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BILLS FOR BIRTH CONTROL New law may change birth control’s freeof-cost policy
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A dollar a day keeps the baby away. Under a new law allowing pharmacies to provide over-the-counter birth control, Fresno State’s Health Center will be expecting some changes that female students will know about. In 2013, Senate Bill 493 was passed in California making oral contraceptive birth control available over the counter at a phar-
macy, and after legislative discussion this week, the changes will be going into effect. The bill states: “This bill would authorize a pharmacist to administer drugs and biological products that have been ordered by a prescriber,” removing the need for a doctor or gynecologist as a middle man when seeking the oral contraception. The new law was designed to make the accessibility of birth control more convenient for women. “There are changes that are taking place in California that are allowing pharmacies
to directly dispense birth control,” said Fresno State University Health Center’s Dr. Daniel Little. “With that, a woman can go directly to a pharmacy. They can fill out a questionnaire, and meet with the pharmacist. If everything is in place, then they can directly dispense the birth control to the woman.” “All health insurances are required to provide birth control methods at no out of pocket costs to the female. There is a pro-
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VIOLENCE
Lecture shines light on domestic violence By Justin Johnson @TheCollegian
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Dr. Jackson Katz speaking at the Satellite Student Union about bystander intervention in domestic violence and rape issues. “More than a few good men: A lecture on America Manhood and Violence Against Women” was presented by the university to advise the community on rape prevention and violence.
In honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, Jackson Katz spoke to a brimming Satellite Student Union about American manhood and violence against women. Katz was introduced by Fresno State President Dr. Joseph Castro. Castro referred to Katz as a scholarly brother and told the audience that being bold means not engaging in violence. In the beginning of his lecture he pointed out the importance of acknowledging that men have been sexually assaulting women, children and other men for thousands of years. He stated that it wasn’t until the 1970s that rape crisis centers developed. “Jackson Katz is an internationally known lecturer on gender violence,” said Krysten Cherkaski, a double major in philosophy and women’s studies at Fresno State. “He’s really important specifically because he talks about the place of men in the fight against gender violence and how they can help and also how society raises
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Senate Bill 493 to allow prescribed birth control pills to be dispensed at pharmacies BIRTH CONTROL from Page 1 gram in California called Family Pact that’s mostly funded with federal dollars, and that program provides no-cost birth control as well as testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections,” Little said. Whether the pharmacies are going to accept the insurance or programs women use in order to waive the costs of birth control is not clear. However, it is not likely as programs such as Family Pact promote women going to see a doctor when receiving birth control to ensure they are taking the proper precautions, Little said. “They want women to see a healthcare provider so that they get other education, testing and pap smears. So how these insurance programs are going to work with these new pharmacy regulations in terms of paying for those prescriptions is still up in the air,” Little said. The talk of change and rises in costs for women has caused concern throughout campus as many students take advantage of the Health Center as their supplier for the contraception. “Almost every girl I know is on birth control through the school,” said Fresno State senior Tyler Bartlam, who has been on the pill for over a year now through the
health center. The many benefits of birth control range beyond contraception. “You take birth control for not only preventing pregnancy – you’re regulating hormones, preventing acne [and] period cramps. It’s not just to sleep around,” Bartlam said. Each pack of birth control averages from $20 to $30 a pack, per month, depending on the brand. If a student uses the Health Center’s pharmacy to get her birth control, that can add up to $360 to her yearly expenses. Insurance companies and plans that provide cost-free birth control are not likely to change because that is protected under the Affordable Care Act. Although if you are looking into using the new pharmaceutical access, you may want to rethink that decision as it may not be beneficial. “If this is out there and women can get it from a pharmacy, but they still have to pay for the birth control out of their pocket verse going to a doctor and it’s covered by insurance, then that’s not going to improve access a whole lot,” Little said. “Because a lot of women will say, ‘No, I still want to go to the doctor and get it paid for because I want the insurance to pay for it.’”
DONALD TRUMP
Pro-Trump ‘Build the wall’ messages at UC San Diego Latino center spark outrage By Debbi Baker
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SAN DIEGO — Messages supporting Donald Trump and attacking Mexican immigrants were written in front of a Latino community center at the University of California, San Diego, sparking outrage on campus. The messages, some of which said “Build the wall,” “Deport them all,” and “Mexico will pay,” were written in chalk on a sidewalk close to the Raza Resource Centro. According to the UCSD College Democrats Facebook page, the messages were written by three to five men wearing hooded sweatshirts on Friday, the night before the university’s annual Triton Day, when new students are welcomed to campus. The group said its members were offended by the messages.
