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SCALIA’S DEATH SHAKES POLITICAL REALM AS COURT IS NOW EVENLY SPLIT The average age of the Supreme Court justices on Election Day will be 69 Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in a September 2010 file image at the University of California, Hastings. Scalia died on Saturday, Feb. 13, 2016. SEE PAGE 6
CASTRO FORUM
Castro addresses faculty strike, new USU
By Jeanine Fiser @jeaninefiser
Fresno State President Dr. Joseph Castro opened himself and members of his administration up to questions, concerns and even advice from students during a forum Tuesday. Topics of conversation revolved around a shrinking interior design department, the possible faculty strike and even the progression of a new student union building.
Ron Kaewsuriya, a third-year interior design student, voiced major concerns over the possibility of his program losing its accreditation. He said that currently the department only has one full-time faculty member which does not fulfil Council For Interior Design Accreditation (CIDA) requirements. He also reported difficulty with enrolling in necessary classes due to a lack of seat availability. Kaewsuriya said the lack of faculty has
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‘Questionable payments’ among issues investigated at Lyles Center By Collegian Staff @TheCollegian
The director of the Fresno State Lyles Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship received a questionable payment of $3,000, and the Foundation made questionable payments over a two-year period totalling $150,000, a report from the CSU Office of the University Auditor said. Additionally, the report stated that the director, Timothy M. Stearns, had conflicts of interests with the Lyles Center and another corporation of which he is a
partner. The report recommended that Fresno State take many corrective steps to fix the issues — one of which was closing for the school and Foundation close the PayPal account used by Lyles Center and transfer the remaining funds transferred to “appropriate Foundation accounts.” “University administrators will work closely with the center’s director and campus counsel to implement the necessary corrective action items in response to the recommendations contained in the report,” Fresno State Provost Lynnette Zelezny said in an email to the campus.
Earthquake hits California, campus rumbles By Diana Giraldo @DianaInspired
As students sat in class, at 3:04 p.m., a 4.8 magnitude earthquake began to shake their chairs and sway projector screens. Chris Langer, a librarian in the Henry Madden Library, was teaching class in Engineering East when he noticed something was happening.
“It wasn’t a huge shake but you could see the projector screen shaking,” Langer said. “I would have though that is was something being dropped or something like that, but the whole projector screen and the projector was shaking. So you could see the screen moving up and down quite a bit.” The epicenter of the earthquake was about 5 miles away from Big Pine, according to the United States Geological Survey’s website.
“Events with magnitudes of about 4.5 or greater there are several thousand such shocks annually are strong enough to be recorded by sensitive seismographs all over the world,” the website said. Beven Dinis, a senior public health major, was eating her lunch at Taco Bell when she felt the shake. “I didn’t realize it at first but then I thought, ‘Am I just feeling something, or is this really happening?’ she said. “My chair
started moving.” Nahum Diaz, freshman criminology major, was on the third floor of the library studying when he felt the quake. “I was just doing my homework and then I felt the floor move and everybody was like, ‘What? What is happening?’ Diaz said. “So I saw everybody else realize it too so I knew it wasn’t just me. It was enough for me to feel it but it wasn’t a lot.”
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WOMEN’S RIGHTS
VAGINA IS NOT A DIRTY WORD
By Megan Bronson @Bronsosuarus
The amount of fear associated with the word “vagina” is absurd. Tampon commercials completely skirt the word, even though companies are making a profit off of vaginas and their needs. In public schools, the word “vagina” is censored from the web browser, keeping young boys and girls from researching their anatomy. Girls often look both ways before whispering the word, mothers and grandmothers opt for cute nicknames like “lady bits” or “flower,” and men rarely seem to acknowledge the existence of the word. But low and behold, the word vagina still persists in a culture that is trying its hardest to act like it doesn’t. It is really hard to conceive that such fear could evolve from the “v-word.” I mean, Dumbledore did say “fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.” Oh wait, wrong v-word. But people do treat vaginas like Voldemort. There is this fear of the unknown, a fear of “down there,” as if the Mad hatter were going to pop out of our rabbit holes at any time. But the thing is, vaginas are pretty well researched – it is not exactly the Bermuda Triangle under our bikinis. Maybe people have a problem with the word because it is not a pretty word. Truth be told the word “vagina” sounds like some sort of phlegm that gets caught in the back of your throat when you get bronchitis. People walk around saying,
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Opinion and politics editor Megan Bronson recoils in the Speech Arts Building after someone tells her that “vagina” is a dirty word.
