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Seminar examines California, Finland’s justice system California prison population directly affecting state universities By Stephen Keleher The Collegian Fifty years ago, the country of Finland and the state of California incarcerated their citizens at about the same rates. Since then, California’s prison population has grown five times larger, while Finland’s has been cut in half. On Friday, Mikko Aaltonen, a doctoral candidate at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and Fullbright scholar at the University of Pennsylvania Population Studies Center, came to the Alice Peters Auditorium to talk about the different ways crime and punishment are handled. Sponsored by the College of Health

and Human Services, Department of Social Work Education, the seminar was hosted by Dr. Kris Clarke, assistant professor. Experts from the Valley and the Bay Area also gave presentations and participated in the panel discussion afterwards. The goal of the seminar was to answer the question: how do the “cultures of correction” in Finland and California handle lawbreakers, crime prevention and allow lawbreakers to make amends and return to society? The increase in California’s prison population cost the state dearly and at least partly impacted state contributions to Fresno State, which has seen numerous tuition increases over the past several years.

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alifornia spending for prisons is six times the rate of spending for higher education.” — Julie Lifshay, health manager of Centerforce

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Julie Lifshay, health manager of Centerforce was one of the several speakers at Friday’s seminar that focused on punishment in Finland and California.

“We spend more of our budget on prisons than any other state,” President John Welty said in 2009. At the beginning of this semester, while announcing more potential budget cuts and fee increases, he said “I think that it is a tragedy, when the amount our state invests in prisons exceeds the amount it invests in public higher education.” “The costs are considered first in our system,” Aaltonen said. “The big difference is that crime is not a political issue that people use to get elected. And here crime is always brought up and discussed.” “California spending for prisons is six times the rate of spending for higher education,” said Dr. Julie Lifshay, health manager of Centerforce, a nonprofit organization working just out-

side of San Quentin, in her opening statement. In much of her presentation, Lifshay referred to, “The Caging of America,” a New Yorker article by Adam Gopnik. “In the U.S., we try for a fair ‘process,’ we do not try for a ‘just’ outcome,” she said. “We have a revenge motif.” The result has been “mass incarceration on a scale almost unexampled in human history. Overall, there are now more people under ‘correctional supervision’ in America—more than six million—than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height,” Adam Gopnik wrote in “Caging.” Lifshay pointed to Califor nia’s Three Strikes law and a law letting the Governor override the parole board on See PRISON, Page 3

For ambitious students, giving it the old college try is getting more cutthroat By Jessica Meyers McClatchy-Tribune Scoring perfect SATs, landing class valedictorian and mastering the violin don’t cut it anymore. Now it’s about priming resumes in middle school, turning science projects into patented inventions and dissecting your life’s achievements in 500 words or fewer. In the battle to entice big-time universities, good is no longer good enough. The college admissions process has morphed into a focused fight to prove individual exceptionalism and convey unparalleled drive. And it may only get more intense. Colleges nationwide have seen swelling numbers of early applicants this year, fueled by an industry pushing college readiness and the growing influence of online marketing. This could breed a generation that works harder and achieves more in its early ages, but it also threatens to promote those who can afford a competitive advantage and punish those who can’t. “Sorry, I’m an average middle-class American and I’ve never done anything life-saving,” said Rachel Brooks,

a senior at Frisco, Texas’s Liberty High who shoulders five advanced placement classes, plays in the marching band, and edits the school newspaper. She also skipped her junior year. The 16-year-old was denied early admission to Northwestern University. “It seems unfair,” she said, “that you have to have all these superhero requirements to get into an Ivy League.” Admissions of ficers blame the aggressive mentality on the HYP – Harvard, Yale, Princeton — effect. Spots continue to dwindle in the nation’s most renowned universities, yet the majority of schools still accept about half their applicants. But as the college-bound pool broadens, the stakes rise for everyone. The charged atmosphere stems partly from demand. High school graduates topped 3.3 million in 2009, bolstered by kids of baby boomers — who themselves came from more educated backgrounds than their parents — and today’s pressing need for a college degree. The University of Texas at Austin received 35,000 applications for the coming school year, its highest yet. About three-quarters of colle ges

have seen application increases each cation process and a belief that early year for the past decade, according to interest will grant students an edge. the National Association for College “The Inter net has absolutely Admission Counseling. made our ability to communicate Even the time when students apply with students much quicker,” said has crept up. Rice University, Texas’s Wes Waggoner, Southern Methodist most prestigious college, had an 18 perUniversity’s dean of undergraduate cent increase in early decision appliadmission and executive director of cations for the coming year. Baylor enrollment services. “You technically University received 2,000 more early can apply on your iPhone.” applications than last fall. In the past two ou’re not competing up there with your peers if years, Texas you don’t do some outside things.” Christian University’s early appli— Tracy Begland, cations have mother of college hopeful gone up by half. “It’s a good news, bad news kind of thing,” Prospective attendees go on virtual said Ray Brown, Texas Christian college tours, hear testimonials from University’s dean of admission. “I’m current students on YouTube and send delighted people are taking this more a common application to several colseriously, but the flip side is they are leges by clicking a button. And a school taking it way too seriously.” can appeal to students who’ve never College advisers attribute the spike walked on its campus. to myriad factors, among them the enhanced accessibility provided by See TEST, Page 3 technology, a more streamlined appli-

