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O-chem student researchs creation of compounds n Undergraduate student

investigated new process for creating compounds

By Michael MendesThe Daily BaromeTer

Sam Bartlett can make a claim that few undergraduates at Oregon State University can make: he’s the lead author of a university research project.

Bartlett, a senior in OSU’s chemistry program with an advanced chemistry option, has been working in the lab of Chris Beaudry, an assistant professor of organic chemistry, since 2010. When he first entered OSU, he wasn’t fully sure what he wanted to do.

“When I took pre-calculus and chemistry in high school, I started to gain a real interest in science and mathematics,” Bartlett said. “I find the

Student-run groups take initiative with energy, sustainabilityOSU’s energy facts

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• To date, 29 percent of the school’s energy comes from renewable energy resources, which our student fees help finance.

• 35 percent of the university’s food budget is spent on local and organic nutrition.

• By the year 2025, President Ed Ray plans to have the campus obtain carbon neutrality (other-wise known as a net-zero carbon footprint).

• Oregon State’s College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences (COAS) is a regional leader in studying climate change.

• Oregon State and the University of Washington col-lectively oversee the Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center, a leader in wave energy studies.

• OSU is rated in the top 5 by a multitude of organizations in terms of renewable energy pur-chase and consumption among U.S. universities.

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n The level of attention students devote to their carbon footprint not what it could be, say sustainability groups

By Drew Wilson-McGrathThe Daily BaromeTer

On Friday, Jan. 27, the student-run Sustainable Energy Initiative held an expo to highlight the many ways in which student organizations are helping Oregon State University become a key player in the game of “going green.”

Former Oregon Secretary of State Bill Bradbury was the headlining speaker, following an informational walkthrough of student sustainabil-ity presentations, starting at 7 p.m.

Bradbury’s presentation, “Global Warming Hits Home,” highlighted the impact that global warming is having on Oregon and the rest of the world, with specific attention given to recent natural disasters in Thailand, Australia and Japan.

A steadfast advocate for green technology and alternative energy projects across the nation, Bradbury holds OSU in particularly high regard.

“I’ve probably given this show over 265 times around Oregon,” Bradbury said. “OSU plays an essential role in this state’s ability to create and sus-tain renewable energy resources. You should all be proud.”

OSU bears the distinction of being

the only public university to receive land, space, sea and sun grants. A vast majority of those grants go toward research concerning how to turn the sun, wind and water into vital energy for a future in desper-ate need of clean energy solutions. Bradbury’s hour and a half-long pre-sentation focused on some of these innovations, as well as reasons why energy reduction should take priority over energy consumption.

“The first thing we need to do is walk our talk.” Bradbury said. “The more we know, the better.”

Two student associations at OSU, the Sustainable Energy Initiative and the Student Sustainability Initiative, are doing just that.

And no, we don’t know everything, but OSU is walking, even running, at an alarming pace.

Few are aware that the ellipti-cal machines at Dixon Recreation Center are linked to generators that dump electricity right onto OSU’s power grid while the machines are in use. In other words, students are virtually powering this institution.

Nathan Hinkle is president of SEI, is a student advocacy group for renewable energy research. SEI focuses both on student awareness of the energy crisis, as well as the implementation of diverse energy resources on a local and statewide scale.

SEI’s work is funded strictly by grants, fundraising events and

sponsorships from the College of Engineering, as well as the College of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering.

“For a lot of people, electricity is just something you flip a switch to get, and pay a bill to an ambigu-ous entity for each month,” Hinkle said. “The College of Engineering has a huge array of sustainability research, from biofuel and hydrogen fuel development within the school of chemical/biological/environmen-

tal engineering, to improving build-ing materials and practices within the school of civil and construction engineering.”

Despite scattered support, Hinkle feels that too few people know about the energy crisis developing on a local and international scale. “The average American knows very little about where their energy comes from, how it’s produced or even how

DreW Wilson-McGrath | THE DAILY BAROMETER

Nathan Hinkle and Larkien Loewenherz with a a small-scale biodiesel reactor that mixes ingredients to make biodiesel, including vegetable oil.

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Bringing science to the stagen Djerassi spoke at La Sells in

Critical Questions lecture By Kim Kenny

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An 88-year-old man shuffled onto the stage of the Construction Engineering Hall of Oregon State University’s LaSells Stewart Center last night aided by two black crutches to describe his life’s work, or at least the second half of it.

His voice is a European slur, embel-lished every 30 seconds or so by a soft gulp as he clears his throat. He has white hair and a thick white beard reminiscent of Ernest Hemingway’s masculine visage. He touches his chin occasionally in thought and jokes casually with the audience about phallic euphemisms.

This is the man who invented the birth control pill. He is recognized as one of the most accomplished sci-entists of our time, and has recently endeavored to add achievements in literature and theatre to what must be among the most extensive resumes on this planet.

Carl Djerassi, a professor emeritus of chemistry at Stanford University, is the first speaker of the 2012 Critical Questions lecture series, spon-sored by the OSU School of Writing, Literature, and Film with support from the Horning Endowment in the Humanities.

Djerassi’s presentation, entitled “Science-in-Theatre on the Page and on the Stage,” highlighted what he dubs “scientific smuggling” into the literary world. Through power-point slides and a dramatic reading from his new play, “Phallacy” with OSU Theatre faculty member Theatre Arts Professor Charlotte Headrick, Djerassi demonstrated his use of “science-in-fiction” and “science-in-theatre.”

These genres differ from science

fiction in that they include accurate and plausible scientific informa-tion that does not violate any laws of physics.

Though Djerassi is most widely known as the father of the oral con-traceptive pill synthesized in the early 1950s, the patent for which he was paid only one dollar, he has written 24 books and plays. These have been translated into various languages and performed in theatre and opera hous-es around the world.

