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FRIDAY Issue APRIL 19, 2013 FRESNO STATE
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Immigration addressed at symposium By Haley Lambert The Collegian Immigration was the topic of discussion at the 2013 Roger Tatarian Jour nalism Symposium. The event took place at Fresno State’s Satellite Student Union on Wednesday. The event was cosponsored by the Department of Mass Communications and Journalism, as well as the Fresno State ASI Readership Program. Titled “Immigration: Now and the Future,” the symposium featured keynote speaker Fernanda Santos, the New York Times bureau chief in Phoenix. Santos, a native of Brazil and a naturalized U.S. citizen, has covered many topics on the immigration front.
Her talk addressed the issues facing the immigrant community as well as the current immigration bill, being considered in Congress. H oweve r, S a n t o s ’ s p e c i f i c a l l y focused on the Latino immigrant community. “When people think about immigrants in the United States — you know if you close your eyes — you don’t see an Asian face; you don’t see an Irish face in front of you; you see a brown face, because that has come to define ‘immigrant’ in this country,” she said. Santos spoke of the importance of Latino voters in the November 2012 presidential election. By 2016, she said, the Latino voting bloc in the United States will account for 38 percent of voters.
Santos said that while many Latinos vote alongside Democratic Party ideals, many Hispanics in states like Colorado and New Mexico supported the Romney campaign. Many of these people, she said, are members of families that did not necessarily immigrate into the United States, rather they were absorbed via land annexations of the 19th and 20th centuries. Still, her notation of this pointed to her larger argument that Hispanic people have always been apart of American society. That is, the United States and Mexico have shared a common economic bond for many years, even before the North American Free Trade Agreement See IMMIGRATION, Page 3
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Fernanda Santos, Phoenix bureau chief for the New York Times, was the keynote speaker at the annual Tatarian Journalism Symposium.
Wellness fair focused on public health By Kelci Goss Special to The Collegian
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TOP: A group of Fresno State Army ROTC (Reserve Officers’ Training Corps) cadets leaves campus via Black Hawk helicopter Tuesday afternoon. Two Black Hawks were used to transport students in this training exercise. LEFT: Master Sgt. Donald Spock, the Fresno State Army ROTC senior military instructor, briefs the cadets before their training ride from Fresno State’s campus to the Shaver Lake area. The copters touched down in the intramural field on the west side of campus.
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Public health students provided their peers with various health and safety tips on We d n e s d ay at t h e a n nu a l Wellness fair. The Health Promotion and Wellness Service Department through the Student Health Center and the Public Health Department hosts the event every semester. Several booths included tips on sexual health, alcohol, stress, as well as diet and nutrition. Fresno State student Liana Provost worked with her peers to complete a project for her Public Health 133 course, a requirement for her major. “We chose the combination of alcohol and sex,” Provost said. “The reason we chose it was because other groups had done the effects of both topics individually, and we wanted to display what happens when you combined the two.” The booth included a spinning wheel where students could spin and land on a num-
ber. The number indicated the number of drinks consumed by a student. The group provided statistics corresponding to that number and its relation to sex. “Its all about moderation,” Provost said. “The difference between what’s too much and what’s enough. A small amount of alcohol could slightly lower someone’s inhibitions to feel more comfortable in a particular sexual encounter. Drinking too much can result in someone forgetting to use protection and lead to STD’s or unwanted pregnancy.” Even as a student majoring in public health, Provost continued to learn more facts about the combination of sex and alcohol. The project was a way to communicate her findings to her peers. “The information that was provided was somewhat common knowledge, but sometimes it takes an extra reminder for students to be more cautious about their sexual health See FAIR, Page 3
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Prof’s perspective from Boston By Haley Lambert The Collegian
On Monday afternoon, two bombs went off at the 116th annual Boston Marathon. According to the Associated Press, three people died and more than 140 were injured. Injuries ranged from shrapnel wounds to the amputations of limbs from the bombs evidently made from pressure cookers. Boston is thousands of
miles from Fresno State, but kinesiology professor Amy Brogan witnessed the events at the marathon. She was running for a second consecutive year. Having finished the race before the explosion, Brogan said she was walking to meet with her husband. As they stood together among other runners and spectators, they heard a loud explosion down the street. Brogan said a Boston native
standing nearby casually said the sound was “just the subway.” After a few minutes, the atmosphere changed. “We could just tell something was going on,” Brogan said. “We didn’t really know what happened.” Someone had told them a crane collapsed, another person said an electric explosion had occurred; still another said
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Students interact with the booth dedicated to nutrition at the annual Wellness Fair sponsored by the Health Promotion and Wellness Service Department.