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Julie Gerberding, first female director of CDC, to speak at Oregon State University

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David Bella writes about how members of different disciplines avoid engaging with one another.

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David Bella, professor emeritus, asks for students, faculty to consider a bigger picture

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David Bella overheard a student describe the Gripe Fest as he passed through the Memorial Union last month. Then Bella, a professor emeritus at Oregon State University, decided to speak himself.

“I want to gripe about the faculty,” Bella explained later. “They’re all in little boxes. They look inwardly, but the problems are much bigger than that, and we’re not really addressing those problems very well.”

Then he lectured to an honors class and told his students about his experience. He asked the students what he should say when he went to the Gripe Fest again.

“How come in classes we’re doing so much plug and chug, cram and flush?” one student asked.

Bella said he didn’t want people to take his criticisms as blame, adding that many people involved are “good people.”

Back when Bella first arrived at OSU in 1967 during the midst of the Vietnam War, Bella said the university “was alive” with “tremendous interdisciplinary activities,” but that they have decreased over the years.

Bella wrote a paper in 2000 on improving dialogue among colleges that included several diagrams. In his model, academics do “not wish to appear incompetent,” and therefore “do not sustain serious dialogue with members of other disciplines,” leading to disciplines which are isolated from one another.

“The whole is different than the sum of the parts,” Bella said.

“Radically different sometimes.”

Looking at “large-scale systems” — like universities and companies — requires humility and understanding that everything will be an simplified, Bella said.

“You wander around until you sense the whole,” Bella said. “That’s the idea of understanding a whole.”

Besides promoting interdisciplinary activities, Bella supports finding alternatives to blame. He criticizes the “thank God I’m not like them” mentality people take, and said that this approach is “morally and intellectually wrong.”

“Blame is reductionist,” Bella said.

“It takes the whole and it reduces it down to the parts.”

Good people get caught in bad See BELLA | page 2

Julie Gerberding, the first woman to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), will speak at the LaSells Stewart Center at 7 p.m. tomorrow.

The lecture is part of the Discovery Lecture Series. According to the Oregon State website, it brings “prominent scientists, acclaimed writers and key policy makers to OSU to present on matters of national and international importance.” Her lecture is titled “Healthy Systems Transformation: Becoming the Healthiest Nation,” and will be free and open to the public.

“It’s an exciting event to have the first female director of CDC, especially as we aspire for full accreditation of our College of Public Health and Human Sciences,” said Rick Spinrad, OSU’s vice president for research.

Marie Harvey, associate dean for research and graduate programs in the College of Public Health and Human Sciences also talked about the importance of Gerberding’s visit to the accreditation of the College of Public Health.

“Her visit is important and timely to us because we are building the first accredited college of public health for the state of Oregon,” Harvey said. “Oregon is the only west coast state without a college of public health.”

In her lecture, Gerberding will talk about how the United States spends more on health care than any other nation, but is far from being the healthiest.

“Gerberding will speak about current issues and challenges in public health,” Spinrad said. “She will talk about working between the public and private sectors to lower health care costs and improve our nation’s

public health.”

Gerberding’s lecture will be the second in the Discovery Lecture series.

“We created the Discovery Lecture Series last year to attract highly regarded ‘movers and shakers’ to learn about OSU and share with our faculty and students their life experiences,” Spinrad said.

The lecture series is a project of the offices of the provost and the vice president for research.

“It’s as much about [the speakers] discovering OSU as it is about us discovering what they’ve done and the leading issues of the day,” Spinrad said.

Speakers for the series are selected by the provost and research offices, along with help from other leadership in the university.

“Dr. Gerberding was selected from a pool of names submitted by all of the colleges on campus,” Spinrad said.

The last speaker in the Discovery Lecture Series was the inaugural speaker, Bill McKibben, an environmental activist. The Discovery Lecture Series is organized by university events, an office within university relations and marketing.

“The provost and research offices work with university events to make the lecture and series happen,” said Shelly Signs, director of university events. “[The provost and research offices] bring these great people to campus, and we make the arrangements and do the logistics.”

Each lecture in the Discovery Lecture Series also has its own specific sponsors.

“The College of Public Health and Human Sciences is a co-sponsor for the event,” Harvey said. “As the associate dean, I participated in planning the events and our faculty and students are actively involved in her visit.”

In addition to the public lecture, Gerberding will have lunch with faculty tomorrow at noon, and meet with graduate and professional stu-

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Julie Gerberding is known for her work as former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. dents from 2 to 4 p.m.

Gerberding was director of the CDC from 2002 until 2009. She was named one of the 100 most powerful women in the world by Forbes Magazine from 2005 to 2008, and one of the 100 most influential peo-

ple in the world by Time Magazine in 2005. She is currently president of MERCK’s vaccine division, and received her M.D. from Case Western Reserve University in Ohio.

Vinay Ramakrishnan, news reporter news@dailybarometer.com

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Oregon Future Farmers of America holds convention at OSU, drawing in high school students with interests in agriculture from more than 100 districts across the state

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FFA officers Nicholaus West, Sam Palacio, Andrew Derringer and Alex Southerland participate in the convention at Oregon State, held from March 22 through March 25.

Oregon State University hosted the Oregon Future Farmers of America (FFA) Convention from March 22 through March 25. The FFA is a national youth organization designed for students in agricultural programs at respective high schools from more than 110 districts throughout Oregon.

The goal of the FFA is to promote leadership, personal growth and career success, according to Greg Thompson, the department head of agriculture education at OSU. The convention features skills competitions ranging from public speaking to science projects as well as contests and events focused on developing awareness about the various applications of agriculture. A career fair at the convention featured those options available in agriculture, including choices in colleges and universities.

Thompson highlighted the career options in agriculture and the opportunities ranging from science to business and marketing.

“In order to feed a growing population, you need many scientists working to find new ways to do so,” Thompson said.

As well as noting the career options in agriculture, the career fair showcased OSU organizations that future students can participate in. Alpha Gamma Rho, the agriculture fraternity at OSU, made an appearance.

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The office that provides lawyers to indigent defendants in federal criminal cases nationwide is one agency hard hit by sweeping government budget cuts.

In many cases, it has been hard to gauge the impact of $85 billion in mandatory austerity through September, called sequester, since it took effect March 1 over the inability of Congress to reach a spending agreement.

But consequences for the U.S. Office of the Public Defender have been stark.

“They want us to do more cases with less time,” said A.J. Kramer, the federal public defender for the District of Columbia.

He told CNN mandatory furloughs began last week for his staff.

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by Kramer could mean difficulty for defendants preparing for trial on federal criminal charges in courts across the country.

In most of those cases, the defense consists of a public defender or a courtappointed private attorney doing probono work, according to government statistics.

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(CNN) — A bipartisan legislative task force in Connecticut has agreed on a major overhaul of the state’s gun laws in the aftermath of December’s deadly attack on an elementary school, lawmakers announced Monday.

The draft legislation would add more than 100 types of guns to the state’s list of banned assault weapons; limit the capacity of ammunition magazines to 10 rounds; ban armor-piercing bullets; require background checks for all weapon sales, including at gun shows; establish safety standards for school buildings; allow mental health training for teachers; and expand mental health research in the state.

“Nobody will be able to say that this bill is absolutely perfect, but no one

will also be able to say that this bill fails the test when it comes to being the strongest in the country and the most comprehensive bill in the country,” Connecticut Senate President Don Williams, a Democrat and a member of the task force, said Monday.

