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Drag queens, drag kings to strut the stage in this year’s show in the Memorial Union

By Irene Drage

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Dominae Trixxx is the stage name of one of the drag queens who will be performing in the Spring Drag Show, Friday at 8 p.m. in the Memorial Union ballroom.

Trixxx started doing drag just last term, and said her first experience in drag was a “pseudo drag, more androgynous thing.” She said she continued with it because she had lots of fun with it, and got good feedback.

Drag is the practice of dressing in the opposite gender’s clothing for performance or attention purposes, as oppose to transvestitism, which involves cross-dressing to fit the gender a person feels he or she should be.

Drag queens and drag kings are not a recent phenomenon, nor is the practice of cross-dressing on stage. In Shakespeare’s time, women were not allowed on stage — so men dressed and See SHOW | page 2

OSU faculty senate votes to close teacher evaluations after finals, before posted grades

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By Don Iler and Warner Strausbaugh Oregon State Police investigated a suspicious package that was found in the Siuslaw National Forest Headquarters on the west side of the Oregon State University campus at 3200 SW Jefferson Way on Thursday afternoon.

The package was determined to be a laptop and not dangerous. “[ The Explosive Ordinance Disposal unit] went in, checked the device out — standard protocol — X-rayed it, looked at it and determined that it was a laptop,” said Sgt. Eric Judah of the Oregon State Police. “We’re still securing it and at this point it’s a federal investigation.”

Forest Service employees called Oregon State Police after the package was found. The employees followed Forest Service protocol, which calls for all suspicious packages to be investigated.

Police received the call at approximately 3 p.m. to the Siuslaw National Forest Headquarters. Police secured the building and waited for EOD to arrive from Salem.

“According to their protocol, they treated this package as suspicious,” Judah said. “Troopers from the Oregon State [Police] office here came over, secured the building, evacuated this section of the building and we got the OSP bomb squad en route.”

The Disposal team arrived at 4:15 p.m., suited up and entered the building. The evidence was secured and will be given to the FBI, as the Forest Service is a federal agency. The building was declared all clear at 4:45 p.m.

“I’m glad that things are OK, and glad that we evacuated just as a precautionary measure,” said Jerry Ingersoll, forest supervisor for Siuslaw National Forest. “It’s the right thing to do.”

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Oregon State police Sgt. Eric Judah reports no threat over the phone while the Explosive Ordinance Unit member removes his gear after analyzing the suspicious package.

Although the FBI will hold an open investigation, Judah said the laptop is not considered a serious threat anymore, and they’re taking precautionary measures.

“We’re taking it back and putting it in our evidence room, so we don’t think there’s anything dangerous about it,” Judah said. “But we don’t know if there’s a suspicious circumstance behind the laptop getting here, and that’ll be what the FBI looks into.”

Most of the staff at the Forest Service building went home after evacuation, and Ingersoll said work will resume at the building tomorrow.

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Sgt. Judah tells Siuslaw National Forest supervisor Jerry Ingersoll and employees of the Forest Services building that the threat has subsided.

Finals week is marked by cumulative exams, 10-page essays, caffeine, stress and those nagging emails from Oregon State University asking students to fill out an online student evaluation of teaching survey.

Every OSU student is familiar with the electronic student evaluation of teaching (eSET) survey, but few realize the eSET has been experimenting with different closing times in order to find one that is best for everyone involved.

After almost two years of experimenting, a common closing time has been [The students] decided.

The O S U really expressed faculty senthat it was ate decided on important to Thursday that eSET will, from them to give this point forthoughtful feedward, close at back, and they 8 a.m. on the Monday follow- felt they couldn’t ing finals week.

Grade access do that with the will be blocked short timeframe. to students until the evaluations Stefani Dawn are completed.

Asst. director of Three options Academic Programs, regarding the Assessment and closing date for Accreditation the electronic student evaluation of teaching surveys (eSET) were presented to the faculty senate. Option A would have closed the eSET at 7 a.m. on the Monday of finals week. Option B closed it after finals and before grades were posted, and option C closed it after both finals and grades were posted. Option B received 47 votes, while option A received 16 and option

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OSU professor helps provide research to prepare Oregon schools for future earthquake

By Ryan Dawes

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Two years ago, Japan experienced shockwaves surging through the country as a 9.3 magnitude earthquake hit off shore. A similar-sized quake, coming from the Cascadia fault just a few miles west off of Oregon’s coast line, is predicted to strike Oregon at any given time in the future.

With the work of researchers, such as Oregon State professor Dr. Chris Goldfinger, Oregon may be better prepared for such an event in the future.

“We’re behind some in preparation,” said Cory Grogan, Oregon Emergency Management public information officer. “However, we now have a tangible 50-year plan to be ready in the event of an earthquake, and have many people committed to making Oregon infrastructure as safe as possible in such an event.”

Goldfinger’s research into the history of earthquakes has shown that Oregon has had several major earthquakes in the past, and will likely

have more in the future. It is possible that within the next 50 years a major earthquake will emanate from the Cascadia fault, striking the Oregon Coast. The southern coast is considered at the highest risk. Because of this, Goldfinger and other specialists continue to study this phenomenon and educate the general population of the danger.

“Dr. Chris Goldfinger is a leading scientist in his field, and a scientific celebrity,” said Edward Wolf, a seismic safety writer. “His work is signfincant to everyone living in western Oregon, and for anyone in the world living near subduction zones.”

Goldfinger obtained a Ph.D. in geology and geophysics from Oregon State in 1994. He then became a professor at OSU, teaching classes and conducting research. Additionally, he works as a consultant regarding seafloor surveying and earthquake hazards, including how they may be mitigated, and has 18 peer-reviewed works published.

“Oregon State is very lucky to have a professor like Dr. Goldfinger,” Grogan said. “Not only is he a major leader in his field, but he is also a great teacher.”

Recently in his work to further the awareness of Oregon’s earthquake

potential, Goldfinger attended an event at Central Elementary School in Albany.

The school’s structure had just been remodeled and improved, thanks to a new state initiative to prepare Oregon schools for the potential earthquake, and the event following the re-construction sought to educate

the students about earthquake safety.

“That he is personable enough that he will visit an elementary school is remarkable and exciting,” Wolf said.

“We can feel proud as Oregonians to have a scientist like Dr. Goldfinger in our community.”

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Dr. Chris Goldfinger has researched the history of earthquakes, showing Oregon will have more to come.

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Obama goes small on Texas jobs tour AUSTIN, Texas (CNN) — In Texas on Thursday, President Barack Obama used some small-scale campaign tactics to help push his political message.

On a one-day trip the White House called a “Middle Class Jobs and Opportunity Tour,� the president made four separate stops.

He visited with groups of students, local residents, entrepreneurs and tech professionals and toured a high school robotics classroom. He also ate lunch with workers and watched demonstrations at a tech start-up incubator.

Obama’s two speeches were more policy prescriptions than campaign rallies. The rhetoric was less soaring, the crowds were tamer and the message was partly aimed at pushing back against pessimistic perceptions of the U.S. economy, which has recovered slowly from recession. “You might not know this because if you listen to all the doom and gloom in Washington, in politics, and you’re watching cable TV sometimes, you might get kind of thinking nothing is going right,� the president said, addressing a crowd of 400 students, teachers and local officials at Manor New Technology High School. “But the truth is there’s a lot of reasons for us to feel optimistic about where we’re headed as a country, especially after all the tough times that we’ve been through over the last several years.�

On a conference call with reporters, Deputy White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said the president’s trip to Austin was intended to build on the themes he laid out in his State of the Union address

in February: job creation, educating the Department of Energy will contribute $70 American work force and expanding the million, and the Department of Commerce and the National Science Foundation will middle class. “[The trip is] an opportunity for the contribute $30 million each.

Already, the Obama administration has president to illustrate what he views as priorities for expanding the middle class,� created one such institute in Ohio, and it will encourage states to compete for the Earnest said.

Gene Sperling, director of the presi- right to host one of the new ones.

