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A group with no affiliation with the university, Justice for All, occupied the Free Speech Area Tuesday and plans to hold a discussion Wednesday. The Wichita, Kansas-based organization showcased displays featuring graphic images of aborted fetuses. Representatives said the group is aimed at training people across the country to believe that the idea of abortion is “unthinkable.” The group also passed out leaflets that compared abortion to genocide and animal testing. The group’s representatives said they plan on having an open-mic session today in the free speech area hoping to foster productive dialogue on the issues of abortion. The group primarily visits college campuses around the nation in order to promote their beliefs that abortion is an injustice. The representatives for Justice for All said they were invited to the campus by Fresno State Students for Life, a campus-based club.
enough for me to pay $26 per unit here at City,” said Fresno State biology major Vanessa Cantu who takes elective courses at Fresno City College. “I’m paying all my fees out-ofpocket.” “I wish I could just go to school for free,” Cantu said. “I don’t even care about extra financial aid. I can afford my materials, but tuition is outrageous even with AB 540.” At Fresno State, nonresident and foreign students are required to pay $372 per unit in addition to the mandatory registration and course fees if not under AB 540. So, an undergraduate student taking 12 units must pay $4,465.50 on top of the regular $2,336.50 tuition. Undocumented AB 540 students are ineligible for state and federal financial aid and scholarships sometimes require citizenship. According to Whitman’s official website, “as governor, Meg will support policies that will not allow undocumented immig rants admission to state-funded institutions of higher education, such as UC, CSU and community colleges.” Whitman’s GOP rival has similar postings on his website. “Ending in-state tuition for ille g al immig rants at California’s public colleges and universities,” is bulleted in Poizner’s immigration plan at stevepoizner.com. It further
F re s n o n at ive T i m Z . Hernandez will be the keynote speaker at this year’s Young Writers Conference (YWC) on April 21. About 200 Central Valley high school students are expected to gather Wednesday morning to see Hernandez, an award-winning author, read from his new novel Breathing in Dust. He is currently working in tandem with UCLA’s Center for Book and Poets and Writers Inc. This will be the 30th annual Young W r i t e r s Conference held on the campus. The participants are Tim Z. Hernandez encouraged to submit their works for Spectrum, a journal-length anthology of student work that can be used in classrooms on campuses across the valley. The conference has solicited creative writing submissions from high schools all over the Central Valley for submissions. A board consisting of Master’s of Fine Arts (MFA) students evaluated the submissions and selected winners for at least 14 separate awards, which will be presented during the conference. Her nandez’s collection of poetry, Skin Tax, won an American Book Award in 2006 and he will also be reading from this if time allows. “This year’s journal is excellent,” conference coordinator Tanya Nichols said. Nichols said the conference has many useful applications, for educators and students alike. The students who attend the conference will have the opportunity to participate in creative writing workshops where their work will receive feedback from Fresno State MFA students. “I have had students in my college courses tell me that attending the conference and having a story published in our journal helped them gain acceptance to college,” Nichols said. She said the two Pulitzer Prize winners have come from Fresno, and that supporting the creative writing arts in high school is an important task. “ T h e Yo u n g W r i t e r s Conference showcases the valley’s terrific literary potential and Fresno State’s commitment to the arts,” said Timothy
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Undocumented students less than 1 percent By Christian Beltran The Collegian Less than 1 percent of students who attend California public colleges and universities benefit from Assembly Bill 540, which allows them to pay the same as citizens regardless of immigration status. The data comes in part from a University of Califor nia
(UC) annual report after both Re publican guber natorial candidates, Steve Poizner and Meg Whitman, threatened to repeal the bill, stating undocumented immigrants are a burden on taxpayers and further harms California’s struggling economy. Edgar Jimenez, an undocumented Fresno State senior under the Assembly Bill (AB) 540 waiver pursuing a double major in civil engineering and mathematics, said the bill has been an enormous opportunity for him. “My parents are farmworkers,” Jimenez said. “I was brought to this country at age 15. If the law is changed, many students like me would not be able to attend college.” Lawmakers approved AB
igrant students are M exempt from out-ofstate costs in California,
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because of Assembly Bill 540, passed in 2001. The students eligible for the exemption make up 1 percent of the population across California’s threetiered college system. The numbers below are for the California State University system.