The General Assembly will take up the legislation when it returns to session Wednesday.

“There is nothing in this package that would have stopped someone like Adam Lanza,” said Scott Wilson, president of the Connecticut Citizens Defense League, referring to the gunman who killed 25 children and adults December 14 in Newtown, Connecticut.

“In his case, he stole the guns and went on a murderous rampage.

tors, assistant public defenders, researchers and case writers, as many as a third are taking unpaid Fridays or Mondays off to comply.

He is leaving the decision up to employees as they coordinate with day care, family finances and other matters at home.

“The more days they take off in one pay period, the smaller the paycheck,” he noted.

He said some staff will be around each weekday to keep the office open. He estimates it will take 27 unpaid days for each staffer to meet the 20 percent budget cut imposed on his office.

BELLA n Continued from page 1 systems, Bella said. He added that part of moving away from blame is learning from the failure of the system and not blaming the individual.

“We need to reflect on our individual and collective behaviors, and the university needs to do that as well,” Bella said.

“I’d like to have some sort of discourse on these questions,” Bella said.

Bella said he’s going through his own examination of these issues and has been for a long time — perhaps his whole life.

Bella has a background in computer simulation of ecosystems at a time when computers were so new he had to do his programming on punch cards and take them to the computer center.

“I was into computers way before PCs,” Bella said.

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Science Pub: Sex in Play: From dolls to sports, how sexualized culture affects youth with Aurora Sherman and Elizabeth Daniels, psychologists at OSU and OSU-Cascades.

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The “Flower Festival.” Live music and entertainment. Dinner will be served.

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He graduated in 1961 from the Virginia Military Institute and worked for public health systems in Indian Health and Water Services. He received his graduate and postdoctoral degrees from New York University.

His background in computer simulation highlighted the problems with human systems, Bella said.

He studied biological warfare, climate change, the salmon crisis in the Northwest and nuclear waste.

“If you were to take the work that I did at Oregon State and put it in two piles, this pile over here is what got me promotion tenure,” Bella said, gesturing to the second pile as he continued. “And this pile really didn’t get me anything . . . it didn’t go anywhere at the university.”

For Bella, the second pile was the more important.

McKinley Smith, news reporter news@dailybarometer.com

FFA n Continued from page 1 Freshman Cameron Kerns said the majority of members had FFA experience in high school and all have agriculture backgrounds. He notes having common experiences gives the fraternity members a sense of “brotherhood” and a smaller community at a large state school.

Not only is the convention an opportunity for personal growth, but it gives high school students the chance to experience a college campus and build connections across the state. Cassie Hagenauer — a junior in high school — described her favorite parts of the convention.

“I love meeting new people from all over Oregon and making great connections and friends,” Hagenauer said.

Similarly, Reynold Gardner, an Oregon State agriculture specialist and State FFA adviser, commented that the convention is the “significant highlight” of the year because the FFA students gain a broader knowledge of potential careers in the opportunistic field of agriculture.

“OSU does a tremendous job in hosting and facilitating the convention,” Gardner said.

Subsequently, the majority of the four-day convention is run by students. More than 100 Oregon State students did the necessary behind the scenes work to keep things running smoothly.

Sam Palacio, a junior at OSU, has participated in FFA since his freshman year in high school, and it was only natural for him to continue his involvement in the organization at OSU. “It challenges high school students to do awesome things,” Palacio said.

Based on his own experience participating in eight conventions, Palacio said he developed an inspiration for a career path in agriculture. OSU has aided him along the way, and other agriculture students

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Palacio noted the part OSU plays in the convention by hosting it and creating an atmosphere to promote the cultivation of new knowledge and a passion for discovery.

“The convention is huge,” Palacio said. “It brings thousands of students to Oregon State who are involved in agriculture and leadership.”

It’s not just OSU students that run the Oregon FFA Convention; six high school state officers from respective districts spent four months writing, practicing and organizing their speeches for when they stepped on stage for their presentations.

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‘The Bible’ miniseries illuminates conservative politics, voting patterns

Wal-Mart arrives T he new Wa l - M a r t Neighborhood Market had its grand opening on March 29. That’s right, Corvallis, we have a Wal-Mart.

Despite the known opposition some Corvallis residents have toward the world’s largest retailer, there weren’t any protesters reported at the grand opening. This might have been because campus was soaking up the last days of spring break. But, who knows, maybe the retailer isn’t as hated as we thought.

The city’s building codes — once assumed by Corvallis locals to keep large retailers, like Wal-Mart, out of Corvallis — only limited the square footage of the building. The new Corvallis Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market is 36,000 square feet. This neighborhood market is not the giant, 185,000-square-foot supercenter one might expect to see.

Though, in spite of its size, the Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market is no less damaging than the supercenters.

According to Stacy Mitchell, a senior researcher with the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, “as Wal-Mart and other big box chains have expanded across the country, the number of small retail businesses has fallen by 39 percent.”

A study produced by C.S. Fowler Consulting LLC for Puget Sound Sage, analyzed the local market in South Seattle, Wash., when a WalMart Neighborhood Market moved in. The study found the grocery outlet would divert $25.38 million per year in sales from existing retailers. This translates to a drop of $655,000 per year, or 1.2 percent, in total payroll value.

Bu t h e y, o u r Wa l - Ma r t Neighborhood Market donated a total of $8,000 in grants to the Boys and Girls Club of Corvallis, CASA-Voices for Children, Old Mill Center for Children and Families, and Trillium’s Children’s Farm Home at its grand opening last Friday. That has to be worth something, right?

Economically speaking, this new Wal-Mart will certainly add another competitive market to the mix, especially since it is located between Grocery Outlet and Market of Choice.

Whether other Corvallis grocery stores can compete and make a profit — or in the very least break even — we’re not sure. Only time will tell.

We haven’t personally compared the prices between Wal-Mart and other prime college markets like WinCo, Safeway, Fred Meyer and Grocery Outlet, but we will be interested to see how businesses fare with this big-box grocery market in town.

Being poor college students, our perspective of Wal-Mart moving into town is admittedly biased. We usually favor the cheapest competitor. Now, if only it were closer to our homes.

But we’re more interested in what the rest of campus has to say about it: Are you excited to finally see that blue Wal-Mart banner in Corvallis?

Or, would you rather these kind of corporations stay in Albany?

Let us know in a letter to the editor.

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he unexpected success of Steven McLain History Channel’s “The Bible” has confused a lot of critics.

Released March 3, and aired through Easter, it was roundly criticized for the Certainly, this is an important quessame things you would expect of most tion for Hollywood — 10 million book-to-movie productions: It failed to viewers can justify a lot of advertising conform to the original. dollars — but the question is just as That production value diminished important to those who question the the grandness of the story — one success of the series in general. Apart reviewer opined that “The Red Sea from Hollywood executives, the pheparts no more convincingly here nomenal success of the show speaks than it did for Charlton Heston in to the growing divide in the United 1956.” For Dr. Geoff Tunnicliffe, CEO States between divergent worldviews. and Secretary General of the World The power of the Bible — the book, Evangelical Alliance and reviewer not the show — rests in its ability to for “The Christian Post,” the series align believers’ lives into an easily remained faithful in spirit, tied together by the narrative of God’s love and understood narrative. For centuries, that narrative provided the basis for hope for all humanity. the social mores, behavioral norms But the question of why the series and cultural expectations of much of garnered such overwhelming supEurope, and evenport from viewtually, the United ers still perplexes States. Often chalThe individual’s moral Hollywood execulenged and vigortives. With more system helps explain ously opposed by than 10 million secular authorities, voting patterns in viewers each night, was used to mainaccording to Nielsen terms of moral capital; ittain social cohesion reports, “The Bible” people aren’t fools, well into the 19th consistently drew they’re voting in their and 20th centuries. number one rankAnd perhaps it still ings among basic own moral interests. does.

