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Dylan McDowell spent six months in Africa, the first three at an internship in Zimbabwe and the last three in Tanzania. He shown here at a secondary school near Mazumba, Tanzania in October 2012.

McDowell got into a scrape that left him worried. The first part of his trip, he worked at a game ranch, Rosslyn Safaris, in Zimbabwe. While on a trip to Hwange National Park, he and the other intern he worked with encountered some elephants as they were driving around the park.

“We waited for the elephants to cross the road because we knew you can’t come between an elephant and

her child,” McDowell said.

When the pair thought the elephants were all across, the other intern, Austin Dulany, started moving the small Toyota pickup truck, only to see another baby elephant who hadn’t yet made it across.

The mother elephant charged the truck, flapping its ears and blowing its trunk, but the truck stopped moving.

“I was driving and it started running at us and I stalled out,” Dulany said in an email.

But Dulany was able to get the truck moving just in time, and the elephant missed the truck.

Visitors came from around the world to hunt animals on the game ranch, which included leopSee Mcdowell | page 2

China Night brings dance, laughter, culture A melange of performing artists brought a taste of China to OSU with a crossover of traditional, modern entertainment

cultural events a good learning experience. “Chinese culture is often mistaken [for] others,” Li said. “It has a mix of older culture, as well as newer. While some customs stay the same, others change.”

The performances began with an

By Hannah Johnson introduction video of people sayThe Daily Barometer Performances of traditional and ing “Happy New Year” in Mandarin. modern dancing, other musical It became quite obvious when acts and a Kung Fu group from the someone was not pronouncing the University of Oregon filled LaSells phrase correctly because native Stewart Center on Saturday for Chinese speakers in the audience China Night 2013: The Year of the started to laugh.

Before each new Snake. act, the masters of The night began ceremonies introwith people sharI like how this event duced the act both ing authentic Chinese food and brings together a wide in Chinese and transitioned to a range of people and not English. viewing of perforThe performancjust Chinese people. mances and musies began with some cal acts. dances bordering “I like how on the traditional Cheng Li this event brings side. They danced Co-president, Chinese Student Association together a wide with either fans or range of people flags in their hands. and not just Chinese people,” said With the first four performances, the Cheng Li, co-president of the dancers were accompanied by an Chinese Student Association. “It MC singing along with the routines. allows others to get involved and lets Following the introduction of the others experience Chinese culture.”

MCs, another fan dance was done “I enjoy this big celebration of the Chinese New Year,” added Jindan by a group of small children smiling Chen, a volunteer for the Chinese and waving their green fans around Student Association. “Since my fam- as they pranced across the stage. ily isn’t here with me, it’s nice to Another dancing group performed a find a Chinese community here and jazz-themed dance routine.

Not all the acts focused on dancshare the night with others.”

According to Li, differences ing. A few performers sang for the between American culture and audience while playing guitars. other cultures make going to these See CHINA NIGHT | page 2

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The Willamette Chinese School performs the Traditional Fan Dance during China Night on Saturday. Hong Li and Wei Wu choreographed the dance.

MU representatives presented packages to compensate for revenue loss, fund student media adviser position

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On his penultimate day in Africa, Dylan McDowell thought he almost wasn’t going to get out of there.

McDowell was trying to leave the island of Zanzibar to get back to the mainland of Tanzania, and a taxi driver had convinced him to buy a scalped ticket for the ferry to take him back.

The scalped ticket would be cheaper, but McDowell, a junior double majoring in fisheries and wildlife sciences and education, was worried he wouldn’t make it through passport control since the ticket had another name on it. He also didn’t have enough money to buy another if this one didn’t work.

As part of the ruse, he had to escort a woman wearing a black niqab through the passport control. She told him to hide his passport and to continue going through.

“The entire time I was freaking out a little. I thought they were going to find out I wasn’t the guy whose name was printed on the ticket and I wasn’t going to get through and I was going to miss the last boat of the day and miss my flight back to the states the next morning,” McDowell said.

With some reassurances from his cab driver, McDowell made it through and onto the boat, even if he got some curious looks from some customs officials.

But this wasn’t the only time

Relocating the bookstore, constructing the new Student Experience Center to replace Snell Hall and revamping OSU Student Media all linger on the Memorial Union’s to-do list.

On Saturday, the Student and Incidental Fees Committee heard and tentatively passed its budget proposal for the next fiscal year.

Elected students make up the committee, which guides the budgeting process for student fees. The group sets fee levels for services, including ASOSU, Recreational Sports and, in this case, the Memorial Union. Their recommendations then go through ASOSU Congress before reaching OSU President Ed Ray for approval.

The committee has already passed budgets for its own committee, Auxiliaries and Activities Business Center, Counseling and Psychological Services and Student Health Services.

At Saturday’s presentation, Memorial Union President Michael Fashana de– scribed two budgets for the SIFC Summary board’s considMemorial Union acaeration. Michael demic year student fee 2014-15: $73.16 Henthorne, Summer fee 2015: Memorial Un– $69.86 ion director, Today’s meeting: Athfielded most letic budget of the quesLocation: Memorial tions after the Union journey room presentation.

Time: 7:30 p.m.

The committee passed the second budget with two additional funding requests termed “decision packages.”

The first decision package requested $732,061 for the lost revenue from the bookstore. This funding would go into furnishings, fixtures and equipment to fill the Student Experience Center. Part of the remaining money would go to Student Media for new equipment. Fashana said much of Student Media’s equipment was donated in 1973.

“This is the equivalent of using analog technology to complete our media outlets,” Fashana said.

Without the passage of this package, the Student Experience Center would open as a nearly-empty facility.

“We don’t want an empty space in the [Student Experience Center], as architects will tell you about new buildings,” Fashana said.

The second package asked for an extension of the editorial content adviser position to provide guidance, training and feedback for student media programs. Without the package, the position would end this year.

Costs include $49,440 salary and other payroll expenses of $32,104.

Fashana made a case for the Memorial Union’s fiscal responsibility, including its ability to lower student fees over the past six years. The Memorial Union receives 47 percent of its budget from student fees. The rest comes from revenue.

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(CNN) — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, defended Sunday former Sen. Chuck Hagel, President Barack Obama’s nominee for defense secretary, on CNN’s “State of the Union.” Hagel faced tough questioning at Senate confirmation hearings last week.

The top military officials also weighed in on the 2014 drawdown in Afghanistan, saying the troop withdrawal will largely depend on the strength of the country’s security forces.

Hagel was sharply criticized by some senators for seeming ill-prepared for the hours-long grilling on Thursday.

“These hearings are tough, and, especially when everybody is targeting you,” Panetta said. “I guess I was really disappointed that a lot of that hearing focused on the past, as opposed to the challenges that a secretary of defense has to confront.”

Hagel has taken heat for previous positions and statements,

in particular his opposition to unilateral sanctions against Iran and his refusal to sign letters of solidarity with Israel.

The former Republican senator from Nebraska said during the hearings that he supports the president’s sanctions strategy against Iran and argued he was a fierce defender of Israel.

Panetta said he wished the hearings had covered more ground than just Hagel’s controversial statements from the past.

“There are a number of areas that simply were not that well covered, that deal with what a secretary of defense has to do.

And that concerned me,” he told CNN’s chief political correspondent Candy Crowley.

As examples, he mentioned the war in Afghanistan, budgetary problems in the military, challenges in the Middle East, and cyberthreats.

Dempsey agreed with Panetta on what was missing from the hearings. “And in my contacts with the senator, Sen. Hagel, and his preparations, I

MCDOWELL n Continued from page 3 ards, impala, eland, giraffes and zebras.

