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Watercolors wellness event draws Oregon State University community to Craft Center

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Korina Steinberg puts the finishing touches on a pair of watercolor landscapes inspired by her hometown in Northern California.

Steinberg, a junior in exercise and sports science, was one of several people who showed up for Tuesday’s watercolors and wellness event hosted by the Oregon State University craft center.

“I just really love nature in general and the colors that are made by sunsets,” Steinberg said.

Oranges, flowers and ceramic pots served as models for artists like Elisa Alphandary, an OSU botany graduate, who painted potted flowers.

Craft Center manager Susan Bourque said the event was, “A day to be creative, de-stress and relax.”

“I think it’s great to help the OSU community and help people relax for a little bit,” said Nicole Hernandez. “We get so busy in our lives.”

Hernandez is a senior majoring in art and Concourse Gallery assistant at the Memorial Union. She hosted the event.

Hernandez demonstrated several watercolor techniques, including the use of wax and tape.

“When you go over it with the watercolors it acts as a resistant so you get that design underneath,” Hernandez said of the wax.

Adding salt to the watercolor creates texture and “concentrates some of the pigment,” Hernandez said.

Between 15 and 20 people turned out

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people said they really enjoyed it,” Bourque said.

Riley Rinker, a sophomore in animal science, created a mountain landscape.

“I just find landscapes to be easier for me to visualize,” Rinker said.

Oregon State was recently rated one of the “greenest colleges” in the country by the Princeton Review.

OSU received a grade of 98 out of 99, a product of a 50-question assessment survey given to colleges across the country, asking questions about the quality of environmental studies programs and the percentages of food expenditures that go to organic or local sources.

“One key feature [in receiving our grade] is that OSU has several LEEDcertified buildings, two of which are certified Gold,” said Brian Powell, the OSU Student Sustainability Initiative administrative coordinator. “There are a lot of construction projects that are currently underway, such as the Student Experience Center, and we’re actually working on trying to get that to be LEED Gold as well.”

LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design.

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Korina Steinbergs, junior in exercise sports science, uses watercolors to recreate landscapes of Northern California in a watercolors and wellness event in the OSU Craft Center on Tuesday. to express themselves with watercolors, including Shelby Bauer, a sophomore in zoology.

“I really like art, and I saw a sign about it in the MU, and I thought it’d be fun,” Bauer said.

Bauer made a card with a heart design for her grandmother.

Taylor Bundy, a sophomore in bio-

chemistry, had been at the library all day and welcomed the opportunity to paint.

“They should do something like this again because I wasn’t here long enough,” Bundy said.

Bourque said they are considering a weekly brown-bag lunch for students to drop-in.

“It might spawn into that because

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The admission arms race: 6 ways colleges game their numbers ASOSU senate almost doesn’t make quorum Colleges use many different techniques to inflate quality, manipulate admission statistics, strategize application process

Though it’s no longer statistically factored into Both schools received roughly 50,000 applications in the fall of 2011, according to U.S. News U.S. News & World Report’s ubiquitous rankings, data. Both schools enroll roughly 3,000 freshmen. yield rates are still a data point made available to prospective students. They’re also Getting in more applications inextricably tied to acceptance can also boost the appearance of rates because schools use previselectivity. Critics contend that

By Marian Wang Students ... want to ous yields to calculate how many some schools use fast apps spePro Publica be able to make cost students they should admit to fill As college-bound students weigh their options, cifically for this purpose — luring class. Schools with low yields students in to apply to institucomparisons between amust they often look to the various statistics that uniextend lots of acceptances, versities trumpet — things like the high number of tions they hadn’t heard of and different schools are knowing many accepted students ultimately rejecting a portion of applications, high test scores and low acceptance will go elsewhere. them. Neither school, when contypically advised rate.

One way to increase yields is tacted, responded to requests for But students may want to consider yet another not to apply early. to draw heavily from the pool comment. piece of info: the ways that schools can pump up of applicants who chose to 2) Shorter applications, comtheir stats. apply through early action, or to mon applications, and shorter Marian Wang “There’s no question about it,” said David encourage early decision, which Pro Publica Kalsbeek, senior vice president for enrollment common applications is binding. At the University of Another way to get more applimanagement and marketing at DePaul University.

Pennsylvania, for instance, nearly “There are ways of inflating a metric to improve cations is to adopt the Common half of the spots in the freshman class are filled Application, as nearly 500 colleges have since its perceived measures of quality.” through the university’s binding early decision Some of these tweaks — such as a more stream- inception in 1975. The form, which lets students process. apply to multiple schools at once, has fueled the lined application — can actually benefit students.

Penn is hardly alone in leaning heavily on early Others serve to make the admissions process more long-term rise in applications. And as more colleges decision. Many schools accept early decision applihave adopted it, other schools have felt pressure to confusing. Here’s a rundown. cants at a higher rate than students who apply later. start using it too.

1) Quickie, often pre-filled out Many schools have long American University, for instance, accepts about applications Getting in more required that students submitting 75 percent of early decision applicants, though its Express applications — someoverall acceptance rate is far lower. times known as “fast apps,” applications can also a Common Application include One other thing to note: Because early decision additional answers or essays. “snap apps,” “V.I.P. applications” boost the appearance Dropping the extra requirements involves committing before any financial aid is or “priority applications” — are it generally attracts wealthier families. of selectivity ... luring can result in a spike in applica- offered, often pre-filled with some student Students who need financial aid or want to be That’s what happened for information and require little, if students in to apply. tions. able to make cost comparisons between different Skidmore College, which saw anything, in the way of essays. schools are typically advised not to apply early — a 42 percent jump in applicaAnd especially when they’re which can hurt their chances. tions this cycle after it stopped accompanied with an applicaMarian Wang 4) Rejecting good students that universities requiring supplemental essays tion-fee waiver, what’s a student Pro Publica think are just using them as a backup to the Common App. (Skidmore got to lose? Not much, fans of fast While opening up early decision and early action College’s dean of admissions did apps argue. programs is a way for colleges to force students to not respond to a request for an The school, meanwhile, has a demonstrate that they’re their top choice, schools interview.) lot to gain. The tactic, designed to broaden the use a variety of ways to divine the same information 3) Dipping into early application pools pool of applicants, can help super-charge applifrom regular decision students as well. This is perAnother statistic schools often try to control is cation numbers. Drexel University and St. John’s haps the most common — and in some ways, comUniversity — the only two private colleges among their “yield” — that’s admissions parlance for the mon sense — method used by colleges to improve the top 10 for most applied-to colleges in 2011 — percentage of students offered admission that See Admission | page 2 choose to attend. both market broadly and use fast apps.

