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NASA selects ‘Team Fresno State’ for zero gravity experiment
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Riann Egusquiza (left) and Jordan Ringel (right) conduct a preliminary experiment in Fresno State’s science lab. They are preparing for their big experiment this summer when they are to lift off from NASA headquarters in Houston, Texas.
By Dana Hull The Collegian Eight Fresno State students have been chosen by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
to conduct an experiment in its Grant Us Space Reduced Gravity Education F light Program. The students’ experiment is to test the formation of a substance called calcium oxalate to see how it reacts in a micro-
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gravity environment. “This is important because in humans, [the substance] causes kidney stones,” Craig Seber, a senior majoring in plant science, said. “For astronauts who have a diet high in calcium oxalate, it could
potentially be a problem without a doctor up there.” According to NASA’s website, due to prolonged exposure to a microgravity environment, astronauts are at risk for developing kidney stones because of the loss of
bone calcium and decreased fluid intake. These kidney stones can for m during or after the flight, and can pose serious consequences if not treated immediately. See NASA, Page 3
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omen, no matter how old they are, still have to achieve this societal ideal of thinness and perfection. Even in their 50s and 60s and beyond women are engaging in extreme weight and shape-control behaviors.” – Cynthia M. Bulik, director of the Eating Disorders Program at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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Re-evaluating Republican values WEB-SPE@K
No Sugarcoating Necessary Leonard Valerio
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ince 1972, the General Social Survey has collected data on the opinions and beliefs of people with a wide variety of demographics and backgrounds. The GSS recently published results for 2010, and for the first time more Americans support than oppose same-sex marriage. As a Republican, I previously felt I had to oppose same-sex marriage, and I wasn’t alone. According to the Pew Research Center, 81 percent of Republicans oppose same-sex marriage. My main argument against samesex marriage was that I believed it was an attack on the Bible, and
it would destroy the sanctity of marriage. That’s where I went wrong. That’s where I let my faith take precedence over my allegiance to the United States and the Constitution. I feel that many Republicans put their faith and religious beliefs before the Constitution. Perhaps they should take a closer look at the Republican-Party Platform and see what it truly means to be Republican. On page 51 of the RepublicanParty Platform, it clearly states, “Individual rights and the responsibilities that go with them are the foundation of a free society. From the time of Lincoln, equality of individuals has been a cornerstone of the Republican Party.” Sounds like 81 percent of Republicans decided to ignore that, or perhaps, to that 81 percent, equal doesn’t really mean equal. There was something similar not too long ago, way back when, equal was considered equal despite being separate. If Republicans continue to read their party platform they will find it also states “We consider discrimination based on sex, race, age, religion, creed, disability, or national origin to be immoral, and we will strongly enforce antidiscrimination statutes.” According to Merriam Webster’s dictionary, to discriminate is “to make a difference in treatment or favor on a basis other than individual
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not only discriminatory, but a downright contradiction to what a Republican is supposed to stand for.” merit.” What do same-sex marriage couples do that does not merit the right to marry? Republican opposition to same-sex marriage is not only discriminatory, but a downright contradiction to what a Republican is supposed to stand for. The platform opens by saying, “It is grounded on our heartfelt belief that our principles, our policies, and our vision will lead our American family, not just through present dangers, but to a horizon of prosperity and liberty mankind has only begun to explore.” I once followed the Republican path I thought was leading to prosperity and liberty. I re-examined what it means to be Republican, what it means to put my country and Constitution above all else. I’m now a proud Republican that is anti-abortion, supports the right to bear arms and supports same sex marriage.