The popularcable offerings and ity of the television outperformed proseries indicates that gramming on ABC, NBC, CBS and FOX, leaving producers the Bible’s narrative still offers a unique scratching their heads. If the market role in the lives of millions even today. exists for re-interpretations of bibli- Statistics of American faith are offered cal stories, then why haven’t those on a semi-regular basis, and ideologues trot them out to remind their markets been satisfied?

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audience that much of the American perspective. He suggests that liberals public is incapable of handling facts, see authority, loyalty and sanctity responding to scientific theory or vot- as the basis for racism, sexism and ing responsibly. Teaching Americans homophobia. Though self-described how to vote for good men seems to liberals consider themselves openbe the rallying cry for the next decade, minded, they are worse at predicting and the popularity of “The Bible” is the moral judgments of moderates and conservatives another indication than moderates or of just how hard that education is The bipolarity of the conservatives are at predicting the going to be.

American political moral judgments of But it doesn’t system has as much to liberals. have to be.

Haidt suggests that Jonathan Haidt, do with our moral this moral “blindin his book “The psychology as it does ness” has created a Righteous Mind,” with political ideology. system where the suggests that polititwo sides are incapacal orientation has ble of sympathizing as much to do with and compromising psychological predisposition as it does with politics with the other. The bipolarity of the itself. He suggests that for the conser- American political system has as much vative mind, faith, patriotism, valor, to do with our moral psychology as it chastity, law and order are given high- does with political ideology. Rather, er priority than caring and fighting we’re inclined to put the moral carriage oppression, which are emphasized before the reasoning horse.

What this means for Hollywood by liberals.

The highly acrimonious conten- producers and the popularity of tions each side uses against the other “The Bible” is the need to more relate to the emphasis placed by each adequately understand the moral person on a moral worldview. His underpinnings of conservative analysis of the individual’s moral sys- Americans, who comprise roughly tem helps explain voting patterns in half the population of the United terms of moral capital; people aren’t States. It means that each side needs fools, they’re voting in their own moral to better understand the moral system, which narrates and structures interests.

The ability for each side to learn to the lives of the other. t see the value of the viewpoint of the Steven McLain is a senior in history. The opinions other isn’t simply helpful for more expressed in his columns do not necessarily represent charitable political debate, it’s vitally those of The Daily Barometer staff. McLain can be reached necessary for a more complete moral at forum@dailybarometer.com.

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Letters to the Editor Response to Pike’s March 15 column

Where does all that cow feed go?

The National Geographic Kids webModify meat farmers site says that the average cow makes 30 gallons of manure each day. Like to other products The meat industry is doing a fan- us, cows need most of their food just tastic thing by keeping American to stay alive and warm.

Subsisting on animal agriculture farmers employed, but I think that overall reduces the net amount of we need to shift their output from meat to legumes, grains and veg- food, as well as causing a reduction of etables. Changing the demand for arable land and fresh water for other meat doesn’t put farmers out of busi- human edible foodstuffs.

Amanda Rhodes ness, it only requires them to modify Nutrition student their product. A car company can VVOSU president sell vehicles with huge engines with 5 mpg rating, or change with the times and offer cars that get upwards Response to Pike’s March 15 column of 40 mpg. Efficiency is a good thing Feeding the World in this case, as well as with our food Tyler Pike thinks the way to feed industry when you consider all the a growing human population is resources that go into getting dinner through meat. I’m glad that he is on your plate.

According to Jeanne Yacoubou, concerned with this important issue. research director for the Vegitarian However, the fewer animal products Resource Group, “A large portion we eat, the more people we can feed.

When we feed plants to animals of the diets of ruminant livestock, and then eat the animals we get far including cattle, sheep and goats, consists of feedstuffs that are not less food than if we grew plants to edible by humans such as pasture, eat directly. Eighty percent of grain hay and crop residues (i.e., corn grown in the U.S. is used for animal stalks). In some regions of the world, feed. Animal agriculture wastes enorruminants subsist entirely on these. mous amounts of grain.

Animal agriculture guzzles huge However, most ruminant livestock produced under intensive condi- amounts of water, particularly for tions, (i.e., feedlots), do spend a irrigation of feed crops and for the significant part of their life eating animals.

In the last 300 years, more than grains and soybean byproducts, such as soybean meal and soybean oil, half the trees in the U.S. have been cut down to grow livestock feed. In that are human-edible.

The situation is different with Central America, the clearing of rainmonogastric livestock, (i.e., animals forests causes deforestation, species with one stomach), such as hogs extinction and erosion.

Compared to producing plant and poultry. Under intensive rearing conditions that are common in foods, producing animal foods uses the United States, their diet consists far more land, far more water and almost exclusively of human-edible far more fossil fuels. On top of that, grains and legumes. So for these it produces huge amounts of excrespecies, their feed is almost all grain ment. Animal agriculture causes far more problems than it solves. And and legume.”

A quick search for feed conversion sadly, it comes at the expense of ratios of various animals resulted in animals, who pay the ultimate price.

The Earth’s resources are finite. It is this: “A chicken’s feed conversion ratio is 2-to-1, so by consuming 2 not possible to feed billions of people pounds of feed, such as corn, the an animal foods based diet. chicken’s body weight increases 1 We can build a better world for pound. [A] pig’s ratio is 3 or 4-to-1 everyone. We can feed people, solve and cows are 7 or 10-to-1.” Retrieved environmental problems and show from http://www.copfaqs.com/pork- mercy for animals. We can do all this 017-food-conversion.htm. with our food choices.

The simple act of choosing veg- that doesn’t “believe in birth control, etarian foods has far-reaching con- women in positions of power and sequences for all. rights for LGBT folks.”

Nettie Schwager Could you not have said “Nay to Former instructor ELI/INTO OSU anti-feminist, homophobic bigotry,” instead? Keep the newspaper a safe Response to March 15 “Yeas & Nays” place for readers of all religions, and criticize the injustices, not the instiOffensive coverage tutions on the whole. of Catholic Church Peter Kagey I wanted to address a disturbing Bioengineering editorial titled “Yeas & Nays” from today, March 15. As a Catholic, I found March 15’s “Yeas and Nays” some of it offensive. Comparing the Pope to a murderer was definitely Offensive and uneducated That this winter term’s “Yeas & over the line. Moreover, it is the way the Barometer has portrayed the Nays” have been of somewhat poorer Catholic Church that has been an quality than those of previous terms even bigger issue. I noticed that in seems to be common knowledge March 14’s Barometer, there was no among students. I can live with mention of Pope Francis I getting an editorial that is less interesting, elected. It was probably the biggest self-indulgent and of poor quality. news of March 13 and nothing was In fact I come to expect this from mentioned in the following day’s the Barometer. But I cannot tolerate Barometer. On top of today’s “Yeas an editorial that is offensive, unedu& Nays,” there was a negative article cated, spiteful and downright wrong. about the Pope’s past and noth- March 15’s “Yeas & Nays” included ing else about the Papal election. a clause that said “Nay to medieval The Barometer seems to be more institutions that don’t believe in birth interested in attacking the Catholic control, women in positions of power Church instead of informing stu- and rights for the LGBT folks.” At first I thought you were talking about dents of actual news.

