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Provost William Covino will announce the final decision regarding the budget gap on Feb. 16. Associated Students, Inc. will meet on Feb. 15, to make the final revisions on their recommendations on the matter.

ASI prepares recommendations for Task Force Meeting will be held at 11 a.m. on Feb. 15 in Satellite Student Union

By Ben Ingersoll The Collegian While the Academic Affairs Budget Advisory Task Force gears up for its final revisions to close the looming budget gap, Associated Students, Inc. is assembling its own recommendation to present in hopes of making a difference.

After conducting a handful of previous meetings with the Task Force.

Provost William Covino will be announcing the final decision regarding the recommendations on February 16. The most recent meeting took place on Monday.

ASI will meet to review resolutions with the Task Force on Wednesday at 11 a.m. in the Satellite Student Union, in what President Selena Far nesi referred to as the “last feedback day.”

“ASI will be meeting on the 15th and we’ll be going over everything that we’ve seen so far, all the recommendations that have been made and we’re going to finalize a resolution.

We’ve been working on what we think the colleges should do what the provost should do,” ASI Senator Jaime Moncayo said. “The core principle of our resolution was don’t dissolve these colleges, and now that’s been taken off the table.”

Moncayo added that ASI will be voicing its concern regarding the possible elimination of majors, not allowing some students to graduate. Moncayo said that he was told by Covino that the Education Code of California wouldn’t allow the final recommendation to include this aspect anyway.

Moncayo spoke on behalf of ASI saying that this year’s recommendations

are “mild” and that he doesn’t anticipate any drastic shifts — at least not right now.

“For now we’re all OK with these budget recommendations,” Moncayo said. “Nothing’s too far-fetched like dissolving an entire college as they were recommending before. But things are just going to get worse. So, nowadays we can get by with these simple recommendations of shuffling everybody around, but at some point we’re just not going to have enough money.”

Senator Jennifer Harmon specifically noted ASI’s concern of possibly splitting the three core sciences Chemistry, Biology and Physics into two different colleges. But, like Moncayo, Harmon said ASI is more worried about the financial ramifications should a shift in these departments occur.

“A lot of our funds come from those See TASK, Page 3

Jesse Yeh has resorted to limiting himself to one meal a day and borrowing textbooks to save on soaring costs he faces attending the University of California, Berkeley.

The third-year political economy student has avoided loans but has relied on his parents, who earn too much for him to be eligible for Cal Grants, to dig into their savings for his education.

He would be among the 42,000 University of California and 150,000 California State University middleincome students who would see their tuition and fees cut by two thirds under legislation unveiled Wednesday by Assembly Speaker John Perez, D-Los Angeles.

“I’m working very hard to not take out loans, though I might have to next year,” said Yeh, 20. “My parents have been eating into their savings, and right now they can barely afford it. So it would definitely help me save a lot.”

But Yeh said that given the politics of the Capitol, he’s skeptical he’s going to see relief any time soon.

And he might be right.

To pay for the plan, Perez is seeking to close $1 billion in loopholes for out-of-state corporations, an idea Republicans blocked last year. Raising taxes requires a two-thirds vote, which means Democrats need four Republicans — two from the Assembly, two from the Senate.

Last year, two Assembly Republicans did vote to close the loophole for outof-state corporations in another bill that would have provided tax relief for other businesses. But Senate Republicans refused to offer a single vote.

And it’s unlikely they will budge from their stance, even if supporting college students could help their sagging brand in the state, said Larry Gerston, See GRANTS, Page 3

Campaign to help premature babies asks for students help

By Alexandra Norton The Collegian In the 1940s, President Theodore Roosevelt proposed an idea during his ‘Fireside Chats,’ which eventually became known as the March Of Dimes.

Roosevelt said that if everyone donated a dime, a cure for Polio could be found. Today, that campaign continues on and visited the Fresno State campus on Wednesday.

Fresno State President John Welty is the chairman for the Fresno County March of Dimes March For Babies,

making the campus the ideal host site.

Arthur Montejano, a Fresno State student in the master’s program for sports psychology, is the only student who serves on the planning committee.

Many are already taking part in the campaign by forming teams.

“We have groups of faculty and staff, and student organizations who are forming their own teams and fundraising from there,” said Montejano.

A flier for the March For Babies Walk said there are two ways to participate: See BABIES, Page 3

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Fresno State student Alicia Luna stands next to a poster featuring baby photos of some volunteers of the March Of Dimes’ March For Babies campaign. She is one of several students who is volunteering through the University Student Union Board of Directors.

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WEB-SPE@K ‘ASI Senate passes bylaw, fills vacant seat’ ‘In Responce’: “I am glad The Collegian updated us on this issue. After last week’s nonsense, I am glad to see that Selena pulled through for us and got those senators to start caring about students, doing their jobs and actually passing stuff.

You all talk about how much money she spends, but it’s no more than what anyone else in her position does — and she should use it! If she doesnt use it then it sits in the bank for however many years, and the money WE PAID gets used when we aren’t even here any more.”

