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Carol Lenz has found joy in getting to know her student customers since 2004

lot of respect. We greet our customers and try to say “please” and “thank you” to each of our customers and each of them in return are very respectful towards us. And the student customers are also aware of Bing’s limitations

By Tony Santilli and they seem to respect the space, The Daily Barometer time, and effort for their preparation of Carol Lenz is the manager of Bing’s foods and drinks.

Café located in Weatherford Hall. Lenz Q: What is your favorite experience appreciates her student customers from working at Bing’s? and her passion is working at Bing’s.

A: I have many great memories Q: What led you to OSU and Bing’s of really good customers and really Café?

A: What led me here is the fact that nice students all the way from basI needed a job after I was 50 years ketball players [who] come in, and old, so I went back to what I knew — they call you by your first name. You can exchange that which was food. I first by calling their first wanted to work at name. Football playMarketplace West at I would say it is a ers, the way you get EBGB’s. I had worked controlled chaotic to know them. The there for three years. women’s volleyball Then I went to Arnold rhythm of coffee, team, the way you Dining and I worked sandwiches, paninis, get to know them. at what is known as The track and field Cascadia Market for and pastry items team, the way you three years. to grab ‘n’ go. get to know them.

When they opened You get to know Bing’s Café here in September of 2004, I was one of the the coaches as well. It’s just a nice people that opened the establishment. exchange of memory lane.

From 1998 through 2004 I was at a I like to watch people come in and different place on campus, and since continue their studies. I then like to 2004, I have been at Bing’s Café. I’ve watch them graduate. I really, truly been at OSU since 1998. enjoy watching Bing’s student customQ: Describe a typical day at Bing’s. ers graduate. My favorite experience How do OSU students treat the from working at Bing’s, I would say is to watch people who came in through employees?

A: Fast. F-A-S-T. The best of your their freshman, sophomore, junior ability. I would say it is a controlled and senior year. And of course graduchaotic rhythm of coffee, sandwiches, ation. Just watching and enjoying the paninis and pastry items to grab ‘n’ go. time spent with that person, because It is usually busy around 7:30 in the if a person comes back as a customer morning till 9:50 at night. There is very through all the years, that’s a lovely gift. little downtime, if any at all anymore.

From that original freshman cusThere’s always a rapid movement to tomer to one who is an upperclassthe café. man and lives off campus and comes Our clientele of student customers back to visit you has been such a good treat Bing’s employee’s with respect. A experience from a coffee or the café.

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Carol Lenz in her distinctive Bing’s apron and uniform shirt. (Right) Lenz posing with hearts for a fundraiser done by the Bing’s employees.

One of my favorite memories is with a special football player, there was a relationship built from the time he was a freshman and I knew his mother, as well. He is now in the NFL and he came back and brought me an autographed picture of himself. That’s a treasure I will keep forever.

I hope to be Bing’s manager for many years from now on. I love my job and I enjoy the team I work with.

Even when I have cranky days or good days in the mornings, all days are good or better at Bing’s.

Tony Santilli, staff reporter 737-2231 news@dailybarometer.com

Bruce Mate, director of the Marine Mammal Institute at Oregon State University, returns today from the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources in Geneva, Switzerland, where he joined a special scientific advisory panel concerning the western gray whale.

The biannual IUCN meeting gave Mate the opportunity to discuss some of his recent research as the principle investigator working to tag whales and map their migrations from the waters of Russia’s Sakhalin Island to the West Coast of the United States.

This is the second consecutive year the international team of scientists has used satellite technology to observe the movements of what may be the second most endangered species in the world.

Last year, a 13-year-old male western gray whale named Flex stole the limelight as he voyaged across the Bering Sea to Vancouver Island and down to Oregon until the tag placed inside him in December of 2010 no longer functioned. It was the first documented journey of its kind.

A new western gray whale has now caught the eye of scientists and the public, this time a nine-yearold female named Varvara who was tagged in September along with six other whales in order to determine if their migration routes were similar to their male predecessor.

Four of the tags quit operating before the whales had left Russian waters. That left Varvara and another whale, dubbed Agent, whose signal was detected until he was halfway across the Gulf of Alaska.

Varvara has traveled at the rate of about 100 to 125 miles a day. In human terms, said Mate, this is like completing a 12-minute mile See WHALE | page 3

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House meeting heard about pay raises given to ASOSU executive members since June

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Last night’s Associated Students of Oregon State University weekly House of Representatives meeting revealed that certain paid members of the ASOSU executive cabinet had given themselves unauthorized pay raises.

The pay raises, which date from June 1, 2011, when President M. “Tonga” Hopoi took office, have amounted to an estimated overpayment of $4,000 to $6,000. The raises given to a majority of executive cab See HOUSE | page 3

Power outage in Milne leads to Blackboard crash, administration still unsure when it will be fixed

nobody was hurt and there was no cause for safety concern. The Milne Computer Lab was open to students the rest of the day.

“A power shortage upstairs fried a lot of equipment,” said Lorne Johnston, student employee at Milne Computing Facilities. “In theory, they’ll have

By Joce DeWitt to replace the equipment, it’ll hopefully be up by The Daily Barometer Yesterday, Oregon State University students and tomorrow.”

Director Kent Kuo painted a more detailed picture faculty were affected by the power outage that caused a disruption to Blackboard, a network that of the series of events that caused the outage.

“They were replacing a bad battery in uninterallows instructors to organize courses by administering tests, posting grades and hosting discussions ruptable power supplies,” Kuo said. “There was an electrical switch failure during that process which online.

According to Todd Simmons, associate vice presi- caused a cascading overload of the UPS.” dent of University Relations and Marketing, a power Kuo compared the process to a scale with baloutage in Milne Computer Center resulted in the ances on each side. When the electrical switch failed, collapse of Blackboard, which caused complete inac- all the weight figuratively went to one side of the cessibility to Blackboard for all students and faculty. scale. As “all the power consumption went in one “Milne lost power during routine maintenance this direction,” the imbalance could not be handled by morning,” Simmons said yesterday. “Something went the network. wrong in the machine room causing a power loss.”

The Blackboard server is one of many that exist in Simmons said that while there was some smoke, the central computing facility. Kuo said, as the facility n

is currently working with a hardware vendor, there is not an estimated return time for the site.

Kuo does not consider the “unusual” event as a reason for the university to stop depending on Blackboard so heavily.

As for students who are worried about assignments and midterms, his advice is to get in touch with faculty. “The easiest thing is to discuss with faculty how to turn in assignments or get assignments,” he said. “I think faculty would be flexible.”

Simmons also called attention to a positive side of the issue, which came about after a tunnel fire occurred on campus in November of 2010.

Secondary networks, also called “redundant networks,” were built in Kerr after the fire occurred which provides the university with a backup plan in the case of yesterday’s incident.

Service updates will be posted to http://oregonstate.edu/is.

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Iran flaunts nuclear progress

Hundreds killed in Honduras prison fire

Sarkozy announces reelection bid

Chinese VP calls for building mutual trust

Iran flaunted a new generation of centrifuges and mastery of the nuclear fuel cycle Wednesday as President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, clad in a white lab coat, was on hand to load domestically made fuel rods into the core of a Tehran reactor.

Also announced was an intent to start production of yellowcake, a chemically treated form of uranium ore used for making enriched uranium.

United Nations sanctions ban Iran from importing yellowcake. Domestic production would further Iran’s nuclear self-sufficiency.

In a speech outlining the latest developments, Ahmadinejad said Iran was willing to share its nuclear knowledge with other nations that subscribe to the watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency .

The U.S. State Department, however, dismissed Iran’s announcements as bluster for a domestic audience.

