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Student court denies request Several provisions will affect the options of college-aged students for recount

Health care reform and students

By Joe Bailey The Collegian Wi t h P r e s i d e n t B a r a c k Obama’s signing of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, many college students are eligible to be the beneficiaries of some new provisions.

Some of the initiatives won’t take effect for several more years, but some immediate impacts are going to be felt.

Jo h n C a p i t m a n , e x e c u tive director of the Central Valley Health Policy Institute, described some of the new provisions that will benefit Americans around the country.

“The health reform offers some great new pieces for young adults,” Capitman said.

“Number one, for those whose parents have insurance, starting in August, these young adults can be covered on their plan until age 26.”

Capitman also said that many college-aged Americans would be able to have insurance in case of an emergency.

“Also, young adults up to age 30 will have access to subsidies to purchase a basic, catastrophic health insurance plan at reasonable rates.”

Capitman said that some of the important initiatives would not start for some time.

For example, in 2014, those with incomes at 133 percent of the poverty line will be eligible

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The Obama Administration’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has several ramifications for college-aged students. Sarah Huffamn serves as the Chief X-ray Technician for Student Health Center at Fresno State.

for Medicaid. Also, children cannot be denied coverage due to pre-existing conditions.

Also effective September 23, 2010 will be a provision that prohibits dropping policyholders from their plans when they get sick. Another provision that will go into effect on September 23, 2010 will be a 10-percent service tax on

University dropouts exceed transfers Students from Tulare, Fresno, Madera and Kings counties that leave Fresno State without graduating are more likely to do so because they dropped out as opposed to transferred. These numbers were compiled between 2002 and 2005.

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Navdeep Samra, 19, a sophomore at Fresno State, has health coverage through her father. She said she was not too familiar with all the new initiatives, but was happy to see more Americans receiving health care.

“Everybody needs health insurance,” Samra said. “The

more people that are covered the better.”

Samra said she was also concerned with the greater good of the people.

“Yes,” Samra said. “I am for more health care as long as they don’t raise the taxes that much. Whatever is best for See HEALTH, Page 9

Student aids Haiti

By Casey Rogers The Collegian For mer Califor nia State University, Fresno nursing graduate and ROTC standout, 2nd Lt. Anastasia Fiehler retur ned from helping Haitians get back on their feet and rejuvenating their spirits.

Philip Phaphilom, Cadet Col. for the Fresno State ROTC, said Fiehler is very giving, compassionate and ready to help others.

“To have someone who has graduated here, who I have hung out with on a number of occasions go and do that is really amazing,” Phaphilom said.

Fiehler said she wanted to get outside of the daily routine and experience something new while being able to help the survivors of the earthquake.

“I was really excited,” Fiehler said. “I wanted to go really bad.”

Fiehler said she felt ready for the unknown in Haiti but she had to wait six days before leaving Edwards Air Force Base in Lancaster, Calif., where she was stationed.

The airport in Haiti was where all of the supplies, people and support vehicles converged before leaving for designated assignments.

“From the moment we landed there were constant planes landing and taking off and cars driving all over the place,” Fiehler said. “It smelled like smoke and gas and it was very humid.”

Fiehler said she worked alongside aid workers from across the world.

“I saw UN soldiers, French soldiers, Columbians, Canadian helicopters and Japanese workers,” Fiehler said.

Once on the ground, Fiehler See HAITI, Page 9

Candidates running for next year’s Associated Students, Inc. election on March 26 called for an official recount of the votes, citing potential error.

A petition for a recount was circulated following the announcements from the university’s election committee.

Nine students, including president-elect Pedro Ramirez and vice-president Cesar Sanchez, signed the petition.

Hector Cerda, who ran for senator-at-large during last month’s elections, stated that the third-party voting system could be vulnerable to manipulation.

“This is about checking the integrity of the system,” Cerda said. “A satisfactory recount would be to redo the exact same thing that happened only, request that the printouts come directly from the company themselves. And that there be some type of way that students can look at a printout.”

On Tuesday after noon, a meeting of the ASI student court was held to determine if a recount would in fact take place. The student court voted unanimously not to permit a recount.

“If there were a recount,” Cerda said, “then the recount should match the exact results that were announced the Friday before spring break.”

Cerda said the extra effort to show transparency will go to restoring the students’ faith in the student government. He said it is even admitted by the current administration that students don’t trust ASI. The student court pointed out that the count was monitored by the VoteNet, as well as by the League of Women Voters and that an incorrect tally was unlikely. The votes were tabulated by Votenet and later recounted by the Fresno Chapter of the League of Women Voters.

During the election period, there were nine different ballots and students were only allowed to vote for the senator of their college. All nine sheets are printed off with the tabulations from the students of every college, said Julianne Phillips, student court chief justice.

“T he Lea gue of Women Vo t e r s a d d e d [ t h e vo t e s ] and the results were sealed because, they were not to be See RECOUNT, Page 9

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@issue: Is there such thing as a Christian conservative?

With All Due Respect Mike Boylan You, as a self-proclaimed Christian conservative, believe Jesus is the son of God, the paragon of love and decency.

Ironically, this belief has failed to reflect your political ideology or instill in you the principles of his teaching.

What you are either unwilling to understand or unwilling to concede, is that the phrase “Conservative Christian” is an oxymoron. Being a Christian Conservative is like being a “compassionate narcissist” or a “black redneck.”

