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NOVEMBER 4, 2011
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As Greece woes
ebb, other eurozone
problems surface
SERVING CAMPUS SINCE 1922
Fresno State breaks world record
By Kevin G. Hall
McClatchy-Tribune
W h i l e s t o r m cl o u d s i n G re e c e
appeared to lift Thursday with political compromise, the broader European
Union still faces numerous threats as
other struggling economies remain in
danger.
“The big question really is what happens to the rest of the area,” said Diego
Iscaro, a senior economist in London
for forecaster IHS Global Insight.
G re e k P r i m e M i n i s t e r G e o r g e
Papandreou appeared to have negotiated a political deal that won the opposition party’s commitment to back a
government austerity program that
was key to a debt-relief accord reached
with EU leaders last week.
The deal was an important symbol
that Europe was working through its
problems, though with Greece accounting for only 3 percent of the European
Union economy, its problems pose only
a small threat.
The real risks come from larger troubled economies such as Spain and Italy.
As was the case in the 2008 U.S. financial crisis, investors quickly identify
who they think is the next weak link,
and in Europe that’s Italy. It faces enormous financing needs and its embattled prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi,
is fighting for political survival.
“This Italian government will have
to get its act together and really put a
credible reform program in place. And
without these factors, the picture looks
quite gloomy,” Iscaro said.
Italy is in the crosshairs because
Berlusconi has failed to deliver on
promised economic reforms. He was
forced to make new promises at last
week’s “summit to end all summits,”
yet after a Cabinet session Wednesday
he ar rived mostly empty-handed
Thursday at the G-20 meeting of indus-
Esteban Cortez / The Collegian
Axel Reyes of the California Highway Patrol watches as the final bins of fresh fruit are dumped into the 2,000-gallon water tank. Reyes served as a
witness to the record-breaking event.
By Ana Mendoza
The Collegian
Fresno State students from the
Marketing 188 course have broken the
world record for the world’s largest
fruit salad. Students, community members and other organizations cut fruit
from 8:18 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Thursday.
The official weight of the fruit salad
was 10,440 pounds. The fruit was mixed
with 50, 32-ounce containers of lemon
juice. Two forklifts were used to carry
the fruit to the refrigerator where the
fruit will be stored until Friday morning.
Friday morning some of the fruit
salad will be donated to Poverello
House, Fresno Rescue Mission and
other local charities.
In the afternoon Fresno State student
and community members can get their
share of the fruit salad.
“We will have a drive through where
people can get a bag of fruit,” Fresno
State student Nick Morales said.
Fresno State student and active participant Sam Mabanta calculates there
were about 100 volunteers that helped
cut and prepare the fruit. The large
number of volunteers began early by
cutting about 1,000 pounds of fruit an
hour.
“We thought we were going to finish
by noon,” Mabanta said. By the afternoon volunteers began to decrease
which slowed down the preparation
process.
Morales said there where two-tothree nicked fingers and many blisters,
but no serious emergencies. Volunteers
with hurt fingers were moved to other
areas where they were not going to be
in contact with the fruit.
Morales said he was very happy with
the results of the event and he would
do it again. “On behalf of the group,
we would do it again.”
Army ROTC trains in San Luis Obispo
By Johnathan Wilbanks
The Collegian
F r e s n o S t a t e Re s e r ve
Officers’ Training Corps
( RO T C ) c a d e t s s p e n t
last weekend at Camp
San Luis Obispo for
a t h re e - d ay t r a i ning exercise. The
training focused on
bonding and essential Army skills.
T he Ar my ROTC
provides elective
courses for Fresno
State students who
are pursuing a commissioned of ficer
career in the Army.
Scholarships are
provided to students who make
a commitment to
serve after graduation. Deployment
to various parts of
the world depends
on the unit officers
are assigned to.
As part of the program,
about 60 cadets
Photo by Chris Cooper
who participated in
Illustration by Esteban Cortez / The Collegian
the training were thaught basic rifle
marksmanship, day and night land
navigation exercises and repelling.
“Being an Army officer, you can’t be
afraid of anything. You have to step up
and be willing to do something even if
you are not comfortable,” Fresno State
student Chris Cooper of ROTC said. “A
lot of cadets are learning they need to
do stuff they have never done before.
“Cadets are learning to have faith in
their equipment and their instructors,
“B
eing an Army officer, you
can’t be afraid of anything.”
— Chris Cooper,
Fresno State ROTC student
this program helps them gain confidence in becoming a leader,” Cooper
added.
The Army employs diverse personnel, such as health professionals, but
trains each cadet as a soldier with their
specialization being secondary to their
status as a soldier.
“I am a nurse in the Army, but they
train me as an infantry officer. Just
because I am a nurse doesn’t mean I
don’t have to learn how to use a gun,”
Fresno State nursing student Angelia
DeBenedetii said. “For me it’s a winwin because I get to serve my country
and I have a guaranteed job after college.”
A three-day training exercise was
held over the weekend starting Friday
through Sunday at Camp San Luis
Obispo. The first camp of the semester
placed an emphasis on bonding, as this
was the first event many of the freshman cadets had attended. Three essential Army skills were taught; basic rifle
marksmanship (BRM), day and night
land navigation and repelling. The
camp had approximately 60 cadets and
10 cadre present.
“We have about 15-to-20 percent
females in the program, and it can be
challenging but we keep up with the
males,” DeBenedetii said. “They don’t
go easy on us, but I have never experienced any poor attitudes because I am
a female.”