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ridesmaids is a terrible movie. Despite my being an SNL fan, I thoroughly disliked Kristin Wiig’s screenplay — I thought it was one of the most obnoxious movies I’ve ever seen. Although I didn’t like it, it was nominated for three People’s Choice Awards, two Academy Awards, two Screen Actor’s Guild Awards and two Golden Globes. Although it’s only won one award thus far (Favorite Comedy Movie at People’s Maddie Shannon Choice), I was surprised it was even nominated at all. But then I looked at the amount of nominations it received for the People’s Choice Awards — three, more than the number of nominations received for any of the other awards shows — and I realized that, indeed, the people have spoken. The general public has actively demonstrated that we, as a society, are not interested in what really makes a good movie. What we are interested in, however, is pop culture, dumbeddown style. We are not interested in

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‘ASI senators should have passed the new code’ ‘Ren’: “Waaaa Waaaa Waaaa… did little Farnesi not get her way? Did she cry to the COLLEGIAN…one of the most ANTI MEXICAN AMERICAN PAPERS ON THE PLANET…that the big bad mexicans were being mean? (Jose Nava, Oscar Perez, Fernando Moreno, Victoria Partida) Seriously..you have to wonder, is the COLLEGIAN RACIST? First off, one of their RACIST editors, TONY PETERSON allowed a Tea Party nut job to attack an ASI Presidential candidate over his affiliation with MECHA, a mexican-american based campus club. Does the COLLEGIAN ALLOW THAT TREATMENT for ANY OTHER GROUP ON CAMPUS????” ‘Stanley Ipkiss’: “Every time there are Latino students who speak out they are always attacked by the collegian and by ASI. The Collegian has a history of racism.” ‘mikeUSA’: “Selena, it would be safe to say that you need to think and analyze things before you respond to any given situation or certain action. I as a student conclude that Mr. Nava, Ms. Partida and Mr. Perez were given their positions as senators to represent students at Fresno State. Therefore I do not have to tell you, but I will because clearly Ms. Farnesi you were very disrespectful and is blinded by a spoiled brat attitude. These

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anything that might actually constiwe have left to enjoy is gone as well, if tute culture in its own right, especially the people who live here keep the attiaround here. tude we have toward what we have. Locally, we’ve demonstrated that by The same idea persists outside the the amount of our own regional culValley, as well (hence Bridesmaids ture that we’ve just let go. The Fresno being as popular as it is). Until there’s Metropolitan Museum, which closed a fundamental change in the way we two years ago, went the way of regionthink as a city, and as a nation, not al interest in William Saroyan, locally only will Fresno lose what little we owned restaurants and The Carnegie have left, but it’s only a matter of time Library — we just lost it. until movies like Bridesmaids are all Now, instead of a Valley full of peothat’s left to nominate come awardsple who appreciate culture, regional show season. or any other kind, we’ve got an empty building on Van Ness, molding papers Maddie Shannon is a former arts & in a warehouse (the rest of William entertainment editor for The Collegian Saroyan’s things are at libraries and who now writes a fortnightly column museums in other parts of the state), for The Collegian. and a parking lot in what is now a ghetto part of the city. What did we do COMMENT: The Collegian is a to ourselves that made us give up not forum for student expression. only our cultural standards, but also http://collegian.csufresno.edu culture itself ? To propose bringing back Saroyan’s stuff and reopening the museum would be missing the point. It’s the he general public has actively dempeople in this Valley who onstrated that we, as a society, are have made Fresno what it is. Although we still have the not interested in what really makes a good Fresno Art Museum, Fresno movie.” Filmworks and ArtHop, it’s only a matter of time before what little regional culture

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three senators were representing the 202 students that voted ‘NO’ on the new position that was installed for a new senator.” ‘Sean Kiernan’: “The vote was to update our election code so campaigning regulations would apply to this position as well. Voting no so it fails does not “represent” those who voted against the referendum. The position was created, and it exists whether the election code is updated for it or not. If the code isn’t updated, then whoever runs for that position would not have to abide by campaign rules. Now it turns out the referendum passing updates the election code anyway, so it didn’t matter.” ‘Gerry Mander’: “Good to know that by voting NO and keeping their mouths shut they’re ‘representing the students.’ And it’s always a good day when faced with no possible or logical explanation for their actions, we conclude with the only defense they have left, the race card. Clearly all other ASI Senators (several of which are minorities) are racist! And the Collegian of course. How dare they call out three Senators who 1) Never gave a reason on why they voted no, or tried to convince other Senators to do the same. 2) Claimed to be voting no because the election code is not permissive enough, but never moved to amend said election code despite the fact that the chair of the Senate reminded them several times that they could. Yeah, clearly getting 470 students out to vote is part of evil Selena Farnesi’s plan to do whatever she wants with ASI. As all crazy power hungry people tend to do, she did the most despicable thing.. SHE LEFT THE DECISION IN THE HANDS OF THE STUDENTS THAT COULD BE BOTHERED TO VOTE. Corruption at its worst..”

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‘C’mon Maan’: “Can we please stop resorting every argument and issue back to race? It would appear from reading this as well as the previous article that Farnesi’s issue is the fact that the vote of the three dissenting senators was misplaced and served a limited purpose in their protest as the position had been already been created and with the updated election code failing we could have conceivably seen banners hanging across buildings on campus and unrestricted campaigning for that position. While they were disappointed with the outcome as well as the turnout, in my time at Fresno State and from talking to the friends I have known that were Senators in the past, I have never heard of something that stated that a certain percentage of the student population had to turnout to vote for the election to be valid.”