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

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‘El Rumy’: “The transient nature of ASI does not allow for a venture such as ‘fiscal spending’ to run effectively, particularly when every board has a different idea on how the money earned or collected should be spent.

In this case, Ms. Farnesi has imposed her agenda throughout the course of the school year, thus defragmenting the mission of our student government mission, which ‘fosters awareness of student opinions on campus issues, assists in the protection of student rights, and provides programs and services to meet the needs of the students and campus community.’ This student administration has failed to protect those rights, but lets not forget the ‘elephant in the room’ an elephant called RECALL!”

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‘Greeks combat crime in “Sin City”’ ‘Student’: “I think it’s so awesome that ASI is doing this. I am glad to see our student government actually doing something — helping to revitalize the neighborhood helps keep students safe, involves students in community service and helps better the reputation of Fresno and Fresno State.”

‘Chac at Vacation Rentals in Hawaii’: “So, you’re a Ron Paul supporter? I like everything about him except his foreign policy.

Do you think we can decrease the threat of Ahmadinejad with pacifism? There’s a difference between a troubled teen that does not receive love and attention and Ahmadinejad, yes?

We all want peace, but not after we get nuked. There is some deep-rooted belief in that man’s thinking.

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‘The GOP is not racist’ ‘joshua4234’: “I don’t think they are racist, but I think elements of their base have hints of racism that they sometimes take advantage of by subtle race baiting.

I mean, back when Obama came into office, a large element of the base was obsessed with his citizenship because of his father. And what did the politicians do? They strung it out, saying things like ‘Well, I dont know why he just doesn’t release his long form birth certificate’ and things of the like.

And when a large part of the base believes him to be Muslim, what do some of the politicians do? They string it along again, saying things like, ‘Well, he claims to be Christian, I’ll just take his word.’

I think the same thing’s going on now, whether it’s Santorum’s Freudian slip, saying he doesn’t want to make black peoples lives better by giving them other people’s money, or Gingrich saying things like Spanish is the language of the ghetto, or he wants to help black kids learn to get jobs, or however he phrased it.

I think they are more greedy jerks than racists, but they still do a little race baiting from time to time.”

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To the editor: On Wednesday morning in my 8 a.m. class in the Social Science building, the teacher and the students were baffled at what they found. While the teacher was trying to get the projector to work, one of the students noticed that the wires were cut above the projector. The teacher called for assistance and two men came in to see if they could do anything. They said they would have to rewire it all through the ceiling.

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cannot afford to miss any part of my education because someone is indecent enough to cut the wires of an expensive projector.”

As they left they said that this happened this morning in another classroom in the same building! This makes me very angry because this college does not have the money to spend on repairs such as this. We pay so much for our tuition to come to this college, and to get to my class and not have the projector working was an insult.

The teacher could not go on with what we were going to do for the day because it involved the overhead projector, so she decided to cut class short. I cannot afford to miss any part of my education because someone is indecent enough to cut the wires of an expensive projector.

As students at Fresno State we need to help each other and not do anything that will take away someone’s chance of a good education. We are already paying too much to come here. It’s not worth making anything worse.

Laura Gonzales

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TASK: ASI to review resolutions at meeting on Wednesday CONTINUED from page 1

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Assembly Member John Perez, developed the legislation that will help middle-income students to receive grants regardless of how much their parents make.

donated specifically to the College of Science and Math, so we’re questioning whether those would still be accessed,” Harmon said. “Big funding, such as [National Science Fo u n d at i o n ] , [ N at i o n a l Institute of Health], which might not recognize our chemistry programs if maybe we were under the College of Agriculture. We wanted to make sure our research is protected more than anything.”

Harmon added that merging

programs under a particular name would also “question the integrity of our science programs that maybe they weren’t strong enough to stand up on their own.”

Lucien Nana, the ASI Senator for Math and Science, voiced similar concern with Harmon, saying that although classes might not change, per se, but public perception could diminish the programs’ images. Furthermore, Nana feared previous resources would cease to exist as well.

The overall message ASI will

present, Nana said, is what the university’s focus will be on going forward.

“We are telling the provost that the university is an institution of higher learning, so that should be our priority no matter how tough the budget or tuition costs,” Nana said.

“No matter what happens education should be the priority.”

S t a f f re p o r t e r S t e p h e n Keleher also contributed to this article.

GRANTS: To help middleincome students CONTINUED from page 1 a political science professor at San Jose State. California’s Republican registration has dropped to 30 percent, while the registration numbers for Democrats and independents continue to rise.

“I see nothing to suggest that they have the goal of expanding their base, at least through raising taxes,” Gerston said.

“Their mantra is they will do anything to avoid raising taxes. As far as they’re concerned, the only way to deal with budget issues is to cut spending.”

Senate Republican Leader Bob Huff, R-Diamond Bar, in a prepared statement, said Democrats should focus on lowering pension costs and balancing the budget _ and “then we can better assess the need for changes in tax policy and higher education.”

