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STUDENT LOANS: WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW

By Jessica Chamberlain The Collegian

As tuition and fees begin to increase for CSU’s and UC’s alike, students are turning to various ways of paying for their education.

A s eve r y o t h e r o u t l e t i s exhausted in regard to financial aid with grants and scholarships from schools and the federal and state governments, it leaves only one option, and that is to take out a loan.

According to research done by the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study, 65.6 percent of four-year degree students graduated with some sort of student loan debt.

The average amount of debt for undergraduate degree students for the years 2007-08, was $23,186 for graduating seniors.

Among those students who applied for federal student aid of some sort, 86.3 percent took out a student loan that averaged an amount of $24,651 by the time they graduated.

This means that only 14 percent of students that apply for financial aid receive enough support financially from family or from grants that they are able to avoid this situation.

This is a problem, especially with the poor economy and 1,450 students that graduate from Fresno State not being able to find a good paying job, according to a previous article in The Collegian.

These statistics include Stafford, Perkins, state, college and private loans in the numbers.

It is a scary thought to think of paying the loan back and how long it will take. According to colle gescholarships.org, the amount that a person will be paying back and the length of time depends upon the interest rate for the loan.

Interest rates based on a national average are 6.8 percent for Stafford loans, Perkins loans are fixed at 5 percent, and Parent and Grad PLUS loans are at 8.5 percent and 7.9 percent for the federal direct loan program. For private student loans, it is decided by the bank that the money was borrowed from and can change at any time.

If a student based on the national average, graduated with a debt of $23,186 and had an interest rate of 6.8 percent, the student will be paying an additional $1576.48 a year until the loan is paid off.

According to Maria Her nandez, the financial aid director for Fresno State, last year Fresno State had 2,100 students graduating with student loan debt that needed to complete an exit interview.

“Annually we have approximately 8,000-9,000 student borrowers, plus or minus,” she said.

“Those students will all gradu-

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Save Mart Center traffic fiasco

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ate or leave campus at some point and will therefore go into repayment.”

There is some hope with changes in the Higher Education Access Act of 2007 that will affect interest rates for loans. For example, Stafford student loan interest rates are being reduced to 3.4

percent gradually between 2007-2012.

But will this be enough?

J u l i e t Wi l l i a m s o f t h e Associated Press reported that CSU Trustees voted to increase tuition this winter and spring each semester by 5 percent and another 10 percent next fall semester.

The Save Mart Center’s “Get Motivated” event caused some chaos for Fresno State students and staff.

Heavy traffic caused delays for students getting to their classes, and even resulted in some classes being cancelled.

T h e S ave M a r t C e n t e r issued a formal apology to students, faculty and staff.

“Our goal is to bring a variety of events to the building and our community, but, in hindsight, this decision did not serve the best interests of our campus community ... which is our priority,” Debbie Adishian-Astone, associate vice president for Auxiliary Operations, said in the statement. “On behalf of the Association and the Save Mart Center, I apologize for the problems caused by today’s event and I want you to know that we will closely evaluate future non-University events of this size to be held on weekdays and during the University’s regular business hours.”

In response to the traffic problems, the University Police Department sent several e-mails to students and staff war ning them of the congestion and suggesting areas to enter and exit campus that may not be so crowded.

The university also relaxed parking in yellow parking lots and metered parking to aid students in the problem.

Global events foreign to some students

“We are ignorant because we live in a society where people are only concerned about what goes on in their lives and Although anti-government in their bubbles,” criminology protesting in Egypt has been major Kendra Chambers said. in the news for weeks, their “If a situation is not directly struggle might be recent news af fecting us then we have to some Fresno State students. no reason to take a personal “I honestly don’t even know interest in it.” what’s going on,” Karissa Fresno State jour nalism Warkentin, a public health professor Kelley McCoy conmajor, said. “I haven’t been ducted a survey in her global w at ch i n g o r re a d i n g t h e communication class about news.” students’ awareness of foreign Although certain students events. can admit to being unaware of “I asked students in my the events taking place across global communication class the world, it can be harder for how many of them paid attenthem to explain why. tion to foreign news — by

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reading newspapers, watching TV newscasts, going online, whatever,” McCoy said. “Very few raised their hands.”

Social work major Lilliana Villalobos heard about the protests in Egypt through a friend before she saw them on the news or heard about them through other media.

“For some reason our country is just not really interested in social involvement,” Villalobos said. “We are concentrating on our personal priorities rather than politics.”

A recent survey conducted by the Pew Center for the People & the Press found that

52 percent of Americans have heard little or nothing regarding the anti-government protests taking place in Egypt.

“Many Americans, because of the United States’ geographic isolation and economic military strength, are lulled into a false sense of security,” McCoy said. “There is also a certain arrogance, a sense of exceptionalism that I think shapes our perception of ourselves in regard to others.”