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The Associated Students of Oregon State University met briefly Tuesday evening after initially being unable to make quorum.

Senators approved last week’s minutes, sang the “Alma Mater,” and adjourned.

John Varin, speaker pro-tempore, said that senators needed to submit bills by next week if they want them to be passed before the end of the school year.

ASOSU Senator Dylan Hinrichs mentioned legislation he is currently working on that would look at task force directors and ASOSU expenditures.

Hinrichs said he would like to possibly combine certain task force director positions together or eliminate them entirely. He also said he wanted to go through the budget, especially money set aside for ASOSU’s annual trip to Washington D.C. “There needs to be a cost-benefit analysis of the D.C. trip,” Hinrichs said.

“I’m not convinced it creates a lot of benefit for the student body.”

ASOSU Senate meets again next Tuesday, April 30 in the Memorial Union at 7 p.m.

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(CNN) — Is al-Qaida looking to ground transportation as a promising target after the introduction of intense security measures for air travel? And are its supporters able to operate out of Iran without hindrance?

Those two questions have been raised after the announcement by Canadian police on Monday that they had thwarted a plot to attack a rail link between Canada and the United States.

The Canadian announcement has puzzled some terrorism experts, because Iranian authorities are widely seen as hostile to al-Qaida. Iran has denied the conspiracy could have been plotted from its territory.

Canadian officials say they did not think the alleged conspirators were “state-sponsored” but suspect al-Qaida elements in Iran had provided two men in Canada with direction, guidance and information.

As CNN National Security analyst Peter Bergen noted, “If these allegations are true, it would appear to be the first time that al- Qaida elements based in Iran have directed some kind of plot in the West.”

While Western intelligence agencies have long thought that al-Qaida operatives are present on Iranian soil, they were thought to be under some form of house arrest and under strict control.

Many al-Qaida sympathizers and members took refuge in Iran in the aftermath of the post 9/11 invasion of Afghanistan, including one son of Osama bin Laden,

Saad bin Laden, and a son-inlaw, Sulaiman Abu Ghaith. Abu Ghaith left Iran in February this year and entered Turkey, but was subsequently arrested in Jordan and flown to the United States in March.

It’s still unknown whether he left Iran of his own volition or was told to go. But Iran has become increasingly hostile to al-Qaida as it has become a Sunni sectarian group, especially in Iraq and Syria, as much as an anti-western outfit.

In Syria, the al-Qaida-linked Jabhat al Nusra is one of the most effective fighting groups against the regime of Bashar alAssad, which is heavily backed

by Tehran.

The vast majority of Iranians are from the Shia sect of Islam, and al-Qaida has frequently targeted Shia communities and mosques in Iraq. Al-Qaida leader Ayman al Zawahiri has often railed against Iran in his speeches.

But the United States says there appears to have been some tactical co-operation between the Islamic Republic and al-Qaida. In 2011, the U.S. Treasury Department accused Iran of a “secret deal with al-Qaida allowing it to funnel funds and operatives through its territory.”

Railroad Targets Another aspect of the alleged Canadian plot is that it underlines the enduring interest of al-Qaida and its supporters in attacking railroad systems, seeing such operations as relatively cheap

and easy to carry out — with potentially devastating results.

A senior law enforcement official in the United States told CNN’s Gloria Borger that one of the routes targeted was between New York and Toronto, with the alleged conspirators looking at possible targets in the Toronto area, such as trestles over roads or water.

“I worry about the vulnerability of mass transit because we know they’ve been on al-Qaida’s radar screen,” Robert Liscouski, a former director of infrastructure protection at the Department of Homeland Security, told CNN. Liscouski said that while significant steps had been taken in the United States to make air travel more secure, not enough was being done to reduce the vulnerability of mass transit to bomb attacks.

He told CNN that there needed to be greater investment in random searches by agents with explosive trace detection equipment and greater deployment of CCTV cameras, saying the extra investment needed in mass transit security amounted to a fraction of the economic cost of a successful attack.

Al-Qaida’s interest in attacking railroads was underlined in the wake of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden in May 2011.

Documents recovered from his compound in Abbottabad in Pakistan revealed that early in 2010, al-Qaida had discussed an idea to derail a train in the United States, several U.S. officials told

GREEN n Continued from page 1 strategies aimed at increasing performance, reducing waste, and improving quality of life.”

If it meets the respective standards, a building can receive a LEED certification: Silver, Gold or Platinum.

Even with the stellar rating that OSU achieved, Powell

said there are still many ways to improve, especially when it comes to reducing and reusing food-based recyclables and perishables.

“OSU definitely has a good start in that area, but I think there’s a lot to work on,” Powell said. “We do a lot of composting on our campus, but it’s still very limited, and it hasn’t been expanded to all of the retail

ADMISSION n Continued from page 1 yield: simply to admit only those students who they perceive as likely to enroll.

“There are so many silent electronic footprints they’re leaving nowadays,” said Sundar Kumarasamy, vice president for enrollment management and marketing at the University of Dayton.

Kumarasamy said that his institution tracks many of these subtle signals of interest from applicants: They can tell whether individual applicants clicked to open email communications, logged in to the system to check the status of an application, and not only whether they called the school, but how long that phone call lasted. If the school gets the sense that an applicant isn’t interested, that’s factored in. Kumarasamy calls it “recruiting for fit.”

The interest — or lack thereof — can ultimately mean that the school rejects some candidates who, on paper, are more than qualified but failed to demonstrate interest.