Under Assembly Bills 1500 and 1501, middle-class CSU students would be eligible for $4,000 a year, or $16,000 over four years. UC students would receive about $8,200 a year, or nearly $33,000 over four years.

Community colleges would receive $150 million, to be distributed as they see fit by each district.

T he scholarships would be available to families with a n a n nu a l i n c o m e b e l ow $150,000 a year who aren’t already receiving Cal Grant aid, as lower-income families are. Typically, families with income up to $70,000 can apply

for Cal Grants, though it can be up to $90,000, depending on the size of a family.

“We already have a good financial aid system for students at the lowest end” of the income spectrum, Perez said. But over the last eight years, fees have grown 191 percent at CSU and 145 percent at UC, putting a “real squeeze on the middle class, so we’ve decreased the affordability and ... access ... for a whole swath of kids.”

A Pew Research Center survey, published Thursday, found that a wide majority believe it’s more difficult for today’s young adults than it was for their parents’ generation to pay for college, find a job, buy a home or save for the future.

The $1 billion in annual revenue would come from rescinding a cor porate tax break approved in 2009 when a handful of Republicans agreed to vote for a temporary increase on other taxes. That tax break allows corporations to choose the cheaper of two formulas for calculating the taxes they owe.

The bill would require corporations to calculate what they owe based on their national sales solely in Califor nia.

Right now, they are allowed to pick a lower tax burden after calculating a for mula that includes sales, property and payroll taxes in the state.

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Dr. Michael Caldwell and Dr. Dawn Lewis serve as members of the Task Force, which will meet with ASI on Wednesday to hear its final recommendations.

BABIES: Campaign to help mothers have healthy pregnancies CONTINUED from page 1 the first would be to become a team captain and form a team, or second, join an existing one.

Montejano said the goal is to raise $20,000 for research and prenatal care for premature babies.

Nine hundred communities take part in the March For Babies event to raise money for support programs that will

help mothers have full-term, healthy pregnancies.

T h e F r e s n o M a r c h Fo r Babies walk is scheduled for April 14 at Woodward Park.

Details can be found at the March For Babies website, marchforbabies.org, or by scanning the QR Code to the right.

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WEBSITE: Scan the QR Code to the right with your smartphone to visit the March For Babies website.

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Come get some food, have some fun and find out more: Thursday, Feb. 9 @ 8pm Bible Study/Worship at AGO house 4548 N. Meridian Ave. Saturday, Feb.11 @ 11am Paintball Excursion Any Questions? Contact: daniel.andresen@ago.org

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Fresno State students Alicia Luna and Arthur Montejano take part in the March Of Dimes March For Babies team ‘Leaders.’ Montejano is the only student that serves on the planning committee for the fundraiser.

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Jimmy Collier: activist, musician

By Sammy LoProto The Collegian

Photo courtesy of Jimmy Collier

Jimmy Collier is pictured her performing during the 1960s. Collier was known for his folk-rock music and performed with artists such as Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Pete Seeger and Joan Baez.

traveled the country, Collier was asked to sing to the crowds before Dr. King would appear to assure King’s safe entry into the venue.

“They didn’t want people to know when he would arrive because it was so dangerous back then,” Collier said.

“Sometimes I had to play for an hour or so, but more than a few times it would be two hours.”

The country was in turmoil then, and riots in Detroit and Los Angeles only fueled the movement. The freedom trains and marches were instrumental to Collier’s ears. He wrote some of his most memorable songs during this time. His most famous tune was "Burn Baby Burn," written days after the Watts riots took place. Collier and his team of musicians wrote many revised spirituals and rhythm and blues tunes to accommodate the movement. This collection of songs now belong to and reside in the Smithsonian Institute.

Collier was put into a group of musicians at the time, who were recording with Folkways Records, owned by Moe Asch. The label had artists such as Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Pete Seeger and Joan Baez.

“Pete Seeger asked me to play with him on a tour with Kris Kristofferson, Rita Coolidge and Mary Travers,” he said. “We ended up playing in the Houston Astrodome. Now I know how the Black Eyed Peas felt at the Super Bowl.”

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Jimmy Collier was featured on this album titled "Freedom Songs: Selma, Alabama." The album consists of protesters recorded singing during a march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.

Jimmy Collier released this album during the 1960s.

The songs on the album all center around civil rights and the movement of the time.

Sammy LoProto / The Collegian

Oakhurst, Calif., is a long way from Fort Smith, Ark. It is also a different landscape and political climate compared to the backwoods way of life. But that never stood in the way of Jimmy Collier’s passion for music and making his voice heard.

Today his songs and recordings reside in the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Institute. But, growing up in rural Arkansas and being raised by his grandparents, made it difficult for Collier to find his true passion. His home was full of musical instruments and he fondly remembers his grandmother playing piano, and being surrounded by his whole family singing gospel tunes every Sunday.

As a teenager, he experimented with vocal groups, played drums and the saxophone.

“I really sucked at the sax,” he said. Moving on from doo-wop corner groups and a short career as a drummer, he eventually became a folk singer and recorded at Folkways Records.