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Ramirez should not resign By Christine Mahackian
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t seems easy for bystanders to say, “Pedro should resign” as the semester continues to wind down. Some may think it would be best for the new president-elect and current vice president, Selena Farnesi, to take her position early to put “focus” back into the student body. By doing this, Ramirez can have a “normal” life again and move on. However, Pedro shouldn’t resign early until the position goes to the newly-elected president. Of course the controversy of him being “undocumented” trumped what he does as a president and I am sure he did the best he could to continue his oath as the student body president. Yet, there were people constantly crying over his undocumented status and set a path of ousting him no matter the cost. If anyone is to blame, it is the people like the tea baggers that are continuously whining and making it a big deal. The media attention, articles and depictions of those opposed to Pedro clearly didn‘t make things better. Pedro was not the distraction, only
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e see racism come out of people that negate what they preach in terms of morality, freedom and human rights, not only here in Fresno but across the nation. Many say ‘illegal aliens’ that in actuality sets this dehumanization of an ‘us versus them’ mentality.” the ongoing madness that went along with intolerant behavior. He had the right to run and be president and he has the right to end his term when it ends. Ramirez became a representative for any AB 540 students, supporting immigration legislation and the DREAM Act, which are in fact student issues. He managed to bring
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a voice and put a face to something we never pay much attention to. Through this experience, many of us that were unaware of these issues were able to learn about immigration legislation, and the problems and support needed to create better resolutions. We see the racism come out of people that negate what they preach in terms of morality, freedom and human rights, not only here in Fresno, but across the nation. Many say “illegal aliens” that in actuality sets this dehumanization of an “us versus them” mentality. Those that claim they would become citizens the “legal” way obviously don’t pay attention when people say it’s not that easy. If it was, then people would. Farnesi’s election didn’t open the doors for Pedro to resign gracefully. I hope it is his decision to see it to the end since he’s gone this far throughout the chaos. His life will move on, but it won’t be the same as if nothing happened. Hopefully, he will continue in his leadership and understanding that he has made a difference. And that is something that we can remember and try to mimic in our own lives.
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‘BAM84’: “The editorial board recommends the Latino Associated Student Inc. president step down. Interesting. Who are the members of this board? Names please. Let me guess all Anglo surnames? Why is this pertinent? Simple, this is the same story of prejudice and discrimination that the academy has taught us for decades. It’s the stuff of subconscious if not overt deep-seated racism. See any social science discipline. Would it really be more effective if she took over the last couple months of the semester? Is she going to make that big of a difference? I highly doubt it. To be sure, I’m no fan of Pedro. Yet, at this point, I adamantly believe he should finish his term. In addition, he certainly shouldn’t heed the advise of this provocative stance of the editorial board. I’m curious, if they would suggest that of someone with a fair skin hue. Again, I doubt it.”
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NASA: Fresno State is accepted into program where students experience zero gravity
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‘Team Fresno State’. Top row, left to right: Jose Correa, Craig Seber, Jordan Ringel, Ben Runyon, Riann Egusquiza, Roland Coulibaly, Gonzalo Leyva. Bottom row, left to right: Dr. John Bushoven, Mujahid Umar, Dr. Joy Goto, Dr. Ming Xiao.
CONTINUED from page 1 According to Seber, calcium oxalate can be found in many plants and fruits on earth. Two chemists, a plant science major and a group of engineers, will band together to find out if the substance if formed more or less abun-
dantly in a zero gravity environment. To test this, they will make a mock plant cell to see if they could possibly create something to remedy this problem. “NASA is going to fly us up to see if gravity has an effect on plants on regular earth,” he said. T he overall experience
includes scientific research, hands-on experimental design, test operations and public outreach activities. Mujahid Umar, a mechanical engineer major and captain of their team, said that not only will this experiment create networking opportunities and leadership skills for the students involved, but
it will also create an overall knowledge of the subject even after the students leave the university. “Calcium oxalate causes a lot of problems,” he said. “Hopefully we can use [the data we collect] to alter outcomes.” Joy Goto, a professor in the biochemistry department,
gives all the credit to the students for making this opportunity happen. “They went through and figured out what the process is and wrote it up,” she said. “They did all the work.” The students will be departing to Houston, Texas, on July 5, where they will go through training before they lift off.