“We frankly don’t see a lot new here. This is not big news,” said spokeswoman Victoria Nuland. “In fact, it seems to have been hyped.

The Iranians for many months have been putting out calendars of accomplishments and based on their own calendars they are many, many months behind.

State-run Press TV broadcast live images of the Tehran event, hailed by the Iranians as a major scientific advancement for the Islamic republic.

The first Iranian nuclear fuel rods, produced by Iranian scientists at the Natanz facility in central Iran, are to be used at the Tehran Nuclear Research Center, which Iran says is used primarily for medical purposes.

The Tehran facility creates radio isotopes used for cancer treatment, Press TV reported, adding that 850,000 cancer patients were in dire need.

At least 272 inmates were dead and the fate of 105 others was unknown Wednesday as families clamored to learn whether their loved ones died in a prison fire in central Honduras.

The fire was one of the worst tragedies of its kind in decades in Latin America and focused renewed attention on the often poor conditions of prisons in the region.

“Everyone ran for their lives,” said one survivor who spoke briefly to local television cameras.

The fire broke out at 11 p.m. Tuesday (12 a.m.

Wednesday ET) in a minimum-security prison in Comayagua, Honduras, about 40 miles northwest of the capital, Tegucigalpa.

Bohe young survivor, Alex Turcio, said he did not know how the fire started but that he and the other prisoners were asleep and awoke to the screams of fellow inmates.

The prisoners forced themselves out of the prison any way they could, he said.

“This is a day of deep pain for Honduras,” Honduran President Porfirio Lobo said in an address to the nation.

He announced the suspension of the Comayagua prison administrators and the entire prison chain of command up to the national level.

“We are going to review the conditions in all the penitentiary centers to see how we can improve the overcrowding conditions that exist in many of our prisons,” Lobo said.

Authorities have not determined what caused the blaze, but the nation’s electric utility will review wiring in all prison facilities as a “preventative measure,” Lobo said, “because that can be one of the causes of these types of disasters.”

Fre n c h P re s i d e n t Nicolas Sarkozy officially announced Wednesday that he is running for re-election, in a post on his newly launched Twitter account.

Sarkozy, who heads the center-right Union for a Movement Party, is currently trailing his chief rival, Socialist candidate Francois Hollande, in opinion polls.

Announcing his candidacy via Twitter, Sarkozy said that not running for a second term would be like abandoning his post.

He said the reforms undertaken by his government were starting to produce results and that he intended to give the French people back their voice by holding referendums.

The first round of voting is scheduled for April 22, with a second round to follow May 6.

The latest opinion polls suggest Hollande is the favorite in the first round of voting, attracting 30 percent support to Sarkozy’s 26 percent , according to polling institute IFOP. Other candidates include Marine Le Pen, of the farright National Front, and the centrist Francois Bayrou.

The news of Sarkozy’s candidacy was expected, but the official announcement means he can now campaign at full tilt for the next 10 weeks.

He is likely to play up higher than expected growth figures of 1.7 percent for 2011, as he seeks to convince the French people that the economy is in safe hands.

The unemployment rate is likely to be a big issue on the campaign trail, however, at almost 9.3 percent of the working population.

Sarkozy may also seek to portray himself as someone who has put France at the center of global events during his five-year term in office, using the slogan “A strong France.”

Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping on Wednesday met with U.S. congressional leaders and then told business leaders that China and the United States must work toward building mutual trust.

In a Washington speech sponsored by the U.S.-China Business Council, Xi said relations between the two world powers were “at a new historical starting point at this second decade of the 21st century.”

“We need to make important efforts toward mutual understanding and strategic trust,” Xi said, defending Chinese economic policies that have been labeled unfair by the U.S. government.

China has faced accusations of manipulating its currency by keeping the yuan low, which makes Chinese goods cheaper.

“China has been taking measures to increase imports by the U.S.,” Xi said, pointing out that China has allowed its currency to rise.

He also offered some advice for the United States, saying it needs to address its economic situation by stimulating job creation and improving the balance of U.S. international payments.

Xi, who is expected to become the next Community Party leader and president of China, emphasized the two nations’ “interwoven interests” and said they “should reduce misunderstanding and suspicion.”

Earlier Wednesday, Xi huddled behind closed doors with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, and other key members from both political parties.

His Washington visit included White House meetings Tuesday with President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and other top officials, providing a chance for the American leaders to assess the presumptive next leader.

Assad announces reforms as army continues assault The embattled Syrian president announced a constitutional referendum Wednesday as his forces pummeled Homs and other towns where people cried out for his regime to end.

President Bashar al-Assad set Feb. 26 for the vote on a draft constitution, hailed by his government as an important reform initiative. But analysts and demonstrators ridiculed the effort as “window dressing,” the latest in a series of superficial measures undertaken to mollify his critics over the last 11 months.

Members of a committee tasked with drafting the document “reiterated their keenness on a constitution that allows ... public freedoms and political plurality in a way to lay the foundation for a new stage that will enrich Syria’s cultural history,” the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency reported.

Former Syrian lawmaker George Jabbour said “clause 8 of the new draft of the constitution is the essential point” of the document. It “allows a multi-party system as opposed to the Baath party being the leading party of the society and the state as stipulated in the current constitution.” The Baath party rules Syria.

Jabbour said “special committees will be formed to look into the licensing of new parties in line with the new constitution.”

As for presidential elections, they “will be competitive since there is no leading party anymore, and all the parties’ candidates are eligible provided their candidacy is endorsed by at least 35 members of parliament,” Jabbour said.

Also, the draft forbids the creation of any political activity, or parties, or political gatherings based on religion, ethnicity, tribe or region. It forbids discrimination based on gender, race, ethnicity or color.

In Daraa, anti-government demonstrators held up signs indicating they were unimpressed: “If the new constitution doesn’t include a decree that guarantees the execution of the murders, any draft will be meaningless,” said one that was posted on YouTube. An electronic ticker in the square was even more blunt: “We want Bashar and his agents executed,” it read.

In Washington D.C., State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland was more diplomatic. “From our perspective, it looks like he is putting forward a piece of paper that he controls, to a vote that he controls, in an effort to try and maintain control,” she said. “And frankly, it is not working in any other capacity, so we don’t think this is going to work, either.

He knows what he needs to do, if he really cares about his people the violence just needs to come to an end and he needs to get out of the way so we can have a democratic transition.”

The calls for reform that predominated in the early months of the uprising have been demands for al-Assad’s ouster.

Shadi Hamid, director of research for the Brookings Doha Center, called al-Assad’s latest moves toward reform “a little bit too late.”

“It’s not so much the message, but the messenger,” he said.

Andrew Tabler, Syria expert at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, called the document “window dressing,” citing the banning of many parties and the fact that government permission is needed to form a party.

“It’s not going to change the fact that it’s a minority-dominated situation,” he said. “It will remain a presidential system with powers vested in the hands of the president.”

Tabler said al-Assad is using this “tactic to get people to leave the streets.”

At least 32 people killed were killed across the country Wednesday, including three children, a woman and a defected soldier, according to the Local Coordination Committees of Syria.

The deaths occurred in Homs, Idlib, Daraa, Hama, Latakiya, Aleppo, Hasaka, Damascus and the Damascus suburbs.

Artillery and automatic machinegun fire echoed through Homs Wednesday, a city of 1 million people, CNN’s Arwa Damon reported from inside the city.

Opposition activists say government forces are intent on flattening every neighborhood that might hold dissidents.

The Syrian regime said an “armed terrorist group” sabotaged a diesel pipeline near the Homs neighborhoods of Baba Amr and Sultanieh, state-run media said.

But the LCC told CNN that government warplanes flying over Baba Amr blew up an oil pipeline. Amateur video showed columns of smoke on the ground.

