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Suspect apprehended after high-speed chase Car chase ends on OSU campus Friday night, non-student suspect intended to harm student, arrested next to IM fields

By Sean Bassinger Senior Beat Reporter

Corvallis Police Department arrested a 17-year-old male following a high-speed car chase that ended on Oregon State University campus Friday evening.

The chase ended on campus around 7:20 p.m. when the driver stopped along the edge of a curb and got out of his vehicle.

Video footage posted online shows the suspect back up right before officers took him into custody.

Reports came in that a non-student individual was making threats to his girlfriend, who lives in an off-campus sorority near campus, according to Steve Clark, vice president of university relations and

marketing at OSU. “He had made threats that he was going to harm his girlfriend who is a student at Oregon State,” Clark said.

Campus officials were preparing to send a timely warning via email between 7:15 and 7:20 p.m., but did not have to since CPD apprehended the suspect in the chase, Clark added.

“We received word that the suspect had been arrested by Corvallis Police, so we did not send out a timely warning as a result of the threat being handled,” Clark said.

Several students from West Hall were eyewitnesses of the event.

Tim Slama, a freshman in mechanical engineering who lives in the residence

hall, said he saw the red car speed down Southwest Intramural Lane past the fields before stopping.

“As it came down to the end, reaching over here by 30th, he realized that the cops had blocked him off on 30th and he had cops behind him,” Slama said. “He didn’t have anywhere to go, so he hit the breaks.”

Slama said the suspect got out of his car and did everything the officers asked him to from that point on. Overall, there were around 10 police vehicles that included members of campus security and CPD. “The building was on lock down to prevent anyone from leaving,” Slama said.

“Overall, the police handled it very well.”

Officers had about four guns drawn on

the suspect as a precaution, Slama added.

Nate Lausmann, another freshman resident of West Hall and an industrial engineering student, took video footage of the resulting arrest as the events occurred.

“Up on the fourth floor, we had a great perspective of the entire thing,” he said.

“There were a lot of sirens, a lot of police obviously.”

Lausmann was one of many residents on the fourth floor of West Hall who later gave eye witness testimonies after the events concluded.

“The kid’s just... scattering,” he said.

“They really wanted to make sure he had no weapons on him, of course. He just kind

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Study examines barriers of rural Latino healthcare Young Oregonian Latinos experience discrimination in healthcare system

By Julie Cooper News Contributor

New research from OSU recently, published in the Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, found that discrimination by health care providers may be preventing young Latinos from seeking access to health services.

Researchers conducted interviews with 349 Latino individuals from rural areas of Oregon between the ages of 18 and 25. The findings show that 40 percent of participants said they experience discrimination when obtaining health care services. The study also showed experiences of discrimination were found to be significantly higher for foreign-born Latinos than for US-born Latinos.

Much of the past research has focused on urban area, and until now there has been little assessment of health care discrimination in rural regions.

“We’ve seen in our work with the communities locally in Corvallis and in other parts of the state this theme around discrimination and fear of deportation and stress playing out in different ways,” said lead researcher Daniel Lopez-Cevallos, the associate director of research with the Center for Latino/a Studies and Engagement at OSU. The study, called The Latino Health Project,

was funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is part of a larger project to assess rates of institutional discrimination against Latinos.

Co-author of the study Marie Harvey, the associate dean for research and graduate programs in the College of Public Health and Human Sciences, said that she and LopezCevallos share the overall goal of eliminating health care disparities, and giving all people access to primary health care and preventive services.

“What we would like is for our findings to really inform policies and practices within primary care facilities and providers, to better understand what it is that makes people feel discriminated against,” said Harvey.

According to Lopez-Cevallos, perceived discrimination is a major barrier to accessing health care services for Latinos and other underrepresented groups.

If someone feels discriminated against, they are less likely to access health care services in a timely manner, delaying easily treatable health issues until the situation is too urgent to ignore.

This delay in receiving treatment can lead to the development of chronic illnesses, which are more costly to treat.

While Lopez-Cevallos could not disclose whether any of the study’s participants were students at OSU, about 64 percent of the participants had 12 years of schooling or more.

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OSUsed Store helps campus sustainabilty Surplus aims to keep material out of landfills

By Riley Youngman News Contributor

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OSUsed offers a wide variety of surplus goods that OSU students and the Corvallis community have access to for a discounted price.

Packed with lab instruments, refurbished computers, antique typewriters, OSU football jerseys, books and vinyl records, and office furniture, the OSUsed store has a lot to offer.

Located in the Property Services Building at 644 SW 13th St. in Corvallis, the official storefront for the Oregon State Surplus Property Department exists as a channel for the department to sell back used items to the OSU and local communities, and in doing so, keep material out of landfills.

“We’ve sold ships, we’ve sold fire engines. We’ve sold all types of interesting things,” Shelley Willis, a Property Specialist at the OSU storefront said. “At the beginning of the year we had a lot of foreign students come in and get their goods.”

The Surplus Property Department at Oregon State University was established in 1981, and exists today as a 100 percent self-funded auxiliary department.

“We help the community sell their surplus items,” said Rae DeLay, the materials manager for the Surplus Property Department.

DeLay, who has been with the department for seven years sees this type of operation as crucial for sustainability.

Ian King, a junior in finance, has been a student worker with the OSU Surplus Property Department since May. “I think it is really interesting you can take stuff from campus and then be able to sell it back to campus,” King said.

Operating both a storefront on the OSU campus as well as multiple online sites, the department’s mission is to recycle or transfer excess property back to OSU, state and local governments, and qualified nonprofit organizations within Oregon.