The Pew survey showed that the American public’s news habits have been greatly changed by the Internet and 24-hour cable news.

“In the Middle East, people have no faith in the media,” Egyptian student in the U.S. Sherif Fouad said in an e-mail. “For example, the regular Egyptians do not make a judgment on a political matter before exploring as many resources as they can. They also are interested in listening to the enemy media. As the Egyptian masses have equal suspicion in both the national and unfriendly media, they analyze both equally based on history, personal knowledge, and well-respected figure’s views.”

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here were Fresno State officers on Wednesday, Feb. 16? Why weren’t they directing traffic for the “Get Motivated” seminar, one of the most publicized events in Fresno’s recent history?

Where were the signs directing seminar attendees to the Save Mart Center parking lots? Why were attendees permitted to park illegally on campus while those with the legal right to park were denied access?

Why weren’t entries to the campus blocked, permitting only Fresno State students, faculty and staff to enter?

Why wasn’t the announcement “Traffic heavy near Save Mart Center” posted on the Fresno State website before 12:47 p.m. on Wednesday?

Did no one at Fresno State or the Save Mart Center foresee the traffic problems that would arise from an event featuring such high-profile people as Joe Montana, Colin Powell and Rudolph Giuliani? My question

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is, “How could they not have?” Publicity for the “Get Motivated” seminar had flooded the airwaves for months.

The questions are numerous; the answers are few. Perhaps one word can summarize the disaster — MISMANAGEMENT! Who were the victims of such mismanagement? The answer is simple: the university community. Students braved the elements only to learn their classes were canceled. Students commuting long distances faced traffic gridlock. Faculty and staff had no place to park amid the colossal debacle.

Mismanagement, indeed! Although the “Get Motivated” seminar was not sponsored

by Fresno State, the university should have taken the initiative to ensure that the campus community would not endure hardship as a result of a non-university function.

— Patricia LaRosa, Ph.D. Craig School of Business

Budget cuts put cap on enrollment

recently learned the university is cutting enrollment by more than 2,000 students this upcoming fall. This is without a doubt the worst move the university can make in this economic crisis — it has tremendously negative long-term effects.

This enrollment cut will result in more than $20 million less for the university. The longterm results of this will be professor layoffs, and even further enrollment cuts.

The university needs to increase enrollment, but additionally, increase the number of online courses offered. Students, professors and university officials all know which G.E. classes could be offered as an online class without ruining the value of education from that course. Drama 62, Political Science 2, English 5A and Math 45 are just a few of those courses. Transition classes like these into online classes of

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400 or more students and transition other classes into the 200-student lecture halls.

With increased enrollment comes increased money flow to the university from tuition and the State of California.

This extra money can help offset university financial obligations, as well as compensate professors for the increase of students in their classes. I wish the current ASI President would stand up for the students he is supposed to represent and stand up against these enrollment cuts to the university board. If there are more students to share the financial burden from this economic crisis, the extra burden will not be as much for each student, meaning smaller tuition increases.

— Daniel J. Harrison Political Science and Economics Major

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‘Sarah’: “I also think that this holiday is a bit overrated, and the iPhone is a bit too expensive and a bit less romantic to be a good present for this occasion. I’d be moved sooner by some heartshaped chocolates and a teddy bear than by a gadget. But of course, maybe it’s all just due to my young age.”

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‘CSTA’: “CSTA (California Science Teachers Association) is thrilled to have the Natural Science Club at CSU Fresno as one of our student chapters. The work the chapter is doing serves as a model for other student science clubs around the state. We’d like to mention that, in addition to attending CMC and NSTA professional development events, Fresno State students can take advantage of CSTA’s preservice and new teacher programs offered at our professional development conference. ”

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he AIDS pandemic, the beginning of the Iran-Iraq War, the Chrysler Lebaron, cocaine, famine in Ethiopia, headbands, assassinations, acid-wash jeans, Mount St. Helens erupted and mullets were in — oh, the ‘80s.

Undoubtedly it was a memorable decade, but one that I, for the most part, would rather erase from my memory.

Really, what was going on in western society in those days?

Maybe it was just a peaceloving-LSD hangover.

It’s easy to go through a timeline of any decade and create a laundry list of tragedies, and the same can be said in our current time.

Although there were some particularly heartbreaking events, I would rather discuss the more lighthearted aspects.

Now there seems to be a minor ‘80s fashion flashback among teens. The interesting thing is that these teens weren’t around during that time. Well I was, so let me clear something up for them: The ‘80s sucked!

I hope teens don’t feel as if they missed out during the ‘80s and are trying to relive a portion of it. Please don’t take the ‘80s flashback any further.