Your most treasured social construct—free-market capitalism—is at complete odds with the very fabric of who Jesus was. If present today, Jesus would be the welfare state’s biggest cheerleader.

Jesus would be a socialist or a communist, but never a conservative or capitalist. Jesus would advise you to do away with all your wealth.

Also revealing is your militant objection to the health care bill while claiming to be on the right side of Jesus.

It is as if the Democrats are playing Robin Hood in order to provide stabilizing services to the poor. You care little that this is exactly what Jesus would advocate.

Also disturbing is your nostalgia for patriarchal traditions that have nothing to do with morality. Individuals like yourself and the church’s untaxed dollars came out in spades in support Proposition 8. Yet, you are not willing to consider the fact that Jesus may have been a homosexual.

He did not desire women or marriage or children, and ended many of his sayings with “Ah, men.”

You may not find this funny, but rather offensive. This can only be the case if your anxiety about sex exceeds any rational intensity. This is why you may consider gay marriage to be one of the most tremendous moral issues of

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our time, when it is quite clear that gay marriage is not of any moral concern.

You are more preoccupied with homosexuality, abstinence and abortions rather than alleviating suffering and increasing happiness.

A few years ago an immunization to America’s most common STD, human papillomavirus (HPV), was rejected by many prominent religious conservatives on the grounds that it acts as a valuable impediment to premarital sex.

Also, George W. Bush used his first veto as president to kill a stem-cell research bill, saying “it crosses a moral boundary society needs to respect.” A three-day-old embryo is a collection of 150 cells with no brain or neurons, thus it cannot feel pain.

There are over 100,000 cells in the brain of a fly, which has a brain and neurons. An overwhelming majority of the scientific and morally rational community conclude that stem cell research is the most promising development in eradicating cancer and other sufferable diseases.

You are telling a cancer, diabetes or heart disease patient that your belief in religious metaphysics justifies giving equal consideration to 150 cells in a Petri dish that can prolong their misery.

You spend more energy protecting the unborn rather than curing disease or upholding social traditions rather than justice while refusing to act Christ-like. Your adulterated priorities and moral compass is what, in reality, is offensive.

This does not at all surprise me. As a Christian, who at the very minimum many scholars have said must adhere to the notion of Jesus’ divinity and resurrection, you have explicitly expressed your willingness to believe in absolutely ANYTHING. Why this is admirable, I admit, is lost upon me. Why it is prudent or even ethical to grant respect to these customs, particularly those which provide you shelter from scrutiny and accountability for your beliefs, is beyond me.

There is much to be learned from Jesus the philosopher, but conservative Christians find it most difficult to emulate him despite their boisterous claims to the contrary.

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The Right Tone Tony Petersen I am a Christian conservative. I am a Christian because I believe Jesus Christ died on a cross and rose from the dead on the third day, saving me from eternal damnation from my sins. I celebrated this very act on Easter Sunday, the greatest day in all of history.

I am a conservative because I believe with Russell Kirk, that 20th-century man of letters who gave the movement its name with his magnum opus “The Conservative Mind,” when he said that the “essence of social conservatism is preservation of the ancient moral traditions of humanity.” I believe with Abraham Lincoln, who once gave this rhetorical inquiry: “What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?”

In the name Christian conservative, there is no contradiction. It is no oxymoron. For the tradition I aim to uphold is one that is Christian in character.

America is a fundamentally Christian nation. Tocqueville, writing on the American character in the 1830s, wrote, “The sects that exist in the United States are innumerable. They all differ in respect to the worship which is due to the Creator; but they all agree in respect to the duties which are due from man to man. Each sect adores the Deity in its own peculiar manner, but all sects preach the same moral law in the name of God.” Says the great French thinker, even our government took heed from our belief.

“Religion in America takes no direct part in the government of society,” continues Tocqueville, “but it must be regarded as the first of their political institutions.”

So preserving tradition in America means preserving a Christian way of living, which is exactly what conservatism aspires to do.

But what of specific policy

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prescriptions? Do positions usually ascribed to conservatives match up with the teachings of Jesus?

My colleague argues that a belief that free-markets provide for a better economic system is at odds with Jesus’ teachings, that a true Christian would be a socialist.

This is not so. Jesus’ instructions are for individuals, not for governments. Of course it is a good thing for Christians to give to the poor and various charitable institutions—I don’t know of any Christian conservative who is against that. Jesus’ teachings involving government, though, are pretty much limited to “give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar.”

But what of something like marriage, or, more specifically, gay marriage? The conservative believes in traditional marriage precisely for that reason, because it comes from our tradition. The Christian believes in traditional marriage because that’s what the Bible teaches. The Christian believes that all Scripture is God-breathed, so they take Leviticus 18:22 or Romans 1:26-27 at face value.

It would be tedious and uninteresting to take each political issue point by point and show how the conservative position and the Christian position coincide. Besides, not all conservatives agree on every issue. Conservatism is unique in that it is, at its core, not an ideology.

There is no “Conservative Manifesto” which lists views to combat its communist counterpart. Conservatives cannot be rigidly defined.

There are anti-war conservatives and pro-war conservatives. There are conservatives that believe in free trade and those that are protectionist.

There are neocons, paleocons, crunchy cons, Burkeans, libertarians, classical liberals, the list goes on and on. All coalesce under the big tent of “conservatism.” All are often at odds with one another. But all believe in preserving our moral traditions, of which Christianity is one.