As for why the president chose Austin dent’s National Economic Council, added that middle class job creation has been as the site of his renewed push for growtha constant focus of Obama’s economic centered policies, the president said the policy. But the U.S. economy, he added, area is representative of a lot of innovative is a “story that is still being written and is communities around the country. “There are some terrific things going on dependent on policies.�

With the right policies, Sperling said in this area, in communities like Manor,� the president said. “And the country will be “on a there are terrific things path to a manufacturing going on in communirenaissance.�

He came to ties all across the counThose policies include Austin,Texas, try that are good modtwo executive actions els for all of America to announced as part of the and he came here follow.� trip. One creates three because we are a After meeting the new Manufacturing success story. president on the tarInnovation Institutes and mac in Austin, Texas a second ordering newly Governor and former released government Rick Perry GOP presidential candata be made digitally Governor of Texas didate Rick Perry was available for free. more boastful about why The manufacturing institutes will be partnerships between Obama chose his state to visit. “He didn’t go to Detroit,� Perry said. the business community, higher education and the federal government geared “He didn’t go to Chicago. He didn’t go to toward the development and production some of the cities in California that have declared bankruptcy. He came to Austin, of new technologies.

Combined, the three new institutes Texas, and he came here because we are will cost $200 million, Sperling said. That a success story. Whether you are playing money will come from across several for the red team or whether you are playgovernment agencies. The Department of ing for the blue team you like to hang out Defense will contribute $100 million, the with a winner and Texas is a winner.�

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played all the female roles.

Julian Eltinge was one of the most famous female impersonators in the early 20th century. He was a stage and screen actor, and had his own magazine near the end of his career. He was often quoted as saying, “I’m not gay, I just like pearls.�

Debate still rages about Eltinge’s sexuality 80 years after his death.

Some drag queens have made history. It is rumored that drag I’ve been excited queen Sylvia Rivera instifor [the Spring Drag gated the famous 1969 Stonewall Riots, which Show] all month. kicked off the LGBTQ civil rights battle that is Dominae Trixxx still being fought in the Spring Drag Show performer Supreme Court.

Rivera threw pennies and quarters at the police who had come to arrest homosexuals and cross-dressers at the Stonewall Inn gay bar. In 1969, it was illegal to serve alcohol to gays, or to wear less than three items of gender-appropriate clothing. If police weren’t sure if a person’s clothing was appropriate for their gender, that person had to submit to a “gender check.�

For Trixxx, drag is more of a hobby. “It’s just something fun I do, I haven’t been doing it that long,�

Trixx said.

Tickets, which are free, have been available in MU 103 since Monday. There will also be a limited number of tickets available at the door.

The Spring Drag Show is being put on by the Rainbow Continuum as a part of Pride week, which has been going on all week.

Trixxx has been excited for the upcoming show, “I’ve been excited for it all month,� Trixxx said.

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Over the last five terms, spanning from fall 2011 to winter 2013, the closing date of eSET changed as part of a study to determine student response rates. This study, conducted by the Office of Academic Programs, Assessment and Accreditation, found that the best total response rate came when the eSET closed after both finals and grades were posted. Despite an average total response rate of 89.5 percent, this option was an unpopular one on Thursday afternoon.

Based on information garnered at the end of spring term 2012 and fall term 2012, closing the eSET after finals but before grades are posted — option B — had a total response rate of 76.5 percent. Despite having a lower total response rate than option A, several members of the senate said that option B best reflected the needs of both the faculty and the students. “From an assessment perspective, the option that produces the most responses of the students increases the reliability of the data and the info that’s provided for it,� said Stefani Dawn, the assistant director of Academic Programs,

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Assessment and Accreditation. “Of the three options, it wasn’t the highest of the response rates possible, but at least it was a comparably high response rate.�

As part of the study done to determine the best closing date for eSET, more than 250 student comments were gathered and the senators made sure to honor the spirit of the student input during Thursday’s meeting. “[The students] really expressed that it was important to them to give thoughtful feedback, and they felt like they couldn’t do that with the short timeframe,� Dawn said. “Their priority goes to their learning, their priority goes to taking their exams [and] finishing their assignments, and doing the eSETs falls below that.�

A concern voiced by faculty senator Michelle Barnhart, from the College of Business, was that the faculty will have students evaluating their class online that never actually showed up for lecture.

While this concern was shared by other senators, it was noted that it will be impossible to ensure that those filling out the eSET are indeed the students that go to class, unless eSET stops being electronic and goes back to the paper form version.

Alex Crawford, news reporter news@dailybarometer.com

Calendar Friday, May 10 Meetings

OSU Chess Club, 5-7pm, MU Commons. Players of all levels welcome.

Saturday, May 11 Events

Ettihad Cultural Community, 5-8pm, MU Quad. Celebrate the grand opening of Ettihad. Free food, cultural booths and performances.

Tuesday, May 14 Meetings

ASOSU Senate, 7pm, MU 211. Weekly meeting.

Educational Activities Committee, 5:30-7pm, Student Media Conference Room, 120 MU East/Snell Hall. Discuss funding requests and policy changes.

Wednesday, May 15 Meetings

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

Speakers

Pride Center, 2-3pm, Pride Center. Jennifer Boylan, author of multiple pieces including a best-selling memoir She’s Not There. We will be serving lunch and guests will have an opportunity to ask questions.

Events

Native American Longhouse Eena Haws, Noon-3pm, MU Quad. 15th Annual Salmon Bake. A cultural celebration with traditionally cooked salmon, other free food, drumming, singing and dancing.

Thursday, May 16 Meetings

Baha’i Campus Association, 12:30pm, MU Talisman Room. Learning through consultation. Devotions and discussion.

SIFC, 6:30pm, MU 207. Weekly meeting.

Educational Activities Committee, 5-6pm, Student Media Conference Room, 120 MU East/Snell Hall. Discuss funding requests and policy changes.

OSU College Republicans, 7-8pm, StAg 132. Come join us for fun events and friendly discussion.

Friday, May 17 Meetings

OSU Chess Club, 5-7pm, MU Commons. Players of all levels welcome.

Events

Native American Longhouse Eena Haws, 4-6pm, Native American Longhouse Eena Haws. The Grand Opening of the new Native American Longhouse Eena Haws.

Saturday, May 18 Events Pride Center, 10am-1pm, Finley Wildlife Refuge. Wildlife excursion. RSVP at Pride Center.

International Health Club, 8am-5pm, Milam Auditorium 026. 3rd International Health Conference. Theme: Upstream Global Health. Breakfast and lunch provided.

Native American Student Association, 1-10pm, Gill Coliseum. 37th Annual Klatowa Eena Powwow. Experience Native American culture. Drum groups, dancers and Native American crafts/food will be present. Free dinner at 5pm for first 200 people to show up.

Sunday, May 19 Events International Health Club, 8am-Noon, Milam Auditorium 026. 3rd International Health Conference. Theme: Upstream Global Health. Breakfast provided.

Native American Student Association, 1-5pm, Gill Coliseum. 37th Annual Klatowa Eena Powwow. Experience Native American culture. Drum groups, dancers and Native American crafts/ food will be present.

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ea to Charles Ramsey, the Cleveland man who rescued three women from captivity after he heard one of them scream.

We like to think that in horrible situations, we humans can depend on each other to step up and do the right thing. Ramsey proves that even a dish washer who has done time in prison can redeem himself.

Nay to the inevitable Internet memes that have been created in the wake of Ramsey’s interview. Why is it that when a person of color gets in a dangerous situation and has a genuine reaction to it in front of a TV camera, the Internet world pokes fun at them? Whether it is Antoine Dodson, Sweet Brown or now Ramsey, we are concerned there is some latent racism at play in these memes.

Yea to summer. We are enjoying drinking iced tea, watching baseball games, laying in the grass and drinking cold beer. We hope you are too.

Nay to class sometimes getting in the way of enjoying summer.

Yea to the Oregon State Police and the Explosive Ordinance Disposal team who responded to a call of a suspicious package at the Siuslaw National Forest Headquarters on campus. We’re glad it turned out to be nothing, and we salute you for making other people safe and going toward the trouble when everyone else is going the other way.

