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n Audrey Bach is retiring from ASOSU law office after 28 years serving students

By Amanda AntellThe Daily BaromeTer

Attorney at law, Audrey Bach, is set to retire after 28 years of service in the Associated Students of Oregon State University Office of Legal Services. She has been an asset to OSU staff and students alike, and after years of smiles and tears, she’s ready to retire.

Over the years, Bach has helped students with legal matters from housing to assault, and she takes each of her cases with complete devotion and care. Despite the amount of work and num-ber of clients, she takes care of them equally, individually and carefully.

“This job has given me the opportunity to help people, even though they can’t pay me,” Bach said.

Growing up, Bach moved around quite a bit. She lived in many different parts of the United States, and at one point, in Germany. Each of these places are significant parts of her child-hood and she enjoyed the different experiences she gained.

Unlike most lawyers, Bach actually started studying law on a whim. She had worked as a dental hygienist while in college and was encouraged to take the LSAT, which she ended up scoring fairly reasonably on. While her first husband was in medical school, she applied to

Stetson University and was accepted.This was actually just to pass the time, how-

ever, while her husband studied and completed his residency. She graduated Stetson, started her career as a lawyer, and hasn’t regretted it since.

“Back when I was in law school, there were about 10 women in a class of 100. I faced a lot of discrimination,” Bach said.

Now the ratio is obviously much higher, but despite the odds Bach faced, she has never once regretted her decision to go into law. She first started out working as a lawyer in Oregon for a private practice in Newport.

Despite the productive work she completed daily, she found herself dissatisfied with the way private practice was run.

“I didn’t like the fact that the intermission between me and my client was money. I had to charge my clients $300 an hour to talk to me,” Bach said.

So, she left private practice and eventually landed at OSU, ready to help the college community. She soon found she had fallen in love with her position.

“I love it. I love the fact that I don’t have to get money involved with my clients; I love talking with my clients, and I actually learn things from my clients,” Bach said.

Bach said the best part of her job was the fact

that each of her clients had different stories and experiences than her, and she could learn something from each and every one of them. A common question she asks international students is, “How do you celebrate a birthday where you come from?”

Another reason Bach enjoys her job so much is because she is never bored. With her staff and students, she learns new things every day,

and faces a different case with each client. No client or case is the same.

Despite all the excitement in her job, as well as how much she loves it, Bach says the time has come for her to retire.

“It’s time. I’ve enjoyed my time here, but something inside me tells me it’s time,” Bach said.

After she retires, she plans to move temporarily to Washington, D.C., with her husband, due to him being on

a sabbatical. She also plans to travel the world, explore interesting places and experience new things every day.

“Yes, I am very sad to leave OSU, but I’m thrilled about being able to retire. I’m very excited,” Bach said.

Bach still plans to be involved with OSU when

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Saying goodbye after 28 years of legal services Symphony, bands play concert tomorrown Three student music

groups will be playing their end-of-the-year concert

By Annecy BeaucheminThe Daily BaromeTer

On Wednesday, June 6, at 7:30 p.m. in the LaSells Stewart Center, the Oregon State University Wind Symphony, sym-phonic band and campus band will show the results of their hard work during spring term in a concert called “The Sun Will Rise Again”.

“ W e ’ v e been prepar-ing all term,” said Jason Schubothe, a music educa-tion major who will be per-forming in mul-tiple groups. A similar concert takes place each term to showcase band students’ work.

See BACH | page 3 See CONCERT | page 3

Wind Symphony, Symphonic Band & Campus BandWhen: Wednesday, June 6 at 7:30p.m.Where: LaSells Stewart CenterCost: $10 at the door, free for OSU students, with ID

n Amelia Harris, the new ASOSU president, aims to give back during her tenure

By Don IlerThe Daily BaromeTer

Amelia Harris almost did not get involved in the Associated Students of Oregon State University.

During START week her freshman year, she quickly walked out of Snell Hall after entering it, unsure if stu-dent government was right for her. But luckily for the future president of ASOSU, a friend convinced her to attend an informational meeting with her.

Harris, who was inaugurated last week as ASOSU president for the 2012-2013 school year, isn’t the first person in her family to attend OSU — she is the 20th and part of the family’s third generation of Beavers. But she is the first to serve as president.

“OSU has done so much for my family; it is time to give back,” Harris said.

Harris said that besides educat-ing her grandmother, grandfather, aunts, uncles, parents, sister and cousin, OSU Extension Services helped her grandmother with her tree farm in Clackamas County, giv-ing her the knowledge she needed to maintain the farm.

“The reason I am here today is because I’ve had such strong female role models in my life, like my grandmother and my mother,” Harris said. “And with the way that my family has raised me, it has allowed me to do things that are not the norm, and having their support every step of the way has been JulIA gREEN | THE DAILY BAROMETER

Amelia Harris was inaugurated last week as ASOSU president for the upcoming 2012-2013 school year.See HARRIS | page 3

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were about 10 women in a class of 100. I faced a lot of

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Obama wins endorsement from Raul Castro’s daughterThe daughter of Cuba’s president

supports the re-election bid of U.S. President Barack Obama, but believes he could do more were it not for the pressures he is facing, she said in an interview broadcast Monday on “CNNI’s Amanpour.”

“As a citizen of the world, I would like him to win,” said Mariela Castro Espin, daughter of Raul Castro, in the exclusive interview, which was con-ducted Friday in New York. “Given the choices, I prefer Obama.”