These recordings eventually made it to Washington, D.C. In the mid 50s, Collier moved from Arkansas to Chicago to live with his uncle.

“My youth was just wild, man,” Collier said. “I needed a change.”

He joined the Air Force at 15 years old, then served two years before he was discharged for his age. At 17, Collier went to college, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Community College in downtown Chicago. By 1962 he was involved in the civil rights movement.

Collier did a few odd jobs, and music gigs. But before Collier could get out of Chicago and the struggles that accompanied everyday life, a higher power came calling. One day he was asked to deliver a truckload of goods to Atlanta, and wound up staying and became a regular with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference circuit, which was headquartered there.

After having been around for a few months, the leadership took note of Collier, and soon he was asked to come "on staff," which meant he would be receiving a subsidiary paycheck, and be a part of a certain team.

“I ended up being on the team that did non-violent demonstrations,” Collier said. “That was our team’s area of responsibility, headed up by a guy named James Bevel.”

The turbulent 60s affected Collier, and his style began to shift into more of a folk-rock demeanor. His musical style was originally more folk music, but took on a different tune. There were more meaning and messages in the lyrics. The beat was more driven, like the drums of war pounding endlessly in the night.

As the movement grew and Dr. King

As the movement picked up steam, he became more recognizable. The old white southerners had a profound hatred for the movement and anyone who worked with them. For Jimmy, it was hard to buy guitar strings or picks for his axe. Finally, after gaining the trust of the conference members and hierarchy, Collier was given a new guitar. Apparently, Dr. King’s right hand man, Dr. Ralph Abernathy, noticed Collier's guitar was missing some strings, and was in need of a tune up.

Abernathy convinced Dr. King to give Collier $500 for a new guitar. ”Man, back in 1963 that was a [heck of a] guitar for $500,” Collier said.

“Most guys just hit the pawn shops on the weekends.”

For Collier, a part of his life will always be remembered for his time and relationship with the SCLC. The late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Collier recalled a time they were touring the South in 1966 on their non-violent demonstrations, when Dr. Abernathy asked about the relationship Collier had with his friend, Sherry Land.

When he replied, “We’re in love, man,” Abernathy pulled Dr. King aside and whispered something. Later that afternoon, Collier stood before him with Land and the two were married by Dr. King.

“I still have that marriage license signed by Dr. King,” he said. “I really wish someone had a camera at the time. But back then we were all living in the moment, a moment in time.”

In the mid-60s, Dr. King wrote a letter of recommendation for Collier, and he presented it to Harry Bridges, the head of the Longshoreman’s Union in San Francisco. That job lasted until Dr.

Abernathy launched the Poor People's Campaign in late 1967, and Collier drove there to help out. Then he drove to upstate New York to help Pete Seeger on the Clearwater Project on the Hudson River. This eventually led to a concert at Carnegie Hall, arranged by classical music promoters sympathetic to the cause.

The cause appeared to be derailed when Dr. King was assassinated on April 4, 1968. The emotional tragedy gripped the whole nation. The movement seemed deflated and fruitless.

However, the SCLC and other leaders decided to continue the Poor People’s Campaign in Dr. King’s honor with a two-week protest by demonstrators in Washington, D.C. The same month, thousands of poor people set up a shanty town in the nation’s capitol, better known as "Resurrection City." Collier remembers the frustration and sadness during this time.

The city was shut down in mid-June when police and the National Guard forced the whole entourage out with water cannons and horse mounted patrols. For Collier, it was time to move on. He and a friend went up to Canada and he continued his music, albeit with a different tone.

His travels ultimately led him to the foothills above Fresno, settling into a ranch in Mariposa, before moving up to the Cedar Valley area of Oakhurst.

Miles above the fog, he can finally take a deep breath and look back on his colorful, yet humble career.

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Researchers seek alternative to ozone depleting pesticide; collaboration key to success

By Johnathan Wilbanks The Collegian Plant parasites do over $120 billion per year in damage to worldwide ag riculture.

Chemicals are available to eradicate these parasites, but they present safety problems.

Fresno State biology professor Dr. Alejandro CalderonUr rea is searching for an alternative to methyl bromide, a previously used pesticide that caused damage to the ozone layer. He has identified a promising alternative, a type of organic compound with significant biological functions.

The parasites being targeted are nematode worms, which can badly damage the roots of plants.

“In a collaboration with Dr. Saeed Attar from chemistry, we developed some organic chalcones that seemed to have some specific deleterious effects against plant-parasitic nematodes,” Calderon-Urrea said.

These chalcones are a type of “pesticide” that will harm only the targeted nematode worms. Methyl bromide was harmful to humans and parasites.

Calderon-Urrea has tested the specifically engineered chemicals with two similar types of nematode worms.

“These chemicals seemed to kill the plant parasitic nematodes very well,” CalderonUrrea said.

Calderon-Urrea has used

specific pro g rammed cell death genes in the past to kill nematode worms, but has now begun this new experiment because his previous project is in the process of being published in a scientific journal.

The investigation is focused o n f i n d i n g t h e minimum amount of chemical that can be used to eliminate the parasite.

