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Faculty review Rate My Professors

By Erica Heinisch The Collegian

Fresno State professors have mixed reviews for the Rate My Professors website, which has 1,703 Fresno State professors rated online at a 3.82 total average out of five.

RateMyProfessors.com is the most often

used website to review professors at various colleges and universities across the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, according to the website.

Students have added more than 14 million ratings of 1.3 million professors at 7,000 schools to the site.

The website also released its 2013 “Top 25” professors in September. A classics

professor from Loyola University Chicago came in first.

Four of the top-rated professors at Fresno State are communication professor Jonathan Hernandez, theatre arts professor Edward EmanuEl, mathematics lecturer Jim Ryan and history professor Daniel Cady.

Hernandez, Fresno State’s top-rated

professor on the site, said that, though he has not read his reviews, he has been told numerous times by students that they decided to take his class solely because of his ratings.

He said he is humbled by his high reviews.

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‘Helping Hams’ feeds families

By Hailey Mayo The Collegian

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With 17 Grammy Awards, hip-hop artist Jay-Z performs for thousands of fans Tuesday night at the Save Mart Center during his tour, The Magna Carta World Tour.

Associated Students Inc. is collaborating with Gibson Farm Market and the Bulldog Pantry to bring hams and other groceries to families in need this holiday season through its ‘Helping Hams’ campaign.

This is the first ‘Helping Hams’ campaign organized by Fresno State.

In the past, Fresno State has had similar campaigns, such as ‘Give a Gobbler,’ but due to the national turkey shortage, hams replaced turkeys on the menu.

ASI programs and volunteer coordinator Ashleigh Rocker said it’s undecided whether or not this will be a new tradition, but that the campaign has been successful thus far.

The campaign’s goal was to raise $3,000 in a month and give away 150 hams.

“A few weeks ago when Chancellor Timothy White was here, we had him pardon a turkey named Pepper to kick off the first season of giving away hams,” Rocker said. “I am not sure if this See HAMS, Page 6

Campus mourns Mandela Campus community shares its thoughts during vigil

By Sumaya Attia Special to The Collegian Dozens of students, faculty and community members gathered in the Free Speech Area on Monday night to commemorate the life of anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela in the wake of his death last week.

“Nelson Mandela was a candle in a world of darkness,” said English professor James Walton.

Mandela died in Johannesburg, South Africa on Thursday. He was 95 years old.

Mandela was widely recognized for his work against apartheid in South Africa and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995.

Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years in the infa-

mous Robben Island prison. He was remembered as one of history’s most outspoken and influential leaders in human rights.

One after another, professors, students and club representatives shared how they felt about Mandela during a candlelight vigil.

Event emcee and women’s studies professor Melissa Knight said she remembers when she heard of Mandela’s freedom for the first time. It was something she has not forgotten.

“There is no other way to describe it. It was like it was a vibration,” Knight said, “It really felt like an earthquake. You’re in the Bay Area and you’re asking, ‘Was there an earthquake?’”

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Fresno State President Joseph Castro and his wife Mary Castro join a vigil to remember the legacy of Nelson Mandela.

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The end: assessing my education

By Haley Lambert Opinion Editor

I was scouring the recesses of my mind, as well as the annals of the Internet for a great quote about “the end.”

It’s the conclusion of the semester, and subsequently, the end of my undergraduate career. I’ve run the gamut, and yet, I’ve only done so in four and half years.

Junior college was fantastic. Shout out to Merced College!

Oddly enough I started out majoring in history, then, three weeks into my freshman year, I switched to agricultural business. From there I planned to go into crop production.

To this end, I began working for a crop adviser, which basically meant being a grunt who walks around gathering tissue and soil samples from fields in the ghastly dampness and horrible heat of the San Joaquin Valley. But, it is better than working inventory at Walmart, so that was nice.

(Also, I forgot to mention, I worked at Southern Baptist camp during the summer of 2010. It was brief and not all that enjoyable. I met 11 great people. The end.)

Somehow I ended up at The Collegian.

Via luck, fate and a radio-news internship, I guess I seemed qualified to work here.

Looking back, so many of my decisions in college were centered on “the future.”

If you notice, I mentioned nothing about

tailgates, being a drunky-bear or any extracurricular involvement.

