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MARCH 5, 2012
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Kids Day celebrates
25 years on Tuesday
By Stephen Keleher
The Collegian
The 25th anniversary of Kids Day
will draw 60 Fresno State student
organizations to take part in Fresno’s
largest volunteer event of the year on
Tuesday.
Starting at 5 a.m., Fresno residents
will come out by the hundred’s to sell
a special edition of the Fresno Bee on
street corners around campus and
all around Fresno. The papers, which
come with an outside page of special
stories about Children’s Hospital, sell
for $1 and all proceeds go to Valley
Children’s Hospital.
This year, Fresno State alumni and
NFL players New England Patriots
James Sanders, Richard Marshall of
the Carolina Panthers, and free agent
Therrian Fontenot will be selling
papers at the Kids Day ‘celebrity corner,’ on the southwest corner of Shaw
and Blackstone. Fresno Mayor Ashley
Swearengin, Police Chief Jerry Dyer
and Fresno State football Coach Tim
DeRuyter will be at the corner as well.
The event is coordinated by Fresno
State’s Jan and Bud Richter Center for
Community Engagement and Service
Learning.
“We g et a lot of suppor t from
Fresno State not only through Service
Learning, but fraternities and sorori-
ties and other clubs get involved, and
they sell papers as well,” said Jill
Wagner, public relations manager
at the Valley Children’s Hospital.
“Around campus is a hot spot for sure,
but we run into other organized groups
of Fresno State students all over the
city. They’re everywhere.”
Out of the 5,000 volunteers that fan
out through a 10-county area, more
than 1,350 are Fresno State students.
“It is the largest group of organized
volunteers we have for the whole event
and they are always the top. They have
raised the most amount of money of
any group, too,” said Wagner. “They’re
very important to us.”
Last year’s goal of $435,000 in donations during the 10-hour event was
successful, due in part to the contribution from Fresno state fraternity and
sorority students raised $22,000 of the
$31,000 total raised by Fresno State.
“We get started early in the morning to claim the best spots and the
papers sell themselves,” said Michael
Eberhard, president of the Fresno
State Interfraternity Council. “We’re
looking forward to even bigger numbers this year. For some of the fraternities this is an annual competition
of who can raise the most for Valley
Children’s Hospital.”
File photo by Sarah Gilbert / The Collegian
See KIDS, Page 3
More than 5,000 volunteers will help sell papers that benefit Valley Children’s Hospital on
Tuesday, Last year’s goal of raising $435,000 was achieved in 10 hours.
Story of teacher-student romance goes national
By Nan Austin
McClatchy-Tribune
Debbie Noda / McClatchy-Tribune
The Modesto, Calif., teacher-student
couple who revealed their romance
this week now must cope with national
celebrity.
“I know, it’s crazy!” said Enochs
High School senior Jordan Powers on
Thursday.
Powers, 18, moved in with her 41-yearold teacher James Hooker on Feb. 22,
the day he resigned from Modesto City
Schools. Hooker said he left his wife
and three daughters the week before.
The school district had suspended him
Feb. 3.
Powers and Hooker appeared on
ABC’s “Good Morning America” on
Thursday. They were taping another
segment Thursday for Friday.
“We have to stay exclusive with
them,” Powers said, but added after
their run on “Good Morning America”
is done they are scheduled to appear on
NBC’s “Today Show” as well as a CBS
affiliate. The “Dr. Phil” and “Inside
Edition” shows also want them.
None of the shows is paying them,
which Powers didn’t think is right. But
she feels their side needs to be told to
counter widespread criticism led by
her mother, Tammie Powers. “We’re
just trying to get the story out,” Jordan
Powers said.
The couple met when Powers was a
freshman, but both say the romance
didn’t bloom until months after she
became of legal age Sept. 5. Hooker
Jordan Powers and James Hooker received national attention after making their student-teacher relationship public on Feb. 22. Hooker, a 41-yearold teacher resigned from Modesto City Schools and left his wife and three daughters for the 18-year-old.
See ROMANCE, Page 3
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Culled each week from discussions
on The Collegian’s website.
Responses:
‘ASI receives warning from
ACLU’
‘Terence’: “Kudos to the story writer for covering this, for it is actually something that is
newsworthy. We can only hope she follows
up to see if there will be such possible ‘litigation’ which costs students so much money.
Alexandra Norton, please keep this up and
investigate how much in student fees we
will have to pay for the university attorneys
to draft up that letter sent to the ACLU.
Remember last year’s expenses, what was
it about $5,000 for Selena Farnesi’s issues
with Pedro Ramirez?
Also kudos to that senator that brought
this to attention because we only know
Farnesi would have possibly got us sued with
our own student money. Farnesi, you need
to read up on your law. You’re an embarrassment to those of us students who actually
want to become law students. It’s just sad
that more of those senators like Moncayo
or Kiernan who claim to be political science
majors and wannabe politicians couldn’t
grow a backbone and stand up to Farnesi
and put her in check. Lap doggies all the
way. Embarrassing! If they even think of running for ASI positions again this spring they
can count on me and my crew of friends not
voting for them.”
THE REAL WORD OF THE DAY
ribaldry (noun) Language characterized by broad, indecent humor.
Source: The Lexicon by William F. Buckley Jr.
