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Fresno State’s first deaf sorority sister

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tephanie Rubio is just like any other student at Fresno State.

She likes to shop, go out for coffee and text her mom who lives in Arizona. She has two dogs, a beagle and a French bulldog and Boston terrier mix, whom she loves.

She is also deaf.

Rubio is the first deaf person at Fresno State to join a sorority. She pledged Delta Zeta this semester.

Not being able to hear hasn’t slowed the 27-year-old’s passion for learning or experiencing new things. Rubio thinks it is important for her to pave the way for other deaf students to feel empowered to do the same, she said. “[Rubio] is showing everyone, deaf and hearing alike, that deaf people want to belong and gain the benefits of Greek life just like others do,” said Dr. Rosemary Wanis, a deaf professor of communicative sciences and deaf studies. “With access and accommodations, this dream can come true to college students.”

Rubio is a junior studying deaf education.

After she graduates Fresno State, she plans to obtain her master’s degree from Gallaudet University, a school for the deaf and hard of hearing, in Washington, D.C. In the meantime, however, she is looking forward to understanding what sisterhood really means.

“Is it someone you go shopping with?”

Rubio said through a translator. “Someone you can talk to about anything? Is it someone you can do anything with?”

She hopes to bond with people like she has never done before. Since she isn’t from Fresno, Rubio is still trying to get connected.

Rubio will be the only deaf person in the sorority house, and although there are challenges, she is ready for them. She is grateful for students willing to learn more about the

deaf and have a deaf sorority sister.

In the deaf community, “Big-D” deaf means that the deaf person speaks American Sign Language (ASL) and has a strong sense of identity within the deaf culture. When she was growing up she was “little-d” deaf, Rubio said. She didn’t have the sense of culture and identity and didn’t use ASL. Before ASL and being involved with the deaf community, Rubio felt rejected and struggled with being deaf. When she went to the school for the deaf at age 15, her teachers told her to be proud of whom she is.

“I picked up sign language fast,” Rubio said. “All my peers, teachers, students, friends – everybody was deaf. It really just

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[Rubio] is showing everyone, deaf and hearing alike, that deaf people want to belong and gain the benefits of Greek life just like others do.”

— Dr. Rosemary Wanis, Deaf professor of communicative sciences

changed me. Deaf culture is where our identity comes from.”

Now that she has a language and a community, she is constantly learning and blossoming as a deaf person. Rubio is thankful that ASL is more accepted now. ASL is the third-most used language in the world, Wanis said.

Washington, D.C., opened the first signing Starbucks on Oct. 23, where the baristas, hearing and deaf alike, use ASL to communicate. For these reasons, Wanis said it is an exciting time to be deaf in the U.S. There are many deaf people who go to mainstream public schools and don’t have the same deaf community.

“It would be great if there were more deaf teachers, so the kids were more exposed to the community, the culture and knowing the value of ASL,” Rubio said.

If Rubio could suggest one thing to hearing people, she said it would be to just be open.

“Sign language is our primary mode of communication,” she said. “Even if someone doesn’t know sign language, be open to it or open to even gesturing with a deaf person.”

Wanis said there are several ways Fresno State students can be more open and inclusive: When you see deaf people at an event or in a classroom, they have to sit in front to see the interpreter. Go and sit with them.

Ask the interpreter to interpret for you. Introduce yourself and include them in class or group discussions.

When you host an event, be sure to allow for a way for a deaf person to contact you to request accommodations.

Lastly, eye contact is important. The deaf person has to look at the interpreter to take in everything that is being said, but the deaf person still wants your eye contact to show that you see him or her.

“Deaf culture and ASL is a part of our campus community and the fabric of what makes the Central Valley so diverse and rich,” Wanis said.

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Green Party’s Jill Stein visiting campus

By Michael Ford Sports Editor

Former United States presidential candidate and Green Party activist Jill Stein is coming to Fresno State.