“They expected us to help the freshmen along, we had to exercise some
leadership roles to take care of the
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The ‘green’ free market
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limate change, greenhouse
gasses, green energy — all
terms are very familiar to us
these days. The question is, do product
manufacturers actually care about the
green movement or are most of them
boarding the green train because there
is money to be made by producing a
green product?
I don’t doubt that some companies
do make an effort to be green, but I
believe most companies understand
that most consumers are concerned
with saving money than buying a
green product. I don’t see too many
people at a store looking for a little
green leaf on a label — they are looking at price tags.
I really don’t think a majority of
Americans are buying into the whole
green movement anyway, and the
majority won’t unless they see some
blatantly conclusive proof that there is
a global climate crisis that will affect
them within their lifetime. With our
current financial struggles, the only
way to get Americans to buy in is to
stress the areas where going green
saves money.
Solar power is a perfect example of
the American mentality toward the
green movement. If solar power for a
household was much less expensive, a
massive majority of Americans would
jump on the opportunity because they
hate power bills. The fact that it’s
environmentally friendly is a second
thought for most.
Fortunately, in some cases, creating
a green product can be a win-win situation for producers and consumers.
Producers are beginning to use less
material in products, which in some
cases is a good thing.
Take plastic water bottles, for example. Producers are using less plastic
and using more recycled material than
ever. That makes production costs
decline, which trickles down to consumers who pay less for the product,
all good things.
One thing I have a serious beef with
is hybrid cars such as the Prius. This
car has become a status symbol, saying, in effect, “I care about the environment so much that I’m willing to drive
a hideous car.”
Jay Leno said it best referring to the
Prius: “In America, we like everyone
to know about the good work we are
doing anonymously.”
The problem with the Prius and
other hybrid electric cars is that they
are marketed as green vehicles, but
that could be far from the truth. Some
reports show that between the environmentally hazardous production of
batteries in North America, shipment
of those batteries to Asia for assembly,
then shipment to the final destination,
a Prius has created more pollution
than a normal vehicle in two lifetimes.
Not to mention the hazard related to
disposing of the massive batteries in
electric cars.
I don’t understand why there isn’t
a bigger push for hydrogen-powered
cars that are already in production.
These are the only truly zero-emission
vehicles around today. They still use
electric motors, but that motor is
powered by a hydrogen fuel cell rather
than batteries and the only emission
from the vehicle is water.
If there is an expectation of citizens
to be green then there will have to be
more affordable options. I’m beginning
to believe that the entire green movement is more about a lot of people
making a lot of money than it is about
some supposed global crisis. If we are
legitimately looking down the gun
barrel toward the “end of our planet,”
I think people would be trying a lot
harder.
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GREECE: Spain and Italy are seen as the next real risks
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trialized countries, held in the French
seaside city of Cannes.
“The fact that they haven’t been able
to reach consensus to put this package in place is quite worrying and
illustrates political problems in Italy,”
said Iscaro, pointing to rising borrowing costs for the Italian government.
“You’re in a vicious cycle of contracting activity that puts public finances
under more stress.”
Among the promises Berlusconi
made to EU partners but has failed to
keep is selling off state companies,
undertaking infrastructure spending to create jobs, and reducing Italy’s
notorious government bureaucracy to
make its businesses more competitive.
Separate from the EU promises, Italy
is sinking under an aging population
with costly government pensions and
outdated labor laws.
Italy also has debts of about $2.6
trillion. The ratio of Italy’s debt to its
overall economy is around 120 percent.
That debt ratio is what European leaders are trying to bring Greece down to
by 2020, and it underscores how Italy
and Greece face similar challenges.
“Berlusconi is likely to go the same
way as Papandreou,” said Jacob
Kirke gaard, a research fellow at
the Peter G. Peterson Institute for
International Economics, a free-market Washington think tank. “I think
the likelihood of Berlusconi leaving
has gone up a lot.”
Spain, another large and troubled
E urop e an econo my, a lre a dy h a s
imposed tough austerity measures
and is lumbering through a downturn
so severe that one in four Spaniards is
unemployed. There has been political
buy-in for austerity measures, but elections on Nov. 20 are set to completely
shift power in Spain.
Opinion polls suggest that the conservative People’s Party, which ruled from
1996 to 2004, will gain the largest parliamentary majority in decades. Its leaders have vowed to take austerity even
further, promising to restructure the
way government taxes and spends and
revamp the relationship between the
central and provincial governments.
That could put Spain on better footing, or it could create political strife
that gets people out on the streets.
Portugal and Ireland, two other weak
links in Europe, each have adopted
severe austerity measures. Their risks
are a weakening European economy
that most analysts think is certain to
enter at least a mild to moderate recession. If Europe’s economy struggles, it
could lead to pressure on global banks
to do as they did with Greece and agree
to take a 50 percent loss on the bonds
they hold in exchange for the issuance
of new bonds with handsomer returns.
Charles Dallara, the head of the
Institute of International Finance, the
trade group for big international financial institutions, doesn’t think a Greeklike deal will be offered to anyone else.
“We see no evidence that suggests to
us that there should be any extension
of this unique approach that we have
taken with Greece,” he said Wednesday
in a conference call with reporters,
pointing to positive improvements in
Portugal and Ireland. “I have every reason to believe that a new government
in Spain will be able to build on the
progress that has been made, particularly over the last year or so.”
ROTC: Students train to develop new skills
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freshmen and show them the ropes,”
Fresno State student Brian Weskamp
said.
Cadets had to learn to function on
little sleep and live off of Meals Ready
to Eat, also known as MRE. Their days
began at 4:30 a.m. to midnight. Upon
waking, cadets had to pack and subsequently carry their rucksacks throughout the day, which weigh approximately 30 pounds.