Raymond Malewitz, assistant professor of English in the School of Writing, Literature, and Film, teach-es Djerassi’s play, “An Immaculate Misconception” in his literature in science class, and believes the new genre allows science to reflect upon itself in a different venue, adding rigor to the debate concerning issues such as artificial insemination.

Mike Jager, a graduate student in the history department at OSU, said he felt inspired by the presentation to create a similar tool for history. “I’ve been to a lot of presentations, but this one really hit home. This guy’s got my gears turning, so I’m gonna go home and make a pot of coffee,” he said.

Many pots of coffee must have been brewed in the course of Djerassi’s ambitious career. After escaping Nazi occupied Austria and learning English in an American school in Bulgaria, he arrived penniless in New York at the age of 16. He then wrote a letter to then first lady Eleanore Roosevelt, stating simply “Dear Mrs. Roosevelt, I need a scholarship.”

Amazingly, his letter was answered by a secretary who got him a scholar-ship enabling him to attend college in the midwest. He graduated from Kenyon College when he was 18 and had a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin before age 22.

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Bartlett was recognized for his research in the chemistry.

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Carl Djerassi, known as the father of the oral contraceptive pill, made his way onto the stage with the assistance of crutches. See research | page 3See science| page 3

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ences, Noon-1pm, Hallie Ford Center 115. Seminar: A Social-Ecological Perspective on Vulnerable Youth: Toward an Understand-ing of Sexual Development Among Urban African American Adolescents.

EventsCampus Recycling, All day, Surplus Ware-

house, all UHDS service centers, MU 103, Women’s Center, APCC, ALS loading dock. Free clean styrofoam recycling.

Monday, Feb. 6MeetingsCollege Democrats, 5pm, MU Board Room.

Come talk about current events, local cam-paigns and international news with like-minded people!

Student Health Services, 12:30-1:20pm, MU 206. Budget hearing. Open to all stu-dents.

Socratic Club, 7pm, MU 110. Sponsored book study of Timothy Keller’s book “The Reason for God” will meet to discuss Chap-ter 1. This meeting is free and open to everyone.

Educational Activites, 12-2pm, MU 211. Open hearing for 2012-13 budget cycle.

EventsWomen’s Center Sister Scholars, 2-4pm,

Women’s Center. Game Break! Come to play games and hang out with rad ladies!

Graduate School, 4-5:30pm, MU 109. Forum for graduate students to provide feedback to the Graduate School.

Black Cultural Center, 6-8pm, BCC. Culture Taboos. Talking about stereotypes of black people and how they impact their way of life.

Tuesday, Feb. 7MeetingsASOSU Senate, 7pm, MU 109A. Convenes

to discuss student issues. Students and stu-dent organization delegates are welcome to attend.

EventsGraduate Women’s Network, 2-4pm,

Women’s Center. GWN is a great place to connect with other grads and take a break. This month we welcome Dr. Brenda McComb, Dean of the Graduate School.

Graduate School, 4-5:30pm, MU 109. Forum for international graduate students to provide feedback to the Graduate School.

Black Cultural Center, all day, BCC. Health Awareness. National black HIV/AIDS awareness day. Education on safe sex.

Wednesday, Feb. 8MeetingsASOSU House of Representatives, 7pm,

MU 211. Convenes to discuss student issues and concerns. Students and stu-dent organization delegates are welcome to attend.

Baha’i Campus Association, 12:30-1pm, MU Talisman Room. Interfaith meditation or devotions – bring your favorite inspirational reading to share.

EventsBlack Cultural Center, 6-7:30pm, BCC.

Intersection of Afro-Latinos. A documentary about Afro-Latinos, in collaboration with the CCCC.

Thursday, Feb. 9MeetingsOSU Women’s Network and Assn. of

Office Professionals, Noon-1pm, MU 208. Baby Boomers Unite: Working Through Issues Together. Gather with peers and share knowledge and experiences relevant to issues faced by those in the Baby Boomer generation.

OSU Pre-Law Society, 6pm, StAg 111. Regular meeting.

College Republicans, 7pm, StAg 132. All are welcome no matter what beliefs or political party.

SpeakersCollege of Public Health and Human

Sciences, 10-11am, Hallie Ford Center 115. Seminar: “Understanding Nutritional Challenges Faced by Individuals, Families, and Communities” by Joseph Sharkey, PhD, RD, MPH.

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NYC mayor Bloomberg gives Planned Parenthood $250K matching grant

The decision by the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation not to renew funding for a num-ber of Planned Parenthood proj-ects stirred anger and explana-tion from both groups and their allies Thursday.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that he is giving a $250,000 matching gift to the Planned Parenthood Federation of America to help make up for the loss of fund-ing announced Tuesday by the Komen Foundation, his office said Thursday.

“Politics have no place in health care,” the mayor said in a written statement. “Breast cancer screening saves lives, and hundreds of thousands of women rely on Planned Parenthood for access to care. We should be helping women access that care, not placing bar-riers in their way.”

He was referring to Planned Parenthood’s announce-ment Tuesday that the Komen Foundation had “succumbed to political pressure” by cut-ting its funding for breast cancer screenings at Planned Parenthood amid increased scrutiny by Congress over how Planned Parenthood provides abortion services.

Bloomberg’s gift comes on top of the $400,000 that Planned Parenthood reported rais-

ing online from 6,000 donors the first 24 hours after the announcement.

Planned Parenthood’s loss attracted moral support when CREDO, which describes itself as the largest corporate donor to Planned Parenthood, announced Thursday that 250,000 of its members had signed a petition urging the Komen Foundation to reverse its decision.