—CNN

Calendar

Thursday, Feb. 16 Meetings

OSU Pre-Law Society, 6pm, StAg 111.

Regular meeting.

College Republicans, 7pm, StAg 132.

All are welcome no matter what beliefs or political party.

Speakers College of Science, 5:30pm, Kearney 112. Pamela Wible, M.D. “What does and ideal medical practice look like?

Friday, Feb. 17 Events The Pride Center, 11am-1pm, The Pride Center. Express yourself through an afternoon of cookie decorating and an open discussion on gender identity and gender expression.

Monday, Feb. 20 Meetings College Democrats, 5pm, MU Board Room. Come talk about current events, local campaigns and international news with like-minded people!

Events Black Cultural Center, 6:30-8:30pm, MU Lounge. Panel Discussion of Black women.

The Pride Center, 10am-7pm, The Pride Center. Come contribute to a collage that celebrates and supports those that have struggled with the AIDS Virus.

There will be supplies to make pieces in the center all week, which will then be assembled and displayed.

Tuesday, Feb. 21 Meetings ASOSU Senate, 7pm, MU 109A. Convenes to discuss student issues. Students and student organization delegates are welcome to attend.

Speakers Women’s Center, 3-5pm, Women’s Center. Budgets, Credit & Savings...OH MY! SisterScholars is hosting a budgeting and money management workshop to help women prepare to be financially independent and savvy!

Events Black Cultural Center, Noon-2pm, BCC. Jeopardy and wings. Jeopardy about black history, in collaboration with SOL. The Pride Center, 10am-7pm, The Pride Center. Come contribute to a collage that celebrates and supports those that have struggled with the AIDS Virus.

There will be supplies to make pieces in the center all week, which will then be assembled and displayed.

Wednesday, Feb. 22 Meetings ASOSU House of Representatives, 7pm, MU 211. Convenes to discuss student issues and concerns. Students and student organization delegates are welcome to attend.

Baha’i Campus Association, 12:301pm, MU Talisman Room. Tranquility Zone – Interfaith meditation, devotions and prayers – share your favorite inspirational reading or story.

Events Career Services, 11am-4pm, CH2M Hill Alumni Center. University-wide Career Fair. Connect with more than 100 employers from various industries and graduate schools there to network with students and alumni, offer jobs and internships, and provide other future career opportunities.

History Students’ Association, 5-6:30pm, Kearney 212. History Beyond the Classroom Career Fair. A history degree is only the beginning to endless possibilities. Representatives from various occupations including education, archives, library sciences, journalism, law and politics. Additionally there will be opportunities for networking with graduate and law admission programs and career services.

The Pride Center, 10am-7pm, The Pride Center. Come contribute to a collage that celebrates and supports those that have struggled with the AIDS Virus.

There will be supplies to make pieces in the center all week, which will then be assembled and displayed.

Thursday, Feb. 23 Meetings OSU Pre-Law Society, 6pm, StAg 111.

Regular meeting.

College Republicans, 7pm, StAg 132. All are welcome no matter what beliefs or political party.

Events Black Cultural Center, 5:30-7pm, BCC. Evolution of Hip-Hop. How hip-hop has changed over the years, in collaboratin with NSBE. Career Services, 11am-4pm, CH2M Hill Alumni Center. Engineering Career Fair. Connect with employers from various industries there to network with engineering students and alumni, offer jobs and internships, and provide other future career opportunities.

The Pride Center, 10am-7pm, The Pride Center. Come contribute to a collage that celebrates and supports those that have struggled with the AIDS Virus.

There will be supplies to make pieces in the center all week, which will then be assembled and displayed.

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Boehner defends $100 billion payroll tax deal House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, defended Wednesday the decision to move forward with a roughly $100 billion payroll tax cut extension that is not paid for, arguing that it was the only way to prevent a tax hike.

“We were not going to allow Democrats to continue to play games and cause a tax increase for hardworking Americans,” Boehner told reporters on Capitol Hill. “We made a decision to bring them to the table so that the games would stop and we would get this worked out.”

Congressional negotiators reached a tentative agreement Tuesday to extend the payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits while avoiding a fee cut for Medicare doctors, according to multiple legislators and aides.

The payroll tax cut, a key part of President Barack Obama’s economic recovery plan, has reduced how much 160 million American workers pay into Social Security on their first

$110,100 in wages. Instead of paying in 6.2 percent, they’ve been paying 4.2 percent for the past year and two months. The break is worth about $83 a month for someone making $50,000.

“I’m glad to see that Congress seems to be on the way to making progress on extending the payroll tax cut so that taxes don’t go up on all of you,” Obama told a crowd in Wisconsin Wednesday afternoon. “It will make a real difference in the lives of millions of people and as soon as Congress sends (the bill) to my desk, I will sign it right away.”

Boehner said he expects a vote on the measure this week.

For their part, senior Democrats on Capitol Hill expressed confidence that the deal would pass.

“We’re very, very close and I’m confident,” said Montana’s Max Baucus, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Finance Committee.

Negotiators were able to move forward with the framework for the deal after Republican leaders dropped their insistence earlier this week that the tax cut extension be funded through spending cuts elsewhere in the budget.

Party leaders also could not agree to fund it through new taxes, which are anathema to the GOP. While the package could receive the endorsement of a House-Senate conference committee as early as Wednesday, some conservative House Republicans have expressed concern about the agreement — which adds to the deficit — and said they are unsure if they will ultimately support it. Republican House freshmen, elected on a tidal wave of tea party support in 2010, have made deficit reduction their top priority and repeatedly insisted that any new initiatives be fully paid for.

But some GOP House members have said they expect the package to

ultimately pass with support from a majority of Republicans as well as Democrats.

“It’s the art of a deal. I mean, it’s a compromise,” said Rep. Steve Latourette, R-Ohio. “You have people that didn’t get ... 100 percent of what they wanted.”

The agreement covers all three measures — the payroll tax cut, the unemployment benefits extension, and the so-called “doc fix” — for the rest of 2012. The latter two measures — costing a combined $50 billion — will be paid for, aides said.

Possible funding sources to pay for the latter two measures include savings from broadband spectrum sales of about $13 billion, increased pension contributions by federal employees of about $16 billion, and cuts to Medicare hospital and specialist fees that would not affect patients, according to the congressional aides.

— CNN

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Ways and Means committee are currently working in tandem with the Senate Oversight and Ethics committee to come up with a solution to avoid a replay of last fall’s impeachment proceedings against Hopoi.

“We’re reaching out to the executive to resolve this,” Van Bossuyt said.

“We want to work together to find an equitable solution that is fair for everyone.”

During a Ways and Means committee meeting that followed the general house session, Van Bossuyt said that Mousa Diabat, chairman of the House Ethics Committee would be meeting with Hopoi and Vice President Sokho Eath on Friday to find a solution.

“It’s unethical to give yourself money without oversight,” Van Bossuyt said.

The house additionally looked at several pieces of legislation. Joint resolution 71.02, the so-called “Get Out the Vote Act,” which was passed by the Senate last night, was tabled until next week. It was tabled due to questions about the intent of the resolution. The resolution would authorize ASOSU to work with other universities in student voter registration and education.

Senate bill 71.04, which would redefine the nature of work and office

hours for ASOSU office holders, was tabled and sent to the student government committee for further consideration.

The House also presented Joint bill 71.04, which would require ASOSU to hold two town hall meetings per term to provide students with an opportunity to voice their concerns and for legislators to have a better handle on student body opinion. The bill is a result of the positive feedback the authors, Victoria Redman and Prachet Bhatt, received from the town hall meeting two weeks ago. However, the bill was tabled to be rewritten after concerns that without a requirement for attendance, ASOSU members would not attend.