Nay to the ASOSU House of Representatives once again not making quorum. We could point out how this ruins your already shot reputation as a body, but we know you already know what we think.

Yea to all the Pride Week events this week and to the Drag Show taking place Friday night.

Nay to longboarders almost running into you while you are just minding your own business on the sidewalk.

Nay to Lulu.

Yea to some staff members’ scores being higher on Lulu than we thought they would be.

Nay to umpires making bad calls.

Yea to all the athletes who have been sending in their responses to the “Face of OSU athletics” contest.

Nay to certain athletes big-timing us and not getting their responses in.

Yea to the song “Oxford Comma” by Vampire Weekend.

Nay to oxford commas in copy we need to edit.

Yea to the NBA Playoffs.

Nay to the final two minutes of play in a basketball game — why do they always have to drag it out for so long?

Yea to having breakfast on your front porch, reading the newspaper and enjoying the sun.

Nay to locking yourself out because one of your roommates locked the bottom doorknob that is broken.

Yea to it being Shasta Weekend. We are sending undercover reporters — be ready for the expose Monday morning.

Yea to the weekend. Enjoy some sunshine, check out the Etihad Cultural Center’s culture day in the quad Saturday and watch some Beaver softball as they play at home. Oh, and you could do some homework too, if the notion strikes you. Stay frosty.

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Greetings members of the Oregon State University community. My name is Thomas McElhinny, and with the help of my cohorts in the applied ethics master’s program here at OSU, I would like to help address any ethical conundrums, concerns and challenges we might face.

Discussing ethical concerns, and morality more generally, are often volatile conversations.

Questions concerning what it might mean to

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live a “good” life, how to act when values conflict and how to cultivate ethical habits are long standing and important avenues of inquiry.

Every week I intend to offer my perspective on situations sourced from the OSU community, and perhaps punctuate by answering emails with original content I find important, interesting and nutritive.

Speaking of emails: I need your help. Do you have an interesting ethical question or situation in your life? Email me at: AskAnEthicistOSU@ gmail.com. It can be anything from a concern

about lifestyle choices, conflicts with neighbors or business practices here in Corvallis. Surely, this is not an exhaustive list and I expect to see some novel questions.

My aim in this column is not simply about “solving” ethical puzzles, but about engaging the OSU community in a discourse centered on ethical issues. I hope this column will not only unlock some of the expertise already available in our networks, but expand it.

See you next week.

The ethics of posting pictures of others at a party D

ear Ask an Ethicist, This last weekend I was lucky enough to be invited to a great party, a real rager. The kind of party where you aren’t entirely sure you’ve found the right house yet, but everyone is having so much fun and being so friendly you just don’t care — and then you find your friends!

Anyway, toward the end of the night, when some folks were getting a bit sloppy, Snappy McPictureson decided to begin chronicling the evening. I didn’t see this happen, but I did see the aftermath posted on Facebook.

Here’s my question: Because I know that some employers and family members may not approve of certain activities, is it acceptable to take and post party pictures without the permission of party goers? Thanks!

-Slow Sunday I think we all know someone like Snappy. The guy or gal who shouts, “Oh, this is great,” while grabbing pictures of people who are clearly not at their best.

While we do have the constitutional right to take pictures and video of things that are visible from public spaces, including, but not limited to, police officers performing their official duties, there are limitations when it comes to audio recording and private spaces. Audio recording is not permitted carte blanche under Oregon law. While recording participants of a protest or individuals giving public speeches is protected, private conversations wherein all parties of the conversation are not informed are not allowed under the law.

As for private spaces, it is up to

Before moving on, I have to ask: Why are we performing in a way that is shameful enough to be worried that pictures of such acts might be the owner to determine if they are made public? Surely, a modicum of going to allow pictures and video to privacy should be expected. I’m not be taken on their property. This is ashamed that I shower, but I don’t the kind of statute that allows music want anyone sharing pictures of venues to remove patrons who are this act on the web. What seems to be implied by your question is that caught recording the event. some sort of moderately deviant Since your question pertained behavior was happening. The diffimore specifically to taking picture cult question one can arrive to seems and sharing them on various social to be something like: Are we trying media web sties, I’ll shift now from to keep these sorts of acts private as legal to ethical a tactical move to concerns. ensure employment As you noted in the future, or are What is important in your question, we actually feeling a social media sites to note is that being sense of shame? are blending our If it is the first allowed to do a thing personal and pubcase, that we see and it being a good what society deems lic personas in very interesting ways. I idea to do a thing are d e v i a n t , even encourage readers though we find it not the same. to check their privato be acceptable cy settings to ensure behavior, shouldn’t you are sharing only we work to transwhat you want. This form the society? Perhaps the cost is is easily done by logging in, clicking too high in the short run. However, the “privacy shortcuts” lock icon in if we do feel shame for our behavior, the upper-right corner of Facebook, for good reasons, perhaps Snappy reviewing who can see what and, isn’t the whole problem. most importantly, who can post and Snappy does seem to be a part tag you in pictures. of the problem. Since the pictures While there are some deeper were taken on private property, and concerns about social media and the owner did not ask him to stop, what many call the “digitization of it seems as though he’s allowed to the public,” a good line of defense take said pictures. What is imporagainst having unflattering pictures tant to note is that being allowed posted of us is to set up our pri- to do something and it being a vacy settings so all tags have to be good idea are not the same. The confirmed before they are publicly Internet is written in ink. As soon as the pictures were uploaded and linked to our profiles.

Thomas McElhinny

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approved by Facebook, they became a near-permanent fixture. Assuming one has his or her privacy settings arranged strictly, the picture is still out there to be seen, even without a tag to redirect to one’s profile. This creates a strange scenario where an otherwise legal action can lead to an undesirable state of affairs.

Aside from the fact that Snappy should try to live in the moment and actually enjoy the “rager” he or she was attending, a bit of reflection would probably make it evident that, given the choice, others might not like compromising photos of themselves posted online. To this point, none of us want compromising photos taken of us and put into the public eye, for any reason. Of course a little part of me is excited for the day when someone from my generation runs for public office and his or her Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc. pictures go public. Schadenfreude, or enjoying the troubles of others, at its best, or worst — or both, I suppose.

To answer your question, it seems as though we all have an interest in staying out of compromising shots.

Besides knowing our rights and being vigilant on our privacy settings, we can work together to tell Snappy, “Hey, put the phone away and dance a bit, there’s too much fun to have and you might be in front of the lens next time. Quit it.” t

Thomas McElhinny is a master’s student of applied

ethics. The opinions expressed in his columns do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Barometer staff.

McElhinny’s “Ask an ethicist” column will run weekly, every Friday. He can be reached at, and questions can be submitted at AskAnEthicistOSU@gmail.com.

Steven Christian is a senior in interdisciplinary studies

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Response to Pells May 9 versus column

‘Thank you’ Drew Pells Thank you, Drew Pells, for opening my eyes. I’d never heard anybody say — least of all you, in every piece you’ve ever written for the Barometer — that the government is really the cause of all society’s problems. Now that we know this, we no longer have to live in a society that shifts personal blame to others.

I enjoyed the history lesson, too.

I mistakenly thought that socially conservative, Protestant mothers

backlashing against the perceived nihilism of the “Roaring 20s” was the major cause of modern stigma against alcohol. Thank you for teaching me that it was really the government.

Likewise, I had no idea student irresponsibility is up! I tried to find some data to support your wise claim, but I was unable.

ily to a mother who had a chronic adrenal disease, which crippled our finances and my parents’ ability to contribute money to my college education. Silly me, I thought I was just trying to be responsible and deal with situations beyond my control. Thank you for teaching me that really I’m just lazy and too stupid to have gotten $100,000 for my college education, without having to ask the government to rob you for me.

Furthermore, I took out school loans because I was a fairly standard high school student and I Also, you are very correct, only didn’t have a six-figure job. Also, I was born into a middle class fam- things banned by the government

are addictions. Nobody is addicted to shopping, cigarettes, gambling, videogames or eating. Also, I thought alcohol was just regulated, but thanks for informing me that alcohol is actually “banned” by the government.

I weep for the future OSU students, who will be deprived of your boundless wisdom and depth of understanding on complex topics such as economics, psychology, government, politics and history.

