Barometer The Daily MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 2013 • OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY CORVALLIS, OREGON 97331 DAILYBAROMETER.COM VOLUME CXVI, NUMBER 70 SPORTS, PAGE 4: BEAVERS LOSE TO WASHINGTON STATE, FALL TO 1-6 IN CONFERENCE FOLLOW US ON TWITTER: News: @baronews, Sports: @barosports LIKE US ON FACEBOOK: facebook.com/DailyBarometer For breaking news and updates s COURTESY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND OREGON STATE POLICE | CONTRIBUTED ASOSU notices student debt total flirting with the $1 trillion mark Assault near campus, suspect on the loose n A male suspect in a ski mask attacked a woman near 30th Street, Fillmore Avenue By McKinley Smith THE DAILY BAROMETER A woman was attacked less than a mile away from where a different woman was assaulted two weeks ago. A press release from the Corvallis Police Department noted the similar- ity between the recent attack and the assault that occurred Jan. 15, adding that the police are investigating the possibility that the attacker is the same man. Police responded to an attack in the neighborhood of 30th Street and Fillmore Avenue Saturday night around 7:30 p.m. The woman was attacked and pushed to the ground by a male attacker who fled after a struggle, according to the release. Police searched the area but were unable to locate the man. The suspect is described as a white male, approximately 6’0” to 6’3” tall with an athletic and muscular build. The man wore a black ski mask with one opening for both eyes, black ath- letic pants, white shoes and a dark navy blue or black hoodie. “The sweatshirt had a white circle printed upon the back with cursive style writing that extended from the lower left side of the circle, across the center, to the upper right,” the press release noted. Jeremiah Moore, a senior in for- est management at Oregon State University, lives near where the Saturday attack occurred. Moore was frequently outside in his yard, col- lecting samples from his backyard for a soil lab every 20 minutes, but he said he didn’t see or hear anything suspicious. “I regretted not hearing anything or being able to help in any way,” Moore said. Moore said he saw police cars parked along his block from 7:45 p.m. to midnight, following the Saturday attack. “There were six cop cars and every single one of them had their lights flashing,” Moore said. “That raises some concern absolutely, but I think it’s the level of not knowing that affects you the most.” Moore, who is married, said the attack was “pretty shocking,” and he will begin escorting his wife Jamie, a senior in human development and family sciences, to her car in the mornings. “I’ll gladly wake up early with her n ASOSU advocates for student loan reform, more state involvement to relieve student financial burden By Ricky Zipp THE DAILY BAROMETER There are two metaphorical clocks students watch as they make their way through college: the tuition clock and the debt clock. Tuition has continually increased for the past five years, as has student debt. As the student debt clock closes in on $1 tril- lion — or continues to grow beyond that total depending on the source — ASOSU is helping advocate to at least slow it down. In 2011, the Project on Student Loan Debt at the Institute for Academic Success released a study that broke student loan debt down by each state. The report says “two thirds of college seniors who graduated in 2011 had student loan debt, with an average of $26,600 per borrower.” Oregon sits right below the national average at $25,497, and 63 percent of the 2011 college graduates were in debt. While the issue of student debt is dealt with at the federal government level, state manage- ment of higher education can affect student debt. ASOSU President Amelia Harris believes a larger investment in higher education on part of the state could help relieve the debt burden many students are dealing with. “Oregon ranks as the 46th lowest state for per-student funding,” Harris said. “That is very, very concerning ... we need a change in the system.” Where did students sit seven years ago? According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, which has statistics of student loan debt since 2005, major increases have incurred in the last few years. Since 2005, the student debt total has grown by about $500 billion, from $363 billion to their current total of $902 billion. The total debt has doubled since 2007. It seems this is a generational problem. People under the age of 30 make up one third of the $902 billion total, and by adding nine years to that demographic, people under the age of 39 currently hold $599 billion of the total. OSU did not provide information on the average debt of their 2011 graduates or the percentage of graduates graduating in debt for the student debt report. In 2011, the percent- ‘‘ ‘‘ My grandparents pay for it. I have a job that pays for me to live on campus, the rest of it they deal with. Alex Graham Junior, new media communicationsr ‘‘ ‘‘ I have a lot of loans and no job yet. Dallas Thomas Freshman, psychology ‘‘ ‘‘ We have a lot of loans. Karena Stalnaker, Freshman, pre-athletic training, Analyssa Quadranta freshman, public health ‘‘ ‘‘ I have a job on campus and scholarships, and mainly my family helps with tuition. The money I make is to support myself here. Jeffrey Tsang Junior, Human Development and Family Science ‘‘ ‘‘ I have a job on campus, and my parents are helping me. Hopefully I will be able to pay them back. Roth Chan Sophomore, electrical engineering and computer science How do you pay for college? See ASSAULT|page 2 See DEBT|page 2
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ASOSU notices student debt total flirting with the $1 trillion mark
Assault near campus, suspect on the loosen A male suspect in a ski mask
attacked a woman near 30th Street, Fillmore Avenue
by mcKinley smithThe Daily BaromeTer
A woman was attacked less than a mile away from where a different woman was assaulted two weeks ago. A press release from the Corvallis Police Department noted the similar-ity between the recent attack and the assault that occurred Jan. 15, adding that the police are investigating the possibility that the attacker is the same man.
Police responded to an attack in the neighborhood of 30th Street and Fillmore Avenue Saturday night around 7:30 p.m.
The woman was attacked and pushed to the ground by a male attacker who fled after a struggle, according to the release. Police searched the area but were unable to locate the man.
The suspect is described as a white male, approximately 6’0” to 6’3” tall with an athletic and muscular build. The man wore a black ski mask with one opening for both eyes, black ath-letic pants, white shoes and a dark navy blue or black hoodie.
“The sweatshirt had a white circle
printed upon the back with cursive style writing that extended from the lower left side of the circle, across the center, to the upper right,” the press release noted.
Jeremiah Moore, a senior in for-est management at Oregon State University, lives near where the Saturday attack occurred. Moore was frequently outside in his yard, col-lecting samples from his backyard for a soil lab every 20 minutes, but he said he didn’t see or hear anything suspicious.
“I regretted not hearing anything or being able to help in any way,” Moore said.
Moore said he saw police cars parked along his block from 7:45 p.m. to midnight, following the Saturday attack.
“There were six cop cars and every single one of them had their lights flashing,” Moore said. “That raises some concern absolutely, but I think it’s the level of not knowing that affects you the most.”
Moore, who is married, said the attack was “pretty shocking,” and he will begin escorting his wife Jamie, a senior in human development and family sciences, to her car in the mornings.
“I’ll gladly wake up early with her
n ASOSU advocates for student loan reform, more state involvement to relieve student financial burden
by ricky ZippThe Daily BaromeTer
There are two metaphorical clocks students watch as they make their way through college: the tuition clock and the debt clock. Tuition has continually increased for the past five years, as has student debt.
As the student debt clock closes in on $1 tril-lion — or continues to grow beyond that total
depending on the source — ASOSU is helping advocate to at least slow it down.
In 2011, the Project on Student Loan Debt at the Institute for Academic Success released a study that broke student loan debt down by each state. The report says “two thirds of college seniors who graduated in 2011 had student loan debt, with an average of $26,600 per borrower.”
Oregon sits right below the national average at $25,497, and 63 percent of the 2011 college graduates were in debt.
While the issue of student debt is dealt with at the federal government level, state manage-
ment of higher education can affect student debt. ASOSU President Amelia Harris believes a larger investment in higher education on part of the state could help relieve the debt burden many students are dealing with.
“Oregon ranks as the 46th lowest state for per-student funding,” Harris said. “That is very, very concerning ... we need a change in the system.”
Where did students sit seven years ago?According to the Federal Reserve Bank of
New York, which has statistics of student loan debt since 2005, major increases have incurred in the last few years. Since 2005, the student
debt total has grown by about $500 billion, from $363 billion to their current total of $902 billion. The total debt has doubled since 2007.