The 49-year-old gay rights advocate said that Obama has been constrained in his ability to effect change. “He wants to do much more than what he’s been able to do,” she said. “That’s the way I interpret it personally. I don’t know if I’m being objective.”

Still, she said, “I believe that Obama needs another opportunity and he needs greater support to move forward with his projects and with his ideas, which I believe come from the bottom of his heart.”

Asked if Obama would lift the half-century-old trade embargo on Cuba if he could, Castro said, “I believe that Obama is a fair man. And I believe

Obama needs greater support to be able to make these decisions. If Obama had all the political support of the American people, then we could nor-malize our relationships, as good or better than we had under President Carter.”

During his single term as president, from 1977 to 1981, Jimmy Carter eased restrictions on U.S. travel to Cuba.

Castro added that she supports the release of Alan Gross, a U.S. citizen arrested in Cuba in 2009 and sen-tenced to 15 years on charges of sub-version. But, she added, she also wants to see the release of the “Cuban Five,” who are being held in the United States for crimes of espionage.

Castro was unswayed by Gross’ recent request that he be allowed to visit his 90-year-old mother before she dies if he promises to return afterward to prison in Cuba.

“Alan Gross has been granted every-thing that he’s asked for: He has been able to see his wife, he has been able to have matrimonial, conjugal visits, and he has been treated with respect and dignity the way we always treat prisoners in Cuba,” Castro said. “We

haven’t received the same treatment on the other hand for our five prison-ers who have very long sentences that are not right. I think that the six must be released — both the five Cubans and Alan Gross.”

“Is that what you’re saying, that Alan Gross should be released and the Cuban Five?” host Christiane Amanpour asked.

“Of course,” Castro responded. “I’m referring to the five Cubans and Alan Gross. I believe that this would be the happiest solution for all involved.”

The gay rights activist said that sexual orientation and gender iden-tification are among the rights that Communist Cuba still needs to address. A bill legalizing civil unions, not same-sex marriage, has been pro-posed, “however, this hasn’t happened as yet,” she said. “And people who are in same-sex couples do not have any protection in that sense.”

She predicted the legislature would address the matter, which her father has not opposed, this year.

Castro said the nation had learned to acknowledge and correct past mistakes after its aggressive quarantine policy

for HIV-positive men and women dur-ing the early years of the AIDS epi-demic was abandoned in 1993.

“I never agreed with these quaran-tines,” she said. “There were several international health organizations that evaluated these quarantines as a posi-tive thing at a time when not much was known about how the epidemic spreads.”

Amanpour pointed to a Human Rights Watch description of Cuba as “the only country in Latin America that represses virtually all forms of political dissent.”

But Castro said the rights group “does not represent the opinion of the Cuban people. And their informants are mercenaries. They’re people who have been paid by a foreign govern-ment for media shows that do not rep-resent Cuban positions directly.”

She defended her nation as one that allows dissent. “People who dissent don’t go to jail,” she said. “Everybody in Cuba expresses their view and there’s a political participation so that we can express ourselves and question everything.”

— CNN

Obama, Clinton: Ultimate odd coupleHow things change.In 2008, after a bruising pri-

mary battle with Hillary Clinton, then-Sen. Barack Obama was on the outs with former President Bill Clinton. This election cycle, Clinton is one of Obama’s most visible surrogates.

Obama and Clinton were to appear together Monday night at three New York City fund-raisers, which are expected to bring in millions of dollars. In April, the two appeared side by side at the home of long-time Clinton supporter and former Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe, raising $2.1 million for the Obama campaign and the DNC.

The Obama campaign is relying heavily on Clinton, tapping into his network of wealthy donors and featuring him in campaign ads. Clinton is also expected to hit the trail

to rally voters leading up to the November election.

“Clinton just wants to help,” a source close to the former president said. “His message is ‘I know what it takes on the economy, and Obama is doing the right thing.’ They’re not going to make the mistake of the Gore campaign. They’re not going to put [Clinton] on ice.”

Obama’s relationship with the Clintons has had its ups and downs. In 2007, the former president took aim at the then-junior senator from Illinois as inexperienced.

“You know, I’m old-fash-ioned. I think it really — I think a president ought to have done something for other people and for his country when you pick a president,” Clinton said. “I mean when is the last time we elected a president based on one year of service in the Senate before he started running?”

In early 2008, when Obama won the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses and emerged as a real contender, he entered into an all-out feud with the former first couple.

The tussle was on full display during a January 2008 debate.

“I’m here, not my husband,” Hillary Clinton said to Obama.

“I can’t tell who I’m running against sometimes,” Obama retorted.

The Clinton source says, “He held a grudge, she didn’t.”

Obama picking Hillary Clinton as his secretary of state helped heal some wounds. And he’s looked to Bill Clinton for help since taking office, hosting him at the White House during contentious negotiations with Congress in December 2010.

“I have a general rule, which is that whatever he asked me about my advice, and whatever I say, should become public

only if he decides to make it public,” Clinton told reporters then.

As Obama struggles to appeal to white, working-class males, he hopes Clinton can woo those voters in key Southern and Rust Belt states.

You wouldn’t call the two men best of friends, but the lines of communication between the White House and the Clinton circle are open, sources in both camps say.

But even as the two are now on the same team, they’re not always reading from the same playbook.

While the Obama campaign tries to make a liability of pre-sumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney’s past as the head of a private equity firm, Clinton recently punched a hole in what has been a central cam-paign argument.