The idea for the whole project started in 2001 during a coffee break between Attar, now the chemistry department chair and researcher and Calderon-Urrea. Attar noticed during a laboratory course he was teaching that some students had developed slight skin irritations after performing an experiment involving chalcones.

After a search through the published chemical literature, Attar found that chalcones had been reported to have a variety of biological— including nematocidal [parasite killing]— activities, and the collaboration began.

“The idea was to find something to replace methyl bromide. These chalcones have two benzene rings. My idea was to replace one of the benzene rings with an ironcontaining group called ferrocene,” Attar said.

Zach O’Brien, a graduate student in Attar’s lab and now a Ph.D. student at UCLA, made the first ferrocenyl derivatives of these chemicals, and in the middle of this, Hasan

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Harinder Singh examines a petri dish where nematode worms are grown to determine what stage of life the worms are in.

Esteban Cortez / The Collegian

Harinder Singh is working on the transfer of parasitic nematode worms to test programmed cell death genes.

Al-Haddad, an undergraduate student in Calderon-Urrea’s lab and now a Ph.D. student at UC Davis, got involved and did parallel studies with an organic set of similar chemicals for comparison.

Attar and those collaborating with him ultimately made 63 variations of the new chemical. The more active of these were organic analogs. The eight most deadly to nematodes are now being studied 11 years later while a full-length paper has recently been published in the Journal of Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry. Attar commented on the collaboration between himself and Calderon-Urrea, saying, “I have always been interested in biology and consider myself a biologically oriented organic chemist. I was a biology minor and a chemistry major in college… these projects are at the interface between chemistry and biology.”

“It’s been very fruitful, and I look forward to more research we can do together. Regardless of an undergraduate’s major and future career plans, they will learn a lot by performing

from an NSF--funded project, for which Dr. Dave Andrews t’s been very fruitful, and is the principal investigator.

These students, as well as U.C. I look forward to more Merced research associate research we can do together.” Venu Polineni and Harinder Singh from Calderon-Urrea’s — Dr. Alejandro Calderon-Urrea, lab, have been working to collect data and analyze the biology professor results.

“Methyl bromide is causing problems with the ozone layer.

All of these questions push scientific research. What you us toward specific environdo is not as important as your mentally friendly techniques. enthusiasm. Generally speakThe harm will be specifically ing, the physical setting of toward this nematode,” Singh the CSU departments such as said.

Biology and Chemistry allows Singh has worked on testthese collaborations to haping programmed cell death pen.” genes in the past. These genes Researchers at Fresno State basically hold a code which are now testing whether the tells the cell to destroy itself. eight active chemicals can Cancer can occur when this affect the growth of other mechanism is inter rupted microorganisms found in the in normal cells. When these soil. Calderon-Urrea and Attar genes are incorporated into a want to find a chemical that plant which the parasitic nemwill only affect the parasites, atode eats, a large number of leaving all other organisms cells in the nematode die, killunharmed because the chemiing the parasite. cal will essentially be used as Testing of human cells is a pesticide. also under way. An on-campus Preliminary studies have cancer laboratory found negabeen run by undergraduate tive effects on human cells. students with the last names of Ponce, Hill and Serrano

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Health officials fret as hookah grows in popularity

By Kara Rose McClatchy-Tribune COLLEGE PARK, Md. — University of Maryland student Louie Dane was 18 when he first smoked tobacco with a hookah at a friend’s house.

“There’s nothing that’s not great about it. You get to be with some friends having a good time,” he said. “I personally think cigarettes are

disgusting ... Hookah doesn’t seem as bad ... (because) it’s more of a social thing.”

What Dane and most other fans of this increasingly popular method of smoking tobacco do not know is that one 25-minute hookah session is equivalent to smoking a pack of cigarettes, health officials said.

“People tend to inhale very deeply when they are using

a hookah. They actually, in effect, get 20 times the amount of nicotine then when you smoke a single cigarette,” said Donald Shell, who works on tobacco prevention efforts at the state Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

Hookah — also referred to as a narghile, shisha or waterpipe — allows users to smoke flavored tobacco that is filtered through a liquid, typical-

ly water. The tobacco is placed in the bowl of the hookah and heated with a coal. The smoke is then pulled through decorative hoses after first passing through the liquid.

The practice originated in India and the Middle East in the middle of the last millennium and has since found its way into a growing number of college towns in the states.

As more hookah lounges

open, health officials said they are worried users do not fully understand the risks associated with the pastime.

Cafe Hookah, which is set to open in College Park, Md., this month, will be the second hookah bar in the city. The cafe’s owner, 29-year-old Abid Khan, said he chose to open the establishment because the See HOOKAH, Page 6

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Ammar Zirli, right, puffs on a hookah along with friends Yussef Assaf, center, and Hassan Soueid while sitting at Off The Hookah at Las Olas Riverfront, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida

HOOKAH: Officials warn CONTINUED from page 5 “niche was available.”

“I think that it will be unique in the sense that — aside from making money — it’s run by young people that actually care about the students,” he said.