It seems this is a generational problem. People under the age of 30 make up one third of the $902 billion total, and by adding nine years to that demographic, people under the age of 39 currently hold $599 billion of the total.
OSU did not provide information on the average debt of their 2011 graduates or the percentage of graduates graduating in debt for the student debt report. In 2011, the percent-
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pays for me to live on campus, the rest of
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Karena stalnaker, Freshman, pre-athletic training,
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CalendarMonday, Jan. 28MeetingsStudent Incidental Fees Committee (SIFC), 6pm, MU Journey Room. SIFC Admin/AABC and ASOSU will be pre-senting their budgets.
EventsOSU Campus Recycling, 6-8pm, Recycling Warehouse, 644 SW 13th St. January Repair Fair. Bring your broken bikes, housewares, electronics and clothing; volunteers will help you repair them!
Tuesday, Jan. 29MeetingsStudent Incidental Fees Committee (SIFC), 6pm, MU 213. Counseling & Psychological Services and Student Health Services will be presenting their budgets.
ASOSU Senate, 7pm, MU 211.Educational Activities, 1:30-4pm, MU 213. Budget Hearing.
EventsSustainable Energy Initiative, 5:30-9pm, LaSells Stewart Center. “Free Switch Documentary Screening.” Fol-low Dr. Scott Tinker on his adventure around the world in search of answers to our energy problems. Q&A ses-sion with energy experts following screening.
Wednesday, Jan. 30MeetingsSIFC, 6:30pm, MU 212. Weekly meet-ing. Discussion of incidental fee issues and budgets. All students are welcome.
Athletic Dept., 7pm, Student Success Center Rm. 133. Student Fees/Athletic Dept. Open Forum.
ASOSU House of Representatives, 7pm, MU 211.
Educational Activities, 5-7pm, Waldo 400. Budget Open Hearing.
Thursday, Jan. 31MeetingsBaha’i Campus Association, 12:30-1pm, MU Talisman Room. The Equality of Women - Devotions and discussion on the role women are playing in the progress of the global society.
College Republicans, 7pm, StAg 107. General meeting.
EventsCru, 7:30pm, Re!New Church, 1677 SW 35th St. I am second. Who is first? Come hear fellow students tell their stories of life, priorities and who is first in their life.
Saturday, Feb. 2MeetingsStudent Incidental Fees Committee (SIFC), 2pm, MU Journey Room. The Memorial Union and Music Department will be presenting their budgets.
Monday, Feb. 4MeetingsStudent Incidental Fees Committee (SIFC), 6pm, MU Journey Room. Edu-cational Activities and Athletics will be presenting their budgets.
Tuesday, Feb. 5MeetingsStudent Incidental Fees Committee (SIFC), 6pm, MU 213. Student Sustain-ability Initiative and Our Little Village will be presenting their budgets.
ASOSU Senate, 7pm, MU 211
EventsCareer Services, 11am-Noon, Val-ley Library, Willamette East & West Rooms, 3rd Floor. WEBINAR - Landing Your Dream Federal Job or Internship.
Wednesday, Feb. 6MeetingsASOSU House of Representatives, 7pm, MU 211.
EventsCareer Services, Noon-3pm, MU Ball-room. Nonprofit & Volunteer Fair: Rep-resentatives from more than 50 local and national nonprofit and government organizations representing a wide variety of fields who are seeking OSU volunteers, interns and employees.
Career Services, 11am-Noon, MU 206. Marketing Your Service Experi-ence: Meet a panel of nonprofit professionals who will share tips and strategies on marketing your service and volunteer experience to potential employers.
Career Services, 11am-Noon, MU Journey Room. Pursuing a Nonprofit Career: Gain insight into the nonprofit industry.
Career Services, Noon-1pm, MU 208. International Service Workshop: Explore international nonprofit intern-ships and service opportunities.
Thursday, Feb. 7MeetingsBaha’i Campus Association, 12:30-1pm, MU Talisman Room. Rethinking Prosperity - Devotions and discussion on the meaning of prosperity and our search for it.
College Republicans, 7pm, StAg 107. General meeting.
and walk her to the car,” Moore said. The first assault occurred late Tuesday,
Jan. 15 night around 30th Street and Campus Way. A woman was walking when a man attacked her and tried to remove her clothing, but fled after the woman hit him in the face, according to the Oregon State Police warning that went out the next day.
Camila Matamala-Ost, a senior in envi-ronmental science and a Philomath resi-dent, heard about the assault through the timely warning alert sent out Saturday night.
She said she drives alone to and from campus, but tries to leave early or walk with friends at night.
“I don’t want to risk having to walk to my car if it’s unsafe,” Matamala-Ost said. “It’s just kind of freaky I guess. It’s
sad that these two assaults have hap-pened so close to each other and that they’ve both been on women. It makes me disappointed.”
Anna Karleskind, a senior in business marketing, also received the alert through her university email account.
“One of our friends actually got a really cute pink LED Taser,” Karleskind said.
She said she has other friends who carry Mace.
Alyssa Freeland, a senior in biology, said she walks in groups at night and has offered to chauffer her friends home after dark.
Following the Jan. 15 attack, Senior Trooper Chris Graves gave some advice to students during an interview with KBVR’s Orange Report.
“Don’t have ear buds in the ears and music cranked up, and maybe not neces-sarily talking on your phone as you walk so you can hear your surroundings, so
that if someone comes up behind you, you can react before they’re right on top of you,” Graves said.
Graves recommended students iden-tify the locations of the blue light phone system on campus streets and walk on well-traveled roads. He said students should walk in groups whenever possible.
“Never subtract from your group,” Graves said. “Add to the group, but never subtract because the one person that you subtract is that potential victim for some type of crime.”
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age of students graduating with debt from public four-year universities in the state of Oregon varied, but still remained above 50 percent. At 92 percent, Eastern Oregon University was the highest of the institutions, and the University of Oregon was the lowest at 53 percent. Not every four-year institution provided information for the report – OSU was one of them.
According to Harris, aside from just increasing the funding for the Oregon University System, there are multiple areas to work on within the stu-dent debt issue. Passing a debt forgiveness bill that would change the payback requirements is one. The Student Loan Forgiveness Act was presented nationally in 2012, and wished to reform the bor-rowing laws established by the Higher Education Act of 1965. Essentially the amendments would allow for students to default on their student loans after making monthly payments for 10 years.
Other changes can be made by removing the stipulation that students who file for bankruptcy are not exempt from any amount of their student loan debt, as they would be from other forms of accumulated debt, and limiting the ability for private institutions to go after potential student debtors.
Harris and ASOSU are currently working with the Oregon Students Association, a state-level student advocacy group, and a national student advocacy group, United State Student Association, which both endorse the passing of this legislation. A little more than a million people have also signed a petition for this legislation to be put into effect.
For now, higher funding is still the goal for ASOSU and other student governments across the state. According to Harris, the Governor’s proposed budget of $750 million to the Oregon University System needs to be increased to $850 million just to stay at current operating levels. Anything lower will result in tuition increases on campus.
While the majority of the battle over student debt will be handled at the nation’s capital, work in the state is still done to offset a rise in tuition and debt. Constant lobby visits and endless budget meetings are taking up most of that work.
“We are not just standing on the sidelines com-plaining about funding,” Harris said. “I think we have done a lot to increase student visibility at the capital. You just have to keep fighting.”
Collaboration workgroup looks at new rulesn Proposed rules would require
rental properties to be inspected, licenced by the city of Corvallis
by don ilerThe Daily BaromeTer
Most landlords in Corvallis fulfill their legal obligations and provide tenants with a safe place to live. But over the years, neglectful and absentee landlords have been a problem in the city and new rules are being looked at by the Collaboration Corvallis neighborhood livability work-group aiming to address the problem.
The workgroup has been looking at the adoption of a new property manage-ment code that would require all rental properties in the city to be inspected and for rental properties to be licensed by the city. The new licensing program would cost around $55 to $60 per unit, up from the $11 per unit already charged by the city.
