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ASI PRESIDENT RAMIREZ THREATENS RESIGNATION AT SENATE MEETING

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ASI President Pedro Ramirez has dealt with much controversy since he admitted last November that he was an undocumented immigrant.

Eye surgery could take him out of office

By Michael Kincheloe The Collegian Associated Students, Inc. President Pedro Ramirez was once again the main topic of discussion at Wednesday’s ASI meeting. Ramirez revealed that he may resign from office if surgery is necessary for an eye injury that he received in a traffic accident on Jan. 9.

Formal reviews had been scheduled for the offices of Ramirez and Vice President of Finance Cesar Sanchez,

but the actions were postponed by the student senate after the American Civil Liberties Union questioned the legality of the process.

With a number of media present, attendance was standing-room only.

The public comment session occasionally became raucous, with Fresno State senior Neil O’Brien speaking first.

O’Brien has paperwork verifying that a Pedro Ramirez with the same birth date and address as the ASI president is registered to vote in Tulare County.

“Illegally registering to vote is, I believe, a federal offense,” O’Brien said, “which I believe is a felony.”

Federal laws authorize the prosecution of non-citizens for registering and voting in elections. Aliens can be prosecuted under 18 U.S.C. § 1015(f), which criminalizes making a false statement or claim about citizenship “in order to register to vote or to vote in any Federal, State, or local election (including an initiative, recall, or referendum),” and under 18 U.S.C. § 911, which prohibits

making a false claim of citizenship. The penalty can be a fine, imprisonment not more than five years or both.

O’Brien went on to question whether certain members of ASI had been holding “secret meetings” about whether it was legal to use funds from California State Student Association to fly Ramirez to Washington, D.C. last year in support of the DREAM Act, and how someone in the country illegally was able to board an airline and fly across See RAMIREZ, Page 3

Poor economy reflected in last year’s donations to California State Universities

By Dana Hull The Collegian The Califor nia State University system has seen a huge decline in the amount of monetary contributions made to its schools.

In the past year, CSU has seen a 12.5 percent decrease in monetary contributions from the year prior.

Charles B. Reed, chancellor for California State University,

says Califor nia’s financial crisis, paired with a larger demand for higher education, is to blame.

“Like most public universities throughout the country, the California State University is challenged with determining how to serve more students with fewer resources,” he said in a press release. $265 million may seem like a See DONATIONS, Page 3

HISTORY OF GIFT COMMITMENTS

Financial contributions for California State Universities have fallen drastically over the last few years.

Source: Philanthropic Annual Report by www.calstate.edu

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serve the students, I was elected by the students. But I serve at the pleasure of the board and if I don’t “I ’mhaveherethetoconfidence of my board, if you guys don’t support me, then I can’t help you or be effective for the students.”

– Associated Students, Inc. President Pedro Ramirez, ASI senate meeting

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What happened to rock music?

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very generation of young people have an inherent desire to claim that it is greater than generations that preceded it. But an important measuring stick of every generation is its personality projected through rock music, an area where our generation has fallen short.

With all honesty, what rock groups of our generation will we

talk about that would be considered on par with epic artists of the past?

Who is our Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix or Van Halen?

I’ve considered this for a long while, and there is simply isn’t one.

One important thing to point out is that epic groups always break the mold in some way. All of the “epic” artists mentioned earlier took the rock genre to completely new places.

During their time nobody had ever heard someone play guitar like Jimi Hendrix or Eddie Van Halen. They were considered the best.

I challenge anyone to listen to what kind of vocal and instrumental quality the ‘70s consumers demanded in Boston’s “More Than A Feeling” or Kansas’ “Carry On Wayward Son.” There is an endless list of examples showing that most modern-day rock artists aren’t even in the same ballpark with this kind of talent.

That being said, as a musician of almost two decades, I understand that it isn’t easy to reach that level of talent. I am also not suggesting that there is no decent music out there, it just isn’t epic, and we need that.

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o who’s to blame?

Is it our generation because we’re satisfied with the way things are, or record labels for only promoting artists that are sure to make them money.”

As consumers we demand the best from professional athletes, politicians and so on. We want constant improvement, progression and new things. We should demand the same of the music industry.

There should be at least one group who our children will talk about 20 years from now.

So who’s to blame? Is it our generation because we’re satisfied with the way things are or record labels for only promoting artists that are sure to make them money?

I believe it’s a little bit of both.

There are very few artists now who reach mainstream success through grassroots. Most are

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR United Students Against Sweatshops I expect that everyone on a university campus knows that sweatshops are repulsive. With children, men and women being forced into overtime, working 16 plus-hour days, being locked in their workplaces sometimes resulting in death. Most, if not all, people agree that they are repulsive.

