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Land-grant universities: History of opportunity

By Jacob Rayburn The Collegian One of the foundations of higher learning in the United States was a piece of legislation passed in 1862. It was born of a man’s desire to provide rural access to education.

The Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890 helped create what are called landgrant colleges or universities by providing land and funds to start institutions with a focus on agriculture and the mechanical arts, while not ignoring the traditional academic core.

The stated goal of the bill’s namesake, Justin Morrill, was to provide members of the working classes the opportunity to obtain liberal and practical educations.

The significance of the 1890 act was that it prohibited funding to states that used race as a factor for admissions into a university. Those states had to create separate land-grant institutions or end their discriminating practices.

What resulted was the creation of some of the most well known historically black universities in the country.

Some of these are Tuskegee University, Alcorn State, and Grambling State.

The overall idea of establishing universities that focused on the prac-

Backcountry Film Festival presented at Fresno State

By Erika Harley Special to The Collegian Snow-carved mountains, a foreboding silence and desolate landscapes appear across the screen. “How far can I push this before it pushes back?” asks the narrator before a quiet avalanche of snow begins to flood.

This is just one scene depicting the journey of the Sweetgrass Production crew through the obstacles of backcountry skiing in their film, “Skiing the Void.” The award-winning film will appear at the Backcountry Film Festival hosted by the Fresno State Recreation Association Thursday.

The 8th annual film festival features work submitted by world-renowned and grassroots filmmakers who share a mutual respect for the backcountry.

They capture stories of nonmotorized recreation and environmental preservation through film.

“The festival highlights the fun and magic of our country’s winter backcountry,” Recreation Association president Emily Bosh said. “At the same time, it raises funds to help the Winter Wildlands Alliance’s efforts to protect wild areas throughout the country.”

Winter Wildlands Alliance (WWA) is See FILM, Page 3

Shown here are the number of institutions by state or territory. Landgrant universities came about with the Morill Acts of 1862 and 1890.

Graphic by Julie Waite / The Collegian Source: Association of Public and Land-grant Universities

tical application of agriculture and mechanical arts, and eventually the research into the refinement of those fields, was simple. There were many people throughout the country who worked in jobs related to those fields who needed opportunities to learn at a school not entirely focused on the classic academics of the university tradition.

The connections between universities and the surrounding communities have been present throughout the system’s history.

As far back as 1914, a Cooperative Extension Service was developed that used federal funds to create a position for a university employee to act as an adviser in every county to provide rural education for adults, said Fresno State’s

J.G. Boswell Chair of Agronomy Bruce Roberts.

“Not everyone could attend a university,” Roberts said. “The extension service brought the university to them.”

Fresno State was one of those universities. The advisers still act as a conSee GRANTS, Page 3

Fresno State almonds sold locally, globally

By Brianna Vaccari The Collegian While California’s almond market is booming, Mechel Paggi, director of Fresno State’s Center for Agricultural Business, said that the university’s almond production benefits from the positive aspects of the industry.

The reason the almond market is doing so well now is because there is a growing importance in markets developing in the Asia-Pacific region, Paggi

said. Market growth in China has been especially dramatic. In Western Europe, the market for almonds has always been strong and steadily growing, similar to the market in the U.S. “Almonds are sort of a poster child for the positive impacts of globalization in terms of the markets that are available,” Paggi said.

The export market for almonds has dramatically increased, and now the U.S. exports twice as many almonds to other countries as it consumes.

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California’s Central and San Joaquin Valleys produce 84 percent of the world’s almond supply.

Fresno State’s orchards contribute annually to the meet the global demand.

On the world market, California is by far the largest producer, harvesting 84 percent of the world’s commodity.

Production takes place on more than 310,000 acres in California, of which less than 15,000 acres are non-bearing.

In Califor nia, almonds are the fourth-leading commodity of agriculture, behind hay, wheat and grapes.

Fresno State’s 62 acres of fully producing, mature almond orchards contribute to this success.

Paggi said Fresno State provides a benefit to the almond market in that it has the capacity to provide a venue to conduct research on production and processing.

Mark Salwasser, the agriculture operations employee who oversees the almonds orchards, said the orchards do provide great educational value. The orchard class, equipment class, irrigation class and tree production class all use the almond orchards for their course of study.

Salwasser also said students work in the almond fields everyday through different classes and internships.

“It’s a good commodity for the farm, and it helps the university further its educational mission,” Salwasser said.

A portion of Fresno State’s almonds is sold at the Rue and Gwen Gibson Farm Market, but the majority of the crop is sold to a wholesale buyer in a pool sale.

“Almonds are a very successful crop, both production-wise and financially,” See ALMONDS, Page 3

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'NO LABELS' MOVEMENT STANDS AGAINST PARTISAN POLITICS

By Bill Galston Outside opinion

W

hether you read it online, saw it on the news or your professor went on a rant about it, you have likely heard that Washington has an accountability problem.

Our nation’s leaders — in Congress and in the White House — are often focused more on partisan politics than doing what’s right for our country.

