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SETTING IT STRAIGHT: Lecturer accused of showing pornographic film opens up

By Esteban Cortez and Alexandra Norton The Collegian Peggy Gish, a Fresno State public health and human sexuality lecturer, said the past few days have been very bizarre.

Gish, who has been teaching at the university for 25 years, made national and international headlines after a conservative blogger accused her of showing a pornographic, full-length film in her human sexuality class last week.

“It’s been overwhelming,” Gish said in response to the attention she’s received. “It’s been kind of tough just having to worry about certain things and be misrepresented — accused of something that wasn’t accurate.”

A student in Gish’s human sexuality course, a Fresno State senior who wished to remain anonymous, said he jokingly published a post to his Twitter account last Tuesday that said, “we watched a porn in class. lol awkward.”

UC Merced graduate and conservative blogger Oliver Darcy posted a blog entry about the tweet to the website CampusReform.org titled “Professor Shows Adult Film to Class.” In the blog entry, Darcy posted a description of the film, which according to an online

summary discusses how to “increase sexual knowledge,” “increase pleasure,” and “heighten intimacy.” Darcy has no desire to watch the film, but said he has read summaries about it online that indicate the film is pornographic.

“I think if you were looking in a video store for that film, it would be in the adult film section,” Darcy said. “I don’t think you could dispute that it’s an adult film and that it isn’t pornographic in nature.”

Darcy also wrote in his blog that the anonymous student claimed the class was in shock when the film was played.

The student, however, said he wasn’t offended by the video and has apologized to Gish for publishing the post to his Twitter account.

“At first, we all seemed sort of awkward and laughed,” the student said about the class while the film was shown. “It wasn’t anything negative.”

Gish said that the “Advanced Sexual Techniques and Positions” video — which shows couples illustrating various sexual positions — was meant to educate students about relationships and communication. She said that her syllabus states that sexually explicit material will be shown in the course and that students have the opportunity to step out of the class if they

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love my job and would not take any chances of doing something that would put it in jeopardy — but even more importantly I wouldn’t do something that would be offensive to my students.”

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are uncomfortable. She added that the textbook she uses in the course recommends the video.

“I welcome diversity of opinion and my students know that,” Gish said.

“I’m not a rebel in any way, so I’m not pushing the envelope in terms of what I show.”

Other human sexuality courses throughout the state feature more explicit films, Gish said.

“I took the same class as a student here [in the 70s] and what I saw then was much more explicit, not pornographic,” she said.

She has been showing the film in the class for several years and said that students don’t often object to the film, although she did see a student walk out this year during the lecture that pre-

ceded the showing. She wasn’t sure if the student left because he was uncomfortable.

Melissa Sanders, a public health junior and a student in Gish’s human sexuality class, saw the film and thinks it was misrepresented in the media.

“It was purely educational and I feel like our teacher wouldn’t have made us watch it if it wasn’t pertaining to the curriculum,” Sanders said.

Dean of Fresno State’s College of Health and Human Services Andrew Hoff defended the course in a statement released to the online newspaper The Huffington Post. In the statement, Hoff said students are allowed to opt out of the course if they find content See FILM, Page 3

Demand for nursing graduates may increase in 2014

By Stephen Keleher The Collegian

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Fresno State nursing students Carolyn Rowley, Jian Lin and Whitney Fisher study for a skills test in the Henry Madden Library. Although currently nursing positions are hard to come by in the Valley, projections look promising for the future.

The College of Health and Human Services of fers a Nursing de g ree option, one of the most impacted areas of study at Fresno State.

Perspective students have to compete for only 70 openings each year to the nursing baccalaureate program, then must face a hard reality upon graduation: the job market in Fresno County is slow and projected to stay that way.

“The demand for nursing students rises and falls,” said Andrew Hoff, dean of the college. “There have been times when every graduate had a job waiting for them. That’s not true now because there are more nursing graduates than are needed in the workforce.”

Hof f expects the job picture to improve when the national health care program takes full effect in 2014 and as current nurses continue to retire. The Employment Development Department projections over the next eight years show that registered nurses have the eighth-most job openings and, with a median hourly rate of $39 per hour, make more than twice the hourly rate of any other occupation in See NURSE, Page 3

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What’s our name again?

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ast Thursday, to great fanfare and accompanied by the Fresno State marching band and our ubiquitous mascot Time Out, Fresno State unveiled its new brand.

Three years of work, the advice of 2,500 people and $15,000 worth of professional consulting later, the new logo is… about the same as the old one.

Instead of a sun’s rays peekThe Right Tone ing out of the “F” Tony Petersen in Fresno State, we now have a paw inside the “O.” And instead of “California State University, Fresno” underneath are the words “discovery,” “diversity” and “distinction.”

