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A bleak economy for grads

By Danielle Gilbert The Collegian Rumors of Wall Street collapsing, financial institutions filing for bankruptcy, oil prices skyrocketing, inflation and interest rates taking five steps forward, the housing market taking 10 steps back and historically high levels of unemployment — sound eerily familiar?

Well, it should. Or so said Jim Richardson, as he depicted the United States recession of 1982, “It was the second worst

economic downturn since the Great Depression.”

He is not a macroeconomist by any means. However, in 1982, Richardson was a fearful Fresno State student nearing graduation in the peak of a nasty job m a rke t . T h e economy made it difficult to find work, and Richardson felt intimidated.

Twenty-eight y e a r s l a t e r, Ashik Ahmed, Richardson 2010 graduate.

revisited the campus, however, this time he headlined an event on how to go big and live your passion at work.

“I tend to be a pretty fearful person,” Richardson said. “I tend to look for security first and fulfillment second.” In 1983, one year after graduation, Richardson got licensed to push the one thing that he believed he lacked: Security.

Richardson worked strictly for commission for more than 20 years as a life insurance salesman until he realized his definition of success—“living

the life you were meant to live.”

After grasping his own theory of success, and coming across a New York Magazine article titled “Bored? It Could Kill You,” he quit.

“I didn’t need to be in the insurance business anymore,” Richardson said. “We are most secure when we are living our dreams and passions and not when we are working on demand.”

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Library archives war heroes’ stories

By Joe Bailey The Collegian Eighty firsthand chronicles and real-life narratives of this country’s military veterans were compiled by the Central California Veterans Oral History Project and will be permanently stored in the Henry Madden Library.

Beginning in the spring 2010 semester, the project has accumulated personal accounts of military life from veterans across the Valley. Mass communication and journalism professors Gary Rice and Alice Daniels counted on the skills of 45 Fresno State students to converse with the various servicemen.

Approximately 100 veterans and their student interviewers attended the event commemorating the induction of the audio and hard copies of the discussions along with any special documents, such as See VETERANS, Page 3

Graduation can be bittersweet

By Danielle Stephens The Collegian When Ryan Collet applied for graduation in February, he thought the anticipation of putting on his cap and gown would begin to escalate.

“Right after spring break it was like a downhill spiral of homework, projects and tests,” Collet said, “I felt so overwhelmed with school work it took the excitement away for a little while.”

The 23-year-old soon to be graduate has attended Fresno State since 2005.

“We all wait for the day of graduation to come because it is a huge accomplishment, but my mind has been on other things like the crunch time of school work,” Collet said.

Fresno State requires a minimum of 120 units to graduate, meaning a college degree can be completed in four years if the students take 15 to 16 units a semester. That’s if students plan accordingly and don’t switch their majors. But, all too often that doesn’t go as planned.

Kristin Byers, a business major, said she originally planned on graduating within four years, but with it being her fifth year now, she said the graduation ceremony doesn’t mean as much to her anymore.

“The actual graduation ceremony is not important to me, but it is to my family,” Byers said, who is set to graduate next spring.

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The wartime experiences of almost 100 veterans were officially inducted into the Henry Madden Library Tuesday.

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University lacks LGBT resources

By Thaddeus Miller The Collegian Though homosexuality is nothing new, its visibility is.

Officials agree that the lack of visibility of the homosexual community, among other things, translates to the lack of services for homosexual university students.

As United Student Pride (USP) president, David Reitz heads a Fresno State club for people of all sexual orientations.

The abbreviation that encompasses all sexual orien-

tations other than heterosexuality can be tricky, because some people prefer labels like “queer,” “questioning” or “intersex.” The most encompassing is probably LGBT+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender plus); the “+” refers to every label not covered in the four letters before it.

As a first-generation college student, Reitz was not familiar with the inner-workings of a university, nor did he fit into one of the groups

that receive special attention from University Outreach Services. “[When navigating college] I always tried to lear n for myself, learn from teachers, different people and organizations,” Reitz said.

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He said Fresno’s historically conservative views can make it difficult on the LGBT+ community.

It is common, according to Reitz, for members of the LGBT+ community to be suppor ting themselves while attending college, so generating community outreach through USP has proven difficult.

LGBT+ clubs are not common to all high school campuses in the Fresno area, but some exist. Reitz said USP has

A Fresno State physics professor garnered a two-year, $620,000 grant for his work in atom smashing.

Collision testing began in March at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, where physicists a re-creating the Big Bang Theory.

Last year, five students from the California State University (CSU) system worked from the site, which sits in a tunnel 570 feet underground.

Professor Yongsheng Gao’s g r a n t f ro m t h e N at i o n a l Science Foundation’s Elementary Particle Program will be used to build the Computational Science Center (CSC) on campus, pending approval from the Provost’s

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On Wednesday October 21, 2009, approximately 400 students participated in a walkout. Several students and educators used a bullhorn to share how budget cuts, furloughs and course reductions had affected them. Tuition at Fresno State shot up by 32 percent this scholastic year over last. After the walkout wound down, almost 100 students staged a sit-in just outside of the elevators in the Haak Center on the fourth floor of the library.

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Pop/country singer Taylor Swift made her way to the Save Mart Center on April 10. The 20-year-old chart-topping musician performed in front of a sold out crowd.

Fresno State: Year in Photos (Left) Students protested the sell of racially insensitive costumes last Halloween on the corner of Chestnut and Shaw. This was one of several demonstrations that took place on or near Fresno State’s campus since October 21. (Right) Several members from Fresno State fraternities and sororities collected money at three different intersections in February to help in relief efforts for an earthquakeravaged Haiti.

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Alberto Torrico, state assembly majority leader, made his second visit to Fresno State on April 15, 2010. He pushed Assembly Bill 656, a bill which he authored.

The bill would tax oil companies that extract oil and natural gas from California.

The 21-member Fresno State dance team took the field this season after a hiatus to support the Bulldog Football team and basketball team.

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The Bulldog defense stopped Boise State running back Jeremy Avery from scoring a touchdown in a momentum changing play on Sept. 18 in Bulldog Stadium. The team finished the season with an 8-4 record.

In response to the walkout, President John Welty agreed to meet in the Peace Garden with student protestors, on November 3, 2010.

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VETERANS: Library now LGBT: University lacks resource holds nearly 100 interviews CONTINUED from page 1

CONTINUED from page 1 pictures or discharge papers, the veterans wanted to be held permanently in the library. “It’s been one of the most exhausting projects I have taken on in my life,� Rice said. “But it is also one of the most rewarding. There were some [stories] that made you want to cry, some made you want to laugh and there were some that made your spine tingle.�

Rice’s exhaustion may continue in the future as he hopes the project will gather even more true-life experiences of those men and women who have lived through America’s various wars. Rice said he is hoping that funding from the provost office will keep the project afloat. “Our goal is that this project will continue forever,� Rice said. “I would like to have one of the nation’s largest collections. With four million veterans in California there are plenty of people who haven’t told their stories.�

Rice said a touching situation occurred this semester that personified just how fragile these valuable stories truly are. “A student was doing the interview with an older World War II veteran and his son was there too,� Rice said. “He did the interview and the son had never heard these stories either. Three days later the veteran died.�

Considering many veterans are aging, collecting their personal tales is a race against time. Rice said the oral histories can be used by anyone who wants to take a trip back in time. “If you wanted, you can go to the

library and sit down and you’ll be reading the direct, exact words of the people that took part in history, the people who actually did it,� Rice said.