— CNN

China says it’s wary of U.S. plan to focus on Pacific military powerThe United States is “not in step with the

times” in seeking to bolster its military pres-ence in the Pacific region, a spokesman for China’s Foreign Ministry said Monday.

Spokesman Liu Weimin’s statement comes on the heels of the weekend announcement by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta that 60% of the U.S. naval fleet will sail the Pacific by 2020.

The change is part of President Barack Obama’s decision to reorient the United States’ strategic attention to the economi-cally vital Pacific after a decade of war in the Middle East.

The fleet is currently divided evenly between the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans, Panetta said.

Liu welcomed a U.S. role in the region, so long as the country respects the interests

of China and other countries there. But he said the trend in Asia today is peace and cooperation, not military buildup.

“Deliberate emphasis on military and security agendas, and strengthening mili-tary deployment and alliances are not in step with the times,” he said.

Obama announced the shift to a Pacific focus during a tour of Asian countries in November.

The announcement came against a back-drop of reduced defense spending as the United States was dealing with economic issues at home, preparing to pull out of Iraq and contemplating the end of warfare in Afghanistan.

“As we end today’s wars, I have directed my national security team to make our presence and missions in the Asia Pacific a top prior-

ity,” Obama said in a November 17 speech in Australia. “As a result, reductions in U.S. defense spending will not — I repeat, will not — come at the expense of the Asia Pacific.”

At the time, Obama announced plans for the United States to station up to 2,500 Marines in Australia in the coming years.

Panetta is on an eight-day trip through the region explaining the U.S. policy, and seeking to increase military ties with region-al allies. He said the shift is not a threat to China and its growing military power.

“I reject that view entirely,” Panetta said. “Indeed, increased U.S. involvement in this region will benefit China.”

He also rejected arguments that helping U.S. allies in the region militarily is an invitation to greater tensions.

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hugely influential.”Harris traces the origins of her activism

to being the only female trumpet player in her school’s band in the sixth grade.

“Being in a traditionally under repre-sented group in the brass section opened my eyes up to the inequities in band, and it sounds trivial, but leaving band and going into the real world, it gave me a different perspective on the role gender dynam-ics and race dynamics play into organiza-tions,” Harris said.

Harris made it her mission to recruit more female brass players and to encour-age them to take up the instrument. For a while in high school, she considered study-ing music in college, but eventually decid-ed that she wanted to go to law school and instead majored in philosophy at OSU.

Harris wants to attend law school after OSU and would like to be a public defender or go into community organizing.

Before being elected as president, Harris served as executive director of services,

where she oversaw many of the different services that ASOSU provides.

Harris became embroiled in controversy earlier this year when the director of the legal services office, as well as a few of the students, spoke out against her handling of the office, as she was running for president.

But Harris maintains that she handled the office with professionalism.

“I think my proudest achievement is working on reforming the legal services,” Harris said. “It was controversial, and I’m really excited for next year.”

She is also proud of the job she did orga-nizing the Get Out The Vote, Corvallis! drive her freshman year.

“Getting people to vote and be active in their government is so important and I felt like that was my biggest achievement. I was a freshman here and didn’t know what to expect and found myself doing this and I was so proud of it,” Harris said.

The northeast Portland native was born in the same house she grew up in as the middle child of three daughters. Harris lists constitutional law, crocheting, siracha hot sauce and coffee as some of her favorite

things, along with loving powdered milk. She counts cooking with her sisters as

some of her favorite times, along with visit-ing her grandmother’s tree farm.

“I was raised in a very female dominant family. [It’s] shaped the way I view myself and the way that I work,” Harris said.

Harris is conscious of her position as a woman in a leadership position and is tak-ing the helm as president after M. Tonga Hopoi.

“I had role models who showed me the way. It’s hard being a woman. People don’t expect me to say some things or represent myself in certain ways,” Harris said.

Harris is excited for the upcoming year as president and is looking forward to advocating on the students’ behalf.

“I’m excited about our cabinet, there are so many strong women on it,” Harris said. “The people we appointed are going to be incredibly strong advocates for students in higher education.”

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“We work on a new rep-ertoire every term,” said Bob Brudvig, director of the cam-pus band. The campus band will be beginning Wednesday’s show with music from film, theater and more. “We’re doing a medley concert,” Brudvig said. “So we’re playing a Star Wars medley, a Disney medley and a medley from ‘Fiddler on the Roof.’” The campus band will conclude with a medley of a piece by Henry Mancini.

Next, the symphonic band will perform a diverse mix of pieces from the his-torical experiment “Sevens to March of the Cute Little Wood Sprites,” a classical parody by the fictional composer P.D.Q. Bach.

Sure to be one of the high-lights of the show is “Metroplex: Three Postcards from Manhattan,” which will be per-formed by the wind sympho-ny. Jason Silveira, director of the wind symphony, describes this piece as “a musical depic-tion of three different neigh-borhoods in Manhattan.” “Metroplex” begins with a diz-

zying musical picture of New York’s tallest skyscrapers and concludes with the soundtrack to a taxi ride.

Silveira also calls attention to the historical significance of the older standards the bands will be performing along with the modern pieces, which are mostly from the early 20th cen-tury and have stood the test of time. These include “Children’s March,” a piece from the late 1910s. “It was considered one of the first band compositions to use a piano as part of the band,” Silveira said.

