December 7 2011

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WEDNESDAY Issue December 7, 2011

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HOLIDAY

ASI presents tobacco ban resolution to Welty

Holiday eating poses considerable health risks

By Ciara Norton The Collegian Underneath the comfy sweaters and stuffed between the sugar cookies and chocolate treats, holiday festivities all have one thing in common that many people wish they could ignore: weight gain.

The Science Daily website, sciencedaily.com, states that even slight holiday weight gain can set the stage for obesity and other health risks later on in life.

The current obesity rate in America, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has risen in the past 20 years.

See HOLIDAYS, Page 4

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Public health student and Project Impact 4 Life member Aurelio Mendoza dresses as a cigarette to promote a campus-wide initiative to ban tobacco.

By Samuel Cosby The Collegian Just before Thanksgiving, ASI senators passed a bill that urges Fresno State President John Welty to create a tobacco-free campus. The resolution came with a bit of controversy, though, as ASI president Selena Farnesi did not sign or endorse the bill.

ASI senators passed the resolution after a presentation by Dr. Gregory Thatcher from the Department of Public Heath encouraging the senators the tobacco ban the resolution.

Farnesi said in a statement addressed to The Collegian that she felt ASI senators were bullied into passing the resolution.

“Usually the meetings are reserved for students to speak about the issues,”

Farnesi said. “So it was already a bit unusual that there was a professor speaking. That, along with the fact that he was speaking with a raised voice and an angry tone, made it feel like he was bullying the senators.”

Prior to Thatcher speaking at the meeting, no students had openly spoken about passing a tobacco ban resolution on campus.

Re c e n t l y, F a r n e s i s p o k e w i t h President Welty about the resolution, explaining that it was passed by the senators, but also that she did not support it because of the extenuating circumstances of how it was passed.

“The ball is in President Welty’s court now,” Farnesi said.

The resolution itself asks President Welty to “support the creation of a

campus-wide policy to prohibit tobacco use on campus; and therefore that ASI asks President Welty to consider the creation and implementation of such a policy.”

ASI Senator of Resident Affairs Sean Kiernan wrote the resolution.

“The resolution was passed with a majority vote,” Jaime Moncayo said.

“But the resolution is just a recommendation. It has no actual strength.”

Moncayo explained that Kier nan brought forth the resolution when students began complaining about smoking on campus. Then, it was written up and presented to ASI senators.

Farnesi believes that the bill wasn’t presented to ASI senators correctly.

See SMOKING, Page 4

New ASI position causes controversy

By Ana Mendoza-Santiago The Collegian Associated Students, Inc. senators and other Fresno State students have raised concerns about the cost and the purpose of a new executive position that was proposed to the student body.

While ASI President Selena Farnesi defends the position, several anonymous Facebook accounts have questioned her intentions by publishing documents, questioning ASI spending and past legislative actions.

Farnesi said she is aware some students want to know what ASI is doing to represent them.

She added that this year, lobbying efforts have doubled from previous years.

“Additionally, I am putting through a new initiative to create an external

affairs position which would put us on the same level as all the other ASI’s,” Farnesi said.

“We are seeing that student governments have gotten more and more involved in lobbying because the state is having more and more control over what happens on our campus,” Farnesi added. “We want students’ voices to be heard.”

Students frustrated with Associated Student, Inc. have found several ways to voice their concerns about ASI’s representation of Fresno State students and passage of a new executive position. Some students have attended ASI senate meetings while other have created Facebook accounts to post their concerns.

Facebook pages such as Occupy ASI have posted what they claim are official documents revealing ASI’s failure

USP club promotes HIV and AIDS awareness

By Luke Shaffer The Collegian On Friday, Dec.1, the United Student Pride Club at Fresno State hosted an event at the Satellite Student Union to raise funds and awareness of HIV and AIDS among students.

“Even today, it’s an issue that people think doesn’t affect them or they try

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he youth nowadays think that it doesn’t affect them and that there’s just a medication to take and that’s it, it’s no big deal.”

to represent students.

Other Facebook pa g es such as Campiss Leaks and Occupy Fresno State have also posted their concerns and similar documents.

The documents displayed feature pictures of computer screens, letters and pictures of ASI members’ Facebook accounts. Campiss Leaks and Occupy ASI affirm on their page that they will be posting additional official documents informing students of ASI members’ misconduct and illegitimate use of student money.

ASI president Selena Farnesi said she has no opinion on Occupy ASI since the Facebook account is not affiliated to ASI. “If someone is taking screen shots of ASI computers, they are doing so ille-

to downplay the importance of having knowledge about this issue,” United Student Pride president and Fresno State student Zoyer Zyndel said. “ On the other hand, they don’t want to address this issue because it’s embarrassing or there’s some sort of stigma attached to it being related to the fact that they’re gay.”

Fresno State student and chairman

See ASI, Page 5

See USP, Page 5

— Sean Wendel, Fresno State student chariman of United Student Pride

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THAT’S WHAT THE PEOPLE ARE SAYING... regulations may be more intrusive than some of “O bama’s us would like. They are not tanking the economy.”

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OPINION EDITOR, TONY PETERSEN • COLLEGIAN-OPINION@CSUFRESNO.EDU

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2011

Vaya con dios, Coach Hill

The Right Tone Tony Petersen

B

y now, everyone knows Pat Hill, the erstwhile football coach of Fresno State, was fired by the school he has coached for 15 years. He was, as he put it in his closing press conference, a “dinosaur.”

But Hill, in his time at Fresno, seemed to embody everything that this city stands for. Just as Fresno seems to be a city stuck in the middle, that is neither a glamorous big city nor a folksy small town, the ‘Dogs under Hill were the team that played “Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere,” and had visions for BCS games and WAC championships, only to be passed by by schools like Boise State.

WEB-SPE@K Culled each week from discussions on The Collegian’s website.

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‘“Breaking Dawn” a snore’ ‘California disability lawyer’: “Personally, I’m not into this Twilight bandwagon, and it brings me such delight that you’re on the same page as me. With the review you’ve made about the first of two movies of ‘Breaking Dawn,’ if I was just a movie buff I would not consider watching it. The points you’ve made regarding the film, especially the wedding and the honeymoon part, made me realize that it is indeed boring.”

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Hill’s personality endeared him to many fans, his famous Fu Manchu and sweat-stained hat showing the grit of both the team and the city. He also exemplified the pride that this city has: in 2006, in the midst of a 4-8 season, Hill removed the Bulldog from the Fresno State helmet, as if to say, “This is not good enough.”

Shoot, Hill even kinda looked like a Bulldog.

But in the end, Hill was let go for failing to bring about his vision for the program in the last six years. Since 2006, Fresno State has gone 40-37, a far cry from the school’s 61-31 record from the previous seven years. Hill’s mantra led to some ugly losses against good teams, as he compiled an 8-22 record against bowl-eligible teams since 2006.

Hill’s WAC troubles hurt as well, as Fresno State only won one conference championship during his tenure, and a shared title at that.

All this led to significantly lower attendance in recent years, especially this season, when attendance dwindled to 29,299 per game this season, a 27-year low.

Hill’s consistency was both a positive and his downfall. You knew the ‘Dogs would always come to play against the best, and sometimes they would come out on top. Alas, you also knew they’d put up a stinker against the lowlights of the WAC. The playcalling — which could accurately be described as “run right, run

left, bubble screen left, punt” — was too predictable, and, even with the likes of David Carr, Ryan Mathews and Derek Carr, could stay stagnant for far too long.

However, with Hill, the positives far outweighed the negatives.

