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Recent assaults spark Violence
Awareness Week activities
By Stephen Keleher
The Collegian
Saturday night, kinesiology major
Carson Souza and classmate Zac
Vanasen decided to walk home but had
no idea they were about to become the
latest statistic in off-campus violence.
Souza said he and Vanasen were
walking along Bulldog Lane toward
Cedar Avenue when a white Chevy
Malibu started to follow them. The passengers in the vehicle started to yell
out the window, but Souza and Vanasen
ignored them. The car then pulled in
front of Souza and Vanasen and five
passengers got out.
“Zac and I began to back up trying
to explain that we weren’t saying anything to them and that we didn’t want
any problems,” Souza said. “I was
hit from the side and knocked unconscious.”
Souza re g ained consciousness,
minus his wallet and phone. He went
to the hospital and discovered his jaw
was fractured in two places and he had
a head concussion.
This week, the University Police
Department posted crime alert notices
on buildings all over campus because
of the incident.
Violent incidents like this, along
with the off-campus shooting death of
Fresno State freshman Justin Hesketh
over the winter break, provoked
Associated Students, Inc. to take action
and organize a Violence Awareness
Week.
Starting Tuesday, the organizers will
have a range of activities planned to
inform students and also to give them
a chance to express their concerns and
provide an outlet for their grief.
“Justin was my best friend’s little
brother,” said Violence Awareness
Week organizer and ASI Senator
Brandi Jacobs. “Students tend to think
that it could never happen to them. But
the truth is that it could happen at any
time, anywhere. That’s the reason that
Violence Awareness Week is being put
on.”
On Tuesday, informational tables
from several organizations will be set
up in the Free Speech Area. Brochures
and pamphlets will be handed out to
provide information about different
types of violence.
The following day, students will hand
out black ribbons on the Free Speech
platform. “The black ribbons symbolize violence,” Jacobs said.
“We’re also going to be tying black
ribbons to trees all throughout campus,” said Jacobs.
T-shirts with a “Stop the Violence”
message will be available for $10.
On Thursday, speakers from the
Non-Violent Center of Fresno, the
University police and Jacobs are scheduled to speak starting at 6:30 p.m. at the
Satellite Student Union.
Violence Awareness week will be
capped off, Friday, with “A Day of
Remembrance” in the Free Speech
Area.
“It will be a time for students to
remember those lost to violence or also
who were affected by violence,” added
ASI Community Organizer Lauren
Smoot.
Fresno State students led by ASI
and the Interfraternity Council have
worked hard to help contain incidents
of violence on and around campus.
“Since the initial drive-by shooting
this past summer on my Fraternity
house on Shaw Ave., we have really come a long way,” said Michael
Eberhard, Pi Kappa Alpha member
and President of the Interfraternity
Council. “But it is discouraging sometimes.
Just last night, a friend had her
car broken into,” added Eberhard.
“Vandalism and tagging also happens
often.”
ASI senators Jacobs and Breannah
Evans encourage all students to participate in next week’s activities.
“We’re trying to reach out to students
just to be aware of their surroundings
everywhere that they are,” Jacobs said.
Eberhard added, “I don’t know the
solution to these problems. But as students, we are doing what we can to help
and create change.”
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and culture in Fresno based by what the
nation chooses in popular media is a poor
comparison. It is like comparing a bicycle to
car.
When you refer to the Valley, I automatically think of Fresno, seeing as we are the
biggest city in the Valley and are an agricultural powerhouse. And, how Fresno expresses itself is an accumulation of the life experiences of those living in the surrounding cities
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Transgender or Bisexual, women who are
feminists, the poor, the working class and
Mexican Americans. Not to mention powerful, smart and forthright black women like
Michelle Obama. I’ve read the rhetoric and
seen the cartoons.
I extend an olive branch to you, and
members of the Republican Party. I would
like you to know that I value your party’s
part in American history. I would like to see
more young Republicans evolve, as Barry
Goldwater, the great senator (and presidential candidate) from Arizona did before
his death. He, a westerner who believed in
privacy rights, spoke out in support of the
gay community. I wish he were alive today.
He was the real deal as far as a Western
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Oh yes, the original version of the WAC. The
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So, here we are, 15 years later, right back
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ASI senators
For violating the Senator
Expectations Policy they passed minutes
earlier. One can be forgiven for forgetting such rules as “no texting during ASI
meetings” during a hectic school year;
however, doing so just after passing a
policy that explicitly bans such behavior
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Provost Covino accepts
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Provost William Covino announced Thursday he would accept the recommendations presented by
the Task Force regarding closing the $8.6 million gap in budget.
