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Critics of professor voice opinion An ACLU letter to FCC listed student complaints over professor

By Mike Boylan The Collegian

Illustration by Michael Uribes / The Collegian

Academic freedom in universities has been a hallmark of higher education in the United States.

Earlier this month, critics questioned whether a college professor overstepped that line.

T he American Civil Liberties Union sent a letter Feb. 8 to Fresno City College that demanded the school ensure that all its health science classes teach unbiased and medically accurate information. And since FCC is a “tax supported entity, they are prohibited from religious indoctrination in public education.”

The letter came after some FCC students made complaints that Bradley Lopez, a health professor at FCC, presented anti-gay and religious-based views as “fact.”

The letter gave several examples of

Lopez’s statements. It alleged Lopez presented Bible passages as “empirical” fact that life begins at conception, and presented a slide of “homosexual facts” including that homosexuality is a “biological misapplication of human sexuality,” among others.

Lopez is currently still lecturing at FCC and the matter is still under investigation.

In light of the letter sent to FCC last week, the ambiguous line between free speech and unethical statements in the classroom has risen to the surface.

There are many lines to be drawn here, according to staf f attor ney Elizabeth Gill at the ACLU of Northern California. The ACLU is asserting that the Lopez case is not a matter of free speech, but rather of the Establishment Clause of the 1st Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

“With respect to the Establishment Clause, there are legal tests that have been well established here in the 9th Circuit in California,” Gill said. “When you are engaged in open religious See ACADEMIC, Page 6

Culture clash between roommates A study found that dorm mates are twice as likely to want change, if interracial

By Joe Bailey The Collegian Students who live in the dorms may have to deal with a situation they didn’t expect, living with a roommate of a different race.

A study from last year at Ohio State University and Indiana University found that randomly assigned interracial roommates are about twice as likely to ask for a room re-assignment as same-race roommates.

Gonzalo Aranda-Sandoval, 22, has been a resident advisor at the Fresno State dorms for over two years, and has lived at the dorms all four years he has been attending school. He has seen firsthand the difficulties that can arise from living in the dorms.

“There are a ton of different people here with different backgrounds from a lot of different places,” ArandaSandoval said. “You have to deal with a lot of diversity.”

Aranda-Sandoval said that getting adjusted to living in such a diverse population within the dorms can be hard

for some students. He said cultures sometimes clash and can make roommates uncomfortable enough to ask for re-assignment.

“It may not be that they hate that culture personally,” Aranda-Sandoval said. “It just might be awkward and different. It may be less of a hate thing and more of a comfort level.”

With so much diversity in the dorms, University Courtyard, which operates the facilities, educates the staff and residents to accept diversity.

“Before every semester, we go through two weeks of training,” Aranda-Sandoval said. “It’s like conflict training. That’s what we usually handle here.”

Aranda-Sandoval said that the staff attempts to have the roommates resolve any issues before re-assigning them to different rooms.

“Sometimes they don’t even try to explain their issues,” Aranda-Sandoval said. “We say, ‘Let’s go try to talk it out with your roommate. You have to try to communicate at least.’”

Aranda-Sandoval said it can be especially hard for foreign exchange stu-

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Moving a student to a different room can be very hard in the dorms, which are usually full to begin with.

“Logistically, sometimes it can be really hard and at that moment in time we can’t move them,” Aranda-Sandoval said.

Aranda-Sandoval said University Courtyard takes measures to ensure that diversity is accepted and all cultures are respected.

“I haven’t seen one instance where they [University Courtyard] have tried to segregate or anything like that,” Aranda-Sandoval said. “They’re really about building a community as a whole.”

Dr. Matthew Jendian, a sociology professor at Fresno State, understands that problems can arise when diverse

groups are in contact with each other, but are not working together.

“You can have the most diverse campus or the most diverse community and still have a very segregated community or campus,” Jendian said. “Especially in college populations where we are used to a diverse society. But diversity and integration are two different things.”

Jendian said that integration refers to the degree to which diverse groups interact with each other and not just occupy the same space.

“If you just bring people together, prejudices may be increased,” Jendian said. “Especially in environments where you are competing for scholarships, you’re competing for jobs, for housing, whatever the reward is. If you’re competing, hostility and ethnic prejudices will increase.”

“Rather than ignoring that differences exist, we must acknowledge them,” Jendian said. “Then we must accept them. Do not tolerate difference, but appreciate difference.”

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On Tiger Woods’ apology left the speech angry—not at the speech itself, but by the fact that someone who said, ‘I was wrong, I was foolish. I don’t get to play by different rules’ continued to think he could play by different rules.”