Every year, Fresno State had some of the best special teams in the country. It was comforting to know that if the Red Wave started chanting “Block that kick” the ‘Dogs would, more often than not, come through.

Hill put Fresno State on the map in a way Jim Sweeney never could. Freso State traveled the country, beating teams it had no business beating. Who can forget 2001, when the ‘Dogs started the season by beating Colorado, Sports Illustrated No. 1 Oregon State and Wisconsin, all Top 25 teams?

Or how the three consecutive bowl wins over Georgia Tech, UCLA and Virginia from 2002-2004? Or the near defeat of No. 1 USC at the Los Angeles

Coliseum?

I still remember where I was for all of those games.

Even beyond the games, Hill resurrected the squad’s academic performance, raising Fresno State from graduating a paltry 22 percent of its players to, the last two years, graduating 85 and 89 percent.

Time will tell if firing Hill was the right move, though with all the talent coming back next season, especially on the offensive side of the ball, any coach will have a good chance at succeeding.

But Pat Hill deserves our thanks for all of the good he has brought this school and this city.

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‘Reactions to the firing of football coach Pat Hill’ ‘V.E. Kral’: “Students, pick your careers wisely. I worked 30 years to make a million dollars. At a losing football program, if you are the coach you can make a million for doing nothing. Do what’s right. Money doesn’t necessary follow. The administration did what they had to do, only six years too late. Never believe money and fairness go hand in hand.”

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ven beyond the games, Hill resurrected the squad’s academic performance, raising Fresno State from graduating a paltry 22 percent of its players to, the last two years, graduating 85 and 89 percent.”

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The American century: that was then

By Tom Engelhardt McClatchy-Tribune

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f you want a gauge of an America on the downward slope, you could look at the recent poll commissioned by the newspaper the Hill, in which a startling 69 percent of respondents said they considered the country to be in decline. Or you could just consider the soaring language of this season’s presidential candidates.

Mitt Romney, in a recent Republican debate on foreign policy, was typical, insisting that “this century must be an American century” in which “America leads the free world and the free world leads the entire world.”

President Obama too is prone to the overheated language of American exceptionalism, announcing frequently his intention to ensure that the 21st century is “another American century.”

As a 67-year-old, I grew up in a postWorld War II era that, by any measure, was the height of the first American century. As much of the rest of the developed world struggled to rebuild devastated cities, the United States couldn’t have been more exceptional, a one-of-a-kind country in producing the big-ticket items both of peace and of war, often from the same corporations.

Back then, there was no need for presidents or presidential candidates to get up and repetitively reassure the American people of just how exceptional we were. It was too obvious to

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omney and crew are, verbally speaking, the Rambos of this 21st century American moment.”

state. After all, when you’ve really got it, you don’t have to flaunt it.

So, the next time you hear any politician insisting that this country is American century-style exceptional, think of it as a kind of secret confession that we aren’t. These days, you can feel the uncomfortably defensive snarl (or whine) that lurks in the insistence that our country isn’t just another powerful nation in political gridlock and economic trouble.

Think here, if you will, of Rambo’s muscles, which were in their own way as much a confession of insecurity as Romney’s talk of exceptionalism.

Back in the day, the screen western or war hero — Gary Cooper or John Wayne — might be strong and silent, but brute physique was the least of his attributes. He wasn’t overmuscled or cartoonishly outsized. As a man of that true American century moment, he didn’t have to go out of his way to emphasize his hero-hood and his physical power.

Rambo arrived on-screen in the post-Vietnam War years as a creature of American defeat. It was a time when strong and silent wasn’t convincing enough anymore, when a literal arms race seemed necessary, when the pecs of American power needed to be overblown to be overshown.

Romney and crew are, verbally speaking, the Rambos of this 21st century American moment. And their version of nonstop exceptionalism fits well with another strange repetitive feature of the present landscape: the exaltation of the American soldier as a hero of heroes, an exemplar for the nation.

Much of this would have rung weirdly indeed to the ears of Americans in my childhood. They had their own set of outsized fears, but they still lived in a country with a citizen army that a draft ensured just about everyone took part in.

Like mine, most families then had at least one WW II vet. And yet no one talked about greatest generations or

American heroes or, like President Obama and George W. Bush before him, “the finest fighting force in the world” (or “that the world has ever known”). The soldier was simply an American.

Now, in the world of the all-volunteer Army, with the U.S. permanently, if remarkably unsuccessfully, at war around the world, the military largely exists in a separate sphere, with many Americans having no direct link to the wars being fought in their name and the soldiers who are fighting them.

Yet today, supporting the troops (or “America’s warriors,” as they are now often called) has become a near-religious duty. This recurrent insistence on their need for support should, like Romney’s exceptionalism, be viewed as another kind of secret admission.

After all, the greatest mistake of our era was undoubtedly this: When the Soviet Union suddenly disappeared in 1991, our leaders imagined that they had achieved a kind of American victory never before seen. Where, for centuries, there had been two or more great-power rivals, there was now only the sole superpower (or even hyperpower) of planet Earth, with no significant threat anywhere.

To some, it looked as if this were, by definition, a second post-WW II moment of American exceptionalism.

Mistaking military might for global power, they didn’t notice that the mightier superpower of the Cold War was also heading slowly downhill in a cloud of self-congratulation. The rest of this grim story we are now living.

Long gone is that American moment and the “century” that went with it.

Decline is upon us, and every assurance that it isn’t only serves, however subliminally, to reinforce that reality.

At whatever pace, our “warriors” and “heroes” are coming home to a distinctly unhappy, unheroic and insecure country, lacking in jobs. In the meantime, our leaders doth protest too much.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR To the editor: Thank you, Coach Hill!

Fresno ought to be thankful for what you’ve accomplished. You graduated your players at a rate higher than the student population at Fresno State. You behaved yourself with decorum and only the occasional deleted expletive. You converted many of us to your “anybody, anywhere, anytime” mantra.

Granted, we may have gotten tired of your smash-mouth, downhill running game, mixed in with an efficient passing game. And from time to time you got a little snappy with the media, and with us. Sometimes you called out the fans, but I can forgive that. You believed in your players and you wanted us to love them like you did. And you won at a 58 percent clip, all the while ironically turning the Bulldog program into a job that young replacements will be drooling over. I only hope they do it with the integrity you did.

In many respects, Fresno doesn’t deserve any better. Fresno thinks it deserves somehow to have 10-2 every year. I, for one, am largely thankful for the 8-5, or 7-6 that we got. And I’m thankful that I had some of your players in my classes. Never — and I mean never — were they a problem. I loved your guys. I could name them, but you know who they are.

They were growing into good men, frequently because you helped them to be that. They showed up, not just on the field, but to class, like they were supposed to. You gave them an “Academic Game Plan,” and most chose to follow it. Kudos to you, and to them.

As you know, Coach, you’re not perfect — but neither are we. Don’t listen to the small-minded “haters.”

Get on with your life, and we’ll get on with ours, but make sure you know that many of us appreciate you exactly for who you are, and for what you delivered — not for who you’re not, or what you did not deliver. Fresno is better because of you.

Dr. John Farrell Department of History To the editor: Fresno State is using $40,000 on a new fountain along with another increase in student tuition. Where is the student’s money going to?