They’re focused on scoring points instead of solving problems, and the upcoming sequester is just one more example of it.

On March 1, our nation is set to hit automatic, across-the-board spending cuts — cuts that were never supposed to happen.

So how did we get here?

In July 2011, Republicans and Democrats were in a standoff on the debt ceiling.

Democrats wanted to raise our nation’s spending limit with no restrictions, and Republicans wanted to cut spending to offset raising the ceiling.

It came down to the wire and at the last minute, President Barack Obama and Congress agreed on a deal: They would raise the debt ceiling and create a Super Committee charged with finding $1.5 trillion in spending cuts by Dec. 23, 2011.

But here’s the catch: If the Super Committee didn’t agree on the cuts, the sequester would go into effect on Jan. 1, 2013 — automatic, across-the-board spending cuts split between defense and nondefense discretionary spending.

At the time, the sequester seemed almost laughable. Everyone “knew” it wasn’t going to happen; everyone “knew” Washington would find another way to reduce spending.

But as we came to the end of 2012, our leaders didn’t have time to deal with the sequester so they kicked the can down the road a few more months to give themselves the opportunity to deal with it.

But here we are, just a few days away from the deadline, and lawmakers haven’t dealt with it.

Leaders haven’t even met to talk about the cuts. Instead, they’re spending all their

time blaming the other party, trying to make sure they come out on top politically when the dust settles.

While leaders play political games, they’re not looking out for the best interest of the country.

They’re not doing the jobs they were elected to do. In this case, they are politicians first and lawmakers second.

This isn’t how our government is supposed to work.

The sequester was merely created as a penalty — something for Congress and the president to keep in the back of their minds when they were coming up with a better plan.

Decisions shouldn’t be made like that.

They should be made by careful deliberation among our lawmakers.

That’s what NoLabels.org, a grassroots movement of hundreds of thousands of Republicans, Democrats and everything in between, is seeking.

No Labels is pushing lawmakers to sit down with one another, meet across the aisle and find solutions to our country’s biggest problems.

We’ve already seen huge success with the passage of No Budget and No Pay, a bill we proposed in December 2011 that was enacted this month and will withhold pay if either chamber of Congress doesn’t pass a budget on time.

These are the kind of common-sense reforms our government needs so that the process leads to problem solving, not more penalties for the American people.

No one thought the sequester was going to happen. But now we’re just a few days away from the cuts and lawmakers are more concerned with how the cuts play out politically than what happens to the country.

We need a process that works. We need a plan, not a penalty. Join the movement at NoLabels.org to stand up for problem solving, not political point scoring.

Bill Gaston is a senior fellow at Brookings Institute and co-founder of NoLabels.org.

He also served as former policy advisor to President Bill Clinton.

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in the assault weapons ban Feinstein, Americans will be able to own over 2,200 different types of guns. he Newtown shooting To a common man outside tragedy has sparked a the United States where the gun renewed debate about crime is much lower per capita gun control in the United States, than in America, this flexibility highlighting just how divided and choice goes way beyond libthis country is on so many impor- erty. tant issues.

Fo r m e r G e n e r a l S t a n l e y While the conversation has McChrystal, who led the war in been most constructive, some Afghanistan, was asked about the of our gun-loving neighbors are availability of AR 15, the semidoing their best to drag the dis- automatic assault rifle, which cussion through the mud. was responsible for the last three Senator Diane Feinstein and mass shootings in America.

President Barack Obama are McChrystal explained, “That’s proposing a new gun control bill, what our soldiers ought to carry. which calls for universal back- I personally don’t think there’s ground checks, renewing a ban any need for that kind of weaponon military-style assault weap- ry on the streets and particularly ons and high-capacity maga- around the schools in America.” zines.

A similar Some memopinion was bers of the conome of our gun-lov- e c h o e d b y servative media General Colin ing neighbors are and Republican Powell. The doing their best to drag Party are reactmajority of ing to these propolice chiefs, as the discussion through posed changes well, are against the mud.” with statements the armor-pierclike: ing bullets.

“Our liberty All these opinis under threat", ions are pointing “Obama is tearing down the to only one conclusion — certain constitution”, “Obama wants to types of dangerous weapons disarm America”, “Government don’t belong in civil society. i s c o m i n g f o r yo u r g u n s ” , Even if most of the semiau“Americans will not be able to tomatic assault rifle owners are defend themselves” and so on. law-abiding citizens, a single Based on the declared intent incident like that of Newtown of the president, coupled with should be enough for U.S. citizens the interpretation of the Second to think seriously about why any Amendment by conservative civil society needs to be armed Supreme Court Justice Antonin with military-style assault weapScalia, these statements are fac- ons. tually incorrect and antagonize Conservatives have given any meaningful discussion on sainthood to former president this subject.

Ronald Reagan. But when they Obama has announced mul- use factually incorrect statetiple times that he supports the ments to describe the new assault Second Amendment right of the weapons ban, they conveniently American people to keep and ignore that Reagan was in supbear arms. port for the assault weapons ban.