5) Making tests optional One admissions trend within the past

food operations on campus.”

Some of the most impressive methods OSU uses in its sustainability efforts are not as widely known as they could be, according to Powell.

Many treadmills in Dixon Recreational Center are connected to the power grid and provide power to the OSU campus, and Powell said that not many students are aware of

decade has been the test-optional movement. Colleges that have stopped requiring standardized test scores often cite equity and diversity as reasons to make the move, noting the strong correlation between socioeconomic status and test scores.

But going test-optional can also help universities’ stats. Critics note that in addition to attracting more applicants, the move ultimately skews the average test scores that institutions report: Lowerscoring applicants are the most likely to withhold their scores and higher-scoring applicants are the most likely to submit them.

6) Making stuff up Some colleges actually cross the line with their creative number-crunching. Since the start of last year, five colleges have acknowledged overstating their admissions statistics: Bucknell University, Claremont McKenna College, Emory University, George Washington University and Tulane University’s business school.

Admissions data is self-reported and no outside party is responsible for verifying it. The recent scandals involving falsified data have only come to light after colleges

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disclosed the problems themselves.

U.S. News’ Robert Morse has said there is “no reason to believe that the misreporting is widespread.” But a survey by Inside Higher Ed last fall suggests that even admissions directors are skeptical of the reporting, with 91 percent of those surveyed saying they believe there’s more misreporting than has been identified.

Of course, some colleges resist the pressure to pump up admissions numbers.

Doing so is unusual enough that it attracts notice and media write-ups.

Boston College made “a strategic decision” this cycle to raise the admissions bar by adding an essay. It got the expected drop in applications — and a recent write-up in the New York Times. A handful of others, including Ursinus College, have done the same. In addition to requiring essays again, they dropped the fast app.

But for many other colleges, what’s been called the admissions “arms race” is on — with these strategically achieved statistics as the scoreboard.

Meetings ASOSU House of Representatives, 7-8:30pm, MU 211. Weekly meeting.

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Events OSU College Republicans, Noon4pm, MU Quad. 2nd Amendment Week. Many events including a concealed handgun class, guest speaker Lars Larson and a drawing for a firearm.

Pride Center, 6-8pm, Pride Center.

Come enjoy mocktails as we discuss high risk alcohol consumption with the queer community.

Thursday, April 25 Meetings Baha’i Campus Association, 12:30pm, MU Talisman Room. Is a Universal Religion Possible? Devotions and discussion.

Events OSU College Republicans, Noon4pm, MU Quad. 2nd Amendment Week. Many events including a concealed handgun class, guest speaker Lars Larson and a drawing for a firearm.

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Speakers Pride Center, 3-4pm, Pride Center.

Educational event focusing on trans* health and its various aspects, difficulties, and resources. Brenda McComb and Beth Wasylow are presenting.

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CNN. The plan was to be executed coinciding with the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

By then, two plots against U.S. railroad targets had already been foiled. In March 2008, American al-Qaida recruit Bryant Neal Vinas discussed a plan to attack the Long Island Railroad with al-Qaida operatives in a jihadist encampment in the tribal areas of Pakistan. Vinas later testified that his idea was for an al-Qaida operative to leave a suitcase bomb with a timer on a train and then exit at a station before the device exploded.

His al-Qaeda handler then decided the best scheme would be to launch a suicide bombing on a train as it entered a tunnel, to create maximum devastation.

In September 2009, the FBI broke up an al-Qaida plot by Najibullah Zazi and two others to bomb New York subway lines.

At their subsequent trial two of the group testified that they settled on a plan to target New York subways during rush hour so they could cause the heaviest number of casualties, instill fear, and inflict maximum economic damage.

Authorities were alerted to the planned attack only days before Zazi drove from Denver to New York, after his communication with a known al-Qaida facilitator in Pakistan was intercepted. Zazi had apparently been asking his handler for help in making the explosive TATP.

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Colleges shouldn’t force access to social media

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e’re happy to report Senate Bill 344 passed in the Oregon Senate.

If the bill passes in the House — which we strongly hope and believe it should — students at certain educational institutions would not be required to provide said institutions with access to personal social media accounts with students’ usernames and passwords. This, however, does not restrict institutions from doing a public search — so make sure to update your privacy settings.

Social media privacy laws have sprung up throughout the states. On April 16, we published an editorial discussing House Bill 2654, which bans employers from forcing their employees to give access to their personal social media accounts.

We definitely don’t think social media, especially our private social media accounts, should be used against us. At the same time, we should err on the side of caution and think before we post. The unfortunate truth about our instant world is it takes a second before someone retweets, reposts or screenshots something you’d rather not have on the Internet.

Alison Pill, an actress from “The Newsroom,” accidentally posted a naked picture of herself on her own Twitter account in September 2012. She quickly realized it and took it down, but not before her 13,597 followers saw the image and an article was written about the incident on Gawker — which, kindly enough, provided the image Pill tried to delete.

This might be the fear — that you accidentally upload a photo meant for your partner’s eyes only. The bigger hindrance, though, is that an employer or university can see it and deny you employment or whatever it is you’re seeking as a professional individual.

We don’t agree people should use this frivolous information against us. But obviously, if our first reaction to being introduced to someone new is looking them up on Google and Facebook, then how could we blame our universities and employers for doing the same?

But we should also be wary of what we post, like or tweet. Let’s try to be grown-ups here.

Believe what you like; do what you like. Don’t post bong rips or beer bongs on the Internet for all to see.

Even if these bills are signed into law and technically protect us from others using our private, personal information against us, we’ll have to deal with the hassle of informing the institution or organization that they’re overreaching, and then we’ll have to file and wait for civil action to run its course.

Senate Bill 344 does not outwardly prohibit universities from requesting students or prospective students to add them on their social media sites, unlike House Bill 2654. This is cause for concern, and all the more reason for us to be cautious of content we post on various social mediums.