Hookah tobacco contains many of the same harmful chemicals found in cigarettes and can cause similar longterm health effects, such as mouth cancer, lung cancer and cancer of the trachea, Shell said.

“Hookahs are flavored and put in a nice setting when you are sitting and relaxing ... But that kind of socially attractive setting is really the vehicle for delivering a really potent dose of tobacco and carbon monoxide and other chemicals, too,” Shell said.

“There is no safe level of tobacco to consume,” Shell said. “If you find that once you start smoking hookah and you feel like you have to go back, that’s kind of a red flag.”

Matthieu Drotar, 20, said he first smoked hookah when he was 17. He

now smokes hookah once every two or three weeks near the University of Maryland.

“People like to try new exotic things, and the hookah bars try to recreate the feeling of being in Lebanon, or somewhere else,” Drotar said. “I don’t know anywhere outside of a (hookah bar) that you can get that experience.”

Despite knowing some of the health risks associated with smoking hookah, Drotar said he was not worried.

“If I were smoking every day I would be concerned about it,” he said.

Isabel Slettebak, a 21-year-old student at the University of Maryland School of Nursing in Baltimore City, said she smoked hookah for the first — and last — time when she was 20.

“I guess I decided to do it ‘cause I was over 18 and I could. It seemed like a cool, older thing to try out,” she said.

“The place, it was way too smoky for me. After sitting for a while, it felt like I wasn’t getting enough air. Then I tried smoking the hookah and it just felt like I had drank a cup of ashes,” she said.

SAN FRANCISCO — Oracle Corp. said Thursday it’s going to buy Taleo Corp. for $1.9 billion, highlighting the software behemoth’s aggressive bid to build up its cloud computing capabilities.

Shares of Taleo, which provides ondemand human resources software applications, soared 17.2 percent to close at $45.64. Oracle’s shares rose a fraction to close at $28.89.

Oracle said it’s acquiring Taleo for $46 a share, an 18 percent premium over the Dublin, Calif.-based company’s closing price on Wednesday.

The transaction, which has been approved by Taleo’s board, is expected to close by the middle of this year.

Thomas Kurian, an Oracle executive vice president, said Taleo’s “talent management cloud is an important addition to the Oracle Public Cloud.”

Oracle has increasingly focused on the growing trend of cloud computing in which businesses tap computing power through a network instead of inhouse data centers.

In the emerging model, which also includes on-demand computing, business customers typically pay a fee based on the number of users, allowing companies to save on the costs of running their own data centers.

“It seems like a good move for Oracle _ although one that had been widely anticipated,” JMP Securities ana-

lyst Pat Walravens said in an email.

“Oracle needed to get more aggressive about its cloud offerings — which it is now doing with the RightNow and Taleo acquisitions.”

Walravens said the move is also “positive” for other companies offering human resources management applications.

Interest in Taleo heightened in December after Oracle rival SAP announced that it was acquiring SuccessFactors, another company offering workforce-management applications.

Citigroup analyst Walter Pritchard said that buying Taleo was a positive step for Oracle which, he argued, had been “losing ground” to such players as Workday Inc. and SuccessFactors.

Walravens also cited Workday, a Pleasanton, Calif.-based human resources manag ement business applications, which is seen as gaining ground in that market.

“I think the phenomenal growth at Workday is part of the reason that Oracle is finally getting more aggressive about the cloud,” Walravens said.

In an interesting twist, Workday was co-founded and is currently led by David Duffield, who also started and led PeopleSoft, the human resources software firm.

Oracle acquired PeopleSoft after a nasty and controversial hostile takeover battle that lasted from mid-2003 to late 2004.

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Giants’ Buster Posey faces uncertainty as he recovers from horrific injury

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San Francisco catcher Buster Posey, seen here stretching with pitcher Matt Cain before Game 5 of the 2010 World Series, remains optimistic despite the uncertainty of his recovery after a suffering a season-ending injury in 2011.

By Andrew Baggarly McClatchy-Tribune So many questions await Buster Posey this spring. They hover in the air like a series of foul pops, subject to the whims of wind and spin.

Will his repaired left ankle respond when he hops out of his crouch to throw? How will it feel when he wakes up the following day? Will his timing at the plate be an issue after the longest layoff of his baseball life?

Will he be the ebullient rookie of the year who led the Giants to a World Series title in 2010? Or will Posey’s career be more about concessions than celebrations?

“I guess questions like these are just hard to answer without playing, you know?” he said, squinting a bit. “Without being back in the action.”