Lawyers say plant leaked toxic chemical for years By Gosia Wozniacka Associated Press FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Cancercausing chemicals leaked from a Central California manufacturing plant owned by a former subsidiary of drugmaker Merck & Co. and contaminated the surrounding groundwater, air and soil for decades, lawyers for nearby residents told jurors Tuesday in closing arguments of their lawsuit against several companies. Attorney Mick Marderosian, who represents 2,000 plaintiffs, said plant operators failed to alert a Merced housing community directly across the street about contamination from hexavalent chromium, the chemical made famous in the film “Erin Brockovich.” The now-shuttered Baltimore Aircoil plant, which manufactured cooling towers, used the chemicals to pressure-treat wood from 1969 to 1991. The plant was shut down in 1994. “There was massive release of chemicals. They migrated, entered the air and water in areas where people would have been exposed,” Marderosian told jurors in U.S. District Court in Fresno. “People were subject to contamination without their knowledge.” The first phase of the trial focuses on whether contamination did leak from the plant. If jurors find that to be true, the trial’s second phase would address whether residents were harmed by the chemical exposure. Merck, which used to own Baltimore Aircoil, is leading remedia-
tion efforts at the plant. Company officials acknowledged that hexavalent chromium contamination occurred but denied that any of it left the confines of the plant at levels that could have harmed the health of residents. “Did contamination migrate to a location where it could impact residents? The answer is no,” said Merck attorney John Barg. State regulators testified during the trial that they see no current evidence of contamination outside the plant site or evidence of contaminated drinking water. Marderosian said a contamination plume in the groundwater polluted the primary well supplying domestic water to Merced’s Beachwood subdivision, located about 1,600 feet from the site. Merck sold Baltimore Aircoil in 1985 to Amsted Industries Inc., which is also a named defendant. Because plant records no longer exist, it’s not known how much hexavalent chromium could have leaked into the environment. Marderosian told jurors the plant continued pressure-treating wood with dangerous chemicals even when officials became aware of contamination. Merck first found hexavalent chromium in 1984 and was issued a violation in 1987. But according to documents, the company did not start remediation until 1991, when a Merck consultant excavated contaminated soil from the pond and disposed of it at a landfill in Kettleman City.
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Public safety assistants to the rescue The Henry Madden Library is equipped with more than just computers and books By Dylan Patton and Janessa Tyler The Collegian A group of students keep their eyes wide and ears open for anyone in need of assistance along with the University Police Department. Public Safety Assistants can be found in the Henry Madden Library — ready to assist students, faculty and staff if and when they need help. The library isn’t the only place PSAs are helping students; they’re also an extra set of eyes for UPD for students who live at the University Courtyard. According to UPD’s website, the library has 12 PSAs that “are dedicated to safety and security in the library.”
around the building. If needed, a PSA will call a campus officer to escort the individual in need of assistance to their vehicle or to their dorms. A P S A c a n b e l o c at e d o n t h e first floor of the library, next to the Circulation Desk. The Circulation Desk is on the left side of the library entrance. Library patrons walking through the glass double-doors can find a PSA monitoring several areas of the library at the end of the Circulation Desk. Pre-veterinary major Breanne Curwick has been working in the library as a PSA since August 2010. She said being a PSA has given her a chance to learn more about the library and the school.
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surprised by the knowledge she has gained on the job. PSAs receive training to better help library patrons. They’re trained in radio etiquette, and are taught "10codes" to communicate with each other. If a PSA acknowledges a radio transmission, they use the phrase "10-4." These codes allow PSAs to communicate briefly, freeing up radio time. Criminology major Amber Cocilova has been a PSA for almost two years. She previously worked in the dorms before applying for a position in the library. Cocilova said moving her position to the library had helped ease her
ven though it's not in our job description, we can help out by showing you around the library.”
There are also PSAs who work along with the Residential Housing Staff to assist students who live in the campus dormitories. PSAs use a set of monitors to watch people in the library, and patrol on foot to enhance the safety within and
— Breanne Curwick, Pre-veterinary major
“Even though it’s not in our job description, we can help out by showing you around the library,” Curwick said. Curwick added that her friends are curious about her job as a PSA. She also stated that her friends are
parents’ wor ry of being out late because working as a PSA in the library is more of a low-key position. Cocilova also received training as her time as a reserve sheriff’s deputy where she learned how to stand and how to communicate with people.