Of course, the students always hear that it is going to their school to help them with their education, pay for the library that they are using, and the professors who are molding them to their futures. However, why do I see money being used on flamboyant buildings and unnecessary reconstruction when, in our classrooms, we have nonfunctioning equipment and are stuck with chalk boards in some rooms? Students pay their college expecting to get the best quality education, not to get the best looking school. Of course if we have money left over, then why not spend it to make ourselves look good? But right now, students are in debt and working nights and weekends to get a good education, which cannot be provided through needless luxuries such as a new fountain even though the current one still works, or new benches to replace the simply stable one. The students should represent the school, and the students aren’t made of money.

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SMOKING: ASI president questions passage of smoking ban resolution CONTINUED from page 1 For example, the bill was only presented as an action item at the meetings and never as an infor mational item.

Therefore, senators only had a limited time to study and learn about the bill. It was a very unusual and unique circumstance, Farnesi said. She allowed senators to reconsider the bill at the next meeting.

Another concer n Far nesi had with the bill was that students were promised extra credit to come to the ASI senators meeting and speak on behalf of the tobacco-ban resolution.

“We want students to come forward and speak because of their beliefs, not because they were promised extra credit,” Farnesi said.

Senators chose not to reexamine the bill, though, as they did not want to make such a process habitual.

One of the other concerns that Farnesi presented was that the campus is already

struggling without resources and budget cuts.

“There are certainly more important issues going on right now,” Farnesi said. “We are struggling with budget cuts. I don’t think we should be allocating resources to

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he resolution was passed with a majority vote. But the resolution is just a recommendation. It has no actual strength.”

— Jaime Moncayo, ASI senator something like this.”

One of the groups at Fresno State in favor of a tobacco-free campus is Project Individuals, Mentors, and Peers Advocating Control of Tobacco, also known as

Project IMPACT. Melanie Ruvalcaba is a member of Project IMPACT and a graduate student in the public heath program at Fresno state.

Ruvalcaba said the group has about 30 members.

“Project IMPACT is collecting signatures and petitioning students to create a smoke-free campus,” Ruvalcaba said. “So far, we have about 1,500 signatures. We have a goal of 4,000 signatures, and when we meet that goal we will present the petition to President Welty.”

Ruvalcaba explained that Project IMPACT strongly supports the tobacco-ban resolution passed by ASI. “We want to promote a smoke-free campus and present information to the students and staf f about the effects of smoking and secondhand smoke,” Ruvalcaba said. “Many of our members have concerns over the health effects of smoking and secondhand smoke.”

Ruvalcaba explained that

Project IMPACT members also had concerns about the image that Fresno State students were presenting to the younger students at University High School’s campus.

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e want students to come forward and speak because of their beliefs not because they were promised extra credit.”

— Selena Farnesi, ASI president Another major concer n presented was the excessive amount of smoking areas on campus.

“We have over 20 smoking areas on campus,” Ruvalcaba said. “To me, that just seems ridiculous.” Ruvalcaba added that California State

University, San Diego has 12 smoking locations on campus while Califor nia State University, San Francisco has four smoking areas.

Ruvalcaba said there is no reason for Fresno State to have 20 smoking areas on campus.

When asked about the use of resources, Ruvalcaba suggested that a smoke-free campus might even save the school money.

“Many of our workers spend a lot of time maintaining the cigarette butts that are left on the ground,” Ruvalcaba said.

“Smoking is not a constitutional right. We can’t smoke in bars or at restaurants. We just want to bring the same principles to campus.”

“Students are not going to wake up tomor row and suddenly have a smoke-free campus,” Far nesi said. “If President Welty does choose to implement this, it is going to take a significant amount of time.”

HOLIDAYS: The importance of healthy eating CONTINUED from page 1 In 2010, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that in

if you gain 5 pounds during Christmas break you need to lose 5 pounds to stay healthy.”

When splurging and enjoying a chocolate dessert, the

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ating healthy now when we are young should be more important than it actually is. If more people made better eating choices we wouldn’t have as many health issues today.”

— Sarah Bimat, Fresno State student

Califor nia, 24 percent of adults are obese.

“I think obesity is becoming a bigger issue,” said Juan Gonzales, a finance student at Fresno State. “Being obese can have a lot of other health risks later on that we might not think about right now.”

An ar ticle published by Science Daily stated that those who gain 2 or 3 pounds over the holiday season and fail to get rid of it are only setting themselves up for future uncontrollable weight gain.

“People might not realize how much weight they are gaining if they just gain a few pounds every year,” Gonzales said. “It makes sense that

popular health information website WebMD said that dark chocolate is healthier for you because it can actually help decrease cholesterol.

“I probably don’t eat as healthy as I should during Christmas break,” said Rachel Howard, an agriculture student at Fresno State. “I go visit all of my family and all of them usually bake some kind of treat so it’s hard to be healthy.”

Aside from the fact that it may be hard to resist the holiday treats, another issue that can lead to obesity, especially during Christmas, is overeating.

“I know a lot of people that eat healthy food but they just

eat way too much of it,” said Sarah Bimat, a nursing student at Fresno State. “They don’t understand that eating a lot of mashed potatoes may be better than eating a lot of chocolate cake, but it can still lead to weight gain.”

Overindulging on food that is somewhat healthy can still lead to health issues.

The United States Department of Agriculture’s website, choosemyplate.gov, said that when preparing your plate, at least half of a meal should be whole grains and a focus should be to put on lean proteins such as salmon, chicken breast and top sirloin steak.

“Eating healthy now when we are young should be more important than it actually is,” Bimat said. “If more people made better eating choices we wouldn’t have as many health issues today.”

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Fresno State students Jennifer Brown, Laura Garcia and Ka Bao Xiong hold up signs that support a tobacco-free campus at an ASI meeting held in November.

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Fresno State student Michelle Rosales holds a bag of cigarette butts at an ASI meeting held on Nov. 16, where a controversial resolution to promote a tobacco-free campus was discussed.

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Kennel Bookstore addresses hike on book prices

By Ciara Norton The Collegian

sors were supposed to submit textbook requirements

by Halloween, but so far only about 65 percent of professors have done so.

“Our goal would be to buy back 100 percent of the textbooks, but unfortunately we

With the fall semester finally coming to a close, it’s time to turn in that last paper, present that final project and sell back those textbooks that probably cost an arm and a leg.

At Fresno State, the Kennel Bookstore will be hosting its buyback days Tuesday, Dec. 6 through Friday, Dec. 16.

With the cost of a college education on the rise, some

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t’s just ridiculous.

Half of the textbooks I didn’t even open, but my professors said that we really needed them so I hurried and bought them.”

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he Kennel Bookstore was actually the first college store in the country to develop a partnership with an online rental company.”

— Natalie Moore, Fresno State student

— Susan Bartel, Kennel Bookstore

textbooks prices are climbing as well.

Natalie Moore, an art history major at Fresno State, is only in her freshman year and is already wondering how she will be able to afford textbooks for the upcoming semesters.

“For just this semester I think I spent like $350,” Moore said. “It’s just ridiculous. Half

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of the textbooks I didn’t even open, but my professors said that we really needed them so I hurried and bought them at the used price, thinking that I would save myself some money.”

“A lot of times a professor will change their mind, so we might have given a student $50 for a textbook when it’s now only worth $10 to us,” said

Ron Durham, director of the Kennel Bookstore. “So we are affected by budget cuts too.”

D u r h a m e x p l a i n e d t h at when classes are cancelled or professors are terminated it makes things at the bookstore more complicated because specific textbooks will either be in high demand or basically worthless.

For the fall semester, profes-

ASI: Facebook accounts have arisen questioning ASI spending and new proposed executive position CONTINUED from page 1 gally,” Farnesi said. “If someone wanted those documents, they should just do a public records request.” “[No public records requests] have been turned in and no documents have been given out, so my best guess would be that they are not legitimate documents,” Farnesi added.