For many of the cadets, it was their
first time using a firear m. Many
seniors from the MS force were present
and muzzle awareness was emphasized
to ensure there were no accidents.
For a cadet to get basic rifle marksmanship, students had to fire three
rounds within the confines of a sixcentimeter circle. From there, they
zeroed the rifle to the target, where the
objective is to hit the center of mass of
the target with each shot.
Once the rifle is zeroed and grouped,
the cadets moved on to qualification
where they fired 40 rounds into the
target using three different firing positions.
In total, cadets were allowed to fire
about 60 rounds from an M16. Cadets
had to hit the target 26 times to qualify.
Once qualified, the cadet becomes a
marksman and can eventually become
a sharpshooter and expert marksman.
ROTC students also received training in repelling. To do this, cadets tied
themselves into a “Swiss Seat,” which
is essentially a harness they tie onto
themselves with rope. The right hand
is used as a brake and held near the
lower back, the left hand is held forward to guide the rope.
“The knots, equipment and ropes are
all safe and here were a lot of cheers
and good jobs as the cadets went down
the tower. It was a really great way to
end a three-day training exercise,”
Fresno State professor of military science Lt. Col. Figlioli said.
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Anti-US politicians on the rise as
Pakistan ponders elections
By Saeed Shah
McClatchy-Tribune
With expectations rising in Pakistan
of an election being called within
months, anti-American politicians are
in the ascendancy, leaving the current
pro-U.S. government facing defeat.
Imran Khan, a charismatic former
cricket star turned politician who is
fiercely anti-American, has grabbed
the popular imagination recently. But
it’s another critic of the U.S., former
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who’s
more likely to rise to the top.
Sharif’s party, which leads the official opposition and rules the provincial government in the all-important
Punjab re gion, this year stopped
accepting U.S. aid money as funds from
an “enemy.” Khan promises to tear up
Islamabad’s alliance with Washington,
and he’s made resistance to U.S. drone
missile strikes against suspected militants in Pakistan’s tribal areas one of
the cornerstones of his politics.
The government of President Asif
Ali Zardari, whose party was helped
to power in 2008 under a deal with
Pakistan’s military that was brokered
in part by Washington, is sinking in
popularity, mired in corruption scandals and tarnished by poor performance in office.
The Obama administration is pressing Pakistan to help it in Afghanistan
by cutting off insurgent sanctuaries
on its territory and bringing “reconcilable” Taliban to the negotiating table.
But in a country of soaring anti-Americanism, the coming to power of Sharif
or Khan could sink whatever remains
of the troubled Washington-Islamabad
partnership.
A survey in June by Pew Research
Center, a Washington-based pollster,
found that 73 percent of Pakistanis
have an unfavorable view of the United
States, while just 14 percent believed
that it’s a good thing that Osama bin
Laden was killed.
Khan, who entered politics 15 years
ago but has struggled to gain traction until now, staged a massive rally
Sunday in Lahore, the provincial capital of Punjab, where he proclaimed
that an electoral “tsunami” would
sweep him to power.
He has a reputation for being favored
by Pakistan’s powerful military, which
controls the country’s foreign and
security policies and shapes the relationship with the United States.
“Our leaders owned this war on terror for the sake of dollars,” Khan told
the crowd in Lahore, Sharif’s hometown. “You sold out the blood of innocent people.”
Pakistanis are deeply disillusioned
with both Zardari’s Pakistan Peoples
Party and Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim
League-N, which have alternated in
power but are accused of corruption and incompetence. Many see the
untried Khan as a savior, in a country
heading toward collapse under extremist violence and an economy in free
fall.
But Pakistan doesn’t have a presidential election system, meaning that
Khan stands a chance only if there is a
sea-change in voting behavior and millions break out of the established system of political party loyalty.
In Pakistan, voters elect local candidates, and the party with the most
elected candidates gets to form the
government. Khan lacks strong local
candidates and party machinery, compared to the two big political parties.
That gives an important advantage to
Zardari, who’s proved adept at building political coalitions, an art that has
eluded Khan and Sharif. Zardari’s government is a coalition of four political
parties.
But Zardari is wildly unpopular, even
within his own party, the Pew survey
found, with just 11 percent of those
surveyed saying they held a favorable
view of him.
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Recreation Administration 150 class to visit Rose Bowl
By Alene Istanboulian
The Collegian
This Saturday, Nov. 5, the Fresno
State Recreation Administration 150
class, known as RA150, will attend the
UCLA Bruins football game against
the Arizona State Sun Devils at the
Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif. The class
will advise the UCLA athletic department as well as Rose Bowl officials on
what they can do to improve the overall
game day experience at the facility.
A group of 20 students will attend
the event and evaluate how the facility
is operated. They will observe every
aspect of the stadium’s operation,
including the flow of traffic, parking
organization, crowd control, risk management, ease of access points into the
venue, signage and the effectiveness of
the venue’s staff and security. The students will then compile their findings
into a report and submit it to the UCLA
athletic department.
Dr. Michael Mahoney, professor of
RA150, said this is the second year that
his students will attend a Rose Bowl
event.
“We were invited back this year
because of the feedback from the
report that the students compiled last
year,” Mahoney said. “This lets [UCLA]
create a better experience for their
fans. They invited us back to do a similar exercise this year.”
Mahoney wanted his students to be
able to experience a popular event at a
large venue in order to understand all
the aspects that are necessary to make
an event run successfully.
“We can talk about it in class, but
when we actually go to a venue, we
are able to go in and break it down,”
Mahoney said. “Walking through it
and coming back, analyzing it as a
group and putting it in a professional
format ties my students to the industry.
