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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2013 • OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY CORVALLIS, OREGON 97331

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OSU takes on Stanford tonight

VOLUME CXVI, NUMBER 88

A closer look at OSU student fees n

13 budgets pass, Diversity Development and Music Ensemble head to mediation

Fall, Winter, Spring

Summer

2014

2013-14

Summer

2013

Fall, Winter, Spring

2012-13

Summer

2012

Fall, Winter, Spring

2011-12

Summer

ASOSU

19.33

12.50

20.44

12.50

20.42

12.50

18.87

6.72

Athletics

42.18

0.00

42.18

0.00

40.98

0.00

37.3

0.00

Counseling & Psychological Services

31.61

31.61

35.23

35.23

35.23

35.23

35.23

35.23

Diversity Development

13.59

8.30

12.81

8.30

13.84

8.30

14.30

8.30

Educational Activities

12.00

8.50

12.12

8.50

11.36

8.50

7.71

7.17

By Ricky Zipp

The Daily Barometer

The joint session of ASOSU on Wednesday led to the passage of the majority of student fee funded budgets for 2013-14.

Brad Alvarez, chairman of the Student and Incidental Fees Committee, explained each budget proposal to members of both the Senate and House of Representatives. Student support for Diversity Development dominated the majority of last night’s meeting.

The budgets presented totalled 15, 13 of which have been passed and will move forward for approval by President Ed Ray. Two of the budgets, Diversity Development and Music Ensembles, were not passed by both bodies of government and will move to mediation.

ASOSU President Amelia Harris showed her support for an increase in funding for Diversity Development to hire full time staff positions for the cultural centers. Harris did not feel the budget request was handled with the same discretion as other position requests and had voted against the decision package.

“I voted wrongly,” Harris said. “I request that the House and Senate send this into mediation.”

Around a dozen students testified for full time positions in the cultural centers, with the majority testifying about the specific need in the Native American Longhouse.

• Having a fulltime position at the center will provide students with the opportunity to have mentorship, both in work, school and their personal life. They will also be able to provide them with leadership building.

2011

Fall, Winter, Spring

Student Fees Per Student 2010-11

ASOSU Joint Session hears SIFC budget proposals

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The Student and Incidental Fees Committee finalizes their allocations for 2013-14

Memorial Union

75.61

58.60

65.78

59.80

65.78

59.80

73.18

70.00

Music Ensembles

3.22

0.00

4.71

0.00

4.71

0.00

2.20

0.00

Our Little Village

3.95

0.00

3.95

0.00

4.23

0.00

4.38

0.00

Recreational Sports

68.33

55.75

66.20

56.93

66.20

56.93

66.08

58.61

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Student Health Services

103.13

103.13

100.53

100.53

89.09

89.09

89.09

89.09

Student Sustainability Initiative

13.92

2.69

11.86

0.00

11.07

0.00

4.14

0.00

SIFC Administration

0.30

0.00

18.41

0.00

18.41

0.00

18.65

0.00

Bad Debt Expense

0.25

0.25

0.25

0.25

0.25

0.25

0.15

0.15

Contingency

2.25

2.25

1.00

1.00

1.00

1.00

0.75

0.75

After last night’s Associated Students of Oregon State University joint session, the student fee levels have now been set. All that remains is President Ed Ray’s signature.

By the numbers, students will pay $10.54 less than they did last year for 2013-14 fall, winter and spring terms, and will pay $4.51 more for summer 2014.

“We are disappointed a lot of organizations didn’t turn in their proposals in time,” said Student and Incidental Fees Committee chairman Brad Alvarez. “We still had a lot of cooperation from the [Auxiliaries and Activities Business Center].”

With an adjustment for enrollment, groups that kept their fee levels the same will still receive more funding from the population increase. Alvarez said groups had to advocate and make arguments to keep their fee levels, which often came from mandatory increases, and even moreso if they wanted additional money from student fees.

“Students and staff had to fight hard to keep or expand their budgets,” Alvarez said.

Where are the changes coming from?

Alvarez explained there are a few of note out of the budget proposals.

The first comes with the Memorial Union and the request for increased student fees

Student Facilities Improvement

17.00

12.50

17.00

12.50

65.00

65.00

65.00

48.50

Total Fees

406.67

296.08

412.47

295.54

447.57

320.10

437.03

324.52

Total Student Fee Budget

2013-14 Fall, Winter, Spring $29,324,713

2014 Summer $1,914,668

*Information courtesy of the Student and Incidental Fees Committee Note: The budgets and fees take into account the influx of students at the university

27,000 26,000

Enrollment

26,323

as of Fall Term each year

25,000

24,977

24,000

23,761

23,000 22,000

21,969

21,000 20,320

20,000 19,000

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19,235

19,362

2005-06

2006-07

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19,753

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*Information courtesy of the Oregon University System

2007-08

2008-09

2009-10

2010-11

2011-12

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2012-13

The Internet meme of 2013 makes its mark at OSU Socratic Club The ‘Harlem Shake’ spreads like wildfire across the nation, campuses including OSU

The Harlem Shake phenomenon is a short music video accompanying Baauer’s song. With a running time typically no longer than 30 seconds, each video starts with an individual dancing alone while surrounding

By Gabriella Morrongiello persons nonchalantly continue with The Daily Barometer In May 2012, American DJ and whatever it is they are doing.

Producer, Baauer, released a song As soon as the bass drops, howtitled “Harlem Shake.” Nine months ever, the video cuts to the same setlater, the song — at least the first ting with all the previously unfazed 30 seconds of it — has created an bystanders participating in a wild almost overnight Internet video dance party. Each person sports craze. a different costume or getup and n

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Students gathered in front of the Memorial Union to fill a video of the Harlem Shake, organized by Vedanth Narayanan, sophomore.

repeatedly performs some dance move until the video is warped into slow motion and ends.

Type “Harlem Shake” on YouTube and nearly 80,000 results show up.

Of those 80,000 videos currently listed, 53,500 were uploaded in the last month alone.

“The videos themselves are quite literally viral,” said Tim Carmody, a senior writer and reporter for the pop-culture blog, The Verge.

While news stations, professional sports teams and even some SeaWorld staff — animals included — have uploaded their renditions of the Harlem Shake. The trend has become especially popular on college campuses.

Various Oregon State University students, employees of Java II and the OSU crew team have taken time to produce their own versions of the Internet fad.

Brooke Agather, a junior at OSU and barista at Java II, organized a Harlem Shake in the library’s coffee shop she hoped would serve as a bonding activity for the shop’s employees.

“Recently, everyone that’s worked together has really gotten along and wanted to hangout outside of work,” Agather said. “We were trying to think of a good way to kind of get everyone closer in bond, and what better way than to make a viral

YouTube video.”

The “Harlem Shake (College Edition)” was the first of four Harlem Shake videos generated by the OSU community to hit YouTube. The video features not only OSU students but staff members as well, and has reached almost 300,000 YouTube views already.

Stories regarding the Harlem Shake have been featured in the national news lately, including sources like the Washington Examiner, Los Angeles Times and ABC News. But, what have recently made headlines are the not-so-positive reactions.

In particular, some residents of one of New York City’s oldest neighborhoods, which the song is named after, are not too happy.

In a video published by the Huffington Post, filmmaker Chris McGuire took to the streets of Harlem where he asked locals what they thought of the viral video trend.

In McGuire’s video, one young man assured him that no one living in Harlem would actually do what was being portrayed in the Harlem Shake videos.