McDowell was able to shoot both rifles and bows for the first time in his life and killed two impalas and a warthog while he was there.

With all the game hunted on the ranch, it meant there was a lot of meat from many different animals to eat. The meat would feed the other workers and then some would go to the people in the village. And McDowell found himself eating many different animals and parts he would have never thought of before.

“We ate a lot of organs, like heart, intestines, stomach,” Dulany said.

And there was sadza, which is ground up maize that is rolled into little balls and which was served with just about every meal there was.

“You would ball it up in your hand and dip it in sauce with meat, which could be anything from giraffe, zebra, eland or bushbuck,” McDowell said.

McDowell said he liked Zimbabwe, everything from the seven different kinds of beer he tried there, to driving into town

found him to be very thoughtful and very well prepared and very interested.”

“And so if he’s confirmed, I’m sure that we’ll establish a very close working relationship,” Dempsey said.

The Senate could vote on Hagel’s confirmation on Thursday, Sen. Mark Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, told reporters last week.

Asked if he thought Hagel was prepared, Panetta didn’t give a “yes” or “no” answer but said Hagel understands “the issues at the Defense Department, and I think he’ll be a great secretary of defense.”

Last Sunday, former CIA Director Michael Hayden argued the president’s new defense team thinks “more like” him on foreign policy issues.

“This is going to be a team that might not push back as much with regard to cuts or withdrawals or smaller footprints or reluctance to deal with big footprints into new areas,”

Hayden said on “State of the Union.”

Panetta disagreed, saying he expects Secretary of State John Kerry and Hagel to “push back on the issues.”

“In the Situation Room, everybody has to give their honest views,” he said. “And I think they won’t hesitate to give their honest views.”

As for expectations of the drawdown in Afghanistan after 2014, Dempsey said he hasn’t heard anyone suggest that all 60,000 U.S. troops would be pulled immediately.

“No one has ever suggested zero to me,” he said. “(Gen.) John Allen has got a very well thought out campaign plan. ...

Retrograde, we’ve got a pretty significant challenge of getting ourselves out of Afghanistan in terms of equipment and force protection.”

Panetta said the number of troops that will be pulled will depend on the strength of the Afghan security forces.

Currently, he said, they have 352,000 enlisted troops.

on fossil fuels and there is a prevalence of to make deliveries.

“We had so much freedom there. We solar power.”

He said everyone had cell phones and had so much freedom to explore there but we still had things to do,” McDowell said. that no matter where he was, even out in After Zimbabwe, he went to Tanzania for the bush, he was still able to get good cell a more structured study abroad program service, which surprised him considerput on by the School for International ing how often he loses cell service in the Training, focusing on wildlife conserva- United States when in rural areas.

He also eventually tion and political ecology. visited Zanzibar and The program allowed thought it was beautihim to stay with a few By being such a ful with its stone town, different families. The new nation, spices, rubber trees and first one, he lived with narrow alleys. they skipped a family on the side of McDowell is now back Mount Meru near the a lot of stages in Corvallis and is conArusha Serengeti Park of development. tinuing his studies and and worked on learning remembers his time in Swahili. He also spent Africa fondly. time with the Maasai Dylan McDowell Camping in Hwange people and learned student, fisheries and wildlife and education National Park, McDowell about their society, from and Dulany pitched a how they measure their wealth in cattle to their traditional lion tent on top of a ridge next to the small Toyota pickup truck they had. He woke hunts.

One thing that struck McDowell was up when heard some rustling outside and the pace everything was developing at in saw an elephant eating outside of the tent on a tree, oblivious of him in the tent.

Tanzania.

“By being such a new nation, they Don Iler, editor-in-chief skipped a lot of stages of development,” On Twitter: @doniler McDowell said. “They skipped reliance editor@dailybarometer.com

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Monday, Feb. 4 Meetings

Student Incidental Fees Committee (SIFC), 7:30pm, MU Journey Room. Athletics will be presenting its budgets.

Tuesday, Feb. 5 Meetings Student Incidental Fees Committee (SIFC), 6pm, MU 213. Student Sustainability Initiative and Our Little Village will be presenting their budgets.

ASOSU Senate, 7pm, MU 211

Events Career Services, 11am-Noon, Valley Library, Willamette East & West Rooms, 3rd Floor. WEBINAR - Landing Your Dream Federal Job or Internship.

Centro Cultural Cesar Chavez & CAPS, 5-7pm, MU 206. Stress-relief event. We will be presenting and doing a few exercises to relieve stress.

Wednesday, Feb. 6 Meetings ASOSU House of Representatives, 7pm, MU 211.

Student Incidental Fees Committee (SIFC), 6:45-8:15pm, Mac Room at McAlexander Fieldhouse. ASOSU will be presenting their budget.

Events Career Services, Noon-3pm, MU Ballroom. Nonprofit & Volunteer Fair: Representatives from more than 50 local and national nonprofit and government organizations representing a wide variety of fields who are seeking OSU volunteers, interns and employees.

Career Services, 11am-Noon, MU 206.

Marketing Your Service Experience: Meet a panel of nonprofit professionals who will share tips and strategies on marketing your service and volunteer experience to potential employers.

Career Services, 11am-Noon, MU Journey Room. Pursuing a Nonprofit Career: Gain insight into the nonprofit industry.

Career Services, Noon-1pm, MU 208.

International Service Workshop: Explore international nonprofit internships and service opportunities.

Lonnie B. Harris Black Cultural Center and Centro Cultural Cesar Chavez, 6-7:30pm, Snell 424, 4Cs Centro Cultural Cesar Chavez. The/Los Afro-Latinos.

Pride Center, Noon-1pm, Pride Center.

Book Club: reading “Faitheist: How an Atheist Found Common Ground with the Religious” by Chris Stedman. The book explains how he went from a closeted gay evangelical Christian to an “out” atheist and humanist.

Thursday, Feb. 7 Meetings Baha’i Campus Association, 12:301pm, MU Talisman Room. Rethinking Prosperity - Devotions and discussion on the meaning of prosperity and our search for it.

College Republicans, 7pm, StAg 107.

General meeting.

Friday, Feb. 8

CHINA NIGHT n Continued from page 3 One food-related performance provided a comedic tone to their dance routine.

Those who did not speak Chinese may not have understood what they were saying, but their actions provided the entertainment.

In addition to the more traditional Chinese dances and songs, a group performed a Chinese rap song, and shortly after, another group performed some more modern dances, including hip-hop.

The Kung Fu group from the University of Oregon pleased the crowd. They began with a group routine to show off their skills as a team, then each one of them had a chance to show off their own skills individually. One member lightened up the atmosphere a bit when he started a martial art akin to Zui Quan, also known as “drunken boxing.” Lastly, the group fin-

ished with two members sparring. The crowd roared when they finished.

“I didn’t have one favorite part of the event,” said attendee Sandy Goeke. “I loved it all.”

According to Li, attending other cultural events could provide a new perspective and a learning experience for others.

“There are new Chinese students every year and so the event is a little different every year,” Li said. “It is good to look into and understand other cultures.”

“Others should come to these cultural events because Chinese students who are here for the first year [can] see Americans performing Chinese dances and martial arts,” Chen added. “[They can] see that there aren’t many differences between who performs.”

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SIFC n Continued from page 3 Brad Alvarez, committee chair, questioned the excess working capital, or difference in assets and liabilities, in the budget. Henthorne and Jennifer Creighton, finance accounting manager, assured him they would not have any excess capital by the end of the Student Experience Center construction period.

