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By Tara Albert, Sarah Kain, Maddie Shannon and Vongni Yang The Collegian At a time when incoming freshmen nationwide are more stressed than ever, Fresno State is failing to assess the mental health needs of its students and provide an adequate level of psychological counseling.

A recent survey of more than 250 colleges and universities nationwide found that incoming freshmen reported more emotional stress than at any time in the past 25 years.

Dozens of Califor nia schools — including CSU Los Angeles, CSU Long Beach, CSU San Marcos and Fresno Pacific University — participated in the “American Freshman: National Norms” survey and were able to determine the increasing stress levels of their students.

Fresno State, however, chose not to participate in the study even though the level of student stress at the school is arguably higher than at many other universities, according to students, faculty and administrators.

Consider these facts: Few, if any, universities in the CSU system have undergone more profound changes in the makeup of their student bodies than Fresno State.

Over the past three decades, the population of white students has dropped from 63 per-

cent to 33 percent, while the Latino student population has grown from 22 percent to 35 percent.

This shift has meant that more than two-thirds of the students now attending Fresno State are the first in their families to seek a bachelor’s degree and that more than one out of four students come from families that live in or near poverty.

This shift has also meant that a growing percentage of students are juggling work and school, adding significantly to their mental health stress.

With the compounding bur-

parents who are struggling to keep households afloat and are seeing fewer opportunities for their children.

“We see students struggling with the balance of personal and academic responsibilities,” Fuentes said. “They’re having to stay home and miss class so their parent or provider of the home can use the car to go to work, or to go look for work, or to meet the family needs.”

The economic hardships are forcing more students to find their own jobs and to assume the burden of additional work

An anxiety screening will be held tomorrow at the health center from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

“Participants come and fill out a brief self-survey on anxiety issues and view a brief video, and then they meet briefly with a counselor,” Gechter said. “If it looks like they

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encouraged to come back and seek further services.”

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tudents are overwhelmed handling multiple roles.

Generally it’s family problems and balancing work hours with their class time.

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dens of a historic recession and the growing noise of the gadget age, it’s likely that the student body at Fresno State is more stressed than at any other time since the Vietnam War. “ We d e f i n i t e ly s e e t h e increase in stress,” Sandra F u e n t e s, t h e d i re c t o r o f Student Support Services at Fresno State, said.

Fuentes cited as reasons the declining economic climate in California and the pressure that students face from

hours. “We’ve had a number of students who come in and have daily struggles making basic daily needs met,” said Fuentes, who works with first-generation, low-income and disabled students.

The failure of Fresno State to assess the emotional wellbeing of its students is reflected in the fact that the school has participated in the nationwide survey only four times since the early 1980s.

Likewise, when it comes to providing actual mental health

The Collegian will be h o s t i n g a n A s s o c i at e d Students, Inc. presidential debate on Monday, March 14 at 5:30 p.m. in Studio A on the west end of the Speech Arts building. The candidates who are running for president are Daniel Harrison, Cesar Sanchez and Selena Farnesi.

The debate will be approximately 30 minutes long and will be hosted by The Collegian’s editor-inchief Tony Petersen.

Only Fresno State students will be allowed to attend, and students will be required to show their student ID cards to be able to get in to the studio.

ASI has spent much of the past year in the public eye, mostly due to the fact that President Pedro Ramirez admitted to The Collegian that he was an undocumented immigrant enrolled at Fresno State under the California law Assembly Bill 540, which allows undocumented immigrants to enroll in California schools and pay in-state tuition.

This is the first election since Ramirez’s disclosure.

The ASI election will be held from March 22-24.

outreach event or other psychological services, the health center can be contacted at 278-6738.

services, Fresno State falls considerably short, according to a Collegian survey of other CSU schools.

Fresno State has only one psychiatrist, three psychologists, a full-time pharmacist and two pharmacy technicians on staff to serve students. San Jose State, by contrast, has one psychiatrist, 10 psychologists, two counselors and a part-time pharmacist on staff.