— Bill Simmons, ESPN.com

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resno Area Express (FAX) is our city’s public transportation system. The aptly named FAX has more than 100 buses and 20 different routes to take passengers where they need to go, with arrivals at the stops every 15 to 30 minutes.

FAX also offers, in compliance with Federal regulations, Handy Ride, established in 1975. It’s a separate system designed specifically for the needs of Fresno’s disabled citizens. This system operates smaller white buses, vans and cars throughout our city.

This special service even allows passengers to call and arrange for pick-up reservations, at discounted fares.

However, this level of accommodation, which is rare to find in a government-run entity, isn’t enough for one individual.

Local reporter Gene Haagenson ran a story last Wednesday on how Randy Frost, a 500-pound wheelchair-confined man, was denied reissue of his Handy Ride pass for being too heavy.

Frost’s wheelchair weighs about 200 pounds, and with him in it, the total weight exceeds the limits of Handy Ride bus wheelchair lifts by about 100 pounds.

The problem is that FAX allowed him to use its services for the past three years, even though his weight has not changed. Bending the

Setting it Straight Denton Dubbels rules out of kindness is not always such a good idea. Now that FAX is beginning to enforce its weight limit rules for the lifts, Frost feels as though he is being discriminated against.

“I’m being restricted simply because I’m bigger than everyone else,” Frost said. “I’m being limited because of my weight.”

FAX clearly states the rules and regulations for this service in its Handy Ride guidelines, found on its Web site.

A section regarding wheelchairs states that standard wheelchairs, measuring certain standard dimensions, are allowed on the lifts of Handy Ride buses as long as they do “not weigh more than 600 pounds when occupied.”

One might come to realize and accept the fact that they may be too heavy for the wheelchair lifts on Handy Ride buses, right? Wrong.

Frost made a suggestion of his own

to solve the problem. “I would use my cane, stand on the lift and get on the bus and they would put my chair on behind me.”

There’s a word that comes to mind when I visualize this potentially dangerous scene. The word is “liability.”

I cannot imagine taking the chance of allowing a 500-pound man to stand on a wheelchair lift with his cane, only to have him lose his balance and fall, creating an injury the city certainly cannot afford. There aren’t any handrails on those lifts, Mr. Frost. It’s not an escalator at the mall or a peoplemover at the airport. The lifts are specifically made for people to sit in their chairs and be lifted inside the bus.

Further on in Haagenson’s story, Frost said he feels as though the city is just looking for excuses to keep him and others like him off the buses.

Yep, that’s the Handy Ride’s goal, all right. The city-provided transportation system, specifically designed for the disabled, prides itself in discriminating against its passengers. Give me a break.

Instead of complaining about how FAX has “wronged” you, and threatening to take the complaint to court, scan through a phone book to find alternative sources of transportation, Mr. Frost. Be handy.

Op-ed

Halt rise in textbook prices

By William F. Shughart II

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he prices of college textbooks rose by more than twice the rate of inflation between 1986 and 2004, according to the Government Accountability Office.

Students (and their parents) understandably are alarmed by that trend, which accompanies across-theboard increases in the out-of-pocket costs of attending college, including tuition charges, which have tripled at Mississippi’s public institutions of higher learning over the past two decades.

Under mounting external pressure, the board that oversees Mississippi’s eight public colleges and universities recently approved policies intended to control textbook-cost inflation. Among other things, faculty members would be required to use the same edition of the texts they assign in lower-division undergraduate courses for three consecutive academic years, and for two years in their upper-division courses.

Academic departments would be encouraged to adopt the same textbook for all sections of the same course and to make those adoption decisions earlier.

If only it were that simple!

The fundamental cause of everrising textbook prices is that authors and publishers earn income only on first-time sales. Once a new book is

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sold, it ends up in the secondhand market, after the buyer sells it back to the bookstore. The author and publisher do not benefit no matter how often a used book is resold. Profits from used textbook sales are earned only by college bookstores and the wholesalers who supply them.

The blunt fact is that the income streams of publishers and authors dry up about six months after publication.

Authors and publishers therefore have strong incentives to issue new editions, many of which incorporate only cosmetic changes — a new cover, a new layout or a few new applications. The market for the old edition is thereby eliminated (wholesalers will not pay anything for an out-of-print edition and the purchaser thus will be offered little or nothing for reselling it). When the new edition is published two or three years later, the author and publisher therefore can expect income from sales for the next six months or so, and the cycle begins anew.

Short timelines for revising and publishing new editions of existing textbooks are driven by the profit motive. That is the only way authors and publishers can justify the investments necessary to write, print and to market educational materials.