Even worse is the use of these sweatshops by our own university which produces that Bulldog

apparel that most are so proud to wear. Fresno State has licensing contracts with corporations like Nike and Russell, who use sweatshop labor.

Fortunately, there’s an alternative. United Students Against Sweatshops is a nationwide organization that fights against universities using sweatshops to produce college apparel. Located in the Dominican Republic is Alta Gracia, a factory that grew out of USAS campaigns. Alta Gracia pays its unionized garment workers a $2.90 hourly wage — three times the industry average.

Multiple universities have

committed to using Alta Gracia to produce their university apparel.

Unfortunately, Fresno State is not one of them.

Another entity that has resulted from USAS work is the Workers Right Consortium. The WRC monitors factories and reports on labor practices. The WRC considers Alta Gracia the most just and dignified factory it monitors. As of today, more than 180 universities have affiliated with the WRC. Unfortunately, Fresno State is not one of these either.

Fresno State students allied with USAS will be presenting a letter to President John Welty and

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his administration. The letter will ask Fresno State to affiliate with the WRC and use the Alta Gracia factory to produce Bulldog apparel.

So before you buy that next piece of sweatshop labor produced Bulldog apparel, think about it.

Don’t buy it unless it’s Alta Gracia produced. Don’t buy it until Fresno State signs on with the WRC and supports Alta Gracia’s mission.

It’s time for Fresno State to stand for justice and not oppression.

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scooped up by record labels and given contracts that give most of the power to producers, not the musicians. Then you end up with bands like The Offspring, who began as a legitimate punk-rock group, and later produced songs like “Pretty Fly (For A White Guy).” A far departure from their original sound.

I hope that we are not all satisfied with the current condition of the rock music industry. Really, the only solution is to be more vocal as consumers. There are some great underground bands out there, but the big record labels view them as too different and therefore too risky.

As consumers, our generation needs to go grassroots. Make a lot of noise about the groups you like.

Go to their shows, write online about them, buy their music and apparel. The next epic band has to be discovered and promoted by fans.

Find something new that could be an influence to rock artists in the future.

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RAMIREZ: Pres. continues to take heat over immigration issues

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Included in these figures are monetary gifts and pledge payments. These funds go to a wide variety of programs, including student scholarships, academic programs, faculty compensation, athletics and other university needs. These gifts are given by parents, alumni and other philanthropic sources.

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Opponents and defenders of Ramirez’s position in student government had a chance to speak at the senate meeting.

CONTINUED from page 1 the country in the first place.

“Students should know that they paid for Pedro Ramirez to fly to Washington, D.C.,” O’Brien said.

O’Brien then questioned whether Ramirez was “really illegal,” or if he was “legal, and lying.”

A procession of speakers from both sides of the political aisle took their place at the microphone.

“I’m Mexican, and I’m tired of people always putting us down,” one woman said. “So just shut the [expletive] up,” to a man who asked. This was in response to a man who asked, “If Mexico was so great, why did [Ramirez’s parents] come here?”

Jason Carns of the Fresno Stonewall Democrats spoke

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in favor of Ramire z, reading a statement that said, “… both Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King believed that we should defy laws that are wrong.” He said that any senators who voted to remove Ramirez “will be viewed as being aligned with the racist, neo-Nazi elements.”

Ron Arteno, who is coordinator for the Auberry Branch of the Central Valley Tea Party, explained that “a citizen from another state has to pay a higher rate than an illegal alien,” and that legal resident aliens have to pay higher tuition than Ramirez does.

“We’ve seen your football and your basketball [teams] send criminals out there, and they were a poor representation of your student body,” Arteno said. “Pedro is a poor representation of your student body.”

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Machado, who objected to the pejoratives that have been directed at O’Brien. “ W h at ’ s l e g a l i s l e g a l , and what’s illegal is illegal,” Machado said. “Why aren’t you focusing on becoming a citizen?” she asked Ramirez. “I’m tired of being the guilty party and you being the victim.”

The student senate’s bylaws state that Ramirez or Sanchez can only be removed from office if one or the other were to miss three or more senate or executive officer meetings in one semester, or if their grades or conduct fall below school standards.

Fresno State student senate attorneys will evaluate the ACLU’s accusation.

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ing has been restored for 2011, we are still in a precarious position as the state budget shortfall is predicted to increase in the coming years,” Reed said. “But our focus on serving students has been — and must continue to be — unwavering.”

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17-year-old ex-Buchanan school wrestler’s sexual battery charge dropped

By Associated Press CLOVIS, Calif. (AP) — Prosecutors have dropped the sexual battery charge against a California high school wrestler who claimed he was just executing a common wrestling move.

The teenager had faced the charge for allegedly ramming his fingers into the rectum of his teammate.