Don’t get me wrong, those have all happened. Yet, the stuff of the past four years that stands out in mind seems to involve the jobs I’ve had, the grades I earned and majors I chose. All of which came to fruition through a strange combination of fate, luck and calculated planning.

For example, when I applied for junior college I declared myself a history major, but I didn’t take any history classes, plus I took an agricultural business class to fulfill a social science prerequisite. I had a hankering to major in some agricultural science, but didn’t come from a farming background, so I didn’t want to be foolish, going full-bore into something I knew very little about.

My plan paid off. I made many friends in Merced College Division of Agriculture and found great success as an agriculture student.

When I transferred to Fresno State, I wanted to study Classics — even though I didn’t exactly understand what that entailed. I guess I didn’t quite grasp it requires becoming a proficient reader of a very dead language. In my case, I concentrated on Attic Greek — the stuff that Sophocles and Aristotle used, so yeah, I guess it’s not very useful.

Just kidding! It is incredibly useful!

All joking aside, I’m forever glad and

grateful for my foray into Greek study.

Learning one of the classic languages of Western Civilization has helped my writing, my understanding of grammar and history, not to mention improved my general mental cognition.

Reading Attic Greek is akin to doing a really bizarre Sudoku-crossword-word search, but with weirdo-alien letters and confusing verb tenses.

And then there’s my majoring in history. I thought I wanted to be an attorney.

Turns, out that would have been terrible. I did six weeks of LSAT study and realized I was miserable, so law school would have been like a self-inflicted, three-year detour through Hades.

Also, I don’t want to teach.

What to do, then? The gal who spent years planning her success with a luck/ fate/planning cocktail, hasn’t a real solid clue about a future career.

My junior year of high school, I told everyone I was going to be a shrimp boat captain. They thought I was kidding. Well, everyone except my mom — that’s a testament to the innate wisdom and intuition possessed by good mothers, like mine!

I’ve been told I will be a history professor — though my history professors would probably disagree (yuck yuck yuck!). Some have said I would do well in sales, which is either a great compliment, a cryptic insult or just some really general pleasantries

tossed my way.

I’ve learned so much about the world, the communities around me, the people with whom I interact, and thus I’ve learned a lot about myself.

I’m very much unsure about the road ahead, but I’m not worried. I have a great job lined up, and I’ll be planning a wedding, so life is good!

The luck/fate/planning formula has worked well thus far, so why not add a dash of “surprise me!” and wait for the best possible conclusion.

No matter the twists and turns, it will never be said I didn’t receive an education.

In fact, I received more than the average college education.

I’ve translated the book of Revelation from Greek into English. I’ve written more papers and essays than I can count. I’ve participated in a national collegiate landscape horticulture competition and walked miles of cotton and alfalfa fields counting caterpillars and weeds (for the purpose of pest control. No one just does that).

I’ve been a news editor, an opinion editor, a radio copywriter, a canoe guide and learned that history — especially one’s own — should never be painted as black and white.

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Freeze worries Valley, Fresno State farmers

By Megan Tweddell The Collegian Fresno State orchard workers are watching thermostats every night like farmers across the Central Valley as freezing temperatures threaten crops.

Mark Salwasser has worked on the Fresno State farm for 22 years, but this is the coldest time he can remember in the four years he’s worked in the university’s orchards.

“This isn’t the worst freeze, though it probably ranks up there pretty high,” Salwasser said.

Cold accelerates the citrus ripening process, bringing out sugars and coloring, but freezing temperatures can damage the fruit beyond repair.

“If it gets too cold and it gets inside the fruit, the actual cells will freeze to a point and burst and eventually dry out,” Salwasser said.

He said with temperatures getting down to 25 degrees in the Fresno State orchard, there is a big possibility for damage.

Fresno State has eight acres of mandarins and 12 acres of navel oranges. The mandarins are smaller with thin skins and are more susceptible to cold weather.

“We don’t know the extent of the damage quiet yet, though it has been quite cold here.”

Salwasser said. “It usually takes a few weeks to see what the damage is.”

Fresno State has measures that can help protect crops in these cold temperatures. Workers apply water to the orchards through microsprinklers whenever the temperature reaches 34

degrees and keeps them on until the temperature rises out of freezing range.

“When water freezes, the physical property of water turning from liquid to ice gives off a significant amount of heat in that reaction, which keeps the oranges warm,” Salwasser said.