“The move is clearly connect-ed to attempts by Republicans in Congress to defund Planned Parenthood,” the organization said in a statement. “In respond-ing to questions about its deci-sion, the foundation cited as its rationale a sham ‘investiga-tion’ into Planned Parenthood launched by Republican Rep. Cliff Stearns as one of the most militant anti-choice members of Congress.”

In September, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, on which the Florida congressman sits, began an inves-tigation into Planned Parenthood over the organization’s “compli-ance with federal restrictions on funding abortions.”

In Washington, at least 22 Senate Democrats signed a let-ter calling on Komen to recon-sider its decision.

“This troubling decision threatens to reduce access to

necessary, life-saving services,” it said. “It would be tragic if any woman — let alone thousands of women — lost access to these potentially life-saving screenings because of a politi-cally motivated attack.”

“People respond powerfully when they see politics interfer-ing with women’s health,” said Andrea Hagelgans, spokeswom-an for Planned Parenthood, on Wednesday. “That’s why we’ve seen a tremendous outpouring of support.”

But the American Life League said in a statement that the Komen Foundation’s decision was justified.

“PPFA is currently the focus of a congressional investigation, and multiple affiliates are under state investigations,” it said. “Planned Parenthood operatives are lashing out at Komen across the Internet and throughout the media, in what appears to be a coordinated effort to paint Komen’s policy as cowardly and politically motivated.”

The Komen Foundation denied Thursday that its deci-sion stemmed from politics.

“We’ve always had the right to cancel contracts for organiza-tions that came under investi-gation for potential wrongdo-ing,” said Nancy Brinker, CEO and founder of the group. In all, grants were not renewed to 16

of 19 Planned Parenthood clin-ics, she said. “We don’t base our funding decisions on emotions or politics or whether one side or another will be pleased.”

Brinker was a political appointee of the George W. Bush administration, in which she served as U.S. ambassa-dor to Hungary and as chief of protocol. Susan G. Komen was Brinker’s sister.

Komen Foundation President Liz Thompson said the funds will be redirected “to other pro-grams in our communities that can provide these services more directly.”

She said there was “amazing consensus” among foundation board members about the deci-sion, which was made “over the better part of two years.”

But that consensus did not include Dr. Kathy Plesser, a member of the foundation’s medical advisory board in New York, who said she will resign if the decision is not overturned.

“I cannot as a physician and advocate for women’s health continue to be a part of the organization if it continues in this direction,” Plesser said. “A big part of what Komen does is reach underserved communi-ties of women. With this deci-sion, they’re not living up to this mission.”

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Social media giant Facebook opens big with IPOFacebook has finally filed to raise $5

billion through a public offering. But it hardly needs the cash: The company already has almost $4 billion stashed in its piggy bank.

In its IPO filing, Facebook gave stan-dard (boring) boilerplate explanation of what it’ll do with the cash it raises: “work-ing capital and other general corporate purposes.”

Nearly $9 billion is a lot of working capital. Facebook could use it to beef up four key areas.

Ramp up mobile. Facebook’s filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission warned potential investors several times about its weakness in mobile.

“We do not currently directly generate any meaningful revenue from the use of Facebook mobile products, and our abil-ity to do so successfully is unproven,” the company wrote.

Facebook wasn’t built with mobile in mind — it was created in 2004, after all — and it’s been slow to develop device-optimized apps. Facebook for iPad, Apple’s tablet, wasn’t launched until October. That was 18 months after the iPad launched, and Facebook’s delay gave third-party apps a chance to jump in.

The biggest opportunity in mobile: advertising. The company doesn’t yet serve ads to users who access Facebook through apps or its mobile site.

Package more data. Facebook had 845 million monthly active users as of December 31, which means lots of tasty bits to sell to advertisers.

“Facebook’s product is data, period,” says Rebecca Lieb, a digital advertising and media analyst at Altimeter Group. “Boy, do they have a lot of it and boy, are they going to get more of it.”

That increased data payload comes as Facebook continues to expand its ten-tacles deeper into the Internet beyond its own site.

User profiles have long been an easy way for advertisers to target — “I like ‘The Big Bang Theory’ and The Gap” — but now Facebook is connected to a lot else that its users are doing online.

If you listen to a song on Spotify, watch a video on YouTube or read an article on The Washington Post, that activity could be posted to Facebook. In turn, Facebook can package that data in ways that help advertisers piece together your interests — and decide which kinds of ads you’ll respond to best.

“It’s one thing to have eggs and flour

and sugar — it’s another thing to have a cake,” Lieb says. “What you like on Pinterest, which TV shows you watch ... all of this helps inform ad decisions, and the more information the better. “

Streamline ads. Of course, all of this potentially valuable data means squat for advertisers unless users are exposed to and engaging with the ads served.

Advertising accounted for 85 per-cent of Facebook’s total 2011 revenue, or almost $3.2 billion. To date, most of Facebook’s ads have been display ads: banners, images and other graphics.

Facebook is serving those ads to a hugely massive user base. In the third quarter of 2011, Facebook served 28 per-cent of all U.S. display ad impressions — more than Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and AOL combined.

“Facebook is serving so many display ads, but businesses are asking: How do we get leads off of this?’” says Jed Williams, a social/local media analyst at research firm BIA/Kelsey.

“It’s getting to the end of the experi-mentation period,” he adds. “Facebook ads have to drive bigger performance than they have in the past. They feel the weight of that pressure.”

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The Daily BaromeTerTwo separate locations in the Corvallis area will

be providing free e-filing for taxes: the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library and the Philomath Public Library.

AARP Tax Aide volunteers will do the filing every Tuesday and Thursday between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. until April 17 on the second floor of the Corvallis-Benton County Library. No appoint-ments will be necessary and assistance will be given on a first-come first-served basis.

Tax Aides will only be available by appointment at the Philomath library on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., through April 14. To set up an appointment with a volun-teer at this location, call 541-766-6704.