Gena Gechter, who coordinates the Psychological Services department at Fresno See STRESS, Page 3

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n late February, the Obama Justice Department announced that it would no longer defend the Defense of Marriage Act in cases that come up in federal courts.

This is a sharp reversal from what was previously done. The law was passed in 1996 by a Republican Congress and a Democratic president, and has since been defended by the Clinton administration, the Bush administration and, at least until last month, the Obama administration.

Why the change? According to a statement by Attorney General Eric Holder, President Obama has concluded that DOMA “fails to meet [a heightened standard of scrutiny] and is therefore unconstitutional. Given that conclusion, the President has instructed the Department not to defend the statute in such cases,” “The Department in the past,” continued Holder, “ has declined to defend statutes

despite the availability of professionally responsible arguments, in part because — as here — the Department does not consider every such argument to be a ‘reasonable’ one. Moreover, the Department has declined to defend a statute in cases, like this one, where the President has concluded that the statute is unconstitutional.”

Let’s set aside the divisive issue of gay marriage. The wisdom of allowing it or prohibiting it is not at the heart of this issue. What’s at issue is that President Obama is abdicating his executive authority in order to play partisan politics.

What President Obama is saying, in effect, is akin to what Andrew Jackson told Chief Justice John Marshall after the Supreme Court decided that a state could not impose its laws upon Indian tribal lands: They [the Congress, past presidents] have made their decision, now let them enforce it!

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This is not to say that presidents should have no say in the constitutionality of legislation — all federal officers are bound by an oath to protect and defend the Constitution.

All branches of government should consider the constitutionality of legislation.

But that is what the executive veto is for. Once

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t was 3:02 a.m. — a violent scream followed by endless blows to the wall had startled my sleeping friend. A faint dial tone and the sound of her hand repetitively pounding against the hotel headboard awoke me hours later — “Hi,” she said to the voice on the other end. “I’m in room 1431 and the people next door are having sex, real loud.”

As we waited for the desk clerk to arrive, we listened. And with all ears toward our newfound fornicating friends we heard the most stimulating high-pitched moans of that of a third person and the clicks of a blinking camera lens.

The desk clerk eventually reached the fourteenth floor, walked past our room to suite 1432 and knocked three loud knocks.

The pleasure eventually subsided.

After the ménage à trois hotel porno night, I started to research dogging.

Dogging is a euphemism for having sex or watching others have sex in a public place. According to the ABC News American Sex Survey, 57 percent of Americans have got it on in a public or semi-public place — making dogging, a pretty common fantasy.

And that fantasy is fulfilled more often on the Fresno State campus than one would think.

Weeks prior, accusations of students dogging in group study rooms of the Henry Madden Library circulated campus.

Former and current library employees confirmed the hearsay, stating that the “fake cops,” also known as public service assistants, caught couples in the act after concealing the narrow glass window with paper and escorted them from the

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a law is passed, either new legislation must be written, an amendment must be passed or the Supreme Court must strike it down as unconstitutional.

For all laws that remain on the books, the Executive Branch must enforce them and defend them.

To say otherwise would be to allow federal anarchy.

Another question that is raised by the administration’s action is this: Why announce this decision now?

Are we really supposed to believe that President Obama just now figured out that DOMA is unconstitutional and has no rational basis for being defended in court?

No. Obama is simply trying to gain politically, disregarding his constitutional obligations and the good of our constitutional system.

On one hand, it’s no secret that the gay community has viewed Obama as a huge disappointment. Here, Obama is trying to shore up this

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building.

According to Public Information Officer Amy Armstrong, no such cases were found.

“Generally with those types of incidents either library staff or our public safety assistants will make contact with the people involved and ask them to leave,” Armstrong said.