It also gives back to UCLA to look at
things objectively.”
Tory Ray, a senior majoring in kinesiology and sports administration
attended the trip in fall 2010.
to experience what she’s been learning
in Mahoney’s class first hand.
“We’re going to go there as a fresh
pair of eyes and try to notice things
that the stadium personnel would usually look over,” Ragsac said. “We’ve
been learning how to operate stadi-
“A
lot of people think that
being a [recreation] major
is easy, but there's more than
meets the eye. It's more realworld knowledge that is utilized
in doing this type of thing.”
— Tory Ray,
kinesiology and sports
administration major
“A lot of people think that being a
[recreation] major is easy, but there’s
more than meets the eye. It’s more
real-world knowledge that is utilized
in doing this type of thing,” Ray said.
“You’re managing a crowd of 100,000
people — that’s almost the size of the
city of Clovis. There’s a lot of planning, management and execution of
these plans in order to have a safe and
successful game day event.”
Jestinne Ragsac, a junior majoring
in public relations, is attending the
RA150 trip this Saturday and is excited
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Students in the RA150 course will visit the Rose Bowl to advise the UCLA athletic department
and Rose Bowl officials on what they can do to improve game day experience at the stadium.
Fresno State students to
participate in the Central
Valley Dance Festival
By Suzanna Gutierrez
The Collegian
Fresno State dance students will be
participating in the dance show of the
year this weekend, Nov. 5.
The Central Valley Dance Festival
will be happening this weekend. This is
the sixth year for the festival and many
dance groups from around Fresno will
be participating, including Fresno
State’s very own contemporary dance
ensemble.
CDE is a course offered at Fresno
State for dance majors and minors.
“I
t's not meant for
a few people, It's
meant for everybody.”
— Kenneth Balint,
associate professor
The dancers enrolled in the course are
required to obtain a course number in
order to be part of the class.
Associate professor Kenneth Balint,
whose title for the course is artistic
director, said the dance festival is in
lines with what the class is about.
“The beauty of this class is that it’s
a perfor mance class,” Balint said.
“The idea of the class is to train and
rehearse and perform.”
Balint said the festival is a commu-
ums, convention centers and big sports
complexes, so it’ll be cool to see how it
all works. Hopefully we can contribute
some good.”
nity festival.
“It’s not meant for a few people. It’s
meant for everybody,” Balint said.
Balint said anyone who has interest in dance should attend. “It’s not
like it’s going to be a ballet concert, or
a modern concert or a jazz concert,”
Balint said. “It’s really a little bit of
everything.”
Katherine Dorn, a dance major at
Fresno State, has been dancing since
the age of 3. Dorn will be participating in the dance festival with CDE. She
took part in the festival last year as
well. Dorn said she enjoyed it last year.
“There was a lot of variety in the
types of dance,” Dorn said.
Leesha Melson is also a dance major
at Fresno State. She has participated in
the festival as well and said it is a lot
of fun.
“I love performing so it’s always good
to have an opportunity to perform,”
Melson said.
Melson recommends Fresno State
take the opportunity to go to the festival.
“It’s a great opportunity to just see all
the dancers from the Valley,” Melson
said.
The piece CDE will be performing at
the festival is a five-minute excerpt of a
16-minute piece.
The Central Valley Dance Festival
will take place on Saturday, Nov. 5 at
7 p.m. It will be located at the Fresno
Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium. The
event will cost $25 at the door.
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2011
PAGE 5
Brian Wilson discusses
his new ‘In the Key of
Disney’
Rock and Roll Hall of Famer says new
album has humor to it
By Randy Lewis
McClatchy-Tribune
LOS ANGELES — Brian Wilson’s
music has consistently acknowledged
his inner child, sometimes to the extent
of obscuring his outer adult. So there’s
a certain logic to the former Beach
Boy putting his spin on songs from the
Disney archives with his latest album,
“In the Key of Disney,” which came out
last week.
“The album has humor in it, it has
sweetness in it and a little uptempo
music in it,” Wilson, 69, said while
seated on a sofa in the living room of
his Beverly Hills home last week. “All
the Disney lyrics are good; every single
one of those lyrics is good.”
It’s the sound of the other shoe dropping on the two-album deal he signed
with the Disney Pearl label, the first
of which, “Brian Wilson Reimagines
Gershwin,” surfaced last year, and
included his completion of two song
fragments George Gershwin left
behind when he died in 1937 at age 38.
Wilson didn’t have to finish any
uncompleted work this time, but he
applied his signature ar ranging,
orchestration and vocal harmonies
to a dozen songs from recent-vintage
Disney films including “Toy Story
3” (“We Belong Together”) and “The
Lion King” (“Can You Feel the Love
Tonight”) back to such quintessential
movies as “Dumbo” (“Baby Mine”) and
“Pinocchio” (“When You Wish Upon a
Star”).
The latter song was the first thing
that sprang to mind for Wilson when
Disney Pearl execs broached the idea
of him singing an album’s worth of
Disney songs.
“I knew right away I wanted to do
that one,” Wilson said, “because I’d
heard Rosemary Clooney sing it. It’s
a wonderful tune.” To illustrate the
See DISNEY, Page 6
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The 69-year-old Brian Wilson is excited for the release of his new album “In the Key of Disney.”
The album contains a little bit of everything, Wilson said.
Oscar nominee Hawkes
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ST. LOUIS — If you only know John
Hawkes from his recent string of
films, you might think that the wiry,
mustachioed actor is a scary dude. In
the offbeat romance “Me and You and
Everyone We Know,” his character
burns his hand to prove his devotion.