total students enrolled 2008–2009
540 in 2001 with GOP support, which requires applicants, including citizens, to have attended a Califor nia high school for at least three years and graduated. It is estimated that a majority of the 65,000 undocumented high school graduates resides here. The report highlights that documented students account for more than two-thirds of AB 540 recipients every year at the University of California’s (UC) 10-campus system since the program’s introduction; graduate students comprise more than 96 percent of the total each year. Also, 1,941 students were AB 540 recipients of all 226,000 enrolled for the 2007-2008 school year. Also, 581 could be undocumented, and only 267 are Latino. I n t h e C a l i fo r n i a S t at e University’s (CSU) 23-campus system there were 3,633 students under the AB 540 exemption of all 433,000 students enrolled for the 2008-2009 cycle. It is unknown how many are undocumented since the CSU and community college do not divulge immigration status. In the case of community colleges, there were 2.8 million students enrolled in 2008-2009, 857,758 were Latino. Across its 110 campuses, 32,134 are covered under AB 540. “It is already expensive
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On localism uburbia has failed to live up to its postwar promise. With a return to local towns and communities as the fundamental unit of politics, perhaps there is a hope for rescuing character and community from the destructive powers of globalization.” — Austin Lipari, First Principles Journal
Time to fix the budget Going Op-ed
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t’s no secret that the state is in a budget crisis. The Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO), a nonpartisan fiscal and policy advisor for California, says, “The budget problem consists of a $6.3 billion projected deficit for 2009-2010 and a $14.4 billion gap between projected revenues and spending in 2010-2011,” putting our budget shortfall at $20.7 billion. “Addressing this large shortfall will require painful choices,” says LAO. Yeah, no kidding. Our two likely challengers in the race for governor are Republican Meg Whitman, the former CEO of eBay and Democrat Jerry Brown, former governor and current attorney general. Neither have serious proposals for solving this crisis. Whitman, as her website says, has “outlined a bold and achievable policy agenda to turn California around and reclaim our rightful status as America’s Golden State. It starts with creating jobs, cutting spending and fixing education.” How will she do this? She will cut taxes, institute a spending cap and direct more money to the classroom. Uh, great plan. Except for the fact that we will still have a huge budget deficit, possibly one that is greater than it is
The Right Tone Tony Petersen now. Jerry Brown is even less serious in his treatment of the crisis. All his website gives is phony fluff about how he is “fighting for you.” Thanks, governor, but fight all you want. I just want to be out of debt. The LA Times gives us the chance to play the part in their “state budget balancer.” It is here where you can see that it is harder than it looks. Being the anti-tax conservative that I am, I tried to close the budget gap by simply cutting spending and without increasing taxes (without cutting education spending, of course). The problem is, if we eliminated all discretionary spending sans education, one-time fixes and that which is of questionable legality, we are still left with a $14 billion deficit. Whoops.
OK, let’s pretend I’m a bleedingheart liberal, and want to raise all of your taxes to pay for our social welfare. Congratulations, libs, you did better! Except that there is still a $4.9 billion deficit, not to mention the fact that our already crumbling economy would be stifled to the point where most of our state’s jobs would leave the state in order to find more favorable conditions. The answer is going to require begrudging compromise from both sides of the aisle. We will have to raise taxes and cut spending. To say you will do only one or the other is to be unserious. There is no simple solution. After an hour on the budget balancer, I could still not erase the deficit in a way that was satisfactory (although, I don’t know if there is a satisfactory way to do this). It’s going to require some difficult solutions, some hard pills to swallow. And we, the citizens of California, deserve it. The time for partisan bickering has come to an end. If California goes bankrupt, the consequences could be dire. And it will be the common people, not the politicians, who will be the ones taking the fall.