According to Dean of Library Services Peter McDonald, an incident report should have been filed by the public service assistants. However, nothing was ever documented, leaving the library administration to believe that such acts did not occur. And if they did in fact occur, university policies were not followed.

As American journalist H. L. Mencken once said, life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull.

So all you sexhibitionists out there, thank you for keeping it interesting.

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“I’m a Christian. Lent is very traditional, like Catholic and prepetition and that kind of thing. So I didn’t grow up doing Lent. I think it’s a cool concept. But it doesn’t really mean anything to me personally. And so I’m not giving anything up for it.”

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“When I was little I used to give up mostly anything that I really, really liked either chocolate or soda, tortillas or meat.

I think I’ll give up chocolate or soda again this year.”

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support and get the liberal wing of the Democratic Party back on his side.

On the other, this is a divisive, contentious issue on the Republican side of the aisle. Here, Obama, ever the Machiavellian, is trying to split the party on cultural lines, splintering conservative support just in time for campaigning for the 2012 election to start.

Obama, through his actions during his presidency, has shown himself to be just another crass, opportunistic politician, the very type of political animal he decried when he was the “hope-andchange” candidate in 2008.

America, because of Obama’s opportunism and his abdication of executive authority, is the worse for it.

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“Wow. It doesn’t mean much to me. I have thought about it before. Am I going to give something up, probably not.

Maybe alcohol, that would be a good idea.”

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“Lent means doing something that only betters yourself and who you are. Giving something up. I curse a little bit. I will be giving up cursing for 40 days. It is a sacrifice. But I am willing to do it.”

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“I don’t know what it means to me. I have never actually practiced it. I might be giving up ice cream.”

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STRESS: Fresno State lacks adequate mental health services CONTINUED from page 1 State, said the mental health staff was cut in 1992 because of budget shortages and has struggled to keep up ever since.

Today, the school tries to reach out to students in need of mental health counseling with such programs as depression screening day, but the outreach could be better.

“We used to be able to solicit and market services to students as part of the outreach,” she said. But no more. While resources have dwindled, she said, the number of students in need of service is ever growing.

“In the Fresno community, the available resources have shrunk. There were a lot of students who might have had services through the county and now have to come here because there is nowhere else,” she said. “Students who are losing their insurance are starting to come here as well.”

Provost William Covino declined to comment about Fresno State’s failure to assess the emotional state of its student body or provide the necessary services to help reduce stress.

Gechter said if Fresno State did survey freshmen about their mental health needs, she would gladly use the information to improve services. But she suspects that the cost of administering and analyzing the survey is one reason why Fresno State chooses not to participate.

“If your vice president doesn’t give you an adequate budget, you can’t participate in these studies,” Marjorie Bommersbach, interim director of the Counseling Center at Chico State, said. “They cost money.”

The information gleaned in the survey is more than worth the price, Boomersbach said.

“You need to know who your student body is,” she said.

Vivian Franco, the director of Admissions, Records and Evaluations at Fresno State, knows the profiles of the students on campus and the everyday hardships they face.

“More students need to work and work more hours to put themselves through school,” she said. “Students

are overwhelmed handling multiple roles. Generally it’s family problems, personal problems and balancing work hours with their class time.”

Statistics show that almost 30 percent of first-time freshmen at Fresno State are dependent on families that made less than $24,000. By comparison, only 13 percent of first-time undergraduate students at Chico State are dependent on families that made less than $24,000.

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State has drawn more students from middle and lower income families than other CSU schools. This is reflected in the fact that two-thirds of its freshman come from parents with no bachelor’s degrees.

At Cal Poly Pomona, by comparison, only 10 percent of new students come from first-generation college families. At San Diego State, the figure is 22 percent. At Sacramento State, 57 percent of first-time freshmen are first-generation students.

Edward Armstrong, a first

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demic counselor for the Office of Advising under Student Success Services, said many Fresno State students are also having to deal with the stress of attending a commuter campus. Many students have to worry about gas and vehicle maintenance costs and allotting enough time to travel to and from school.