These include handguns, shot Just the way they ignore that guns and hunting rifles. In his in Great Britain, where guns are 2008 ruling on the Washington banned, there were 27 murders DC handgun ban, Scalia, who in 2010 due to gun violence, comis believed to be a staunch pared to over 11,000 in the United c o n s e r vat ive ab i d e r o f t h e States.

Constitution, ruled that the Finally, assault weapon advoSecond Amendment leaves room cates have to keep the following for federal gun control on certain incidence in their mind. weapons.

Newtown shooter Adam He wrote, "We think that limi- Lanza’s mother, a passionate tation is fairly supported by the Second Amendment supporter, historical tradition of prohibit- had six guns at her home, four ing the carrying of 'dangerous of which were assault rifles. She and unusual weapons.'" could not defend herself from her In line with this judgment, own son when it came to exercismilitary-style fully automatic ing her own rights. assault weapons are already And neither could Chris Kyle, banned in the United States. an American hero, despite being This means neither President trained and one of the most Obama wants to disarm America, skilled Navy Seals at a Texas gun nor do Americans have the right range. to bear any dangerous weapons they like under the Constitution.

Shantanu Kamat is an IndianAnd, based on this Supreme born immigrant who came to Court ruling by Scalia, Obama America to pursue higher eduis neither tearing down the cation at a state university in Constitution nor snatching any- California. one’s liberties.

Additionally, under the new gun control bill written by

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News Briefs University’s Kremen School honored nationally for teacher education T h e A m e r i c a n Association of Colle ges fo r Te a ch e r E d u c at i o n ( A AC T E ) h a s s e l e c t e d F re sno S t at e’ s K re m e n School of Education and Human Development as the winner of its 2013 Best Practice Award for Professional Ethics and Moral Dispositions in Teacher Education.

The national award reco gnizes excellence in a school, college or department of education for purposeful attention to ethics and moral character in educating future teachers.

It will be presented March 2 at AACTE’s 65th Annual Meeting in Orlando, Fla. “We are delighted that AACTE and the profession have acknowledged those efforts,” he said.

Judg es selected the Kremen School for the award because of its clear commitment to preparing educators who have a deep understanding of the ethical dimensions of teaching, who see education as part of the democratic fabric of society and who have worked to develop dispositions toward teaching effectively in diverse communities.

Crime Alert, Attempted Robbery On Saturday at approximately 5:30 p.m., a female Fresno State student was walking on the west side of Parking Lot K near Barstow Avenue when an unknown bl a ck m a l e c a m e f r o m behind and grabbed her

right wrist possibly intending to take her cell phone that she had in her hand.

T he victim shoved and kicked the suspect and then ran towards Cedar Avenue losing sight of the suspect.

The suspect left the scene in an unknown direction.

Suspect information: Black male adult, early 20s, about 5-foot 7-inches, medium build wearing a black sweatshirt and knit hat.

If you have any information regarding this crime please call Fresno State Police Department 559-2788400.

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Do not walk alone, and stay in well lit areas.

Report any suspicious activity to police.

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For emergencies call 9-1-1 CSU Student Financial Aid Deadline is March 2 Students who wish to apply for financial aid for California State University campuses for the 2013-14 academic year have less than one week remaining to submit their Free Application for Federal S t u d e n t A i d ( FA F S A ) .

The priority deadline for submitting a FAFSA is Saturday, March 2, 2013.

Students are strongly encouraged to apply before the priority deadline as financial aid may be limited for submissions after March 2.

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GRANTS: Advising agriculture CONTINUED from page 1 duit between the university and farmer. They deliver the research to the farmers and bring information about the problems faced in agriculture back to universities. Research and experimentation are executed find a solution.

Over the years, a school’s status as a land-grant college has meant varying levels of federal funding, often in conjunction with support from the state.

Fresno State was not created using the land or funding from

the Morrill Acts. Land grants led to the creation of University of California, Berkeley and the University Farm at Davis and the Citrus Experiment Station at Riverside. These, in turn, became UC Davis and UC Riverside.

Fresno State is a member of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU). Being a California State University, the funding is different for Fresno State than those universities that can trace their ancestry directly to the Morrill Acts. However,

Fresno State’s history in agriculture advising and its classification as Hispanic serving institution places it in the APLU. Even though Fresno State’s financial connection is primarily with the state, recent budget debates in Washington D.C. may impact funding. That possibility will be a focus for Fresno State and other APLU institutions across the country.

Member institutions are in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and four U.S. territories.

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Fresno State’s almond orchards produce five varieties. Some of these are sold in the Rue and Gwen Gibson Farm Market, while most of the almond crop is sold to independent processors.

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The orchards at Fresno State produce five varieties of almonds. The two hard-shell varieties are Butte and Padre almonds. The three soft-shell varieties are Aldridge, Price

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and Nonpareil almonds.

The Nonpareil variety is a premium nut and preferred by buyers because it is a larger than other varieties, Salwasser said. Because of this, it tends to sell at a higher price.