OPINION EDITOR, TONY PETERSEN • [email protected]
‘Philosotroll’: “‘Neither public meetings laws
nor the First Amendment give anyone the
right to record public meetings.’ – Selena
Farnesi
California Government Code:
§54953.5. (a) Any person attending an open
and public meeting of a legislative body of
a local agency shall have the right to record
the proceedings with an audio or video
recorder or a still or motion
picture camera in the absence of a reasonable finding by the legislative body of the
local agency that the recording cannot
continue without noise, illumination, or
obstruction of view that constitutes, or would
constitute, a persistent disruption of the proceedings.
I suppose the university attorney would
know (certainly better than I would; it may
be that the above only applies to government
bodies, which excludes ASI) whether there
was a legal issue to be raised here. However,
given the scope of application for recording
under Wilkins v. NBC I find it hard to believe
that Nava’s recording wouldn’t be protected
in court.
The question, it seems to me, will likely
be whether or not the recording is disruptive.
I doubt leaving a cell phone on the table to
record meets the standard for disruption outlined above; anyway, I’m not a legal scholar.
Just some rambling. It just seems a strange
(and particularly un-nuanced) comment to
make, especially from someone looking to go
into law.”
MONDAY, MARCH 5, 2012
‘Jaime’: “How the hell did I get dragged into
this? As far as I’m concerned, recording the
meetings is fine: Hector Cerda never had a
problem recording the meetings during my
time at ASI, nor did Neil O’Brien.
The main problem at hand is cell phone
use. I have yet to be shown the specific cell
phone that requires the user to actively interact with it in order for it to record.
I take offense to being called a ‘wannabe
politician’ as an elected official of the Fresno
State student government, as the member
of a board that has been twice now [inconsequentially] threatened with legal action by
the ACLU, and as one of the few senators
that can actually be bothered to discuss the
issues considered by the Senate, I would
prefer to be considered a full-fledged politician.
I even get libeled on the Internet.”
Make
affordable
college a
reality
‘SpectacleStudy’: “This is a public meeting.
I understand the concern about politicians
using phones to communicate in meeting,
but recently the Senate and House have
looked at revising their rules as the use of
cellular technology, smartphones, tablets
and laptops is now commonplace. My question is, if I asked Senator Nava to enter his
texts in the public record would he be willing
to do that? That’s disclosure. There is no
reason cell phones shouldn’t be allowed if
people are willing to be forward about their
use. If Neil O’Brien and Hector Cerda can
record from the audience I don’t know why
Senator Nava can’t record from his seat.
By Rodolfo F. Acuna
McClatchy-Tribune
F
or Mexican-Americans and
others trying to get ahead, education had been the stairway
to the middle class. Education meant
security and basics such as health
insurance. This heaven meant better
jobs and a small house for old age.
But now this stairway has fallen
into disrepair. One rung after another
has been destroyed.
The first rung was financial assistance. Many Latino students and poor
blacks and whites could afford college
only through grants and subsidies. But
over the last two decades, colleges have
diluted financial aid while shrinking
funding.
The second rung was inexpensive tuition, which is now a thing
of the past. At the California State
Universities, tuition will rise to more
than $10,000 a year, which will put
education out of the reach of students
from barrio schools. Putting this in
perspective, I paid about $10 a year
when I attended a California State
University in the late 1950s, and in 1969
fees amounted to about $50 a semester.
Among 16 developed nations, the
United States ranks 13th in affordability. Repairing this stairway should
be our first priority. Education is a
basic right, and we who are active
with youth know the consequences of
having a population that is not able to
educate itself.
Latinos and others need to come
together to establish a nonprofit
university that would keep the costs
under $1,000 a year. We have the
human resources to do this, with all
the retired teachers and professors
who would be more than willing to
lend their talents to such an endeavor.
We can utilize the Internet. And we
can make use of public places, like
parks and community centers, where
we can hold classes.
It is simply unacceptable that so
many Mexican-Americans and other
young people can’t afford to go to college. Since our public colleges won’t
address this problem, we’ll have to do
it ourselves.
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said he is confident that fact
will be confirmed by Modesto
police, who are investigating.
The story got 375,000 page
views on Modbee.com between
8 p.m. Tuesday and 5 p.m.
Thursday, said Bee director of interactive media Dan
Day. National media Web
sites drove 65,000 views of the
original article on Modbee.
com Thursday, just during the
noon hour, Day said.
Hooker’s and Powers’
willingness to speak out in
response helped move the
story forward and The Bee’s
Facebook site helped rocket it
to prominence once it broke,
Modbee.com site records show.
Univision has run an article
in Spanish. Bloggers have
picked up the controversy
online and the story accounted for three of the Sacramento
area’s top 10 trending Twitter
feeds Wednesday morning.
Doug McIntyre of TalkRadio
790 KABC-AM in Los Angeles
hoped to interview Tammie
Powers on this mor ning’s
drive time segment. Tammie
Powers said she taped a segment Thursday for CNN’s
“Nancy Grace” show.
Powers believes Hooker pur-
sued her daughter. She has
documented thousands of text
messages to her daughter’s
phone, most during the fall.
Many days show dozens of
texts, including during hours
when Jordan Powers would
have been sitting in Hooker’s
class.
Tammie Powers vented her
fury on Facebook after discovering the extent of the pair’s
involvement, using the social
network to castigate the teacher.
While the police investigation will likely take weeks
or longer, Facebook fans can
comment now on a “James
Hooker to Jail Page” created
Thursday by self-described
Silicon Valley marketing executive Danny Maddox.
Tammie Powers said
Thursday she hopes all the
publicity will put Hooker in
legal jeopardy.
