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Students protest fee hikes, budget cuts at rally By Michael Kincheloe The Collegian Fresno State students and faculty came together Wednesday afternoon to protest student fee hikes and state budget cuts as part of the “Class Action Rally and March,” as all 23 California State University locations held events in an attempt to have their voices heard. With a crowd of nearly 200 students, faculty, local residents and with a large number of media present, Fresno State graduate student Hector Cerda opened the rally, which was held in the plaza between the theater box office and the rose garden. Fresno State alumnus and teaching associate Keith Ford was one of the first to address the gathering. “There’s a lot of money in the state, why take it from us?” Ford said. After several speakers presented their views, a mock trial was held for defen dants “Politics as Usual,” “ A d m i n i s t r a t iv e Wa s t e ”
stern judge (music professor Ben Boone, who used his shoe for a gavel), the defendants were charged “with causing grievous harm to the people of California through your neglect of the California Plan for Higher Education … ” Although “Politics as Usual” and “Administrative Waste” had their suit pockets overflowing with cash (“Politics as Usual” had a sizeable amount stuck in his hatband as well), the three pleaded not guilty. “You have awarded tax breaks to the wealthiest individuals and corporations in our state,” alleged the prosecutor played by English professor Alex Espinoza. “You have blamed working people and unions for an economic disaster created by Wall Street. You have taken from the needy and given to the greedy.” “Politics as Usual” was asked what he had to say in his defense. “Ladies and g entlemen of the jury, a great recession is a terrible thing to waste,” he said. His responses were immediately met by catcalls
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his is my last semester. Now, the sad thing is when I’m done here, the rest of you who stay behind are going to have to continue paying and paying due to the lack of our elected officials’ ability to fund the CSU.” — Hector Cerda, Fresno State graduate student
and “Apathy” (played by Fresno State English professors Howard Hendrix, John Beynon and Samina Najmi, respectively). Presided over by a not-so-
from several faculty members on the “jury,” with women’s studies chair Loretta Kensinger being among the most vocal. “Let us vote! Let us vote!”
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Nearly 200 students and faculty gathered outside the Speech Arts building to rally for the removal of CSU Chancellor Charles B. Reed.
Kensinger shouted. The judge’s response to Ke n s i n g e r — wh o B o o n e described as a good friend and colleague — was short and sweet. “You get to vote in one moment, loudmouth,” Boone said. The three were found guilty, christened with new names and ordered to wear red Califor nia Faculty A s s o c i a t i o n “ Ta ke C l a s s Action” T-shirts. Cerda once again took the podium, concluding the rose garden portion of the rally by saying, “This is my last semester. Now, the sad thing is, when I’m done here, the rest of you
who stay behind are going to have to continue paying and paying due to the lack of our elected officials’ ability to fund the CSU.” Approximately 40 students then began their march to the Henry Madden Library, where they sought to confront Fresno State President John Welty in his office on the fourth floor. Welty was out of town, however, and the University Police Department was able to keep the crowd under control. Students were optimistic about the outcome of the rally. “I think that if we get enough people out here, and we get a lot of supporters, I think that we could make a
change,” forensics-criminology major Nicole Avila said. “I think people that see us come out here may encourage other people to come out.” Vi c t i m o l o g y m a j o r Samantha Tracy was in agreement. “I’m hoping if the students come together and, you know, cause an uproar about it that hopefully things will change, because otherwise a lot of us aren’t going to be able to go to school with the tuitions going up. When I first started here, tuition was over $1,500 cheaper, and it continues to rise every semester, and I pay for college myself.”
Civil War 150th: Fort Sumter re-enactors wind down By Bruce Smith Associated Press
FORT SUMTER NATIONAL MONUMENT, S.C. (AP) — Re-enactors played “Yankee Doodle” as they took away the Union flag and recreated Fort Sumter’s surrender to Confederate attackers 150 years ago Thursday, winding down a somber commemoration of America’s plunge into the Civil War Some 100 Union defenders, haggard from the 34 hours of Confederate artillery bombardment, gave up the battlescarred fort in Charleston Harbor on April 14, 1861, a singular event marking the outset of the nation’s bloodiest war. Hundreds watched a 15-minute surrender reenactment as those playing Union
forces marched away with a flag bearing 33 stars, including those of states splintering away in secession. The nationally watched reenactment began before dawn Tuesday with the first shots of mock bombardment as an authentic coastal mortar sounded out and Confederate cannons ringing the harbor joined in. “These were the first shots of a civil war that would stretch across four years of tremendous sacrifice,” President Barack Obama said Tuesday in a proclamation on the start of sesquicentennial events commemorating battles to come. “The meaning of freedom and the very soul of our Nation were contested in the hills of Gettysburg and the roads of Antietam, the fields of Manassas and the woods of the Wilderness.”