For those who want to par-ticipate in a future concert, the symphonic and campus bands are non-audition groups open to learners and music lovers of all majors.

Silveira stated, “What’s unique about the concert pro-gram we have here is that there is a band for everyone.”

Annecy Beauchemin, [email protected]

on Twitter: @dailybarometer

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she retur ns f rom Washington, D.C., although she is unsure what that will be. On several final notes, she says a goodbye and leaves advice for aspiring lawyers.

“For any student who wants to become a lawyer, one piece of advice I give them that they don’t normally hear is: Take a year off after graduation

before starting law school. Enjoy yourself. Most people burn themselves out other-wise,” Bach said.

As a final farewell to her job, Bach says to OSU staff and student alike:

“Thank you. For the best years of my life, so far. I’ll never forget any of you.”

Amanda Antell, [email protected]

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Wisconsin recall comes down to who gets more voters to polls

In the canon of political cliches, “it all comes down to turnout” is among the most tired.

But in the case of the polar-izing and closely watched Wisconsin recall election, the maxim happens to ring true.

Public polling, internal polling and campaign strat-egists all tell the same story: Republican Gov. Scott Walker is clinging to a tiny lead over his Democratic opponent, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, heading into Tuesday’s vote.

And the number of unde-cided voters has dwindled to almost zero, strategists in both parties say, meaning that the only mission left for both sides is to get their rabid supporters to the polls.

“Our sole focus right now is on our grassroots get-out-the-vote-effort,” said Ben Sparks, a spokesman for the Wisconsin Republican Party.

The final blitz began over the weekend.

“We Are Wisconsin,” an umbrella group funded by labor unions and the Democratic Governors Association, said it contacted nearly 750,000 vot-ers over the weekend, with the goal of touching 1.4 mil-lion people with phone calls or door knocks by the close of polls Tuesday.

Meanwhile, the state GOP and the Republican National Committee, which are coor-

dinating some of their efforts with the Walker campaign, boasted Monday that they have identified and contacted 4 million voters since January -- a number that has national Republicans speculating that they can put the state in play for Mitt Romney in November.

The recall fight has its roots in Walker’s successful push in early 2011 to strip public employees of their collective bargaining rights in an effort to close an ugly budget shortfall.

The push sparked a bitter partisan battle between Walker and Democrats in the state leg-islature, and set off a wave of historic protests from union members inside and outside the state capitol in Madison.

After Walker signed the con-troversial budget bill in March 2011, labor organizers subse-quently managed to collect 900,000 certified signatures to trigger a recall and are now among those leading the final get-out-the-vote push.

On Monday, at a Madison-area branch of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), Barrett supporters spent the day popping in to pick up fliers for door-to-door voter contact efforts.

— CNN

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Real value of a college degree goes beyond diploma

Hydro-fracking is short-term solution to long-term addiction

Correlation between violence and video games unfounded

Today, I am not going to talk about obesity, disease or the latest exercise craze that

I think is ridiculous. While I usually spout off my opinions surrounding health, fitness and exercise, today is different. Every once in a while, something comes around outside of my scope that I feel is important. This is one of those times.

The end of a school year brings a lot of excitement. Graduation and a long summer break await. Yet, I always feel that we, as students, should be looking for more than a summer break.

In fact, we should be looking at what college is giving us. That is what today’s column is all about.

In order to know what college is giving you, you have to think a little. So about this time every year, I like to reflect back on what happened.

Since this is my eighth year in higher education, I have had a lot of time to think. I am always surprised at how fast time flies and how things change. But more importantly, each year brings another wave of enthu-siastic, passionate graduates into the real world.

For those of you graduating, I encourage you to think about the things you are taking away from here. You will soon have a degree. A fancy piece of paper that entitles you to all the rights and privileges of a college education, whatever that actually means.

But I, nor a lot of future employ-ers, care so much about the fancy piece of paper. As you probably know, the world is filled with people that have the same degree you do.

It is not your degree that mat-ters, but what you actually learned. Remember, this is coming from someone who is gathering degrees like trading cards. For me, a degree allows access, but does not guaran-tee success. In fact, it really guar-antees nothing. A foot in the door means nothing if you don’t have the brains to step inside.

Proof that you need more than a degree to achieve great-ness: Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, dropped out of Harvard University. Apple founder Steve Jobs, another drop out.

But personally, some of the smartest people I know do not have a college degree. A friend’s dad was a vice president for Pennzoil, in charge of the entire international marketing division, and he bare-ly finished high school. My uncle enjoyed a successful career as an engineer with IBM, with only three years of college.

These people all had a vision of themselves and what they could do. Then they actually worked to get it.

Then why do we place such importance on college? Because for most people, college gives people the foundation to find their vision and prove they can work toward it. That is what companies and gradu-ate schools want to see. So while col-lege is not a prerequisite to success, it surely gives you an advantage.

So take some time and actually think about what you learned, what you are offering the world – some-

thing that really captured you or changed you for the better. This may be something you learned in class. It may come from something you read or a project you com-pleted. It may even be an intern-ship or a mentor. But it does not necessarily have to come from the classroom or library.

More often than not, what chang-es you in college did not direct-ly come from the classroom. The friends you made here have and will shape you for the rest of your life. The experiences you had play-ing sports, participating in a club or joining the Greek system have taught you more than you realize. Maybe traveling abroad, living on your own or changing your major five times helped to enlighten you. Whatever your college experience, it has given you something that is truly unique.