Forms will not be available for free at the above locations, but assistance in accessing tax materials and booklets is available upon request.

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Starting Monday, Feb. 6, the Student Sustainability Initiative and the Sustainability Office will be running The OSU Building Energy Challenge in which four buildings and 13 residential halls have agreed to com-pete in reducing energy consumption. The ultimate goal is to reduce consumption by 5 percent by taking part in energy-saving activities, like turning lights off.

The kick-off event will be on Monday at noon in the Memorial Union Journey Room. Information on how to compete and prizes will be provided, as well as lunch.

The competition will last for three weeks, and every week will have a different energy-saving theme. The last day will be Feb. 27, followed by an awards ceremony on Feb. 28 in the MU.

For more information, go to the Challenge website at http://oregonstate.edu/sustainability/bec.


they use it,” Hinkle said.The SSI is comprised of a variety of students

and dedicated professors who, through cam-pus-wide programs such as the Energy Civil War and Building Energy Challenge, attempt to raise awareness of and accessibility to clean, natural energy resources for OSU faculty and students alike.

In a three-term year at OSU, an estimated $889,500 in student fees is allocated to student sustainability research and practical application, and SSI receives a bulk of that money.

Becky Rubenstrunk is a member of SSI. “We need a commitment,” she said. “From our people, as well as our government to make sustainability a priority.”

A little more awareness can go a long way, which is precisely why the concentrated efforts of SSI and SEI are so valuable; they aim to lessen the gap between students and various renewable utilities that their money pays for.

When asked how SSI impacts OSU students, senior Brian Laird said, “Particularly noticeable on campus would have to be the effects of the

green fee.” The “Green Fee” is an $8.50 per term charge

to an active student; it is included as part of the $11.86 Student Sustainability Initiative fee each student pays every term. “It’s used for renewable energy infrastructure on campus,” Laird said.

Students are surrounded by this renew-able energy infrastructure on a daily basis. The recently fareless transit buses that travel down Monroe every half-hour are fueled by student fees assigned to SSI and the City of Corvallis in an attempt to reduce the need for vehicles in the community.

A new energy cogeneration plant produces energy using massive turbines, which can burn clean gases and biodiesel. By using the steam generated from the turbines, vital energy is pro-vided for heating and lab equipment across the campus.

Dixon Recreation Center uses solar-pow-ered water heaters for the pools and showers. Combined, SEI and SSI have their hands full with many projects that are putting OSU on the map as one of the nation’s top research institutions.

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process of working through problems to be really exciting.”

He started his college studies in biology, but soon found his real calling in chemistry.

“I did some research in a molecular biology lab, and decided it wasn’t for me,” Bartlett said. “I knew I wanted to do research, and I was leaning towards organic chemistry, so when I saw Professor Beaudry at the Interzone, I expressed inter-est in working in his lab.”

Beaudry emailed him back the next day, accepting him into the lab.

“Without the mentorship of Professor Beaudry, none of this would’ve happened,” Bartlett said.

Bartlett began working on a synthetic chemistry project for a graduate student. He did so well that Beaudry gave him his own project: investigating a novel process for creating compounds called beta-diketones from a pre-cursor product and an organic chemical (o-Iodoxybenzoic acid, or IBX) that can be easily filtered out after the reaction.

What Bartlett found was that the reaction converted more than 95 percent of the precursor molecules — a rarity in organic chemistry.

“What’s written in the paper is nearly 100 percent Sam’s work,” Beaudry said.

Outside of academics, Bartlett is active in rock climbing and music. Together with a friend, he has applied to DJ an elec-tronica playlist on OSU’s radio station, KBVR.

Bartlett is also currently applying for graduate school and the publication of a research paper looks good on his applica-tion. However, there’s still one more step before Bartlett con-siders the paper’s success to be complete.

“It was thrilling to be able to go online and see my name on our paper, but I think I will be even more excited when anoth-er researcher cites our work.”

Bartlett’s advice for students?“If you’re interested in a sci-

ence career in an academic setting, you should pursue research early. The opportuni-ties are there,” he said.

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He also worked in a Syntex lab in Mexico City where, in 1951, he directed the syn-thesis of the first oral contra-ceptive for women. For this he won the National Medal of Science. Djerassi has taught chemistry at Stanford University since 1959 and is the founder of Zoecon Corp, which develops environmen-tally friendly approaches to insect population control. He has more than 1,200 papers published in academic and scientific journals.

Shannon Lucas and Austin Rondema, seniors at OSU who will marry and move to California next year, attended the lecture due to an interest in bridging their pursuits as an English major and bioen-gineer, respectively.

Lucas appreciated see-ing science in fiction in a realistic setting that is both entertaining and scientifically intriguing.

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Religious expression, or just the complaints and grievances

Super Bowl and all the hype Reality of global warming

It’s a common complaint: the secularization of America.

Religious groups feel as if they are constantly under attack — from the ‘War on Christmas,’ to the push on birth control, prayer in school to the mutilation of traditional mar-riage. While most Americans are com-plaisant and tolerant to our chang-ing state, conventional objection will always remain.

Still, America may be the last bas-tion of hope to freely express your beliefs. If anything, we have only one serious issue with religion, and it has to do with our military ties; it has nothing to do with a nation that feels free to attack mainstream religion, such as Christianity or Judaism. Those com-plaining about a secular America are the only ones ever complaining, and they’re usually religious. This is an arti-ficial issue.

Nevertheless, we do sometimes see crimes of restriction against religious organizations, particularly in employ-ment and participation purposes. And despite decades of precedent defend-ing the establishment of religion, the Supreme Court still deals with the business.

Just last month, the court rules — unanimously nonetheless — that while employees of religious organiza-tions are not exempt from laws that prohibit discrimination in employ-ment, religious organizations will always be protected.