Both of these lessons helped Cocilova in how to diffuse tense situations that may arise on the job. Cocilova said that people do get frustrated, but not necessarily at the PSAs. For example, a PSA would inform a student of closing hours, and the student would get frustrated at the response. Cocilova said she took this job in hopes that it would advance a career in law enforcement. Cocilova sees the chance to interact and meet new people as a job perk. She also sees her job as a chance to make new friends. Kinesiology major Chris Henderson has been a library PSA for two years. He said he enjoys that it’s a local job, and that the location is close to his home in Fresno. “ I t ’ s a g re at j o b, i t ’ s a g re at environment,” Henderson said. The PSAs who are on duty at the time patrol the building during library hours. The library is open from 7:45 a.m. Monday through Thursday until 11 p.m., and until 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday. The library is open for eight hours Sunday, 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. for anyone needing assistance when classes aren’t in session. Curwick revealed that she has never felt threatened while on the job. People may raise their voice, but the situation has never escalated. Despite what some may think, being a PSA is a safe job. “People skills help,” Curwick said. “It’s nice to work where you’re comfortable.”
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The Henry Madden Library’s Arne Nixon Center recieved a donation of hundreds of books for the new LGBT collection. The books in the collection are young adult and children’s books that make the issue accessable to children.
New collection features fiction geared toward children and teens By Maddie Shannon The Collegian The Ar ne Nixon Center, in a move that reflected the Central Valley’s changing attitudes toward the gay community, has been trying to call attention to a new collection of donated books that feature lesbian, gay, bisexual and
Center in the Henry Madden Library, said. “These kinds of books used to be about a straight character who had a gay friend, or the villain would be gay or lesbian. In this decade, heroes and heroines have different sexual identities, and the books are m ov i n g m o r e i n t o t h e mainstream.”
One children’s book in the collection, “And Tango Makes Three,” is one of the most censored books in the country. The controversial story about a baby penguin with two dads has had readers so up in arms that elementary schools across the country have pulled it from library shelves, or else moving
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transgender issues. While the new donations aren’t the first books in the Henry Madden Library that address LGBT issues, they are the first books the library recieved that make the issue more accessable to children and young adults. “Some of the books are about young people discovering that they’re gay or lesbian,” Angelica Carpenter, curator of the Ar ne Nixon
The Ar ne Nixon Center hosted a reception for the new collection to draw attention to the latest library donation. “It was a tailgate for books,” Peter Robertson, coordinator of The Bulldog Pride Fund. “We didn’t have the band there, of course, but it was comforting and reassuring to see the collection on display. I donated four books that night.”
it to restricted sections of the library. “I have no idea why it’s so controversial,” Car penter said. “It’s an innocent book.” The controversial book, based on the true story of two male penguins in The Bronx Zoo in New York, is banned in several schools, but not Fresno State. “I love it,” Robertson said. “That’s what libraries are for.”