Adam LaMascus Senior in history

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Sophomore long jumper Kaitlyn Mason flies through the air at the OSU High Performance on April 26.

This weekend marks the beginning of the championship portion of the season for the Oregon State track and field team. The Beavers will compete at the Pac-12 Championships, hosted by the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

The recurring theme for the team this spring has been consistent improvement.

Sophomore Kinsey Gomez has set new personal records in every race she has competed in this season, senior thrower Mary Claire Brenner has continually increased her throwing distances, oftentimes in consecutive throws within the same meet and senior Kristin Oenning recently set a new personal best in the high jump.

All of which has head coach Kelly Sullivan full of enthusiasm.

“I’m really excited about how young this group is, I’m really excited about the ones we redshirted and I’m really excited about this freshman class we’ve got coming in,” Sullivan said. “And I’m excited what this facility has meant in such a short amount of time.”

The Beavers will send a total of 12 athletes to the Pac-12 Championships this weekend, two of which are seniors: Oenning and Brenner.

“There’s nothing you like more as a coach than to see a senior go out on a real high note,” Sullivan said. “You’re really excited for [the seniors].”

The track and field team only graduates five seniors at the end of this year, and with 40 athletes total, will return a young group for next year’s season.

“You’re also really excited for the ones that this is their first trip, because that first experience at a meet like this is significant,” Sullivan said. “Good or bad, however it turns out, you’re going to learn a lot.”

Athletes representing the Beavers in uniform this weekend in the high jump include freshman two-sport athlete Sara Almen, freshman Lucinda Howard and Oenning.

Almen, who has only competed twice this outdoor season and won first place at both meets, will be jumping against senior Brigetta Barrett from the University of Arizona. Barrett claimed the silver medal in last year’s Summer Olympics in London.

In the 1500-meter race, Gomez and freshman Emily Weber will accompany sophomores Kelsi Schaer and Maureen Tremblay.

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This weekend’s conference road series with Stanford could be Oregon State’s biggest challenge to date.

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ince midway through the Pac-12 baseball season, it’s been clear that the conference championship was a two-horse race between the two Oregon schools.

The Beavers have been a perennial contender to win the Pac-12 since 2005, the Ducks since 2010. This will be the first year since Oregon brought back its baseball program five years ago that the conference title will come down to these two programs.

The two Oregon schools play in sweater weather for the first three months of the season, practicing indoors for the first half of the season while the California and Arizona schools bask in the sun.

But things have changed. Beaver and Duck fans have had May 17-19 marked on their calendars all year.

This will be the biggest Civil War baseball series in its history, and the most significant meeting between these two teams in any sport since football’s “War of the Roses” in 2009.

Not so fast, though.

This weekend’s trip to Stanford for No. 6 Oregon State holds as much weight as the clash with the No. 10 Ducks.

Although OSU (38-8, 17-4 Pac-12) has a higher winning percentage than Oregon (37-11, 19-5), the Beavers are actually 0.5 games behind the Ducks in the Pac-12 standings.

OSU’s three-game series with No. 25 Stanford (26-17, 11-10) has many implications that will affect the Civil War series. Oregon has a nonconference series against Ohio State and has played three more conference games than the Beavers.

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place in the Pac-12 standings, the No. 6 Beavers (38-8, 17-4 Pac-12) need to win two of three games against the No. 25 Cardinal (26-17, 11-10) to enter the Civil War tied with the Ducks and need a series sweep to carry a one-game lead.

Many have speculated that the Civil War series could decide the Pac-12 champion, but the Beavers know every series holds importance

in one of the toughest conferences in college baseball.

“We’re really taking it week by week, game by game,” said junior catcher Jake Rodriguez. “You can win Friday and Saturday, but that doesn’t matter for the Sunday game.

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The Stanford infield gathers during a pitching change in their 4-2 loss last season to Oregon State on May 5, 2012.

Oregon State pitcher Marina Demore did not expect to be called upon in the first inning of Thursday’s series-opener against UCLA. But after starter Tina Andreana walked five of the Bruins’ first seven batters, Demore found herself trotting out to the circle with the Beavers (33-20, 8-14 Pac-12) already down 2-0.

“I wasn’t [expecting it],” Demore said. “I was just trying to go out there, keep my team in the game and get out of it for Tina.”

Demore did just that, holding No. 15 UCLA (35-18, 8-14) scoreless the rest of the way as OSU won, 3-2, to snap a three-game losing skid.

Demore allowed four hits and walked three but consistently got outs when she needed them.

When she entered in the first inning, UCLA had the bases loaded with two outs. Demore struck out the first batter she faced to escape the jam.

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Q: If you could play any sport at OSU what would it be?

A: Maybe gymnastics because it looks super Maureen Tremblay fun or football because that would be awesome.

Q: What’s your favorite class at OSU so far?

A: I really like the education classes. The teachers there are super awesome.

Q: If you could be any superhero, who would you be?

A: Ironman because that seems pretty cool.

Q: Who has the best sense of humor on the team?

A: I’m going to say Kelly Audis. She’s super quiet, but once you get to know her she’s really funny.

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

A: Disney-Pixar has to be “Finding Nemo.”

BASEBALL n Continued from page 4 about the number of games.”

Considering Stanford’s ace, senior right-hander Mark Appel, is one of the best pitchers in the nation and the eighth overall selection in the 2012 MLB Draft, OSU will need to bring its “A” game.

Appel brings an 8-3 record and 1.56 earned run average into Friday’s game. While he will probably be the toughest pitcher the Beavers have faced this season, it couldn’t come at a better time for an OSU offense that has hit the ball well recently.

OSU has scored 27 runs in its last five games, averaging 5.4 per contest during that span. OSU is 95th in the nation in runs scored this year, averaging 5.7, but had cooled off at the plate during Pac-12 play until recently.

A reason for the recent surge has been the increase in power. The Beavers blasted three home runs in Sunday’s win over California. They had only hit 14 on the season entering the contest.

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And I guess Dory would be my favorite character.

Q: Do you have a pre-meet playlist? Who’s your favorite artist?

A: Ever since high school I listen to Eminem before every meet. Before every race I have to listen to “Til I Collapse,” “Rabbit Run” and “Lose Yourself” in that order right before the race.

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

A: Probably one of the famous track stars, like Jesse Owens or Wilma Rudolph.

Q: What’s the best advice anyone has ever given you?

A: Probably something my coach Travis Floeck said. He gives the best advice.

Q: What’s your favorite flavor of ice cream?

A: Oh, double fudge brownie Dreyers ice cream. It’s delicious.

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fielder Michael Conforto.

“Psychologically, we know we can hit the ball out of the yard a little bit. With three different guys doing that [last weekend], I know I can hit home runs. I know Dylan [Davis] can.”

OSU has played better defense of late as well, committing only two errors in the past five games. The middle infield of senior shortstop Tyler Smith and junior second baseman Andy Peterson have been particularly impressive in the past few games.

“Our defense is going to win us some games down the stretch,” Smith said. “We just need to continue playing solid and hopefully turn some more double plays to pick up our pitchers.”

The strength of the pitching staff has been well documented this season and has only gotten better as the season’s progressed. OSU carries the second-best ERA in the nation (2.06) into the weekend.

Head coach Pat Casey said this year’s staff could be the deepest he’s ever coached.

With weekend starters from last season — sophomore

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The worst thing the Beavers could do is have Oregon on their mind and come away with three losses against the Cardinal, meaning they would have to sweep the Ducks to take the lead in the conference.

Let’s not forget, too, the last time OSU went down to Eugene with a conference title in hand, the Ducks came away with the sweep and dashed OSU’s hope of winning the conference in 2011.

This is a much different team than two years ago; the Beavers have the deepest pitching rotation in college baseball, and there’s a strong case to be made that the 2013 team is the best squad in Pat Casey’s tenure — which includes two national champions.

To avoid the catastrophe of the Civil War series two years ago, the Beavers can help themselves by taking care of business against an underachieving Stanford team.

The Pac-12 coaches preseason poll had Stanford as the favorite to win the conference, and the Cardinal were ranked No. 9 in the national preseason poll.

