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n Members of Local 083, part of the Service Employees International Union, march
By Kyle ReedThe Daily BaromeTer
Members of Local 083 marched at
Oregon State Thursday afternoon to show support and awareness for the bargaining of their contract.
Local 083, a sub-local of the Service Employees International Union Local 503, represents more than 1,100 clas-sified employees at OSU. Positions of classified employees range from librar-ians, food service, custodial service and
office workers. “It’s really important for us to get
involved and have our particular group of workers acknowledged and respected by administration, because we’re the front-line workers that assist our stu-dents here on campus,” said Gloria O’Brien, Local 083 president.
The march began at the Reser Stadium, gradually making its way to the LaSells Stewart Center, where the nego-tiations were taking place. The rally was aimed to show support for the members of the negotiation team within.
“One of the ways unions get things done is by motivating workers to actu-ally just get out and use their voices to demand what they want,” O’Brien said. “The goal of this is that people will come, we’ll rally here, chant a few songs and march down to the wonderful new OSU sign, and back to the LaSells Stewart Center, where the bargaining is happening.”
Representatives from each of the seven universities involved in the
Oregon University System were present at the negotiations. The negotiations determined the wages and working conditions for all classified employees under the contract, which is renegoti-ated every two years.
The results of the previous year saw both successes and shortcomings, among which were furlough days and step increases.
“Some things went well, and other things did not,” said Local 083 secretary Lynn Thompson. “It’s a difficult financial time, and we understand that, but it definitely impacts the work we are able to do for people.”
Thompson also hopes to remind people on campus that a lot of the tasks done on campus are due to classifed staff.
“We’re just hoping for a good, strong contract that respects the value of our work here at the OSU campus,” O’Brien said.
Kyle Reed, news [email protected]
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Extension center fears county cuts
Employees march for bargaining rights
mitch lea | THE DAILY BAROMETER
Brett moser, SeiU organizer, leads classified employees in a march for bargaining rights on Thursday.
mitch lea | THE DAILY BAROMETER
Classified employees in local o83, the oSU sub-local of the Service employees international Union, marched from reser Stadium to laSells Stewart Center.
n Southern Oregon Research and Extension Center could lose entirety of county funding
By alex crawfordThe Daily BaromeTer
The Southern Oregon Research and Extension Center (SOREC) in Jackson County has been in a state of shock all week as they cope with the news that their program may lose all county funding.
On April 12, the Jackson County Budget Committee voted to eliminate funding for SOREC, which operates in a partnership between Oregon State University and Jackson County.
That decrease represents a loss of more than $200,000 or 11 percent of the extension service’s total funding. This could very well mean curtains for the program, affecting thousands in Jackson County, including 4,000 kids involved in the 4-H Youth Development program.
“We were stunned,” said Anne Manlove, a SOREC extension agent in charge of 4-H youth development. “We had been at a 1 percent cut based on early budget proposals from the admin-istrator, but the committee decided to make it a 100 percent cut.”
Although the Jackson County Budget Committee did not give a reason for the proposed budget cut, it is one of many. The committee is attempting to close an overall budget gap of more than $14 million from the last fiscal year.
Although SOREC does receive a majority of their funding from state and federal grants, Steve Clark, OSU vice president of university relations and marketing, explains that the loss of county funding could have collateral damage.
“Any change of that magnitude rep-resents a serious impact in the way the extension service works,” Clark said. “If potentially you lose that on one end, you could lose it from somewhere else too. Some grants require matching funds, and if that were the case then [this budget cut] would act as a two-times multiplier of funds going away.”
Clark added that this decision by Jackson County is coming at a time when the state leg-islature is evaluating how much funding to give to extension services, and that it appears the state will reduce funding for the programs.
“The state says ‘Hey, if Jackson County doesn’t want it, other counties would love to have the dollars that flow,’” Manlove said, explaining the double-edged sword of the budget cut.
OSU operates extension services in all 36 counties of the state to provide “research-based knowledge in a way that is useful for people to improve their lives,
their homes, and their communities,” according to the OSU website.
Some of the services provided by OSU extension include 4-H youth develop-ment, the master gardener program and forest stewardship programs. Unless something changes, all of these pro-grams could cease to exist in Jackson County.
“It’s significant,” Manlove said. “The master gardener program is one of
the most active in the state. The Master Gardener Fair goes away. The 4-H youth program, which sup-ports 4,000 kids, goes away. The Sam’s Valley after-school program goes away.”
Employees of SOREC and residents of Jackson County are not without a glim-mer of hope, though. SOREC is exploring the possibility of a
countywide housing surcharge — basi-cally a fancy way of saying tax — of $2 to $10 per home, which would create previously non-existent revenue.
On April 24, the extension service advi-sory committee will explore the option of moving SOREC from the Jackson County General Fund-based funding to service district-based funding.
The move to a service district
‘‘ ‘‘OSU extension Services wants to
work with the Jack-son county com-
mission and have a conversation to create
more support.
Steve clarkVice President of university relations
See SORec | page 2
Representatives send executive branch summonsn Author of summons claims
he wants to make sure the executive branch is doing what they are supposed to be
By Don ilerThe Daily BaromeTer
ASOSU Representative Nick Rosoff has sent a summons to the ASOSU president and vice-pres-ident demanding that they pro-vide attendance records, perfor-mance evaluations and overview of accomplishments of task force directors and cabinet members.
The summons, which Rosoff sent by email Thursday at 3 p.m., asks the executive branch to com-ply with it by Tuesday, April 23 by 6 p.m. The email includes the names of Jacob Vandever, speaker of the house, and representatives Pedro Arenas, Saul Boulanger and Michael Robb in the signature line.
However, it is not clear whether Rosoff reviewed the contents of the email with the representatives before he sent it. Vandever denies having agreed to put his name on the email.
“I never agreed to summon someone, nor can we summon someone without a vote of the representatives,” Vandever said.
The house of representatives was unable to hold a meeting Wednesday because it did not have a quorum. The house has not passed or heard any new legisla-
See ASOSU | page 2
evan paRcheR | THE DAILY BAROMETER
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Pride Center, 6-8pm, Pride Center. Come enjoy mocktails as we discuss high risk alcohol consumption with the queer com-munity.
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MU Talisman Room. Is a Universal Religion Possible? Devotions and discussion.
EventsOSU College Republicans, Noon-4pm,
MU Quad. 2nd Amendment Week. Many events including a concealed handgun class, guest speaker Lars Larson and a drawing for a firearm.