In 1963’s Sherbert v. Verner, the Court rejected South Carolina state law that would deny unemployment benefits to a Seventh Day Adventist

who turned down a job offer that required Saturday work. In 1972’s Yoder v. Wisconsin, the Court found Wisconsin’s law requiring students to stay in school until the age of 17 unconstitutional, after an Amish fam-ily challenged the law.

In 1990’s Employment Division v. Smith, while ruling against an indi-vidual who was fired for use of peyote, even though it was for religious pur-poses, the Court did maintain that the states have the power to allow such illegal acts if under a religious pur-pose, but they are not required to. In 1993’s Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye v. Hialeah, the court struck down a city ordinance banning animal sacrifice, which was put in place after a local religious group began the practice.

And though not necessarily a free-dom of religion case, just last year, the Court defended the Westboro Baptist Church’s protests at a military funeral for the late Lance Corporal Matthew Snyder, holding that no matter how hurtful and disagreeable the message may be, they have every right to say what they wish, while in a peaceful and legally-situated manner. As Chief Justice Roberts said when citing the 1989 Texas v. Johnson opinion: “…if there is a bedrock principle underly-ing the First Amendment, it is that

government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.”

The final sentiment rings true throughout American society, espe-cially when it comes to religious mat-ters. Americans just don’t mind what their neighbors believe in, or at least they shouldn’t.

Yet the issue continues on. In fall 2010, following a discrimi-

nation complaint against a Christian fraternity, Vanderbilt University began investigating all religious organiza-tions on their cam-pus. The university ultimately would eliminate a clause in the student orga-nization handbook protecting reli-gious association. Essentially retooling their non-discrim-ination policy for student organizations, the Chancellor held that membership in student organizations will be “open to every-one and that everyone, if desired, has the opportunity to seek leadership positions.”

One director of a Christian frater-nity on campus wrote in an editorial to Fox News: “How can an organization maintain its identity without the abil-ity to choose its members and leaders based on those beliefs? The answer is: It can’t. Vanderbilt’s new nondiscrimi-nation policy enables a Jewish student

to become president of the Muslim student organization, or a Christian student to become the president of the campus Hindu organization.”

And this is where the guise of secu-larization arises. Though, the devil is in the details.

Vanderbilt is a private institu-tion, with no religious affiliation. The University does not need to adhere to the laws prohibiting free exercise of religion. Ironically, in the same manner, religious organizations can-

not be required to “not discriminate,” Vanderbilt cannot be required to allow discrimination.

Moreover, there’s no substantive proof a leader of one of these groups could get to such a position without the vote of the students involved in the group. The uni-versity is not assign-ing a Muslim to lead

a Jewish fraternity. A Christian, believ-ing in traditional marriage, will not be appointed to an executive role in a gay or lesbian student group without the members’ approval. There is no puppeteering.

The University has merely required the student organizations to accept this new policy — a nondiscrimina-tion one. They have not directed the groups to act upon it.

No one enjoys messing with anoth-er’s business, or trying to make things

Love is in the air. No not the type of love a man feels for a woman, or a dog feels for

a slow squirrel — I’m talking about true love.

The unconditional love and affection only a fan can feel for a team. The type of love that makes the Lifetime channel look like True TV, and Valentine’s Day feel like something named after Christopher Columbus. A love when coupled with a winning season and playoff run can get out of hand quicker than a Penn State protest. Professional sports are built on this type of love (who else but a lovelorn fan would buy a New Jersey Nets Jersey?) but only one league knows how to truly capitalize on it.

Without question, the Super Bowl is the defining sporting event of America. More than a Championship game, but just short of a national holiday, it is the picture of what all championship games should strive to look like. In 2010, according to Nielsen ratings, Super Bowl XLIV averaged 106.5 million viewers and replaced the series finale of “M*A*S*H” as the most watched telecast of all time. Nielsen also reported that SB XLIV was the second most buzzed about sporting event of the year, right behind the start of the NFL season.

The reason for the NFL’s success is the same reason college football is popular: regular games matter. Due to the physical toll football takes on its players, football sea-son is the shortest of any sport, with just one game a week. While most other pro leagues would baulk at the idea of a shortened season and the supposed revenue loss associated with it, it’s the exact reason football remains the iconic American sport it is today.

Nothing is valued more than effort in sports. From pee-wee soc-cer games to state and national championships, no mantra heard more often than “Try your best.” At the beginning of almost everyone’s sporting career it is drilled into

your head that winning doesn’t matter as long as you try your best. That’s why football’s short season is its greatest strength; it forces players to try their best every game.

A standard NBA season lasts 82 games, the NHL 82 and the MLB 162. In contrast, the NFL season is only 16 games long. NFL players do not have the luxury of skating through an unimportant middle part of the season. The old belief that only the final two minutes matter in a professional basketball game sadly rings true. One of the main reasons the NBA has started to lose money is the fact that no one wants to pay any substantial amount of money to go see a game in the middle of the season when no one is even trying.

Not only does the NFL have the right formula for season length, they also have it for playoffs too. The NFL is the only professional league in America that has single elimination playoffs. This allows for more miracles to happen in NFL playoffs than any other sport. Teams can fluke their way to the championship in single elimina-tion, but no one can do it in mul-tiple seven-game series.

The success of the NFL can teach other leagues the valuable lesson that less is more. The less fans see hard hitting plays and diving catches the more they want them. The fewer players on the field, the harder they try when they do play.

It’s why love is in the air, as we approach this weekend’s Super Bowl between the Giants and Patriots. It’s why fans love the sport. And it’s why fans love this sport.

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The following is in response to Tuesday, Jan. 31’s column “The other cause of global warming.”

