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IN BRIEF
Conservative writer reveals
why liberals hate America
College Republicans members hope
conservative writer and speaker Daniel
Flynn will bring a “breath of fresh air”
to a campus dominated by an "ex
treme liberal bias” when he lectures
tonight, College Republicans member
Anthony Warren said.
Flynn, who wrote “Intellectual
Morons: How Ideology Makes Smart
People Fall for Stupid Ideas,” pub
lished in 2004, will deliver a lecture
on his 2002 book, “Why the Left
Hates America: Exposing the Lies
That Have Obscured Our Nation’s
Greatness,” at 8 p.m. in 182 Lillis.
Warren said Flynn “talks a lot about
how current leftist liberals in America
today, a lot of their policies and a lot of
their views ... are pretty anti-Ameri
can.” Warren said hostility against the
Bush administration, conservatives
and America in general at the Universi
ty “comes very strongly” from the po
litical science and sociology depart
ments in particular, saying con
servative values are “kept blacklisted
in lecture halls.”
“We were just like, wow, that really
sounds appropriate, like a perfect fit for
this campus atmosphere,” he said.
Warren said he hopes Flynn will
draw “any conservative or moderate
who is really sick of the extreme liberal
slant and bias on this campus. ”
Gonzaga University’s College Re
publicans chapter gained national me
dia attention in 2003 after student gov
ernment members removed fliers
promoting a Flynn presentation be
cause they allegedly contained hate
speech, according to the Gonzaga Bul
letin. Student leaders later apologized
for mistakenly tearing down the
group’s posters.
Warren said anyone may attend the
event and ask questions. He said he is
confident Flynn will be able to defend
his ideas.
— Parker Howell
Local blood drive comes
to campus for donations
Lane Memorial Blood Bank will be
holding a blood drive today and
Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Anyone who wants to donate blood
can register in the EMU’s Taylor
Lounge and then go to the Bloodmo
bile parked outside the EMU.
“Summer time is when we need
blood the most, so we’re gearing up,”
Community Affairs Coordinator Christi
Henderson said.
The bank needs all blood types
and students don’t need to know
their type. Donors must weigh at
least 110 pounds, be in good health
and have photo ID, Community
Affairs Manager Chris Stockdale said.
Donors must also eat a good meal
with protein in it beforehand to
prevent nausea, she said.
Lane Memorial Blood Bank
provides blood for all of Lane County,
including all three hospitals.
“We’ll provide cookies, juice and a
big ‘thank you,”’ Stockdale said.
— Emily Smith
OSU student death at Lake
Shasta is apparent suicide
SHASTA LAKE, Calif. — An autopsy
of an Oregon State University student
found dead at Lake Shasta last week
indicates that she hanged herself,
Shasta County Sheriff Jim Pope said
Monday.
Gina Zalunardo, 22, of Redmond,
apparently committed suicide after
she disappeared May 7 following an
argument with her boyfriend at
Slaughterhouse Island on Lake
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Shasta, Pope said.
“The evidence from the scene was
the indication of that,” Pope said.
Toxicology reports are pending.
Zalunardo, a junior at Oregon State
University, was staying on a houseboat
with members of her sorority over
Mother’s Day weekend. The boat,
which was tied up at Slaughterhouse
Island, was one of about 30 rented by
OSU students for an annual gathering
that attracts hundreds of people.
Zalunardo’s boyfriend and others
told authorities they spent several
hours trying to find her after she disap
peared but gave up because they
thought she had gone to sleep on an
other houseboat. They contacted the
sheriff’s department the next morning
when she didn’t turn up.
Her body was found Thursday,
about 300 yards from where she was
last seen.
The young woman’s parents have
been notified of her apparent cause of
death, Pope said.
Bill to eliminate C1M and
CAM heads to Senate
SALEM — Landmark school re
forms passed by the Legislature in
1991, such as the controversial cer
tificates of mastery, would be
scrapped by a bill passed by the
House on Monday.