“yeah, I got a little bit of vagina in the back of my throat, but some amoxicillin and hot tea will clear that nasty vagina right up.” The problem is that it is a misconception that female anatomy has to look and sound pretty. Women’s bodies don’t have to be dainty. Nothing about a vagina or its capabilities are pretty. Vaginas often bleed, they don’t smell like roses. But they are capable of producing beauty – vaginas give life, and it is not a dainty process. So don’t give our powerful body parts a name that does not give it justice. If girls are taught at a young age that saying “vagina” is discouraged, then they will not have the courage or the language to talk about what is going on with their anatomy, their
reproductive health, or their sexual rights. Talking about our vaginas is something that is limited strictly to sex education, and across the board, our sex education is, at best, under massive construction. When we suppose that vagina is a dirty word, we assume that vaginas are dirty – not fit for human conversation. We flower them up with cute names like “hoo-ha” and wrap tampons in pink swirls. But the reality is that vaginas don’t need nicknames or cute accessories. They need to be visible and respected in conversations about health and rights. Women are oversexualized in our media – from Carl’s Jr commercials to the focus on Kim K’s butt, America is obsessed with women’s sexual bodies.
But anytime we take that sexual aspect out of a woman’s anatomy, we have lost the attention of mainstream America. In fact – we’ve more than lost their attention, we have lost the formal language of women’s anatomy. As people take up the fight for public breastfeeding, they should also be reclaiming the word “vagina.” The ways in which we can combat the fear of this word is simple – use it. You do not have to go out of your way to say vagina, in fact, please don’t go out of your way. The goal is not to make people uncomfortable with over-usage. The goal is to change the way in which we use the word in an effort to make the language of women’s bodies accessible to everyone – not just social activists and health professionals.
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Castro supports faculty, doesn’t think they’ll get 5% CASTRO from Page 1 been an issue for a while, but he does not see anything being done about it. “If it’s been two years, why can’t they find someone?” Kaewsuriya said. “They say they are looking for the best person to fill the position, but it shouldn’t take this long.” Castro apologized to Kaewsuriya for the inconveniences and said the university is focused on growing faculty and improving infrastructure. “I am aware of the challenges, and the most important thing I can say to you is we want the department to thrive,” Castro said. Castro then handed the microphone to Vice Provost Dr. Dennis Nef for additional comments. Nef said the university is aware of the problem. He said a search is underway for two faculty hires and plans are in the works to upgrade the Conley Art Building. “Relative to accreditation, both the senior faculty member in the program and the dean, two weeks ago sent a request to the accredit-
ing body, the CIDA, for a semester to a year extension, and we expect that will be granted,” Nef said. Still Kaewsuriya said he his view of the university has been tainted by his experience. “After all of this, I don’t think Fresno State is something I could recommend anymore.” Another student had concerns over faculty, except this time the question was about how the proposed strike would affect students. Castro directed the student to papers on tables that featured CSU answers to frequently asked questions. He assured the crowd that the California Faculty Association (CFA) and the CSU have agreed that students will not be harmed in terms of graduating or getting the classes they need. He said the CFA has given advance notice as to when a strike would happen – which is planned for April 13 to 19 if an agreement isn’t reached. “The good part of that is that we can plan together so that we minimize the disruption to students,” Castro said. “Will every faculty member decide to strike that day? I don’t know the an-
swer to that. I don’t think so, but I think some will decide to strike and some will decide not to.” Associated Students Inc. president Abigail Hudson brought up the possibility that students may have difficulty getting to class during the strike days. She asked what the university would to do to ensure that students attempting to enter campus would be able to and how students might report any problems. “Our faculty do have the right to strike and to potentially picket at our building and campus entries, but our job is to make sure that the campus operation continues,” said Deborah Adishian-Astone, interim vice president of administrative services and associate vice president for auxiliary operations. “We will be working closely to ensure all our entries to campus both ingress and egress, so coming onto campus as well as leaving campus, that our faculty staff and students are not impacted, are not delayed in getting to their classes, ensuring that our shuttle continues to run.” Castro said other staff unions