Consider yourself lucky that you missed it.

When I think about the ‘80s, I remember aerobics instructors in leg warmers, spandex, headbands, big hair and too much makeup. Or was that the male rock bands? Oh that’s right, it was both.

Then in the late ‘80s there was the parachute pants crowd that preferred a perfectly square flat top with three lines etched in the side of their head and a leather jacket. Then again that crowd was ready for “Hammer Time” in 1990.

Far be it from me to offer advice on current fashion. I’ll always be happy with a good pair of jeans and boots, but if parachute pants make a comeback, then I might have to push somebody out of a plane just to see if they work.

Not only was there an identity crisis in fashion, but also in the automobile industry. As a big fan of automobiles, I consider the ‘80s one of the darkest times in the last century.

It’s not really possible to look cool driving a 1984 Chrysler Lebaron. Or compare the 1984 Corvette that produced a measly 250 horsepower as compared to the 1970 model that produced more than 400.

Cars were the size of battleships, horrifically ugly, poorly manufactured and underpowered. On the bright side, there is now an endless supply of demolition-derby cars at scrap yards.

In short the decade was bland and boring in some areas, yet bright, flashy and repulsive in others. The flashback has gone far enough with the sunglasses, T-shirts and jewelry. Let’s stop before it gets ridiculous.

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ACLU raises concerns at ASI meeting

By Michael Kincheloe The Collegian The Associated Students, Inc. meeting returned to the University Student Union Wednesday after noon, and legal tensions concerning two members of the executive branch took center stage — again.

Following the public comment segment of the meeting, the senate went into closed session. The public was asked to temporarily leave the room, with the four senate executive officers leaving as well.

During the interval, the senate passed a motion allowing a limited waiver of the attor-

ney-client privilege to permit a local attorney to make a public presentation.

Olga Balderama, an attorney with Baker, Manock & Jensen, the local law fir m that advises ASI, explained that her office “was asked to respond to certain concerns that were raised by the ACLU re garding the process” in which formal reviews for ASI President Pedro Ramirez and Vice President of Finance C e s a r S a n ch e z h a d b e e n scheduled for Jan. 26.

The first concern raised by the ACLU was that the senate’s actions would violate the due process rights of Ramirez and Sanchez.

“We reviewed that issue and concluded that the ACLU was not correct,” Balderama said.

“The ASI is a private, nonprofit public benefit corporation; it is not a governmental entity.”

Due process requirements apply only to governmental entities.

The second concern raised by the ACLU was valid, said Balderama, in that Ramirez and Sanchez could only be removed from office as a result of missing three or more senate or executive officer meetings in one semester, or because of academic disqualification or disciplinary action taken by the university.

Balderama concluded by stating that the bylaws do not provide for removal based on a violation of the ASI Code of Conduct.

“The senate and personnel committee will be working to review the bylaws and to fix these issues,” ASI Executive Vice President Selena Farnesi said.

The public comment segment, which preceded the legal presentation produced a number of statements from students as well as members of the community.

Fresno State Student Neil O’Brien presented a letter from Hugo Gonzalez, complaint analyst for the State

Bar of Califor nia. Dated Feb. 1, 2011, the letter states that Jessica S. Bobadilla [Ramirez’s attorney] is not licensed to practice law in California. She is, however, licensed to practice law in New York. Out-of-state attorneys are allowed to practice immigration law in California.

Kingsburg High School senior Paul Doran said that he was considering attending Fresno State, “But after looking at what you guys have for representation, I am dropping that option.”

Chick-Fil-A accused of discrimination

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Chik-fil-A has taken some heat for its hiring practices. The national fast food chain has been accused of discriminating against gays and other non-Christians.

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Chick-fil-A, the fast food restaurant chain that claims to have invented the chicken sandwich, has been accused of discriminating against employees in some locations nationwide.

The restaurant was accused of discrimination after allegedly sponsoring a group called Focus on the Family— an organization that is against gay marriage and abortion rights.

The company has more than 1,500 locations across the United States, and is the only national fast-food chain that is closed on Sunday.

“Our decision to close on Sunday was our way of honoring God,” the company’s founder, S. Truett Cathy said.

Those who operate Chickfil-A franchises are expected to utilize their Sundays by going to church and spending time with their families, and those who don’t go along with the rule risk having their contracts terminated.

“You don’t have to be a Christian to work at Chickfil-A, but we ask you to base your business on biblical principles because they work,” Cathy, who opened his first restaurant in 1946, said.

There are disagreements about non-Christians being allowed to work at one of Cathy’s restaurants. Aziz Latif was a Chick-fil-A restaurant manager in Houston when he refused to participate in a group prayer to Jesus Christ at a company training program. The following day he was fired.

