cells,” said Ram

CONTRibUTEd PhOTO | Courtesy of ram raviChandran

Ravichandran pictured above using a sputter deposition tool.

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Profile tees: get acquainted without saying a word

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Communications instructor Imran Haider, above, designed a way to counteract the negative influence social media and internet have on interpersonal communication skills by wearing a T-shirt with personalized information on the front.

n Communications professor designs social experiment that his students can wear around campus

By Cody VisscherThe Daily BaromeTer

Imran Haider has a vision for Oregon State University students: starting a trend with experimental “profile tees.”

Profile tees are T-shirts with personalized information on them, much like the informa-tion one puts on a Facebook profile. Students

choose six categories from a list of 19, which includes everything from age and relation-ship status to political and religious views. Once students pick their six preferences, they customize the tees.

“You can be serious about your shirt or you can be funny. It is all up to you. It is simple but effective,” said Haider, an interpersonal communications instructor at OSU. “Face-to-face communication skills have moved into this transition where they are deterio-rating because we rely so much on our cell phones and what not. Interpersonal tact has

diminished in quality and it’s because of our uncertainty.”

According to Haider, electronic media and online social networks have damaged our ability to connect or form positive first impressions with strangers.

“When you approach a person, you are uncertain about them. Subconsciously you wish you knew more about them. The Internet has made it so that we are uncom-fortable talking to someone without knowing

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Opposition denouces al-Assad speech

Syrian opposition activ-ists called President Bashar al-Assad’s defiant and rare address Tuesday a “worthless” and “meaningless” speech.

“The regime has not learned,” said Burhan Ghalioun, head of the Syrian National Council opposition group.

Rafif Jouejati, a spokes-woman for the Local Coordination Committees of Syria, an opposition activ-ist group, said, “I heard a lot of gibberish about terrorists’ conspiracies and unnamed perpetrators.”

Al-Assad delivered a lengthy televised talk strongly defending his government’s actions and motivations, despite world pressure on his embattled government for its 10-month crackdown on pro-testers. Activists say the oper-ation has led to nearly 6,000 or more estimated deaths.

As al-Assad spoke, more violence erupted across the country, leaving 38 people dead, three of them children, according to the LCC, which organizes and documents anti-government protests.

Two hours after al-Assad’s speech, in the Syrian port city of Latakia, 11 Arab League monitors suffered bruises when pro-Assad protesters assaulted them and their cars, a senior Arab League official told CNN.

News of the attack came after the Arab League’s secre-tary-general, Nabil el-Araby, said Tuesday there had been a “campaign” against the moni-toring mission in the past two days. In a statement, the Arab League said forces loyal to the government and parties con-sidered part of the opposition have committed acts of vio-lence that have led to monitor injuries, equipment damage, and threats of assaults.

africaNigeria rocked by strikes for second day

Nigerians took to the streets for the second day of a nationwide strike Tuesday, showing their anger over a government decision that has more than doubled fuel prices in the largely impov-erished country.

Some protests over the end of fuel subsidies were marred by clashes that left 16 people dead and 205 injured, according to a tally collected by the Nigerian Red Cross Tuesday.

The strike, continued religious violence in the north and a long-simmer-ing separatist movement are all issues that have cre-ated growing problems for Goodluck Jonathan, the country’s president, and fueled tensions on the street.

The southern state of Edo was a focus for much of the violence, according to the Red Cross figures, with five people killed and 83 injured.

The situation is tense amid rumors that people from the north will be attacked, and some 4,000 people have fled their homes and sought refuge in camps, the Red Cross report stated.

Dan Enowoghomwenma, joint secretary of the Edo state branch of the Red Cross, told CNN three peo-ple had died Monday and two Tuesday, as different communities clashed in the state capital, Benin City.

One mosque building was burned and another vandalized, with cars and buses also set alight, before the police and military restored calm, he said. He told CNN he did not know if there was a religious moti-vation for the clashes.

asiaTibet mourns self-immolating monk

Thousands of Tibetans took to the streets in west-ern China early this week to commemorate a monk who died Sunday after set-ting himself on fire, local residents and activists told CNN.

The monk, 40-year-old Nayage Sonamdrugyu, was from the Nyanmo Monastery in the Tibetan autonomous prefecture of Golog in Qinghai Province, state-run Xinhua news agency reported, adding he set himself ablaze at an intersection in the county seat of Darlag.

Holding flowers and can-dles and carrying photos of the monk, as many as 2,000 local Tibetans marched down the street Monday, according to prominent Tibetan writer and activist Tsering Woeser.

A local supermarket owner in Darlag, who declined to reveal her name due to the sensitivity of the situation, said in a phone interview that Tibetans gathered in front of the local police sta-tion Monday to protest over the monk’s death. Officers dispersed the crowd and a heavy presence of security remained in town Tuesday, she added.

Continuing a trend that began in 2009, activists say Sonamdrugyu’s death was the third case of self-immo-lation by Tibetan monks in the opening days of 2012 to protest increasing Chinese oppression. Two other cases in nearby Sichuan Province left one Tibetan monk dead and the other seriously injured, according to Xinhua.

The news agency said Sonamdrugyu’s body was returned to his family and officials were investigating the cause of his death.