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“OSU extension services wants to work with the Jackson County Commission and have a conver-sation to create more support for the extension programs and their funds,” Clark said. “We don’t want the conversation to end as a result of their decision, but to keep working to create support.”
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OSU students celebrate World Amateur Radio Dayn Amateur Radio Club
continues tradition of ham radio, 88 years after radio union’s founding
By lara von linsowe-WilsonThe Daily BaromeTer
Oregon State Amateur Radio Club celebrated the World Amateur Radio Day Thursday, commemorating the 88th anniversary of the founding of the International Amateur Radio Union, a federation of international amateur radio associations.
The club, more formally known as W7OSU, is geared toward “spreading awareness of amateur radio in the twen-ty-first century to the OSU community,” according to the group’s official webpage.
Members of the club, who refer to themselves as “hams,” based on an antiquated term for the word “amateur,” set up a modern radio station in the Memorial Union quad on Thursday in order to connect fellow radio enthusiasts both across the country and around the world.
“Amateur radio is very dif-ferent from commercial radio, such as KBVR,” said club presi-dent Anthony Odenthal at the event. “We do purely point-to-point communication trans-missions as opposed to radio broadcasts.”
Over the years, W7OSU has managed to make contact with several different coun-tries, including former Soviet Union locations. According to Odenthal, keeping up rela-tions with other amateurs from across the world has been important on several levels, especially during many histori-cal events, such as the Cold War.
“International goodwill is a big part of what we do,” Odenthal said. “There are radio amateurs in almost every
country.” In addition, hams have
also been known for their public service work through emergency communication systems. Under the Federal Communications Commission, amateur radio is a congressio-nally mandated radio service, and many club members vol-unteer through this outlet.
Contrary to popular belief, hams do not usually focus on the mission-operated sides of things, although they do play a vital role in the emergency messaging system. Instead, they mainly send and receive what are called “Health and Wellness” messages, alerting authorities of injury and basic well-being notices.
This is W7OSU member Ethan Morrison’s first year in the program, and he has already found it to be both exciting and beneficial to him.
“I enjoy being a fellow ama-teur, and it’s really cool getting to play around with equipment that I can’t afford or put up in my apartment,” Morrison said.
The club currently owns about $10,000 worth of radio equipment, which, according to veteran club members, is on the cheap side for this kind of work.
“You can easily spend 10 times that amount, the sky is the limit when it comes to radio equipment,” Odenthal added.
W7OSU meetings are open to all OSU community members who are, or wish to become, licensed amateur radio opera-tors, as well as those who would simply like to learn more about amateur radio.
W7OSU will be holding its biggest event of the year, known as Field Day, this coming June. During the event, hams will pack up their equipment and take it to new locations in order to participate in what is essen-tially a world-wide emergency drill.
The club meets the first and third Wednesday of every month beginning at 5 p.m. in Snell 229. During this time, the W7OSU studio is open for members to prac-tice radio communication techniques and browse the club’s treasured QSL card collection, which are written confirmations between two amateur radio stations.
For more information, visit the club’s webpage at groups.oregonstate.edu/w7osu for event and contact information.
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emma-Kate SchaaKe | THE DAILY BAROMETER
anthony odenthal, a senior in physics serves as president of oSU’s amateur radio Club.
SORecn Continued from page 1
tion this term. Vandever said he had discussed with
Rosoff Wednesday night Rosoff’s plans to investigate the executive branch and look at their performance this year, but had not agreed to sign anything.
Rosoff said that he asked Vandever if he wanted to be included, but sent off the email without getting Vandever’s approval to do so.
Amelia Harris, ASOSU president, said fulfilling the summons would be onerous and time consuming for her staff, distract-ing them from performing their jobs.
“Dan (Cushing, ASOSU vice president) and I have made a point of being present at most of the meetings this year and we have made ourselves available to representa-
tives,” Harris said. Harris said she has
never declined an invi-tation to meet with rep-resentatives and that all task force directors have made termly reports to congress.
“There have been quite a few questions coming out about the legitimacy of the executive branch,” Rosoff said. “We want to know what’s supposed to be getting done is getting done.”
Harris said gathering the documents together would cost her staff dozens of man-hours.
“It’s frustrating to hear the congress question the executive branch,” Harris said. “We have such important issues we are working on, like freezing tuition increases
and the student experience center.”In an email response
sent to Rosoff Thursday at 7:20 p.m., Harris said she does not know on what authority Rosoff is issuing a summons with-out a majority vote of the house or senate.
It remains to be seen whether the executive branch will comply with the summons or if Rosoff had the authority to issue
one or whether all the names on the sum-mons actually supported it.
The ASOSU house meets again next Wednesday in the Memorial Union at 7 p.m.
Don iler, editor-in-chiefon Twitter @doniler
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We want to know what’s supposed to be getting done is
getting done.
nick RosoffASOSU representative
aSOSUn Continued from page 1
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The “r-word” is retarding our discourse
‘ask an ethiCist’Greetings members of the Oregon
State University community. My name is Thomas McElhinny, and with the help of my cohorts in the applied ethics master’s program here at OSU, I would like to help address any ethical conundrums, concerns and challenges we might face.
Discussing ethical concerns, and morality more generally, are often volatile conversations. Questions concerning what it might mean to live a “good” life, how to act when
values conflict and how to cultivate ethical habits are long standing and important avenues of inquiry. Every week I intend to offer my perspective on situations sourced from the OSU community, and perhaps punctuate by answering emails with original content I find important, interesting and nutritive.
Speaking of emails: I need your help. Do you have an interesting ethi-cal question or situation in your life? Email me at: [email protected]. It can be anything from
a concern about lifestyle choices, conflicts with neighbors or business practices here in Corvallis. Surely, this is not an exhaustive list and I expect to see some novel questions.
My aim in this column is not sim-ply about “solving” ethical puzzles, but about engaging the OSU com-munity in a discourse centered on ethical issues. I hope this column will not only unlock some of the expertise already available in our networks, but expand it.
See you next week.
It’s week three of “Ask an Ethicist,” and I am going to indulge my privilege of being content creator
and editor of this column. Each week I intend to have an asymmetrically-shared discourse with the Oregon State University community, part problem solving and part exposition. For the last two episodes, I’ve addressed questions posed by some of our peers. This week, I’ll prod a conversation.