“The Surplus Proper-

ty Department is also self sustaining. We are funded through our sales only,” DeLay said. “70 percent of our sales also come from online.”

While technically existing under the Procurement, Contracts, and Materials Management Department, the Surplus Property Department works hand-in-hand with the Recycling Department to ensure that as many items as possible find new homes and are reused rather than thrown away, and at the least are recycled properly.

“There is a great benefit to working with Recycling,” DeLay said. “If we can’t sell an item, we will recycle it,” she continued.

During the week, campus departments have opportunities to buy specialty equipment that surplus has in stock, including scientific instruments and lab equipment, as well as items such as desks and chairs. After a commission is taken from these sales, the remaining money is then given back to the departments that made the donations.

“The lab that I work for drops off stuff here. This is my first time here though.

I definitely see this place as a good thing. It offers more than you’d find on Craigslist or even Goodwill,” said Sam Keane, a junior in civil engineering.

In addition to servicing OSU and managing of a physical storefront and strong online presence, the Surplus Property Department also services 40 other state and public agencies including schools, cities, counties, and other universities and colleges in the state.

“We are the only university in Oregon that has a program like this,” DeLay said.

Public sales are held 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. the first Wednesday of every month, and 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. all other Wednesdays. An official calendar of sales times can be found online at the official OSU Surplus Property Department website. news@dailybarometer.com

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New proposal by Obama calls for scaling back of standardized-testing prep

By Richard A. Serrano Tribune Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration executed a significant about-face in its education policy Saturday, calling for a cap on the amount of time students spend taking standardized tests.

The move comes amid growing opposition from teachers and many parents who assert that high-stakes testing has classrooms focused on rote preparation and has squelched creativity.

The announcement breaks a pattern of more than a decade of efforts by the Obama and George W. Bush administrations to emphasize standardized tests as a primary way to hold schools and teachers accountable for what students learn.

Education reform groups as well as civil rights organizations have backed testing as a way to ensure that school districts provide better instruction to poor and minority students.

But in the new policy, the administration acknowledged the focus on testing was “consuming too much instructional time and creating undue stress for educators and students.” It called on states and school districts to cap the time spent on assessments at no more than 2 percent of classroom hours and pledged to ask

Congress to enact the limit into law.

“Students do best on high-quality assessments that actually measure critical thinking and complex skills when they have been exposed to strong instruction, which should be the focus” of the school day, the Department of Education wrote in a memo outlining its new plan.

The change in policy also has a major political implication. The administration’s push for testing has alienated teacher unions, which are a major force in the Democratic Party, creating a breach that has proved troublesome for the party’s front-runner in the presidential race, Hillary Rodham Clinton.

The country’s two major teacher unions voiced support for the new plan.

President Barack Obama announced the policy shift in a video posted on Facebook.

“Learning is about so much more than filling in the right bubble,” he said, calling for tests to be high-quality, a limited part of the curriculum and just one measurement of a student’s progress.

The Obama administration’s new effort to streamline testing is an attempt to roll back some of the mandates of the No Child Left Behind Act implemented during the Bush administration. Such

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Critics of testing requirements welcomed the administration’s move but cautioned that much more needs to be done to overhaul educational assessments.

“Now is the time for concrete steps to reverse counterproductive testing policies, not just more hollow rhetoric and creation of yet another study commission,” said Bob Schaeffer of FairTest, a group that advocates for better educational testing.

The American Federation of Teachers, the largest union representing classroom instructors, also favors less testing.

“The fixation on high-stakes testing hasn’t moved the needle on student achievement,” Randi Weingarten, the group’s president, said in a statement.

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By Brian Rathbone Sports Editor

Offense turned in most complete performance Saturday was a hard pill to swallow. If the reality of the 2015 season hadn’t set in yet, it hit you like a bag of bricks.

Colorado, losers of 14 straight conference games entering Saturday’s game, celebrated a 17-13 win on the turf at Reser Stadium getting their first Pac-12 victory Nov. 16, 2013.

It was a game where the Beavers out-gained the Buffaloes on offense, made more big plays and at times looked more explosive but were not able to make the “layups” as head coach Gary Andersen said after the game.

At quick glance, it will appear that the offense had one of its worst performances of the season.

But from the opening kickoff to the final kneel down by Colorado, the Beaver offense turned in their most complete performance in Pac-12 play.

How could that be? They only managed 13 points.

They didn’t light up the scoreboard, nor did they make the plays in crunch time when it came down to winning the game.

But, the Nick Mitchell-led offense did something that the Oregon State offense hadn’t done all season – stay on the field.

In the games leading up to the Colorado game, the OSU offense has had it’s moments.

The opening drive against Michigan and the first half against Stanford were highpoints for the offense this season. Outside of that, success has been few and far between.

On the season, the Beavers have had 23 three-and-out possessions, a rate of 3.8 per game. Against Colorado, the Beavers did not have a threeand-out until their second to last possession of the game.

That may not look like much, but that is a big step in the right direction for the success of the team.

In the three conference losses, this Oregon State offense went through stretches where they could not get anything going. Whether it was the start of the second half against Stanford, or the beginning of the Arizona and Washington State games, too often the offense has disappeared for long stretches of time, forcing the defense to be on the field for extra duty.

The opposite happened Saturday night, the defense got stronger as the night went on.

Colorado is not a great team by any stretch of the imagination. But they are better than Weber State, San Jose State and on par with Arizona, and the Beavers held them to 17 points – their lowest point output of the season.