‘Student’: “I am Mexican and a Selena supporter — just wanted you all to know it was possible.” ‘Joshua Stein’: “There are no good guys in this story. (Though, for the record, there also are no racists, insofar as I can tell.) For Nava, voting to oppose a referendum in order to obstruct a policy that already passed is… well… obstructionist. For Farnesi, failing to lead those senators to enforce a referendum is… well… a failure of leadership. For those who failed to show up, there is no excuse. If you’re getting paid, especially if you’re not on an hourly wage, you show up to work. When there is something to be done, you do it. It is disappointing to see the shortsightedness and self-righteousness on both sides, when those involved so clearly failed.”

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Most partisan era ever?

his week, Chris Cillizza, a Washington Post reporter who runs a popular political blog, “The Fix,” argued, along with Aaron Blake, that Barack Obama is the most partisan president ever. For evidence, the writers use Gallup polls measuring how much the voters of each party approve of the performance of each president. According to the numbers, there is a 68-point partisan gap, the highest for any president’s third year ever. Lest the reader concludes that it’s The Right Tone Tony Petersen all Obama’s fault, the writers point out that George W. Bush’s fourth, fifth and sixth years in office produced 76, 72 and 70-point partisan gaps respectively. “We are simply living in an era in which Democrats dislike a Republican president (and Republicans dislike a Democratic one) even before the commander in chief has taken a single official action,” Cillizza and Blake opine. It can’t be denied that today we live in a highly charged political climate. However, the rush to proclaim our era, and our president, as the most partisan ever reveals a lack of knowledge of the past and an arrogant view of the importance of now, as compared to the past. It is fairly easy to dispute the notion that this is the most partisan era in the history of the country. In the winter of 1860-1861, seven states seceded from the country following Abraham Lincoln’s election. During the nullification crisis of 1832, President Andrew Jackson was prepared to send troops to South Carolina, and threatened to hang John C. Calhoun. In the early 1800s, the political climate was so partisan that in 1800 the vice president led the fight to replace the president, and in 1804 the sitting vice president killed the former secretary of the treasury in a duel. Compared to these episodes of American history, today’s era seems kind of tame. Tony Petersen is the opinion editor of The Collegian. Follow him on Twitter @tonypetersen4.

Corrections The editorial on page two of the January 30 edition of The Collegian said that serving as an Associated Students, Inc. senator is a paid position. ASI senators do not get paid.

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PRISON: Restorative justice may be adopted in U.S. CONTINUED from page 1 releasing prisoners as potential reasons that the prison population has remained so high. She displayed a graph showing the growth in the prison population and the cor responding growth in police and correctional staff from 1950 – 2009 in California and pointed out that the CCPOA (Califor nia Cor rectional Peace Officers Association) is the most well-funded, strongest lobby group in the state. A film addressing efforts to help children of the incarcerated was shown, then Carol F. Burton, executive director of Centerforce, came to the lecture. “Children and families play a significant role in [reducing] recidivism rates, but people are not aware of these facts,” Burton said. She described pro g rams that have been started to help incarcerated mothers integrate back into society and efforts that are being made to help f athers maintain contact with their children. Highlighting her point that reentry programs lower recidivism and reduce prison costs, Burton said, “there are no programs at all in any of the prisons in the San Joaquin Valley or surrounding.” Debbie Reyes of the California Prison Moratorium Project described the effects prisons built in rural areas of Fresno County and other counties in the Valley have inflict-

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ed on people living in those communities. Reyes referred to the recently-released r e p o r t , “ E nv i r o n m e n t a l Vulnerabilities in California’s San Joaquin Valley,” by the Center for Regional Change at UC Davis, saying that the report considers prisons in rural communities to be a “toxic” industry. “We believe the money being put into prisons should be used to create healthy communities. If we had healthy communities, healthy jobs, healthy education, we wouldn’t need to build this huge expansion project, which we see today with the prison conversions in Chowchilla, prison proposals in Madera, expansions in Delano,” said Reyes. Reyes points out that in Wasco alone, there are 12 prisons. “That community is suffering from one of the worst concentrations of asthma in the Central Valley, one of the worst poverty rates and also still, with 12 prisons that have been placed around within 30 miles, it has one of the highest unemployment rates.” Lifshay said a contributor to this is people becoming desensitized to this environment and become attuned to the justice system. “In the Bill of Rights it focuses on the issue of ‘process’ while other countries in Europe focus on justice and proportionality,” said Lifshay. “They want to have ‘just’ sentences and in the United States, apparently we want to have due process.”

Lifshay also brought about the idea of restorative justice, the theory of repairing harm caused by criminal behavior according to Restorative Justice Online. “There are little groups in the United States that are able to operate in prisons around restorative justice, but it’s not a mentality that the U.S. prison system has in any way, and definitely not the California prison system,” Lifshay said. Fresno State professor Dr. John Dussich said the concepts of restorative justice have already started within the Criminology Department and have used other countries as the foundation. Dussich said that restorative justice has caught on in several countries and Finland has been very progressive in corrections. He added is hopeful that restorative justice will catch on with the U.S. to fix the problem with the justice system.