I am asking for more balance and Islam (which only allows birth conless offensive material. Why don’t trol for limited time periods within you have an article on how Pope the context of marriage, which boasts Francis I has led a life of simplicity that the prophet Muhammad repeat(how he road the bus to work, how edly beat his wives, as did his comhe decided to live in a simple home)? panions, and which has no tolerance Why don’t you have an article on for the LGBT community. References how the Catholic Church is the larg- for these facts are numerous.) But est charitable organization in the this “nay” was preceded by “Yea to world (through Mother Theresa’s white smoke,” clearly indicating a jab Missionaries of Charity and religious at Catholicism. The Daily Barometer has repeatedly printed columns that orders)?

That’s what I would like to see attack Christianity in an offensive manner, especially Catholicism, in changed.

Chad Etzel a spiteful, mud-slinging manner.

Exercise and Sport Science I have no problem with columns arguing for an opinion that opposes Response to March 15 “Yeas & Nays” Christianity, but our school paper should have high enough standards Keep the newspaper a safe not to print offensive, angry, uneduspace for all readers cated smut.

Thanks for spinelessly printing this Even as a liberal, nonreligious feminist and LGBT ally, I didn’t appreci- in the last paper of the term so no ate the thinly veiled attack on the letters to the editor may be printed.

Annie Bollard entirety of Catholicism by characterizing it as a medieval institution Senior in zoology

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Oregon State (23-9, 0-3 Pac-12) Last three: March 30: L, 0-11 vs. ASU March 29: L, 1-5 vs. ASU March 28: L, 4-5 vs. ASU

10 things to watch in spring football

Top hitters: • Natalie Hampton (.394 avg., 37 RBI, 10 HR) • Elizabeth Santana (.362, 19 RBI, HR) • Lea Cavestany (.354, 28 RBI, 8 HR) Top pitcher: • Marina Demore (16-4, 2.52 ERA)

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regon State head football coach Mike Riley approached the 15-or-so media members on the first day of spring football practice on Monday.

The first thing he said was, “Ready for the announcement of our starting quarterback?”

Fitting on April Fools’ Day. Since this is the “top 10 things to watch in spring football,” and the quarterback situation will undoubtedly be first, I’ll leave it off the list.

Just know we’ll be in the dark about whether Sean Mannion or Cody Vaz will be the starting quarterback on Aug. 31 against Eastern Washington until August.

While spring camp may seem irrelevant, the smallest occurrences in spring camp can be substantial come September. Don’t forget, Storm Woods was the darling of spring football in 2012 and was named the starting running back five months later.

Here is the list of 10 things to keep an eye on this April: 10. Middle linebacker Senior Michael Doctor and junior D.J. Alexander return as the outside linebackers after impressive 2012 campaigns that played a big part in OSU’s run defense — which was top 10 for most of the year, until, you know, they played Oregon.

But the middle of the linebacker corps was Feti Taumoepeau, a starter of 20 games in the last two years at middle linebacker.

Sophomore Joel Skotte, from Bend, is listed atop the depth chart as his replacement. It’s clear the team likes him enough to give him that opportunity, since he played special teams last year as a true freshman. Alexander also followed that same path, and played exceptionally well for a sophomore starting for the first time.

Junior Josh Williams is the backup right now, and will need to prove himself worthy of playing time in spring camp, or else he likely won’t start in his career unless an injury occurs.

9. Secondary depth The two cornerback (Rashaad Reynolds, Sean Martin) and two safety (Ryan Murphy, Tyrequek Zimmerman) starters will be proven. But after those four, the backups are unproven.

Three redshirt freshman (Cyril Noland-Lewis, Zack Robinson and Kendall Hill) will be looking at spring camp as a way to get on the field.

At corner, junior college transfer Steven Nelson gives the Beavers a third guy they can count on. After Nelson, however, it will be two former running backs (Malcolm Marable and Jovan Stevenson) who are next in line for playing time.

The Beavers used a dime package a lot last year, with three cornerbacks and three safeties on the field. The dime proved effective, especially in the pass-heavy Pac-12. Between that and special teams, these new faces could see some playing time — or none at all — depending on how they perform in the spring.

8. Right tackle With the departure of Colin Kelly and Derek Nielsen transferring to Sacramento State, the right tackle position looks like only Gavin Andrews’ to lose. Andrews was redshirted last year as a freshman, and was a part of the 2012 recruiting class that brought in an influx of offensive linemen — See STRAUSBAUGH | page 5

Stanford (24-9, 2-4) Last three: March 30: W, 2-0 vs. UCLA March 29: L, 5-8 vs. UCLA March 28: W, 5-1 vs. UCLA

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Oregon State huddles up to talk things over against New Mexico on March 14. The Beavers have lost four straight games entering Tuesday’s contenst with Pac-12 rival Stanford.

Top hitters: • Kayla Bonstrom (.349 avg., 19 RBI, 2 HR) • Leah White (.326, 12 RBI, HR) • Hanna Winter (.304., 4 RBI) Top pitcher: • Teagan Gerhart (13-4, 1.38 ERA)

Trying to break out of slump Softball will try to end a four-game losing streak at home today against Stanford

need to work on right now is playing for each other, instead of being selfish.”

“Sometimes it’s good to talk things out,” added sophomore center fielder Dani Gilmore. “When you

By Grady Garrett have such a busy schedule, you’re busy all the time, The Daily Barometer with each other all the time, you tend to mask over Late Monday afternoon, the Oregon State softball things that don’t seem relevant at the moment, but team took a break from practice and formed a circle can slowly snowball into something that is affecting you as a team on the field.” around the pitcher’s rubber.

A four-game losing streak can often lead to such For roughly the next 30 minutes, they talked things meetings. out.

“That team meeting was really about getting OSU (23-9, 0-3 Pac-12) had a forgettable spring break ourselves in check, coming together as a team,” said that included an inexcusable loss to seven-win Cal State senior third baseman Desiree Beltran. “What we really Bakersfield and three losses to No. 2 Arizona State. n

Prior to their current skid, the Beavers had won 21 of 23 games.

“That’s just the course of anybody’s season,” said head coach Laura Berg. “You’re going to have a lot of ups and downs, and this happened to be the down part of our season.”

Against ASU, OSU lost game one, 5-4, and game two, 5-1, on a walk-off grand slam. Game three, the Beavers were defeated 11-0 in five innings.

“We know the first two games of the ASU series we really did ‘us,’ but that last game was not us by any means,” Beltran said. “We did not do us in any way, See SOFTBALL | page 5

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OSU gymnastics scores program-high 197.850 in Pac-12 Championships victory

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Only three teams had a higher team score than Oregon State did in the Pac-12 Championships on March 23.

No. 10 OSU’s 197.850 was the best score in program and history, and was enough to crown the Beavers with their second conference championship in the last three years.

It was a night of exceptional per-

formances by the OSU gymnasts in front of the Gill Coliseum crowd.

