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The Corvallis WinCo now only offers paper bags and only then for a fee. Paper and reusable bags are the only ones permitted for grocery shoppers.

A new ordinance banning singleuse plastic bags from retail checkout counters became effective on Jan. 1, making Corvallis the second city in Oregon to successfully enact the legislation.

Students returning to OSU following winter break may have been caught by surprise while back-toschool grocery shopping this past weekend. At supermarkets all throughout Corvallis shoppers are no longer asked “paper or plastic?” during checkout, but instead have the option to leave the store without bagging their groceries or purchase paper bags for five cents each. Subsequent to the ordinance’s imposition, many shoppers have found reusable cloth totes to be the most convenient alternative.

“People are absolutely using more reusable bags,” said Clint Cole, general manager of WinCo in Corvallis.

“Really the paper bags don’t seem to be moving that well, but the reusable bags we can’t even keep on the racks. We’re selling a ton of them.”

The new ordinance currently extends to all retail establishments within Corvallis city limits that employ more than 50 full-time workers, with the exception of restaurants. On July 1, smaller local See PLASTIC | page 2

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Dr. Robert Brudvig, Oregon State University assistant professor of music, has performed at Carnegie Hall and has toured the world performing in countries such as Japan, China and Germany.

Brudvig conducts the OSU Campus Band and has been a part of OSU’s music program for 13 years.

His favorite part of conducting the band is the music itself because of the attraction it holds for everyone.

Oregon State’s music department recently added steel drums to their inventory. The steel drum is a relatively recent instrument, from the island country of Trinidad and Tobago.

“In the 1950s they started using a steel barrel as an instrument and in the 60s and 70s steel drums gained attention of world music,” Brudvig said. “In the 70s the music of steel drums transcended to the U.S.,

The average college student produces 640 pounds of solid waste each year, including 500 pounds of disposable cups and 320 pounds of paper according to a recent study conducted by the University of Richmond.

As Oregon State students greet the new year, they are also greeted by the grim reality of excessive waste, a reality the Student Sustainability Initiative and Campus Recycling is trying to tackle.

Composting organic waste produced by OSU dorm residents is one solution proposed by the SSI waste reduction center in an effort to minimize waste. Composting allows organic waste, like food, to decompose into a rich soil that can then be reused.

“We wanted to create a program that would reduce the waste generated

by Oregon State University,” said Cauthorn Hall eco-representative Jan Ulrich Bartels.

The SSI has plans to begin to implement composting bins in four resident halls: Cauthorn, West, Wilson and Halsell.

“The goal is to create greener people and encourage sustainable behaviors in college and for life,” Bartels said.

After conducting a pilot composting program in Halsell Hall last year, the SSI plans to have the seemingly successful project continue into this year.

“We wanted to continue this program as a pilot in order to monitor the program and see if it is successful, and to be continued on a larger scale,” Bartels said. “It is my job to report the numbers back to SSI to see if we are making a great enough impact to continue the program.”

During the pilot composting program last spring term, coordinators wanted to determine utilization, logistics, cost and viability of a composting facility on the Oregon State campus. The pilot program started the beginning of spring term 2012; each suite in Halsell was given a composting bin, but the program was voluntary.

Approximately 50 pounds of organic material were collected every week with virtually no contamination, according to the SSI website. This indicated, if implemented on a larger scale, residents might use the composting bins more independently.

“After last year’s pilot program in Halsell, we decided to expand the program to three other residence halls in order to reduce the amount of waste landfill bound,” said outreach coordinator Andrea Norris.

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It says enforce the gun laws already on the books.

It’s well-known that the organization has actively lobbied to prevent new legislation limiting guns.

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Since the 1990s, the powerful pro-gun NRA has targeted the heart of what most legislation is based on: studies about the effects of gun violence.

Last year, the NRA used its influence in Florida to push through legislation that would punish doctors if they asked

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And buried inside President Barack Obama’s signature health care legislation is a littleknown provision that prevents the government and health insurers from asking about gun ownership.

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“If gun control groups ... (and) individuals want to further their research, we’re not saying they shouldn’t be able to do it,” NRA spokesman Andrew Arulanandam told CNN. “We’re just saying they shouldn’t be using public funds to do it.”

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Students will fill their own buckets. Once the buckets are filled they will be emptied into a larger floor container. Then the eco-representative will dump those containers outside to be picked up by Pacific Regent Compost Facility. The company will then take the waste to their facility, and after a 90-day process the converted waste will then be used at local

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it was enormous,” said Stephen Teret, the founding director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research.

In the 1990s, this small portion of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s budget went to a program headed by Dr. Mark Rosenberg that funded two high-profile studies that concluded the risks of having a loaded gun in the home outweigh the benefits.

“That was demonstrated if you counted dead bodies; it was demonstrated if you counted individuals shot but not killed; and tallied up the good guys versus the bad guys,” said Dr. Arthur Kellermann, who led the research teams under Rosenberg’s National Center for Injury Prevention program.

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Meetings Baha’i Campus Association, 12:301p.m., MU Talisman Room. The Unity of the Religions - Devotions and discussion on the similarities among the world’s great religious traditions.

Educational Activities, 2 p.m., MU 206. Budget training/orientation.

Friday, Jan. 11 Meetings Educational Activities, 1p.m., MU 206. Budget training/orientation.

Tuesday, Jan. 15 Meetings Student Health Advisory Board, 10 a.m., MU 212. Open Hearing for Student Health Services 2013-14 budget.

Thursday, Jan. 17 Meetings Baha’i Campus Association, 12:301p.m., MU Talisman Room. Peace More Than an End to War - Devotions and discussion on the challenges of a secure and lasting peace.

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businesses with less than 50 full-time employees will also be required to follow suit. Stores that fail to comply with the ordinance face a minimum fine of $200 per offense.

With the ordinance recently taking effect, a noticeable amount of incertitude among shoppers and Corvallis residents has ensued.

Scott Dybvad, a sustainability specialist for the city of Corvallis, has been busy responding to mixed feedback regarding the recent ban and answering the questions of concerned and often confused Corvallis residents.

“One thing that I’ve been mainly doing is educating,” Dybvad said. “There has been some misunderstanding[s] as to how it is supposed to work. A lot of people aren’t aware that plastic bags provided at a time other than checkout are allowed.”

The plastic bags placed throughout grocery stores that are used for meat, produce and other bulk items will still be available to shoppers at no cost.