Before passing both decision packages, the committee used a recess to reconfigure the student fees proposed by the Memorial Union. The committee found the student fees in the budget were miscalculated.

After changing the proposed Memorial Union student fees, the committee tentatively passed the second budget with the decision packages.

Fall, winter and spring fees with this budget amount to $73.18 per student per term, down from $73.63 before.

The summer fee amount was raised to $69.86, up about $12.

The board will make a final approval of this budget, and others they have entertained, during a final budget hearing on Feb. 12 at 5 p.m. in the Memorial Union ballroom.

The committee has delayed ASOSU, Educational Activities and music budgets. Educational Activities and music have not submitted their budgets and ASOSU revised another draft for resubmission. The deadline for budgets was Jan. 23.

Athletics will present at 7:30 p.m. today in the Memorial Union journey room. For a schedule of upcoming committee meetings, visit: oregonstate.edu/sifc/meetings.

Videos of the meetings can be found on KBVR’s YouTube channel, www.youtube.com/ user/KBVR26. The meetings are open to the public.

Jack Lammers, news editor On Twitter @jacklammers news@dailybarometer.com

Events OSU Music Department, Noon, MU Lounge. Music å la carte: The Lyric Trio.

A musical journey through English and American Poetry.

Saturday, Feb. 9 Meetings Student Incidental Fees Committee (SIFC), 2pm, MU 213. Student Diversity and Recreational Sports will be presenting their budgets.

Monday, Feb. 11 Events Lonnie B. Harris Black Cultural Center, 5-7pm, Snell 424, 4Cs Centro Cultural Cesar Chavez. Cultural Taboos.

Discuss the stereotypes of Black people and how it affects their everyday lives.

Tuesday, Feb. 12 Meetings Student Incidental Fees Committee (SIFC), 5pm, MU Ballroom. Open Hearing. The SIFC will make a final vote and decision on all incidental/health fee budgets for next year and set the fee level.

ASOSU Senate, 7pm, MU 211

Events Lonnie B. Harris Black Cultural Center and Asian & Pacific Cultural Center, 4-5:30pm, MU Journey Room.

Lead by Example.

Wednesday, Feb. 13

Student Incidental Fees Committee (SIFC)

Guitar Lessons “Any level, most styles!”

Learn how to: Begin Playing Learn Songs Get off a “plateau”

Monday, February 4 | 6-9 p.m.

Memorial Union Journey Room

Contact Tom Demarest 541-752-4250

<td@oregrownmusic.com>

Meetings

Mandolin, Ukulele, Bass also

ASOSU House of Representatives, 7pm, MU 211.

Events Lonnie B. Harris Black Cultural Center and Black Student Union, 4-5:30pm, Snell 427, Lonnie B. Harris Black Cultural Center. Love Jones with BSU. Pride Center, Noon-1pm, Pride Center.

Book Club: reading “Faitheist: How an Atheist Found Common Ground with the Religious” by Chris Stedman. The book explains how he went from a closeted gay evangelical Christian to an “out” atheist and humanist.

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alware, trojans and viruses are all capable of damaging operating systems by executing malicious code. They don’t favor Windows or OSX. They are created to steal information, hijack a network and digitally propagate themselves to other electronics, thus furthering the cycle.

These concepts are nothing new.

What might come as a surprise is the ability for malware to jump across multiple platforms.

Kaspersky researchers discovered a new type of malware on Google Play, in the appstore for Android phones. This clever bug masquerades as a cleaner application meant to free space and increase the phone’s efficiency.

In the foreground, the application performs its job. In the background, however, it downloads three files (autorun.inf, folder.ico and svchosts.exe) to the root of the SD card. Then, it waits.

While it waits, the bot can, among other things, send and receive SMS messages, enable Wi-Fi, gather information about the device and upload the SD card’s entire contents. Victor Chebyshev, a Kaspersky lab expert, said, “This is the first time we have seen such an extensive feature set in one mobile application.”

Here’s the kicker: The files downloaded to the SD card activate once the phone is plugged into a PC. Then the malware leaks into the computer’s operating system and dinks around in the background, monitoring your computer’s audio input and periodically sending data back to the attacker.

This isn’t the most malicious malware for your computer, but the simple fact that malware can move from a phone to a computer is evolutionary.

Anything electronic can get a virus — even your toaster. Though, there’s not a true market for toaster trojans to burn your toast to a crisp.

If you’re smiling right now because you have an iPhone, don’t get too cocky.

In July of 2012, Kaspersky reported a malicious application, “Find and Call,” in both the Apple App Store and Google Play. It doesn’t have the same capability the cleaner application does to move across different platforms. With this new advancement in malware, however, we expect multi-platform malware isn’t too far off.

There is no absolute way to guard against malware. Antivirus software for phones won’t stop or recognize everything, but it’s better than not having any protection. Regardless, it’s up to the user to recognize when the phone starts to act suspiciously: • If the phone restarts frequently • If the phone operates slower than usual • If the phone stops obeying commands or locks up frequently • If applications become inaccessible • If some applications refuse to work properly • If random icons appear • If installed antivirus is disabled or will not start • If new antivirus cannot be installed or will not open • If the battery life decreases due to malicious operations taking up its juice It’s also important to keep an eye on your computer. If you have a laptop and suspect it is running suspiciously, the Oregon State Computer Helpdesk, located in the Valley Library, can take a look for free.

Don Iler Editor-in-Chief Megan Campbell Forum Editor Warner Strausbaugh Sports Editor

hile the newly enacted Corvallis plastic bag ban may be another example of government’s intrusion into consumer choices, we can at least agree that it is beneficial for the environment, right? Well, maybe not.

If we do an energy-consumption comparison of plastic and paper bags, the latter being the current allowed bag (albeit at 5 cents apiece), the truth becomes clear: Paper bags are not more beneficial for the environment.

Approximately 8,300 barrels of oil are used to produce and transport 100 million plastic bags. Comparably, roughly 15,100 barrels of oil are used to produce and transport 100 million paper bags, according to policy annalist Skaidra Smith-Heisters for Reason’s New Environmentalism program. Some may argue the degradation time for paper bags is much less than plastic, but with the influx of biodegradable plastics, the divide diminishes.

Aside from environmental issues, matters of convenience are put to the test by this governmental imposition of supposed nobility. In the rainsoaked environment of the Willamette Valley, paper bags do not hold up

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Re-usable bags are a great option, no doubt, and are already widely used. But if an idea is inherently good, do we really need fines and punishments to use a plastic bag?

When two intelligent entities interact, there are two methods in which to do so: Through force or through reason. Personally, when I am forced to do something, I resent and resist the entity rendering the force. The environmental movement is no doubt necessary to the longevity of our species, and Earth as we know it (habitable to humans), but we must ask ourselves if it should be done through reason or force. We must make conscious efforts to make smart decisions that have a genuinely positive impact on our environment, and

not be forced to do things that only appear to be beneficial. It lessens the seriousness of our cause, and turns people away who are not already on board.

I have been a reusable bag guy for a couple of years now, simply because it doesn’t make sense to waste plastic or paper. There are, however, some cases where plastic bags come in handy. The idea that a business can be fined $2,500 for failing to charge money for a bag, or for selling a plastic bag, is extreme. It will not win the favor of those who are not already climate-conscious. I do not wish to be misinterpreted as an anti-environmentalist because I truly believe there is no more important issue than our Mother Earth, after that of our natural human rights. What we need are education and economically viable alternatives, not government force. Anyone who is convinced to do something through reason is much happier than if coerced through force.

The negative aspects of the bag ban are three-fold: •It is not directly environmentally advantageous.

•It reduces convenience and choice for consumers.