The average price is $1.92 per pound for the grower.

“If you look to the future, it’s bright because of where market growth is occurring,” Paggi said.

Unforeseen changes can always affect the market, Paggi

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said. Factors that could hurt the almond market are a sudden disruption in the Asian economy or the unexpected increase in the value of the dollar.

“These are things that are beyond our control,” Paggi said.

In the next five to 10 years, markets in India and Asia are expected to increase. For the market in general, Paggi said there is plenty of supply and plenty of demand.

a nonprofit organization aimed at preserving winter wild lands and promoting human-powered snow sports. It serves as a voice for outdoor adventurers to ensure future generations will have a sizable amount of public land to experience the wonders of winter.

“They [WWA] want people to enjoy nature without damaging it, and I think that priority gets lost in a lot of people’s minds,” said recreation student Kristen Wong.

Ticket sales and raffle prizes will raise money in support of the WWA to help protect wild areas throughout the country.

“The film festival is another

quality event put on by the Rec. Association,” recreation professor Justin Butchert said.

“There are some excellent raffle prizes, including a whitewater rafting trip donated by the local recreation community.”

Festival sponsor REI donated a backpacking tent, camp chair and daypack to also be raffled off in support of WWA, Bosh said.

Over the years, the festival has traveled to hundreds of cities and raised thousands of dollars in support of wild areas.

The festival kicks off at 7 p.m. in the Residence Dining Hall. Tickets are $2 for students, $3 for the general public and both include a raffle ticket with admission.

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Richter Center offers volunteer opportunities

By G.J. Glutz The Collegian In 2012, Fresno State exceeded one million hours of community service for the third straight year.

The Jan and Bud Richter Center for Community Engagement and ServiceLearning is a place where students of all backgrounds and interests can volunteer to help out around the community.

Chris Fiorentino, director at the center, said there are hundreds of opportunities for students, and volunteering can benefit everyone involved.

“The research has shown that service is a great way for students to develop academically, personally and professionally,” Fiorentino said.

On top of personal development, there are other benefits to helping in the community.

“Our students are transforming individuals’ lives out in the community through their service work, and the students’ lives are being transformed,” Fiorentino said.

Richter Center ambassador Daniel Ward said the work he did at the Alluvial Community Garden was both meaningful and rewarding.

“We gave it a fresh coat of paint and made it look like it was actually being used,” Ward said. “It’s really cool to still drive by there.”

Although he is busy, Ward said it is easy to make time for helping out others.

“It’s really about time management,” he said. “If you make something a priority, you’ll be able to do it. Think about people who have significant others or spend a lot

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The Jan and Bud Richter Center for Community Engagement and Service-Learning is located in the Frank W. Thomas Building. The center provides volunteer community work for Fresno State students. Last year, the campus accrued more than one million hours of service for the third straight year.

of time with their family. It’s ty. The program gives students because that’s a priority in a chance to work on a project in the communitheir life that ty with peers they‘re able to during spring make it work. break.

So if you real“Four eightize the value f you make somehour days of of service and priming and being a chamthing a priority, you'll preparing this pion for servbe able to do it.” building to be ing others, painted—it t h e n yo u ’ r e — Daniel Ward, was that event going to find Richter Center Ambassador t h a t r e a l l y time to do it.” made me Wa rd s a i d understand,” the event, he said.

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a little frustrated. But if you sit and you reflect and you talk about it with others, you start to realize that there are others who are really going to benefit from the work that you’re putting in, that did it for me.”

Ward said that he has met many of his good friends through the service projects he has done with the center.

Emily Hentschke, Richter Center ambassador and Service Experience with Richter Volunteer Events (SERVE) committee member, is from the Sacramento area and wanted to “get to know Fresno better and give back,” so she got involved with the center.

She said SERVE has three single-day service events per year. After these events students can go back to the site of the event throughout the year and continue to work on projects and also show others what they did.

“There are so many different kinds of opportunities,” she said. “If you wanted to just volunteer for one day or one weekend, we have a bunch of different events like kid’s day.”

Kids day is March 5, when hundreds of volunteers take part in selling newspapers for $1. Hentschke said last year on Kids Day Fresno State raised more than $30,000 for Children’s Hospital Central California.

Center ambassador Miguel Vieira said volunteering is important in building relationships and meeting a diverse group of people.

“I believe it helps build character. It helps with your team building skills,” he said. “It helps you learn to be part of a team.”

Vieira said working to make a difference in a person’s life and seeing the impact is satisfying and he hopes to have others help him in the future when he has kids.

Offering advice, he said to be open to new experiences.

“Try not to give yourself excuses to not participate, to not help others,” he said. “A quote that I like is, ‘If you’re able to help others do so, so if one day you’re in need you’ll be grateful to those who help you.’

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Elevators pose problems for students with disabilities

By Nathaly Juarez The Collegian Jour nalism student Matthew Jimenez, on occasion, struggles to reach the second floor of the McKee Fisk Building to get to his classes because of faulty handicap buttons and elevators that are not always in service.