After beginning the season with a record of 11-8 — including embarrassingly being swept by UNLV and losing two of three to Utah — Stanford has picked up its production. The Cardinal have won every Pac-12 series since, with the exception of Oregon.

They took two of three on the road against No. 13 Arizona State to get over .500 in Pac-12 play.

OSU is facing a Stanford team that has some momentum. And Friday night’s game will be no easy task.

Senior right-hander Mark Appel has been one of the best pitchers in baseball for the

Jace Fry and junior Dan Child — coming out of the bullpen, OSU is brimming with talented arms.

OSU starters have had a knack of going deep into ballgames this season, which has meant less innings for the bullpen.

“We’ve got guys throwing on Tuesday that could be throwing on Friday, like Dan Child,” Rodriguez said. “With that said, our bullpen [hasn’t pitched much] because our starters are only at 80 or 90 pitches in the eighth inning.”

With all three facets of the game working well, OSU is confident it can take down any Pac-12 opponent, including Stanford.

“It seems like the last three weekends, we’ve gotten all three things clicking,” Conforto said. “Pitching, hitting and defense. As long as we keep doing that, I think we’re unstoppable.”

The Beavers will try to keep their momentum rolling on Friday, with first pitch scheduled for 6:30 p.m., in Stanford, Calif.

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second straight season. Appel enters with a record of 8-3, 1.56 earned run average (tied 24th in the nation), 0.88 WHIP (15th) and 106 strikeouts (third). Appel was projected to be the first overall selection in the 2012 MLB Draft but fell to eighth. He turned down $3.8 million from the Pittsburgh Pirates to return to Stanford for his senior season.

He is once again projected to be the first pick in the draft. In Thursday’s “Top 100 draft prospects” rankings, ESPN’s Keith Law had Appel at No. 1.

“Appel is clearly the draft’s top talent, offering top-of-the-rotation stuff, great command and a more aggressive approach this year on the mound,” Law wrote.

The only loss Appel has suffered in a Pac12 series came against the Ducks two weeks ago, and he allowed only one run and struck out nine in 8 1/3 innings.

Friday night won’t be easy for the Beavers.

OSU needs to win two games at Stanford to be tied with Oregon heading into the Civil War series. The Appel vs. Matt Boyd matchup on Friday will be one of the best pitchers’ duels of the year, and it will set the tone for the rest of the series.

A lot of people might forget about this weekend’s Stanford series, only thinking about buying tickets for PK Park.

But don’t look past the Cardinal; they have the talent to take that series and put OSU in a position to have to sweep the Ducks to regain conference supremacy.

The Beavers have proven they can win the big series, but we haven’t seen them playing a big series with a bigger one looming close behind.

But if I’ve learned one thing from this team, it’s to never doubt them.

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Oregon State celebrates after its 10-2 victory against Utah on April 14. The Beavers have a four-game home winning streak after knocking off No. 19 UCLA on Thursday.

SOFTBALL n Continued from page 4 The Bruins’ first three batters of the third inning reached base right after OSU tied the game with back-to-back solo home runs in the bottom of the second inning. Demore induced backto-back ground balls — the second of which resulted in a double play — to get out of the inning unscathed.

“I hit my spot when I needed to, got ground outs when the bases were loaded,” Demore said.

The Bruins loaded the bases again in the fourth inning, but Demore got UCLA’s cleanup hitter, Mysha Sataraka, to pop out to right field to end the inning.

“We tend to make it hard on ourselves,” said head coach Laura Berg. “[Demore] did a really good job getting out of some tough innings. I’m proud of her.”

Berg was also proud of freshman Natalie Hampton, who finished the game 2-for-3 and hit her 15th home run of the season.

Hampton led the bottom of the second off with a laser shot over the right-field fence, an act followed by Desiree Beltran, who homered to left-center field the next at-bat.

“I saw that it was inside, and I like inside pitches, so I just got on time and I swung,” Hampton said. “It was low, it was a ball if I

didn’t swing at it. I went fishing and it worked.

“And to see Desiree come up and hit one right after me, I think that really set the tone for the rest of the game.”

Hampton delivered again the next inning, when she drove home Ashley Sanchez — who stole second base and advanced to third on a passed ball after reaching on a one-out single — to put the Beavers up, 3-2.

The RBI, which turned out to be the difference in the game, was Hampton’s 49th of the season — a single-season program record.

“Natalie was huge,” Berg said.

“She didn’t try to do too much.

She stayed within herself and did what Nat does. That was big-time.”

UCLA threatened in the seventh inning. Demore issued a leadoff walk, and a sacrifice bunt advanced the runner into scoring position. After getting a strikeout, Demore walked the next batter she faced to put runners on first and second with two outs.

With a full count on the next batter, Demore froze UCLA’s Brittany Moeai with a changeup to end the game.

“I was like, ‘I need to throw this changeup for a strike,’” Demore said. “I didn’t know if she was going to swing or not, but I knew if I threw it for a strike, that’s all I needed to do.”

The win was OSU’s fourth straight one-run win at home.

The Beavers swept Arizona two weeks ago in Corvallis, with all three games ending 2-1.

“We like them,” Hampton said of the Beavers’ down-tothe-wire games. “We will take them. Blood, sweat and tears, we will fight for them. So it’s a good feeling to win.”

“The close games are what’s going to help us in the postseason, because that’s what it’s going to be like,” Berg added.

“Going to be like that kind of atmosphere. These guys did great. They weren’t worried that they were down by two runs. It didn’t matter; they did a good job coming back.”

The Beavers will face the Bruins again on Friday at 3 p.m. in game two of the series, before closing out the regular season Saturday at 1 p.m. Nine seniors will be honored before Saturday’s game, which likely won’t be their last collegiate game. With 33 wins now, the Beavers are a virtual lock to hear their name called when the postseason field of 64 is announced on Sunday.

Now it’s all about gaining momentum and finishing the regular season on a high note.

“It’s a great win for us, just for our team and all our seniors,” Demore said. “It’s our last time out here, so we want these next two wins, too.”

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She’ll look to improve that even further this weekend.

Although Gomez has secured a spot at the regional competition in two weeks in Austin, Texas, the coaching staff has decided to place her in a shorter distance race to rest her as much as possible.

Freshman Kayla Fleskes will throw for the Beavers in the discus and javelin while former softball player Brenner throws in the shot put and discus.

Freshman Kira Kelly will run the 5K this weekend, and junior Taylor Nowlin will compete in the steeplechase.

“I’m really excited about this weekend,” Sullivan said. “I’m really excited about [Almen] and [Gomez] at regionals, but I’m really excited about next year and the year after.”

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Three long-missing women freed in Cleveland: Latest developments (CNN) — Three long-missing women — Amanda Berry, 27; Georgina “Gina” DeJesus, 23; and Michelle Knight, 32 — and a 6-year-old daughter apparently born to Berry in captivity — were found alive Monday in Cleveland, police said. The women are believed to have been abducted years ago — in 2002, 2003 and 2004 — and held captive at a man’s home, according to police.

A suspect, Ariel Castro, 52, was arrested Monday. Two of his brothers also were arrested, but authorities later announced that those two would not be charged in the case. On Thursday, bail for Ariel Castro was set at $8 million on four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape.

Here are recent developments: New development: — Angie Gregg, one of Ariel Castro’s daughters, said she learned by phone Monday her father’s house was taped off after three young women had been freed after being held captive for years.

“It was like everything crashed down, like I just wanted to melt into the floor,” Gregg told CNN on Thursday, upon hearing her father was a suspect. “I just wanted to die. I couldn’t believe it.”

— Ariel Castro “kept his house locked down so tight” and would sometimes leave mysteriously for an hour or so, then return, with “no explanation,” Gregg said. “Everything’s making sense now,” she added. “It’s all adding up, and I’m just disgusted.”

Previously reported developments: — Cleveland kidnapping suspect Ariel Castro confessed to some of his actions during the roughly decadelong period in which he allegedly held three women and repeatedly sexually assaulted them, a law enforcement source closely involved with the investigation said. The source did not describe precisely what Castro confessed to when he was interrogated by authorities.

