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Faculty review Rate My Professors
By Erica Heinisch
The Collegian
Fresno State professors have mixed
reviews for the Rate My Professors website,
which has 1,703 Fresno State professors
rated online at a 3.82 total average out of
five.
RateMyProfessors.com is the most often
used website to review professors at various
colleges and universities across the United
States, Canada and the United Kingdom,
according to the website.
Students have added more than 14 million ratings of 1.3 million professors at
7,000 schools to the site.
The website also released its 2013 “Top
25” professors in September. A classics
professor from Loyola University Chicago
came in first.
Four of the top-rated professors at
Fresno State are communication professor
Jonathan Hernandez, theatre arts professor Edward EmanuEl, mathematics lecturer Jim Ryan and history professor Daniel
Cady.
Hernandez, Fresno State’s top-rated
professor on the site, said that, though he
has not read his reviews, he has been told
numerous times by students that they
decided to take his class solely because of
his ratings.
He said he is humbled by his high
reviews.
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‘Helping
Hams’
feeds
families
By Hailey Mayo
The Collegian
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With 17 Grammy Awards, hip-hop artist Jay-Z performs for thousands of fans Tuesday night at the Save Mart Center during his tour, The Magna Carta World Tour.
Associated Students Inc. is
collaborating with Gibson Farm
Market and the Bulldog Pantry to
bring hams and other groceries to
families in need this holiday season through its ‘Helping Hams’
campaign.
This is the first ‘Helping Hams’
campaign organized by Fresno
State.
In the past, Fresno State has
had similar campaigns, such as
‘Give a Gobbler,’ but due to the
national turkey shortage, hams
replaced turkeys on the menu.
ASI programs and volunteer
coordinator Ashleigh Rocker said
it’s undecided whether or not this
will be a new tradition, but that
the campaign has been successful
thus far.
The campaign’s goal was to
raise $3,000 in a month and give
away 150 hams.
“A few weeks ago when
Chancellor Timothy White was
here, we had him pardon a turkey named Pepper to kick off the
first season of giving away hams,”
Rocker said. “I am not sure if this
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Campus mourns Mandela
Campus community shares its thoughts during vigil
By Sumaya Attia
Special to The Collegian
Dozens of students, faculty and community members gathered in the Free Speech Area on Monday
night to commemorate the life of anti-apartheid
leader Nelson Mandela in the wake of his death last
week.
“Nelson Mandela was a candle in a world of darkness,” said English professor James Walton.
Mandela died in Johannesburg, South Africa on
Thursday. He was 95 years old.
Mandela was widely recognized for his work
against apartheid in South Africa and was awarded
the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995.
Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years in the infa-
mous Robben Island prison. He was remembered as
one of history’s most outspoken and influential leaders in human rights.
One after another, professors, students and club
representatives shared how they felt about Mandela
during a candlelight vigil.
Event emcee and women’s studies professor
Melissa Knight said she remembers when she heard
of Mandela’s freedom for the first time. It was something she has not forgotten.
“There is no other way to describe it. It was like
it was a vibration,” Knight said, “It really felt like an
earthquake. You’re in the Bay Area and you’re asking, ‘Was there an earthquake?’”
See MANDELA, Page 6
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Fresno State President Joseph Castro and his wife Mary Castro join a vigil to remember the legacy of Nelson Mandela.
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The end: assessing my education
By Haley Lambert
Opinion Editor
I was scouring the recesses of my mind,
as well as the annals of the Internet for a
great quote about “the end.”
It’s the conclusion of the semester, and
subsequently, the end of my undergraduate career. I’ve run the gamut, and yet, I’ve
only done so in four and half years.
Junior college was fantastic. Shout out
to Merced College!
Oddly enough I started out majoring in
history, then, three weeks into my freshman year, I switched to agricultural business. From there I planned to go into crop
production.