Occupy ASI, Campiss Leaks and Occupy Fresno State have questioned the purpose and the cost of the new executive position students will vote on next semester.

Fa r n e s i a d d e d t h at s h e expects the new position will be a paid executive position.

She also added that the new executive position salary would be extracted from the ASI budget.

Farnesi said that every year since she joined ASI, the budget has been excessive.

“There is plenty of money in the budget to pay for that staff person without removing any funding from club funding,” she said.

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ASI’s decision to add a new executive position, the $40,000 renovation of the Fresno State water fountain and other spending decisions.

Far nesi said ASI did not spend $40,000 on the Fresno State water fountain and that the money will not come from ASI’s budget.

Several ASI senators have voiced their opinion against the additional executive position, which they see as a waste of money because a senator has already been assigned to legislative affairs.

Senator of Clubs and Organizations Jose Nava, who has actively advocated for less ASI spending, said the new position would cost students about $750 a month, which will add up to $9,000 a year.

He added that money could be better used by adding more services for students, additional club funding or any other student service instead of being given to one person.

Nava also said the 5 percent salary increase the senate voted for on Nov. 7 for full time staff was a waste of money.

“This increase was because they supposedly had a good job perfor mance review according to Sally Ramage,” Nava said.

Nava added that when he requested additional documents, “the only problem was that when I requested these reviews they said they couldn’t because it was Human Resources policy.”

He submitted a petition against the salary increase that approximately 250 students signed, but said it was ignored.

“Their excuse was that we have plenty of money,” Nava said. “But again, that money should be going directly to the students, not to office employ-

ees.”

Senator of Students Affairs Dulce Marin concurred.

“We do take a vote on Jan. 24 and there has been no email sent to students,” Marin said.

Marin added that January is too soon for a vote because students are usually preoccupied with adding and dropping courses and purchasing books to really pay attention to a new ASI executive position.

Farnesi said the new position will not affect services currently given to students and that all programs offered

by ASI will continue.

“Nothing will be cut because of the new position,” Farnesi said. “In fact, what the new position will do is allow us to really boost up our lobby core and start getting students involved in legislation and lobbying at the state wide level.”

According to Farnesi, the new executive will be respons i b l e f o r A S I l e g i s l a t ive affairs, which means advocating and lobbying on behalf of students.

The new executive would also be responsible for general external affairs coordination.

Far nesi highlighted the importance of this new position.

“Congressman Jim Costa was on campus the other day and there was no one to talk to him because we don’t have this position,” she said.

Farnesi said she spoke to Costa, but she lacks the time to gather all the legislation information because she has meetings all over campus that are part of her obligations as ASI president.

She added that there is a senator in charge of legislation information, but he is obligated to work only eight hours a week which is not enough.

can’t,” said Susan Bartel, the book department manager at the Kennel Bookstore. “And it pretty much works the same way at every other university.”

Bartel, who has worked at the Kennel Bookstore for 22 years, said that when she realized the price of textbooks was continually on the rise, she tried to help by giving students the rental option.

“We actually went very early into the whole rental idea,” Bar tel said. “T he Kennel Bookstore was actually the

first college store in the country to develop a partnership with an online rental company.

“We knew that we needed to do something so that students could afford books,” Bartel said.

The Kennel Bookstore has a partnership with the online t e x t b o o k r e n t a l we b s i t e, Chegg. Students can rent and return textbooks from Chegg and the Kennel Bookstore.

“This semester we had over 400 titles available for rentals,” Bartel said. “For the spring semester we are hoping to have over 500 titles.”

Although students have the option to rent or buy textbooks, Bartel said that the best thing they can do is to confirm that textbook orders have been submitted.

“Students should talk to their professors and make sure that the book orders have been turned in on time,” Bartel said.

Durham explained that contrary to what many people think, the Kennel Bookstore is actually a private, non-profit organization, so all of the money earned stays on campus.

“We really are here as a service which is why we are looking for alternative ways for students,” Bartel said.

USP: Club raises funds to help HIV patients CONTINUED from page 1 of United Student Pride Sean Wendel said the purpose of the event is to raise funds for local HIV and AIDS patients.

Speakers at the event shared their experiences dealing with HIV and their experiences as spectators.

“The youth nowadays think that it doesn’t affect them and that there’s just a medication to take and that’s it, it’s no big deal,” Wendel said. “Our job as an organization and specifically at this event is to bring more exposure to this critical issue.”

T h e C e n t e r fo r D i s e a s e Control and Prevention ranked California as third in the top ten states that have reported the highest number of AIDS diagnoses in 2009.

“The average age of living with HIV has gone up in over 20 years, but we want to spread the message of using condoms

and practicing safe sex and that’s a big issue,” Wendel said.

The night continued with a masquerade-style dance, where people wore masks and engaged in the festivities of World AIDS Day, which usually takes place on Dec. 1.

During the final hour of the event, an auction was held.

“We are hoping to raise at least a thousand dollars to go to the surrounding communities,” Wendel said. “We will be selling raffle tickets to the participants who will be buying some of the art pieces we have for sale which will then be donated to the patients.”

“There [are] a lot of misunderstandings by people on how someone contracts sexually transmitted diseases and we want to change that,” Wendel added.

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United Student Pride club hosted an event last Friday to increase awareness on HIV and AIDS. Money was collected to help HIV patients.

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T.O.R.T.I.L.L.A.'s 'La Pastorela' puts a modern twist on the story of the first Christmas

By Leonel Barajas The Collegian T. O. R . T. I . L . L . A . s t a n d s for Teatro of Raza Towards Involvement in Local Latino Awareness. The organization has been around since 1991, and started because of mig rant Fresno State students.

Every December since 1991, it has done a play called “La Pastorela” at the Satellite

Student Union.

“La Pastorela” is a contempary twist on the traditional story of the shepherds’ journey to Bethlehem to witness the first Christmas. Called to action by the Archangel Michael, the shepherds face temptation and danger from the evil Lucifer and his nasty minions. The bilingual script is mainly in Spanish.

Luis Martinez will be debuting for the first time as pro-

ducer of the play.

“Every year I have been a different character in the play, and to now be the producer is a really a big honor. It takes me to a whole different level,” Martinez said.

The play keeps the main theme every year, the only difference is the issues the actors take on. Last year they took on the issue of the Arizona SB 1070 law.

“We are aware of current

events that affect our Latino community, and with this play we can laugh at it and have a good time with it just for a second, but still inform the audience that we should stand up and do something,” Martinez said.

The actors in “La Pastorela” are in fact not actors at all. The cast is comprised of students at Fresno State and Fresno City College.

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n 1991 it was the typical traditional play angels and devils, and now we have current characters such as a gangster, drug mafia cartels and other negative stigmas.”

— Luis Martinez, Producer

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Students perform in last year's edition of the play "La Pastorela." This year's play will be held in the Satellite Student Union on Dec. 7.

The play is open to everyone.

It’s not a religious event and its intentions are solely for entertainment.

“In 1991 it was the typical traditional play angels and devils, and now we have current characters such as a gangster, drug mafia cartels and

other negative stigmas that the Latino community has and they take the part of Lucifer’s minions,” Martinez said.

“The purpose of T.O.R.T.I.L.L.A, and the different plays they put together for educational purposes is to educate not only the campus but the community,” Ofelia Gamez, T.O.R.T.I.L.L.A.'s advisor, said.