Jimenez is in a wheelchair, and the only way to get to the second floor is by elevator.

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There are some areas on campus that journalism student Matthew Jimenez can't access due to faulty elevators.

Every day, he fears not being able to get to class on time.

“Just last week, I missed one of my classes because the elevator was broken, and last semester I had a lot of problems at McKee Fisk because the elevator was broken half the semester,” Jimenez said.

If a problem occurs, Jimenez has to call for assistance, which can put him even more behind schedule.

“Sometimes I have to call Plant Operations on campus, and they’ll call somebody to fix the door or elevator, but sometimes that can take a while, or I just wait around and see who is available to help me out,” Jimenez said.

He feels Fresno State does not take into consideration students in wheelchairs, as the elevators are often out of service.

D i s ab i l i t y M a n a g e m e n t Specialist Jeanette Johnson said there are roughly 600 students registered in the Services for Students with Disabilities program per academic year. Of those students, about 100 have mobility impairments or other conditions that may limit their ability to use the stairs.

Johnson said when the elevators or buttons do not work,

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ometimes I just get frustrated and tired of waiting, so I just head back to my dorm.”

— Matthew Jimenez, Journalism student students in wheelchairs must call the disability office. “ We c o n t a c t F a c i l i t i e s Management and place a work order and keep the student up to date on the status of the work order,” Johnson said. “If it is requested by the student, we contact his or her instructor, notifying them of the situation and why the student did not attend class that day.”

Johnson said facilities management only receives two to three calls per semester from students with disabilities regarding broken handicap or not-in-service buttons.

The mission of the Students with Disabilities program is to promote opportunities for students with disabilities to achieve their academic, cultural and social interests by ensuring that campus programs, activities and facilities are accessible.

“When I call, they usually take 20 minutes or more because they always seem to be busy,” Jimene z said.

“Sometimes I just get frustrated and tired of waiting, so I just head back to my dorm.”

Jimenez said he feels his grades have dropped in the past because of not being able to attend classes on the second floor.

Program director Janice Brown said additional assistance is available for specific accommodations to best serve the students in the program.

Jimenez said it frustrates him and wished Fresno State was more accessible and would more funding to provide better services for students in his situation because he pays tuition

and other fees and does not feel enough is going toward him.

Other students on campus can help those with disabilities by calling the Services for Students with Disabilities office or going through the website and making a report through the accessibility link on the website.

CORRECTION A story on Page 4 of The Collegian on Feb. 22 incorrectly stated the name of Donald Williams' former student. The correct name is Brenda Lawson.

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ZSpace: A new dimension in education

By Zack Edwards The Collegian Fresno State’s geomatics engineering program is moving into the future with a 3-D technology called zSpace.

With zSpace, students use a stylus to manipulate and control three-dimensional images. They have to use specially designed, $500 3-D glasses with five points of reference to help track the image. Onlookers use glasses just like the kind one would get at a traditional 3-D movie.

This new technology came to the university due in large part to Riadh Munjy, doctor of geomatics engineering and program coordinator, and contributions from donors. Engineering East Room 101 was able to update its photogrammetry equipment.

The purpose of the photogrammetry lab is to let geomatics engineering students take measurements based off of 2-D images.

“Well the whole idea basically in geomatics, we would like to do measurements,” Munjy said. “We do measurements using GPS equipment. We do measurements taken from picture from airplanes, from satellites, even pictures in the water, so anything that we can measure and can produce data in X-YZ. We would like to visualize and try to measure to access the accuracy of that equipment.”

Munjy said there are a variety of potential uses for this type of 3-D technology beyond simple entertainment.

He cited three-dimensional surgery as a way that students can acquire experi-

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Grady Roth, a geomatics engineering major, moves virtual objects in a third dimension using the zSpace program, which uses a stylus and special $500 3-D glasses.

ence applicable to their career paths.

In the medical field, for example, the equipment and techniques need to be

precise, which the zSpace program tries supposed to be.” to replicate to provide the best model A point of pride for Munjy is that the possible. money used to buy the equipment did “The tolerance is very, very small,” not have to come from the university.

Munjy said. “He (a student using the “All the equipment that you see over technology) can not afford to make mis- here, not a cent came from the state. takes that large, so the student has to be It all came from private donations,” very careful how to take these pictures Munjy said. “For the hardware, we and how to put them were able to get money. together, so that final And all the software, results are acceptable what we couldn’t buy to a medical doctor in was donated. I have 14 think it’s one of the that case.” computers, each with unique labs in the G r a d y Ro t h i s a 32 gigabytes of RAM. nation now. Everybody’s senior in the geomatEach one has about ics engineering depart$25,000 software on proud of it. The students ment. He said there are each computer miniare very enthusiastic, many ways that differmum.” and they are very excited ent majors can make Munjy said the use of zSpace. equipment update was and eager to use the “ Yo u ’ l l s e e t h a t necessary, because the equipment and get more there’s a house you can previous hardware was knowledge out of the explore, so construcolder than most of the systems.” tion,” Roth said. “I just students. picked up a part of “If you had come a some sort, a mechani— Riadh Munjy, year and a half ago, cal engineering kind what you would have Engineering professor seen is a room full of of thing designed like that. You can do bridgequipment from the es as well—civil engi’40s, ’50s and ’60s era; neering. maybe one or two machines from the “The way our major ties in with all ’70s and one from the ’80s,” he said. that is we do the measurements for all Munjy said that everyone affiliated that as well as the 3-D aspect with this with the university should be proud to (the equipment). We learn the math and have such a unique and state-of-the-art how to create these three-dimensional lab on campus. It is one of the few proimages.” grams of its kind in the nation.

