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Computer science students in demand By Stephen Keleher The Collegian Fresno State offers three routes for those whose goal it is to make their living in modern computer technology, and some programs are gaining highly praised regional attention. “I was an electrical engineer at Camp Miramar and I wanted to do computer engineering,” said DeAngelo Hudson, a third-year computer engineering major. “Fresno has one of the best computer engineering schools on the West Coast.” The information systems and design sciences option at Craig School of Business option focuses on the use of computer systems in businesses.

Computer engineering program at the Lyles Engineering College gives students the opportunity to learn everything from hardware design to programming for social media. For those looking for more theoretical foundation in computer design, software engineering, systems analysis, database design, computer graphics and technical programming, the School of Math and Science offers a degree in computer science. The degree program lends graduates to companies involved in manufacturing, as well as high-tech applications companies. “I know there are a whole variety of opportunities,” said computer science student Michael Loyd. “You’re not real-

ly limited to a specific job set. You have a better shot than people in other countries with a degree in computer science here.” Total student enrollment for all three emphases is less than 400 in a student body of more than 22,000. The likelihood of each student getting internships an jobs after graduation is varied. Hudson intends to search for work outside the Central Valley because he is focusing on programming for companies like Google, Facebook and Microsoft. Yet computer engineering instructor Nell Papavasiliou directs a group of 12 companies from Mojave to Modesto (called Valley

Solutions and o n l y av a i l a b l e during polling dates and times. ASI Elections will be held Tuesday, at 8 a.m. through T h u r s d a y, a t noon. A list of candidates as well as a sit-down interview with presidential candidates Arthur Montejano (bottom) and Daniel Harrison (top) can be found on The Collegian’s website. To see the video, scan the QR code below with your smartphone.

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Performance to educate students of safety during spring break Mock trial will show the consequences of driving under the influence today at 6 p.m. in the Satellite Student Union By University Communications The Fresno State DUI Mock Trial performance today is designed to educate students soon to depart for spring break about the dangers and consequences of driving under the influence. This year’s event, which was presented in New York earlier this month by Mock Trial students, will begin at 6 p.m. in the Satellite Student Union on campus. The trial will be preceded at 4:30 p.m. outside the building with educational activities and a display by Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD). Fresno County Superior Court Judge Brant K. Bramer will preside over the mock trial in which Fresno State criminology students portray the defendant, lawyers, officers, witnesses and the jury. The scenario involves a fictitious Fresno State student but is based on facts and heard by a real judge. Bramer also presided over the first event on

campus in 2010. The jury will deliver a verdict and Bramer will decide the penalty, using current sentencing guidelines, said criminolo g y professor Dr. Mark Stevens, who developed the case to replicate a DUI trial. This event is sponsored by Fresno State’s Alcohol Safety Committee in the Division of Student Affairs, the university’s Department of Public Health and Alpha Phi Sigma, the national criminal justice honor society, which represents the Department of Criminology. Several community organizations and agencies are also participating. “It is important that students be informed about California’s DUI and implied consent laws when they choose to consume alcohol,” Stevens said. While org anizers are targeting Fresno State students, the free event is open to the community and local schools were encouraged to send driving-age students, said Dr. See TRIAL, Page 3

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Fresno State students will participate in a DUI Mock Trial similar to the first one held in 2010 (above). Educational activities and a display by Mothers Against Drunk Driving will take place outside the Satellite Student Union at 4:30 p.m. today with the performance following at 6 p.m.

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What the Trayvon Martin case teaches us

s a society, we like to think we are above stereotypes and discrimination. We like to think we don’t judge a book by its cover. We did, after all, elect Barack Obama to be president, so we’ve grown as a society, right? The reality is that stereotypes, especially those predicated on appearance and race, are still very much alive. Trayvon Martin was visiting his father in Twin Lakes, a Pearson Ponders Thomas Pearson gated community in Sanford, Fla., when he was followed and eventually killed by George Zimmerman, a self-appointed captain of his community’s neighborhood watch program. Martin was on his way back from the store with Arizona iced tea and a bag of Skittles for his brother when Zimmerman thought he looked suspicious. The neighborhood had experienced a string of burglaries, and Zimmerman apparently thought Martin fit the profile of a criminal, so he followed him. Zimmerman claimed self defense