Josh Shurley, a veteran himself, took part in interviewing those who shared similar experiences. “It’s kind of frustrating people don’t always understand what the experience was like,� Shurley said. “I just wanted to help people who were interested have a better understanding from the veterans themselves.�

Shurley felt that people sometimes get a skewed view when military stories are portrayed in the media.

Shurley interviewed Jim Wulf, a Vietnam War veteran. Wulf said he was comfortable talking about his experiences with war. “It is my responsibility to pass down information to people like you,� Wulf said. “You can read books, but when you talk to somebody like myself who really has nothing to hide, maybe it will make a difference to somebody else’s opinion.�

Wulf said that telling his story is an important part of history, but to truly experience what he has one must actually go through it. “You can tell somebody all you want to about war, but until you have been in it you really can’t understand,�

Wulf said.

Wulf also felt that these interviews of veterans have their time and place. “Timing is everything,� Wulf said. “Maybe the reason we are doing it now is because it is supposed to be done.�

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a fleeting connection with a club from Fresno High School, but no others.

A 1989 study by the U.S. Department of Health found that gay and lesbian youths are two-to-three times more likely to attempt suicide than heterosexuals of the same age. Suicide was also found to be the leading cause of death among gay and lesbian youth.

The Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Resource Center, also known as the Center for Women and Culture, currently has some services for LGBT+ students. Reitz said a centralized resource office specifically designed for LGBT+ students at Fresno State would be a great asset.

Unlike Fresno State, some colleges in the California State University system have programs that cater to LGBT+ students. California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, along with others, have some equivalent to an LGBT+ resource center.

The staffing for these programs tends to be small, no more than two.

Grosser, Cal Poly Pomonaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pride Center Coordinator, said her one-person office restricts the amount of outreach and retention services she can provide for LGBT+ students.

Grosser said LGBT+ affairs are young, and the community lacks visibility. She said LGBT+ students often are not ready to reveal their sexual orientation for fear of discrimination or stigmatization. So, there is presently not a good way to count the population. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Not everybody uses the same [labels], if we even asked it,â&#x20AC;? Grosser said.

Grosser said the 2010 Census didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ask for sexual orientation, and neither do college campuses. However, she said the number was not important. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Do we need a number to know that we need services?â&#x20AC;? Grosser said.

The Williams Institute, a sexual orientation law and public-policy organization, estimated that in 2005 there were 8.8 million gay, lesbian and bisexual people living in the United States.

If that number holds true for Fresno State, than that would put the number of LGBT+ students at just under 3 percent. In comparison, African-American students make up 5.3 percent of the universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s population.

Fresno State has programs that partner with University Outreach Services in order to aid students, usually firstgeneration college students, during their transition from high school to college.

For example, University Migrant Services connects with the children of migrant farmworkers, the Southeast Asian Educational Conference provides that service for the Central Valleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Asian population and so on.

However, there is no program at Fresno State that reaches out specifically to LGBT+ students.

Frances Pena-Olgin, the director of University Outreach Services, said outreach programs that tailor to spe-

cific groups are sponsored by student organizations. The Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan (MEChA), for instance, sponsors the Chicano Youth Conference.

Pena-Olgin said University Outreach Services takes part in college fairs and high school outreach without aiming its services to any specific group, other than the educational conferences. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We provide a service to all students,â&#x20AC;?

Pena-Olgin said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In that process, the assumption is we are reaching every student.â&#x20AC;?

The goal, Pena-Olgin added, is to provide the same level of service to all students in order to reach the most possible.

Pena-Olgin said interested high school and junior college students are asked to fill out an interest card with personal infor mation including an optional ethnicity designation.

However, it does not ask for sexual preference, so identifying LGBT+ students is not an easy task.

Maxine McDonald, assistant vice president of student success services, is charged with retention across campus. She said her office does not differentiate between students based on any criteria other than the Educational Opportunity Program (EOP), which deals with low-income, first-generation students.

McDonald said EOP is designed to serve a broad spectrum of students who need assistance. She also said the Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Resource Center provides most of the support for LGBT+ students.

Jenny Whyte, the coordinator of the Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Resource Center, said Fresno State does not have a separate position for outreach to the LGBT+ community. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think it would be terrific,â&#x20AC;? Whyte said.

Whyte said that the LGBT+ community has a presence on campus, but without knowing the number of students it would likely be problematic to get the university to fund any special programs.

T he Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Resource Center together with the Central Valley Cultural Heritage Institute held training in April to revive the LGBT+ Allies Network. Whyte said it existed on campus about five years ago, but it needed a renewed commitment.

Leslie Weiser, a licensed psychologist in the Student Health Center, provides a support group for LGBT+ students.

Weiser said she has difficulty filling all the seats during the weekly meeting. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s difficult to get any students to come to any group,â&#x20AC;? Weiser said.

The intention, Weiser said, is to create a safe space where students can talk and feel a sense of community.

Weiser said it is important for minority students to be able to feel supported, and to be with like-minded people.

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On auditing the Federal Reserve f we cannot take away the Fed’s ability to waste trillions of taxpayer dollars on failing companies and failing countries, at the very least, we can take away their ability to do this with no transparency or accountability to the American people.”

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Editorial: Transparency Letters to worries hamper university the Editor T

he 2009-10 scholastic year has been defined by budget cuts, protests, furloughs and rallies.

And now with the semester drawing to a close, it’s imperative that the act of transparency not be lost as we move toward the summer months.

Embroiled in a multi-billion dollar deficit handed down from the state, the California State University, University of California and California State Community Colleges have been under increased scrutiny following a litany of executive pay raises and alleged misappropriated funds.

The solution most often suggested is to pour billions of federal dollars into higher education, but it’s more important that we look beyond financial reform. If we want to rebuild Fresno State it begins with demanding greater transparency.

Earlier this month, several CSU campuses began posting information about contracts with vendors, external audits and financial statements in an attempt at increased transparency.

The push for greater oversight and transparency, however, has been slow and erratic. Some pockets of information at the university level still do not

appear to have made any concrete changes.

For instance, in the wake of massive budget cuts, universities like CSU Stanislaus have failed to disclose information involving expenditures. Last month, the university’s foundation signed a contract to bring Alaska exgovernor and former GOP vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, but did not open its financial records to the public. The university has also been accused of shredding documents that revealed the amount the university paid for her speaking engagement.

But this instance is emblematic of a larger problem within the structure of the California’s higher education system.

According to Californiawatch.org, a 2009 executive order from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger required state contracts of more than $5,000 to be posted online, but most CSU sites appear to list only contracts of more than $50,000, the website charges.

At Fresno State, a member of its foundation received a no-bid contract connected with building the Campus Pointe project—the member held a financial stake in the project.

California’s public universities control more than $1 billion in several nonprofit foundations. The public, however, has limited access to information about how that money is spent.

However, transparency comes in varying degrees and means many things to different agencies.

Transparency, in essence, is a misnomer.

Still, at the center of the situation is the balance between preserving the universities image and the serving public’s right to know. The best approach is to protect legitimate needs of the university while rejecting those that are made in the name of public relations. Although universities are responsible for answering to accrediting agencies, for higher education departments as well as state and federal agencies, protecting students’ right to know is most important.

Rather than treating transparency as just another buzzword, students need to take action. It is not enough that lawmakers and lobbyists demand that all records be made open and done under the light of day. But students must become proactive as well.