Another misconception concerning the revenue brought in by the five cents paper bag charge has also been brought

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“If a bunch of people do research and generate solid evidence that suggests firearms policy should be reformed and either firearms or people who used them should be regulated in new ways, (if I’m a gun-rights advocate,) I’m not going to like that,” said Dr. Garen Wintemute, head of the violence prevention research program at the University of California at Davis.

“So, I’ll simply prevent the evidence from being collected in the first place. It’s a brilliant strategy, and (the gun lobby) succeeded.”

A lightning bolt and a chilling effect It wasn’t a lot of money -- $2.6 million -- but it represented the bulk of the nation’s research on firearms safety in the mid-1990s.

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to Dybvad’s attention. Contrary to popular belief, the retailers will keep the revenue from the five cents charge rather than it becoming another source of income for the City of Corvallis.

“That nickel serves as a reminder to people to bring their own bags, it is also making a hidden cost visible,” Dybvad said. “Paper bags were never free and now that cost is evident. The person who needs a bag pays for a bag.”

According to the Department of Human Services and the Oregon Health Authority, 9,271 individuals residing in Benton County received relief through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in 2012. Much of the negative feedback surrounding the ban has been from customers using SNAP, which does not cover the five cents charge on paper bags.

Cole said he has noticed “for the most part customers have been okay with the ban, though the five cent charge has upset people on food stamps and the Oregon Trail card since they now have to buy their own bags.”

Customers using vouchers under the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Program are however, provided with paper bags at no cost upon request at checkout.

nurseries and businesses.

“The goal here is to create a closed-loop system to ensure as little of an impact on the earth as possible,” Norris said.

“This program not only saves the planet, but saves yourself and your roommate from that smelly food rotting in your garbage can.”

The bins have been designed to eliminate the smell and risk of attracting fruit flies once shut properly. Directions, located in the bins themselves, state the bin should be rinsed out once a week. But Bartels explains this is a pilot program and they are learning as they go.

MUSIC n Continued from page 1 where many bands use steel drums. Now, we will be the first band to use them in the Northwest.”

OSU now has six black bass steel drums. The drums are played by one person standing between two rows of three drums each. The drums look exactly like large steel barrels. The music department also purchased many higher pitched steel drums, which are hung on a stand and played with two small mallets.

In the past, the OSU music program had only one steel drum, which belonged to Brudvig. These new steel drums are significant to the music department because they present a great opportunity. “[Steel drum music] is popular and now we have a full pan of instruments that can bring the culture and music from across the world and contribute it to the university,” Brudvig said.

Blair Davis is a senior and will be graduating in the spring with a bachelor’s of science in housing studies. Since she was in the 5th grade, she was involved in music, and says it will be a lifelong

The initiative in Corvallis has increased effort in other cities and counties to implement similar legislation. And according to Dybvad, there has even been talk of a state-wide ban, which would make matters much easier for stores whose locations currently have to abide by varying laws.

Even OSU’s School of Design and Human Environment are helping to promote the use of reusable bags by hosting a competition that calls Corvallis residents to submit their own idea for a reusable bag, including material and logo design, for the opportunity to win a hefty prize. The submission deadline for the contest is Jan. 31, and entry forms are available online on the Bring Your Bag Coalition website.

Despite mixed feedback and a rough transition period, Dybvad believes the ordinance is a good start for the Corvallis community.

“I believe it is changing behavior, I hope it is,” Dybvad said.

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“We are basically testing out a model,” Norris said. “We want to see what works and what doesn’t, and the role students and this project are playing [in] figuring out an even bigger plan.”

As with many large projects in their infancy, the composting project has experienced some slight difficulties with public outreach and getting the word out about the program.

“I would say teaching people about the right things to put in [the bin], fine-tuning the program and spreading the word [are] the most challenging [parts],” Bartels said.

passion. Davis, as well as the rest of the ensemble, is just as excited as Brudvig to gain an entire ensemble of steel drums.

“When I found out we were getting a new set of steel pans, it was one of the greatest days of my life. The fact that OSU was going to get a complete full ensemble was absolutely breathtaking,” Davis said.

It is rare for bands to have an entire steel drum ensemble in Oregon. According to Davis, the new sets of drums will allow her to not only expand her ability to play more instruments, but also allow her to learn about the culture.

“Music to me has always been a deeper form of communication than a simple conversation,” Davis said. “You can tell when someone enjoys their music and their instrument by the way they play it and how they get into it with their body language. Our style of music makes people want to dance.”

Jason Schubothe is another student in the music department and also a member of OSU’s steel band. He is a senior majoring in music.

“I think that the new steel drums offer a great way of helping the department have more ensembles that are interesting

The program is expected to start in the upcoming weeks and coordinators have high hopes for it.

“It will be interesting to see the differences between each hall, and to see how everyone is progressing,” Norris said.

“We really hope that the program is a success, and that lots of people are interested in saving the planet.”

Students who are interested in signing up for a compost bin should contact their ecoreps and attend an SSI sponsored event.

Meetings Baha’i Campus Association, 2-4 p.m., MU 206. Addressing Religious Intolerance - In observance of World Religion Day, a film will be shown describing current day religious intolerance against members of the Baha’i Faith. Refreshments served.

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to a wider variety of students,” Schubothe wrote in an email. “This allows students who may not be interested in a classical music setting the ability to still study music in a way that they find interesting.”

Both Schubothe and Davis think that these new steel drums offer a greater opportunity for the music department in that their ensembles may appeal to a wider range of students. These steel drums also give their ensemble an opportunity to play at events where a traditional band would not necessarily fit.

“For me, these new drums create an opportunity to learn a new instrument as well as a different style of music,” Schubothe said.

The steel drum band had been around for a few years but really only had one drum they could utilize and had to improvise with other instruments as subsititutes for steel drums.

“These new drums create an opportunity for everyone in the band to play an actual steel drum as well as play in a full steel drum band,” Schuboth wrote. “It’s a pretty unique experience.”

As representatives slowly made their way into the meeting room, the ASOSU House of Representatives was delayed momentarily due to lack of quorum. Once quorum was reached, roll call was taken and the alma mater sung, the ASOSU House went into session holding a short meeting of their own.

The first order of business was to swear in the new graduate representative Matthew Palm. In his first night, Palm brought up ideas for legislation in regards to the new freshman housing requirements and safety with having extra people on campus.

The meeting closed with similar announcements made for the house as last night’s Senate meeting.

This term’s town hall will be held on Jan. 22. The exact time and location are still under discussion. However, Speaker of the House Jacob Vandever mentioned they are looking to hold it in the Native American Longhouse around 5 p.m.

These details are not finalized, but advertising with the exact details should be out shortly.

