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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2013 • VOLUME CXVI, NUMBER 24
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Group counters WBC for soldier’s memorial OSU, Corvallis community react, organize in response to WBC intent to protest Patterson memorial service
protest against homosexuality. In reaction to this announcement, Matt Enloe created an “OSU Supports Cody Patterson” Facebook group Thursday. Enloe is a junior majoring in philosophy. By Megan Campbell “When I heard the Westboro Baptist Church was The Daily Barometer coming to campus, especially to picket a soldier’s The Westboro Baptist Church announced its service, my immediate reaction was that there intent to protest at U.S. Army Ranger Pfc. Cody J. should be people to support the family,” Enloe said Patterson’s memorial at 1:15 p.m. on Sunday at the in a Facebook message. “I just wanted to get some people to go sit with supportive signs and expected LaSells Stewart Center. maybe 20 people tops.” Patterson’s memorial service begins at 2 p.m. More than 7,000 people have been invited to The WBC is a group that conducts demonstrations, including for military funerals, often to attend a counter-protest. By print time Thursday n
night, more than 800 people registered their intent to counter-protest the WBC on Sunday. The counter-protest group is planning to meet outside of Dixon Recreation Center at 1 p.m. From there, the group plans to walk to the LaSells Stewart Center. The guidelines for these counter-protesters are to avoid interacting with WBC and to be silent and peaceful. Signs are to be supportive messages, which are recommended on the Facebook page. Steve Clark, vice president for university relations and marketing, said he hopes there won’t be a confrontation — between any of the parties. Clark
said the only opinion that he hopes is expressed on Sunday is that of support, concern and care for the Patterson family members and friends. The way to create this presence, Clark said, is to “appear outside in dignity,” and to “not fuel the fire.” The university respects the WBC Freedom of Speech rights and will not approach the situation any differently than it would any other protest, Clark said. Oregon State Police are aware of the situation and agree that they will not “treat them differently,” said Lieutenant Charles Yutzie, interim director in the department of public safety. See WESTBORO | page 3
International Film Festival more worldly, still free n
Weeklong festival screens films from 17 countries, continues through Sunday By Olivia Poblacion The Daily Barometer
The fifth-annual Oregon State University International Film Festival began Monday and features 18 films shown throughout seven days at the Darkside Cinema in downtown Corvallis. Organized by the School of Language, Culture and Society, the festival runs from Oct. 14-20 and has expanded this year from its previous format of five films shown in five days. “The goal was to cover as many different countries as possible and as many different cultures,” said Sebastian Heiduschke, the festival co-founder and a professor of German cinema at OSU. The festival includes films from Japan to Kazakhstan to Brazil. Storylines range from a German comedy about the kidnapped son of a Viking chief to a drama about women in Cairo combating sexual harassment. At Tuesday night’s screening of the Serbian film, “Parada,” Sonia Kousha, 54, a quality engineer, said foreign films have a different appeal than American ones. “I think the focus is more on the relationships between people, instead of how many car crashes or sex scenes there are,” Kousha said. “There’s a lot of humanity in them.” This is Kousha’s second year attending the festival. “I would come to all the films if I didn’t have to work,” she said. Beginning as a project between three foreign language professors in 2009, the film festival was origi-
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The Oregon State University Extension Service has revised its publication, “How to Reduce Bee Poisonings from Pesticides,” to include the latest research and regulations pertaining to bees and pesticides, according to a news release. Lead authors include OSU honeybee specialist Ramesh Sagili and OSU toxicologist Louisa Hooven. The publication explains how to
Federal funds will compensate for funds lost to Oregon State University during shutdown By Sean Bassinger The Daily Barometer
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The Darkside Cinema in downtown Corvallis will show “Wickie auf grosser Fahrt” (2011) on Sunday at 2 p.m. nally screened on campus, primarily for students. their students. As community interest in the festival grew, they “We wanted to do something to bring the differdecided to move the venue to the Darkside Cinema ent languages together,” Heiduschke said. in 2011. The festival acquired more sponsors and The professors wrote their respective embassies See FILM | page 3 and asked them to send films they could show
Researchers help reduce pesticides that kill honeybees The Daily Barometer
Shutdown ends, grants return, research resumes
investigate and report suspected bee poisonings and categorizes the prolonged toxicity periods for several pesticides. It is designed for commercial beekeepers, growers and pesticide applicators throughout Oregon, California, Idaho and Washington. In Oregon, more than 50,000 honeybees were killed in Wilsonville on June 17 after linden trees were sprayed to control aphids. Four days later, hundreds of bees were found
dead in Hillsboro. This was the largest bee kill on record. In response to the bee deaths, on June 21 the Oregon Department of Agriculture restricted 18 pesticides that contain the active ingredient dinotefuran for a six-month period. OSU researchers are currently investigating the effects of neonicotinoids (a class of neuro-active insecticides related to nicotine), including dinotefuran, on native
bees. It is thought that even low levels of exposure of neocotinoids may impact bees’ ability to forage for nectar, learn and remember the location of flowers, and it may possibly impair their ability to find their way home to the hive. The publication was produced in collaboration with OSU, Washington State University and the University of Idaho. managing@dailybarometer.com
Programs and grants affected by the recent government shutdown will now resume due to the Congress-approved debt ceiling extension, which will last through Feb. 7, 2014. Multiple college research programs slowed or halted as a result of the federal funding shutdown. Research returned to normal at the Hatfield Marine Science Center, where 35 researchers had to continue their work in other buildings due to federal property closures. According to Steve Clark, vice president for university relations and marketing at OSU, financial aid and veterans programs remained unaffected during the shutdown. Regardless, the veteran affairs office responded to concerns from students who receive benefits. In addition, Clark mentioned how new federal funds will also compensate for funds the university used during the shutdown. “The university was able to continue essential research by utilizing funding of its own,” Clark said. “We will be reimbursed for those.” Bob Cowen, director of the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport, said federal workers returned to Hatfield in order to resume research and operations. “Our people are moving back to their respective offices and labs in our federal building,” Cowen said. “We survived it.” Cowen said many complications arose from certain research grants being time-sensitive. “Once that work starts, you have to get the job done in those two years,” See SHUTDOWN | page 3