The Daily Barometer, May 23, 2016

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Thousands of students, community members jam out to T-Pain at DAM JAM

By Rose Kearsey Practicum Contributor

Saturday night, rapper and singer T-Pain graced the DAM JAM stage for the annual spring concert held on the Oregon State University campus.

Other performers included The Colourist, a rock band from Orange County, California, and OSU’s Battle of the Band winner Adieu Caribou. Tickets were available to the public as well as students and sold out faster than they did in previous years according to the Memorial Union Program Council.

In addition to live music, fresh food was provided by Early Bird and Cheesy Stuffed Burger food trucks for concertgoers to indulge in, as well as a fenced

off beer garden for those of drinking age.

“The night started very active, wild and exciting for everyone, and the crowds enthusiasm for our performers only grew throughout the night,” said Maxwel Bettendorf, emcee for the event and junior at OSU. “Of course announcing the opener T-Pain had screams that could be heard from across the entire campus. The huge crowd was a major success of the show, let alone the consistency of their excitement, and how there was almost no down time for people to lose their enthusiasm.”

As concert-goers began to pour into the Memorial Union Quad, Adieu Caribou kicked off the night with high energy alternative rock. This six-piece

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band hails from Salem, but performs often in Corvallis.

“DAM JAM was a really fun event for us. It was great to see the student body show their support for local music,” said Lydia Graber, keyboardist of Adieu Caribou. “Students can expect to see a new full-length album in the fall, as well as several shows in the Willamette valley area throughout the summer and beyond.”

Next up to perform was The Colourist, an indie-pop band with hits such as “Little Games” and “We Won’t Go Home.”

Sarah Sutton and Calvin Nguyen, MUPC event coordinators and juniors at OSU, have been working all year to plan this event. They thought students

deserved to have a louder voice in deciding the DAM JAM headliner, so they authorized an online voting system. For the past five years, hip-hop has been the dominating genre in terms of the bigger acts, and it was no different this year.

“Students had the opportunity to vote for the genre of headliner, then we hosted a poll offering five choices, and the students voted from there. Over 2,600 students participated in the headliner poll and T-Pain won,” said Sutton.

Sutton’s highlight from the night was getting to introduce T-Pain to the OSU community.

“My favorite part was probably giving

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Aries (March 21-April 19) — Today is a 6 — Fulfill a professional fantasy. Do something you’ve always wanted to do. The next two days bring career opportunities, so keep your eyes and ears open. Say “yes,” and let angels guide you.

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Talk about long-term dreams and goals. Share your heart’s desire.

for making changes at home. Make sure family is on board with your vision, and work together. Reward hard work with a shared feast in your new space.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) — Today is a 6 — Negotiate to refine the plan. It’s OK if you don’t know how.

Work with a partner over the next few days, and discuss a variety of options. Narrow it to the lowhanging fruit.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is a 6 — Your tongue seems golden with charm and persuasion.

Use your communication arts to make something happen. Share your view, illustrate it and ask for participation. Answer when opportunity knocks.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is a 7 — Focus on your work closely today and tomorrow. Mental and physical discipline get the job done. Balance effort with rest and relaxation, good food and exercise.

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Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is a 5 — Plan a vacation or trip over the next few days. Study and research your options. Dream big, and write your ideas down. Work out the logistics of where and when with whom.

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Keep saving for a rainy day.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is a 5 — Team experiences can be bonding. Hold meetings, parties or gatherings over the next few days. Others can help carry the ball and provide some relief. Rely on conventional wisdom and selfdiscipline.

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Temple professor haunted by spying allegations “The government seemed to be doing whatBy Caitlin McCabe, Jeremy Roebuck ever they wanted to do,” she said. “When you’re and Susan Snyder

dealing with the government, it’s very frightening The Philadelphia Inquirer PHILADELPHIA — On nights when Xiaoxing Xi and confusing.”

So when U.S. agents stormed the couple’s can’t sleep, his mind races through the possibiliLower Merion Township home nearly 50 years ties of what may have started it all.

He thinks back to emails that could have later, it seemed all too familiar.

It was around 6:30 a.m. on May 21, 2015, when prompted the FBI probe. About conversations that might have drawn the armed agents to his FBI agents came to the stylish, tree-lined street in home. Through the events that left him publicly Penn Valley, bulletproof vests on and guns—even a small battering ram—in tow, Xi recalled. labeled a Chinese spy.