Another man interviewed by McGuire said the videos incorrectly depict the true Harlem Shake dance.

Brenn Vick, a sophomore at OSU, thinks the imitative nature of the See HARLEM SHAKE | page 2

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Henry Schaefer, one of the world’s most cited chemists, to present Christian, scientific origin theories

By Ryan Dawes

The Daily Barometer

Tonight at 7 p.m. in the LaSells Stewart Center, the Socratic Club will feature a lecture by distinguished chemist Dr. Henry F. Schaefer on the work of physicist Stephen Socratic Club Hawking, theo- What: Lecture by ries of the origin Henry Schaefer of the universe When: Tonight and God. at 7 p.m.

“Very rarely Where: LaSells do we host sin- Stewart Center gle speakers,” said Dr. Gary Ferngren, OSU history professor and adviser to the Socratic Club, which typically organizes debates with speakers representing both sides of an issue. “In fact, we have only done something like this three other times.

Dr. Schaefer seemed like a good excepSee SOCRATIC | page 2

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Activists claim to be attacked by Japanese ships HONG KONG (CNN) — Japan and Australia are exchanging harsh words and threats of legal action in a dispute over a whaling incident near Antarctica.

Environment Minister Tony Burke is threatening to take Japan to international court, claiming a Japanese whaling fleet attacked Australian ships on Wednesday. But in the Japanese version of what happened, it’s the Australians who deserve court sanctions.

“Japan needs to stop this once and for all,” Burke told Australia’s Seven Network on Thursday.

“What we are watching and what we’ve been seeing Japan do in that Southern Ocean year on year now is just disgusting. No other way of describing it. Now, as a government we don’t settle it in the car park, we settle in the court,” he said.

“There’s been the most outrageous attack on the Sea Shepherd Australia ships,” said Bob Brown, a member of the board of directors of Sea Shepherd Australia, describing it as the “worst incident” the anti-whaling group had experienced since one of its vessels sank two years ago.

In an interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), Brown said that a large Japanese factory ship, the Nisshin Maru, had repeatedly rammed Sea Shepherd ships in the Southern Ocean near Antarctica where it was trying to refuel and that a Japanese government escort vessel had directed water cannon and lobbed concussion grenades at the activists.

He claimed the Japanese ships had intruded into Australian territorial waters and breached international and Australian law.

“I’m very concerned and alarmed that Japan has decided to become pirates in our territorial waters,” he said. “It’s time the Australian government acted.”

Burke told Seven Network it’s not that simple.

“In terms of sending in the Navy, you’ve got to make sure you don’t have a response here that blows up a whole lot of other things.

The reason -- even though they’re our territorial waters -- we don’t assert that. And that’s part of the whole Antarctic Treaty System, which prevents mining in Antarctica. You don’t want to blow up that system,” he explained.

BUDGET n Continued from page 1 • Graduate assistant’s and student workers who currently work at the Native American Longhouse are overworked and the position will help to eleviate this load.

• A staff member will be able to create an institutional memory that will provide future student workers knoqlwsfw to carry on some of the traditions of the center.

• Also, by being professionals they will be able to bring skills to the table that are not brought by graduate assistant or student workers. They will also be able to help teach these skills to those who work there.

After several students had testified to the House and Senate, Senator Madison Parker, also a member of SIFC, wished to provide clarification to the discussion.

“By no means was the conversation that we do not support these positions,” Parker said.

“We need to have a position description and HR needs to be part of that. It was part of the [SIFC] process that no [job] post would be passed without descriptions.”

Alvarez also clarified that the reason was in the process not the ideas that were presented to SIFC. Also Alvarez had a concern over the speed at which the positions will be filled. Last year a classified position was created and that position still remains unfilled.

According to Alvarez there

HARLEM SHAKE n Continued from page 1

was that apparently there’s this Harlem Shake, the move itself, that no one did [in the video],” Narayanan said.

Originally called the “Albee,” the Harlem Harlem Shake makes the videos very bland.

“I hate when people have to follow the Shake dance emerged in Harlem in 1981 latest trend instead of using their own and became mainstream in 2001 following the release of then-popular American creativity,” Vick said.

Vedanth Narayanan, a sophomore at rap artist G.Dep’s music video titled “Let’s OSU and main organizer of the Harlem Get It.” Shake video filmed in front of the Memorial The original Harlem Shake is an eccenUnion, agreed that any negative feedback tric upper body dance move involving mostly concerned a lack of the actual the shaking of the torso and shoulders. dance move.

It bears strong resemblance to Eskesta, “I think the only problem people had a dance exercised in the Amhara region

SIFC n Continued from page 1 to compensate for the loss of revenue from the OSU Beaver Store relocation. The fee will rise $7.40 for next year in fall, winter and spring, and by $10.20 in the summer. The MU also needed additional funds, especially with plans to replace Snell hall with a Student Experience Center in 2014. The money will pour into fixtures, furnishings and equipment for the new building.

For other budgets, the process resulted in cutbacks. The Student Sustainability Initiative fee dropped from $11.07 to $4.14. The committee eliminated the green fee, which goes toward campus sustainabili-

ty, and suggested the Student Sustainability Initiative spend its excess of working capital on its projects.

The Music Ensembles budget decreased from $4.71 to $2.20.

With the cut, Greg Urban, chairman of the student musician advisory board, and the music department will likely ask for a contingency request for more money in the spring.

Alvarez said the cut came because the proposal was subpar and the record keeping for the department was lacking.

“It didn’t seem like they took the process very seriously,” Alvarez said. “We asked them a lot of questions.”

Educational Activities also decreased its budget, using its own working capital to fund its

should be no reason why Diversity Development cannot request these funds from the contingency fund and if the information is presented appropriatlly the funds should be granted.

After an hour’s worth of testimony, Representative Michael Robb called for a vote, saying that there has been enough information on either side of the issue that members should be able to make a decision. The House voted the budget down, while the Senate voted in favor of the Diversity Development budget.

Because of the split, the budget will move to a mediation committee staffed by House, Senate and SIFC members. This does not mean the budget has died or will be changed, but more conversation will be taken into account and a consensus reached as to how the budget should look.

The Music Ensemble budget was also placed into mediation after passing in the Senate but not the House. Their budget was cut in half mainly due to the lack of information provided to SIFC. Alvarez stressed the importance of holding the same standards for every organization requesting funds. Options are still available in the contingency fund and their working capital to make up the difference of the SIFC drop.

“If they do what every other budget did…submit an actual budget with thought behind it,” Alvarez said. “They will get their money.”

Ricky Zipp, news reporter news@dailybarometer.com

of Ethiopia.

Regardless of the trend’s diverse responses, the Harlem Shake videos have undeniably become an Internet sensation and grassroots craze adaptable for the enjoyment and participation of all ages.

It is safe to say thousands more versions will hit the Internet in the coming weeks with numerous universities, sports teams, organizations or groups uploading their rendition that they can revisit and savor years from now.

Gabriella Morrongiello, news reporter news@dailybarometer.com

projects for next year.

Three fees haven’t yet been covered by The Daily Barometer.

First, the contingency fund provides money to the committee for emergency dispersal to groups urgently in need of it. As an example, Recreational Sports had contingency requests this year for more equipment and for a travel fund for the women’s rugby team.

Second, the bad debt expense provides money to compensate for students who haven’t paid their fees.