Before addressing the sci-entific weaknesses of “The other cause behind Global

Warming,” it must be stated that climate scientists and their associ-ated funding agencies do not con-sider the science behind climate change a political or economic issue.

The scientific basis of “An Inconvenient Truth” (2006) stems out of numerous observational cli-mate records, including the Mauna Loa CO2 curve (also known as the Keeling curve), before-and-after photos of alpine glacier retreat, and a literature survey of over 900 peer-reviewed climate science studies, all of which were completed before the filming of the documentary. The following year, the ideas presented in “An Inconvenient Truth” received heightened atten-tion as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released Assessment Report (AR) 4, a comprehensive synthesis of contemporary climate science lit-erature, data and conclusions that determined that within uncertain-ties, anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases are the primary driver of recent climatic warming.

Thousands of scientists from 120+ countries volunteered to sup-ply data, write and review drafts of the report and submit the fin-ished document. What is done with such data and conclusions after publishing is not within the pur-view of the scientists involved in the research. Thus, to discount the conclusions reached by the AR4 and “An Inconvenient Truth” — that anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases are the primary

cause of recent climate warming — on the grounds of popularization at the hands of a venture capitalist is misdirected and fallacious.

What “giant corporations” are responsible for the Mauna Loa observations, the AR4, or even the IPCC? The author of “The other cause behind global warm-ing” would make it seem that Al Gore himself conducted the body

of research he presents in “An I n c o n v e n i e n t Truth,” which is erroneous and in dire need of further investigation on the author’s part.

The scientific shortcomings of “The other cause behind global warming” are vast and demand thor-ough exploration. Firstly, the author’s dismissal of the physical relation-

ship between CO2, solar irradiance and the Earth’s surface tempera-ture precludes the effectiveness of the other mechanisms presented. Incoming solar radiation (insola-tion) is absorbed by the Earth’s surface and re-emitted as longwave (infrared) radiation. Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, like car-bon dioxide and methane, selec-tively absorb this terrestrial infra-red radiation and re-emit it back towards the Earth’s surface (known as the “greenhouse effect”), thus increasing the temperature of the Earth’s surface and lower layers of the atmosphere. These greenhouse gases, especially CO2, act like a thermal blanket for the Earth – it’s simple: adding more CO2 is like adding more blankets. In fact, without this physical relationship,

Yeas & NaysNay to Valentine’s Day. We

know, we know it’s 11 days away, but we decided to do a

preemptive strike. Nay to Groundhog Day. Yea to “Groundhog Day,” the movie

starring Bill Murray. Yea to the reemergence of Donald

Trump into the GOP primary. We’re sure his endorsement of Mitt Romney will soothe voters’ concerns on Romney’s “wealthy businessman” character — one who is unconcerned with aver-age Americans’ economic struggles. We hear Bernie Madoff will be endorsing Mitt next week.

Nay to the very poor. As Mitt Romney puts it, he wasn’t concerned about the very rich because they’re fine, and not concerned with the very poor because they have a “safety net.” Equating the very poor and the very rich as if they’re equal makes perfect sense. We couldn’t have said it better ourselves.

Nay to parents who let their children wander off, sometimes into the bike lane. Yes, this happens.

Yea to setting this straight: Parents, at what point do you no longer care what your child is doing, and you’d rather let it become a burden on society than put one more ounce of effort into caring about your child’s noise level, staring habits or physical interactions with the immediate environment?

Yea to Facebook for getting ready to have the biggest IPO ever, just making official what everyone already knew, that it is Facebook’s world and we’re just living in it.

Nay to the headline: “McDonald’s drops use of gooey ammonia-based ‘pink slime’ in hamburger meat.”

Yea to the Super Bowl. It is the big-gest event of the year. It is bigger than Christmas, 4th of July, the birth of your first child, your wedding day — basi-cally in the words of our Vice President Joe Biden: “It’s a big f***ing deal.”

Yea to OSU alum Haley Johnsen making it to the top 42 on American Idol.

Yea to equal rights for women. Nay to the double points for women

in intramural basketball. Yea to the greatest IM basketball

team of all time — the Barometer IM coed team! We’re 1-0. How did our first game go? Glad you asked. We were down 15 in the first half at one point. 15 points! We implemented a little zone, shrunk the lead early in the second half, and finished the game with a last second shot no less.

Nay once again to modesty. People should emulate us. We are the greatest.

Yea to publications who continue to be a shining example of this everyday.

Yea to shameless promotion. We do think that if you’re in a relationship, or want to be in one, you should place a Barometer Valentine’s Day Personal ad and let that guy or girl you’ve been Facebook stalking for weeks know how much you love them.

Yea to it being Friday. Nothing but sunshine and rainbows this weekend ladies and gentlemen. Go fly a kite. Find someone to fall in love with, or at least enough to make it through Valentine’s Day. Oh, and the whole Super Bowl thing is happening. Commercials and Madonna everyone.

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america are the only ones ever complaining,

and they’re usually religious. this is an

artificial issue.

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other cause of global warming,” while reasonable, do not currently

reflect the state of the science.


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Sometimes, people need to let things be — accept the cir-cumstance and move on. No one is stepping over religious bounds here; rather it’s only another grievance against a situation that doesn’t substan-tially change anyone’s life.

Yet some would suggest that’s intolerance in America? That this is evidence of the “secularization” of our nation?

It’s time we just accept what we have; be privileged and humbled we can even speak and act on it in public. If reli-gious establishment truly faces defeat, the Court’s got your back. And not many other institutions can say that.

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Increased levels of CO2 have marked periods of warmer climates over geo-logic time. Indeed, a 2009 article in Science by Aradhna Tripati et al. determined that the last time the Earth had CO2 concentrations similar to today (~380 ppm, 14-16 million years ago), global temperatures were on aver-age 5-10 °F (3-6 °C) warm-er and global sea level was 25-40 m higher than today.