But more importantly, the defense was able to make plays when it mattered most. When Garrett Owen cut the Colorado lead down to four points with a

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Senior running back Storm Barrs-Woods reaches the ball towards the goalline in the first quarter of Saturday’s 17-13 loss to Colorado.

Beavers come up short against Buffaloes 1 2 3 4 Colorado 3 7 7 0 Oregon State 7 3 0 3

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Scoring Plays First Quarter: Colo: 6:26 – Diego Gonzalez 21 Yd Field Goal OSU: 2:58 – Ryan Nall 1 Yd Run (Owens Kick) Second Quarter: Colo: 9:11– Nelson Spruce 15 Yd pass from Sefo Liufau (Gonzalez Kick) OSU: 5:44 – Garrett Owens 42 Yd Field Goal Fourth Quarter Colo: 12:31 – Sefo Liufau 4 Yd Run (Gonzalez Kick) OSU: 9:12 – Garrett Owens 34 Yd Field Goal

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Senior defensive tackle Kyle Peko makes a tackle behind the line of scrimmage on third down late in the fourth quarter. Colorado

By Josh Worden Senior Beat Reporter

The Oregon State football team stumbled to 2-5 on the year after a 17-13 loss to Colorado on Saturday night. The Buffaloes snapped a 14-game losing streak in the Pac-12, ending the longest active streak of conference losses in the nation.

A loss would have given Colorado a school record in consecutive conference losses, but the Buffaloes gained their third road Pac-12 win since joining in 2011.

• After a 21-0 scoring advantage in the third quarter against San Jose State in week three, the Beavers have not recorded a point in any third period. Their opponents have totaled 24 points in that time in third quarters.

• The Beavers far exceeded the Buffaloes on Saturday in offensive ‘chunk’ plays — rushes of 10 or more yards or passing plays of 15-plus yards — with 13 such plays to Colorado’s six. Freshman running back Ryan Nall had four carries of double digits yards, more than Colorado’s entire team.

• Nall’s first six games: 19 carries, 95 yards and one touchdown. His numbers on Saturday: 20 attempts, 122 yards and one touchdown. He had four yards in nonconference games and now has 213 yards in Pac-12 contests.

• Of OSU’s last 33 field goal tries, 27 were attempted in Reser Stadium.

• For the third game this year, no OSU tight end made a catch. Redshirt freshman quarterback Nick Mitchell, however, had an 11-yard reception in the first quarter. Only six OSU players have more receiving yards than him this season.

• The Beavers are now 1-for-11 this year on fourth down conversions. That includes failed fourth-and-ones against Colorado, Arizona and Weber State as well as a fourth-and-two versus Washington State.

• Of OSU’s first 18 touchdowns allowed this season, 15 were rushing scores. Each of the last seven, however, have been passing touchdowns.

• OSU’s offense had 23 three-and-outs this season before the Colorado game (3.8 per game) but had just one against the Buffaloes. Colorado, meanwhile, had five three-and-outs and traveled just 12 combined yards on those possessions.

• Coming into this week, the other 11 Pac-12 teams were completing 63.4 percent of their respective passes. After the Colorado game, OSU has completed 48 percent of its passes.

• The Beavers have run the ball on 59 percent of offensive plays this year, compared to 44 percent last season.

• Mitchell had 122 yards passing in his first career game, but completed just 9 of his 24 attempts. In the final 7:30 of the game, he was 3-for-13 for nine yards with one interception.

• True freshman quarterback Seth Collins has finished with a completion rate between 55 and 57.1 percent in five of this year’s seven games. His 57.1 percent completion total against the Buffaloes was his highest of the season. Collins has only exceeded 50 percent passing in one quarter cumulatively: the first period, in which he completes 62.8 percent of his passes.

• The Beavers averaged 15.3 yards per pass completion, the highest total of the season. Colorado averaged 8.8 yards per completion, the lowest of OSU’s Pac-12 opponents this year.

• After being picked off once in the first four games this year, OSU has been intercepted four times in the last three games.

• The Buffaloes came into the game being outscored in every quarter cumulatively except the second period. They had a 7-3 advantage Saturday in the second quarter. Oregon State’s 37-36 edge in fourth quarters is its only frame with a positive differential.

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Athlete of the Week Ryan Nall Saturday night in the Beaver’s 17-13 loss to Colorado marked the first career start for redshirt freshman running back Ryan Nall.

Used sparingly in the running game up until this point, Nall saw in increase in reps with lingering injuries to regular starter Storm Barrs-Woods.

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Redshirt freshman Ryan Nall stiff arms a Colorado defender in Saturday’s 17-13 loss on Oct. 24.

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Beavers can’t complete comeback OSU’s comeback effort comes up short against No. 10 UCLA

By Michael Kiever Sports Contributor

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Sophomore outside hitter Mary-Kate Marshall attempts to spike the ball against No. 10 UCLA, the Beavers fell to the Bruins in five sets on Oct. 25.

The Oregon State women’s volleyball fell to No. 10 UCLA in a 3-2 loss on Sunday afternoon. The win marked the Bruins seventh consecutive win, and gave the Beavers their third straight loss.

The Beavers (4-16, 2-8 Pac-12), coming off a 3-1 loss to No. 1USC on Friday, started the game slow. They gave up the first two sets to UCLA (17-3, 7-2), but then fought back to stay alive, winning the third and fourth sets behind strong play from senior middle blocker Hailey Clarke and redshirt junior outside hitter Katelyn Driscoll.