— The three women and the child were rescued Monday after, according to a neighbor, screams came from the home.

— Angel Cordero and Charles Ramsey say they responded to the screaming by helping to kick in a door to help Berry escape.

— Berry and Ramsey called 911.

“Help me, I am Amanda Berry,” she begged the operator. “I’ve been kidnapped, and I’ve been missing for 10 years. And I’m here, I’m free now.”

— In addition to Berry and her 6-year-old daughter, police found DeJesus and Knight at the home; all three said they were held captive there,

according to authorities.

— Police later arrested Ariel Castro, who’s identified as a former school bus driver, and his two brothers. The three Castro brothers were together when they were arrested, at which time authorities felt “we had enough probable cause to bring them into custody,” Cleveland police Deputy Chief Ed Tomba said. But over the course of the investigation, officials “found no facts to link” Onil and Pedro Castro to the kidnapping case.

— Onil and Pedro Castro have been released from custody, Cleveland police tweeted Thursday. The two men appeared in court earlier in the day on misdemeanor cases unrelated to the three women’s alleged kidnapping.

— Bail for Ariel Castro was set at $2 million per case, for a total of $8 million, at his arraignment Thursday morning in Cleveland Municipal Court. In the four cases — one case for each of the women, and one for the 6-year-old girl — he was arraigned on a total of four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape. The state had asked for bail to be set at $5 million.

— Castro made “premeditated, deliberate and depraved decisions to snatch three young ladies ... to be used in whatever self-gratifying, selfserving way he saw fit,” Cuyahoga County assistant prosecutor Brian Murphy said Thursday morning during Castro’s arraignment.

— Later Thursday, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Prosecutor Timothy McGinty said that his office will seek charges against kidnapping suspect Ariel Castro “for each and every act of sexual violence, each day of kidnapping, all his attempted murders and each act of aggravated murder.” The attempted and aggravated murders refer to instances in which Castro allegedly was involved in “terminating pregnancies” of the women he held captive, according to McGinty.

— Authorities “will evaluate whether we will seek charges eligible for the death penalty,” McGinty added.

— Ariel Castro’s mother spoke briefly to Univision and Telemundo. “I have a sick son, who has done something serious,” she said. “I’m suffering very much. I ask for forgiveness from those mothers, may those girls forgive me.”

— In charging documents for Ariel Castro released Wednesday, police said that Castro lured Knight into his vehicle on Lorain Avenue on August 22, 2002, took her to his home, and over the subsequent years “repeatedly sexually assaulted” her. Police laid out the same scenario for Berry, who was allegedly lured into Castro’s

vehicle on the same road on April 21, 2003. DeJesus was allegedly lured into Castro’s vehicle on April 2, 2004, and, like the other two women, sexually assaulted repeatedly in the subsequent years.

— Angel Cordero, who helped rescue Berry and her daughter, said she told him they had to leave quickly before the suspect returned home.

“She said, ‘Let’s get out of here, because if that guy comes he’s going to kill us.

If he finds me here, he is going to kill me and he’s going to kill you.” Cordero also told CNN en Español that Berry’s daughter did not appear accustomed to being around many people. She was wearing only a diaper and a sullied shirt, the rescuer said.

— Knight, of Cleveland, was reported missing by a family member on August 23, 2002, said Martin Flask, Cleveland’s public safety director.

She was 21 at the time, according Cleveland police.

— Berry was last seen after finishing her shift at a Burger King in Cleveland in 2003. It was the eve of her 17th birthday.

— DeJesus, of Cleveland, disappeared nearly a year later, in April 2004. She was 14.

— Arlene Castro, a daughter of Ariel Castro, said on ABC’s “Good Morning America” that she was not especially close with her father, but had been a good friend of DeJesus, one of the women freed Monday. She said the accusations against her father have left her “really disappointed, embarrassed, mainly devastated,” adding that she is “absolutely so, so sorry” for the whole ordeal.

— The three women hadn’t left Ariel Castro’s property and had only gone outside “on two separate occasions ... briefly” in the years in which they were held captive, Flask said.

— Ariel Castro would often test his captives by pretending to leave, then returning suddenly to discipline them if they made any move to escape, a law enforcement source with direct knowledge of the investigation told CNN. Amanda Berry “just knew” that (suspect Ariel) Castro was gone at the time and “had hit her breaking point,” according to the source.

— The women “relied on each other for survival,” a law enforcement source with firsthand knowledge of the investigation said. The three interacted during their captivity, though they were typically kept in separate rooms, according to the source.

— Ohio Attorney General’s office spokesman Dan Tierney said Thursday that the FBI and Cleveland police have

asked the state crime lab to expedite tests on Castro — tests that typically take 20 days to complete, but ideally will be back by Friday — to determine his DNA profile. Authorities have said that they eventually plan to conduct a paternity test to determine if Castro is the biological father of Berry’s 6-yearold daughter.

— When Berry escaped, the two other women could have run but chose not to, the law enforcement source with firsthand knowledge of the investigation said. The two other women who did not flee had “succumbed” to “their reality,” the source said, describing them as brainwashed and fearful.

— None of the three women was bound on the day they were freed, according to the source. Earlier, Cleveland’s police chief told NBC’s “Today” show that “we have confirmation that they were bound, and there (were) chains and ropes in the home.”

— Knight’s missing persons report from the Cleveland Police Department describes her as having “mental abnormalities”; many family members seemed to be unaware that she was missing.

— Knight still was at Cleveland’s Metro Health Medical Center on Thursday morning, hospital spokeswoman Tina Shaerban-Arundel said.

The spokeswoman has not said what Knight is being treated for, but did say that she “is in good condition.”

On Tuesday, the hospital said that it had released all three rescued women.

Shaerban-Arundel said that the hospital stood by its Tuesday statement, but she did not elaborate.

— Knight’s mother told NBC on Wednesday that she cried when she heard her daughter was found.

Barbara Knight told NBC that she had been looking for her daughter during the years she was gone. “She’s probably angry at the world because she thought she would never be found, but thank God that somebody did.”

She was asked what she would say to Michelle if and when she got to see her. “I love you and I missed you all this time,” she said.

— Gina DeJesus was greeted by cheers when she returned Wednesday afternoon to a family home in Cleveland.

— Her aunt, Sandra Ruiz, expressed thanks Wednesday afternoon for those who supported the family over the years. “There are not enough words to say or express the joy that we feel ... for the return of ... Gina,” Ruiz said.

— The aunt also asked the community not to forget Ashley Summers,

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who was last seen in July 2007. “Now we need to... rally together to look next door and bring .... Ashley Summers, home,” Ruiz said, adding that her family feels connected in spirit to missing people like Summers.

— But the investigation thus far hasn’t led to any new information on Ashley Summers, who was 14 when she went missing in 2007, said Tomba.

He said “her disappearance was part of the questioning” of the three Castro brothers who were initially arrested.

— Late Wednesday morning, authorities escorted Berry, her daughter and her sister, Beth Serrano, to Serrano’s Cleveland house. Serrano came outside and talked to reporters briefly, saying: “Our family would request privacy so my sister, niece and I can have time to recover. ...

Please respect our privacy until we are ready to make our statements.” Police initially said Berry would address the media, but it was later announced that she would not speak publicly Wednesday.

— A fund has been set up — the Cleveland Courage Fund — to raise money for the long-missing women and others affected, the city of Cleveland announced Wednesday on Twitter. Money will go toward supporting those who have been held captive and organizations that assist them.

— By 5 p.m. Wednesday, law enforcement authorities had “completed their search” of Ariel Castro’s home, said Flask, Cleveland’s public safety director. More than 200 items were taken from the house, which Tomba said “was in quite a bit of disarray” when officers entered.

— Among those items are items that investigators believe Castro wrote, said two law enforcement sources closely involved in the case.

— Those writings contain “specific detailing of actions and reasons behind actions” associated with the abduction of three women and their kidnapper’s behavior toward them, one of the law enforcement sources said. The source — who described the “pretty lengthy” writings as “more of a diary” — said while the writings included talk of suicide, that was just one aspect, and the suspect’s history of abuse by family members was cited as justification for his actions.