Aziz, who is Muslim, sued for employment discrimination. His attorney said that Aziz was fired “for not conforming.”

“Religion should not be brought into the workplace,” attor ney Ajay Choudhary said. “Prayer should be, if anything, a private purpose, not a corporate purpose.”

The suit was settled on undisclosed terms.

M a rk B a l dw i n , s e n i o r communications supervisor for Chick-fil-A, tur ned down “an interview at this time,” but sent a press release titled Chick-fil-A’s Closedon-Sunday Policy. The policy states that “…more than 60 years ago, Cathy knew that he would not deal with money on the ‘Lord’s Day.’ Today, the Closed-on-Sunday policy is reflected in the company’s Corporate Purpose:” To glorify God by being a faithful steward of all that is entrusted to us, and to have a positive

2 people die in Sierra National Forest shooting

By Associated Press BASS LAKE, Calif. (AP) — A SWAT team surrounded a home in rural Madera County Wednesday night after two people were shot and killed at a resort restaurant near the Sierra National Forest, authorities said.

SWAT officers went to the home after two women were fatally shot around 1 p.m.

Wednesday at Ducey’s on the Lake, a restaurant on Bass Lake, said Madera County

sheriff’s spokeswoman Erica Stuart.

The suspect fled to the home after the shooting, but because the home is in a heavily wooded area, authorities did not know if the suspect fled into the nearby woods, or remained inside the home.

The home is about three miles away from the restaurant.

The suspect’s car and fresh footprints were found near the home, according to Stuart.

“He was in the house earlier,” she said.

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have not released the name of the two women, or of the suspect. It’s not known what sparked the shooting.

One of the victims was found dead in the kitchen of the restaurant, while the second victim was found inside a van parked in front of the restaurant, Stuart said.

The restaurant is on the edge of the Sierra National Forest, about 50 miles north of Fresno.

influence on all who come in contact with Chick-fil-A. Chick-fil-A has promoted religious g roups through their children’s meals as well, including toys from the Christian television series “VeggieTales” and CDs from the Christian radio program “Adventures in Odyssey”, which is produced by the evangelical Christian organization Focus on the Family.

Chick-fil-A funds the WinShape Foundation, whose endeavors include summer camps for boys and girls, foster homes and a marriage retreat. The stated purpose of the latter is “to minister to couples in strengthening their marriages.”

Not everyone is welcome, however. While Chick-fil-A will serve chicken sandwiches to gays, same-sex couples are not accepted at the marriage retreat.

“We do not accept homosexual couples,” was the official reply from WinShape.

At Fresno State’s Chickfil-A location, assistant manager Marisol Martinez referred all inquiries to corporate headquarters in Atlanta.

The campus Chick-fil-A does offer certain advantages.

“There’s never a line,” freshman Kaylen Burton said. “It’s easy and convenient.”

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According to The Pew survey, the emergence of instant media in the American public has not helped to improve its knowledge of national and international affairs.

“I think our media concentrates a lot more on pop culture rather than what is really going on in the world,” Villalobos said.

The Pew survey also showed that “on average, today’s citizens are about as able to name their leaders, and are about as aware of major news events, as was the public nearly 20 years ago.”

“It’s sad to think that it would take gas going up to $6 a gallon for many Americans to become interested in foreign news, but that’s probably what it would take,” McCoy said.

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Vagina Monologues cancellation rumor this year is dismissed is headquartered in Fresno, with three shelters operating throughout Fresno County.

Some students were worried about Every year around Valentine’s how the possible elimination of this Day, Fresno State and the Women’s performance would have affected the Resource Center are overwhelmed not community. only by love and happiness, but by one For mer cast member Starla M. word — vagina.

Williams recited a monologue last year A rumor that the annual play, the titled, “My Vagina was my Village.”

Vagina Monologues, was going to be Williams said the community would cancelled this year circulated around have missed out on “the opportunity to campus during the past few months. raise money for local women’s groups But the rumor is now put to rest. and shelters and the opportunity to T h e Va g i n a M o n o l o g u e s i s a spread awareness and understanding performance put on nationally during about real problems women face.”

V-Day season, Feb. 1-April 30.

Williams said she would definitely be The Vagina Monologues is set to take a cast member again this year. place Tuesday, April 26 from 7 p.m. to Pam Williams, an inter n at the 10 p.m. in the Satellite Student Union.

Wo m e n ’ s Re s o u r c e C e n t e r, a n d The play took place last year at the end S . P. E . A . K . , S t u d e n t s P r o v i d i n g of February.

Empower ment Advocacy and The Fresno State campus, as well Education, are in charge of hosting the as other universities around the Vagina Monologue this year. She said country, put on this play in support they would be holding auditions within of a global cause — to end violence the next month after scripts arrive. against women. The play portrays the O s c a r P e r e z , S . P. E . A . K . c l u b difficulties and struggles of women all president, is directing the Vagina over the world, and how they surpass Monologues this year with Williams. them.