and that he feared for his life when he saw Martin. Zimmerman, despite having killed someone, was then released by police after minimal investigation. The Trayvon Martin incident illustrates how far we still have to go as a society and just how ugly stereotypes can be. The incident reflects a Jim Crow-era level of deplorable behavior by Zimmerman. One of Zimmerman’s explanations for following Martin was that he looked suspicious. Martin reportedly looked suspicious to Zimmerman because he was wearing a hoodie. This assumption displayed the disgusting stereotype that black or brown people wearing a hoodie or baggy clothing are presumed to criminals. Television news personality Geraldo Rivera recently said that the hoodie is to blame for the murder and encouraged parents to watch how their children dress. Blaming the hoodie for the incident, however, is irresponsible. No piece of clothing can truly tell what a person is about. To presume people have a certain style of behavior or background because of their clothing is ludicrous. As someone of mixed heritage, (Mexican on my mother’s side, Caucasian on my father’s) I have experienced discrimination and being stereotyped. Last year while walking home

from a Fresno State football game, I was stopped by police officers. The officers asked me to stop and then proceeded to pat me down to check if I had any weapons. They also asked me to remove my shirt to see if I had any gang-related tattoos. What led them to ask me to stop? I am Latino, and was wearing all red. This incident was embarrassing to me for many reasons, the biggest being that those walking past me looked at me and presumed me to be a criminal. This is the similar kind of assumption, discrimination and stereotyping that led to the death of Trayvon Martin. Because of the clothing in both instances, it was presumed that something bad was going to happen. This incident illustrates a big problem in society. People who look or dress like Martin aren’t the ones society should worry about. Overzealous vigilantes who make judgments off appearance or race, as Zimmerman did, are the ones we should worry about. Until we as a society learn not to judge others based on appearance, tragedies like that of Trayvon Martin will continue to happen. Thomas Pearson is the features editor for The Collegian.

WEB-SPE@K Culled each week from discussions on The Collegian’s website.

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‘ASI elections begin on Tuesday’ ‘John G.’: “Harrison sounds ambitious, but also naive. He is young, and double majoring — as student body president he would be in way over his head. My vote goes to the older, more experienced Montejano, who has a proven track record as a leader. We need someone who is assertive and knows how to communicate with the student body, as well as campus staff and faculty.”

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‘Former trainer Ed Ferreira dies’ ‘Patrick FitzGerald, ATC’: “Ed was a well respected athletic trainer, educator, mentor, colleague and friend. All that knew him were touched in some way by his intelligence, personality, wit and sense of humor. Ed, we will miss you, may you rest in peace.”

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Who should you vote for?’ ‘SamMunsonforSenatorAtLarge’: “Make sure you vote irrespective of who you vote for. Integrity is an important part of being a student senator so examine candidates closely. My platform is for an expansion of student transportation opportunities and facilities. This means setting aside more parking spaces for students, making sure that bike lanes are built on streets around school (through lobbying efforts to the city council), and assuring that the USU and Henry Madden Library are open later. An integral component to supporting the students this coming year, given the rising cost of commuting, is to act against the parking fee increase. So go out and vote! Write in Sam Munson for Senator-atLarge!”

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‘Intoxicated Driver Crashes Farmers Market’

‘Owen Isacson’: “Hopefully they will get everything sorted out. Damn those drunk drivers; unfortunately, it’s very difficult to stop them.”

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‘Sports Briefs, 3/19/12’

‘CQ’: “It’s a shame to see the women’s basketball team, who had been playing well all year, lose in such an anticlimatic game to Georgetown. Granted, the Georgetown team played great, but I would’ve like to see the team win on Sunday.”

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TRIAL: Helps educate students to make wise decisions during break CONTINUED from page 1 Greg Thatcher of the Alcohol Safety Committee and the university’s Department of Public Health. He is coordinating the pre-trial activities that will include local organizations such as: MADD, which will erect a 40-foot display with an interactive DUI-related crash site. Local police departments, who will provide mock DUI vehicle checkpoints. Donaghy, a distributor of alcohol beverages, which will staff an awareness booth about responsible alcohol use. Stevens developed the DUI Mock Trial Education Program at North Carolina Wesleyan College before joining the Fresno State faculty. He was asked by Dr. Paul M. Oliaro, vice presi-

dent for Student Affairs and chair of the Alcohol Safety Committee, to develop a program for Fresno State students. Five of his students, all members of the National Criminal Justice Honor Society at Fresno State, conducted a mock trial in New York at the annual meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. The Fresno State team involved students from other colleges and universities in the presentation. Fresno State criminology lecturer John Owen played the judge in the New York version with Dr. Barbara Owen, a criminology professor, and his sister as the bailiff. Oliaro encouraged the community to get involved with the Alcohol Safety Committee and help promote its awareness programs to all students.

