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Oklahoma State coach killed in crash
Oklahoma State
University's women's
basketball coach Kurt
Budke and assistant
coach Miranda Serna,
along with two other
people, died in a plane
crash on Thursday,
The Daily O'Collegian
reported.
The plane went down
in an area 45 miles
west of Little Rock,
according to The Daily
O'Collegian.
"Kurt was an exem-
plary leader and a man
of character who had a
profound impact on his
student-athletes," OSU
President Burns Hargis
wrote in a press release.
"He was an outstanding
coach and a wonderful
person."
U-HAUL HITS
WOMAN BEFORE
YALE VS.
HARVARD GAME
On Saturday, a
U-Haul truck transport-
ing beer kegs before the
Yale vs. Harvard foot-
ball game hit and killed
a woman and injured
two others, The Associ-
ated Press reported.
The male driver was
driving through several
tailgate parties when
he sped up and hit the
women and crashed into
other vehicles, accord-
ing to the AP. Police
have not revealed if alco-
hol was involved.
POLICE TAKE
CAMERA FROM
LOYOLA PROFESSOR
Loyola University
Chicago Journalism
Prof. Ralph Braseth was
detained and had his
video tape forcefully
erased after he recorded
a police officer arresting
someone, according to
The Loyola Phoenix.
Braseth was working
on a story about young
people from poor areas
ofChicagocomingtothe
Loop area of downtown
on the weekends when
the arrest took place,
the Phoenix reported.
When an officer spot-
ted Braseth filmingit, he
handcuffed Braseth and
put him in the back of a
police car for about 20
minutes. Then the offi-
cer deleted his footage
and released him.
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CRIME NOTES
Frequent fliers Police incidents
WHERE: Lot SC-6, 1200 at the Michigan
Kipke Road
WHEN: Friday at about V. Nebraska game
11:25 a.m.
WHAT: People were WHERE: Michigan Stadium
spotted placing fliers on WHEN: Saturday
cars ina University parking WHAT: At the Michigan
lot, University Police v. Nebraska football
reported. Responding game, three arrests were
officers were unable to made: the first for Minor
locate fliers or suspects, in Possession of alcohol,
CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Biology of Jazz recitc
aging seminar WHAT: Studentsi
University's Depar
WHAT: Dr. Daniel of Jazz and Contes
Promislow, a professor of Improvisation will
genetics at the University perform.
of Georgia, will discuss his WHO: School of M
studies on human aging Theatre & Dance
and genetics. WHEN: Today at 8
WHO: University's WHERE: Moore B
Departmentof Ecology and McIntosh Theatre
EvolutionaryBiology
WHEN: Today at 4 p.m. Book talk
WHERE: Chemistry
Building, room 1200 WHAT: Are hintri
al
in the
rtment
mporary
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1p.m.
uilding,
"ian
Mazda moves
to Maynard
WHERE: South Forest
parking structure
WHEN: Friday at about
5:50 p.m.
WHAT: A staff person's
Mazda was taken from the
structure and was later
recovered in the Maynard
Street parking structure,
University Police reported.
the second for assault and
battery and the third for
resisting and obstructing
a police officer, University
Police reported. One
citation was issued for
having alcohol in the
stadium. Also, 42 people
were ejected from the game,
11 of which were ejected
for possession of another's
ID, 18 for alcohol in the
stadium, six for violation of
the stadium rules and seven
for disorderly conduct.
Youth musical
performances
WHAT: The Michigan
Youth Jazz Improvisation
Ensemble, Michigan
Youth Band and the
Michigan Youth Symphony
Orchestra will play a free
concert.
WHO: School of Music,
Theatre & Dance
WHEN: Tonight at 7 p.m.
WHEREHill Auditorium
Edward Goldberg will
discuss his latestbook,
"Jews and Magic in Medici
Florence: The Secret World
of Benedetto Blanis."
WHO: University Libraries
WHEN: Today at 5 p.m.
WHERE: Hatcher Graduate
Library gallery
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A decision will be made
next September about
the use of invasive
research on orangutans,
gorillas and bonobos, The
New York Times reported.
A ban would save taxpayers
$30 million ayear on funding
for lab chimpanzees.
In No. 17 Nebraska's
first visit to Michigan
Stadium since 1962,
the Wolverines dominated
the Cornhuskers in all facets
of the game. Michigan won,
45-17.
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A 13-year-old boy from
New York presented
his prototype for a solar
panel design, which is up to
50 percent more efficient than
traditional solar technology,
CNN reported. The middle
school student based his
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Chevron takes blame for
Brazilian coast oil spil
Officials estimate
more than 110,000
gallons of oil spilled
SAO PAULO (AP) - An ongo-
ing oil spill off the Brazilian
coast occurred because Chev-
ron underestimated the pres-
sure in an underwater reservoir,
the head of the company's Brazil
operations said yesterday.
George Buck, chief operating
officer for the Brazilian division
of the San Ramon, California-
based company, told foreignjour-
nalists that Chevron "takes full
responsibility for this incident,"
and that "any oil on the surface
of the ocean is unacceptable to
Chevron."
But Buck rejected accusa-
tions the company did not notify
authorities quickly enough after
the leak was detected and that it
did not properly manage cleanup
operations.
Chevron was drilling an
appraisal well about 230 miles
(370 kilometers) off the north-
eastern coast of Rio de Janeiro
when the leak began Nov.7.
The drilling fluid that is
pumped down the center of
the drill as it works, lubricat-
ing and stabilizing the pressure
of the bore hole, was not heavy
enough to counter the pressure
coming from the oil reservoir,
Buck said.
That caused crude to rush
upward and eventually escape
through a breach inthe bore hole
and leak into the surrounding
seabed.