Third, the student facilities improvements will fund improvements to the Student Experience Center, Memorial Union East and McAlexander Fieldhouse.

After hearing from groups

across campus for several weeks, confirming the budgets in a final hearing and clearing the fees through the joint session, the Student and Incidental Fees Committee will now move on to other tasks. The group will review contingency requests, elect the next SIFC chair and review the summer fee level before drawing to a close.

Alvarez, in his second year on the committee, said he’s seen the group change while he has been on board.

“I think it helps I did this last year,” Alvarez said. “I am able to see what went wrong and what went well. I think it has improved.”

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

Calendar Thursday, Feb. 21 Meetings Baha’i Campus Association, 12:301pm, MU Talisman Room. The Great Spiritual Teachers - Devotions and discussion on the contributions of great spiritual teachers.

College Republicans, 7pm, StAg 107.

General meeting.

Speakers Socratic Club, 7pm, LaSells Stewart Center. Distinguished chemist Henry F. Schaefer on the topic, “Stephen Hawking, The Big Bang, and God.” Schaefer will discuss leading theories about the beginning of time and space and the story of life’s existence.

Events Lonnie B. Harris Black Cultural Center, 5-7pm, Locaiton TBA. I Am History.

SOL: LGBT Multicultural Support Network, 5-7pm, Native American Longhouse. Queer People of Color meeting. An informal social gathering of queer people of color with free food and discussion.

Reproductive Justice of OSU, 5-7pm, Women’s Center. Showing “The Pill,” a film about the development and legalization of hormonal birth control.

Discussion to follow.

Black Graduate Student Association, Noon, Linus Pauling Science Center 402. Sharing lessons learned from Research Centers in Minority Institutions conference.

Friday, Feb. 22 Events Lonnie B. Harris Black Cultural Center, Noon-2pm, MU East/Snell International Forum. Black Affairs Conference.

OSU Music Department, Noon, MU Lounge. Music å la Carte: David Rogers Lute Duo.

Monday, Feb. 25 Events Campus Recycling, all day, all OSU Residence Halls. Residence Halls EcoChallenge Month. Choose 3 environmental pledges. Through March 1.

Women’s Center, 6-8pm, MU Journey Room. Female undecided majors are encouraged to come to a panel of speakers of women excelling in their STEM fields. Food provided.

Tuesday, Feb. 26 Meetings ASOSU Senate, 7pm, MU 211

Events Lonnie B. Harris Black Cultural Center, 7-9pm, MU Ballroom. Black History Month Dinner. Free, but ticket required.

Graduate School, 1:30-3pm, MU Journey Room. Deciding Whether to Go, Where to Go, and How to Get the Most Out of It Once You’re There.

Presentation by Dr. Richard Boone of the National Science Foundation for undergraduates who are considering graduate school, as well as current graduate students who want to maximize their experience.

Women’s Center, 5-7pm, Women’s Center. Open-space dialogue for women. This will be a confidence builder event! Refreshments provided.

Wednesday, Feb. 27 Meetings ASOSU House of Representatives, 7pm, MU 211.

Events Campus Recycling, 5-7pm, Recycling Warehouse (644 SW 13th St.). February Repair Fair. Bring your broken bikes, housewares, electronics & clothing; volunteers will help you repair them!

Thursday, Feb. 28 Meetings College Republicans, 7pm, StAg 107.

General meeting.

SOCRATIC n Continued from page 1 tion, however.”

This exception was made in part because of Schaefer’s prestigious reputation. He received a bachelor’s degree in chemical physics from MIT and a Ph.D. in chemical physics from Stanford University.

Currently, Schaefer is the Graham Perdue Professor of Chemistry and director of the Center for Computational Chemistry at the University of Georgia.

His research involves solving important problems in molecular quantum mechanics. With over 1,300 publications between 1981 and 1997, Schaefer was the sixth-most cited chemist in the world.

He has received many distinguished awards, including the Schroedinger Medal and the Ira Remsen Award of the American Chemical Society.

A scientist and a Christian, Schaefer has presented many lectures throughout the nation on the relationship between science and Christianity. He is the author of “Science

“Hear one side and you will be in the dark. and Christianity: Conflict or Coherence.”

“I’m interested to see what a scientist Hear both and all will be clear,” still seeks to rather than a humanist says about religion provide time for multi-sided thought and and science,” Ferngren said. discussion on the lecture. After the seminar, In his presentation, Schaefer will discuss the audience will have an opportunity to ask Schaefer questions. leading theories about the beginning of time, space “I’m excitied to hear and life’s existence. From I’m interested to the questions of the audihis perspective as both a see what a scientist ence,” Reuben said. “With scientist and a Christian, a single-speaker lecture, rather than a Schaefer will explore the this will still provide an Big Bang Theory, sughumanist says about opportunity to hopegesting that it shapes not religion and science. fully evoke more views only the understanding of on the topic than just the the origin of life, but the speaker’s.”

Gary Ferngren nature of God as well.

History professor and advisor For those who wish “I’m expecting an interof the socratic club to see the presentation esting perspective on both science and Christianity but cannot make it to the from Dr. Schaefer,” said Socratic Club presi- LaSells Center, a live stream of the event dent Matt Rueben. “I think he will take an can be accessed at live.oregonstate.edu, approach of harmonizing both science and and made available on YouTube later. As Christianity, which will be refreshing to see always, the event is free. the two come together.”

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Friday, Mar. 1 Events OSU Music Department, Noon, MU Lounge. Music å la Carte: OSU Percussion Ensemble.

Women’s Center, 4-6pm, MU Lounge.

Inaugural Women’s History Month Reception. Featuring keynote speaker Sara Gelser and performances by women on campus. Refreshments provided.

Tuesday, Mar. 5 Meetings ASOSU Senate, 7pm, MU 211

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

Events Campus Recycling, 9am-4pm, Recycling Warehouse (644 SW 13th St.).

Film, Plastic & E-Waste Collection Week. Bring broken or unused electronics and clean film plastic for free recycling.

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ry finding a parking spot in any of the neighborhoods close to campus on a weekday, and you might have an easier time finding a solution to help the men’s basketball team get a Pac-12 win.

Parking has continued to be a problem as the university grows in size, and it is one of the main issues the city of Corvallis and the Collaboration Corvallis group has been working on.

The workgroup assigned to parking recently proposed several ideas in order alleviate parking in the nearcampus neighborhoods, and we think some of them are decent ideas.

The main one is to expand parking districts in the neighborhoods north and east of campus, requiring residents to get permits in order to park near their house.

During a forum a few weeks ago, several residents spoke out in favor of parking districts, saying they had made parking better in their neighborhoods. But they said the piecemeal application of the districts had sent the problem elsewhere. When Eugene instituted parking districts in all neighborhoods a quarter mile away from campus, officials found people parked just past the parking district, sending the parking problem further out.

By making more parking districts, parking would be less of a problem, with people being encouraged to not park their cars for long in those neighborhoods.

But just making the districts won’t necessarily solve the problem — many park in the near-campus neighborhoods because they’re unwilling to spend the money on an on-campus parking pass. Passes for faculty and staff cost $178 annually, and $130 for students. Having a pass doesn’t guarantee staff or students a place to park near the building they want.

However, a new initiative plans to vary the pricing at different lots based on usage and desirability. Permits for lots closer to the center of campus would cost more, while lots on the periphery used less frequently would cost less.