Munjy said that he has had students “I think it’s one of the unique from other disciplines who have taken labs in the nation now,” Munjy said. an interest in using this new technology “Everybody’s proud of it. The students for their own non-engineering majors. are very enthusiastic, and they are very “There has been some interest from excited and eager to use the equipment computer science students to come and and get more knowledge out of the sysmake their senior projects,” he said, tems.” “because the equipment we have is very unique and everybody is interested to get their hands on it.”

For students to get access to zSpace they need to enroll in the corresponding upper-division geomatics engineering class. It is not a class you can simply enroll in though. The class relies heavily on linear algebra, so there are a variety of necessary math prerequisites just to get into the class.

“We are not only interested in the Scan the QR code to watch visit pictures, but the math behind them,” The Collegian Online and watch Munjy said. “We spend quite a bit of the zSpace technology at work. math and quite a bit of introductory courses to get them to where they are

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ANGELS: Team hopes to win title CONTINUED from page 7 over the Central Valley, including women from Fresno and Visalia, the team’s home city, and even girls from as far away as the Bay Area.

Many girls from Fresno State travel each weekend to Visalia for practice, including Fresno State alumna, Chantel Wiggins, who said that playing for the team is like playing with family, because they are all such close friends.

Walking onto the field for the first time four years ago, Wiggins was unsure of what to expect but was greeted with only positive feedback.

She had never played in a women’s football league up before, but knew she was “ h o o ke d , r i g h t t h e n a n d there.”Rookie player Gabriela Ramirez, said she always had an interest in playing football while growing up and was excited to begin her new venture with the War Angels this year.

“I’ve always liked football,” Ramirez said.

In high school she was not able to play on the boys’ team due to her parents worry of incurring an injury. When she

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The Central California War Angels is the only all-female contact football team in the Central Valley and features Fresno State alumnus Chantel Wiggins.

got the opportunity to play for an all-female team, she took it.

Ramirez wants to retur n to play again next year, citing both physical and mental growth as her reasons.

“T hey challeng e you to become a better player every second,” she said, adding that

if this season doesn’t go as planned, the War Angels will be back for blood next year.

With a team roster of nearly 50 women, the War Angels are eagerly anticipating their first game. Their first home game is on April 6th, when they play the Las Vegas Showgirls to

open their eight game season.

King, Wiggins, and Ramirez all agreed that the sport brings together women of all different backgrounds and socioeconomic groups to play as a team and as a family. In the words of Chantel Wiggins, “I have been truly blessed that the WFA has

kept the league going and will continue to do so for many other ladies in the future.”

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Manti Te’o faces the music in a direct way

By Dan Wiederer McClatchy-Tribune INDIANAPOLIS — The circus organs had finally stopped piping and the media tidal wave had receded.

An hour had passed Saturday since Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o walked of f Podium C at the NFL Scouting Combine at Lucas Oil Stadium. And now Gil Brandt stood in a concourse trying to summarize the weekend’s most anticipated interview.

Te’o had been under the spotlight for 14 minutes and 36 seconds, fielding 34 questions and trying to provide an honest if totally abbreviated update on his oh-so-peculiar 2013.

Brandt, once the vice president of player personnel for the Dallas Cowboys and now a senior analyst for the NFL’s website, shrugged and gave a preliminary nod of approval.

“Handled himself incredibly well,” Brandt said.

Pointed questions were fired Te’o’s way about the now-infamous Lennay Kekua fake girlfriend hoax. Yet he navigated the session with grace.

His answers were direct. His sentiments seemed sincere.

“Once you do this head on,” Brandt said, “hopefully you get it behind you and it’s history.

And before long, this can be about him as a football player again.”

——A night earlier, as hundreds of combine participants were being fed at the nearby Crowne Plaza, Brandt made a point to seek Te’o out. He wanted to measure the linebacker’s anxiety, to get a feel for his mindset, to offer a nuggets of advice.

Brandt sat with Te’o as he ate and told him it would be in his best interest to attack all the athletic testing and drills at

the combine without reservation. Te’o said he planned to.

Brandt advised Te’o not to dodge the media.

Te’o never intended to.

“I’m like everybody else,” Brandt said. “I want to know what the kid is made of. And I’ve been really impressed.

He has great communication skills. He interacts so well.”