Fresno State Provost William Covino
said Thursday he accepts the recommendations from a campus advisory
task force to close a significant budget
shortfall in the Academic Affairs division and he will continue consultation
as he moves to implement them.
The Academic Affairs Budget
Advisory Task Force, with representatives from every school/college
at Fresno State, began last April to
research the budget gap and consult
with faculty, administrators and students.
Based upon mid-year projections,
there is an $8.6 million gap between the
allocation of state dollars and tuition
fees and the actual costs of operating
programs in Academic Affairs. Some
of the gap is addressed through funded research, gifts and donations, con-
tinuing education revenue and other
means. However, even when all funds
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ASI senators violate updated policy
By Alexandra Norton
The Collegian
Associated Students, Inc. senators violated an updated Senator
Expectations Policy they had passed
just minutes prior at Wednesday’s
Senate meeting.
N o t i n g s e ve r a l s e n a t o r s w i t h
cell phones visible, Executive Vice
President Craig Parks had to remind
senators that devices that allow outside communication are prohibited
during Senate meetings.
“You guys literally just passed a
Senator Expectations Policy that states
you will not have devices out during
meetings,” Parks said. “So please put
your phones away while in meeting.”
A 13-1 vote had updated the policy,
with Jose Luis Nava being the only
vote against an update.
A representative for Nava wouldn’t
comment on what was wrong with the
update that caused Nava to vote against
it. Senators William Daly, Parmita
Choudhury and Breannah Evans were
not present at Wednesday’s meeting.
Referring to the three senators absent
at Wednesday’s meeting, Far nesi
said an updated bylaw and policy that
passed at the Feb. 1 Senate meeting
allows senators to miss two meetings.
“Once you miss two, your spot is considered vacant,” said Farnesi.
Far nesi also said that if a spot
becomes vacant, she would replace the
senator.
“Each of them will have one absence
now, some of them might already have
had one previously,” said Farnesi. “So
we’ll have to check the attendance and
see who is now in violation and who is
not.”
Senators Oscar Pere z, Victoria
Partida and Jose Luis Nava were also
asked by Parks to be quite during the
meeting after they disrupted a presentation by Senator Kevin Boles and student activist Neil O’Brien regarding
parking tickets.
“Senator Perez, Partida and Nava,
please be more respectful to our presenters in the future — chattering and
laughing amongst yourself isn’t professional,” Parks said.
The next regularly scheduled Senate
meeting is Feb. 29 at 4 p.m. in the
University Student Union Room 312314.
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2012
SupportNet aims to help struggling students
The jump to college
can sometimes need
assistance
By Ricardo Cano
The Collegian
Adapting to the collegiate lifestyle
is often a far cry from high school,
and Fresno State offers a program to
ensure its students make a smooth
transition – especially the freshmen.
The program SupportNet emphasizes time management, class preparation
and any other study-related barriers
that hinder academic success. Students
can refer themselves or be referred by
a professor if they feel a student is not
meeting course expectations.
Under the direction of coordinator
Tosha Giuffrida, SupportNet experienced a high turnout in referrals,
exceeding 400 percent more than last
year, according to its annual report.
“What we do in a nutshell is teach
students how to be students,” Giuffrida
said.
SupportNet advisors hone in on
areas students need to improve in by
leading workshops and utilizing the
LASSI (Learning and Study Strategies
Inventory). LASSI is a diagnosis tool
developed at the University of Texas
that assesses a student’s aspects of
learning, such as anxiety, motivation
and time management skills.
“It’s not that students don’t have the
intelligence to pass courses,” Giuffrida
said. “Most of the time, students are
overscheduled. They have problems
with time management and they need
assistance in prioritizing in general.”
Beyond the LASSI and lear ning
style assessments, SupportNet advisor Janene Avedisian said that the
program’s holistic approach is toward
fulfilling a student’s individual needs.
Sometimes those needs steer the program outside of academics issues.
“A lot of students just come in for personal counseling as well,” Avedisian
said. “They just want to talk. It’s not
all academic. Sometimes students just
need a support system. Sure we start
with the LASSI when they come in.
But if a student says, ‘Look, I’m really
depressed right now,’ we kind of set the
whole academics aside and focus on
the personal issue that they have.”
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SupportNet academic advisor Janene Avedisian said that while the program helps address student needs such as study habits and time management, it also can serve as a forum for personal counseling. ''Sometimes students just need a support system,'' she said.
group, SupportNet attracts students
through faculty referrals and a presence at Dog Days orientation. The
orientation period helps clarify to students what Giuffrida considers to be
one of the toughest transitions from
high school to college: study expectations.