Thus, the author’s claim that “The fact that carbon diox-ide levels are correlated with rising temperatures must therefore be coincidence,” greatly underestimates sci-entifically supported physi-cal relationships.

Furthermore, Milankovitch theory, as brought up in the arti-cle, fails to explain recent climate warming. This has much to do with the timescale of the warming increase. While the author does cite a peer-reviewed article that accurately explains the concept of Milankovitch cycles, neither the hypothesis nor the conclusion of the articles sought to explain recent climate warming on the basis of Milankovitch cycles.

The author of “The other cause of global warming” cor-rectly states, however, that trends in summer insola-tion (the amount of radiation received on June 21 at 65°N lati-tude) suggest a future cooling of our world climate, yet climate models of varying complex-ity consistently predict further globally-averaged warming (of differing magnitudes) through-out the end of the century and beyond, even under decreasing summer insolation — primar-ily due to the increased atmo-spheric CO2 levels.

In fact, more recent articles by Archer and Ganopolski (2005, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems) and Tzedakis et al. (2012, Nature Geoscience) suggest that considering pres-ent levels of CO2 (390+ ppm), we may skip this predicted Milankovitch cooling entirely and even force our planet out of the next ice age. Thus, the ideas presented in “The other cause of

global warming,” while reason-able, do not currently reflect the state of the science.

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Joe Burton (MBB) B (1990) C (8th) C (3) C (15th) C (24) 3

Angus Brandt (MBB) B (1990) C (8th) C (3) B (10th) C (24) 3

Kelsi Blalock (Gym) C (1993) C (8th) B (2) C (15th) B (20) 1

Olivia Vivian (Gym) A (1988) C (8th) C (3) B (10th) C (24) 2

Patricia Bright (WBB) C (1993) A (3rd) A (1) B (10th) C (24) 2

Alexis Bostick (WBB) C (1993) D (12th) B (2) D (21st) C (24) 2

John Tuck (Wrestling) D (1997) C (8th) D (4) D (21st) B (20) 2

Joe Lathum (Wrestling) A (1988) C (8th) C (3) D (21st) D (35) 2

Rachel O’Brien (S) A (1988) C (8th) B (2) B (10th) C (24) 2

Shelby Webber (S) A (1988) C (8th) B (2) B (10th) C (24) 2

Correct Answer B (1990) C (8th) A (1) D (21st) C (24) —

Beaver TriviaSports Editor’s Note: We here at the Barometer are curious how knowledgeable OSU athletes are about OSU athletics, so we decided

to find out. Each week, we’ll ask two athletes from the five OSU winter sports five questions each. We’ll reveal their answers in The Daily Barometer and keep track of how many questions each team has gotten right over the course of the term. The team that produces the most correct answers will be crowned winter term champions. (Women’s soccer was our fall term champion.)

Good luck, all.

T1. Gymnastics (11/20) T1. Swimming (11/20) T3. Women’s basketball (10/20) T3. Men’s basketball (10/20) 5. Wrestling (9/20)

STandingS (after one week)

Participant (sport) MBB: When was the last time the Beavers made the NCAA

Tournament?

A. 1988 B. 1990 C. 1993 D. 1997

Gymnastics: What place did the Beavers finish at nationals last

year? A. 3rd B. 5th C. 8th D. 12th

WBB: How many national championships did Scott Rueck

win at George Fox?

A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4

Wrestling: What place did the Beavers finish at nationals last year?

A. 4th B. 10th C. 15th D. 21st

Swimming: How many swimmers are on the team?

A. 10 B. 20 C. 24 D. 35

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Gymnasts in Seattle to face Northwest rival Washingtonn Things have been substantially

different for OSU on the road than they have been at home

By Warner strausbaughThe Daily BaromeTer

Oregon State gymnastics travels to Seattle Friday for its third con-secutive conference meet, taking on No. 21 University of Washington, a matchup with more implications than meets the eye.

With the University of Oregon and Washington State University both not having gymnastics programs, the Huskies have slid into that natural rivalry slot for the No. 8 Beavers.

“There’s always that rivalry there, that Northwest rivalry,” said head coach Tanya Chaplin.

“I want to beat everybody,” said associate head coach Michael Chaplin. “But yeah, certainly there’s a rivalry there and they’re our closest Pac-12 opponent. And we’ve had a good record over the years and want to continue that. I think last time we were there, we did lose, so I clearly remember that.”

True, last time OSU faced the

Huskies in Seattle in 2009, they came away third in a four-team meet, and placed behind Washington. The only gymnasts on the current team that were a part of that defeat were seniors Leslie Mak, Olivia Vivian and Stephanie McGregor, the latter of whom is out for the year with an injury.

“I think there’s added incentive for us that went there last time to really just make sure that doesn’t happen again,” Vivian said.

Oregon State isn’t exactly catching Washington at an ideal time, either. Last week, in their first home meet, the Huskies knocked off then-No. 1 UCLA. Although a lot of the vic-tory had to do with UCLA’s struggles, Washington still beat the nationally top-ranked squad.

“Washington did an awesome job of capitalizing on the opportunity,” Tanya Chaplin said. “UCLA opened the door and Washington walked through.”

“UW has been getting better every year, and they’re someone to be reckoned with this year,” said junior Kelsi Blalock. “Obviously since they knocked No. 1 off … they would love to do the same to us, I’m sure.”

The Beavers may be returning an

important member of the team from injury this week. Freshman Chelsea Tang, who was impressive in her first two collegiate meets, sprained her elbow in practice after the meet in Arizona. Tang is one of four all-arounders (competing in all four events: vault, bars, beam, floor) on the team thus far, and will be ques-tionable for Friday’s meet.