P. O . W. E . R . , It is meant to Pe o p l e O r g a n i z e d inspire and empower for Women’s his play is a way for women, as well as Empower ment and women to not feel educate men in Re presentation, alone about their issues an emotional, but previously hosted the entertaining way. and for men to understand Vagina Monologues.

Business major R a n d i Wy a t t , women a lot more.”

Jazmine Yepez is a Women’s Alliance former cast member t re a s u re r, s a i d i t — Jazmine Yepez, wo u l d h ave b e e n i n t h e Va g i n a Former cast member u n f o r t u n a t e a n d Monolo gues. She said she would have disappointing if continued being a Fresno State couldn’t cast member, but she couldn’t find the host the Vagina Monologues this year. time.

“Ending violence against women is “This play is a way for women to not an important movement that people in feel alone about their issues and for Fresno are involved in,” Wyatt said. men to understand women a lot more,” The Women's Alliance is also looking Yepez said. “Last year people told me at holding events this semester, in they loved it.” addition to the Vagina Monologues.

Yepez played a role in the Vagina March is considered “Herstory” Monologues for one season. She said month, a month for women’s history. she introduced the next cast member There will be numerous events during doing a monologue by saying a fun fact.

March including “Wheel of Questions” “It was kind of short,” Yepez said. and “Papers.”

The play serves the community, as The Women’s Alliance is planning well as the campus. A portion of the two film screenings and a workshop proceeds from Vagina Monologues and presentation for men in April. goes to agencies that work to end Volunteers are welcome to send word violence against women, such as the to the Center for Women & Culture if Marjaree Mason Center. they would like to be involved. The The Marjaree Mason Center is a nonWomen’s Alliance meetings are every profit and sheltered-based program other week, Mondays at 9:15 a.m. and that houses women and children who Tuesdays at 3:15 p.m. in the Center are believed to be victims of domestic for Women & Culture in the Thomas violence. The Marjaree Mason Center building, room 110A.

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Testosterone rules the big screen this weekend

By Maddie Shannon The Collegian This weekend’s films have a specific audience in mind: guys.

While today brings 12 new movies to movie theaters across the country, only a few are being shown in local theaters. Among them are films that are particularly testosterone-oriented.

“Unknown,” starring Liam Neeson, uses Neeson’s physical stamina to the film’s advantage in a role that Neeson fans will liken to his role in “Taken.”

Less intense but just as marketed to a male audience is “Big Momma: Like Father, Like Son,” which will please fans of the first two films, but not so much the girlfriends of those fans.

Here is a rundown of this weekend’s movies.

Unknown (PG-13) What it’s about: Dr. Martin Harris and his wife, Liz, travel to Berlin on a business trip when they find themselves in a car accident, sending their taxi flying into Berlin’s Rhine River.

Martin wakes up four days later in a German hospital with no wife and no I.D. After his discharge from the hospital, he confronts his wife at the hotel to find she thinks she’s married to someone else – a man who has everyone convinced he’s Dr. Martin Harris.

Surrounded by people who either don’t remember him or are trying to kill him, Harris sets out to prove he is the man he says he is.

Why you should see it: Liam Neeson, true to his taste in scripts, takes on another role where the world is out to get him, and it’s up to him to fix it. Similar to his role in “Taken,” he comes up against forces that alter his life. In this film, however, the person he has to save is himself, not his daughter.

Star ring: Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger and January Jones.

I Am Number Four What it’s about: “I Am Number Four,” adapted from a teen literature novel of the same name, chronicles the journey of John Smith, a teenage fugitive looking to escape his enemies – who will stop at nothing to track him down and kill him. As he moves from place to place with his guardian, Henri, he meets his first love, Sarah. His special abilities enable him to protect himself and the ones he loves.

Why you should see it: As cliché as some young adult fiction might be, the movies they inspire always make for good cinema. Diana Agron carries the most of the film with poise only seen in glamorous ingénues of Hollywood folklore.

Starring: Alex Pettyfer, Timothy Olyphant, Teresa Palmer and Dianna Agron.

Big Momma: Like Father, Like Son What it’s about: FBI agent Malcolm Turner, in the third installment of the Big Momma Series, heads to an all-girls arts school in the south to hunt down a killer. This time, however, he has backup: his nephew, Trent. As Malcolm takes a job as a housemother to a sorority on campus, he and his nephew find themselves in plenty of cross-dressing skirmishes.

Why you should see it: Moviegoers who are fans of the first two Big Momma movies will like this film for the cheap laughs. More intelligent film audiences, however, will think the immature racial jokes and the way the film objectifies women makes for a terrible comedy only produced to make 20th Century Fox more money.