The seconds that followed were a blur: Xi was It’s been nearly a year since federal prosecutors accused Xi, a world-renowned Temple handcuffed and pushed against a wall, he said, University physicist, of selling scientific secrets while agents pointed guns at his wife and children with potential military applications to China. It’s upstairs.

Unclear why he was being arrested or what been eight months since they abruptly dropped he was charged with, he said, he was taken to a all charges—with little explanation.

Philadelphia office, while his family remained After all this time, Xi still has few answers.

By all appearances, he has begun to regain behind for questioning, their house later searched the trappings of a normal life. He’s back on the and stripped of laptops, cellphones, hard drives fifth floor of Temple’s Science Education and and bank statements.

“Of course, I thought this must be a mistake,” Research Center, in a spacious corner office with tall windows and a sweeping campus view. He’s Xi said.

But then he was taken into a room at the FBI, refocused on the federally funded research he was handcuffed to a table, and questioned by agents. forced to abandon. He’s teaching again.

“I had the realization that they were going to Yet he’s still missing perhaps the most important thing that marked his life in America before put me in jail,” Xi said. “If I weren’t at home, what would my wife do?” his arrest: peace of mind.

Navigating the justice system proved confusing “We cannot get rid of the thought that the and unfamiliar. Xi saw no problem answering FBI is reading every one of our emails and lisquestions without a tening to our phone lawyer present. conversations to find Asked whether something,” Xi, 58, he collaborated said in one of his first in China, taught extensive interviews.

We cannot get rid of the Chinese students or “I am determined to visited Chinese labs, thought that the FBI is move on, but that’s he answered “yes,” Xi there.” reading every one of our recalled. International Xi’s journey from emails and listening to our collaboration in the leading scientist to scientific community phone conversations to accused spy miris often encouraged rors the experience find something by government agenof other Chinese cies and the academic American scientists, Xiaoxing Xi community, regarded each on the wrong as a way to boost sciTemple University physics end of the Obama entific advancement. administration’s professor The allegations push to halt the statewere not outlandish. sponsored siphonFor years, the U.S. ing of American Justice Department trade secrets. It’s also fueled new concerns over racial profiling and the misguided targeting of had accused Chinese spy agencies of encouraging their nation’s businesses to steal trade secrets academics.

Born in Beijing and raised at the height of from American corporations. Prosecutors here China’s Cultural Revolution, Xi (pronounced had wrung guilty pleas and convictions against Zschee) came to America with his wife in 1989, scientists and businessmen who attempted to excited by research opportunities and the pros- pilfer everything from fighter jet schematics to pects of a better life. He became a naturalized the details on how to make the pigment used to citizen, joined universities across the Northeast whiten the Oreo cookie stuffing.

In Xi’s case, prosecutors said his work in the and gained prominence in his field. After more field of superconductors—which, when cooled than a decade at Pennsylvania State University, to around 400 degrees below zero Fahrenheit, he joined Temple in 2009.

But the couple’s culture and memories run can help improve the efficiency of things from deep. In their homeland is a saying—“to pick computer circuits to power grid, had just the type the bones from an egg”—that the Chinese use of potential applications coveted by a Chinese to describe a search for something that simply government in its race to surpass the United States in technology fields. They also can have military isn’t there. applications, as even Xi recognizes.

Xi uses it while talking about the government’s They accused him of sending schematics for attempts to build a case against him. His wife, Qi Li, who goes by the name “Jenny,” uses it to a sophisticated piece of equipment known as a describe her own memories from the Cultural “pocket heater” to a colleague in China, despite a Revolution, a period of chaos and violence as pledge he signed to keep its design a secret. They Mao Zedong attempted to purge China of capi- also accused him—in court papers that lacked many details—of offering to build a world-class talist ideals. laboratory in China in return for lucrative and She was 6, she said, when Mao’s supporters prestigious appointments there. raided her home, took her furniture, burned While never formally accusing Xi of spying, U.S. photos and evicted her family.

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Xiaoxing XI, the Temple University physics professor who was charged by the U.S. government and then cleared of spying, talks about the day the FBI arrested him. prosecutors charged the professor with wire fraud, citing four emails he sent to Chinese contacts in 2010 about building the laboratory. If convicted, Xi faced up to 80 years in prison and a $1 million fine.