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expressed in his columns do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Barometer staff. Abelson can be reached at forum@dailybarometer.com.

Less intrusive government is key for better market, consumers

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oday’s America consists of massive government intrusion and a lack of knowledge of history. The government has overstepped boundaries since the nation’s inception, and when it does, it creates massive problems.

One of the biggest places in which the government invades our lives is through transportation. The government built, owns and maintains most of the roads in America. But to think we need the government to do any of this remains absurd.

Early in our history, the government didn’t do any of this for us, private companies did. Cornelius Vanderbilt shipped people up the Hudson River, and transported people across railways in New York. John D. Rockefeller

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In addition to the ample documentation about these men, the History Channel’s miniseries “The Men Who Build America” follows Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan and Henry Ford. These men all owned private companies that improved America.

It’s safe to assume Rockefeller didn’t create kerosene in hope that the government would make candles.

Rockefeller discovered people wanted

kerosene for light. Vanderbilt didn’t have railroads in place and then wonder if the government would build train cars to run on them.

These men made something they thought the people would want and provided it to them.

Henry Ford is the most revolutionary of them all. Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Carnegie and Morgan weren’t selling their products to the general public for mass consumption, but Ford was.

Ford sold cars to the common man at an affordable price, $850. Over the next few years, the price dropped to approximately $250. The government didn’t force Ford to do it. The government hadn’t taxed people heavily to build roads yet either. Ford sold cars to people before roads existed.

Again, although speculation, Ford probably didn’t wish to himself, “I hope the government taxes everyone so we have roads for cars.” Ford sold cars the best way he knew how and even lowered prices due to his innovative qualities and profit motive.

Ford brought what was a “luxury item” to the general population, and he did it at more than twice the average wage for a similar job. When Ford started the assembly line, the going rate for labor stood at $2 per day. Ford paid his employees $5 per day, without a union and without the government forcing him to raise wages.

Today, we don’t have the luxury of a distant government. We have an intrusive government. Many people view the government as an entity that enriches our lives. However, this couldn’t be further from the truth.

Now that roads are owned by the government, prices skyrocket due to artificial demand the government has created by printing money.

If the government enters the market, it hurts the market. The government makes laws regulating things ranging from minimum wage to building codes. These laws make it more expensive to operate in our world.

Once the government took over health care, prices soared. Once the government entered education, prices shot up.

Despite examples showing tasks were completed without the government, many people still want more government. The Pew Research Center published that 59 percent of young voters favor bigger government.

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•It is another example of government force.

I urge our city council to reconsider its actions, and to instead consider other methods to convince citizens of Corvallis to make conscious choices that benefit the environment.

What we need is improved technology, and that will come when the private market deems it viable. The private market will provide these technologies when they are scientifically mature and when the consumer demands environmentally-conscious alternatives.

While living in a world full of gasfueled cars and coal-generated electricity, this unnecessary law is akin to cleaning the ocean with a dirty aquarium filter. Let us focus on the real issues affecting the environment, and convince those who are unsure of the necessity for change through reason and fact. Government force will never change the world for good.

Only the collective action of a free people making rational decisions will.

Lilly Doherty is a junior in digital communication arts.

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Stanford goes on 16-7 run to close out game, OSU men’s basketball falls to 1-8 in Pac-12 play The Daily Barometer

The Oregon State men’s basketball team (11-11, 1-8 Pac-12) just can’t seem to close out games this season, falling to Stanford, 81-73, on Sunday afternoon in Maples Pavilion for their third loss in a row.

Statistically the Beavers played one of their best games of the season — shooting 49.2 percent from the field and outrebounding the Cardinal, 38-28. It looked like OSU was finally going to put together a complete game and win a close one — taking a one-point lead with 4:39 left — but Stanford (148, 5-4) closed the game on a 16-7 run and handed the Beavers their eighth Pac-12 loss.

The Beavers were hurt by 14 turnovers — compared to Stanford’s four — and were outscored 19-4 on points off turnovers. Also, for the second game in a row, the Beavers’ bench struggled and only managed 11 points compared to Stanford’s 25.

Despite the loss, several Beavers had standout days.

Roberto Nelson had his second straight game with at least 20 points, scoring 20 while making eight of 14 shots from the field.

Grabbing 10 rebounds to go along with 17 points and 5 assists, Joe Burton had his third double-double of the season and his first since Pac-12 play began. Ahmad Starks scored 15 points for the Beavers while nailing three 3-pointers.

Oregon State has now lost nine out of its last 11 games.

The Beavers return home to Gill Coliseum to face Utah on Wednesday night.

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Oregon State’s Seth Thomas defeated David Meza of Cal State Bakersfield on a 4-2 decision in Saturday’s meet. Thomas and the Beavers dismantled CS Bakersfield, 35-7.

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Though No. 9 Oregon State was tied for second in the Pac-12 standings with Cal State Bakersfield going into Saturday’s dual at Gill Coliseum, there wasn’t much doubt about which was the better team.

If any doubt existed, it was erased early Saturday night as Oregon State (8-3, 2-1 Pac-12) got out to a 35-0 lead, winning the first eight matches of the dual, before dropping two late matches for a 35-7 final score.

The dominating win over Cal State Bakersfield (7-5, 1-3 Pac-12) was a statement performance for the defending Pac-12 champion.

Considering Oregon State is wrestling the best it has all year approaching the postseason, it looks as though the Beavers are primed for a deep run.

“If we had the last couple of matches go differently it would have been totally complete,” said No. 4 Mike Mangrum, a 141-pound senior.

“But we feel good, we look good, we’re wrestling good and we’re ready to go to national duals.”

“We’re coming off of a good road trip in New York [wins over Lehigh and No. 10 Cornell] and I think we’re just using that momentum,” added No. 4 Chad Hanke, a heavyweight senior. “One hundred twenty-five all the way through heavyweight, I really think we’re finding our stride and will be ready for regional and national duals.”

No. 8 Taylor Meeks, a 197-pound sophomore, got Oregon State out to a hot start with a pin in the first 52 seconds of the match. The early fall proved to be a tone-setter for the rest of the dual.

“I think it fired us up and got the crowd fired up,” Meeks said. “It was a good way to start the meet, putting points on the board and getting everyone excited.”

Mangrum provided the Gill Coliseum crowd with more to cheer about in the 141-pound matchup with Cal State Bakersfield’s Timmy Box. It looked as though an aggressive Box had Mangrum pinned early, but Mangrum showed why he’s ranked No. 4 in the nation, getting a reversal and pin in 1:58 to put OSU up 22-0. “[Mangrum] got hit with a move he wasn’t ready for early and got caught on his back,” said head coach Jim Zalesky. “But he came back, got a takedown to get back in the match and then got a pin, so that was good for us.”

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OSU women’s basketball fell to the Cardinal by 20 points on Sunday

By Sarah Kerrigan The Daily Barometer

The Oregon State women’s basketball team was unable to contend against either of its ranked opponents this weekend, losing by 20 points to No. 4 Stanford yesterday and by 22 against No. 6 Cal on Friday.

The Beavers (9-13, 3-7 Pac-12) could not contend at a high enough level to keep up with Stanford on Sunday.

With eight minutes left in the second half, the Beavers had a chance to reduce Stanford’s lead to single digits when they came within 12.

“There was a stretch in the second half where I felt like we could make this a game,” said head coach Scott Rueck. “We had several opportunities to cut this lead into single digits . . . but those stops they got allowed them to relax and stretch it again.”

“We needed to hit open shots and kick them while they are down and run with the opportunity, and we didn’t end up doing that today,” added freshman guard Jamie Weisner.