CONTINUED from page 1 Industry Partnership for Cooperative Education) that offer internships to engineering students, including those in computer engineering. “We have a manufacturer of security cameras, which are really just minicomputers,” Papavasiliou said. Papavasiliou said that there is some demand in the Valley for computer engineering majors in the manufacturing and agribusiness sectors. Computer science majors face greater obstacles to getting internships in the Valley that develop into pos itions after g raduation . T h e California Employment Development Department projects 25,000 software developer jobs will be added in the next 10 years. But the figures, when broken out by county, show that Central Valley counties of Fresno, Kern and Madera are just more than 400 of that total. Computer science has no for mal internship program for its students. Computer science Master’s student James Cha is helping to close that gap by forming a computer science club starting this semester. “You have to pursue real-life experience before you get out of here, through internships or outside jobs,” Cha said. “So I’m trying to be the middle person to find opportunities to get experience, but it’s hard. Most people want to stay in the Valley. They have family here, but there are few companies.” One solution for the computer science students is to keep going to school, as Cha is doing. Another is to relocate after graduation, as Fresno State computer science alumni Mark Gilmore recommends. Gilmore has given presentations to

computer science and computer engineering classes and will be appearing Thursday to give a presentation for the Computer Science club on the third floor of the Henry Madden Library. He is President of Wired Integrations in San Jose, Calif. “Students simply must get summer internships before they graduate,” Gilmore says. “But there is a growing need for tech jobs in the San Jose area after disappointments with foreign programmers in India and China.” The brightest picture for both internships and hiring in the Fresno area is information systems through the college. This is partly because the school has its own formal internship office geared toward getting students employed in the local job market before graduation. It is also because there is a need for information systems graduates in agriculture firms, medical and dental offices and hospitals, a growing and robust part of the local economy. “We have openings we can’t fill,” said Internship Coordinator Michaela Ford. With only 63 students enrolled in the information systems major in fall 2011, and rising demand in the local economy, information systems appears to be a good choice for those who wish to learn computer skills and remain in the Valley after graduation. “The future looks pretty bright for the major,” said Debbie Young, the internships director of the school. “Shortage of information systems in the healthcare industry is being related to the nursing shortage of 10 years ago.”

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Worthy causes lure students on break By Carol Biliczky McClatchy-Tribune Sun-drenched beaches may be the top destinations for many colle ge students on spring break. But some headed to the Cuyahoga Valley National Park to dig ditches and lay drainage pipe. University of Akron seniors Abby Gerdes and Nichole Houz e are among 31 who were repairing trails for a few recent days in the park’s second annual Alternative Spring Break. “They walk away from something thinking, ‘I had a major hand in that. I did good today,’ “park ranger Josh Bates said. “I hope with sore muscles comes a sense of satisfaction.” The park program is one of dozens of options available to college students who want to do something more productive than party in the sun during their mid-semester break. Many universities of fer a l t e r n at ive s p r i n g b re a k p r o g r a m s, s o m e t i m e s i n other countries such as the D o m i n i c a n Re p u bl i c a n d Jamaica, often accompanied by staff and faculty, and sometimes even for credit if the work is related to the students’ major. At Kent State, for example, 86 students volunteered for five trips that began last week, KSU senior special assistant Anne Gosky said. Students are helping community agencies on Cleveland’s near west side, volunteering at the country’s largest homeless shelter in Washington, D.C., and building homes with

for repairing homes damaged Habitat for Humanity in westby torrential rains and floodern New York. ing in May 2010. The university has gotten Wise divided students into away from the weeklong trips four teams that tackled two or repairing homes in the hurrithree houses each, repairing cane-damaged south, a popusub-floors, installing handlar venue for students from rails and demolishing and around the country for the last then pouring concrete for a several years. new sidewalk. KSU is opting for shorter Students got a taste of the trips that take as little as planning that goes into conthree days and that are closer struction, as well. to home. Costs are relatively Before the trip, the sponsormodest — anywhere from $60 ing organizations Rebuilding to $250 for food, housing and To g e t h e r a n d S o u t h e a s t transportation, so they fit into Nashville Recovery provided many students’ budgets. students with home inspec“We were spending 20 hours tion reports so they could creon a bus getting to Biloxi, ate tool and material lists. Miss.,” Gosky recalled. “We’d “That’s one of the really lose a day going and coming beautiful things — watchback” and that ate up a lot of ing students time. appreciate The University of Akron this the intricaspring break offered five trips cies of g etat $250 each. Students could ting the work help with hunger relief in done on a Charlotte, N.C., for instance, schedule,” or renovate a camp in Winder, Wise said. Ga. U n ive r s i t y of Akron assistant professor C r a i g Wi s e Are you waiting for each print struck off edition to read the newest classifieds? Check them out on his own, 24/7 online at: recruiting 25 http://collegian.csufresno.edu students in Click on classifieds. construction The Collegian is not responsible for nor technology to does it assume any liability for its adverhelp repair tisers. We caution our readers to check homes in out the legitimacy of all advertisers Nashville. before doing business with any of them. Members of the stuHELP WANTED dent group Ambassadors STUDENTPAYOUTS.com Paid survey takers needed in Fresno. for Rebuilding 100% free to join! Click on surveys. received some college credit