“We came out really strong and won the third and fourth games despite what happened in the first two games,” sophomore outside hitter Mary-Kate Marshall said. “We went downstairs (at halftime), regrouped and came out really strong and I’m really proud of our team for doing that.”

The momentum shifted dramatically in the fifth set. The score was 4-3 early in the fifth set when the Bruins went on a 12-2 run, winning the fifth set 15-5 and clinching the game.

“We have to stop the runs,” Driscoll said.

“They got into some really good serving runs, and we didn’t get the ball over the net.”

Once UCLA grabbed ahold of the fifth set, it was over for the resurgent Beavers.

“The disappointment in this game was the fifth set,” said head coach Terry Liskevych.

“We made way too many errors in everything – blocking, hitting serving.”

Although OSU’s play may have fallen apart

at the end, Liskevych found several positives to take from the game.

“I thought we contested well,” Liskevych said. “I thought our block was pretty good, and at times we really served the ball tough.”

Driscoll and Clarke both provided plenty of highlights – Clarke accounted for three straight points in the third set and Driscoll ended with a team-high of 18 kills.

“It helps us out tremendously to have both of them step up and play well,” Marshall said.

“Them playing well is the reason why we played well today.”

Liskevych stressed the importance of all three outside hitters playing cohesively.

“We haven’t had a match where Driscoll, Toner and Marshall are all on, hitting good numbers,” Liskevych said.

While there was plenty to build off in this match, few players are pleased with how the match ended.

“None of us are satisfied until we actually win,” Driscoll said.

After playing two consecutive opponents in the top 10 this weekend, the Beavers will nonetheless have a lot to work on in practice this week.

“What Terry always says is that we need to not go three points without putting the ball over the net,” Marshall said. “That’s what we need to focus on.”

For the time being, OSU will take their positive attitude on the road to face Colorado and Utah. With 10 games reaming, the season is still far from over.

“We know we can play with anybody, we just have to sustain play from point zero to the end of a match” Liskevych said. “Every match we’ve played great volleyball at times, we just haven’t sustained it throughout.”

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‘Don’t be a quitter, pickup your litter’ Men’s basketball cleans up campus and builds school pride

By Brian Rathbone Sports Editor

With the season tipping off in less than two weeks, the Oregon State men’s basketball team had some things to tidy up. Not their jump shots or their zone-defense rotations – but the campus.

With gardening gloves and garbage bags in hand, players and coaches split into teams groups starting at Monroe Avenue working their way through campus with one goal – to clean up the campus.

Cleaning up the campus is something that second-year head coach Wayne Tinkle did while he was coaching at Montana, but it Director of Player Personal, Rashi Wortham who got the

ball rolling on Friday’s cleanup.

“I was standing outside out basketball center and there was a bunch of garbage on the ground, I would literally walk and pick it up and throw it away and not think anything of it,” Wortham said. “Then I thought how cool would it be to tweet it and have people join along side of us (as we clean).”

Players did not see the cleanup as any sort of punishment, but some were confused at first on why they were doing it.

“First thought that went through my mind is that ‘our campus is already clean,’” said senior forward Langston Morris-Walker. “But when you go through the cracks and whatnot, you find a little bit of residue that needs to be picked up.

“I always like to say, ‘don’t be a quitter, pickup your litter,” While the campus became less littered, the goal of the pickup was to teach lessons of pride about the Oregon State community.

“It’s just about giving back to this great

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Freshman guard Stephen Thompson Jr. (right) collects litter with the rest of the men’s basketball team during the campus litter sweep on Oct. 23. university and teaching our guys valuable life lessons about community service and showing the love for the opportunity we were all given,” Tinkle said.

“Any small thing we can do to help this community we will do,” said freshman forward Drew Eubanks. “They do so much to support us.”

The community involvement that the players and coaches partake in is also about following

through on promises made during recruiting visits.

“We sell it to parents when we recruit their kids that we are going to help them in life skills that they can then take back to their communities as well,” Wortham said. “If we want the community to support us, we need to support the community.

Stanford Cardinal assert dominance over Huskies

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The Huskies were forced to shuffle their defense with four new starters The Seattle Times because of injuries and a first-half STANFORD, Calif. – They were with- suspension for safety Brian Clay. UW out their starting quarterback. With- then lost starting cornerback Kevin out four regulars defenders to start the King early in the third quarter to an game. And on the road against one of apparent leg injury. the hottest teams in college football, UW didn’t let the game get comthe Huskies were without much hope pletely out of hand, but that’s about Saturday night. the best that can be said of the HusStanford beat down a beat-up kies’ performance. Ultimately, StanWashington team 31-14 putting the ford’s physical style worn down the 10th-ranked Cardinal in the driver’s Huskies, whose short-handed defense seat in the race for the Pac-12 Conferwas on field for nearly 38 minutes. ence championship while sending the Stanford (6-1, 5-0) was never threatHuskies (3-4, 1-3 Pac-12) below .500 for the first time under Chris Petersen. ened in the first half, needing just With freshman quarterback Jake three minutes to take the game’s openBrowning sidelined by an injury to ing drive 62 yards and building a 7-0 his right (throwing) shoulder, redshirt lead. It was 17-0 at halftime.

With possession to start the second freshman K.J. Carta-Samuels made his first start for the Huskies. He had come half, the Huskies got a 43-yard return into the game having attempted just from true freshman Chico McClatcher three career passes. and then handed the ball off to true

freshman Myles Gaskin on five consecutive plays, resulting in runs of 3, 12, 28 and a 14-yard TD run.