Middle eastUS pulls plug on Arabic “Sesame Street”

An Arab-language ver-sion of the U.S. children’s program “Sesame Street,” watched by kids in the Palestinian territories, is on hold for this year.

The U.S. Congress decid-ed to freeze nearly $200 mil-lion to the U.S. Agency for International Development, from which the show draws its funds. The funding freeze also affects other programs such as hospitals and education.

Called “Shara’a Simsim” in Arabic, the program is aimed at youngsters in the West Bank and Gaza.

State Department spokes-woman Victoria Nuland confirmed the cut-off Tuesday. “Unfortunately, Kermit is not able to be sup-ported at this moment,” she said.

“Unfortunately, with the cut in economic support funds, we had to make some hard tradeoffs, and that was one of the things that we’ve not been able to do.”

The State Department pushed for full funding of U.S. economic support funds for the Palestinians, but the Palestinian Authority’s bid last autumn for U.N. mem-bership angered members of Congress. The bid failed but UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, subsequently approved the Palestinian bid for full membership, triggering the vote to freeze the funding.

Funding for Israeli tele-vision broadcasts to Arab and Jewish children will continue, Nuland said. That programming comes from a different U.S. government funding stream, the State Department spokeswoman said.

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Professor discusses Willamette at Science Pubn Audience at Old World

Deli learns how climate influences the riverBy Annecy Beauchemin

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Monday night, John Bolte, OSU professor and head of the Department of Biological and Ecological Engineering, gave a talk at the Corvallis Science Pub about the history and future of the Willamette River.

The Science Pub is put on by OMSI and is hosted monthly in Corvallis at the Old World Deli on Second Street. Says Shelley Signs of OSU Events, “We’ve been holding the science pub here for nine years.”

Nicolas Houtman of the OSU Department of Research Communications and head of Terra Magazine hosts the Science Pub. He enjoys its “con-versational environment. It brings science to the people.”

Kudos to the Old World Deli,

which, during the event, holds and serves a crowd large enough to require an extra screen for the speaker’s presentation.

The occasion for discussion of the Willamette was that the river lies at the focus of a new study that hopes to shed light on how the river’s environ-ment will be altered by climate change, a growing human pres-ence and demand for water in the Willamette Valley.

Bolte first gave an overview of the river and its history, such as its progressive loss of complexity with human settle-ment. This means, among other things, that with fewer features like meandering chan-nels and floodplains, the river has become less amenable to migrating salmon.

Building directly on the river also has altered it. “Dams,” said Bolte, “have issues as well.” He not only discussed the harm done by dams through chang-ing water depth and temper-

ature regime, but noted their benefits and the need to strike a safe balance. “There are things we can do that have both good and bad effects.”

Rising population is another stressor on the Willamette, and it was one of the major factors taken into consideration when the Alternative Futures Model was applied to the river’s future.

Multiple scenarios are pro-jected, depending on what might happen and what we might do ourselves in the future of the Willamette.

The three scenarios Bolte presented were named Conservation, Plan Trend and Development. All were projec-tions of a possible 2050.

The Development scenario was largely business as usual, if we continue to develop land around the river and let in new population without making any adjustments to conservation or planning. This was predicted to result in the largest decline in

selected ecosystem services.Ecosystem services still

declined, but not to the same extent, in the Plan Trend sce-nario, in which the valley still accepts its growing population, but makes major adjustments in land use planning to soften the impact.

In the Conservation sce-nario, most ecosystem services move toward recovery. In this situation, the population is kept sparser by making new reserves along the river and enforcing the limited space that results.

When asked which scenario Bolte thinks is most likely, he says “it’s not really about that.” The future could be a combi-nation of elements from each as easily as any one. Rather, the scenarios are to function as an “array of possibilities” for stakeholders and policy makers.

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Ravichandran, an electrical engineering student and co-author of the study. “The chemistry department fabricates powders and single crystals of the compounds to verify the theoreticians’ calculations.”

He added, “We in the electrical engineer-ing department collaborate with the chem-istry department to fabricate thin films of the said compounds to verify results obtained by the chemists as well as the theoreticians.”

NREL computations indicated that the addition of silicon or germanium to the

absorber’s crystal structure would stabilize the absorber during its creation and prevent phase separation from occurring.

When OSU researchers included the sili-con or germanium in the thin crystal sheets, no phase separation occurred and early tests indicated that they retained the prop-erties that theoretically make them ideal candidates for constructing solar cells.

One important property of a solar collec-tor is having the correct “band gap,” or ener-gy required to conduct electricity. These new iron-sulfur-silicon/germanium mate-rials have a calculated band gap of 1.3-1.5 electron volts, which should theoretically allow them to absorb the most sunlight.

The next step would be to construct working solar cells that utilize these crystal sheets and measuring whether it performs as projected.

“Now is where the work begins,” Ravichandran said. “Since we’ve identified this as a new potential material for photo-voltaics, it will be interesting to see if we can integrate this material in a thin film solar cell structure to demonstrate how this new material behaves. We are also working to identify and synthesize other new materials that can be alternatives to current thin film solar cell absorbers.”