Aside from a fall on balance beam, senior Makayla Stambaugh was near-perfect on the night.

Stambaugh won the uneven bars title with a career-best 9.975, tied for second on vault with a 9.950, and also scored a 9.925 on her floor exercise.

Four other OSU gymnasts — seniors Melanie Jones, Stephanie McGregor and Kelsi Blalock, and alexandra grace taylor | THE DAILY BAROMETER junior Brittany Harris — scored a 9.950 in the event.

OSU celebrates its best score in program history at the Pac-12 See GYMNASTICS | page 5

Championships. The 197.850 is the fourth best score in the nation this year.

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The No. 6 Beavers committed 11 errors over the weekend in a series loss to San Diego

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The Oregon State infield has struggled with consistency this season, having committed 26 errors on the season entering Tuesday’s game.

After a series win at home against No. 24 Arizona State, Oregon State moved up to No. 2 in the nation behind only North Carolina — the team OSU beat in the finals at the College World Series in 2006 and 2007.

But, Oregon State dropped (22-4, 5-1 Pac-12) two of three games on the road against the University of San Diego last weekend, subsequently dropping to No. 6 in the national rankings.

The reason for the losses was

uncharacteristic of a Pat Caseycoached ball club — errors on defense.

In the 7-4 loss on Friday against San Diego, the Beavers committed a season-high five errors. After two more errors in a 14-5 win in the second game of the series, OSU racked up four more en route to a 13-3 blowout loss on Sunday.

Junior left-hander Ben Wetzler felt the brunt of the poor defense, receiving his first loss of the season in Sunday’s game, despite not giving up an earned run. In only three innings, Wetzler gave up six runs total, all of which were unearned because of errors.

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GYMNASTICS n Continued from page 4 It was the Beavers’ performance on uneven bars, their last event of the night, which gave them the win. Trailing No. 9 Utah 148.250-148.175 heading into the last event, OSU gave an unprecedented display on bars. Scores of 9.950 from McGregor and Harris, and the 9.975 by Stambaugh led the Beavers past the Utes en route to the title. Freshman Erika Aufiero (9.925) and junior Hannah Casey (9.825) both set career-highs, while sophomore Chelsea Tang scored a 9.875.

The Beavers host the NCAA Regionals this Saturday.

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Top OSU performers Vault: Makayla Stambaugh (T-2nd, 9.950), Kelsi Blalock (T-2nd, 9.950) Uneven bars: Makayla Stambaugh (1st, 9.975), Stephanie McGregor (T-2nd, 9.950), Brittany Harris (T-2nd, 9.950) Balance beam: Chelsea Tang (3rd, 9.900) Floor exercise: Melanie Jones (T-1st, 9.950)

SOFTBALL n Continued from page 4

Palo Alto, Calif., last spring.

“It wasn’t them, it was us beating ourselves,” Beltran said of last year’s series. “As long as we come out ... and do ‘us’ and know that we can hit shape or form.”

Gilmore said the Beavers’ confidence isn’t shak- any pitcher in this conference, and we have confien heading into a three-game series with No. 15 dence in ourselves it’s going to be a very fun game.”

The Cardinal is led by senior pitcher Teagan Stanford that begins today with a doubleheader.

“I wouldn’t consider it a slump by any means,” Gerhart, the only Pac-12 pitcher to toss two Gilmore said. “Pac-12 is different from preseason. complete-game shutouts against OSU last season.

“We just need to get mentally prepared,” The level of competition is definitely something to get used to, so we’re going to have our ups Gilmore said. “It’s there physically, we’re a good and downs. I think that transition affected us a team. I don’t doubt that at all, at any point, against any team.” little bit.”

In Stanford (24-9, 2-4), the Beavers face one of Grady Garrett, sports reporter two Pac-12 opponents they were swept by last On Twitter @gradygarrett year. OSU was outscored 23-4 in three games in sports@dailybarometer.com

BASEBALL n Continued from page 4 on the defensive side of the field.

This year, OSU ranks 85th in the nation in fielding percentage.

The infield has been inconsistent so far in 2013.

Junior second baseman Andy Peterson, junior third baseman Jerad Casper, junior infielder Kavin Keyes and senior shortstop Tyler Smith have combined for 24 errors this season.

Smith and Keyes, in particular, have struggled compared to seasons past. In 194 games played, Smith only had 20 errors prior to this season. He already has five in 19 games this year.

Similarly, Keyes had committed 17 errors in 109 career games before 2013, but has five in 25 games played this season.

Considering Oregon State has historically had its best seasons behind pitching and defense, it will be important for the Beavers to get back on track today against the University of Portland.

The Beavers were supposed to take on the Pilots on March 5, but the game was postponed due to rain.

After a rough start to the season, Portland has found its stride and has reeled off three straight wins after a series

While the quarterback battle between Sean Mannion and Cody Vazy will be the talk of camp, Richard Mullaney is another storyline with the possibility of replacing Markus Wheaton

Pac-12 Championships Final Results Oregon State 197.850 UCLA 197.375 Utah 197.075 Stanford 196.625 Washington 195.875 Arizona 195.525 California 195.075 Arizona State 193.425

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Junior second baseman makes a throw to first base.

Oregon State has struggled defensively lately, committing a combined 11 errors in San Diego last weekend.

First pitch is scheduled for sweep against Santa Clara last 5:35 p.m. at Goss Stadium. weekend.

No doubt Oregon State will Andrew Kilstrom, sports editor need to see improvement if On Twitter @AndrewKilstrom they want to get back on track. sports@dailybarometer.com

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STRAUSBAUGH n Continued from page 4 including last year’s freshman standout, center Isaac Seumalo.

7. Who will return punts?

2012 First Team All-American cornerback Jordan Poyer has returned punts for the Beavers for the last three years. And if Poyer was out, it was Markus Wheaton who filled in. Both are now gone.

When Poyer missed the Arizona State game last year, and the team wasn’t sure if Wheaton would be returning punts, Riley had said Reynolds and running back Terron Ward would be the next in line. In fact, Ward is the only player besides Wheaton and Poyer to return a punt in the last two years — his only two attempts went for negative yardage.

This is pure speculation, but Marable and Stevenson could both be guys who could be the primary punt returner. Both returned kicks last year, and as converted running backs, they would have the ability to do a suitable job.

6. Chris Brown With the departure of Malcolm Agnew, Chris Brown has some unexpected responsibility this year. The redshirt freshman was the 24th-best running back in his recruiting class, according to Rivals.com, and now enters 2013 at No. 3 on the depth chart.

Don’t think he won’t see the field this year, either. He’s one injury for Woods or Ward away from being the backup, and that means he’ll receive some carries.

Brown is an unknown commodity, but he has the body — 5-foot-10, 198 pounds — to take hits at this level. As with all young guys, his pass blocking and receiving ability out of the backfield will need to improve.

5. Tight ends Colby Prince is gone after what felt like 30 years, and junior Connor Hamlett will take the reigns at tight end. Hamlett was actually third on the team in receiving yards last year (403), which isn’t saying much since Wheaton and Brandin Cooks accounted for 60 percent of the team’s receiving yards.

Hamlett could carve out a huge role with the Beavers now that Wheaton is gone and his replacement at split end is up in the air.

A sleeper this year on offense is Caleb Smith.

Smith was a four-star recruit and played minimally as a freshman last year, only catching two passes for 19 yards.