That cut Stanford’s lead to 17-7.

Gaskin again was a bright spot for the UW offense. The O’Dea High School product topped the 100-yard mark for the third consecutive game, the first true freshman in school history to do that.

After Gaskin’s touchdown, the Cardinal came right back with a 50-yard touchdown pass from Kevin Hogan to Christian McCaffrey, pushing the lead to 24-7.

McCaffrey added a 7-yard TD run late in the third to extend the lead to 31-7. McCaffrey finished with more than 300 all-purpose yards to bolster his Heisman hopes.

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back foot as the Stanford’s blitzing defenders approached. Through three quarters, he was 5 for 13 for 37 yards.

Carta-Samuels then orchestrated his best drive of the day, capped by the first touchdown run of his career, from 7 yards out. He had sidestepped one defender near the line of scrimmage and then dived ahead at the goal line. He was 4 for 5 for 81 yards on the drive.

That touchdown got the Huskies within 31-14 with 11:36 left. They wouldn’t get any closer.

En route to building a 17-0 halftime lead, Stanford held the ball for almost 22 of the 30 minutes in the first half, gaining 241 yards. The Huskies managed just 58 yards on 18 first-half plays, never crossing midfield.

field goal with nine minutes remaining in the game, the defense forced three consecutive three-and-outs.

Just as the offense gave the defense chances to catch their breath and make adjustments on the sidelines, the defense gave the ball back to offense with chances to win the game.

When it came time to make winning plays, the offense could not overcome the dropped passes, the silly penalties or couldn’t “make the layups.” . After six weeks of taking fall-away jumper and deep contested three-point shots, for the first time this season, the offense found ways to shoot layups.

Now they need to find a way to make them.

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Tests

Continued from page 3 how to be resilient and how to think critically.”

The issue of how much and how often students should be tested is one that education officials and parents have grappled with for years.

Of equal concern to many is how much time students spend preparing for tests, particularly since the enactment of the No Child Left Behind law and the more recent Common Core academic standards.

Students now spend up to 25 hours each year taking tests, according to a study released Saturday by the Council of Great City Schools, which reviewed the country’s 66 largest school districts. The study found that between kindergarten and the 12th grade, students are given about 112 standardized exams. For the average eighth-grader, the council’s report said testing alone amounts to 2.3 percent of classroom time. That did not include additional time spent preparing for the tests.

But the council did not reveal whether that was too much or too little, as each student is different. “How much constitutes too much time is really difficult to answer,” said Michael Casserly, the council’s executive director.

David J. Menefee-Libey, a politics professor at Pomona College in Claremont, Calif., and an educational specialist, said he was “surprised” to see the White House’s move, “given how deeply testing has been embedded in the Obama administration’s approach to education from the very beginning.” He said he was skeptical that the administration had simply reached a research-based conclusion and wondered whether the announcement was not “completely political, given the growing bipartisan unpopularity of testing.”

“There’s not much to be gained politically by hanging on to the former view,” he said.

Obama’s move was welcomed by Clinton, who has been caught between the push by

teachers unions to relax testing requirements and a White House that had shown little sign of backing down.

“Standardized tests must be worth taking, high-quality, time-limited, fair, fully transparent to students and parents, just one of multiple measures and tied to improving learning,” the presidential candidate said in a statement, adding that she “embraced” Obama’s new initiative.

As Clinton courted the unions for their endorsement of her pursuit of the Democratic nomination, the rank and file resisted.

Her reluctance to map out a detailed policy agenda that would scale back testing requirements and slow the spread of charter schools was a major sticking point. Clinton had been vague about her education plans, using language that signals she is troubled by the proliferation of testing without pledging any concrete steps to scale it back.

When the American Federation of Teachers endorsed Clinton early in the summer, there was an intense backlash from members who do not trust she would steer the Department of Education in a new direction.

The National Education Association, the nation’s largest union – which also backed Obama’s plan – only endorsed Clinton after she upended her schedule to appear at its Washington headquarters to make a personal appeal to its board. The leaders of the union’s New Jersey and Massachusetts chapters had urged withholding an endorsement until candidates were more specific about education policy.

But along with the politically powerful teachers unions _ a key source of boots on the ground in an election _ Clinton has been grappling with equally influential forces on the other side of the debate. Obama administration school accountability measures have proved popular not just with parents, but also with some of Clinton’s most generous donors.

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Continued from page 1 Healthcare discrimination can affect young Latinos regardless of their level of education – the study found that discrimination occurred regardless of participants’ education in the English language.

“We included a measure of acculturation that is a language-based measure, and it was not associated with healthcare discrimination,” Lopez-Cevallos said.

Many clinics may offer bilingual employees or translators, but based on this study’s results, there may be

more than a language barrier between Latinos and proper access to health care services.

“It’s not just enough to speak the language,” LopezCevallos said. “There’s something else about understanding the context of where these young adult Latinos come from that I think is important as we move forward with healthcare reform.”

This research by LopezCevallos and Harvey is their second publication related to health care disparities for Latinos, their first relating to discrimination and medical mistrust. A third will compare health care discrimination in rural and urban populations. news@dailybarometer.com

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Germany considers charges against Facebook for anti-refugee hate speech

By Matthew Schofield McClatchy Washington Bureau

BERLIN – The anti-refugee post on Facebook by a 29-year-old Berlin woman last spring seemed little different from many of the hate-filled rants that pop up on social media sites.

“Let’s get rid of the filth,” she wrote. Then, referring to a series of arson fires that have destroyed refugee housing under construction across Germany, she continued: “Many more refugee centers will burn, hopefully with the doors boarded up.”