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SOLARn Continued from page 1

their information,” Haider said. These shirts, meant to allevi-

ate that uncertainty, break the ice so people wearing them don’t have to. A student’s first day of class would be less stress-ful if his or her peers were wear-ing a profile tee.

“You need to understand yourself before you can effec-tively communicate with others,” Haider said, which is a motto he preaches to his students.

The idea for profile tees came to Haider when he was lecturing his Communications 218 class on self-awareness. “[You] have to identify what you stand for

and what makes you, you. What do you want people to know about you?”

He asked his class what they would do if he wore a message board with his information on it. “The students had a really strong reaction to the question,” Haider said. From there the idea grew into what is now the profile tee experiment.

Haider designed the pro-file tees for his students and encouraged them to wear them around and email him people’s responses to the shirts for extra credit. The emails immediately started flooding in.

Alicia Alexander, a junior in exercise sports science, and Madeline Luecht, a freshman in merchandising management

and anthropology, were two of the students involved in this experiment.

“Friends laughed at her… [But they] thought it was really cool once they found out what it was all about,” Alexander said. “It’s a really cool experiment. If the word spreads and more people start buying them the idea will take off. ”

Luecht wore it to her yoga class and “got a lot of weird looks, especially from older people,” she said. “It made me realize how much information we actually put on Facebook. It really says a lot about you. It changed my thinking about Facebook.”

Luecht and Alexander agreed that the experiment is clever and could change people’s idea

about their personal informa-tion on Facebook.

“It is a little stressful wear-ing all that information, but it’s fun too. It could definitely start something once more people get involved,” said Luecht.

That is what Haider is hoping, anyway.

“If Oregon State students can start the trend it will spread, maybe even make national news,” he said. “It will help rejuvenate our face-to-face interactions and it might even change the way we approach socializing.”

To learn more about the experiment or buy a profile tee, visit http://shop.profiletee.com

Cody Visscher, staff reporter737-2231 [email protected]

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Rep. DeFazio talks Oregon issuesBy Joce DeWitt

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Rep. Peter DeFazio (D—OR) was on the Oregon State University campus yesterday meeting with student and faculty leaders. The Daily Barometer caught up with him to briefly discuss the future of financial aid, No Child Left Behind and putting America “back to work.”

Q: What is your main goal in reaching out to college students?

A: Not to sound corny or anything, but you’re the future. How we educate the next generation of people to be involved in our economy and government is absolutely critical and I’ve always been a strong advocate for quality and affordable education…I understand the financial bur-dens, we’re involved in a huge fight over the future of student financial aid…doing direct student grants and Pell grants based on need is a much bet-ter system.

I’m really concerned about the future of the country, which concerns people in school today, how they afford their education, how they get a job, how they pay it back… I’m working hard to provide for those opportunities and working to provide jobs when

they graduate and I put a lot of time and effort into that and working for average folks… I’m there to fight for average folks.

Q: What is your plan for helping rural Oregon counties replace timber payments in the long run?

A: We’ve come up with a proposal that would set aside remaining old growth and pro-tect it, the Forest Practices Act, so we’ll see how that all works out, but that’s been a major, major effort. The problem is we have to get the Republican chairman to agree to the legis-lation and he’s still considering various aspects.

Q: What are the biggest issues surrounding college education right now?

A: The major focus is the state actually, because the state is the cause of tuition increas-es, and as you know we are having a dispute over that with University of Oregon president getting fired, but we’ve got to figure out a way to better fund state institutions with-out cuts. It’s not going to come from the federal government. I have concerns and have been involved in talking with the governor...So a major empha-sis is creating opportunities by putting America back to work, investment infrastructure (i.e. dams, power transmissions, manufacturing, etc.) could

provide a lot of job opportuni-ties. Not that there isn’t a huge need, but there aren’t any jobs, that’s a major part of what I spend time on, is getting those investments on track and get people on track and back to work.

Q: What about the 2012 defense authorization act?

A: Not only are we still involved in Afghanistan, which I think we should end as soon as possible, but we’ve got hundreds of troops stationed around the world. We need to rethink our posture. We can’t afford to police the world.

Q: Can you give us an update on the scholarships you contribute to?

A: There are five community colleges and I give two schol-arships every year—which are need-based—so ten a year. They are aimed toward those getting retrained… People who had jobs, lost them for one reason or another and need to gain new skills.

It’s very rewarding, one of the best things I’ve ever done to help people like that. Lots of times in this job you wonder if you’re making a positive dif-ference, that’s something that’s always there.

Q: What kind of reforms are you wanting for the No Child Left Behind Act?

A: The act needs to be sub-

stantially revised. The presi-dent is acting to give waivers to states...It doesn’t measure indi-vidual student achievement; it just measures the aggregate score of your cohort that year. Basically it’s something that was set up that in the end is undermining public educa-tion instead of improving it by setting impossible standards. We need to look at individual student achievement, and not “did you have one severely dis-abled child in the class that got a poor score and we deemed the whole class as failing?” The basic premise is wrong; pun-ishing schools that [score low] instead of helping them. There are a whole lot of problems with No Child Left Behind, so it needs a major overhaul.

Q: What do you think about H.R. 3261, or the Stop Online Piracy Act?