Words and attitudes are recipro-cally related to actions. The words we choose to use to navigate the collective discourse matter and are developed by the experiences we have. When we use certain words to show elation, disdain or confidence, we hold a mirror up to ourselves.
Some words are used to hurt people. What I do not intend to argue for is any sort of language blacklist, illegal, or bad words per se. Freedom of speech means something, like your right to say things I disagree with. I support this. That said, being permitted to say something is hardly the same as
it being a good idea to say a thing. It is the case that the words we choose matter, see: lawyers. I think most of us can agree that using sexist, racist or otherwise unsavory language is halting to a conversation and a sign of dismissively disrespecting entire groups of people.
To call someone a “retard,” or for my purposes this week, saying some-one is “retarded,” is a similar offense to making a sexist or racist remark. For some reason, we judge a person’s actions to be bad and react by label-ing them, probably with the intent to derisively demote them. Pejoratively, and derogatorily, labeling a person as another thing is in itself a dehumaniz-ing simplification of a complex person using an abstract understanding of a lesser kind of person as a cudgel. The “r-word” is retarding our discourse.
“Mental retardation” or “mentally
retarded” were once used as clinical descriptions. Campaigns like r-word.org support using “people-first lan-guage [like] ‘individual with an intel-lectual disability’ and ‘intellectual dis-ability,’” instead of the terms “‘mental retardation’ or ‘mentally retarded,’ [which] were medical terms with a specifically clinical connotation” that are no longer in use.
I propose that instead of calling someone “retarded,” we use the more grammatically accurate “retarding” to label actions as opposed to persons. By pointing to action instead of people we spare some of the cultivation of cultural attitudes, which perpetuate harms to family, friends and persons with intellectual disabilities. The words we choose matter, and the “r-word” is retarding our discourse.
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thomas mcelhinny is a master’s student of applied ethics. The opinions expressed in his columns do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Barometer staff. mcelhinny “ask an ethicist” column will run weekly, every Friday. he can be reached at, and questions can be submitted at [email protected].
Yeas & NaysYea to the city of Boston.
Nay to bombings and ter-rible people who do horrible
things.Yea to warm weather.Nay to stuffy classrooms that induce
naps and sleep in the back row.Nay to snoring when falling asleep
during class. Yea to getting nudged awake by your
neighbors when it happens. Nay to getting yelled at by the
Sanchos bouncer for yelling out “5-0, 5-0,” every time a police car drives by.
Yea to “Spokane Can.”Yea to running into fellow OSU
students in Spokane. Yea to inventing new dance moves
— just wait Peacock, you won’t know what hit you.
Nay to not being able to find the song that was playing when you invented the move.
Yea to Grady Garrett, who won first place for sports column writing.
Nay to coming home and finding your roommates left all the doors unlocked at your house.
Yea to “Gentleman,” the new song by Psy — the dude responsible for “Gangnam Style.”
Nay to having it stuck in your head.Yea to perfecting the dance moves
to it during late nights in the office.Nay to dance practice distracting
you from doing your job. Yea to falling so far behind in school
that you decide to just stop reading books altogether in order to just write the papers.
Nay to being mildly interested in the books you’re forced to put down in order to catch up.
Yea to drones helping the potato crop in Hermiston.
Nay to drones that kill people.Yea to having your own radio show. Nay to mixing up one of the controls
while you’re on air. Sorry about that, Corvallis.
Yea to spending time with friends and co-workers, even if it makes get-ting up for that 10 a.m. class a little hard.
Nay to realizing you should have done some homework when you show up for class at 10 a.m.
Yea to Jodie Davaz, who will be sta-tion manager for KBVR-FM starting in June. Congratulations, we know you will do a good job.
Nay to the ASOSU house of repre-sentatives for being unable to reach quorum for its meeting. How can you expect the student body to turn out for elections when you can’t even show up for you own meetings? Good job bring-ing yourself even more legitimacy.
Yea to questioning your student government and its worth.
Nay to going about it in the wrong fashion by affixing people’s names to letters they didn’t write.
Yea to the end of the school year being in sight. Whether you are staying here to enjoy Corvallis in the summer, going off to work a job or internship, or just moving back home with the family, we hope you are excited about the end as much as we are. Stay frosty, children.
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Bitcoin currency is the futureVery rarely can we look at an
innovation and see the most revolutionary product of its
time. Possibly the most important paradigm shift we’ll ever see grows with ever-increasing news coverage. Bitcoin, a digital currency, has the opportunity to change the world.
Most currencies in the world today are fiat currencies — government printed money — such as dollars and euros. Fiat currencies are controlled by government, usually without the backing of a precious metal like gold or silver. However, without the back-ing of precious metals, fiat currencies become inflated by poor monetary policy enacted by the government, leading to economic turmoil.
Bitcoin does not come from gov-ernment. Instead, Bitcoin transac-tions work on an open-source code that allows for protected peer-to-peer exchanges. It is a currency that facilitates trade.
In 2008, the alias Satoshi Nakamoto created the protocol for Bitcoin, even-tually leading to its release in 2009.
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boy scouts
Local council votes on anti-gay policy
On May 23, Boy Scout councils across the country will vote on a proposal to drop the ban on gay youth and leaders participating in the Boy Scouts.
Clearly, this is a change that is long overdue and a policy that never should have existed in the first place.
The majority of resistance to this change comes from church-sponsored Scout Troops. For many churches, the scouting program is a major component of their youth program. I would ask those resist-ing this policy change if they really wish to exclude up to 12 percent of their youth from youth activities because they are gay. Would you ask a gay youth wishing to join your church services to leave as well? How would you feel if this was your son being shunned because of who they are? What message does this send to a teenage youth, and what part of this sounds at all friendly, courteous, kind, loving or even Christian?
Scouting has something to be very proud of in all of this. The key leaders of the effort to change this policy are Eagle Scouts themselves. Eagle Scouts exemplifying the cour-age and leadership they learned so well in their youth to change something unfair and unjust.
For those who wish to encourage the Oregon Trail Council (covers Corvallis, Eugene, Roseburg and the Coast) to vote to change this policy and include gay youth and leaders, please sign our petition by visiting change.org and searching for: Oregon Trail Council.
Bruce Alder
Corvallis resident
Letter to the Editor
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n Stambaugh, Harris, Tang will compete at the NCAA Championships on Friday
By Warner StrausbaughThe Daily BaromeTer
Finishing in fourth place at NCAA Regionals was not ideal for the Oregon State gymnastics team, but the No. 15 Beavers will still have some representation at the NCAA Championships this weekend.