To this end, I began working for a crop
adviser, which basically meant being a
grunt who walks around gathering tissue
and soil samples from fields in the ghastly
dampness and horrible heat of the San
Joaquin Valley. But, it is better than working inventory at Walmart, so that was nice.
(Also, I forgot to mention, I worked at
Southern Baptist camp during the summer
of 2010. It was brief and not all that enjoyable. I met 11 great people. The end.)
Somehow I ended up at The Collegian.
Via luck, fate and a radio-news internship,
I guess I seemed qualified to work here.
Looking back, so many of my decisions
in college were centered on “the future.”
If you notice, I mentioned nothing about
tailgates, being a drunky-bear or any extracurricular involvement.
Don’t get me wrong, those have all happened. Yet, the stuff of the past four years
that stands out in mind seems to involve
the jobs I’ve had, the grades I earned and
majors I chose. All of which came to fruition through a strange combination of fate,
luck and calculated planning.
For example, when I applied for junior
college I declared myself a history major,
but I didn’t take any history classes, plus
I took an agricultural business class to
fulfill a social science prerequisite. I had
a hankering to major in some agricultural
science, but didn’t come from a farming
background, so I didn’t want to be foolish,
going full-bore into something I knew very
little about.
My plan paid off. I made many friends
in Merced College Division of Agriculture
and found great success as an agriculture
student.
When I transferred to Fresno State, I
wanted to study Classics — even though
I didn’t exactly understand what that
entailed. I guess I didn’t quite grasp it
requires becoming a proficient reader of
a very dead language. In my case, I concentrated on Attic Greek — the stuff that
Sophocles and Aristotle used, so yeah, I
guess it’s not very useful.
Just kidding! It is incredibly useful!
All joking aside, I’m forever glad and
grateful for my foray into Greek study.
Learning one of the classic languages of
Western Civilization has helped my writing, my understanding of grammar and
history, not to mention improved my general mental cognition.
Reading Attic Greek is akin to doing
a really bizarre Sudoku-crossword-word
search, but with weirdo-alien letters and
confusing verb tenses.
And then there’s my majoring in history. I thought I wanted to be an attorney.
Turns, out that would have been terrible. I
did six weeks of LSAT study and realized
I was miserable, so law school would have
been like a self-inflicted, three-year detour
through Hades.
Also, I don’t want to teach.
What to do, then? The gal who spent
years planning her success with a luck/
fate/planning cocktail, hasn’t a real solid
clue about a future career.
My junior year of high school, I told
everyone I was going to be a shrimp boat
captain. They thought I was kidding. Well,
everyone except my mom — that’s a testament to the innate wisdom and intuition
possessed by good mothers, like mine!
I’ve been told I will be a history professor — though my history professors would
probably disagree (yuck yuck yuck!). Some
have said I would do well in sales, which is
either a great compliment, a cryptic insult
or just some really general pleasantries
tossed my way.
I’ve learned so much about the world,
the communities around me, the people
with whom I interact, and thus I’ve learned
a lot about myself.
I’m very much unsure about the road
ahead, but I’m not worried. I have a great
job lined up, and I’ll be planning a wedding, so life is good!
The luck/fate/planning formula has
worked well thus far, so why not add a dash
of “surprise me!” and wait for the best possible conclusion.
No matter the twists and turns, it will
never be said I didn’t receive an education.
In fact, I received more than the average
college education.
I’ve translated the book of Revelation
from Greek into English. I’ve written more
papers and essays than I can count. I’ve
participated in a national collegiate landscape horticulture competition and walked
miles of cotton and alfalfa fields counting
caterpillars and weeds (for the purpose of
pest control. No one just does that).
I’ve been a news editor, an opinion editor, a radio copywriter, a canoe guide and
learned that history — especially one’s own
— should never be painted as black and
white.
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Freeze worries Valley, Fresno State farmers
By Megan Tweddell
The Collegian
Fresno State orchard workers
are watching thermostats every
night like farmers across the
Central Valley as freezing temperatures threaten crops.
