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Check out local Stockton New anti-rape products hotspots with your next date highlight a social problem VOLUME 106, ISSUE 4 CHECK US OUT ON SOCIAL MEDIA: /ThePacifican @ThePacifican @ThePacifican THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2014 CIA data revealed: Finding bin Laden was raided. Storer explains that due to the dubious ethics of information-collecting, she eventually felt urged to leave. “For moral reasons, I didn’t want to go through with it,” said Storer. She elaborated on the methods of “enhanced interrogation,” which included torture and water boarding. Storer acknowledged the potential need in certain circumstances of immediate threat, but questioned the long term issues that could arise from such practices. Since bin Laden’s death, new potential dangers have been brewing. Storer explained that a group led by Zarqawi stands to rival Al-Qaeda now that Bin Laden is dead. The danger for us, Storer suggested, is that rivals tend to “one up” each other. Though no longer retaining her position in the CIA, Storer still preserves her strong sense of public service and relates the personal pride she feels in her contributions to locating bin Laden and in educating others. For more information on the analysts behind the action, check out HBO’s documentary “Manhunt: The Search for Bin Laden.” World Affiars Council CIA analysts ascertained big data that led to Osama bin Laden’s discovery. Jodi Tai endeavor. NEwS EDITOR Dedicated to the war on terror since the mid- 1990s, Storer was part of an all-female analysis we found him. But how? team. From analyzing satellite images to deciphering It was just two years ago on May 2, 2011 when complex algorithms and patterns, her team’s efforts United States Special Forces raided the compound of played a key role in locating bin Laden’s compound Osama bin Laden and killed the infamous Al-Qaeda in Pakistan. Storer describes the analysis process leader. But just how did we manage to find one of like trying to piece together a jigsaw puzzle — except the most elusive terrorist leaders in the world? with missing pieces, multiple puzzles, no edges and This past Monday on Sept. 15, Pacific’s McGeorge no images. School of Law in Sacramento, Calif. held the event As Pacific’s website notes, “Cindy Storer was part titled “From Analyst to Hero: How Big Data Led of a team of CIA intelligence analysts – dubbed ‘The to Bin Laden.” The world Affairs Council, the Sisterhood’ – who discovered obscure data patterns McGeorge International Law Society and the signaling that Al-Qaeda was a coordinated and highly McGeorge women’s Caucus hosted the talk. dangerous threat. Though the team raised the alarm, The session was moderated by the former dean few people listened…Cindy became a key strategic of McGeorge, Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker, and analyst, helping the nation’s policymakers frame featured guest speaker Cynthia Storer (pictured their understanding of terrorism and Al-Qaeda. Her right). pioneering work helped lay the foundation for the Former CIA senior analyst Storer provided some efforts of the analysts and targeting of officers who insight into the enigma of covert affairs. Contrary eventually found Osama bin Laden’s hideout, as to Hollywood movies like “Zero Dark Thirty” that depicted in the movie ‘Zero Dark Thirty.’” depict individual heroes finding the “silver bullet,” Storer left the CIA in 2007, meaning she was not ABC News Storer emphasizes that data analysis is a team presently on the team when Bin Laden’s compound Former CIA senior analyst Cynthia Storer moderated the talk. Index Opinion/4 • Lifestyles/7 • Sports/10 Read. Recycle. Repeat. 2 | THE PACIFICAN NEwS September 18, 2014 Your 24 hours are up: Show time! Thomas Levy “[The club] gave us a picture, and we had to write skill and musical range. As the premiere event for STAFF REPORTER from that.” From there composers had to respond the Conservatory of Music, the 24-Hour Concert musically to their visuals. “The picture that I got is “a good opportunity to mix everybody up,” Saturday evening marked the fourth annual 24- was a whale shark in the water,” Florczak stated, alto saxophone performer Morgan Smallwood Hour Concert put on by the Composers' Club at the “so I did something with the sea. I turned to Alfred, ’15 proclaimed, and everybody is encouraged to Conservatory of Music. The event allowed composers Lord