“James Hooker is reveling in
his short-term spotlight and
notoriety. I have always contended that my ultimate goal is
to gather facts and as a result
of the publicity, someone will
come forward with pertinent
information,” she said. “At
the end of the day, my daughter’s still with James Hooker.
KIDS: Biggest volunteer
event in Fresno area
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Last year, some of the fraternities spent the Monday night
before staking out a specific
corner. For example, across
the street from the Kids Day
media corner at Cedar and
Nees, a fraternity laid out a
mattress and spent the night.
Other fraternities went as far
as Blackstone and Shaw with
some sororities at Blackstone
and Nees.
“The Greek community is
very dedicated to giving back
and the annual Kids Day
event is no exception,” said
Eberhard via email. “About
15 Greek organizations are
participating this year and
we plan to have just as big of a
presence than last year.”
However, a student doesn’t
have to belong to a student
organization to participate.
“Most of the volunteers
are part of clubs and organizations, but individuals
are more than welcome,”
said Renee Delport, special
events and projects coordi-
nator for the Richter Center.
“In fact, when they volunteer
we always encourage them
to go out to the corners that
are reserved for Fresno State
and join up with other Fresno
State students because that
always makes it more fun.”
All the cor ners on Shaw
from Chestnut to Cedar and
from Cedar up to Bullard are
reserved just for Fresno State
students, but volunteers are
free to go anywhere.
“Our goal this year, and
we know its ambitious, is to
raise $450,000,” said Wagner.
“We’re hoping that because
it’s the 25th year anniversary
that people will give more. The
papers are sold for a dollar but
many, many people often give
more to support the cause.”
Donations can also be made
via phone by texting the word
“George” to 90999, which
will automatically donate
$5. George the giraffe is the
mascot and logo for Valley
Children’s Hospital, which
is located on Highway 41 just
north of River Park.
BRIEFS
New conference
mission to motivate
Latino students
A new conference organized
by Fresno State students,
“Motívate! Discover Your
Passion for Success” will feature international motivational speaker María Marín.
The free, public event is
scheduled for 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
March 17 at Fresno State’s
Satellite Student Union. It
will address challenges facing Latinos in college, recognize outstanding Fresno State
students and inspire Valley
Latino youth to pursue higher
education.
Registration infor mation
can be found at www.csufmotivate.com. Day-of-event registration will be from 8-9 a.m.
For more information contact
Lucerito Salgado at [email protected].
Women in the economy
is Fresno State lecture
focus
Dr. Heather Sumner, a business consultant, will discuss
“Women in the Economy” during a presentation 11:30 a.m.-1
p.m. on Friday at Fresno State
to the university’s Women’s
Campus Connection and
Leadership California.
Sumner is a consultant in
the Silicon Valley Office of
McKinsey and Co., where
she focuses on pharmaceutical companies, particularly
understanding strate gies
related to pricing, contracting
and reimbursement.
She was the key lead on
McKinsey’s research on
Women in the Economy, presented last year during a Wall
Street Jour nal conference.
Sumner is part of McKinsey
Women and West Coast with
Children within the firm.
Sumner’s doctorate in physical chemistry was awarded
by the Califor nia Institute
of Technology. In addition to
journaled research, she taught
a variety of chemistry courses
and was heavily involved in
the Graduate Student Council
at CalTech.
For more information, visit
w w w. c s u f r e s n o . e d u / w c c
or call 559.278.2083. RSVPs
should be addressed to nipalo m i n o @ c s u f re s n o. e d u by
Wednesday, March 7.
Women’s
Campus
Connection was established
in 2011 and offers women faculty, staff and administrators
at Fresno State an environment in which to socialize and
build connections that provide
professional and personal benefits for support and success
on campus and beyond.
Leadership Califor nia is
a network of accomplished
women, dedicated to advancing the leadership role women
play in business, social issues
and public policy.
Students from across
the state March on the
capitol
T h e S t u d e n t S e n at e fo r
Califor nia Community
Colleges (SSCCC), California
State Student Association
(CSSA) and the University
of Califor nia Student
Association (UCSA) invite the
media to “Fund our Future,”
a huge march and rally at
the State Capitol in support
of higher education. Over
10,000 students will converge
on Sacramento to demand
that Governor Brown and the
Legislature increase higher
education funding, protect
the Cal Grant program, and
support legislation that would
give much needed relief to students and their families.
The three official state stu-
dent associations, collectively
representing millions of students across California, have
come together for what could
be one of the largest student
organized rallies in California
in recent memory. “Thousands
of UC, CSU and community
college students are coming to
Sacramento, and we are united with a simple message: Our
future depends on the state
fully funding higher education. Balancing the state budget on the backs of students
and their families must end,”
said Kevin Feliciano SSCCC
President.
This March is the first time
in years that UC, CSU and
community college students
have united for a single action
in Sacramento. Many other
ally groups will also be joining
students for this March.
“Year after year, the state
has chosen to disinvest in
p u bl i c h i g h e r e d u c at i o n .
Students at the CSU, UC and
community colleges have seen
fees skyrocket, courses and
departments cut, and services
slashed.
CineCulture screens
‘Harimaya Bridge’ on
Friday
The bond between father and
son is the focus of “Harimaya
B r i d g e, ” t o b e s h ow n by
Fresno State’s CineCulture
at 5:30 p.m. Friday, March
2, at the Leon S. and Pete P.
Peters Educational Center
in the Student Recreation
Center. Fresno State counselor Katsuyo Howard; Fresno
County Superior Court
Judge Dale Ikeda; Dr.Tomoko
Kozasa, a linguistics professor; Hiromi Kubo, a public services librarian; and Dr. James
Walton, an English professor,
will lead a post-screening discussion.