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arth Day is celebrating its 40th anniversary on Thursday, April 22, 2010. With environmental issues and possible resolutions taking center stage the last decade, the popular phrase “going green” has catapulted into most people’s modern day lexicon. From recycling all applicable waste to switching to reusable grocery bags, initiatives to help mold a new generation, a more environmentally conscious one, are in effect. I often read about the rapid demise of the Earth due to an explosive population and its inhabitant’s reckless conduct with the conclusion always persuading readers to do their part in the “going green” initiative. I feel moved, but perplexed as to how I, one individual who often feels insignificant in the wider scope of things, could really be of any service in fixing this global crisis. It wasn’t until I learned about the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) movement that the fragmented pieces of confusion finally formed a clear picture. CSA is an international program that started in Japan and made its way overseas to the U.S. in the mid-1980s. Its purpose is to remind consumers how food travels from farm to table, and is starting to gain more supporters and participants. CSA provides an outlet to bring together consumer and producer, buyer and grower, in a more direct and
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Gypsy Life Lacee Solis symbiotic relationship. Most CSA farmers are typically small-scale, organic producers, like Tom Willey. Willey is the owner and farmer of T&D Willey Farms, based in Madera. T & D Willey’s CSA entails members of the community pay a fee to receive a weekly allocation of the farm’s produce, which provides financial support for the farmer and reliable, fresh produce to the buyer. Willey stated there are more than 800 members in his farm’s CSA with members stretching from Merced to Reedley, the bulk of participants residing in Clovis. Prices start at $15 a week for the small box that feeds one to two people and $20 for the larger family box. Each week members pick up boxes from a specified location in their town and leave with fresh, seasonal fruits and vegetables without scouring aisles at a grocery store and without worrying where their food has traveled. The produce, from Willey’s 75-acre certified
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organic farm, is usually picked, boxed and shipped on the same day. CSA’s are expanding as people become more concerned about rising food costs as well as who is producing their food and how it is produced. CSA focuses on redirecting farming practices from large, chemically driven farms to organic, family-owned farms. It maintains the idea of sustainable agriculture by changing the food system from an indirect and commercially owned practice back to its origins of people learning how to eat primarily what they can grow. Other forms of CSA encourage community members to grow a specific crop in compliance with other neighboring residents who then interchange produce within the group. The neighborhood garden model enables members to gain hands-on experience growing their own food. Other methods invite customers to work on the farm in trade for a portion of their weekly subscription costs. The underlying purpose of the CSA is to make people more involved with their food production and reforming the food system where it was 100 years ago, when control lay in the hands of the public, not corporations. In a generation where farmers are diminishing and genetically modified crops are expanding, programs like the CSA strive to bring food production back to a community labor and less of a commercialized trade.
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he Census Bureau is making a concerted effort to fully include young people – witness Commerce Secretary Gary Locke’s recent appearance on “The Daily Show.” Census takers will be knocking on dorm rooms and checking to see who is crashing on the couch, but regardless of how thorough they are, they will miss out on one dramatic population migration: Young Americans are opting not to affiliate with a political party. Fully 50 percent of voters aged 18-29 now identify as independents, and the percentage of the electorate under 30 is growing. In 2006, 18-29 year olds accounted for 21 percent of the electorate. By 2015, estimates are that 18-29 year olds will account for 33 percent of all voters. But the millennial generation finds itself confronted by an electoral system designed by, and for, the “I Like Ike” crowd. Party politics dominates. Election districts are gerrymandered to serve party interests. Many states require poll workers to be registered Democratic or Republican. The Federal Election Commission is comprised of three Democrats and three Republicans, rendering it both structurally impotent and blind to the concerns of independents. And most significantly, primary elections are off limits to independents in 17 states. In California—where independent registration has grown from 9 percent in 1990 to 20 percent today— voters have the chance on June 8 to enact Proposition 14 and create an open, “top-two” voting system in which all the voters and all the candidates, regardless of party affiliation, participate in first round elections, with the top two candidates going on to the November ballot. This nonpartisan approach to state elections is being opposed by every political party—major and minor—in California. America has thrived because we recognize the importance of the new. We cherish the rule breakers, the out-of-the-boxers, the innovators. We all know that Washington is broken; let’s fix it with more than a new coat of paint. The time has come for structural reforms that will empower a new generation of voters and incentive them to participate. Young people are telling us they don’t want a party. We need to listen to them. John Opdycke is a graduate of University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and current Chief of Staff for IndependentVoting.org, a national association of independent voters with organizations in 40 states.
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By John Esquivel The Collegian On April 15, 75,000 people flocked to Empire Polo Field in Indio, Calif. for the Coachella Music and Arts Festival. More than 130 bands performed throughout the three-day festival.