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Freedom, liberty and justice are only a few of the essential elements that constitute the

United States of America. However, as of Dec. 31, the welfare of our nation has once again been compromised by those hoping to balloon federal blow onto the confines of rudimen-tary American values. Before shak-ing the coat and tie to toast in the new year with the miss’, President Barack Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act into law — an act that blatantly disregards constitutional ideals, reminiscent of McCarthy’s 1950’s attempt to “weed out the Commies.”

Controversy surrounding the bill generates from disagreement on Title X, Subtitle D, which expands the power and scope of the federal government while taking away the fundamental rights that make America great. Not only does it allow for anti-terrorism operations to ensue on American soil, but more importantly, authorizes the indefinite detainment of both foreign terrorism suspects and U.S. citizens without due process.

Initially, Obama objected to section 1022 of the NDAA, believing manda-tory military detainment was exces-sive and a clear infringement of civil liberties. The Senate-House compro-mised to remove this requirement, causing many to ease their negative evaluations of the bill.

Unfortunately, there is a fine line between “required,” and the newly designated “optional” detainment. The government continues to possess the ability to detain American citizens indefinitely, yet reserves the right to use their own personal judgment on where the line is drawn between our civil rights to free speech, press and assembly, and suspicious terrorist actions. Upon signing the bill, Obama was clear in his report of having “seri-ous reservations with certain provi-sions” detailing how suspects were detained and interrogated.

Sorry, Barack, there are certain things acceptable to be uncertain about, but laws that have the poten-tial to change American fundamen-tals are not one of them. Where I’m from, if it feels wrong, it usually is.

Though Obama has declared to never exercise his newfound powers

on American citizens, who’s to know the actions of his successors? In the midst of economic upheaval, hous-ing market disarray and staggering unemployment rates, it is safe to say that no one knows whose administra-tion will be in power a year from now.

Contrary to the opinions of NDAA supporters, military and political leaders are not omniscient and are in fact capable of mistakes. There will always be corruption and the desire for personal reward, warranting the need for a strong and infrangible bill of rights. Take that away and we are left with a brutal police state in which everything America was built on — all of our ideals, declarations and free-doms — becomes merely a charade for the tourists.

It is time to face the facts: the war on terror can never be won. Terrorism is not a state, or a unit to be disassem-bled. Terrorism is a radical, extremist reaction in which one attacks anoth-er’s ideas in the name of their own. After all of the death and destruction, there will still be anger bred and ideas brewing. It simply cannot be stopped.

However, what can be changed is how we counter these interactions. Supplanting basic American ide-als for alarm and anxiety makes no sense. Allowing our fear to take pre-cedence over our principles simply fulfills the terrorists’ deepest desire.

There is no doubt in my mind this law will soon be challenged, and even earlier if a gutsy president actu-ally ventures to exercise their newly legalized power. Until then, given the essence of the political season, I advise everyone to be watchful for candidates interested in curtailing the government as much as possible.

As college students, we have the resources, education and audacity to ask questions and demand answers. After all, this is the nation that houses our well-earned futures. If we don’t defend her, no one will.

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No primary purpose In a real barnburner, Mitt

Romney wins the New Hampshire primary.

Despite a reluctance to put on campaign events in NH (third most of the GOP nominees), and the ever-evolving hype of fellow candidates possibly winning the 2012 nomina-tion – Santorum the most recent fla-vor of the week – Romney, as should be expected, blew through the state with ease.

So, as many Republicans do, the focus is then put on who takes sec-ond in NH, the candidate that may “gain momentum” going into the South Carolina primary. It’s Romney denial.

Then, just as Jon Huntsman was getting the credit for running a con-sistent campaign, pushing hard to pull off a win, it’s only right that Ron Paul, a man who will never get the publicity or respect — at least for consistency — from the media and peers, takes second. That’s how insig-nificant the NH primary, or any other for that matter, truly is. The man not even recognized or respected by his party — at least by the mainstream — is legitimately holding down sec-ond place. It’s all trivial matter, espe-cially this year.

Any competent, knowledgeable individual has known Mitt Romney would get the GOP nomination since election season began, sometime near the beginning of 2009. Besides the media creating stories out of a generally lame primary session, the only reason so much attention has been put on these initial states is the Republican groups simply won’t accept the political archetype. And it’s the one thing to take out of pri-mary season: the GOP is killing their 2012 election chances, however slim.

Forget hope, forget buying that Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, or even Rick Perry will ever be near the Republican nomination, and instead realize this two-year primary season has only succeeded in hammering Mitt Romney – who was never really in doubt of losing the nomination at any point. They’ve pointed out all of his flaws. Obama’s campaign won’t need to work for 2012, the fel-low GOP has done all the bashing for him.

Romney’s been made out to look like an Obama policy carbon copy, only with a background in large corporate business, and a history of changing his mind on issues. Should anyone be on the fence for the 2012 presidential election, why would anyone go with Romney?

Even worse, beyond simple party nominations, primary season is completely irrelevant to the actual endgame. NH’s primary didn’t tell you who the President of the United States will be, and isn’t that the only thing that matters?

But for those who still care about the presidential election – Congress certainly hasn’t minded the blind eye – NH’s primary did tell you one thing: there will be no upset. This plan was set in motion four years ago. Republicans, just get on the train.