Three gymnasts — senior Makayla Stambaugh, junior Brittany Harris and sophomore Chelsea Tang — will compete as individuals in Los Angeles on Friday.
“I’d love to see them have their best meet that they’ve had all year,” said head coach Tanya Chaplin. “They’re very ready to compete. It’s been a long week and a half [of practice].”
Tang and Harris will compete as all-arounders. In regionals, the gymnasts with the top two all-around scores who are not on one of the teams advancing to nationals compete as individuals.
“It is a little bittersweet,” Tang said. “Of course I’m excited to go, but obviously it’s not how I wanted to go. You want to go as a team.”
Tang (39.300) finished third and Harris (39.125) placed fifth. The others in the top five were from Georgia and Arkansas, the two teams that advanced.
Harris and Tang have the oppor-tunity to use nationals as a jump-ing-off point for the 2014 season. The Beavers will lose five seniors, and Harris and Tang will be the most seasoned on the team for next year.
“This is another learning oppor-
tunity for us,” Harris said. “When we come back, we can share it with the incoming freshmen...Let them know what we experienced and get the ball rolling for next year.”
“It’s a great opportunity for them to bring their experiences and the things that they’ve learned this year, to bring back their knowledge for next year’s team,” Chaplin said.
Nationals will have a different feel for Stambaugh. The senior has been an All-American for her first
three years and will look to earn the honor for all of her four years at OSU.
But, unlike Tang and Harris, this will be the last meet of her career.
“I just want to have the best pos-sible time,” Stambaugh said. “Floor has always been my favorite event and my best event. It’s fun that I get to do my favorite event one last time. It’s pretty awesome.”
The three gymnasts will compete in the evening session of semifinals
at 6 p.m. on Friday. The top four individuals in each event will com-pete in the individual event finals competition on Sunday at 1 p.m.
It is a bittersweet feeling for the three going, since their team will not join them. It is the first time in seven years that OSU will not be participating at the NCAA Championships as a team.
Warner Strausbaugh, managing editoron Twitter @WStrausbaugh
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Senior left-hander matt Boyd winds up to throw a pitch against Utah on april 12.
Women’s track competes at Oregon Relaysn Oregon State heads to Eugene,
looks for improvement before Pac-12 Championships
By alex mccoyThe Daily BaromeTer
Despite the rotten weather, the Oregon State women’s track team had an impressive performance at Western Oregon’s John Knight Twilight last Friday in Monmouth, and will be competing in Eugene Friday to compete in University of Oregon’s Oregon Relays meet.
“The Oregon Relays is one of the bigger meets on the West Coast,” said assistant coach Travis Floeck. “It’s just another opportunity for people to chase marks and get good experience in before the conference meet here in a few weeks.”
Last Friday, the Beavers were led by senior Mary Claire Brenner
and freshman Kayla Fleskes, who are both throwers. Fleskes set a new personal record in the discus of 136-3
3/4, beating her previous best by four feet, and giving her ninth place on Oregon State’s all-time list. She also took fourth place in the javelin with a new personal record.
Brenner finished fourth in the shot put with 42-3 1/2 after throw-ing personal bests consecutively. She finished 10th in the discus and ninth in the javelin. This weekend in Eugene will mark Brenner’s first opportunity to throw against her younger sister, Liz — who throws for Oregon — in the javelin.
Carly Januzzi and Taylor Hunt finished second and third in the 400-meter race, respectively, while Michelle Turney finished second in the 100-meter hurdles and Hilary Sharpe claimed second in the stee-ple chase.
Redshirt freshman Morgan Anderson finished fourth in her season debut in the 1500-meter race, while Aly Nielson took fifth. Anderson, who ran unattached last
Finding their silver lining
n The Beavers look to get their second-consecutive Pac-12 series sweep against last place UW
By andrew KilstromThe Daily BaromeTer
Having won four straight games — and five straight Pac-12 conference games — Oregon State travels to Washington looking for a series sweep against the last-place Huskies.
The No. 5 Beavers (29-6, 10-2 Pac-12) looks back on track following a 5-5 stretch prior to their recent winning streak. The Beavers will try to keep the momentum going against Washington (9-23, 3-9) on Friday.
Washington is last in the Pac-12 by a con-siderable margin, while the Beavers are at the top of the conference. But OSU says it is not taking this weekend lightly.
“The Pac[-12] is crazy. Anybody can beat anyone at any time,” said sophomore left fielder Michael Conforto. “Going to play UW at their home, it could be a completely different ballgame. Every series in the Pac[-12] is always going to be tough. It’s always going to be a grind, and it’s hard to win on the road.”
One reason OSU can be optimistic going into Friday’s game is the play of senior left-hander Matt Boyd.
Boyd — who is a regular starter for the first time in his career at OSU — has accu-mulated a 1.55 earned run average and a 7-1 record. The lefty has allowed only 11 earned runs in 63 2/3 innings this season.
Boyd’s level of success has surprised some people, not because the senior is seen as incapable of putting up the num-bers he has, but because the transition from the bullpen to the starting rotation is not easy.
Even head coach Pat Casey said he is a
little surprised with Boyd’s performance this season.
“I thought he would be good, but those numbers are pretty impressive,” Casey said. “I’m happy for him, because it’s always tough when you come back and then you’re in a different role. He’s been fantastic.”
“He’s been a huge asset for us,” added junior catcher Jake Rodriguez. “Everything he does is because his head’s on his shoul-ders the right way. He has a great mental approach, as well as physical.”
While Washington could have a tough time facing Boyd, the two-time Pac-12 Pitcher of the Week, OSU will face Washington’s ace, Austin Voth.
Voth has a 2.90 ERA this season and has managed to win four games despite the Huskies only winning nine all year.
The Beavers will have to be ready offen-sively if they want to score against the right-hander.
“I’ve heard great things about him, and we faced him last year,” Conforto said. “He throws pretty hard, he can hit his spots, he’s got good stuff and he can strikeout a lot of people. We’re definitely preparing for him.”
Series wins, and especially sweeps, are important at this point in the season, with the top of the Pac-12 getting more and more competitive.
“We know we can’t drop games that we can win,” Conforto said. “We feel like every game ... we can win.”