B u t d e f e n s e l aw ye r Ste phen Quade said his 17-year-old client had used

a legitimate wrestling move called the “butt drag” during the July practice match.

The Fresno Bee reports that the charge was dropped Wednesday at a court hearing as part of a mediation a g re e m e n t b e t we e n t h e Clovis teen and the accuser.

The Associated Press is not naming the defendant because he is a minor.

He was expelled from the school in January, after officials concluded the teen had sexually assaulted his teammate.

Judge tosses lawsuit against Berkeley newspaper editor

By Associated Press BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — A judge has dismissed a small claims lawsuit filed by the father of a deceased University of California, Berkeley football player who sued a college

newspaper editor for emotional distress.

In a decision Wednesday, Fresno County Judge Mark Cullers ruled against Harvey Pur tz, who sued Rajesh Srinivasan, editor of The Daily Californian, in October.

The Fresno podiatrist sought

$7,500 for intentional infliction of emotional distress caused by a 2006 article and two 2007 blog posts about his son Chris’ altercation at a San Francisco adult club.

The father argued the article was a “major triggering event” in his son’s life that led to his

mental deterioration. Chris Purtz died in June.

Harvey Purtz did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday.

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Living options vary among students

By Kylie Stone The Collegian Students at Fresno State have several living options made available to them, but many students have a lot of different things to consider before deciding on their living arrangements.

Some options available to students include on-campus housing in the dormitories, Greek housing, apartments, living with family and even a group of friends.

According to Jacqueline E. King, author of “Crucial Choices: How Students’ Financial Decisions Affect Their Academic Success,” “Thirty percent of all beginning students live on campus, 27 percent live off campus and 43 percent live with their parents or other relatives."

When students are searching for a place to live, there are a lot of factors that they have to keep in mind.

in the suite style dorm now, but previously lived in community style dorms for her first two years at Fresno State.

“I love the idea of living with my friends in one suite,” Bachicha said.

“We all get along well and have the same study habits, which made it easy to choose my roommates.”

Robert Haney took advantage of living with his fraternity brothers at the Theta Chi fraternity house, “because he wanted to be apart of a value-based organization.”

But for those students who are seeking independence, an option to consider is renting an off-campus apartment or house. There are many apartment buildings specifically student-oriented around the Fresno State community.

Senior Sean Jones lives with three other roommates in Copper Beech Townhomes, which is 10 minutes from campus.

“I chose to live in Copper Beech because the rent is low,” Jones said.

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“Convenience, safety, student’s personality and cost are the main factors that sway a student's decision,” Erin Boele, director of housing at Fresno State, said.

Boele suggests that if a student prefers a more college-like experience, then their best option is to go with living in the dorm halls, or even in a fraternity house.

“For those students who are more social, they have the option of living in the dorm community halls, whereas those students who need privacy have the option of living in a suite,” Boele said.

The option to live in the dorms is open to all students, but Boele said that only 36 percent of the upperclassmen actually take advantage of that opportunity.

“It’s my understanding that there are two main reasons why upper division students don’t like living on campus — either it’s too loud or too quiet,” Cody Madsen, president of the Residence Hall Association, said.

“Many upper division students don’t like having rules and restrictions, and as they get older they want more freedom.”

English major Natalie Bachicha prefers living in the dorms as compared to off-campus housing. Bachicha lives

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“There's a lot of space, they offer amenities and it’s close to Fresno State’s campus.”

An inexpensive option that students often consider is living with relatives.

Since Fresno State is considered to be a commuter school, this option is usually the most convenient for students.

English major Amelia Sarkisian used to live with her grandparents during the school weeks and at home on the weekends, but now she currently lives 15 minutes away with her parents and younger brother.

“In order to graduate with minimal debt, I chose to continue living at home during college,” Sarkisian said. “If I was more economically endowed, my living situation might be different.”

Although there are many living arrangements made available, students usually decide the option that fits best.

“Every student has a different preference when deciding where to live,” Boele said. “Some students choose convenience, while others choose a low cost.”

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Weekend of Movies

Movies for thrill-seekers, girly-girls and those who like to laugh

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By Maddie Shannon The Collegian This weekend, local theaters are juggling films that cater to all tastes.

Whether you prefer thrillers like “The Rite” or quirky, slightly perverse movies like “Kaboom,” moviegoers of all kinds are likely to find something to suit their cinematic tastes.

There are also films that cater to specific genders.

“From Prada to Nada” is aimed at women, as made apparent in the title. “The Mechanic,” a remake of the 1972 film, features car explosions and big guns–clearly a guy’s favorite.

Here is this weekend’s movie lineup.

From Prada to Nada (PG-13) What it’s about: Two sisters, Nora and Mary, grow up

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in a privileged home where they were never wanted for anything. Though they’re Mexican, they are so f ar removed from their heritage that they don’t fully acknowledge their ancestry from the outset. When their father dies unexpectedly, they find that they are left with nothing.