Officials at the meeting said lots like the one near Reser would cost $20 for parking passes. These steps, combined with improved campus shuttle services, should encourage use of the all the university’s available parking, rather than sending it out into the near-campus neighborhoods.

We think this is a good idea. Many commuters and students would most likely jump at the chance to save on parking costs and wouldn’t mind paying $20 annually to park on campus, rather than having to spend $130 with no guarantee of a spot near where you want.

These solutions aren’t perfect, but they are an important first step in addressing a problem that has gone on for far too long. Parking is a problem, and this could be the first salvo against it.

Warner Strausbaugh Managing Editor Jack Lammers News Editor Jackie Seus Photo Editor

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Letter to the Editor Response to Harry Mallory’s Feb. 20 letters

The point of this exchange We’ve come a long way from the Feb. 13 column advocating awareness of rape culture, penned by 12 women’s studies students, through Steven McLain’s Feb. 14 and Harry Mallory’s Feb. 18 responses, my Feb. 19 letter and Mallory’s Feb. 20 response to me. It is likely that some have lost sight of the entire point of this exchange.

Rape culture is an empirically affirmed aspect of our social reality that emboldens sexual violence by decontextualizing and normalizing rape, blaming victims, narrowly delimiting rape and stigmatizing women’s sexuality. Rape culture contributes to the underreporting of sexual assaults by 54 percent, according to the U.S. Justice Department. Rape culture contributes to the prevalence of the false perception that 3 to 8 percent of women lie about rape, numbers derived from FBI statistics from the 1990s when reports were considered false if the rape was not “forcible,” a criterion that was changed in 2012 with the support of the law enforcement community. Expressions like “that test just raped me” are small but significant threads in the fabric of rape culture. The words that come out of our mouths are consequential. They not only reflect

our attitudes in the present, they also help shape our future beliefs.

However, this exchange has generated another important point regarding the caliber of civic discourse in The Daily Barometer and, more broadly, the OSU and national communities.

Mallory calls me an angry liberal, a totalitarian brute, an “extremist,” a “purveyor of the approved political dogma” and asserts that I fallaciously argue from authority. I could point out that my letter consisted of reasoned, evidence-based arguments while Mallory’s was filled with emotional invective and based purely on his own opinion. I could suggest that the reader consult a dictionary and decide whether Mallory knows what a “totalitarian” or a “brute” is. I could explain that the need to educate people about rape culture evidences that my position is not “the approved political dogma” but rather one that is only recently emerging into public consciousness. I could clarify that argument from authority is only a fallacy when the appeal is to an improper authority or when there is no semblance of consensus among authorities and that my arguments are valid on both accounts. But given his decision to impinge my character and motives rather than engage my ideas, I don’t think that Mallory cares.

Instead of responding to Mallory, I question why The Daily Barometer, the newspaper of a university community, would print a letter that is 57 percent ad hominem attack, 30 percent attack on the entire academic enterprise, and 13 percent reassertion of a letter printed two days prior — these percentages are based on column inch.

What Mallory and the Barometer editorial staff seem unaware of is that not every word uttered needs to be legitimated in a respectable vehicle for public information and discussion. The Barometer could print tabloid stories but chooses not to, and the Barometer can also choose not to print defamatory, uninformed diatribes that are based in neither reason nor evidence. Doing so is not censorship but rather stewardship. The failure to do so does not serve free speech but rather abdicates responsibility.

I’m going to recuse myself from this conversation now and give the university community, including the Barometer staff, the opportunity to decide what kind of discourse it wants to sanction.

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espite the trek to the edge of campus to get my fix, I appreciate the cleaner air on campus. Not walking through the stink of brands I don’t smoke makes the journey from building to building more pleasant. However, street corners around campus are now a dumping ground for the dead butts of spent cigarettes.

Walking around campus might be nicer, but walking onto it definitely isn’t.

The smoking ban on campus prohibits smoking in cars on campus as well as in “any indoor or outdoor space on the Corvallis Campus, including but not limited to parking lots, grounds, rooftops, athletic facilities, entrances and exit ways,” according to OAR 576 Division 40.

We are, however, allowed to smoke on the sidewalks bordering the exterior of the campus, for instance, on the corner of Monroe Avenue and 26th Street — where one of the few remain-

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ing cigarette butt receptacles is located.

When the ban came into effect on Sept. 1, 2012, most of the outdoor ashtrays on campus mysteriously vanished to some unknown outdoor ashtray heaven. Logically, the many now-superfluous on-campus ashtrays should have been moved to the exterior of the campus, accompanying the banished smokers. But why bring logic into it?

Instead, there are few, if any, receptacles to collect the slowly-growing mountains of filters piled on and around the trash cans along the exterior of campus.

There are a few responsible smokers who attempt to combat the litter by ripping the filters off their cigarettes and throwing them away, though they still dump the remaining tobacco and paper on the ground — understandably, as throwing the whole spent cigarette

away is a recipe for a trash can fire. dent who littered was fined $6,000, we One solution for this increasingly would all be paying fines rather than tuition. disgusting problem Rather than finwould be to extend ing students who are the ban to the other Littering is a already blowing their side of the street, symptom of a disposable income making the litter on cancer sticks or even more of the lack of useable expanding the ban city’s problem than cigarette butt disposal and making it someit is now, and disassoone else’s problem, units, not an act ciating the situation why don’t we just from the university of vandalism or solve it ourselves? causing it. a conscious attmept This is a university Another solution — isn’t higher learnto deface the would be to aggresing supposed to fix sively crack down on OSU campus. problems, not create littering on campus, them? with officers lurking In the article at the exterior inter“OSU addresses litter, safety consections to ticket students rushing to cerns caused by smoking ban” in the class or enjoying a stress-free nicotine Corvallis Gazette-Times, dated Oct. 5, break between classes. The INTO OSU 2012, Corvallis and university officials website informs students that littering acknowledged the littering problem in Oregon can mean a fine over $6,000, See Drage | page 7 or even a year in prison. If every stu-

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However, none of these concerns were evident to me, until I heard Prabhu Pingali discuss the necessity of a “Green Revolution 2.0” — the second green revolution.

The first green revolution, while it allowed for much greater yields and for farmers to control pests and weeds like never before, has not met the hunger and nourishment needs of the evolving world. Agriculture will have to adapt and transform — as it has in the past — if it is to meet these new needs of the world. And it begins in the second green revolution.

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The last time the Stanford men’s basketball team came to Gill Coliseum was an unusual one.

Roberto Nelson made back-to-back 3-pointers with only one shoe on in the first half, and it took four overtime periods to decide a winner.

Although that game may be among the most memorable ones for the fans, head coach Craig Robinson said it’s hardly a blip on Oregon State’s radar.

“I think everybody is focused on what we are doing now and trying to beat them from the game that we should have beaten them the last time,” Robinson said. “I think last year’s quadrupleovertime game is not that much in our sights.”

Senior forward Joe Burton had a double-double with 17 points and 10 rebounds the last time these teams met.

“I’m hoping we get them in the regulation, I hate to go overtime and then lose,” Burton said. “We barely lost to them at their place so it should be a good game.”

When the Beavers (13-13, 3-10 Pac-12) faced Stanford (15-11, 6-7) earlier this season, the Cardinal hit a season-high 14 3-pointers and held off a strong OSU comeback for an 81-73 victory.

“I thought we played real well except for a couple of minutes at the end there, which has been our swan song all season long,” Robinson said.