who have agreements with the CSU are not allowed to participate in the strike during working hours. However, other non-CSU unions, like those that construction workers and UPS employees often belong to, could possibly join or support the strike. When asked about his administration’s stance on the the strike, Castro said he supports faculty but does not believe there is enough money to meet their demands. “Absent a new investment from the legislature or the governor, it’s hard for me to see the math to get to the 5 percent,” Castro said. “So what we’re trying to do is find the right balance, and the balance is investing more in our faculty and it’s part of a three-year plan of 3 percent last year, 2 percent this year and 2 percent next year.” Castro said Fresno State has taken some action to increase faculty income. “We have actually invested several million dollars above and beyond that for equity programs so our faculty here who were in the situation where their salary might have fallen behind their peers, we
raised them up,” Castro said. Near the end of the forum, Castro mentioned developments on a new student union building. “I think it will transform the campus if the students embrace it,” Castro said. “The next step is in March, I believe. March is when we’re gonna have some designs and concepts based on the conversations that we heard with students in the fall.” Castro said the new student union would alleviate some of the issues students brought up at the forum including the need for a 24hour study space and more late night food options on campus. “It will be up to the students to decide if you all want to contribute towards it. I don’t think it can happen without the students embracing it,” Castro said. “We will be able to raise some money for it privately, but I think by-andlarge it would be a fee that would be approved by the students. I do believe, based on my experience in higher education, that we need something like that to address the changing needs of students.”
Shedding light into the past: a tale of slavery in America By Paul Schlesinger @ PaulSch_Photog
A project shedding light on the genealogical past of Afri-
can-Americans during slavery needs volunteers. The Freedmen’s Bureau Project aims to index the records of people assisted by the Freedmen’s Bureau following the Civil War,
giving African-Americans access to information on ancestors that were thought to be lost in time. The agency, established in the War Department in 1865, provided assistance to tens of thousands
of former slaves and impoverished whites in the South and the District of Columbia, The National Archives and Records Administration said. It issued food and clothing, operated hospitals and temporary camps, helped locate family members, promoted education by establishing schools and more. Universities like Howard and 10 others were formed by the Freedmen’s Bureau, which helped to educate the newly freed, said Dr. De Anna Reese, Fresno State Africana Studies program coordinator. The project is an initiative started by FamilySearch International, the Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History and Culture, the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society and the California African-American Museum. Their ultimate goal is to have the records easily searchable on the FamilySearch International website by June 2016. Information compiled by the project will also be displayed in Washington, D.C. when the Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History and Culture opens later this year. For the project to be finished, people like Sam Singley helped to read digitally preserved doc-
uments and transfer the names of thousands onto searchable archives. They were more than just names to him. “When I see pictures and names on these charts for indexing, they are more than just names,” Singley said. “These are people’s lives. This is part of our history.” Singley also imagined the feeling of being separated from your family while enslaved, then having to find them once you were freed. “It’s kind of hard for me to imagine having your kids sold from you, having your parents taken from you at an early age and put into slavery,” Singley said. “It’s even harder to imagine, once you’re free, how do you find them?” Singley added. Kendalyn Mac, a junior community health student, spoke of the importance of volunteering with the project and shedding light on discovering the roots of her ancestors. “It means everything to me to learn about my ancestors and where I come from all the way back to Africa,” Mac said. Volunteers can join the project by visiting www.discoverfreedmen.org.
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Leans Republican Anthony Kennedy
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Obama says he will follow ‘original intent’ of Constitution and pick a Supreme Court nominee By David G. Savage and Christi Parsons Tribune Washington Bureau/TNS
As key Republicans sounded a partial retreat Tuesday from a vow to not even consider a Supreme Court nomination this year, President Barack Obama said he expected the Senate to do its duty by voting to confirm or reject the candidate he names to fill the seat of the late Justice Antonin Scalia.
Invoking the renowned conservative justice’s legal philosophy, Obama said he would follow the words and “original intent” of the Constitution by choosing a well-qualified nominee, despite Republican calls that he leave the decision until after the election so his successor can fill the seat. The president said he was “amused” that Republicans who call themselves “strict interpreters of the Constitution” are suddenly citing unwritten precedent about not confirming justices during an election year to justify their position.