In “Winter’s Bone” he plays a methaddicted hillbilly who helps lead his
niece to the corpse of her missing
father. And in the Sundance sensation
“Martha Marcy May Marlene,” he’s
the charismatic, Charles Manson-like
leader of a deadly cult.
“I’ve only played a couple characters
like that in my life,” Hawkes said in a
recent phone interview. “I’ve been in a
hundred movies and television shows,
so I’m not worried about being typecast.”
On the red carpet at this year’s
Academy Awards, where Hawkes was
nominated as best supporting actor for
“Winter’s Bone,” he was grinning like
a giddy kid.
At 52, Hawkes has taken flight from
the flock of anonymous actors who
subsist on leftover roles. He’s co-starring in the biopic “Lincoln” for Steven
Spielberg. Yet Hawkes says success has
been a mixed blessing.
“On some levels, my life is better, and
the Oscar nomination made my family
proud,” he said. “But on some levels,
it’s a hassle. I don’t want to sell myself
out to the highest bidder and just make
studio movies. I’ve done a few big-budget movies, like ‘The Perfect Storm’
and ‘American Gangster,’ but for the
past 15 years, I’ve mostly chosen to do
independent films, and that’s what I
will continue to do.”
Between movies, the Minnesota
native has had recurring roles in
t h e a c cl a i m e d t e l ev i s i o n s e r i e s
“Deadwood,” in which he played a frontier merchant, and “Eastbound and
Down,” in which he plays the brother
of a misbehaving baseball coach.
Hawkes, whose road to Hollywood
took him through Austin, Texas, is also
a musician who has a roots-rock band
called King Straggler.
“I’m not interested in a life of fame
or being a movie star,” he said. “That’s
not sour grapes — it’s just the truth. I
want to have a normal life and do my
work, and I can’t do that if I’m insulated in some mansion somewhere. I’m
a private person who doesn’t want to
be famous. I’m willing to do publicity
for films I believe in, but I’m not interested in yammering about myself. And
I don’t think I can do effective work if
people know too much about me. I’m
trying to be a mystery.”
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The daily crossword
Across
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5 Trim
10 1968 self-titled folk
album
14 “My body’s achin’ and
my time __ hand”: James
Taylor lyric
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16 Israel’s Iron Lady
19 Former Calif. base
20 “CHiPs” star Erik
21 China’s Chou En-__
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25 “Dogma” star
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37 Confuses
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Abbr.
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48 Garr of “Mr. Mom”
49 Patient contribution
51 Spanish hors d’oeuvre
55 Driver’s gadget
56 Like many bazaars
59 Synopsis
61 Historic Cold War
crossing point
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65 Navel variety
66 Dramatic opener
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Down
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“M*A*S*H*”
2 Tempe sch.
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4 Keep one’s word?
5 Post on Facebook, e.g.
6 Passport issuer?
7 Fitting
8 __ squad
9 Slaughter in the outfield
10 Ethically unconcerned
11 Handles differently?
12 Rest a spell, or a fitting
title for this puzzle
13 Seat of Florida’s
Orange County
17 Émile, par exemple
18 Abbr. on some cheques
21 Landlocked Alpine
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point, he started humming the opening
of the song a cappella, adding, “It’s got
beautiful ascending and descending
lines.”
Another facet of the appeal of that
song, he said, is that it originated with
his favorite Disney film. “’Pinocchio’ is
the one I like the most. That’s my very
favorite Disney character.”
“In the Key of Disney” includes a pair
of songs written by one of Wilson’s
contemporaries and another of the
most gifted composer-arrangers in all
of pop music: Randy Newman. Along
with “We Belong Together,” Wilson
opens the album with the theme song
from the first entry in the “Toy Story”
franchise, “You’ve Got a Friend in Me.”
Newman’s trove of work aside from
his film scoring over the last 30 years
didn’t escape Wilson’s notice.
“T
interesting lyric, to tell you the truth. I
can’t describe it _ it’s just a really crazy
lyric; really crazy lyric.”
The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer
saved perhaps his greatest praise,
however, for “Stay Awake,” the lullaby from “Mary Poppins,” a film that
came out the same year Wilson and the
Beach Boys were flying high on the pop
charts with hits including “Fun, Fun
Fun” and “I Get Around.”
“Stay Awake” never attracted as much
attention as that film’s upbeat numbers
“Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious,”
“Chim Chim Cheree” and “A Spoonful
of Sugar.” But to Wilson, composer of
heart-rending ballads such as “God
Only Knows” and “Don’t Worry Baby,”
“Stay Awake” is “the most beautiful
song I’ve ever heard.”
“I love that song, I love it,” he said.
“It’s just the prettiest song I’ve ever
heard. I don’t know what it is about
he album has humor in it, it has sweetness in it and a little
uptempo music in it.”
— Brian Wilson,
musician on his new album “In the Key of Disney”
“I bought ‘Sail Away’ in 1972, listened
to it and it blew my brains, it really
did,” Wilson said. “He’s a helluva
music guy. ‘I Love L.A.,’ that was great
one too.”
The man who once sang “columnated ruins domino” in “Surf’s Up,” for
which he collaborated with lyricist
Van Dyke Parks, said he chose to take
on the ballad “Colors of the Wind”
from “Pocahontas” because “It’s a very
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it. Even ‘Strangers in the Night’: Well,
that’s a pretty tune. But ‘Stay Awake’ is
even prettier.”
His exploration of songs spanning
more than half a century of pop songwriting reinforced his feeling that
“Songwriting has evolved a little bit.