But there was a difference between her words and many others that appear online: She was a German, posting in Germany. And while social media globally might assume a more American character of erring on the side of free speech over censorship, Germany does not share this view when it comes to hate speech.

The woman was charged with violating Germany’s hate speech law, convicted and sentenced to five years of probation. She’s not the only poster to have run afoul of the law: A 25-year-old man from the small town of Passau in Bavaria was fined 7,500 euro (about $8,500) for a Facebook post offering to deliver “a gas canister and hand grenade, for free,” to a group of asylum seekers. A 34-year-old Berlin man was fined 4,800 euro (about $5,500) for posting: “I’m in favor of reopening the gas chambers and putting the whole brood inside.”

Now, with the swelling number of refugees prompt-

ing still more such posts, German prosecutors are considering going after Facebook itself for acting as a home for posts that advocate racial hatred and violate laws against neoNazi speech.

German prosecutors are investigating possible charges against three Facebook managers, prompted by a complaint that they failed to act against racist comments about Europe’s refugee crisis.

The complaint came from German attorney Chan-jo Jun, of Wuerzburg. In it, he claimed to have flagged more than 60 Facebook entries that would violate German hate speech laws. In an interview in Die Welt newspaper, he noted that the posts he flagged – some even featuring Nazi insignia and people posing while giving a Nazi salute – are strictly forbidden by German law.

But, he said, Facebook responded to his complaints by saying the content didn’t violate Facebook’s community standards, and the posts were not removed. He made copies of the posts and sent them to Facebook’s German managers by registered mail.

“We need to put an end to the arrogance with which some companies try to translate their system of values to Europe,” he said.

In the complaint he filed, he noted, “Facebook Germany encourages the dissemination of offensive, punishable content through its actions in Germany.”

Germans have complained for years about what they see

party have been attacked on Facebook and have filed criminal charges. “Some of There must be as little what is being posted not only goes against German law but space in social media for also against Facebook’s own racism and xenophobia as terms of business,” he said. there is on the street.

This week, the German tabloid Bild ran a two-page Heiko Maas spread of nothing but hateful Facebook comments, comGerman Justice Minister plete with user names and profile photos. The comments as warped morality on Face- seriously. book and other U.S.-based Facebook has announced were directed at the large social media sites, where measures to counter hate number of refugees seeking nudity is strictly controlled speech. However, in the past but posters are allowed to it has also noted that the site spout hate-filled screeds that “allowed discussions on the Germany outlawed after the network to be conducted Nazi reign of Adolf Hitler. using robust diction.” OverGerman Justice Min- all, German officials claim ister Heiko Maas recently they have received word from announced that Germany Facebook that it prefers a polwould establish “a task force icy of “discuss, not delete,” in to combat hate speech on many cases. social media platforms, German news stories have notably Facebook, and a quoted German Facebook number of social networks, policy manager Eva-Maria including Facebook, are to Kirschsieper as defending her take part.” company’s policies by not“Racist, inciting statements ing that Facebook reaches a are inconsistent with our sys- billion users far beyond Gertem of values and cannot be many’s borders. justified under any imaginable “It is a constant challenge aspect,” he said. “One thing is to balance the interests of clear: If Facebook gets com- this diverse community and plaints about racist and xeno- we are constantly working phobic messages that violate to adjust our policies and criminal laws, then the com- procedures to be even more pany must react and delete effective and sensitive to the such posts quickly and reliably. concerns of local communi... There must be as little space ties,” she said. in social media for racism and Konstantin von Notz, a xenophobia as there is on the member of the Green party street.” who is considered the group’s Facebook has agreed to take top expert on the Internet, part in and partially fund the questioned whether Facebook task force, but for many it’s is following its own antishowing too little concern hate speech guidelines. He about a matter Germans take noted that members of his

Hurricane Patricia hits Mexico

By Deborah Bonello and Michael Muskal Los Angeles Times

MEXICO CITY – Across Mexico, residents and tourists exhaled in relief and began cleaning up on Saturday after the remnants of Hurricane Patricia blew toward Texas and the Gulf of Mexico.

Packing record 200 mph winds and rated a Category 5 storm before coming ashore, Hurricane Patricia barreled into the tourist-rich west coast at a speed of 165 mph on Friday evening.

At sea, it had rapidly grown to record strength. But less than 24 hours after making landfall, it had dissolved into a rainy low pressure area, carrying winds of only 30 miles per hour, a far cry from what meteorologists had called the strongest storm ever to form in the Western Hemisphere.

There were no reported deaths, but some injuries, officials said. Little dam-

There’s been no loss of life. The river is high and there has been some flooding, but nothing very serious.

Omar Rojas Mexico City Civil Protection office worker

age was reported in coastal communities and resorts.

Flooding continued to be a major concern in the Mexican mountains and for Texas, where eight to 12 inches of rain were predicted. Some spots could receive as much as 20 inches, according to meteorologists.

The National Hurricane Center warned of flash flooding and mudslides in areas of the United States where as many as 10 million people could still have to deal with the watery fallout.

Mexican officials said more than 1,780 shelters had been set up for more than 240,000 people. About 3,500 people from a small island off the coast of Colima state remained in shelters Saturday night. In addition, a 50,000-strong force had been mobilized in Jalisco, Colima and Nayarit, and at least 4,000 Mexican navy officers were dispatched to areas at risk.

“We are fortunate the hurricane ... went to the mountainous areas,” Communications and Transport Minister Gerardo Ruiz Esparza told reporters.