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FEATURES EDITOR, THOMAS PEARSON • [email protected]
MONDAY, MARCH 5, 2012
Camp Darfur to teach students about genocide
By Thomas Pearson
The Collegian
The term genocide can spark
thoughts of the Holocaust and
the Armenian Genocide. USU
Productions hopes to raise
awareness for genocides past
and present by hosting "Camp
Darfur" today from 10 a.m. to 4
p.m. on the Memorial Gardens
lawn in front of the bookstore.
Camp Darfur is an interactive event that allows students
to walk through a simulated
refugee camp.
"Camp Darfur is an event
that travels to different cities
and universities," said Denise
Altounian, who organized the
event and is a member of USU
Productions. "Camp Darfur
uses real refugee tents, and
each tent is representative of
a genocide."
The event will have six tents
and the genocides that will be
represented are the Holocaust,
t h e A r m e n i a n G e n o c i d e,
and the genocides of Bosnia,
Cambodia, Rwanda and
Darfur.
The event's goal is to put the
current genocide into historical context by showing statistics and pictures of past genocides.
"The main goal of Camp
Darfur is to raise awareness
for the ongoing genocide,"
Altounian said. "The event is
meant to put the genocide into
context by showing genocides
Photo courtesy of i-Act
Each tent will teach students about a different genocide. Each tent has pictures, statistics and other information
about the specific genocide it represents.
of the past."
Altounian got the idea to
bring the event to campus
after experiencing it in high
school and hearing that it
had never been in the Central
Valley before.
"I wanted people to know
about these kinds of things,"
Altounian said. "People need
to educate themselves. Things
are happening in the world
and we aren't hearing about
them. Genocides aren't talked
about enough outside of the
Holocaust."
Students will also have the
opportunity to participate
in the Butterfly Project. The
goal of the Butterfly Project
is to create 1.5 million handmade paper butterflies. USU
Productions is taking part
and will encourage students
to participate. They will then
send them to the Holocaust
Museum Houston where they
will be a part of an exhibit
that is scheduled to open in
Spring 2014. Each butterfly
will represent a child killed
during the Holocaust.
The Jan and Bud Richter
Center for Communuty
Engagement and Service
Learning will host an advocacy booth at the event. The
booth will give students the
opportunity to get involved.
The booth will also show students ways to get involved
such as calling their elected
officials and utilizing social
media to spread awareness.
Speakers at the event will
be Dr. Mathew Jendian, chair
of the Sociology Department
and whose family survived
t h e A r m e n i a n G e n o c i d e.
Lejla Trijic, a professor in the
Department of English and
a survivor of the Bosnian
Genocide will also speak along
with Michael Blackbull, former professor of American
Indian Studies at Fresno City
College.
For mer Fresno State students Stephanie Stockdale,
and Khoeun Chhan Bae za
will also speak. Baeza's family
survived the Cambodian genocide. Dr. Jan Slagter, associate
professor of women’s studies
will discuss “Rape as the New
Weapon” as well.
O r g a n i z a t i o n s i nvo l ve d
in planning the event are
the Ar menian Students
Organization, Student Dietetic
Association, Combodian
Collegiate Association, and
Richter Center Ambassadors.
Also involved are the USU
Board of Directors, Center
for Women and Culture, Black
Law Students Association,
National Association for the
A dva n c e m e n t o f C o l o re d
People (NAACP) and USU
Productions.
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Boost your workout, sports game with the right shoes
By Leslie Barker Garcia
McClatchy-Tribune
Working out has such potential for simplicity. You decide
on an activity, set aside a time,
find a decently cute outfit.
Check, check and check.
Then you put on your shoes,
and that dainty checkmark
can easily become a big bold
X: If you chose your shoes
because they were a) the least
ratty in your closet, b) the
flashiest at the store or c) your
best friend swears by them,
chances are they'll make your
feet hurt. And who wants to
exercise with painful feet?
"Getting the right shoe is
really important," says Brian
Conway, director of sports
m e d i c i n e fo r B e n H o g a n
Sports Therapy Institute of
Texas Health Resources. "The
No. 1 rule of thumb is that
your shoes can't multitask."
In other words, there really
are reasons (other than paying
the salaries of shoe-company
employees) that you shouldn't
swap out running shoes for
tennis shoes, or basketball for
lacrosse, or soccer for volleyball, or Zumba for racquetball.
With each sport, feet move in
different ways, and shoes need
to provide support or flexibility for such endeavors.
Thus, the $17.5 billion that
Americans spent on athletic
shoes in 2010, according to
the National Sporting Goods
Association.
" W h e re a r u n n i n g s h o e
needs to be flexible, a court
shoe needs to be a little more
firm because of what you're
trying to do," says Conway,
52, who lives in Arlington. "In
basketball, there's a lot of forward, backward, side-to-side.
You need a firm sole of a shoe
to give support through those
motions."
A tennis shoe needs support
to compensate for side-to-side
movements and toe cushioning for the sport's stop-andgo movements, says Angie
Brown, director of rehabilitation services at Medical City
Dallas Hospital.
"If it doesn't fit and you're
constantly coming to a stop
quickly, your foot can hit the
end of it and get jammed into
the toe area," Brown says.
"You're getting blood under
your toenail and you can lose
the toenail."
If you have a hammertoe
that is, toes curled under or
bunions, the pain and foot
trauma could be even worse,
she says.