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BRIEF: Advisory Task Force agrees to hold off on department consolidation By Collegian Staff

Merchandising to the Craig School of Business

After talks in November surfaced about the possible consolidation of schools and colleges at Fresno State, more specifically the College of Science and Mathematics, into agriculture Provost William Covino announced Monday that the alignment will indeed remain as is. The Academic Affairs Budget Advisory Task Force laid forth its recommendations regarding pressing questions of sustainability. Mergers between colleges and schools or between departments should remain under consideration. While the proposal to disperse the College of Science and Mathematics is withdrawn, reorganization proposals remain on the table:

b. Move Economics to the Craig School of Business. The Academic Affairs Budget Advisory Task Force also recommended that deans consult with their department chairs to produce a plan that would make changes that would place their school or college in a sustainable fiscal position. Such a plan should be presented in a college or school forum for faculty input and completed by April 15, 2013. This might be an annual process/deadline. Covino thanked the members of the Task Force for their work and wrote, “I will address these recommendations at the Provost’s Forum that will be held on February 16, 11-12:30, in the Satellite Student Union,” in his email on Monday. The Collegian will conduct further research and follow up for Friday’s edition.

a. Move Child and Family Sciences to the Kremen School of Education and Human Development and Fashion

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“Colle ges are recruiting more people from all over the world,” said Katherine Cohen, famed for her college consulting business that primes students for top-notch universities. “Schools are trying to attract a more diverse student body, and they are going to great lengths to do so.” Cohen’s company, IvyWise, charges an average of $6,775 for consultations. The industry that sprouted to support interest in colle ge pre paration has also helped drive the demand. But at what cost, said David Hawkins, director of policy and research at the National Association for College Admission Counseling. “In an environment where students without resources are already disadvantaged, the expenditure of money, which amounts to influence peddling in worst cases and preparation and coaching in the best, exacerbates the access problem we have,” he said. The entire process disgusts Tracy Begland. But she still shelled out $60 an hour last summer so her daughter could take private SAT tutoring classes. “It’s hard not to be sucked in,” the Coppell, Texas, mother said. “You’re not competing up there with your peers if you don’t do some outside things.” Colleges have tried to lessen disparities by providing heftier amounts of financial aid. The University of Texas automatically takes nearly the top 10 percent of high school classes. And a greater number

of applicants suggests more young people than ever see the value in higher education. A d m i s s i o n s t e a m s e ch o the buzzword “holistic” to describe how they mitigate for a financial leg up. “Someone may have extraordinary test scores and academic perfor mance, but maybe not recognize how what they accomplished has distin guished them,” said Chris Munoz, vice president for enrollment at Rice University, which accepted 21 percent of applicants last year. “So don’t always assume that the student who is able to travel abroad and do these other things necessarily gives them a reasonable advantage over another student.” Marcus Alvarez doesn’t. The Irving Nimitz High School senior stays for after-school tutoring even though it means he’ll walk the two miles home. He doesn’t have a laundry list of extracurricular activities, choosing to play drums in the band and volunteer at a law program that works with troubled teenagers. He’ll be the first in his family to go to college. He’s also first in his class. A l va re z ’ s c o l l e g e e s s ay focused on self-made opportunities. He finished his applications at 11:59 p.m. on New Year’s Eve. “A lot of questions are about overcoming obstacles,” Alvare z said. “And I was thinking if I didn’t have any challenges, I wouldn’t have anything to write about. My experience is you do what you love and everything falls into place.” He wants to go to Harvard.

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Presentation resumes represent revolutionary, interactive way to apply for a job C

reativity and thinking outside the box are often qualities that employers are looking for and with a traditional resume. Showing these two traits can be a tough thing to do. The infographic resume talked about in the previous column is a great way to Thomas Pearson display these traits. However, the most creative and by far the most interactive is with the presentation resume. A presentation resume is basically a resume given in presentation format, as the name suggests. Users can put any information from their resume that they’d like and then use the presentation resume to illustrate it. The other great thing about a presentation resume is that it allows its users to add in graphs, statistics and other forms of analytics that they normally wouldn’t be able to give to the prospective employer. “People are always looking for new ideas and for job seekers. This is a great way to get noticed,” career experience counselor Aleta Wolfe said.

“It causes them to spend more than, let’s say, 50 seconds on your application.” Websites like Prezi, a cloudcomputing presentation website that allows users of its service to zoom in and out of their presentations to make it more interactive would be great to create a presentation resume on. There are even websites like SlideRocket whose only purpose is for the creation of presentation resumes. SlideRocket also makes it easy for its clients to customize and cater the presentation resume to the clients' needs. SlideRocket also gives the user analytics so they know who and how many people have viewed their presentation resume. "I think [presentation resumes] are very interesting," Wolfe said. "It would take a very talented person to put one together. There would definitelty be a learning curve and probably wouldn't be easy." Learning to utilize one of these would be extremely beneficial, however. It is another thing that can be added along with a person's resume, cover letter and application. "It would be a good supplemental tool to use in addition to the traditional methods, for sure," Wolfe said. "It is another great way to reach a

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person." One problem with presentation resumes, however, is that they can't be uploaded to most automated human resources systems. "Their biggest obstacle is that they get passed through resume scanners. You just

can't use them in every situation," Wolfe said. A positive aspect is they can be linked to social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, giving users a quick and direct way to connect with possible employers. This allows the

prospective employer to view the presentation. In a world that's leaning more and more toward technology, presentation resumes are a great way to show you're a trendsetter and up with modern times.