“They have been working so hard. They started rehearsals in September. And I admire these hard working students because they juggle so much school, work and families and on top of that rehearsals three times a week for almost three months is incredible,” Gamez said.

“In my three years at Fresno State I have never attended La Pastorela, but I will attend this year because, I want to learn more about my local Latino community and to support them as well,” Nancy Garcia, a liberal arts student said.

“La Pastorela” will be performed at the Satellite Student Union on Dec. 7 at 6:30 p.m.

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Amy Winehouse’s leftovers on ‘Lioness’ still a tasty treat

By Howard Cohen McClatchy-Tribune “ L i ke s m o ke, I s t i ck a ro u n d , ” Winehouse rasps on a tune of the same name on her first posthumous release since her death in July at age 27.

As a pop culture figure, Winehouse will stick around in people’s imaginations for some time. She was a formidable talent and left a huge impression. “Lioness: Hidden Treasures,” a collection of odds-’n’-ends recorded from 2002 through this year’s duet of “Body and Soul” with Tony Bennett for his standards album, “Duets II” (and repeated here) doesn’t make a strong case that she would have outdone her classic 2006 breakthrough “Back to Black.”

Only two “new” songs turn up on “Lioness”: “Like Smoke,” for which rapper Nas does the majority of the vocalizing, and “Between the Cheats,” a great song title and presumably about her tumultuous, drug-fueled relationship with ex-husband Blake FielderCivil, whom she married in Miami four years ago. I say presumably, because her garbled delivery renders its lyric foreign.

The two songs, however, are strong

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Amy Winehouse performing via telecast from the United Kingdom during the 50th Annual Grammy Awards in February of 2008.

melodically and cling to the brilliant updating of vintage ‘60s girl group pop Winehouse offered on “Black.”

Producers Salaam Remi and Mark Ronson keep the sound intact and expand upon it on tracks like “Our Day

Will Come,” a reggae-spiced spin on the oft-covered 1963 Ruby & the Romantics ballad hit. Winehouse is even better on a lucid reading of the enduring Goffin-King oldie, “Will You Love Me Tomorrow.” Winehouse takes the tune

at a faster clip than the Shirelles did in 1961 and while the poignancy of the lyric is altered, the recording is terrific. A frisky “The Girl From Ipanema” also comes across as inspired but it’s hard to imagine that had Winehouse lived that she would have included such overly familiar conventional covers on a new studio album.

She sounds like a true jazz chanteuse on the Bennett duet, her final recording session weeks before her death.

But its slickness doesn’t fit in with the other tracks on “Lioness”; its appearance is clearly the result of record label politics. More telling is her 2009 performance of Leon Russell’s “A Song for You” in which her voice is raw and on the edge of destruction as the production swells around her and engulfs her.

Though not a classic album, as posthumous releases go, “Lioness” never feels like the crass money-grabs Michael Jackson’s two recent postdeath albums (“Michael,” “Immortal”) are. “Lioness” is eminently listenable, engaging, sad and a suitable accompaniment to her unfortunately small body of work.

D ow n l o a d : “ Wi l l Yo u L ove M e Tomorrow,” “Our Day Will Come.”

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LOS ANGELES — If you think reviews mean nothing in this age when anyone can blog, tweet or Facebook their opinions about a movie, I urge you to check out the dust-up between New Yorker film critic David Denby and “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” producer Scott Rudin — it’s a fascinating glimpse into the murky, often impenetrable set of rules and customs of reviewing as well as the simmering tensions between critics and content producers in the Internet era.

T he fracas be g an when Denby, despite having agreed to honor Sony Picture’s Dec. 13 embargo, decided to run an early review of “Dragon Tattoo” in this week’s issue of the magazine.

The movie arrives in theaters Dec. 21.

Rudin hit the roof — even though the review was positive, though hardly a rave. His beef was the timing.

Denby’s justification for jumping the gun? As he said in an email exchange with Rudin that was leaked to the press over the weekend, the studios release too many quality movies at the end of the year, and that wreaks havoc on publications like the New Yorker, which have a limited amount of print acreage to review the high-class stuff before it becomes old news. Saying “we don’t want to run a bunch of tiny reviews at Christmas — that’s not what the New Yorker is about,” Denby decided to breach the embargo.

In the age of Twitter and iPhones, where there is such an uninterrupted stream of information scooting around every minute, it’s haplessly old-fash-

ioned to argue that you broke an embargo because you needed to get your copy into print two weeks early. Of course, it’s almost equally hard to believe that movie studios still rigidly try to dictate when top-notch publications can run informed analyses of their films, as if the content had as much strategic importance as a Defense Department weapons system.

Rudin is notorious for his attempts to exercise control over not only reviews but feature coverage of his films and Broadway shows. But he’s hardly alone — all studios want reviews of their new movies to run when it fits their marketing priorities. They agree to let critics see the movies before the general public with the understanding that reviews won’t be published until a date they set.

Since publications want the reviews to run before films hit theaters, critics agree to the studio’s terms. (If a movie is really awful, the studios won’t screen it for critics at all, preventing a hailstorm of bad reviews on opening weekend.) Suffice it to say, the balance of power lies with the studios.

But the case of “Dragon Tattoo” is more complicated. Sony sees the film, directed by David Fincher and based on a bestselling novel, as the first installment in a blockbuster franchise.

Good reviews are a bonus, but not an absolutely necessary ingredient in the film’s marketing campaign. Critics wouldn’t have seen the movie nearly as early as they did if it weren’t for the fact that the prestigious New York Film Critics Circle had moved up its yearend voting deadline to get a jump on See EMBARGO, Page 12

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Since the NYFCC had lavished all sorts of awards on Rudin and Fincher’s “The Social Network” last year, Sony felt it would have been disrespectful to not show them “Dragon Tattoo.” The NYFCC moved its deadline back a day to accommodate a screening of the film.

But Sony still insisted on a Dec. 13 embargo date for publishing reviews, believing that if they were printed any earlier, their impact would be lessened.

When a studio unveils a quality picture like “Dragon Tattoo,” it wants to hit consumers with a wave of ads that whet their appetite, then have reviews arrive to help seal the deal.

By jumping the gun, Denby could have thrown off the finely calibrated rhythm of the marketing campaign. So far no other major publication has broken the embargo. But from the studio’s perspective, it was a potentially serious threat to its remarkable control over content dissemination. In a world where even the most powerful figures in government and finance are unable to stem the tide of pesky reporting into their most delicate internal dealings, the studios have a sweet deal: They establish an embargo and critics abide by it.

One of the few cracks in the wall occurred in 1999, when a few mainstream publications ran reviews of George Lucas’ “Star Wars” film “Episode 1: The Phantom Menace” 10 days before the film’s release, claiming the movie was a newsworthy event in itself.

It caused a minor furor, especially because the reviews were largely negative. But the studios had enough leverage to make sure it didn’t happen again. This gentleman’s agreement still holds in the theater world as well, although a rare breach occurred earlier this year when a host of critics jumped the gun with early reviews of the troubled Broadway show, “SpiderMan: Turn Off the Dark.” Because the show’s producers had repeatedly pushed back the official opening but continued to sell expensive tickets to theatergoers during a months-long preview process, critics decided that the show was newsworthy enough to review before previews ended.

The publishing world has embargoes too. But they are rarely enforceable — the New York Times runs book reviews early all the time, justifying the practice by saying it obtained an early copy of the book from a retail outlet. Being far and away the most important outlet for book coverage, the Times has more than enough clout to escape punishment.