Tennyson’s poem ‘Crossing the Bar,’ which is “have fun and experiment.” At the show there were to experiment with different musical styles through about the sea, and how the tide comes in and washes plenty of artistic liberties taken by composers and entirely randomized performance combos. away the footprints along the sand.” Florczak’s performers alike, about which Smallwood said, “It’s At 7:30 p.m. the night before on Sept. 12, each composition, titled “The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls,” their chance to do something they have never done composer decided whether they would like to write made use of a soprano voice, a horn and a piano, before.” parts for two or three musicians, arbitrarily selected and was able to reach out to the audience in order to Sophomore bassoon player Sam Berris ’17 any mix of instruments, and spent the entire night portray what he described as “serenity, a little bit of performed in a comical woodwind trio who were writing a brief composition. Twelve hours later, the despair, and then some melancholy.” pitch-bending with only their mouthpieces and kept performers were then given the work to practice and Composer Thomas Ravago ’17 dug deep into his the audience very entertained. “There’s not enough rehearse for the final performance at 7:30 Saturday visual, which he interpreted as “a juxtaposition humorous music,” Berris observed. Saturday’s evening. The event was a testament to the hard work between life and death.” He said it was a sequel performance gave light to all sides of music, from and imagination of each composer and performer. to the piece he wrote last year. He expressed, “I wholehearted to hilarious. with just 12 hours to write, composers were want[ed] to relate to those people who have certain with 16 composers, 46 performers and a fully- under the knife to search for ideas to kick-start individuals in their lives that give their lives color.” packed recital hall, the 24-Hour Concert was a their mini-symphonies. Inspiration can be hard Ravago’s heartwarming composition, “The Colors huge success. It displayed the talent and artistry of to come by when under pressure, but due to new Given to Me,” written for a soprano voice, violin and composers housed by the Conservatory of Music. rules imposed by the Composers' Club, the writing viola, reflected his appreciation for those who allow As a truly memorable show, it was a great way to process is supposed to be more synchronized. Lukas him to see the beauty in the world. commence a year full of even more outstanding Florczak ’16, a composer for the show, explained, The 24-Hour Concert also develops performers’ performances. REMEMBER THE TIGERS Jodi Tai Bring Me a Book Foundation and washington’s Army,” and in 2010, NEwS EDITOR by advocating for the Read to Me “The Fight to Survive: A Young Stockton program. He never ceased Girl, Diabetes, and the Discovery of This weekend, Pacific remembered promoting a love of reading and a love Insulin.” In 2009, she coauthored its beloved Emeritus Professor Robert of learning. “Opening Up North America 1497- Morrow with a memorial service here In 2011, Morrow explained, 1800.” Cox was in the process of on campus. Friends, family and faculty "Education was the only way out finishing her soon-to-be released came to honor him, celebrating his for someone in my circumstances.” book, “Boy Soldiers: war and Society life as a teacher, a husband, a father, Morrow was born in a family of 10 in the American Revolution.” a grandfather and a well-respected brothers and sisters when the Great “Over the past year I saw how advocate for literacy in the Stockton Depression hit. Even after the death much she was cared for by her close community. of his mother and a cycle through friends and colleagues here at Pacific, After serving as a professor here multiple foster homes, Morrow and how much she cared for everyone at Pacific for 28 years and retiring shared that he was still able to find here, and this place,” said Dean Rena in 2002, Morrow passed away at age empowerment in school, where he was Fraden. “She was generous to all of 82 this year on July 8. His memorial able to awaken his potential through us and she will be missed beyond service was held at Morris Chapel at the power of books. measure — for her tremendous 10:30 a.m. this past Saturday, Sept. 13. Morrow dedicated his life to University of the Pacific Scottish sense, her humor, her Morrow taught in the Gladys L.