Miranda is unconstitutional O

n May 1, Faisal Shahzad, a Pakistani-born American citizen, attempted to kill other, presumably American born, citizens with a homemade bomb in Times Square that, thankfully, failed to detonate. The scare’s aftermath brought up the issue of Miranda rights, and whether a man like Shahzad should have them read to him.

Most have agreed that since Shahzad is an American citizen, authorities have no choice but to read them to him. Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) disagrees.

“If you’re affiliated with such an organization that’s been designated by the U.S. State Department [as a terrorist organization],” Lieberman says, “then you’re in jeopardy of losing your citizenship. And if for some reason they take that group off of their foreign terrorist organization list, then all that changes.”

Pardon me for not having that much faith in the federal government.

Regardless, the issue of Miranda rights, and who should get them, is once again being debated in America.

But from whence do these rights come?

They certainly don’t come from the United States Constitution. In a through reading of the Constitution, one would find the right to remain

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The Right Tone Tony Petersen silent (the Fifth Amendment) and the right to an attorney (the Sixth Amendment). Missing from this document is a mandate of the knowledge of this information.

Nay, the Miranda warnings that we’re all so accustomed to, thanks to being inundated with cop shows all our lives, come from the 1966 Supreme Court decision Miranda v. Arizona.

In this case, 23-year-old Ernesto Miranda was accused of raping and kidnapping a young girl, and was arrested by police. After two hours of relatively mild questioning, Miranda admitted to the crimes with a written admission of guilt, which was then used as evidence. Naturally, he was found guilty of these crimes.

Sounds like an open-and-shut case. The man admitted to the crime.

Apparently, this was not so.

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The case made it all the way to the Supreme Court, where the court, in a 5-4 decision, decided that the person in question must be advised of his rights using the all too familiar four-fold refrain that we hear so often today: You have the right to remain silent; anything you say can and will be used against you; you have the right to an attorney; if you cannot afford one, one will be provided for you.

This is judicial activism at its worst.

The judges in Miranda did not interpret the Constitution so much as they ripped it up and stomped on it.

Yes, we have all of these rights. Our federal government is not allowed to usurp them. But if you don’t know them, then the fault lies with you. It is your duty to know them, not the duty of the feds to explain them to you.

Why should law and order suffer the consequences of our own criminals’ stupidity?

Which brings us back to the case of Shahzad. No, he should not be read his Miranda rights—but then again, neither should any criminal. If he chooses not to talk, then he chooses not to talk. If he asks for an attorney, then he gets an attorney. But he need not be told that he can do this. That is for him to figure out.

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To the editor: [This letter is in response to the column “Are fetuses human beings?” by Oscar Perez.]

Though you have some palatable points, let’s not forget it takes a man a few joyous minutes to decide to dispose his seed while it takes a woman a trying three months to decide on the life in her womb in this argument, so men shouldn’t make hasty decisions. In a patriarchal structure that has subjected women from Native Americans in conquest days to African-American women in slavery to prostitution and brothels today, vis a vis Lawrence Taylor and the underage woman, to sexual acts favorable to patriarchal adherents. Women haven’t had a discursive space to fully deconstruct the objectification of their bodies as presumptuous property that belong to their husbands, boyfriends, pimps, constituencies or countries. Not every woman is endowed with the divine foresight that Mary received about the immaculately conceived baby she would bear. If Judas’ mother had the same chance of divine foresight, history might be singing a different song. Yet, since we are speaking in abstract ideal notions, the only pragmatic thing autonomous individuals living in a complex environment can do is choose to bear the consequences of their choices. Unregrettably, women have given birth to geniuses we adore and ignoramuses we lampoon. We can’t start moral policing of the life of a child if we as a society don’t reevaluate how we think and treat the woman that carried and helped rear the child in light of our assumptions about women and their role in society.

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Fresno is the stingiest city, not the drunkest

By Ashley Tomas

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emember that “Drunkest City” article? Many people out there pitched-in to poke fun at our city. To set the record straight, Sgt. Eric Hodge from the Fresno Police Department said, “[In 2009], there were 457 reported DUI crashes, of which 79 had an injury. The FPD made 3,268 DUI arrests.”

But let’s take a second look at those statistics. There are discrepancies that the Fresno State Alcohol Safety Council Student Subcommittee would like to point out that the Men’s Health magazine, USA Today and even The Collegian overlooked: 1. Size matters. It’s hard to accurately compare a moderately sized city like Fresno to a metropolis like Los Angeles or New York City.

Fresno is spread out, and most people commute to get to school or work. For places like New York City, it’s easier to walk or take the subway to go somewhere. So, naturally, Fresno has more DUI checkpoints because most of the bars and clubs here are not within walking distance.

2. How many DUI checkpoints do we have? Hodge stated, “We gen-

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erally have one, sometimes two, DUI operations each weekend night and have motorcycles assigned to work nights. [They] spend a lot of time looking for drunk drivers.”

That’s more than what Las Vegas has done. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department admitted to only doing monthly DUI checkpoints in 2009. Seems odd that Fresno is better at checking drunk driving than Sin City itself. You would think that Vegas would be extremely cautious since most tourists there are ready to throw away all their inhibitions. You would think.

3. Funding. Fresno takes drunk driving seriously, and it is evident in how much is contributed to keep drunk drivers off the streets. Said Hodge, “[FPD’s] traffic unit is pretty large for the population of the city and they aggressively target DUI’s

eems odd that Fresno is better at checking drunk driving than Sin City itself.”

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Web-Spe@k Culled each week from discussions on The Collegian Online.

Response:

Are fetuses human beings? bunyan 10: “Bicker about terminology and technicals all you want, there’s no getting away from the phrase ‘extermination of the unborn.’ DO think about it deeply.” anonymous: “Your point is essentially that life begins at conception and that the unborn fetus is alive and therefore abortion is murder. Unfortunately it’s just not that simple.

more than most agencies.” Much of the funding comes from the Office of Traffic Safety grants, which supplies the monetary support for DUI checkpoints.

So why do these things matter?

“The basis for [the ‘Men’s Health’] article has a lot to do with the aggressive stance that the FPD takes toward DUIs,” Hodge said. They do a lot to make sure everyone is being responsible when getting into the driver’s seat.

“We look like we have a lot of drunk drivers because we are better at finding them,” Hodge stated.

Hmm, thanks for the clarification, Sgt. Hodge. Still think the “drunkest city” label is a joke? It’s a joke all right.

Be thankful we have the resources to keep our streets safe.

Ashley Tomas is a senior at Fresno State. She is graduating this May with a degree in Psychology and is currently the Chair for the Alcohol Safety Council Student Subcommittee.

Your list of ‘four main points that connect to the abortion debate ... size, level of development, environment and degree of dependency’ is a straw man. You completely ignore the real argument in favor of women’s freedom to choose abortion centers around the unequal role of women in society. Women who have had pregnancy forced on them are not equal to men as a class. No man ever has to carry a baby in his body and give birth.

No one argues that abortion is to be taken lightly, but the real question is not simply whether the fetus is ‘alive,’ the real question is about the consequences of bringing unwanted children into the world, and the fact that only women are in this position.

Since there is no real equality when it comes to childbirth, your assertion that men and women have the same rights in our society is irrelevant. Men don’t have to really consider the consequences and really cannot fully appreciate what it would be like to be forced to have an unwanted child.”

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Whose country is this? joshua4234: “I agree that they shouldn’t have stopped the kids from wearing any flag T-shirt on whatever day they want, but please PLEASE don’t call these kids patriots or praise them. They are just punk kids looking to make a point and looking for attention and trying to get on the nerves of the other kids (which they can do if they want). How naive do you have to be to think a group of kids are just innocently deciding to dress with giant flags all over them on the same day, which happens to be Cinco de Mayo, just because they love America so much?”