Representative Nick Rosoff gave another reminder for the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service on Saturday, Jan. 19.

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ver the break tragedies uprooted a passionate issue in this country: gun control. Anti-gun enthusiasts are calling for immediate action, whereas pro-gun enthusiasts are attempting to create a “Gun Appreciation Day.” There’s even a home page for the event.

Last November, right before the break, we published an editorial offering our two cents on weapons. In reflection — on the shootings in the Clackamas Town Center in Happy Valley, in Newtown, Conn., at Sandy Hook Elementary School, and in New York where firefighters were lured to a burning house and car only to be shot upon — we still agree with what we said.

Guns have a place and time, people have the right to own them, but crazy people will be crazy. The guns aren’t the problem; the people behind them are. So naturally, we should outlaw people — or something realistic.

It’s true, President Obama is prepared to use executive orders to apply restrictions on weapons in this country — if he has to. It’s also true the plans being discussed limit which guns are accessible to civilians, decreasing the amount a magazine holds, banning Internet sales of ammunition and mandating federal background checks.

Though, like everything left up to our elected officials, nothing has been decided on a countrywide level.

Although Congress is taking their sweet-potato time, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo made a plea to the Congress on Wednesday to step it up. He’s also pushing for New York to be the first state to reform laws on gun control.

But why is it so difficult for our nation to come together and work on this very serious issue?

On Tuesday, The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart made the point that we can’t come together on this issue because gun advocates are afraid the government will extend their sticky fingers into our homes and take away our guns. Like Gov. Cuomo said, this is not about the government taking away our guns.

We own guns. We have gone shooting and hunting. We like our guns, and we don’t want anyone to take them away. These facts, however, do not inhibit our ability to see what’s in front of us. Americans need to understand there are unstable people willing to march into a shopping mall, lure firefighters to a fire or even barge into an elementary school with deadly intent.

We don’t believe taking all guns away will help — that would only lead to drawn out regulations on bows, knives or hammers. A free-for-all, however, isn’t the answer either.

We don’t have a plan of action, or a solution better than what our Congress has put out there. We do agree civilians don’t need a semi-automatic AR-15. We do agree more intensive background checks shouldn’t be fought. We do agree limiting a magazine to fewer than 10 bullets is a fair idea.

No, none of this will stop gun violence, because there will always be crazies. Just like prohibiting alcohol wouldn’t stop drunk driving. However, little things like a drinking age and a campaign to promote alcohol awareness has helped reduce drunk driving fatalities by 52 percent since 1982, according to The Century Council.

Just saying.

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r. Jennifer Morse, a spokesperson for the Ruth Institute, a project of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), posted a video on YouTube over the Thanksgiving holiday a few months ago. In the video, Morse warned parents about the dangers of college, saying “the other side has RAs in the dorm where your young people are going to school.” The video was prompted by an anecdote from a student who spoke with Morse about an RA who had asked the student to participate in a dorm-wide drag party.

Morse makes the assumption that an RA organizing a drag party must, ipso facto, be gay — which is an outdated stereotype — as well as the assumption the RA was attempting to lead the student down the dark path of homosexuality by asking the student to participate in the event.

In response to the no longer popularly-held stereotype of drag queens and drag kings being gay, lesbian or queer, it is not difficult to find a heteronormative romantic comedy, whether it is set on a college campus, that has the lead dressing in drag — think Van Wilder or Sorority Boys. And we’ll just ignore the whole Monty Python ouvre entirely, even though I haven’t met a single person in my life who doesn’t find it funny. Then again, I haven’t met Morse.

“It [discrimination] plays on people’s fear of the unknown and that everlasting obsession with superiority,” Tyler Curry wrote in The Advocate in his Jan. 7 column “Are You Affected by the Discrimination Virus?”

Morse’ video on YouTube, as well as similar videos and other anti-LGBTQ propaganda, play on the fear of the unknown — the “other” — and the need to feel superior to others to promote the anti-LGBTQ cause, rather than

more legitimate, don’t you? Then again, on the other hand, everything the Internet says is true — the TV told me so.

It’s a tricky conundrum, figuring out what relying on rational facts or logical reasoning. online information is trustworthy these days, This is done because there are no rational facts in the age of social media and misinformation or logical reasons why the LGBTQ commu- and all the sketchy sources proliferating on nity would be trying to “convert” heterosexu- the Internet. Yes, Wikipedia, I’m talking about als to the dark side, unless the dark side is the you. Wave to the nice people. We have all the acceptance and celebration of other peoples’ information we could ever want right at our differences. fingertips, and only our intuition to tell us, The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines sometimes, whether it is right, wrong or an discrimination as a “prejudiced or prejudi- outdated April Fool’s prank. cial outlook, action or treatment.” In Morse’s Sometimes we need to trust our gut, while Thanksgiving video, she is not only discrimi- other times we need to use logic. nating against the LGBTQ When it comes down to community, but against the deciding to trust Butler or to heterosexual men and women Morse’ video on trust Morse, my gut and my who dress in drag. logic agree — Butler’s book “Clothing typical of one sex YouTube, as well has been cited 21,863 times, worn by a person of the oppoas similar videos according to Google Scholar, site sex” is one of the definiwhile Morse has disabled comtions Merriam-Webster assigns and other antiments on her YouTube video to the term: drag. Nowhere in and has been lampooned by LGBTQ propaganthe definition does the dicseems like, considering tionary mention the sexual da, play on the fear what the blogs, zines and online orientation of the wearer. of the unknown — newspapers I read, pretty “No correlation can be much the entire Internet. drawn, for instance, between the “other.”

Morse hasn’t caught on yet drag or transgender and sexual to something our generation practice,” writes Judith Butler in her 1990 book “Gender is beginning to embrace. Curry Trouble.” Butler continues by informing the summed it up succinctly in his column on disreader that “the distribution of hetero-, bi-, crimination: “Ignorance is unacceptable and and homo-inclinations cannot be predictably acceptance is everything.” mapped onto the travels of gender bending t or changing.” Butler’s book was published by Irene Drage is a senior in English. The opinions expressed in her columns Psychology Press 12 years before Morse posted do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Barometer staff. Drage can her YouTube video: I know who I think appears be reached at forum@dailybarometer.com.

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very year, immediately after Christmas, Jenson Vliss my buddies and I plan our New Year’s Eve. It is a night when people wait until midnight to “ring in the new year,” usually by boozing as an excuse to party longer.