Photos courtesy of Kevin Garcia / The Collegian
The venue grounds had five main stages: Coachella Stage, Outdoor Theatre, Gobi Tent, Mojave Tent and the Sahara Tent. New arrivals braved long lines upon entrance of the campground. Once inside, campers pitched tents, mingled with neighbors and traded beer for forgotten toiletries. Here is a day by day rundown of the festival:
By midday, attendees already had a lot to talk about—DJ Lance Rock from TVs “Yo Gabba Gabba!,� performed alongside the shows dancing cast members in the Sahara Tent. Escape Plan guitarist Jeff Tuttle dove head first with his guitar into the crowd; adding even more wear to his already tattered Ramones shirt. Puerto Rican hip-hop duo Calle 13 spoke very little English, but tried their best to express their anguish over the immigration policies and acceptance of all types of people. The stakes were set high, but the night’s headliners did not disappoint. Gil Scott-Heron, a legendary street poet turned underground sensation with the song “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,� performed his first album in 16 years “I’m New Here.� While ScottHeron’s performance won over the crowd, it was English electro-pop act La Roux that had the audience members overflowing out of the tent. The night’s headliner, JayZ, humbled acts throughout the day as many of them gave shout outs to the rapper. LCD
Soundsystem, who opened for Jay-Z, ended his set with the words “I’d never thought I’d ever get to say this in my life, but Jay-Z is up next.� The lights dimmed and Jay-Z arose from a trap door on stage. He performed hits spanning his entire career like “Hard Knock Life,� “99 Problems� and “Empire State of Mind.� Jay-Z surprised the crowd toward when he introduced his wife Beyonce to perform the song “Young Forever.�
hear Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Coheed and Cambria and Hot Chip. One of the night’s most anticipated performances ‘90s alternative rock band Faith No More, who re-formed after breaking up in 1998. Vocalist Mike Patton, known for his offbeat performances, walked off stage to the front of the crowd where he performed a cover of Michael Jackson’s “Ben� followed by the notable Faith No More track “Epic.� Muse headlined the Coachella Stage as MGMT, Les Claypool, Devo and The Dead Weather played
simultaneously on the alternate stages.
Fans arrived at the tents in the morning to check out Local Natives, Mayer Hawthorne, Matt & Kim and a solo set by The Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas. Others camped out at the Coachella Stage and Outdoor Theatre to see established acts like De La Soul, Yo La Tengo and the newly reunited ‘90’s outfit Sunny Day Real Estate. As the sun began to set, Phoenix
The Fans who arrived early braved the desert sun to catch early sets by rock band RX Bandits, metal band Porcupine Tree and English artist Frank Turner. Those who weren’t ready for the heat caught a spoken word performance by cult director John Waters, who spoke of his work with actor Divine, his blockbuster movie “Hairspray� and his life in Baltimore. Later, people packed into the Mojave Tent to catch sets from some of the festivals up-and-coming bands—Dirty Projectors, Shooter Jennings and Gossip. Others went to the Outdoor Theatre to
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Matt & Kim and a solo set by The Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas. Others camped out at the Coachella Stage and Outdoor Theatre to see established acts like De La Soul, Yo La Tengo and the newly reunited ‘90’s outfit Sunny Day Real Estate. As the sun began to set, Phoenix served as a co-headliner at the Outdoor Theatre. However, the night belonged to this generation’s neo-rock legends. Stockton-based band Pavement played its first United States show in more than 10 years as diehard fans shouted lyrics to their favorite songs. Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke played his first highprofile performance with his new band, Atoms for Peace, which includes Red Hot Chili Pepper’s bassist Flea. After Yorke ended the set with two Radiohead songs, headliners Gorillaz began its set in front of the festivals largest crowd. While the Gorillaz were the most popular act of the entire festival; it was Sly Stone who created one of the most memorable performances. Sly Stone has always been one of music’s biggest mysteries due to frequently missed shows. The performance was highly publicized, but immediately brushed off by fans. Sly and the Family Stone was postponed twice. Fourhours after the band’s scheduled performance Sly walked on stage to a mere crowd of 300 attendees. Camera flashes went off everywhere as people stood in disbelief over the sight of the entire band together on stage once again. However, Stone was anything but ready to perform. He began the set by telling the audience he had been kidnapped and could not get through a full song. The band was halfway through “I Want To Take You Higher,” when Sly walked off stage, leaving both the band and the audience confused. While some were disappointed over the performance, others were excited to witness one of the most rare and memorable performances in Coachella’s history. If there was anything to be learned at this year’s festival, it was to be sure to keep your eyes peeled. There were definitely surprises on each stage.