They take refuge in the home of their estranged aunt, who introduces them to what it means to be a real family.

Why you should see it: Mary, who displays quite a few self-sufficient qualities, butts heads with Nora, who revels in the luxurious setting she and Mary were raised in. The culture shock Nora experiences adds another layer to the movie to illustrate the mingling of cultures.

S t a r r i n g : A l e x a Ve g a , Camilla Bell, Nicholas D’Agosto, Wilmer Valderrama and April Bowlby.

Kaboom (NA) What it’s about: Smith, a young film student, starts having freaky dreams. As the imaginary people he dreams about start to make their way into his waking life, he starts to suspect that something else is going on. This movie, though it features weird, quirky occurrences, was a favorite at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.

Why you should see it: If random, out-of-the-ordinary movies are your thing, this movie is for you. But be warned: It’s definitely risqué and not for moviegoers with delicate sensibilities.

Starring: Thomas Decker, H a l e y B e n n e t t , Rox a n e Mesquida, Chris Zylka, and Juno Temple.

Bishop specializes in assassinations that look like accidents. No muss, no fuss, he was never there. Although he works alone, he agrees to teach a friend of one of his former victim the tricks of the trade.

Steve McKenna, Bishop’s new apprentice, wants the life of an assassin — which he gets, until he screws up his first job.

Big explosions and gunfights ensue.

Why you should see it: The original 1972 version of the film starring Charles Bronson has quite a following.

Fans of the 39-year-old version will definitely get a kick out of the remake directed by Simon West.

Starring: Jason Statham, Ben Foster, Tony Goldwyn, Donald Sutherland, Jeff Chase and Mini Anden.

The Mechanic (R)

The Rite (R)

What it’s about: Professional assassin Arthur

What it’s about: Michael Kovak, a young seminary stu-

dent, begrudgingly goes to exorcism school at the Vatican, despite the fact he’s lost his faith. In Rome he meets Father Lucas Trevant, who attempts to show him the dark underbelly of Catholicism by proving the devil exists. Kovak witnesses different exorcisms performed by Father Lucas, often walking away confused.

W h y yo u s h o u l d s e e it: Exorcism movies have a very specific audience. If you liked The Last Exorcism and The Exorcism of Emily Rose, you’ll like this one too.

Anthony Hopkins stars in this one, which might open up the audience a little more-but not much.

Star ring: Anthony Hopkins, Alice Braga, Colin O’Donoghue, Ciaran Hinds, Rutger Hauer and Toby Jones.

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Brief news for the brief attention span LOS ANGELES (AP) — Versatile actor Donald Sutherland, who has played everything from a Nazi spy to an aging astronaut, was honored Wednesday with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

His star was unveiled outside the Roosevelt Hotel next to son Kiefer Sutherland’s star.

The elder Sutherland joked that getting a star was better than a headstone at a cemetery.

“This marker I can actually come and visit,” Sutherland, 75, said. “I could get a chair and sit here, or a bucket and

a mop and clean it, and make sure that people don’t step on it.”

Kiefer Sutherland wasn’t able to attend the ceremony because of work obligations in New York. He wrote a message that was read by Colin Farrell, his father’s co-star in the comedy “Horrible Bosses” due out later this year.

“I selfishly wanted to be there to simply tell you how proud I am to have you as my father and how even more proud I am to be your son,” Kiefer Sutherland wrote.

The career of Canadian-

born Donald Sutherland has spanned nearly five decades and included appearances in the movies “The Dirty Dozen,” ‘’The Day of the Locust,” ‘’Ordinary People” and “Space Cowboys.”

PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — British actor Paul Bettany re g re t s n o t t a k i n g C o l i n Firth’s Oscar-nominated role in “The King’s Speech.”

Screenwriter David Seidler has said he wrote the screenplay — also nominated — with Bettany in mind for the role of King George VI, with Oscar-

nominated Geoffrey Rush as his speech therapist.

I n an in te rview at th e Sundance Film Festival on Tuesday, shortly after it was announced that the film had received 12 Oscar nominations, Bettany explained what he regrets most about not accepting the role: “Number one, of course, it is a regret not to be working with such great, and really great people, Geoffrey Rush and (director) Tom Hooper.

“I think it is a little inelegant for me to discuss it,” continued Bettany. “I had

been working for five months steadily and my son missed me and I missed my son. Both of my sons and my wife,” explained the actor, referring to his work on “The Tourist” as Inspector John Acheson.

Bettany is married to actress Jennifer Connelly and they have two sons together.

“Do I re g ret it?” said Bettany. “I regret not working with such amazing, amazing actors and directors and writers. But no, I have to do the right thing by my family every time.”