The war, over four bloody years to follow, claimed more than 600,000 lives. “When the guns fell silent and the fate of our Nation was secured, blue and gray would unite under one flag and the institution of slavery would be forever abolished from our land,” the president said. The state’s Palmetto Guard was the first Confederate unit to occupy Sumter after the Union surrender of 1861. The Confederate flag would fly over the fort nearly four years until Sumter was abandoned in early 1865 after Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman captured Columbia about 120 miles away, flanking the Confederates and forcing them to withdraw from Charleston.
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omen with MBAs get divorced or separated more often than those who have only a bachelor’s degree, while women with law or medical degrees are more likely to divorce or separate than their male counterparts.” – Robin Wilson, Washington and Lee University School of Law
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s journalists we are told to question everything, to take nothing at face value. So when word got around that the Marketing 188 class was attempting to break the Guinness World Record for the largest water balloon fight, we did just that. We spoke with deputy chief of the Fresno Fire Department, professor of marketing Dr. William Rice, the equestrian unit, Plant Operations, the Save Mart Center, University Communications and water specialists because it seemed that the cross-media marketing scheme was the largest waste
of money, time and water. On Wednesday, April 13, 2011, the FFD crew hooked up the fire engine hose to the Save Mart Center hydrant. Water was drawn from the Fresno State well and traveled through the hydrant into the hose line toward a PVC pipe. The PVC pipe carried water out the eye of a garden hose and into the mouth of a water balloon. More than 150,000 balloons will break today at 5:30 p.m. According to Robert Boyd, associate vice president for facilities management, the unfiltered runoff will empty into the SMC parking lot drains and travel to the SMC Basin. Plant Ops will conduct a full balloon sweep post water war. There are four basins that serve Fresno State: the SMC
Basin, the Farm Basin, the Bullard Basin and the Stadium Basin. “The SMC Basin is the runoff destination for the east side of the campus,” Boyd said. “All three basins feed into the Stadium Basin, which eventually feeds into the Fresno Metropolitan Flood Control District.” Water will evaporate into the air and a small amount of groundwater will seep into the earth at Leaky Acres Pond, located north of the SMC parking lot, and recharge the university’s underwater tables. At the end of the day, it seems that the only people who would be breaking the record for the biggest waste of time was us.
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I am writing in response to Bree Nasti’s “Letter to the Editor” regarding The Collegian’s April Fools’ edition of the paper. The paper was a simple April Fools’ joke; it was not to be taken seriously. It’s getting really old hearing about the complaints from people who cannot take a joke. If you cannot have fun on this non-holiday, holiday then do not criticize those who do enjoy it. Attacking the writers of The Collegian is wrong. They were not out to offend anybody nor were they trying to piss people off. This edition of the paper was all fun and games. The paper was in no form of correct AP style, so I am sure they do not think of the paper as being real journalism. The writers of The Collegian do a wonderful job and did a wonderful job for the April Fools’ edition. I personally enjoyed it as it was nice to see a school affiliated organization contributing to the holiday spirit. — Elisa Ferrendelli Agriculture Communications
Spring Break is offensive Why is it that nearly every university throughout this state has held their spring break already? It seems, when attempting to plan with friends at other CSU and UC schools, that half of them had their spring break the second week of March, and the other half on the third week of March. Interestingly enough, spring officially starts March 20, or about the second/third week of March. Yet, here at Fresno State, the week designated for “spring break” is different every year to be held the week prior to Easter. I am a proud Christian, but I am sick of Fresno State’s too-scared-to-take-a-side attitude toward “spring break.” Fresno State feels that if they call it Easter break, it will be offensive to students who are not Christians. However, changing the time of “spring break” to always be the week prior to Easter and not calling the break Easter break is offensive to students who are Christians. If Fresno State’s administration wants to get away from the “politically incorrect rhetoric,” designate a week in March as spring break and stick to it each year. Then, if spring break happens to fall the week before or after Easter, it is simply a coincidence. Calling Easter break “spring break” is offensive to me and all other Christian students I have talked to about this subject. Fresno State administration, wise up and call it what it is, or change the timing of spring break and end your hypocrisy. — Daniel J. Harrison Political Science, Economics, Philosophy
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Response: ‘Get serious on the budget’
‘joshua4234 ’: “Ryan’s budget plan simply puts the burden on the poor and elderly instead of fixing the problem on the backs of those who caused it in the first place. Instead of changing medicare to put the cost from the government to seniors, how about fixing the tax system so that corporations pay the actual tax rate instead of the current effective tax rate of 7 percent. Instead of slashing Medicaid how about cutting the defense budget that has inflated 81 percent in the last decade. Instead of lowering taxes and fixing a few loopholes that will open back up in a couple years, how about ending the tax cuts from the Bush administration and continued into the Obama administration? If you want an actual budget plan, check out the plan given by the progressive caucus in the House, which unsurprisingly receives zero press by the mainstream media.”