LAS VEGAS (AP) — J.J. Abrams is making good use of his boyhood apprenticeship shooting super-8 movies. The director of 2009’s “Star Trek” and creator of TV’s “Lost” revisits his childhood with this summer’s “Super 8,” about a band of kids shooting a monster movie who end up documenting a train wreck that unleashes an alien force. The movie is the most autobiographical he has worked on, Abrams said in an interview at CinemaCon, a Las Vegas convention for theater owners where he showed off footage Monday night. The youths in “Super 8” are doing exactly what the 44-year-old Abrams was doing three decades ago, when he
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alien presence from Area 51. “The problem with that premise is I didn’t have characters that I loved and cared about inside that world. So I had a sort of premise on the one hand with no characters I could get inside of, and on the other, I had characters I was inside of with no story. So I thought, fit them together,” Abrams said. “Why don’t they answer each other’s problems and become one thing?” Abrams has been making sci-fi movies for decades. He fondly recalls a visual effect he created by making an alien ship out of papier mache and model parts, then suspending it in front of a makeshift rearprojection screen displaying footage shot from a moving car, so it looked as though the ship was flying. “I was always trying to do
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was obsessed with making his own horror films and monster flicks. “It was sort of an uncanny thing shooting it, because it felt like I had gone back to my childhood in a way that was just incredibly surreal and oddly disturbing,” Abrams told The Associated Press. “There are moments where I was like, ‘My God, this is exactly what it was like.’ The set dressing, the costumes. Certainly, some of the subject matter was just very transportive.” Due in theaters June 10, amid Hollywood’s onslaught of visual-effects and action tales, “Super 8” began as a quiet drama about teen filmm a ke rs i n a s m al l t ow n . Abrams decided that while he loved the characters he had created for that scenario, it needed something to make it an event audiences would want to see. At the same time, he was working with distributor Paramount Pictures on a scifi adventure about a train that crashes while carrying an
things that any kid now with a computer would fall over laughing at the preposterousness of it,” Abrams said. “Super 8” has an alien master among its producers in Steve Spielberg, whose blockbusters include “E.T. the Extra-terrestrial” and “War of the Worlds.” Spielberg also gave Abrams an early job as a teenager. After reading a news story ab o u t A b r a m s a n d o t h e r young filmmakers, Spielberg’s office contacted him with an offer: repairing and restoring the super-8 films Spielberg shot in his own youth. Abrams said the offer flabbergasted him, figuring Spielberg must have had a huge team devoted to preserving his early work. Why would he hire unknown kids? “It was because he knew we would take care of them,” Abrams said. “He had done the same thing we were doing.”
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A mariachi band performs at The Cesar Chavez Memorial event yesterday in the Peace Garden. Students, faculty, school staff and members of the local community showed up to celebrate Chavez’s life and accomplishments.
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D-LINE: Bulldogs will be young up front CONTINUED from page 8 a tremendous treat for us because they understand what it is — what it means to work as hard as Chris did for us.” But with Carter graduating, that leaves a gaping hole at the rush end position where Carter had huge success last season on the defensive line. In 2010, Carter ter rorized opposing quarterbacks for a Western Athletic Conferencebest 11 sacks en route to being named WAC Defensive Player of the Year. With the loss of Carter and star ters Chris Lewis and Cornell Banks to graduation too, returning players view spring practice as the perfect time to solidify a starting spot. “A lot of them see an opportunity now to play — to step up,” Plemons said. Emerging from the pack of young Bulldogs to help replace Car ter is redshir t sophomore Nat Harrison followed by junior Matt Akers and redshirt sophomore Tristan Okpalaugo. “Young Nat Harrison has done a great job and Akers has done a great job as well,” Plemons said with excitement. “Akers can play both rush and end. Tristan Okpalaugo, boy, he’s really grown too. So, I got
some guys who really have some great tools.” Harrison was able to get a sniff of playing time last season as a backup, appearing in nine games and registering nine tackles and a sack. Okpalaugo redshirted last season and Akers spent much of the season on the sidelines. Although Bulldog coaches are eager to work with their young student-athletes, they understand that none will be able to generate the gamechanging impact, at least right now, that Carter provided last season. “Right now we don’t have a Chris Carter-type,” Bulldogs head coach Pat Hill said. “We got some young guys that are very promising, but Chris Carter in his senior year was one of the best in the country. We don’t have any right now that has proven that on the field yet.” But the unit’s potential is intriguing with a plethora of rising young players, and the return of defensive anchor Logan Harrell, a first-team All-WAC performer, up front. “He can play about any position on that front,” Plemons said of Harrell. “He’s a guy that left his junior year finishing 10th in the nation in sacks from tackle. We think a lot of
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Logan Harrell came on strong in 2010, recording 10.5 sacks alongside WAC Defensive Player of the Year Chris Carter. Harrell is back, but Carter is not, and numerous players are in line to fill out Fresno State’s front four in 2011.