“A lot of our population are coming from rural areas,” she said. “It’s not unusual to have people traveling 50 miles one way.”

Freshman Jesus Arizaga lives in San Joaquin with his family and commutes an hour to and from school every day.

He said he often has to pay bills and pick up groceries for his family.

“I’m usually the one with the car, so I have to be the one running errands,” he said.

Molina said first-generation students are often unable to rely on their parents for guidance in an unfamiliar college atmosphere. And yet they feel no shortage of pressure from their parents to succeed.

Familial responsibilities and cultural expectations often conflict with their pursuit of an education.

“These students have to find a way to hold on to their traditions and still respect their culture,” Molina said. “They are expected to step up in the family. It’s really a balancing act.”

Over the past decade, Fresno

generation college student at Fresno State, works 15 to 20 hours a week while taking a full load of classes. He spends at least 15 hours a week studying. Armstrong is also a member of Sigma Chi, a fraternity on campus, and spends much of his free time planning community events for the fraternity or volunteering at mentoring organizations in Fresno Unified School District.

“I constantly juggle work, school and tests,” he said.

Sophomore Morgan Perry works 15 to 20 hours a week and spends an equal amount of time studying. She is taking 22 units and works as an intern for the Fresno Grizzlies. She is majoring in business and pursuing a minor in pre-law along with seeking a special events planning certificate.

On top of all this, Perry is the vice president of Kappa Kappa Gamma, and spends about 20 hours each week planning events for the sorority.

“My parents pressure me to be the perfect child because my older brother made some mistakes, and now I have to make up for them,” she said.

Linda DeAngelo, who administers the national freshmen stress survey out of UCLA, underscored the importance of universities accurately surveying their students. How else to understand the emotional and financial stresses they carry, she said.

This information is the first step in helping them alleviate the pressures. “ G e t t i n g i nvo l ve d a n d assessing your students is really about getting to know their needs,” she said.

CSU Long Beach has been participating in the “American Freshman” survey since 1997 as well as a national survey by the Association for University and College Counseling Center.

“We’ve been assessing for quite a while, and we’re doing what students need from us today,” said Brad Compliment, director of Psycholo gical Services at CSU Long Beach.

“We’re doing more preventionbased outreach, workshops and being available for students on campus.”

He said the school has noticed an increased level of stress for upperclassmen who are so focused on school that they forget about planning for a future career. “They worry a lot about graduation, and not so much what happens the day after,” Compliment said.

To meet that stress, the mental health staff at CSU Long Beach includes one psychiatrist, nine psychologists, one social worker and a licensed clinical social worker.

Up the coast at Chico State, the staff includes one psychiatrist, three clinical psychologists, a counseling psychologist and two social workers.

“I know at Fresno State, you are very understaffed,” said Bommersbach, the Chico State interim director of counseling. “I know your director.

She’s fabulous. She’s advocating to get more counselors.

[But] sometimes it falls on deaf ears.”

Bommersbach said the center at Chico State has endured its own cuts, and that students must sometimes wait three weeks before they are seen.

“We used to have a staff of 20 people years ago,” she said.

“It’s gotten smaller and smaller.”

At Sacramento State, the mental health staff includes two psychologists, two licensed clinical social workers and a licensed marriage and family therapist. Rene Reis, the school’s marriage and family therapist, said Sacramento State consistently assesses the

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mental health of its students to ensure that needs are met.

At San Jose State, more than 40 counseling workshops are offered each semester. The workshops cover a variety of educational and personal issues, including stress management, relaxation, healthy relationships, and first-generation student help. Students can receive six individual or couple sessions per semester. Counselors are also available for students at all hours through a crisis hotline.

“If it’s necessary, they are able to meet with students in person,” Kell Fujimoto, interim director of San Jose State’s Counseling Services, said.