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Heart attack symptoms vary from men to women

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e’ve all seen the stereotypical depiction of the man clutching at his left side, collapsing and calling 911 to say he’s having a heart attack, usually in a commercial for some brand of Aspirin. It’s an image ingrained into our collective subconscious as firmly as the, “Help, I’ve fallen and I can’t get up,” Life-Alert commercials.

You’d think that the symptoms of a heart attack would be the same for everyone — it’s a biological thing, right?

Internal organs-wise, we’re all essentially the same, right?

Wrong. Well, a man’s heart isn’t that much different from a woman’s — we’re all human, and have the same basic building blocks — but a heart attack in a woman can present symptoms differently than one in a man.

I don’t know why more people don’t know that heart attacks aren’t always signaled by the crushing chest pain and radiating numbness in the left arm and shoulder. It could be that the signs have been simplified for 30-second commercial spots or for dramatic effect for so long, we never think to look any deeper.

If the TV says it’s true, no reason to doubt that, right?

Or it could be the fallacy that women don’t have to worry about heart attacks, or maybe it’s due to a media-industrial complex that is still in the midst of slowly climbing its way out of traditional misogyny.

Hopefully this isn’t information college students will need anytime soon, but heart disease can affect people of all ages.

It’s better to have the knowledge and not need it than to need the knowledge

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The American Heart Association says more than 7.2 million women in the United States have heart disease, and that the number one cause of death for women is coronary heart disease.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention attribute a full quarter of the female death rate in the United States to heart disease — that’s one in four, and those numbers include accidents and cancer.

While the average age for a woman’s first heart attack, 70, is higher than that of a man’s, women are also more likely to die from a first heart attack.

But don’t take the high average age to mean it’s not something to worry about now — the American Heart Association recommends beginning to keep an eye on your cholesterol by age 20.

Also, almost two-thirds of the women who die from a fatal heart attack will have had no previous symptoms of heart disease.

The big problem is the deviation from the traditionally recognized signs of a heart attack. For instance, the crushing chest pain that we associate with the onset of a heart attack can be so mild that it “sometimes feels like indigestion or heartburn,” according to the National Institute of Health.

Other common symptoms include nausea; fainting; dizziness; shortness of breath; stomach pain; abdominal bloating; severe pain in the upper-right abdomen; sweating; vomiting; weakness; fatigue; pain in the back, jaw, neck

or arms, according to the New York Presbyterian hospital and the National Institutes of Health’s National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. The list continues, but these are the most common.

All or some or even none of the above symptoms may be present when or some time before a woman suffers a heart attack, which is probably why diagnosing heart attacks or heart disease in women is such a pain in the neck.

It’s quite a shopping list of symptoms.

GoRedForWomen.org is a fundraising site to support the eradication of and education about heart disease in women. The organization reports an anecdote of a woman who thought the symptoms of heart disease were merely complications with or symptoms of her current pregnancy. Apparently, even her doctor thought her self-diagnosis was correct on an initial consultation.

After her child was born, and the symptoms didn’t go the way the baby weight did, she was diagnosed with congestive heart failure.

The symptoms of a heart attack, or of heart disease, can even be mistaken for the initial signs of a pregnancy.

The most crucial thing to do when you think you or someone you know is having a heart attack, the CDC, AHA and NIH agree, is to not be afraid or embarrassed to be wrong. If it could be a heart attack, call 911 or your local emergency clinic.

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Letter to the Editor Nick Rosoff

The epitome of what is wrong with student government The stereotype of ASOSU being an ineffective, lumbering organization on par with Godzilla indiscriminately destroying Tokyo comes from somewhere and for the last few weeks that somewhere has been Nick Rosoff.

For those of you who missed it, he exercised his right to a trial in front of the judicial branch regarding the sanctions placed upon his presidential campaign. The sanctions had already occurred before the trial and, in my mind, it would be difficult to give him recompense for a punishment that had already happened. I was curious to find out what he thought would satisfy his voracious appetite for justice so I attended the trial. During the opening statement I was interested to hear that essentially what Rosoff was asking for was an apology.

And so I sat in MU 212 for two hours and listened to Rosoff whine about how he had been mistreated and how he deserved an apology.

An apology? Really, Rosoff?

You wasted everyone’s time at that trial. Your trial was filled with more fake drama then an episode of The Hills.

Your indignancy borders on lunacy. If you didn’t want the sanction, you shouldn’t have campaigned before the start date. It’s really as simple as that, and the judicial branch thought so as well.

Flash forward to last week when he sent an email to the executive branch demanding to see records of what ASOSU had accomplished in the past year. Nowhere in the statutes does it say that he has the power to do this and, to make it worse, he attached the names of other legislators as if they supported him in this when they hadn’t been contacted.

And then after the executive branch politely declined with the support of the speaker of the house, Nick’s boss, he followed up with an indignant email to the president of ASOSU which you can read in the April 23rd edition of the Barometer. Spoiler alert: it doesn’t paint Rosoff in a great light.

At this point, I think Rosoff is trying too hard to live out a House of Cards scenario in which he can imitate a South Carolingian accent and turn to the camera to explain his motives which would actually be an improvement on his current situation because at least then someone would understand why the heck he’s doing this.

Rosoff is the epitome of what is wrong with student government, as he appears to be in a penis-measuring contest with no one but himself. He feels he’s been wronged at every turn and like a spoiled child, believes that if he’s unhappy everyone else should be too. I’m glad he didn’t make it through the general election because someone with his childish attitude and warped sense of entitlement doesn’t deserve to be dictator of North Korea, let alone president of ASOSU. Tim Daniel OSU student, sociology

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Finding a place among the greats Sophomore Storm Woods hopes to make the jump to an elite college running back

forever carrying the football for the OSU Beavers.

There’s Ken Simonton, OSU’s all-time leading rusher on the far left. He ran for 5,044 yards and 59 touchdowns.

By Andrew Kilstrom Then there’s Steven Jackson, The Daily Barometer Anyone who attended an Oregon a future NFL hall-of-famer, to State game last season probably Simonton’s right.

Next to Jackson is Yvenson Bernard, noticed the equipment truck parked by the giant football statue in front of OSU’s third all-time leading rusher with 3,862 career yards.