These are great design minds at work, people!

In all seriousness, I have no qualms with the new brand. On its own terms, it seems fine. What I’m more interested in is the name.

Members of the branding committee — yes, such a thing existed — discovered that most people refer to this distinguished institution as “Fresno State.”

(Before you shout “Duh!” keep in mind that this decision involved veteran graphic design professionals. They

know what they’re doing.)

Thus, the committee figured that it would be a good idea to simply refer to the university’s informal name, Fresno State, instead of its formal name, California State University, Fresno.

The decision was a part of a long, illustrious history of the school’s name changes.

When the university was founded in 1911, it was dubbed Fresno Normal School. A decade later, it was changed to Fresno State Teachers College. In 1935, it shortened its name to Fresno State College.

It would remain that way until 1972, when the name was changed to California State University, Fresno.

And now, we are known as Fresno State.

With all the issues that a major collegiate institution must worry about, the name of this institution is one thing it is serious about.

The university’s website indicates 18 unacceptable ways of saying Fresno State. For instance, CSU Fresno and CSUF are unacceptable, as is Fresno State University. Fresno State College is unacceptable, despite the fact that there is a huge medallion at the corner of Maple and Shaw Avenues that says “Fresno State College.”

FS is unacceptable (looks like our baseball team may be in for a hat change), along with any incorrect iteration of California State University,

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he university’s website indicates 18 unacceptable ways of saying Fresno State.”

Fresno.

In fact, the page includes an 86-word discourse on the appropriate use of the comma in our formal name.

I know about this seriousness firsthand. When I was editor in chief of The Collegian, we published a headline that included the acronym “CSUF” as a shorthand for California State University, Fresno.

Big mistake.

That day, a university official, who shall remain nameless, visited our offices and explained that referring to Fresno State as “CSUF” was unacceptable, and asked us to refrain from its usage henceforth.

Apparently, the university’s name is a big deal.

Despite this lighthearted criticism, the new logo appears to be a good one.

Anyway, it feels good to change things around from time to time, kind of like reorganizing your work desk area.

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ONLINE COMMENT In response to the story “Red Bike Program may lose its wheels”: I believe the Red Bike Program can be beneficial to a large portion of the student population. The problem is that it is not publicized enough. I have asked random students in the past if they knew about the Red Bike Program and a majority of them had no clue they could rent a bike each semester for such a cheap price with cost-free maintenance.

The program can most benefit students who live closer to campus because it is not the easiest thing to transport a bike daily from off campus. Riding from far away can be time consuming for most students. Students in dorms or apartments nearby can easily ride into campus in a matter of minutes and avoid being late.

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have asked random students in the past if they knew about the Red Bike Program and a majority of them had no clue they could rent a bike each semester for such a cheap price with cost-free maintenance.”

If the program does cease to exist and its financial impact on the budget will not be significant, I feel it would be a much better to rejuvenize the program so more people will use it rather than figuring out a new program to use the funds for.

Some ways can be to make the campus more bike friendly by having more bike racks placed closer to classes and more of the Red Bike repair stands located strategically around campus for ease of use. More newer bikes would entice students to want to rent the bikes also.

And about the idea of using the funds “to subsidize iron U-locks that are much more secure,” I do like the alternative idea, I just don’t think we should eliminate the Red Bike Program and replace it with this idea.

Students who cannot afford a bike can now get a U-lock but not have a bike, and students who travel further off campus who do not bring bikes will have no use for a U-lock, and students who already have U-locks do not benefit much from this idea, the targeted population is smaller than the Red Bike Program.

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FILM: Not meant NURSES: Median hourly rate is $39 to be offensive CONTINUED from page 1

CONTINUED from page 1 objectionable and that they can gain additional course content without having to watch the objectionable material.

Angry callers, some from as far as the East Coast, have left messages in Gish’s office phone, condemning her for allegedly showing porn to her students. A caller who identified himself as “William” left a message on Gish’s office phone in which he sarcastically commended her for her “extreme liberal beliefs.”

“It’s people like you that really help us conservatives by showing pornos to your students,” he said in the message.

“This really gets the message across that people like you don’t need to be teaching in a public university or university whatsoever.”

Gish is unsure if she will show the video in the future

due to the coverage it has received in the media.

“I love my job and would not take any chances of doing something that would put it in jeopardy,” she said. “But even more importantly, I wouldn’t do something that would be offensive to my students.”

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the top 10 and more than four times the rate of all but one in the top 10.

“The nursing profession pays well,” Hoff said. “And students who are high-achieving in any academic program do stand a better chance in getting a job in any field. Nursing is no exception.”