The situation at San Jose State is about to get even better with the implementation of a recent executive order by the CSU Chancellor’s Office. The order allows CSU presidents to authorize a student fee to help meet the needs of mental health issues on campus.

It is unclear if Fresno State will be authorizing a similar fee to improve its mental health services.

Fresno State does take part in a lesser known National College Health Assessment survey every year. The survey measures how stress affects students’ education, including why they miss an assignment or class.

Adding to the overall stress of Fresno State students is the rising costs of college, which have grown more than ten fold since the 1980s, and the difficulty of getting classes to fit into a schedule. As a result, the years of schooling needed to graduate have risen steadily. Today, statistics show, it takes six years for the average incoming freshman to graduate.

Nowhere is this stress more felt than among first-generation students. Studies show that they participate less in co-curricular activities like student government and intramural sports. They also have lower retention rates.

Gail Yang is a freshman biology major and a first-generation college student. She said family responsibilities interfere with her study time, and are a big source of stress.

Yang has three younger siblings, ages 3, 8 and 9, who she has to baby-sit every day. “It’s really hard to concentrate on your studies while you are babysitting,” she said.

Yang’s parents constantly remind her to do well in school and put pressure on her to succeed, she said. “I understand that college is important,” Yang said. “But there is only so much that a person can take.”

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 2011

First year program throws students an expensive bone

By Danielle Solich The Collegian The Dog Pound Student Rewards Program has some students racing to specific athletic events. The seconds e m e s t e r p r o g r a m g ive s students an opportunity to win prizes for attending Fresno State athletic events.

Students get their student ID cards swiped at the games to ear n points and to be eligible for prizes. Some of the prizes the Dog Pound offers include flat screen TVs, China Peak packages, a foosball table and gift cards to various food and local retailers.

Physical therapy major Courtney Waddell said the Dog Pound is a great program t h at at t r a c t s s t u d e n t s t o the various athletic events,

despite their academic standing.

“Especially since I’m a freshman, it puts us out there and pushes us to attend,” Waddell said.

Kinesiology major Brittany Gibson won a 37-inch flat screen TV this past November after being selected from the monthly drawing. Gibson said it seemed too good to be true, but a Dog Pound representative assured her that the prize was hers to keep.

Athletics Communications Specialist David Roost said the goal of the program is not only to increase student attendance, but also to enhance the atmosphere a t a t h l e t i c eve n t s. T h e y h ave b e e n m e e t i n g w i t h students, staff and different departments to improve the

student sports culture on campus.

One of the Dog Pounds most recent efforts was to teach students all the cheers and basketball traditions.

Roost learned from talking to students that many didn’t know any of the cheers.

The Dog Pound consulted with the band and developed a cheer sheet that they distributed at the ESPNU televised game against Louisiana Tech at the Save Mart Center.

Roost said that this year the Dog Pound would also be the new name for the Fresno State student section.

“The goal is to create the best student section in the conference,” Roost said. “Each school has its own unique recipe to create the optimal

student section; the challenge i s d i s c o ve r i n g w h a t t h e ingredients are, and how best to use them together.”

Roost said that one challenge has been building student awareness. He said that this is normal for a new program, and despite minor difficulties they’re off to a great start.

One way the program keeps students up to date on events is through their Facebook fan page. Roost said they have close to 1,200 followers on their social networking sites. In addition, posters throughout the University Courtyard infor m students on the program and upcoming events.

“The Dog Pound’s Facebook is a good thing,” advertising major Russell Goolsby said.

“ S t u d e n t s h ave c o n s t a n t contact through Facebook and can always get updates.”

Several students found out about the Dog Pound through infor mation tables outside athletic events.

Waddell said the r ules are basic, and receiving free stuff for simply attending is a definite plus.

“I just had to go to athletic events to ear n points; it c o u l d n ’ t h u r t a ny t h i n g , ” Gibson said.

Roosts said there are 1,000 cur rent members, and is anticipating the program’s biggest turnout for baseball, softball and lacrosse. An announcement of spring giveaways is coming soon.