him.” Harrell exploded onto the scene in the season opener against Cincinnati last year, sacking Bearcats quarterback Zach Collaros three-and-ahalf times, which was just a glimpse of Harrell’s dominance throughout the year. Coaches will be expecting a lot from Harrell come fall. Filling out the nose tackle position in place of Banks is Texan Chase McEntee. McEntee, an experienced player since his freshman year in 2008, has appeared in 32 games
with seven starts. “Those two guys are going to be fun to watch at the tackle position,” Plemons said. Pushing McEntee for playing time this spring is redshirt freshman Tyeler Davison, whom both Hill and Plemons praised as a promising player. Fighting for playing time at the defensive end position is Akers, Sanger native Nikko Motta and 6-foot-5, 280-pounder Donavaughn Pritchett. Plemons said Pritchett brings great size to the position up front.
But outside of Harrell and McEntee, the game-starting experience drops off dramatically. “I’m really looking forward to working with this front,” Plemons said. “But we’re young, we haven’t done anything yet.”
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CONTINUED from page 8 Retired state Supreme Court justice Ruth McGregor, one of the three-member investigative panel, said the trio was given full access to everything related to the probe without any resistance from the board. “We are confident that our report is thorough and accurate,” she said. “Although the findings are deeply disturbing, I am gratified that the Fiesta Bowl Board of Directors is moving forward with affirmative and concrete
steps to address its problems.” T he reimbursements go back to at least 2002, the report concluded. The political donations, mostly to Republican candidates and causes, were not required but strongly suggested, several employees told the investigators. T he board announced a series of ste ps to refor m its operations and operate transparently to prevent any repeat of such problems. That includes hiring a chief financial officer and a general counsel/compliance officer.
The bowl has three years left on its four-year contract BCS contract. That could give it enough time to clean up its problems in the face of a possible challenge from the Cotton Bowl, which long has coveted a return to elite bowl status and now has a big, new stadium to bolster its case. Among the many expenditures questioned by the report was the 50th birthday celebration for Junker paid for by the Fiesta Bowl at a cost of $33,0000 at Pebble Beach, Calif.;, his car allowance and
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paid membership in four elite private golf clubs. There also was a $1,200 trip for Junker and two others to a Phoenix strip club. The Fiesta, which also operates the Insight Bowl and many other smaller events, staged the highly anticipated matchup between Auburn and Oregon for the national championship this year. The seven-member BCS task force investigating the matter will be headed by Spanier and includes Northern Illinois president John Peters, Big E a s t c o m m i s s i o n e r Jo h n Marinatto, Sun Belt commissioner Wright Waters, and athletic directors Jeremy Foley of Florida, Bob Bowlsby o f S t a n fo rd a n d R i ch a rd Giannani of Southern Mississippi.
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The Fresno State softball team will host WAC rival Hawaii in a three-game series on Friday and Saturday in what could decide the regular-season conference champion. SPORTS EDITOR, BEN INGERSOLL • COLLEGIAN-SPORTS@CSUFRESNO.EDU
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SPRING FOOTBALL POSITION BATTLE
D-line looks to replace WAC’s best By Vongni Yang The Collegian
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The biggest improvement for Fresno State football from the 2009 season to the 2010 season was along the defensive line, and the numbers were there to prove it. Fresno State recorded a WAC-worst 11 sacks in 2009, but was second in the conference in 2010 with 37, only behind Boise State. But the Bulldogs lose WAC Defensive Player of the Year Chris Carter this season, as well as two other starters on the defensive front, leaving Pat Hill searching for answers.