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“It’s pretty hard to find that in the Constitution,” Obama said during a news conference in Rancho Mirage after a two-day summit of Southeast Asian leaders. “The Constitution is pretty clear about what is supposed to happen now.” “Scalia was a proponent of the idea that the Constitution should be interpreted literally, and literally as somebody in the 18th Century would have understood it, the era when it was written and ratified,” said Dr. Thomas Holyoke, professor of political science at Fresno State. “He felt it was dangerously presumptuous for judges to in any way re-interpret the meaning of the Constitution, even in a well meant effort to make it relevant for the 21st Century,” he said. Obama acknowledged that Scalia’s replacement could change the balance of the court, but he challenged Republicans to put aside partisan considerations. “It’s the one court where we would expect elected officials to rise above day-today politics, and this will be the opportunity for senators to do their job,” he said. “I expect them to hold hearings. I expect there to be a vote. Full stop.” Obama’s comments came hours after two key Senate Republicans voiced reservations about Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s suggestion over the weekend that there should be no nomination process during an election year. Strategists said GOP leaders may have made a tactical mistake that could trigger a public backlash. “Scalia’s death also means a lot of cases this term will probably not be decided because of tie 4-4 votes, which effectively means that the decisions of the lower courts will stand,” Holyoke said. Sen. Charles Grassley, the 82-year-old Iowa Republican who chairs the Judiciary Committee, told reporters Tuesday he may be open to holding hearings on Obama’s nominee. “I would wait until the nominee is made before I would make any decisions ... In other words, take it a step at a time,” he told radio reporters in Iowa. North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis warned that if Republicans rejected an Obama nominee “sight unseen” they would “fall into the trap of being obstructionists.” Three days earlier, Grassley had insisted the “standard practice” was not to confirm new Supreme Court justices in an election year. “It only makes sense that we
defer to the American people who will elect a new president” in November, he said Saturday. Legal experts, however, cite more than a half-dozen examples since 1900 of justices being confirmed during a presidential election year. Grassley was among the 97 senators who voted unanimously to confirm Justice Anthony M. Kennedy in February of 1988, the final year of President Ronald Reagan’s term. He filled a vacancy that arose in June of 1987 when Justice Lewis Powell retired. Reagan chose Kennedy in late November after Judge Robert Bork was defeated in the Senate. Obama said that there is nothing in the Constitution to suggest the president’s nominee should be not considered and voted on in his last year in the White House. “Historically, this has not been viewed as a question,” he said. “Senator Mitch McConnell, the Senate Majority Leader, wants to wait until next year when there is a new president, meaning the Court will go at least 11 months without a new justice” said Holyoke. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said the Senate’s tradition was to approve qualified “mainstream candidates.” “Every single senator has a right to vote no on any given nominee,” he said in a statement. “But the wisdom of the founding fathers dictates that we should go through the full vetting and confirmation process so that we and the nation can determine whether those candidates are out of the mainstream in this ideological era.” White House aides say the president and his team have just begun to consider nominees for the high court, and they do not expect an announcement for at least several weeks. The Supreme Court announced Tuesday that Scalia’s body will lie in repose in the Great Hall of the court on Friday. His funeral Mass will be held Saturday at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington.
Savage reported from Washington. Parsons reported from Rancho Mirage. Staff writer Michael A. Memoli in Washington contributed to this report. Collegian Writer Megan Bronson contributed to this report.
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Bulldogs open 2016 season 1-1 By Daniel Leon @DanLeon1994
The Fresno State lacrosse team opened its 2016 campaign with a win Friday over Stetson, but its momentum stalled Sunday at the hands of the Denver Pioneers. Sunday’s 15-3 conference loss to Denver saw the Bulldogs get outmatched and fall behind early. The Pioneers went on a 12-0 run to open the game before sophomore Lindsay Hobson scored a pair of goals to cut the lead to 10 entering the half. The ‘Dogs’ halftime adjustments proved to slow DU’s offense, but their offense never broke through as they were outscored 3-1 at the half. Rachael McKinnon and Christa Reese scored a combined seven goals to lead the Pioneers. “We were off our game,” said Fresno State fifth-year head coach Jessica Giglio. “We could not match up physically, and it was a rough start. At halftime, we adjusted and talked about being more physical and playing with a sense of urgency. But, in order to hang with the stronger teams in our conference, we have to play strong from the start.” Friday’s match had been different story as the ‘Dogs dominated the Stet-
son Hatters 14-6 behind a solid allaround effort. Sophomore Nicole Ortlieb and junior team captain Caroline Dineen-Carlson powered the Bulldogs’ offense with four and three goals, respectively. “I think I played a good game today,” Dineen-Carlson said. “It was our first game so I focused on being more calm and collected, and I think that benefit me.” Friday also featured the Greek Night promotion that drew a goodsized crowd for the team’s season opener. “When the Red Wave comes out, it makes us feel excited,” Giglio said. “It was a great night. We were able to feel the crowd and feed off the energy. It was awesome playing in Bulldog Stadium but this [setting] is much more intimate for us and it feeds the girls. The crowd is like or sixth man in basketball terms.” Last year’s team set a new program record for most single-season wins with four, and that has injected some high expectations into this year’s team. “Our goal is conference playoffs,” Giglio said. “It’s something that we’ve set our sights on, and we’re going to be relentless this season in trying to get our goals met.”