“There are a lot of people abused by landlords, whether it is having to fight for a deposit or fighting against neglect the landlords have for the property,” said Drew Deatherage, ASOSU community
affairs taskforce director. Many local rental property owners
have already voiced their concerns about the new licensing procedure, saying that licensing properties will impact their abil-ity to make money off of the rentals, and that many times livability issues are caused by tenants and not necessarily by neglect from landlords.
The licensing program is looking at inspecting the units once every two to three years, with random inspections within the time period. Housing found not to meet habitability standards would be required by the city to comply or receive fines.
The proposal says that it hopes the pro-gram will help neighborhood livability by bringing properties that are found to be chronic nuisances into line, and by pro-viding regular inspections to ensure that rental housing meets standards.
The proposal also says officials expect an estimated 30 percent of all rental units will not meet standards, and this will cause a temporary shortage in available housing in the city.
Both Deatherage and the proposal noted that similar programs have been implemented in other cities and are usually successful in making sure rental housing is compliant with codes.
Lexie Merrill, ASOSU executive direc-tor of community resources, sits on the neighborhood livability workgroup and is in favor of the new rules.
“If there was accountability for land-lords to take care of their properties, then they would,” Merrill said. “Students move into rundown neglected properties and see it hasn’t been taken care of and so they have no incentive to maintain it.”
The Collaboration Corvallis neighbor-hood livability workgroup meets Tuesday night at 5:30 p.m. at the Corvallis Public Library meeting room, 645 NW Monroe Ave. Residents and students are encour-aged to attend to provide input and testimony.
Collaboration CorvallisTuesday, 5 p.m.: Neighborhood livability workgroup 645 NW Monroe Ave., Corvallis Public Library meeting room
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debtn Continued from page 1Family seeks help finding New
York woman missing in IstanbulThe family of a New York
woman last seen earlier this month in Turkey is pleading for help, and clinging to hope, as they try to find out what hap-pened to her and bring her home.
Sarai Sierra traveled to Istanbul on January 7 and over the next two weeks chronicled her trip in photos. She last spoke to her fam-ily on January 21, the day before she was ticketed to fly back to New York City.
But they haven’t heard from her since.
“This is not Sarai’s character at all,” her husband, Steven Sierra, told CNN of his wife’s sudden disappearance.
He and Sarai’s brother, David Jimenez, departed Sunday night from New York and are set to arrive in Istanbul late Monday afternoon. Their goal: to find Sarai, hug her tight and cry with joy.
For now, Steven Sierra is cop-ing with his own fears about what might have happened and lamenting that he’s not with his wife to help protect her.
“I’m coming to find you,” her husband told CNN affiliate NY1 of his beloved wife, whom he mar-ried in 1998. “I’m coming to find you and bring you home.”
The trip to Turkey was Sarai Sierra’s first outside the United States. A part-time student, part-time receptionist at a chiroprac-tor’s office and full-time mother of two, she also had a passion for photography — particularly tak-ing photos of places and posting them on her Instagram account — according to her husband.
The New Yorker’s plan was to capture the sights of Istanbul with
a friend, but she ended up going alone because her friend wasn’t able to make it, Steven Sierra said.
“One of the things that real-ly attracted me to her (was) her strength,” he told NY1. “Such a strong, independent woman — I love that about her.”
After doing some in-depth research in advance, she was “excited” as she headed east. Her husband said that she was enjoy-ing herself in Turkey, though early on in the trip, she rebooked her flight home to come back three days earlier — hoping, among other things, to surprise her sons.
But when Sarai’s father went to the airport to pick her up on January 22, she wasn’t there. The airline later told Steven Sierra his wife had never checked in at the airport.
“She’s fragile,” Steven Sierra said of what’s gone through his mind since then. “And I don’t want her to be afraid.”
The day she last talked with her family, Sierra was planning to see the Galata Bridge and the Asian side of Istanbul, her hus-band said.
After her family raised an alarm, some of the missing woman’s belongings -- including her pass-port and medical cards — were found in her room in Istanbul, though her iPhone and iPad were not there, according to her hus-band. Her Skype account, which she usually keeps up all day, wasn’t active Monday or beyond.
The manager of the hotel where Sarai Sierra was staying, located in the heart of Turkey’s largest city, told CNN that Istanbul police officers questioned him Saturday.
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Documentaries: An alternative to the theaterA few years ago, I noticed a
trend that good movies were becoming sparse, which
caused me to turn to documenta-ries. I love learning new things, hear-ing peoples’ stories and generally trying to get a better understanding of the world.
So far I’ve been fairly successful at turning friends into documentary lovers. So I figured I would extend my hand, and share my passion with readers.
“The Cove” (2009)Few movies have brought me to
tears, but this one made the list – twice. This moving documentary is about illegal dolphin poaching in Taijii, Japan.
A man named Ric O’Barry, who was an actor and dolphin trainer in the old TV show “Flipper,” became a dolphin-freedom advocate and activist. He has spent years tracking down dolphin poaching, mistreat-ment and captivity. He does every-thing in his power to stop it, includ-ing trespassing on U.N. meetings. I won’t give away the whole movie, but this one is a must see.
“Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father” (2008)
This is probably my favorite docu-mentary of all time, and another movie that successfully made me cry — there really aren’t that many, I promise.
What begins as a heartwarming story of a filmmaker memorializ-ing his friend, turns into a movie dedicated to an unexpected son. Unfortunately, everything seems to go wrong for the family and there is a constant battle with the deceased friend’s ex-girlfriend. The whole movie is an emotional rollercoast-er, I have to refrain from describ-
ing it or I’d say too much. I will say it won the National Board of Review’s Top Five Documentaries Award in 2008. You won’t regret watching this hidden gem.
“Man on Wire” (2008)You’ve probably heard of this
movie, as it’s one of the most criti-cally acclaimed documentaries of all time. It still holds a 100 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes after 151 critic reviews.
The documentary follows a Frenchman by the name of Philippe Petit. He has an amazing talent that allows him to pull an unbelievable stunt. When the World Trade Center was still standing, he strung a thin wire between the two towers and walked across. He was over 1,000 feet above the ground. The docu-mentary isn’t as much about the feat as it is about authoritative issues and his arrest.
If you’ve never seen this movie then you’re missing out, because it’s going to continue to be one of the best for a long time.
“The Invisible War” (2012)The newest documentary on this
list, and a groundbreaker at that. This movie has a powerful message. In fact, it forced a federal decision merely two days after its release. “The Invisible War” addresses sexual assault in the U.S. Military. Focusing on victims, the documentary tracks a number of incidents and shows how
radically their lives were changed. While the movie mainly focuses on women, men are not left out. No matter what the sex, it’s agreed something needs to be done.
I decided to watch this film after seeing posters promoting it around campus. There is definitely a rea-son the posters are there. Everyone should see this documentary, and I hope more is done to help solve this problem.
“We Were Here” (2011)This is another film fully embraced
by critics, with a powerful and mov-ing message. You may have heard about the “Gay Plague” of the 1980s — if not, this movie will teach you all about it. The first part of the docu-mentary gives you an inside look of the events and outcries caused by the AIDS epidemic, both in com-munities and government. The images and messages are shock-ing, and sometimes gut-wrenching. Afterwards, it addresses the con-cerns from a solution standpoint, and discusses ways that we can help the victims of AIDS, and continue to battle this horrible disease. I rec-ommend this documentary with zero hesitation, as it addresses an often forgotten prevalent issue in our world.
I implore all of you to watch the films I mentioned, let me know what you think and if there are other great ones you think I may not have seen. Who knows, you may just find your-self to be a documentary lover like me.
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Landlords should be licensed
Corvallis residents have been concerned about substan-dard rentals for years. With
landlords like Kip Schoning and his property management company Bula Realty — formerly Bula Enterprises — it’s clear not every property is managed properly.
Since 2009, the Gazette-Times has reported the woes of Schoning’s rent-ers. Bula Enterprises has been accused of leaving repair requests unanswered, disregarding dangerous living con-ditions and failing to acknowledge unsanitary conditions that might affect the neighbors.
There’s not much that could make us miss our dorms, but Schoning would definitely do it.