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Skeen, an English professor of poetry at Fresno State. “This event encourages the appreciation and study of creative writing, especially important when public schools are cutting support of the arts,� Nichols said. “Fresno is an area that has a rich history of producing great writers. The YWC is an excellent opportunity for high school students to get a taste of university life as well as a chance to get feedback on their writing. In addition, teachers of writing are able to network with other teachers from both the high school and university levels.
states that, “this practice must end and, as governor, Steve will make sure that it does.� Jose Chave z, a business major at Fresno State, said his family migrated here from El Salvador illegally when he was 3 years old, but has not been able to obtain legal status. “I have been living here my whole life,� Chavez said. “I did not choose to come to another country and face so many obstacles. I contribute to my community, I pay taxes and I deserve to go to school like everyone else.� He added that finding a job to afford school is already a burden. “I get no financial aid,�
Chavez said. “If given the opportunity, undocumented students can make a difference in California’s economy. We are a qualified, but ignored workforce.� Students like Chavez have no way of obtaining citizenship since the U.S. immigration system requires applicants to be sponsored by an immediate relative who is a U.S. citizen or a legal permanent resident. At Fresno State, scholarships are available to all students who are incoming freshman, continuing or transfer including out-of-state students, undergraduate or graduate students regardless of immigration status.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Center plans Earth Day project By Kimberly Sheard The Collegian To celebrate the 40th annual Earth Day, Fresno State students and faculty will participate in service project entitled Generation Green, this Saturday April 24th. T h e R i ch t e r C e n t e r fo r Community Engagement and Service Learning has collaborated with the Sierra Foothill Conservancy and the Rotary Storyland to allow students and faculty to create a lasting impact on this national service day. The special events and projects coordinator for the Richter Center, Renee Delport, said that this was the third time Fresno State students and faculty have worked with the Sierra Foothills Conservancy and Rotary Storyland. A t t h e S i e r r a Fo o t h i l l Conservancy, students and faculty will help create a hiking trail in the McKenzie Table Mountain Preserve, a project that was started last October by Fresno State students and
faculty. “There was no trail at all and Fresno State volunteers [last October] broke the trail down the side of a mountain, cutting trees, and raking up dirt,� Delport said. “Without these hiking trails, we could cause damage to nature.� The Sierra Foothills are a hidden gem of the Central Valley, said Fresno State student Leah Rath. It means
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The Collegian • Sports Sports Editor, Brianna Campbell • collegian-sports@csufresno.edu
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New NFL Draft format
Coaches are always looking for more time, but when is it too much time to collaborate about players left in the draft. By Paul Domowitch McClatchy Tribune New York Giants general manager Jerry Reese was asked the other day for his opinion on the new format that will spread the draft’s seven rounds over three days. “It just gives us more time to overanalyze what we have already overanalyzed, basically,” Reese said. Nobody does overanalysis better than the NFL. It spends millions of dollars and countless man hours scouting prospects, then allows itself to be swayed by how a kid looks without a shirt on or how many times he bench-presses 225 pounds at his Pro Day workout. The NFL is the only league where coaches feel the need to work 18-hour days and sleep on their office couch preparing for a game, then lose track of how many timeouts they’ve got left or what down it is. This week, Reese and the rest of the league’s GMs and coaches will have another golden opportunity to overanalyze when, for the first time in history, they get not one, but two overnight breaks during the draft, which, also for the first time in history, will feature the first three rounds in prime time. The first round will be conducted on Thursday evening. Then everybody will theoretically go to bed, wake up, have breakfast, drive the kids to school, spend some quality time with Mrs.