OSU often ran sets of two and three tight ends last year, so the tandem of Hamlett and Smith could be formidable.

4. Poyer’s replacement: Martin vs. Nelson It seemed Sean Martin would be the easy fillin at cornerback to replace Poyer. Martin started one game last year when Poyer was hurt, and was part of a pass defense that held the Sun Devils to just 153 yards passing.

He does have a challenger, however. Steven Nelson, a junior college transfer from College

of the Sequoias in Visalia, Calif., comes to OSU eager to see the field. Nelson reportedly ran a 4.4 in the 40-yard dash and had three interceptions last year, he was named all-league.

Both will see the field, but one could emerge this spring as the clear starter.

3. JuCo defensive tackles The Beavers return 16 starters this year and appear to not have too many glaring weaknesses on a team brimming with potential, defensive tackle was the exception.

Andrew Seumalo and Castro Masaniai depart after their senior season in 2012, and with no experience behind them on the depth chart, OSU turned to junior college transfers.

Edwin Delva and Siale Hautau enter spring camp as the starting defensive tackles on the depth chart. Both have enough size — Delva is 6-foot-4, 290 pounds and Hautau is 6-foot-2, 275 pounds — and agility to hold their own in the Pac-12. But, coming into a new system and playing at this level is a challenge for anyone.

Senior Mana Rosa and sophomore Ali’i Robins are the two in-house replacements should the other two not pan out like OSU wants.

2. Split end Replacing Poyer seems doable with Martin and Nelson being adequate replacements. Replacing Wheaton may not be as easy. Sophomore Richard Mullaney showed he can handle the pressure in the Washington game when Wheaton went out with a concussion. Mullaney caught four passes for 70 yards in Seattle.

Another sleeper on offense is redshirt freshman Malik Gilmore. Gilmore is 6 feet and 3 inches, and big — 214 pounds. Senior Micah Hatfield has never had the same upside the rest of the group has, but is always reliable.

There is one guy in this group that could be a difference-maker though, which bring us to: 1. Obum Gwacham Perhaps the most talked about player of the last three years who has never made the impact most expected, Gwacham enters his junior year as the tentative starting split end.

“Boom” is perhaps the perfect nickname for Gwacham, as he is the ultimate example of a boom-or-bust player.

We know his pros: Freakishly athletic (in 2010, he jumped 7-1 3/4 on high jump), great red zone target at 6-foot-5, versatility to play both slot and split end receiver.

We also know his cons: It’s well known that Gwacham has trouble catching the ball, which can’t be an issue for a wide receiver at this level.

He also seems to get lost at times, running incorrect routes in practice.

If there’s anyone on this roster who has something to prove to himself and the coaches, it’s Gwacham. His ceiling is high and he could end up being one of the better receivers in the conference. Then again, he could also be one of the biggest disappointments if he doesn’t figure it out.

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Who’s killing Texas prosecutors? Chilling mystery leaves rural county on edge KAUFMAN, Texas (CNN) — Kaufman County is on edge. Two prosecutors killed in two months, including the district attorney, gunned down in his home over the weekend.

What’s going on? Is someone assassinating prosecutors?

As armed guards surround the Kaufman County Courthouse and police shrouded some public officials in around-the-clock protection, it seems there are as many questions as answers.

District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife, Cynthia, were shot to death, nearly two months after one of his assistants died in a brazen daytime shooting outside the north Texas county’s courthouse.

A search warrant affidavit stated the couple was found dead Saturday evening by friends who had tried to reach them several times during the day. Each of them had been shot multiple times, the affidavit states.

McLelland talked to relatives on Friday night, the affidavit states. Investigators have asked a judge for records of mobile phone calls that were relayed through at least one nearby tower, the documents show.

The killings followed warnings that a white supremacist group might be preparing to take revenge on law enforcement officials who targeted them in 2012.

It’s unclear whether the McLelland killings were linked to the January 31 shooting death of Kaufman County assistant prosecutor Mark Hasse, or to the March 19 death of the prisons chief in Colorado. Authorities say a suspect in that shooting was a onetime white supremacist gang member who died in a shootout with deputies — in north Texas.

“This whole thing is shocking to all of us,” said Kaufman County Judge Bruce Wood during a Monday news conference. “I would be less than honest if I told you I was not worried.”

Michael Burns, McLelland’s law school classmate, longtime friend and fellow district attorney, said that after Hasse’s killing, McLelland told him, “They better come prepared because there’ll be a fight.”

Both Kaufman County prosecutors apparently started carrying guns, but it wasn’t enough.

Brandi Fernandez, McLelland’s first assistant

district attorney, will take over the office on an interim basis until Gov. Rick Perry can appoint a successor, county officials announced.

Latest shooting The McLellands’ bodies were found Saturday at their home in the Dallas suburb of Forney.

A law enforcement source told CNN that investigators have recovered several shell casings from a .223-caliber rifle.

Mike Griffith, whose yard backs up to the McLellands’, told CNN affiliate WFAA-TV he thinks he heard the attack unfolding early Saturday.

“It was five or six shots, one right after the other,” WFAA quoted Griffith as saying.

The deaths came almost exactly two months after Hasse was shot dead and the day McLelland vowed to bring his killer — he used the word “scum” — to justice.

“We’re going to pull you out of whatever hole you’re in, we’re going to bring you back and let the people of Kaufman County prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law,” he said.

Hasse had feared for his life and carried a gun to work, said a Dallas attorney who described herself as his longtime friend.

Colleen Dunbar said she spoke with Hasse a week before he died and he told her he had begun carrying a gun at work.

“He told me he would use a different exit every day because he was fearful for his life,” Dunbar told CNN. She said that Hasse gave no specifics on why he felt threatened, only that he did.

A neighbor said Cynthia McLelland had been concerned that Hasse wouldn’t be the only person killed, but she thought her husband would be OK. “And I said, ‘What about Mike? You think he’s safe?’ And she said, ‘Yeah, I’m not worried about about Mike,’ “ David Crone told WFAA. Are killings retribution?

Authorities insist that they just don’t know who may be behind the killings.

However, McLelland’s office was one of numerous Texas and federal agencies involved in a multiple-year investigation that led to the 2012 indictment of 34 alleged members of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas, including four of its

senior leaders, on racketeering charges.

At the time, Assistant U.S. Attorney Lanny A. Breuer called the indictment a “devastating blow” to the organization, which he said used threats and violence, including murder, against “those who violate (its) rules or pose a threat to the enterprise.”

The FBI describes the group as a “whites only,” prison-based gang with members operating inside and outside of state and federal prisons throughout Texas and elsewhere in the United States since at least the early 1980s.”

While authorities have not said whether they have established a link between the deaths of Hasse and McLelland, or the involvement of white supremacists, Texas law enforcement agencies did warn shortly after the November 2012 indictment that there was “credible information” that members of the Aryan Brotherhood were planning to retaliate” for the indictment.

Wood said Monday that no physical evidence links McLelland’s death and Hasse’s, although previously he had said he believes there is a “strong connection” between the killings.

In an interview with The Associated Press after Hasse’s death, McLelland said his deputy hadn’t been involved in the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas investigation. But the district attorney nevertheless raised the possibility the group was behind his death.

“We put some real dents in the Aryan Brotherhood around here in the past year,” McLelland told the news agency.

In the AP interview, McLelland said he, too, began carrying a gun after Hasse’s death and was answering his door more carefully.