“When we do Dog Days presentations and you ask those incoming
freshmen, ‘How many hours outside
of class do you study,’ most of the time
they’ll laugh at you if you even say five
hours,” Giuffrida said. “Most incoming freshmen are very used to getting
decent, if not good, grades with very
minimal time outside of class.”
Dr. Dennis Driggers, a political science professor at Fresno State, empathizes with Giuffrida’s views. The failure rate for his American Government
and Institutions
general education course is around
40 percent. He predominantly attri-
butes this towards a lack of study preparation.
“There used to be a standard where
students would study two hours a week
for every unit they take,” Driggers
said. “Students don’t use that standard
anymore.”
Driggers is a three-year advocate
of SupportNet and said that while he
doesn’t send out referrals until after
students take their first test, the challenge is getting students to accept help
upon referral.
“Most of the students [who are]
referred decline and it’s dumb because
it’s free help … Bu,t as a professor,
I have a right to help and they have a
right to decline,” Driggers said.
And although SupportNet’s services are available to every student on
campus at any point throughout the
semester, the program targets classes
with high freshmen enrollment and
high failure rates. Only 57 percent of
referred students established contact
with the program last year, however.
Avedisian said that the program is
looking into more efficient ways to
connect with referred students besides
phone calls and emails.
“It is a struggle,” Avedisian said.
“Text messaging would be wonderful,
and we’re almost there.”
Giuffrida remains optimistic toward
the increased faculty participation that
has led to more and more referrals.
“The good news is that each semester
we see more and more students,” she
said.
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Student-comedian looks to turn a hobby into career
By Thomas Pearson
The Collegian
Andrew Boydston has loved comedy since he was a child, and has had
a passion for making people laugh for
as long as he can remember. The current Fresno State student is in his sixth
year at the university and has been performing stand-up comedy for the last
two years.
Since beginning his journey as a
stand-up comic, Boydston has performed in 20 different shows at various
venues across Fresno.
The broadcast journalism major had
always thought of doing stand-up comedy after arriving in Fresno from Taft,
a small town southwest of Bakersfield.
But Boydston didn’t start until after
his cousin Shaye Fields, whom he was
very close to, passed away in a car accident.
“I was depressed and had no direction,” Boydston said. “But then one
night I had a dream that my cousin told
me, ‘Do what you love to do and what I
love to see you do.’ She loved that I saw
nothing as offensive and could make
light of any situation.”
Not long after having the dream, he
began writing jokes and preparing for
Amateur Comedy Night at The Bucket,
the campus' pub.
“Before I started doing stand-up I
had nothing to fall back on, and then
the opportunity presented itself,”
Boydston said. “Stand-up was always
something that I had wanted to do. It’s
a big part of my life now.”
Boydston’s comedy covers a wide
variety of topics, such as relationships, drugs, alcohol, self-deprecation,
scenarios that are made up in his head,
past experiences, friends, sports, video
games, NASA and jokes involving nostalgia.
“My biggest influence is George
Carlin. Without him, I would be nothing,” Boydston said. “ I feel my humor
has a wide range. It ranges from things
like Daniel Tosh to story element jokes
like Patton Oswalt and even one liners
like Mitch Hedberg.”
Despite his comedic nature, Boydston
is very meticulous with the creation of
his jokes. Often times he can be seen
pulling out his cell phone to write
down something he thought of that
he thinks has the potential to become
a joke at one of his shows. The majority of his jokes he still considers works
“I
truly believe that I can be a stand-up comic. I don't want this to
just be a hobby. I want this to be my career.”
— Andrew Boydston,
local stand-up commedian, Fresno State student
in progress and works constantly to
improve them.
“It’s just a matter of making things
better," Boydston said. "[It] takes two
performances and an hour total of
working on a joke over that span to
get one to be pretty good,” Boydston
said. “If it doesn’t hit that night, I try
to rework it and perform it at a later
date.”
To Boydston, every show is a chance
for improvement. Going into every
show his goal is to give 100 percent
effort.
“What’s the point of showing up
if you’re not going to bring your ‘A’
game?” Boydston said.
The goal for many of his jokes is to
expose ignorance — not to spread it. He
goes into every show wanting to make
a point to the audience, but at the same
time keep it light and find humor in
every topic.
“I truly believe that I can be a standup comic,” Boydston said. “I don’t want
this to just be a hobby. I want this to be
my career.”