Reser Stadium.

The last player who graces the Oregon State’s last four running backs — former faces of the pro- semi’s side is JacQuizz Rodgers, one gram — are painted on the side of of the most popular athletes to ever the truck, immortalized in OSU his- wear the orange and black.

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Woods celebrates one of three touchdowns against Utah on Oct. 20, 2012.

Woods finished with 13 touchdowns in his redshirt freshman campaign.

to come through here,” said head coach Mike Riley. “Those are some big shoes to fill.”

Since Rodgers’ departure to the NFL after the 2010 season, Beaver fans has been waiting for the next great back, the next player worthy of a spot on the “running back” bus.

It could be Storm Woods.

Since Woods took over as the starter last season, he has had varied success on the football field.

He has battled knee injuries and concussions, and has split carries with junior Terron Ward.

But Woods still managed 940 yards and 13 touchdowns in 2012, despite only carrying the ball 192 times. He has bigger aspirations for next year.

“I’m going to get 1,000 yards this season, at least,” Woods said.

Woods looks comfortable as the starting running back during spring practice. He should, considering last year’s spring camp is when he started making noise.

Most people assumed Malcolm Agnew — who transferred to Southern Illinois during the winter — would start at halfback in 2012.

But Woods stole the spotlight — and the carries — because of his overall game: running, receiving and pass blocking.

He has used spring camp this year as a stepping stone to elevate his game even further.

“Spring’s your chance to break out, learn the system and make your mistakes,” Woods said. “In the fall, you don’t want to make mistakes going into the season.”

Woods called on one of the greats — one of the same people that looks mitch lea | THE DAILY BAROMETER as if he is running out of the side of Sophomore running back Storm Woods watches the action against Utah See WOODS | page 5 on Oct. 20, 2012. Woods ran for 940 yards last season.

Wheaton, Poyer working out in Corvallis, ready for draft Markus Wheaton, Jordan Poyer likely will be drafted in the second or third round in the NFL Draft on Friday

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It was 10 months ago when cornerback Jordan Poyer and wide receiver Markus Wheaton, who were entering their final season at Oregon State University, made the concerted effort to make the team better.

It started as one-on-ones with quarterback Sean Mannion throwing but eventually the team bought in. Last season ended up being the biggest turnaround in wins in program history.

It is only fitting that the two are once again back in Corvallis and working out together every day in preparation for the 2013 NFL Draft.

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But he was still on Monday: “One of the lesser-known but “I’m not nervous considered to be a super productive wide receivers in this draft, yet,” Wheaton said. mid-round pick in Wheaton will surprise you with serious burst; “But I’m sure I will I’m not nervous. the draft. However, he has great acceleration out of his breaks, and be when the time But I’m sure I will be when after standing out at you see him used in reverses and other plays comes.” the Senior Bowl on where the design is purely to get him a touch.

The first round of the time comes.

Jan. 26 and finishing Combine that with his reliable hands, and you the draft is Thursday, among the top four have an early contributor.” which is also Poyer’s Wheaton is flying down to Arizona on receivers in three birthday. Neither is Markus Wheaton of seven drills — Wednesday and will join his family for the expected to go in Former OSU wide receiver bench press, 20- and draft. He said he has been thrilled to be back the first round, but 60-yard shuttle — at in Corvallis and to be able to unwind after the Friday — rounds two and three — is the likely scenario for Wheaton the NFL Combine in late February, Wheaton last three months.

“It’s just been really busy,” Wheaton said. and a possibility for Poyer, according to most seems to be a lock to be picked on Friday.

ESPN draft expert Mel Kiper Jr. put Wheaton “Flying out to visit teams, going to the Senior draft experts.

Both Poyer and Wheaton have heard from on his list of 24 rising NFL draft prospects.

See WHEATON | page 5 This is what Kiper Jr. wrote about Wheaton teams, and Wheaton said he has been flying all over the country for individual workouts, but both are still clueless about who will call their names.

“I have no idea,” Poyer said. “Anything can really happen on draft day. I know teams that are interested in me, but at the end of the day, you just don’t know what’s going to happen.”

Poyer was a First Team All-American at cornerback in 2012. He was tied for second in the nation with seven interceptions, was 26th in passes defended with 14 and has also served as the team’s primary punt returner for three seasons.

Known for his intangibles already, Poyer has been aiming at physical improvement in preparation for the NFL. “I play big, but the NFL guys are bigger,” Poyer said. “I’ve just really been focusing on getting my weight up, getting stronger, still watching film every day.”

Poyer will be in Salem with family over the weekend for the draft.

Wheaton has seen his stock rise since the season ended. The Chandler, Ariz., native had 91 receptions (14th in the nation) for 1,244 yards (14th) and 11 touchdowns (T-13th) and was neil abrew | THE DAILY BAROMETER named First Team All-Pac-12. He also became OSU’s all-time leader in receptions, breaking Markus Wheaton snags a touchdown in traffic against Washington State on Oct. 6. Wheaton the mark set by James Rodgers the year prior. is expected to be drafted in the second or third round of the NFL draft on Friday.

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up that I always listen to. “Burn it Down” by Nickelback mostly, and then a bunch of random Jesus music.

Q: If you could meet any one person who has died already who would it be?

A: Oh, I would pick John Wooden because I just think his philosophies of coaching were Kelsi Schaer so great. I wish I could have lived when he was coaching. class at OSU so far?

Q: What’s the best advice anyone has ever A: Probably macroeconomics because Mike Nelson teaches it and he’s one of my favorite given you?

A: Well, just some background, when I was teachers of all time. in high school running was something that Q: If you could have any superpower what was super stressful. I would just be in tears would it be? over meets because I was so stressed. One A: To teleport, because then I could travel a time my dad was like “You know, you’ve been bunch of different places and it wouldn’t cost given this gift not to be fearful of it, but for me any money. it to bring you joy.” After that talk I’ve never Q: Who has the best sense of humor on been anxious before a race ever again. It was the team? honestly a miracle.

A: Probably either Aly Nielson or Hailey Q: What’s your favorite food?