Response: ‘Get serious on the budget’
‘yallen28’: “Dealing with deficits and debts this large is never as representatives make them about to be. Although the ideological crutch for Republicans is cutting spending, and for Democrats it is raising taxes on the top 1 or 2 percent, government has played the role as an artificial propping up of the private sector. The
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The Fresno State senior Marketing 188 capstone course donated a balloon to The Collegian. The balloon held about one cup of water. Therefore, if more than 150,000 water balloons were filled with one cup of water than 9,375 gallons of water was pumped from the Fresno State well.
economy has become dependent on government spending. The rich probably benefit more than the poor from government subsidies. Cuts proposed by Ryan do not acknowledge the hazardous effects of his conservative-utopian vision and is not practical, and it would cripple the economy, while also punishing those who should not be affected: the poor and the elderly. And when voices that offer many instances to lower the debt that does not include raising taxes on the uber-wealthy, and would rather have Americans work until they’re 90 to retire or receive their Social Security should be called out.”
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“LikeDuh’: “Thank goodness for Proposition 209, or students would have more ‘diversity’ shoved down their throats at Fresno State as well as at every other CSU campus and at the UCs as well.”
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‘Alex Z.’: “Great idea in theory, but you’ve failed to mention the number of employees and staff within the library that are necessary to make it run. If there was a way to reconfigure that issue, then I would support you 100% percent. However, until that issue is resolved, then it is difficult to say ‘increase more hours’ without an actual plan of action.”
‘Anonymous’: “Affirmative action is fine; in fact, it still exists. Prop. 209 did not outlaw affirmative action, it outlawed racial preferences, which is what many affirmative action programs had been downgraded to.”
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good that there are administrators at Fresno State who take steps to encourage students to come to an understanding of ethnic, religious and economic diversity at more than just some superficial level.”
‘Anonymous’: “Maddie Shannon, lack of history causes you to have bad taste regarding Armenians trying to ‘get a feel’ for Islam. Armenia was the first Christian Nation in 301 A.D. They have long been persecuted for their beliefs. Enough said silly girl.”
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‘Anonymous’: “Although I do not football, but I love football.”
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Wellness Fair highlights multiple health options Day said the Spring Break Extravag anza is typically h e l d t wo we e k s p r i o r t o spring break, and focuses on providing safe alternatives for students staying in Fresno.
By Janessa Tyler The Collegian The University Dining Hall was occupied with students, faculty and staff Wednesday after noon for the annual Wellness Fair. The Health Promotion and Wellness Services Department through the Student Health Center and the Public Health Department host the event each semester. Public health major Hannah Day, Family PACT peer health education student coordinator, greeted visitors for three hours as they walked through the Wellness Fair. “The students in the Public Health 133 class put together their own projects — creating booths in regard to health t o p i c s re l at e d t o c o l l e g e students,” Day said. The Wellness Fair is aimed to motivate and help students reach an overall great health. S ome bo ot hs h i gh li g h t e d sexual health, diet and
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Students had an opportunity to prepare their perfect plates with foods high in fiber, colorful fruits and vegetables, low-fat milk and lean cuts of meat.
nutrition, skin care, dental hygiene and stress. The 2011 Wellness Fair follows the annual Spring B re a k E x t r ava g a n z a l a s t
Wednesday after noon. The t wo eve n t s a re a i m e d at motivating students to take a deeper look at their overall health.