“Students can expect to see us all spring long,” Roost said.

“We’re very active.”

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Arts & EnterTainment WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 2011

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR, MADDIE SHANNON • COLLEGIAN-FEATURES@CSUFRESNO.EDU

Film featuring Fresno State grad delivers crisp, full-bodied account of the birth of Napa Valley’s wine industry The process of pinking, where the wine turns from white to pink to white, was prevalent in the 1970s when few wine g rowers understood the process.

“The wine turning brown in the movie was probably a stretch of Hollywood’s creative license,” Kenneth Fugelsang, a Fresno State viticulture and enology professor, said. “It happened more then, but now we have diagnostic tests that allow us to remove compounds that make it turn pink.”

The viticulture and enology program, which started in 1946 with viticulture in the plant

By Maddie Shannon The Collegian Bottle Shock, a movie released in 2008 based on the experience of a Fresno State enology graduate, reflects the value of Califor nia’s wine-growing culture and the influence Fresno State had on jump-starting Napa Valley’s wine industry.

Bo Barrett, a Fresno State alumnus, helped his father cultivate their vineyard, Chateau Montelena.

In 1976, Jim Bar rett’s chardonnay won a blind wine tasting contest in Paris, France, known as the Paris Tasting.

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he wine turning brown in the movie was probably a stretch of Hollywood’s creative license.”

f you told me someone was making a movie about me, I would’ve said, ‘Is it going to be five minutes long?’”

— Kenneth Fugelsang, Viticulture and Enology professor

— Bo Barrett, Fresno State Enology grad

“The Judgment of Paris,” as it came to be known, shattered the myth of invincible French wine a n d p ave d t h e w ay fo r winemaking industries in other parts of the world, including California.

“Prior to 1976, it was pretty much a commonly accepted fact that France made the best wines in the world,” Jim Kennedy, Fresno State viticulture and enology department chair, said. “It catapulted California into the upper echelons of the winemaking world.”

B a r re t t w a s 1 8 wh e n his father, Jim Bar rett, p r o d u c e d t h e aw a r d winning 1973 Chardonnay that stunned Parisian wine connoisseurs three years later. “Bottle Shock,” while overdramatized to some de gree, accurately portrayed the story Jim and Bo lived.

“If you told me about someone making a movie

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Jim and Bo Barrett’s famous 1973 chardonnay, which won the Paris Tasting, is now on display in the Smithsonian museum in Washington, D.C.

about me, I would’ve said, ‘Is it going to be five minutes long?’” Bar rett said. “I helped on set when they were shooting, but I wasn’t on the creative team.”

The film’s tur ning point comes when Jim Bar rett, after investing hundreds of thousands of dollars in the Chateau and its wine, finds that all the wine he created is brown.

Ordering his employees to throw o u t t h e w i n e, h e leaves the Chateau before Bo finds that the wine has, in fact, cleared up to create the most

spectacular chardonnay he’s ever tasted.

“My first wine-making class at Fresno State, my professor talked about the p r o c e s s, wh i c h i s c a l l e d ‘ p i n k i n g , ’ ” B a r re t t s a i d .

“I told him it happened to me, and he asked me — in front of the class — how we accomplished this feat.”

science department and enology in food science, came together under professor Vince Petrucci, but didn’t achieve department status until 2000, nearly a decade after Petrucci retired. “ Vi n c e Pe t r u c c i w a s hired in 1953, but it wasn’t until the ‘90s that there was a lot of push to move the prog rams together,” Kennedy said.

The Barrett’s 1973 bottle of chardonnay that won the Paris Tasting is now in the Smithsonian museum in Washington, D.C.

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Brief news for the brief attention span LOS ANGELES (AP) — While CBS is keeping mum about Charlie Sheen, one of his co-stars has been speaking out and sharing kind words about the embattled actor.