Calling oneself a Christian conservative requires no suspension of rational thought.

Saying it does is itself irrational.

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Thumbs up This week in sports

We had an incredibly exciting men’s national championship on Monday, the women’s championship last night, opening days in baseball on Sunday and Monday and the Masters golf tournament Thursday through Sunday. Look for uncut grass, a plethora of sick days and many cars with engine problems as guys will most likely be planted to their favorite chair with remote in hand for the duration of the week.

Sorry ladies!

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CNN slowly dying CNN has tried to be the sane alternative to Democratic News Network (MSNBC) and the Republican News Network (Fox News), but they have failed miserably. Instead of being non-partisan, they have just been extremely boring. A solution? Bring back shows like “Crossfire” where you have both sides of the spectrum represented. It can’t be any worse than now, when it’s losing the ratings battle to Cartoon Network!

Thumbs up New sex study

According to the study, only 20 percent of college students think oral sex counts as sex. Which isn’t the reason for this thumb. The reason? 98 percent think vaginal intercourse counts. Who are these two percent that think otherwise?!

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Republican party’s frivolous ways Apparently, the Republican National Committee spent almost $2,000 for young staffers to go to a bondage-themed nightclub. Besides being a complete waste of money, it is morally reprehensible. The Republicans claim to be the party of good Christian morals.

How about they follow their own advice?

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The daily crossword

Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Lewis Los Angeles Times

ACROSS 1 Date with an MD 5 Horse of a certain color 9 One of the March girls 13 Runny fromage 14 “La __ è mobile”: “Rigoletto” aria 15 Declare openly 16 Extremely defensive state of mind 19 Pablo Neruda work 20 Landlocked Asian sea 21 Spats spots 22 Trial in simulated conditions 24 Short orders in a luncheonette?

25 Giant Mel 26 Retired Cunard liner, briefly 27 ‘60s protest gp.

30 Physical play 34 Joint problem 35 Pig Latin refusal 36 Precipitous start?

37 Limoges product 38 Gardener’s areas 39 Abstinent one 41 Caps or Cat preceder 42 Seedless bit of flora 43 Channel where Susan Lucci hawks her jewelry line 44 Funny Fey 45 Ghoulish 49 __ rod: powerful Old Testament tool

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52 Luminous glow 53 Objective 54 Sam-I-Am’s story 57 Margarine 58 Condos, e.g.

59 Like Cheerios 60 This puzzle’s theme— according to Twain, it’s “a good walk spoiled” 61 Insignificant 62 Prejudice

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DOWN 1 Monk’s superior 2 Bluenose 3 Sappy trees 4 Drug in Shatner novels 5 Like I, in some cases 6 Turow work about firstyear law students 7 Political commentator

Coulter 8 Hollywood’s Wood 9 Goofs on the mound 10 Activity from below?

11 Schlep 12 Major rtes.

14 Diminutive celeb sexologist 17 Like garden smells 18 Not behind 23 Frat party garb 24 Assailed 26 Part of 26-Across 27 Dirty 28 Beach sight 29 Headline (in) 30 Teases 31 Beasts of burden 32 Word processor command 33 La Scala production 34 Togo neighbor 37 Medical imaging proc.

39 Stiffen 40 They held Tara’s title 42 Helsinki native 44 “... newt and __ frog”: “Macbeth” 45 Like some basements 46 Religion founded in 19th-century Persia 47 Cowboy’s rope 48 Small-screen awards 49 Wide-eyed 50 Woody’s offspring 51 Fishing gear 52 Not fer 55 Wildebeest 56 Driver’s lic. info

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Word of the Day

Zombie Jesus An exclamation of surpise or shock originating on Matt Groening’s ‘Futurama’ animated TV show as a futuristic equivalent of the modern usage of ‘Jesus Christ’ as an exclamation. Usually preceded by the words ‘sweet’ or ‘holy.’

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Editorial

BREAKING UP BEEFS Looks like it’s time for me to get my referee uniform out of the dry cleaners and polish up my whistle.

Some ugly battles are brewing in the land of rap and R&B.

own abilities. To do so with some 50 Cent-style beef when Kelly has quite nobly ignored his utterances to date is a foolish move.

Whistle Blow: My verdict is as follows Songz needs to stand down. And if he’s angry at people for comparing him to Kelly, go after them, not Kellz. How is that his fault?

BEEF No. 1: TREY SONGZ vs. R. KELLY

BEEF No.2: ICE CUBE VS THE INDUSTRY

Trey Songz is a formidable presence on both the R&B and hip-hop scene. I enjoy his music and think he deserves his increasing fame. But I find his beef with R. Kelly ridiculous. Is this some street theater just to boost his already rising star? That is the only logical reason Mr. Songz, many decades Kelly’s junior, would feel the need to insult a man who is obviously his inspiration.

Show some kind of respect. I mean, seriously, “Neighbors Know My Name” sounds just like Kellz. We won’t even hearken back to Trey’s old look, with his Kellz cornrows because that would just be mean.

So why is Songz so infuriated by comparisons to the artist formerly known as the “Pied Piper?” His recent comments to Vibe that Kelly bit Aaron Hall’s style sound somewhat silly, seeing as how Kelly’s career long outlasted Hall’s. Further, that baldheaded, leather jacket, pre-Morpheus look was in at the time of Hall’s rise.