He pleaded not guilty, put his house up as collateral for bail and—on the same day he was arrested—returned home.

Long days turned into sleepless nights. Arduous decisions about whom to hire as a lawyer—and how much they could pay—dominated conversations. His wife, a physics professor at Pennsylvania State University, avoided campus. Colleagues whom Xi considered friends suddenly abandoned him.

Xi claims that he was told not to return to Temple’s campus after his arrest. (Temple spokesman Ray Betzner said Xi was never barred from campus; rather, the university made arrangements to allow him to supervise his research from home so he could better handle his case.) As interim chair of the physics department, Xi was placed on leave with pay.

Meanwhile, his lawyers contested prosecutors’ claims in a behind-the-scenes battle of experts.

They argued that the government had fundamentally misunderstood the science behind his work: The schematics he designed were not for the pocket heater at all. Instead, the lawyers said, they were for a device of his own creation, one “totally different” from the pocket heater.

“There is no reason to imagine they are remotely similar,” Xi said.

In August, Peter Zeidenberg, a Washington lawyer who had successfully represented several accused Chinese American scientists, delivered a presentation based on testimony from independent scientists, who concluded Xi had not shared the secret information, as prosecutors claimed.

The next month, the U.S. Attorney’s Office issued a surprising announcement: It was dropping all charges. Prosecutors offered no explana-

tion except to say “additional information” had come to their attention.

Critics, including members of Congress, called it racial profiling—an allegation that the Justice Department has vehemently disputed—and called for an investigation.

Outside public view, Xi was reeling, he said: His reputation was mangled and he was buried under more than $200,000 in legal fees. He lost the chance to become permanent chair of Temple’s physics department, a job he claims he had been promised just days before his arrest. (Temple disputes that plans for his chairmanship were ever concrete.)

Adding to the struggle, prosecutors had withdrawn charges “without prejudice”—meaning they had not ruled out charging Xi anew.

The window to reopen that specific case closed in March. In a statement this month, U.S. Attorney Zane D. Memeger, whose office filed the charges, avoided discussing Xi’s case, but said charges are generally brought “based on evidence such as witness interviews, extensive document review, search warrants, and expert guidance.”

And, he said, “On the rare occasion that if new information becomes available post-indictment which impacts the viability of a case or compromises the strength of evidence previously gathered, we recognize our responsibility to evaluate it.”

Xi still remains haunted by the mystery of how it began.

“I see dangers all over the place,” he said during a three-hour interview in his office last month. “I think I sound very annoyingly paranoid when I talk to my colleagues because I tell them, ‘You better be careful; what you’re doing is dangerous.’”

Xi is now returning to his research and instructed colleagues to do the same. He said he still considers America “the best country in the world.”

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DAM JAM

Continued from page 1 T-Pain and his team all the OSU gear, plus meeting the members of all the other bands.

Getting to share OSU with them was pretty great,” Sutton said.

KBVR TV, OSU’s student-run television station, provided concert visuals and projected them on both sides of the stage.

This was the first time students used their new facilities and equipment for DAM JAM, eliminating the need for a production truck.

MUPC Director and senior at OSU, Jessica Hammock, is proud of DAM JAM’s success this year and all the hard work put into the meticulous preparation.

“Sarah and Calvin spent months planning for this one night. My favorite part of the event is seeing how excited students are once they enter the gates to the quad,” Hammock said.

“The music was great, I think students really enjoyed every performance. This will be a concert students are talking about for years to come.” baro.news@oregonstate.edu

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(TOP and LEF T) Thousands of students and community members gathered on the OSU campus for the annual DAM JAM event Saturday n i g h t . T h i s y e a r ’s featured ar tist was T-Pain (RIGHT). Maya Tuttle (BOTTOM) and The Colourist played before T-Pain.

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Errors end the season

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Freshman pitcher Meehra Nelson recorded a career-high 12 strikeouts and didn’t allow a single earned run in the 5-4 loss to Jacksonville State.