Coach/GM, then go back to the office and start planning for the second and third rounds, which will be held Friday evening. Then, another overnight break before completing the final four rounds on Saturday. The obvious motivation for spreading the draft over three days and conducting the first three rounds in prime time is to get even more eyeballs watching what already has become the second biggest event on the Goodellian calendar to the Super Bowl. Opinions around the league on the new format are mixed. Some are intrigued by the overnight break after the first round and think it will give teams an opportunity to recalibrate their draft boards and plot a better second-round strategy. Others, like Reese, think it will just give teams more time to screw up. “Instead of rolling into the second round like we usually do, we’ll have a lot of time on our hands to sit there and look and say, ‘I can’t believe that so-and-so is still on the board right now,’ “ Denver Broncos coach Josh McDaniels said. “There’s probably going to be a couple of those players for each team. “I think we’re all going to be sitting there looking at that late that first night, saying, ‘Is this something that we want to consider doing because we can’t believe that guy is still on the board?’ I think time is always something that makes people think a little
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Head coach of the Dever Broncos, Josh McDaniels, says their will be a lot of talk after the first day. When looking at players who are left, coaches will have plenty of time to debate if they should be considered in the next round.
bit more about what’s left. There are quite a few teams, including us, that have multiple second-round selections. So it will be interesting to see what happens and how flexible other people want to be as far as moving down or moving up.” Certainly, you would think the Rams and the Lions, who own the first two picks in the second round, will be getting a lot of phone calls on Friday. But will the overnight break really prompt any more second-round trades than last year when there were seven different deals made in the second round on draft day? “Normally, when guys have a lot of time at the end of the first day of the draft, they’ll go back and have a meeting, take a look at what happened, and see what they can do to climb up in the next round and get back into it,” said former Raiders and Bucs coach and current ESPN “Monday Night Football” analyst Jon Gruden. “I think you’ll see a little bit more aggressiveness, possibly more trades, at the start of the second and third day.” “I can see it being approached more like the first round. In the past, you kind of rolled into that round. Now, to actually stop and have the whole night to sit there and think about it and talk to other teams and develop a new strat-
egy, everybody did that in the past after the second round. But now we have two opportunities to do that. NFL Network draft analyst Mike Mayock is not a big fan of the new format. He thinks it will negate the advantage good-drafting teams currently have over their less competent competition. “The teams that historically draft well and prepare well and trust their boards don’t like the new format because they feel like it’s giving an edge to teams that aren’t as well prepared and don’t react as well under pressure,” Mayock said. “If you think you’re pretty prepared and pretty good and have a lot of savvy veterans in your draft room, typically, at the end of that first round, things get quicker. Crazy things may or may not have happened. In the first round, boards can get decimated, and all of a sudden, the pressure is on in the second round. You’ve got less time to make decisions. You get a chance to put pressure on a team about a trade. I think that’s where the good teams historically feel they’ve been able to take advantage of that. “Now, the teams that might not be as good and might not trust their board as much and don’t react as well to pressure, they can go home and say, ‘OK, let’s regroup.’ “
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Sports Editor, Brianna Campbell • collegian-sports@csufresno.edu • Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Rules that don’t rule
Lacrosse: Friday, at Bulldog Stadium vs. UC Davis at 3:30 p.m. Softball: Friday, at Bulldog Diamond vs. New Mexico at 6 p.m.
March expansion March Madness may get madder with the expansion of the NCAA basketball bracket to 96 teams.