Stylistically, I see no real similarities between Kelly and Hall. I do not necessarily support R. Kelly, but his talent is undeniable. Trey Songz has made a name for himself through his

Oh boy. Has O’Shea Jackson (better known as Ice Cube) up and lost his mind? I know he can lyrically devastate Dre, but Eminem, and Kanye West really? Perhaps if we piled into a D’Lorean and caught him during his “Death Certificate” days, Cube would have had a decent shot...what with his trademark scowl and hard-hitting, socially attuned prose.

But it’s been a long time since “Bird in the Hand” and “No Vaseline,” my friend, and Em in particular is always ready for a battle. Kanye comes with the quotables. Combined, they might make Cube wish he was on a set making “Barbership 8: Supercuts.” Not helping matters is the notion that Cube has already angered a bunch of other Wesside connects with comments about how he hated working with new Cali artists.

Whistle Blow: Cube should direct his anger at some of his most recent musical works. The sorry state of rap is in need of address, but Em and Kanye are hardly the poster children for what ails it. That honor belongs to some of these clowns. Cube, redirect your rage.

By Kyra Kyles McClatchy Tribune

Monday, April 7, 2009

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Earth Day on the rocks

By Mary Ann Anderson McClatchy Tribune Save the planet! And the rainforests and the ice caps and the whales and polar bears, too. Come April 22, make a celebratory toast on Earth Day that will last all year by transforming your home bar to green. No, not absinthe-green, creme de menthe green, or green chartreuse, but greener than green, as in organic and environmentally friendly and good for the soul.

If you’re a fan of berry-flavored vodka or rum, you might not want to replace them entirely but do try VeeV, the world’s first acai berry spirit that’s smooth, clean and not too sweet so that it mixes well with citrus.

Acai (pronounced ah-sigh-eee) berries, Brazil’s national fruit, are the hot items of the moment, as they’re reportedly filled with all sorts of powerful antioxidants.

I mixed it three parts freshlysqueezed orange juice to one part VeeV for a screwdriver-like cocktail for a refreshing cocktail that seems at least semi-healthy.

In celebration of Earth Day and every day, VeeV is dedicated to green initiatives year ‘round and is donating $1 of every bottle sold to the Brazilian rainforest. And in April Earth Month VeeV’s goal is to plant ten thousand new trees for every VeeV Treetini ordered at participating bars and restaurants nationwide. Now that’s a lot of oxygen. Can’t wait until April?

Here’s the recipe:

VEEV TREETINI 2 ounces VeeV Acai Spirit { ounce agave nectar 4 lime wedges 6 mint leaves Club soda Tear and slap mint leaves to release oils and drop into a cocktail shaker. Shake all ingredients well and strain into a chilled martini glass. Top with club soda. Stir and garnish as desired.

LYNCHBURG LEMONADE 1 part Jack Daniels Tennessee Whiskey 1 part Triple Sec 1 part sour mix Stir all ingredients with 4 parts lemonlime soda. Garnish with a lemon slice and cherries.

HOT TENNESSEE TODDY 1 part Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey Spoonful of honey Cinnamon stick Good squeeze of fresh lemon juice Boiling water Pour Jack Daniel’s into a heavy mug. Add a spoonful of honey, cinnamon stick, and lemon juice. Top with boiling water and

stir.

Garnish with green tea powder and serve with a straw.

ORDER OF THE AMAZON 1.5 ounces VeeV Acai Spirit { ounce Benedictine { ounce simple syrup { ounce fresh lemon juice Dash of bitters Lemon peel, for garnish Shake all ingredients well with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass Garnish with lemon peel.

For Earth Month try VeeV’s ecomojito which uses VeeV Acai Spirit and agave nectar with hints of lime and mint, like a traditional mojito.

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“In the life of a squirrel”

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Springing back into shape after break

By Tara Albert The Collegian Spring break tends to become a weeklong fest of binge sleeping, eating and drinking, leaving little time for exercise leading to larger numbers on the scale.

But now that the semester has restarted, it is time to hit the gym again.

Jeremy Richter is a personal trainer at the Fresno State Student Recreation Center and a master’s student in the sports psychology program.

He shares his fitness knowledge with students to help them get back into the exercising groove.

Richter said circuit workouts are a great way to stay in shape anywhere, with or without a gym. No equipment is needed for any of the exercises, and they require very little space.

The full-body work out consists of push-ups, crunches, bicycle crunches and lunges.

The push-ups shape the chest and arms while utilizing the

Fresno State squirrel doing what it does best, eating!

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Wednesday, April 7, 2010

They’re stuck on duct tape

By Debbie Arrington McClatchy Tribune We live in a duct-tape world.

Nobody knows that better than the Duct-Tape Guys, Tim Nyberg and Jim Berg.

“It’s the ultimate power tool,” Nyberg says. “We know; we’re duct-tape evangelists.”

They’re stuck on their favorite subject. The team of brothers-in-law has written seven books (and 15 years’ worth of page-a-day calendars) about the ubiquitous tape.

“It’s got thousands of uses, including some pretty incredible stuff, but who’s counting?”

Nyberg says. “It’s limitless what you can do.”

Their motto: “It’s not broke; it just needs duct tape.”