Good luck graduating class of 2012. Remember the lessons this place has taught you.

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Hydraulic fracturing, also known as hydro-fracking, is a process used in the oil

and natural gas industry. The discov-ery of vast amounts of natural gas in the midwestern United States has spurned the rapid expansion of drill-ing areas that use hydraulic fractur-ing as a main method of extraction.

Despite the effectiveness of the hydro-fracking process and the ever-growing demand for natural gas, the side effects vastly outweigh the ben-efits. The public health implications from the chemicals needed for the fracturing process are of enough concern that Vermont banned the process in the state just last month.

Although the threat hydro-fracking poses to an already stressed aquifer system is enough to warrant extreme caution, the idea that switching over to natural gas will solve more prob-lems than it creates is the real issue. If America is addicted to oil, switch-ing to another fossil fuel makes the nation look like an addict switching an addiction to heroin for one to methamphetamine. It’s time to kick the habit altogether.

Hydraulic fracturing was devel-oped in the United States in the late 1940s as a way to increase oil yields in drilling operations. By fracturing the rock surrounding the drill and pumping in proppants like sand and gelling agents to keep the fractures

open, petroleum engineers were able to increase the flow of oil and thus increase the amount of oil from each well.

The process wasn’t extensively expanded until the late 1980s, when horizontal drilling gave geologists a more thorough way to extract natu-ral gas from a single well. It’s esti-mated there’s around 18,000 wells drilled per year in the United States. This expansion has meant deeper drilling, more fluids/chemicals, and thus more toxic wastewater.

Unfortunately, regulation in the United States has not kept up with this boom. Hydraulic fracturing was exempted from the Safe Drinking Water Act in 2005. The decision hasn’t been repealed. Currently, states regulate most of the issues with hydraulic fracturing.

Far and away the biggest concern to those most affected, the people that live near fracking operations, is the effects of the chemicals used in hydro-fracking on drinking water.

Over 750 different chemicals are used in the hydro-fracking process, many carcinogenic and toxic to humans, like benzene and methanol. From 2005 to 2009, the

Environmental Protection Agency estimates the hydro-fracking indus-try used 780 million gallons of chemicals, not including the water used to dilute them. Even though they only comprise 5 percent (at most) of the mixture, it’s enough to make it toxic for humans.

This water has to be pumped back out of the ground after use in extract-ing natural gas. It’s left in giant pits to evaporate slowly, or pumped back into the ground in old aquifers or in deep disposal wells.

The underground storage of natural gas has already produced methane in the wells of residents in Pennsylvania and Wyoming. If natu-ral gas can migrate through the rock to contaminate aquifers, contami-nated water can also do the same.

Unfortunately, this knowledge has done little to move Congress toward legislation to combat the problems.

Congress has been mostly silent on the issue of hydraulic fractur-ing, with no major federal regulation legislation passed since the 2005 exemption.

President Barack Obama pro-posed a rule in the beginning of May that would require the pub-lic disclosure of these chemicals no more than 30 days after the drilling process is complete. Although still a proposed rule, it would help combat the secrecy that surrounds the use of

chemicals in the industry. Some of the chemical formulas

are proprietary, or secret. The chem-icals used in these formulas were restricted from public disclosure until only recently and only in the states that require it.

Natural gas plays extend clear across the United States, from the base of the Rocky Mountains to the east coast. There’s no talk of slowing the expansion of natural gas drilling in the midwest, despite the many risks associated.

If the United States were to devel-op every reservoir found, not only would we use up a large percentage of the water from aquifers needed to water cash crops, but widespread distribution of this type of drilling puts every aquifer in the possible extraction area at risk.

The Ogallala Aquifer, the largest in the nation which supplies water for the nation’s wealth, is already stressed from over-pumping. Some areas in Texas, an active natural gas region, are in such severe drought that growing crops is no longer pos-sible. Each hydraulic fracking well can use one million gallons of water or more. Thousands of wells across the United States using that vast amount of toxic water, even if recy-cled in some cases, will not escape

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Dan Seitz, a writer on the online site Gamma Squad, says the major factor fuel-

ing this “games cause violence” fire is money, but I see it as something else. I see it as an unwillingness to give up a long battle, creating a constant point of contention.

No politician who has fought for years to say “Grand Theft Auto” is polluting our youth is going to back down without a fight. No scientist who has put days upon days into the trial testing of “Halo’s” effect will fade from the spotlight without a final word.

No narrow-minded person is will-ing to give up, and at the same time, no gamer is willing to sit by and idly watch as their beloved video games are made into contraband items.

Some of the claims people have

made have struck me as so ridicu-lous that I could not help but laugh. Attorney Jack Thompson targeted “Grand Theft Auto: Vice City” and said “[Devin] Moore rehearsed, hour after hour, the cop-killing scenarios in that hyper-violent video game. The makers, distributors and retailers of that murder simulator equipped Moore to kill as surely as if they had handed him the gun to do it.”

Yes, a video game was a “murder simulator,” in the same way playing Texas Hold’em Poker on Facebook is a “card-counting simulator” and playing the “Cars II” Wii game is a “getaway car simulator.”

Just because the circumstances exist within the game’s parameters

do not mean that was the game’s design. And quite frankly, I have played “Grand Theft Auto,” and in the game, I have driven down a road with my buddies in the back seat shooting at another car full of my buddies chasing us. And we usually laughed when one of us would forget to watch where we were driving and would slam into a wall. We never laughed when we accidentally ran over a pedestrian.