Hunt. They’re a funny combo.

A: Oh, steak. By far.

Q: What’s your favorite Disney movie and Q: What’s your favorite steak house? who’s your favorite Disney character?

A: The Ringside in Portland. [My family] A: “The Little Mermaid” because of Ariel. Her goes there for all our birthdays. It’s so good. and I have that red hair going on.

Alex McCoy, sports reporter Q: Do you have a pre-meet playlist?

On Twitter @alexmccoy21 A: I have a couple songs that pump me sports@dailybarometer.com Q: If you weren’t running track, what other sport would you play at OSU? A: Probably either football or baseball.

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WOODS n Continued from page 4 the “running back” truck — as a resource.

JacQuizz Rodgers has served as Woods’ mentor over the past two years, helping him adapt and thrive in the same college football landscape in which Rodgers excelled just three years ago.

“It’s great having a mentor like JacQuizz Rodgers. He’s a great guy,” Woods said. “He helps me with every aspect of the game.”

The two constantly correspond on Twitter and trade text messages after games.

Rodgers never lets Woods off easy if he has a bad game, Woods said.

“He dogs me sometimes, like ‘you had three touchdowns against Utah, where’s the 100 yards,’” Woods said.

“Quizz gives me a hard time when my production’s low or when I don’t have the game I should have. With a [mentor] like [Rodgers], I have to live up to his name.”

Putting up the type of numbers Rodgers did at OSU — 3,877 yards and 46 touchdowns in three seasons — is hard to imagine, especially considering he has to share the spotlight with Ward this season.

But Woods says he enjoys having another back to share the workload with, even if it means fewer touches.

“He’s my eyes on the sideline just like I’m his,” Woods said. “If I see something I can say ‘Terron, hit that cutback’ or ‘Terron, use that speed.’ He does the same for me, so it’s definitely a plus.”

While Woods is still expected to be the featured back, both he and Ward have embraced the two-back system.

They see themselves as a Reggie Bush/LenDale White type of combination back when USC won a national championship.

“We’re thunder and lightning,” Woods said. “I love the competition. If I break a big run, he’s right behind me breaking one. Terron’s like a

brother to me.”

Woods showed flashes of the “lightning” last season. He has shown bursts of being the type of player who can carry an offense for stretches, but has not been able to maintain the output for extended periods.

Rodgers feels the same way, Woods said.

“He wants to see me reach my potential,” Woods said.

“I have a lot of potential, but it’s only a word if you don’t do anything with it.”

Woods is currently dayto-day with concussion-like symptoms and is unsure if he will play in Friday’s spring game.

Surpassing the great running backs who have played in the last decade will be difficult, if not impossible. Just don’t say that to Woods.

“I want to [leave my mark],” Woods said. “I want to have my picture on that truck.”

Andrew Kilstrom, sports editor On Twitter @AndrewKilstrom sports@dailybarometer.com

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Jordan Poyer checks with the referee to make sure he’s not offsides against Washington State on Oct. 6, 2012. Poyer was an All-American in his senior season.

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together in Corvallis like it’s the old days, it is clear there is a bond between the two OSU standouts.

“The odds of us being on the same team again Bowl, going to the Combine, I was in Texas train- aren’t in our favor,” Poyer said. “Working out ing. I finally get a chance to relax, being here, with him, going through this grind with him, going to the Senior Bowl and Combine together and I’m still working out, obviously.”

Wheaton and Poyer have lined up against — it’s been a crazy ride. It’ll be interesting to see each other in practice for four years now, since what happens at the next level. I’m sure we’ll end they were both true freshmen in 2009. The two up across from each other again.” turned from minimal contributors to team capWarner Strausbaugh, managing editor tains and All-Pac-12 or All-American selections.

On Twitter @WStrausbaugh As the two of them continue to workout managing@dailybarometer.com

Baseball notebook

By Andrew Kilstrom The Daily Barometer

• The No. 5 Beavers remain atop the Pac-12 standings despite dropping two games to 10th-place Washington last weekend. Luckily for OSU, No. 10 Oregon dropped two games to No. 13 UCLA allowing OSU to keep the top spot.

• Oregon State is the healthiest they’ve been all season.

Senior shortstop Tyler Smith and junior Jake Rodriguez look to be 100 percent, and sophomore left-hander Jace Fry is closer to returning from Tommy John surgery with each passing day.

• In the past 41 innings, the Oregon State offense has only managed to score 16 runs. The Beavers have been inconsis-

tent at the plate all season, and are in a slump entering the weekend series with USC. • Never known for power, Oregon State has maintained its reputation this season, hitting only 12 home runs as a team. That puts them tied for 158th in the nation. If you took away Michael Conforto’s six home runs, the Beavers would be 250th in the nation.

• Junior right-hander Scott Schultz showed why he’s one of OSU’s best players on Monday, throwing 7 1/3 innings of relief in the 14-inning victory. In 31 1/3 innings this season, Schultz has an earned run average of 1.15. That’s second best on the team behind junior left-hander Tyler Painton. He also has eight saves this year, which is good for 33rd in the

nation.

• Schultz isn’t the only Oregon State pitcher that’s been good this season, however. Seven different Beavers have an ERA under two this season, and OSU has the third lowest ERA in nation at 2.18, behind Arkansas and North Carolina.

• It’s been noted that OSU’s defense has been as spectacular as it has in the past. In fact, it’s actually been the school down south that’s impressed defensively. The Ducks are No. 1 in the nation in fielding percentage at .986. Oregon State is 63rd, with a .972 fielding percentage.

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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been able to communicate with investigators in a limited fashion from his hospital bed and told them that neither he nor his brother Tamerlan, now dead, had any contact with terrorist groups overseas. The official cautioned that the interviews were preliminary, however, and that Tsarnaev’s account needs to be checked out.

The 19-year-old has told investigators the brothers were self-radicalized via the Internet. Investigators also are looking into whether the online English-language magazine Inspire, put out by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, was used for instruction on how to make the bombs, but another source cautioned that other outlets could have provided that information.