Students are asked (and are willing) to pay higher prices for new textbooks because they can resell them at semester’s end. Used textbooks are worth

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less at resale, depending on the book’s condition, which deteriorates over time. Planned obsolescence (cheap bindings and not-very-durable covers) is another predictable consequence of the economics of college textbook marketing.

What is to be done? One impractical option would be to ban sales of used textbooks, which would reduce the prices of new ones, since they then would have no value in the secondhand market. Another would be to create an institution for authors and publishers of textbooks similar to ASCAP, the clearinghouse for royalty payments to the composers, artists and publishers of music, which provides them with royalty income for every performance of their work from the copyright date until 75 years beyond their deaths.

If the authors and publishers of college textbooks earned income on secondhand sales, there would be less incentive to issue new editions, the used-book market would flourish and prices would not rise so quickly. That objective is laudable but certainly will not be reached by regulatory fiat.

William F. Shughart II is a senior fellow at the Independent Institute in Oakland, Calif. (www.independent. org) and F. A. P. Barnard Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of Mississippi.

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Culled each week from discussions in The Collegian newsroom.

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Conservative fissures at CPAC The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), was held this weekend and showed stark differences between some in the conservative movement. Which is good; debate, whether it be on the right or the left, cannot be a bad thing. However, conservatives should be able to agree on one thing— Glenn Beck’s chalkboard has got to go!

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Tiger Woods’ apology Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto?

Mr. Woods’ speech was a little... robo... tronic. The worst part about it? He gave no indication that he would be back by the Masters. After which I heard CBS execs and PGA Tour commish Tim Finchem bang their heads against their television screens. Somebody better keep a good eye on them lest one of them carves “Brooks was here” on their apartment wall.

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The world’s shortest man Khagendra Thapa Magar, a man from Nepal, is traveling to Europe in order to be recognized in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s shortest man. He is only 22 inches tall (or short, if you want to look at it that way).

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Club adopting a stretch of highway (see page five) This thumb is not against community service; The Collegian is all for that. It’s that this particular club is the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. Do we really need to make the “high”way joke? No, The Collegian will defer to the reader on this one.

Thumbs up Curling

As ESPN columnist Rick Reilly said, “Curling is fast becoming the coolest Winter Olympics sport of all.”

Although the scoring system remains a mystery (is it the closest rock to the middle? The number of rocks in the target?), the sheer excitement one gets when the rock is gliding toward the target with Olympians sweeping with their brooms and teammates screaming is utter bliss.

Who’s up for starting a curling club on campus?! Anyone? Hello?

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Monday, February 22, 2010

The Collegian • Arts & Entertainment Arts & Entertainment Editor, Danielle Gilbert • collegian-features@csufresno.edu

The daily crossword

Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Lewis Los Angeles Times

ACROSS 1 Surgery marks 6 “Hawaii Five-O” setting 10 Heist target 14 Sully 15 Whirled, as a top 16 Opposite of windward 17 Impressive display 18 Kids’ plastic brick maker 19 “What’s in a __?”: Juliet 20 Sales agent, briefly 21 Dangerously uncontrollable type 24 Taken by a shoplifter 26 Pub order 27 Weekly dress-down times 34 Requests 36 More than requests 37 Detroit-based labor gp.

38 Supportive sound from the crowd 40 Sidekick 41 Best-seller list datum 43 Sch. near Harvard 44 Ukrainian seaport 47 Dover flatfish 48 Music genre heard in elevators 51 Slithery swimmer 52 Letter-shaped shoe fastener 55 Chemically treated tresses

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DOWN 1 Clear-night twinklers 2 Insertion symbol 3 Causes of in-flight “bumps” 4 Protein synthesis molecule, for short 5 Salon dos 6 Norway’s capital 7 Gibbons, e.g.

8 Extremely big

9 It may direct you to skip, draw two, or reverse 10 Forbidden 11 Astronaut Shepard 12 Nautilus captain 13 “Peachy-__!”

22 “Movin’ __”: “The Jeffersons” theme 23 Elite invitee roster 25 Cut with a surgical beam 28 European peaks, to Pierre 29 “It’s the __ I can do” 30 Spurious 31 Celebrity signatures 32 Southern pronoun 33 Popeye’s __’ Pea 34 Very top 35 Denomination of Islam 39 Wimbledon’s official timekeeper 42 Stevie Wonder’s “__ She Lovely” 45 Perplexing problem 46 Against 49 Annual 50 Six-Day War country 53 Setting for van Gogh’s “The Night Café” 54 Wing: Prefix 55 Fontana di Trevi city 56 Tied, as a game 57 Lascivious 58 Darling 59 Mist 60 Fruity summer drinks 65 Educ. support gp.