Rockstar Games, the creators of “Grand Theft Auto,” didn’t make the game to train murderers. If Thompson had taken the time to play the game, maybe he would have discovered a very realistic environ-ment, a moving plot and something that I consider to be a work of art.

I suppose the only deliberate act Rockstar has ever done to instill an emotion in gamers is to make us

laugh by modeling their “Statue of Happiness” after Hillary Clinton.

In all of my time playing video games, I have never felt the urge to be violent as a result of the game. And trust me, if these studies held true, I’ve had plenty of opportunities and plenty of time training. I have known hundreds, possibly thousands of people like me, people who find enjoyment in video games, who have never had an urge to murder some-one after playing a game. I have seen and will soon attend conventions with numbers that mass in the tens of thousands of gamers, ranging in age, gender and any kind of classification.

And throughout those conven-tions, I doubt someone will “snap” from trying a new video game. I doubt someone will make these stud-ies have ground and go postal on the

A need for ID? To vote in America, you must

be American. It seems really simple.

But it’s the subject of much protest.As of late, with the presidential elec-

tion (finally) coming around, the debate over the implementation of stricter vote identification laws — essentially requir-ing a voter to present some form of ID — has turned to a game of politics. Is it unfairly targeting minorities — groups that, disproportionately so, do not have forms of identification?

While voter ID laws may put more pressure on the lower class, rather than middle- to upper-class citizens, all Americans should have to show some form of identification before voting. To do so should not be construed as a racial, oppressive tactic.

Currently, 32 states have some form of voter ID laws. It shouldn’t be surpris-ing; proving you are an American citi-zen is a fair requirement prior to voting — the most basic American right.

But, according to a 2006 survey by the Brennan Center for Justice, 11 percent of the respondents claimed to not have any form of government-issued photo ID. In a 2008 survey of 10,000 registered voters from across the nation, conduct-ed in a collaboration of several universi-ties, the researchers found that nearly 70 percent of African Americans and 65 percent of Hispanics were asked to show ID, compared to about 51 percent of white voters — an unequal practice.

Despite the limited availability of statistically accurate sources to make a definitive case that minorities are adversely and, more importantly, drastically affected by stricter ID laws, there remains a substantive correla-tion between minority groups and their income, and their potential lack of ID.

Certainly, not every American has a passport — not everyone leaves the country and it’s not worth the $140 just to have the document.

Not every American has applied for a driver’s license, especially when many Americans don’t earn enough money in the entire year to purchase a vehicle, or even keep an old vehicle running between mechanics and gasoline.

And while we are all issued a birth certificate, a piece paper can easily get lost. Though even this document isn’t accepted in some states, as photo ID is required to vote.

Considering these identification forms do cost money, and require a particular lifestyle and qualifications, it’s a surprise that more Americans have not run into issues when going to the voting booth.

Nevertheless, voting is our most basic right. It should be kept sacred. We should support an honest voting system.

Unfortunately, when we have Republicans consistently pushing for stricter voting laws and Democrats fighting against them, it suggests a political battle — to see who can both silence the opposing side and rally their own.

The rest of the country shuffles to the voting booth to put their faith in one of these two groups, feeding the fire. And then we perpetuate the debate, as one side loses and the other wins — either rampant voter fraud or oppres-sive voter ID laws are to blame for the results.

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On Dr. Nicholas Drapela’s firingStudents displeased with decision

Dr. Nicholas Drapela should not be termi-nated! He should continue to teach chemis-try at Oregon State University.

I have been a student here for four years and Drapela is among the top half of profes-sors who have taught me during my tenure. It is an outrage that a talented instructor like Drapela be let go without any significant reason.

This is a state university and as such, stu-dents should have a say in the quality of their instructors, and I guarantee you Drapela’s students are in outrage over this because I am one of them!

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Firing lacks public explanation, forgets studentsI am a student of Dr. Nick Drapela in

Chemistry 123 this term, spring 2012. I’m writing to express my concerns for the aca-demic success of myself and fellow students in this course following the recent release of Drapela from his teaching position.

I am unaware of the reasons for his remov-al from the department of chemistry, but I am certain the department chair and oth-ers would appreciate a student’s input into this matter, as it has immediately affected the academics of the hundreds of students he teaches. I trust the department has used justice and reason to make this decision, but I do feel that I deserve a formal explanation

and proper attention because of possible repercussions it could have to our grades and learning as students.

Today, the first of June, Drapela informed our lecture that in the past week, he was fired without explanation or warning. He also explained this was the reason for his unavailability in office hours and on Blackboard.

I have, in the past, gone to his office hours for help and questions and he has been of great help in achieving academic success. Many of my fellow students have great-ly benefited from his lecture postings on Blackboard in order to prepare for class and understand the material to a better degree.

In the past two terms, I have been his stu-dent in CH 122 and 123, and I can sincerely say his teaching methods and obvious pas-sion as an educator have been incredibly effective.

He also informed us that his office keys were taken and his ability to post on Blackboard is somehow hampered. This has affected his ability to answer questions in office hours and other times at a crucial time in the term, when our final is just a week away. I feel this is unfair and not in accordance with the high academic stan-dards that OSU aims to uphold.

Please understand my concerns are both from an academic standpoint on behalf of all students, as well as from the perspective of an advocate for justice and sound reason. I appreciate your time and response.

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other attendees. Because, quite simply, that’s not how we are. It never has been.