Mark Salwasser has worked
on the Fresno State farm for 22
years, but this is the coldest time
he can remember in the four years
he’s worked in the university’s
orchards.
“This isn’t the worst freeze,
though it probably ranks up there
pretty high,” Salwasser said.
Cold accelerates the citrus ripening process, bringing out sugars
and coloring, but freezing temperatures can damage the fruit
beyond repair.
“If it gets too cold and it gets
inside the fruit, the actual cells
will freeze to a point and burst
and eventually dry out,” Salwasser
said.
He said with temperatures getting down to 25 degrees in the
Fresno State orchard, there is a
big possibility for damage.
Fresno State has eight acres of
mandarins and 12 acres of navel
oranges. The mandarins are
smaller with thin skins and are
more susceptible to cold weather.
“We don’t know the extent
of the damage quiet yet, though
it has been quite cold here.”
Salwasser said. “It usually takes a
few weeks to see what the damage
is.”
Fresno State has measures that
can help protect crops in these
cold temperatures. Workers
apply water to the orchards
through microsprinklers whenever the temperature reaches 34
degrees and keeps them on until
the temperature rises out of freezing range.
“When water freezes, the
physical property of water turning from liquid to ice gives off a
significant amount of heat in that
reaction, which keeps the oranges
warm,” Salwasser said.
He said that good irrigation
can provide about a 2-degree
increase, which can help protect
the fruit.
“That is a significant amount,
but I think about how cold it has
been and we may need more,”
Salwasser said.
Other growers in the Central
Valley use wind machines with big
propellers that are 40 to 50 feet
above the orchard. The machines
mix the warm air that rises and
pushes it toward the ground,
where it is the coldest at night.
Alyssa Houtby, director of public affairs with California Citrus
Mutual, said that most growers
have protective measures in place.
“A majority of the entire industry has some sort of protection on
their ranches. If they don’t have
wind machines, they are certainly running water to warm up the
temperature,” Houtby said.
She said that some Kern
County citrus growers are going
so far as to have a helicopter circle
above their acres of mandarins in
order to keep the cold and warm
air mixed.
“Everyone has been equally
impacted across the Valley at one
point or another over the past
week,” Houtby said.
The Central Valley will feel
relief from the freezing temperatures soon, said James
Brotherton, a meteorologist at
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An orange grower takes a look at a freeze damaged orange in black light at the LoBue Brothers packing house in Exeter on Feb. 6,
2007. University of California researchers demonstrated how a modified Breathalyzer and a blacklight can help citrus growers and
packers detect freeze-damaged fruit. The recent freeze has citrus farmers worried about similar damage.
the National Weather Service
in Hanford. Brotherton said
that the Central Valley is in an
abnormally cold weather pattern
caused by cold air dropping down
from Canada and filtering into
California.
Brotherton explained that the
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“We can have these little bouts
of cold weather, but it’s very
unusual for them to last more
than a few days,” Brotherton said.
He said it is key for farmers to
be aware of the conditions.
“We put out an eight-day
weather forecast so we can see
these weather patterns develop-
ing anywhere from five to 10 days
ahead of time,” Brotherton said.
“So in this case we were messaging to the public and our partners,
like emergency managers, about
five days in advance.”
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“I think it’s perfectly fine,” Ryan said.
“The students should have a chance to say
“I give it 120 percent every single day what they think. It gives you a little insight.
that I am in the classroom and it is such a The numbers are not perfect, but if you see
wonderful experience to hear that my stu- a professor with a 4.5 versus another with a
dents appreciate that,” Hernandez said. “I 2, you’re probably going to want to go with
appreciate them. I just want to do every- the professor with a 4.5.”