The twin blasts just before the finish line of the April 15 race killed three people and wounded more than 260 and turned a chunk of downtown Boston into a crime scene, disrupting the normal routines of countless others.

Authorities slowly began allowing residents and business owners back into the area Tuesday. There was no word on when the street where the bombings occurred will be fully open to the public. That, the city says, will depend on how quickly building owners can make repairs and other issues.

Business owner Ed Borash was among those who returned Tuesday. He said he and his son narrowly missed injury in the bombing.

“I’ve had a tough time,” he said. “It’s just one of those things. It’s very emotional.”

Helena Collins, a businesswoman in the area, said it was important to get up and running again, but not just for economic reasons.

“For us and our business, it’s really about how do we get back to Boston, how do we band together, how do we help those that were seriously injured that are going to have lifelong struggles,” she said.

As of Tuesday evening, 43 people injured in last week’s attack remained hospitalized, one of whom is in critical condition, according to a CNN tally.

Meanwhile, two victims of the bombing were laid to rest.

Family members of 8-year-old Martin Richard held a private funeral Mass Tuesday, his parents said in a statement.

A public memorial service is planned, they said.

“The outpouring of love and support over the last week has been tremendous,” Denise and Bill Richard said in the statement. “We laid our son Martin to rest, and he is now at peace.”

Family, friends and colleagues mourned slain Massachusetts Institute of Technology police Officer Sean Collier at a private memorial service in Stoneham, Massachusetts, CNN affiliate WHDH reported.

A memorial service open to law enforcement officers and the MIT community is scheduled for Wednesday on MIT’s campus, the university said.

New details on officer’s slaying Collier was killed Thursday night, near the beginning of a wild 24 hours that culminated in Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s capture in the backyard of a home in Watertown, a Boston suburb. Authorities suspect Tsarnaev and his 26-year-old brother of killing the officer, though Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has not been charged in Collier’s death.

According to a source with direct knowledge of the investigation, Collier didn’t even have time to activate his emergency alert before being shot four or five times in the chest and head as he sat in his patrol car on the MIT campus.

It’s not clear why the brothers allegedly ambushed the officer, the source said.

The source said investigators believe the Tsarnaevs then carjacked a black SUV, took the driver hostage and drove past the scene of the shooting before going to a gas station.

Carjacking victim tells his story Investigators believe Tamerlan Tsarnaev carried out the car jacking while his younger brother was nearby at the time, a U.S. official told CNN Tuesday.

In an exclusive interview with CNN affiliate WMUR, a man identifying himself as the carjacking victim said he was worried for his life.

“They asked me where I’m from. I told them I’m Chinese,” WMUR quoted the man as saying. “I was very scared. I asked them if they were going to hurt me. They said they won’t hurt me. I was thinking, ‘I think they will kill me later.’ “ The man escaped when the brothers stopped to fill up the gas tank, running for his life as one of the brothers swore at him, WMUR reported.

Soon after, the brothers encountered police, setting off a furious gun battle in which authorities say they fired handguns and hurled explosives at pursuing officers before Tamerlan Tsarnaev was shot. As the younger brother fled in the vehicle, he apparently ran over Tamerlan, authorities said.

Suspect shopped at fireworks store More than two months before the marathon bombings, Tamerlan Tsarnaev bought two reloadable mortar style fireworks a New Hampshire store.

On February 6, Tsarnaev had one question for a store assistant at Phantom Fireworks in Seabrook, New Hampshire: “What’s the biggest and loudest thing you have?”

After that, store Vice President William Weimer said, Tsarnaev shelled out $200 cash for two “lock and load kits.”

One tweet from a hacked AP account resulted in a dip in the stock market

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(CNN) — Misinformation can spread quickly on Twitter, each retweet exposing it to wider audiences and even resulting in real world impacts.

On Tuesday, hackers took over the Associated Press Twitter account and falsely claimed that there had been explosions at the White House and that the president was hurt. The tweet was up for a few minutes and tweeted more than three thousand times before Twitter took the account offline. The AP immediately confirmed the news was not true, but it was up long enough to impact the stock market, which dropped 143 points.

Real tweets have the power to end careers, cause diplomatic tensions, fuel a revolution and find a kidney. Fake tweets can have the same ripple effects, and damage control is difficult. There is no way to edit or append a correction to a tweet, and once it has been retweeted, those 140 characters take on a life of their own. A follow-up

tweet with the correct information might not be seen by the same people.

“You want to respond as quickly as possible. Deleting the tweet is a good approach, but even if you delete it it’s obviously already out there,” said social media expert Krista Neher.

The AP incident is not the first time a tweet has influenced markets. In August 2012, an Italian journalist set up a fake Twitter account for a member of Russia’s government and tweeted that the president of Syria had been killed, causing brief fluctuations in the oil markets. The journalist was an experienced Twitter hoaxer, having previously posted fake tweets about the death of the pope and Fidel Castro and established a number fake accounts for world leaders. He claimed he did it to prove how unreliable social media is for getting accurate news.

A tweet doesn’t just trigger financial panic, it can also

strain diplomatic relations, as the U.S. Embassy in Cairo found out in April when the official Twitter account posted a link to a Daily Show segment critical of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi.

In March, someone posing as the U.S. ambassador to Moscow tweeted a criticism of the Russian presidential election process, which was picked up by the news media in Russia before it was revealed as a hoax.

The U.S. government responded with official statements in both incidents.

“The speed at which information spreads is so much quicker than it used to be, and Twitter is such a big part of that,” said Neher.

That was painfully evident late Thursday night during the manuhunt in Boston. A tweet mistakenly named a missing Brown University student as one of the suspects. Twitter latched on to the name, many assuming it was true even though it hadn’t been con-

firmed by the authorities.

A faulty tweet can have a negative impact on community or a family. Late last year a teenager posted a plea for help on Twitter saying there was someone in her house and asking people to call 911. The tweet went viral as friends and strangers expressed genuine concern for her safety (though no one on Twitter actually called 911).