So when it finally came time for Te’o to march into the teeth of an unprecedented combine media blitz, he climbed the podium steps and looked out at a swarm unlike any he’d seen.

“Pretty crazy,” he said. “I’ve been in front of a few cameras.

But never as many as this.”

Not only had all 32 chairs set up in front of the podium been full for some time, but 43 TV cameras had also jockeyed for position, with another eyeopening overflow of reporters lined eight and nine bodies deep across the room, some climbing on top of chairs to get a view.

By most accounts, the interest dwarfed even that of Tim Tebow’s 2010 appearance here.

Te’o was asked why he had been slow in speaking up after the story broke on the website Deadspin on Jan. 16 with bizarre revelations that his late girlfriend had not only never died of leukemia but wasn’t a girl at all — rather a social media creation by hoax perpetrator Ronaiah Tuiasosopo.

“It was just a whirlwind of stuff,” Te’o explained. “For me, a 22-year-old, a 21-year-old at that time, you’re just trying to get your thoughts right.

Everything’s kind of chaos for a little bit. So you let that chaos die down and wait until everybody’s willing to listen.”

For the past 5½ weeks, Te’o admitted, he has found himself fighting past humiliation.

“You’re walking through a

grocery store,” he said, “and you kind of give people doubletakes to see if they’re staring at you. It’s definitely embarrassing.”

——For 15 minutes, the linebacker’s mellow deportment seemed to calm the fascination in his plight.

Consider that a Te’o victory, as minor as it may be. Still, the media crush provides another variable for NFL general managers to consider.

Even if teams can find comfort that Te’o has been truthful about the hoax, even if they’re sold he can be a differencemaker, they will have to wonder whether the media swarm Te’o will attract will become a nuisance.

It’s not only the linebacker who will have to get used to that crush. Fifty-two other teammates will have to deal with its annoyances. And ask the Jets if there was any fatigue related to the media swarm that Tebow’s arrival brought last season.

The Vikings will be one of those teams doing an exhaustive evaluation on Te’o. With the draft’s 23rd pick and needs at middle linebacker, GM Rick Spielman will measure his Te’o intrigue across the board.

Can the kid play? Can he fit within the defensive scheme?

Will he be a match for the brand of tough, disciplined and unselfish players head coach Leslie Frazier wants?

Those assessments should be fairly easy to complete.

Then, the Vikings will dig deeper into Te’o’s background and the complex scandal that engulfed him, creating layers of confusion that still haven’t been cleared up.

Said Spielman: “We know some things that have not been reported in the media. I’ll say

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Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o addressed the media at the NFL Combine.

that.”

——In a new phase of this college-to-NFL transition, Te’o not only answered reporters’ questions Saturday, he had private 15-minute interviews scheduled with 20 teams this weekend.

The linebacker will also try to provide additional answers Monday when he runs the 40-yard dash and goes through athletic testing.

And when those for malities are finished, the far more extensive interactions will ramp up.

The Vikings, for one, seem likely to schedule Te’o for a Winter Park visit. And they’ll look forward to compiling results of the psycholo gical testing they will put Te’o through, an exercise they hope can provide a reliable profile of who he is.

“There are a lot of different areas we really hone in on and try to look at,” Spielman said.

“Coachability. Social maturity.

Self-esteem. Mental quickness.”

On Thursday, before the Vikings had their chance to meet with Te’o, Spielman had no gut feeling for how his feelings might change.

“I don’t know,” Spielman said. “Because I haven’t talked to him. … So I don’t know what percentage (the hoax stuff) is going to play. It could be, we’re fine with what happened. Or maybe it’s like, ‘Yeesh. I don’t know.’

“To be honest with you, I don’t understand (some of it). But I’m not a social media savvy guy. I ask my kids sometimes, ‘Can you actually have a girlfriend online? How does that work?’ I’m pretty naive when it comes to that. But honestly, I can’t answer that question until we get in front and speak with him. I’m sure we’ll have numerous conversations beyond the combine.”

As well as Te’o handled Saturday, he best remain prepared. The demands of the pre-draft process are far from behind him.

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Baseball

’Dogs fall to Roadrunners Collegian Staff The Fresno State baseball team lost to nonconference rival CSU Bakersfield 5-3 Tuesday night on the road.

Fresno State recieved RBIs singles from Trent Garrison and Aaron Judge at the tip of the first inning to grab an early 2-0 lead.

But the Roadrunners would take over the game in the fifth inning, when they went on a 3-run spree to tie the game. The Bulldogs did not score a run on the Roadrunners in the final four innings.

Fresno State hosts USC this weekend at Beiden Field for a three-game series. Friday’s opening pitch is at 6:35 p.m.

Bulldogs participate in NFL combine Collogian Staff Fresno State’s Robbie Rouse and Phillip Thomas participated in this year’s NFL Combine at Lucas Oil Stadium.

Rouse, last season’s 5-foot-6 workhorse running back, ran his 40-yard dash in 4.8 seconds (tied for the 29th fastest time, out of the Combine’s 32 running backs) and bench-pressed 225 pounds 15 times.