Since 2008, Schoning has lost dozens of his rentals to foreclosure. Though he may have relocated to the Portland area in 2011, his ongoing track record of tenant complaints has left Corvallis res-idents wondering why the city would put up with landlords like him.
Fortunately, the Collaboration Corvallis Neighborhood Livability Workgroup (CCNLW) has developed the Property Maintenance and Rental Housing Licensing Program to combat landlords like Schoning. The elements within the program, however, are still up for consideration.
The CCNLW will hold a public forum tomorrow, regarding the implementa-tion of the program. This program will address livability concerns raised by the community.
Reading complaints depicting “poo waters” being flushed into the back yard because Schoning refused to repair the leak in the pipes before it burst makes us cringe. This was by far the most graphic complaint, but should not detract from the serious-ness of a rodent infestation, faulty wir-ing or broken appliances.
In 2012, the city of Corvallis received more than 650 complaints about to the “current rental housing code and other municipal codes related to hous-ing, land use, solid waste and related concerns,” according to the document released by the group on Jan. 17.
The program proposes the adoption of the Property Maintenance Code, which is designed to fill the gaps the current city code leaves open.
The Property Maintenance and Rental Housing Licensing Program would hire inspectors to check for safety concerns and code violations for the city’s 13,000 housing units. The forum estimates roughly 30 percent of these 13,000 units will “require some level of improvements” to meet the International Code Council’s Property Maintenance Code.
Implementing this would likely increase rent, by an estimated annual fee of $55 to $60 per unit — approxi-mately $4 per unit on a monthly basis. This would be a small price to pay, especially considering rent is likely to increase with or without safer, cleaner and sturdier living places.
The forum is open to the public. We support the program and encourage your attendance at the forum.
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Reflecting on the past, future
directs the presentThe past couple of days have
been businesslike around my apartment. My room-
mate was preparing himself for three different interviews. As I was hunt-ing for food, he came up to me and asked my opinion on his prepared answer to the question “What do you consider your strengths,” in case the interviewer asked.
This got me thinking — the ques-tions we ask ourselves determine how we do everything in life.
I came into college asking myself, “Looking back five years from now, what do I want to remember?” From there, I embraced college with open arms and immersed myself in the college experience. My choices in balancing school, work and social-izing became a struggle. If I wanted to do it all, I would lose sleep. I didn’t want to lose sleep.
After completing my first year at Oregon State, I went home for a fam-ily function, excited to share all my college-life stories. I delivered my stories with the timing of a stand-up comic, and had everyone’s attention. I came back to college in search of more stories, more fun, more alcohol and more adventures.
My expectations for how I want-ed things to play out in the follow-ing year made me depressed. After studying, I wanted to go to parties but wasn’t invited to any. I didn’t want to be the guy who always asks, “Hey! What’s going down tonight?” I stayed at home and heard the fun happening outside. Then, I realized how little people cared about want-ing to party with me.
Looking back at my first year, I can safely say I had fun, but I can easily argue my life wasn’t fulfilling. I started to notice college was quickly coming to an end and I didn’t have much to show for it — except for the superficial stories of how awesome my first year was. That’s when I ques-tioned myself and found the root cause of my emptiness.
The questions I’d asked had helped to guide me during my first year in college, but my expectations had changed. When I asked myself, “Where do you see yourself in five years?” I couldn’t answer and came to a harsh realization: If I continued down the same path as my first year at OSU, I would wind up with a bach-elor’s degree collecting dust while I worked 10-hour shifts as a server to repay my college loans.
Our fears can be easily identified by the habits don’t we practice. For instance, I have a fear of being broke and not being able to support myself, let alone being able to support my family. This fear has motivated me to seize the day and make the most of life.
The template for life is guided by the questions we ask, and the deep fears we try to run away from. It takes a conscious effort to bring into the light the driving force that keeps us going each and every day. The price you pay when you don’t question your own beliefs, however, pales in comparison to the many years of regret you might have. Don’t be the old person sitting in a nursing facil-ity hating life because you didn’t ask yourself the right questions when you had the chance.
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Friday: Washington 81, Oregon State 77
The Oregon State women’s basket-ball team took Washington to an extra period, but failed to come away with a victory.
After finding themselves down by 16 points midway through the first half, the Beavers (9-11, 3-5 Pac-12) mount-ed a remarkable comeback against the Huskies (14-5, 6-2) that saw OSU take an eight-point lead with just 5:30 to go.
The Huskies then drained two 3-pointers and sank two free throws to tie the game at 61. The Beavers answered right back, though. Ali Gibson scored on a layup and Alyssa Martin made a 3-pointer. The Beavers had a five-point lead with 90 seconds left in the game.
Washington cut the deficit to one point before a pair of free throws by Patricia Bright brought it back up to three. With one last possession for the Huskies, guard Kristi Kingma brought the ball up and launched a desperation 3-point attempt with four seconds remaining.
Oregon State’s Gibson was defend-ing her, and she managed to block Kingma’s shot to the cheers of the Beaver bench.
But it was not to be. The refs had blown the whistle and
charged Gibson with the foul that ultimately cost her team the game. Kingma came up clutch and made all three of her free throws to send the game into overtime.
Washington outscored Oregon State 11-7 in overtime, claiming the victo-ry and thwarting Oregon State’s big comeback.
Sunday: Washington State 76, Oregon State 73
It was the same story on Sunday. But instead of the Beavers coming back from a large deficit, it was the Cougars. Again the game went to overtime, and again the Beavers lost.
In the first half, it was all Oregon State. The Beavers ran up leads as big as
14 points, which was the mar-gin at halftime. Oregon State led 38-24 over Wa s h i n g t o n State (6-13, 2-6 Pac-12) at the half.
The Beavers shot an impres-sive 59 percent from the field in the first half. Their defense played well too,
as it held Washington State to just 30 percent in that first half.
The second half was a different story. Oregon State’s offense was stag-
Hanke’s pin gives OSU wrestling the upset over Cornell
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Washington State guard mike ladd scored 23 points on 10-for-11 shooting from the field in Saturday’s game. ladd led the Cougars in scoring in the 71-68 win, giving the Beavers a 1-6 record in Pac-12 play.
n In a dual between two top-10 schools, No. 10 OSU pulls off the victory in the last moments to defeat No. 8 Cornell
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Trailing No. 8 Cornell 20-17 with only the heavyweight match, things were looking bleak for No. 10 Oregon State.
No. 4 Chad Hanke needed a decision to tie and bonus points to give Oregon State (7-3, 2-1 Pac-12) its fifth straight dual win.
The senior heavyweight came through for the Beavers, pinning Cornell’s (9-3, 4-0 Ivy League) Jace Bennett, giving Oregon State a 23-20 vic-tory and stunning the Cornell crowd of more than 3,000.
The come-from-behind win came after Oregon State surrendered an early 14-5 lead to the Big Red.
No. 4 Mike Mangrum, a 141-pound senior, got
Oregon State on the board with a 5-0 decision over No. 6-ranked Mike Nevinger.
No. 8 Scott Sakaguchi (149-pound junior) and No. 10 RJ Pena (157-pound junior) then grabbed OSU the 14-5 lead after both earned major decisions.
Cornell quickly reeled off three straight victories, including Steve Bosak’s pin of Oregon State’s Brian Engdahl that gave Cornell a 20-14 lead.
No. 8 Taylor Meeks, a 197-pound sophomore, won by a narrow 3-1 decision over Cornell’s Billy George to get OSU within three before Hanke brought home the thrilling victory for the Beavers.
The win against highly ranked Cornell came after a solid victory against Lehigh Saturday night
20-14 in Bethlehem, Pa. Oregon State got out to
an early 17-8 lead thanks to three straight wins from Meeks, Hanke and 125-pound freshman Joey Palmer.
The two wins bumped Oregon State’s overall dual record to 7-3 and gives the Beavers a five-match win-ning streak.
Mangrum also continued his climb up the Oregon State all-time wins list, slid-ing into sole possession of seventh place with two wins on the weekend, passing Greg Strobel. Mangrum now has 125 career wins.