After Oregon State went on a 16-5 run to come within 12 points, the Cardinal once again took control of the game and lengthened their lead.

Defensively, there was nothing that the Beavers could do against Stanford’s forward Chiney Ogwumike. She put up a career-high of 32 points and had 18 rebounds on the night.

“I thought we kept her out of the paint pretty well,” Rueck said. “She’s just tough. Even when we play her perfectly, the ball still goes down. This was her game today and she did a great job.”

Oregon State’s youth continues to play big minutes and combined for more than half of the minutes played against Stanford.

“We are developing big-time players in this program and they are young so we need this experience to grow,” Rueck said.

Freshman guard Khadidja Toure played 25 minutes Sunday. Although she only had two points, Toure dominated on the defensive end of the court.

Weisner and sophomore guard Ali Gibson were Oregon State’s main scorers, combining for more than half the Beavers’ points.

Although the Beavers went into halftime down 11 points, they had some momentum but were unable to make anything with it.

“Definitely, coming out of halftime we still had our spirits up and we felt like we could make a comeback in this game,” Weisner said.

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Stanford junior Chiney Ogwumike scored 32 points and grabbed 18 rebounds Sunday.

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Senior took the all-around title, Beavers score 196.050 in Berkeley, Calif.

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The No. 14 Oregon State women’s gymnastics team notched a win over No. 20 California in Sunday’s meet in Berkeley, Calif.

The Beavers (6-5) were led by senior Makayla Stambaugh’s 39.225 in all-around on their way to a team total of 196.050. Stambaugh was consistent in all four events, scoring at least a 9.775.

The Golden Bears (6-3) did not live up to their national ranking in the top 20, tallying a score of just 194.700 — more than a full point lower than last week’s performance against Stanford when Cal scored a 195.775.

OSU proved to be the better team Sunday across the board, having the top two individual performances in vault, uneven bars and beam.

The Beavers stood out on beam in particular. Junior Brittany Harris and senior Melanie Jones scored a 9.850, and sophomore Katelyn Ohlrich notched a 9.825, and finished as the top three individuals in the event.

Five of the team’s six gymnastics scored at least a 9.800.

Two underclassmen saw their career-best scores on floor in the meet, as well. Sophomores Cerise Witherby (9.775) and Chelsea Tang (9.700) set their career highs on floor.

Sunday was the third consecutive meet on the road for Oregon State. The team’s run of four-straight road meets will conclude on Friday with a trip to Tempe, Ariz., where the Beavers will take on Arizona State.

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Weekend Scoreboard

Men’s Basketball Stanford 71, OSU 63 OSU Individual Leaders: Nelson: 20 points (8-14 FG), 3 rebounds Burton: 17 points (6-12 FG), 10 rebounds, 5 assists Starks: 15 points (6-13 FG, 3-5 3-pt FG), 2 assists Moreland: 8 points (3-3 FG), 10 rebounds, 3 blocks

Floor: Blalock 9.825 (2nd) All-around: Stambaugh 39.225 (1st), Harris 39.175 (T-2nd)

Wrestling OSU 35, CS Bakersfield 7 Meet Results 197 - Taylor Meeks def. Frankie Hurtado (CSUB) Pin (0:52) HWT - Chad Hanke def. Sammy Cervantes (CSUB) Maj. Women’s Basketball Dec. (10-2) Stanford 65, OSU 45 125 - Joey Palmer def. Tyler Iwamura (CSUB) Dec. 8-3 OSU Individual Leaders: 133 - Drew Van Anrooy def. Miguel Comparan (CSUB) Weisner: 13 points (6-11 FG), 3 rebounds, 3 assists Dec. (6-3) Gibson: 12 points, (5-10 FG, 2-4 3-pt FG), 3 rebounds 141 - Mike Mangrum def. Timmy Box (CSUB) Pin (1:58) Hunter: 7 points (2-7 FG), 6 rebounds 149 - Scott Sakaguchi def. Dalton Kelley (CSUB) Maj. Gymnastics Dec. (17-5) OSU 196.050, Cal 194.700 157 - RJ Pena def. Adam Fierro (CSUB) Pin (4:04) 165 - Seth Thomas def. David Meza (CSUB) Dec. (4-2) OSU Individual Leaders: Vault: Blalock 9.900 (1st), Gaspar 9.875 (2nd) 174 - Bryce Hammond (CSUB) def. Zach Cardwell Maj. Uneven bars: Stambaugh 9.875 (1st), Harris 9.825 (T-2nd) Dec. (11-2) Balance Beam: Harris/Jones 9.850 (T-1st), Ohlrich 9.825 (3rd) 184 - Sean Pollack (CSUB) def. Ty Vinson Dec. (6-4)

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against Cal, the Beavers competed well on the boards. But Sunday, they were out-rebounded 47-32

by Stanford.

Oregon State gave up 18 offensive rebounds to Stanford, which converted those into 17 secondchance points.

After a surprising 20-win season a year ago, Oregon State has fallen back to earth this year, having only won three Pac-12 games — two of them coming against Oregon.

“Obviously it was disappointing,” Gibson said. “We had certain parts of the game that we showed our talent and executed really well, but I thought we learned a lot of things from this game.”

Whether the Beavers are able to learn from this weekend’s losses will be tested when they take on No. 22 Colorado next Friday.

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OSU head coach Scott Rueck talks to his team during a timeout. OSU lost twice by more than 20 points over the weekend.

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Pac-12 Championships after that, it’s gut-check time for the Beavers.

“I think we’re starting to find out “Being up in the rankings, kids are just how good we are,” Hanke said. always gunning for you, so that was “We’re at that point now where we one of the guys that was gunning need to decide if we want to be just for me,” Mangrum added. “He’s in a normal team or if we want to be a our conference and I’m sure that he great team. And I think we’re going to wants the higher seed. It’s good to see turn that corner.” guys wrestle me so aggressive.”

Andrew Kilstrom, sports reporter On Twitter @AndrewKilstrom Oregon State also got a lift from sports@dailybarometer.com No. 18 Ty Vinson, a 184-pound senior, who returned to the lineup for the first time since injuring his hamstring Wrestling Schedule on Dec. 29. Though Vinson lost by a 11/16 Michigan L, 21-18 6-4 decision, getting the team cap11/24 @ Boise State W, 21-16 tain back could be pivotal entering 11/31 @ Cliff Keen Invite T-3rd regional and national duals.

12/01 @ Cliff Keen Invite 4th “It’s good to get him back,” Zalesky 12/08 @ Minnesota L, 18-21 said. “He’s not where he needs to 12/09 @ North Dakota St. W, 26-11 be, but hopefully next week and the 12/16 @ Reno Tournament 1st week after he keeps looking better 12/29 @ Midlands 6th and better.”

12/30 @ Midlands 4th Oregon State has two home duals 01/05 Boise State L, 19-15 next Friday and Saturday before host01/11 @ Air Force W, 32-7 ing regional duals two weeks later.

01/13 @ Wyoming W, 21-12 Riding a seven-dual winning streak, 01/19 Stanford W, 32-6 the Beavers hope to close out the 01/26 @ Lehigh W, 20-14 01/20 @ Cornell W, 23-20 regular season on a winning streak 02/02 CS Bakersfield W, 35-7 before the postseason begins.

02/08 Cal Poly “We’re just trying to finalize our 02/09 Arizona State weights now and figure out who we 02/17 Regionals (National duals) want to wrestle in what spots,” Meeks 02/24 Final Four (National duals) said. “I think we’ll figure that out next 03/02 Pac-12 Championships weekend.”