I was curious as to how New Year’s is celFor me as a college student, unaffected by ebrated in other countries. In China you can insurance or tax worries, I only plan for the expect the celebration to last for 10-15 days. night and then it’s over. I have not made a They believe the beating of drums and cymresolution in a few years now, bals are able to drive away so really the only takeaway evil spirits. In Spain, as midfrom New Year’s is one night night strikes, it is customary I came to realize of partying and replacing to quickly eat twelve grapes, 2012 with 2013 on any form or New Year’s is one at each strike of the clock. assignment.

These traditions are supcelebrated as a time to There has to be more to it. posed to bring good luck. The With the entire world celebratrefresh, or start over Germans drop molten lead ing this holiday, regardless into cold water to see what of religion or cultural affini- with a new beginning. shape it takes to predict the ties, means this carries more . . . This is something future, each shape symbolpower than a religious day, or izing an aspect of life. the world has in a national anniversary.

The world celebrates New common, regardless Year’s What is the significance of with different practices a new year — just celebrating of culture or religion. and traditions. But, why do the fact the human race surwe all celebrate the new year? vived for another year?

I came to realize New Year’s The New Year’s celebration is celebrated as a time to in the United States of America is self-evident.

Drinking champagne and watching the ball refresh, or start over with a new beginning. A drop in Times Square in New York since 1907 time to reflect on your life and see if the year is something millions of Americans partici- behind you was satisfactory, and if you had accomplished enough to deem it successful. pate in annually.

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This is something the world has in common, regardless of culture or religion. Everyone can reflect and make adjustments in their life.

I also discovered New Year’s was originally a celebration of the seasons changing from the winter solstice. People are excited for the sunlight and the changing of weather — unless you live in Corvallis. Now there are religious theories and practices behind New Year’s, but for the sake of being neutral I will not highlight any of them.

As young adults, every year should be exciting to us. We have not had enough time on Earth to be stagnant at this point. With this comes the curiosity of what the next year will bring, and how much control we have as to what happens.

A good source trusted by many is our elders for — not necessarily advice — but a form of reference. Looking to elders and seeing how their life decisions have affected their lives over the years, for both good and bad, can help us out. This process is very enlightening, and perhaps beneficial when deciding the direction you would like to take in the upcoming year. There is always time for change, and what better time than during a fresh start at the new year. t

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hen Craig Robinson met with the media in midOctober to discuss the upcoming men’s basketball season, he used the phrase “embarrassment of riches” in reference to his team’s depth.

Fourteen games into the season, I’m wondering if he was fibbing with us. At the very least, exaggerating ever so slightly.

Sure, the Beavers have since lost starting center Angus Brandt for the season, but Robinson maintains depth isn’t an issue.

After watching Sunday’s Civil War, which the University of Oregon won, 79-66, I couldn’t help but ask myself: Are the Beavers deep enough to contend for a top-half finish in the Pac-12?

Five Beavers scored against the Ducks. Those same five, who played 166 of a possible 200 minutes, have done the bulk of the scoring all season long.

By comparison, nine different Ducks scored on Sunday.

I asked Robinson if that concerned him.

“We have five guys averaging double figures,” Robinson said. “We have enough guys who can score.”

Fair enough.

Offensive production is only part of it, and it would be naïve of me to assess a team’s depth solely based on scoring distribution.

There’s more, though.

Aside from Ahmad Starks, Roberto Nelson, Eric Moreland, Devon Collier and Joe Burton, here’s a breakdown of who did what on Sunday: • Freshman Jarmal Reid: 14 minutes, 0-3 FG, 1 turnover, 3 fouls (no other stats) • Freshman Olaf Schaftenaar: 12 minutes, 0-7 FG, 1 turnover, 3 rebounds (no other stats) • Sophomore Challe Barton: 5 minutes (no other stats) • Freshman Langston MorrisWalker: 3 minutes, 2 fouls (no other stats) Now that’s just one game, and you can’t put too much stock into it because all four of those guys have had better days. It’s also worth noting that Robinson said he didn’t use his bench as much as he will in the See GARRETT| page 5

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Coming off a Civil War loss, OSU faces tough Arizona State team at Gill Coliseum

By Alex Crawford The Daily Barometer

After starting off the Pac-12 schedule on the wrong foot, losing to rival Oregon on Sunday, the Beavers’ season only gets tougher when the Arizona State Sun Devils come to town tonight.

The Sun Devils (13-2, 2-0 Pac-12) — riding a five-game winning streak — started off conference play with wins last weekend over Utah and Colorado down in Tempe, Ariz.

Arizona State is led by redshirt freshman guard Jahii Carson, who is averaging 16.7 points and 5.4 assists per game. Carson had originally committed to Oregon State back in 2011 before changing his mind and deciding to take his talents to the desert. Despite this, OSU coach Craig Robinson isn’t feeling spurned by Carson’s change of heart.

“It’s part of the game when you have somebody who you thought you had, and they end up going somewhere else,” Robinson said to the media on Tuesday. “But there’s no emotion in it. I coach the guys who are in this locker room, and we win or lose together.”

The Beavers (10-4, 0-1) might try to take a page out of Colorado’s book, as the Buffaloes held Carson to a season-worst five points, but still couldn’t escape Tempe with a victory, falling to ASU 65-56.

In addition to Carson, the Beavers will have their hands full with the Sun Devils’ 7-foot-2 big man Jordan Bachynski. Bachynski is first in the Pac-12 and third in the NCAA in blocks, averaging 4.6 per game.

After being outscored 46-26 in the paint by the Ducks on Sunday, stopping ASU’s inside scoring will be a point of emphasis.

One of the reasons for OSU’s vulnerability in the paint is the absence of senior center Angus Brandt, who went down with a torn ACL back on Nov. 16 in a win against Purdue. Brandt’s defense and scoring ability — he’s a big man who can also drain the three ball — aren’t the only things the Beavers miss with him gone.

“With Angus not being on the court, we haven’t had anyone step up and replace him from a leadership standpoint,” Robinson said. “We’ve been trying to find somebody to replace that voice on the court. I can do it as much as I can from the See ARIZONA ST.| page 6

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Roberto Nelson, Eric Moreland and Devon Collier have a tough task tonight with ASU.

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Women’s Basketball Power Rankings

By Sarah Kerrigan The Daily Barometer

1. Stanford:

Stanford’s recent win over Cal places them firmly as No. 1 in the conference. The Cardinal beat most of their preseason opponents by a margin of 15 or more and is currently the team to beat thus far in the Pac-12.

4. Washington: Washington had a strong

7. Washington State: The Cougars are

5. USC:

8. Arizona: Arizona is also 1-1 in confer-

nonconference, including a 4-2 record on the road and a 10-3 record overall. They are now 2-0 in conference, beating both Arizona schools.