S t a r r i n g : M a r t i n L aw r e n c e, Brandon T. Jackson and Jessica Lucas.

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History of Fresno State in Pictures In honor of Fresno State’s Centennial

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Phillip Ogilvie, a Fresno State track runner during the 2001-2002 season, was featured in the Friday, Feb. 22, 2002, issue of The Collegian.

News Briefs

Brief news for the brief attention span LONDON (AP) — Rocker Rod Stewart has become a father for the eighth time.

The 66-year-old Stewart’s wife, Penny Lancaster, gave birth to a baby boy Wednesday.

A statement released Thursday on the couple’s behalf said they were “proud and thrilled.”

Aiden is Stewart and Lancaster’s second child.

T h e y h ave a n o t h e r s o n , Alastair, who is 5.

The veteran rock star has six other children from previous relationships.

N E W YO R K ( A P ) — Charlie Sheen says he’s never

been drunk or high on the set of his hit sitcom, and that he knows how to deal with a lack of sleep.

In an interview aired Wednesday, the star of CBS’ “Two and a Half Men” said he had sometimes shown up for work after long nights carousing.

Sheen explained that he would ask the director to let him stand beside a piece of fur niture during r unthroughs so he wouldn’t fall over. He joked that his tactic was the sign of “a seasoned professional.”

Production of “Two and a Half Men” has been halted

while Sheen is in rehab. He said production would resume at the end of February.

Sheen had phoned into “The Dan Patrick Show,” which airs in syndication on radio and on satellite TV provider DirecTV.

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‘Dogs draw UC Riverside in Saturday’s BracketBuster Fresno State will play its final non-conference game of the regular season at the Save Mart Center

By Jerry Huerta The Collegian BracketBuster weekend has finally come around for college basketball teams around the nation.

For the Fresno State Bulldogs, it marks another year when they will compete during the ESPN-sponsored event.

The BracketBuster games were created so mid-major schools from around the country could gain more exposure.

With the added exposure, teams get the opportunity to play in front of a larger national audience.

Today, things have changed a little bit regarding the BracketBuster games.

Fresno State head basketball coach

it’s changed a little bit. The one good thing about it is it does help you with scheduling because it could be really difficult for scheduling.”

In deciding the matchups for the BracketBusters, the NCAA uses each team’s Ratings Percentage Index to determine which teams to pit against one another. According to espn.com, the formula used calculates a team’s strength based on its winning percentage, opponent’s winning percentage and opponent’s opponents’ winning percentage.

The NCAA used this for mula to decide which team the Dogs’ would play, matching Fresno State up against UC Riverside Saturday at 7 p.m.

The Dogs’ head into the game with

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t feels so good. The national audience gets to watch us. All around the country they get to see how good the Bulldogs are.”

— Greg Smith, On playing televised games

Steve Cleveland has seen the growth of BracketBuster weekend games since its early beginnings.

“It started out many years ago as something that gave exposure to midmajors,” Cleveland said. “It didn’t involve that many teams. Today, it involves close to 100 teams and there is about 20 of those teams are going to be on television. Initially, it was exposure given to mid-majors who had an opportunity get into the postseason. Today,

a 12-14 record after picking up a win on Wednesday night against Cal State Bakersfield.

UC Riverside comes into tomorrow’s game with a 9-15 record and is currently on a three game losing streak.

Although the Highlanders come in with a losing record, sophomore center Greg Smith isn’t underestimating them.

“It feels great,” Smith said. “Playing against competition that we usually

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Nedeljko Golubovic, a senior, said his Bulldog squad is “on the bubble” right now heading into Saturday’s matchup with UC Riverside.

don’t play every year is a good chance for us to go out and play teams that are close to our level—that has won a couple games. UC Riverside is a good team.

They’re physical. They’re run and gun.

It will be good for us to play against them.”

The game won’t be televised on any of the ESPN networks but some of their games have been televised during the season.

Although the Dogs’ won’t be playing on ESPN, Smith sees the importance of gaining some exposure.

“It feels so good,” Smith said. “The national audience gets to watch us.

All around the country they get to see

how good the Bulldogs are. Put Fresno on the map let them know that we play hard and we compete at the highest level. It’s going to be good for us.”

Senior forward Nedeljko Golubovic also sees how big the BracketBuster game is even though it isn’t going to be on national television.

“It’s a really big game,” Golubovic said. “We are on the bubble right now so it’s really a big game for us. It’s a home game so we don’t really want to lose. To win another game before we finish the conference it’s really important to us.”

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2009 season, when he batted .250 with a career-best 23 homers to go along with 78 RBIs for Cleveland and St. Louis.