“Two and a Half Men” star Holland Taylor defended the actor she has worked with since the show began in 2003. “ C h a rl i e w a s c o rd i a l and polite with all of h i s c a s t m at e s a n d c rew, sometimes even courtly — and always witty,” Taylor said Tuesday in an e-mail t o T h e A s s o c i at e d P re s s.

“We watched movies at his house occasionally — warm evenings with interesting, spirited conversation. This is the guy I know. “ I n t h i s ve r y s a d a n d complicated time, I really h av e n o c o m m e n t , ” s h e continued, “beyond valuing my own history with Charlie, and my abiding affection for him.”

Sheen was fired from the hit CBS show Monday.

Holland is the first person connected to the show to publicly share thoughts on Sheen since his dismissal.

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— Holland Taylor, actress

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Footage of Lindsay Lohan trying on a necklace that a jewelry store later reported stolen is scheduled to be aired Tuesday.

“Entertainment Tonight” promoted the video during a s e g m e n t o n M o n d ay ’ s show. Lohan is seen smiling a s s h e e n t e r s t h e Ve n i c e j e we l r y s t o r e K a m o f i e & Co. The store reported that Lohan took a $2,500 necklace without per mission, and prosecutors have charged her with felony grand theft.

The video’s release comes days before the “Mean Girls” star retur ns to cour t. On Thursday, her attor ney is s ch e d u l e d t o t e l l a j u d g e wh e t h e r t h e a c t re s s w i l l f i g h t t h e c a s e o r t a ke a plea bargain that carries a guaranteed jail sentence.

A commercial images division of The Associated Press obtained rights to the footage and licensed it to “Entertainment Tonight.”

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The daily crossword ACROSS 1 Dr. Salk’s conquest 6 Country that hosted the 2008 Summer Olympics 11 Skimming target 1 4 Rigel’s constellation 15 Payroll augmenter 16 Rock salt may be used on it 17 American purchase 19 That vessel 20 Years and years and years 21 Soccer shutout score 22 Was a g­ ossip 24 Barbeque shack snack 27 “I think we should!”

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29 Type of professor 33 Old battle clubs 36 Airport guesses, briefly 37 Santa ___, Calif.

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12 Word with “head” or “heart” 13 ___ off (miffed) 18 Item in a car trunk 23 Work a wok 25 Agile deer 26 Promise in marriage 30 Drop in a letter box 31 Type of car 32 Use a piggy bank 33 Wise trio 34 Arabian Peninsula port 35 Skin cleanser 36 ___ Brockovich (Julia Roberts title role) 39 Scrambled alternative 42 Small, medium or large 44 Cozy home 45 Sue Grafton’s “___ For Lawless” 47 Tiptoe through the tulips 48 Midleg point 51 Blackest part of a shadow 52 Stephen King’s state 53 Sharpshooter Oakley 54 Neighbor of Libya 55 Strike a crushing blow 56 “Hey, what’s the big ___?”

61 Hamper part 62 Necklace given upon deplaning 63 Type of sleep cycle

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Lent trap In couples where one party is Catholic and the other is not, the unwilling subjection of the non-Catholic to the 40-day ritual of penitence known as Lent.

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SOFTBALL: Fresno State will host five opponents CONTINUED from page 8 “I think it was just one of those weekends,” infielder and pitcher Nicole Angene said. “We can’t be perfect. We may have lost, but we gained a lot from each loss and we’re going to work on them, and it’s only going to make us better.”

Ready to get the wins rolling again, the Bulldogs will be focused on not repeating any of the little mistakes that occurred last weekend and enjoying the return to the friendly confindes of Bulldog Diamond.

“We love our fans here,” Angene said.

as they work toward improving their overall record, and want both fans and opponents to know that regardless of who is on the diamond they’re going to give everything they’ve got.

“Actually, there’s no one they shouldn’t be looking out for,” Angene said. “We have a stacked lineup, people that can come in at any moment, so anyone that’s out there they need to keep their eye on.”