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SCIENCE & CULTURE
Fresno State cancer researchers seek
deeper understanding of cancer issues
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2012
By Johnathan Wilbanks
The Collegian
Although Hispanic women
are not diagnosed with breast
cancer as often as Caucasian
women, the disease tends to
be diagnosed late in Hispanic
Women. Biology professor Dr.
Jason Bush, who has a Ph.D.
in experimental medicine, is
examining the link between
breast cancer and pesticides.
He is also researching predisposing factors for pancreatic
cancer.
“Anything we can do to
e n g a g e t h e u n d e r s e r ve d
minority populations, principally the Hispanic population
in Fresno and Hispanic farm
workers, is something we’re
actively involved with,” added
Bush.
Bush is trying to reach out to
Latina farmworkers because
cancer health disparities are
present in the local Hispanic
population. Fresno County is
now over 50 percent Hispanic.
Ovarian, breast and prostate
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cancer are common cancers
that are being studied for drug
resistance. Many people who
have been diagnosed with one
of these three relatively common cancers are still living
five years from the date of
diagnosis.
However, pancreatic cancer requires further study
because it often is diagnosed
late and has only a five-year
survival rate of about 5 percent. This especially deadly
cancer is what took the life of
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
Bush is examining preliminary biomarkers, a technique
which could inform an individual who is predisposed to
pancreatic cancer.
“One of the things that happens when people get treated
with chemotherapy is that if
for whatever reason, all the
cancer has not been killed.
Those cancer cells that have
survived tend to be resistant.,”
Bush said. “If you treat that
person down the road the same
way, that cancer is not going to
Photo courtesy of Dr. Jason Bush
Above is a cancer cell on the move. It’s an electron image of a breast cancer
cell migrating — a characteristic of aggressive cancers.
die. It is going to require some
other kind of treatment. We
call that a multi-drug resistant
phenotype.”
People are not treated for
cancer in Bush’s lab. Instead,
a deeper understanding of
the basic mechanisms is being
sought. This understanding
would be of what is going on at
levels which can only be seen
under a microscope.
“Cancer research is about
what is going on at the cellular level, because that’s what
cancer is. It’s a disease of your
genes, your DNA and thus the
cell that DNA is in. So you
have to understand the basic
mechanisms, what is going on
within that cancer cell,” Bush
said.
Malika Sahni is working on
a part of the project involving metabolites and examining the different functions of
genes.
“We have different projects
going on…everything centers
around tissue culture,” Sahni
said.
Biolog y master’s de g ree
student Kathryn Patterson
is treating cultures with pesticides and exposing them to
low-oxygen environments.
She is also doing extractions
of DNA and RNA to examine
functional changes that occur
when the genetic material is
exposed to certain chemicals.
“Most of what we are doing
is about pesticides that are
causing cancer. We’re looking at a lot of interactions,”
Patterson said.
Metastasis (spreading of
cancer cells) is also being
e x a m i n e d i n B u s h ’ s l ab.
Bone and breast cancer cells
are being exposed to a drug
known as Zometa, which is
used to treat bone cancer pain
in order to study its effects.
“We have looked at proteomics and are seeing what
cells cause breast cancer cells
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Photo courtesy of Dr. Jason Bush
Undergraduate student Cynthia Contreras prepares to amplify cancer cell
DNA using Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) while Dr. Bush supervises.
to metastasize to the bone,”
biology master’s degree student Cynthia Contreras said.
Funded by the National
Cancer Institute, Susan G.
Komen and the Keep A Breast
Foundation, Bush is also
investigating cancer and stem
cells. An effort is being made
to understand the effects of
low-dose radiation on these
cells.
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It’s L.A.’s time to shine on the runways
ByBooth Moore
McClatchy-Tribune
NEW YORK — In New York,
Los Angeles fashion has come
of age.
New York Fashion Week,
which kicked off Feb. 8 with
more than 300 fashion shows
and presentations scheduled,
is not just a platform for New
York designers to gain media
attention and retail orders.
It’s a showcase for designers
from all over the world — and,
notably this year, Los Angeles,
which now has a breadth of
talent to rival any major fashion city.
T we n t y ye a r s a g o, L o s
Angeles had a re putation
for producing clothing that
was casual, comfortable and
wearable, but not necessarily
innovative or runway-worthy.
Jeans, T-shirts and swimwear
were the main exports, and
“sunny,” “surf” and “street”
the catch-word cliches used to
describe them.
Then, in the early 2000s,
Los Angeles started nurturing a more avant-garde set
of designers, who traveled to
New York Fashion Week to
show their work. Designers
Magda Berliner, Jared Gold
and Alicia Lawhon made
waves as artsy deconstructionists, repurposing vintage garments to create one-of-a-kind
pieces that challenged L.A.’s
identity as a capital of massproduced sportswear, but their
efforts were ultimately more
artistic expression than workable business model.