Pete Schulte, a criminal defense attorney who has worked in the county, said other lawyers and public servants were nervous.

“Having that type of environment going on where people who are just doing their jobs (and) getting assassinated — this is what this is, elected officials getting assassinated — and that is sending a chill through the (legal) community and the community in general,” he said.

Schulte speculated that the killings were “personal.”

“If this was a case that somebody was trying to change, they would have been going after

witnesses and not the prosecuting attorney,” he said.

Colorado slaying As if the potential links between Hasse and McLelland’s shootings weren’t enough, speculation has also extended to whether the shootings have any connection to the March 19 death of Colorado prisons chief Tom Clements, who was gunned down after answering the door to his house.

While authorities have offered no suggestion the crimes are linked, the man suspected of killing Clements was once a member of a white supremacist group, the 211 Crew. That man, Evan Ebel, died in a shootout with sheriff’s deputies in northern Texas.

Other explanations The white supremacist angle is just one of many possibilities, the Dallas Morning News quoted McLelland’s former boss in the Dallas public defender’s office as saying.

“It could be local meth lab people down there in Kaufman County, it could be Mexican cartel, it could be the Aryan Brotherhood,” the newspaper quoted Former Dallas Chief Public Defender Brad Lollar as saying. “Or it could just be someone with a personal grudge.”

On heightened alert The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives joined Texas Rangers, the FBI and local authorities in investigating the killing of McLelland and his wife, the agency’s Dallas office spokesman, Andrew Young, told CNN. Several dozen FBI agents and support staff are now assisting the investigation, said Katherine Chaumont, a spokeswoman for the bureau’s Dallas field office.

In Houston, Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia put District Attorney Mike Anderson and his family under 24-hour security, said Sara Marie Kinney, a spokeswoman for the prosecutor’s office. Anderson’s office was part of the same task force as Kaufman County authorities.

Mayor Fortner said Monday on CNN’s Starting Point the fear is pervasive.

“I wonder if the governor is going to find anyone brave enough to take the job of district attorney,” he said.

Prosecution pushes death penalty for Colorado theater shooting suspect, sets new trial date CENTENNIAL, Colorado (CNN) — The man accused of killing a dozen people in a shooting rampage at a Colorado movie theater had offered to plead guilty if authorities would spare his life.

But the prosecutor denied that request Monday, announcing that he will seek the state’s highest punishment for shooting suspect James Holmes: the death penalty.

“It is my determination and my intention that in this case, for James Eagan Holmes, justice is death,”

Arapahoe County District Attorney George Brauchler said.

Speaking directly with dozens of victims’ family members, Brauchler said, helped inform his choice.

Many of them watched the prosecutor announce his intentions in court Monday.

Bryan Beard, whose close friend was killed in the massacre, said one thought ran through his mind: “Thank goodness. I am so happy this is happening.”

“The only way death will receive jus-

tice when somebody murders somebody else is death,” Beard told CNN Denver affiliate KMGH-TV during a break in Monday’s court proceedings.

“I guess you fight fire with fire.”

Beard told reporters that if Holmes is executed, he wants to attend.

“I’ve already said, give me a frontrow ticket.”

New trial date But the legal wrangling in the case is just revving up, and Holmes’ trial won’t begin until next year.

The trial was originally sched-

uled for August, but a judge Monday pushed back the start date to February 3 and said it could be delayed further.

Once it starts, the trial is expected to last four months.

Public defender Tamara Brady argued that it is important to provide enough time to present arguments in the case.

“Your honor, this case is the most important matter this courtroom and this courthouse will ever hear,” she said. “They’re trying to execute our client.”

Last week defense attorneys filed documents saying Holmes had offered to plead guilty and spend the rest of his life behind bars in exchange for avoiding the death penalty.

Prosecutors took the defense to task for publicly offering it, saying they hadn’t been given enough information to even consider such a deal.

“Not only improper, but grossly improper,” prosecutors said in a Thursday court filing. “For the intended purpose of generating predictable publicity.”

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U.S. moves warship, sea-based radar to watch North Korea after recent threats President Park Geun-hye said at a meeting with senior defense and security officials, according to her office.

Her comments came after North Korea rattled off fresh volleys of bombastic rhetoric over the weekend, declaring that it had entered a “state of war� with the South and labeling the U.S. mainland a “boiled pumpkin,� vulnerable to attack.

The two Koreas are technically still at war after their conflict in the early 1950s ended in a truce not a peace treaty.

The secretive regime of Kim Jong Un has delivered a steady stream of verbal attacks against South Korea and the United States in recent weeks, including the threat of a nuclear strike.

It has lashed out at the U.S.South Korean military drills currently under way and at the tougher U.N. sanctions that were slapped on it after its latest nuclear test in February.

On Monday, Pentagon spokesman George Little warned against connecting the ship deployment to recent tensions on the Korean Peninsula. “I would urge everyone to disconnect this ship deployment from recent military exercises in South Korea. We have regular ship movements in the Asia-Pacific region and we use our ship movements for any number of purposes,� he told

CNN’s Christiane Amanpour.

Analysts have expressed heavy skepticism that the North has the military capabilities to follow through on many of its melodramatic threats.

But concerns remain that it could carry out a localized attack on South Korea, as it did in November 2010 when it shelled Yeongpyeong Island, killing four people.

Displays of strength The United States has sought to show its willingness to defend its South Korean ally by drawing attention to displays of its military strength during the drills taking place in South Korea.

Wa s h i n g t o n’s re c e n t announcements concerning practice flights over South Korea by B-52 bombers and B-2 stealth bombers, both of which can carry both conventional and nuclear weapons, have not been lost on Pyongyang, which has described them as acts of U.S. hostility.

There was no immediate reaction on North Korean state media Monday to the U.S. statement saying the stealth fighters, F-22 Raptors, were sent to the main U.S. Air Force Base in South Korea to support air drills in the annual Foal Eagle training exercises there.

U.S. and South Korean officials have been trying to strike a balance between acknowledg-

ing that the North’s rhetoric is cause for concern and at the same time playing down the severity of the threat.

Park said Monday that she was “viewing the threat from North Korea in a serious manner.�

But a senior U.S. Defense Department official said late last week that there were “no indications at this point that it’s anything more than warmongering rhetoric.�

And Little, the Pentagon spokesman said Monday that recent U.S. activities with South Korea “have been about alliance assurance, about ensuring them that we are there to protect them.� “We haven’t seen any kind of troop movements on the North Korean side that would indicate imminent military action. So we think that things may be dialing down just a bit on the Korean Peninsula, at least we hope so,� he said.

South Korea has noted that scores of its workers have continued in recent days to enter and leave the Kaesong Industrial Complex, a joint economic cooperation zone between the two Koreas situated on the North’s side of the border.

That is despite Pyongyang cutting a key military hotline on the border and threatening to shut down the complex.

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The decision to move at least one ship, the destroyer USS John S. McCain, and the oil riglike SBX-1 are the first of what may be other naval deployments, CNN has learned.

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At evangelical colleges, a shifting attitude toward gay students seen WHEATON, Illinois (CNN) — Combing through prayer requests in a Wheaton College chapel in 2010, then-junior Benjamin Matthews decided to do something “absurdly unsafe.”

He posted a letter on a public forum bulletin board near students’ post office boxes.