It’s a perfect philosophy for penny-pinching times, adds Nyberg, which helps explain why they’ve sold more than 3 million copies of their books See TAPE, Page 7

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SHAPE: Keep in shape with or without a gym CONTINUED from page 6 whole body. The crunches and bicycle crunches focus on the abdominal muscles and the oblique’s, strengthening the body’s core. Finally, the lunges work out the entire leg, targeting the thigh, hamstring and gluts muscles.

Richter said exercisers should do five of each exercise, repeating the pattern as many times as possible in a 10-minute period. He said people can change the number of repetitions and the allotted time period based on their fitness level.

Tami Phillips is a Fresno State instructor in the kinesiology department who teaches physical education for children, aerobic conditioning, weight training, Pilates and walking.

Phillips suggested cardio or circuit workouts when exercising at home or on the go.

She adds pull-ups and dips to the circuit to target more muscle groups.

She said exercising is an important part of living a happy and fulfilling life. She said people should work out “to improve every aspect of life: energy and vitality, confidence and poise, health and longevity.”

Phillips is also the founder of the Tandalay Curriculum and the PLAY Network, which provides easily accessible activity resources for physical educators and recreation

leaders. She said there are many tricks people can use to help them get the most out of their workouts.

She said people should set realistic and clearly defined goals to stay motivated and produce results.

“Instead of saying, ‘I want to lose 20 pounds by the end of the semester,’ try something more concrete like, ‘I am going to walk or jog at least 10 miles every week for the rest of the semester,’” Phillips suggested.

She said to focus on cardiovascular activities like running, cycling or swimming if trying to lose weight.

Working out with weights or doing body-weight exercises, like in the circuit workout, will increase muscle mass, she said. And for those looking to increase their flexibility and core strength, Phillips suggests Yoga or Pilates.

Richter said another technique to stay motivated is t o m a ke s h o r t - t e r m a n d long-term goals. He said it is important to have something to work toward that will provide immediate and long-lasting results.

He also said to skip exercises that are boring and tedious.

“Try to find some sort of enjoyment in it,” Richter said.

He said exercising is not a hobby, but a lifestyle. People have to surround themselves

with the right environment to make exercising a part of their life, Richter said.

“A social group can change your habits,” he said.

Richter said a lot of people make the mistake of easing back into their workouts. He said the best way to start exercising is to go in full force, hitting the gym three to five days each week.

“Make exercise part of your schedule,” he said.

He said exercisers can do cardio workouts every day, but should switch muscle groups each day when lifting weights, so the muscles have time to rest. He also said the more intense a cardio workout is, the less time that is required to do that exercise.

Richter said eating right is also an important part of being fit and healthy. He said people should write down everything they consume, so they are held accountable to what they eat, and realize the kinds of food and how much of it they are putting into their bodies daily.

Phillips said fresh foods are the best choice when trying to eat healthy.

“Make your diet as full of color as possible, with lots of colorful fruits and vegetables,” she said. “The key is to focus on the nutritive aspects of what you eat.”

Students needing a little more help starting a workout

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routine can utilize the personal training services the recreation center offers for as low as $20. Richter said it is a great way to learn how to get the most out of a workout, and is a lot cheaper than most gym fees.

Richter said he teaches people how to mentally prepare for exercising, and how to workout properly.

“I can use my knowledge to help people reach their fitness goals,” he said. “It’s a great way of helping people out.”

Students can also sign up to be a part of an intramural sports team to have fun while exercising. Intramurals give students the opportunity to play on a team, providing motivation to work out.

The recreation center is currently taking sign-ups for tennis, kickball and softball.

Upcoming spor ts include dodge ball and table tennis.

Prices vary from $10 to $20 per team. Students interested in joining or creating an intramural team can sign up in Member Services at the recreation center.

Visit fresnostaterecreation. com for recreation center hours, services and more.

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TAPE: Nothing is broken, it just Marijuana bill tempts needs some duct tape cash-starved states

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uct tape is intrinsically funny and it’s easily adaptable to any situation.”

— Tim Nyberg, 56 years old

and calendars.

“It’s a budget stretcher on a roll and an HMO, too,” Nyberg says. “Duct tape is great for wart removal, setting bones and emergency sutures.”

Nyberg, 56, and Berg, 46, tape just about everything, from head to toe. They’ve created entire wardrobes out of duct tape. (“That jacket is really hot,” Nyberg admits about his home-show duds, “but it is mostly plastic; duct tape doesn’t breathe.”)

Their work inspired Duck brand’s “Stuck at Prom” contest students make whole tuxedos and dresses out of tape and thousands of Halloween costumes.

Thanks to such inventive uses, duct tape now comes in a wide world of plastic-coated colors. For example, Duck brand offers 20 colors, including new for 2010, tie-dye purple-pink.

“Duct tape is intrinsically funny,” Nyberg adds. “And it’s easily adaptable to any situa-

tion.”

That’s part of the charm of their act, which sticks to crazy uses. For instance, two rubber chickens taped end to end become a “kinder, gentler” martial-arts weapon: “numclucks.”

A duct-tape smoke detector?

Try Jiffy-Pop popcorn cans taped to the ceiling.

Picnic pest control? Try a fly swatter taped to the burger flipper.

“We get lots of laughs,” Nyberg says. “Our shows are all wacky goofball stuff.”

“You should see the looks we get from airport security,” Nyberg says.

Duct tape wasn’t invented for ductwork, he says. According to lore, the three-layer tape was developed during World War II to keep moisture out of ammunition cases. The core was made from cotton duck cloth (commonly used for bandages) with a plastic coating on one side and adhesive on the other, hence “duck tape.”