As purchasing manager for
Run On, Katie Pyle's vocation
is shoes. An athlete from a
young age, Pyle has known the
importance of buying sportsspecific shoes. She would
never, she says, have dreamed
"of wearing a running shoe to
compete in a basketball game
or a softball cleat to a soccer
game."
Pyle, 32, says specific shoes
give what every athlete wants:
an edge. "It could be in the
form of preventing injury or
a better grip on the surface or
increasing speed. Could you
use a running shoe to play
basketball? Sure, and you may
even make a few shots."
Similarly, says Pyle, who
lives in McKinney, "you could
bring a Toyota Prius to go offroading in rugged terrain. But
the person who shows up in a
four-wheel-drive Land Rover
stands a better chance every
time. That's what a Land Rover
is built for."
Maybe nothing bad will hap-
Sharon M. Steinman / McClatchy-Tribune
Exercise shoes take a beating, especially with regular use. Generally, a pair of running or workout shoes should be
able to endure 500 miles of running or walking.
pen if you don't wear the right
shoe. But you could end up
paying a visit to Brown or one
of her fellow physical therapists.
"If your shoes don't fit right,
you can end up getting blisters
and then jam your toe and then
you start to run or walk funny
because you're compensating
for the shoe," says Brown, 42,
of Allen, Texas. That could
lead to pain or injury in the
ankle, hip and lower back.
"It might start as knee pain,"
she says. "'Why does that hurt?'
Because you're walking funny.
'Why am I walking funny?'
Because your shoe doesn't fit."
Here are some tips on how to
buy the right shoe:
Do your research on what
type of shoe is best for your
sport. You'll have more of an
idea of what to look for. This
doesn't entail asking friends
what they wear, because your
feet are not their feet.
Seek help. At running stores
such as Run On and Luke's
Locker, employees are trained
to watch customers walk or
run, and offer a selection of
shoes most likely to fit according to their gait and how they
move. Sporting goods stores
have shoes arranged by sport.
Bring your old shoes. The
wear pattern on their soles can
help experts determine how
you've worn them down; i.e., if
you pronate (walk inward on
your shoes) or supinate (walk
on the outsole).
Shop at the end of the day.
Feet swell; the pair of shoes
that fits fine at 10 a.m. will
probably be too snug by dusk.
Try them on. Walk around
the store. Jog up and down the
aisles. If you just take them
for looks alone, you won't care
about appearance once your
feet start hurting.
Buy the right size. Yes, even
if it is bigger than what you
think you wear. In running
and walking shoes, you'll need
a pair at least a half to full size
larger than usual.
Make sure they're comfortable NOW. Don't tell yourself, "Oh, they'll stretch." You
should be able to put them on
and start walking right this
very minute. Or playing tennis. Or sashaying through
your aerobics class.
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Collegian
SCIENCE & CULTURE
SCIENCE & CULTURE EDITOR, JOHNATHAN WILBANKS • [email protected]
MONDAY, MARCH 5, 2012
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ARTIST SPOTLIGHT
Esteban Cortez / The Collegian
Fresno State graduate student and assistant professor Vanessa Addison-Wilson featured her artwork in a solo exhibit at the Conley Art Gallery on campus. Her work is inspired by family, religion and
African-American culture. The exhibit is on display until Tuesday.
Grad student explores African-American culture in art
By Esteban Cortez
The Collegian
Some people called Vanessa
Addison-Wilson’s artwork
“enlightening” at her solo
exhibit Thursday night at
the Fresno State Conley Art
Gallery. Fresno State student
Tara Wren enjoyed it because
it provides viewers with a different point of view regarding
African-American culture.
“[The collection] is a very
different element of AfricanAmerican people throughout
history and how society views
us and sometimes how we
view ourselves,” Wren said
Thursday night at AddisonWi l s o n ’ s o p e n i n g r e c e p tion. “It’s very creative and
thought-provoking.”
These are the thoughts and
emotions Addison-Wilson
hoped to evoke in viewers
through her pieces.
In her first solo exhibit titled
“Signifyin,’” Fresno State
graduate student and assistant professor Addison-Wilson
explores the themes of religion, family and her AfricanAmerican culture. Through
the use of collage, painting
a n d a n i m at i o n , A d d i s o n Wilson created a vibrant
11-piece collection that comments on society’s views of
African-Americans.
“The body of the collection is reflective of AfricanAmerican culture,” AddisonWilson said. “It shows what
African-Americans see of
their self and what society
sees.”
In her “Strange Fruit” piece,
the artist placed printed paper
images, magazine cut outs,
colored tissue paper, fabric
and acrylic paint to form a
face on a giant canvas.
A d d i s o n - Wi l s o n c a r e fully selected the images in
“Strange Fruit” to comment
on the public’s perception of
African-American culture. A
small portion of the collage,
for example, features a magazine cut out with the portrait
of an African-American child
with the text “Don’t shoot.
I want life.” To the right, an
image of an African-American
man forming gang hand signs
with a bandana covering his
face is placed.
Every symbol in the collection is a piece of social comm e n t a r y, A d d i s o n - Wi l s o n
explained.
While some gallery viewers praised the collection for
its bold statements, others
praised it for aesthetic reasons.
“It’s very unique and the patterns are all very different,”
Fresno State student Lilian
Leon said.
Addison-Wilson has always
been interested in art, she
said, but she just recently
began to create art pieces in a
formal way. Her focus is graphic design, which she teaches at
Fresno State parttime.