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Nun, two others face decades in prison for nuclear site breach (CNN) — A nun and two peace activists could spend the rest of their lives in federal prison after being convicted of breaching one of the nation’s most secure nuclear facilities.

After two days of testimony, a federal jury in Knoxville, Tennessee, found Sister Megan Rice, 83; Greg Boertje-Obed, 57; and Michael Walli, 63, guilty of destroying U.S. government property and depredation against federal property exceeding $1,000.

That could mean up to 30 years in prison, according to WATE, CNN’s affiliate in Knoxville.

The three are scheduled to be sentenced on September 23.

When the guilty verdict was read Wednesday evening, the three defendants appeared content, even singing along with protest hymns before they were taken into custody, according to WATE. “They’re at peace about this, they’re peace makers, and they knew that they risked this,” Joe Quigley, attorney for Walli, told the Knoxville station. “Nobody is happy to go jail, but they understand.”

In the predawn hours of July 28, 2012, Rice, Boertje-Obed and Walli walked under the cover of darkness through the woods

and up a hillside, approaching a chain-link fence surrounding the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

Armed with flashlights and a bolt cutter, they cut their way through the fence, fully expecting to be arrested on the spot.

Instead, they walked nearly a mile, cutting through four fences in all, breaching what was supposed to be the most tightly secured uranium processing and storage facility in the country.

“When we got to the very high security fence where there’s a lethal force authorized ... I thought, maybe we should turn around,” Boertje-Obed told CNN’s David Mattingly.

But they didn’t. Hours later, the three activists were finally confronted by a guard after hoisting banners, spray-painting messages and splattering human blood on a building that houses highly enriched uranium.

They have said they wanted call attention to the dangers of nuclear weapons, but their actions triggered a very different concern: If three older peaceniks can easily trespass onto what was once considered the “Fort Knox” for highly enriched uranium, just how safe are the nation’s nuclear weapons material from terrorists?

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House debt vote previews coming food fight on U.S. borrowing limit money.

House Speaker John Boehner essentially verified the Democrats’ analysis in an interview with Bloomberg TV earlier this week. “Those who have loaned us money, like in any other proceeding, if you will, court proceeding, the bond holders usually get paid first. Same thing here,� Boehner said.

House GOP aides conceded the measure had virtually no chance of moving forward in the Democratic-led Senate, and the White House already promised to veto it if it came to President Barack Obama’s desk.

Gene Sperling, a top economic adviser to Obama, said this week that the president was stepping up efforts to reach out to congressional Republicans to create conditions for a serious bipartisan agreement addressing the nation’s fiscal situation, but warned the GOP needed to be willing to compromise. “But, you know, again it takes two to tango,� he said at an appearance at the Pete Peterson Fiscal Summit.

Republican leaders promised they would hold the vote after a push from a bloc of conservatives who wanted to go on record now.

These aides said this vote demonstrated that the GOP was addressing the issue, and could point to it if negotiations and talk about default go all the way up until the deadline.

Democrats maintained Republicans were just playing politics with the nation’s credit rating. “This issue, this legislation is being driven by very narrow bunch on the other side with radical governing philosophy which basically says I hate my government so much that I’m willing to jeopardize the full faith and credit of the United States and bring this economy down until we get our way,�

Wisconsin Democrat Ron Kind said Arkansas Republican Tim Griffin argued on the House floor that GOP was the only party concerned about burgeoning federal deficits. “We are the ones that are trying to get Washington spending under control so it can live within its means.� He called the bill “a backstop that takes default off the table,�

Griffin said.

This week’s House debate served as the opening round of several months of wrangling, both inside the House Republican conference, and with congressional Democrats and the White House over what legislation

can pass the divided Congress that will raise the nation’s debt limit.

The last debt ceiling debate in the summer of 2011 was an exceedingly messy process, and starkly illustrated the partisan divide infecting Washington.

Boehner met directly with Obama over months, but failed to reach a deal on comprehensive deficit reduction. Both parties were left scrambling to get votes on a lastminute compromise that left both sides unhappy and kicked the can down the road.

Many House conservatives opposed that deal and criticized Boehner for “backroom negotiations� that left them out of the process.

To prove they are listening to their members House GOP leaders have scheduled a special meeting for next Wednesday just to talk about the way forward on the debt limit.

The two-hour open-mike-style meeting in the Capitol basement will be a chance, according to one House Republican aide, “touch gloves� and demonstrate that all ideas will be explored.

Given the political needle Boehner and other top leaders need to thread on the issue, it’s likely this session will be the first of many over the next several months.

Conservatives insist they want additional spending cuts to federal programs without any increases in taxes if they agree to increase the country’s borrowing authority.

With $85 billion in sweeping forced spending cuts from the 2011 debt deal now in effect, congressional negotiators know there is very little room left to cut discretionary programs.

Both sides know the only way to get bipartisan deal involves the GOP giving ceding on some revenue return for Democrats agreeing to significant changes to entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare.

But for now, House Republicans are simply focused on an internal strategy. One idea is to link the debt ceiling vote with an overhaul of the tax code, a big priority for the GOP. “We’re open to any avenue that leads to tax reform,� Sage Eastman, a top aide to Rep Dave Camp, R-Michigan, who chairs the House tax writing panel.

It’s unclear how workable linking fights over popular tax deductions to an already politically complicated issue could happen in a short time frame.

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But the vote doesn’t move Congress any closer to a deal to address the nation’s fiscal situation — it just exposes the bitter divide between the political parties.

The House approved the GOP bill, 221207, along party lines, with no Democrats voting for it and eight Republicans opposed.

Technically, the limit on federal borrowing will be reached later this month. But because the Treasury can take measures to continue getting loans, most congressional leaders don’t expect the debt ceiling to be reached until sometime between September and October.

Economists say continued fiscal uncertainty in Washington over spending, deficits, overall debt, and the now more frequent haggles over raising the debt ceiling, now over $16 trillion, could sap confidence in U.S. economic recovery and slow growth.

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John King: Benghazi investigation both legitimate and partisan WASHINGTON (CNN) — It was late in the day with the House oversight hearing on Benghazi winding down. On social media and elsewhere, there was conservative grumbling that Hillary Clinton was getting off relatively unscathed.

Then came conservative Rep. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina’s second round of questions.

“If anyone wants to ask ‘What difference does it make?’ it always matters whether or not you can trust your government,” Gowdy said, borrowing some words from the former secretary of state.

“And to the families, we’re going to find out what happened in Benghazi, and I don’t give a damn whose career is impacted,” Gowdy continued.

“We’re going to find out what happened.”

Tough legitimate congressional oversight or partisan politics? Leading Republicans say the former; most Democrats the latter.

Truth is, it is both.

And as the Benghazi investigations continue, that presents both parties with challenges.

For Republicans, if they want public support for continued hearings and questions beyond the GOP’s conservative base, the challenge is to stress the legitimate questions about the Obama administration’s response to the deadly attack on the U.S. consulate — and its conflicting explanations of why it believes the attacks happened.

House Speaker John Boehner served notice on Thursday that GOP pressure would not subside.

The speaker said the administration should make public a series of e-mails and other records he said would provide key details about the attacks and the response.

Among the records, he said, should be an e-mail from a top State Department official from the day after the attack. The e-mail, Boehner said, refers to “Islamic terrorists” as carrying out the attack.

“A senior State Department official e-mailed her superiors that the Libyan ambassador, she had told the Libyan ambassador, the attack was conducted

by Islamic terrorists. The State Department would not allow our committees to keep copies of this e-mail when it was reviewed,” Boehner said.

The White House and its allies in Congress make the case that any confusion and conflicting information in the early hours and days after the attacks stemmed from the “fog of war” — not any deliberate effort to mislead the American people about the source of the attacks.

Traveling in Rome, the man who replaced Clinton, Secretary of State John Kerry, said he was as determined as the Republican House leadership

to answer any legitimate questions.