The oil then made its way to
the ocean floor and has since
leaked through at least seven nar-
row fissures, all within 160 feet
(50 meters) of the well head on
the ocean floor, Buck said.
Brazil's National Petroleum
Agency has said it's possible more
than 110,000 gallons of oil have
spilled into the Atlantic Ocean.
Buck would not provide an esti-
mate on the total size of the leak,
but said the agency figure was "in
the ballpark."
He added that the slick cur-
rently contains about 756 gallons
(2,860 liters) of oil, a figure not
confirmed by Brazilian regula-
tors, though they have said it has
been significantly reduced since
Chevron successfully carried out
the first stage of capping the well
Thursday.
University of California, Davis police officers, Ryan Terry, left, and Manny Guerrero, right, watch as students remove their
tents from the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Davis, Calif., on Friday.
Pol ce blast pepper spray at
UC DaVis Occu pyprotesters *
McDonald's drops Minn. egg
supplier over cruelty charges
FDA cites 'serious
violations' at five
Sparboe Farms
facilities
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -
McDonald's Corp. said Friday it
has dropped a Minnesota-based
egg supplier after an animal
rights group released an under-
cover video of operations at the
egg producer's farms in three
states.
The video by Mercy for Ani-
mals shows what the group calls
animal cruelty at five Sparboe
Farms facilities in Iowa, Min-
nesota and Colorado. Its images
include a worker swinging a bird
around by its feet, hens packed
into cramped cages, male chicks
being tossed into plastic bags to
suffocate and workers cutting
off the tips of chick's beaks.
"The behavior on tape is dis-
turbing and completely unac-
ceptable. McDonald's wants to
assure our customers that we
demand humane treatment of
animals by our suppliers," Bob
Langert, McDonald's vice presi-
dent for sustainability, said in a
statement.
The move also followed a
warning letter to Sparboe Farms
dated Wednesday from the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration
that said inspectors found "seri-
ous violations" at five Sparboe
facilities of federal regulations
meant to prevent salmonella.
The warning said eggs from
those facilities "have been pre-
pared, packed, or held under
insanitary conditions whereby
they may have become contami-
nated with filth, or whereby
they may have been rendered
injurious to health."
Sparboe Companies LLC
issued a statement calling the
video "shocking" and saying an
internal investigation identified
four employees "who were com-
plicit in this disturbing activity"
and were fired this month.
"I was deeply saddened to see
the story because this isn't who
Sparboe Farms is," owner and
president Beth Sparboe Schnell
said in a statement posted on a
company website. "Acts depict-
ed in the footage are totally
unacceptable and completely
at odds with our values as egg
farmers. In fact, they are in
direct violation of our animal
care code of conduct, which all
of our employees read, sign and
follow each day."
Sparboe, which is headquar-
tered in Litchfield, also said on
the website that it has made
management changes, taken
corrective actions sought by the
FDA, and begun retraining all
barn workers in proper animal
care procedures.
University chancellor
Katehi blamed for
authorizing
police intervention
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Pro-
testers sitting on the ground sup-
porting the Occupy Wall Street
movement on the campus of the
University of California, Davis
took a face full of pepper spray
at close range from an officer in
riot gear in an incident that was
captured on cellphone video and
spread virally across the Internet
Saturday.
UC Davis Chancellor Linda
Katehi described the video imag-
es as "chilling" and said she was
forming a task force to investigate
even as a faculty group called for
her resignation because of the Fri-
day police action.
However, a law enforcement
official who watched the clip
called the use of force "fairly stan-
dard police procedure."
In the video, an officer dispas-
sionately pepper-sprays a line
of several sitting protesters who
flinch and cover their faces but
remain passive with their arms
interlocked as onlookers shriek
and scream out for the officer to
stop.
"The use of the pepper spray as
shown on the video is chilling to
us all and raises many questions
about how best to handle situa-
tions like this," Chancellor Linda
Katehi said in a message posted on
the school's website Saturday.
The protest was held in support
of the overall Occupy Wall Street
movement and in solidarity with
protesters at the University of Cal-
ifornia, Berkeley who were jabbed
by police with batons on Nov. 9.
The UC Davis video images,
which were circulated on You-
Tube and widely elsewhere
online, prompted immediate out-
rage among faculty and students,
with the Davis Faculty Associa-
tion saying in a letter Saturday
that Katehi should resign.
"The Chancellor's role is to
enable open and free inquiry, not
to suppress it," the faculty associa-
tion said in its letter.
It called Katehi's authorization
of police force a "gross failure of
leadership."
At a news conference later on
Saturday, Katehi said what the
video shows is "sad and really
very inappropriate." The events
surrounding the protest have
been hard on her personally, but
she had no plans to resign, she
said.
"I do not think that I have vio-
lated the policies of the institu-
tion. I have worked personally
very hard to make this campus a
safe campus for all," she said.
Katehi remained in a media
room for more than two hours
after the news conference, even-
tually walking to an SUV past a
silent group of students nearly
three blocks long, many of them
holding up signs calling for her to
step down, the Sacramento Bee
said.
The statewide Council of UC
Faculty Associations issued a
statement Saturday saying "We
are outraged that the administra-
tions of UC campuses are using
police brutality to suppress dis-
sent, free speech and peaceful
assembly."
Charles J. Kelly, a former Balti-
more Police Department lieuten-
ant who wrote the department's
use of force guidelines, said pep-
per spray is a "compliance tool"
that can be used on subjects who
do not resist, and is preferable to
simply lifting protesters.
"When you start picking up
human bodies, you risk hurting
them," Kelly said. "Bodies don't
have handles on them."
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