The meeting concluded with two resolutions to instruct the House Ways and Means committee. The first, which passed 13-1, instructed the committee to include $650 in the 2013 fiscal year budget for nametags for all ASOSU members.

The second resolution told the committee to look into compensation for legislators. Legislators, with the exception of a few posts, such as the Speaker of the House, are currently unpaid.

The House Ways and Means com-

mittee that met after the regular house meeting, approved the ASOSU budget that will be presented to the Student Incidental Fee Committee tonight.

Provisions were included for $650 for nametags.

The committee also looked at two proposed bills currently being written

by Van Bossuyt that intend to provide more fiduciary oversight for monetary expenditures by the ASOSU executive. One would require the ASOSU executive to give monthly briefings to the House Ways and Means committee about account expenditures, balances, pay rates, etc. The other would require the ASOSU administrative and logistics advocate to sign various big ticket expenditures, including pay raises, in addition to the ASOSU director of finance. Currently the director of finance, who is part of the ASOSU executive branch, has sole responsibility to sign off on expenditures.

The Student Incidental Fee Committee will be hearing ASOSU’s budget proposal tonight in the Memorial Union from 6 to 9 p.m. The House of Representatives will meet again next Wednesday evening.

inet members range from an extra $900 paid to the President and Vice President to $100 to task force directors, according Douglas Van Bossuyt, chairman of the House Ways and Means committee.

Hopoi authorized the pay increases without consultation with the legislative branch. ASOSU statutes delineate pay for members who receive stipends. Stipends are based off the established state minimum wage of the time and are adjusted with minimum wage increases. Statute changes must be approved by the legislative branch in addition to the executive branch.

Though she said the executive cabinet did not get overpaid, Hopoi did not deny the pay increase and said they were necessary to attract talent because OSU wasn’t competitive in what it paid.

“I never got an idea of what I can and cannot do,” Hopoi said. “We weren’t aware we needed legislative approval.”

While the overpayment may be illegal, representatives from the House

WHALE n Continued from page 3 every day for two months. The whales move with such alacrity because they will be running on food reserves for about five months, two months of which are spent in transit to their breeding grounds, three to four weeks ensuring the continuation of the species and two more months returning to the feeding grounds from which they began the whole journey.

The information provided by Flex, Varvara, and Agent point to a different conclusion about how western gray whales navigate than was previously thought, according to Mate.

Gray whales were thought to be poor navigators, following the shoreline by listening to the noise emitted from the coast. However, to cross the Bering Strait as these whales have done suggests much

more advanced techniques.

They have accomplished this journey in deep water and unfavorable weather conditions, and researchers are uncertain how the whales have accomplished such a navigationally difficult feat.

Some theories include the use of acoustics in the perception of the movement of earth’s tectonic plates, magnetites located in their brains, and the memorization of bottom topography from their first journey as calves accompanied by their mothers, who presumably learned the route from the previous generation.

This last theory would suggest the whales only know one route, which will make further tagging and observation particularly interesting for scientists like Mate. Will whales after Varvara follow in her wake?

As a result of extensive whaling, the western gray whale was thought to have gone extinct until a small

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group of the species was discovered off the coast of Sakhalin Island in the 1980s. Subsequent research on the whales began in the 1990s with the use of technologically sophisticated tags built to sustain great pressure and last up to four months.

Varvara’s has surpassed that estimate, and will ideally continue to do so until she returns to Russia so observers can see if she takes an identical route.

With only about 130 western gray whales remaining worldwide, according to Mate, it is critical to better understand how research and the efficient allocation of resources can be utilized to ensure the survival of the species.

Varvara has traveled more than 6,000 miles since September. Anyone interested can follow her progress with maps and written explanations at: http:// mmi.oregonstate.edu/Sakhalin2011.

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Starting tonight at 7 p.m. in LaSells Stewart Center, a conference will be held on populations vulnerable to sex trafficking within the United States.

The event will begin tonight with a public lecture called “Garden ofTruth:The Prostitution and Trafficking of Native Women in Minnesota,” in which keynote speaker Nicole Matthews of the Minnesota Indian Women’s Sexual Assault Coalition will deliver a presentation.

The conference, apart from tonight’s presentation, requires participants to register online and will last through Saturday.

The focus will be on the prostitution of native women, international human trafficking, U.S. Legislation and personal testimonies by survivors. staff

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The Oregon State University Fashion Organization will be hosting its annual Recycled Fashion Show tonight at 7 p.m. in the Memorial Union Ballroom.

Themed “Green is the New Black,” the show is coordinated as an event to encourage creative design with recycled materials. Event directors Thea Matos and Sharon Gutierrez anticipate tonight’s show will be as successful as years past.

“Students should be interested in going because it’s one of the most fun events,” Matos said. “It’s not about construction, it’s about using materials you’d never think of.”

Matos is confident of the wide variety of material that designers have used for their pieces, as she’s already seen all of them.

The recycled Fashion Show is OSUFO’s main fundraiser.

Proceeds pay for the show, as well as fund the club for other events, like field trips.

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Profit over people: Inhumanity of capitalism

Campus smoking C ban an overreach

Part II of Two apitalism and its prioritizing of wealth accumulation has a profound psychological effect on people.

In “The Power of Money,” Karl Marx says, “Money is the procurer between man’s need and the object, between his life and his means of life. But that which mediates my life for me, also mediates the existence of other people for me. For me it is the other person.” Marx is arguing that when money is the medium of exchange, everything is looked at in terms of how much money it is worth, even if that “object” is a person.

How much does a minimum wage worker deserve to make?

Their worth is dependent on how valuable their job is, not the virtue of the person. Just because a job may be objectively easy to do, that doesn’t mean the labor itself is any less intensive. I know this from five con

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ater this year, from Monroe Avenue to Western Boulevard and 15th Street to 35th Street, smoking will be banned from the Oregon State University campus.

In February 2011’s letter from the Office of the President, Ed Ray says the decision was “not arrived at lightly, but was made in recognition of the destructive, disease-causing nature of smoking and of the right that students, faculty, staff and campus visitors have to breathe clean air…”

Even with opposition — seen in the 2008 “Fresh Air Survey,” where a considerable portion of the non-smoking student respondents opposed a campus-wide smoking ban and the “Students’ Freedom Act,” a resolution which rejected any plan for a smoke-free campus — the university administration still chose to follow through on the policy.

To legitimately debate the merits of this policy, we can’t have some students believing this was pushed for and enacted solely on the desires of one group of students, the Smoke-Free Task Force, which conducted the aforementioned survey and advocated for the ban. This was an administrative decision influenced by both sides of the debate. The university simply decided to take a route many other college campuses across the nation have already followed.

Over 500 universities across the nation have implemented a smoke-free campus. In fact, according to the American Nonsmokers’ Rights Foundation, more than 120 campuses went 100 percent smoke-free last year.

One would think a college campus would be the last place for a full-fledged ban on smoking, but a decade ago, many would say the same thing about bars and restaurants.

Obviously, the acceptance of smoking has diminished over the past few decades.

Generally, as obvious in President Ray’s letter, the opposition to smoking comes from the inconvenience in walking, standing, smelling or inhaling secondhand smoke, and a persistent sense of litter. While someone may dislike the look and the act of smoking — how one could continue to accept the rising costs on both the wallet and body — it’s no good reason to punish another person for choosing to smoke.

Therefore, other than the prior grievances, smoking is a completely personal act — one which does not intrude on anyone else. To argue that one student has the right to clean air is to argue that a smoker has a right to foul that air, as long as it does not harm another. A cigarette smoker taints clean air just as a passing car does — could we ever consider a ban that extreme?