Kevin Antonio Aguilar, a doctoral student in Latin American history at the university, wrote on Facebook that the messages were an attack on the Latino community and come amid what he called “a continuing hostility towards communities of color on campus.” “We in the Latin American community on campus demand that the individuals responsible for this racist attack face the proper repercussions for these actions,” he wrote. Aguilar said that if the people responsible for the messages were students that they should be punished. “If it is found that these individuals are students, we request their immediate expulsion for inciting racist hostilities on campus in violation of UCSD ‘Principles of Community,’” wrote Aguilar. “We demand that the mental health of Latin and Black students be prioritized in the wake of persistent racist hostilities on campus.”
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men to see this as normalized.” Katz covered the cycle of domestic violence and how it affects society. He told the audience that children don’t witness domestic violence, but experience it themselves and are traumatized by the events. “Men and boys that have been abused are 10 times more likely to be abusive,” Katz said. Cindy Aguilera, a criminology major at Fresno State, came out as part of a criminology theory class she’s taking on campus, which she says is currently covering the topic of violence and women. Katz said that the whole system needs to reexamine this issue and the number of men incarcerated in our country, which
he referred to as an embarrassment. “I’ve been doing this since I was a college student,” Katz said. “When I was a young guy I started to have my eyes open to how pervasive the problem was in the world generally, but more specifically on my campus and the women that I knew and how much fear they lived with.” He credited the feminist movement for the social evolution we have made on the issue and said it takes engagement, especially by men, to advance peace and education on the issue. “I realized that there’s not that many men speaking out and I was a young guy who was pretty self-confident and I was like ‘I’m going to start speaking out, it’s obvious this needs to happen,’” said Katz.
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GRANT
Students can receive funds for lab projects
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Students seeking funding for a lab project, field research or a senior project have until April 24 to apply for a rGrant, which can provide up to $1,000 to fund student work. The rGrant Program, which was formerly known as the Educational Research and Project Grant Program, provides financial support for both graduate and undergraduate students research in all academic disciplines. “RGrants is just a program that we have that allows us to fund projects, research projects, anything that has to do with academics that a student may want to achieve through their college career,” said ASI finance assistant Jasmin Bautista. “Just get further into the study that they want to focus on, for their future career or just while they’re in college.” The majority of rGrants go to students with math and science-based backgrounds but there are no restriction for grant eligibility by major or department, Bautista said. To apply, students should visit the ASI website and fill out the online application. All applicants need a tenured or tenured-track faculty member to supervise their project. ASI will be handling all applications this year for both undergraduate and graduate students, said Anthony Farnesi, ASI vice president of finance. “We’ve partnered with graduate affairs
and undergraduate affairs and created one application for any student to apply through,” Farnesi said. “Any undergraduate or graduate student can apply.” Past rGrants have been used to fund projects ranging trying to reduce secondhand smoke on campus to studying tectonic plates, Bautista said. “There’s a pretty good range of types of things – we’ve got one application that was to fund the different aspect of this girl’s trip out to some part of California where you are not allowed to take vehicles,” Farnesi said. “You’re not allowed to take machines, cars or mechanical vehicles – none of that – so she had to rent like pack mules. “She had to hike with all of her stuff across this area until she got to this place and then she loaded up a bunch of rocks and hiked them back out on these pack animals so that she could research the rocks,” Farnesi said. Farnesi said he was unsure of how many students would receive funding this year. There generally is a limited amount of money and students with the most detailed applications had the best chances of ultimately receiving funding. “One of things the reviewers in graduate and undergraduate will look for is that the research methodology is at least thought out,” Farnesi said. “And that there is a good plan going forward to use the money.” “The review committee will look for applicants that have detailed answers to the application questions concerning the timeline of the project, budget and research methodology,” Farnesi said. “If those three
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LACROSSE
‘Dogs drop road match at UC Davis
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Fresno State’s women’s lacrosse team (4-10, 1-7 MPSF) dropped its final road game of the season to UC Davis 16-6 Tuesday afternoon at Aggie Stadium. The Aggies (6-6, 4-3 MPSF) got on the board right away with a pair of goals in the first four minutes of play. But the Bulldogs answered with two of their own from juniors Caroline Dineen-Carlson and Alex White to tie the game at 2-2. From that point, UC Davis went on a 6-1 run to take an 8-3 lead and it continued to roll, adding another eight goals in the second half to the Bulldogs’ three. Along the way, a pair of Bulldogs made school history as senior Anjelica Fuccillo became the program’s all-time points leader (96) while junior Kyleigh Westgarth hit the single-season record for draw controls (39). Dineen-Carlson also matched the single-season ground balls record with 28 this season. The ‘Dogs conclude the season Sunday when they host St. Mary’s for a 2 p.m. match.