It’s the thought of being back in action that helps Posey replace the scowl of uncertainty with that familiar visage of confidence. On the eve of the Giants’ annual FanFest, as the players gathered for the first time since September, Tim Lincecum,

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Matt Cain and Brian Wilson see the workload and what that all remarked that Posey struck ankle can tolerate. Because them as poised and able. everything he does is weight “He’s really pumped to get bearing, whether it’s shifting out there,” Lincecum said. “I or throwing or blocking.” feel he’s had that itch longer Posey acknowledged he is than anybody.” not 100 percent and that the Said Cain: “To see the look ankle is stiff when he rolls on his face, it’s exciting for out of bed in the morning. At all of us. To know we’ll go to the same time, he said, all his spring training and be able to rehab goals have been met or throw to him and get back to exceeded. He was encouraged that, it’s a big, big confidence by the way he felt while hitting factor for the staff.” on the field in Arizona and The Giants need Posey for blocking balls when he tried a more than his leadership or few drills in November. h i s ab i l He is ity behind c o n f i the plate. dent. But ’m excited to be around the Sure, they he is not guys again and excited just missed foolish. t h o s e to have the opportunity to play T h e re i s attributes again. I saw how quickly it can be s o m u ch after he uncertaken away, so I’m going to enjoy tore three tainty as a n k l e the game as much as I can.” he moves ligaments fo r w a rd , and frac— Buster Posey, k n ow i n g tured his San Francisco Giants catcher there are leg in a sure to h o m e be adjustplate colm e n t s lision May 25. But their worstalong the way. in-the-majors offense missed “I try my best not to think his cleanup-hitting presence about it,” he said. “I think the most of all. main thing for me is I’m going That’s why manager Bruce to enjoy playing. I’m excited to Bochy and general manager be around the guys again and Brian Sabean already are talkexcited just to have the opporing about playing Posey at tunity to play again. I saw how first base at least once a week, quickly it can be taken away, and possibly more, to keep his so I’m going to enjoy the game bat in the lineup. They don’t as much as I can.” expect to have a gauge on his Posey still hasn’t spodurability as a catcher until ken with Scott Cousins, the the end of the spring.

Florida Marlins base runner “The work’s been done,” who applied the heat-seeking Sabean said. “(Trainer Dave) hit in the 12th inning May Groeschner has been pleased 25 at AT&T Park. Posey said with where they are. But we’ll he doesn’t want to dwell on be very conscious and diligent events that cannot be undone. about what his schedule will As the baseball gods be gamewise. At the finish line arranged it, though, the is to get him ready to be the Giants will be somewhere opening-day catcher and then significant on the one-year to figure from there how many anniversary of the controvergames he can catch. sial play: In Miami to play the “But that will evolve as we Marlins at their new stadium.

“I

“Oh yeah? Huh,” said Posey, breaking rhythm from signing a stack of bats. “I guess, what are the odds of that happening? Three out of 162?”

He paused in thought for a moment.

“I guess it’d be weirder if they were here, right?” he said, solemnly.

Posey hopes he is in midseason form by then. This spring, to help get his timing back, he’ll stand in the box and track pitches while his teammates throw of f a mound. He’ll crank up the batting-practice machine a little higher in the cage, too.

“I’m optimistic my timing will come back pretty quickly,” he said.

He isn’t sure if he’ll need to adjust his mechanics behind the plate. But he’s less concerned with how his ankle will react in the moment than how it’ll bounce back the following day.

“That’s going to be the bigger question more than any specific move I make or can’t make,” he said.

Posey also is getting used to the idea that he won’t be fully able to take on a catcher’s full workload in the early stages of the spring.

Then there is the psychology of putting on that gear, especially when there’s a runner on base in a tie game. He’ll have shinguards and a chest protector, sure, but no additional safeguards in the rule book to prevent a runner who decides to bear down on his blind side.

“I mean, I guess that’s going to be easier to answer once I’m out there,” Posey said, picking up the refrain. “The best thing I can do is be as prepared as I possibly can. That’s really all I can do.”

The rest is all wind and spin, bone and sinew.

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Honda Center owners Henry and Susan Samueli were joined

by A n ah e im city l e ade rs Wednesday in a groundbreaking ceremony for a $20 million project described as the most extensive upgrade in the venue’s history.

The city maintains a strong interest in luring the NBA’s Sacramento Kings.

A n a h e i m i s aw a i t i n g a March 1 deadline Kings owne r s h ave fo r S a c r a m e n t o M ayo r Kev i n Jo h n s o n t o reveal a financing plan to build an arena in Sacramento.

“We can envision a day fans will attend NHL hockey, concerts and NBA basketball games here,” Anaheim Mayor Tom Tait said at the ceremony, dropping in the NBA’s old advertising slogan for effect.

“It will be fan-tastic.”

Clearly, the potential of an NBA team’s ar rival in Orang e County prompted the Grand Terrace project, a 15,000-square-foot addition that will include indoor and outdoor seating, a new spor ts-themed restaurant and an expanded team store when completed in early 2013.

Eighty percent of 1,000 memberships to a private Grand Terrace area have been sold.

The NBA last year asked the Kings’ owners, brothers Gavin and Joe Maloof, to wait one more year before moving the team to Anaheim to give Sacramento a chance to produce an arena plan.

A Sacramento task force called “Think Big” is prepared to unveil its plan for a $387 million downtown railyard arena project to the City Council Tuesday, hoping the council will ultimately approve the plan at its Feb. 28 meeting.