In truth, the whole idea of an information embargo has become an almost laughably outdated assumption. But it still works in Hollywood because the media have allowed studios to exercise control over their products, be it with informal agreements over when to run reviews or the extremely well-choreographed scheduling of softball feature stories about the stars of an upcoming movie.

Every motion control system needs its own collection of carnival-themed mini-games, and “Carnival Island” would appear to be the Playstation 3’s me-too equivalent. But the hand-drawn animation that opens the game’s story mode suggests there’s more to this collection than simple imitation, and while that isn’t all the way true, it bears out to an encouraging degree.

“Island” features seven car nival standbys — frog bog, skeeball, hoops, coin/ring/baseball toss and shooting gallery — in its base offerings, and because the Move controller is just plain more precise than the Wii remote or Kinect, the games work exactly as you’d expect and respond to your motions precisely as they should.

The responsive controls are, naturally, “Island’s” most important virtue.

But the game’s best asset lies in the way it breaks from convention in designing 28 additional games simply by rearranging those seven base games.

While some of these variants are simple tweaks to the rules or the way the playing field is arranged, others — replacing the baseball with a swingable wrecking ball, turning the skeeball lane into a slot machine, providing frogs you can steer in the air after launching them with the frog bog — are considerably more clever. Many of them exercise enough creativity to feel like different games entirely instead of mere offshoots.

“Island’s” four-player multiplayer (offline only, sadly) very obviously positions it as a party game, but it bears repeating that the story cam-

paign — about a dormant carnival you gradually return to life — is legitimately charming as a solo endeavor. If you like a challenge, all 35 games include a checklist of bonus objectives to complete, and many of them are certifiably tough. Naturally, because this is a carnival, you’ll win tickets from games that let you collect prizes for your character and unlock a few exhibits (a magic mirror, for instance) that are just for fun.

At first blush, “Medieval Moves: Deadmund’s Quest” appears to have nothing in common with “Island” past its controller. But like “Island,” its best asset is the way it adopts a genre (light gun shooter) that’s part and parcel with motion controls and takes it down a novel new road.

In “Quest,” Deadmund (a friendly skeleton fighting unfriendly skeletons, and the story explains all) handles the walking while you handle the rest — swordplay, arrows, throwing stars, dynamite, a grappling hook and a periodic jump, duck or gear turn. You can choose which path Deadmund should take when he reaches a fork in the road, but otherwise, he moves forward automatically.

The resemblance there to light gun shooters is unmistakable, as are “Quest’s” enemy formations and the way it scatters bonus items you can pick up if you’re quick enough to do so before Deadmund runs past them.

But Deadmund’s arsenal makes “Quest” a much more versatile and lively experience than your typical shooter, particularly because you can mix attacks as freely as you like.

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From Tina Fey to Rob Lowe, small screen stars air their lives in memoirs

By Gail Pennington McClatchy-Tribune ST. LOUIS — If you were a chubby kid, insecure, a bit nerdy — or, better yet, all three — chances are you now work in TV comedy.

Two of the most entertaining books of a year in which many people in television put their stories between hard

permanent deal.”) She didn’t learn to ride a bike until she was 12, and if handed a basketball, “I would instantly begin to cry.”

Fey admits following an uninterested boyfriend around for years in college.

(Even she doesn’t seem positive how she wound up in a happy marriage, with two kids.) Kaling confesses that “hooking up confuses me” and recalls

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covers came from Tina Fey (“30 Rock”) and Mindy Kaling (Kelly Kapoor on “The Office”).

In “Bossypants,” Fey reveals that she grew up pale and awkward, with a perpetual bad haircut (for proof, there are pictures) and a scar on her face that was her only claim to fame. In a recurring dream, she was being chased through an airport by her gym teacher.

She felt like herself only in a local theater program.

Kaling, who titles her book “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns),” was pudgy (she still is, she insists) and darkskinned. (“Like being Indian, being chubby feels like it is just part of my

how she once abandoned her jacket to avoid an old boyfriend and his hot date.

The twist to both books isn’t a surprise: Our heroines triumphed. Fey fought sexism at “Saturday Night Live,” in the book’s most interesting chapters, and is a triple threat (star, writer, executive producer) on “30 Rock.” Kaling is both an actor and writer on “The Office.”

As Fey sums up: “Do your own thing and don’t care if they like it.”

Rob Lowe never felt insecure — he’s Rob Lowe, after all, and was a kid so handsome, he had to fight off job offers. But in “Stories I Only Tell My Friends,” he tells of losing himself to substance abuse, only to be rescued

by his wife, Sheryl. Lowe also writes, finally, about his exit from “The West Wing,” giving his side of the complicated story.

Lowe’s confessions, like his title, are tame next to what “Saturday Night Live” veteran Dar rell Hammond has to say in “God, If You’re Not Up There, I’m F(ASTERISK)(ASTERISK) (ASTERISK)ed.”

Promising tales of “mind-altering mayhem,” Hammond shares some shockers. As a child, abused physically and emotionally, he turned to cutting himself. In the fall of 2010, he writes in his prologue, he was sent to psychiatric rehab “after getting drunk and trying to cut my arm off with a large kitchen knife.” By then, he’d already been in rehab so many times “that I’ve honestly lost count.”

He calls “SNL” his “golden years” but admits, “It cannot have been easy to work with me.”

Once, he was carted off in a straitjacket. In addition to prescription drugs, “I was drinking, doing coke, cutting myself in the dressing room.”

Thankfully, Hammond writes from a place of recovery, but his journey there is harrowing — and often darkly funny.

Also on the book circuit this year was Jane Lynch of “Glee,” who writes in “Happy Accidents” that she was born with “an extra helping of angst” and wished nothing more than to go unnoticed. As a girl, she knew she was attracted to other girls, what she calls her “big gay secret.” But her real coming out, her book convinces readers, was as a strong, confident woman.

Ellen DeGeneres promises insight into “life and love and other ‘L’ words” — even to let us know how she found happiness — in her third book, “Seriously ... I’m Kidding.” But in the end, she’s mostly content to poke fun at herself in stream-of-consciousness style.

“Sometimes,” she says, “the greatest things are the most embarrassing.”

And then there’s Betty White, who at 89 is still focused on “now,” not “then.”

In “If You Ask Me” (And of Course You Won’t),” White writes primarily about the past two decades of her life, about friendships and animals (her true love) and comedy. There’s a good chance you’ll come away thinking angst is overrated.

QUEST: More lively experience than your typical shooter CONTINUED from page 12 Swordplay is ideal for close-quarters combat, and how you wield the Move controller is how Deadmund will wield his sword and shield. Imitating a quill-pulling motion allows Deadmund to shoot arrows at faraway enemies, while a quick sideways fling of the controller lets him throw stars at advancing enemies.

“Quest” intuitively maps all these tasks to one controller, but if you have two, it’s best enjoyed that way.

The sword and shield are assigned to separate wands, alleviating the need to hold a button to use the shield, and shooting arrows is more fun when you imitate the bow motion with two controllers instead of point the one at the screen like a gun.

Either way, though, “Quest” is terrific fun — more an arcade game than what typically constitutes a quest in video game terms, but a fast, active adventure that is too nimble and seamless to feel gimmicky.

“Quest’s” storyline is a solo endeavor, but a separate Battle mode — designed primarily around surviving formations of enemies in an arena you can zip through using the grappling hook — offers competitive and cooperative play for one or two players (online or splitscreen). It’s simple, but it’s fun for the same reasons the story is fun, and a persistent leveling system gives it legs by letting you upgrade weapons and unlock new characters as you accrue experience.