The girl’s worried parents contacted the police when they discovered she wasn’t at home and it was quickly discovered that there was no invasion. She had run away from home and was later spotted on security cameras buying a train ticket to New York City.

The fast moving, viral nature of Twitter has its perils, but it can also be used for good.

Twitter highlights the impact of single tweets in its Twitter Stories series, tracking Tweets that go viral and result in positive impacts and happy endings.

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the use of deadly chemical weapons.� “According to our professional assessment, the regime has used deadly chemical weapons against armed rebels on a number of occasions in the past few months,� said Brun, according to quotes provided by the IDF. In a letter to the U.N. secretary-general in December, Syria said the United States had falsely accused it of using chemical weapons.

Before the Israeli official’s announcement Tuesday, a United Nations-led investigation was already looking into accusations of chemical weapons use by the Syrian government.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned Tuesday against jumping to conclusions by repeating the “Iraqi scenario� in which claims that Saddam Hussein’s government possessed so-called weapons of mass destruction were the basis of the U.S.-led invasion.

Lavrov accused other nations of “politicizing the issue.�

Further, he criticized how international investigators looking into an alleged use of chemical investigators in Aleppo had demanded access to to all facilities in Syria and to have the right to interview any Syrian. “I believe that is too much,�

Lavrov said.

U.S.: Chemical weapon use ‘difficult to confirm’ While he didn’t detail a possible U.S. response, White House spokesman Jay Carney on Tuesday called the potential use of chemical weapons inside Syria “unacceptable.�

At the same time, he said, “The use of chemical weapons is difficult to confirm.�

In addition to Syria’s possible use of chemical weapons against rebels, another concern is that parts of the government’s stockpile of chemical weapons — which analysts believe is one of the world’s largest and includes sarin, mustard and VX gases — could end up, if they haven’t already, in others’ hands.

A senior U.S. official told CNN on Tuesday that Syrian government forces have car-

ried out several movements of chemical weapons during the past month.

U.S. officials said they believe the chemical stockpiles remain under government control, but the movements have complicated the U.S. effort to keep track of them.

Asked last week at a hearing whether the United States could guarantee that it could secure Syria’s chemical weapons stockpile if the government were to fall, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was noncommittal. “Not as I sit here today, simply because they have been moving it, and the number of sites is quite numerous,� said Gen. Martin Dempsey.

Pentagon spokesman George Little said Tuesday that the U.S. stresses to Syria, “in the strongest possible terms, (its) obligations ... to safeguard its chemical weapons stockpiles and not to use or transfer such weapons to terrorist groups like Hezbollah.�

Addressing the press Monday, a day before Brun’s briefing, Israel’s defense minister did not seem to indicate that his government has absolute proof of chemical weapons use in Syria.

But if there was, Israel is prepared to act. “We are ready to operate if any rogue element is going to put his hands or any chemical agents are going to be delivered toward rogue elements in the region,� Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon said.

Analyst: ‘A fantastic weapon of fear’ Syria isn’t one of the 188 nations that have signed on to the Chemical Weapons Convention that prohibits the production, stockpiling and use of chemical and biological weapons. Fellow Middle Eastern nations having taken a similar stance, officially refusing to sign on until Israel signs the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Yet Syria has denied having such weapons, as well as using them during its ongoing civil war. (Damascus has accused rebels of using such

weapons, though, including in an attack last month in the northern province of Aleppo that state media claimed killed 25 people.) It’s also expressed concerns that its government might be falsely implicated if “terrorists� — a term it uses to refer to rebel fighters — employ such weapons. “What raises concerns ... is our serious fear that some of the countries backing terrorism and terrorists might provide the armed terrorist groups with chemical weapons and claim that it was the Syrian government that used the weapons,� the state-run news agency SANA reported.

Unlike nuclear weapons, chemical weapons are inexpensive to develop and stockpile.

This lends them a disproportionate importance for Syria and the region, analysts say. “In the Middle East, chemical weapons have been seen as a possible counter to Israel’s nuclear weapons,� Susan B. Martin of the Department of War Studies at King’s College London said in March.

Dina Esfandiary, a research associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said last month that Syria embraced a chemical weapons program as a way to bolster its strategic strength despite economic weaknesses, especially after Israel imposed a series of humiliating military defeats on the Arab world. “The best way to operate asymmetrically was for Syria to have its chemical weapons program,� she said.

According to Esfandiary, chemical weapons’ utility is “quite limited,� as they are more of a deterrent than a real battlefield or tactical weapon. “If you shoot a missile at a population center, you can be fairly certain that anyone it hits will die,� she said. “Chemical weapons use is not as clear-cut as that. It depends on topography, weather, how you deliver the chemical weapons, and you can’t always be clear it will cause maximum casualty.�

Their real power is in psychological, she said. “It’s a fantastic weapon of fear.�

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That’s what the head of the Israel Defense Forces intelligence research and analysis division said Tuesday, becoming the latest to allege that Damascus was employing weapons banned under international law against its own people.

The claim further stoked the debate about the international community’s role in Syria, where the United Nations estimated this month that 70,000 people have been killed since the conflict flared in March 2011. U.S. President Barack Obama, for one, has said the Syrian government’s use of chemical weapons against its own people would be a “game changer� in how his and other nations address the crisis.

On Tuesday, his nation’s top diplomat said Tuesday that the United States does not know definitively that such chemical weapons had been deployed.

In fact, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also did not confirm the use of such weapons when the two spoke by phone earlier in the day. “The information that I have at this point does not confirm it to me (in a manner) that I would feel comfortable commenting on it as a fact,� Kerry said.

Israeli Brig. Gen. Itai Brun, though not offering any direct evidence, stated firmly on Tuesday the belief that Syrian forces have increasingly used “ground-to-ground missiles, rockets and chemical weapons.�

He specified that sarin gas — an odorless nerve agent that can quickly kill thousands by causing convulsions, paralysis and respiratory failure — was most likely used, as were “neutralizing and nonlethal chemical weapons.� Brun pointed to one episode on March 19 in which, he said, “victims suffered from shrunken pupils, foaming from the mouth and other symptoms which indicate

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