He said that good irrigation can provide about a 2-degree increase, which can help protect the fruit.

“That is a significant amount, but I think about how cold it has been and we may need more,” Salwasser said.

Other growers in the Central Valley use wind machines with big propellers that are 40 to 50 feet above the orchard. The machines mix the warm air that rises and pushes it toward the ground, where it is the coldest at night.

Alyssa Houtby, director of public affairs with California Citrus Mutual, said that most growers have protective measures in place.

“A majority of the entire industry has some sort of protection on their ranches. If they don’t have wind machines, they are certainly running water to warm up the temperature,” Houtby said.

She said that some Kern County citrus growers are going so far as to have a helicopter circle above their acres of mandarins in order to keep the cold and warm air mixed.

“Everyone has been equally impacted across the Valley at one point or another over the past week,” Houtby said.

The Central Valley will feel relief from the freezing temperatures soon, said James Brotherton, a meteorologist at

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An orange grower takes a look at a freeze damaged orange in black light at the LoBue Brothers packing house in Exeter on Feb. 6, 2007. University of California researchers demonstrated how a modified Breathalyzer and a blacklight can help citrus growers and packers detect freeze-damaged fruit. The recent freeze has citrus farmers worried about similar damage.

the National Weather Service in Hanford. Brotherton said that the Central Valley is in an abnormally cold weather pattern caused by cold air dropping down from Canada and filtering into California.

Brotherton explained that the low temperatures aren’t unusual in the winter, but the duration of

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“We can have these little bouts of cold weather, but it’s very unusual for them to last more than a few days,” Brotherton said.

He said it is key for farmers to be aware of the conditions.

“We put out an eight-day weather forecast so we can see these weather patterns develop-

ing anywhere from five to 10 days ahead of time,” Brotherton said.

“So in this case we were messaging to the public and our partners, like emergency managers, about five days in advance.”

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“I think it’s perfectly fine,” Ryan said.

“The students should have a chance to say “I give it 120 percent every single day what they think. It gives you a little insight. that I am in the classroom and it is such a The numbers are not perfect, but if you see wonderful experience to hear that my stu- a professor with a 4.5 versus another with a dents appreciate that,” Hernandez said. “I 2, you’re probably going to want to go with appreciate them. I just want to do every- the professor with a 4.5.”

Ryan also said that when he sees a comthing in my power to help every single one ment criticizing his teaching, it sometimes of them succeed.” sparks reevaluation Hernandez also of his methods. said he believes that “I think it’s a professors do not useful site, and stupay much attention feel that students should not let dents should try to or spend much others dictate their decisions on to be constructive time on the website. if they have criti“I feel that stuwho to take for a class.” cism,” Ryan said. dents should not let “When you have others dictate their — Jonathan Hernandez, students using slandecisions on who Communications professor der against profesto take for a class,” sors, that’s not useHernandez said. ful. But if they give “When I was a stuconstructive critident here at Fresno cism, that’s fine.”

State, I would often Cady said he has not looked at his hear of the professors who ‘I should stay away from,’ only to find out that I really reviews in years and has mostly only looked enjoyed the professor and course material at other professor ratings.

He said the site is useless since the ratat the end of the semester.”

EmanuEl said the forum meant to ings are only based on whether the student help students choose professors becomes likes, dislikes or finds the professor attracoffensive when the ratings and comments tive.

“I find it amusing because the professors become personal and about the character who have received mediocre reviews are of the professor.

“I think the site is only useful when the better professors, and the professors you’re looking at the amount of work that’s that have received the better reviews are assigned by a professor, whether that pro- more of the boring professors,” Cady said. fessor demands that you show up to class or not,” EmanuEl said. “I think stuff like that is important—the factual stuff.

“The personality stuff, I think, is just awful. If you said some of this stuff and you A photo credit on the front page of weren’t anonymous, you could probably the Monday, Dec. 9 misidentified the get sued for slander. And they can say it photographer.

The photo was taken by because they’re anonymous.” staff photographer Khlarissa Agee.

Ryan said he has looked at his own ratings in addition to other professors’ as well.