Although it is unlikely that the Cardinal will shoot the three-ball as well as they did last time — Stanford finished with 56 percent from 3-point range — junior guard Ahmad Starks said it’s the Beavers’ plan to force Stanford to score more inside on Thursday.

“They were just pretty hot that day,” Starks said. “Actually I thought we played a better game, so if we just play similar to that we should be alright.”

Starks knows a thing or two about 3-pointers himself as he has made 60 this season, and set the Oregon State record for all-time 3-pointers made in a career on Saturday against UW. “It’s a good thing, I’m happy about it,” Starks said. “I wasn’t thinking too much about it but the one thing I am

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he No. 6 Oregon State baseball team continues its stretch of eight games in 10 days today, opening a four-game series against San Diego State.

The Beavers opened their season with four wins at the Palm Springs Tournament, knocking off Utah Valley, Gonzaga and UC Riverside twice.

Here are the three biggest things to keep an eye on for the Beavers as they begin the four-game set against the Aztecs in San Diego:

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The one area of concern that arises anytime a team has so many games in such little time is how the pitching staff holds up. The pitchers, especially the bullpen, were nothing short of exceptional last weekend. The bullpen combination of Tyler Painton, Max Engelbrekt, Zack Reser, Tony Bryant, Brandon Jackson and Scott Schultz threw 17 2/3 innings without allowing an earned run in the first four games.

Freshman pitcher Engelbrekt, in particular, has been a pleasant surprise early on. In two appearances, the freshman has thrown 5 1/3 scoreless innings, allowed only one hit while striking out four. Engelbrekt also picked up a save and a win in those two outings. Senior left-hander Matt Boyd, one of the team’s most depended on relievers in the last two years, has made a permanent move to the starting rotation. Boyd’s transition left a hole in the bullpen, but Engelbrekt — also a lefty — seems like he has the potential to fill it.

The same three pitchers who started the first three games last weekend will take the hill in the same order. Junior Dan Child will start today, Boyd starts Friday and freshman Andrew Moore will go on Saturday. After sophomore Dylan Davis struggled on Monday — only lasting an inning — the Sunday starter has See STRAUSBAUGH | page 5

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Prior to the start of the regular season, Oregon State softball head coach Laura Berg said her team needed to win as many games as possible during nonconference play.

A “no-duh” assertion, right? Not necessarily, considering seven Pac-12 teams are ranked and wins are hard to come by for anyone in conference play.

“We beat each other up so much in the Pac-12, not just the lower half but the upper half, too,” Berg said. “You’ve got to get these wins, so when the committee is putting the postseason together they see we have a winning record.

“These guys know we’ve got to get to 30 [wins] as fast as possible. Thirty to 35 is the magic number.”

Through two weeks and 11 nonconference games, the Beavers have eight wins. “[I’m] happy with eight, but [it] should be more,” Berg said. “We should have 10. Overall, we’ve just got to keep getting those wins. We’ve got to expect to get these next five games under our belt.”

The Beavers play five games in three days in Palm Springs, Calif., beginning today with Colorado State at 6 p.m. and Maryland at 8:30 p.m.

Last week, OSU went 5-0 in Las Vegas, all against unranked opponents. The week prior, the Beavers opened their season in Tempe, Ariz. by going 3-3 with losses to No. 2 Oklahoma, Creighton and No. 21 Kentucky.

“We’ve made some mental errors that we’ve got to eliminate in order to get us to our final destination,” Berg said. “Our hitting is on fire, we have some people who are hitting out of their minds right now, so don’t want to wake them up.

And Marina [Demore], she’s throwing really well. And Sarah [Shadinger], she’s Marina Demore throwing really well.”

Demore has accounted for 38 of the staff’s 70 innings pitched and has a 2.39 earned run average and a 5-1 record. She’s also walked just seven batters after struggling with her command at times last year. Shadinger, a freshman, has only made two appearances, but has struck out nine in 11 1/3 innings in the circle.

At the plate, the blazing hot bats of Natalie Hampton and Lea Cavestany have led OSU.

Hampton, a freshman first baseman, leads the Beavers in batting average (.444), home runs (4) and RBIs (15).

“I mean, I guess,” Hampton said when asked if she’s been surprised by her early-season success. “But my coaches have prepared me for everything I’ve seen so far.”

Cavestany, a senior outfielder, is hitting .429 and Natalie Hampton already has hit a walk-off home run and a seventh-inning, go-ahead home run.

“I think it goes back to the summer,” Cavestany said. “I worked really hard, conditioning-wise, getting those extra practices in. I’m seeing the ball and hitting the ball.”

Of the five teams OSU faces this weekend, only one received votes in this week’s USA Today/ NFCA Coaches Poll: Georgia Tech, which OSU faces Saturday. The Beavers received a handful of votes this week after not receiving any last week.

“We’re feeling really good,” Cavestany said.

“We’re just ready to go out to Palm Springs and continue our fight.”

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A: Getting an “A” on my midterm in physics 211 Q: How was it playing a tournament in Las Vegas my sophomore year.

Q: Hasn’t happened since? this past weekend?

A: Not as close, yet. So that’s why it compares.

A: It was definitely hard Q: Why don’t you have a Twitter account? seeing all the people having Lea Cavestany A: To be honest I don’t think anybody really cares fun, and then us having to what I have to say on Twitter. The only people who go to sleep early.

Q: Were you bummed to be traveling on I think [would] follow me intensively would be Malcolm Agnew, because that’s my best friend.

Valentine’s Day? Q: Why does Agnew always tweet about you A: I didn’t even realize it was Valentine’s Day. Q: What can you say about your hometown, when you have a good game?

A: He’s my best friend. We met last year at the Pittsburg, Calif.?

A: A nice, little town. It’s definitely a lot louder beginning of the year. Ever since then we’ve just hit [than Corvallis] in the sense that people are in it off. He’s like my little brother basically.

Q: Little brother? more of a rush. People aren’t afraid to get in your A: Oh yeah. Definitely little brother. face. People don’t like to look you in the eyes necesQ: What’s something no one would know sarily, compared to Corvallis.

Q: Are you a fan of any professional sports about you?

A: I laugh at everything. teams?

Q: You’re stuck on an island with two teamA: Oakland Raiders, San Francisco Giants. mates — who and why?

Q: What’s wrong with the Raiders?

A: Tina Andreana because she’s my roommate A: We’re struggling, I’m going to be ‘ride or die’ for my team though. One of these days we’re going and I think we get along pretty well so we won’t to get that championship. Couple of wins first, kill each other. And Hannah Bouska because we laugh at the same things. then that championship.

Q:You were born in the Philippines, when did Q: What sport would you play if you didn’t you move to the U.S.? play softball?

A: When I was 3. I don’t really remember much.

A: Volleyball. I love being able to dive. I think Q: Manny Pacquiao fan? diving is just my favorite part of any sport. I’d A: I mean, not really. I’ll rep the Filipino, but definitely play libero because I love diving for the ball and I’m pretty short. But I’ve got pretty good no, not really. hops so I think I could probably play one of the Grady Garrett, sports reporter outside hitters.

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Q: If the whole team played a game of HORSE, who would win?

A: I’d say probably Joe [Burton], Eric [Moreland], Victor Robbins or Roberto [Nelson] top three, but that’s if I’m not playing, you know. I’d give it to Joe because not too many people can do the hook shot like Joe. Q: If you and head coach Craig Robinson played a game of one-on-one, who would win?