There are currently about 1,300 students enrolled in the nursing program at Fresno State, 750 of which are in prenursing. These students are in their freshman or sophomore years and have yet to complete the eight prerequisite courses for the major. Every semester, only 35 of the pre-nursing majors are accepted into the upper-division nursing program.

Once accepted into the prog ram, students must take a series of set classes with accompanying “clinicals”— 90-hour instructionals held at hospitals and clinics — where students get the experience and training they will need to

pass their NCLEX exam, the licensing test to become an RN after graduation.

“You have to pass the test for any skill at the campus first and then at the clinical you have either a nurse or an instructor helping you with that skill,” said senior nursing student Christina Crawford.

“And the clinical is its own class with its own grade. The state mandates that.”

Crawford feels optimistic about her chances for work in the Central Valley. She was working in a nurse’s office with a local school district and will have the opportunity to come back as a nurse once she has graduated.

“I feel confident because I am lear ning things that are going to be put to use,” Crawford said. “The job market right now, it’s a little bit hard at times, but I feel pretty optimistic about it as far as for me.”

Other students seeking to elude the impacted nursing program pursue some of the other options the College of

Health and Human Services has to offer. They then can go for more training elsewhere a f t e r g r a d u at i o n . Re c e n t graduate Justina Miller, who received her degree in community health, is working at Clovis Community Medical Center and is optimistic about the job market.

“There are lots of programs out there that are looking for recent grads,” Miller said.

“Fresno, being such a big county, there [are] three different community hospitals as well as St. Agnes and Kaiser.”

Nevertheless, Miller is planning to get further training as a nurse at either Fresno City College or West Hills College in Lemoore.

“I’m more focused on community and public health nursing so I’m not actively looking for work in the public health education field,” Miller said.

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Fresno State hires BYU assistant to direct band

By University Communications

The new Fresno State Bulldog Marching Band director is David Fullmer, assistant director of the Brigham Young University Cougar Marching Band for the past four years.

Fullmer replaced Timothy Anderson, who left Fresno State in May 2011 after five years to become the band director at the University o f M a s s a ch u s e t t s. A d a m Wilke has led the 300-member Bulldog Marching Band in the interim.

“We are thrilled to have the opportunity to introduce a highly experienced music educator and marching band specialist in David Fullmer.

I believe he will quickly

embrace our campus traditions while taking the group to the next level.”

Michael Caldwell, chair of the music department, praised interim director Wilke for demonstrating “outstanding promise as a college educator and music director in his year with the band. Dr. Fullmer will be inheriting a great program.”

Fresno State’s band tradition stretches back to 1926 when a 36-member group was formed.

Fullmer has taught instrumental music for 26 years.

He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in Instrumental Music Conducting from the University of Washington.

He taught at Utah Valley University, where he conduct-

ed the Symphony Orchestra, Jazz Ensemble and Percussion Ensemble, and has directed the bands at Timpview High School in Provo, Utah, since 1990.

He was recently elected president of the Western division of the National Association for Music Education and has served as adjudication chair and president of the Utah Music Educators Association.

He has received numerous awards as have his bands.

Fullmer and his wife Natalie are the parents of two daughters.

Fullmer will take up his new duties in the 2012-13 academic year.

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ROTC mixes fun and seriousness at annual military ball

By Johnathan Wilbanks The Collegian

A combination of military tradition and camaraderie among peers, friends and family happened Friday at the 3rd-annual Joint Military Ball. The formal event welcomed more than 250 guests, including cadets and padre, to the Grand 1401 in downtown Fresno.

“It took months of planning with myself and cadet April Stahl from the Air Force,” said Chris Cooper of the Ar my ROTC. “It was good to see all of our hard work pay off.

Everyone seemed to have a good time.”

Cooper and Stahl were the Army and Air Force coordinators of the event. Guests in attendance who are not in the military received a short glimpse of what an ar med

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services lifestyle is like. A slideshow played in the background throughout most of the night.

“It was definitely fun because they had raffles and everyone was socializing,” said Ashley Dunkin, Cooper’s guest.

The event started with a posting of the colors. From there, the prisoners of war (POW) and missing in action (MIA) event was commenced.

A hat from each branch of the military was placed on a table to commemorate the POW’s along with various items, each with a symbolic meaning.

“It also had some seriousness to it where they address the prisoners of war and they had a whole table set up, and everything looked really nice,” Dunkin said. “It was a nice perspective seeing the Air Force and Army joining together for a fun night with some seriousness.”

At first glance, one may have thought the table was merely decorative. In reality, it held a great deal of hidden meaning.