With two Pac-12 wins after six 2. UCLA: The Bruins had a challenging straight losses, USC earned the No. 5 spot for their turnaround in time for confernonconference schedule, facing three ranked ence play. The Trojans’ game-winning teams, and proved themselves a forbuzzer beater against the Beavers kept midable force with an overall record them in the top five in the conference. of 11-2. They came out on top of both Oregon schools last weekend 6. Colorado: Colorado’s 12-2 to give them a four-game winning streak. overall record lands them in the middle of the 3. Cal: Cal had a good nonconference, with pack, because of their 1-2 conference record.

They lost to Stanford by only a a 12-2 record overall. They had two three-point margin, placing them wins two weekends ago in conferas a middle-of-the-road contender ence play, but fell to Stanford last in the Pac-12 thus far. weekend, making them 2-1 in conference play.

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1-1 in conference play, having beat Arizona at home. With a 5-8 overall record, WSU’s show against Arizona gave hope for a better future.

10. Arizona State:

Although they are 0-2 in conference play, the Sun Devils came in riding a five-game winning streak.

11. Utah:

Although the Utes are 0-3 in conference play, they made a better showing in nonconference than the Ducks with an overall record of 9-5, earning them the No. 11 spot in the rankings.

ence play, and had won four games in a row before falling to Washington State.

The loss to a lower-ranked team moved them to No. 8 in the ranks.

9. Oregon State: OSU lost its first two conference games, which made them 6-8 overall. But, they lost one at the buzzer and held UCLA for most of the game, almost pulling off an upset.

They also looked to be a completely different team on offense, suggesting an upward swing for conference play.

12. Oregon: With a record of 2-12 over-

future because it was OSU’s only game of the weekend, so it’s not like those guys got a chance to get into the flow of things.

It’s too early — there’s a whole lot of season left — for me to feel comfortable saying that this team isn’t deep enough to win at least half of its conference games.

But there’s no denying the Beavers’ depth — or lack thereof — is worth discussing.

I’ve formulated two arguments — one for the Beavers’ depth, one against the Beavers’ depth.

Feel free to draw your own conclusions.

As with any successful basketball team, the role players are fulfilling their duties, according to teammates. “I’m not worried about our depth,�

Nelson said after Sunday’s game. “We have really good freshmen who can contribute and do a lot of good things.� “As far as depth, the freshmen are coming along,� Moreland said after Monday’s practice. “Olaf had a rough day [Sunday], but he’ll bounce back.

And we have Challe as a back-up point guard, so I feel like our depth is there.�

Bottom line: If the Beavers struggle this year, it won’t be because they lack depth or role players — it’ll be because their best players don’t play their best basketball.

The Beavers are deep enough

The Beavers aren’t deep enough

Like Robinson said, the Beavers have five guys who are proven scorers at the Division I level.

In fact, OSU is just one of two teams in the Pac-12 (Oregon being the other) with at least five guys averaging double figures.

Schaftenaar, eighth on the team in minutes played, is a capable 3-point shooter who shot the ball worse (I’d be willing to bet) against Oregon than we’ll see him shoot it again this season.

If Schaftenaar is knocking down shots, OSU has six scorers: three outside threats (Starks, Nelson, Schaftenaar) and three inside threats (Collier, Burton, Moreland).

You could argue that six scorers are plenty, and the Beavers can get by if their other guys contribute in different areas.

Reid and Morris-Walker are natural defenders. Robinson has compared Morris-Walker’s defensive tenacity to that of Jared Cunningham’s, when Cunningham was a freshman. Reid, who starts in place of Collier because Robinson likes to bring a player who can score off the bench, has guarded the opposition’s best player at times

Yes, the Beavers have five proven scorers, but it’s alarming how much they rely on just five guys in comparison to every other team in the Pac-12.

If you subtract the 45 points that Angus Brandt scored before his injury from the 1,079 points OSU has scored this season, OSU’s top five scorers have accounted for a staggering 88.6 percent of the team’s offense this season.

The Beavers are putting all their offensive eggs in a rather small basket.

By comparison, the Ducks’ top five scorers have accounted for 68.7 percent of their total points this season.

To put it another way, Oregon’s Warner Strausbaugh | THE DAILY BAROMETER Freshman forward Olaf Schaftenaar went for 0-for-7 in Sunday’s Civil War sixth leading scorer and below have loss to Oregon. With only five players scoring in the game for the Beavers, scored a combined 340 points this season while OSU’s sixth leading depth could be a concern. scorer and below have scored a play more as the season progresses, combined 118 points. this season.

Barton is also a good defender, has shown flashes of ability.

OSU is the least balanced — in and is a floor general who knows Robinson doesn’t ask Reid, Morris- terms of scoring — team in the Pacwhat he’s doing when he’s on the Walker, Barton or Robbins to score. 12. ASU, which gets 84.4 percent of court.

He asks them to play strong defense, its scoring from its top five scorers, Freshman Victor Robbins, who and that’s what they’ve been doing is the next closest.

Looking at it another way, OSU’s didn’t play Sunday but will probably — Reid in particular.

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sixth leading scorer (Schaftenaar) averages 3.1 points per game. Nine Pac-12 teams have at least six players averaging at least 5.0 points per game.

I guess it comes down to how balanced you want your team to be, and Robinson feels this team is balanced enough offensively.

But what happens if one or two of the Beavers’ five scorers gets into foul trouble, and Robinson is forced to use a lineup with, say, three scorers and two role players the majority of the game? Or what if multiple scorers need a breather at the same time?

Against Oregon, OSU had all five of its scorers on the court together 43.6 percent of the game, four of its scorers on the court together 37.1 percent of the game, three of its scorers on the court together 13.4 percent of the game and just two of its scorers on the court together 5.9 percent of the game.

That means nearly one-fifth of the game Oregon only had to worry about two or three players hurting them when the Beavers had possession. That puts a lot of pressure on those two or three scorers.

Starks, Nelson and Collier in particular are more than capable of scoring in bunches even when defenses are keying on them, and the guys who I didn’t label as “scorers� may have more offense in them than they’ve shown, but everything I pointed out above is worth thinking about when assessing OSU’s depth.

Bottom line: If OSU struggles this season, it’ll be because the role players couldn’t rise to the occasion when the big guns struggle.

You never know when depth will play a factor — it may not tonight, it may not on Saturday — but at some point this season, the answer to this question will reveal itself.

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ARIZONA ST. n Continued from page 4 sideline and during practice, but we really need somebody on the court.”