Stein will deliver a speech about healthcare and educational issues at the university at 5:30 p.m. on Nov. 19. The speech will be held in the Agricultural Mechanics Building, Room 102.

Two Fresno State classes are hosting Stein, including the medical sociology and health, illness and healing classes from the College of Social Sciences and Department of Anthropology, Sociology and Political Sciences.

Stein ran for president in the 2016 elections.

She earned 1.4 million popular votes. The event will also be sponsored by the Green Party of Tulare County.

The event is free and open to the pubic. For accommodations, contact Dr. Kris Clarke at kclarke@csufresno.edu.

Input needed on accountability document Input from the Fresno State community is needed in a draft of the Principles of Community document. The document is part of an effort by Fresno State to increase accountability among faculty and staff and enforce respect, kindness and collaboration.

The Workplace Quality Task Force, which is made up of faculty and staff, has been working on the Principles of Community document and seeking feedback from the campus community.

Two open forums are scheduled this week.

One will be held from 2 to 3 p.m. Thursday in the Residence Dining Hall. The next will be held from 10 to 11 a.m. Nov. 19 in Henry Madden Library Room 2206.

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Group takes to street in Washington Post’s support of Russia probe Robert Costa to visit

By Seth Casey Managing Editor

About 100 demonstrators gathered at Courthouse Park in Downtown Fresno on Nov. 8 as part of a national movement to support Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.

The protests came one day after the requested resignation of U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the appointment of acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker. The latest shuffle in President Donald Trump’s adminis-

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tration is seen by many as a threat to the Mueller investigation.

Mueller has been investigating alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and alleged collusion between Trump’s election campaign and the foreign power.

The demonstration was coordinated at a national level by MoveON and Indivisible, politically progressive organizations which facilitate and promote various petitions and demonstrations. It was organized at a local level by the Fresno Women’s Huddle group.

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The President’s Lecture Series at Fresno State will welcome political reporter Robert Costa on Nov. 27 at 6 p.m. in the Save Mart Center.

Costa reports in-depth coverage of Congress and the White House for The Washington Post and is a moderator of PBS’s Washington Week, as well as a political analyst for NBC News and MSNBC. The President’s Lecture Series hosts national speakers who are invited by President Dr. Joseph Castro to inform the community on matters that impact the Central Valley.

Castro and director of the Institute for Media and Public Trust Jim Boren will lead the conversation, followed by a Q&A. Costa will speak on topics such as inside the Trump White House and the future for both parties. Doors open at 5 p.m. Admission and parking are free.

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Gloria Lucas brought the forum to the Fresno State campus so all genders could share and embrace the issues they may face.

After dealing with an eating disorder in the dark, Lucas said she saw the need to implement an organization that would empower people of indigenous descent to uncover the impacts of colonialism, social oppression and historical trauma.

Lucas challenges everyone to examine the way beauty is perceived and to question the standards of beauty that have been culturally embedded.

Here are the seven things that moms may not have taught daughters, according to Lucas, which she strives to emphasize in her presentation: People of color and indigenous people can develop eating disorders According to Lucas, eating disorders have been portrayed as only applying to certain groups in society, leaving people of color and indigenous people misrepresented and to ultimately struggle alone.

“Second-generation Mexican-American women were the most acculturated and had the highest eating disorder patterns,” said Lucas, referencing a study by the department of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

Some of those include little to no education on eating disorders, no accessible language and the highly-influential medical industry, said Lucas.

Binge eating is an eating disorder “Comelona, tragas bien mucho” is derogatory in Spanish. It translates to, “You eat too much,” and often brings shame to young Mexican girls who are told that by family. Not only do Mexican households have a problem understanding eating disorders, it’s in our society, she said.

Binge Eating Disorder (BED) was not formally recognized by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 5th Edition until 2013, and about 2.3 million people suffer

times more likely to develop them if someone close to them has an eating disorder.

It’s not your obligation to fulfill your mother’s definition of ‘beautiful’ Beauty is a man-made concept and a sexist expectation, according to Lucas.