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Word of the Day

Olympic narcolepsy Abruptly falling asleep at any moment during the day due to trying to watch as much of the Olympics as you can the night prior, causing you to stay up way too late.

A seasonal disorder, occurring in winter or summer only, and is of brief duration (around two weeks), and usually occurs in even numbered years.

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By Sarah Kain The Collegian

Uncompromising leaders and most ardent defenders of democracy take the stage as Black History Month comes to an end. The influential stories of six prominent, yet underappreciated, African-American figures were retold through “Portraits of Courage,” the theater production sponsored by University Student Union Productions.

On Feb. 19, Will & Company, a nonprofit theater ensemble from Los Angeles, came to Fresno State to share the stories of African-Americans who have made changes in history, but have gone unnoticed.

A montage of pictures as well as a witty and informative monologue introduced each of the six figures, dressed to match the era that they lived in, on the stage of the Satellite Student Union.

However, the theatrical production had only two actors. Tiffany Adams and Yorke G. Fryer each took on the roles of three characters in the play. They portrayed the characters well enough that it was hard to tell there were only two actors.

Through its portrayals of influential African-American men and women, “Portraits of Courage” taught audience members that it is never too late to learn about history, and that it does not always involve dead, rich, white guys.

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Bridget “Biddy” Mason The first person the audience met was Bridget “Biddy” Mason, who grew up in slavery. As a slave, Mason’s job was to deliver b a b i e s . A f t e r d e v e l o p i n g the proper skills, she was sold to Robert Smith, a convert of the Mormon religion.

Smith moved his family to California to chase the Gold Rush, but quickly realized that California was not a slave state. Smith then decided to move his clan from California to Texas, which was a slave state.

Mason however did not want to go. After a long court battle in Los Angeles, a judge ordered Smith to set Mason and her two girls free. This was the first time Mason was free, so she got a job as a nurse delivering babies for $2.50 a day.

“This was enough money to feed my girls,” Mason said. “I saved all that I could.” Mason purchased a chunk of land with the money that she saved, making her one of the first African-Americans to own property in Los Angeles.

Col. Charles Young The next figure to be portrayed was Col. Charles Young, the third African-American to graduate from West Point, who went on to be the highest-ranking African-American in the United States Army, leading the Buffalo Soldiers.

When talking about experiencing adversity, Young said, “Take a black man and send him to West Point.”

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o not sit and wait for opportunity to come to you, you have to get up and seize opportunity.”

— Madam C.J. Walker, First female millionaire

Madam C.J. Walker Madam C.J. Walker, the next character in the play, was one of the first AfricanAmerican self-made millionaires. She constructed her business around a vegetable shampoo that she created. “Do not sit and wait for opportunity to come to you, you have to get up and seize opportunity,” Walker advised. Many Americans purchased her product, making her rich. She bought a mansion on the Hudson River, which bothered her neighbor.

Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves The next person in the play was Bass Reeves, the first African-American Deputy U.S. Marshal West of the Mississippi.

“I got $2 for bringing in the bounty alive; you got nothing if that fellow was dead,” Reeves said in the play.

“The reason that the judge hired me was because I was black. He wanted me to deal with the Indians because they did not trust the white folks.”

Reeves could speak six Native American languages, but he could not read English. He had to have someone read him warrants, and then he “always got the right man,” Reeves said. He made more than 3,000 arrests (one being his own son) and 14 kills as a Marshal.

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ASI goes live online

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By Tara Albert The Collegian Students who cannot attend Associated Students, Inc. (ASI) meetings in person will soon have a new way to learn about what is going on with their student government.

Starting Feb. 24, ASI meetings will also be streamed live on the Internet, so students can access the meetings from anywhere with an Internet connection.

Valerie Hosch, director of communications for ASI, said the organization has been working to make meetings available to all students.

Hosch said she hopes students will become more engaged in things happening on campus by being aware of what their student government is doing.

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Club strives to help legalize marijuana

By Sara Kain The Collegian When students pass by the several corkboard-covered walls scattered across campus, different flyers might catch their attention but none more so than one depicting a small stick figure reclining and smoking a joint.

The club that boasts this

cartoon is the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws club or N.O.R.M.L. as they are commonly referred.

“Our primary goal is to spread correct information about marijuana and hemp to the students of Fresno State,” said 20-year-old club president Idell Tarver. “We also promote the organizations goals of

[medicinal marijuana] use, industrial use and recreational use.”

According to their Web site, the club wants to create limitations for marijuana and hemp being that only adults can use it. Those who use it would not be able to drive after using, limits would be set, resist abuse, and they would have to respect the rights of others.