The lack of a clear-cut leader on the court will become a bigger problem for the Beavers as they get deeper into conference play. The games aren’t getting any easier for Oregon State, and bouncing back from losses — especially those like the 13-point loss to the Ducks on Sunday — are crucial if this team wants to make the postseason.

“It was a tough one on Sunday, but I liked the way our guys got right back to work [Monday] getting ready

Diaries.”

Q: Who is the funniest gymnast on the team?

A: Besides me? Probably . . . Brittany. But I think I’m really funny.

Q: Twitter or Facebook?

A: Twitter.

Q: What is your favorite event in gymnastics?

A: Probably floor, because I’m a bit of a showoff and it’s like a show. It’s not necessarily my best event, but it’s my favorite to do.

Q: Favorite hobby when you have free time?

A: Tweeting doesn’t count as a hobby? I don’t really do much. Definitely not homework. I love to read. That probably surprises people.

I’m a bookworm, for sure.

Q: If you could date any male athlete at Oregon State, who would it be?

A: Even though I make fun of him on Twitter, I think Cody Vaz is so hot. I did make fun of him on Twitter, it was bad, but whatever. Just throwing it out there.

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for Arizona State,” Robinson said. “We are really focused on some things in practice to correct our . . . communication, leadership, handling adversity situations.”

If there is any positive point to take from Sunday’s loss, it’s that junior guard Ahmad Starks seems to have finally broken out of his scoring slump that plagued him in December. After averaging only 4.8 points during a fivegame stretch beginning Dec. 12 against Portland State, Starks has scored 21 and 22 points in the Beavers last two games, respectively.

His outside shooting ability is key if the Beavers want to get their offense clicking — an offense that was listless

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against Oregon.

Anyone who follows the Beavers’ basketball program knows Robinson is always the optimist, at least when talking to the media.

He sees this weekend’s games against two good teams (including No. 4 Arizona on Saturday) as a good chance to bounce back, and not as a daunting task for his veteran team.

“The guys looked good [Monday] in practice so I don’t think there are any ill effects yet,” Robinson said. “We are looking forward to another opportunity this week against two undefeated teams.”

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The 2013 ballot marked the first year of eligibility for several players who have been named in the probes of performance-enhancing drug use in the major leagues, including all-time home run champ Barry Bonds and seven-time Cy Young winner Roger Clemens.

It’s only the eighth time that no player received the 75% support needed to enter the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and several of the voters said the results reflected the Baseball Writers Association of America’s ambivalence about the sport’s “steroid era.”

“This is really a statement on an era, and it’s really a sad day for baseball,” BBWAA voter Jon Heyman told the sport’s in-house MLB Network. Heyman said he expected the writers who choose hall members would “basically split” on Bonds and Clemens, “and we’re not split. It was two-thirds to one-third against.”

The concerns about players who were linked to steroids “has hurt some of the clean guys” as well, Heyman said.

The head of the players’ union, Michael Weiner, said the decision was unfair.

“To ignore the historic accomplishments of Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens, for example, is hard to justify,” he said. “Moreover, to penalize players exonerated in legal proceedings, and others never even implicated, is simply unfair. The Hall of Fame is supposed to be for the best players to have ever played the game.”

Longtime Sports Illustrated baseball writer Tom Verducci said it wouldn’t matter if a player was a Hall of Fame caliber player before baseball had its steroid use problems.

“Based on your career win totals or home run totals, that doesn’t give you the green light then to go ahead and cheat the game and those who played it, (making it) an unfair game.”

The top vote-getter on the 2013 ballot was longtime Houston Astros second baseman Craig Biggio, who racked up more than 3,000 hits in a two-decade career. Biggio received 68% of the vote, falling 39 votes short of election, Hall of Fame President Jeff Idelson announced.

Clemens has denied using performanceenhancing drugs, and in 2012, a federal jury acquitted him of lying to Congress during an investigation of steroid use. Bonds, who topped Hank Aaron’s home run mark in 2007, was sentenced to two years of probation and 30 days of house arrest for obstruction of justice in another federal probe; he also has denied using performance-enhancing drugs.

Other players on the ballot who were linked to the use of performance-enhancing drugs over the past two decades included Mark McGwire, the St. Louis Cardinals slugger who broke the sport’s single-season home run record in 1998; the Chicago Cubs’ Sammy Sosa, McGwire’s major rival in that season-long

chase; and four-time All-Star Rafael Palmeiro.

In 2010, McGwire admitted to using steroids during his record-breaking season. Palmeiro was once slapped with a suspension after a positive drug test but denied using any banned substances. Sosa denied using steroids during a congressional hearing but did not respond to requests for an interview by staffers for former Sen. George Mitchell, who led a probe of steroid use in the major leagues in 2007.

Fans’ reactions were mixed.

“I think it’s utter nonsense,” said Darin McAuliffe, an Atlanta IT consultant. “I think if you’re going to be paid tens of millions of dollars a year, you’re going to do what you need to do to stay at the top of your game. And the average Joe gets that. And their owners demand that.”

But Carl Bauer, who commented on the National Baseball Hall of Fame’s Facebook page, said the voters got it right.

“I think people confuse the Hall of Fame and Museum with getting a plaque from the Baseball Writers (Association) of America,” he wrote. “All the steroid cheaters (specifically Bonds, Clemens, McGwire, Sosa and Palmeiro, etc.) have their accomplishments represented in the Hall of Fame. So the history of baseball, and their history in baseball, is represented.

However, we do not need to honor these cheaters and lawbreakers with a plaque.”

Matt Roe, a Cardinals fan who was hanging out at The Post Sports Bar and Grill in Maplewood, Missouri, said he thought some of those on the ballot were punished for the supposed actions of another.

“The fact that nobody got inducted is kind of like the sports writers were making a point out of Barry Bonds,” he said.

Like Bonds and Clemens, Sosa was in his first year of eligibility for the Hall of Fame.

McGwire was on the ballot for a seventh time and Palmeiro, a third.

Opinion: Allow doping in sport Former pitcher Jack Morris received 67.7% of the vote. Morris, who won 254 games in his career, gets one more crack next year, as players are eligible for 15 ballots, beginning five years after they retire.

One of the players who won’t be on next year’s ballot is Dale Murphy, a two-time Most Valuable Player who spent most of his career with the Atlanta Braves.

The fact that no one was voted in this year could muddle the ballot for 2014, when pitchers Tom Glavine and Greg Maddux will be added to the ballot, as will slugger Frank Thomas.