She plans to create new pieces for the 2013 San Francisco
Bay Area exhibit “The Art of
Living Black,” which features
regional artists of African
descent. She was invited to
feature existing and new pieces in the 17th-annual exhibit,
and if she shows next year, she
might be the first artist to feature animation art.
With her Fresno State exhibit closing this week, AddisonWilson is happy that she was
able to show her work to her
family and the Fresno State
community.
“It was nice to show to family who hadn’t seen my work,”
she said. “It’s such a privilege
to show as a solo artist because
it doesn’t always happen as a
grad student.”
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forum for student expression.
http://collegian.csufresno.edu
TOP: Malee Yang analyzes two pieces from Vanessa
Addison-Wilson’s collection at the Conley Art Gallery
Thursday evening. Yang enjoyed the collection’s bright
colors. BOTTOM: Addison-Wilson’s piece “Strange Fruit”
features printed images and magazine cut outs that portray the self-images of African-Americans, as well as the
views of society.
Photos by Esteban Cortez / The Collegian
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SCIENCE & CULTURE EDITOR, JOHNATHAN WILBANKS • [email protected]
The daily crossword
Across
1 Stands
7 Load in a basket
11 Label
14 Busts
15 Potent introduction?
16 Nabokov novel
17 Source of mints, at
times
19 With “on” and
59-Across, a hint to the
theme hidden in three
places in this puzzle
20 7-Across destination,
eventually
21 New York City’s __
River
22 Chowderhead
23 They often accompany
stretches
25 “I Loves You, Porgy”
and others
26 House on TV, e.g.
30 Poker star Hansen
31 River from the
Cantabrian Mountains
32 Invasion leaders of
the ‘60s
39 It prohibits illegal
search and seizure
41 The recent past
42 Huit + trois
43 __-Aztecan languages
44 Buyer, in legal usage
46 Love
49 Roundup need
52 Zoom
53 Sub
54 Once and again
Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Lewis
Los Angeles Times
12 Go with the flow
13 Jenga and jacks
18 Remote letters
22 Broom alternative
24 Prefix with -pod
25 Pair
26 Challenge
27 Clarinet cousin
28 French vineyards
29 Agony
30 Blues and others
33 It’s cut and dried
34 Morph ending
35 Emmy-winning
Arthur
36 Provided temporarily
37 Auto designer Ferrari
38 Prank ending
40 Head of Québec
45 Lepidopterous
opponent of Godzilla
46 Orderly grouping
47 “Tell It to My Heart”
singer Taylor
48 Expanse with crests
49 Reveal
50 Most Syrians
51 Cain was the first
53 Dance with flowing
gestures
55 Distance
56 “__ a man with seven
wives”
57 Forearm exercise
58 Start of
Massachusetts’s motto
60 Medicine amt.
61 “Original, crispy or
grilled?” co.
Puzzle by Mike Peluso
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59 See 19-Across
60 Subject of a 1922
archaeological discovery
62 Santa __ winds
63 One who often doesn’t
pick up?
64 Some chickens
65 Craving
66 Show closers, perhaps
67 Balmoral attraction
Down
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1 Start of a tots’ song
2 1922 physics Nobelist
3 “__, old chap!”
4 Taj Mahal topper
5 Developmental stage
6 Prescott-to-Tempe dir.
7 Smith attendee
8 Round up
9 Hissy fit
10 Went underground
11 Attraction near U.S.
395
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3x3 box contains every digit from 1 to 9 inclusively.
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Science Word of the Day
activation energy
The energy required to initiate a chemical
reaction.
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Disposal sites in Japan refuse to accept 140,000 tons of radioactive waste
By Yomiuri Shimbun
McClatchy-Tribune
TOKYO — At least 140,000
tons of sewage sludge, ash
and soil contaminated with
radioactive materials has yet
to be disposed of in Tokyo
and six prefectures in the
Kanto region of Japan following the crisis at the crippled
Fukushima No. 1 nuclear
power plant, a survey shows.
Under the central government-set criteria regarding
radioactive materials, sewage
sludge and ash with radiation
levels up to 8,000 becquerels
per kilogram can be put in
landfills. But an increasing
number of final disposal sites
refuse to accept contaminated sludge and ash even if it
meets the criteria, according
to a survey by The Yomiuri
Shimbun. In other situations,
soil removed during decontamination work has been left
at the original sites.
When The Yomiuri Shimbun
asked local governments in
Tokyo and six other prefectures with waste water processing facilities how they
have handled sewage sludge,
it found a total of 103,100 tons
of sludge — including that
which has been incinerated
and reduced — was still at
the facilities. Of that, about
52,700 tons was in Saitama
Prefecture, the most among
the seven prefectures.
The Yomiuri Shimbun surveyed 24 facilities in Tokyo
and four other prefectures
where radioactive cesium
above 8,000 becquerels had
been detected in ash.
The survey revealed about
6,500 tons of ash from general waste was still kept at the
facilities.
As for polluted soil removed
in decontamination work,
The Yomiuri Shimbun looked
at 51 municipalities in five
prefectures, which have been
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polluted soil was temporarily
stored there.
Many local governments in
the Tokyo metropolitan area
do not have their own final disposal sites for sewage sludge
and ash.
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THE COLLEGIAN • SPORTS
SPORTS EDITOR, ANGEL MORENO • [email protected]
SPORTS BRIEFS
Women’s basketball wins
on Senior Night
Seniors Blakely Goldberg
and Veronica Wilson were
honored at Fresno State’s 79-43
win over New Mexico State.
Wilson and Goldberg were
honored before tip off and
started in their final regularseason game as Bulldogs.