Ben there, done that Ben Ingersoll
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f you have a favorite sport, chances are there are one or two, or many, reasons as to why that sport reins supreme in your book. If it’s hockey, it’s probably the fights. Baseball typically has something to do with fantasy baseball. And golf, you are probably bored and lonely. I’m kidding. Kind of. But let me tell you why my favorite sport is year-by-year transforming into my least favorite sport. Before long, collegiate football will be a mirror image of the NFL. Granted, the two sports are exactly the same. They are both played with a leather, egg-shaped ball, on a 120-yard field, with pads. To me, the similarities between the two stopped there. That was until the NCAA released its recent set of rule changes that will me implemented in the upcoming years. Effective immediately, there will no longer be wedge blocks on kick or punt returns. Designed to limit concussions, any violators will be penalized 15 yards. But far more often you see concussions as a result from left tackles missing blocks and players not protecting themselves. All this rule will do is reduce explosive returns, taking points off the board. What is even worse in 2010 is the rule banning players from writing messages on their eye black. This fad became popular from Reggie Bush’s “619,” a tribute to his hometown area code in San Diego, and Tim Tebow’s bible scriptures. I would understand if players were writing something like “Your Mom,” but they aren’t, and the NCAA is killing what makes college football unique. And while we’re at it, let’s just erase points off the board! It’s true. Starting in 2011, any player caught taunting or celebrating prior to reaching the end zone will result in the loss of the score and the ball placed 15 yards from the spot of the foul. Don’t get me wrong, taunting is ridiculous and doesn’t belong in sports, but the old rule of assessing the penalty yards on the ensuing kickoff worked just fine. These are NFL-like rules. What makes the NFL boring to me are the countless rules and regulations, along with its typicality. The quarterback can’t be touched, players can’t get excited and the idea of self-expression is a mortal sin. The NFL is played for a paycheck; the NCAA is played for pride. It seemed that way at least. You see, what makes college football great is its ability to be different. At the collegiate level, you have student sections, 120 FBS teams and the most demanding national championship format in sports. You have 141 years of tradition, marching bands, the Rose Bowl, Joe Paterno, and most importantly NO PAYROLL. The NFL has haggard drunk Raider fans, 32 teams and a Super Bowl that most fans watch for the commercials. It has lived for a mere 44 years, a public address system playing an Usher song, the new $1.3 billion Dallas Stadium and whining wide receivers making over $27,000 a day. Just pray that your favorite sport doesn’t cheat on you like mine is. So if ice hockey ever switches to roller skates and baseball becomes slow pitch, maybe you’ll think of me and how much you don’t want your favorite sport to change.
By Megan Morales The Collegian Just weeks after the madness of March came to an end, the NCAA went into serious deliberation over expanding the men’s basketball tournament to a 96-team field. The current 65-team bracket has proven to provide excitement, but the decision to expand is based on more than just good entertainment. The ultimate goal of adding more teams is to generate more revenue, which would result in more money for conferences. NCAA vice president Gre g Shaheen said no final decision has been made, but the expansion is definitely in the works. O n Ap r i l 1 , S h a h e e n announced the logist i c s of the expanded tournament a n d i n cl u d e d details about the benefits of the plan, and even how the revenue would be distributed. The expansion could entail a positive aspect for conferences like the WAC. A bigger b r a cke t wo u l d increase opportunity for teams like Fresno state to make it into March Madness. According to a recent official sports report, Bulldogs head coach Steve Cleveland would welcome a 96-team field because of the possible opportunites for WAC schools. However, the idea of 96 teams isn’t necessarily sitting well with everyone. CBS 47 sports director George Takata said he’s nearly appalled by the plan. “What the NCAA really needs to work on is a playoff system for college football,” Takata said. “It’s mindboggling to me that the NCAA would rather screw up something that works, rather than fixing something that doesn’t.” For those like Takata that may have negative feelings toward the new idea, hopefully you’ll find comfort in the fact that the tournament will still be played within its nor mal three-week period—the only difference in time frame is it would start two days later than the current brack-
et. Further differences include 31 additional teams, elimination of the play-in game, and a first-round bye for the No. 8 seeds. As for Guy Haberman, host of the Guy Haberman Show on ESPN Radio, he thinks one of the biggest problems with the expansion may not have even been considered yet by the Division I Men’s Basketball Committee. “The people that are really going to suffer are the ones like me who don’t know how to make double-sided photo copies,” Haberman said. “And if you think bubble-talk is useless now, wait until we’re discussing the merits of Virginia Commonwealth, a fifthplace team from the Colonial Conference, versus a 17-16 St.
John’s team.” While common sense may say the expansion gives more teams a chance to win a championship, Haberman disagrees. “If you’re expanding a tournament, then you should also increase the number of teams that have a chance to win the tournament,” Haberman said. “But this doesn’t do that. As it is, you have 12 teams or so in a given year that really have a shot—and that isn’t changing with an additional 31 teams.” The Division I Men’s Basketball Committee still needs to approve the idea which would then need to be approved by the board, but so f ar signs all seem to be pointing to yes on whether or not the plan will go through. A meeting will be held April 29 to further discuss the matter.
If the NCAA decided to go to the 96-team bracket this year, the image above would be an example of the bracket.