Oregon State returns home to Gill Coliseum for a Saturday matchup with Pac-12 opponent Cal State Bakersfield.
n Ahmad Starks’ 3-pointer at the buzzer doesn’t fall, Beavers drop to 1-6 in conference
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After the Oregon State men’s basketball team picked up its first Pac-12 win on Wednesday, senior forward Joe Burton said the team had turned over a new leaf.
Apparently that wasn’t the case.The Beavers (11-9, 1-6 Pac-12)
failed to capture any momentum from their win over Washington, falling at home to Washington State, 71-68 on Saturday afternoon.
“That was a hard one to swal-low and a hard one for those guys in the locker room to swallow,” said head coach Craig Robinson. “I thought aside from a couple little mental mistakes that our guys played hard and executed the majority of our game plan.”
The Beavers went into half-time with a 33-29 lead over the Cougars (11-9, 2-5) after junior guard Roberto Nelson drained a 3-pointer at the buzzer that brought the Gill Coliseum crowd of 6,592 to life.
The second half was a different story, though.
“I think Washington State got a lot of second chance buckets and they got all the intangible stuff like diving on the floor,” Nelson said. “There were a couple posses-sions where we could have turned the game around, but I think they just outhustled us in the second half.”
Nelson finished with 14 points, but was hampered by foul trouble in the second half. Sophomore forward Eric Moreland’s play was also affected by foul trouble. He finished with seven points and seven rebounds but picked up four fouls in the second half and fouled out of the game with 2:30 left.
Robinson said the Beavers missed Moreland tremendously at the end of the game.
“Oh, absolutely. I think he comes up with some loose balls and rebounds that no one else can do on our team,” Robinson said. “So yeah, we missed him.”
OSU had a chance to tie it, down by three points with eight seconds left after WSU’s Royce Woolridge made two free throws. OSU junior guard Ahmad Starks put up a 3-pointer with two sec-
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oregon State head coach Craig robinson and the players on oSU were displeased with the referees in Saturday’s loss.
n OSU placed third in a meet with three top-10 teams, scored 196.825 in Fort Worth, Texas
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Three meets into the season, the Oregon State gymnastics team has underachieved — for the standards of a team which has made the NCAA Championships for the last seven years.
Three team scores under 196.000 in the first three meets of the season put the Beavers at No. 16 in the nation. Respectable, but not the usual top-10 ranking from years past.
Saturday at the Metroplex Challenge in Fort Worth, Texas, OSU proved it was back to being the perennial pow-erhouse of old.
In a meet with three top-10 teams (No. 2 Oklahoma, No. 7 LSU, No. 9 Georgia), and Pac-12 foe Washington, the Beavers finished third with a tally of 196.825. It was their best score of the season, almost a full point higher than their previous season-high (195.950,
Jan. 19 at Utah). It seems that
whenever one of the four events (vault, uneven bars, balance beam, floor exercise) strug-gles, the team responds with its best effort on that event the fol-lowing week.
In the Utah meet, the bars team put up a subpar 48.450. On Saturday, the Beavers scored a season-high 49.425 — which was also a top-10 team performance in the nation this year.
Seniors Makayla Stambaugh and Stephanie McGregor led the way with 9.925 on bars, but it was surprise per-formances from senior Kelsi Blalock and sophomore Chelsea Tang. Neither had competed on bars this season, and rarely in the past, but each scored a 9.850.
Blalock, also competing as an all-
arounder for the first time since 2011, finished third individu-ally in all-around with a score of 39.425.
A third-place finish may not seem like some-thing to get excit-ed about, but in gymnastics it’s the scores that matter. And a team total of 196.825 has only been accomplished by six other schools in 2013.
The meet was a prelude to what nationals will look like: multiple top-10 teams and competing on a raised podium.
The Beavers responded well to not only needing to get back in the nation-al picture, but also to competing in an environment similar to the NCAA Championships.
nant. Aside from a layup by Jamie Weisner, every OSU possession to start the half ended in a missed shot or a turnover, until the Cougars eventually got ahead.
Washington State went on a 17-2 run in the first 5:51 of the second half. During that span, WSU forced six turnovers.
Over the final 15 minutes, the two teams traded baskets and trad-ed leads. Neither team was able to put the other away.
With just 37 seconds left, the game was tied, 63-63. Oregon State had possession of the ball and a chance to win. Weisner took a jumper with seven seconds left, but missed. Bright corralled the offen-sive rebound as the clock contin-ued to count down. The Beavers had another chance to win it, but Martin misfired on her 3-point attempt.
For the second time in two games, the Beavers were playing in overtime. For the second time in two games, the Beavers had a chance to win the game on the final
possession, but failed.
In overtime, Gibson and Martin hit 3-pointers early. Weisner made two free throws, and Gibson made a layup to give the Beavers the lead, 73-67 with 1:41 left.
That was the last time the Beavers scored. The Cougars forced three turnovers in the closing moments to give their offense numerous chances.
The Cougars were able to capital-ize, and they won the game, 76-73, even though they shot only 36.7 percent from the floor. Oregon State, meanwhile, shot 50 percent for the game. The difference was that the Cougars forced 22 turn-overs, hauled down 21 offensive rebounds, and as a result, attempt-ed 21 more field goals than the Beavers.
It was a sloppy game for the Beavers, who have now lost two heartbreaking games in a row. They have to turn it around if they have any hope in knocking off No. 7 California in Corvallis on Friday at 7 p.m.
onds left but it didn’t hit the rim.Despite the miss Starks said he had a good
look on the final shot.“Yeah, I did. It was actually a really good
one,” Starks said. “It was just the guy was riding my arm a little bit. When we talked about the officials in the locker room, we can’t blame it on them. But on the last shot he was riding my arm and it was still a great opportunity.”
Robinson and the OSU players were not pleased with the way the game was officiated. Although Robinson was tactful with his words in the press conference, his displeasure was obvious.
“If you are going to ask me about the officiating, I am not going to say anything, but I feel like I don’t need to say anything,” Robinson said.
After an offensive foul was called on Nelson with 9:20 to go in the game, Robinson was heated and drew a technical foul.
“They called the foul on Roberto, and then the very next play Devon [Collier] goes up
for a rebound and was clearly shoved in the back, which I thought if this is working out, that might be a chance for him to even it out,” Robinson said. “But it was not called. That was my boiling point or whatever we want to call it.”
On the bright side, the Beavers shot their best field goal percentage since they shot 62.3 percent against Texas-Pan American back on Dec. 31. But a failure to grab rebounds and make free throws hurt OSU in the second half.
The Beavers were outrebounded 39-27 and only shot 53.8 percent from the free throw line.
In the postgame press conference, Nelson tried to remain positive.
“We just have to keep grinding and that is all we can do,” Nelson said. “We can’t hang our heads at all. We just have to go back to the lab and go to work and just try to get those couple of extra stops a game.”
With the loss, OSU dropped to 11th place in the Pac-12 standings, a half game ahead of Utah. OSU will travel to the Bay Area later this week to face Cal on Thursday.
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(CNN) — Days before Chuck Hagel sits down for Senate hearings on his nomination to be secretary of defense, the former senator received vocal support from two retired generals on Sunday.
Retired U.S. Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal and former CIA director and retired U.S. Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden both said on CNN’s “State of the Union” that they expect Hagel to work well as the Defense Department chief.
Hagel would be the first defense secretary who enlisted in the military. He volunteered to join the
Army and ended up serving a yearlong tour in Vietnam in 1968 during the Tet Offensive, consid-ered the most violent period in that war. Because of a clerical error, he served side by side with his younger brother.
He earned two Purple Hearts, one of which was for saving his brother’s life. The second Purple Heart was for injuries from shrapnel he took in the chest while on patrol with his brother; his brother saved his life by patching up the wound.