First pitch is scheduled for 4 p.m. at Husky Ballpark in Seattle.
andrew Kilstrom, sports editoron Twitter @[email protected]
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n OSU is using its spring season to acclimate new players, prepare for fall
By Sarah KerriganThe Daily BaromeTer
Most people associate spring football with American football but fail to realize that there is also a spring season the other football — or soccer.
Oregon State’s men’s soc-cer team has already played two games in its six-game spring season and continues the mini season with a home game against Concordia this Saturday.
“It is like a mini fall season right now,” said junior mid-fielder Josh Smith. “It just gives us a taste of what it is going to be like in the fall.”
Oregon State’s men’s soccer team has placed an empha-sis on defensive structure and player development for spring training in an attempt to replace senior defenders with some youth.
“In the spring we have been focusing on keeping our defen-sive discipline, bringing over what we did in the winter into the spring,” said defensive midfielder Bjorn Sandberg.
The team’s fall season was plagued with quick counter-attack goals, break downs in the defense, that resulted in the team’s 1-7-2 conference record. They are looking to address this issue in spring.
“We want to be able to attack our opponents without being able to give up soft goals and give away transitional
goals,” said head coach Steve Simmons. “That was the story of the conference last year.”
The Beavers lost three start-ing defenders seniors — Travis Anderson, Chris Harms and Colin Mitchell — and cur-rently are down junior central defender Brenden Anderson due to injury.
This has caused Oregon State to rely on its youth and shift around some returning players to fill in the back line.
“We have got some people shifting into certain spots, we have been working a lot on the defensive roles,” Simmons said. “It is a great opportunity for guys to earn those spots.”
Similar to spring football, this is a time for younger players to prove themselves and earn spots in the starting lineup.
The team also has two new players in recent high school graduate Matt Arbogast and Clark College transfer forward Borce Atanasov.
“We have a bunch of new guys and returners, everyone is clicking and having chemistry already,” Smith said.
Simmons said that the new players are at a great advantage to be here in the spring, quick-ening the learning curve.
Relying on developing youth and new players in the spring requires the veteran players to play more supporting roles.
“Being one of those younger guys the first game I was a little nervous at the beginning,” said freshman Zach Striar. “But I
was excited, they have really brought me in well and been encouraging.”
The Beavers came away with two shutouts in their first games, and the players said that they are happy with the progress and performance that the defense is showing.
“It was a little bit rusty, but I would say we got away with two clean sheets,” Sandberg said.
The defense of the team is not limited to just the backline but is a full field effort, which the team struggled with last year. There has been a focus to set up defensive structure through the midfield and forwards.
For their game against Concordia, they have been concentrating on pressuring the ball when they lose it, and maintaining the mentality to win the ball back once it is lost.
“A lot of defensive pres-sure if we lose the ball,” Striar said. “Just coming together and dropping behind the ball winning it back and staying organized.”
At the end of the spring season, their defensive prog-ress will be put to the test as they face their toughest oppo-nent in a Major League Soccer team, the Portland Timbers. The players see the game as an opportunity to see if they have improved.
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Senior pitcher marina Demore delivers a pitch against Utah last weekend. oSU is looking for its first win against Cal since april 4, 2009.
Softball gaining confidencen Oregon State looks for its second-
consecutive Pac-12 series win against No. 10 California this weekend
By grady garrettThe Daily BaromeTer
Only one player on the Oregon State softball team was playing for OSU the last time the Beavers defeated the University of California Berkeley.
That was April 4, 2009, fifth-year senior Ashley Sanchez’s freshman season.
The Golden Bears have since won 11 straight versus OSU.
Today in Berkeley, Calif., the Beavers will look to put an end to that streak.
“Cal is a good team. They have pitching, they have hitting, they have defense,” said senior catcher Ally Kutz, who is 0-9 against the Golden Bears in her career. “But so do we. I think this series is going to be a battle.”
Cal (32-8, 7-5 Pac-12), the preseason Pac-12 favorite according to the league’s coaches, enters the three-game series ranked No. 10 in the nation. The Beavers (26-15, 3-9) are unranked for the second week in a row, but did take their first conference series last weekend
when they won two of three against Utah.“That series win over Utah was pretty big for
us,” Kutz said. “Obviously, we’ve been strug-gling in the Pac-12, but I think the two days we won [versus Utah], we really showed who we are.”
In a 10-2, five-inning victory on Sunday, the Beavers racked up 15 hits, their most in a conference game this season.
“Even if we bring someone off the bench, everyone is capable,” said sophomore second baseman Ya Garcia, who is batting .464 in con-ference games. “Our performance on Sunday is going to carry over, and we are going to do very well. We’re going to be locked in, ready to go.”
The Beavers better be locked in, because they are going to be facing one of the better pitchers they will see all year.
Cal senior Jolene Henderson (27-7, 1.27 ERA) is the reigning Pac-12 Pitcher of the Year and has a history of dominating OSU. In nine career appearances against the Beavers, Henderson is 8-0 with a 0.60 ERA.
Last year, she allowed just eight hits and two earned runs over 17 innings in Cal’s sweep in Corvallis.
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Q: Favorite pro sports team(s)?A: Yankees, Lakers and I’ve become
an avid Giants fan because of [my boy-friend] Andrew [Susac, a former OSU baseball player]. I don’t really have an NFL team because the Chargers are terrible.
Q: You realize that makes you sound like a total front-runner?
A: Well I’ve always been a Yankees fan because I love Derek Jeter. That’s why I’m
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Garcia, a former prep team-mate of Henderson’s, is not worried.
“She’s a hard-throwing pitcher, so we’ve just got to go up there and take our hacks like [assistant] coach Geoff [Hirai] says,” Garcia said. “Focus on getting in front, not getting jammed.”
“Jolene is a great pitcher, obviously pitcher of the year [last year], but I think coming into it, we’re trying to be really confident,” Kutz added. “I think our hitters can definitely hit her. She’s a very hittable pitch-er, even though she’s got some dirty pitches.”
Henderson has been hittable lately. She has a 2.72 ERA in her last seven appearances and has allowed at least seven hits in four of those games. That is part of the reason Cal enters
this weekend’s series in a bit of a rut, having lost five of its last seven conference games.
If the Beavers can add to Cal’s recent woes, it will put them in good position heading into the final three weeks of the regular season.