Health goes beyond being p hy s i c a l l y w e l l . H e a l t h also stretches to being well mentally and emotionally. A n e m p l oye e f ro m t h e Psycholo gical Services at the Student Health Center was present to give away bookmarks and brochures educating students on the
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o p t i o n s b e yo n d p hy s i c a l health. Food and science nutrition majors were on-hand with several presentation boards demonstrating what specific routes to take for students who want to eat a healthy and wellbalanced diet. Graduate student and dietetics intern Ashley Larsen was one of the students who worked at the “Time for an oil change” booth. “We are trying to promote healthy fats versus unhealthy fats,” Larsen said. “Basically we’re trying to help people indentify what sources of fats they should be consuming.” Larsen added that plant sources of fat are healthier than animal sources. Plant sources of monounsaturated fat can be found in olives and avocados. “We are also indentifying some of the foods on campus that are really high in fat,” Larsen said. Food and science nutrition major Danielle Kaprielian promoted the “Diet Trackers” booth along with several other students. The booth was designed to bring awareness to students about the calories consumed on a daily basis. “An easy way to track it is the new iPhone applications a n d D ro i d ap p l i c at i o n s, ” Kaprielian said. Kaprielian said students who don’t have an iPhone or Droid could sign up at the websites, www.livestrong.com and www.myfitnesspal.com, to enter specific information to calculate calories. “It’s just important to bring awareness of actually the calories you put in your body,” Kaprielian said. “A lot of people don’t realize they’re consuming too many calories and that’s causing weight gain.” The Wellness Fair launches each semester for new public health majors to promote and share their knowledge about having an overall good health. “It’s so interactive,” Day said. “There’s just a lot of good information that students are going to take with them past today.”
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The daily crossword ACROSS 1 Between half and all 5 Princes of India 10 U.A.E. word 14 Solo in an opera 15 Dome openings, in architecture 16 Diner handout 17 Scammers 20 Captives 21 Prima donna’s problem 22 Ever-increasing number 23 Peculiar 24 Weather map features 27 In desperate need of water 29 Stop legally 32 Shout of enlightenment 33 Point, as a pistol 3 6 Rendered unnecessary 38 Easy morning beverage 41 Blood clotting promoter 42 Shaggy Scandinavian rug 43 Nero’s three 44 Dangerous household gas 46 Crossers of columns 50 Irish county or port 52 Reproductive cells 55 Lipton product 56 Funnyman Rickles 57 Type of phrase 60 Some diner workers 63 Blackbird cries 64 Time ___ all wounds 65 Aboard an ocean liner 66 “Amazing, ___ it?”
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This week, Fresno State has been setting up for the 2011 Vintage Days centennial celebration. Vintage Days is taking place from today until Sunday on campus. Each day it is from 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
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BONDS: Nothing to celebrate WAC: ‘Dogs look to repeat 2008 CONTINUED from page 8 Greg Anderson,” Bonds attorney Allen Ruby said. Bonds should count himself lucky to have that friendship with Anderson, who went to prison four different times rather than testify against the slugger. Anderson, who also served time for distributing steroids in the BALCO investigation, spent more than a year in jail because of his over-the-top allegiance to Bonds. Had Anderson testified — and testified honestly — we might have known just how Bonds came to take the “cream” and the “clear” and just what he really knew about them. We might have been able to draw a timeline between the moment he first started using steroids and when the home runs started coming with almost every at bat. Most of all, we might have been able to finally make some sense out baseball’s Steroid Era and why players felt it was necessary to use things that could potentially cause great harm to their bodies simply to hit a baseball over a fence. But Anderson and Bonds didn’t come clean, and that’s our loss. We’re left with Bonds’ almost laughable grand jury testimony about “flaxseed oil” and “arthritic cream” — testimony that will almost surely now never be proved untrue in a court of law. Baseball commissioner Bud Selig used the occasion to issue a statement saying the trial was a “stark illustration of how far this sport has come” in testing players for steroids and other performance enhancing drugs. Left unsaid in the statement was that baseball didn’t test for steroids at all until 2003 — when Bonds was among those
Monday, April 25th NOON Annual ASO Commemoration
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Wednesday, April 27th 7:30 p.m. The Theme of Genocide in 20th Century ArmenianAmerican Lit By Professor Barlow Der Mugrdechian Location: UBC, Alice Peters Auditorium Room 191 Relaxed parking in UBC Lot