Nevertheless, OSU looks to be a smoke-free campus in the near future. And as many people may dislike smoking, and they may actually prefer a cigarette-free university, the idea of an outright smoking ban throughout campus is a complete overreach.

When providing designated smoking areas produces the same effect as a campus-wide ban — arguably with great benefits — there’s no reason to take the more intrusive route.

A campus-wide ban only pushes smoking to outer regions — particularly neighborhoods where students and faculty live anyway. The university is banning smoking for a more enjoyable campus, only to make our neighborhoods that much more unpleasant.

In consideration of cigarette butt litter, designated areas will (ideally) focus that trash into a specified area — one that could be stocked with trash receptacles. Furthermore, instead of focusing on implementing a campus-wide ban, implement a new ticket system, fining people who are seen tossing cigarette butts or smoking outside of designated areas.

And these designated areas can easily be set up in areas of low congestion during the weekdays, along Gill Coliseum on Washington Way or for example. The areas won’t be in the middle of campus, it will demand some extra effort on the smoker’s part, but that’s the very effect of a ban: inconveniency to benefit the larger public. Also, these areas won’t necessarily be near sidewalk or street drains, another comfort for the issue of litter.

The majority of people don’t smoke, and most of the OSU student body and faculty wouldn’t argue with progressive steps — designated areas — to reduce smoking on the campus. Most non-smokers would not physically argue with a campus-wide ban.

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Tipton So it Goes sistent years of minimum wage work. When anyone is asked why minimum wage workers don’t make more, however, the answer is always dependent on the amount of wealth somebody is accumulating off of that labor, on the logical nature of business within a capitalist structure.

Then, it begs the question, what is the goal of a society? To create an environment where human needs are met, people can live with freedom, sufficient opportunity to become a wellrounded individual, to provide an environment where there is an established quality of life and to pursue their interests. I argue that capitalism does not create this kind of society, neither in

the United States nor around the world.

Without a laboring class (who does all the work, with the lowest wages), wealth could not be accumulated at such an astonishing rate by the bourgeoisie; capitalism is a system predicated on worker exploitation. The great ethicist and philosopher Immanuel Kant claimed that it is fundamentally immoral to use people as a means to an end, and that is exactly what capitalism does. It uses people as a means of labor to meet an end of accumulated profit.

More humane systems of government are out there; capitalism is not an inherent trait of human life or society.

Capitalism has not always existed and will not always exist.

We should actively try to create a global society that places human values and needs over the pursuit of profit. After all, we are human beings.

It is time to realize that each

person’s needs are as profound as our own, and to ignore the suffering that capitalism creates; ‘because we like really cool gadgets’ is a fundamentally immoral position. As the anthropologist David Graeber has said: “The things we care most about — our loves, passions, rivalries, obsessions — are always other people; and in most societies that are not capitalist, it’s taken for granted that the manufacture of material goods is a subordinate moment in a larger process of fashioning people. In fact, I would argue that one of the most alienating aspects of capitalism is the fact that it forces us to pretend that it is the other way around, and that societies exist primarily to increase their output of things.” t

Sean Tipton is a junior in philosophy. The opinions expressed in his columns do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Barometer staff. Tipton can be reached at forum@dailybarometer.com.

New power source offers unlimited potential T

he batteries we have now work fairly well for our needs. Cell phones are powered with lithium batteries, remotes have AA or AAA batteries, cameras, cars and even our laptops have batteries powering them.

The problem is that batteries run out of juice; many aren’t able to hold a charge after a few years. Moreover, there still is no safe method for disposing of batteries in the environment. While scientists at the Centre of Wireless Research at the University of Bedfordshire aren’t working on way to recycle batteries in a safer way necessarily, they are developing a better battery.

Professor Ben Allen took a page from Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged,” and has developed a way of harvesting energy from the air. Allen and his team have found a method of taking the “waste” energy from radio waves. Prof. Allen’s theory is that if light, sound and wind waves can be used to “harvest energy,” then radio waves should be a viable source of power as well.

Currently, the project is patent pending, with no working prototype since Allen and his team developed it in their spare time. Their hope is that with a

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Rebel without a pulse legal patent and some funding, they would be able to focus on this project in full dedication. They could possibly develop a small system to power watches, clocks and cell phones, for example.

While that doesn’t seem like the sort of power source that Rand thought of in “Atlas Shrugged”, it is a stepping-stone to her idea and even greater possibilities.

Allen believes that once he and his team have created this new power harvester, he would be able to reduce up to 30,000 tons of battery waste in his home country, the UK, alone. There is also the potential to bring quite a bit of money to the university. However, there is no set timetable as to when this project could be completed, or when the professor could get started with prototypes.

The one problem here is that Allen is thinking in the short run for his inven-

tion. In a statement to the BBC, Allen talks about how there is plenty of opportunity to put his mark on the battery market and make millions of dollars.

Now, making money for your invention is all fine and dandy, but there is a much greater potential for power harvesting than Allen is currently thinking of. Since there haven’t been any tests yet, the power output of this harvester remains unclear. However, once more scientists get involved in this project, there is a chance for unlimited power potential.

We could remove most blackouts, reduce the cost of energy and even make electric cars with some real horsepower and little to no fuel costs. This might seem like some form of science fiction talk — fortunately this isn’t a story by L. Ron Hubbard or George Orwell — but Allen’s new project could legitimately change the system as a whole.

Most of what we see in technology today is innovation, not invention.

The difference being that innovation is an improvement on current technology, whereas invention makes something See FIX | page 5

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n a nationwide survey conducted by Teenage Research Unlimited, a global leader in research on teens and 20-somethings, and commissioned by the National Campaign to Prevent Teenage and Unwanted Pregnancy, researchers found that nearly 60 percent of young adults (age 20-26) have sent a sexually suggestive text or email message to their significant other, someone they had a crush on or wanted to hook up with, or to someone they knew online. Another 33 percent of young adults have posted nude or semi-nude images of themselves.

There are numerous dangers associated with this phenomenon, but in this technological age of Facebook, Twitter, Skype, FaceTime and online dating, it also has me wondering if there is a way we could use it to encourage healthy sexual communication.

I couldn’t call myself a health educator if I didn’t first talk about

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Be Well. Be Orange. the negative side of sexting. In the same survey mentioned above, researchers found that even though 75 percent of teens and 71 percent of young adults know that sending and/or posting sexually suggestive content can be dangerous, they do it anyway. They also revealed that they have shared photos (15 percent) or messages (20 percent) with someone other than the intended recipient, or had those pictures/messages shared with them (30 percent and 40 percent respectively).

Some researchers believe the use of technology encourages an even more casual, hook-up culture and creates an online disinhibition effect, making teens and young adults more forward and aggressive than they would be in real life. Nearly one-third of young adults said they personally, were more aggressive

using sexually suggestive messages, and 34 percent were more aggressive with nude or seminude photos/videos than they would be in real life. Most young adults (66 percent) also felt that their peers were more forward and aggressive using sexy messages and pictures/video than they were in real life.

Other potential dangers with “sexting” include the fact that 40 percent of young adults say exchanging sexual content makes dating or hooking up with others more likely, and 24 percent believe that people who are exchanging sexually suggestive material are “expected” to date or hook up. Those statistics can be problematic if that is not the sender’s intention.

The study revealed a majority of young adults “sext” to be fun and flirtatious or to give their partner a “sexy” present. It’s when they are sending things to people they don’t know very well, or have only met online, to get attention that they can experi-

ence the most negative consequences of sexting. Those negative consequences include, but are not limited to: embarrassing themselves, hurting their reputation, disappointing family and friends, getting in trouble with the law, or hurting their chances for employment or higher education opportunities.