DeRosa was traded from the Indians to the Cardinals on June 27 that year but was in the St. Louis lineup for three games before hurting his wrist against San Francisco. He spent a stint on the disabled list for an injury that was later diagnosed as a partially torn tendon sheath.

He would like nothing more than to return to his old self.

Watching the World Series was a thrill but difficult at the same time.

“It was bittersweet,” he said. “To watch these guys elevate their game the way they did ... I’ve been in the league a long time and wanted a chance to play, but I’m very proud of what they did. I get a ring, which no one can ever take away from me.”

DeRosa experienced a 6-for-50 (.120) funk over his final 12 games last year, lowering his average from .267 to .194.

He had one home run and 10 RBIs in only 26 games during his first season with San Francisco and didn’t play

again after May 8 — hardly the way he hoped it would go after he received a $12 million, two-year contract.

“I’m just so excited to be healthy. I feel like if I’m healthy, I’m going to play,” DeRosa said.

Both Bochy and DeRosa’s teammates credit him for staying sharp late in the season even if he was on the sideline.

DeRosa provided guidance to young players on the roster down the stretch, when the Giants clinched their first NL West title since 2003 on the season’s final day against San Diego.

“Certainly I know he was frustrated from last year,” Huff said. “I know how hard it was for him to sit there and watch us go all the way, but I’ll tell you what, what a team leader having not even played. I can’t be more excited for anybody else on the team than to see him get out there this year and start competing again. He can play anywhere other than pitcher and catcher, really.

“You don’t see the behind-the-scenes things (he did). Even though he wasn’t out there on the field he was very much a part of our team and earned that World Series ring as much as anyone else did.”

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That’s just one reason why conference coaches picked the Bulldogs to win the WAC for the sixth consecutive year and selected seven Bulldogs to the preseason All-WAC team.

But looking forward to this season doesn’t go without revisiting last year’s disappointing finish.

The 2010 season marked the first time since 2005 that the Bulldogs missed out on the national tournament, and that was partly due to poor performances at Beiden Field.

The Bulldogs went just 18-17 playing in front of a home crowd while posting an impressive 15-6 record on the road.

There’s no excuse for the poor showings in front of the Red Wave, but an experienced pitching staff should be able to push the Bulldogs past that after going through growing pains as first-time starters last year.

WAC coaches selected Derek Benny

as the preseason pitcher of the year in 2010, but the rangy 6-foot-5-inch pitcher finished 1-3 with an 8.18 ERA in 19 appearances.

Benny’s inconsistent play last season did open up the door for the reserves though. Greg Gonzalez, a junior college transfer just a year ago, surprisingly became the first Bulldog pitcher to throw a no-hitter since Rob Cruess did so in 1976.

With Benny, Gonzalez, Tom Harlan, Josh Poytress, Charlie Robertson and closer Gene Escat taking control, the Bulldogs should be fine from the mound.

But if this team has any hope of reaching Omaha, Neb., the road to the College World Series begins at a place where the Bulldogs have struggled just recently — at home.

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Baseball plays two homes series against Gonzaga and Oregon State. Men’s basketball plays UC Riverside on Saturday as part of the ESPN BracketBusters.

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Gonzaga, Oregon State headline Baseball baseball opening weekend on the horizon

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Returning junior Brennan Gowens had 19 homers last year and will look to lead Fresno State to its third season-opening victory in a row.

By Tim Salazar The Collegian The 2011 Fresno State baseball season opens the 2011 season today with a two-game series against the Gonzaga Bulldogs.

This is both teams’ first

g ame of the season. T he Fresno State Bulldogs enter t h i s ye a r b u i l d i n g o n a Western Athletic Conference re gular-season championship from a year ago, while the Gonzaga Bulldogs are trying to improve on their 20-36 record.

Fresno State’s Jordan Ribera, ranked No. 2 on collegebaseballs360.com’s first baseman to watch, looks to build on his nation leading 27 home runs in 2010. He also batted .343 along with leading the team in runs batted in and total bases.

“This is one of our better teams that we’ve had and we have the talent to compete with anybody this year,” Ribera said.

The opening-night starter for the Bulldogs will be Derek Benny.

“Benny has pitched a lot of big games for us,” head coach Mike Batesole said.

Gonzaga will more than likely use Marco Gonzales, Ryan Carpenter or Tyler Olson in the two games that they will play against Fresno State.

B e n n y, a j u n i o r, w a s a 12-game starter last year and continues to improve his craft. As a freshman, Benny faced UC Irvine when Fresno State played in its last NCAA Regional Tournament.

“You look back at the past sometimes but you can’t dwell on it,” Benny said. “You have to start with a new beginning each year and just do your best.”