Ryan also said that when he sees a comthing in my power to help every single one
ment criticizing his teaching, it sometimes
of them succeed.”
sparks reevaluation
Hernandez also
of his methods.
said he believes that
“I think it’s a
professors do not
useful site, and stupay much attention
feel that students should not let
dents should try
to or spend much
others dictate their decisions on
to be constructive
time on the website.
if they have criti“I feel that stuwho to take for a class.”
cism,” Ryan said.
dents should not let
“When you have
others dictate their
— Jonathan Hernandez,
students using slandecisions on who
Communications professor
der against profesto take for a class,”
sors, that’s not useHernandez said.
ful. But if they give
“When I was a stuconstructive critident here at Fresno
cism, that’s fine.”
State, I would often
Cady said he has not looked at his
hear of the professors who ‘I should stay
away from,’ only to find out that I really reviews in years and has mostly only looked
enjoyed the professor and course material at other professor ratings.
He said the site is useless since the ratat the end of the semester.”
EmanuEl said the forum meant to ings are only based on whether the student
help students choose professors becomes likes, dislikes or finds the professor attracoffensive when the ratings and comments tive.
“I find it amusing because the professors
become personal and about the character
who have received mediocre reviews are
of the professor.
“I think the site is only useful when the better professors, and the professors
you’re looking at the amount of work that’s that have received the better reviews are
assigned by a professor, whether that pro- more of the boring professors,” Cady said.
fessor demands that you show up to class
or not,” EmanuEl said. “I think stuff like
that is important—the factual stuff.
“The personality stuff, I think, is just
awful. If you said some of this stuff and you
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weren’t anonymous, you could probably
the
Monday, Dec. 9 misidentified the
get sued for slander. And they can say it
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because they’re anonymous.”
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Ryan said he has looked at his own ratings in addition to other professors’ as well.
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doing.”
Knight said she hopes that
Outreach counselor and event this event will provide adequate
organizer Kornya Lansana said awareness of who Mandela was.
the goal of the
She said there
event was to celis still much
ebrate the life of
that students
believe when you hear the are unaware of
Mandela and to
bring awareness
when it comes
name Nelson Mandela,
of his achieveto the true legait
goes
across
race,
ethnicity
ments to stucy of his life.
and gender.”
dents on cam“Younger
pus.
generations
“I believe
— Kornya Lansana, m a y n o t b e
when
you
Vigil organizer able to specify
hear
the
exactly what
name Nelson
he did,” Knight
Mandela, it goes
said. “Whether
across race, ethnicity and gen- you’re grabbing folks as they walk
der,” Lansana said. “It’s about by or they read about it in the
struggle and people’s resilience in newspaper, or see it on the news,
what they believe, which is human it’s events like these that will perrights. I think his name signifies haps encourage students to look a
a lot and just for that, it gives us little more into what his life really
celebration and that’s what we are was.”
“I
Roe Borunda / The Collegian
Natacha Woodson, a Fresno State student, joined faculty and classmates Monday night in sharing their thoughts about the passing of human rights icon Nelson Mandela.
HAMS: Campaign to benefit neighborhoods near campus
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will be the new tradition, but for
Jeff Kiesz
this year, it’s working very well.”
The campaign began on Nov.
18 and will continue through
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Monday. ASI held a press conference at the farm market, during which Fresno State President
Joseph Castro purchased four
hams to kick off the campaign.
Rocker said they are very
happy with the response so far
and will announce the final
counts once the campaign ends.
“I am very humbled and
impressed by the outpouring of
the Fresno State community thus
far, especially the generous donations made by staff and administration,” Rocker said.
Bulldog Pantry Leadership
Board Member, Kelly Miller, has
volunteered 10-20 hours a week
at the pantry since its inception in
late 2007.
“For the university students,
staff, and faculty, to come together for ‘Helping Hams’ . . . is an
amazing thing.
“Students should know the
impact they can have on their
community. Events like ‘Helping
Hams’ brings their power to
strengthen their communities
to light and hopefully starts that
fire inside them to continue that
impact through philanthropy to
any community they choose to be
a part of.”
The hams will be delivered on
Dec. 19 to families in need in the
Sierra Madre and El Dorado Park
neighborhoods.