Today, the hometown talent
showing at New York Fashion
Week is more polished. In
the pantheon of American
fashion, Los Angeles designers are no longer a curiosity
or lumped together into one
sun-and-surf soaked category.
They’re celebrated and appreciated for their own distinctive
points of view in the pages of
Vogue magazine, on the red
carpet and beyond.
T here’s Barbara Tf ank,
whose ladylike designs and
exquisite textiles have made
fans of First Lady Michelle
Obama and singer Adele, and
Rodarte’s Kate and Laura
Mulleavy, whose artisanal
clothing has been exhibited
in museums around the world
and wor n by the likes of
Taylor Swift, Kirsten Dunst
and the first lady.
Also showing here is Scott
Ster nberg, who is breathing new life into the preppy
aesthetic with his men’s line
Band of Outsiders and his
women’s line Boy by Band of
Outsiders. (Sternberg, a former agent with the Creative
Artists Agency, has Hollywood
and art world connections that
run so deep he was able to persuade Oscar nominee Michelle
Williams and artist Ed Ruscha
to model for his spring-summer 2012 lookbooks.)
There’s also Juan Carlos
Obando, whose romantic red
carpet dresses, like the fluttery fuchsia silk halter dress
Viola Davis wore to the recent
Oscar nominees luncheon in
L.A., have found favor with
Hollywood.
Even Pamela Skaist-Levy
and Gela Nash-Taylor, who
brought the world one powerful image of L.A. fashion
with the Juicy Couture velour
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The daily crossword
Across
1 Secret rival
6 Pool regimen
10 Devoid of emotion
14 Pope after John X
15 Lamb by another
name
16 Australian gem
17 Recesses
18 Riffraff’s opposite
20 Picasso in preschool?
22 WBA stats
23 Estonian, e.g.
24 Critic who’s a Chicago
talk radio co-host
28 Rub the right way?
29 Feel crummy
30 Way to go: Abbr.
31 When only a synthetic
will do?
35 Home to many
Indians, but few cowboys
37 Television network
with a plus sign in its
logo
38 “This just __ my day!”
39 Double-cross Old
MacDonald?
44 Mother of 35-Down
45 __ Cruces
46 Passé platters
47 Not as critical
49 Clay pigeon flinger
51 Pipe cleaner
54 What Eddie did to
warm up for his “Shrek”
role?
57 Kept an eye on
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61 It may be gross: Abbr.
62 Spy’s device
63 Sale, in Calais
64 Tampa Bay team
playing in this puzzle’s
longest answers?
65 One trading in
futures?
66 Award for Elmore
Leonard
Down
1 “__! what poverty my
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Muse brings forth”:
Shak.
2 Camera-ready page
3 Día de San Valentín gift
4 “Hurlyburly” Tony
winner
5 Fail to follow
6 By the book
7 Flag down, say
8 Lager order
9 Like The Onion
10 “Cape Fear” co-star,
1991
11 “100 years of
journalistic excellence”
org.
12 Yoga equipment
13 1889-’90 newsmaking
circumnavigator
19 Sicilia, e.g.
21 Defense gp.
25 Binoculars component
26 Historic prep school
27 Musical
modernization of “La
Bohème”
28 “I Kid You Not” author
29 Puberty woe
31 Custom-made things?
32 Quibbles
33 “How impressive!”
34 Impersonal letter intro
35 Son of 44-Across
36 British Open champ
between Jack and Tom
40 Bering Sea native
41 Plants with flat-topped
flower clusters
42 Blubber
43 Sanction
48 President Santos
portrayer on “The West
Wing”
49 “Voilà!”
50 U-Haul rival
51 “Advertising is
legalized __”: Wells
52 Busybody
53 Landscaping tool
55 __ dieu
56 Agape, maybe
57 Transitional mo.
58 __ tight schedule
59 Anti vote
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more than 300 fashion shows scheduled
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tracksuit, have upped the
fashion ante. After departing
Juicy, which never showed
at New York Fashion Week,
they’re debuting a new collection here called SkaistTaylor, which they describe as
“California eccentric.”
“Back in the day, Rick Owens
was our high-end, and Alicia
Lawhon was doing recycled
and rough and homespun.
It was very raw,” says Kim
Friday, senior fashion editor
at Women’s Wear Daily, who
has been covering fashion for
the trade publication for 11
years (three in Los Angeles
and eight in New York). “That
was a moment, but now everything is much more tailored.