Rich: “I concur. Each group should wear ‘colors’ as they choose. To be tolerant can also apply to those who wear the Mexican colors. Are they not intolerant for rejecting the American Flag? They claim it is ‘their day,‘ yet but for those who fought and died for the American flag they would not have the right to free speech. The objections to the American flag on any day are ludicrous and unacceptable.”

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Bye-bye, Jamarcus Gradkowski is God: “Mike, perhaps you would do well to understand that, unfortunately, once one commits to a team then that person should commit to them for the rest of his or her life.

You think we enjoy seeing our team be the laughing stock of the NFL for the last six seasons? You think we enjoy seeing some senile old trout try to run a football team? But I’ve stuck with the Raiders since ‘83, and like all the other long suffering fans have always supported them with pride—and would continue to do so, come what may. It would be easy to cut and run, to go support another team and give in to the sorts of biased ramblings that the likes of you enjoy posting.

Perhaps you should give us some credit, instead of making the same old tiresome remarks about Raider fans I read in countless other blogs.”

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By Joel Perez The Collegian Those of you who say, “There are plenty of fish in the sea” have never been a gay fish. Gay fish are rare, they are colorful and come in all shapes and sizes and, well, struggle to find someone to share their life with.

I consider myself a gay fish. I have come to terms with my sexuality. But just as many gay men, years that I kept my sexuality a secret have affected my ability to find a boyfriend. This is a major reason why many gay men resort to searching for their other half online.

I was 18 years old when I started exploring my sexuality through searching for—gay people.

It’s very common for young men and boys to explore their sexuality through chat rooms and Craigslist. These sites make it easy for those who want to keep their identity a secret, but want to meet people like themselves.

As I embarked on this journey to experience online dating I turned to Google—my number one search engine and Googled “gay online dating.”

Match.com was the top hit and one of the most popular online dating services. The process of creating a profile is very lengthy and thorough.

After creating an account I found that no one my age was actually using the dating service. Where are all the young gay people? I don’t see them walking on the street. And I can’t find them on a website meant to help members find other gay men.

Professor Tamyra Pierce, who has researched

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here are all the young gay people?

I don’t see them walking on the street. And I can’t find them on a website meant to help members find other gay men.”

social networks for more than five years said, “The younger crowd are not using the dating services like Match.com. That is usually reserved for the older folk. The younger generations are meeting people through the social networking sites.”

Facebook has always had ads that I dismissed, but as I continued my search for a future boyfriend.

I noticed that many ads on my home page are for online dating.

Zoosk is a free dating service that helps users browse through other gay members in hopes of finding love. However, like Match.com there is not that much going on: plenty of pictures and profiles, but no interaction between members.

I sat in front of the computer wondering, what am I doing wrong? Why couldn’t I find the “one” online?

So many people, gay and straight, find success stories and I can’t even find a date.

So, I went back to the drawing board. I visited the website that started it all—Craigslist. I posted an ad for a “strictly platonic” workout partner. He became my boyfriend. The relationship didn’t last long. But it was as true as any other relationship.

I received many replies to that ad. It seemed that the guys who did respond were only looking for sex. However, that was not what I was looking for.

Although, I did have one good reply, a Fresno State student said I might have better luck finding a date on a website called Adam4Adam.com also known as A4A. This was what I was looking for. After creating a profile and adding some pictures I received messages almost instantly. Messages from guys who actually wanted to chat, not only have sex.

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his was what I was looking for.

After creating a profile and adding some pictures I received messages almost instantly. Messages from guys who actually wanted to chat, not only have sex.”

While the site’s ads are very explicit, many of the members post revealing pictures in their profile. It was a good way to meet guys despite some criticism from members of the gay community.

Martin, a 38-year-old gay male and father of two from Fresno said, “Everyone has this thing that you are not going to meet anyone at the club or online, but my thing is, where are you going to meet them See GAY, Page 12

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Creating the A4A profile is very simple, you fill out your stats, such as height, weight, ethnicity and then write an “about me” section under 140 characters and you are done.

Fresno, one of the most conservative cities in California, has an average of 240 people on A4A on any given night. Some guys are looking for a hookup while others are looking for “the one.” But overall, A4A is one of the most popular websites for gay men to meet other gay men.

Men have finally found a place where they can meet others like themselves and explore their sexuality. From talking to many of the members from the site, I found out that many of them are not 100 percent “out” or not “out” at all.

Older members explained that when they were young they explored their curiosity about their sexuality by using AOL chat rooms, and that A4A has made it a little easier meeting guys in their hometowns.

Under aged members should not be using the site, due to its graphic nature, but lie in order to have a profile because they have nowhere else to go.

A gay Fresno State senior who does not want to be identified said he joined gay social networks because “it is not easy being gay, especially not in our society, even here in Fresno. This is a way to safely meet other people.”

Online networks such as these have helped show gay young men that they’re not alone.

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t is not easy being gay, especially not in our society, even here in Fresno.”

—Fresno State senior

Many have taken notice of the way the gay community uses online networks and have taken advantage of this. Grindr has created a gay social network for the iPhone and Blackberry cell phones that helps the gay community in their search for whatever they are looking for.

The Grindr app allows members to view profiles of other members nearest to their location using GPS locating services.

The world is a big sea and it is hard for a gay fish to find their other half, but online and cell phone social networks are making it easier for gay fish to continue their search.

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ARTIST OF THE WEEK: The National, “High Violet” (CD) Loving the National’s music has often meant reveling in the twinge of pain that comes when someone else manages to perfectly pin down and dissect a little piece of your psyche. As Felix Mendelssohn said, “The thoughts that are expressed to me by music that I love are not too indefinite to be put into words, but on the contrary, too definite.” In addition to its gorgeously arranged and performed songs of surprising tensile strength and grace, “High Violet” rests its finger on some uncomfortably relevant truths about life.

LISTEN: “Welder,” Elizabeth Cook A master of classic-country idioms, Cook is the kind of country singer that folks don’t know quite what to do. On one hand, she’s a pretty blonde with a sunny, twangy voice and a knack for writing hyper-catchy songs, so she would appear to be a lock for the Nashville big time, alongside starlets like Miranda Lambert and Jewel. On the other, Cook carries an uncompromising ornery streak. Here, along with her musicianship, you get her bite, her humor, and her knack for an awfully sweet love song.

WATCH: Life 2.0 (Film) As “Life 2.0” reveals layers of life and experience, you realize that they are not confined to Second Life. Jason Spingarn-Koff’s subjects describe their experiences, in both Second Life and what they call First Life, that is, Real Life. How ‘real’ is SL? “Things are real because they’re there with us and we believe in them,” says Philip Rosedale. “If they’re simulated on a digital computer

versus sort of simulated by atoms and molecules, it doesn’t make any difference.” Those interviewed in “Life 2.0” in both their SL and FL forms, offer their own views of the realities they make and the two types of ‘life’ they live.

READ: “The Singer’s Gun,” by Emily St. John Mandel Mandel has created a novel that is part suspense, part love story, and with a good bit of political thinking in the mix. A Canadian native living in Brooklyn, she writes with the perspective only a non-American can possess of both New York City, which she clearly loves, and the tremendous efforts people will exert to get there.