“The main goal of every holiday outreach we do is the same,
whether it’s turkeys, hams, or
bags of groceries,” Rocker said.
“It’s to provide food to insecure
families in the communities surrounding Fresno State and to give
our students the opportunity to
learn to give back.”
Miller said the families they
serve often don’t know how they
will get their next meal and sometimes skip meals because they
don’t have the means to buy the
food they need.
“For our families to be able to
not only feed themselves this holiday season, but to also be able to
take part in something special,
a ham, means more than just a
full belly, it means a sense of normalcy,” Miller said. “Donations
like these say to the families that
the community cares about them,
and that they deserve not only the
basic necessities, but that they
deserve to feel special and thrive.”
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dropped off at the Gibson Farm
Market on Chestnut north of
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Fresno State quarterback Derek Carr was named the
2013 Mountain West Offensive Player of the Year.
Carr becomes the third player in league history to win
the offensive player of the year award in back-to-back seasons and joins Kevin Sweeney (1985 and 1986 in the Big
West) as the only two-time conference offensive players of
the year in school history. He was one of four Bulldogs to be
named first-team All-Mountain West and Fresno State also
had five second-team selections and six honorable mention
honorees.
Wide receiver Davante Adams, offensive lineman Austin
Wentworth and free safety Derron Smith all joined Carr on
the All-MW first-team. All four of them are repeat selections off of last seasons first-team.
Fresno State’s second team selections were wide receiver Josh Harper, tight end Marcel Jensen, nose guard Tyeler
Davison, outside linebacker Ejiro Ederaine
and then Isaiah Burse was selected as a return
specialist.
The honorable mention selections were
Burse as a wide receiver, cornerback L.J.
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Adams and Carr had a record breaking year. Carr set
new Mountain West records for passing yards (4,866) and
touchdown passes (48) while Adams set a new league mark
with his 23 TD catches this season.
Smith led the Mountain West this season with six interceptions, a number that tied for the fourth-most in the
nation.
Wentworth led the offensive line that paved the way for
the Bulldog offense that ranked third nationally in total
offense (570.6) and fifth in scoring (45.3). Fresno State
also only allowed 11 sacks in 12 games, which tied for the
ninth fewest of any team in the FBS.
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The Fresno State men’s basketball team will honor one of
its coaching legends on Jan. 1 at
noon at the Save Mart Center.
Jerry Tarkanian will be in
attendance at the Bulldogs’
conference-opener against the
UNLV Runnin’ Rebels.
Tarkanian, who was inducted into the Naismith College
Basketball Hall of Fame in
September, played at Fresno
State from 1954-55 and later
coached for the Bulldogs from
1995-02.
“Jerry Tarkanian is one of
the true legends in the coaching
profession,” said Fresno State
men’s basketball coach Rodney
Terry. “He has been successful
at so many different levels in college basketball and his induction
to the Hall of Fame is yet another accomplishment in Coach
Tarkanian’s illustrious career.”
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2013
TRACK AND FIELD
High hopes,
greater humility
Photo courtesy of Fresno State Athletics
Fresno State thrower Ana Folau prepares to launch her disc into the air during a home discus competition. Folau, an All-American, was one of 14 Bulldogs who went to the NCAA West Track and Field Preliminary
Championships last season.
Fresno State All-American prepares for another busy season
By Daniel Leon
The Collegian
With a little more than a month until the
2013-14 track and field season kicks off,
one Fresno State All-American is rising to
the competition.
Ana Folau, a senior discus thrower,
works out on the practice field and in the
gym every day – all while maintaining her
humility.
Last season, Folau was one of 14 Bulldogs
(the most in 4 years for Fresno State) who
earned a trip to the NCAA West Track and
Field Preliminary Championships in May
2013 at the University of Texas in Austin.
She was a qualifier for the discus, recording
a throw of 50.36 meters.
Making it there was definitely one of the
more remarkable accomplishments in her
track and field career.