“I have already made it crystal clear to the chairmen of the relevant committees that I have assigned my chief of staff, David Wade, to be responsible for liaising with them to answer any questions that they have,” Kerry said. “I am absolutely determined that this issue will be answered, will be put to bed.”

“And if there is any culpability in any area that is appropriate to be handled in some way with some discipline it will be appropriately handled.

But that judgment awaits me in a report that will be forthcoming and I am confident that any recent evidence will be a component of that consideration,” Kerry said.

Gregory Hicks, who became the top diplomat in Libya after Ambassador Christopher Stevens was killed, suggested at Wednesday’s House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing that he was demoted and otherwise punished or making it clear he believed the Obama administration was withholding or ignoring key facts about the Benghazi attacks and response.

The committee chairman, California GOP Rep. Darrell Issa, said Democrats on the panel had shown little interest in finding the truth. In turn, committee Democrats, including ranking member Elijah Cummings of Maryland, said Issa and other GOP members were to blame for a reckless campaign designed to “smear public officials.”

Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, took the most direct heat because of her assertions in a Sunday television interview days after the attack that linked the attacks to a demonstration outside the Benghazi consulate.

Hicks said there was no demonstration and that top State Department officials had been told that, and he told the committee he was “stunned” and “embarrassed” by Rice’s televised account.

The administration concedes Rice spoke from flawed talking points, but insists the mistakes were born of understandable confusion. Many Republicans see it differently — alleging the Obama White House, in the closing days of the presidential campaign, wanted to play down the idea of a successful, coordinated terrorist attack on a U.S. diplomatic post.

“I do think that was the political motivation behind it,” Florida GOP Sen. Marco Rubio said Thursday on Fox News. “What I think is sad is how many people around the administration, including the former secretary of state, Secretary Clinton, knew this to be the case, and allowed this to move

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In an e-mail sent to conservatives, former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton said, “What happened with Benghazi is not how it’s supposed to be handled and I think it could be a hinge point for the Obama administration.”

The Bolton note was distributed by the House GOP’s campaign arm — the National Republican Congressional Committee — and asks for political contributions to the GOP. In fact, if you click on the links in that Bolton e-mail, it takes you to an NRCC fund-raising website that declares “Benghazi was a cover-up” over a photograph of Clinton and President Barack Obama.

That definitive assertion on a House GOP official fund-raising site is par for the course in Washington these days. But it gives Democrats fodder for their argument that Republicans have already made up their minds and aren’t conducting oversight hearings with an open mind.

Clinton is now a private citizen. But close allies on the committee, including New York Democratic Rep. Carolyn Maloney, came to Clinton’s defense during the proceedings. And other longtime Clinton political loyalists were privately nudging reporters and media outlets about the tone of the Benghazi coverage.

One veteran Democratic strategist, who spoke only on condition of anonymity because Clinton chafes at those who publicly speculate about her 2016 interest, noted her overwhelming popularity among Democrats.

“She will have to deal with this,” the strategist said, “but it will not be central to the campaign.”

Longtime Clinton ally and Democratic strategist Paul Begala takes a similar view.

“Once more, the GOP runs the risk of appearing to be blinded by their partisanship,” Begala said. “I have no idea if Hillary will run. But I know this: If she does this issue will not be a major stumbling block.”

Begala drew historical comparison — between Clinton now and then-Vice President George H.W. Bush heading into the 1988 presidential campaign.

“Remember Iran-Contra?” Begala asked.

“Infinitely more damaging than Benghazi. The Reagan administration sold weapons to the ayatollah’s regime in Tehran, then diverted some of the proceeds to the (Nicaraguan) Contras, then lied about it. The scandal paralyzed the Reagan administration for 18 months.”

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Paul calls Clinton’s handling of Benghazi a “dereliction of duty” that, in his view, disqualifies her from higher office.

Boehner tried to take a less confrontational tone on Thursday, but nonetheless said the White House was refusing to make public e-mails and other documents he says show the political calculation behind the Rice TV appearance and other elements of the administration’s Benghazi response.

“The White House continues to claim it only made stylistic changes to talking points used by Susan Rice, ignoring the fact that senior White House officials directed the changes being made” to those talking points, Boehner said.

Conservative media outlets also clearly see an opportunity to raise questions about Clinton that could be a factor in her 2016 calculations.

Respected conservative writer and commentator Terence Jeffrey reminded his readers this week of the initial Clinton Benghazi statement suggesting, “Some have sought to justify this vicious behavior as a response to inflammatory material posted on the internet.”

Jeffrey said the State Department refuses to provide information about who told Clinton an Internet posting might be a possible cause.

Hicks told the hearing on Wednesday that U.S. diplomats in Libya reported back from the very beginning that they believed it was a terrorist attack.

Among the conservatives urging House Republicans to demand answers from Clinton directly is former Vice President Dick Cheney.

On Thursday, Cheney spoke to the weekly “Theme Team” meeting organized by House conservatives and two people present at the breakfast said the former vice president said if Clinton declined to voluntarily answer questions, then she should be subpoenaed to testify.

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The meeting between defense attorneys, Arias and Judge Sherry Stephens was a sealed hearing, and the reason for the abrupt cancellation of Thursday’s court proceedings remains unclear.

The postponement comes a day after jurors found Arias guilty of first-degree murder for killing her ex-boyfriend in 2008.

The last-minute cancellation was the latest twist in a high-profile case that has been marked by drama so intense that people have lined up for seats in the Phoenix courtroom.

Court proceedings are now scheduled to resume on Wednesday at 10 a.m. (1 p.m.

ET). That’s because the prosecution’s witness, medical examiner Dr. Kevin Horn, is not available Monday or Tuesday, the source with knowledge of the proceedings said.

Although it was not immediately clear what prompted the unexpected scheduling change, some analysts pointed to a television interview Arias gave minutes after the verdict was announced Wednesday.

“I said years ago that I’d rather get death than life, and that still is true today,” she told Phoenix television station KSAZ. “I believe death is the ultimate freedom, so I’d rather just have my freedom as soon as I can get it.”

Arias told KSAZ that longevity runs in her family, and that the worst possible outcome in the case would be a life sentence

without parole.

“I would much rather die sooner than later,” she said.

The comments prompted authorities to place Arias on suicide watch, according to the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office.

After visiting with her family Wednesday night, Arias was transferred from the jail where she had been held to a psychiatric ward at a different jail, the sheriff’s office said.

Her mother, Sandra Arias, told In Session’s Jean Casarez Thursday evening that authorities did not allow her to visit with her daughter in the psychiatric ward because she is “under watch” there.

Next phase in trial is key Arias was stoic in court Wednesday. Her eyes briefly welled up with tears as a clerk announced that the jury found her guilty of first-degree murder for killing Travis Alexander in June 2008.

Alexander was stabbed repeatedly, shot and nearly decapitated five years ago. Arias says she killed him in self-defense after he attacked her, but the grisly slaying caused even some antidomestic violence advocates to doubt her case.

The jury’s highly anticipated verdict Wednesday after more than 15 hours of deliberation was a significant step in the case.

But the trial isn’t over yet.

And Arias, who testified for 18 days during the trial, could speak to jurors again in court.

The next step of the case, known as the aggravation phase, is now scheduled to start on Wednesday.

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To answer that question, prosecutors will have a chance to present additional evidence and jurors will decide whether Alexander’s death was caused in a cruel manner.

Prosecutor Juan Martinez is expected to call medical examiner Dr. Kevin Horn back to the stand to testify about how Alexander suffered before he died.

There are currently 127 people on death row in Arizona. If Arias is given a sentence of death, she would be the fourth woman on death row in the state.

Trial marked by dramatic arguments In the trial, both sides have dramatically presented their arguments with details about Arias’ love affair with Alexander.

“She rewarded that love from Travis Alexander by sticking a knife in his chest,” Martinez said in his opening statement.

“And you know he was a good man, according to her. And with regard to being a good man, well, she slit his throat as a reward for being a good man. And in terms of these blessings, well, she knocked the blessings out of him by putting a bullet in his head.”

But defense attorney Jennifer Willmott countered: “Jodi Arias killed Travis Alexander. There is no question about it. The million-dollar question is what would have forced her to do it?”