The longest game in OSU softball history is also the Beaversʼ final game

final inning, but the Beavers extended the game by tacking on the tying two runs off sophomore designated player Alysha Everett’s two-run single. OSU seemed to take a commanding 4-2 lead in the 13th inning when sophomore left fielder Lovie Lopez had a two-run single of her own,

By Josh Worden but the Gamecocks responded with two runs in Senior Beat Reporter the bottom of the inning to force a 14th frame.

The Oregon State softball team headed into OSU committed two errors in the bottom of Saturday’s NCAA Tournament elimination game the 14th and JSU scored the winning run with no versus Jacksonville State hoping to extend their outs to end the game and the Beavers’ season. season at least seven more innings.

The Beavers got seven extra innings, but not “Our players fought their hearts out tonight,” in the way they hoped. said head coach Laura Berg after the game. “The Instead of beating JSU and staying alive for walks and errors absolutely killed us. We can’t another game in the Auburn Regional, the have five errors and give up six walks and expect Beavers and Gamecocks went 14 innings on to win the ballgame. I’m so proud of this team.

Saturday, finally capped off by an unearned Through all of the adversity they’ve faced this run in the bottom of the 14th frame to give JSU season, they played like champs. I’m proud of a 5-4 win. our seniors and am proud of them helping our OSU ends the season 30-20-1 with an early young team get to the postseason. Now we’ve exit in the NCAA Tournament, though it was got postseason experience under our belts and the first time the Beavers made the postseason we’ll carry that over to next year.” in three years. OSU’s first game of the tournaThe Beavers end the season with a .306 team ment was a 5-2 loss to South Carolina Upstate batting average, officially the highest in school on Friday in the opening round of the doublehistory. Every year Berg has been OSU’s head elimination Regional bracket. coach since 2013, OSU has set a new program The 14-inning game on Saturday is officially record in batting average. the longest in OSU softball history. The game As for personal bests, junior first baseman took 4:11 to complete and forced the followJOSHUA LUCAS | THE DAILY BAROMETER Natalie Hampton tied OSU’s single-season ing game — between USC Upstate and the record of 50 runs batted in when she notched still-fatigued JSU squad — to wait until 9:17 First baseman Natalie Hampton tied OSU’s single-season record of 50 RBIs. two RBIs in Friday’s game against USC Upstate. p.m. to start. JSU won that game, 3-2, to earn a Senior pitcher Bev Miller started the game in The previous record was Hampton’s own mark chance to face Auburn in the final matchup of tually leading to four unearned runs. Freshman pitcher Meehra Nelson recorded a career-high the circle and went six innings, scattering nine from 2013, also the last year OSU made the the Regional.

NCAA Tournament.

The Beavers committed a season-high five 12 strikeouts and didn’t allow a single earned hits but just one earned run.

OSU trailed 2-0 in the seventh and potential errors on Saturday and allowed six walks, even- run, but was still charged with the loss.

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Cheerleader changes uniforms

OSU cheerleader Haley Dairy makes 49ersʼ Gold Rush squad

By Max Braly Sports Contributor

Haley Dairy knew she wanted to become a cheerleader in the professional ranks since she was a little girl. Being selected as one of the 40 dancers to lead 49ers fans in cheers at Levi’s Stadium as a part of the San Francisco Gold Rush was all apart of the plan.

Dairy, who is taking classes long distance and will graduate in June with a speech communication degree, was born in Eugene, Ore. Dairy began developing her skills by joining gymnastics at age nine. By the time she was 10-years-old, she was already competing nationally with an all-star cheerleading squad.

When it came time to choose a high school, dancing was of utmost importance. Dairy chose to go to Springfield High School because of their storied program.

Her choice to become apart of the Millers cheer team at Springfield High was the correct one. In Dairy’s four years, the team won four state titles and a national championship.

Oregon State’s dance team performed at Dairy’s senior year state competition. The routine caught her attention.

“Oh my gosh, they look so good. I really want

to tryout for that team,” Dairy said.

The choice wasn’t quite that simple. Dairy’s mother and grandmother both had been head coaches of the University of Oregon cheerleading squad for 15 years.

Ultimately, the choice to become a Beaver was based on Oregon State head coach Amber Bezates’ coaching style.

“I really respected the way Amber ran her program. It was a lot more relatable to what I had become accustom to in high school,” said Dairy.

Practicing mostly cheerleading in her high school career, Dairy was challenged to improve her dancing skills in college.