Asked Sunday how Hagel’s experience might affect his role as head of the Defense Department,
Hayden said it could be a “tremendous attribute.”“I think it would be fine,” Hayden told CNN’s
chief political correspondent Candy Crowley. “I know Sen. Hagel. He was on my oversight com-mittee when I was in the intelligence community. He was a member - and this is not a universal condition - he was a member that you could talk to, have an honest dialogue - not necessarily disagree, but on a personal base have a candid exchange of views. You could always speak with him. And frankly, given my time in uniform, that’s a tremendous attribute.”
“So I actually think this will work out well,” he added.
McChrystal said he doesn’t think military ser-vice is a “perquisite” for the job but argued it can
be “very helpful.”
“Then of course he’ll build relationships as he goes. He has already got a lot of credibility,” he said. “I don’t think it will be a problem.”
Hagel, a Republican, has already taken heat for a variety of past statements and positions. Critics argue he’s not a strong supporter of Israel and appears too conciliatory toward enemies.
In his 2006 biography, Hagel said he’s not a “pacifist” but a “hard-edged realist.”
“I understand the world as it is - but war is a terrible thing. There’s no glory, only suffering,” he is quoted as saying in the book.
His hearings, widely expected to be conten-tious, are set to begin Thursday.
(CNN) — Liverpool, the 18 time league win-ner and five-time champion of Europe, was humiliated by third-tier Oldham 3-2 in the FA Cup, the most famous domestic cup competi-tion in world football.
The Premier League club, which is owned by American businessman John Henry, was embarrassed by a team currently struggling towards the bottom of its own division.
On a freezing cold Sunday in the north of England, around 14 kilometers from Manchester, Oldham produced one of the greatest results in its recent history.
Facing the likes of $35 million man Luis Suarez and a whole host of international play-ers, Oldham turned to a man who up until 18 months ago had given up on playing profes-sional football to try his luck at university.
Matt Smith, 23, attended the University of Manchester where he gained a degree in International Management with American Studies while playing part-time amateur football.
But after completing his studies, he rejoined Oldham and etched his name into FA Cup folklore by scoring twice before dislocating his shoulder in an enthralling contest.
Leading 1-0 through Smith’s third minute strike, Suarez equalized for Liverpool before Oldham scored two quick goals either side of the break.
First, Smith took advantage of some awful goalkeeping by Brad Jones to fire home his sec-ond with Reece Wabara heading Oldham into a 3-1 lead just minutes after the interval.
Joe Allen, a $23.6 million signing, volleyed Liverpool back into the contest courtesy of a huge deflection, but Oldham held out for a famous victory.
It was a return to the glory days for the club, which reached the 1994 FA Cup semifinals where it was eventually beaten by Manchester United in a replay.
It was that year which also saw Oldham rel-egated from the Premier League — a division which the club has not been able to return to since.
Oldham, which is managed by former Arsenal and Manchester City striker Paul
Dickov, will now face Liverpool’s Merseyside rival, Everton.
“I am left speechless by the result. We went out there wanting to battle together,” hero Smith told reporters.
“We rallied and thoroughly deserved the win. We proved what we can do today and we will be looking to do the same against Everton.”
Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers, whose side is currently seventh in the Premier League, said he had no excuses following the defeat.
“The FA Cup was a competition we wanted to have a go at and there is no excuse,” he told reporters.
“We put out a strong team capable of win-ning the game, but we didn’t.”
Oldham’s triumph capped a remarkable day of cup action in England where European champion Chelsea was fortunate to escape with a 2-2 draw at third-tier Brentford.
Brentford, which is less than 10 kilometers from its illustrious west London rival, had taken the lead twice, only for Chelsea to snatch an 83rd minute equalizer through $80 million striker Fernando Torres.
It was an impressive showing from min-now Brentford against defending champion Chelsea, which is unbeaten in its past 25 FA Cup matches.
Brentford, which is managed by German Uwe Rosler, will now go to Stamford Bridge for a replay in a game which is estimated to earn it around $1.6 million.
The winner of that fixture will go on to play at Middlesbrough in the fifth round.
There was also drama at Leeds where the first-tier side defeated eight time winners Tottenham Hotspur 2-1.
Leeds, which was relegated from the top-flight in 2004, now faces an away game at Premier League champion Manchester City.
Meanwhile, Luton Town, which became the first non-league side to ever beat a Premier League team following the 1-0 win at Norwich on Saturday, will play first-tier Millwall in the next round.
Manchester United will host Reading, while Arsenal will welcome Blackburn.
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WASHINGTON (CNN) — Thousands of demonstrators rallied Saturday in Washington to demand tougher gun con-trol laws, many describ-ing themselves as first-time capital marchers who’ve had enough of gun violence.
On a cold day, a vanguard led a blocks-long procession with a big blue banner, declar-ing “March on Washington for Gun Control: When we stand together, we stand a chance.”
The demonstrators want reinstatement of the federal ban on the sale of military-style semi-automatic rifles such as the one used in the recent Newtown, Connecticut, school shooting that left 20 children and six adults dead, plus the gunman and his mother. The protestors also want a ban on the sale of high-capacity ammunition maga-zines and universal back-ground checks.
Many marchers just car-ried black-and-white plac-ards bearing the names of victims of gun violence, such as Veronica Soto, a Newtown teacher who was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary
massacre.Co-organizer Molly Smith
highlighted how many dem-onstrators were ordinary citizens, the organization of whom was assisted by a web-page and Facebook page.
“It’s been a remarkable learning experience,” Smith told CNN, “the realization that we’re citizens and this is an active citizenship, and being a citizen isn’t just sitting around and gassing about it.”
The march was the first major demonstration since the Newtown mass shoot-ing last month, and it comes two days after Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, intro-duced a bill that would ban some assault rifles, semi-automatic weapons and high-capacity magazines.
U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan told an assembly of marchers, after they reached their rallying area midway between the White House and the Capitol, that Saturday’s demonstration wasn’t about the Second Amendment.
“This is about gun respon-sibility; this is about gun safe-ty; this is about fewer dead
Americans, fewer dead chil-dren,” Duncan told the crowd.
He recalled that as the for-mer chief of Chicago Public Schools, he oversaw a system in a city where a student was killed by gun violence every two weeks.
“Far too many of our chil-dren are growing up in cli-mates where they are scared,” Duncan said. “That has to change.”
He added, “This march is a starting point. It’s not an end-ing point. We must act, we must act, we must act.”
U.S. Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-District of Columbia, asked residents of Newtown, Connecticut, to make themselves known in the crowd.
‘We came to stand with you and bear witness with you until we vindicate your chil-dren and those who died with them,” Norton said.
She urged the assembly to press for gun reform.
The demonstrators started chanting: “Yes, we can! Yes, we can! Yes, we can!”
Without mentioning the National Rifle Association,
Norton made a reference to the powerful gun lobby, say-ing, “It comes down to us because we are immune to their lobbying.
“Only an outraged public can end the gun violence that has enveloped our country,” she added. “We the people who did not act before, we the people this time will step forward.
“And this time we will not step back.”
Colin Goddard survived being shot four times during the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007, the deadliest shooting in U.S. history, one that left 33 people dead, including the gunman, who took his own life.
Goddard, one of the rally speakers, said he was shot above the knee, twice in the hip and once in the shoulder.
“I consider myself one of the lucky ones,” he told the gathering.
Then, speaking of subse-quent school shootings across the nation, he added: “I kept seeing what happened to me happen to other people.”
Goddard now works for the
Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence as assistant director for victims advocacy and federal litigation.
One marcher, Lori Bennett, said she wants to make a difference.
“My two older children, of course, are very aware of what’s going on and I said, ‘I’m going down there, you know, for you, for us, and to make a difference,” she said. “Without sounding corny, but I mean, it’s just piggybacking on the sentiment of the politi-cians that are in favor of all this change.
“People as a country, like, we can’t keep waiting for all the politicians to make a move,” she added.
A small opposing demon-stration was held across the street from the gun control advocates’ staging area near the Capitol. One gun rights advocate said he thinks people in schools should be armed — a viewpoint he developed after the Newtown shooting.