“In the upcoming weeks, we are having discussions of various topics relating to marijuana, our symposium series,” Tarver said.

The club also has a debate scheduled with a narcotics officer that they hope will happen on April 20 in the Free Speech Area.

The club is also getting involved with the community and plans to adopt a stretch of highway.

“We hope to adopt the twomile stretch of [highway] 168 that runs westbound from the Bullard overpass. We would be cleaning that section of the highway once a month,” Tarver said. “This is a good opportunity to get the students of N.O.R.M.L to get involved with the community.”

The club has been keeping an eye on Fresno County’s crackdown of the medical marijuana dispensaries, which started in August when nine dispensaries were sued for zoning violations.

City Attor ney Charlotte Hylton Knoczal headed the lawsuits. Knoczal stated that the dispensaries were illegal because they were not in the

zones that were put forward for medical businesses and where marijuana had not been recognized as medicinal. Knoczal also said that the businesses were not “up front” with what they were selling.

“I do not think that they should shut down these businesses because they are not giving them a fair shot to get the businesses in order,” Tarver said. “And they should be helping them with education on business instead of suing them.”

Graduate student and club member Matthew Lance said, “I was initially concer ned about people not being able to get their medication. But then I thought about other cases when the states took away the dispensaries. This city will be receiving less money when patients sue.”

The club may not be able to fight the lawsuits but they work on fighting misconceptions, including the biggest one: marijuana is a gateway drug.

“I think alcohol is more a g at ew ay d r u g , " Ta r ve r said."Because it effects peoples decision making capabilities much more then marijuana does."

N.O.R.M.L is open to any new members, and meetings are held at 5 p.m. on Wednesdays in Family Food and Sciences 216a.

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think it is another big step toward shared governance and accountability.”

— Melissa Mata, Senator of undergraduate and graduate affairs “Knowing what is going on around campus is the first step to getting involved and making a difference at Fresno State,” Hosch said.

“One of the issues we heard from students last semester was that some were unable to attend the Senate meetings,” Hosch said. “We are hoping that by broadcasting the meetings live, more students will be infor med about campus issues and what ASI is doing to represent them.”

A S I w i l l a l s o ke e p a library of past meetings on the Web site so students can watch previous Senate meetings, ASI chief of staff Cole Rojewski said.

Rojewski said it is important for students to have access to Senate meetings so they can get involved on campus.

“ASI wants to engage all students on what we are working on and get their input,” Rojewski said.

“Many decisions made at these meetings affect all students.”

He said students will be able to learn about what is happening around them, so they can be better prepared to take action.

“Students can stay up-todate on current issues and actions that affect them,” Rojewski said. “They will be better informed, so when they take action, they will See ASI, Page 6

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Monday, February 22, 2010

Schwarzenegger proclaims ‘the worst is over’ Gov. Scwarzenegger told ABC’s “This Week” that President Obama’s stimulus money is responsible for adding 150,000 jobs to the Californian workforce

By Rob Hotakainen McClatchy Tribune Despite the state’s high unemployment rate, California’s economy is making a slow comeback and “the worst is over,” Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Sunday.

“We’ve seen that the foreclosure rate has slowed down,” the Republican governor said in an appearance on national television. “We’ve seen that the house sales have picked up. We’ve seen people are getting back to work, especially in the green sector. So there’s signs all over.”

Schwarzenegger, who will meet privately with President Barack Obama on Monday, is in Washington for the winter meetings of the National Governors Association (NGA).

He made his remarks in an interview broadcast on ABC’s “This Week.”

The gover nor said people should be optimistic, but “not overly optimistic” as the econ-

omy gets back on track. And he said the state has limited power but should do everything it can “to create jobs, jobs, jobs ... because that is the important thing.”

To b o o s t t h e e c o n o m y, Schwarzenegger said the federal government should spend $2.2 trillion on a massive effort to rebuild the nation’s infrastructure. He said the nation’s economy will suffer without such a rebuilding effort and that it would be a good job-producer as well.

“We’ve got to rebuild our state, and the whole country has to rebuild itself,” the governor said. “Because if you think in ... history, I mean, all the great civilizations all became great because they had great infrastructure. If you think about the Persians, of building the waterways and the paved roads. The Romans, they had the aqueduct system of delivering water and the sewage systems.”

L a t e r i n t h e d a y,

Schwarzenegger was scheduled to attend the annual governors ball at the White House. He planned to return to California Monday afternoon after his private meeting with Obama.

In the television interview, Schwarzenegger said the U.S. became the world’s most powerful nation because it had built a great infrastructure system over the last century.