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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2011 SPORTS EDITOR, JERRY HUERTA • COLLEGIAN-SPORTS@CSUFRESNO.EDU

SENIORS: Senior class went to four bowl games Wide receiver Devon Wylie has provided some of highlights in his final lose Harrell, who tallied over six total season with an impressive game tackles in six games this year, but against Louisiana Tech, snagging 13 McEntee, who played in all 12 games catches, and also at Nebraska where he this season, collecting 25 total tackles. returned a punt 67 yards to give Fresno “I’m going to miss the camaraderie State an early spark. of the team,” McEntee said. “Having The special teams unit loses some all my ‘brothers’ around me all the of its sustainability with long snaptime.” per Bobby Shepard and kicker Kevin The secondary Goessling, who became will also lose cornerthe all-time leading backs Isaiah Green, scorer in Bulldog his’m going to miss the Jermaine Thomas and tory, not returning. camaderie of the safety Zak Hill, who T h e s e n i o r s h ave did their best to help team.” been a part of Fresno solidify an area of the State football for the unit that was decimat— Chase McEntee, most part of their lives ed by injuries to startand without them, the senior defensive tackle 2012 version of the ing free safety Derron Smith and strong safeBulldogs will have a lot ty Phillip Thomas at of key cogs to replace. the beginning of the season. Both play“It hasn’t really hit me yet,” McEntee ers will be back in the defensive backsaid. “It‘s been six or seven years since field for the 2012 season.

I haven’t had someone give me an itinThe defense will also lose outside erary of what to do.” linebacker Kyle Knox, who was tied for fourth on the team with 50 tackles and was a two-year starter.

The offensive side of the ball won’t lose much, but will miss some key staples on the offensive line with left • 2007: Georgia Tech, 40-28 tackle Bryce Harris and guard Leslie Cooper graduating.

• 2008: UCLA, 36-31 With so many injuries on the line this season, many of the reserves recorded • 2009: Illinois, 53-52 some playing time, which should help protect junior-to-be quarterback Derek Carr in his second season behind cen• 2010: Cincinnati, 28-14 ter.

Although the line had a patched• 2010: Illinois, 25-23 together lineup, it kept Carr upright most of the season, giving up 17 sacks.

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LIVING AND LEADING AS COMMUNITY PARTNERS An Open Letter To The Fresno State Community

As we approach midyear in another demonstration of collegiate excellence at California State University, Fresno, it is fitting that we set aside a few minutes to thank all of those on campus who are contributing so much to bringing about a reevaluation in our expectations of ourselves.

Increasingly, we who are oriented to the business world understand that each segment of our society is a critical component of its whole. We must all be willing to reach out to each other. We recognize that community successes do not come from each sector traveling down a selfishly focused road. Organizations such as United Way, Council of Governments, Economic Opportunities Commissions, Workforce Investment Board, Fresno State and others are interacting with each other and the private sector in an ever closer spirit of cooperation. For this we all owe a vote of thanks to their unselfish leaders.

Fresno State is a major leader in helping to unite our extended community.

Administrators, Faculty, Staff and Students are taking leadership and supportive positions to improve the quality of life for all of those who live, work, play and pray among us. Over sixty-two percent of its student body unselfishly contributed a total of over one million hours of volunteer service during the University’s years 2009/10 and 2010/11.

As a direct result of this spirit of cooperation between Fresno State and the community at large this region is attracting nationwide attention for the higher standards it has set for itself in public affairs on its pathway to a regional transformation. Our community’s widely endorsed Statement of Community Values is the platform on which every man, woman and child among us can stand with pride.

Some of these values are: Stewardship, Boundary Crossing and Collaboration, Commitment to Outcomes, Fact Based Decision Making, and Truth Telling.

As the University approaches the second semester of this academic year, we wish to take this opportunity to simply give thanks for its ongoing contribution to the many positive things happening in our community. We bow our heads in honoring those at all levels of service that are traveling together on the pathway to a better tomorrow.

Our wish for this Holy Season of the year is each of us may all always have friends that care, health to spare and love to share.

Respectfully yours, Richard A. Johanson (Hon. Phd., CSUF) Bud Richter (Hon. Phd., CSUF)

THE COLLEGIAN • SPORTS SPORTS EDITOR, JERRY HUERTA • COLLEGIAN-SPORTS@CSUFRESNO.EDU

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2011

FUTURE: The search is underway for the 17th head coach in Bulldog history CONTINUED from page 16 the school is interested in. The search will need to be done quickly with National Signing Day approaching on Feb. 1.

Until that happens, fans will have to wait and see who will be the head coach, but this person should be well versed on the defensive side of the ball, an area Fresno State has severely struggled with in recent years.

The defense took on added struggles this season. It was one of the worst in the Western Athletic Conference and shows in the box scores as to why Fresno State slumped to such a poor record.

The new coach will need to decide whether he will want to retain some of Hill’s assistants, especially interim defensive coordinator Tim Skipper. Skipper led the defense in the final couple games and the unit showed some improvement in fundamentals, but still gave up 424 yards to San Jose State and let San Diego State come from 21 points down to get the win and send Hill into unemployment.

The ‘Dogs will lose some of the starters on defense in defensive lineman Logan Har rell, who finished his final season with 71 tackles, 17 tackles for loss and six sacks.

The secondary will also lose cor nerbacks Isaiah Green, Jermaine Thomas and safety Zak Hill.

Other than the aforementioned names, the majority of the players that received playing time will be returning, including free safety Derron S m i t h a n d s t ro n g s a f e t y Phillip Thomas, who were lost to season-ending injuries in the beginning of the season.

While the defense has had its ups and downs, the offense has been a productive unit, with sophomore quarterback Derek Carr piling up passing yards and touchdowns in his first season behind center.

Carr finished with 26 touchdowns, nine interceptions and broke Kevin Sweeney’s record for passing yards by a Fresno State quarterback in his first year as the starter.

The offense will also have its workhorse back running back Robbie Rouse back for his senior season to help relieve the pressure off of Carr. Carr will have all of his weapons on the outside with top target Jalen Saunders coming back for his junior season. Wide receivers Josh Harper and Victor Dean will be back for their sophomore seasons as well.

The key losses will be along the offensive line with three-

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year starter Bryce Har ris and first-year starter Leslie Cooper running out of eligibility. The line will be experienced again with many backups getting playing time this past season due to injuries.

Whoever the pro g ram decides to bring in will likely pack with him his own schemes on both sides of the ball. On defense, Fresno State would benefit from a modern defense like a 3-3-5 lineup with three down lineman, three linebackers and five defensive backs, which helps out with all the pass-happy schools in the nation. TCU runs this defense and has been successful running it for a while under defensive guru Gary Patterson.

The offensive scheme should continue to be pro style, and should continue to try to utilize Carr’s arm and his playmakers. Teams such as USC and Alabama run a pro style offense, which put up a lot of points and yards this season.

The new head coach should use this as a blueprint for his scheme.

Whoever Boeh hires as the 17th head coach in Bulldog history, he will have his work cut out for him trying to turn around a respected program that has a severe blemish looming.

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Five football schools expected to join Big East

By Greg Logan McClatchy-Tribune Sounds like the Big East is morphing into the Big EastWest.

In response to raids on i t s fo o t b a l l m e m b e r s h i p, the league is preparing to announce its transcontinental expansion plans to add five football schools Wednesday, a source with Big East ties told Newsday on Tuesday.

The source confirmed earlier reports that Boise State and San Diego State will join as football-only members, and SMU, Houston and Central Florida have accepted invitations to join in all sports for the 2013-14 academic year.