“I could not figure out why government employees have armed guards, banks have armed guards to protect the
money, but the government, for some reason, thought we don’t need armed guards to protect our children,” said Dick Heller, who was the lead plaintiff in a 2008 Supreme Court case that overturned a sweeping handgun ban in the nation’s capital.
“Maybe they’re less worthy. I don’t know. I don’t know what their thinking was. All I can’t understand is why didn’t they protect their children like the government protects itself?” Heller added.
The gun control march organizers are also calling on Congress and state leg-islatures to prohibit the sale of bullets that shatter inside the body and to require gun-safety training for all firearms purchasers.
Among the other placards that demonstrators raised above their heads were: “More guns? More violence” and, in a reference to NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre (who has said “the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun”): “Hey LaPierre. How about this? Keep the Bad guy from even getting a gun!”
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(CNN) — When Erika Andiola’s mother and brother were detained by immigra-tion agents this month, she jumped to action.
She summoned the help of undocumented youths like herself, known as DREAMers, and within hours, immigra-tion officials were flooded with dozens of phone calls.
Andiola’s mother and brother were released.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials say the detention of the pair and their eventual release had nothing to do with Andiola’s activism.
But that does not damp-en her spirit. As far as she is concerned, the DREAMers snatched her mother from the brink of deportation.
“For us to get them to do that, it takes a lot of pressure,” she said.
Her work, along with other DREAMers, has increas-ingly become a powerful voice shaping discussions on immigration reform, which President Obama has vowed to pass in his second term.
Dubbed DREAMers, their name is derived from the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, which, if passed, would have granted some undocu-mented immigrant youth legal status in return for attending college or joining the military.
In 2009, DREAMers knocked on doors and begged for support of the DREAM Act, a bill that would have
provided a path to citizenship for certain youth who came to the United States as chil-dren and live in the country illegally.
Today, the movement is enjoying a certain amount of clout.
Andiola tapped into the DREAMer network to aid in the return of her mother and brother. But her activism also got her a job with newly elected Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Arizona.
Last summer, the Democrats gave the DREAMers their big-gest stage, at the Democratic National Convention. Benita Veliz became the first undoc-umented immigrant to give a speech at the convention, sharing her story of a high achiever with limited oppor-tunities because of her status.
It’s not just Democrats who are listening.
When Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, announced a new immigration proposal this month, he made a point to mention that he had consult-ed with DREAMers.
As Rubio began working on legislation to address the issue, his staff bounced the proposals by DREAM activ-ists, said the senator’s press secretary, Alex Conant.
“We believe there is broad support for letting people who came to the U.S. at a young age, grew up here and are undocumented through no fault of their own stay in the country,” Conant said. “We will continue to seek
their input as we work on a legislation to legalize their status.”
State and national confer-ences are bringing undocu-mented immigrant youths together and introducing them to the halls of power.
“The power has been there, what is happening now is that that power is being show-cased,” said Jose Luis Zelaya, a graduate student at Texas A&M University and DREAM activist.
He says the movement is more organized than before, thanks to partnerships with more experienced organiza-tions, and years of lobbying.
“We have planted a seed and hard work and dedica-tion,” Zelaya said. “Maybe a year ago we didn’t see the fruit, but only because the tree was still growing.”
In 2009 and 2010, Zelaya was among those who lobbied Congress for the DREAM Act. Back then, Zelaya remembers the activists “running from coast to coast, looking for recognition.”
The bill ultimately failed, but the DREAM activists did not lose their momentum, and continued to lobby. Last year, when President Obama issued an executive order granting a temporary reprieve for eligible undocumented youth to apply for a two-year work permit, it gave the group credibility, they say.
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The president’s deferred action policy, similar to the
proposed DREAM Act, “gave us breathing room,” Zelaya said.
It also raised the profiles of the activists.
As Zelaya waited for his work permit, he began cro-cheting to make ends meet. He was invited to Miami to talk about his crochet busi-ness on Univision. The hosts surprised him on camera with his work permit.
Off camera, some DREAMers find themselves juggling schedules filled with speeches, interviews and conferences at the state and national level.
Now, tracking down lead-ers like Andiola requires going through a press officer.
Many believed the DREAMers were fighting for a lost cause after the DREAM Act didn’t get the needed votes, Andiola said. But they persisted. “We’ve been able to prove a lot of people wrong,” she said.
Their next challenge is to lobby for immigration reform that would go beyond border security and help keep immi-grant families from being sep-arated, they say.
To their critics, who bristle that a group of undocument-ed immigrants have found an audience among politicians, activists and journalists, Andiola advises that they, too, organize.
“We really want to empow-er the community, not just the undocumented community,” she said.
Students who support DREAM act find their clout rising
CAIRO (CNN) — Raising his voice and sternly wagging his finger, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy said late Sunday that he won’t stand by in the wake of recent vio-lence, declaring a limited state of emergency and suggesting more such moves could be in the offing.
“I will act, and now I am act-ing,” the defiant Morsy said in a nationally televised speech.
Morsy — who became the North African nation’s first democratically elected president this year but since has become a target of crit-ics accusing him of amass-ing power for himself and his Islamist allies — imposed a 30-day curfew in Port Said, Ismailia and Suez. Under his order, people in those governorates cannot go out between 9 p.m. to 6 a.m.
The three northeastern Egyptian cities, all of them along the Suez Canal, have been sites of deadly violence in recent days.
It began Friday when pro-testers angry with Morsy’s regime clashed with govern-ment supporters and police in Suez, Ismailia and elsewhere. Then Saturday, 38 people died and more than 415 were injured in Port Said, where a riot broke out after news broke
that 21 people had been sen-tenced to death for their roles in a bloody 2012 riot at the coastal city’s soccer stadium.
In his Sunday night speech, Morsy claimed people in these and other places had attacked public and private institutions, “terrorized civilians,” blocked roads and taken up arms.
Those “criminals” responsi-ble will face “justice as soon as possible,” the president said. He added he has instructed the Interior Ministry, which oversees security forces, “to deal properly, and also with force, against those who attack the nation’s institutions.”
“We will deal with them severely,” he said, insist-ing Egyptian authorities are capable of restoring peace and security.
The president invoked the so-called January 25 Revolution, the popular upris-ing two years ago that led to the ouster of longtime leader Hosni Mubarak.
Many of those who hit the streets on Friday did so to rail against Morsy, a former Muslim Brotherhood leader. At one point, Morsy declared himself immune from judicial oversight and pushed through a new constitution, actions his critics say were reminiscent of Mubarak.
On Sunday, the president said some demonstrators’ violent “behavior does not have anything to do with the Egyptian revolution. ... In fact, it is against the revolution.”
At the same time, he acknowledged the legitimate dissent in Egypt, as well as its impact on the country, and said “dialogue (is) the only way to (bring about) stability and security.”
To this end, he invited rep-resentatives from 11 political parties to a meeting Monday. His spokesman, Yasir Ali, told state-run Nile TV that this meeting “is meant to address problems in Egypt, as opposed to express anger.”
It’s a sentiment that Morsy himself expressed a short time earlier, saying dialogue amongst various Egyptians was the only way for the country to reach peace and prosperity.
“We are going that way, all together,” he said. “God bless Egypt, and make her safe for her people and the whole world.”
Troops try to restore calm in Port Said
Roads in and out of Port Said, which sits along the Mediterranean Sea at the northern entrance of the Suez Canal, were shut down Sunday
as authorities tried to main-tain calm after the previous day’s bloodshed.
It all stemmed from a February 1, 2012, riot at the close of a match between Cairo’s prestigious Al-Ahly football club and the host Al-Masry team.
That day, 73 people were killed and more than 1,000 wounded in violence between supporters of the two teams. Many died falling from bleach-ers inside the stadium, while others suffocated.
Two months later, Egypt’s general prosecutor charged 75 people with premeditated murder and attempted mur-der, while three Al-Masry offi-cials and nine police officers were charged with “assisting the murderers.”
According to the prosecu-tor’s office, those charged with assisting knew about the assault ahead of time, didn’t confiscate weapons in advance, didn’t stop them and — in the case of an electricity engineer who was charged — turned off the lights direct-ly over the bleachers where the Al-Ahly fans were sitting right after the visiting team wrapped up its 3-1 victory.