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The Bulldogs will look to capture their fifth win of the year Sunday when they take on St. Mary’s at the Soccer & Lacrosse Field.
WOMEN’S GOLF
‘Dogs jump to second place at league championships By Collegian Staff @TheCollegian
The Fresno State women’s golf team moved to second place after the second round of the Mountain West Women’s Golf Championship Tuesday at Rancho Mirage in Southern California. The ‘Dogs stand nine strokes behind tournament leader No. 17 UNLV with one more round to go Wednesday. Fresno State junior Gudrun Bjorgvinsdottir is in the running for the individual conference title as she scored a second
round 4-over-par 76. Now, Bjorgvinsdottir is tied for third and four strokes behind UNLV’s Alexandra Kaui. After leading after Round 1, Bjorgvinsdottir opened Day 2 with a double bogey on the first hole. She finished the front-nine 2-over-par after four pars, a pair of birdies and a pair of bogeys while posting four pars, two birdies, two bogeys and a double on the back nine. Freshman Yifei Wang had a big day as she moved up 15 spots and into a tie for 12th. She picked up momentum after recording three bogeys over the first four holes by posting two birdies and 12 pars
over the next 14 holes. Fellow freshman Kristin Simonsen finished the day in ninth, marking her second-straight day in the Top 10. Hannah Sodersten and Mimi Ho enter Day 3 in 15th and 21st place, respectively. MW Championship Dates: April 18-20, 2016 Round 1-2 Results Par: 72; Yardage: 6,291 Team Leaderboard 1. No. 17 UNLV: 295-294=589 (+13) 2. Fresno State: 297-301=598 (+22) 3. No. 22 San Diego State: 296-
304=600 (+24) 4. San Jose State: 305-302=607 (+31) 5. New Mexico: 299-312=611 (+35) 6. Colorado State: 309-305=614 (+38) 7. Nevada: 310-310=620 (+44) 8. Boise State: 312-313=625 (+49) 9. Wyoming: 321-325=646 (+70) Fresno State Leaderboard T3. Gudrun Bjorgvinsdottir: 71-76=147 (+3) T9. Kristin Simonsen: 73-77=150 (+6) T12. Yifei Wang: 78-73=151 (+7) T15. Hannah Sodersten: 77-75=152 (+8) T21. Mimi Ho: 76-77=153 (+9)
NBA
Curry’s MRI on ankle ‘did not reveal anything of concern’ By Diamond Leung The Mercury News/TNS
OAKLAND, Calif. – Stephen Curry underwent an MRI exam Tuesday on his tweaked right ankle that according to the Warriors "did not reveal anything of concern." The Warriors listed Curry as questionable to play in Game 3 of their first-round series at Houston on Thursday because of the injury. "It's the back of his foot," Warriors coach Steve Kerr said after Curry missed Game 2 on Monday night. "It's underneath the ankle. It's something down there." Warriors general manager Bob Myers told CSN Bay Area on Monday the injury was a sprained ankle.
Curry punched at a basketball after cutting short his warmup routine before the game, two days after suffering the injury while running back on defense in Game 1 against the Rockets. "He's frustrated," Myers said after the abbreviated warmup. "He wants to play. But he knows tonight wasn't his night. He wasn't capable even if he wanted to, so he was going through the disappointment of wanting to play. "He tried to make one move where he planted hard, and then he basically said it's not happening. ... The hope is that with two or three more days (of rest), ankles can recover quickly. They can. Or they can linger. The good thing is there wasn't a lot of swelling, so hopefully he's able to go in the next game."
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The Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry (30) reacts after drawing an offensive foul against the Houston Rockets’ James Harden (13) in the second quarter during Game 1 of the Western Conference quarterfinals at Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif., on Saturday, April 16, 2016. The Warriors won, 104-78.