The addition of San Diego State to the mix comes as a surprise. The school was not mentioned as one of the six schools the Big East voted to invite at a Nov. 1 meeting of school presidents in Philadelphia. At that point, multiple league sources indicated the plan was to invite the other four schools, plus Navy and Air Force.

Navy and Air Force remain possibilities to join the expanded Big East at a later date, but no fir m commitment has been received from either one. Temple is an outside possibility if one of the service academies drops out of the running. Commissioner John Marinatto said at the

Philadelphia meeting that the ultimate goal is to have 12 football members, which is necessary to play a conference championship game that would likely be held in New York.

Marinatto also mentioned plans for a western division of the league. Boise State apparently convinced fellow Mountain West Conference member San Diego State to partner in a move to a conference that still retains its BCS automatic qualifying status.

Houston, SMU and Central Florida all currently are members of Conference USA. The five new schools join five holdover football members Rutgers, Connecticut, Cincinnati, Louisville and South Florida. Earlier this year, Syracuse and Pitt accepted invitations to the ACC, and West Virginia accepted an invitation to join the Big 12.

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What the future may hold

SPORTS EDITOR, JERRY HUERTA • COLLEGIAN-SPORTS@CSUFRESNO.EDU

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2011

Departing seniors make impact on program Pat Hill’s era.

One of the seniors realized the year didn’t meet the expecWith the 2011 season fintations that the Bulldog faithished, Fresno State loses 15 ful expect from Fresno State, seniors heading into next but reflected on his career. year, some of whom have been “We all knew it was commainstays in the football proing to an end one day,” senior gram during their time as d e f e n s ive t a ck l e C h a s e Bulldogs.

McEntee said.

This season didn’t quite pan The seniors have had their out for the share of big ‘ D o g s, wh o plays and finished the memorable e all knew it was season with moments durcoming to an end ing the unprea 4-9 record one day.” after losing d i c t abl e 2 0 1 1 against San season.

Die go State The defensive — Chase McEntee, in the “Battle side of the ball senior defensive tackle for the Old will be hit hard Oil Can,” in by graduation which Aztecs with defensive running back Ronnie Hillman tackle Logan Harrell running scoring a touchdown with out of eligibility. Harrell had a only a minute left on the clock field day with North Dakota’s to complete the comeback vicoffensive line making 11 tacktory. les from his interior lineman The loss could bring back position. Harrell finished his memories of the 2006 season, final season with 71 tackles, 17 during which a senior-laden tackles for loss and six sacks. team finished with 4-8 record The defense will not only and didn’t reach a bowl game, See SENIORS, Page 15 a rarity in recently fired coach

By Tim Salazar The Collegian

Jerry Huerta

Sports Editor

The 2011 version of the F resn o S t at e B u l l d o g s i s unlike any other Pat Hillcoached team in that it finished the season with a 4-9 record and missed a bowl game for just the fourth time under the coach’s direction.

The record was the worst in Hill’s tenure and after losing the final game of the season against San Diego State, 35-28 at Qualcomm Stadium last Saturday, there were grumblings that Hill’s job was in jeopardy after the ‘Dogs didn’t meet expectations.

Then late Sunday afternoon the media were notified that Hill would be relieved of his duties as the face of Bulldog football.

After 15 years, it was decided that Hill would no longer lead the team down the ramp on game days. It would instead be someone new.

During his final Monday mor ning press conference, Hill highlighted the program’s many accomplishments and even added thank yous to everybody that helped make Fresno State football respected along the way.

Hill left the podium for the final time at the end and bid farewell, “Goodbye Fresno.”

It is sad to see the man that put Fresno State football on the national map exit because of what he meant to the prog ram, but the ‘Do gs just weren’t winning at the same rate as in Hill’s earlier years.

Fresno State Athletics announced it will be hiring a firm to help in the process of bringing the next head coach.

There have been numerous candidates that have been speculated to be interested in the job, including former Rams head coach Mike Martz and cur rent Edison High School football coach Tim McDonald, but no one will truly know until Director of Athletics Thomas Boeh announces the coaches that See FUTURE, Page 15

Correction A headline in the Dec. 5 edition of the sports section, Page 8, had an error in a headline. The headline read, “‘Dogs went 28-19 in the past six seasons, missed two bowl games.” The correct record is 40-37.

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Senior Devon Wylie is one of 15 seniors that Fresno State will be without going into the offseason under an impending new coach.

Fresno State begins tough stretch

By Angel Moreno The Collegian

Fresno State is already making history under new head coach Rodney Terry in just its third home game of the season.

The ‘Dogs welcomed Pac-12 member Utah to the Save Mart Center last Saturday and won in dominating fashion, 82-52, the second win by 30 points in less than a week. On Nov. 30 Fresno State defeated the Academy of Art, 85-55.

The 30-point margin victory over Utah was Fresno State’s first win against any Pac-12 or Pac-10 school since 2006 and the largest ever against a current Pac-12 member in 50 years. Back then, the 1961 version of the Bulldogs defeated Arizona State, 61-41. After the game, Terry acknowledges how hard the ‘Dogs played.

“I thought we had really good energ y,” Ter ry said.

“And I thought the guys really locked into the game plan.”

Fresno State got contributions from junior forward Kevin Foster, who led the way with a career-high 16 points, while senior guard Steven Shepp added 15 points — all in the second half — to help the ‘Dogs secure their fourth win of the season.

The Bulldogs’ leading scorer Kevin Olekaibe emerged in the second half with 10 points, after being held to only five points in the first 20 minutes.

The sophomore shot 50 per-

cent (3-of-6) from three-point range and finished with 15 points to go along with three assists and three steals.

S at u rd ay ’ s v i c t o r y a l s o marked the first time four different players scored in double digits during Terry’s tenure and was the first since Fresno State lost to Nevada in the first round of the Western Athletic C o n f e re n c e To u r n a m e n t , 90-80.

Senior guard Jonathan Wills has become the second scoring option for Fresno State, averaging more than 11 points per game and has scored 11, 11 and 26 points in the past three games, respectively.

In the other Pac-12 game that Fresno State played in the preseason National Invitation Tour nament, The Bulldogs lost to Stanford 75-59, but the score doesn’t indicate how close the game was in the first half with Fresno State down 34-30.

But the ‘Dogs played with the type of energy that will need to carry on to this week as the Bulldogs face two more Pac-12 opponents, travelling to both Colorado and Oregon on Wednesday and Saturday, respectively.

Terry realizes the importance of such a rigorous nonconference schedule that includes four Pac-12 opponents, but won’t shy away from the competition.

“They say ‘When you play that type of talent level, it’s going to be tougher for you,’

Dalton Runberg / The Collegian

Head coach Rodney Terry has brought a defensive mentality to Fresno State as the ‘Dogs have blown out their last two opponents by 30 points.

but I disag ree with that,” Terry said after Saturday’s win. “There’s a lot of parity in college basketball and on any given day, anybody can be beat if you don’t bring it.”

And on Saturday, the ‘Dogs brought it as they defeated the Utes in front of an announced crowd of 5,843. This is the biggest win in Terry’s short collegiate head coaching career.

T he cur rent three-g ame

stretch through the Pac-12 has proved to be the ideal way for Terry and his ‘Dogs to prepare for WAC play, which opens on Jan. 5 against Utah State, the returning conference champions.

“We’ll enjoy this for the day and then we’ll have to flush it out,” Terry said. “And move on to the next one. Our focus is one game at a time.”