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‘I want my MTV’ gives behind-the-scenes in cable channel’s influence on music By Rene Rodriguez McClatchy-Tribune Some of the fun facts recounted in “I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Revolution”: —When an Epic Records executive started showing a video from a new group called Culture Club for the song “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?,” everyone who watched it said, “Man, she’s really ugly.” —On the shoot of the first video for The Police’s “Synchronicity” album, lead singer Sting told the director, “Just keep the camera on the money,” and pointed to himself. It was the last album the group would ever record. —MTV programmers didn’t think much of Guns N’ Roses’ first video “Welcome to the Jungle” and initially aired it only once or twice after midnight. Then David Geffen called the channel and requested the clip get more airplay. A couple of weeks later, Guns N’ Roses became superstars. —On the set of the Black or

White video, director John Landis had to keep asking Michael Jackson to stop grabbing his crotch and rubbing himself on camera. “Madonna does it. Prince does it,” Jackson pointed out. “You’re not Madonna or Prince,” L a n d i s r e p l i e d . “ Yo u ’ r e Mickey Mouse.” —When Sinead O’Connor’s “Nothing Compares to U” beat out Madonna’s “Vogue” for the Video of the Year award, Madonna was furious (“Sinead O’Connor has about as much sex appeal as Venetian blinds”) and Sinead gloated (“I was very pleased to beat the s--- out of her.”) Every page of this fat, addictive, ridiculously entertaining book, which covers the rise and fall of MTV from 1981-1992, is overstuffed with such anecdotes. Authors Craig Marks and Rob Tannenbaum interviewed more than 400 musicians, directors, executives and VJs to create an unusually candid oral history of the music video channel and its enormous impact on pop culture. Although the

writers couldn’t land any of the really big names — Bruce Springsteen, Prince, Madonna — they did get enough people who knew and worked closely with the superstars to make their absence irrelevant. Prince, for example, was “cuckoo paranoid,” barely spoke to anyone outside his inner circle, directed most of his videos himself via passiveaggressive tactics, showed up to meetings wearing differentcolored high heel shoes and used so much smoke on the sets of his clips that everyone got diarrhea. Springsteen was initially suspicious of music videos, but he eventually embraced them — only on his terms, though. For his famed video for “Brilliant Disguise” — a single shot that gradually pulls closer to his face as he plays the song on a guitar — director Meiert Avis scoured homes in New Jersey until he found one with a kitchen big enough to film in. But the day before the shoot, with the trucks carrying equipment already in route, the man who

lived at the house returned from a business trip and nixed the whole thing. Panicked, the director called the National Guard and found a kitchen at an abandoned military base big enough to house the production. Although it focuses exclusively on the channel, “I Want My MTV” doubles as a cultural history of the 1980s, showing how the network influenced everything from fashion trends to hairstyles to filmmaking. The book argues that trends such as rap music and hip-hop might have never entered the mainstream if MTV executives, who hailed from rock-oriented radio, hadn’t g radually relented and started playing videos by black artists (most notably, of course, by Michael Jackson, but also Run-DMC, MC Hammer and Public Enemy). Pretty much every member of Generation X watched MTV obsessively at some period in their lives, so reading about the time Bobby Brown dropped a vial of cocaine on the stage while performing at the Video

Music Awards or the uproar that greeted Madonna’s “Like a Prayer” video feels like leafing through a yearbook of your youth. For readers who know MTV primarily as the home of “Jersey Shore” and “16 and Pregnant,” the book will seem like a work of science-fiction. Yes, there was a time when MTV aired nothing but music, when VJs were huge stars (and treated horribly by their bosses), when President Bill Clinton went on the channel to secure the youth vote, when the world premiere of a new video was the sort of thing you marked down on your calendar. Like the era it covers, “I Want My MTV” is filled with excess, drugs, egos and tragedy. It is also a legacy to the music of that decade, some of it garbage, but a lot of it better than you might remember. It also helps to explain the ambivalence most everyone feels about the era: The 1980s weren’t just something you lived through. They were also something you survived.

Charla Krupp, fashion writer and adviser, dies at 58 By Wendy Donahue McClatchy-Tribune

Beauty books come and go, traded for younger models. But Charla Krupp’s “How Not to Look Old” has remained a bible for women since its 2008 publication. The book spent 18 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list, sold more than 300,000 copies and inspired Krupp’s 2010 follow-up, “How to Never Look Fat Again,” which spent four weeks on the best seller list. Ms. Krupp, 58, died of breast cancer on Monday, Jan. 23. She was a resident of Manhattan and Sagaponack, N.Y., and was married to Richard Zoglin, Time magazine’s theater critic and an author. M s. K r u p p g r e w u p i n Wilmette, Ill., and g raduated from New Trier West High School. She then earned a jour nalism de g ree with Bronze Tablet honors from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she was editor of the Daily Illini. She moved to New York to start an internship at Mademoiselle before graduation ceremonies in 1975. Over the next few decades, she wrote and edited entertainment and beauty features See KRUPP, Page 6

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Charla Krupp, author of “How Not to Look Old,” died of breast cancer Monday. Her writing is said to have served the “average woman, not just fashionistas.”