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2012 WOMEN’S NCAA TOURNAMENT

Stanford women oust Duke for Final Four bid Cardinal will take on undefeated Baylor in NCAA Tournament semi-final By Elliot Almond McClatchy-Tribune FRESNO — Nneka Ogwumike did it again Monday night in the NCAA women’s Fresno Regional final at the Save Mart Center. This time, though, the two-time AllAmerican had plenty of help as topseeded Stanford took down No. 2 Duke, 81-69, to advance to its fifth consecutive Final Four. O g w u m i ke h a d 2 9 p o i n t s a n d nine rebounds while sister Chiney Ogwumike added 12 points and an eye-popping 17 rebounds to extend Stanford’s winning streak to 32 games. Joslyn Tinkle and freshman Amber Orrange each had 13 points as four of the Cardinal’s starters scored in double figures. “They’re the real deal,” Duke senior Shay Selby said. “They never stop working. They were going at it the whole time they were on the floor.” Stanford (35-1) moves on to face topranked and undefeated Baylor and its 6-foot-8 center Brittney Griner on Sunday in the national semifinals in Denver. The Bears eliminated Tennessee on Monday 77-58. Nneka Ogwumike made 11 of 15 shots and 7 of 8 free throws to follow her 39-point performance in the regional semifinals. With 33.6 seconds left, coach Tara VanDerveer replaced her stars, and the Ogwumike sisters embraced on the court. The older Nneka, the projected No. 1 pick in the

2012 WNBA draft, lifted her sibling in the air. Stanford built a 17-point lead with 18:30 left, but Duke wouldn’t go away. A 6-0 run cut the margin to 11. By then Duke’s press forced the Cardinal into quick shots. Stanford couldn’t contain sophomore point guard Chelsea Gray, the cousin of former Cal star Alexis Gray-Lawson. The Stockton star was accurate from the line — 9 for 9 — after repeated fouls on her slashing drives to the basket, and ended with 23 points. Selby made a three-point play on a layup and Nneka Ogwumike’s third foul with 9:48 left to close within eight. It stayed that way during an intense finish. But Tinkle made a clutch 3-pointer with 4:28 left to give Stanford a 13-point lead. “For every answer they had for us, we had two,” Nneka Ogwumike said. “That is what happened in the last seven minutes of the game.” The Blue Devils (27-6) have reached the Elite Eight three consecutive years but couldn’t get to Final Four for the first time since 2006. The Blue Devils entered the contest averaging 75.3 points per game but mustered only 25 by halftime. Nneka Ogwumike scored nine points in the first 12 minutes to help Stanford start quickly. The 6-foot-2 senior looked comfortable inside and out in breaking through Duke defenders with ease. But unlike against South Carolina in the regional semifinal Saturday,

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Sisters Chiney (right) and Nneka Okwumike pose with Stanford’s NCAA Tournament regional championship trophy. Stanford beat Duke, 81-69, to advance to its fifth consecutive Final Four.

she had help with Tinkle making two 3-pointers and Lindy La Roque adding another against Duke’s box-and-one zone. But when the 3s stopped falling, Nneka Ogwumike was there to swoop in and put back easy layups as the Cardinal grabbed a 28-14 lead with 7:28 left in the half. Duke finally countered with a 5-0 over a two-minute scoreless stretch for the Cardinal to cut the margin to nine.

Nneka Ogwumike’s jumper with 3:18 left broke the spell. Then Stanford outscored the Blue Devils 8-2 in the final two minutes to lead 40-25 at halftime. The charge was fueled by 3-pointers from Taylor Greenfield and Toni Kokenis. Nneka Ogwumike finished the half with 15 points while Chiney had 10 rebounds. The Cardinal shot 45.5 percent from 3-point range in the first half.