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Knight said she hopes that Outreach counselor and event this event will provide adequate organizer Kornya Lansana said awareness of who Mandela was. the goal of the She said there event was to celis still much ebrate the life of that students believe when you hear the are unaware of Mandela and to bring awareness when it comes name Nelson Mandela, of his achieveto the true legait goes across race, ethnicity ments to stucy of his life. and gender.” dents on cam“Younger pus. generations “I believe — Kornya Lansana, m a y n o t b e when you Vigil organizer able to specify hear the exactly what name Nelson he did,” Knight Mandela, it goes said. “Whether across race, ethnicity and gen- you’re grabbing folks as they walk der,” Lansana said. “It’s about by or they read about it in the struggle and people’s resilience in newspaper, or see it on the news, what they believe, which is human it’s events like these that will perrights. I think his name signifies haps encourage students to look a a lot and just for that, it gives us little more into what his life really celebration and that’s what we are was.”

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Natacha Woodson, a Fresno State student, joined faculty and classmates Monday night in sharing their thoughts about the passing of human rights icon Nelson Mandela.

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this year, it’s working very well.”

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Monday. ASI held a press conference at the farm market, during which Fresno State President Joseph Castro purchased four hams to kick off the campaign.

Rocker said they are very happy with the response so far and will announce the final counts once the campaign ends.

“I am very humbled and impressed by the outpouring of the Fresno State community thus far, especially the generous donations made by staff and administration,” Rocker said.

Bulldog Pantry Leadership Board Member, Kelly Miller, has volunteered 10-20 hours a week at the pantry since its inception in late 2007.

“For the university students, staff, and faculty, to come together for ‘Helping Hams’ . . . is an amazing thing.

“Students should know the impact they can have on their community. Events like ‘Helping Hams’ brings their power to strengthen their communities to light and hopefully starts that fire inside them to continue that impact through philanthropy to any community they choose to be a part of.”

The hams will be delivered on Dec. 19 to families in need in the Sierra Madre and El Dorado Park neighborhoods.

“The main goal of every holiday outreach we do is the same, whether it’s turkeys, hams, or bags of groceries,” Rocker said.

“It’s to provide food to insecure families in the communities surrounding Fresno State and to give our students the opportunity to learn to give back.”

Miller said the families they

serve often don’t know how they will get their next meal and sometimes skip meals because they don’t have the means to buy the food they need.

“For our families to be able to not only feed themselves this holiday season, but to also be able to take part in something special, a ham, means more than just a full belly, it means a sense of normalcy,” Miller said. “Donations like these say to the families that the community cares about them, and that they deserve not only the basic necessities, but that they deserve to feel special and thrive.”

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Fresno State quarterback Derek Carr was named the 2013 Mountain West Offensive Player of the Year.

Carr becomes the third player in league history to win the offensive player of the year award in back-to-back seasons and joins Kevin Sweeney (1985 and 1986 in the Big

West) as the only two-time conference offensive players of the year in school history. He was one of four Bulldogs to be named first-team All-Mountain West and Fresno State also had five second-team selections and six honorable mention honorees.

Wide receiver Davante Adams, offensive lineman Austin Wentworth and free safety Derron Smith all joined Carr on the All-MW first-team. All four of them are repeat selections off of last seasons first-team.

Fresno State’s second team selections were wide receiver Josh Harper, tight end Marcel Jensen, nose guard Tyeler Davison, outside linebacker Ejiro Ederaine and then Isaiah Burse was selected as a return specialist.

The honorable mention selections were Burse as a wide receiver, cornerback L.J.

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Adams and Carr had a record breaking year. Carr set new Mountain West records for passing yards (4,866) and touchdown passes (48) while Adams set a new league mark with his 23 TD catches this season.

Smith led the Mountain West this season with six interceptions, a number that tied for the fourth-most in the nation.

Wentworth led the offensive line that paved the way for the Bulldog offense that ranked third nationally in total offense (570.6) and fifth in scoring (45.3). Fresno State also only allowed 11 sacks in 12 games, which tied for the ninth fewest of any team in the FBS.

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Tarkanian, who was inducted into the Naismith College Basketball Hall of Fame in September, played at Fresno State from 1954-55 and later coached for the Bulldogs from 1995-02.

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High hopes, greater humility

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Fresno State thrower Ana Folau prepares to launch her disc into the air during a home discus competition. Folau, an All-American, was one of 14 Bulldogs who went to the NCAA West Track and Field Preliminary Championships last season.