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at Glamour, InStyle, Shop Etc., More and People StyleWatch ma g azines. She appeared more than 130 times as a “Today” show contributor and lent support to other women in the media. When Cindi Leive, editor in chief of Glamour, started working as an assistant at the magazine, Ms. Krupp was entertainment editor. “And I thought she was perhaps the most capital-’F’-fabulous person I had ever met,” Leive said. “She got highlights before anyone I knew did. She got her nails done on a weekly basis before anyone I knew got regular manicures. “There was a signed picture of her and Madonna together on her desk and she had special light bulbs in her lamps and feathers in the decor. I just thought she was the most glamorous person I had ever seen, and nothing I ever

encountered of her after that changed my mind.” A self-described beauty a d d i c t , M s. K r u p p l ove d little luxuries and became Glamour’s beauty director. “But the thing that hit you about Charla when you worked with her was what a hard worker she was,” Leive said. “She was this beautiful woman interviewing celebrities, getting fantastic beauty treatments, and yet she would literally be sitting crosslegged in her office chair at 9 o’clock at night checking her copy. She sweated every detail.” L e ive r e m e m b e r e d M s . Krupp assembling a goodie basket for a colleague who had lost her job. When another colleague was sick, Krupp bought a cashmere shawl and brought it to her at her home. “She was really warm and attentive and even after we

no longer worked together, she and I worked to establish a scholarship in the name of our for mer mentor (former Glamour editor) Ruth Whitney,” Leive said. “She was very determined that our former boss, who had passed away, would be remembered. That was the kind of person she was — the best combination of hard-working, salt-ofthe-earth good-hearted, and also just fabulously glam.” T hrough the years, Ms. Krupp often enlisted friends and family members for research on various beauty products. “We had so much fun testing out the products. We’d have one type of makeup on this side of the face and another on that side,” said her cousin, Lisa Schatz Glinsky. “And she credits everybody in the book — even if you put mascara on one eye or polish on one nail,

she didn’t miss a thank-you for anybody.” One of Ms. Krupp’s “Today” show segments led to calls from publishers proposing a book on jeans. “And Charla, in her expansive way, said, ‘Why don’t we look at every element of what a woman wears and how she can look young with every a s p e c t ? ’ ” re c a l l e d K a re n Murgolo, vice president and editorial director at Grand Central Life & Style, which won out over other publishers interested in what became “How Not to Look Old.” “It’s still one of the best proposals I’ve seen,” Murgolo said. “First of all, she delivered it with flair, by sending it in a pink shopping bag with pink lipstick and pink tissue paper so you immediately took notice of it among all the other proposals.” But Ms. Krupp wrote for the

average woman, not just fashionistas, said Murgolo, who still hears of women giving it to friends on major birthdays. “I had a woman who said her sister was a professor and never wore makeup but she still bought the book _ because she still has to wear clothes and shoes,” Murgolo said. “And it was a genius title. It’s still selling well.” In 2009, Ms. Kr upp was inducted into the University of Illinois’ Illini Media Hall of Fame. She also is survived by her mother, Esther Krupp; a sister, Lora Nasby; and a brother, Jay Krupp. A funeral service was scheduled for 1 p.m. Wednesday at the Goldman Funeral Home, 8851 Skokie Blvd., Skokie, Ill. A memorial service in New York is being planned.

Religious institutions get extra year to comply with birth-control rule By Laurie McGinley McClatchy-Tribune WA S H I N G T O N — T h e Obama administration annou n ced i t wou ld g ive Catholic hospitals and other religiously affiliated institutions an extra year to comply with a new rule requiring employers to provide free birth control in their health plans. But the administration held fast to the underlying rule,

despite vigorous objections from Catholic bishops and other officials who argued they shouldn’t be forced to provide services that went against their religious beliefs. The requirement to provide free contraceptives doesn’t apply to churches, synagogues and other places of worship. It does affect universities and health-care facilities with religious affiliations. Most employers will be required to provide the free contraceptive services begin-

ning Aug. 1. The one-year d e l ay a n n o u n c e d F r i d ay means that religiously affiliated employers will be allowed to wait until Aug. 1, 2013. Planned Parenthood Federation of America and other women’s advocates had been worried the White House would broaden the list of employers that were exempt from the requirement. They expressed relief that the White House stuck to the basic policy. “This common-sense deci-

sion means that millions of women, who would otherwise pay $15 to $50 a month, will have access to affordable birth control, helping to save hundreds of dollars each year,” said Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood. The decision was a setback for social conservatives, Republicans and especially the U.S. Conference of Bishops, which criticized the requirement as a violation of religious liberty. Last July, the Institute of

Medicine recommended that birth control be covered as a preventive service at no charge, and the Department of Health and Human Services adopted the recommendation on an interim basis in August. HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, in announcing the final rule Friday, said that the decision “strikes the appropriate balance between respecting religious freedom and increasing access to important preventive services.”