A: I would win. Maybe back in the day he could get me, but I’m in my prime right now so Coach Rob’s got to work out before he plays me one-on-one.

Q: What do you like most about college so far?

A: Being away from home and not worrying about my mom telling me what to do, and also the whole college atmosphere. Coming to the games and it’s all these people there to see you, student section going crazy. In high school it was nothing like that.

Q: What’s the biggest difference between Corvallis and back home in Compton, Calif.?

A: Everybody here is so nice, you don’t catch that back home too often. Everybody wanting to see how you’re doing, wanting to help you. Back home you don’t see people walking up to you and just asking how your day is going.

Q: What do you miss most about home?

A: My family, and just not seeing them all the time. They are my number one supporters, and being so far away from home they only

get to see games on TV, and I’m used to them being at the games yelling and screaming and cheering me on.

Q: What’s your favorite movie?

A: “The Sandlot,” “Lion King” and “Toy Story.”

That’s my top three.

Q: If you had to take a girl on a date anywhere in Corvallis, where would you take her?

A: Probably to the movies because I don’t really know the good spots to go. I know as I go along I’ll find the good spots, but right now just the movies.

Q: If you were a sandwich, what kind of sandwich would you be?

A: I’d be peanut butter and jelly. It’s the best sandwich ever. Peanut butter and jelly is the protein sandwich, if you want to get strong, you need something healthy to eat. It’s not the healthiest sandwich, but it’ll get your stomach full, get the job done. And I get the job done.

Q: If you weren’t at Oregon State, what would you be doing?

A: If I didn’t go to college period, I’d probably be a barber. I’d go to school to cut hair and get my barber’s license because I have like 30-some barbers in my family.

Q: You cut guy’s hair on the team?

A: I cut Olaf [Schaftenaar’s] hair a couple times. I don’t really have my clippers so I can’t cut everybody but I cut Olaf ’s hair — the first time I ever cut a white person’s hair. He looked good though, I did good.

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yet to be determined.

Junior left-hander Ben Wetzler has been out with a pulled back muscle, and hasn’t thrown an inning yet in 2013. Wetzler had an 8-2 record and a 3.10 earned run average last year. His absence from the rotation makes it vital for Boyd and Moore to show what they have. This weekend could be especially important for Moore, who right now is on the outside looking in on the typical three-man rotation the Beavers will put out once Pac-12 play begins.

happy about is that I was able to do it in three years ... where everyone else did it in four.”

Last Saturday may have been a meaningful day for Starks, but these last two games will have extra-special meaning for Burton, the team’s lone senior still playing (Angus Brandt will return next year after a season-ending torn anterior cruciate ligament). Burton is the first recruit of Robinson’s to have gone through four years in a Beaver uniform, and will be playing his final two home games this weekend. “[Burton] has represented us on the court fantastically, but off the court he has been just a tremendous ambassador for himself, his family, for our program,” Robinson said. “He does so much in the community with young kids, with regular students on campus and with just people in the community who aren’t kids.” “[This weekend’s games] mean a lot,” Burton added. “Last two games in the Pac-12, so it’s been a long four years and a good road, had some bumps along the road, but the wheels are still on, still turning and I’m close to the finish line.”

Burton was in rare form during Tuesday’s press conference — smiling and cracking joke after joke with reporters. He’s also been in rare form on the court. Burton is arguably playing the best basketball of his career and has had a double-double in three of his last five games.

Robinson said despite the Beavers’ dismal conference record they don’t view themselves as underdogs and want to be the team that no one wants to play.

Joe Burton — not one to shy away from any food — seemed mighty hungry to close out his career with some wins.

“We barely lost to them last year and we barely lost to them this year so we got to get them back somehow,” Burton said.

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San Diego State The last time the Aztecs made the NCAA Tournament — or even finished above .500 — was in 2009. It’s not a coincidence that was also the last year Stephen Strasburg, now one of the best pitchers in the MLB, was playing for San Diego State.

The Aztecs remain unranked, but could be on the verge of some notoriety with a good showing in this series. San Diego State did impress in its opening series, though — sweeping then-No. 25 University of San Diego on the road.

The starting rotation for SDSU only allowed four earned runs in 14 1/3 innings last weekend. They do have command issues, with two of those three starters issuing five walks apiece.

Oregon State played a game against San Diego State nearly a year ago, on Feb. 24, 2012, and came away on the wrong side of an 18-2 shellacking — ouch.

Where will the power come from?

The Beavers put up 33 runs in four games down in Palm Springs, but there was no power to be seen. Out of the team’s 40 hits over the weekend, only seven went for extra bases — six doubles, one triple, zero home runs.

It was only four games, but once the Beavers start playing some better opponents — no offense to Utah Valley and company — they will need to start hitting the long ball.

The only regular starter OSU lost from its lineup a year ago, Ryan Dunn, had the second-most home runs on the team. The pressure to make up for those numbers falls on the shoulders of guys like Danny Hayes, Jake Rodriguez and potentially Davis.

Singles hitters will only get you so far, particularly when Oregon State has CollegeWorld Series aspirations.

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But he also said investigators have found no evidence that is inconsistent with Pistorius’ story.

Bail hearing Prosecutors spent much of the hearing Wednesday focused on the bathroom of Pistorius’ Pretoria home, where authorities say the track star shot Steenkamp three times, in the hip, elbow and ear.

Bullet trajectories show that Pistorius had to turn left and fire at an angle to aim at the toilet, Botha testified. Had he fired head-on into the door, he would have missed her, Botha said.

Defense attorney Barry Roux disputed that, saying the evidence does not show there was an effort to aim at the toilet.

Prosecutors are trying to prove Pistorius intentionally fired on Steenkamp, 29, in a premeditated attempt to kill her. Pistorius and his lawyers argue he mistook her for an intruder and killed her accidentally.

Pistorius said in a statement read Tuesday by his lawyer that he believes Steenkamp slipped into the bathroom when he got up to close the balcony door in his bedroom in the early hours of Feb.14.

Hearing noises and gripped with fear that someone had broken into his home, Pistorius said he grabbed his gun, yelled for the intruder

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to leave and shot through the toilet-room door not rule out the possibility that the track star before realizing the person inside might have planned Steenkamp’s death. But Nair said he would consider downgrading the charge later. been Steenkamp.

In a statement read by his lawyer Tuesday, Roux said Wednesday that the defense team believes Steenkamp locked the door when she Pistorius said he would not try to flee or influheard Pistorius yelling for the intruder to leave. ence any witnesses if he is allowed out on bail, He also said Steenkamp’s bladder was empty, and he said his release wouldn’t be a danger to suggesting she had gone to the bathroom as public order.

Case rivets fans and friends alike Pistorius claimed.

The case of the global sports hero known as Botha also said police believe a blood-stained cricket bat found in the bathroom was used to the “Blade Runner” has riveted stunned fans around the world. break down the locked door to the toilet.

Social media reaction to the case appeared Pistorius said in his statement that he used the bat to break down the door in an effort to to come down against the sports star but was still noticeably mixed on CNN’s Facebook page. get to Steenkamp to help her.

“There’s no amount of tears that will Botha agreed with the defense contention that, other than the bullet wounds, her body save you,” said Anthonia Nneka Nwabueze. showed no sign of an assault or efforts to defend “Pistorius must face the law for brutally killing an innocent girl — Reeva.” herself.