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The daily crossword ACROSS 1 Abbreviation on Greek tires?

4 Mean partner 8 Harvey Wallbanger ingredient 13 Barley’s bristlelike appendage 14 Before the crack of dawn 15 Steer clear of 16 Kind of fly, in baseball (Abbr.)

17 It has four strings attached 18 Awaits action 19 Deli topping 22 Cook’s cover-up 23 What we breathe 24 Barely perceptible 27 Ridicule 31 ___ up (cleans) 33 Work on a Grecian urn 34 Three-toed bird of South America 36 Passes (out) 37 Spread in a deli 41 Police club used in India 43 Put one’s own slant on 44 Undershirt neck shape 47 Distributes 49 Picking up some perfume?

52 “I ___” (early Cosby show) 53 Successful turn in Battleship 55 Shot glass capacity, roughly

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56 They may be found in a deli 60 Essence from rose petals 63 Whirl on one foot 64 Thug’s rod 65 Word ­sometimes shouted at church 66 “My Wild ___ Rose” 67 Street address abbr., perhaps 68 Shake-spearean performer, e.g.

69 Actor’s aspiration

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8 Zap with a ray gun 9 Where one’s goose is cooked?

10 Syndicate leader 11 Young goat 12 They’re seen on passing buses 14 They’re at odds with odds 20 Japanese pond fish 21 Harvard Univ. neighbor 24 It may be poured on a salad 25 “A mouse!”

26 Thick ­dictionary section 28 Roth ___ 29 Resistance units 30 Bottle parts 32 Salon selections 35 “Beg pardon ...”

38 P-shaped Greek letter 39 Type of decision 40 She’s often fleeced 41 ___ Palmas 42 Matterhorn, for one 45 Isolated community 46 Cast out 48 Bro’s relative 50 Very hesitant 51 Carry with difficulty 54 Long-snouted creature 56 Powdery starch 57 Spanish ­surrealist Joan 58 Wicked as sin 59 Big name in speakers 60 Lawyers’ org.

61 First O of O-O-O 62 Blasting stuff

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Rebound Team The team you start to root for after your home team is knocked out of the playoffs or if they just suck.

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The Fresno State Cheer Squad cheers at a home game during the 1999 basketball season. This photo ran in the Friday, Feb. 5, 1999, issue of The Collegian.

Mystery Solved: Teen put piano on Miami sandbar

By Jennifer Kay Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The rumors can stop swirling: The baby grand piano that turned up on a Miami sandbar was burned to tatters by New Year’s revelers, then brought to its new home by a television designer’s teenage son who said Thursday he hoped the idea might help him get into a prestigious art school.

Theories of the instrument’s origin had abounded, with some saying they saw helicopters and television crews hovering around the piano. Others tried to claim responsibility, but Nicholas Harrington, 16, had his endeavor on videotape.

Harrington said he wanted to leave his artistic mark on Miami’s seascape as the artist Christo did in the early 1980s when he draped 11 small islands in Biscayne Bay with hot pink fabric. And if it helped the high school junior get into Manhattan’s Cooper Union college, that would be OK, too.

“I wanted to create a whimsical, surreal experience. It’s out of the every day for the boater,” Harrington told The Associated Press.

“I don’t like it be considered as a prank,” he said. “It’s more of a movement.”

On Jan. 2, Harrington, his older brother Andrew and two neighbors lifted the instru-

ment, which had been trashed during a holiday party, onto the family’s 22-foot boat and took it out on Biscayne Bay. There, they left it on the highest spot along a sandbar.

Harrington is the son of “Bur n Notice” production designer J. Mark Harrington.

The piano is an old movie prop that sat for four years in Harrington’s grandmother’s garage. The teen had talked about hoisting the instrument from a tree or using it in a music video, among other projects, his mother said, but nothing happened until the winter break from school.

The teen said he grew up in a family that appreciated art and architecture, and he had

his parents’ support for his scheme.

“The weirdness of it all just comes easily,” he said.

The piano sat undisturbed in the bay until last week, when Suzanne Beard, a local resident, took her boat over to the sandbar to take a look. Her picture of pelicans roosting on the instrument ended up on the National Geographic website. F rom there, the story went viral, much to Harrington’s surprise.

“We pretty much forgot about it until it became super popular,” the teen said.

He said he had planned to remain anonymous — except for including photos of the installation in his colle ge

application — until others began claiming responsibility.

“I think it was much more powerful as a mystery,” said the teen’s mother, Annabel Harrington. “It put Miami on the map in a good way.”

Harrington’s school c o u n s e l o r, A r i e l D i a z Escanaverino, said they had discussed the idea as a unique subject for a college application essay.