The white tablecloth symbolized the purity of the intentions of all servicemen and servicewomen to protect their country. One candle was burning on the table, symbolizing the frailty of a lone prisoner.

Aside from the serious setting, those in attendance took time to participate in some fun activities. Around 10 p.m., names of Ar my and Navy cadets were thrown into a hat to be selected at random. The selectee was required to come to the front of the stage and dance their best to a hip-hop song. An Army cadet won.

A karaoke competition was the next festivity, and the winner was determined by the roar of the crowd. After that, the night came to a conclusion with formal dancing.

“I brought my girlfriend,” said Lorenzo Llorente of the Army ROTC. “My dad was a featured guest because he is in the Army also, so that was a cool part of it. Other than that, it was good interacting with the Air Force.”

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Blair, Thompson sweep conference honors in track Collegian Staff

After cruising to first-place finishers at the Sacramento State Mondo MidMajor Challenge over the weekend, two Bulldogs were named Western Athletic Conference Verizon Outdoor Track Athletes of the Week.

Remington Blair won the 400-meter dash in 47.66 seconds and Breeauna

Thompson snagged gold in both the 200-meter and 400-meter dashes.

Blair, a senior, has the top 400 time in the WAC ahead of a pair Idaho sprinters. Thompson also has the women’s top conference time in the 200 ahead of a pair of New Mexico State sprinters.

The honors mark the first time since 2009 that two Bulldogs have swept the Track Athlete of the Week awards.

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Kasanda Mar tinson and Callie Seidman will lead their squad against Saint Mary’s in an MPSF game. The Gaels are 2-10 on the season, including

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Martinson and Seidman have led the ‘Dogs to their first wins in program history. The program suffered a 44-game winless drought before wins against Long Island on March 17 and Central Connecticut on March 22.

Fresno State will close out the regular season against UC Davis on Saturday.

49ers in the spotlight this season; Raiders open on Monday Night Football

By Matthew Barrows McClatchy-Tribune

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SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The NFL must have faith that PG&E fixed the Candlestick Park glitches that led to two blackouts during a nationally televised game last season.

The 49ers’ 2012 schedule includes five prime-time games _ the maximum a team can receive _ including three in San Francisco. The first comes in Week 2 against visiting Detroit, a rematch of a 2011 game that ended in a last-minute 49ers victory and a testy postgame incident between coaches Jim Harbaugh and Jim Schwartz.

In Oakland, the Raiders will host the last of four prime-time games in Week 1 when they play San Diego on “Monday Night Football” at 7:15 p.m.

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The NFL will begin the season on an unusual day, Wednesday, Sept. 5, with Dallas visiting the Super Bowl champion New York Giants. That’s to avoid competing with the Democratic National Convention the following night.

First-year coach Dennis Allen and his Raiders have one more game in the spotlight, a Thursday night home contest against Peyton Manning and Denver on Dec. 6. That game is the second of a three-game home stretch for Oakland that also includes games against Cleveland and Kansas City.

The Raiders close the season with road games against Carolina and San Diego.

The 49ers, meanwhile, will face the five quarterbacks who threw for the most yards in 2011.

That challenge begins in Week 1 when they face Aaron Rodgers in Green Bay. The 49ers last beat the Packers in a 1998 wild-card game. They have lost the eight meetings since. It will be only the second time San Francisco has opened a season at Lambeau Field. The 49ers won 26-14 there in 1976.

The other four prolific quarterbacks are Detroit’s Matthew Stafford (Week 2), the Giants’ Eli Manning (Week 6), New Orleans’ Drew Brees (Week 12) and New England’s Tom Brady (Week 15).

The game against Brady and the Patriots also will be in prime time (5:20 p.m. Dec. 16) and appears to be one of several tough stretches for the 49ers.

The week after that trip to Foxborough, Mass. - only a trip to Miami would be longer - the 49ers visit Seattle before finishing the season at home against Arizona.

The 49ers also visit New Orleans following a Monday night game against Chicago at Candlestick. That trip to New Orleans, during which the bounty allegations against the Saints are sure to be a hot topic, is followed by a trip to St. Louis.

Three of San Francisco’s first four games are on the road, including a Week 3 game against Minnesota and a Week 4 game against the New York Jets.

Last year, the 49ers’ Week 3 and Week 4 games were in Cincinnati and Philadelphia. The 49ers chose to stay in the team owners’ hometown, Youngstown, Ohio, between the games, and they won both contests. A stopover in Youngstown appears a possibility again this year.

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MEN’S TENNIS

Bulldogs down Gauchos in preparation for No. 7 Pepperdine

By Angel Moreno The Collegian Fresno State won its fourth straight game in a 5-2 victory over UC Santa Barbara Tuesday at the Wathen Tennis Center.