Rachel Zoe has had a big influence on getting everyone to
dress up and be glamorous.”
Zoe, the celebrity stylist who
parlayed her fashion sense
into a career as a reality show
star, would-be media mogul
and now designer, is showing
her collection here too. Other
L.A. names and brands on
the docket include Libertine,
Jenni Kayne and Jeremy
Scott, who designed some of
the Adidas Originals track
suits and winged sneakers
worn by the backup dancers
during Madonna’s Super Bowl
halftime show.
Retailers are tur ning to
L.A. talent to help them raise
their fashion cachet. Gregory
Parkinson, who showed his
flair for mixing prints and
“I
t’s true my vibe is
more mellow, but I’m
not a laid-back L.A. line”
— Corey Lynn Calter,
designer
textiles in New York, has been
tapped by Anthropologie to
design a special collection
that will debut at the chain
in April. And QVC, the home
shopping channel, is collaborating with Karen Zambos,
Cynthia Vincent and Geren
Ford on several pieces featured in the first QVC fashion show during New York
Fashion Week.
All this success is becoming
a proven path.
“Now that L.A. designers are
feeling more recognized and
accepted, it’s more comfortable to show here,” says Corey
Lynn Calter. The designer presented her collection in New
York for the first time Feb. 8,
after showing it on and off for
years during various incarnations of L.A.’s own beleaguered fashion week, which
has never managed to attract
as much media or retail attention as the fashion weeks in
New York, London, Milan and
Paris.
Still, Calter, like others
working in fashion who make
their homes on the West Coast,
is sensitive to being defined by
Taking part in driver education
may vary by state and student
By Jeannine Stein
McClatchy-Tribune
In states that don’t have
driver education requirements, more than one in three
students got a license without
any formal driver ed training,
a study finds.
A representative sample of
1,770 ninth through 11th graders from across the country
was asked about their participation in driver education
programs. Among them, 78.8
percent had taken part in a
for mal driver ed course. A
typical class, according to the
study, consists of 30 hours of
classroom training and six
hours of behind the wheel
instruction with a certified
instructor.
Among students who were
in a formal driver ed program,
86.7 percent of them had
behind the wheel training.
But in states where driver ed
was not required, more than
half had no behind the wheel
instruction.
In states with no driver
education requirements, the
authors said, there may be discrepancies in training among
racial and ethnic g roups,
between genders and among
socioeconomic groups: 71 per-
cent of Hispanic students in
these states got a license with
no formal driver ed training.
Male students, black students
and those with lower academic scores also took part less
frequently in driver ed programs compared with their
peers who lived in states that
did require them.
The study was published
recently in the jour nal
Pediatrics.
geography.
“It’s true my vibe is more
mellow, but I’m not a laid-back
L.A. line,” says the designer,
whose fall collection included
tailored jackets and pants,
tie-front silk blouses, sequin
stripe mini-dresses and printed palazzo pants.
“It is really American
designers on the runway,
and void of knowing where
a designer is from, I don’t
think it would matter to most
people,” says Steven Kolb,
chief executive of the Council
o f Fa s h i o n D e s i g n e r s o f
America, an industry trade
group.
So they’re not Los Angeles
designers, they’re designers
from Los Angeles. And they
have arrived.
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BASEBALL
Fresno State gears up for ‘Dog fight
By Tim Salazar
The Collegian
The 2012 Fresno State baseball season will open tonight
at 6 p.m. when the Bulldogs
host Butler. The Diamond
‘Dogs will look to start the season with a win as they go for
their sixth consecutive WAC
title in seven years, as well as
their sixth tournament title in
the same span.
Fresno State’s first series of
the season will continue with
a Saturday doubleheader with
the first game at 2 p.m. The
series will wrap up on Sunday
at 1:05 p.m.
Fresno State will need to
replace tremendous talent
this season, losing eight players to the MLB draft. Of the 10
Bulldogs drafted, twin brothers Taylor and Trent Garrison
decided to return to Beiden
Field. This will be Taylor’s
senior season while Trent is
a redshirt junior, after sitting
out last season due to injury.
The ‘Dogs, they will have the
majority of last year’s bullpen carry over to this season.
Seniors Cody Kendall and
Taylor Garrison, who pitched
much of the Bulldogs’ late
innings, are both back this
season.
While F resno State lost
some of its mainstays from
last season in Danny Muno,
Jordan Ribera, Garrett Weber,
Brennan Gowens and Dusty
Robinson, who left early for
the minor leagues, it still possesses offensive weapons this
season.
