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Tuition to rise again in fall

By Ana Mendoza The Collegian

Last Monday, the Chancellor’s Office invited California State University campus newspapers to partake a phone conference to discuss a 9 percent tuition increase for the fall semester while reducing additional student services.

Officials from the Chancellor’s Office said that CSU will be collecting about $138 million in revenues from this new tuition increase. Even with this increase “we have about $400 million less in resources,” assistant vice chancellor of budget Robert Turnage said.

Turnage also added that these new increases will not affect all students since 45 percent of students are not paying for college because they are receiving financial aid. Students who pay for tuition every semester also get a tax deduction for every dollar they spend if their parents make less than $180,000 in

adjustable income every year, Turnage said.

“If a student asked me they could not afford tuition, I would ask, ‘Have you filed for financial aid or the tax credit?,’” Turnage said. “I hope nobody is dropping out because they can’t afford

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he state is subsidizing all students, just some are getting a bigger [subsidy] than others.”

— Robert Turnage, CSU assistant vice chancellor of budget the tuition increase.”

Turnage also added that some students who before struggled to pay tuition were undocumented students who under AB 540 paid the increasing instate tuition.

Now, because of the passage of the California DREAM Act, students can now

afford it.

“The state is subsidizing all students, just some are getting a bigger [subsidy] than others,” Turnage added.

Officials are attempting to encourage the California government to buy out the $138 million tuition increase so that students don’t have to pay it.

Tur nage said that even with the tuition increases, students still pay a “sticker price” lower than any other university in California.

Dr. Lisa Weston, chair of the English department and California Faculty Association, said education at a CSU is cheaper compared to private institution or a University of California but that many students can’t still afford the rising costs.

“It can be the cheapest Lexus in the block, but if you can’t afford a Lexus, you can’t afford a Lexus,” Weston said.

Officials also discussed the faculty strike CFA scheduled on Nov. 17 at Dominguez Hills and East Bay campusSee TUITION, Page 3

Students create Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

By Giovanni Winna Patricia The Collegian In conjunction with the Edwards Air Force Base, a collaborative team from Fresno State’s engineering department has been working on an aerial lasertargeting project called “Unmanned Aerial Vehicle,” also known as UAV, for the past three years.

Computer engineering professor Dr. Gregory Kreihn said mechanical, electrical and computer engineering students are building a UAV platform that will allow a plane to track a ground target using a Global Positioning System (GPS) and sensors on board.

“The plane ideally can fly by itself autonomously and then as it [is] smoothing around it gathers in all kinds of sensor information to point at a camera with a laser to a target on the ground,” Kreihn said.

In August of 2011, The UAV project team produced a poster presentation and published a 20-page publication at the Association for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle International, also known as AUVSI, in Denver City, Texas.

“It is very exciting because it’s kind of the most prestigious conference in the world for unmanned systems,” Kreihn said.

Kreihn added that the team was accepted based on its first submission in the AUVSI conference, which accepts 10 percent of their submission.

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University HOPE helps build homes

By Alejandra Garcia The Collegian

Amendment rights.”

Protesters voiced their concerns and distributed pamphlets to passing students informing them of why they are protesting and how it also affects students.

Dominguez, who has been arrested several times along with other protesters said he feels confident about charges against him being dropped since charges against them have also been dropped.

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University HOPE (Housing OPportunities through Education) is a non-profit organization with a mission to “give families hope one house at a time.” The organization builds homes for low-income families in an effort to improve neighborhoods.

In 1994, University HOPE began with the leadership of members of the Fresno State community. The organization is closely affiliated with Fresno State and seeks the commitment of its students, faculty and staff as well other community volunteers in order to provide suitable housing for families in need.

University HOPE builds approximately one house per year with the help of about 200 people from Fresno State and the surrounding community. “[This year] we are renovating an existing home for a low-income, singleparent family and we hope to be done

by Christmas,” Dr. Daniel Griffin, associate director for the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs at Fresno State, said.

Grif fin has been a member of

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Occupy Fresno protesters plan to sue Sheriff’s Department

By Ana Mendoza The Collegian Occupy Fresno protesters gathered in front of the Student Union Tuesday to inform students of what thy are trying to achieve and the future of the movement.

Protesters have filed a suit in federal court against the Fresno Sheriff’s Department.

“We have filed a case against them.

There is a restraining order concerning the ar rests they have made,” Fresno City Colle ge student and

Occupy Fresno organizer Michael Dominguez said.