I think it reached its peak in the ‘60s.
There were some (good songs) in the
‘70s also, but I think it all wound up in
the ‘60s as the renaissance.”
principality
22 Pro Bowl div.
24 Statement before a
23-Across
27 Needing no Rx
29 React in shock
30 “I agree, señor!”
32 Stat for Cliff Lee
33 Share for the fourth
little piggy
34 USMC NCO
35 Parochial school figure
38 Light touch
39 Big name in Chrysler
history
40 Shout after a pursesnatching
41 Capital of French
Polynesia
43 Personal transport, in
science fiction
44 Refinery input
46 Comet colleague
50 Tibetan milk source
52 Links nickname
53 ‘80s baseball commissioner Ueberroth
54 Eastern NCAA hoops
gp.
57 Modern music source
58 Don Juan sort
60 Cries from successful
puzzle solvers
62 Hairy TV cousin
63 AAA info
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PLAY REVIEW: “FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE
CONSIDERED SUICIDE WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF”
By Ezra Romero
The Collegian
Director Thomas-Whit Ellis made
a brilliant move when he decided to
stage Ntozake Shange’s “For Colored
Girls Who Have Considered Suicide
When the Rainbow Is Enuf” in the
arena-style theatre at Fresno State.
The 20-poem choreopoem, originally written by Shange in 1975, tells
the story of seven African-American
women and what it is like to be a colored woman in modern America. Each
of the women is embodied by a different color and is known by that color for
the play’s entirety. The play deals with
a wide range of issues including rape,
abortion, breakup, murder and domestic violence. Each issue is told through
the womens’ stories.
The high level of acting brought by
the local actresses personally floored
me. In just shy of two hours the audience and I were in tumultuous laughter and were brought to the point of
fighting tears.
The play fueled with eloquent
words, humor and dancing, takes the
audience through the lives of these
seven women beginning in childhood.
Because of the arena-style seating in the Dennis and Cheryl Woods
Theatre, “For Colored Girls” places
the audience in the living room of a
woman who has been date raped, the
backseat of a Buick where a girl loses
her virginity, the scene of a crime
where a woman plagued by domestic
violence witnesses her childrens’
murders, the streets of Harlem where
a woman is taunted, into the imagination of an African-American 8-year-old
girls and others.
The costume design was simple, but
lacked the flair to embody the sultriness of the women in the play. The
costumes could have been a little more
elaborate. I felt they were slapped
together a bit.
Throughout the play the acting
is what really blew me away. These
women owned the four corners of
the stage and even ventured into the
crowd. They brought such ferocity to
the stage that I dare say University
Theatre has not felt in years.
Near the beginning of the play the
women discuss how they lost their virginity. Lady in Yellow confesses to the
others that she lost her virginity in the
back of a Buick on prom night. After
her confession a sea of heads turned
as all the other women in turn repeated something in unison like, “You gave
it up in the back of a Buick!” After that
line the audience was hooked.
The play continues as each woman
takes turns acting out scenarios as
herself or that of a male lover. It was
interesting and amusing as an audience member to look into the life of
each woman through the filter of an
African-American woman, especially
when it came to viewing the AfricanAmerican man.
Despite the vibrancy of speech the
dancing lacked motivation. The group
choreography could have been stronger, but the individual choreography
was phenomenal. Especially when it
came to Lady in Blues last big number. Her performance had notes of
Africana in it. The vigor and tenacity
in her lines within the number pulled
the audience in engulfing the viewers
into the story whole-heartedly. Lady in
Blue, hands down, stole the show.
To the naked eye the production
may seem like it has a man hating
spirit to it, but as long as women are
plagued with issues that many times
men load onto women, its messages
remain relevant.
“For Colored Girls” concludes with
the story of a tragic domestic violence
dispute, which leads to the uniting of
the women.
This production is well worth seeing
and I would consider it to be the gem
of the season for University Theatre at
Fresno State.
The play runs through Nov. 5.
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THE COLLEGIAN • SPORTS
SPORTS EDITOR, JERRY HUERTA • [email protected]
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Fresno State’s soccer facility opens just
in time for WAC Tournament
By Tim Salazar
The Collegian
Fresno State’s soccer team
hosts the Wester n Athletic
C o n f e re n c e To u r n a m e n t ,
which began on Thursday
on its new soccer facility.
This is the final year that the
Bulldogs will compete in the
WAC because they will make
the move to the Mountain
West Conference next season.
The Bulldogs are the reigning WAC Tournament champions and are looking to recapture the magic they had last
year when they defeated San
Jose State, 3-1, with a couple
penalty kicks.
The penalty kick factor could
also come into play again this
postseason with the ‘Dogs
having the ability to stretch
games into overtime, something they did six times during the regular season. Five of
the overtime games ended in
ties after the games remained
tied after double overtime. If a
game goes that far in tournament play, penalty kicks will
decide the winner.
Head coach Brian Zwaschka
realizes that penalty kicks
could decide Fresno State’s
fate, but also recognizes the
importance of having the
home field advantage.
“We love playing in front of
our home crowd,” Zwaschka
said. “The very idea of knowing the bulk of the fan support
will be a tremendous lift for
the team.”
The Bulldogs will go into the
tournament as the No. 2 seed
behind only Utah State. With
the second seed, Fresno State
has a bye in the first round
of the tournament. The ‘Dogs
earned their seeding by going
3-1-1 in conference play and
finished the season 10-4-5 overall.
Having
the
WAC
Tournament in the Bulldogs’
back yard this year means a
number of differences compared to previous years, as
senior Laura Dodd pointed
out.