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(CNN) — The renowned linebacker, considered by many to be one of the greatest to ever play the game, went out a winner, as the Balitmore Ravens beat the San Francisco 49ers 34-31 in a Super Bowl delayed by a thirdquarter power outage.

“What better way to go out,” Lewis said.

“The things that we have been through all year, we were battle tested through this journey, the up and down roller coaster, the injuries, the passings of people. We stayed together, and now I get to ride off into the sunset with my second ring.”

The Ravens took a 22-point lead before the 49ers, after a 35-minute delay for a power failure, rallied. San Francisco got within two points, but Baltimore held on.

“We talk to our guys all the time, it’s never very pretty, it’s never perfect but it is us,” Baltimore coach John Harbaugh said.

It is the second victory in the NFL championship for the Ravens, who also won Super

After a Ray Rice fumble gave the ball back Bowl XXXV. The power in about half of the Superdome to the 49ers, Akers kicked his third field goal of went off with 13:22 left in the third quarter and the contest.

“I felt our guys battled, they competed,” the Ravens leading 28-6. The referee called a losing coach Jim Harbaugh halt to the game while stasaid. “We got a spark, and we dium officials worked to fix weren’t going to look back. It the problem. At about 8:45 I felt our guys was a heck of a football game.” p.m. ET, power was restored battled. We got and the process of powering Rookie Justin Tucker boostup the lights began. ed the Ravens lead back to a spark, and we eight points with a field goal The game restarted after a weren’t going to look 2:03 into the final quarter.

35-minute delay, according to CBS, which broadcast the back. It was a heck of But the Niners answered game. quickly. Kaepenick’s 15-yard a football game scamper — the longest touchThe break helped the 49ers, down run by a quarterback in who scored three times in just Super Bowl history — made over four minutes.

Jim Harbaugh, the score at 31-29 with 9:57 The 49ers scored their first coach, San Francisco left in regulation. But his touchdown when Michael throw on the two-point conCrabtree scored on a 31-yard touchdown throw from Colin Kaepernick. That version was too high.

Tucker kicked a 38-yard field goal with 4:23 made the score 28-13 with 7:20 left in the third left in the game to make it 34-29. quarter.

The 49ers drove to the Ravens’ five-yard Three minutes later, Frank Gore scored on a six-yard run off the right side to draw the 49ers line but Kaepernick’s lofted pass to Crabtree to within eight, after a David Akers’ extra point. sailed out of bounds with 1:49 remaining. Jim

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Harbaugh pleaded with the officials to call a hold on the Ravens’ defensive back, but they saw no penalty.

After running three plays, the Ravens took a safety with four seconds left in the game instead of punting out of their end zone.

The 49ers ran out of time as they returned the game-ending free kick.

The Harbaugh brothers met at midfield after the game.

“I told him I was proud of him” Jim Harbaugh said. “I think he said the same.”

Ravens’ quarterback Joe Flacco — who was selected as the game’s most valuable player — was 22 of 33 for 287 yards. Kaepernick was 16 of 28 for 246 yards.

Flacco threw red-zone touchdown passes in the first half — the first to Anquan Boldin and another to Dennis Pitta.

He also hit Jones for a 56-yard touchdown pass, where the wide-open receiver fell down catching the ball at the 8-yard line, got up and evaded one defender before sprinting into the end zone.

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The Pro Football Hall of Fame is about to get a lot bigger

(CNN) — The hall’s selection committee on Saturday — meeting in New Orleans, on the eve of Super Bowl XLVII —selected six former players and one coach to join the ranks of the NFL’s best.

They were all bigger than life, literally and figuratively, in their heydays — from towering, 6-foot-9 inch Baltimore Ravens offensive tackle Jonathan Ogden to the “Big Tuna,” the moniker given to legendary and well-traveled coach Bill Parcells.

“Surreal. Speechless,” Ogden said, on his Twitter page, moments after the announcement. “Still can’t believe it.”

The original Raven — as the team’s first draft pick after it relocated from Cleveland to Baltimore — literally stands above everyone else in the Class of 2013, by virtue of his height and 345-pound frame.

On the field, the UCLA grad stood out enough to be named All-Pro six times and earn Pro Bowl honors in 11 of his 12 seasons.

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sonality, who will be joining him is Warren Sapp.

The University of Miami product terrorized linemen and quarterbacks while racking up 96.5 sacks over his 13-year career with the Oakland Raiders and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, although some better know him for his brash trash-talking, wide smile and love for the camera, including on the 2008 season of “Dancing With the Stars.”

“Warren played the game with incredible ability and passion,” Buccaneers co-chairman Bryan Glazer said of the 1999 Defensive Player of the Year and Super Bowl XXXVII champ. “He ... helped to redefine the tackle position.”

Two other defensive stars will be joining Sapp in the Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio.

One is another defensive tackle, Curley Culp, who made six Pro Bowls during his 14 seasons between 1968 and 1981 with the Kansas City Chiefs, Houston Oilers and Detroit Lions. Going farther back in NFL history is linebacker Dave Robinson, who amassed 27 interceptions in his career, much of it with Vince Lombardi’s great Green

(CNN) — President Barack Obama blamed the fiscal cliff standoff in Congress for the contraction in the U.S. economy at the end of 2012 and weighed in on the safety of football in a pre-Super Bowl interview Sunday.

During the roughly eight-minute live session with CBS host Scott Pelley, Obama said new concerns about longterm brain damage in football players “means the game is probably going to evolve a little bit.”

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After narrowly missing out in recent years, wide receiver Cris Carter finally will make the trip to Canton — just 120 miles from where he first emerged at Ohio State University. In his 16 NFL campaigns, most of them with the Minnesota Vikings, he was consistently among the league’s top wideouts with eight straight seasons with over 1,000 receiving yards and 130 total touchdowns.

His selection stirred rejoicing among Vikings’ fans, with team owner Zygi Wilf calling the current ESPN analyst “one of the most beloved players in franchise history.”

“In terms of catching the football, I haven’t seen anybody in my time better than Cris Carter,” former Vikings assistant and Indianapolis Colts head coach Tony Dungy said, according to the Vikings’ official website.

Just over five years ago, Larry Allen was a dominating presence with the San Francisco 49ers, with whom he played after 12 seasons with the Dallas Cowboys. Now the mammoth offensive lineman —

“For those of us who like to see a big hit and enjoy the rock ‘em, sock ‘em elements of the game, we’re probably going to be occasionally frustrated,” the president said. But he added, “We want to make sure that after people have played the game, that they’re going to be OK.” Obama spoke less than two hours before the San Francisco 49ers and the Baltimore Ravens played for the NFL title in New Orleans in the mostwatched event in U.S. sports. Sunday’s

measuring in at 6 feet, 3 inches and 325 pounds — has another honor to his name as a hall of famer, in addition to having been named to the NFL’s All-Decade teams for the 1990s and 2000s.

“Larry is one of the greatest players in Cowboys history, and arguably the very best guard to ever play the game,” said Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, whom Allen has tapped to give his induction speech.

Parcells is this year’s other honoree, a man who never played in the NFL though he nonetheless became one of the league’s most recognizable names in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s.

A graduate of Wichita State University, he was drafted in the seventh round by the Detroit Lions but opted for a carer in coaching.

He took stints at several universities before jumping to the NFL. Parcells led the New York Giants to two Super Bowl titles, then took the New England Patriots to the title game in January 1997 (where they lost), before finishing up his career with stops with the New York Jets, Cowboys and Miami Dolphins.

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game comes as football is under new scrutiny, with more than 1,500 former players accusing the NFL in a lawsuit of hiding the dangers of concussions from them.