“I don’t think we’re going into it as, ‘we have to get some wins to make postsea-son,’” Kutz said. “We’re going into it with the attitude of
‘we’re going to get some wins,’ whether it’s this series, next series, whenever. We have the ability, we have the talent, we have everything it takes. We just need the confidence, and we’re bringing that this week.”
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Men’s Golf Power RankingsBy mitch mahoneyThe Daily BaromeTer
1. No. 1 USCThe Trojans, along with
eight other Pac-12 schools, com-peted in the PING/ASU Invitational in Tempe, Ariz.
last weekend. And while it snapped their streak of finish-ing first in three consecutive tournaments, the Trojans still played well enough to shoot 1-under-par. They tied for fifth.
2. No. 8 ArizonaThe Wildcats
actually outscored the Trojans by one stroke. However, it
was not convincing enough to conclude that they are the better team, given that their finish was due in large part to USC’s 4-over-par final round.
3. No. 16 StanfordIn the PING/ASU
Invitational, Stanford tied with Arizona at 2-under-par, also
ahead of USC. For most of the season, the Trojans have looked unstoppable. Now that they’ve been bested by fel-
low Pac-12 teams, the Pac-12 Championships next week become that much more interesting.
4. No. 6 UCLAAlso in the mix to claim
the top spot in the Pac-12 is UCLA. The team was only four shots off the pace of Stanford and
Arizona and three back of USC. Even though they scored well, their eighth-place finish is their worst since October. They’ll have to bounce back.
5. No. 13 Arizona St.Tying with USC in an event
is a testament to any team, and Arizona State did it last weekend. However, it is worth noting that
the PING/ASU Invitational was played on Arizona State’s home course. Of any team competing, none were more familiar with it than the Sun Devils, and they tied for fifth.
6. No. 12 WashingtonThe Huskies
were also in the field in Arizona,
and considering the number of top-20 teams from the Pac-12 alone, it’s clear how talent-ed this tournament was. That being said, Washington had an average outing. They shot 16-over-par and finished 11th.
7. OregonI’m sick of talking about this
one tournament, but it’s not over yet. All but two teams from the
Pac-12 were in the field, so it was essentially a warm-up for the Pac-12 Championships. According to the results of the PING/ASU Invitational, the Ducks should finish around seventh place next week.
8. Washington StateOK, here we go. The Cougars
were one of two Pac-12 teams that didn’t com-pete in the PING/ASU Invitational. In fact, the Cougars haven’t
played since April 2 when the team placed fifth in a field of 13. They’ve had a ton of time to gear up for the Pac-12 Championships.
9. Oregon StateThe other team to not play
in Tempe, the Beavers placed sixth in their tour-nament in Fresno, Calif. And although the competing
teams were not as talented as they would have been in Arizona, the Beavers still had a pretty solid two days.
10. CaliforniaAfter an up-and-down sea-
son, the Golden Bears, ended their regular season in a tie for last place. They shot 56-over-
par and are limping into the Pac-12 Championships.
11. ColoradoBasically an afterthought
in the Pac-12, the Buffaloes also shot 56-over-par. They will need an extremely strong performance if they
plan on making any noise in the championships, which begin April 22.
mitch mahoney, sports reporteron Twitter @mitchishere
SOFtBalln Continued from page 5
weekend, will do the same in the 1500-meter race Friday.
“That’s the great thing about our sport is that you can continue to compete” Floeck said. “You’re not going out on a football field or a basketball court.”
The Beavers will be send-ing 15 student-athletes to Eugene, while distance run-ner Kinsey Gomez travels to Walnut, Calif. for the Mt. San Antonio College Relays meet at Historic Hilmer Lodge Stadium to compete in the 5K.
Friday will be Gomez’s first race since the Stanford Invitational in early March. Gomez’s time of 16:38.79 has her ranked fourth on Oregon State’s all-time list, and she is
currently listed at 23rd in the nation.
While Gomez is compet-ing in California, the rest of her team will be enjoying the rain and cold in Eugene, aim-ing for qualifying marks for the Pac-12 Championships. Brenner and Fleskes will be throwing for the Beavers, both in the javelin and discus. Brenner will also be compet-ing in the shot put.
Freshmen Lucinda Howard and Sara Almen will join senior Kristin Oenning in the high jump and both Kaitlyn Mason and Michele Turney will long jump. Turney will also triple jump.
Events start with Almen, Howard and Oenning in the high jump at 3:10 p.m.
alex mccoy, sports reporteron Twitter @alexmccoy21
tRacKn Continued from page 4
A: Probably gymnastics. I really love gymnastics. We lived in the same dorm as them freshmen year, so I got to know the girls. And baseball. I always followed baseball the first two years, and now I just follow them on Twitter because I know all the guys.
Q: Best-looking team at OSU?A: I shouldn’t answer because I’ll get in trouble. But probably
baseball. That would be my first choice.Q: You’re stuck on an island with two teammates, who would
you choose and why?A: Ally and Ya [Garcia]. They are probably the two people on
the team I’m closest with. Ally would be able to make me laugh and keep me warm at night, and Ya is just my little sidekick.
Q: Plans after softball?A: Find a job. Move to where I find a job, preferably in Southern
California or San Diego. And after I find a job, get a dog. And watch a lot of baseball.
grady garrett, sports reporteron Twitter @gradygarrett
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Only an environmentally set amount of gold exists on the earth, just as the code for bitcoin only allows for the mining of 21 million bitcoins.
Well, if bitcoin is the future of exchange, why do the similarities with gold matter? Historically, gold has been the money to facilitate exchange. Gold is precious, rare, durable and malleable, giving it intrin-sic value. Gold was so important that Europeans sailed across the world to find some.
Bitcoin can be, and should be, the form of exchange of the future. Granted, not everyone has a smartphone to pro-cess transactions, but other ways of exchanging bitcoins would emerge from companies.
Since Bitcoin is encrypted, all trans-actions are anonymous. Credit cards and checks leave a trail tied to a person, while bitcoin transactions are between two accounts with randomized account numbers.
Those opposed to bitcoin complain that the anonymity allows for the pay-ment of illegal activities, drugs and pros-titution. Maybe the form of exchange will
be easier, but anonymity can be achieved through cash transactions for drug deals and prostitution now.
Bitcoins currently do and will continue to pay for items at the grocery store, a car, a house and everything else in life. Bitcoin has the possibility to become the first currency untouchable by government intrusion and manipulation.