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Realities and pressures of drinking on campusWhen it comes to drinking

and college, perceptions and reality are two differ-

ent things. Many students think college is a place where most students are drinking to an excess on a regular basis. According to a survey conducted by the CORE Institute, the largest national Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) data-base about college students’ drinking and drug use in the country, most stu-dents who drink do so responsibly.

On average, college students report they drink fewer than six drinks per week. Furthermore, 54 percent of college students report they did not engage in binge drinking during the two weeks prior to completing the study, and 35 percent report “0” as their weekly average number of drinks.

While the majority of students are drinking responsibly, others are facing problems with alcohol. In a Student Health 101 survey of more than 700 college students, 45 percent of students say they believe drinking alcohol is a problem with some students, and 75 percent say they’ve experienced side effects of drinking like having a hang-over and throwing up. It is estimated that 160,000 freshman will drop out of school because of alcohol or drugs according to the CORE Institute.

College students drink for many rea-sons — more freedom, a way to reduce stress, fewer restrictions, easier access to alcohol and many more opportuni-ties to party with friends. Many college and universities’ customs and norms

encourage alcohol use. “Many college students drink to

make social interactions more com-fortable,” says Jeff Wolfsberg, a drug education specialist in Memphis, Tennessee.

Differences Between the SexesDr. Diana Robinson, a New York

State alcohol and substance abuse counselor, says there are two major physiological reasons why alcohol affects men and women differently: body weight and the prevalence of a stomach enzyme that helps metabo-lize alcohol.

“On average, women have lower body weight than men. The larger the body, the greater the distribution of the alcohol throughout it, and so the lower the blood alcohol level for the same amount of alcohol,” Robinson says.

So when men and women go shot for shot or drink for drink, the end result can be really dangerous.

“Men have about 50 percent more of a stomach enzyme known as gastric alcohol dehydrogenase than women,” Robinson says. “Because this enzyme metabolizes 12 to 15 percent of the alcohol consumed while it is still in the stomach, less alcohol goes on to enter the bloodstream in men.”

Other factors like water in the body and “even medications like birth con-trol all play a role in how alcohol will

affect [women] on any given evening,” Wolfsberg says.

Pressure to DrinkPressure to drink is everywhere —

in movies, on TV, in magazines, and, perhaps worst of all, right in front of you among your peers and on social networks.

“The feeling of ‘am I missing some-thing if I don’t drink?’ looms large in the minds of young college students,” Wolfsberg says. “It is true that a large percentage of college students drink, but it is also true that many drink mod-erately and in a manner that is not dangerous to their physiology.”

In most social situations, alcohol is seen as a lubricant, but modera-tion is key. There is no one definition of moderate drinking, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but generally the term is used to describe a lower-risk pattern of drinking. According to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, drinking in moderation is defined as having no more than one drink per day for women and no more than two drinks per day for men.

In the Student Health 101 survey, 6 out of 10 students surveyed said they’ve felt rundown after drinking, and 4 out of 10 said they’ve needed excessive sleep to catch up after drinking.

How to Know When Drinking Is a Problem

Drinking is something that most people who are of age can enjoy health-fully. But what should you do if you

think you or someone you know may have a problem? And how can you tell?

Robinson says there are some key questions to ask:

• Are they getting to class late or not studying because of the effects of drinking?

• Are they putting themselves at risk (e.g., waking up somewhere other than intended, driving after drinking, getting into fights, making poor romantic deci-sions due to alcohol)?

• Are they drinking more than the advised two drinks per day for males; one for females?

• Are they drinking every day? • What are their priorities? • Are they doing things that are

against their real values when they drink?

Wolfsberg says taking an honest look at your drinking habits is “one of the most difficult aspects of college drinking.”

The media often trivialize the risks associated with drinking — alcohol poisoning, date rape, sexual assault, and death. But the repercussions of binge drinking or drinking beyond your tolerance should be taken seri-ously. It’s important to remember there are plenty of resources on campus, in your community, and online for get-ting help. Consider visiting Student Health Services or Counseling and Psychological Services if you have con-cerns about your or a friends drinking.

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Editorial

America needs greater public transitThe United States boast some

of the highest use for private transport in the world. There

are more cars sold and used in the U.S. than there are in other countries. Japanese citizens may own cars, but very few of them bother driving. In Europe citizens tend to favor public transportation rather than using their own cars.

The United States has some public transportation available for use, but nothing with the scale or capabilities of foreign countries. Here in Oregon, there is a nice bus system, and if you live in Portland there is access to the Max, which just added the green line and is looking to add the purple line. That is really the extent of train innova-tion in the U.S., despite having trains for over a century.

China is making strides with its over-all capabilities of their trains. Before the start of the New Year, China unveiled their new train that has been recorded at reaching over 300 mph. This new train is made out of carbon fiber and a magnesium alloy which is lighter than China’s standard trains. In spite of recent train tragedies, even the most recent one that caused the death of 40 people in a head-to-head train col-lision, China is still pushing forward with advancing their high-speed rail network.