Another lawsuit was filed in January by the family of former linebacker Junior Seau, who argued his suicide in May was the result of a brain disease caused by violent hits he endured playing the game. Seau’s brain was donated to science, and a study by the National

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Rules The literary work may be fiction, poetry, drama, or creative nonfiction written for a general audience. The prize is open to currently enrolled undergraduate students at Oregon State University who may submit their own work or have work nominated by faculty members.

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of as one of the all-time greats for a long time, so it is with great pride that we can officially refer to him as a Hall of Famer,” said Patriots head coach Bill Belichick, who coached under Parcells with the Giants and Jets before succeeding him in New England. “He deserves all the recognition he is getting.”

The seven inductees were chosen Saturday by the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s selection committee from a list of 17 finalists — with late longtime Cleveland Browns and Ravens owner Art Modell, Pittsburgh Steelers running back Jerome Bettis and wide receiver Tim Brown among those narrowly missing the cut.

The honorees will be enshrined on August 3, in a ceremony expected to include 130 others who have been so honored over the past 50 years.

Already blown away by his name being called, Ogden said he expects the feeling will only get better when he gets to Ohio, according to a story on the Ravens’ official website.

“It will be one of the best moments of my life,” he said.

Institutes of Health found he suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy — a neurodegenerative brain disease that can follow multiple hits to the head.

Obama said professional players “are grown men,” well-paid and informed about the risks. But for players in the “pipeline,” from the Pop Warner leagues through college, “I want to make sure that we’re doing everything we can to make the sport safer.”

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The Merriam Webster dictionary defines the term as â&#x20AC;&#x153;1: a holy war waged on behalf of Islam as a religious duty; also: a personal struggle in devotion to Islam especially involving spiritual disciplineâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;2: a crusade for a principle or belief.â&#x20AC;?

But some religious activists dispute the emphasis on â&#x20AC;&#x153;holy war.â&#x20AC;? They say the word is often misunderstood and has been co-opted and â&#x20AC;&#x153;misappliedâ&#x20AC;? by radical Muslims who use it to justify terrorist acts and by anti-Muslim groups who use the word to foment fear in non-Muslims. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The word â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;jihadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; literally means struggle, struggle for a good cause,â&#x20AC;? said Nihad Awad, national executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is a concept, a noble concept, within Islam that emphasizes a personal struggle within yourself to be a better person, a better husband, better wife, better worker, better neighbor,â&#x20AC;? he explained. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is not aggression, and it does not mean to commit harm against other people. If people commit harm against innocent people, it will be in violation of the spirit of Islam and a violation of the concept of jihad.â&#x20AC;?

The campaign is the brainchild of Ahmed Rehab, an activist who is also the executive director of CAIR in Chicago. He launched the effort in December with a small group of activists.

They began running ads on 25 city buses in Chicago and later expanded to buses in San Francisco. The ads began running at four metro stations in Washington in late January.

They depict Muslims and non-Muslims sharing how they define their personal struggles.

One shows a white Jewish man and a black Muslim man standing side by side, with the slogan â&#x20AC;&#x153;#MyJihad is to build bridges across the aisle.â&#x20AC;? Another shows a young female photographer wearing a headscarf and hold-

ing a camera. The slogan reads â&#x20AC;&#x153;#MyJihad is to capture the truth even when itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unpopular.â&#x20AC;?

Rehab said the donor-funded campaign is about making sure Muslim children can grow up in a world where theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re judged on their own merits and not according to radical stereotypes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t wake up in the morning looking for my Kalashnikov or AK-47,â&#x20AC;? he said, highlighting one such stereotype.

The group has also taken its campaign to social media, asking supporters to post on their Facebook pages and use #MyJihad on Twitter to share their personal struggles. Rehab said they have received tens of thousands of encouraging tweets, Facebook messages, letters and e-mails.

The campaign has also attracted skeptics, especially online.

A user with the Twitter handle @Shaqton wrote: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Al-Qaeda: #MyJihad is carrying â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;earthshattering, shocking and terrifyingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; attacks against â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;heart of the land of non-beliefâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x201D; U.S. and Europe.â&#x20AC;?

Another user, with the handle @ PeterTownsend7,wrote: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Claiming that critics

read the Quran â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;out of contextâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; is another way of saying that you wish it did not say what it plainly does #myjihad.â&#x20AC;?

Awad said the organizers of the campaign should expect to face resistance to their message but believes they will be successful in starting a conversation about this important tenet of Islam. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an uphill battle, because you are trying to dismantle preconceived ideas about the concept of jihad, because traditionally people have seen stereotypes and they have seen actions by some Muslims, and the majority of Muslims did not step in to say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;No, this is our faith, and we are going to claim it,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is going to be an uphill battle, because you are trying to undo accumulation of misperception and mispractice â&#x20AC;&#x201D; misperception by non-Muslims and mispractice by some Muslims, and I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important for us to take this initiative.â&#x20AC;?

The group hopes to place ads in more cities in the United States and around the world and to expand to other media such as radio and television. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The message is global. The goal is antiradicalization,â&#x20AC;? Rehab said.

Etch A Sketch creator Andre Cassagnes dies at 86 Rescues in deadly California tour bus crash hampered by terrain Ohio Art Company, licensed Lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Ecran Magique for $25,000 and introduced it as Etch A Sketch in the United States in 1960.

Winzeler connected Cassagnes with Jerry Burger, an engineer at the company, so they could collaborate to improve the toyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s drawing capability.

Among the changes made to the Etch A Sketch in 1960 was replacing the joystick with two white knobs in the left and right corners of the screen. The idea was to make the toy look like the hot new adult toy of the time: a television.

It quickly became the most popular selling toy during the Christmas season that year, according to the manufacturer.

Since then, the company has sold more than 150 million of them.

The toy has remained a mainstay in popular culture thanks in part to appearances in 1995â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Toy Storyâ&#x20AC;? movie and the 1999 sequel, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Toy Story 2.â&#x20AC;?

The toy was thrust into the political spotlight during last year during a highly publicized gaffe by Mitt Romneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s senior campaign adviser, who compared his candidateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s positions to an Etch A Sketch. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think you hit a reset button for the fall campaign.

Everything changes,â&#x20AC;? the aide said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s almost like an Etch A Sketch. You can kind of shake it up, and we start all over again.â&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;?

The Ohio Art Company seized on the publicity, manufacturing red and blue Etch A Sketches during the campaign season.

The toyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;magic screenâ&#x20AC;? was inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame in 1998, and it was added by the Toy Industry Association to its â&#x20AC;&#x153;Century of Toysâ&#x20AC;? list in 2003. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I remember making works of art of the Etch A Sketch as a child, in hindsight â&#x20AC;&#x201D; realizing that they were merely poorly drawn stick figures,â&#x20AC;? said Larry Killgallon, the cur-

rent president of The Ohio Art Company. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nonetheless, I, as well as many others, owe thanks to Mr. Cassagnes for a toy embedded in so many of my childhood memories.â&#x20AC;?

Cassanges went on to become a well-known kitemaker, developing a series of ring-shaped kites to celebrate the Olympic Games.

He is survived by his wife, Renee.

The news of the death prompted many to go to their basements and dig out their decades-old Etch A Sketch.

CNN reader Lawrence Garcia said it was a toy â&#x20AC;&#x153;I could always get lost in.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I would lay there on the floor in amazement of the device and wonder what it was made of,â&#x20AC;? Garcia said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Remember, this was back in the day of true wonderment, and since we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really have a way to get instant info, we just made up whatever our minds could create.â&#x20AC;?