Such as paying cash to ride across the world in airless shipping containers, where, once ashore, they must meet a dubious character who will forge their passports. Mandel is a terrific writer who mixes an acute eye with humor and pathos.

PLAY: 3D Dot Game Heroes (PlayStation 3) This game nails a sense of uncertainty, making for an “open world” experience that is in some ways even more pure than that of, say, “Grand Theft Auto” or “Red Faction: Guerrilla.” The dialogue trees are one of many aspects of “3D Dot Game Heroes” designed explicitly and unapologetically for players who have been there, who grew up with the games that it is paying homage to because make no mistake, this is an homage, and not a parody. If you ever enjoyed a “Zelda” game before “Ocarina of Time,” there’s no reason for you to avoid this. At worst, it will feel like a mere imitation of a time gone by. At best, it’s throwback gaming bliss.

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BLEAK: Graduates hard pressed for jobs CONTINUED from page 1 director of Career Services said students are fearful when it comes to making life decisions.

“There are more applications to graduate programs than ever, it’s becoming a trend,” Bocchinfuso-Cohen said.

According to a study conducted by the National Association for Colleges and Employers (NACE) titled “Moving On: S t u d e n t Ap p ro a ch e s a n d Attitudes Toward the Job Market for the College Class of 2009,” 26 percent of graduating seniors are intent on going to graduate school compared to the 24 percent from 2008.

Richardson explains that the solution lies in the four spheres of influence: incompetence, competence, excellence and genius.

Art major Rudy Castillo’s passions are riding shotgun despite the “ridiculous job market.” Castillo made the decision to move back to Woodlake, Calif. with his parents until graduation.

“The past couple of years

have been tough,” Castillo said. “I’ve applied to Target, Best Buy, Hor n Photo and Game Stop. I’ve tried freelance photography for newspapers and magazines and so far everything has fallen through.”

According to NACE, 64 percent of seniors expressed worry about getting a job after graduation and 41 percent expected to rely on parents’ financial assistance after graduating from college.

Mass communication and jour nalism major Markus Cano, 22, said he defines success as setting and accomplishing goals.

“Right now I am a successful student, and I lack professional success,” Cano said.

Cano said he has held internship positions that did not transform into jobs.

The unknown, Cano said, is what scares him the most.

And although career search engines brought a whole lot of nothing to Cano’s table, it has yet to deter him from pursuing

a position at a public relations firm, despite current unemployment numbers.

“My parents are supporting me through school but following graduation I will be completely cut off,” Cano said.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that educational and health services were the only departments in 2009 to gain 700 jobs.

“Our education system does not create self-actualized people, our education system produces workers,” Richardson said.

Business administration major Ashik Ahmed, 24, traveled from Bangladesh to New York to Fresno to pursue his dreams. However, after getting laid off from his internship, the only thing keeping Ahmed afloat is his savings account.

However, his savings isn’t the only thing that is rapidly depleting. According to NACE, corporations expected to hire nearly 22 percent fewer graduates than in the previous year, the first decline in five years.

A year ago, Ahmed was doing quite well, but his life has since turned upside down.

“I thought a year-long internship would turn out as a job, but it didn’t. I thought I had my career and everything set,” Ahmed said. “It’s been seven months and I haven’t found anything since then.”

However, the opposite is true for graduates in the engineering program. According to NACE, engineering majors dominated the list of top-paid majors for 2009-2010, filling eight of the top 10 slots.

The price of college tuition has increased by 30 percent since May to nearly $5,000 for full-time undergraduate students.

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The Large Hadron Collider, in Geneva, is at the forefront of science, especially physics and computer science. Four Fresno State students and three students from other CSUs will join the more than 8,000 scientists on site with CERN.

ATOM: Computational Science Center, to be built on campus, pending the provost’s approval CONTINUED from page 1 office. Gao said the proposal sent to the Provost’s office would include about 100 computers that run a Linux system and a professional Linux administrator.

Gao said the CSC would be used to process the information that comes from the collision testing. The LHC will produce roughly 15 petabytes, or 15 million gigabytes of information annually, according to the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).

“So, we have to reduce this amount by millions of times without losing new physics,” Gao said.

The amount of information is so great CERN distributes it among 2,000 physicists across the world.

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advance computing, which is where the CSC comes in.

Founded in 1954, CERN has been attributed for the birth of the World Wide Web, because physicists had to come up with a way to transfer a large amount of information quickly.

“For the past 50 years or so, CERN is leading the effort of great computing,” Gao said.

ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC Apparatus), the name for the experiment, ranks the universities involved with a tier system. Gao said of the nine universities involved that receive funding from the National Science Foundation, Fresno State is the only one without a Linux program. “ We a r e s t a r t i n g f r o m scratch,” Gao said. “So, we need to catch up.”

This year, seven CSU students are planning to work over the summer in Geneva, where they will join 8,000 scientists from around the globe.

Provost William Covino, vice president for academic affairs, said he will be reviewing the proposal for the CSC later this month.

“The Computational Science Center is a very promising concept,” Covino said.

Professor Gao, Covino said, has been very successful in securing external funding, and he is one of the university’s most accomplished new faculty members, especially for his success achieving international distinction in physics.

“Professor Gao’s association with CERN has given Fresno State greater visibility as a significant contributor to scientific research, and increased our opportunities to compete for substantial grant funding in the future,” Covino said.

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Shaving heads in solidarity Participants hope to raise $50,000 for the Children’s Oncology Group research studies

By Tara Albert The Collegian Kevin Perreira was nervous the first time he shaved his head, but he liked it so much that he has convinced three of his friends to shave their heads too.

Perreira shaved his head at last year’s St. Baldrick’s Head Shaving Event, which is an annual fundraiser for the St. Baldrick’s Foundation. The nonprofit organization funds institutions that participate in Children’s Oncology Group research studies, such as the oncolo g y de par tment and Children’s Hospital Central California.

“Participants raise money from their friends, co-work-

ers and family members in return for their willingness to have their heads shaved at the event,” said Malynda G o n z a l e s , t h e vo l u n t e e r event coordinator for the St. Baldrick’s event. “The shaving is an act of solidarity for children who lose their hair during cancer treatment, and the funds raised support childhood cancer research.”

Perreira, 13, is a student at Alta Sierra Intermediate School in Clovis. He said he was not sure what to expect when he attended the St. Baldrick’s event.

“At first I was really nervous, because I didn’t know what was going to happen,” he said.

But once he was at the event,

Perreira realized shaving his head was worthwhile.

“You’re just like, ‘I’m so happy that this kid is happy right now,’” he said.

Perreira said his sister’s friend, Alex Rodriguez, died a few years ago from Leukemia.

He said she was an inspiration for him at the St. Baldrick’s event.

“I thought of her, because my sister and her were very good friends,” he said.

So far, Perreira has raised $900. He and his friends expect to raise $2,500 for the event.

Gonzales, a nurse practitioner in the oncology department of Children’s Hospital Central California, said this is the second year that there has been a St. Baldrick’s event

Student Q&A with

By Sarah Kain The Collegian

I got an e-mail telling me that I was accepted to the program.

Now is the time of year that some of our fellow classmates are leaving the dog house and embarking on their journey as mature Bulldogs ready to take a bite out of the job market.

Business marketing major Kristi Gies, 26, happens to be one of those Bulldogs who is graduating and receiving her diploma this semester.

While Gies might be ready to graduate, she is not nearly done packing for her new paid inter nship at Walt Disney Wo rl d , w h i c h s h e f o u n d through the advertisements on campus.