“That lessened the impact. The wind and water hit us but our infrastructure was able to withstand that hit. The worst went to the mountains.”

Like many on the day after, Francisco Javier Rincon Manzo, 16, returned to his family’s roadside fruit stand Saturday, near Cihuatlan but found that much of it had been blown away – the apples, watermelons and bananas gone. He had spent the night hunkered down with family members.

“We heard the winds screaming,” he said. “Roofs were flying. Tree branches too.” It lasted more than four hours. His family’s roof stayed on, he said.

Omar Rojas from the local Civil Protection office said the most serious damage

was that a few stalls lost their roofs and some trees were uprooted.

“There’s been no loss of life,” Rojas said via telephone. “The river is high and there has been some flooding, but nothing very serious.”

Mexico had prepared for the worst, with officials warning people to stay indoors and brace for Patricia, which made landfall in a lightly populated area along Mexico’s Pacific coast but avoided direct hits on the resort city of Puerto Vallarta and the major port of Manzanillo.

Both the warnings and the sparse population helped in keeping down the damage.

On Saturday morning, the Mexican tourist resorts in Colima and Jalisco were reported to be calm and free of serious damage, in what Tourism Secretary Enrique de la Madrid described as a stroke of “extraordinary luck.”

Fallen lampposts, trees and billboards, accompanied by some flooding, appeared to be the extent of the damage in coastal communities. No deaths had been reported.

Jose Trinidad Lopez, director of Civil Protection in Jalisco, said Saturday morning: “We have no reported deaths. In Puerto Vallarta, we have reports that all is calm, hotels are operating normally, the infrastructure wasn’t damaged and both national and international tourists are safe.”

But Trinidad Lopez emphasized that it was still early to know the full effect of storm in more rural, hard-to-reach areas.

“Many people remained in their homes in high-risk zones, and it’s too soon to know what happened to all of them,” he said.

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asylum in Germany, and those who support them.

“Green Fascist pig, hang

them all,” said one post directed at Claudia Roth, a pro-refugee Green politician. Another was more general: “A bullet for every Muslim and their supporters.” “Muslims are worse than cockroaches. We don’t want Islam in Germany and Austria,” read another. Another poster, identified as Silvio Bettin, asked, “Aren’t we all a little Nazi?”

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Kurds give account of raid that killed American special operator

By Mitchell Prothero

McClatchy Washington Bureau

IRBIL, Iraq – The call came in late. Drone operators had caught sight of what appeared to be people digging trenches near the central Iraqi town of Hawija, the scene for months of intense fighting between Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga militia and militants from the Islamic State.

The drone operators feared the worst, that the Islamic State was planning a mass execution in an area where scores if not hundreds of prisoners were being held. The trenches were to become mass graves.

“They’ve got at least 100 Kurds and peshmerga fighters prisoner in that area,” said an officer in a Kurdish counterterrorist unit who had firsthand knowledge of what would unfold in the next few hours. Kurdish officials began to consider a rescue mission.

But there was more: Among the prisoners, officials believed, were former officials from Saddam Hussein’s Baath party and military who had cooperated with the Islamic State but were no longer trusted by the jihadists.

“We always want to save Kurds and peshmerga – they’d burned some men alive earlier this year in that same place,” recalled the officer. “But we also wanted the intelligence these former regime prisoners could give us.”

In the end, the Kurdish forces, backed by American special operations aircraft and soldiers, launched a raid that freed an estimated 70 prisoners. But none of the prisoners, as it

turned out, was Kurdish, and if any were former Baathists, that has yet to be determined.

Worse, an American special operator was killed during the operation, sparking concern among Kurdish officials that the U.S. death, the first in Iraq since 2011, would damage the close working relationship Kurdish forces have enjoyed with American special operations forces since 1991, when the United States first dispatched its most elite troops here in preparation for an offensive against Saddam’s occupation of Kuwait.

U.S. officials on Friday identified the dead soldier as Master Sgt. Joshua L. Wheeler, 39, of Roland, Okla. He was assigned to the U.S. Army Special Operations Command at Fort Bragg, N.C., commonly known as Delta Force.

“The Americans weren’t supposed to fight unless there was an emergency,” said the counterterrorism officer, in an account confirmed by other officials. “But as they directed help for the operation from behind a compound wall, they came under fire and were the closest. So they radioed they would handle it.

“The man killed, it was luck. A bullet hit him in the head. As Muslims we think that the time of your death is written when you are born. It was his time.”

The counterterrorist officer, a member of the unit that carried out the raid, watched the mission unfold via drone video beamed back to a command center in Irbil, the capital of the Kurdish Regional Government. Other Kurdish officials confirmed details and provided additional information. All asked to remain anony-

mous because of the sensitivity of the mission.

Because the area remains a hot front line, deciding on a course of action for the counterterror unit and the American commandos was far less complex than what normally would be expected for a special operations raid, according to three peshmerga officials in Irbil.

“Normally the Americans want hours of drones, then will want people to actually go and watch the target in person, and only then they get approval, we think from lawyers in America,” one said. “This time it took only a few minutes.”

“We told them we were going no matter if they helped us, but it would be faster and better if we had their helicopters and jets to support us,” the counterterror officer said. “I like Delta guys because they always want to go; normally it just takes a long time for them to get permission. Not this time.”

The plan was relatively simple for a rescue behind enemy lines: U.S. planes would bomb all the approaches – a regular occurrence in an area that sees daily strikes – before a mix of helicopters and a handful of U.S. commandos who were to help coordinate the attack would assault what one official called “more of a mud hut than a real prison.”