The Bayer CropScience Classic opens with a doubleheader for Idaho State as they square off against Troy in a lateafternoon game Thursday, before taking on Fresno State later that night.

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e have a stacked lineup, people that can come in at any moment. So anyone that’s out there they need to keep their eye on” — Nicole Angene, senior

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Mackenzie Oakes is 5-2 this season, but took her only two losses in Fresno State’s most recent two games at the Campbell/Cartier Classic.

“I don’t think there’s any stadium better than this one that we play in.”

Stiglich ag reed with her teammate, stating the return home to host the Classic produces a relaxing and encouraging environment.

“It’s kind of both,” Stiglich said. “We do want to perform very well in front of our home fans cause they are great fans, but it’s also very relaxing cause we’re on our home field so we know the ins-and-outs of everything.”

The Bulldogs are expecting to be challenged in every matchup this weekend

will play six times, taking on Idaho State back-to-back nights and playing doubleheaders on Friday and Saturday before wrapping up with California on Sunday.

With Thursday’s game, the Bulldogs will again have a chance to reach a historic milestone, this time doing it in front of dozens of their hometown supporters as they play for the softball program’s 1,500th win.

Hamler, Dunn run well at pro day Former Fresno State wide receiver Jamel Hamler, an early declare for the 2011 NFL Draft, impressed at the Bulldogs’ annual pro day.

Hamler ran a 4.54 40-yard dash on grass with 24 professional team scouts in attendance, according to the National Football Post. KMJ Radio reported that former cornerback Desia Dunn ran in the 4.4-second range.

Hamler was the lone Bulldog to leave school prior to his senior season in hopes of making an NFL roster. The San Leandro, Calif., native hauled in 54 catches for 812 yards and six touchdowns, all team-high numbers at wide receiver.

Dunn, a former walk on, had two interceptions and 65 tackles in 2010.

The 2011 NFL Draft will take place April 28-30.

Sunker, men’s golf enjoy solid finish at Lexus Invitational In the annual Lexus Invitational’s 16-team field, the Fresno State men’s golf team finished sixth after a comeback Tuesday round.

Bhavik Patel was Fresno State’s top finisher tying for 10th place, while Brian Sunker carded a 66 in the tournament’s final round.

Ross named to All-WAC team Jaleesa Ross, who recently became Fresno State’s leading basketball scorer (men’s or women’s), was the Bulldogs’ lone first-team All-Western Athletic Conference performer this season.

Ross leads the team in scoring (16.3 per game) and assists (4 per game).

Rosie Moult was named second-team All-WAC, while Taylor Thompson garnered All-WAC freshman team honors.

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Bulldogs return home After a month of playing away from Fresno, the ‘Dogs come home to host the Classic

By Brandy Flores The Collegian

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Junior Michelle Moses got off to a hot start in 2011, but cooled off a bit in Fresno State’s three consecutive losses to Houston, Long Beach State and Baylor. Moses was just 3-for-10 at the plate with no RBI.

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After spending close to a month on the road, the Fresno State softball team has returned home to host the Bayer CropScience Classic this weekend.

The Bulldogs will be gin the Classic Thursday night against Idaho State and will take on Bradley, Drake University, Troy and No. 11 California during the four-day competition “I think this weekend we can definitely make up for last weekend,” catcher Caitlin Stiglich said. “We’ll get everything sorted out [from last weekend], and then playing in

front of a home crowd, all of that stuff kind of goes away.

It should be a great tournament.”

T he Bulldo gs have only two short days of practice to prepare for their latest opponents after returning from the Campbell/Cartier Classic in San Diego last weekend.

Earning victories against BYU and San Diego State, Fresno State was unable to keep their winning momentum dropping the remaining three games against No. 25/23 Houston, Long Beach State and Baylor. The losses dropped their season record from 6-1 to 8-4.

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