“When I gained weight, I felt that I could no longer be feminine,” she said.

Beauty is not set in stone, said Lucas, and she pointed to the ways fashion has evolved over the years. However, Lucas strives to teach people to find their own beauty.

Colonialism has impacted the way we view our bodies Indigenous bodies have been described as sinful, dirty, incomplete, disposable, submissive, dehumanized and bodies that can endure extreme physical labor, said Lucas.

“Because of Catholicism, there’s this idea that we are sinful and have to redeem ourselves,” she charged.

According to Lucas, Latina women are either hypersexualized, such as Salma Hayek, or are portrayed as middle-aged brown women with no sexuality.

The silenced traumas and forgotten stories “Our people have made it by being on survival mode,” said Lucas. “In my family, we don’t talk about emotions.”

Lucas encouraged members of the audience to be understanding toward their mothers and odd coping mechanisms they may have because we have no idea of what silenced traumas they may carry.

“There was no way our ancestors survived all of this [colonialism] and had healthy ways to cope with it,” said Lucas.

Your sexuality and your body are your own “Our resiliency is well above average. If you are a person of color, we have a tremendous

from this disorder, according to the National Eating Disorders Association.

There is a lot of “shame” attached to BED, said Lucas, which could be why people have kept it in the shadows.

Eating disorders are very complex conditions Eating disorders are not easily understood, but, according to Lucas, people are seven to 12

amount of resilience,” said Lucas.

She said she did not want to end the evening on a sad note. Instead, she shared her tips on radical self-love, such as being patient with yourselves and being extra kind; practicing ceremonies that involve your body (for example a bubble bath); and honoring your body when it changes.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Shots fired: Guns Conservatives or mental illness? want to cut and reduce spending

By Christina Tran Opinion Editor

Looking at the number of mass shootings that continue to occur year after year, nothing seems to be changing besides the fact that more and more people are getting caught up in the bloodshed in our country.

From innocent young children in public schools to young adults looking for a good time at bars and concerts, the populations that have been targeted span far and wide in whom has gotten caught in the crossfire of individuals wielding guns claimed by media to have a mental illness.

With arguments going back and forth between the need for stricter gun control and mentally ill individuals who need to be looked after more as an excuse for killing a group of people, someone needs to take the stand to bring this issue to the front of America.

Before we know it, these issues in states spanning across the country will not just be some tragedy that we see happen on the news. It will soon show up in families living in our neighborhoods and popular places of entertainment where people gather locally every day.

In a graphic provided by the Tribune News Service on U.S. gun shootings during the beginning of 2018, it was recorded that 154 mass shootings had already occurred within the first 180 days of the year.

Why is it that even with all this gun violence in America, our gun restrictions still don’t help keep our society safe from guns and those who wield them?

Those numbers bring up a pretty clear picture of how often mass shootings occur, regardless of where we’re from. No matter where you

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live, or which state you reside in, it could happen anywhere near you or a loved one.

This repetitive cycle of the media portraying mental illness as the real killer does little to help the victims who have been gravely injured and even lost their lives. Instead of going back and forth blaming various causes for the mass shootings, we need to focus on solutions to stop them from happening.

Be it stricter gun laws across all 50 states in the U.S. or a firm focus put on mental illness in schools at a young age, something needs to be done before we all suffer from gun violence in our homes and cities.

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I am writing to respond to the frequent claim made by conservative Republicans that Democrats in the Congress and in the liberal part of the news media support “reckless spending” by the federal government on programs that help people.

I want the conservatives to tell the country which ones they want to cut and reduce spending on.

It certainly can’t be defense/military spending.

So, which ones do they want to cut?

It has to be Social Security because the federal government spends 24 percent of all that it spends on Social Security alone. That’s what they want to cut.

What other programs are the ones where they imagine that there is much reckless spending on?