If the overall violence rate in the United States has dropped 40 percent since 1991, and yet we’re apparently being influenced to do bad by our video games, I’d love to see how far the rate would go down if we removed the games.

But that would first require the video games to be the factor that alters the percentage.

The day a scientist and a politician sit me and a hundred others down and tell us with a

straight face that we are all going to one day shoot up a police station is the day I will believe them. The day they show me the physical data that says, “Your video games are turning you into a murdering monster,” is the day I will believe them. And obviously, if the day comes where I do “snap” because that one level of “Call of Duty” taught me how to be a terrorist, I will believe them wholeheartedly.

But to be honest, I don’t expect that day to ever come.

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The issue is further complicated when actual production numbers are com-pared with original estimates for the geo-logical play. In many cases, complicated geology prevents full extraction of what resource might have been there, reducing actual production from possible produc-tion. The fracturing process increases the ability of natural gas to flow, which means it can flow away from where you want to collect it.

On top of that, folding and faulting can make imaging these deposits difficult to do accurately. Actual estimates for the

reserves vary wildly from 100 years sup-ply or more to only 20.

The biggest question on the minds of the decision makers needs to be whether such a short period of profitability is worth the risk of destroying our water resources, not how we can improve tech-nology to take the most of it.

The risks hydraulic fracturing poses to our water resources and (ultimately) public health makes further expansion of the process completely unnecessary and unbelievably short-sighted. Politicians claim to want to protect the people and put constituents first, but the long-term effects of the widespread use of hydro-fracking coupled with our supposed commitment to reducing carbon emis-

sions conflicts with their actions. Rather than using the technology as a

“transition” to clean energy, politicians and the industry have treated it as a full go-ahead to exploit another cash-cow, this time likely at the expense of the very people they serve. Natural gas extraction, and hydraulic fracturing with it, is not a transition to solar and wind energy, but an attempt to continue business as usual under the guise of helpful action.

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The area of this year’s baseball team that proved, for the most part, to be the most consistent was the starting pitching. Ben Wetzler, Jace Fry and Dan Child were all sophomore status or younger this season.

Wetzler was the only one of the three who really had a decent amount of experi-ence going into the season, but they have all excelled, with none of the three having a season earned run average higher than 3.10 — impressive considering they were pitching in one of the nation’s best baseball conferences.

The offensive production was cen-tered around freshman-phenom Michael Conforto. He won the team triple crown

fairly easily with a .349 batting average, 13 homeruns and 76 RBIs. Now as long as he doesn’t struggle once pitchers figure out how to pitch to him, he should be even bet-ter next year as a sophomore.

And then as long as the bullpen can improve — specifically if seniors-to-be Tony Bryant and Matt Boyd can return to 2011 form (assuming they don’t bolt to the MLB a year early), when they were as reliable as David Robertson and Mariano Rivera in the final innings — the Beavers’ staff should be solid.

So many factors still have to come to frui-tion to even consider a return to the College World Series for OSU. However, something just feels right with this team now, and luck did not seem to be on Oregon State’s side for this year’s regional.

The biggest difficulty in dealing with this prediction is going to be the waiting game. Summer is just about upon us, and we won’t

have a Beaver sporting event to even go to until women’s soccer begins in late August, followed by the football season.

Patience is a virtue, as they say.This OSU baseball team has a lot to offer

next year, and they could be the light at the end of the tunnel for Beavers sports and for those who, like me, are looking for that moment in their time here as an Oregon State student that they can tell their children about, and still remember it as vividly as we did 20 years before.

I can’t be Nostradamus. This is just an objective (okay, pretty subjective) predic-tion, but I will stand by it for the next 365 days.

The Beavers will go to Omaha. OSU stu-dents need that moment of sports bliss that has been severely lacking.

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Women’s basketballRecord: 20-13

Pac-12: 9-9 (T-5th)Postseason: Lost to Washington in WNIT Sweet 16

All-Conference: Scott Rueck (Coach of the Year), senior G Earlysia Marchbanks (1st), junior F Patricia Bright (All-

Defensive), freshman G Ali Gibson (All-Freshman)

SoftballRecord: 36-23

Pac-12: 9-14 (8th out of 10)Postseason: Lost to Oklahoma in Norman Regional final

All-Conference: junior IF Elizabeth Santana (1st), freshman OF Dani Gilmore (HM, All-Freshman), senior OF Mary Claire Brenner

(HM), senior IF Erin Guzy (HM), senior P/DH Paige Hall (HM)

Women’s rowingPac-12 Championships: 7th (out of 7)

Postseason: —All-Conference: senior Melissa Sloan (1st),

freshman Anna Taylor (Newcomer of the Year)

Men’s rowingPac-12 Championships: 4th (out of 7)

Postseason: —All-Conference: senior Wyatt Worrel (1st)

Men’s soccerRecord: 5-11-2

Pac-12: 3-6-1 (T-4th out of 6)Postseason: —

All-Conference: junior F Emery Welshman (1st), junior MF Roberto Farfan (2nd), junior D Chris Harms (HM),

junior MF Colin Mitchell (HM)

Men’s golfPac-12 Championships: 5th

Postseason: T-7th (out of 13) at Stanford Regional

Women’s golfPac-12 Championships: 11th

Postseason: 22nd (out of 24) at NCAA West Regional

Women’s swimmingPac-12 Championships: 8th (out of 9)