“But in the last few decades, we have stopped maintaining that infrastructure and we have stopped building and expanding that infrastructure, even though there’s tremendous demand for that infrastructure,” Schwarzenegger said.

As he has in the past, the governor defended Obama’s stimulus spending plan of a year ago, saying it had put many people back to work.

“I find it interesting that you have a lot of the Republicans running around and pushing back on the stimulus money

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Lopez has denied making anti-gay remarks or using the Bible as anything other than a “historical reference” or an optional assignment to “stimulate critical thinking.”

Fresno State philosophy professor Karen Bell, who has done research on hate speech in the context of racism and adjudication of the 1st Amendment, said the U.S. Supreme Court cases restricting freedom of speech do not apply to the facts, as they were reported in The Fresno Bee, in the Lopez case.

Bell said academic freedom does not mean professors can say anything they want.

“Any position argued by a faculty member in a class requires reason and evidence,” Bell said. “Neither academic freedom nor constitutionally guaranteed freedom of speech applies to objectively false statements.”

Bell said that the Lopez case is a case about incompetence, not academic freedom.

“The authority of a professor naturally creates an unequal environment of discourse,” Bell said. “And when assertions create an environment in which some students are asserted to feel inferior by virtue of their race, for example, or sexual preference, the environment becomes discrimina-

tory and thereby a violation of professional ethics.”

According to the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) Web site, recent lower court decisions have ruled that faculty members who speak out on matters affecting their institutions are not protected under the 1st Amendment.

This AAUP advocated for the adoption of a specific policy language designed to ensure the continued protection of academic freedom and shared governance. However, no such document exists.

Fresno State philosophy professor Robert Maldonado, who teaches a course on the New Testament, said some topics like feminism, slavery and gender, are particularly sensitive.

“College should be a creative clash of ideas and it is hard for a class to be completely fair, because it is impossible to cover and explain every single viewpoint,” Maldonado said.

“This issue requires responsibility and good judgment and, as humans, we sometimes fail.”

The AAUP has implemented an academic freedom statement that the California State University system endorses, which states: “Teachers are entitled to freedom in the classroom in discussing their subject, but they should be careful not to introduce into their teaching controversial

subject matter which has no relation to the subject … their special position in the community imposes special obligations … they should at all times be accurate, should exercise appropriate restraint, should show respect for the opinions of others, and should make every effort to indicate that they are not speaking for the institution.”

Fresno State sociology professor Andrew Jones said, there are clear limits to free speech in the classroom – particularly statements that cause immediate harm to others – and that someone will inevitably be offended.

“Educational attainment is not about having students’ preconceptions and misconceptions reaffirmed by professors,” Jones said. “Critical thinking requires being reflective on one’s own beliefs and ideas about the world, and questioning those beliefs and ideas.”

Fresno State student Omar Parra said that the value of a professor’s academic freedom is important.

“I would like to believe as college students, we are mature enough to accept different points of view,” Parra said. “[In] the vast majority of cases, student’s find a professor’s opinion beneficial.

We should not let a few ‘radical’ professors destroy what academic freedom sets to achieve.”

and saying this doesn’t create any new jobs, and then they go out and they do the photo ops and they are posing with the big check and they say, isn’t this great? ... It doesn’t match up,” the governor said.

He added: “Anyone that says that it hasn’t created the jobs, they should talk to the 150,000 people that have been getting jobs in California ... This is 150,000 people that are going home today with a check that are providing for the family, that can buy the textbooks for their kids, that are feeling wanted and needed and feeling productive.”

He said Republicans have become “the party of no” because they have to take the opposite position of the president in an attempt to win in November’s elections.

“I think the Tea Party is all about just an expression of anger and dissatisfaction and I see it in California when people come up to me and say, ‘you know I’m angry that you guys

don’t get along in Sacramento.

I’m angry that they’re not getting along in Washington. I’m angry that nothing gets done.

I’m ang ry that I’m unemployed. I’m angry that people are losing homes. I’m angry that businesses are losing their businesses and all of those kind of things. And the economy is down.’”

He said the Obama administration should “keep staying on track,” even though it won’t be easy and there might be failure involved.

“In politics, when you fail, it’s like the end of the world because the press keeps piling on you and beating you up and all of those kind of things,” Schwarzenegger said.

“I am never afraid of failing. I’ve failed several things that I tried to do in California, but we have won with many things that we have tried in California and we have done in California.”

ASI: Wants to make organization available to all students by way of Webcam broadcast CONTINUED from page 5 b e abl e t o k n ow wh at has been done by the ASI Senate.”

A S I P r e s i d e n t Je s s i c a Sweeten said streaming Senate meetings live is a great way to give students the opportunity to learn what ASI is doing for Fresno State.