Sophomore Aaron Judge is
the projected three-hole hitter after a breakout freshman
campaign. Judge collected
numerous awards while starting in 49 games at center field.
He was named a Louisville
Slugger Freshman AllAmerican, WAC Freshman of
the Year and was named to the
Alaska Baseball League’s top
prospect list for his play with
the Glacier Pilots this past
summer.
Fresno State finished last
season with a 40-16 overall
record while going 26-5 at
home.
Butler enters the season
having gone 23-28-1 in the
2011 season. Starting thirdbaseman Patrick Guinane is
a player to look out for having
claimed his starting spot as a
freshman last season. He was
named Newcomer of the Year,
an award voted on by his teammates, while also named to the
Horizon League’s all-newcomer squad.
Butler will have 10 returning pitchers from last
year’s squad. Senior Mike
H e r n a n d e z w i l l t a ke t h e
mound for Butler tonight with
Kevin Lenkman and Billy
Laing expected to start during
Saturday’s double-header.
Fresno State vs.
Butler
The Diamond ‘Dogs open the
2012 season with a four-game
series against the Butler Bulldogs
at Beiden Field.
• Today, 2:05 p.m.
• Saturday (DH), First game will
begin at 2 p.m.
• Sunday, 1:05 p.m.
Esteban Cortez / The Collegian
Sophomore pitcher Tyler Linehan finished 5-2 with a 4.27 ERA in his eight starts during his freshman season.
TCU players caught in bust describe widespread
drug use on team, affidavits says
By Stefan Stevenson
McClatchy-Tribune
FORT WORTH, Texas — TCU football
players told undercover officers that
drug use was widespread among the
team, according to affidavits released
Wednesday after the arrest of 18 people, including four players, on drug
charges.
The details disclosed in their arrest
warrant affidavits are a blow to one of
the most respected programs in college
football and one expected to contend
for the Big 12 title in its first season in
the league. Spring practice begins Feb.
25.
Police say that four players — linebacker Tanner Brock, defensive lineman D.J. Yendrey, offensive tackle Ty
Horn and cornerback Devin Johnson
— sold marijuana to students and football players. They have been kicked off
the team.
The 18 people arrested, 15 of them
students, were caught making “handto-hand” sales of marijuana, cocaine,
ecstasy and prescription drugs to
undercover officers, police said.
Brock was being held on $10,000 bond
at the Mansfield Jail. Johnson and
Horn were being transferred to the jail
on Wednesday afternoon and Yendrey
had not been arraigned.
Police said they had yet to determine
if other football players were involved
or would be charged.
The documents say that coach Gary
Patterson sprung a surprise drug
test on the football team on Feb. 1,
National Signing Day, and that Brock
later told an undercover officer that
there “would be about 60 people being
screwed” as a result of the test. Sources
said Patterson ordered the drug test
after a prize recruit told him that he
would not attend TCU because of drug
use by players.
During a drug buy, an undercover
officer asked Johnson about the surprise drug test.
“What can they do? Eighty-two people failed it,” Johnson said.
Patterson and athletic director Chris
Del Conte declined numerous requests
for interviews.
TCU spokeswoman Lisa Albert said
TCU tests its student-athletes for drug
use on a regular basis. Any student
found in violation of TCU’s drug abuse
policy is subject to university disciplinary action, she wrote in an e-mail.
“Also, I know you were wondering
if the university is refuting the facts
regarding the statements made in the
affidavit,” she wrote. “The university
is refuting these comments because
these comments were made in the context of a drug buy.”
The affidavits do not indicate that
Patterson knew about the six-month
investigation that led to the arrests
early Wednesday, including three on
campus. In a statement, the coach indicated that he did not.
“As I heard the news this morning, I
was first shocked, then hurt, and now
I am mad,” Patterson said. “Under my
watch, drugs and drug use by TCU’s
student-athletes will not be tolerated
by me or any member of my coaching
staff. Our program is respected nationally for its strong ethics and for that
reason the players arrested today were
separated from TCU by the University.
I believe strongly that young people’s
lives are more important than wins or
losses.”
Brock, a junior from Copperas Cove
who led the team in tackles during the
Frogs’ 13-0 Rose Bowl season in 2010,
was sidelined after the season opener
at Baylor with an ankle injury. He was
poised to take TCU’s defensive leader
mantle from Tank Carder in 2012.
Yendrey, a defensive tackle from Edna
High School, started 18 games the last
two seasons, including the Poinsettia
Bowl on Dec. 21. Johnson, from Moore
High School in Oklahoma, had eight
career starts, including the bowl game.