Thomas ran the 40-yard dash in 4.65 seconds, did 14 reps in the 225-bench press, had a 35-inch vertical jump and a 122inch broad jump.

Thomas and Rouse will wait for their names to be called in the 2013 NFL Draft on April 25.

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Women’s Hoops

Regrouped ’Dogs hope for repeat performance against Rams Fresno State grabbed a 17-2 start off five turnovers in first meeting. since the last time we saw them. I don’t think we can play them exactly the same way.”

Fresno State got off to a 17-2 start in its first meeting against Colorado State (a 69-58 win), making four 3s and forcing five turnovers in that span.

Fresno State leads the Mountain West in steals (11.9 per game) and turnover margin (+3.62) in conference play.

The Bulldogs (18-8, 10-3), second in conference standings, will play at Air Force (secondlast in league standings) and host UNLV before competing in their inaugural Mountain West tournament in mid-March.

“At this time of year, everyone’s really fighting hard for wins,” Pebley said.

“Every game is going to be a fight. Teams know what you do.

There are no secrets. It’s tough to win in February and March, and it takes a lot of grit. We’ll do whatever it takes to pull out a W here.”

Added Farley: “We still have to take each game as it comes because it’s easy to lose a couple of those last three games.

We want to put ourselves in the best position going into the tournament.”

By Ricardo Cano The Collegian The Fresno State women’s basketball team, as has seemed to be the case after its three Mountain West Conference losses, re g rouped itself Saturday at Boise State.

Fresno State trounced Nevada on the road after its first league loss to Wyoming, nabbed a nail-biting win at New Mexico after being routed

by Mountain West Conferenceleading San Diego State at home and tallied a sound win against the Broncos after losing to last-place Nevada at the Save Mart Center.

That last win might have been the most reassuring conference victory for the normally efficient Bulldogs (second in field goal percentage in the Mountain West).

Fresno State made a season-low 28 percent of their shots, including going 4-of-28 behind the 3-point arc, in last Wednesday’s 60-54 loss to the Wolf Pack – the conference’s second-worst scoring team.

“It’s a great win,” junior guard Bree Farley said of Fresno State’s 83-65 win against the Broncos on Saturday night.

“A lot of it is building confidence in ourselves and in the team.

“We know we can shoot, and it’s hard when you go through some of those rough games where you don’t shoot so well.

It just feels really good to have a great team performance.”

What’s the next confidence -building step for the Bulldogs as they reach the end of the regular season? A 9-16 Colorado State team that enters tonight’s

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Fresno State made 51 percent of its shots in its 83-65 win against Boise State on Saturday, compared to a season-low 28 percent against Nevada.

game at the Save Mart Center with just two road wins in the season.

Along with shooting the 3, forcing steals and turnovers on defense and scoring on the break has been a trademark for the Bulldogs this season.

It won’t be as easy to do against the Rams, as it seemed last time, said Fresno State

coach Raegan Pebley.

“We got pretty fortunate that we hit some 3s early in that game, and that helped open an early lead for us,” Pebley said.

“We did get some steals; we were able to turn them over.

“We’ll definitely look to try and play to our strengths. But Colorado State is a team that has improved significantly

Also…

Students attending tonight’s 7 p.m. game against Colorado State are encouraged to arrive an hour early for Bulldog Pride Zone, an event where there will be free pizza. Free T-shirts will be given to the first 100 students through the door.

Students will also be eligible for a raffle to win an autographed basketball by NBA player and for mer Bulldog Paul George.

War Angels represent Valley

By Dalton Gumz Special to The Collegian Once the scattered droplets of rain ceased to fall upon Visalia’s Goshen Park, cars slowly began to trickle into the gravel parking lot. The players of the Central Califor nia War Angels women’s football team got out and finished putting on their pads and jerseys as they headed toward the field.

There was a real sense of camaraderie between the players as they spoke and laughed with one another, all eagerly awaiting the coaching staff. Once the staff arrived, the whistles began to blow letting the women know that it was time to start practice.

The Central California War Angels is the Valley’s only all-female contact football team. The team is part of the Women’s Football Alliance (WFA), a league comprised of female teams across the country. The team is training this year in hopes of competing in the National Championships this August at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego.

War Angels coach Jeff King has been

head coach for the past four years, after previously coaching the Los Angeles Amazon. He also has experience as both a player and coach in Europe, making football second nature to him.

For the past two years, the team has made the playoffs. This year their hopes are no different.

“This year, the goal is to win it all,” said King.

Team captain Lisa King, wife of the coach, agrees.

“Our goal is to win the National Championship,” she said. “We have by far the best team in War Angels history.

Last season, we made it to the second round of playoffs, and this year, we are preparing to play and win it all.”

Lisa King has been playing football for a total of seven seasons, and this will be her third season with the War Angels. She has played the wide receiver, kick, and punt returner positions in her football career and has been captain for the past two seasons.

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The Central California War Angels play their first game of the 2013 season on April 6.