who failed a test — and did nothing to stop owners from giving the biggest hitters untold millions even while it was clear that something was terribly amiss in the game. As much as Selig would like to declare victory over the Steroid Era, testimony of current and former players in the Bonds trial was a reminder how pervasive the use of PEDs was. There could be another even more painful reminder this summer when Roger Clemens is scheduled to go to trial on charges of lying before a congressional panel on the use of PEDs. Unlike Bonds, Clemens doesn’t have a former trainer willing to go to jail for him. Instead, he has one who seems to relish the idea of testifying against the big star. The BALCO investigation — started almost a decade ago by federal agent Jeff Novitzky digging through garbage outside the San Francisco-area offices of the company — snared a lot of people along the way. Marion Jones, her track coach, and elite sprint cyclist Tammy Thomas were among those convicted in a probe that ended up spreading far beyond the Bay Area. Novitzky and his crew can now claim their biggest conviction with Bonds, but it’s a hollow win. While it’s admirable that they went after Bonds when baseball refused to, it’s hard to justify the years of work and the money spent for the relatively insignificant conviction they finally won. Asked outside the courthouse if he was going to celebrate, Bonds said there was nothing to celebrate. Technically, he’s right, because, for now at least, he’s a convicted felon. But on this day he had good reason to be flashing the victory sign.
CONTINUED from page 8 has won a competition this year. The Aggies won a 14-team tournament they hosted back in October. This will be the second straight year that the tournament will be held at a neutral site in Arizona. The previous tournaments were held on a rotating basis between the WAC teams. Being a three-day event, the tournament is set up a little differently than most regular-season events.
“It’s going to be different because they play 18 holes each day instead of 36 and 18,” Clark, a sophomore, said. Fresno State will advance to the NCAA Regionals if they win the conference tournament. “Every other tournament prepares us for the WAC Championship, and we can’t move unless we win the WAC,” Clark added.
Mediation resumes in NFL, players dispute By Dave Campbell Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The NFL and its locked-out players are talking again. C o m m i s s i o n e r Ro g e r G o o d e l l , C a ro l i n a Pa n t h e r s ow n e r Je r r y Richardson and New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft arrived at the federal courthouse in Minneapolis on Thursday for a court-ordered mediation session in front of a judge. NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith was joined by attorneys, linebackers Ben Leber and Mike Vrabel, as well as Hall of Fame defensive end Carl Eller. Smith greeted reporters as he approached the building, but he didn’t respond to questions. Asked about his hope for the session as he hustled to the entrance, Vrabel smiled and joked that he just hoped he wasn’t late. It was the first meeting between the two sides since March 11, when the old collective bargaining agreement expired, the union was dissolved to clear the way for the court fight and the lockout began — the NFL’s first work stoppage since the monthlong strike in 1987. With the lockout at 33 days and counting and the 2011 season in peril, U.S. Magistrate Judge Arthur Boylan is overseeing the second round of mediation between the two sides. Sixteen days of mediated sessions in Washington failed to secure a new labor pact. League officials, led by executive vice president Jeff Pash, met with Boylan for about five hours Wednesday. Lawyers for the players met with Boylan for about four hours Tuesday. Goodell declined to comment as the group entered the courthouse. Pash said: “The only way we’re going to get this whole set of issues resolved is by negotiating.”
Eller said he was hopeful of progress. “I’m a fan, too. We would like to ease their minds,” Eller said. The mediation is the first positive step in the dispute in more than a month, but the league and players still must agree on how to divide more than $9 billion in annual revenue. The owners initially wanted to double the money they get off the top for expenses from about $1 billion to about $2 billion, but that number dropped during the last round of mediation. The players have insisted on full financial disclosure from all 32 teams, and so far the league has not opened the books to their liking. Other major issues included benefits for retired players and the NFL’s desire to stretch the regular season from 16 to 18 games. The NFL also wants to cut almost 60 percent of guaranteed pay for first-round draft picks, lock them in for five years and divert the savings to veterans’ salaries and benefits. More than $525 million went to firstrounders in guaranteed payments in 2010. The league wants to decrease that figure by $300 million, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press. U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson, who ordered the mediation, is still considering a request from the players to lift the lockout imposed by the owners. After an April 6 hearing, she said she planned to rule on the injunction request in a couple of weeks. Players including MVP quarterbacks Tom Brady and Peyton Manning filed the request along with a class-action antitrust suit against the league. The lawsuit has been combined with two other similar claims from retirees, former players and rookies-to-be. For now, at least the two sides are talking again — even though it’s under a court order.