Originally made only in camouflage colors, the tape found a postwar career in the booming home-building industry as construction crews used it to patch and seal heating and ventilation ducts. That’s when “duck tape” became “duct tape” (and turned silver-gray, to match the ductwork).

Why is duct tape so popular?

“It’s a quick fix,” Nyberg says.

“You get it done easily; no other tools needed. If you have no time or skill or tools to do it the right way, just use duct tape.”

The most incredible thing they ever made out of duct tape?

“A 15-year career,” Nyberg quips. “Duct tape has taken us all over North America and to England and Germany. What other tape could do that?”

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By David Harrison McClatchy Tribune prosecuting them as long as Mary Lou Dickerson had they comply with state law. seen enough. After wrenchEighteen states discussed ing cuts to Washington’s medical marijuana through state drug and alcohol treatlegislation or citizen initiament programs, Dickerson, tives this year. Most visibly, a Democratic representative, California election officials introduced a bill this year to announced on March 24 sell marijuana in state liquor that this year’s ballot would stores _ and tax it. include a question to allow Dickerson is an unlikely crulocal governments to legalize sader for marijuana legalizaand tax marijuana, casting a tion. A 63-year-old grandmothspotlight on the state that first er who doesn’t use it, she says legalized medical marijuana money was the only reason for in 1996. proposing her controversial While most state legislabill. “According to the state’s tive efforts are likely to fail, own estimates, it would bring a victory in California could in an additional $300 million encourage other states to folper biennium,”she said. low suit just as they did when The proposal died in commitCalifornia approved medical tee, but Dickerson, who chairs marijuana. A 2009 poll found the House Human Services 56 percent of California voters Committee, expects to reinsupport outright legalization. troduce it. Other advocates in Estimates from California’s almost two dozen states have Board of Equalization peg the been making similar efforts to amount the state could raise loosen marijuana laws. from marijuana legalization This has been a bumper at $1.4 billion. year for marijuana legislaBut those projections rest tion, according to state policy on shaky assumptions that observers. Crushing state budthe state could keep track of get deficits gave advocates in growers and that distribuCalifornia, Washington, New tors would accurately disHampshire, Rhode Island, close their sales, if at all. And New York and elsewhere an since marijuana is still illegal opening to pitch marijuana as under federal law, it’s unclear a new source of tax revenue. how the Obama administraAt the same time, the Obama tion would ultimately react to administration gave users and more permissive state maridistributors some breathing juana laws. room by signaling in October that it would scale back on

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CONTINUED from page 1 went with her group to a spot 10 to 15 minutes away from the airport that she called home for 33 days.

“When we first arrived, we had two, four-person tents on a grass field out in the open and port-a-potties were our only luxury,” Fiehler said.

“After about a week though, we received our own living facilities with all of the modern amenities.”

Fiehler was grouped with the 24th Expeditionary Medical Support (EMEDS), a group made up of a variety of Air Force personnel. One of the first things that the group was assigned to do was assemble

the hospital from which they would be working. After a week of work, Fiehler and the others had set up a fully functional hospital on a landfill near the coast.

“Once we started accepting patients, we would get a couple of patients at a time, but soon enough we started getting an in-flow of people,” Fiehler said. “We would get 10-20 people rolling through everyday.”

Fiehler treated a number of people that were crushed by their own house. She said many of the Haitian people are still very scared of being inside buildings.

“Look at the pictures on the

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news,” Fiehler said. “The buildings are crumbled almost as if it where a gingerbread house.”

For Fiehler, the children of Haiti are what stick out the most in her mind.

“We had this little boy that was very skinny and had been crushed by something. He had broken his arm and femur,” Fiehler said. “We had to give him a wheelchair but all we had was a wheelchair for an adult.

Fiehler and another nurse rallied for a couple of days until they were able to send for a child’s wheelchair, which would take four or five days to arrive.

“This is something that would take a couple days in the states, but here it’s just not accessible. The thing that touched me the most is how happy he was once we gave him his new wheelchair.”

Fiehler said she met many people who had lost their entire family and now their closest family member was their neighbor. Fiehler said that not only do people need help, but also they just need someone there for them.

Fiehler retur ned to the states on March 8. She said overall her time in Haiti was a great experience and she was just glad that she could help.

society. That’s what you want, right?”

S a m r a s a i d t h at s o f a r she is fine with the Obama Administration’s progressive movements.

“Right now, I’m fine with everything he’s doing,” Samra said. “But it’s true that you don’t want the government to be too big.”

Fresno State student Jason Panganiban, 22, said he is glad that Americans are finally going to get health care from the government.

“It’s good that it passed even though we are going to have to pay a gargantuan tax increase, because this bill passed through,” Panganiban said.

“But it’s all for the greater good of the country, and that’s what matters most.”

Panganiban said that it is a must that young adults receive greater health insurance cov-

erage in a time when many are struggling to find careers that offer benefits.

“It’s a step in a better direction for college students who are having trouble finding real jobs that have benefits,” Panganiban said. “It’s great that we can get coverage through our parents’ plan later in life.”

Panganiban was quick to point out that not all of these provisions are going to benefit everybody.

“The rich people in society may not like it, because they will have to be paying more taxes to help the lower class get health care,” Panganiban said. “What really matters is that it’s for the greater good.

Some people are going to dislike it and some people are going to love it. We shouldn’t be that selfish and everybody needs help.”