The report also provided teens and young adults with “Five Things to Think about Before Pressing ‘Send.’”

1. Don’t assume anything you send or post is going to remain private.

2. There is no changing your mind in cyberspace – anything you send or post will never go away.

3. Don’t give in to the pressure to do something that makes you uncomfortable, even in cyberspace.

4. Consider the recipient’s reaction.

5. Nothing is truly anonymous.

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n increasing amount of fast-food and chain restaurants have begun to include labels identifying how many calories are in each dish. Whether these figures are included due to legal mandates or not, I can’t help but think this information is ignored by the average diner.

If you have already made up your mind about ordering that forearm-sized burrito, catching a glimpse of its caloric content is probably extraneous.

The problem with eating out is rarely how many calories could be consumed, but rather the portion size. While the general public is becoming more health and weight conscious by gaining a greater knowledge of what are “healthy” foods, the next logical step is to become more aware of quantity.

A menu may tell me an entrée has 750 calories, but it doesn’t necessarily matter, because I’m ordering it regardless. Even though the dish might be calorie dense or unhealthy, the real problem is, like too many meals, it is served in stomach-blasting mound form.

Leaving a clean plate may just be a product of my upbringing, but whenever I’m presented with a marathon of food, I can’t help but go into “Man vs.

Food” mode and refuse to leave anything behind. I may have

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FIX n Continued from page 4 brand new. Look at the engine in cars today; they are the same piston engines we started with. Sure, they are more fuel efficient and provide more power for the car, but they are merely updated versions of the original model.

What we need to be looking for in the future are ways to build something that the world hasn’t seen yet. It’s fantastic that the engine in my car gets 40 miles to the gallon, and that an airplane can fly from Portland to Japan in one trip, but they are still limited by technology that is quickly becoming outdated.

What professor Allen has in his hands is not just unlimited energy for the world, but

the idea that we can’t be satisfied with just improving upon the works of our predecessors. The professor may be thinking of a way to build a better battery or a generator, but he’s theoretically building a self-sufficient energy source.

We need to be making leaps and bounds with our technology again — aiming further than we thought possible. Until recently, we thought the speed of light couldn’t be broken, but sure enough, a few scientists have done just that. We need to stop trying to improve upon the works of previous generations, and instead move forward to make something the world has never seen before. t

Robert Fix is a senior in business. The opinions expressed in his columns do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Barometer staff. Fix can be reached at forum@ dailybarometer.com.

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SEXTING n Continued from page 4 Taking all of the above information into account, I still can’t help but wonder if there’s a way we can jump on this speeding technology train and channel the “sexting” phenomenon to encourage students who are currently in a relationship to have healthy sexual communication with their partners.

How to make good communication is a must in any sexual relationship • You can explore what your partner likes and dislikes.

• You can find out about each other’s sexual history.

• You can talk about the different ways to protect yourselves.

• Once you’ve talked about your limits and protection, the real fun begins.

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The Daily Barometer quelled my hunger twenty bites ago, but there’s no way I’ll let food win.

Of course, leftover food could always be saved for later; the reasonable approach would be to get a to-go box, but that’s not always an option. No one wants Indian food sitting in his or her backpack, unrefrigerated for 10 hours.

There are plenty of circumstances in which the customer would welcome the opportunity to order a meal that’s 60 percent of the normal portion. Many feel plenty satisfied and strangely accomplished after ingesting 450 calories rather than the full 750.

A study published in the journal “Health Affairs” tested this idea, asking patrons of a Chinese fast-food restaurant if they wanted to “downsize portions of three starchy side dishes.” The researchers found that 14 to 33 percent were willing to accept the smaller portions, regardless of a rather insignificant 25 cent discount. Twenty-one percent chose the smaller size without being told how many calories were in the meal, with 14 percent making the decision after getting the information. Those who did order the smaller meals did not end up replacing the • Many people find that talking about sex beforehand can be sexy.

• You can share fantasies and things you want to try.

• Communication is the best sexual technique – the best way for both parties to get what they want from the sexual relationship.

One of the main reasons that students don’t engage in conversation about safer sex is because they feel awkward and uncomfortable. If “sexting” makes students less inhibited, and provides the impetus to start the conversation with their partner, I say go for it.

Now, obviously, this form of “safer sexting” will only work with someone that you know fairly well and whom you trust not to share your messages with others. Because if you can’t trust

empty plate space with more of the main dish either — resulting in a reduction of over 200 calories. Who would have guessed that people will eat less if you give them less?

It’s reasonable to assume less food would translate to lower prices, but this may be a crippling aspect. Ideally, 60 percent of the food should cost 60 percent of the full portion, right?

But restaurants are in the business of making money, not being your personal Jenny Craig. A restaurant is trying to make money by selling a product and nothing more. They still have to make enough money to cover overhead costs and take in enough profit to make it worth their while, so a proportional price drop is not a realistic appeal.

This study, while interesting, hasn’t provided anything groundbreaking. It basically says: “If you want to eat less, order less.” The problem I see, is that this idea puts your brain and stomach in contention with your wallet. It’s an exercise in stinginess or self-control. If you can’t control the amount of food you eat, order less; if you can’t control how much you order, eat at home. t

Alex Danfelt is a senior in communications. The opinions expressed in his columns do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Barometer staff. Danfelt can be reached at forum@dailybarometer.com.

them to hold such personal information confidential, you should be asking yourself if this is a person with whom you’d want to share sexual intimacy with in the first place.

If you’d like more information about sexy communication or healthy relationships, you can visit the Student Health Services website at http://studenthealth. oregonstate.edu/. You can also come in to talk to a health coach or peruse the health coaching website at http://studenthealth. oregonstate.edu/health-coaching. Men can also make an appointment with a MARS representative (Male Advocate for Responsible Sexuality) at http:// studenthealth.oregonstate.edu/ mars.

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President Barack Obama’s approval rating is back to 50 percent for the first time in more than eight months, and he currently holds an edge against all the remaining Republican presidential candidates in hypothetical head-tohead match-ups, according to a new national survey.

And a CNN/ORC Intern– ational Poll released Wednes– day also indicates that the GOP’s advantage on enthusiasm has been erased, and that the number of Americans who think things are going well in the country is on the rise. Six out of ten say things are going poorly in the country, but four out of ten say things are going well, up 15 points since November. “Does that mean it’s morning in America? It is for Democrats — a solid majority of them now say things are going well in the country. But overall, six in ten still have a gloomy outlook about the state of the country,� says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. “Optimism is on the rise among independent voters, with a notable increase among men as well, although a majority of both groups still think things are going poorly.�

The rise of Americans who say things are going well appears to be helping the president, whose approval rating now stands at 50 percent, with 48 percent saying they disapprove of the job Obama’s doing in the White House. The president’s approval rating has edged up three points from last month and is up six points from November. The last time Obama’s approval rating was at 50 percent or above was last May, as a result of the killing of Osama bin Laden, and it stayed there for about a month before fading. “Independents now have a net-positive view of President

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The Oregon State University Building Energy Challenge started Feb. 6 and will run through the Feb. 27.

Buildings and dorms on campus are competing in efforts to reduce overall energy consumption. While rewards will be given to the building with the largest reduction of energy use, the true goal of the challenge is to raise awareness and challenge everyone on campus to be mindful of their electricity use.

The BEC is concurrent with the Campus Conservation Nationals, a national energy and resource reduction competition. “Campuses around the nation are working together to save one giga-watt of energy.

It runs from February to April and each school can choose a three week period in which they can focus on conservation. In essence our Building Energy Challenge has become our effort towards the national competition,� said Mikkel VandeBergh, energy coordinator of the Student Sustainability Initiative.