In 2009 when President Barack Obama released the stimulus pack-age, there was $8 billion allocated to a high-speed rail system, but instead of using the money as it was intended, a few states allocated the money to other projects. There have been attempts to make a better public transport sys-tem, unfortunately politicians, either by corruption or lack of interest, have failed to push America forward. Many of you might question the importance of furthering the development of trains or buses when most people in America prefer using their cars rather than tak-ing public transportation. The reason why this is important is due to the fact there is a dependence on foreign oil and a lack of innovation for alternative resources for fueling cars.

Some cars may have been adapted to be electric, but electric cars lack the power and the mileage per charge to really make the investment worthwhile. Sweden has managed to make cars that run on hydrogen, which is eco-friendly

and fuel-efficient. However, Sweden has also a developed public transporta-tion system.

The other reason the United States should consider a high-speed railway is that airports have become almost unbearable. Needing to arrive at least two hours before your flight for secu-rity measures is simply ridiculous. Plus, getting felt up by the TSA without so much as a dinner is going pretty far.

Even worse is the cost of travel, breathing the recycled air the other 100 people on the plane are going to breathe for the next hour and a half, and, for some, the paranoid feeling that the plane will crash. Nothing against airplanes, they do manage to decrease travel time and allow for intercontinen-tal travel, but trans-continental travel is where trains could succeed.

There is a network of trains set up in the United States that help people travel around America, but a high-speed network and a rail system that reaches all the states, and at least all the capitals, would be of greater benefit to America. Plus, train travel tends to be a bit cheaper than planes or cars and it would also help to reduce pollution.

According to BBC, America is attempting to build a $600 billion high-speed rail system by 2030, but it won’t go very far without public sup-port. While the thought of being in a train or bus around strange people might be terrifying, many of us enter a classroom, restaurant or store with random people for long periods of time every day. Public transport is a sys-tem that needs continual development and support from the people to grow and finally provide a real service to the public.

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The U.S. Coast Guard res-cued six Iranian mariners at the northern end of the Persian Gulf early Tuesday, the Pentagon said.

The rescue is the second time in a week that Americans rescued Iranians at sea, inter-vals of goodwill during a wave of tension between Iran and the United States, which have been adversaries for decades.

The latest incident took place around 50 miles southeast of the Iraqi port of Um Qasr.

The Pentagon said the Coast Guard cutter Monomoy report-ed the rescue took place after the Iranians’ small merchant vessel, a cargo dhow called Ya-Hussan, apparently flooded.

The cutter responded to flares and flashlights from the vessels in distress. The six Iranians were taken on board and one was treated for non-serious injuries.

They were given water, blan-kets and halal meals. The meals are prepared in accordance with Muslim law and kept on ships in case there are Muslim mariners in distress.

Also, an interpreter helped in the rescue.

“Saving lives is the last thing you expect to do at 0300 while patrolling in the Northern Arabian Gulf, but being in the Coast Guard, that’s what we are trained to do,” said Boatswain Mate 2nd Class Emily Poole, Monomoy’s medic.

The Pentagon quoted Hakim Hamid-Awi, the owner of the

Ya-Hassan, as saying, “Without your help, we were dead. Thank you for all that you did for us.”

The six were transferred by rigid hull inflatable boats from the Monomoy to the Iranian Coast Guard vessel Naji 7.

The Naji 7 captain via trans-lator sent his regards and thanks to the captain and crew “for assisting, and taking care of the Iranian sailors.” The cap-tain thanked the crew for its “cooperation.”

There wasn’t an immedi-ate reaction from the Iranian government.

Last week, U.S. sailors from a carrier strike group whose recent presence in the Persian Gulf drew the ire of Iranian military officials rescued 13 Iranian sailors from a hijacked fishing boat.

The destroyer USS Kidd came to the aid of the ship Thursday in the North Arabian Sea, near the crucial Strait of Hormuz, according to the Navy.

A helicopter from the Kidd spotted a suspected pirate boat alongside the Iranian vessel, the Navy said, and about the same time, the Kidd received a distress call from the fishing boat’s captain, saying pirates were holding him and his crew captive.

A team from the Kidd board-ed the vessel, took 15 suspect-ed pirates into custody, and freed the 13 Iranian hostages, the Navy said.

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Romney leaves N.H. with wind at backMitt Romney handily

won his firewall state of New Hampshire on Tuesday, hold-ing on to a substantial lead in the state after several difficult days on the campaign trail.

The former Massachusetts governor heads to South Carolina and its January 21 pri-mary with the wind at his back as the victor of the first two vot-ing contests.

“Tonight, we celebrate. Tomorrow, we go back to work,” he told supporters in a triumphant speech Tuesday night.

Romney, who for the most part has topped the polls in a volatile Republican primary campaign, held a 38 percent to 23 percent lead over Ron Paul with about half of the vote counted.

His New Hampshire speech was more of a celebration than when he eked out an eight-vote victory over for-mer Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum in Iowa.

Romney was given a hero’s welcome at his victory party in the state where he scooped up almost every high-profile political endorsement.

Flanked by his five strikingly similar sons and his wife, Ann, Romney did not mention his rivals as he spoke before a sea of supporters waving white and blue signs.

Instead, the GOP candidate kept his focus on President Obama, a nod to a potential general election matchup that came a step closer to reality Tuesday.