‘Dogs pull off season sweep of Wolf Pack WOMEN’S BASKETBALL from Page 8 closed Nevada’s gap to 31-26 at the half. Alex Furr ignited the third quarter for the Bulldogs with a 3-pointer. The Bulldogs turned up their defensive tempo as they forced costly turnovers for Nevada and capitalized with a 10-0 run of their own to take a 45-39 lead into the fourth quarter. Furr was pleased with the play and support of her teammates throughout the game, even through a short shooting slump. “I wasn't really feeling good at halftime about my shots, and my teammates were like ‘just keep shooting your shots. The next one is going in,’” she said. Furr scored six straight points in the run, and after the Bulldogs forced a shot-clock violation and with five seconds left in third quarter, Collins nailed a layup at the buzzer. The Bulldogs shot 44 percent (25-of-57) from the field and knocked down 11-of-15 (.733) from the free-throw line. The 'Dogs held Nevada to 35 percent (20-of-58) from the field and had a 17-8 advantage in points off turnovers and 17-11 in bench scoring. Furr led the Bulldogs with 14 points, hitting three 3-pointers and sinking five free throws. Smith finished with 13 points and six rebounds, and Davalos notched her 12th double-double of the season with 11 points and a game-high 10 rebounds to go with nine blocks and five assists. Nyasha Lesure led Nevada with 15 points, and Stephanie Schmid added 10 points.
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Fresno State junior forward Emilie Volk shoots a jumper from the free-throw line during Sunday’s 65-56 win over MW rival Nevada.
The Fresno State women’s basketball team defeated Nevada 65-56 in comeback fashion during its Pink Out game Sunday afternoon at the Save Mart Center. The Bulldogs completely took over in the fourth quarter with a flurry of shots and, defensive pressure. Senior Moriah Faulk converted a layup to extend the Bulldogs, lead to 55-47. Sophomore center Bego Faz Davalos scored seven points in the quarter, and her jumper with 1:12 left gave the ‘Dogs a 10-point lead (61-51). Head coach Jaime White was impressed with the team's defensive intensity after halftime. “I thought, defensively, we came out a little more focused,” White said. “We did a good job staying in the press. It was nice to see us step up and defend a little bit better.” Nevada sophomore guard Halie Bergman made a 3-pointer, which brought the Wolf Pack back within seven, but Toni Smith answered with a 3-point play of her own to extend Fresno State's lead to 11 and seal the Bulldog victory. Early in the first quarter, the teams traded baskets, and the game was tied at nine apiece. Then the Bulldogs went on an 8-2 run to close out the quarter at 17-11. Senior guard Shauqunna Collins started the second quarter with a strong move to the basket, and Smith drained a pair of free throws to push Fresno State's lead to 21-14 with 9:01 to play in the first half. The Wolf Pack then went on a 17-0 run, spanning more than eight minutes and pushing Nevada ahead 31-21. The 'Dogs missed seven field goals in that stretch, while Nevada converted 7-of-12 field goal attempts and knocked down two free throws. A deep, 3-point shot from the left corner by Faulk ended the Bulldogs' scoreless drought, and another crafty layup by Collins
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Fresno State’s Natalie Yorba (left) and Abigail Bergevin battle a pair of Denver Pioneers for a loose ball during Sunday’s conference matchup at the Soccer and Lacrosse Field.
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