“I think it’s huge,” Dodd
said. “Usually this trip is
so long. It’s nice to be more
relaxed at home.”
The six-team tour nament
will be held at the new soccer and lacrosse facility near
Bulldog Stadium. This will be
the first event that will be held
on the new field.
The ‘Dogs will find out if the
new facility can provide the
similar home field advantage
that Bulldog Stadium has all
season long as Fresno State
went 4-0-2 at home.
With the WAC Tournament
at home, it will be the final
tournament for seniors Molly
Nizzoli, Kendall VanDine,
Rachel Pickett and Dodd.
“It’s exciting the tour nament can be at our home field
my last year,” Dodd said. “I’ll
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The new soccer and lacrosse facility was finished just in time for this weekend’s Western Athletic Conference soccer
tournament. Fresno State is the reigning WAC champion and now has a facility to help it defend its title.
miss my teammates we built
a pretty good friendship, with
everyone.”
Their collegiate careers are
not over yet and it might not
be a quick exit in the tournament since no opponents have
been able to play a game on the
new surface before the tournament.
There are some differences
between Bulldog Stadium and
the soccer and lacrosse facility. The main difference is the
new field is wider, which could
benefit the Bulldogs’ style of
play.
This could come in handy
with first matches starting
on Thursday at noon between
No. 4 San Jose State and No.
5 Idaho. Fresno State will be
paying close attention to the
second game between No. 3
Hawaii and No. 6 New Mexico
State with the winner moving
on to face the ‘Dogs on Friday.
Zwaschka gave some thoughts
on WAC Tournament’s playing surface.
“ I t ’ s a g r e a t s u r f a c e, ”
Zwaschka said. “We’re really
proud of it.”
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resno State is coming off a much-needed
bye week after losing
two of its last three games.
Now the ‘Dogs move back into
Western Athletic Conference
play against Louisiana Tech
this Saturday. The Bulldogs
have been up and down all season similar to their West Coast
counterpart.
Last year the ‘Dogs traveled to Ruston, La. to play
Louisiana Tech. Fresno State
came away with the 40-34 victory ag ainst an improved
Bulldogs team. The 2011 version of Louisiana Tech should
provide the ‘Dogs with another tough task.
Sarah Brown is the cosports editor at Louisiana
Tech and sports editor Jerry
Huerta caught up with her
to talk about what the ‘Dogs
can expect from the Bulldogs
in another Western Athleic
Conference game for Fresno
State this season.
Q: What can Fresno State
expect from Louisiana Tech’s
offense?
A: Fresno State can expect a
new offense out of Louisiana
Tech. Since starting quarterback Nick Isham’s injury
at Utah State on Oct. 22, the
offense has really stepped it
up and has done a better job
of executing plays. Running
back Lennon Creer and wide
receiver Quinton Patton are
two of the main powerhouses
for the Louisiana Tech offense.
Everyone knows to look for
No. 4 and No. 5 when the
offense is on the field.
Q: What has quarterback
Nick Isham meant to the program this season?
A: Isham was the best
thing to happen to Louisiana
Tech. In the past, its always
struggled with a quarterback
problem, but now Isham is a
favorite. I was at the Signing
Day luncheon when they
announced him as a recruit,
and his videos from high
school were beyond astounding. A lot of people in Ruston,
La. see a lot of potential from
him in the next few years to
become a great quarterback.
Q: What kind of impact can
Lennon Creer have?
A: Creer is one of the strongest guys on the Louisiana
Te c h o f f e n s e. O n c e h e ’ s
released with the ball, it takes
a lot to stop him. That’s why
he’s scored nine touchdowns
this season. Patton is right
behind him with seven touchdowns.
Q: What kind of offense will
Louisiana Tech run?
A: I’m not sure what kind
of offense the Bulldogs will
run, but junior quarterback
Colby Cameron is expected
to start. With his experience,
he appears more poised than
Isham and is more comfortable with the receivers.
Q: Who is the leader of the
defense?
A : Defensive back Chad
Boyd is definitely the leader of
the defense. He’s made some
key plays that have helped the
Bulldog defensive line to force
three-and-outs, interceptions
and cause frustrations among
the opponent’s offensive line.
Q: What can Fresno State
expect from Louisiana Tech’s
defense?
A : Louisiana Tech’s
defense’s goal is to try to find a
way to shut the offense down.
They’ve improved a lot from
the start of the season and
have held the opponent from
making some stellar plays
that could really change the
momentum of the game.
Q: What kind of scheme does
Louisiana Tech run?
A: Fresno State can expect to
have some of their key plays
shut down, and to be on the
lookout for Louisiana Tech to
come together as a whole and
stop them. That’s the thing
about Tech — it’s not about
one player — it’s the whole
team.
Q: What are your thoughts on
punter Ryan Allen?
A: Junior Ryan Allen is an
extremely poised punter. I
always watch to see how far
the ball goes once we’re forced
to punt. He’s up for the Ray
Guy Award for his exceptional
punting skills.
Q: How has head coach Sonny
Dykes impacted this program?
A: Head coach Sonny Dykes
has been a good coach after
having for mer head coach
Derek Dooley leave. He’s not
the perfect coach, but he’s
worked hard with the team to
make sure the only place they
go is up.
Q : What will it tak e for
Louisiana Tech to beat Fresno
State on Saturday?
A: If Louisiana Tech just
holds its ground and executes
well, it’ll most likely beat
Fresno State. The other key is
playing all four quarters. The
Bulldogs will play stellar the
first half then give up in the
second. Dykes has really been
on his team about playing all
four quarters, and the past few
weeks have really shown that.