“She has definitely been on a journey with being a cheerleader in high school and transitioning to a dancer in college. She was very motivated to learn new skills and work on those skills. She always pushed herself really hard and wanted to have a high standard for our team and herself individually,” Bezates said.

She earned varsity letters as a part of the Oregon State dance team for each of her four years.. Dairy was respected throughout the team and was selected as a team captain.

Dairy enjoyed being apart of her team in Corvallis.

“I feel like Oregon State’s dance team isn’t like other dance teams,” Dairy said. “We don’t really have cliques. We don’t have drama. We don’t have people discouraging each other.

We are all very supportive of each other. And

that’s something that’s very rare, especially to find in college.”

Dairy always wanted to be apart of Gold Rush because her dad used to play football for the 49ers. And back in December of 2014 she posted a photo of Gold Rush dancers to her Instagram account with the caption, ‘If people don’t laugh at your dreams, they’re not big enough’.

Nobody is laughing now.

Especially not Jasmine Shannon, former Oregon State dancer and current dancer for the Portland Trail Blazers, who was one of Haley’s biggest influences in preparation and trying out for the Gold Rush.

Shannon was able to see first hand and help with Dairy’s hard work and preparation. Each morning leading up to the Gold Rush tryout, the two would train together.

Because of her prior experience trying out for and earning a spot on a professional squad, Shannon was able to be extremely effective in giving advice. The combination of Dairy’s cheerleading background and Shannon’s studio dance background made for a great pairing of skills. This was just one reason her Gold Rush tryout was successful.

Another reason is Dairy’s personality itself.

“She’s just a blessing, because her motivation, her drive to get what she wants, to set goals and exceed in those goals is night and day,” said Shannon. “It’s very touching to watch, because I’ve been training her since she

first came to Oregon State.”

Cheerleading as a job isn’t just during the actual season. The offseason work is just as important.

“During the offseason, a lot of what we do is mental and a lot of the mental process is hard work that has to be put in if you want to do the best in what we do,” Shannon said. “That has to be there. And I’m just really proud of her.”

Dairy and Shannon are two of the three Oregon State dance team members dancing at the professional level, they are joined by Mia Butler who dances for the Sea Gals, the Seattle Seahawks affiliated cheer squad.

Having three successful dancers isn’t a coincidence. The program coach Bezates built at Oregon State does well to prepare dancers for the next level. Teams from across the leagues have called Bezates inquiring about whether or not her squad members are planning on trying out.

Coach Bezates doesn’t specifically prepare individuals for trying out, but the values she instills in her team make them ready for the transition into the next level.

Hard work, ambition and fate have been the main driving forces for Dairy’s success.

Dairy recalls the advice that her coach gave her during her freshmen year, “She told me, you don’t worry about how you are going to do it, you just do it. And if it is meant to be, it will fall into place.”

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Eckert excels against USC

By Brian Rathbone Senior Beat Reporter

Oregon State baseball has been spoiled the past several seasons with great individual pitching performances.

From Matt Boyd’s four-hit shutout against Indiana in an

elimination game in the College World Series to Jace Fry and Drew Rasmussen pitching a no-hitter and perfect game respectfully. To Ben Wetzler finishing his senior year with a 0.78 ERA in 2014 and Andrew Moore going 14-2 in his freshman year. Beaver Nation is no stranger to those type of outings.

And they got another one over the weekend from their senior Travis Eckert.

What Eckert did against Southern California on Friday night belongs in the category of top performances in the team’s recent history. Heading into the three-game series against the Trojans, Eckert knew what the

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stakes were and what a good start to the series could do for his team that had lost six of their previous seven games.

“I think it’s really big to send a message Friday, letting the other team know that we are coming for blood,” Eckert said. “A good start Friday would be huge for the weekend.”

Eckert smelled the blood and delivered. Setting the stage for a crucial Pac-12 series win, winning two of three games on the road.

USC is in a similar boat as OSU, caught in the log-jam that the Pac-12 standings have become. Like the Beavers, the Trojans had their share of injuries to pitchers which kept the team from reaching their full potential.

But what they do have is hitters. Their potent lineup was no secret entering the season, this was the type of offense that was expected for Dan Hubbs’ squad this season.