“My favorite athlete but But prosecutors and what he did is grave and must Pistorius’ defense battled over be punished,” Carlos Alvarez allegations that testosterone I would just like to Ochoa said. and needles were found at the say, I have dated But another person who home, as well as the quality of Oscar on off for 5 posted called for patience. the police investigation. “(N)one of us were in the Investigative errors?

YEARS, NOT ONCE house when his girlfriend Amid speculation by outsidhas he EVER lifted a was murdered, let’s hold off ers to the case that steroids on casting stones at Oscar or other drugs could have finger to me, made said Adrian van somehow played a role in the me fear for my life. Pistorius,” Liere Since. “Just like anyone shooting, Botha testified that else, he deserves a just trial, investigators found two boxes Jenna Edkins and in my eyes remains innoof testosterone and needles at former girlfriend said on Twitter cent until proven guilty.”

Pistorius’ home.

Coming to his defense were Under questioning by Roux, however, Botha said he hadn’t read the full two acquaintances.

“I’ve never seen him show an angry side. name of the substance — which Roux said was an herbal remedy called testoconpasupium I’ve never seen him lose his temper,” Vanessa coenzyme — when investigators took the mate- Haywood, a model and longtime friend, told rials into evidence. A quick Internet search on CNN. “He’s an incredibly kind and gentle the name of the substance yielded no results. human being.”

Another endorsement came from a former He also said the defense forensics team found a bullet in the toilet that police had girlfriend.

“I would just like to say, I have dated Oscar on missed and noted police had failed to find out who owned ammunition found at the home or off for 5 YEARS,” Jenna Edkins said on Twitter.

“NOT ONCE has he EVER lifted a finger to me, photograph it.

Investigators also went into Pistorius’ home made me fear for my life.”

In an interview for Wednesday’s “Anderson without wearing protective foot covers to prevent contamination of the crime scene, Roux Cooper 360,” Adam Steenkamp told Jake Tapper said. Botha conceded that was true and said “there was no indication that anything was bad. it was because police didn’t have any more of I mean, we know Reeva. We knew Reeva. She was happy. And if Reeva was happy, everything the covers left.

Roux questioned police arguments that a was OK... and everything was good, then everywitness heard sounds of an argument before thing was normal.”

Steenkamp said he never spoke to his halfthe shooting. The witness, Roux said, lives 600 meters (more than a third of a mile) from sister about Pistorius, and she didn’t discuss the Pistorius’ home. Prosecutor Gerrie Nel coun- relationship much — if at all — with anyone in the family. So, without any in-depth knowledge, tered that the witness lives 300 meters away. his family keeps vacillating about what the Would he run?

Botha told Magistrate Desmond Nair that evidence suggests happened, he said.

“At a time like this, when people are grievinvestigators believe Pistorius is violent and ing, I think it’s hard to keep a clear mind on might flee if released from jail.

He described two encounters with Pistorius, anything,” Steenkamp said. “And with the one in which Botha said the track star asked added pressure and the media coverage and someone else to take the blame when a gun the interest, you know, from the world looking into this story, it’s a rather unnatural situation. went off at a Johannesburg restaurant.

Police said the second incident took place at a So, I suppose I would agree with everyone is racetrack, where Pistorius allegedly threatened flipping from one side to the other. We just don’t know. You know, all that we want is we want to to assault someone.

Authorities have also said they have respond- know what the truth is, and I think that’s what ed to previous domestic incidents at Pistorius’ everyone else would like as well. You know, to be able to make something of this — to be able home, but have not elaborated.

In his statement Tuesday, Pistorius said he to deal with this and have something positive and Steenkamp were deeply in love and said come out of this.”

Steenkamp said the worst is over. he was “mortified” over her death.

“We are all holding up very well considering High hurdle Defense attorneys are trying to overcome the circumstances. We’ve now had just about a South African law, which makes it difficult for week to let things sink in. And we’ve had a very defendants accused of premeditated murder busy few days as well,” he said. “I feel like we to get out on bail. The law requires evidence of have done the most difficult thing for us as a “exceptional circumstances” to justify release. family, so far, in viewing my sister’s body, and Nair upgraded the charge against Pistorius to then attending her memorial yesterday. We’re premeditated murder Tuesday, saying he could doing OK.”

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PRETORIA, South Africa (CNN) — Sounds of arguing for an hour before the shooting. Blood stains on a cell phone and cricket bat. Boxes of testosterone and needles.

The shape of prosecutors’ case against Oscar Pistorius began to come into focus Wednesday as they argued the Olympian charged with killing his girlfriend, model Reeva Steenkamp, should be denied bail because he might disappear if released from jail.

But the Olympic sprinter’s defense team battled back, questioning the quality of the police investigation.

The bail hearing ended Wednesday with no decision. Final arguments are scheduled for Thursday morning.

And all Steenkamp’s family wants is the truth, her half-brother Adam told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Wednesday.

Pistorius is charged with premeditated murder in the death of Steenkamp in the early hours of Valentine’s Day. He has said he thought he was shooting at an intruder.

But police investigator Hilton Botha told the court Wednesday that Pistorius, 26, wasn’t acting in self-defense when he shot through the door of a toilet room in the bathroom of his home and killed Steenkamp.

Botha said he believes Pistorius knew Steenkamp was on the other side of the door.

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Jesse Jackson Jr., wife plead guilty to charges involving campaign funds WASHINGTON (CNN) — With moist eyes and soft voices, former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. and his wife pleaded guilty to federal charges on Wednesday related to years of using campaign funds for personal expenses that included purchases of Michael Jackson memorabilia and a Rolex watch.

“Guilty, your honor,” Jackson responded to U.S. District Judge Robert Wilkins while dabbing his eyes with a handkerchief after he looked back at family members in the courtroom, including his father, civil rights activist Jesse Jackson.

“I used monies that should have been used for campaign purposes,” Jackson, 47, acknowledged to the judge. When Wilkins asked if Jackson realized that the guilty plea meant giving up the right to a trial, he responded: “I have no interest in wasting the taxpayers’ time or money.”

Jackson admitted to diverting about $750,000 for personal purposes from 2005 to 2012.

Wilkins set sentencing for June 28, when Jackson could face up to five years in prison.

At a separate hearing later on Wednesday, former Chicago

Alderman Sandra Stevens Jackson, 49, also pleaded guilty in a quavering voice to one count of filing false tax returns in connection with the misuse of her husband’s campaign funds.

The charge involved a failure to declare more than $600,000 in income from 2005 to 2011. The total came from campaign funds.

She wept openly after returning to the defense table. Wilkins set her sentencing for July 1, when she could receive up to three years in prison.

Wednesday’s hearings completed the fall of the once politically powerful Chicago couple. Jesse Jackson Jr., a Democrat, won re-election to Congress last year despite personal problems, including a mood disorder, that caused him to drop out of sight for months during the campaign.

That coincided with the investigation of campaign fund irregularities dating back several years.

Jackson resigned a few weeks after the election, while his wife resigned her position as alderman in January.

Prosecutors said the former congressman betrayed the public trust.

“The guilty plea today is so tragic because it represents such wasted potential. Jesse Jackson Jr. had drive the ability and the talent to

be the voice of a new generation, but he squandered that talent. He exchanged that instead to satisfy his personal whims and extravagant lifestyle,” U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. said at a news conference.

As he left the courthouse following his wife’s hearing, Jackson said to reporters: “I’m sorry I let everybody down.”

At his morning hearing, the former legislator responded to standard legal questions about his soundness of mind by acknowledging his treatment by a psychiatrist.