Fans from both sides bashed each other with rocks and chairs, yet prosecutors
claimed the Port Said sup-porters were also armed with knives and other weapons.
On Saturday, 21 of those charged were sentenced to death. That ruling subse-quently spurred some of the defendant’s relatives to try to storm the Port Said prison where their loved ones were being held.
In addition, the main Suez Canal administration build-ing, provincial government buildings, banks and courts were either looted or burned by rioters, according to state media reports.
Those facilities, by Sunday, were controlled by Army units, said Gen. Ahmed Mohammed Ali, a spokesman for the Armed Forces. The troops also secured the power and water facilities in the city, he said.
Clashes for third straight day in Egyptian capital
In Egypt’s capital of Cairo, meanwhile, clashes between anti-government protesters and security forces continued for a third day on Sunday.
Police and soldiers used tear gas to quell a sometimes violent demonstration near Cairo’s Tahrir Square — the symbolic center of Egypt’s rev-olution. Demonstrators threw rocks and burned tires and boxes, according to the state-
run al-Ahram newspaper.Police closed all the main
roads and highways near Tahrir Square, and vehicles were not allowed to stop or wait near the square, the state-run al-Ahram newspaper reported.
Citing the unrest in the vicinity of Tahrir Square, the U.S. Embassy closed its offices on Sunday, according to its website. The British Embassy in Cairo also closed for the day.
The National Salvation Front, one of Egypt’s main opposition groups, on Sunday called for “peaceful pro-tests” and held “the president responsible for the excessive violence used by security forc-es against protesters,” accord-ing to a statement posted on the state-run Al-Ahram news website.
The group made several demands before it would urge people to stop protesting, including the formation of a new government and making changes to what they called the “distorted constitution” that voters passed, in a refer-endum, last month.
“The NSF has decided not to run in the parliamentary elections unless a comprehen-sive solution similar to that suggested is reached,” the group said.
Egypt’s Morsy declares curfew in 3 cities, vows ‘justice’ for those behind violence
(CNN) — One day after Fox News confirmed that it and Sarah Palin had parted ways, the former Alaska governor spoke out Saturday on why she decided to leave her gig as a paid contributor.
In an interview with the conservative news outlet Breitbart, Palin said she wants to share her values “more broadly” rather than “preach to the choir.”
“The message of liberty and true hope must be under-stood by a larger audience,” she said.
Palin’s contract ended at the end of 2012, but a source close to Palin told CNN that the 2008 Republican vice presi-dential nominee turned down a recent offer to renew it.
Palin said the 2014 mid-term elections will be “imper-ative” and advocated for who she described as anti-estab-lishment conservatives.
“It’s going to be like 2010,
but this time around, we need to shake up the GOP machine that tries to orchestrate away too much of the will of con-stitutional conservatives who don’t give a hoot how they do it in D.C.,” she said.
Palin was not specific about her long-term plans, say-ing “the door is wide open.” The three-question interview was published by Stephen K. Bannon, who directed a docu-mentary about Palin called, “The Undefeated.”
The Republican National Committee gathered last week for its winter meeting, where several GOP leaders argued the party needed to make serious changes in messag-ing and outreach to become more inclusive. Last year’s presidential election results show that President Barack Obama overwhelmingly won African Americans, Asians and Latinos.
Palin, however, said some
in the party are being “skit-tish” because of the election results.
“They shouldn’t be. Conservatism didn’t lose. A moderate Republican can-didate lost after he was per-ceived to alienate working class Reagan Democrat and independent voters who didn’t turn out for him as much as they did for the McCain/Palin ticket in 2008,” she said, add-ing the election was “defined by a biased media plus mil-lions of voters who sat it out in disgust.”
Asked for her reaction to the idea that she and the tea party no longer hold as much sway, Palin said the fight hasn’t even begun.
“I was raised to never retreat and to pick battles wisely, and all in due season,” she said. “When it comes to defending our republic, we haven’t begun to fight! But we delight in those who underestimate us.”
(CNN) — Arnold Schwarzenegger knows a thing or two about being an all-action hero — but it was Austria’s Marcel Hirscher who termi-nated his rivals’ hopes at Kitzbuhel.
In front of the Terminator star, the current World Cup leader produced an astonishing second run at Sunday’s World Cup slalom to clinch victory after finishing third in the open-ing leg.
The home favorite raced home in 53.51 sec-onds, giving him a winning total of 1min 44.34 seconds to see off Germany’s Felix Neureuther and Croatia’s Ivica Kostelic.
“I tried my best. It was pretty difficult,” Hirscher told reporters. “I knew that if I wanted
to win, I definitely had to beat Felix.”
Over 30,000 fans including Schwarznegger had packed into the stands with the Austrian-born former California governor enjoying Hirscher’s victory.
It was Hirscher’s fourth slalom triumph of the season and kept him top of the World Cup standings on 1,035 points, 114 points ahead of Norway’s Aksel Lund Svindal on 921.
Croatia’s Kostelic, who took third, is now guaranteed a record fourth successive victory in the men’s World Cup combined event, which takes into account the total of the downhill and slalom times.
(CNN) — In anger over the recent death of an Internet activist who faced federal charg-es, hackers claiming to be from the group Anonymous threatened early Saturday to release sensitive information about the U.S. Department of Justice.
They claimed to have one such file on multiple servers ready for immediate release.
The hackers hijacked the website of the U.S. government agency responsible for federal sentencing guidelines, where they posted a message demanding the United States reform its justice system or face incriminating leaks to select news outlets.
The lengthy, eloquently written letter was signed “Anonymous.”
Richard McFeely, executive assistant direc-tor of the FBI’s Criminal, Cyber, Response, and Services Branch, said the bureau was immediately aware of the threat and is “handling it as a criminal investigation.”
“We are always concerned when someone illegally accesses another person(‘s) or gov-ernment agency’s network,” he said.
The U.S. Sentencing Commission said its website was brought down “temporar-ily” before it was restored later Saturday. “The commission’s publications, training materials and federal sentencing statistics are again readily accessible to visitors to the site,” it said in a statement.
The suicide of Internet activist Aaron Swartz on January 11 triggered the posting of the hackers’ message to the web address of the sentencing commission, they said.
His death, which they blamed on the jus-tice system, “crossed a line,” the letter said.
A YouTube video accompanied the mes-sage, and made use of images from Cold War nuclear scenarios and games of strategy. The letter contained nuclear metaphors to refer to chunks of embarrassing information.
The hackers said they have obtained “enough fissile material for multiple war-heads,” which it would launch against the
Justice Department and “its associated executive branches.”
It gave the “warheads” the names of U.S. Supreme Court justices.
Anonymous accused the FBI of infiltrat-ing its ranks and claimed the federal gov-ernment is applying “highly disproportion-ate sentencing” to ruin the lives of some of its members.
Swartz, 26, was facing federal computer fraud charges and could have served 35 years in prison. Anonymous said he “was killed,” because he “faced an impossible choice.”
His family has issued a statement saying that federal charges filed over allegations that he stole millions of online documents contributed to Swartz’s decision to take his own life. The files were mostly scholarly papers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Swartz’s suicide has inspired a flurry of online tributes and mobilized Anonymous, the loosely defined collective of so-called “hacktivists” who oppose attempts to limit Internet freedoms. Both Swartz and Anonymous have been stark proponents of open access to information and open-source programming.
A review of a cached version of the USSC.gov website showed the Anonymous mes-sage on its homepage early Saturday.
Anonymous also posted an editable ver-sion of the website, inviting users to deface it as they pleased. Multiple pages — not only the home page — appeared to allow users to alter them.
The “warhead” names appeared as links, most leading to 404 error messages of pages not found, but some leading to pages of raw programming code.
The hackers said they chose the commis-sion’s website because of its influence on the doling out of sentences they consider to be unfair.
Anonymous threatens Justice Department over death of hacktivist Aaron Swartz