The two seniors have guided
the ‘Dogs to a 50-13 record, a
WAC regular-season title, a
WAC Tournament title and an
NCAA Tournament appearance.
The ‘Dogs were almost on
fire from the floor, sinking 48
percent of their shots, including 11 3-pointers. Junior Rosie
Moult led the way for Fresno
State, scoring a team-high 21
points. Moult made five 3s and
shot 50 percent from the field
overall.
Goldberg finished with 10
points, four rebounds and
two steals. Wilson had seven
points and one rebound for the
‘Dogs.
Fresno State, which clinched
the 2012 regular-season WAC
c h a m p i o n s h i p l a s t we e k
against Louisiana Tech, is the
top seed in this week’s conference tournament.
Men’s basketball suffers
second-half collapse; lose
regular-season finale in OT
Head coach Rodney Terry’s
inaugural re gular season
came to close Saturday night
in an overtime loss to New
Mexico State.
In just more than 16 minutes, the Aggies erased a
19-point Bulldog lead, sending
the game into extra minutes
before pushing Fresno State’s
conference record to 3-11, its
worst since the 2008-09 season.
Kevin Olekaibe, who was
named second-team All-WAC
over the weekend, dropped
a game-high 23 points, but
New Mexico State’s Bandja
Sy scored 22 after halftime.
Olekaibe finished second in
the WAC regular season in
scoring average with 18 points
per game. The Aggies’ win set
up a rematch in this weekend’s WAC Tournament in Las
Vegas.
The game was also the final
appearance for two Bulldog
seniors at the Save Mar t
Center. Jonathan Wills and
Steven Shepp were honored
before the game in front of an
announced crowd of 6,135.
FOOTBALL
Women’s tennis upsets
No. 50 Georgia State
The Fresno State women’s
tennis defeated No. 50 Georgia
State, 4-3, Friday afternoon at
the Wathen Tennis Center.
The Bulldogs, who improved
to 3-5, swept in doubles play
winning all three matches.
Marianne Jodoin and Olga
Kirpicheva defeated Abigail
Te re - Ap i s a h a n d M a r y n a
Kozachenko in a tiebreaker,
9-8 (3).
In singles play, 42nd-ranked
Jodoin lost her first match
of the season to No. 54 TereApisah, 6-3, 6-4. Jodoin is now
2-1 against nationally ranked
opponents.
Georgia State gave the ‘Dogs
a scare, taking the No. 2 singles match as Tereza Lerova
downed Kirpicheva, 6-2, 6-7 (5),
6-2, tying the match at 3-3.
Fresno State’s No. 4 singles
p l aye r M e l i s s a M c Q u e e n
clinched the win for the ‘Dogs
in a comeback victory over
Kozachenko, 0-6, 7-6(5), 7-5.
Fresno State will be on the
road the next two weekends,
as it takes on New Mexico
State and UNLV, on March 10
and 17, respectively.
Esteban Cortez / The Collegian
Sophomore Marianne Jodoin returns
a serve in her singles match on
Friday against Georgia State. Jodoin,
ranked No. 42 in the nation in
singles, fell to No. 54 Abigail TereApisah, 6-3, 6-4.
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Fresno State
releases
2012
schedule
By Angel Moreno
The Collegian
The Fresno State football
team released its schedule
for the 2012 season last week.
It will be the Bulldogs first
season competing in the
Mountain West Conference.
“Well it’s exciting,” said
first-year head coach Tim
DeRuyter. “We knew going
i n t o t h e M o u n t a i n We s t
Conference it’d be a heck of a
challenge. To see it finally put
in writing, to know who exactly we’re playing and when,
gives us a little more umph in
practice, I think.”
The Bulldogs start the season at home against Weber
State Sept. 1, giving DeRuyter
the opportunity to showcase
his new offensive and defensive schemes in front of the
Bulldog faithful. The ‘Dogs
will play at home one week at
a time, as they don’t have any
consecutive home games next
season.
DeRuyter said the schedule
pattern wouldn’t affect them
in terms of preparedness, but
actually drive them to perform.
“It’s a neat challenge to go
in and hear that silence when
you make plays [in opposing
stadiums], and that’s what our
guys will rally around,” he
added.
The ‘Dogs will then play
back-to-back Pac-12 opponents, at Oregon Sept. 8 and
at home against Colorado on
Sept. 15. Fresno State will
close out its nonconference
competition the following
week at Tulsa.
Fresno State will host San
Diego State Sept. 29 in its inaugural game in the Mountain
West. After the league opener,
the ‘Dogs will play at Colorado
State Oct. 6, and Boise State
Oct. 13 for their only two consecutive road games. Fresno
S t at e w i l l t r ave l t o Fo r t
Collins, Colo., for the first time
since 2003. The Boise State
game will mark the 12th consecutive meeting between the
two teams.
The Bulldogs will retur n
home to host Wyoming on
Oct. 20 before travelling to
Albuquerque on Oct. 27 to play
New Mexico.
The ‘Dogs will have three
games in November, hosting Hawaii Nov. 3 and then
at Nevada a week later. The
Bulldogs will then have a bye
week after playing 11-straight
weeks to start the season.
After the bye, Fresno State
will host its season finale ag ainst Air Force Nov.
24, the Saturday after the
Thanksgiving holiday.
T he ‘Do gs will play six
games at Bulldog Stadium and
six on the road.
The schedule announcement
coincides with the team’s
annual ticket-renewal period,
said Senior Associate Athletic
Director Paul Ladwig. Kickoff
times and games selected for
television will be released
later.