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Not heading out of town and yearning to catch some Bulldog sports? The softball team will kick off conference play with an eight-game homestand March 30. SPORTS EDITOR, ANGEL MORENO • COLLEGIAN-SPORTS@CSUFRESNO.EDU

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Moving on up WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

After a decade at Fresno State, Adrian Wiggins will leave to take over at Ole Miss By Angel Moreno The Collegian Adrian Wiggins, who coached the Fresno State women’s basketball program to unprecedented success, is leaving to become the head coach at Ole Miss. “It’s the hardest thing in the world to drive away from here,” Wiggins told The Fresno Bee on Monday. “I’ll miss every day I had here. I had the time of my life.” Wiggins departs Fresno State with a 175-65 overall record in seven-plus seasons that included four regularseason conference championships, four conference tournament championships and five consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances.

In his seven seasons as head coach, Wiggins is the only one in the program’s 45-year history to not have a losing season. He first came to Fresno State in 2002 as the top assistant to then-head coach Stacy Johnson-Klein. He was named the interim head coach in 2005 after Johnson-Klein was fired and led the team to a 24-7 record — a school record for wins at the time — and a quarterfinal finish at the Women’s National Invitational Tournament, which earned him the full-time job as head coach for the next six seasons. While the move came as a shock to the Fresno State community, Wiggins wanted to stress that this wasn’t an easy decision. “It was one of the more difficult things I had to do,” Wiggins added. Wiggins said he had t u r n e d d ow n o t h e r opportunities from head coaching gigs at smaller universities, to being an assistant at a big university and even a headcoaching position in the Pac-12. “T his is not somet h i n g where I rushed off to the first job offered t o m e, ” Wiggins s a i d . “It was s o m e t h i n g that came a bit down the road.” Wi g g i n s said there were a lot of things to con-

sider before accepting the job. “There’s obviously a lot of things that go into it,” he said. “It’s a great community. It’s a wonderful university and they have an exciting, enthusiastic desire to be good in women’s basketball. But, I have that here too, so I can’t act like I don’t have that in both places.” Wiggins, a two-time Western Athletic Conference Coach of the Year, will take over an Ole Miss program that went 12-18 last season and 70-83 during Rene Ladner’s five years before she stepped down March 2. Wiggins will be introduced as the Rebels’ new coach today. While details of his contract weren’t available, Wiggins told The Bee that Ole Miss will pay him about three times what he made per year at Fresno State. On Guy Haberman’s radio show on ESPN AM 1430, Wiggins said Fresno State fought to keep him. “Fresno State did their best. They offered and counter offered.” But the offers weren’t enough to keep the university’s arguably most prolific coach from leaving. “There was a lot in it for my family and it was something I felt I needed to do,” Wiggins said. Associate head coach Brett Frank will also join Wiggins in Oxford, Miss. as Wiggins offered him a two-year contract at Ole Miss for the same position. The two are looking to turn around an Ole Miss program that has a long history of success. “This is a team that has been to 10 Sweet Sixteens and five Elite Eights and I am excited to take on the challenge of returning the Rebels to that level,” Wiggins told Olemisssports. com. “I am proud of what we accomplished at Fresno, and I look forward to reaching even greater heights in Oxford.” Director of Athletics Thomas Boeh said Fresno State will begin the search for a new head coach “as soon as possible.” Wiggins said Fresno State should attract quality applicants for the now vacant head coaching job. “The returning players, the commitment that [the program] has right now, the consistency make it a very attractive job,” Wiggins said.

THROUGH THE YEARS 2002 Wiggins hired as the women’s basketball top assistant coach under then-head coach Stacy Johnson-Klein.

2005-06

After the firing of Johnson-Klein, Wiggins was named the interim head coach of the women’s basketball program. That same year, Wiggins led the Bulldogs to a record-setting season, finishing 24-7 and a quarterfinal finish in the WNIT.

2006-07

Wiggins hired as the official head coach. He led Fresno State to its first wins over ranked opponents in 14 years, knocking off No. 8 Brigham Young and No. 23 Texas Tech.

2007-08

Wiggins guided the ‘Dogs to their first-ever WAC championship and NCAA Tournament. He was also named WAC Coach of the Year.

2008-09

The Bulldogs repeated as WAC Tournament champions and advanced to their second straight NCAA Tournament.

2009-10

Fresno State won a school-record 27 games, became the first school to go undefeated in WAC play (16-0) since ‘02-03 and earned the program’s first-ever NCAA Tournament at-large berth. The team also won a school-record 19 straight games.

2010-11

Wiggins and the ‘Dogs finished 25-8 and 14-2 in the WAC before winning the WAC Tournament championship and punching a ticket to the Big Dance for the fourth-straight year.

2011-12

Adrian Wiggins Dalton Runberg / The Collegian

Fresno State finish a school-best 28-6 after winning both the WAC regular season and tournament championships before advancing to its fifth consecutive NCAA Tournament.