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CONTINUED from page 1 released until 9 a.m. the next day,” Phillips said. “So, it’s a pretty accurate system.”

Still, online voting, a concept still in its infancy, has its flaws.

In September of 2008, researchers at the University of California Santa Barbara demonstrated the vulnerabilities of electronic voting systems and how easily results could be tampered with.

The researchers were able to hack into a voting system being prepared for use in nearly 3 seconds with the use of a thumb drive.

Stating that e-voting is “fatally flawed,” the researches concluded that it would be highly unlikely that the manipulation would ever be detected by either the public or election officials. A viral hack, they said, would not be discovered by pre-election “Logic and Accuracy” testing even in the event of a complete post-election audit of votes.

Vice president-elect Cesar Sanchez said the concern lies in the process and not with the system itself.

“The more steps we make students go through, that o p e n s t h e d o o r fo r m o re error,” Sanchez said. “I’d say that we signed this petition for a recount just for the sake of good practice.”

The results of the election will be certified on April 16, and elected senate members and the top executives will be sworn in June 1.

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Bulldog tests draft waters

Sophomore Paul George has declared his submission into the NBA Draft

By Megan Morales The Collegian Since he first broke onto the scene, sophomore Paul George has gained recognition as a prospect for the NBA. And now may be his time to shine.

Following weeks of hinting at entering the NBA draft in June, George last Wednesday officially entered his name for consideration into the 2010 NBA draft. The announcement came after a long awaited confirmation as to whether or not he was going to declare his departure from Fresno State.

George is projected by some NBA mock drafts to go late in the first round.

With his versatility, athletic ability and team-leading stats, the future looks promising for talented Palmdale, Calif. native.

George’s ability to run the floor, pass the ball, and shoot from beyond the arc puts him at the top of the deliberation list for many teams. George avera g ed a team-high16.8 points, 7.2 rebounds this season, and as a freshman, led the team with six double-doubles.

His scoring ability is one of his most attractive assets and will likely be his major selling point to NBA scouts.

Standing at 6’8, George’s height and wingspan give him the advantage needed to play at the pro level.

His range and ability to spread the floor will help when weighing in his value as a player. Despite his natural position as a forward, George is able to read the defense and create difficult shots and passes.

George’s patience on the court pays off as he doesn’t force plays or take unnecessary shots which allows the game to come to him.

While George may seem to have all the tools necessary to make the leap to the next level, some are taking note of his room for improvement.

With 90.6 percent of his free

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throws made, George’s success from the line left draft experts saying he needs to draw more fouls as they would like to see him using his abilities to the fullest.

Also noted is George’s weight. Experts say he’ll need to add more in order to absorb the physical contact at the professional level. His strength should also help with increasing explosiveness to the basket as scouts say he needs to become more adept at putting the ball on the floor.

George’s willingness to pass the ball around is without a doubt another strong aspect of his game, however his average amount of assists come within close range of his average amount of turnovers.

He’ll need to tighten up in that aspect.

His shooting percentages are impressive, but if he heads to the next level, he may need to improve the speed of his release on his jump shot.

Regardless, George’s scoring ability is impeccable and will work in his future team’s advantage.

Defensively, George has what it takes to be unyielding on the other side of the ball, but scouts said he’ll need to work on holding his stance and be more aware of his defenders and their strengths.

George will take the next few weeks to prepare himself for the NBA workouts in late April. He has yet to hire an agent. If George hires an agent he has until May 8 to decide if he’ll return to Fresno State for his junior season.

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George is a triple-threat with his ability to run the floor, pass the ball and impeccable shooting percentage, but is it enough for the NBA Draft?

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March Madness: Making nobodies somebodies

Duke outduels Butler Duke University raised the NCAA Championship trophy Monday night for the first time in 8 years.

By Joe Juliano McClatchy Tribune

Ben there, done that ben ingersoll With 20 upsets, five overtime or doubleovertime games and a David Vs. Goliath national final that was inches from crowning the improbable, the NCAA Basketball National Tournament has officially taken over as sport’s most exciting moment of the year.

It completely drubs out the inaccurate Bowl Championship Series, the often over-hyped Super Bowl and the World Series, which goes to whatever team’s owner owns the most Swiss bank accounts. Don’t even think for a second this year’s Masters golf tournament, which has become anticipated for all the wrong reasons, comes close to March Madness.

It’s the only event of the year in which people young and old, male or female and even interested and uninterested come together to fill out their game picks in hopes of achieving the unthinkable: the perfect bracket. Even our president filled one out, but after the second-round Cinderellas emerged, it became clear Barack Obama shouldn’t quit his day job.

Admittedly the 2009 national tournament made me stray away from college basketball. With very few upsets and a tournament final between a pair of No. 1 seeds, I lost so much interest that I didn’t even fill out a bracket this year. I now regret that.

I regret not being one of the more than 4.5 million who submitted a bracket through ESPN’s Tournament Challenge, of which not a single person had a perfect submission. Most of all I regret thinking this year’s tournament would be a repeat of last year’s, because if anything is predictable in college sports, it’s that they are unpredictable.

Honestly, who would have predicted that Ivy League Cornell would blaze its way to the Sweet 16? Who is Ali Farokhmanesh? Before the tournament very few knew, but on March 20 he lead the Northern Iowa Panthers to a bracket busting win over tournament favorite Kansas.