The defenders were caught by total surprise, according to the counterterrorism unit officer.

“The fight was nothing,” he said, drawing on the scene he’d watched beamed to the command center in Irbil. “The guards were killed fast and the roads were cut by jet fighters.”

But as the buildings in the area were being

cleared, the Delta operators came under fire from a building a hundred or so yards away.

They moved to clear it.

Asked if the Americans had exceeded orders or acted irresponsibly, three officials responded emotionally that the situation called for action and instead of waiting to direct Kurds – who were busy hitting other compounds – the Americans acted according to their training.

“Shoot at a solider and he’s supposed to shoot you back,” said one official. “This is no scandal, it’s just Iraq.”

But mourning the loss of an American commando – all Kurdish officials commented on the deep level of trust and respect between the Kurds and American special operations that dates back to 1991 – was made more painful by the perceived failure of the mission.

“We are still questioning the captured prisoners, but most appear to be Daash that had broken rules or tried to desert,” said one official, using a common Arabic term for the Islamic State.

Another said the prisoners appeared to have been taken recently. “They’re kids. Brave, but kids,” that official said.

“We did not get the former Baathist commanders that we hoped to find,” he said. “They know so much, which is why Daash had them arrested and probably executed. There were bodies all around the site, but we didn’t have time to identify each of them.”

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US commando death in Iraq raises issue of ‘mission creep’

By James Rosen and Mitchell Prothero McClatchy Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON – A U.S. special forces commando was killed in Iraq during a joint U.S.-Kurdish raid that freed about 70 hostages from an Islamic State prison, the Pentagon announced Thursday. He was the first American to die during combat there in almost four years.

The Pentagon and the White House confirmed the death but not some other details that were provided by Kurdish security officials. The United States said 22 of the rescued hostages were Iraqi soldiers and the rest were civilians, with no Americans in the group.

The assault on the Islamic State prison outside the town of Hawija, Iraq, 100 miles north of Baghdad, was the first time since the March 2003 U.S. invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq that American and Kurdish forces have conducted a rescue operation together. It was also the first time that American combat troops have undertaken a ground mission in Iraq since President Barack Obama sent the first of 3,000 troops back there 16 months ago with orders that limited their activities to training, advising and equipping Iraqi soldiers.

White House deputy press secretary Eric Schultz said the res-

cue operation was launched at the request of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government.

“That operation was deliberately planned and launched after receiving information that the hostages faced imminent mass execution. It was authorized consistent with our counter-ISIL effort to train, advise and assist Iraqi forces,” he said, using the government’s preferred acronym for the Islamic State.

At the Pentagon, press secretary Peter Cook insisted that the overnight raid did not go beyond the support role that American troops supposedly are engaged in in Iraq.

“In that support role, they are allowed to defend themselves, and also defend partner forces, and to protect against the loss of innocent life,” Cook said “And that’s what played out in this particular operation.”

U.S. officials did not identity the dead American or provide details on the exact circumstances of his death.

The number of Islamic State militants killed was uncertain; reports ranged from six to 20. Five militants were captured, according to U.S. and Kurdish officials.

Defense Secretary Ash Carter authorized the raid, and “the White House national security team was notified of this,” Cook said.

Hawija lies about halfway between

We commend and congratulate the brave individuals who participated in this successful operation that saved many lives, and we deeply mourn the loss of one of our own who die while supporting his Iraqi comrades, engaged in a tough fight.

Lloyd Austin Head of U.S. Central Command the Iraqi cities of Tikrit and Kirkuk and has been under Islamic State control since the summer of 2014, when Iraqi soldiers fled the Islamic State onslaught. Since then, Kirkuk, whose population is a mixture of Kurds, Arabs and Turkmen, has been under the control of the Kurdistan Regional Government, though it lies outside the officially recognized autonomous Kurdish zone and its ownership is likely to be a point of bitter contention between Kurds and Arabs in any post-Islamic State period.

Cook said that Kurdish regional officials were holding the five captured Islamic State fighters, but he declined to say whether and when American officials would have access to them.

“I’m not going to get into details,” Cook said. “We were able to recover those hostages. We were able to take them and put them in the – the Kurdistan regional government now has, if you will, control over those people.

And I’m just going to leave it there, without getting into the operational details.”

Kurdish commanders attached to the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, one of two main Kurdish political parties in Iraq, told McClatchy that their fighters took the lead in the raid, backed by U.S. special forces flown in

by American aircraft. In a statement, Army Gen. Lloyd Austin, head of U.S. Central Command, which oversees U.S. operations in Iraq, said that “Iraqi forces” were in the lead.

The operation was launched

after American surveillance drones reportedly saw a large pit being dug Wednesday in what appeared to be preparation for a mass execution, Kurdish sources said.

The Pentagon declined to say where the American elite forces were dispatched from to join the raid. Sources in Iraq, who requested anonymity in order to provide operational details, said they came from a joint operating center that U.S. and Iraqi commanders run in Irbil, the Kurdish capital, about 60 miles northeast of Hawija.

“We commend and congratulate the brave individuals who participated in this successful operation that saved many lives, and we deeply mourn the loss of one of our own who died while supporting his Iraqi comrades, engaged in a tough fight,” Austin said. “Our gratitude and condolences go out to this young man’s family, his teammates and his friends.”

The American death was the first in Iraq by hostile forces since an explosion killed a soldier in Baghdad on Nov. 14 2011, three months after the U.S. formally ended its combat mission in the country.

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