Fresno State All-American prepares for another busy season

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With a little more than a month until the 2013-14 track and field season kicks off, one Fresno State All-American is rising to the competition.

Ana Folau, a senior discus thrower, works out on the practice field and in the gym every day – all while maintaining her humility.

Last season, Folau was one of 14 Bulldogs (the most in 4 years for Fresno State) who earned a trip to the NCAA West Track and Field Preliminary Championships in May 2013 at the University of Texas in Austin.

She was a qualifier for the discus, recording a throw of 50.36 meters.

Making it there was definitely one of the more remarkable accomplishments in her

track and field career.

“It felt great because it took me three years to get there,” said Folau. “A lot of hard work went into it, a lot of dedication and a lot of time in the gym and in the (throwing) ring.”

“Honestly, I wouldn’t consider myself what a lot of other people do, I like to keep myself humble,” she said.

Folau attended Florin High School in Sacramento at which she excelled in track and field. She did not take an interest in the sport until she was a junior in high school.

Her strength and size enabled her to succeed as a shot put and discus thrower right away.

Due to the success she had in her junior and senior years, she received various offers from Division I schools in California and even a couple from out-of-state, but mentioned that she chose to come to

Fresno State because of the throwing coach Lisa Misipeka. “[She] sold the school to me really well,” Folau said, “and it’s not too far from home.”

Folau is not the only athlete in the family. One of her brothers, a senior in high school, has visited Fresno State for its football program. However, Folau doesn’t pressure him to go to her school.

“I told him that he should go wherever he wants to go, ill be perfectly fine with his decision.”

All of the athletic success that she and her brother have achieved has been an exciting for she and her family, she said.

Preparation and focus are critical in any sport, and Folau has her own way of doing it. Music plays a key role for her as she enjoys listening to all types of music, but her favorites are soul and classical music.

“It allows me to calm myself down and,

since I get distracted easily, it prevents my mind from going everywhere,” she said.

Although she did not advance from the preliminary round to the NCAA Championships, it was still a fun, humbling and learning experience for the senior.

Folau has high hopes for this upcoming track season as she aims to take the next step by placing in the top 12 in the preliminary championships and make it to the 2013-2014 Division 1 NCAA Championships, which will be in Eugene, Ore. However, her goal is to not only make it to the NCAA Finals but also place and receive All-American honors at the end of the season.

Folau and the Bulldogs will kick off their 2013-2014 track and field (indoor) season on Jan. 29th.

FRESNO STATE FOOTBALL

Carr honored as National Scholar-Athlete in New York Collegian Staff Fresno State quarterback Derek Carr was honored Tuesday by the National Football Foundation (NFF) as a 2013 National Scholar-Athlete here at the NFF National Awards Dinner.

Carr, who was a finalist for the William V. Campbell Trophy that is also known as the academic Heisman, becomes the third Bulldog to be honored as a NFF National Scholar-Athlete, joining Vernon Fox (2001) and Moses Harris (2009).

The William V. Campbell Trophy was

presented Tuesday at the Annual Awards Dinner to Penn State’s John Urschel.

Urschel and Carr were two of the 16 members of the 2013 class that were selected from a nationwide pool of 171 exceptional semifinalists from among all NCAA divisions and the NAIA and he will receive an $18,000 postgraduate scholarship.

“I praise God for the opportunity to be here and be in a class with these great athletes and more so better people,” Carr said.

“I want to thank the NFF for the opportunity to be here, to represent Fresno State, this is amazing to be a part of.”

Carr, with a 3.47 GPA in recreation administration and leisure service management, was also named earlier this year to the Capital One Academic All-America second-team.

His excellence in the classroom was matched by his efforts in the community, as he continually gave back to all of those who cheered him on at games.

“The reason I do what I do is because of the Lord my God,” Carr said. “I want to continue to reach out to young kids about the mistakes I’ve made. That’s the main reason why I play football.”

Carr was joined in New York by his wife, Heather, four-month old son, Dallas, Bulldog head coach Tim DeRuyter and his wife, Kara, and Fresno State Director of Athletics Thomas Boeh.

“It’s not about me, it is about my teammates and my family, so thank you to them and I thank everybody at Fresno State,” he said. “Having my wife and son here, it’s amazing. If you would have told me five years ago I’d be here with a wife and a son, I would have told you that you were crazy, but it’s here and I wouldn’t trade it for anything.”