There’s a chance Tang will be back “at least on a few events,” according to Tanya Chaplin. “We’ll try to bring her back slowly on things.”

The discrepancy between home and road performances has been noticeable so far for OSU, even though the sample size of just three meets is small. In home meets with Oklahoma University and Stanford University, the Beavers scored an average of 196.663.

In their only road meet at the University of Arizona, they scored 194.825. In gymnastics, that is a lot bigger difference than it appears.

“I know that we’re going to go in with full confidence after last week,” Vivian said. “I feel like Arizona was just a fluke, just a freak accident.”

Last week’s win over Stanford was

OSU’s best performance of the sea-son. The hope for the team is to prove they can score just as high while away from Gill Coliseum.

“Now we need to put the same per-

formance together on the road, and we know that,” Tanya Chaplin said.

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The Beavers have scored an average of 196.663 in their two home meets, while they scored 194.825 in their lone away meet.

Men’s win streak comes to screeching halt in Bouldern Beavers had won three in a row, but it

didn’t seem like they had any momentum Thursday when they played at Colorado

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BOULDER, Colo. — A week and a half ago, Craig Robinson was asked what it’d take for his team to shake its road woes.

Oregon State, at the time, had lost 13 straight conference road games.

“Getting your first road win,” Robinson said. “Once you realize you can win on the road, then it becomes easier to win on the road.”

Apparently not.

The Beavers followed up a Civil War win in Eugene with an abysmal performance in Boulder, Colo., losing to the University of Colorado 82-60 Thursday night.

The loss was Oregon State’s first in four games, and marked the team’s lowest scoring output of the season — tied with the 60 points they scored in a December home loss to Idaho.

The Beavers, frankly, didn’t do anything right.They shot 36.3 percent from the field (21-58),

20 percent from 3-point territory (3-20) and 50 percent from the line (14-28).

Defensively, they let the Buffaloes do as they pleased.

The Buffaloes shot 51.8 percent from the field

and out-rebounded Oregon State 41-26.Oregon State led 9-6 after the first media time-

out, but things went downhill from there.Colorado went on a 21-8 run to close the first

half, turning a 3-point lead with 7:48 remaining in the first half into a 15-point halftime advantage.

Oregon State also trailed the Civil War at half, but any notion that Thursday’s game would resemble Sunday’s come-from-behind performance disap-peared after the Buffaloes scored 11 of the first 15 second-half points.

With the loss, the eighth-place Beavers fell four games behind first-place University of Washington in the Pac-12.

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Sophomore guard Alexis Bostick sizes up the Colorado defense Thursday night at Gill Coliseum. The Beavers won by 20.

Women’s hoops wins third in a rown For the first time this year in

conference play, Beavers run away with an easy victory

By Jacob shannonThe Daily BaromeTer

The Oregon State women’s bas-ketball team (14-7, 5-5 Pac-12) won its third game in a row, beating Colorado (15-6, 4-6 Pac-12) 65-45 in front of 1,159 at Gill Coliseum Thursday night.

The game started out slow for both teams, but Oregon State would get confident defensively, which translated to offense, allow-ing them to go on a 22-2 run in the first half.

“The key to that run is that the defense was phenomenal,” head coach Scott Rueck said. “I thought we played their post perfectly, and stayed in front of the ball. This is a team that drives the ball a lot, and lives off of that in a lot of ways, and we didn’t let that happen.”

The Beavers held Colorado to the lowest scoring first-half output (17 points) in the Pac-12 this sea-son. The defensive effort created 22 turnovers, and seven Beavers combined for 15 steals. Rueck was proud of the defensive anticipation

as a theme for the evening.“We are anticipating better. That

is the key to this,” Rueck said. “Once you can relax, and anticipate where the offense is going with the ball, and play the angles correctly, which is what we did tonight, we force their team to weaknesses all night, and if you’re going to your weaknesses it’s sometimes not pretty.”

Offensively, junior guard Sage Indendi moved into fourth all-time for 3-pointers made in school his-tory, going 2-for-2 from behind the

arc to move her career total to 106. The Beavers were able to keep

their lead the whole game, allow-ing no lead changes. That was a far cry from their previous confer-ence losses, which all seemingly came down to the game’s final possessions.

“We really gave ourselves permis-sion to not play to the scoreboard, and kept in the game, it could have been easy to get lazy, but we stayed focused,” Indendi said.

“This was a 40-minute game where we made few errors, and we held them under 50 points,” Rueck said. “This was a great performance for our team and a good win.”

The Beavers hope to build on their success as their defensive identity clashes with Utah this Saturday.

“Utah is a great defensive team, they love that end of the floor, it’s another one, they are going to know our tendencies, they are going to have the scout on us, and really make us work to score,” Rueck said. “So I anticipate a defensive battle and another tough night in the Pac-12.”

Jacob shannon, sports writerTwitter: shannon_app

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OSU 65, Colorado 45

Colorado 82, OSU 60

Colorado 82, OSU 60 1st 2nd TotalOSU 31 29 60Colorado 46 36 82OSUCunningham: 12 pts (5-12 FG)Collier: 12 pts (4-7 FG)Moreland: 10 pts (4-5 FG), 9 reboundsColoradoRobertson: 16 pts (6-10 FG), 15 reboundsDufault: 14 pts (6-7 FG)

OSU 65, Colorado 45 1st 2nd TotalColorado 17 28 45OSU 33 32 65OSUMarchbanks: 13 pts (4-11 FG), 5 rebounds, 3 stealsGibson: 12 pts (3-4 FG), 3 stealsIndendi: 10 pts (3-7 FG)Martin: 5 pts (2-8 FG), 6 rebounds, 4 assists ColoradoSeabrook: 10 pts (2-4 FG), 7 reboundsReese: 4 pts (2-11 FG), 7 rebounds

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