The Bulldogs (17-3) started off slow, losing the doubles point to the Gauchos (12-8) before storming back and taking all but one singles match.

I n d o u b l e s p l ay, Re m i Boutillier and Francis Alcantara partnered up for a 9-8(3) win over Mathieu Forget a n d B e n j a m i n Re ck n a g e l on the court one. But it was all Gauchos after that as Alex Johnson and Mbonisi Ndimande defeated Bulldogs’ duo David Ayoun and Zachary Leslie, 8-5. On court three, UCSB’s Ziad Sultan and Alexander Gryaznov downed Jean-Charles Diame and Reid DeLaubenfels, 8-4.

But Fresno State took over from there, with Alcantara and Boutillier carrying on their winning ways into their singles matches.

In the No. 1 singles spot, Boutillier defeated Forget, 6-3, 6-1, while on court two Alcantara bested Recknagel 6-3, 6-1 to secure the first two Bulldog points of the match.

Ayo u n fo l l owe d s u i t i n the No. 4 slot with a 6-3, 6-0 win over Sultan to bring the Bulldogs within one point to clinch the win.

Fresno State clinched the win after a strong second set from freshman deLaubenfels, who bested Max Glenn 6-4 in the first set and went up 5-0 in the second before finally closing out the set 6-2 for the ‘Dogs.

“After a close first set, you always want to start off great in the second,” head coach Jay Udwadia said of DeLaubenfels’ performance.

“You try to crush the spirits of your opponent early on and that’s what he did. He came up 3-0 in the second and [Glenn] faded a little bit and [deLaubenfels] grabbed on to that emotionally and he kept it going and did a good job of

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Sophomore Francis Alcantara backhands a serve during doubles play in Fresno State’s 5-2 win over UC Santa Barbara. Alcantara, with partner Remi Boutillier beat Mathieu Forget and Benjamin Recknagel in a tiebreaker, 9-8(3).

finishing the match.”

The Bulldogs received one more win in singles play, this time on court five from junior Leslie, who after two sets needed an injury timeout to have the athletic trainers assess his shoulder.

Fortunately for Leslie, he was able to continue on to a third set and complete the comeback win in three sets by a score of 4-6, 6-1, 6-4.

Fresno State’s lone singles loss came on court three in a back-and-forth match between the Bulldo gs’ Diame and UCSB’s Ndimande. Ndimande stuck it out for the win, 6-7, 6-3, 6-4.

The No. 34-ranked Bulldogs will host No. 7 Pepperdine today at 3:30 p.m. in a non-

conference match at Wathen Tennis Center and will look to climb back up in the rankings.

“I’m feeling good,” Boutillier said. “I’ve been playing good lately and I’m just feeling good physically and mentally and I’m ready for [today’s] match.”

Boutillier, who is ranked No. 25 in ITA singles play, will take on eighth-ranked Sebastian Fanselow in what promises to be a balanced, well-played match.

“We’re just trying to win,” Boutillier added. “We know it’s going to be tough and the matches are going to be long but that’s what we’re here for.”

Alcantara, ranked No. 52 in singles by the ITA, is also confident his team will do well against a talented Pepperdine

team.

“We felt really good about [Tuesday’s win] and now we’re playing better as a team,” he said. “We’re pretty confident for tomorrow and I’m looking forward to it.”

Alcantara will take on No. 20 Finn Tearney on court two.

As for Udwadia, he knows the team has to take it one game at a time — as it has been all season — in order to be successful.

“It was nice to get a match in on our home court for tomorrow,” Udwadia said. “With the win, it’s always nice to get some confidence, so we’ll use that as well.”

As for Pepperdine, Udwadia and his team knows what to expect from a top-10 team, hav-

ing played and beaten one earlier this season against thenNo. 9 Stanford.

“We’re playing much better now than maybe two or three weeks ago, so I think it’s going to be a great battle, and yeah, they’re No. 7 in the country, but we’ve been there before.

We’ve beaten top-10 teams and it will be a good challenge for us and it’s nice to play at home.”

The Bulldogs will look to knock of f another top-10 power in today’s 3:30 p.m. match against Pepperdine a t t h e Wa t h e n Te n n i s Center as it prepares for the Western Athletic Conference Championships next week.

“We’re playing much better now than maybe two or three weeks ago, so I think it’s going to be a great battle, and yeah they’re No. 7 in the country, but we’ve been there before.

We’ve beaten top-10 teams and it will be a good challenge for us and it’s nice to play at home.”

-head coach Jay Udwadia