“It was time to say and let the world know that it was a 16-year-old who really did this without any intrinsic feeling for notoriety or money or any of the things that started to happen,” Diaz-Escanaverino said.

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Full scholarships help basketball progam head in the right direction Head coach Steve Cleveland has all his scholarships for first time in his six-year tenure

By Jerry Huerta The Collegian With March Madness on the horizon and conference play nearing an end, teams are getting ready for the final stretch of the season.

But outside some teams’ AllAmerican talents, most programs dance into the NCAA Tournament via their depth.

Having a full complement of scholarships from the end of the bench to the leading scorer

“That’s a good thing,” Cleveland said “It’s given us some depth, even though most of the depth is from freshmen.

It’s put us in a position where guys don’t have to play tired.

Defensively, we’re better as a result of it. To be here fiveand-a-half years and never have a full complement of scholarships has probably been the most challenging thing of this job.

“We’ve never been able to establish any kind of continu-

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or the first three or four years, we never knew until the spring time what our numbers were going to be” — Steve Cleveland, On recruiting during sanctions

helps separate the first-round exits from the Final Fours.

This season marks the first year that Fresno State has the full amount of scholarships after the program was forced to serve a four-year probation.

The NCAA cracked the whip on Fresno State basketball and its former coach, Ray Lopes, for recruiting violations.

Fresno State was able to dodge the “death penalty” of being completely shut down, but couldn’t escape being stripped numerous scholarships and being under the NCAA’s watchful eye.

Cur rent head basketball coach Steve Cleveland inherited a deflated program, and in his sixth year leading the Bulldogs, he finally has been granted his full 13 scholarships.

ity. The lack of scholarships and losing two or three guys to the NBA has really disrupted the continuity of trying to build this program, but I can tell you it makes a big difference having these scholarships.”

A full allotment of scholarships has been felt not only on the court, but on the recruiting trail as well.

“We can now go into more homes,” Cleveland said. “For the first three or four years, we never knew until the spring time what our numbers were going to be. Now, we have the knowledge of what we need. This entire team returns except for one senior so we don’t have a lot of scholarships right now. We will add one or two players for next year. We’ll go forward, but it’s

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Greg Smith, sophomore, was one of only a handful of players in Cleveland’s tenure to receive a full athletic scholarship.

nice to have an entire group coming back next year.”

Cleveland acknowledges that the nature of the program has changed, but says that one final step needs to be taken so the program can rise to the next level.

“The [Academic Progress Rate], the academics, the NCAA compliance all those t h i n g s h ave b e e n f i xe d , ” Cleveland said. “The last step

is to get this done and compete for championships. The most important thing in this whole process is recruiting. Nothing else matters more than the quality of players that you can get. We’re now attracting not only a quality human being, but a better quality player and a better quality student.”

One quality player that was attracted was center Greg Smith. Smith was one of the

few players actually on scholarship the past two seasons.

He came to Fresno State before the program was reinstated the full amount of scholarships and can see the difference in the program.

“It has changed a lot,” Smith said. “A lot of guys on the team right now are young and it’s great to have all thirteen guys that can play. In the long run it’s going to do well for us.”

Despite being in only his second season wearing Bulldog red, Smith, Fresno State’s leading scorer, can see progress in the near future.

“I see a lot of future in this program,” Smith said.

“Thirteen scholarships mean that every player can play and you can recruit anybody that you want really. It’s just great for this program right now that we are going in the right direction.”

Fresno State guard Kevin Olekaibe is new to the program, but has heard how the program was impacted before it had its full amount of scholarships.

“I’ve heard about what happened in the past and coach Cleve [Cleveland] has taken care of that, so I think it means a lot from where they came from,” Olekaibe said.

The true freshman had many offers coming out of high school, but chose Fresno State because he wants to rebuild a once-proud program. “ I p i c ke d F r e s n o S t a t e because it was close and it’s a great program,” Olekaibe said. “I want to help build something here as long as I’m here.”

Like Smith, the second leading scorer on the team sees some optimism on the horizon.

“I see a big future for us,” he said. “For us to get to the NCAA tournament from now on, especially next year, all of the people returning and all the redshirts we have, I think we’ll be a great team.”

GIANTS: S.F. still living the dream after championship CONTINUED from page 8 addition to getting everything ready for 2011 we’ve had such a huge demand for people to relive 2010. Largely we’ve accommodated that with the trophy. There are many vehicles for people to tap into 2010.

People still want to tap into that.”

Another chance comes when the team hosts its annual FanFest on Feb. 5, with more than 40,000 people projected to pack the ballpark. That’s also the first day individual game tickets go on sale, both online and on site.