Medicare. Medicaid. Food stamps. College student loans. Unemployment insurance benefits.

Of course, they are not talking about doing something about how Medicare and Medicaid are defrauded for tens of billions of dollars by those in the health care/medical fields.

They are not talking about reducing spending on these programs by lowering the exorbitant costs of prescription drugs/medications.

Oh no, that would be taking away the precious “Constitutional right” of the pharmaceutical industry to make obscene and immoral profits off people’s illnesses and resultant mis-

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Their Constitutional right to total individual liberty and freedom to rip off and exploit the American people must be protected by the conservative Republicans.

Simply put, when they talk about cutting and reducing “reckless spending,” they are talking about wanting to cut the Social Security retirement benefits of not only future retirees but of current retirees, as well.

“Movement Conservative” Paul Ryan suggests a cut of 23-25 percent (notice that he has already selected the amount of the cuts that he dreams of and yearns for).

When conservatives like Ryan talk about “saving” and “reforming” Social Security, other conservative Republicans know all too well that these are simply code words and buzzwords that really mean cutting and then eventually abolishing/eliminating Social Security in its entirety.

So, this is what you are all talking about when you say that you stand for “compassionate conservatism.”

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HEALTHY BULLDOGS

Understanding issues about hunger and homelessness in college students

By Jessica Medina

Food Security Project coordinator

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ood insecurity and lack of stable housing are issues that many college students are facing all over the United States.

At Fresno State, we look to help tackle barriers to student success, both inside and outside the classroom, through many different basic needs programs.

In an effort to understand hunger and homelessness, it is important to know some basic definitions: Food insecurity refers to the state of being without reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable and nutritious food.

Homelessness or housing insecurity refers to someone who lacks a fixed, regular and adequate nighttime residence; this might include living in a hotel/motel, campgrounds,

shelter, couch surfing or a primary nighttime residence not meant for sleeping.

In a recent study done by the CSU chancellor’s office, 43.7 percent of Fresno State students surveyed reported some level of food insecurity, and 2.8 percent reported some experience with housing insecurity in the last 12 months.

Programs like the Student Cupboard offer students access to free food and hygiene items to help reduce food insecurity.

Students are able to come in once per day to

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Associated Students, Inc. (ASI) challenges you to be bold and donate to this year’s Helping Hams campaign!

The official kickoff will begin with a ceremony at 10:45 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 15, at the Rue and Gwen Gibson Farm Market.

The campaign will run through Dec. 6 to raise money to donate holiday hams to charitable organizations affiliated with Fresno State.

Donations will be accepted at the Gibson Farm Market in increments of $5.

Six donations (or $30) will purchase one ham for a family in need.

Donations via check can be made payable to and dropped off at the Gibson Farm Market.

Charitable organizations affiliated with Fresno State can be considered for holiday ham donations by applying online at bit.ly/helpinghams2018 through Dec. 6.

Thanks to the community’s generosity, past campaigns have exceeded goals and raised money to donate 1,052 hams since 2013.

Last year, 250 hams were donated to charitable organizations.

For more information on the campaign, call 559-278-4511.

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receive up to one of each item to fill one basket of food.

Students are also able to receive pre-screening and application assistance for CalFresh, which could provide them up to $192 each month in money for healthy groceries.

Since opening in November 2014, the Student Cupboard has helped more than 11,700 students by providing them access to food to reduce food insecurity.

Project HOPE is a case management program where students are able to seek support

with accessing services on and off campus.

This might include emergency housing, food assistance, counseling and more.

The Project HOPE team works with students to build or strengthen their support systems and follow up with students to help them stay on track toward success.

By partnering with United Way 211, Project HOPE is able to make sure students have easy access to resources to help remove barriers.

If you, or anyone you know, is experiencing food or housing insecurity, please do not hesitate to reach out for help. We want to help you be successful at Fresno State.