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Women’s golf sizes up Feds almost strike out trying WAC Championship In senior Chelsea Czinski’s final conference matchup, the Bulldogs look to have a third individual medalist in four years the tournament after finishing ninth at the Pacific Coast Intercollegiate. Junior Louisa Lies led the team tying 13th at With the re gular-season the event, but slipped the final schedule now in the books, day after heading into the the woman’s golf team gets tournament’s final round in set for the Western Athletic fourth place. Conference Championship in Lies, a junior, finished in Meza, Ariz., that begins today 11th place in last year’s WAC and will conclude on Sunday. Championships and The women’s team was named second has had plenty of team All-WAC. She success at the tournaalso finished in secment in recent years, ond in the tour nah av i n g a m e m b e r ment as a freshman. win the individual Fresno State’s fivetitle two out of the woman roster for the last three years. Hali tour nament will be Coppin won the title C h r i s t i n e U h a l d e, last year and Laura Krysta Clark, Shaylee Luethke won in 2008. Ya n o , C h e l s e a Both Coppin and Chelsea Czinski Czinski and Lies. Luethke have since senior The Bulldogs will graduated. be paired with the The year Luethke New Mexico State Aggies won her title was also the throughout the tournament. first and only time that the Uhalde will be Fresno’s first Bulldogs won the tournament golfer with a tee time at 8:10 as a team. Since taking home a.m. today with the second the 2008 WAC team championset of teams. The remaining ship, the Bulldogs have not finBulldogs will then follow teeished lower than fourth. ing off in eight-minute interThe Bulldogs head in to By Tim Salazar The Collegian
vals. Fresno State has just one player, Czinski, that was part of the 2008 championship team. Czinski was a freshman at the time and is the lone senior this year, making the WAC Championships her final run in conference play. “I guess it’s a little different since it’s my last one,” Czinski said. “I really want to have fun. I’m going to miss being on a team.” The Bulldogs’ highest finishes this year were second place in the 16-team Lamkin Grip/Cal Poly Invitational in November, as well as two thirdplace finishes at the Heather Farr Memorial and the Santa Clara Colby Invitational. Seven members of the WAC will participate in the threeday event. Boise State and Nevada will take the early tee while Idaho, San Jose State and Hawaii will take the late tee times. Of the seven teams competing, only New Mexico State See WAC, Page 7
in Bonds trial By Tim Dahlberg Associated Press
Baseball never went after Barry Bonds, despite a failed steroid test and circumstantial evidence that fans in the outfield bleachers could see every time he went to the plate. The federal government did, and almost struck out trying. Bonds strolled out of the federal courthouse in San Francisco on Wednesday and flashed a victory sign to a few fans, which at first glance might seem strange behavior for a man just convicted of a felony. Yet while he didn’t walk free on all four charges against him, the slugger and his multimillion-dollar dream team of attorneys had reason to smile. Bonds survived the BALCO investigation without being convicted of anything directly related to steroids, quite a feat considering the government did everything but show pictures of his allegedly shrinking private parts to convince jurors Bonds was juiced. He was convicted of obstruction of justice, but even that charge may not stand on further judicial review. Technically, the government could retry him on the perjury charges the jury deadlocked on. But it’s doubtful prosecu-
tors would waste the time and money to try him again, especially after the jury foreman said they should have done their homework better if they wanted to get convictions on those charges. Oh, and the chances of him ever going to prison? Well, don’t start measuring him for that extra-large jumpsuit just yet. More than seven years in the making, the case against Bonds sputtered to an inconclusive end that likely satisfied no one. Bonds, of course, would have preferred to have been acquitted on all charges, while prosecutors would have been turning cartwheels down the courthouse hallways had they been able to get the jury to convict him on the accusations of lying under oath that were directly related to steroid use. Instead, he was convicted on an obstruction of justice charge that stemmed from a single statement Bonds made about his childhood as the son of major leaguer Bobby Bonds and his relationship with personal trainer Greg Anderson. The government “has determined it’s unlawful for Barry Bonds to tell the grand jury he’s a celebrity child and to talk about his friendship with See BONDS, Page 7
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