“It felt great because it took me three
years to get there,” said Folau. “A lot of hard
work went into it, a lot of dedication and a
lot of time in the gym and in the (throwing)
ring.”
“Honestly, I wouldn’t consider myself
what a lot of other people do, I like to keep
myself humble,” she said.
Folau attended Florin High School in
Sacramento at which she excelled in track
and field. She did not take an interest in the
sport until she was a junior in high school.
Her strength and size enabled her to succeed as a shot put and discus thrower right
away.
Due to the success she had in her junior
and senior years, she received various
offers from Division I schools in California
and even a couple from out-of-state, but
mentioned that she chose to come to
Fresno State because of the throwing coach
Lisa Misipeka.
“[She] sold the school to me really well,”
Folau said, “and it’s not too far from home.”
Folau is not the only athlete in the family. One of her brothers, a senior in high
school, has visited Fresno State for its football program. However, Folau doesn’t pressure him to go to her school.
“I told him that he should go wherever
he wants to go, ill be perfectly fine with his
decision.”
All of the athletic success that she and
her brother have achieved has been an
exciting for she and her family, she said.
Preparation and focus are critical in any
sport, and Folau has her own way of doing
it. Music plays a key role for her as she
enjoys listening to all types of music, but
her favorites are soul and classical music.
“It allows me to calm myself down and,
since I get distracted easily, it prevents my
mind from going everywhere,” she said.
Although she did not advance from
the preliminary round to the NCAA
Championships, it was still a fun, humbling
and learning experience for the senior.
Folau has high hopes for this upcoming track season as she aims to take the
next step by placing in the top 12 in the
preliminary championships and make
it to the 2013-2014 Division 1 NCAA
Championships, which will be in Eugene,
Ore. However, her goal is to not only make
it to the NCAA Finals but also place and
receive All-American honors at the end of
the season.
Folau and the Bulldogs will kick off their
2013-2014 track and field (indoor) season
on Jan. 29th.
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Carr honored as National Scholar-Athlete in New York
Collegian Staff
Fresno State quarterback Derek Carr
was honored Tuesday by the National
Football Foundation (NFF) as a 2013
National Scholar-Athlete here at the NFF
National Awards Dinner.
Carr, who was a finalist for the William
V. Campbell Trophy that is also known as
the academic Heisman, becomes the third
Bulldog to be honored as a NFF National
Scholar-Athlete, joining Vernon Fox (2001)
and Moses Harris (2009).
The William V. Campbell Trophy was
presented Tuesday at the Annual Awards
Dinner to Penn State’s John Urschel.
Urschel and Carr were two of the 16 members of the 2013 class that were selected
from a nationwide pool of 171 exceptional
semifinalists from among all NCAA divisions and the NAIA and he will receive an
$18,000 postgraduate scholarship.
“I praise God for the opportunity to be
here and be in a class with these great athletes and more so better people,” Carr said.
“I want to thank the NFF for the opportunity to be here, to represent Fresno State,
this is amazing to be a part of.”
Carr, with a 3.47 GPA in recreation
administration and leisure service management, was also named earlier this year
to the Capital One Academic All-America
second-team.
His excellence in the classroom was
matched by his efforts in the community, as
he continually gave back to all of those who
cheered him on at games.
“The reason I do what I do is because
of the Lord my God,” Carr said. “I want to
continue to reach out to young kids about
the mistakes I’ve made. That’s the main
reason why I play football.”
Carr was joined in New York by his
wife, Heather, four-month old son, Dallas,
Bulldog head coach Tim DeRuyter and his
wife, Kara, and Fresno State Director of
Athletics Thomas Boeh.
“It’s not about me, it is about my teammates and my family, so thank you to them
and I thank everybody at Fresno State,”
he said. “Having my wife and son here, it’s
amazing. If you would have told me five
years ago I’d be here with a wife and a son,
I would have told you that you were crazy,
but it’s here and I wouldn’t trade it for anything.”