Q: How long is the internship?

A: The internship is seven months and it starts in June.

Q: What was the process for getting the paid internship?

A: Well, I saw the flyers on campus before and tried to get the internship once before, but was not accepted. I stayed excited and interested in getting the internship. Basically I watched the website for the application and when it was posted I filled it out. Then I had to follow the process of interviews. There is both a Web interview and a phone interview, which are both important. I think missing the web interview is what cost me the internship before. Finally

Q: What are your duties for the internship?

A: I am going to be selling merchandise to the people that are visiting the parks. I am not sure which of the five parks I will be working at, but I will be selling to the people there.

Q: Where will you be staying?

A: Disney provides apartments for people that get the paid inter nship. The rent comes out of your pay check, so it is one less thing to worry about.

Q: Are you excited to graduate?

A: Yes, I am really excited to graduate and go and do my internship. I am walking too, which is exciting because it is one of those rites of passage.

Q: Who is going to watch you walk?

A: My parents are coming, along with a few relatives. I am not sure about my sister.

She has to get the day off from work.

in the local area. She said participants are hoping to raise $50,000 from the event.

Gonzales said the event is open to the public, and anyone willing can shave his or her head. But the event is more than people just shaving their

heads, she said. It is a time for the patients at the hospital to celebrate and feel the community’s support.

“We will have carnival games and food available for purSee SHAVE, Page 15

Kristi Gies

Q: Why did you choose Fresno State A: It was the only one that was close and that I could attend.

Q: What has been you favorite class here?

A: Kinesiology classes do not count? I was in a gymnastics class here that was very fun and I finally learned to do a trick that I have wanted to do for a long time. But, academically my favorite class was my Marketing 132 class. I thought the teacher was fun. We got to choose our own projects and work in groups. It helped that I had a good group.

Q: Do you have any unique talents?

A: I can juggle actually. I also draw. I draw random stuff which is usually whatever I am in the mood to draw.

Q: If you were a candy, what flavor would you be?

A: That is an interesting question. I guess it would be milk chocolate because I love milk chocolate.

Q: Why did you pick your major?

A: I transferred to Fresno State from Fresno City College.

When I got to Fresno State, I was told to pick a major and marketing seemed the most fun to me.

Joy Marie Hallare / The Collegian

Photo courtesy of Lorenzo Gonzales

Group of people who shaved their heads last year at the St. Baldricks event.

Q: Who is your hero?

A: My sister. I have always looked up to her because she is very smart and she always knew what to do in situations.

Q: What is your favorite activity to do in Fresno?

A: I would say that my favorite activity in Fresno would be going to the movies.

Q: What is your advice for undergrads about graduating?

A: My advice is to look for a job early on before you graduate from colle ge. It would also help if you have done an internship as well.

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GRAD: Graduation brings mixed emotions

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CONTINUED from page 1 Byers said she plans to attend law school, which is her motivation factor.

“I’m working hard to just get through it, but budget cuts and lack of classes are discouraging,” Byers said.

According to College Results Online, 14.1 percent of Fresno State students graduate in four years, 36.5 percent graduate in five years and the first year retention rate is 81 percent.

Miranda Gonzales, senior communicative disorders major, said she always thought she would graduate in four

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she is looking forward to the graduation ceremony.

“I am expecting my last semester to be challenging but I won’t let it ruin my graduation moment,” Gonzales said.

“Not many people have graduated in my family, so it’s special to me.”

Some stress over the final crunch time of classes their last semester and some enjoy the excitement of graduation.

“It can be really easy to get caught off guard and be swamped with school work, but this is a time you should

t’s a once in a lifetime experience.”

— Miranda Gonzales, senior communicative disorders major

years.

“I’m going on my fifth year here at Fresno State and it really doesn’t bother me,” Gonzales said, “I’m young once – why rush through school. That’s always been my attitude.”

Even though Gonzales plans to graduate next year, she said

enjoy,” Gonzales said, “Best advice to the upcoming graduating seniors, soak up the moment and try not to let the school work take over your life. It’s a once in a lifetime experience.”

articipants raise money from their friends, coworkers and family members in return for their willingness to have their heads shaved at the event.”

— Malynda Gonzales, Volunteer event coordinator

CONTINUED from page 14 chase,” she said. “Community heroes may also be available to sign T-shirts and take pictures with the kids.”

Gonzales said the event is sponsored by Children’s Hospital Central California and supported by the athletics de par tment at Fresno State. She said many of the volunteers at the event will be Fresno State students.

Biology major Audra Iness is going to volunteer at the event for her first time. She said she decided to volunteer because she wanted to contribute to Children’s Hospital Central Califor nia and its cancer patients.

“I think the St. Baldrick’s event is a great opportunity for us to help, especially for such a worthy cause,” Iness said. “I also want to be a part of an event that will mean so much to the pediatric cancer patients and their families — especially the patients at Children’s Hospital.”

Iness said she is excited to see the children’s reactions to the event.

“I am looking forward to seeing the pleasure on the children’s faces when they see the head shaving and all of the other fun activities,” Iness said.

She said she is considering shaving her head at the event, but is torn because she also wants to grow her hair long to donate it later.

Public administration and public relations major Molly Bar rett-O’Callahan is the Fresno State coordinator for the St. Baldrick’s event. She said she got involved with the event because she has been volunteering at the hospital for two years, spending much of her time in the oncology department.

Barrett-O’Callahan wanted to be a doctor, but decided it was not the right career for her. But she still sought a way to work with the children.

“Even though it’s rare, dealing with children that have

been affected by cancer and families that have been affected by it, you can’t exactly walk away from that,” she said.

Bar rett-O’Callahan said child oncology units are regularly under funded because they are not a high priority when distributing funds. She said the St. Baldrick’s event is a good way to raise money for the oncology department, because the funds go directly to oncology departments, not to hospitals at large.

She said the event was originally planned to take place on the Track & Field at Fresno State, but it had to be moved to the hospital because so many people are expected to attend.

She said the move is exciting, because more of the patients will be able to go to the event.

“Kids who otherwise might not be able to leave the hospital might be able to come down,” she said.

The event will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday in the back lawn of Children’s Hospital Central California.

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Behind the scenes Fresno State athletics has a program that gives the students the opportunity to have hands-on experience.

By Jessica Irwin The Collegian Deep in the heart of the athletic department the small group of students that work tirelessly to better Fresno State athletics is the Athletic Training Education Program.

Open to students majoring in Kinesiology, the program is one of only five in the CSU system that is an accredited program. Requirements to get in are rigorous and students have been known to wait up to three years before being accepted.

The program normally takes between 20 and 25 students each year, this year 49 applicants applied and only 24 were accepted.

“I applied to Fresno State first and after I was accepted the next step was the program paperwork, which was due in February,” said Chris Jamero, level two athletic training education student.

The program is based on levels. Level one is considered pre-entrance athletic training for freshman and sophomores interested in the program. It isn’t until after acceptance into the program you become a level two and you’re officially an athletic training emphasis.

“After the application process you go through an in-depth interview,” Jamero said. “It feels like an eternity though because you’re so nervous.”

It takes about three weeks before applicants know if they are accepted or not and then accepted students are given till May 1 to respond.

“I didn’t accept right away, I wanted to wait to hear back from the University of Pacific first, “ Jamero said. “But I ended up accepting the Fresno State bid because the program is to good to pass up.”

Level two’s have limited responsibility since level two is mostly an observation year, but responsibilities include practice coverage, game coverage and assessment of game time injuries.