2012 SCHEDULE
Sept. 1 Sept. 8 Sept. 15 Sept. 22 Sept. 29 Oct. 6 Oct. 13 Oct. 20 Oct. 27 Nov. 3 Nov. 10 Nov. 24 vs. Weber State
at Oregon
vs. Colorado
at Tulsa
vs. San Diego State*
at Colorado State*
at Boise State*
vs. Wyoming*
at New Mexico*
vs. Hawaii*
at Nevada*
vs. Air Force*
*Mountain West Conference opponent
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SPORTS
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THIS WEEKEND...
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SPORTS EDITOR, ANGEL MORENO • [email protected]
MONDAY, MARCH 5, 2012
BASEBALL
Cardinal too much for Bulldogs
Fresno State handed No. 1
Stanford its first loss of the season,
but the win wasn’t enough for the
‘Dogs as the Cardinal came back to
take the three-game series
By Tim Salazar
The Collegian
Photos by James Ramirez / The Collegian
ABOVE: Sophomore pitcher Tyler Linehan started for the ‘Dogs Friday night. Linehan pitched 5.2 innings, allowing
five hits for two earned runs for a no decision.
BELOW: Sophomore Aaron Judge (No. 29) is congratulated by his teammates after the second of his two back-toback home runs in Friday’s 7-4 win over No. 1 Stanford.
The Fresno State Diamond
‘Dogs took the reigns of the
opening game of a three-game
series on Friday and did something no other team has done
this season — take down the
top-ranked Stanford Cardinal
— by a score of 7-4. The ‘Dogs,
however, were then subsequently beaten back by the
Cardinal, losing the final two
games of the series, 16-0 on
Saturday and 9-2 on Sunday.
F r i d ay ’ s s e e s aw b a t t l e
featured sophomore Tyler
Linehan taking the mound
against junior Mark Appel.
Aaron Judge led the way for
the Bulldogs, hitting back-toback home runs, his first two
of the season.
The Bulldogs got the lead
first in the second inning off
a 2-run home run by Judge,
which sailed over the left field
fence.
“When I go out there I have
confidence knowing that the
person behind me is going to
get the job done if I don’t,”
Judge said. “So having that
freedom really helps out a lot.”
The Cardinal answered back
in the third with its own 2-run
double by Brian Ragira to take
even the score at 2-2.
The Bulldogs briefly
reclaimed the lead in the
fourth inning on Judge’s second home run of the night,
bringing the score to 3-2.
With the bases loaded for the
Cardinal in the fifth, Stephen
Piscotty connected for a 2-run
single and advanced to second on an error. The Bulldogs
escaped the inning without
further damage, stranding
three Cardinal baserunners as
they closed out the inning.
In the sixth, the ‘Dogs loaded
the bases and tied the game on
an Austin Wynns’ RBI single.
Chris Marscal followed, clearing the bases with a 3-run double to right-center field to cap
the four-run inning, 7-4.
Bulldog pitcher Justin Haley
took the win after entering
the game midway through
the fifth inning. Haley retired
all ten batters he faced, three
by strikeouts. Linehan finished after five and two-third
innings, giving up four runs
on two hits with six strikeouts.
The second g ame was a
disaster for the Bulldogs both
offensively and defensively, as
they were silenced 16-0. The
‘Dogs did nothing offensively against left-hander Brett
Mooneyham who registered
his third win for the Cardinal.
Mooneyham lowered his season ERA to 1.29, allowing two
hits and striking out 13 before
giving way to Spenser Linney
and Sam Lindquist to finish
off whatever life remained in
the Bulldog bats that night.
“You’re looking at a 6-foot-5
lefthander who’s liable to go
in the first round,” Bulldog
head coach Mike Batesole said
of Mooneyham. “Throwing 94
[mph] with two other pitches
for strikes, that’s no easy task
for Division-1 hitters.”
Stanford exploded right out
the gate, scoring seven runs
in the first two innings. The
onslaught began to subside
after many of the starters
were pulled for reserves.
Bulldog starter Cody
Kendall, who was a staple of
stability with last year’s team,
was only able to pitch just
more than an inning. Kendall
surrendered seven runs.
Sunday’s game looked like
it would be a repeat performance of Saturday, with the
Cardinal going up to a 4-0 lead
in the first inning. Errors
plagued the Diamond ‘Dogs all
weekend, allowing 3 unearned
runs on 6 er rors over the
three-game series.
“At the end of year if you
make 56 errors in 56 games
you’re probably in the top 10
in the country defensively,”
Batesole said. “We’re a long
way from that and that’s our
goal.”
The Bulldogs’ Tom Harlan
and the rest of his teammates
surrendered only one run over
the next five innings, the only
run coming off a throwing
error on a single.
The Bulldogs finally got
back on the board in the sixth,
ending their 16-inning scoring
drought with an RBI double by
Aaron Judge that scored Pat
Hutcheson from first. Kenny
Wise collected the Bulldogs’
second run of the inning
with a bases-loaded walk, but
the pristine scoring chance
ended as the next batter Justin
Charles struck out.
The Cardinal offensive merry-go-round continued the
next inning as Bulldogs gave
up four more runs in the seventh.
“That’s a fantastic ball club,”
Batesole said after Sunday’s
game. “They’re big, strong,
fast and physical and that’s
why they’re No. 1 in the country. That’s as good as it gets in
college baseball.”
The ‘Dogs will continue
their homestand on Thursday
in a four-game series with San
Francisco.