Season tickets sold for the full schedule as of Tuesday were at about 22,000, around 1,000 more than where the team finished last year. That

means season tickets — with an average price increase for 2011 of 5 or 6 percent — could return to the levels back in the early 2000s when the club drew 3 million fans for eight straight years before that streak ended in 2008. After falling just short of the 3 million mark again in ‘09, the Giants topped it this past season.

“The momentum is strong to get to the mid-20 (thousands) and beyond. Demand is at levels that the only comparison we’ve seen is when we opened the ballpark in 2000,” Baer said. “What’s really gratifying is that folks don’t want to be shut out. They want to be part of the experience that was memorable and etched in their family or individual psyches from September and October

of last year and the whole season in some respects.”

T he NL West champion Giants have kept their 2010 roster nearly intact, with the key losses of World Series MVP Edgar Renteria — now with the Reds — and utility infielder Juan Uribe having departed for the rival Los Angeles Dodgers.

Still, people can relate to the familiar faces they saw during the playoffs: Two-time NL Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum, Rookie of the Year catcher Buster Posey, bearded closer Brian Wilson, sure-handed second baseman Freddy Sanchez, eccentric first baseman Aubrey Huff and Pablo “Kung Fu Panda” Sandoval.

San Francisco is counting on

that core group of returners to keep the team moving forward.

“I think it’s a pretty rare thing in professional sports to keep a big, big part of a franchise together year after year,” Baer said. “It’s powerful and it’s great for the continuity of the clubhouse and continuity for the fans.”

There has been interest from around the country and the world about the Giants players and their vast array of personalities.

“Any sports franchise doesn’t want to create boundaries for itself,” Baer said.

“Our core mission is to serve the people in our community but there are additional layers we’d like to put on that core mission, for lots of reasons.

Players might want to come play for us if they feel that and the team is viewed as a winner and viewed as a strong franchise. We only have 41,000 seats for 81 regular-season games but can we offer people other parts of the Giants?”

Like Willie Mays, for example. The Hall of Famer visited with elementary school children at the Polo Grounds in New York last week — an effort by San Francisco executives to get the franchise’s longtime fans to convert the next generation into Giants followers, even in big-market New York.

The Giants certainly are going to ride this wave of success for as long as they can.

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The men’s basketball team hits the road to play San Jose State Saturday at 7 p.m. The ‘Dogs won the first meeting this season 75-62 on Dec. 29.

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Best Super Ross vaults into the record books Bowl for the next 730 days

By Ben Ingersoll The Collegian

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njoy this year’s big game folks, because the National Football League probably won’t be having one for another 730 days.

The Super Bowl on Feb. 6 will likely be the last one football fans will see until 2013, thanks to an almost certain lockout.

Sad to say, but because the players, owners, front office, league officials, you name it, can’t come to an agreement, it may be a while until we see the biggest game in all of sports unfold.

That being said, football fans like you and I should be thankful we’re in for the most intriguing matchup, at least on paper, of the past decade.

That’s because Super Ben Ingersoll Bowl XLV doesn’t feature any one-hit wonders like the Buccaneers, Panthers or Seahawks. No media-dominating, feel-good stories like the New Orleans Saints. What the millions of fans across America will get is, arguably, the two professional football franchises with the richest traditions in the game.

There’s Green Bay and the cheeseheads that are littered across the states, led by a quarterback who had to sit through one of the most humiliating NFL Drafts in recent memory. Aaron Rodgers has had the last laugh, leading the Pack to their first big dance in FIFTEEN years. Brett who?

Green Bay in fact won the very first Super Bowl, and the second, then the 32nd. The Packers have won 12 NFL championships in all. But for the largest fan base in American sports, it’s been a while since the green and gold has hoisted the trophy named after its legendary coach in the ‘60s — Vince Lombardi.

There just happens to be another team playing in nine days, the only organization that can fit Super Bowl rings on more than one hand.

Yes, if there is any team in the league that rivals Green Bay for rich tradition, especially recently, it’s the Pittsburgh Steelers.

The Steelers have had three, THREE, coaches in the 45 years of Super Bowl history. Before any of you Oakland Raiders fans gripe about tradition, the black and silver have had three coaches since 2007. The Cowboys? Four this decade. Don’t even get me started on the 49ers, which are on their fifth coach in eight seasons.

What Lombardi is to the Packers, the Rooney family is to the Steelers. The Rooneys started the organization, and continue to run the show to this very day. This isn’t Bill Belichek against Peyton Manning. This is Lambeau against Lebeau (Pittsburgh’s Hall of Fame defensive coordinator).

So while the owners, NFL and players continue to bicker like fourth graders on the playground, kick back and enjoy the Super Bowl the way it should be run.

And when Rashard Mendenhall high fives Franco Harris on the sideline after a touchdown, or Aaron Rodgers shows Bart Starr his favorite heavyweight belt, somewhere Vince Lombardi will be looking on, or maybe Pittsburgh’s legendary first leader Chuck Noll for that matter.