The challenge, which started three years ago, is organized by the SSI and the Sustainability Office. The goal of participants will be to reduce consumption by 5 percent compared to a historical baseline, which is the energy consumption of each building measured one week before the competition.

“We are checking the meter rates for each of the buildings once per week for three weeks and comparing it to the historical baseline,� said Bo Bestvina, a graduate student program assistant who is helping to coordinate the project.

Some examples of the actions being taken include turning off lights more often, utilizing power management settings on computers, unplugging unnecessary equipment, and replacing incandescent lamp bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs.

Each week of the competition will be devoted to a different type of conservation; phantom loads, appliances not being used that are still plugged in during Week 1, steam and heat during Week 2, and lighting during Week 3. “Those categories are the easiest to understand and awareness needs to be raised about them,� said VandeBergh. “They also deliver the largest return of energy per conservation act that we could estimate, especially steam and heat, as it takes a lot of energy to heat buildings.�

As well as focusing on one category per week, all of the categories will be emphasized throughout the challenge.

The project’s coordination was split between the dorms and other buildings on campus. The SSI had some delays in locating someone to manage the buildings coordinator position, and thus there was less of a response from buildings on campus.

While 13 dorms are participating, only four buildings took up the challenge. “We aren’t disappointed with the turnout,

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The Student Sustainability Center is one of the buildings participating in the energy competition. though,� said Bestvina, “I don’t know for sure why some buildings did not participate, but the ones that did are large.�

The SSI is student fee funded, so this year they wanted to make sure students were more involved with the competition, hence the added attention to the dorms. “All of the dorms are interconnected, so it didn’t take much to communicate with them and provide information they needed,� said Bestvina. “As well, we are finding out what individual buildings are doing to promote conservation and spreading the word about it to the other buildings.�

Every dorm is included this year except for the INTO building because of complications with their meters. “Students in the dorms don’t see the direct impact,� said VandeBergh. “The most important thing is showing them the overall concept of energy and where it is coming from for

them. Once they realize where it is coming from, they see the amount of energy used for every little thing.�

It takes a lot of energy just to turn on a light switch and five percent is a substantial change.

The steam and heat aren’t being measured, as the energy use for those are measured on a different meter than electricity.

Therefore, a five percent decrease will only be measured from the conservation efforts made towards electricity. The average last year was between four percent and 5 percent. Hopefully there will be an increase in reduction.

On Feb. 28 at noon, the awards party will take place in Memorial Union 109b.

For more information about the Building Energy Challenge, visit the Challenge website at: http://oregonstate.edu/ sustainability/bec.

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Postal Service pleads for help as losses continue The U.S. Postal Service renewed its pleas for congressional support Thursday as the floundering agency reported another massive quarterly loss.

The Postal Service announced that it sustained a net loss of $3.3 billion in the last three months of 2011, as declining mail volumes and mounting benefit costs continue to weigh on its business.

In the previous fiscal year, the Postal Service lost $5.1 billion and said its losses would have been roughly $10.6 billion if not for the passage of legislation postponing a $5.5 billion payment required to pre-fund retiree health benefits.

In a statement, the Postal Service urged the government to do away with the requirement that such benefits be funded at their current rates, and also called for greater “delivery flexibility.�

The Postal Service has floated the idea of

scaling back to five-day delivery from the current six-day system to save costs, though this is unpopular with Congress, which has the final authority. Also under consideration is a plan to slow down next-day service. “Passage of legislation is urgently needed that provides the Postal Service with the speed and flexibility needed to cut costs that are not under our control, including employee health care costs,� Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe said in the statement.

Fredric Rolando, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers, noted that pre-funding of retiree health benefits was responsible for nearly all of the $3.3 billion loss. “The record productivity and the strong growth in the shipping business show that the Postal Service can be a successful organization if freed from the unwarranted and uniquely onerous prefunding burden placed on it by Congress,�

Rolando said in a statement.

The Postal Service warned that it could default on its health benefit pre-payments this year. It may also reach its $15 billion debt limit and run out of cash even if Congress changes or eliminates the prefunding requirement.

The Postal Service is chartered as a government enterprise but does not receive taxpayer support.

In an effort to cut some $20 billion in costs, the agency plans to close post offices around the country. But it has delayed the closures until May 15, allowing Congress some time to devise a plan to support it.

The Postal Service’s struggles have come even as its private-sector competition is thriving. Both UPS and FedEx reported strong increases in earnings and revenue in their most recent quarterly reports. — CNN

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Obama,� says Holland. “His approval rating has also reached 50 percent in the suburbs.�

Looking ahead to November, the poll indicates that the president’s re-election chances are on the rise. In hypothetical matchups among registered voters, Obama holds a 51 -46 percent margin over former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, leads both former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania and Rep. Ron Paul of Texas by the same 52 -45 percent advantage, and beats former House Speaker Newt Gingrich 55 -42 percent .

The president appears to have gained ground since January against Romney, Paul, and Gingrich. Only Santorum has held steady. The poll also indicates that Obama wins a majority of independent voters in all four general election match-ups. “More than six in ten Americans believe that the policies of Romney and Gingrich favor the rich; Santorum and Paul do better on that measure, but only a quarter feel that way about Obama,� says Holland.

The survey suggests that the contentious Republican primary season has decreased enthusiasm among Republican voters, virtually erasing the “enthusiasm gap� that promised to provide the ultimate GOP presidential nominee with a major advantage in the fall. In October, 64 percent of Republicans said that they were extremely or very enthusiastic about voting for president, compared to only 43 percent of Democratic voters. GOP enthusiasm since that time has tumbled 13 points, to 51 percent , virtually the same as the Democrats’ level of enthusiasm. — CNN

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MEN’S BASKETBALL n Continued from page 7 Tournament bid if they ran the table at the Pac-12 Tournament.

Right now, the Beavers are living in the moment, playing for momentum.

“We have to keep that (one day at a time) focus, because the way we play going forward will affect the (Pac-12) Tournament,” Robinson said.

“It’s all about getting that momentum and carrying it into the tournament,” freshman forward Eric Moreland said.

Freshman guard Challe Barton, who made his first collegiate start Sunday against Washington, said he’s not worried about the seed the Beavers end up with.

“We just don’t want other teams to have momentum going into the tournament, so we want to beat them,” Barton said.

OSU did not beat Stanford the first time around, losing 103-101.

Thursday, February 16, 2012 • 7 Robinson said his players aren’t out seeking revenge.

“Our guys don’t operate like that. They don’t operate on revenge,” Robinson said.

“They operate on wanting to win, first and foremost. Secondly, they are starting to work at wanting to be real good at their craft.”

Robinson said he recently watched the quadruple-overtime game and noted that it wasn’t quite as painful to watch as when he watched it unfold originally.

“It’s just one of those games where we had so many opportunities, which has sort of been a microcosm of our season,” Robinson said. “We’ve had a lot of opportunities that we’ve let go by the wayside.”

Tonight, they’ll try to capitalize on an opportunity.

For the sake of momentum.

Grady Garrett, sports editor Twitter: @gradygarrett sports@dailybarometer.com

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MBB: How many points has Jared Cunningham scored in his last two games?

A. 46 B. 49 C. 56 D. 58

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Teasley said. “Their whole team is a threat. We have got to believe in ourselves.”

Stanford is averaging a conference-high 78.2 points a night, so limiting them offensively doesn’t seem like an option. Instead, the focus will be keeping up.

“To stay with this team you have to score. That is the biggest thing, is can we score with them? We can play perfect defensively and that team can still score. There are no weaknesses over there,” Rueck said.

“We need the same kind of aggressive attacking offense, and that is what we were able to do last game.”

the emotions that come with the high profile matchup need to be channeled in the right direction. Stanford is used to this big stage, but Oregon State is curious to find out what it’s all about.