That’s what makes March Madness the best two-and-a-half weeks of the year. No names are suddenly heroes, tiny schools become huge and what happened from the start of the regular season in November until the beginning of March virtually means nothing. Anything can happen, and this year A LOT happened.

What became the biggest story by April involved a team from a school with an enrollment under 4,000, lead by a 33-yearold head coach and the weight carried the weight of America’s underdog role on its shoulders.

The Butler Bulldogs from Indianapolis were a half court buzzer beater away from taking down colossal Duke in front of 70,000 hometown fans. But Gordon Hayward’s shot didn’t fall, Duke went home with a fourth national title and the Bulldogs wait until 2011 Madness begins for another shot at the improbable.

So, sorry your bracket probably imploded by the Sweet 16, but your tribulation became Cornell, Northern Iowa and Butler’s fortune and resurrected the excitement of college basketball.

and the rim, but failed to go in.

Hayward, who scored 12 points but shot just 2 of 11 from the floor, said he felt the 10-footer looked good when it left his hand. As for the desperation shot, he said, “It was a last-second shot.

I don’t know. It missed.”

The Blue Devils controlled the boards in the second half after being outrebounded by 24-17 and giving up 12 offensive rebounds. The Bulldogs used Butler proved to Duke that it was a 10-3 edge in second-chance points to no David going against Goliath, as trail by 33-32 at the half, but Duke actumany tried to make the pregame ally finished the game with a 37-35 edge angle to Monday night’s scintillaton the boards. ing national chamZoubek, who pionship contest. began celebrating The Bulldogs his 22d birthday at relentlessly battled 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, the Blue Devils on contributed eight every possession, points and 10 fought them on rebounds to the the boards despite victory. His coach a height disadpraised him and vantage, and musfellow senior Lance tered extra energy Thomas afterward. from the decidedly “These are kids partisan crowd of w h o h av e b e e n 70,930 at Lucas Oil through a lot,” Stadium.

Krzyzewski said.

But Duke, show“They’ve became ing some grit of its really good men, own despite scoring really good playonly one point in ers. They were the the final 3 minutes, heart of our team.

1 6 s e c o n d s, d u g They never got the in and survived, credit they deserve winning its fourth but you don’t give national champia stat for heart. onship in the Mike Lance and Brian Krzyzewski era provided that for with a 61-59 vicus all year.” tory over the gritty Kyle Singler, who Bulldogs. led Duke with 19 T h e ke y p l ay s points, hit a threedown the stretch for point shot with the Blue Devils (35just over 13 min5) were provided by utes to play to give 7-foot-1 senior centhe Blue Devils the ter Brian Zoubek. lead for good at Zoubek defended 45-43. the Bulldogs’ last But it was far good shot, a 10-foot from a comfor tbaseline jumper by a b l e l e a d , eve n Chuck Liddy / McClatchy Tribune Gordon Hayward. with Butler having He also grabbed the Senior Brian Zoubek and the Duke Blue Devils clinched the NCAA National Tournament trouble buying a rebound and sank Championship title defeating Butler 61-59. basket. When the a final free throw Bulldo gs finally with 3.6 seconds to got one, a layup by play.

It was defense that carried the Blue Matt Howard, who had recovered from “I knew if I played good defense Devils to their first national champia mild concussion he suffered Saturday and got my hand up in his face, my onship since 2002. In snapping Butler’s night, with 1:43 to play, the Bulldogs length would bother him a little 25-game winning streak, they limited were down by only three, 60-57. Howard bit,” Zoubek said while clutching the underdogs to 34.5 percent shooting sank another layup off an offensive the national championship trophy. from the field. Butler went a stretch of rebound to make it a one-point game “He had to shoot a fadeaway jump 7:47 of the second half without a field with 54.8 seconds remaining. shot, fading away to the baseline. goal.

After Singler’s jumper grazed the That’s a hard shot. If it had gone “It was just a great basketball game, front rim and Zoubek lost the rebound through, I wouldn’t have had any a classic,” Krzyzewski said. “Both out of bounds, the Bulldogs got the regrets about how I played the teams played so hard and so great. I ball back with 33.7 seconds left, with play.” a chance at victory.

Zoubek, who They worked the ball played the final around before call9:08 with four fouls, ing a time-out with said he was detert’s unbelievable to win, my senior year, last game, my birth13.6 seconds left and mined to grab the day. What more can you ask for?” got the ball into the rebound because hands of Hayward, “I was upset. I had who missed then, — Brian Zoubek, two oppor tunithen missed the shot Duke senior center ties to g rab one from half-court that offensive rebound would have been one and one defensive for the ages. rebound that could “I was right there h ave s e a l e d t h e thought we won it with our defense and watching it come down, it was like game early. So I knew I had to make rebounding.”It’s hard to believe we’re slow-mo,” Zoubek said. “It was a good a play.” national champions. The kids stuck shot and it almost went in. It would After Zoubek hit the first free with it. They were criticized some. have been heartbreaking, I’ll tell you throw, Krzyzewski had him miss It’s difficult sometimes to be a Duke that. “It’s unbelievable to win, my the second. The Bulldogs (33-5) got basketball player. But these guys were senior year, last game, my birthday. the rebound and Hayward dribbled tough. They got bumped and bruised What more can you ask for?” to midcourt before letting fly on a but we played hard and we’re national 50-foot shot that got the backboard champions.”

“I