Dominguez said that three local lawyers, American Civil Liberties Union and other lawyers have voluntarily worked to have charges against protesters dropped and to handle the lawsuit.

“It is our argument that the arrests have been unlawful and unconstitutional. Police officers have sworn to uphold the constitution,” Dominguez said. “The occupation as part of our protest, our free speech is being snaffled and they are violating our First

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Play calling has been major factor on Fresno State’s season The ‘Dogs will try to get on the right track against Hawaii this Saturday

By Tim Salazar The Collegian Fresno State is in its final season in the Western Athletic Conference and the ‘Dogs have free-fallen from being a preseason contender for the title to losing to a WAC opponent the program has never succumbed to.

After suf fering losses to three straight WAC opponents, the ‘Dogs are looking change the mentality of the team.

Head coach Pat Hill emphasized how poor execution has plagued the Bulldogs this season and he is planning on using the remainder of 2011 to focus on improving Fresno State from within rather than worrying about who the next opponent is.

Fresno State has been on a recent three-game losing streak where it came up short against conference opponents Nevada, Louisiana Tech and New Mexico State. Hill has seen the decline in the Fresno State’s play from the beginning of the season to the present. “[Against Louisiana Tech] we didn’t play with the type of execution we played with earlier in the season,” Hill said. “We’re going to get back to working on the fundamentals.”

After the loss to Louisiana Tech, the ‘Dogs needed to win their final four games to become bowl eligible. The first team on the schedule was New Mexico State, who had never defeated Fresno State.

The Aggies got their first win against the ‘Dogs in a highscoring affair, 48-45.

“If we get better at our fundamentals and we get better at teaching what we do and not worry about the other people so much, I hope we can get better as a football team,” Hill said. “I still have great belief and confidence that this team can finish strong.”

The offense hasn’t provided much of the problem during the recent losing streak as the ‘Dogs had 495 yards of total

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Senior Devon Wylie has flashed signs of excellence this season. Fresno State has been at its best when it has put the ball in its playmakers hands.

offense with sophomore quarterback Derek Carr throwing for a career-high 391 yards and three touchdowns.

Certain in-game situations have dictated where Fresno State’s focus will be regarding the offensive side of the ball.

Throughout the season, it has seemed like the ‘Dogs have run the ball a lot, but in reality they have only run the ball 31 more times than they have passed the ball. Carr talked about it not mattering whether or not the offense is unbalanced as long as Fresno State gets the victory.

“It’s the same, whatever it takes to win,” Carr said. “If it’s running the ball or throwing the ball, me and Robbie feel comfortable doing both.”

The of fense has tried to

follow the same balanced approach of allowing an even amount of passing plays and running plays.

Running back Robbie Rouse has had at least 20 rushing attempts in eight of the 10 games this year and has run for at least two rushing touchdowns on three different occasions this year.

Throughout the season, the Bulldog offense has shown flashes of brilliance, scoring at least 21 points in all but one game in 2011.

Although the offense is putting points on the board, it has only turned into three wins, two of which have come from teams with losing records while the third belongs to a team that currently plays in the Football Championship

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“We definitely need to put more points on the board,” Grady said. “We need to be more efficient.”

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Despite the consistency of the offense, the team has lacked the same explosiveness that it had last year when it put up more than 30 points six times. This year the Bulldogs have reached the 30-point mark only three times so far.

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Fresno State’s special teams tops key category

By Angel Moreno The Collegian Despite the now-losing season for head coach Pat Hill and his Bulldogs, they have still held true to the brand of being special on special teams, standing near the top in the nation in blocked field goals and punts.

The ‘Dogs have blocked eight field goals or extra points and one punt on the season, proving to be one of the best blocking units during Hill’s tenure.

Special teams coach Pete Alamar is proud of the legacy the Bulldog special teams blocking unit has built under Hill.

“It is a brand,” the secondyear assistant said. “It’s something we take a lot of pride in and is something that has obviously been passed on, generation to generation.”

And for Hill, this year’s special teams blocking unit is just one block shy of tying the season-high record of 10 blocks, dating back to the 1999 season.

Under Hill’s 15-year tenure, the ‘Dogs have blocked 101 kicks – 45 punts and 56 kicks, leading the nation in blocks since 2002. They sit comfortably on top with 13 more than any other team, with Rutgers and Texas tied for second with 53.