Critics say the reforms have not pro
duced results and have bogged down
teachers and students with extra work.
But others argued that the plan
should not be completely thrown out,
which they said could result in lower
standards and requirements.
The bill passed in the Republican
dominated House 34-23, but it has lit
tle chance of being approved by the
Democrat-controlled Senate, said Dave
Miller, spokesman for Senate Majority
Leader Kate Brown, D-Portland.
Under the bill, the Certificate of Ini
tial Mastery and Certificate of Ad
vanced Mastery, or CIM and CAM,
would be scrapped and the Oregon De
partment of Education would contract
out for standardized testing starting
with the 2007 school year.
The department currently develops
and owns the standardized tests used
throughout the state to evaluate
students’ performance.
CIM and CAM are a “failed experi
ment,” said Rep. Linda Flores,
R-Clackamas, who introduced the bill
to the House floor.
Flores said two-thirds of students
didn’t get CIM-certified diplomas last
year and that universities and busi
nesses didn’t take CIM-certification
into account. CAM certification is not
available until 2008.
Schools have been “testing and test
ing and testing our children into an ed
ucational stupor,” said Rep. Brad
Avakian, D-Beaverton, who was one
of several Democrats to speak in favor
of the bill.
But others said throwing out CIM
and CAM is a recipe for disaster.
“Business leaders are telling us
don’t jump off this cliff because we
have no idea what net is going to
catch us,” said Rep. Dave Hunt,
D-Milwaukie.
Hunt said it would result in lower
standards, among other things.
State Schools Superintendent Susan
Castillo said in a statement that she op
posed Monday’s House vote.
Second-youngest graduate
leaves BSU with honors
BOISE, Idaho — A 17-year-old has
become the second-youngest student
to graduate from Boise State Universi
ty, earning his bachelor’s degree in
electrical and computer engineering.
Ayush Goyal, son of an Indian hy
drologist who moved to the United
States in 1993, entered Boise State
University in 1999 at age 11. Only Jay
Luo was younger, getting a bachelor’s
degree in math in 1982 at age 12.
Goyal, among BSU’s Top 10 schol
ars for 2005, graduated summa cum
laude and won praise from Boise
State University President Robert
Kustra at Saturday’s ceremony. He
was named one of the country’s four
top electrical engineering students for
2005 by Eta Kappa Nu, the national
honor society for electrical and
computer engineering.
“I’m not impressed by what I’ve
done,” he said, displaying modesty
that reflects his religion: Goyal is a
Hare Krishna who grew up next door
to the Boise Hare Krishna temple,
where he learned and lectured.
The tenets of Goyal’s faith, merci
fulness, self-control, honesty and ab
stinence from sex before marriage,
have given him concentration powers
that allowed him to excel academical
ly far beyond his years, he said.
Woman pleads guilty in
college student's death
EMMETT, Idaho — A Cascade-area
woman charged with murder in the
shooting death of a college student
last year pleaded guilty to voluntary
manslaughter Monday.
Jett Newell-Fredrickson, 28, will
be sentenced July 11 in Third Dis
trict Court in Emmett in the death of
39-year-old Wyatt Patrick, a student
at Treasure Valley Community Col
lege in Ontario, Ore. Patrick’s body
was found near the Payette River in
July, 2004, nearly a month after he
disappeared.
In September, a grand jury indicted
Newell-Fredrickson on a charge of
first-degree murder. She pleaded to the
lesser charge of voluntary manslaugh
ter Monday in an agreement that Gem
County Prosecuting Attorney Timothy
Fleming said was reached after con
sultation with Patrick’s family and law
enforcement investigators.
“It is in the best interest of justice,”
said Fleming, who filed an indictment
amending the murder charge to vol
untary manslaughter Monday.
Newell-Fredrickson faces up to
15 years in prison and a $15,000
fine. The latest indictment says she
shot Patrick in the chest with a .22
caliber pistol June 26, 2004, during
an argument in Gem County, north
west of Boise.
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