“Students will definitely benefit from the live meetings,” Sweeten said. “Those that are not able to attend can watch online and learn about the inner workings of our organization.”

Melissa Mata, the Senator of undergraduate and graduate affairs, said she is very

excited about the meetings being streamed live, and thinks it will help keep ASI available to students.

“I think it is another big step toward shared governance and accountability,” Mata said.

A link will be available on the ASI Web site, www. asi.csufresno.edu, and the Bulldog Blog Web site, www. bulldogblog.net, for students to access the video streaming of meetings, Hosch said.

Senate meetings are held in room 3212 of the Henry Madden Library at 4 p.m. every other Wednesday.

Monday, February 22, 2010

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Ribera opens the season big Bulldogs look sharp in this seasons opening weekend

By Megan Morales The Collegian

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Junior Jordan Ribera is off to a great start with clutch home run in the season opener and two to follow the next day over the Nebraska Huskers.

Heading into the bottom of the ninth inning in front of a nearly sold-out crowd at Pete Beiden Stadium Friday night, the Fresno State baseball team trailed the Nebraska Huskers. Coming through in the clutch, junior Jordan Ribera hit a walk-off home run to send the fans home happy.

The Bulldogs struggled to score runs for most of the game until they erupted with a four-run rally in the ninth inning, capped by Ribera’s tworun walk-off blast over the right field fence, giving the ‘Dogs a 7-5 win over Nebraska.

“It’s such a great feeling,” Ribera said. “I’ve been working so hard this offseason to put together a good 2010 season. So I’m hoping to take that from tonight and move forward.”

Ribera’s humility was apparent as he credited his teammates for tying the game before he even went to the plate.

“I was just fortunate enough to be in that position with Brennan [Gowens’] big hit,” Ribera said. “We don’t get there without our pitchers throwing how they threw tonight, and without the other eight guys in the lineup hitting how they hit.”

The Bulldogs were behind the entire game, and gave up a deflating, cushion run to Nebraska in the top of the ninth inning on a wild pitch that seemed to put the game out of reach.

Juniors Garrett Weber and Danny Muno led off the ninth inning with back-to-back walks. Weber and Muno then advanced into scoring position on a wild pitch with Gowens on deck.

Gowens came up clutch with a one out hard-hit double to left-center, scoring Weber and Muno. Ribera then approached the plate with his “all I need is a single” mentality, and gave the fans something to cheer about with a game-ending home run.

Then, less than 24 hours after Ribera’s

Softball

vs. Illinois Final: 5-0 The softball team lost for the first time this season to Illinois at the Stanford/ Nike Invitational. Junior pitcher Morgan Melloh recorded 12 strike outs while allowing six hits in six innings of service. The ‘Dogs racked up seven hits while sophomore Andrea Ortega went 2-3. The team dropped to 6-1.

Men’s Basketball

vs. UCSB Final: 64-60 In a fight to the finish, Mike Ladd led the Bulldogs with 16 points, with three from behind arc. Paul George was close behind with 13 points, seven rebounds and three steals. Jerry Brown had a career-high of five steals, and Gregg Smith added 9 points for the night.

Women’s Basketball

vs. Nevada Wolf Pack Final: 69-58 Pink night began with a rough start but the ‘Dogs pulled it out in the second half to clinch a WAC regular season championship, 13-0 in conference.

Rosie Moult scored an impressive 17 points, 14 of which were in the second half. Hayley Munro had 15 and Jaleesa Ross contributed 12 for the Bulldogs victory.

Men’s Tennis

vs. Boise State Saturday, the Broncos doubles, Filipp Pogostkin and Vincente Joli, held a small lead over Fresno State’s Mirko Zapletal and Taylor Leiby, 8-7. Due to heavy rain, the Bulldogs did not get to finish play on Saturday against the Broncos. The game resumed on Sunday as the Bulldogs fell to the Broncos giving them a 1-0 team lead. The competitions were canceled due to rain and will be rescheduled on a later date.

vs. UC Irvine Final: 10-2 The ‘Dogs rebounded after their first loss of the season, beating UC Riverside 10-2. Junior shortstop Haley Gilleland had two hits with three RBIs. Junior Nicole Angene contributed by going 2-2, driving in three runs. Catchers Kaitlin Griffin and junior Caitlin Stiglich also drove in runs. The ‘Dogs improved its record to 7-1 for the season.

Equestrian:

The Fresno State equestrian team won the Fourth Annual Best in the West Tournament going 3-0 against Texas Christian University, University of Tennessee-Martin and Sacred Heart of Connecticut. The ‘Dogs have won five consecutive matches in a row.