Fresno State also has Garrett Weber and Brennan Gowens returning this year hoping to replicate last year’s numbers where they batted .387 and .359 respectively. Also the team’s runs leader Danny Muno will be back. This will be the last time that Muno, Andy Qualls,

Ribera and Weber will take the field on opening day at Fresno State together. Also, in their final year of eligibility are pitchers Gene Escat and Greg Gonzalez.

There will be a chance that the weather will not let the games get under way due to the growing chance of rain.

“We’re just so happy that we’re getting close to opening day that if we got to put that tarp on and off a few times each day we’ll be happy to do it,” Batesole said.

Gonzale z is set to pitch Saturday against Gonzaga, followed by Tom Harlan on Sunday against Oregon State.

A starter is yet to be penciled in for the final game against Oregon State on Monday.

Fresno State will be without junior outfielder Dusty Robinson, who will still be sitting out the first five games.

“Dusty is one of the best p l aye r s i n t h e c o u n t r y, ” Batesole said. “He might be one of the best two or three outfielders in the country, we’re going to miss him considerably this first weekend.”

This weekend Fresno State, Gonzaga and Oregon State will play each other twice during a four-day stretch that takes place at Beiden Field.

The Bulldo gs’ will meet a g a i n o n S a t u r d ay a f t e r Gonzaga’s early game with Ore gon State. On Sunday Oregon State and Gonzaga will finish off their two game meeting.

DeRosa ready to win a job

By Janie McCauley Associated Press SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Mark DeRosa had barely been in the clubhouse for five minutes unpacking his things T h u r s d ay m o r n i n g wh e n Aubrey Huff arrived and the razzing began.

DeRosa is loving it. The San Francisco utilityman feels like a new man this spring.

He’s healthy at last, truly part of the team again.

His troublesome left wrist finally healed following a second surgery that cost him most of last season, DeRosa is ready to do whatever is asked of him for the reigning World Series champions. Manager Bruce Bochy’s plan: play him everywhere.

“I’m 100 percent ready to go, ready to reclaim my spot in the world,” DeRosa declared with a grin Thursday. “It’s been a year and a half since I’ve swung a bat with no pain.

So that’s been the nicest thing, just to go through an offseason doing all the things I’m used to doing — working out, hitting, holding my kids, playing golf.

Everything was affected by it.”

DeRosa will take groundballs during camp at each spot of the infield, including shortstop to give the Giants some insurance behind new addition Miguel Tejada.

B o c hy a n d D e Ro s a m e t Thursday in the skipper’s office to map out a schedule for the coming weeks, when DeRosa also will get some work in the outfield. He had been projected as the team’s starting left fielder at this point a year ago.

“He’s so versatile because he can play different positions.

I think as we get deeper into spring we’ll have a better idea of where we’re at with DeRo,” Bochy said. “Mark, he’s a pro.

He says: ‘Hey, if I hit, I’m in the lineup. I’ve been in this game long enough.’ Sure, we’re not in a position to say, ‘Here’s your position right now.’ He understands that.”

DeRosa will play some second base once games begin late next week, especially because starter Freddy Sanchez is coming off arthroscopic surgery on his non-throwing left

shoulder — though it isn’t expected to slow him down at all the way a similar procedure did last spring. Sanchez began the 2010 season on the disabled list.

DeRosa isn’t taking for granted he has a roster spot.

Not given his injury issues and the fact he turns 36 later this month.

“I’m a realistic guy,” he said.

“Do I think I’m a pretty decent player when I’m healthy?

Yeah. At the same time, I wasn’t hitting balls in the gap during the World Series.

I’m very cognizant of that. I know I’ve got to come in here and kind of reclaim my space on the team. I was also very proud of the way the guys kept me around and kept me involved.”

Last May, DeRosa called the first surgery on his wrist a “failure” and said he might n e e d a n o t h e r p ro c e d u re, which turned out to be the case.

DeRosa initially underwent left wrist surgery after the See GIANTS, Page 7

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resno State baseballcoach Mike Batesole opens his ninth season today against Gonzaga, and the outlook on the 2011 season has rarely seemed brighter.

The Bulldogs have enough de pth in the bullpen and dugout to set up another nice run in conference play and beyond.

T here isn’t Yin and Yang Vongni yang just one lone standout, although Jordan Ribera, the nation’s returning home run leader from last season, does grab most of the headlines.

But from top to bottom, the starting lineup could potentially develop into one of the best hitting teams in school history.

With seven returning position starters from last year’s 35-28 squad, all but one had a batting average of .308 or higher. As a first-time Division I player, Garrett Weber, a transfer from Fresno City College, led the team from the plate with a team-high .387 batting average.

Weber is also the top-returning player in the Wester n Athletic Conference in that category.

With the likes of Ribera, Weber and their Bulldog teammates taking swings at the See YANG, Page 7