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THE COLLEGIAN • SPORTS SPORTS EDITOR, ANGEL MORENO • COLLEGIAN-SPORTS@CSUFRESNO.EDU

Manchester United wins; fan handcuffs self to post the only goal of the game on the hour mark. Samir Nasri’s first-half effort, which hit the bar, was LONDON — English chamthe closest City came to a goal, pions Manchester United and they have now won just moved level on points with three of their past nine matcha faltering Manchester City es in all competitions. atop the Premier League on “I didn’t prepare us properly. Tuesday night, taking advanI thought it would be easier. tage of another slip-up from It’s my mistake,” City managits rivals. er Roberto Mancini said. Goals from Javier “It’s very important that Her nandez and Dimitar we start to win next Saturday Berbatov gave United a 2-0 vicagainst Fulham. The season tory over Stoke while a lackis long, we have 15 games, and luster City slumped to a 1-0 we hope we can recover all the defeat at Everton. players quickly, but it’s imporThe results left both sides tant that we find our strength level on 54 points, five points next week.” clear of Tottenham Hotspur, Gibson said Ever ton which beat bottom side deserved credit for defending Wolves, 3-1. as a team but admitted it was Liverpool moved up to fifth nice to score himself. after a 3-0 win at Wolves, “It was good to get off the cl o s i n g t o mark, and within four I’ll probpoints of ably be Chelsea, getting a e played a lot of good who needf ew p h o n ed a lastfootball and scored ecalls from m i n u t e my fortwo penalties but could have equalizer mer teamhad two more.” at Swansea mates,” he to salvage a said. point. Gareth — Sir Alex Furgeson, Two secBale scored Manchester United manager ond-half two more penalties goals as gave United Tottenham a simple were too victory over Stoke at Old good for Wigan, with Luka Trafford. Modric scoring the other. First Jermaine took out Park Andy Carroll opened the Ji-Sung and Hernandez cons c o r i n g f o r L ive r p o o l a t verted the penalty, eight minWolves, with Craig Bellamy utes into the second half, and and Dirk Kuyt completing a then Berbatov scored from the simple win and boosting their spot after Antonio Valencia hopes of a top-four spot. was felled by Jonathan Chelsea looked to be on their Walters. way to defeat as the seconds “We played a lot of good footticked down at Swansea, for ball and scored two penalties whom former Chelsea player but could have had two more,” Scott Sinclair scored six minUnited manager Sir Alex utes before the break. Though Ferguson said. Ashley Cole was sent off for Ferguson would have been two yellow cards, full back equally delighted to see one Jose Bosingwa scored a rare of his former players, Darron goal for Chelsea three minGibson, score the goal that utes into injury time to pinch gave Everton a 1-0 victory over a point. City. An Everton fan handcuffed himself to a goalpost at halftime, but the home side kept its focus, and Gibson scored By Ben James McClatchy-Tribune

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‘Dogs kick off secondhalf of WAC play By Angel Moreno The Collegian The men’s basketball team will face stiff competition this week as it kicks off the second-half of conference play. The ‘Dogs will host Idaho on Thursday and Utah State on Saturday in a two-game homestand before hitting the road yet again next week. C o a ch Ro d n e y Te r r y i s confident the team will bite back, heading into the final stretch of Western Athletic Conference, compared to the first. “We’ve got to get back to playing really good defense, like we were at the beginning of the year,” Terry said. “It’s the defensive end where you have to stop guys and finish possessions. We’re going to have to do a good job of taking care of the basketball and limiting their second-chance points.” Sophomore Kevin Olekaibe and senior Jonathan Wills will look to end the Bulldogs’ three-game skid. Olekaibe and Wills lead the team in scoring, averaging 18.2 and 10.8 points per game, respectively. The Bulldogs will need to contain the Vandals, who have three players averaging more than 12 points per game. Idaho is 10-6 all-time against Fresno State and has won the previous eight meetings. Redshirt sophomore Jerry Brown said the team is hungry for a win after losing two back-to-back games in the final seconds. “We’ve been working hard and we’ve got to turn this ship

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Sophomore Kevin Olekaibe leads all Fresno State scorers with 18.2 points per game. The mark is also second-best in the WAC.

around,” Brown said. “We lost a lot of close games on the road and we’re happy to be home and playing in front of the fans.” B row n i s ave r a g i n g 8 . 8 points per game and teamhigh five rebounds per game

heading into Thursday’s contest against the Vandals. “Our community is looking for some wins. We’re looking for some wins, “Brown said. “We’re working hard and we’ve paid our dues, so it’s time to be rewarded.”

PATERNO: JoePa fought ‘til the end CONTINUED from page 8 Sandusky. “Broken heart, broken spirit, will to live . . . are you kidding me?” he said. “He fought to the last second. That was all confirmed to me by Jay. Jay said Joe was planning a second honeymoon this year with Sue. He fought to the very, very end. I don’t believe any of that talk. He was the last guy that was going to be bitter. He calmed everybody else down.” Accorsi, who attended Pater no’s funeral last Wednesday, left his job as a Philadelphia Inquirer sportswriter in 1969 to become Penn State’s assistant sports information director responsible for the football team. It was then he met Paterno, going into only his fourth season as head coach. The two hit it off, Accorsi said, because both their parents were Italian immigrants. Paterno said Accorsi’s father reminded him of his own father, Angelo, and the coach would visit the elder Accorsi in his hometown of Hershey whenever he was in town to get his eyes checked at the local hospital. Accorsi spent just a year and a half at Penn State before tak-

ing a job as public relations director of the Baltimore Colts, be ginning an NFL career that included stops as general manager of the Colts, Cleveland Browns and Giants. Still, he and Paterno always stayed in touch right up to his final days. Paterno would advise him, he said, on how to handle the different personalities among NFL front office types or negative publicity in the media. One specific example of Paterno’s counsel came in 2000 when the Giants needed a quarterback and for mer Nittany Lion Kerry Collins, whose career was on the line because of alcohol abuse, was available. “Joe really convinced me that this was a good man and a good person,” he said. “It really was that link and bond with Joe that made me trust signing Kerry, and he took us to the Super Bowl.” Accorsi said he only inquired once if Pater no would have any interest in coaching in the NFL. That came in 1984 after the Browns fired Sam Rutigliano, and ow n e r A r t M o d e l l a s ke d Accorsi to “feel him out.” “Joe asked me, ‘What’s your job?’” Accorsi said. “When