Three people will be inducted into the Hall of Fame on July 28. In December a special panel that looks at people whose career ended before 1947 voted in Jacob Ruppert, the New York Yankees owner who bought Babe Ruth’s contract in 1919; former umpire Hank O’Day; and Deacon White, a catcher in the 19th century.

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Obama’s second term Cabinet shaping up to be a boys club by a process that does seek out the diverse talent in this country for different positions,� Carney said this week.

Obama has a stronger record so far in this area than his immediate predecessor, Bush.

Roughly 36 percent of Obama’s Cabinet are women compared to 19 percent for Bush in his first term, according to the Women and Politics center at Rutgers.

While Obama’s record on diversity is also better than the much-discussed 20 percent female representation in the Senate, he would have to appoint more women to match Bill Clinton’s record.

Women represented 41 percent of his Cabinet in his second term.

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Hundreds of U.S. counties labeled disaster areas due to drought The U.S. Agriculture Department cited drought and heat on Wednesday in designating 597 counties in 14 states as primary natural disaster areas. “As drought persists, USDA will continue to partner with producers to see them through longer-term recovery, while taking the swift actions needed to help farmers and ranchers prepare their land and operations for the upcoming planting season,� Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said in a statement.

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The administration also says that more than half of the White House staff is made up of women, many in key senior leadership roles.

Contenders for Lew’s job, the most powerful staff position in the administration, are both men.

Obama’s two Supreme Court appointments so far have been women, and White House spokesman Jay Carney said the president speaks with a number of diverse candidates for various positions and selects who he thinks is the right person for the job. “It’s not uniform, it’s a broad sentiment and he believes the country is served

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Politics, which tracks women in elective office. “It is concerning at a time when you have a gender gap that put (Obama) over the top, and that gap was a diverse gender gap,� Walsh said.

Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, was believed to be the front-runner for Clinton’s job but withdrew her name from consideration. She took heavy criticism from Republicans over her public statements about the deadly attack on the American diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, in September.

Others candidates, such as Michele Flournoy, who served as undersecretary of defense, and Lael Brainard, an undersecretary at the Treasury Department, were bypassed in favor of Hagel and Lew, respectively.

Moreover, there are more men than women among names being considered for other Cabinet positions in Obama’s second term.

The White House stresses a commitment to diversity and points to a number of women named to big jobs led

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WASHINGTON (CNN) — As Democrats in Congress celebrate a historic number of women elected to their ranks, the White House’s top ranks reflect a very different picture — one that is largely male.

CNN has learned President Barack Obama is expected to nominate White House chief of staff Jack Lew as treasury secretary.

The likely contenders to replace Lew — including Ron Klain, who once served as Vice President Joe Biden’s chief of staff, and Denis McDonough, a deputy national security adviser — are all men.

Then there’s the president’s recent choice for defense secretary: former Sen. Chuck Hagel. The preferred choice to replace Hillary Clinton as secretary of state is another man: Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry.

The trend troubles those who study the role of women in government. “What you’re hearing is that as new openings come up, there are missed opportunities to bring women in at that level,� said Debbie Walsh, director of Rutgers University’s Center for American Women and

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‘He intended to kill them all,’ prosecutor in theater shooting says CENTENNIAL, Colorado (CNN) — Two weeks before a bloody shooting rampage that killed 12 people at an Aurora, Colorado, movie theater, suspect James Holmes apparently visited the cinema and took photographs of hallways and doors, a police detective testified on Wednesday.

Holmes returned nine days before the massacre, Sgt. Matthew Fyles testified at the the conclusion of a preliminary court hearing, and took pictures of exterior doors.

The photographs were recovered from Holmes’ cell phone and go along with months of sales records and descriptions of meticulously prepared booby traps at his home. It all helps illustrate what would appear to be a well-planned attack.

“He didn’t care who he killed,” prosecutor Karen Pearson told the judge at the conclusion of her case against Holmes, saying he chose his venue carefully to cage his victims. “He intended to kill them all.”

The former neuroscience graduate student is charged with 166 counts of murder, attempted murder and weapons violations in the July 20 shooting that killed 12 and wounded 58.

Arapahoe County District Judge William Sylvester said he would rule on Friday whether authorities presented enough evidence during the three-day hearing to proceed to trial.

Defense attorneys, who had been expected to call witnesses and argue a diminished capacity defense, changed their minds during the hearing, attorney Dan King said.

“We have had a change of position,” he said. “This is neither the proper venue nor the time to put on a show or present some truncated defense.”

After the hearing, some of the victims’ relatives asserted that Holmes was too calculating to be afflicted with dimin-

ished capacity.

“He’s not crazy one bit,” Tom Teves told reporters Wednesday. His son Alex, 24, was among those killed.

“He’s very, very cold. He’s very, very calculated,” Teves said of Holmes. “He has a brain set that no one here can understand, and we want to call him crazy because we want to make that feel better in our society.

“But we have to accept the fact there is evil people in our society that enjoy killing any type of living thing. That doesn’t make him crazy,” Teves said.

Added Jessica Watts, cousin of Jonathan Blunk, also killed in the theater: “It was complete planning. It was competency.

It was everything on his part to make sure that this act was carried out from start to finish.”

Before wrapping up, prosecutors asked Fyles to display other photos taken from Holmes’ phone, including shots of improvised explosives under construction in his kitchen on July 16 and disturbing images of the suspect, his red hair curling out from beneath the black watch cap prosecutors say he wore to the theater.

In one image, he is sticking out his tongue and wearing contact lenses that render his eyes utterly black. In another, he holds a firework that resembles the spherical bombs so prevalent in cartoons. He appears to be whistling in the photo.

The pictures were taken July 19, the same day authorities say Holmes headed to the theater to begin his rampage shortly after midnight on July 20.

Holmes could be seen smiling slightly as the photographs were displayed.

According to hearing testimony, here is what is known about his alleged preparations: Getting ready Holmes began buying guns in May, supervisory agent Steve Beggs of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and

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A notebook allegedly mailed to a psychiatrist by movie-theater shooting suspect James Holmes before the July attack will remain off-limits to prosecutors, but defense lawyers will get to look at it under an agreement reached Thursday.

Explosives testified on Tuesday.

Beggs said he built an arsenal of two Glock handguns, an AR-15 rifle, a shotgun and 6,295 rounds of ammunition.

Among other purchases, Beggs said Holmes bought two 6-ounce tear gas grenades over the Internet on May 10 and he went to a gun store on May 22 to buy one of his Glocks.

A little more than a month later, on July 1, a video camera captured Holmes as he bought a scope, a mount and some inert ammunition at a Colorado gun store, Beggs said.