“I think if you went around

the league and asked people who they thought the best offensive club in the league was, most of them would say USC,” said head coach Pat Casey in the days leading up the series. “They have experienced power in the middle with (Timmy) Robinson, Martinez and Ramirez. Those three guys have been around.

Oppenheim is leading the league in hitting, so we’ve got some guys we need to deal with.”

Eckert flirted with a perfect game, not allowing a baserunner until a bloop single with two-outs in the seventh inning.

One could make an argument that he wasn’t even the most dominant pitcher in the game.

USC’s Joe Navilhon struck out eight OSU batters and only ran into trouble in the fifth inning when a trio of seeing-eyed fly balls propelled the recently stagnant offense to three runs.

Those three runs were enough for Eckert, who frustrated Trojan hitters all night.

He only struck out five, but was

efficient, facing one above the minimum and kept the USC batters off balance. Despite not mowing down Trojan hitters, he gave the Beavers exactly what they needed. He allowed his defense to make plays behind him, gaining a little confidence.

All three outfielders, sophomore Christian Donahue, freshman Steven Kwan and Trevor Larnach each stole hits away from USC batters with great plays in the field. Filling in for the still-injured Nick Madrigal, freshman and usual third baseman Cadyn Grenier made key plays in the ninth inning at second base, putting the brakes on a potential Trojan rally.

Most importantly he saved the bullpen by going the distance. There is no doubt that the Beavers are short on reliable arms, last week against Oregon they had to use their Sunday starter, freshman Bryce Fehmel, out of the bullpen because preserving the lead and getting a victory was so important.

By Eckert staying in the game, that allowed Fehmel to pitch on Sunday, where he went allowed one run on six hits in 7 1/3 innings of work to earn his ninth win of the season and to seal the series victory. Something that the Beavers were in desperate need in heading into the final week of the season.

This game might not stack up against some of the great performances of the past. Partly because those teams were playing for Pac-12 titles, not trying to sneak into the postseason.

But if the Beavers do make the postseason, you can circle this game and Eckert’s performance as a season-saver.

A lot is at stake this week at Goss when the Beavers host UCLA for final series of the season with a spot in the postseason on the line.

I think Eckert is already aware of that.

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ʻThe Witcher IIIʼ among the best

By Luuk Van Hoomisen Split Screen, KBVR-TV

“The Witcher III: Wild Hunt” is, always has been, and always will be a great game. It boasts one of the most detailed and massive playable game worlds I’ve seen in 22 years of gaming.

Every part of the map is uniquely and intricately populated with enemies, NPCs, quests, Gwent cards ... I’ll get to those later though. “The Witcher III” is absolutely stunning and has won more than 200 awards. It even won “game of the year” from multiple publications.

“The Witcher” series puts player in the role of Geralt of Rivia. Geralt is a witcher, meaning his body has been augmented by powerful magic and alchemy that makes him a fearless hunter with supernatural prowess and abilities. Witchers were created as a desperate defense against the myriad monstrosities that terrorize the Northern Kingdoms. While this may seem like a noble cause, witchers are received by the common folk as a necessary evil at best. At worst they are feared, seen as an ill omen, or attacked and arrested as criminal practitioners of magic. Geralt’s story in particular is rife with action, intrigue, horror, and even romance. Since this is the third installment of the series, there is far too much lore to get into in one column, but this game is absolutely loaded with exactly the kind of story content that you hope for in a high fantasy RPG. The settings in this game are gorgeous. The map is huge with multiple countries, some with several cities such as Velen and the Skellige Isles and some with only one major feature like the witchers’ stronghold at Kaer Morhen. Every area is rendered with beautiful attention to detail.

One of my favorite moments in ‘The Witcher III’ was raiding a swamp during a storm with a small militia. With the wind howling and the rain pouring it was a pretty intense scene, but I stopped in my tracks when I saw the trees were swaying. It was the most beautiful render I had ever seen in live gameplay. Trees swaying realistically in the rain as lightning flashed through the rain. All created through zeroes and ones. And that is just one small example of how CD Projekt RED left no stone unturned on this one. They went all out and they did a great job with it.

At first glance I actually hated the combat system of “The Witcher III.” It seemed too linear. A little bit clunky and if you took a couple of attacks it was almost impossible to get your health back up in time to avoid an unfortunate death. But after a while, I realized that the true glory in this game’s combat came in the form of battle preparations.