“You have to believe in yourself and know that you can win, that is the most important part,” Edwards-Teasley said.

“We go at it in practice every single day, and believe in our teammates, and know that we have each other’s backs and we want to leave it all on the court.”

“We have to just keep doing what we have been doing,” Rueck said, “and hope the winning continues.”

Last game, Oregon State went into halftime with the lead, but a 9-0 Cardinal run down the stretch allowed Stanford to pull away.

If the Beavers want to keep up with the No. 3 team in the country, their mental approach will be key. One thing opponents have had to learn the hard way is the fact that Oregon State’s confidence as a team goes unmeasured.

“What I have learned about this group is they love a challenge, there is confidence within them.” Rueck said. “We just want to be a team that believes they can win. I wouldn’t put anything past this group.”

Considering what the Beavers have accomplished and are playing for since the last time the two teams met,

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Sports Editor’s Note: We here at the Barometer are curious how knowledgeable OSU athletes are about OSU athletics, so we decided to find out. Each week, we’ll ask two athletes from the five OSU winter sports five questions each. We’ll reveal their answers in The Daily Barometer and keep track of how many questions each team has gotten right over the course of the term. The team that produces the most correct answers will be crowned winter term champions. (Women’s soccer was our fall term champion.)

Good luck, all.

Gymnastics: Listed at 5-7, who’s the tallest gymnast on the team?

A. Taylor Keeker B. Makayla Stambaugh C. Brittany Harris D. Melanie Jones

WBB: How many seniors are on the team?

Wrestling: Who was the 2011 Pac-10 Champion in the HWT division?

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Eric Moreland

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C (Harris)

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D (Pena)

B (Sophomore)

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Challe Barton (MBB)

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C (Harris)

B (2)

A (Mangrum)

B (Sophomore)

3

Brittany Harris (Gym)

A (46)

C (Harris)

A (1)

C (Vinson)

B (Sophomore)

3

Katelyn Ohlrich

B (49)

C (Harris)

C (3)

B (Rollins)

B (Sophomore)

2

Quortni Fambro

C (56)

C (Harris)

A (1)

D (Pena)

A (Freshman)

4

ShaKiana EdwardsTeasley (WBB) Clayton Jack

C (56)

C (Harris)

A (1)

C (Vinson)

C (Junior)

3

D (58)

D (Jones)

A (1)

D (Pena)

B (Sophomore)

3

Taylor Meeks (Wrestling)

A (46)

B (Stambaugh)

B (2)

D (Pena)

B (Sophomore)

2

Erica Nelson (S)

C (56)

D (Jones)

B (2)

D (Pena)

B (Sophomore)

3

Carrie Kelsey (S)

C (56)

C (Harris)

D (4)

A (Mangrum)

B (Sophomore)

3

Correct Answer

C (56)

C (Harris)

A (1)

D (Pena)

B (Sophomore)

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The mighty Cardinal No. 3 Stanford has lost one game all year — a November game at UCONN. Since, they’ve rattled off 19 straight victories. Ten of their 13 conference wins have come by double-digits.

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Last time around The Cardinal narrowly escaped Oregon State’s upset bit, rallying from a 4-point halftime deficit to win 67-60 at home. The Ogwumike sisters combined to score 53 points and grab 26 rebounds.

7.7 5.1 1.1

PPG RPG APG 2011-12 Season 12.0 7.0 3.6

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Temptation isn’t to look ahead at Pac-12 Tournament, even with disappointing regular season winding down

By Grady Garrett The Daily Barometer

If the Beavers are going to achieve their preseason goal of reaching the NCAA Tournament, they’ll have to win four games in four days at the Pac-12 Tournament.

Any hope of an at-large bid disappeared weeks ago.

And a first-round bye in the Pac-12 Tournament, which comes with a top-4 seed, is out of the equation — Oregon State is four games back of fifth place with five games to play.

Four wins in four days is what it’s going to have to be, no matter what transpires over the next three weeks.

But coach Craig Robinson said any notion that the Beavers, fresh off an 0-2 week at home, have packed it in for the regular season is off-base.

“It’s human nature to do that, but we’ve done a really good job with our ‘one day at a time’ mantra all year long,” Robinson said.

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“I’m not afraid that they’re going to say ‘heck with the rest of the season, let’s concentrate on the tournament.’ They’re not those kind of guys.

“They’re interested in winning. They’re interested in getting better.”

Point taken.

The Beavers (15-10, 5-8 Pac-12) will take their two-game losing streak to Maples Pavilion in Palo Alto, Calif. tonight to face Stanford University in a rematch of January’s quadruple-overtime contest at Gill Coliseum.

What a difference a month and a half can make.

The last time these two teams met, the Beavers had just defeated conference-favorite Cal. Stanford was 12-3 and looked like a legitimate conference title contender.

Stanford has lost five of its last seven entering tonight’s game.

JOHN ZHANG | THE DAILY BAROMETER They too would only receive a NCAA Devon Collier drives to the hoop in OSU’s 103-101 quadruple-overtime loss to Stanford in January.

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The Stanford crowd erupted, not because the Cardinal scored at the last second to win the game or something, but because they wanted to show their respect for the underdog program that accomplished so much in their short 40-minute visit.

“It was a sincere eruption,” Oregon State women’s basketball Head Coach Scott Rueck recalled. “The crowd knew they were in a fight that day. We didn’t just show up and battle for a while, we came and competed, and they knew it was real game, and it was a great game.”

Oregon State showed up to the notorious Maples Pavilion in Palo Alto, Calif. back in January and proved that they could play with one of the nation’s premier programs. The Beavers fell to then-No. 4 Stanford 67-60, but they earned respect as competitors in the Pac-12 that day.

A turning point for Oregon State as a program.

“A lot of people were shocked.

That last game, we really showed who Oregon State is,” junior forward ShaKiana Edwards-Teasley said. “It was a turning point, everybody knew our impact on the Pac-12 and what this team is capable of.”

“This team played at another level that night,” Rueck said. “It gives us confidence and certainly has helped since, it is the reason this team is where it is. It started that day, I believe.”

Since that game, Oregon State (177, 8-5 Pac-12) has won seven of its last nine games, and is currently on a six-game winning streak. But the Beavers still have their hardest work cut out for them, hosting the only two teams ranked above them in the conference standings this week.

Stanford tonight and Cal Saturday.

What’s on the line? According to ESPN women’s hoops “bracketologist” Charlie Creme, the Beavers are one of “the next four out” to receive a bid for the NCAA Tournament, meaning they’ve worked their way onto the bubble.

Stanford (22-1, 13-0) comes to Corvallis as winners of 19 straight.

The Cardinal has all but clinched their 12th consecutive Pac-12 title, and they’re likely a lock to get a top seed come the “Big Dance.”

Needless to say, a win over a team with the aforementioned accolades would do wonders for Oregon State’s resume.

The Beavers are going to have their hands full with Stanford’s Ogwumike sisters, Nnemkadi and Chiney, who average a double-double a night. The sisters are top-3 in the conference for scoring and rebounding, and can be expected to score 50 percent of the team’s points night-in and night-out.

“I think finding a way to keep both of them boxed out is going to be huge,” sophomore guard Alyssa Martin said. “Anytime they catch it anywhere near the basket they can score. They are a threat everywhere.”

To complement the Ogwumike’s post presence, freshman forward Taylor Greenfield is the conference’s most successful 3-point shooter (38.8 percent).

“We have to know where the Ogwumike sisters are on the court, the offense is wrapped around them.

But you also have to think about the shooters on the outside, because they are all 3-point shooters,” EdwardsSee WOMEN’S HOOPS | page 7