Go to this online article on collegian.csufresno.edu for more information on resources available for students dealing with hunger and homelessness.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Fresno State is not unsafe, as writer said

By Lt. James Watson |

Interim Police Chief at Fresno State Police Department Angel Gonzalez’s conclusion that Fresno State is dangerous (letter to the editor Nov. 7) is unfounded and inflammatory.

The writer doesn’t state the source of his information.

He seems to infer that because the city of Fresno’s crime rate is higher than the national average that it must then follow that Fresno State is one of the most dangerous colleges in America.

There is no basis for Gonzalez’s conclusion.

For accurately reported data, we recommend The Collegian’s readers refer to Fresno State’s annual Clery Act Report, which includes information about safety and security at Fresno State.

The report looks at key policies and crime statistics for the three previous calendar years.

It also has extensive information about resources available to report and prevent crime and unsafe situations on campus.

Campus safety is of utmost concern at Fresno State. Our proactive law enforcement program focuses on the safety of students, faculty, staff and visitors.

Keeping Fresno State as safe as possible is a shared responsibility in which we all have a role.

Part of that responsibility involves not scaring the campus community with incorrect, sensational information.

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‘Dogs likely to play in Mountain West championship despite loss

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By Jorge Rodriguez Reporter The Fresno State football team put its 8-1 record on the line away from home in a Mountain West Conference showdown against the Boise State Broncos that had more than bragging rights at stake last weekend.

Fresno State has a two-game lead over Nevada in the West division with two games left to play in the regular season.

The Broncos once again walked off their home field with the score in their favor, 2417, giving the Bulldogs their second loss of the season and first defeat in MWC play.

For the ‘Dogs, it was a game that, if won, would likely solidify them in the eyes of pollsters as one of the best teams in the nation.

For the Broncos, a win would get them back on track for a conference title shot at the end of the season.

The Broncos got on the scoreboard first with a field goal, giving them a three-point lead that they would take into the second quarter.

The Bulldogs got on the scoreboard in the second quarter with a 3-yard touchdown to wide receiver KeeSean Johnson from quarterback Marcus McMaryion.

For the remainder of the half, the ‘Dogs seemed to have control of the game, with their defense forcing several punts and an interception in the last minutes of the first half. The offense took over for the ‘Dogs and scored a field goal, giving them a seven-point lead, 10-3, going into halftime.

For the second half, Fresno State again started quickly, going down the field in its

first drive and scoring a touchdown thanks to a 1-yard plunge by running back Ronnie Rivers.

From that moment on, the Broncos took over the game completely, shutting down the Bulldogs offense and making the ‘Dogs’ defense stay on the field for an extended time. Boise State would score once in the third quarter and then twice in the fourth, taking a 24-17 lead.

The Bulldogs had a final chance in the last minutes of the game, but were unable to convert a fourth down, giving the ball back to the Broncos. The ‘Dogs’ defense was nearly able to force a stop of the Broncos offense in a fourthand-one to go situation, but when the ball was measured, the officiating crew gave the first down to Boise State, effectively ending the game.

After some controversy, the Mountain West released a statement Saturday after the game confirming the officials’ call based on video review.

“While certain camera angles make it appear the ball was short of a first down, there are no perspectives which are directly perpendicular to the line to gain and therefore no conclusive evidence that the line to gain was not in fact reached,” the release said. “It has been confirmed the spot, instant replay review and measurement processes were all executed correctly.”

The loss was a tough one, but the ‘Dogs still are almost certainly going to play in the Mountain West championship game.

Fresno State has a two-game lead over Nevada in the West division with two games left to play in the regular season. And even if the ‘Dogs were to lose their final two games of the season and Nevada were to win out, Fresno State would still win the division as it still has the tiebreaker due to its road victory against Nevada on Oct. 6.

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Boise State defender Jabril Frazier (8) sacks Fresno State quarterback Marcus McMaryion (6) in the fourth quarter on Friday, Nov. 9, 2018, at Albertsons Stadium in Boise, Idaho. The host Broncos won, 24-17.