Also, part of being a level two is the hands on learning process. This

includes personal attention and guidance from either athletic trainers working full-time with different sports, full time athletic training staff, or athletic training clinical instructors.

“It’s something that a lot of school’s don’t offer and it’s really shows you how hard it is to be in this job,” said Lauren Erickson, certified athletic trainer.

Erickson is a full time graduate assistant working specifically with the Fresno State softball. She completed her undergraduate diploma in Boston and passed her certification test making her eligible to work for Fresno State while getting her Master’s degree. Part of her job is overseeing undergraduate athletic training students and allowing them to learn from her doing.

“I never thought I wanted to teach, but having my own students has been fun,” she said. “It pushes me to be a better athletic trainer and to be a positive role model.”

The education program is two-year long process adding up about 600 hours of clinical experience per a year. After level two, you go on to level three. This includes designing personalized treatments for athletes by focusing on just one sport per a semester. It’s simulates real life athletic training, but still leaves room for correction if needed.

It gives the students the opportunity to be given more responsibility with the rehabilitation of athletes while being overlooked by just one Accredited Clinical Instructor instead of many.

Cesar Ruvalcaba is a level three athletic training student who will be graduating in May. “The main difference is your responsibilities,” he said. “They increase substantially and there is a lot more you have to pay attention to.”

The experience turns personal when you get to work with the players one team for a semester. Trust is a big part of the friendships that form between the students and athletes.

“A few ways to get the trust is your knowledge of athletic training,” Ruvalcaba said. “It’s not just anatomy and evaluations, you have to anticipate

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Chris Jamero was grateful for the opportunity that Fresno State gave him to be in Athletic Training Education Program and the experiences he has had working hand-in-hand with Fresno State’s athletic program.

what’s coming. You got to show you are they for them and they become comfortable with approaching you.”

Ruvalcaba is thankful for his experience in the program and feels ready for life in the job field.

“Overall, I got a variety of experienc-

es with sports here,” he said. “Every ACI helps you work towards your goal.

Working with football you pick up a lot, but now working with volleyball, I get to see a different perspective.”

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School spirit unites

The Fresno state cheer squad, dance team and mascot will join forces next fall for one outstanding team of Bulldog pride.

By Megan Morales The Collegian While Fresno State has always shown passion, spirit and pride at

sporting events through its dance and cheer teams and through its mascot, Timeout, this fall all three will collaborate with each other to create a unified Fresno State Spirit Squad.

Although the teams will be joining forces to create one large team of spirit, they will each still hold their individual role as a dancer, cheerleader and of course, Timeout will still be Timeout.

The collaboration is an attempt to enhance the fan’s excitement and provide a more intense experience for the crowd.

For mer Fresno State cheerleader Nichol Gagnon, will assume the position of Associate Head Coach of the cheer program and thinks the formation of a cohesive Spirit Squad is an idea that will benefit everyone involved.

“I feel that having these three teams as one will be a great addition to Fresno State,” Gagnon said. “We are all at Fresno State events to get the crowd pumped up, so it only makes sense to bring us together. With cheer, dance and

Timeout as one, it will show our school spirit and our willingness to work together. We will also be able to showcase our amazing talent in a much larger aspect.”

Bringing the squads together as one is expected to present a better quality of entertainment at the athletic events, and ensure fans go home happy.

“I definitely think it will be beneficial to have these teams working together,” Gagnon said. “We will be able to put on better shows and impress the audience more. There will be more joint performances, which means there will be more to look at.”

In addition to the collaboration, a new scholarship, The Timeout Spirit Award, has been established and w i l l b e aw a rd e d t o the students who portray Timeout.

The scholarship was developed by the Bulldog Pride Scholarship Fund of the Fresno State

Alumni Association. Those receiving the annual $2,000 scholarship will be awarded for their performance as Timeout.

In a recent release from gobulldogs. com, founder of the Bulldog Pride Scholarship Fund Peter Robertson said he is thrilled about providing a scholarship that entails academic excellence as well as Fresno State pride.

Associate Athletics Director of External Relations Paul Ladwig said he sees great things for the future with the collaboration of teams.

“I am as excited as everyone else See CHEER, Page 18

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Love family backs team Family of the late Yeardley Love have no plans to get in the way of the lacrosse teams seasons

By Whitey Reid McClatchy Tribune University of Virginia women’s lacrosse coach Julie Myers said Monday that the family of slain UVa player Yeardley Love didn’t hesitate when asked if the men’s and women’s

teams should continue their seasons.

“I don’t think that the Love family had any expectation or desire for either one of the programs to stop playing,” said Myers, whose team will host Towson in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Sunday afternoon at Klockner Stadium.

“Lacrosse brought us together and

lacrosse is their common theme, too, on the men’s side. The fact that they could keep playing and try and make sense of this is their mourning process.”

Some time on Tuesday, Myers said, Virginia Athletic Director Craig Little pa g e asked Love’s mother, Sharon, for her “blessing” to continue playing.

“She gave it to him without even much of a beat -- it didn’t even cross her mind that we would stop,” said Myers, adding that Love’s older sister, Lexi, was also on board with the decision.

Yeardley Love, 22, a fourth-year player on the women’s team, was found dead in her apartment in the early morning hours of May 3.

Her ex-boyfriend, men’s lacrosse player George Huguely, was charged later that day with first-degree murder in the death. According to court documents, Huguely admitted to police that he and Love had an altercation that included Huguely kicking in the bedroom door at Love’s apartment and shaking her to a degree that her head repeatedly banged against a wall.

T he killing sent a shockwave through the University of Virginia community and beyond, and came at a point just prior to both UVa lacrosse squads preparing for play in the NCAA Tournament.

On the Monday conference call with reporters, Myers declined to answer questions about the relationship between Love and Huguely, citing the

ongoing police investigation.

Men’s coach Dom Starsia also declined to discuss the case with reporters on Sunday. Myers, however, said she quickly determined from conversations with her players that the last thing they wanted to do was stop the season. She said they were “pretty emphatic” in wanting to continue, and they believed it would be “important in their healing.”

The players, according to Myers, were also adamant in their desire for the men to keep playing -- something that didn’t surprise Myers. Over the years, she said, the men’s and women’s teams have shared a close connection.

Six of the pallbearers at Love’s funeral in Maryland on Saturday were men’s players.

“We respect one another to the highest degree,” Myers said. “Lots of our former players have married [players] on the men’s team.

During the NCAA Tournament selection show on Sunday night, the Virginia women were tabbed as the No. 6 seed.

The men, meanwhile, earned the No. 1 seed and will host Mount Saint Mary’s on Saturday at 7:30 p.m.

Typically, attendance for men’s games dwarfs women’s games. But that, in all likelihood, will not be the case this weekend -- something Myers is well aware of. Myers said she has heard from a number of people from up and down the East Coast who have told her that they will be attending Sunday’s game in a show of support.

“The stands will be a lot more full than what we’re used to, and I imagine there’s going to be a lot more media...”

Myers said. “Hopefully, by the time the game rolls around, there will just be an incredible amount of focus and determination -- just the desire to be together and keep healing, and getting through this process together.”

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Football: Players prepare for opener.

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Despite the possibility of redshirting for the upcoming season, Carr said he will do whatever it takes to better his game, even if it means doing the little things.

“I’m trying to take my game to that next level and do all the extra work that it takes,” Carr said.

Even though Carr is slated to backup returning starter Ryan Colbur n next fall, he realizes that it’ll take a bigger and harder workload to be a starting quarterback.