In the video, Beggs said, Holmes’ hair is dyed bright orange.

Four days later — July 5 — Holmes apparently visited the theater and used his iPhone to

take pictures of interior doorways, Fyles testified On July 7, Holmes used an online ticketing service to buy a ticket for the midnight showing of the movie, according to Detective Craig Appel, the lead investigator in the case.

He then returned to the theater two days later to take pictures of exterior doorways, Fyles testified.

The apartment Witnesses detailed preparations that prosecutors believe Holmes made before setting out for the theater to turn his sparsely decorated Aurora apartment into a deathtrap.

At least some of the preparations were well under way

by July 16, based on a photograph from Holmes’ phone shown by prosecutors. In it, jars, wires, firework shells and other bomb-making materials are laid out in his kitchen.

By the time Holmes left, the carpet in his apartment had been soaked in oil and gas, FBI bomb technician Garrett Gumbinner testified. A container of glycerin hung above a frying pan with a potassium mixture, attached to a trip wire that would tip the glycerin into the pan, Gumbinner testified.

If triggered, Gumbinner said it would have set off an explosion and fire, igniting jars of homemade napalm spiked with bullets and thermite — a metallic substance that burns so hot it is nearly impossible to

extinguish.

In a diabolical twist that seems ripped from the pages of a comic book, witnesses said Holmes also rigged his computer and a boom box placed outside to begin playing loud music after he set out for the theater — apparently in hopes that the noise would prompt someone to investigate and trigger the explosives.

Next to the boom box outside his apartment, Gumbinner testified, Holmes said he placed a toy car and a device that looked like it would control the car but would in fact set off the explosives.

Authorities recovered the boom box, bearing Holmes’ fingerprints. The remotecontrol car device was never found, Appel testified.

A series of disturbing selfportraits displayed in court, apparently made sometime before Holmes allegedly left for the theater, according to data retrieved from his phone, show him in the eye-blackening contacts, his tongue stuck out in one, flashing a toothy grin and a handgun in another.

The shooting Video from the theater shows a man they say is Holmes — wearing dark pants, a light-colored shirt and a dark stocking cap covering his orange hair — entering the multiplex before the movie begins.

The recordings show him going into Theater No. 9, a different theater from the one listed on his ticket.

While witnesses have not detailed in this week’s preliminary hearing what investigators believe Holmes did once inside the theater, sources have said they believe he propped open the theater’s back door and went to his car to put on body armor and arm himself.

Authorities believe Holmes then re-entered the theater, tossing gas canisters before opening fire about 18 minutes into the movie, according to sources.

Witnesses who have spoken to CNN about the shooting have said the gunman roamed the theater, shooting people randomly as they tried to scramble away or cowered between seats.

Among the 41 calls to 911, one stands out. In the 27-second call, the sounds of at least 30 shots ring out amid the chaos.

At some point, according to Pearson, one of Holmes’ weapons jammed.

“Had the AR-15 not jammed, he would have killed more people,” she said.

Investigators found 76 shell casings in the auditorium.

Most of the spent rounds — 65 — were .223 caliber rifle

rounds, six were shotgun shells and five were .40 caliber rounds from the Glocks, Appel said.

Police also found one of the tear-gas canisters inside the theater, Appel said.

Also located was a large drum magazine for the rifle that appeared to have jammed, Sgt. Gerald Jonsgaard testified Monday.

The rifle cartridges were steel-core rounds, which are more likely to pass through a body intact and can cause multiple wounds, Fyles testified.

The movie theater’s video system didn’t capture anything from inside the theater but did capture the aftermath — streams of terrified patrons running from the theater.

On Monday, police who were first to arrive described an eerie scene, stepping into a movie theater with “Batman” still blaring from the screen, blood from badly wounded victims flowing in the aisles and cell phones ringing over and over again, without answer.

Outside, the first officer to encounter Holmes — who was still dressed in body armor, a helmet and a gas mask as he stood near his car — described him as unnaturally relaxed. In fact, from Holmes’ appearance, Officer Jason Oviatt thought he was a fellow police officer.

A trail of blood led from the theater. The rifle that authorities believe Holmes used in the attack lay on the ground near the building. Holmes was just standing there, Oviatt testified Monday.

“He seemed very detached from it all,” Oviatt said.

Holmes, his pupils dilated, sweating and smelly, didn’t struggle or even tense his muscles as he was dragged away to be searched, Oviatt said.

Police would cut off the body armor he wore and learn from him about the explosive boobytrap at his home.

The interrogation Police described a strange scene in the interrogation room — Holmes sitting in his underwear, T-shirt and white socks after police had had cut away his body armor — making puppets of the paper bags officers had placed over his hands to preserve gunpowder evidence, according to Appel.

Holmes played with his polystyrene drinking cup as if it were a piece in a game. Appel said. Then he removed a staple from the table and tried to stick it in an electrical outlet, the detective testified.

Asked by a defense attorney whether he had ordered a blood test for Holmes, Appel said he had not.

“There were no indications that he was under the influence of anything,” he said.

Middle East hit with brutal winter snow storm Brutal winter weather is making dire conditions even more so in parts of the Middle East, especially for thousands of Syrian refugees enduring frigid temperatures in tents.

The coldest air of the season was moving in behind a heavy snowstorm that blanketed refugee camps in Turkey and Lebanon.

Syria In Syria, residents in cities pummeled by warfare were taking drastic measures to stay alive.

A video posted online shows three men and two children burning pages of schoolbooks to stay warm in the besieged city of Rastan.

“We can’t use the heaters inside our residences,” one of the men says. “No fuel, no wood, no electricity.”

Rastan, near the dissident bastion of Homs, has been choked off from basic supplies such as electricity, bread and water.

In the Syrian city of Busra, a video shows a man gathering snow in a bucket to save as drinking water.

“We don’t have water, we don’t have heat,”

the man says. “We will try to make the snow into water because they cut off the water long ago.”

CNN cannot independently confirm the authenticity of the videos. But they’re the latest reports of how winter storms are pummeling residents across the region.

Snow and heavy rains had fallen over most Syrian cities in the past day, the state-run SANA news agency reported Wednesday.

Snow was forecast for Thursday in eastern Syria and over the mountains.

Temperatures were running 5 to 10 degrees Celsius (9 to 18 degrees Fahrenheit) below average for this time of year across Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Israel, CNN forecaster Brandon Miller said.

So far this winter, the region had seen aboveaverage temperatures, he said.

Winds have been strong, in some cases blowing more than 70 kph (43 mph), which makes the wind chill much colder than the air temperature.

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