Jeremiah Jackson, project manager of the task force, said the venue can be paid for with the help of a parking deal, the sale of existing land where Arco Arena stands and profits from digital signage around the arena.

“The ball’s in Sacramento’s court,” Jackson said. “This is the fourth quarter, and Sacramento’s at the free-throw line. I believe the deal will get done.”

The Maloofs declined comment about Sacramento’s plan.

Samueli said he’s “just waiting and standing on the sidelines” of the Sacramento situation. “If (the Maloofs) need to come to us in the future, they have our phone number.”

Samueli said the vision of adding an NBA team to Anaheim “hasn’t changed,” re g a rd l e s s o f t h e ye a r ’ s wait or Seattle’s newly professed interest in soliciting the Kings. The SuperSonics left Seattle and became the Oklahoma City Thunder in the 2008-09 season.

“We welcome everyone to participate in the process,” Samueli said. “We’re absolutely convinced this market and region can support (the NBA).”

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Jerry Sandusky, former Penn State assistant football coach, faces 52 charges of sexually molesting 10 children.

Lawyer: Sandusky no threat to schoolkids

By Peter Hall McClatchy-Tribune A L L E N T OW N, P a . — Jerry Sandusky’s attor ney said neighbors’ fears were unfounded that the for mer Penn State football coach would pose a danger to schoolchildren if he were allowed to leave his house.

In court papers filed Wednesday, attorney Joseph Amendola opposed a request by state prosecutors to keep Sandusky inside his State College, Pa., home, where he has been under house arrest awaiting trial on child sexual abuse charges.

Amendola said Sandusky had obeyed the conditions of his bail and always obtained approval of a Centre County probation official to leave his house.

“Jerry can’t open his front door to let his dog, Bo, out without someone contacting law enforcement authorities to report his whereabouts.

For all practical purposes, he has been a prisoner in his own home since Nov. 5 when he was initially arrested,” Amendola said in a statement.

The state attorney general’s office on Tuesday asked Judge John M. Cleland to tighten the conditions of Sandusky’s $250,000 bail to kee p him indoors except in case of a medical emergency.

Senior De puty Attor ney General Jonelle Eshbach cited complaints from neighbors who said they had seen Sandusky shoveling snow and standing on the rear deck of the house.

According to a memo from a state agent to probation officials, teachers at a nearby elementary school were concer ned that Sandusky was watching the children play during recess. Such alarm “is totally unfounded,” Amendola wrote in a court filing.

S a n d u s k y, 6 8 , f a c e s 5 2 charges of sexually molesting 10 children. According to grand jury reports, the abuse occurred in his home, on the Penn State campus and elsewhere between 1994 and 2008.

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Sprinter Shannelle Stephens finished third in the 55-meter dash with a time of 7.08 seconds at the Run for the Dream Invitational on Jan. 20. Stephens will compete in the 60 and 200-meter events at both the Flotrack Husky Classic and University of Washington Open in Seattle.

Bulldogs run north The women’s indoor track and field team is headed to Seattle for a double dose of competition this weekend at the Flotrack Husky Classic and University of Washington Open

By Tim Salazar The Collegian The women’s track and field team is in Seattle to compete in two meets spanning three days. The ‘Dogs will compete in the Flotrack Husky Classic b e g i n n i n g t o day through Saturday, and will finish the Olympic-filled weekend on Sunday at the University of Washington Open.

Both events are held at the Dempsey Indoor Facility on Washington’s campus and will compete against some of the best athletes across the country.

The Flotrack Husky Classic will begin at 4 p.m. with the women’s 200-meter race.

Today’s events include the pole vault, the men’s and women’s 200-meter dashes,

the men’s and women’s distance medley relay, the men’s and women’s 5000-meter runs, master’s 200-meter, the club 1-mile followed by the men’s club 3,000 race.

Saturday’s events begin at 9 a.m. and conclude at approximately 6 p.m.

Bulldog sprinter Shanelle Ste phens will be competing in the 60-meter and 200meter events at both meets.

Stephens, who was named

Sysco’s Student-Athlete of the week for the week of Jan. 23 when she ran the 55-meter dash in 7.08 seconds, improved her personal best by 0.9 seconds. The senior is hoping to shave even more time off her personal best this weekend.

“We’ve been working on this all fall so it’s neat to see what my times are,” said Stephens.

Fellow sprinter and teammate Breeauna Thompson will look to repeat her first-

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e’ve been working on this all fall so it’s neat to see what my times are.”

— Shanelle Stephens, senior

place performances in the 200meter and the 400-meter races from the Jacksons Invitational on Jan. 28.

The weekend will mark the end of the regular season for the indoor track and field team before the WAC Indoor Championships on Feb. 23-25.

“Our coach has prepared us for what to expect at competitions,” Stephens said. “We’re all ready.”

Flotrack, which is sponsoring the event for the second straight year, will show different portions of the meet on its website, Flotrack.org. The individual 5,000-meters events and the distance medley relays will be broadcast on Friday and will resume on Saturday for events between 3 and 6 p.m.