Like in Iowa, Romney cap-tured the majority of wealthy voters, but Paul was the favor-ite of those in lower income brackets, according to exit polls. But unlike in Iowa, Romney captured social con-servative voters and those who identified themselves as tea

party supporters.Romney’s camp had long

been bullish about the for-mer Massachusetts governor’s chances for a healthy win in New Hampshire. The candi-date owns a summer home in the state’s Lake District and enjoys high name recognition from his days as a neighboring governor.

In early December, the cam-paign was pushed to action as Newt Gingrich began to surge in state polls. Romney stepped up his retail politicking here as his campaign touted its painstaking organization, far superior to that of any other candidate.

But as support for Gingrich fell in the weeks leading up to the primary, it seemed as though Romney’s only real foe would be the high expecta-tions that he could deliver a blowout on Tuesday. Coming off an eight-vote margin of vic-tory in Iowa, a slam-dunk in New Hampshire would quell a potential coup for the would-be nominee.

In the days before the pri-mary, Romney made a series of unforced errors, which played into his GOP rivals’ attacks on his career in the private sector.

The multimillionaire can-didate told an audience he feared getting a “pink slip” at certain points during his career and a day later said: “I like to fire people who provide services to me.”

The first five words in that quote were quickly pounced on by rivals in New Hampshire while Rick Perry used the pink slip remark to attack the front-runner while campaigning in South Carolina, pointing to factories downsized by Bain Capital while Romney headed the firm.

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Men’s basketball notebookn Robinson talks Stanford

game, Nelson’s threesBy Grady GarrettThe Daily BaromeTer

One day at a time?Every team has a motto. A

go-to phrase. For the Oregon State University men’s bas-ketball team, it’s “ODAAT” — short for “One Day at a Time.”

Practice by practice. Game by game.

But the Beavers (11-5, 1-3 Pac-12) have dropped three of their last four games.

Through two weeks of Pac-12 play, they reside in a tie for 10th in the conference standings.

Some fans may have already hit the panic button, thinking: “we need to reel off five, six or seven wins in a row to become relevant again.”

Coach Craig Robinson’s squad?

Still nothing but “ODAAT.”“Actually it’s easier to go

one day at a time when it’s this way,” Robinson said. “When we were winning a lot of games, that’s when you start looking ahead, sort of counting your chickens before they’re hatched. When you’re 1-3 all you care about is being 2-3. This has helped us become more focused on what’s directly ahead of us.”

Reviewing the Stanford game

The Beavers would be 2-2, aiming for 3-2, had one or two things gone differently in Saturday’s 103-101 quadru-ple overtime loss to Stanford University at Gill Coliseum.

Robinson was asked if, after reviewing the game film, he

second-guessed any decisions he had made.

“Well that happens every game and since there was more time in that game there were more decisions I wish I had back,” Robinson said.

One thing Robinson specifi-cally didn’t question was the decision to let his player’s go one-on-one with the game on the line.

On two separate occasions, sophomore guard Ahmad Starks failed to score after having the ball in his hands with the shot clock off and the game tied.

“I may be completely wrong, but I thought our guys did a good job of trying to run their stuff and trying to take their man when you could,” Robinson said. “For those of us who have played, you know that that’s a players game when you’re coming down to that and you are just trying to find a way to put the ball in the basket.”

Nelson’s shoeless threes

Lost in the craziness of Saturday’s game was a sequence midway through the first half that seemed des-tined for Sportscenter.

After getting mixed up with a teammate on defense, soph-omore guard Roberto Nelson lost a shoe.

“He said, ‘Coach, my shoe!’ I wasn’t going to waste a timeout for that because we had the ball,” Robinson said. “Challe (Barton) looked at Roberto and didn’t throw it to him, and I was wondering why he didn’t throw it to him, but I think it was because he didn’t have his shoe on.”

Barton passed it to

Cunningham, who either didn’t notice that Nelson was missing a shoe or simply didn’t care. Cunningham whipped it to Nelson, who promptly knocked down a trey.

After Stanford failed to score on the ensuing posses-sion, Robinson assumed the officials would stop the game for his shoeless guard.

“And then Roberto shoots another shot.,” Robinson said. “And (Stanford) calls a timeout because he just banged two threes — shoe or no shoe.”

Robinson chuckled when asked if he’ll draw up a play in which Nelson shoots without a shoe. And Nelson said fam-ily members have been telling him to start playing without a shoe.

Nelson’s back-to-back shoe-less threes gave the Beavers a 24-15 lead and probably would have been the main takeaway from Saturday night had the game not lasted 3 hours and 15 minutes.

Last year’s ordeal in Arizona

After facing the University of Arizona Thursday, the Beavers will travel to Tempe to take on Arizona State University.

This year’s game at Wells Fargo Arena figures to be much different than last year’s.

Last year, after half the roster “violated team rules,” Robinson used a season-low six players (Omari Johnson, Kevin McShane, Joe Burton, Angus Brandt, Roberto Nelson and Daniel Jones) in a 80-66 loss to the Sun Devils on March 5.

Johnson, McShane, Burton and Nelson — who scored a career-high 34 points —

logged at least 39 minutes.Asked if it’ll be nice to play

the Sun Devils with a full com-plement of players, Robinson paused before remembering last year’s ordeal.