If you run a business and take dol-lars, you have to file paperwork with the government. If you run a business with bitcoin, you can have it transferred to your personal account. One could be for your business, and one for that specific customer to track their transactions to provide better customer service or analyze sales pat-terns and trends, or any account you want for any reason.
Bitcoin’s ceiling is unknown, maybe reach-ing further than any other product the world has ever seen.
Bitcoin still has one more benefit, the greatest of all its positive attri-butes. Because bitcoin is a real currency, it will hold its value. Unless you were born before 1913, which saw the creation of the Federal Reserve, you haven’t seen a currency that holds its value.
When a currency holds its value, the prices of goods fall over its lifespan. A good sells for the market price, but eventually drops in price. The price decrease comes from another product on the market that is superior. All prod-ucts eventually get replaced. Electricity replaced candles, computers kicked out typewriters, and the price of the older product plummeted.
As we constantly innovate and come out with new products, older products lose demand and the price falls, usually going to a price of zero and obsolescence in the market.
Bitcoins will hold their value because of the limited supply of bitcoins that can be mined. Today, the continuous printing of dollars by the Federal Reserve causes prices to rise, but Bitcoin’s constant amount keeps prices stable.
Constant innovation and cheaper methods of production allow for lower prices of goods, and since bitcoin can’t be inflated past a certain amount, bitcoins
retain their value. Goods get cheaper over time, allowing each bitcoin to buy more products.
Bitcoin remains com-pletely free as a cur-rency with no govern-ment intervention, and it needs to stay that way. The countless doors Bitcoin has opened are why it’s the most revo-lutionary idea we will ever see.
Bitcoin itself may not survive forever, espe-cially if it continues its recent volatility in exchange rates. But the idea it brought, the les-sons it’s showing us and the experience of a real
currency make Bitcoin special.Bitcoin deserves the support of all. It’s
the first of its kind, meaning it will set precedent. Bitcoin has and will endure great scrutiny for the slightest downturn. But bitcoin deserves praise. It earned it. It will prove it.
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Drew pells is a senior in business administration. The opinions expressed in his columns do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Barometer staff. Pells can be reached at [email protected].
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Thursday, April 11Engineer gone wild: At
9:39 p.m., a laptop com-puter was reported stolen from the computer lab in Kelley Engineering Center after the student had left it unattended for 10 min-utes. It was in a carrying case.
Saturday, April 13Trainwreck: At 12:50
a.m. just north of McNary Hall, Brandon Haysom was stumbling intoxi-cated. Haysom had been excluded from OSU, there-fore making him a tres-passer. While being placed under arrest for criminal trespass II, the trooper noticed a small sandwich bag in his pocket contain-ing marijuana. He was cited for possession of less than one ounce. After being tested, he showed a blood alcohol content of .31 percent. He was cited for criminal trespass II and possession of a controlled substance for less than an ounce of marijuana.
Saturday, April 13Drunk driver: At 4:10
p.m., a drunk driver crashed into multiple vehicles stopped at the traffic light at the Hwy 34 bypass. Wayne Hanslovan failed to stop for the traffic in front of him, causing him to hit the cars. No injuries were reported. After failing the field sobri-ety test Hanslovan was cited for DUII. No injuries were reported.
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The African Student Association is hosting its annual Africa Night on Saturday from 5-8 p.m. at the LaSells Stewart Center. The event is a celebra-tion of African culture and pro-vides entertainment for all ages.
Dinner will be served starting at 5, with the entertainment beginning at 6. There will be live music, African-style danc-ing, comedic skits and videos,
an educational speech and a fashion show. There will also be two live cheetahs, which will be accompanied by handlers.
“Our community is very small, but year and year out, we try to put on the best show pos-sible,” said Brian Gatimu, who is in charge of the entertainment for this year’s Africa Night. “We also try to diversify our enter-tainment with the objective that the general public gets a better perspective of Africa and African students here in Corvallis.”
Tickets are on sale at MU 103 and cost $8.50 for students and $10 for the general public.
(CNN) — Some 35 people — including 10 first responders — died in a massive explosion Wednesday night at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, Mayor Tommy Muska said, according to USA Today.
The number included five volunteer fire fight-ers, four emergency responders and an off-duty fire fighter from Dallas who lived in West, the mayor told the newspaper.
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings identified the off-duty fire fighter as Kenny Harris, a captain in his city’s fire department. Harris “rushed to the scene as a helper,” Rawlings said on Twitter.
Officials at news conferences in West were unwilling to give any numbers on victims. They have only confirmed there have been casualties.
Earlier, Waco Police Sgt. William Patrick Swanton estimated there were five to 15 people who died.
George Smith, West’s director of emergency services, has said the death toll could spike to 60 or 70.
More than 160 people were injured.Residents packed the Church of the
Assumption in West on Thursday night to remember those who died and to pray for the survivors.
Glenn Robinson, the head of Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center in Waco where many victims were taken, said 29 patients were still hospitalized, including five that were in the intensive care unit.
The area around the site of the massive explo-sion at a fertilizer plant that flattened much of the small Texas town remains “very volatile” due to the presence of ammonium nitrate, McLennan County Chief Deputy Sheriff Matt Cawthon said Thursday.
Authorities searched through mounds of rubble in hopes of finding survivors of the blast that left shattered homes and wreckage in a wide swath of the town, which has only 2,800 people.
“It’s overwhelming to us,” said Smith. As he spoke to CNN affiliate KCEN, blood was spat-tered on his face from injuries he suffered.
“It was like a nuclear bomb went off,” said Mayor Tommy Muska.
Muska told CNN on Thursday afternoon that emergency officials were still combing through a nearby nursing home, apartment complex and the plant looking for survivors.
“We still are holding out some hope, but right now we’re just trying to get a hand around it and see,” he said.
At the same time he said he realized the casualty count might rise as the number of missing falls.
“We’ve got the best of the best looking, and that’s what we want to do,” he said. “I want to count up all my citizens and all my firefighters.”
On Wednesday evening, a fire at the plant suddenly exploded with a huge, deafening bang, throwing people to the ground blocks away.
About half the town was evacuated, including the nursing home with 133 residents.
Three schools also are near the plant. Classes weren’t in session when the explosion happened Wednesday night.
‘Roof came in on me’The explosion tore through the roof of West
Fertilizer Co., charring much of the structure and sending massive flames into the air, followed by a plume of smoke bigger than the plant itself. A deafening boom echoed for miles.