“You have to do more than everybody else wants to,” Carr said. “Whatever they do, I’m going to try to do more.”

During the spring scrimmages, Carr completed 64 percent of his passes, going 16-of-25 for 241 yards and four touchdowns with no interceptions.

Carr will hope to improve on those numbers with a strong summer workout program.

As for other players like sophomore tailback Robbie Rouse, a strong showing in the spring won’t mean anything if he doesn’t sharpen his physique and mind over the course of the next 90 days. “[In] summer, I’m just going to do everything that is possible,” Rouse said. “It’s time for improvement. I’m gonna try to get stronger, try to get bigger

and try to get faster.”

Rouse had an impressive spring showing, running for 127 yards on 13 carries and two touchdowns. Rouse also added a 23-yard touchdown reception out of the backfield as the No. 1 running back on team’s depth chart.

But Rouse knows that the hard work he put in the spring won’t pay off or prepare him for the season unless he keeps training throughout the summer. Rouse said he will utilize the summer workouts to help him get ready physically and mentally for the 2010 season. “[I’m] just trying to get more pre pared for September 4 when we take on Cincinnati,” Rouse said.

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Cheer: Two returning seniors will receive the new scholarship for being the mascot.

CONTINUED from page 17 about this combination to enhance the spirit squad,” Ladwig said. “Having all the teams working together will only make our game day presentation better. With three quality coaches newly hired we will continue the excellence and professionalism of the Fresno State Cheer and Dance teams.”

As for becoming Timeout, Ladwig said there are two returning seniors who will receive the scholarship, and they are considering having a tryout for a third.

If applying for the position of the infamous mascot sounds like something you could see

yourself doing, Ladwig said qualification requirements include, “energy, school spirit, ability to dance, work with others, love to entertain, love to be the show and great physical condition.”

With all excitement around the new plans, one can expect

great things just as everyone involved does.

“This upcoming year will be awesome, we just had tryouts for the 2010-2011 team and we had so much talent that tried out,” Gagnon said. “We will be an amazing team!”

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Is Tiger finally tamed?

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ome would ask why now?

Others would think it’s bad timing, and that it’s old news and the world of sports must move on.

I would say, better late than never.

Yes, it’s time for me to throw in my two cents about Tiger Woods.

With his recent mid-round withdrawal from the Players Championship, it looks like the Tiger Woods saga has taken another small, but significant, step downward.

Complaining of “neck pain” following a horrid drive from the eighth tee box, Tiger decided to call it quits and once again welcome the media back into the world of speculation.

Right on cue, the questions came in with a flurry. Is the neck injury correlated with his Nov. 27 car crash that sent life to every magazine cover imaginable? Is this the end of Tiger and his endless chase of Jack Nicklaus?

Now I’m never one to deny second chances, or jump to conclusions with sports, but the “what if this is the end of Tiger” side of me won’t go away.

And as if he even needs my loyalty, even those close to Tiger himself seem to be walking as well. Hank Haney, Tiger’s famous swing coach, resigned a day after his Players Championship surrender.

That now makes Gatorade, Accenture, Gillette, his wife, Hank Haney and hundreds of thousands of once-loyal fans on the “Phil Mickelson never looked so good” bus.

And it’s not just all Tiger’s off-thecourse issues that make me doubt his return to sport’s most dominant figure will ever happen.

Aside from his opening-round gem at The Masters on April 9, Tiger has looked uncomfortable in the tee box, unconfident with his reads and even human on the course for the first time this decade.

Tiger’s new scruffy, 5 o’clock shadow goatee look isn’t helping his scandalous image either.

I understand Tiger is trying to turn over a new leaf on the course, embracing fans, signing autographs and occasionally cracking a smile every once in a while. But what if Tiger’s arrogant swagger actually helped his game?

When he was winning The Masters by nine strokes and U.S. Opens on the last putt, Tiger was about as selfish an athlete could get. But he was the best, an invincible sports icon with the toughest mental focus in the game.

Now that he has lost just about everything, every golf fan is wondering if his golf game may be lost as well. There’s no doubt that Tiger can still swing a club, but golf is at least 50 percent, if not much more, mental, and how can someone remain focused when his life is in shambles? As much as I enjoyed seeing a different side of Tiger for once, I wouldn’t mind seeing his ego shine through again and his scorecard immaculate.

Summer training Fresno State football players work in the summer to stay fit for the fall.

By Vongni Yang The Collegian For the next three months, the Fresno State football team will have to hold voluntary summer workouts on their own without the presence of a coach.

As per NCAA rules and regulations, coaches are not permitted to watch and hold workouts or drills until fall camp begins in August.

Head coach Pat Hill said that the summer workouts will be solely run by the players.

“The next three months is up to them,” Hill said after the team’s final scrimmage. “They have to do a great job of coaching themselves and not take any shortcuts this summer, even though there’s no coach on the field.

They have to be the guys who police it.”

With no coaches to do the yelling or the teaching, players will have to take it upon themselves to improve their game during the summer months.

“During the summer it’s on us,” sophomore quarterback Derek Carr said. “So, I’m going to do every See Football, Page 17

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Track heads to WAC Tourney The Bulldogs head to Ruston, La, for the WAC track and field championships

By Ben Ingersoll The Collegian

With the first day of the Western Athletic Conference Track & Field Championships taking place today in Ruston, La, the ‘Dogs have one last shot to post qualifying times and marks for the NCAA West Regional later this month.

The first two days of the WAC Championship will include the men’s and women’s decathlon and heptathlon followed a 26-even Friday session.

Fourteen of Fresno State competitors from both the men’s and women’s squads currently hold top-three times in the conference, highlighted by the Bulldog’s distance crew. Frank Sanders and Roxanne Sellick each hold the top times in the men’s and women’s 1,500 meter race, while Sanders is looking to defend his 2009 conference title in the event.

Utah State poses the biggest threat to Fresno State in the men’s events after winning the conference title last season, well ahead of the fourth place Bulldogs. With the Aggies owning seven of the top times and marks of the 21 men’s events, Utah State looks poised to push the ‘Dogs over the course of the

next three days.

On the women’s side, Fresno State faces its stiffest competition in Louisiana Tech on its home track. Louisiana Tech is looking to claim its seventh straight team title on the back of its seven top WAC times.

Last season, Fresno State finished third in the WAC, behind Louisiana Tech and Nevada.

An event to watch on the men’s side for the ‘Do gs includes the 400-meter hurdles, in which Val Pier re Matt Weir / The Collegian Dai’Re is ranked top-10 in the NCAA Regional and is just four one-hundredths of a Sophomore Rosario Sanchez will compete for a WAC title second off Utah State’s Nick in the women’s shotput event.

Karren’s time of 50.70.

F r e s n o S t a t e ’ s Ro s a r i o Likewise, Tim Greene, a 2009 NCAA Sanchez in the women’s shot Regional meet qualifier, has yet to put has a great chance to return home improve off last season’s hammer with a WAC title. Her season-best throw throw of more than 203 feet, and has of 50-feet-8 ¾-inches is less than a foot some work to do to catch up to the off the conference best and more than WAC hammer leader in Idaho’s James two feet better than the third best.

Rogan. Last month, Rogan launched a Latrisha Jordan, the 2009 WAC chamthrow of more than 221 feet, easily the pion in the 400, sits in the No. 4 slot on best in the conference. the season’s top-times list, but is less than one second off the top time held

by Hawaii’s Thalia Amanakis.

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