Know your enemy. “The Witcher III” has a pretty extensive bestiary that gives you crucial infor-

mation about what weapons, poisons, bombs, magic, and attack types are effective against any particular enemy. It is also important to equip the right potions that will give Geralt the bonuses that are useful in any particular fight. When you approach the game this way, it is actually an incredibly rewarding combat system as you get to watch your carefully laid plans come to fruition and defeat the big bad monster that seemed impossible on your first try.

If you prefer a battle of wits over one of swords, ”The Witcher III” also features a nifty card game called Gwent with 199 cards featuring characters from the game. It is surprisingly good, and often I find myself spending a lot more time on it than I mean to. If you really like it you can play in Gwent tournaments, or seek out the greatest Gwent players in the world. If you hate it, ignore it completely.

Gwent is occasionally important to the main storyline, but for the most part it is just a fun little addon that can be used to kill a little extra time.

For me, “The Witcher III” is the perfect game to never finish. I’ve had it for over half a year now, and I keep coming back to it. It has so much content that it is way too much fun to get sidetracked with optional quests. Completing the main storyline is probably an attainable goal, but then what would I play when I get tired of everything else?

Not “Dark Souls.” that game is frustrating.

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On transgender issues Letter to the editor The recent public debate, concerning which restrooms transgender people should use, focuses on so-called “biological sex” instead of acknowledging how a similar debate, fifty years ago, was misused to justify discrimination against both lesbians and gay men, based on how restrooms and locker rooms were used by gay men who are cisgender (i.e. their male gender identity matches their male biological sex).

Historically, a few closeted gay men loitered in men’s “tearooms” while “cruising” to hookup, or occasionally to “service” a heterosexual man, which led to laws prohibiting this type of “lewd” public sex behavior.

It wasn’t until I was old enough to be involuntarily drafted into the military, when I first learned why my parents never allowed me to go

For Bernie Sanders, itʼs up to superdelegates

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Bernie Sanders’ supporters aren’t big fans of the Democratic Party’s superdelegates, the political insiders who get a personal say in the nomination of the party’s presidential candidate. These governors, members of Congress and other officials aren’t obligated to follow the popular vote, and their preference so far for Hillary Clinton has buttressed a central tenet of her campaign _ the inevitability of her nomination. It comes as no small irony, then, that it is the very existence of superdelegates that will allow the Sanders campaign to take its call for a political revolution, and its quest for the nomination, all the way to the party convention in Philadelphia in July.

It’s all but impossible for either Clinton or Sanders to amass enough pledged delegates to ensure the nomination before the convention. To achieve the 2,383 votes needed just through pledged delegates, Clinton would need to take 77 percent of those still up for grabs in the remaining primaries and caucuses. (Her portion of those elected so far is just 54 percent.) Sanders could not reach the mark even if he were to win all of the remaining pledged delegates. This puts the Democratic nomination squarely in the hands of the party’s 714 superdelegates.

In Philadelphia, then, it will be the task of Sanders supporters like me _ I am on his slate of potential pledged delegates in

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California’s 12th Congressional District in San Francisco _ to make our case to the superdelegates, as well as the nation at large.

Sanders voters are often accused of thinking that just because our candidate says something should be done that it will be done once he’s elected, as if there were no real-world obstacles to a Medicare-for-all plan, a $15-an-hour national minimum wage, tuition-free public higher education or any of the other ideas we’re promoting. But we think nothing of the kind. We do, however, believe that if we elect a president who doesn’t say _ or think _ these things should happen, they never will happen.

In Philadelphia we will start with an electability argument. Poll after poll has shown Sanders faring better against Donald Trump than Clinton, particularly among independent voters.

More importantly, we will argue that the Sanders approach represents the way forward for the party and the country. The central divide in the race among Democrats has been whether the political realities of Washington or the material needs of the nation and the world should prevail.

The Clinton campaign contends that it is the former: If the congressional votes aren’t there for big changes, we have no choice but to pare back our program to smaller increments. Sanders supporters, on the other hand, argue that the need to address major prob-

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These things do happen.