Women’s Tennis

vs. Texas A&M Final: 7-0 The No. 41 ‘Dogs dropped a nonconference match against No. 39 Texas

ninth inning heroics in the opener, he helped carry the Bulldogs’ momentum into Saturday’s game with two home runs in his first two at-bats, leading the team to an 8-2 victory.

“We were down a run, and we wanted to answer back to keep ourselves in the game,” Ribera said. “I was just thankful I could help the team get off to a good start and we were able to keep that lead for the rest of the game.”

With Ribera’s homeruns and five combined hits from teammates, Trent Garrison and Bobby Coyle, there was plenty of run support for the pitching staff, which shook off the rust and gave up three less runs than the first game.

Once again, the Bulldogs’ offense exploded in the late innings, scoring three runs in the eighth to put the game away.

In the third game of the series, after a one-hour rain delay, the bulldogs rekindled the magic from the season opener on Sunday afternoon as they battled back and forth all game before winning in the bottom of the 11th inning.

With two outs in the top of 11th inning, Fresno State’s Greg Gonzalez threw a wild pitch, allowing the goahead run for Nebraska to cross the plate.

The Bulldogs’ offense didn’t give up once. The team responded with a run of its own, to tie the game at 9-9 after a Muno walk and a run-scoring double

by Brennan Gowens.

Later that inning, shortstop Isacc Vivas came to the plate with two outs and the bases loaded, there was a pass ball allowing Gowensto race home to score the game-winning run.

Fresno State is 3-0 to start the season for the first time in 15 years. The ‘Dogs will finish up the four game series at home Monday night at 6:05 p.m.

A&M in Las Vegas. Senior Anastasia Petukhova and freshman Bianca Modoc teamed up in doubles play to beat A&M’s duo of Morgan Frank and Christi Liles, 8-3. The ‘Dogs won only one match against A&M.

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Baseball: Monday, at Pete Beiden Field vs.

Nebraska Corn Huskers at 6:05 p.m.

Men’s Basketball: Tuesday, at Save Mart Center vs. Cal State Bakersfield at 7 p.m.

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Elizabeth Thomasian scored a 71 in the Reining event on Saturday against TCU.

Bulldogs remain Best in the West four years straight

By Vongni Yang The Collegian The Fresno State equestrian team hosted the Fourth Annual Best in the West Tournament this past weekend at the Student Horse Center and showed why it was the “best in the west.”

The tenth-ranked ‘Dogs defeated No. 7 Texas Christian University (TCU) and went on to gain a victory against the University of Tennessee-Martin (UTM) on Saturday. The ‘Dogs defeated TCU with a total score of 8-3 and UTM 8-4.

“I am very pleased with the cumulative results,” equestrian coach Dr. Becky Malmo said. “But I am also

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With honors for a second day in a row, senior captain Lisa Wells received MVP in equitation over fences against Sacred Heart University.

very pleased with all the efforts of the team.”

The four-event tournament consisted of: horsemanship, reining, equitation on the flat and equitation over fences.

The ‘Dogs dominated against TCU on equitation over fences, as all three riders won their match, earning three points for the team. Senior captain Lisa Wells scored an 82 in the event as well as MVP honors.

The team went on to gain four more points, as it won the events in reining and equitation on the flat over TCU. Sophomore Sammi Jo Stone was the only rider to earn points for the ‘Dogs in horsemanship against the TCU Horned Frogs.

Against UTM, sophomore Kimmie Steinbuch had a perfor mance to remember as she scored a tournamentrecord 95 on equitation on the flat.

Steinbuch was five points away from a perfect score.

“She’s one of those unique individuals where you have all of the combinations that you need for great success in the equestrian world,” Malmo said of Stenbuch.

Steinbuch won two MVP awards on Saturday.

The ‘Dogs continued their dominance in reining as senior captain Keri Blackledge led the way to a perfect showing against UTM. All three riders won their meet scoring a 68 or better.

Stone performed well once again in horsemanship as she and senior Madison Silver earned two points for the ‘Dogs.

In equitation over fences, Wells was the only rider to earn a point against the Skyhawks.

Silver and Blackledge also earned MVP honors on Saturday.

The ‘Dogs dominated performances on Sunday, as well as when they took home all the MVP honors against

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Sophomore Kimmie Steinbuch set a tournament record over the weekend, with a score of 95 in equitation on the flat.

Sacred Heart University.

“We won the MVP in all four events,” Malmo said. “Our individual riders have done extremely well.”

The ‘Dogs finished the tournament going 3-0 against its opposition and proved that it was the best in the west.