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Cassagnes died January 16 in a Paris suburb at age 86, according to a statement released Saturday by The Ohio Art Company. His cause of his death was not disclosed.

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(CNN) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A former Navy SEAL known for claiming a record number of sniper killings in Iraq was one of two men shot dead at a Texas gun range, allegedly at the hands of a fellow military veteran, officials say.

Chris Kyle, the author of the bestselling â&#x20AC;&#x153;American Sniper,â&#x20AC;? and Chad Littlefield, also a veteran, were gunned down Saturday afternoon on the grounds of the expansive Rough Creek Lodge and Resort in Glen Rose, Texas, southwest of Fort Worth, law enforcement officials said.

About four hours afterward, and 90 miles from where those two menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bodies were found by a hunting guide, authorities arrested suspect Eddie Ray Routh, 25, on a capital murder warrant.

Routhâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family members could not be reached immediately for comment Sunday. No attorney has made a public statement on his behalf.

Erath County Sheriff Tommy Bryant said Sunday that he believes the suspect is in the process of seeking a courtappointed attorney.

While Routhâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sister said he had admitted shooting Kyle and Littlefield, he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t explain to her why he did it, Bryant said.

Routh isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t believed to have confessed to local authorities about killing the two men. The motive for the killings is unclear. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll ever know,â&#x20AC;?

Erath County Sheriffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Capt. Jason Upshaw said Sunday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;(Routh) is the only one that knows that.â&#x20AC;?

Sheriff: Suspect spent four years in Marines The Rough Creek Lodge is a large facility that draws couples getting married, business people using its conference center and families looking for a getaway.

Hunting and shooting sports are some of the many recreational options available on its grounds.

Kyle, Littlefield and Routh were three such visitors, arriving together around 3:15 p.m. (4:15 p.m. ET) Saturday and proceeding to a shooting range within the resortâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 11,000 acres, Bryant told reporters Sunday. The range is in a â&#x20AC;&#x153;very remote partâ&#x20AC;? of the sprawling complex, Upshaw explained. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So there wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t anybody anywhere close to that,â&#x20AC;? he said, explaining there are no known witnesses.

The first sign something was wrong came when a hunting guide tied to the facility found 38-year-old Kyle and 35-year-old Littlefield â&#x20AC;&#x201D; both unconscious â&#x20AC;&#x201D; around 5 p.m., Bryant said.

He went to the lodge and called 911.

Law enforcement officers followed up and found the bodies but no sign of Routh. He had taken off in Kyleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s black Ford pickup, the Erath County sheriff said.

Around the time an all-points bulletin went out for that truck, authorities got a call from Routhâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sister, who reported that her brother had driven about 65 miles to her home in Midlothian, Texas, and admitted to shooting Kyle and Littlefield.

Routh left his sisterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s house, and police eventually caught up with him â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and the truck â&#x20AC;&#x201D; shortly before 8 p.m. at his home in Lancaster, a Dallas suburb some 90 miles northeast of the shooting scene.

While talking with authorities outside, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d somehow gotten back in the truck and sped away.

Authorities chased him and finally stopped him, around 9 p.m., after spiking his tires some four to six miles down the road, according to Bryant.

Routh did not struggle with officers as they were arresting him, Bryant said. On Sunday morning, he was arraigned on murder charges and ordered held on $3 million bond.

After that, Routh sat in a jail cell â&#x20AC;&#x153;all by himself,â&#x20AC;? separated from the rest of the inmate population and watched closely by guards, according to Bryant.

So who is Eddie Ray Routh?

The sheriff said that Routh spent four years in the Marines. He is believed to have left the service in 2010, according to a U.S. military official who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation. The official did not have information on where Routh served or whether he took part in combat.

Public records show Routh previously lived at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, though his latest address was in Lancaster, Texas.

At the time of shooting, he was unemployed. Bryant said that Routhâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mother, a longtime schoolteacher, â&#x20AC;&#x153;may have reached out to Mr. Kyle to try and help her son.â&#x20AC;?

Kyle learned to shoot on hunting trips with his father, then went on to serve four combat tours in Iraq with the SEALs, though his official biography notes he also worked with Army and Marine units.

He received two Silver Stars and other commendations before leaving the Navy in 2009 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; claiming that, in his years as a sniper, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d killed more than 150 people, which he called a record for an American.

In the interview with Time magazine (like CNN, a part of Time Warner), Kyle said he did not regret any of his kills. He also said he was â&#x20AC;&#x153;comfortableâ&#x20AC;? with the possibility that that part of his life might be over.

Amid standoff, Alabama town mourns slain bus driver (CNN) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A funeral service was held in southeastern Alabama on Sunday for a school bus driver hailed as a hero.

Charles Albert Poland Jr., 66, was killed last week when he tried to shield children from a gunman, who police say boarded a bus, shot Poland and grabbed a 5-year-old boy.

The suspect and the boy remained barricaded in an underground bunker in Midland City on Sunday, as the standoff stretched into its sixth day. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sad to see you gone. You didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t deserve to die, but you died knowing you kept everyone safe,â&#x20AC;? read a letter from a student.

Donny Bynum, the superintendent of Dale County schools, read the letter and several others at Polandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s funeral,

which was held at the Ozark Civic Center. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Being on your bus has been some of the best times of my life,â&#x20AC;? read a second letter. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I will miss your big, smiling face,â&#x20AC;? read a third.

Poland was remembered as a loving husband, father and â&#x20AC;&#x153;paw-paw,â&#x20AC;? who would do anything for his grandchildren. He was the type who brought students ice water on hot days.

According to authorities and witnesses, on Tuesday at about 3:40 p.m., Poland was shuttling children from school to their homes when he dropped students off and the suspect boarded the bus.

The gunman demanded that Poland hand over two children.

Poland refused, blocking access to the busâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s narrow aisle as at least 21 children escaped out of the back emergency door, police said.

The gunman shot Poland four times, killing him, grabbed the kindergartener and then barricaded the himself and the boy inside a nearby bunker.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Charles Albert Poland was a hero,â&#x20AC;? Bynum said.

Police have said little about what, if any, demands have been made by the man inside the bunker. They said there is no connection between the suspect and the child. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We continue to maintain an open line of communication 24 hours a day, whenever he wants to talk,â&#x20AC;? according to a statement released by Alabama State Troopers.

Negotiations are being carried out between the suspect and authorities through a 60-foot plastic ventilation pipe that leads from the bunker, authorities said.

The suspect in the case has been identified by authorities as 65-year-old Jimmy Lee Dykes, who has been described by neighbors and officials as a survivalist with â&#x20AC;&#x153;anti-governmentâ&#x20AC;? views.

The information authorities have released has primarily been related to the welfare of the boy.

Dykes has allowed â&#x20AC;&#x153;comfort

itemsâ&#x20AC;? to be delivered, such as potato chips and toys, the statement said.

He also has agreed to allow authorities to send down prescription medicine the boy needs, Dale County Sheriff Wally Olson told reporters during a short briefing Saturday morning.

The 5-year-old suffers from Aspergerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s syndrome and attention deficit disorder, said State.

Rep. Steve Clouse.

Dykes has told authorities he has blankets and a heater in the bunker, and authorities have previously said the bunker â&#x20AC;&#x201D; built 4 feet underground â&#x20AC;&#x201D; has electricity.

It is unclear whether Dykes has access to news reports about the standoff.

The sheriff appeared during a morning news briefing to speak directly to Dykes: â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want to thank him for taking care of our boy. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very important.â&#x20AC;?

The standoff has become a focal point for the people of Midland City, a town of about 2,300 northwest of Dothan.