“You just had to bring that up,” he said, drawing a laugh from the contingent of media seated before him. “Yes. Yes it will.”

Then, this: “And it’s nice to know I don’t have to worry about anything like that hap-pening again.”

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really does energize (the team).”Having one of the better home crowds will be an advan-

tage in a very competitive conference this year. Four Pac-12 teams rank in the top eight in the nation: No. 1 UCLA, No. 5 University of Utah, No. 7 OSU, and No. 8 Stanford University.

“I think that’s what makes us stronger as a conference – being able to compete against the very best week in and week out makes you stronger in the end,” Chaplin said.

The bitterness of missing the Super Six by one-tenth of a point still remains to a degree with the Beavers, but the goal is to at least make the Super Six and strive for a national title this season.

“Now we’re not going to let anything happen to where we’re not going to be in Super Six,” said Harris. “So we’re going to fight the entire way to Super Six. National Champs, here we come.”

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n Preseason No. 7 OSU has its sights set on new heights this year

By Warner StrausbaughThe Daily BaromeTer

The story has been the same for the Oregon State University gymnastics team, but another chapter begins, filled with promise and potential as the new season kicks off.

Last time the Beavers competed was back in April, 2011 at Nationals in Cleveland, Ohio. It was there that their season ended after the first night of competition. For the sixth straight year, they advanced to Nationals but failed to advance to the Super Six.

“We actually just recently watched a video of last year that our coach put together,” senior and 2011 All-American Olivia Vivian said. “And it really just refreshed that memory, all those upset feelings. So that was really good to kick our butt back in the gym, just to make sure that doesn’t happen again.”

It was heartbreaking enough for the team to reach Nationals, and not go onto the Super Six (which is the last stage of Nationals), but the fact that they were short by one-tenth of a point was the icing on the cake in the upsetting finale.

While the flashbacks of Nationals

might still haunt their dreams, a new season is finally upon the team. Once again, expectations are through the roof for the preseason-ranked No. 7 Beavers.

“Last year we didn’t end as well as we wanted to, but it wasn’t as bad as it could have been,” said sophomore Brittany Harris. “I really feel like that was an awakening to us for this year to spark our drive and to get going and start powerful right out of the gate.”

“We came off a great season last season,” head coach Tanya Chaplin said. “So there’s high expectations. We’re returning a lot of our athletes from last year’s team and adding some new ones in. I expect good things from this team going into this

season.”Oregon State returns three All-

Americans this season: Last year’s Pac-10 Gymnast of the Year Leslie Mak, three-time All-American Makayla Stambaugh and Vivian.

“The returners from last year are our leaders,” Chaplin added. “And they’ve shown that in preseason. They’re bringing along the fresh-men, teaching them what’s expect-ed, pushing them as well.”

Six freshmen have joined the team for the upcoming season, adding to an already youthful squad.

What might have been missed the most by OSU is competing in front of the home crowds at Gill Coliseum. The crowds are always packed at home meets, they’re always loud,

and they gave the Beavers as much support as any home crowd possibly could.

“I can’t wait for the roar of Gill,” Vivian said. “Coming from Australia, I never experienced anything like that. I competed in Beijing in the Olympics, and it’s still nothing com-pared to Gill.”

High praise for the home crowd, yet it holds true. And with Friday’s first meet of the season looming closer, the team is anxious to get back to performing in front of Beaver Nation.

“Really excited,” freshman Chelsea Tang said about Friday being her first home meet. “I got a little taste of Gill during the intra-squad, that was really fun, but it’ll be a really differ-ent experience having all of the fans. I’m a little nervous, but they’re good nerves though.”

Friday’s meet with No. 3 University of Oklahoma will be the first of five meets at Gill over the next two months. The diehard fans are prob-ably just as restless as the team is for the season to start again.

“It’s absolutely wonderful to have the fan base that we have,” said Chaplin. “We feel very fortunate to have the fans follow us like they do, because we go to other programs and that’s not always the case. And it

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Junior Melanie Jones performing on the beam at the Orange & Black Exhibition on Nov. 15. The Beavers will compete at Gill Coliseum at least five times in 2012.

Melanie JonesJunior

Performed in 24 career meets

Kelsi BlalockJunior

2011 All-Pac-10 1st Team (Vault)

Olivia VivianSenior

2011 All-American 1st Team (Vault)

Makayla StambaughJunior

3-time All-American

Leslie MakSenior

2011 Pac-10 Gymnast of the Year

Last 10 years at Nationals

(out of 12 teams)2011 8th2010 8th2009 11th2008 11th2007 t11th2006 11th2005 N/A2004 N/A2003 N/A2002 12th

Key returners

2012 Schedule1/13 vs. Oklahoma1/20 @ Arizona1/27 vs. Stanford2/03 @ Washington2/10 @ UC Davis & Sac St.2/17 vs. UCLA & Cal2/24 vs. Boise St.3/02 @ Utah3/10 @ Denver & Texas3/16 vs. New Hamp. & SPU3/24 Pac-12 Championships4/07 NCAA Regionals4/20 NCAA Nationals

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