One such shift is within the memory of many voters _ the Reagan Revolution, when members of Congress moved en masse to the right in response to President Reagan’s landslide election in 1980. The result was the entrenched growth of economic inequality that Sanders is now trying to undo. Before that, there was President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, which established the principle that the capitalist system should be the servant of the people, not the reverse.

The difficulty of changing the minds of large numbers of superdelegates in Philadelphia can hardly be overstated. But consider this: A year ago, who would have seriously believed that a democratic socialist, down 50 percentage points in the polls at the start, could run a national presidential campaign decrying the dominance of government by billionaires, rejecting corporate cash and funding it with millions of donations averaging $27 _ and still be winning primaries in May? Change does happen.

If the superdelegates want to know how to start bringing that change to Washington, they need only look in the mirror.

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‘The Angry Birds Movie’ slingshots into a theatre near you who has anger problems. Red and the rest of the flightless birds inhabit an island cleverly named Bird Island and as far as they know they are the only A&E contributor ones in the world. Bird Island is a peaceful and tropical place Originally, “Angry Birds” was to live and the other birds frown a game that a person played on Red’s anger issues, sentencon their phone about launch- ing him to anger management ing birds into pig inhabited classes. structures. Then someone had While attending the classes, the idea that people would he meets a few other temperenjoy watching an animated amental birds names Chuck film based off of a smartphone (Josh Gad), Bomb (Danny game.

McBride) and Terence (Sean They were right.

Penn). Through the class, the The plot of “The Angry Birds birds become casual acquainMovie” revolves around the tances just in time for the pigs character Red (Jason Sudeikis), to land on the island. Though

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At first I was very skeptical of this film. However, I ended up thoroughly enjoying various aspects of the movie and being glad I had watched it. Before we touch on the good, let’s discuss the movie’s shortcomings.

I thought plausibility was the movie’s worst aspect for several reasons, the first being that somehow the birds and the pigs speak the same language despite never meeting before. I understand that this just makes the plot very convenient, but the film even alluded to the possible existence of different languages and other islands.

Also, the birds are on an island by themselves and have never met anyone before, which means that they don’t have good ships or trade routes with other islands. This means that Bird Island would need to have corn, coconuts, metal ores, and all the ingredients to make a gluten free cake on the island itself. That is a lot of different plants and materials for an island that supports a bird population that only seems to be in the triple digits.

Also, I’m pretty sure that there are eggs in cake even if it is gluten free, and if that’s the case where do they get the eggs? Are the birds on Bird Island using their own eggs to make cakes?

That’s a pretty rough concept to put in a movie for kids.

All that bad stuff aside, I really enjoyed the movie for many reasons, the first of which

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being characters. The four birds from the anger management group, which I have personally named “Anger Squad”, are all fairly simple but distinctive and useful characters.

Red has big eyebrows and seems to be a fair bit smarter than the other birds, which leads to him stepping up as a leader. Chuck has what seems to be super speed, Bomb can explode almost on command and Terence is massive and strong. Together the Anger Squad are able to tackle many challenges with their diverse set of skills and abilities.

Next, I want to talk about the great sounds of the movie in the form of well-known and well implemented songs.

Songs such as “Paranoid” by Black Sabbath, “Never Gonna Give You Up” by Rick Astley, and “I Will Survive” by Gloria

Gaynor are all used in this film.

The songs are either used to enhance action sequences or for impromptu dance sequences, but always for the benefit of the audience.

The visuals in the film were also impressive and very fun to look at, especially the contrast between the cultures of the birds and pigs. You see, the birds are content with a lush island paradise that contributes to a laid back environment. The pigs, on the other hand, come across as hyper-industrialized and even a bit reminiscent of steam punk aesthetics.

Lastly, I want to talk about the many subtly and clever references the film makes that add to the movie’s re-watch potential.

If you’re like me, you love things like puns and smart word play.

Fortunately “The Angry Birds Movie” is filled to the brim with

puns and word play.

The following are just some of the jokes I notices about pig culture: “piggy back ride,” “pig Latin,” “HAM radio,” “Calvin Swine,” “Hamnesty International,” and “Hamlet.”

These are just a few of the examples I noticed about the pigs-bird culture is also prone to have puns made about it in the film.

Overall, I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the movie, as it proved to be entertaining for both children and adults. If you’re looking for a fun animated film, I would recommend seeing “The Angry Birds Movie” even if you haven’t played the game.

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