It took Jaleesa Ross only 15-and-a-half minutes to surpass a 22-year-old number in Fresno State’s women’s basketball history book.

Coming into last night’s game against San Jose State averaging 17 points per game, Ross sat just nine points shy of Yvette Roberts’ all-time scoring

record set in 1987.

With Roberts looking on from six rows behind the Bulldog bench, Ross shook off two errant three-point attempts by hitting her next four from the field and eclipsed the 1,778point mark. The bucket at the 4:22 mark in the first half also put Fresno State 18 points ahead of the Spartans, who opened the season 0-16.

“It’s an awesome feeling,” Ross said. “I’ll get to kind of really enjoy it once I’m done playing here. But it was great to enjoy it with my team and to have them out there to celebrate it with me.”

Roberts, following the game during a mid-court celebration, presented Ross with the game ball. But immediately following Ross’ record-breaking bucket, she let her teammates do much of the celebrating.

“It’s exciting to be a part of something that big,” point guard Emma Andres said.

“I think I was more excited than she was.

I was definitely fist pumping the air when that shot went in. I have a lot of respect for [Jaleesa] a n d

what s h e ’ s a c c o m plished.”

Ross finished with a game-high 18 points, helping her team win its third straight game heading into a three-game road stretch that includes a Feb. 5 game at firstplace Louisiana Tech.

Head coach Adrian Wi g g i n s ’ t e a m h a s dropped its last t wo g a m e s a g a i n s t Louisiana Tech by a total of four points dat-

ing back to last season. But head coach Adrian Wiggins said his team will take the road trip one game at a team, and his team is well seasoned in these situations.

“We’re playing three teams that all play very well at home,” Wiggins said. “We have very big goals … this trip won’t deter mine the season ultimately I don’t think, but it’s definitely a big part of it.”

Despite Ross’ monumental record-setting night, there is another milestone the senior is creeping up on, one she is more proud of than the scoring mark.

Ross now is just five steals s hy o f b r e a k i n g We n d y Martell’s 24-year old steals record of 224.

“Definitely [I’m most proud of] the steals … Defense is big for me because it took me a while to kind of get it down at this level. I’ll definitely be a lot more proud of that.”

Ross and the Bulldog defense was in full force Thursday night, holding the Spartans to just 12 points in the first half, 21 points in the second half on 12-of-37 shooting. Led by Ross’ four steals, San Jose State scored just 33 points, a seasonlow for a Bulldog opponent.

Much of Ross’ 1,788 career points have come from beyond the arc, where she holds the Fresno State school record for 3-point field goal percentage (41 percent) and sits in third place for the record of all-time Western Athletic Conference 3-point field goals made with 354.

The Pinole, Calif., native has a career average of 15 points per game through 119 games.

She recorded career highs 33 points and 11 rebounds against Boston College her junior season and has a season-high of 29 points in a loss to Southern California.

But through all the accolades and recognitions, Ross is the first person to shrug off her milestone, deflecting credit every way but toward herself.

“My teammates are the record,” Ross said. “I’ve never really been the type of do-it-bymyself scorer. My teammates have done great finding me in open places, getting me open and over the past four years this entire time we’ve always had a team that looks to pass first.”

Giants gain momentum after World Series run

By Janie McCauley Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The World Series trophy has traveled from San Francisco to Califor nia’s Central Valley and on to the Giants’ Polo Grounds roots in New York. Stops also are planned in Arizona, Nevada and Oregon as the hardware makes its way East again to the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.

There’s a book coming out reliving the 2010 championship season and a television series in the works tracking the Giants’ upcoming year, featuring many of the same castoffs and misfits who pulled off an improbable title run

last fall. Season ticket sales are so far ahead of schedule that comparisons are being made to 2000 when the club opened its sparkling new waterfront ballpark.

A public appearance by someone in the Giants family has taken place nearly every day since the season ended, too. The team is soaking up all the attention, determined to create an even bigger national name for itself in the process.

“It’s been nonstop,” team president Larry Baer said. “We’re getting lots of early momentum.”

Baer expects a large number of the 81 home games to sell out this season at AT&T Park — so, his advice is don’t lol-

lygag and get tickets now.

San Francisco’s first championship since moving West in 1958, and the franchise’s first since 1954 in New York, has made for quite the wild winter. Baer has been so busy fielding requests from fans wanting to celebrate the Giants’ World Series victory over the Texas Rangers that the 2011 season is suddenly fast approaching.

Pitchers and catchers report to spring training in Scottsdale, Ariz., on Feb. 14.

“We have one month less to do it and we were glad to accommodate the compressed schedule,” Baer said. “It’s been an absolute whirlwind here. In See GIANTS, Page 7