The
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2011
WEEK 9 PREVIEW
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, AT 7:30 PM, BULLDOG STADIUM
Bulldog Game Day
LOUISIANA TECH BULLDOGS
FRESNO STATE BULLDOGS
2011 OVERALL RECORD
2011 OVERALL RECORD
4-4
3-5
VS.
CONFERENCE RECORD
CONFERENCE RECORD
3-1
2-1
Analysis by Jerry Huerta
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Keys to Victory
1. Contain the Creer
Fresno State faces another stellar rushing attack with Louisiana
Tech’s Lennon Creer coming to
town. He has 411 yards on 98 carries and six touchdowns. Creer just
ran for 119 yards against San Jose
State. The Fresno State defense
needs to keep contain if it hopes to
stop Creer.
2. Limit the ‘Big Play’
The big play has hurt Fresno State
all season long, so this is the perfect time for the ‘Dogs to finally
limit these plays, especially if they
want to stay in the conference title
race and reach another bowl game.
3. Continue making plays
In the past two games, the ‘Dogs
have continued to make plays
in the run game and pass game.
Fresno State will need to continue
to utilize the deep ball and power
runs to keep the Louisiana Tech
defense honest.
Position matchups
Player to watch:
Rashad Evans, wide receiver
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The Bulldog faithful will be counted on to pile into Bulldog Stadium to create noise with WAC foe Louisiana Tech coming to town.
Breakdown: La. Tech
Louisiana Tech has not
only shared the same mascot
as Fresno State this season,
it has also shared the same
level of inconsistency as the
West Coast’s version of the
canine. Louisiana Tech narrowly lost to two Conference
USA teams in Houston and
Southern Mississippi. The
Bulldogs have also lost to
Southeaster n Conference
member Mississippi State,
26-20.
The Bulldogs, like Nevada,
employ a star ting freshman quarterback, but he
recently went down with an
injury. Junior quarterback
Colby Cameron will step in
behind center for Louisiana
Tech. Senior Lennon Creer
will be in the backfield to
help Cameron against the
Fresno State defense. Creer
has 411 yards on 98 carries
and six touchdowns. He will
give Fresno State a reason to
respect the run. Helping out
Cameron at wide receiver
is junior Quinton Patton,
who has 55 catches for 789
yards and seven touchdown
receptions. He will keep the
Fresno State secondary honest in the passing game.
O n d e f e n s e, Louis iana
Tech has been playing better
recently with the Bulldogs
currently on a three-game
winning streak. During the
winning streak, Louisiana
Tech has allowed 18.6 points
per game, playing much stiffer defense than seen earlier
in 2011.
Breakdown: Fresno State
Fresno State returns home
for its second-to-last game in
Bulldog Stadium in 2011. The
‘Dogs are coming of their
bye week after playing eight
straight weeks, allowing all
the players to get back on the
same page for final stretch
through the WAC. The ‘Dogs
have four remaining WAC
games and will need to win
four of the last five games to
become bowl eligible.
On offense, Fresno State
will need to utilize its weapons, star ting with quarterback Derek Car r, who
will manuever the offense.
Running back Robbie Rouse
is closing in on his second
consecutive 1,000-yard season. By the end of his collegiate career, he could be the
all-time leading rusher in
school history. The offense’s
best weapon could be punt
returner Devon Wylie, who
has to rebound from a key
lost fumble against Nevada.
They say the best offense is
a good defense, so if Fresno
State limits the big plays and
first downs to get the ball
back to Carr and company,
the ‘Dogs could be in good
shape. Defensive lineman
Logan Harrell has provided
the leadership and nonstop
motor the defense has needed
all season long. Harrell and
the rest of the defense will
need to be on the same page
this weekend.
If the ‘Dogs can control the
line of scrimmage and play
stout defense, Fresno State
could get the big WAC win
Saturday.
Getting to know the ‘Bayou Bulldogs’
Dacia Idom/Tech Talk
Player to watch:
Lennon Creer, running back
Wins against: San Jose State, Utah State,
Idaho, Central Arkansas
Losses to: Southern Miss., Houston, Hawaii,
Mississippi State
Head coach: Sonny Dykes, 2nd year
Offense: Multiple
Defense: 4-3
Key players: Lennon Creer, RB, Quinton Patton,
WR, Nick Isham, QB, Adrien Cole, LB
Series record: Fresno State leads 9-3
Last meeting: 2010, Fresno State won 40-34
Point Spread: Fresno State favored by 3 points
EDITOR’S PREDICTION:
Fresno State: 33, Louisiana Tech: 30
C
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When Fresno State runs:
Advantage - Fresno State
RB Robbie Rouse could finish the
season in historic company with
some of the best backs in Fresno
State history. Rouse is currently
eighth in country with 123 rushing
yards per game.
When Louisiana Tech runs:
Advantage - Louisiana Tech
Fresno State’s run defense ranks in
the bottom tier of rush defenses in
the WAC and faces a talented back
in Lennon Creer.
When Fresno State passes:
Advantage - Fresno State
QB Derek Carr continues to provide efficient efforts while limiting
the amount of turnovers he gives
up. Carr needs to continue to play
turnover-free football.
When Louisiana Tech passes:
Advantage - Louisiana Tech
Louisiana Tech’s offense has mostly
been a run-based attack, but with
new starting quarterback Colby
Cameron behind center, the other
Bulldogs could air it out.
Special teams:
Advantage - Even
Senior Kevin Goessling has given
Fresno State a consistent scoring
option in the kicking game as he
has made seven of 11 field goals so
far this season.