It was “massive — just like Iraq, just like the Murrah (Federal) Building in Oklahoma City,” said D.L. Wilson of the Texas public safety depart-ment, referring to a bombing that took place 18 years ago Friday.
The blast stripped the apartment complex, with 50 units, of its walls and windows. “It was just a skeleton standing up,” Wilson said.
“The windows came in on me, the roof came in on me, the ceiling came,” Smith said.
Between 50 and 60 homes in a five-block area sustained damage, officials said.
Pastor Lester Adams said he met with a family that was shattered by the explosion. The mother had part of her ankle missing and her feet were crushed, he said. Her daughter had cuts and her son had to get six “staples” in the back of his head.
“They went to check and see what was going
on. They went out in front yard and (the) blast came from the back,” he told CNN affiliate WOAI. “If they’d stayed in the house they would have probably been killed because their house collapsed.”
Brad Smith lives 50 miles away and felt his house shake.
“We didn’t know exactly what it was,” he said. “The forecast said a line of thunderstorms was going to come through. My wife and I looked up and wondered, ‘Did it get here six hours early?’ “
Cause unknownAs of Thursday afternoon, authorities had
not determined what led to the deadly explo-sion. Cawthon said his sheriff’s office; the fed-eral Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; and the state fire marshal’s office are working “to determine the exact cause of the situation.”
Swanton said earlier there were no indica-tions of criminal activity but that wasn’t being ruled out yet.
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott told reporters “it’s way premature” to determine whether any criminal charges could be sought in relation to the deadly explosion.
A U.S. intelligence official told CNN there is no indication so far that the blast is related to terrorism.
While state authorities are leading the inves-tigation, the federal government is assisting.
Chemical concernsWith help from heavy rains early Thursday,
firefighters managed to quell most of the flames in the area, authorities said.
The rain and heavy winds also helped dis-sipate chemicals that may have been released.
Swanton emphasized that there was no cause for alarm about the air. There was no “chemical escape” that is “out of control,” he said.
Anhydrous ammonia, a gas used in making fertilizer, can cause severe burns if it combines with water in the body. Exposure to high con-centrations can lead to death.
The West Fertilizer Co. said it had 54,000 pounds of the chemical, The Dallas Morning News reported.
But doctors reported that the injuries they were treating, in general, came from the blast, not chemical exposure. Many people had cuts and puncture wounds.
The Federal Aviation Administration instituted a flight restriction over the town.
Authorities closed schools for the rest of the week and said after that, they will probably depend on temporary buildings and schools in other districts for a while.
West is about 75 miles south of Dallas and 120 miles north of Austin. The town’s chamber of commerce touts it as “the Czech point of central Texas.”
Czech immigrants arrived in the town in the 1880s, and the community still maintains strong ties to its Central European roots, with businesses named “Little Czech Bakery” and “The Czech Inn.”
Worst-case scenarioIn 2006, the Environmental Protection Agency
fined the company that ran the fertilizer plant $2,300 and told the owners to correct problems, an EPA spokesman told CNN.
David Gray said the company certified that it had fixed the deficiencies, which included a failure to file a risk management program plan on time.
Also in 2006, West Fertilizer had a complaint filed against it for a lingering smell of ammo-nia, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality website shows.
Separately, the plant had informed the Environmental Protection Agency that it pre-sented no risk of fire or explosion, according to The Dallas Morning News. It did so in 2011 in an emergency planning report required of facilities that use toxic or hazardous chemicals.
The plant’s report to the EPA said even a worst-case scenario wouldn’t be that dire: There would be a 10-minute release of ammonia gas that wouldn’t kill or injure anyone, the newspaper reported.
What happened Wednesday night was much worse.
Report: As many as 35 killed in texas plant explosion
(CNN) — The FBI on Thursday released photos and video of two men it called sus-pects in the deadly bombings at the Boston Marathon and pleaded for public help in iden-tifying them.
The two men were photo-graphed walking together near the finish line of the marathon before the explosions that killed three people and wounded about 180. One of the two men was seen setting down a back-pack at the site of the second explosion, said Special Agent Rick DesLauriers, the head of the FBI’s Boston office.
DesLauriers said the men should be considered armed and “extremely dangerous.”
The announcement capped a day in which President Barack Obama brought a mixture of reassurance and defiance to an interfaith memorial service in the city’s Cathedral of the Holy Cross. Whoever planted the bombs “picked the wrong city” to attack, he said.
“Every one of us stands with you,” Obama told the crowd. “Boston may be your hometown — but we claim it, too. ... For
millions of us, what happened on Monday is personal.”
Addressing the still-unknown perpetrators, Obama added, “Yes, we will find you. And yes, you will face justice. We will hold you accountable.” And he looked ahead to next year’s race, predicting that “the world will return to this great American city to run even harder and to cheer even louder for the 118th Boston Marathon. Bet on it.”
Among the crowd of about 2,000 were first lady Michelle Obama; the presi-dent’s Republican chal-lenger last November, for-mer Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney; the state’s current gov-ernor, Deval Patrick; and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino. During an interlude, attendees were soothed by a performance by famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma.
Menino praised each of the three bystanders who were killed in the blasts — Martin Richard, described as a “young boy with a big heart”; Krystle Campbell, whose spirit “brought her to the marathon year after year”; and Lingzu Lu, who “came to the city in search of an education.”
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BAGHDAD (CNN) — A bomb exploded on Thursday night in a popular coffee shop in western Baghdad, killing at least 27 people and wounding 51 others, city police officials said.
The bomb was hidden in a plastic bag and then put in a cafe in the Iraqi capital’s al-Amriya neighborhood, where it detonated around 10 p.m. (3 p.m. ET), according to police.
They estimated the device contained about two kilo-grams of highly explosive
material.The explosion ripped
through the three-story build-ing, which also includes an ice cream parlor on the first floor and medical offices on the second floor. The coffee shop was on the third floor.
Most of those killed and hurt were young men, though four children were among the dead, police said.
Mostly Sunni Muslims live in the neighborhood, which is surrounded by walls except for one checkpoint staffed by
Iraqi soldiers.The violence follows a spate
of attacks preceding the coun-try’s provincial elections, set for Saturday.
On Wednesday, three people died and 16 were wounded in four explosions in and around Baghdad, according to police.
There is concern that the security situation could affect the outcome of the vote, espe-cially if Iraqis don’t participate because of fears that poll-ing stations may come under attack.
Blast in Baghdad coffee shop kills at least 27