I told him I was the general manager, he said, ‘If I take that job, you’re working for me. I’m not working for you.’ So I said, ‘I’m going to make sure I talk Modell out of this,’ and we had a big laugh.” Accorsi said he could “never get my arms around (Paterno’s) vulnerabilities” as Paterno grew older. It wasn’t until a Wisconsin player plowed into Paterno during a 2006 game and left him with a broken leg that Accorsi started to see a change. “I never saw him age. I never gave it any thought,” he said. “That was the first time that I thought he was mortal, not in terms of his life but in terms of his vibrancy. That really knocked him for a loop.” Accorsi said he sent Paterno a magazine article last summer about his old neighborhood in Brooklyn. The coach sent back a thank-you note that said, “Kid, come on up here so we can spend some time together for old time’s sake.” “We never did,” Accorsi said sadly. “That’s such a regret for me. I last talked to him right before Christmas. I felt what they can do today with cancer treatment, that he would be OK.”

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The women’s basketball team will travel to conference-rival Louisiana Tech in a rematch of last year’s WAC Championship. SPORTS EDITOR, ANGEL MORENO • COLLEGIAN-SPORTS@CSUFRESNO.EDU

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A simple ‘thank you’ By Angel Moreno The Collegian For Shaela Warkentin, saying “thank you” to those who saved her just isn’t enough. “Without the firefighters who saved me from the vehicle, where would I be?” Warkentin said. “It’s really important to me. Just them knowing how thankful I am for saving my life.” Wa rk e n t i n s u f fered life-threatening injuries in a March 2010 accident that required the Fresno Fire Department to extricate the then15-yearold from

the vehicle. Warkentin is still recovering from injuries caused by the accident. Warkentin will have another chance to say “thank you” to the firefighters who saved her, but this time in collaboration with the Fresno State men’s basketball team. Fresno State will host Heroes Night on Saturday to recognize the men and women who serve our country. “The work and training that they put in their careers, this is the reward for that hard work,” said Ken Warkentin, Shaela’s father. “We’re incredibly grateful for the men and women in uniform.” But for Fresno Fire Department Battalion Chief Charles “Chuck” Tobias, it’s a chance for the community to recognize the true hero in Warkentin and others like her. “We appreciate the recognition of people calling us heroes,” Tobias said. “But the real heroes are the families like the Warkentins, whose children are overcoming obstacles everyday.” Tobias recognizes them as the true heroes because of the adversity they are constantly challenged with. Tobias said law enforcement officers are

heroes when duty calls, but Warkentin is a hero everyday. “Every day I get up, I don’t have to overcome some of the things they do, so they’re the real heroes,” Tobias said. Regardless, Fresno State Athletics and local law enforcement have come together in appreciation of all the Central Valley heroes. “It’s an honor and a privilege for us to even be associated with their night and sharing their experience,” said head coach Rodney Terry. Terry and his Bulldogs will host Utah State for Saturday’s game, with tip off set for 7 p.m. Heroes Night will honor all Central Valley police officers, firefighters, paramedics, active military and veterans. Heroes will receive a discounted ticket price of only $5 for Saturday’s Western Athletic Conference matchup. But one thing Heroes Night won’t do is permanently heal the wounds caused by the March 2010 accident, but rather forge a bond. “It’s not closure,” Tobias said. “It’s actually the beginning. The beginning of something different, the beginning of a long-lasting friendship. A love.”

“Without the firefighters who saved me from the vehicle, where would I be?” -Shaela Warkentin, 16 Photo illustration by Dalton Runberg / The Collegian

Paterno didn’t die of a ‘broken heart’

Bulldog lacrosse gives back

By Joe Juliano McClatchy-Tribune Ernie Accorsi spent more than 30 years working in NFL front offices. As general manager of the New York Giants, he hired Tom Coughlin as head coach and worked the draft day deal that brought quarterback Eli Manning to the team. And whenever he needed advice, he consulted his old friend, Joe Paterno. “I can’t tell you how many times I called him and said, ‘How do you think I should handle this?’ “ Accorsi said in a telephone interview Friday, five days after the passing of the former Penn State head coach at age 85. “He always had something good to say. He was right on the money every time. “One night I was a speaker at a dinner with Jay Paterno (Joe’s son). I looked at Jay from the podium, and I said, ‘There isn’t a day in my career that I don’t think of something I learned from your father.’” Friends with Paterno for 42 years, Accorsi, 70, had become a bit incredulous the last week when he heard people say that Paterno died of a “broken heart” because of the way he was fired last November by the board of trustees after child sex-abuse charges were brought against former assistant Jerry See PATERNO Page 7

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The Bulldog lacrosse team volunteered with Mr. Anderson’s kindergarten class at Herndon-Barstow Elementary last week. The team has earned Director of Athletics Community Service Award three years in a row.