Yendrey and Johnson would have been
seniors next season.
Horn, from McGregor, would have
been a junior. He started against SMU
in 2011 and had played in 11 games,
including the Poinsettia Bowl.
TCU has received almost universal
positive media coverage for years as
Patterson built the program into a
perennial power. The Frogs are 47-5
over the last four seasons, including
11-2 in 2011.
In December, TCU ranked third in the
“Academic BCS,” a list by researchers at the New America Foundation’s
Higher Ed Watch blog that ranks football teams based on their graduation
rates and how well players are working
toward their degrees.
Its Academic Progress Rate score
of 972 was fourth among the Top 25
schools in the final 2010 BCS standings.
APR is a measure of eligibility and
retention used by the NCAA to see how
successful teams are in the classroom.
The American Football Coaches
Association has recognized TCU for
its high graduation rates for four consecutive years. All but one of TCU’s 19
seniors on the 2011 roster have already
earned his degree or is on track to
graduate by May.
Last year, TCU was highlighted in
a “Sports Illustrated” article as the
only Top 25 football team in 2010 with
no players on its roster with criminal records. The article stated that
TCU and Oklahoma were the only two
schools in the Top 25 that perform
criminal background checks on their
recruits.
The
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2012
‘Dogs win 10th straight in 76-68 win over Idaho
Ki-Ki Moore’s
double-double
performance
leads ‘Dogs past
Vandals
By Angel Moreno
The Collegian
The women’s basketball team
lucked out Thursday night
despite not playing at the tempo
it wanted to, prevailing 76-68
over Idaho for its 10th-straight
win.
“Idaho gave a good ef fort
t o n i g h t , ” s a i d h e a d c o a ch
Adrian Wiggins. “They controlled the tempo for most of
the game and that was a problem for us.”
The ‘Dogs started off slow,
trailing the Vandals 4-0, before
four straight layups spawned a
20-4 Bulldog scoring run in what
appeared to be another routine
victory for Fresno State.
But the 16-point lead quickly
diminished as the ‘Dogs fell victim to the whistle, committing
10 team fouls in the first half
alone.
“The clock stopped a lot. The
whistle blew a lot and I feel
that impacted the pace of our
game,” Wiggins said.
Senior Blakely Goldberg fell
into foul trouble early, committing three first-half fouls by
the eight-minute mark, forcing
Wiggins to bench the defender
the rest of the half. Goldberg
fouled out in the second half,
finishing with four points in
just 13 minutes on the floor, well
below her per-game averages
for both categories.
“There were a lot of times
tonight here the whistle blew,
the clocked stopped and the ball
wasn’t moving,” Wiggins reiterated. “And it’s hard to play basketball that way at the pace we
want to.”
Despite not playing at the regular tempo, Fresno State forced
27 turnovers, 13 of which were
steals.
The Idaho defense forced the
‘Dogs on their paws as Fresno
State shot a dismal 20 percent
from 3-point range, an area the
team is usually solid from.
“We just didn’t have a good
pace time,” Wiggins said of
the team’s poor shooting percentage. “It wasn’t the shot of
choice, so we were forcing it a
little bit.”
Sophomore Ki-Ki Moore
stepped up for the ‘Dogs in the
second half, scoring 15 of her
23 points after the break. Moore
netted 23 points, 11 rebounds
and five steals, all game highs
in her sixth double-double performance of the season.
Junior Rosie Moult and sophomore Taylor Thompson both
scored in double-digits with 13
and 15 points, respectively.
F resno State is now 21-4
overall and 9-0 in the Western
Athletic Conference and Hawaii
fell to 8-18 and 3-7 in the WAC.
T he ‘Do gs will put their
10-game win streak on the line
Saturday as they host secondplace Utah State at 7 p.m.
Photos by Dalton Runberg / The Collegian
Ki-Ki Moore (left) recorded her sixth double-double of the season, while teammate Rosie Moult scored 13 points in the Bulldogs’ 76-68 defeat over Idaho.
BY THE NUMBERS
27
Turnovers forced
by the ‘Dogs, 13 of
which were steals.
52
76
Total points scored
by Fresno State,
just .5 above their
season average.
6
Fresno State’s
total points in
the paint.
Number of second-chance points
Idaho was held to
the entire game.
3
16
Players who
scored in double
figures for both
teams.
Largest lead for
the ‘Dogs was with
5:15 remaining in
the first half.
.200
27
The ‘Dogs
shot a dismal
4-of-20 from
behind the arc.
Turnovers forced
by the ‘Dogs,
13 of which
were steals.