Former sack-specialist Chris Carter might be taking his talents to the NFL, but his work ethic has rubbed off on former teammates on the defensive line. Defensive line coach Will Plemons said that the young and inexperienced players
took note of Carter’s hardworking, blue-collar lifestyle during his time at Fresno State, and the Bulldogs now understand what it takes to elevate their game from good to great. “A lot of them saw Chris Carter work as hard as he did,” Plemons said. “It’s been See D-LINE, Page 7
Fiesta Bowl CEO fired after internal probe Fiesta Bowl in danger of no longer being a part of the Bowl Championship Series By Bob Baum Associated Press SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — The Fiesta Bowl fired president and CEO John Junker after a scathing inter nal report released Tuesday found “an apparent scheme” to reimburse employees for political contributions and “an apparent conspiracy” to cover it up. The reimbursements, listed as at least $46,539, are an apparent violation of state campaign finance laws and the charter that allows the Fiesta Bowl its nonprofit status. The Arizona attor ney general’s office is conducting a probe of the matter. The BCS reacted swiftly, saying it would undertake an investigation of its own to “consider whether the Fiesta Bowl should remain a BCS bowl game or other appropriate sanctions.” The Fiesta board of directors voted unanimously to fire Junker “for his improper and inappropriate activities documented” in the report. “The entire Fiesta Bowl family is angered and disappointed by what we’ve seen in the report and by the actions of Mr. Junker,” Fiesta Bowl board chairman Duane Woods told reporters at the event’s headquarters in downtown Scottsdale. “The Fiesta Bowl is greater than a few individuals, and the lesson here really is that we placed too much trust in a single individual.” Woods did not take questions.
Junker, in his ubiquitous bright yellow Fiesta Bowl sports jacket, had been the face of the event for three decades, leading it from an upstart event to one of the BCS giants. With an annual salary of about $600,000, he had been on paid administrative lead since Feb. 4 after, the board said, he failed to comply with two written directives to cooperate with the investigation. The board said the probe also uncovered “excessive compensation, nonbusiness and inappropriate expenditures and inappropriate gifts.” The 276-page report of an investigation that conducted by Fiesta Bowl board members and a retired Arizona state Supreme Court justice, was published on the bowl’s Web site fiestabowl.org. The investigators said it found the “apparent scheme” to reimburse at least $46,539 for employees’ political contributions. The probe also found “an apparent conspiracy to conceal the reimbursement scheme from the bowl’s Board of Directors and state officials,” according to the news release accompanying the report. The BCS issued a statement from executive director Bill Hancock and Penn State University President Graham Spanier, chair of the presidential oversight committee. “We are deeply disappointed and troubled to learn of these findings related to the
Fiesta Bowl,” the BCS said. “Unprofessional, unethical or improper behavior is unacceptable. There is no place for such activities in higher education or in collegiate sports. It is expected that all parties contracted with the BCS will live up to the highest standards. We do not wish to be associated with entities that believe otherwise. “ BCS leaders said they will appoint a task force to evaluate the bowl’s findings and its recommendations. They have also “asked the bowl to demonstrate why it should remain a BCS bowl game. The task force will evaluate the bowl’s response, along with the full slate of reforms instituted by the bowl.” And if the bowl remains a part of the BCS, its handling of this matter will be closely monitored going forward. Bowl officials said the initial, brief investigation of the reimbursements allegations was “flawed.” That probe found no evidence of any such wrongdoing. Woods, vice president of Waste Management Inc. for the Western Region, played a major role in saving the PGA’s Phoenix Open. Now he’s got a far bigger cleanup effort. He said the actions of Junker “unfortunately, have tainted the stellar reputation that the Fiesta Bowl has worked so hard to maintain for more than 40 years. The Fiesta Bowl, however, is greater than a few individuals; it is the product of thousands
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Fiesta Bowl CEO John Junker was fired after a scathing internal report found “an apparent scheme” to reimburse employees for political contributions.
of dedicated volunteers and exemplary employees who work tirelessly and care so deeply about the Fiesta Bowl and all it does for the state of Arizona.” Woods outlined the time line that began with a report in The Arizona Republic in December, 2009, that five former or current Fiesta Bowl employees had been reimbursed for political donations they were encouraged to make. A brief investigation by former Arizona attorney
general Grant Woods, no relation to the board chairman, led the board to conclude there was no credible evidence to support the allegations. Now, the board says that report was “flawed.” Duane Woods said that last September, an employee came to his office and told him that indeed the reimbursements had been made. That led to the lengthy probe that resulted in Tuesday’s report. See CEO, Page 7