Postseason: —NCAA Championships qualifiers: senior Rachel O’Brien (17th

place in 200-yard butterfly, 37th place in 100-yard butterfly)

Women’s trackPac-12 Championships: 12th

Postseason: —NCAA Championships individual qualifiers:

Laura Carlyle (this weekend in Des Moines, Iowa)

Women’s cross countryPac-12 Championships: 9th

Postseason: 16th (out of 31) at NCAA West Regional

Volleyball

WrestlingPac-12 Championships: 1st

Individual Pac-12 titles: junior Mike Mangrum (141), sophomore Scott Sakaguchi (149), sophomore RJ Pena (157),

senior Clayton Jack (HWT)Postseason: 10th at NCAA Championships

All-Americans: senior Clayton Jack (HWT), junior Mike Mangrum (141), sophomore Scott Sakaguchi (149)

Other note: Jim Zalesky (Coach of the Year)

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The wrestling team finished 10th at nationals.

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Arica Nassar, an All-Pac-12 freshman.

Record: 16-16Pac-12: 8-14 (8th)

Postseason: —All-Conference: junior Camille Saxton (HM), freshman Arica Nassar (HM, All-Freshman)

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Jovan Stevenson in the open field at Autzen Stadium.

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The Beaver baseball team won 40 games this year.

Expect a run to Omaha next year

Never have I had as high of expectations for a sports team who won’t play for

another nine months than I did for Oregon State baseball after Sunday night’s loss to LSU.

Mark my words, from this day, June 5, 2012, Oregon State University will be playing at the College World Series in Omaha, Neb., a little over a year from now.

As students of this institution, most of us feel a certain attachment to the varsity sports teams here at OSU, par-ticularly the most highly-publicized: football, men’s basketball, baseball.

And as a sports fan, the ultimate end-game for that (very irrational and childish) need to feel complete is to be the very best. Being the very best means winning a championship, or at least putting together a great postsea-son run.

I hate to say this, but as we wind down the end of this school year and my senior year approaches in the fall, I can’t help but feel a little bit disappointed.

Not so much because I expected the world out of the Beavers, but just that people around me have had that “defining season” or “amazing post-season run” that Beaver fans have not experienced in the past couple years.

My dad was at Penn State when they won a national championship in foot-ball, and many of my friends from high school in Eugene got to experience both a national championship appear-ance and a Rose Bowl victory as stu-dents at the University of Oregon.

Current students should almost feel as though they missed the boat. The Beavers won the Fiesta Bowl over Notre Dame in 2001, and 2006-2007 saw the Beavers baseball team win the College World Series in back-to-back seasons. Most that went to school here for four years in the last decade were probably lucky enough to have experienced one of those two events.

The best sports moments of the last two or three years have been a Super Regional loss to Vanderbilt by the base-ball team, a semifinals appearance in the Pac-12 Tournament by the men’s basketball team, and a Las Vegas Bowl loss by the football team.

Hardly anything to brag about.So this is why, as students of this

school, we should set the bar high for baseball next year, because the timing could be perfect for another Omaha-bound OSU ball club.

Sunday night’s 6-5 extra-inning loss to LSU saw the end to the year of Beaver sports. OSU had to face an LSU team that had the fourth overall pick in Monday’s MLB Draft, Kevin Gausman. But more crucial was the crowd. LSU boasts the loudest and most intimidat-ing crowd in college baseball. Not an easy draw.

Regardless of the circumstances the Beavers faced, the season is over and the book is closed on the 2011-2012 school year for OSU athletics.

Already looking ahead to next year, it’s the baseball team to place your bets on if there is going to be an exceptional team during the time current students will be enrolled at Oregon State.

For starters, only five members of the current 35-man roster are seniors who will be leaving. Ryan Dunn will prob-ably be the most missed of the group, as he was the everyday third baseman

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Gymnastics

BaseballRecord: 40-20

Pac-12: 18-12 (T-4th)Postseason: Lost to LSU in Baton Rouge Regional final

All-Conference: freshman OF Michael Conforto (1st, Freshman of the Year), junior IF Tyler Smith

(1st), freshman SP Jace Fry (HM), sophomore SP Dan Child (HM),

senior IF Ryan Dunn (HM), sophomore C/IF

Jake Rodriguez (HM)

Men’s basketball

Football

Women’s soccer

Record: 13-5-3Pac-12: 7-3-1 (3rd)

Postseason: Lost to Portland in first round of NCAA TournamentAll-Conference: junior F Chelsea Buckland (1st),

sophomore F Jenna Richardson (2nd), senior G Colleen Boyd (HM), senior D Brittany Galindo (HM)

Pac-12 Championships: 3rd Postseason: 12th at NCAA Championships

All-Conference: senior Leslie Mak (Gymnast of the Year), junior Melanie Jones (1st), junior Makayla Stambaugh (1st), senior Olivia Vivian (1st), junior Kelsi Blalock (2nd), sophomore Brittany Harris (2nd)

Record: 21-15Pac-12: 7-11 (T-8th)

Postseason: Lost to WSU in CBI semifinalsAll-Conference: junior G Jared Cunningham (1st, All-Defensive)

Record: 3-9Pac-12: 3-6 (10th)

Postseason: —All-Conference: junior DB Jordan Poyer (2nd),

freshman DE Scott Crichton (HM), senior P Johnny Hekker (HM), senior C Grant Johnson (HM), senior S Lance Mitchell (HM),

junior WR Markus Wheaton

The Daily Barometer June 5, 2012

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