The treatment was not for alcohol or drug abuse, Jackson said, adding that he had a beer on Tuesday night but “I have never been more clear in my life than I am now.”

“I fully understand the consequences of my actions,” he said.

His wife’s lawyer later told reporters that her decision to plead guilty was influenced in part by her husband’s “mental and health issues.”

The plea showed that Sandra Jackson admits “she’d made some mistakes in judgment regarding expenditures in campaign contributions,” said the lawyer, Dan Webb.

“She saw this as a chance to accept full responsibility for the conduct she

engaged in,” he added.

Jesse Jackson Jr. pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, mail fraud and false statements.

Wilkins noted that prosecutors and defense attorneys said sentencing guidelines indicated an appropriate term of 46 to 57 months in prison and a fine of between $10,000 and $100,000.

The maximum fine under the law for both Jackson and his wife would be $250,000.

However, Wilkins said he was not bound by sentencing guidelines, telling Jackson: “The bottom line is, I don’t know what sentence you’re going to get and you don’t know what sentence you’re going to get.”

Jackson’s lawyer, Reid Weingarten, told reporters after the hearing that he would mount a strong legal case for a fair sentence, noting his client is the father of two young children and has the health problems mentioned in court.

“It turns out that Jesse has serious health issues,” Weingarten said. “... We are going to talk about them extensively with the court and those health issues are directly related to his present predicament. That is not an

excuse. That is just a fact. And Jesse has turned a corner there as well.”

But Machen said Jackson’s illegal activity could not be dismissed as the result of recent mental illness.

“It’s hard for me to imagine how they’re going to reconcile this scheme as being the byproduct of any recent medical condition,” he said. “Mr. Jackson engaged in this scheme starting in 2005. It’s a seven-year scheme.”

Last week, prosecutors filed charges against the couple in separate criminal documents used when parties strike plea agreements.

The documents say the former congressman misused campaign funds.

According to court documents, Jackson’s campaign credit cards were used for $582,772 in personal expenditures. Jackson’s purchases included a gold-plated men’s Rolex watch costing more than $43,000 and almost $10,000 in children’s furniture.

As part of the plea agreement, Jackson is supposed to repay the $750,000 in improperly used funds.

Prosecutors said they would seize and sell many of the pieces of memorabilia and other items Jackson purchased and apply the proceeds to the debt.

Defense Department: Furloughs for civilian workers if sequester forced cuts go into effect WASHINGTON (CNN) — Nearly 800,000 civilian workers would be forced to take one day of leave per week without pay if automatic spending cuts go into effect as scheduled, the Defense Department told Congress on Wednesday.

The furloughs would start in the last week of April and last for 22 weeks, according to the Pentagon plan, and would hit the hardest in Virginia, California, Maryland, Texas and Georgia, where many defense facilities are located, according to figures provided by the Pentagon.

The plan responds to mandatory, government-wide budget cuts, known as sequestration, that are due to begin on March 1 absent congressional action on deficit-reduction to avert them.

Furloughs would eat up between $4 and $5 billion.

Pentagon cuts overall would

comprise half of the government-wide sequester of $85 billion for the fiscal year ending September 30.

“In the event of sequestration we will do everything we can to be able to continue to perform our core mission of providing for the security of the United States, but there is no mistaking that the rigid nature of the cuts forced upon this department, and their scale, will result in a serious erosion of readiness across the force,” Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said in a letter to Congress on Wednesday.

The Pentagon would also have to reduce numerous weapons and training programs across all services.

“We feel we don’t have any choice to impose furloughs even though we would much prefer not to do it,” Pentagon Comptroller Robert Hale told a media briefing.

Furloughed workers could include office staff, aircraft and ship maintenance workers, teachers and medical staff.

But Hale said Defense Department civilian foreign employees would be exempted from pay cuts. There are about 50,000 foreign worker employees overseas employed on U.S. military facilities.

“They’re governed by status-of-forces agreements and probably would require some negotiation,” Hale said.

Other employees exempted would include civilians working for the agency in combat zones and certain emergency and safety personnel. Presidential appointees would also be exempt from furloughs.

The military services and other defense agencies will have to maintain at least minimum staffing for the “safety of property and safety of life,” Defense Department spokes-

woman Lt. Col. Elizabeth Robbins said.

That means, for example, a military base would have to maintain a minimum force of security personnel.

Similarly, military hospitals must have enough medical staff to provide services to activeduty personnel, including the wounded.

Hale told reporters that the economic impact would be felt nationwide, not just in the Washington area, where many defense department jobs are located.

For federal workers, it will mean painful decisions, said Defense Department Peter Randazzo, who is also a union representative.

“I’ll pay those core bills. I’ll pay the mortgage and the utilities and then you live on what’s left,” he said.

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The Army and Navy are circulating estimates about which areas will be economically hit the hardest.

In documents sent to Congress and obtained by CNN, both the Army and Navy lay out the potential impact on the services and industry.

For the Army, the hardest hit states include Texas, Virginia and Pennsylvania, home to major Army facilities and industrial bases.

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The Navy anticipates it will need to slash about $12 billion in spending. The impact would affect more than 300,000 sailors with cuts to Navy operational programs and cost some 186,000 Navy civilians 20 percent of their paychecks though furloughs, saving about $500 million, according to Navy officials.

Judge blocks release of Ken Burns documentary footage NEW YORK (CNN) — A federal judge has blocked New York City from acquiring footage produced by documentary filmmaker Ken Burns about a 1989 rape case concerning five wrongfully convicted men.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Ronald L. Ellis ruled Tuesday that the city had not shown enough reason to trump press freedoms when it requested interviews and unreleased footage from the Burns’ film “The Central Park Five.”

The men have since been exonerated.

The city had asked for the footage as part of an attempt to defend itself against a decadelong, multimillion-dollar federal lawsuit the men have since filed in the racially charged case.

Lawyers for New York City filed a subpoena demanding that Burns and his production company, Florentine Films, give them the unpublished interviews and unreleased footage not used in the documentary, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012.

“While journalistic privilege under the law is very important, we firmly believe it did not apply here. It is our view that we should be able to view the complete interviews, not just those portions that the filmmakers chose to include,” city attorney Celeste Koeleveld said.

Burns, his daughter, Sarah Burns, her husband David McMahon, who co-wrote and produced the film, along with their production company, fought the subpoena primar-

ily on the ground that the city’s argument was not strong enough to trump reporter’s privilege codified in the New York Shield Law, which protects journalists and their sources.

In a statement, Burns said, “David McMahon, Sarah Burns and I are grateful for this important decision; we feel the judge made exactly the right ruling.

We are also mindful that this ruling goes far beyond our current situation; this adds a layer of important protection to journalists and filmmakers everywhere.”

On April 19, 1989, a 28-yearold white Wall Street investment banker was jogging through Central Park when she was brutally assaulted, raped and left for dead. That same night a group of black and Latino boys had been in the park, throwing rocks at cars.

In the ensuing months, the investigation lead to the arrest of five of the boys — Yusef Salaam, Antron McCray, Raymond Santana, Kharey Wise and Kevin Richardson — who were later charged and convicted.

In 2002, three of the convicted young men had finished their prison terms, one was on parole and the fifth was in jail on an unrelated offense when Matias Reyes, a serial rapist and murderer, confessed to the crime and said he had acted alone.

DNA analysis later determined that Reyes did rape the jogger and that hair evidence used in the boys’ trials did not match.