In the letter, he came out as gay and encouraged fellow gay Christian students - some of whom had anonymously expressed suicidal plans in a pile of the prayer requests - to contact him if they needed help.

In a student body of 2,400 undergraduates in the suburbs of Chicago, at what is sometimes called the Harvard of evangelical schools, Matthews said that 15 male students came out to him. Other students seemed somewhat ambivalent about his coming out, he said.

No one told him he was wrong or needed to change, Matthews said some students were obviously uncomfort-

able with someone who would come out as gay and remain a Christian.

“I don’t think most Wheaton students knew what to do because they’ve been given ‘love the sinner, hate the sin’ rhetoric, but they don’t know how that plays out in real life,” said Matthews, who graduated in 2011. “They would mostly just listen, nod and say, ‘Yeah man, that’s hard.’”

As is the case at many evangelical colleges, Wheaton students sign an agreement to not have sex outside of marriage, including “the use of pornography ... premarital sex, adultery, homosexual behavior and all other sexual relations outside the bounds of marriage.”

On campus, the college created an official group in February for students to explore questions of gender identity and sexual orientation. The group is intended as a “safe place for students who have questions about their sexual orientation or gender identity,” where students may

self-identify as LGBTQ. But cultural and political changes have created tensions for the academic and student life environment. As more mainline denominations ordain openly gay clergy and more states pass same-sex laws, some gay evangelicals — and their allies - are openly deviating from Wheaton’s official and long-held positions. Well-known Christian author Rob Bell, a graduate of Wheaton, came out in favor of gay marriage in mid-March.

OneWheaton, a group unaffiliated with the college, wants to offer an alternative view on homosexuality from that of the evangelical school. The group, which is not explicitly religious, wants GLBT students to feel affirmed in their sexuality, acting as a support network for students struggling with their sexual identity, whether they choose to be openly gay or whether they choose to remain celibate. But leaders of the group say that gay Christians do not need to be celibate to

retain their religious identify.

“For those of you feeling alienated, it gets better,” says OneWheaton’s founding statement, signed by about 700 GLBT and straight, alumni, echoing Dan Savage’s national “It Gets Better” campaign for gay youth. “Your desire for companionship, intimacy and love is not shameful. It is to be affirmed and celebrated just as you are to be affirmed and celebrated.”

A widespread question Wheaton is hardly the only evangelical college that’s seeing a growing spectrum of responses toward homosexuality among students, alumni and staff.

Last year, a group at Biola University in southern California came out with posters and a website called Biola Queer Underground.

The group describes itself as “like-minded LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer) students and allies who have formed a private underground community in which

we share our life struggles, as well as our love and support for one another.” Biola then issued a “statement on human sexuality” saying, “God’s design for marriage and sexuality is the foundational reason for viewing acts of sexual intimacy between a man and a woman outside of marriage, and any act of sexual intimacy between two person of the same sex, as illegitimate moral options for the confessing Christian.”

Groups from at least two Christian schools, Easter n University in Pennsylvania and George Fox University in Oregon, have formed OneEastern and OneGeorgeFox, which launched public websites in 2012.

About 200 LGBT and straight alumni from California’s evangelical Westmont College cosigned a letter to the student newspaper suggesting they experienced “doubt, loneliness and fear due to the college’s stance on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender issues.”

Many Christian schools have different regional, historical and denominational ties that keep issues related to sexuality complex and keep these institutions from responding monolithically.

Wheaton’s well-known alumni include evangelist Billy Graham, former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert and former George W. Bush speechwriter Mike Gerson.

To come out at the college, OneWheaton’s organizers say, is to risk losing a network of fellow-minded alumni.

“Part of OneWheaton is showing that while people are risking their networks, they’ll have people they can turn to,” said OneWheaton spokeswoman Kristin Winn, who came out six months after graduating in 2007.

The married-sex-only agreement that Wheaton students and faculty sign is part of the college’s Community Covenant, which says that students agree the Bible condemns “sexual immorality, such as the use of pornography, premarital sex, adultery, homosexual behavior and all other sexual relations outside the bounds of marriage between a man and woman.”

Few students self-identify as gay, and if they do, it has different implications based on their expressed beliefs and behavior.

Students can self-identify as gay, but college officials consider each student on a caseby-case basis if it comes into question.

“What matters is the moral understanding of the person and how that matches with our institutional identity and the moral behavior that flows from the understanding.

There’s no formula to how this gets applied,” said Wheaton’s Provost Stan Jones, a psychologist who has written several books on sexuality.

Students who openly deviate from or openly advocate for deviation from the covenant may be dismissed from the school, Jones said.

Alumni say some gay students have been asked to leave or been counseled to leave Wheaton. No member of Wheaton would be asked or counseled to leave this institution on the basis of sexual orientation alone, Jones said, and he is not aware of any cases where people were dismissed only because of sexual orientation.

Jones said it would be difficult to say whether a student who signed OneWheaton’s statement would be in open disagreement with the covenant, though he is not aware

of any student who has left or been dismissed over involvement with the group. “We’re not in a rush to show people the door,” Jones said. “We want Wheaton College to be a community where people can wrestle with these issues.”

The balance, college officials say, is between preserving the theological integrity of the school while leaving room for questions.

“Articulating orthodox Christian theological beliefs and moral convictions itself is and ought to be an expression of grace,” said Philip Ryken, president of Wheaton, explaining the college’s stance on sexual behavior in response to OneWheaton’s emergence.

“Those theological principles and moral guidelines are an expression of God’s character and the best way to live.”

Homosexuality is not a focus at Wheaton more than any other college, said Ryken, but culture places a priority on sex.

The college does not keep track of the number of students who leave over homosexuality, he said. “There are a variety of challenges that different Christian colleges and universities face from people advocating homosexuality,” Ryken said in an interview in his campus office. “OneWheaton has been clear in saying they’re not interested in changing the college, but it remains to be seen what kind of influence they desire and may seek to have.”

A growing trend Evangelical colleges likely face generational differences in attitudes toward sexuality as younger evangelicals develop friendships with people who are gay, says David Kinnaman, president of the Barna Group, a Christian market research firm.

“There has been a shift from rightness to fairness,” Kinnaman said. “There’s a real sense in which their institutional loyalty and their loyalty to theoretical morals and ethical choices are trumped by their peer relationships.”

About 40 percent of evangelicals between the ages of 18 and 29 are likely to say homosexuality should be accepted by society, compared to 24 percent of evangelicals who are older than 30, according to the 2007 religious landscape survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. But there is still less acceptance of homosexuality by evangelicals than by other young people.

The same Pew poll found that 63 percent of Americans age 18 to 29 say homosexuality should be accepted by society, as do about half of Americans ages 30 to 64.

As a younger demographic is less opposed to gay marriage, they are also are more likely than before to identify as prolife. Forty-one percent consider themselves “pro-choice,” a record low since Gallup began asking the question.

“During the last five to seven years, there has been a definite uptick in interest [in homosexuality],” says Michael Hamilton, a history professor at Seattle Pacific. “As evangelicals and the main currency of American culture converge, an increasing number of gay students are going to say, ‘Wait a minute. I don’t see a problem.’”

Last year, students at Seattle Pacific University received student support and a faculty letter backing a group’s desire to discuss being gay. Its administration approved the request but declined to give it official status. In 2010, Abilene Christian University declined to grant official status to a gaystraight alliance.