But it isn’t just Hill who has done the coaching for special teams. Since Alamar was brought on board in 2010, the

‘Dogs have blocked 17 kicks in the past two seasons.

They recorded six blocked punts and two blocked field goals for a total of eight last season, compared to this season’s running total of nine.

Special teams have been a major factor at Fresno State and Alamar recognizes its importance.

“It means a lot to the players,” Alamar said. “The opportunity to make a play is important, and they also understand the emotional importance of that, anytime you can make a play in the kicking game, it’s

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t’s about having the right people in the right spot.”

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Fresno State’s special teams has led the nation in blocked kicks in the past decade.

uplifting. They all understand that. They embrace it.”

Junior Marcel Jensen and redshir t freshman Cody Wichmann have made the most impact on special teams this season, leading the team with three blocked place kicks apiece, accounting for twothirds of the team’s blocks.

Juniors Tristan Okpalaugo and Matt Akers both have one blocked kick each and Milton Knox recorded Fresno State’s only blocked punt.

Standing at a towering 6-foot6, 255 pounds, and 6-5, 310, respectively, it is no wonder Jensen and Wichmann are tied for the lead in blocked kicks.

Jensen uses his large wingspan and ability to get low to block kicks, while Wichmann uses his large frame to muscle his way into the backfield.

Wichmann became a special teams threat right from the start, blocking two field goals in the season opener against

points in a bowl-bid-elimination loss to New Mexico State last Saturday, a team Fresno State had never lost to.

“I spent six and a half hours with Randy Stewar t here Sunday morning,” Hill said during his Monday media conference. “We went through the film and it took us probably four hours to go through it. We talked about a lot of things.

In the end, I thought we were making g reat prog ress on defense so did he. Over the last four weeks, we haven’t been making that kind of progress.

He had the decision what he wanted to do. I told him if he wanted to stay coaching and finish up this season. Let’s get to work and get this thing better. He chose at this time, he thought it was in the best interest of the football team that he step down.”

L i n e b a cke r s c o a ch T i m Skipper, whom Hill said is one

of the truly fine and upcoming coaches in the game, will take over as interim defensive coordinator. The coaching change is the first Hill has experienced while still in season since taking over the Fresno State football program in 1997.

Stewart has been on staff for a decade of Hill’s 15-year career, originally coaching the defensive secondary. But since the beginning of the 2009 season, the Bulldogs have given up an average of 44.5 points per game against ranked opponents, 38 points against Bowl Championship Series opponents and 30.8 points against conference foes.

“Randy’s a heck of a coach,” Hill said. “He’s been here with me for 10 years. I think he coaches secondary technique as well as anybody. What we’re doing in the secondary right now sometimes with our technique is nothing like it’s

California on Sept. 3. Jensen realizes that blocking kicks has potentially huge benefits for the team.

“A lot of people overlook extra points,” Jensen said.

“Like they’re not that big of a deal, or they’re automatic points, where most of the time it’s the little things that change the outcome of the game.”

That game plan has worked for Jensen and Wichmann,

wh o h o p e t o s h at t e r t h e 12-year-old record of 10 blocks in a season, in the three games left to play for the ‘Dogs.

“It’s about having the right people in the right spot,” Alamar said. “You look at scheme and personnel and try to match that and bring the attitude.”

Skipper steps into vacant defensive coordinator position

By Ben Ingersoll The Collegian

A day following Sunday evening’s announcement that defensive coordinator Randy Stewart decided to step down, F re s n o S t at e ’ s l o n g - t i m e coach Pat Hill said that while he didn’t force his colleague out of position, a change was needed.

Stewart, who was in his third year of full-time defensive coordinator duties, led a unit plagued by big plays and high-scoring affairs. Fresno State currently ranks in the bottom half of all major defensive statistical categories in the Western Athletic Conference, including last in scoring defense, surrendering 37.4 points per game.

Further more, the Bulldogs have given up 41 points or more in the team’s three consecutive losses, including 48

coached. And it’s very frustrating. This is the same guy that coached the secondary in 2005 that all four of them went into the NFL and three are still playing.”

Skipper said that he had no inclination of his interim promotion prior to Stewart’s decision on Sunday, but embraces the opportunity to lead the Bulldog defense through its final three games of the 2011 season.

“It’s always tough when it’s a change during the season,” Skipper said. “Coach Stewart made a decision that was best for him. I’m in the position now of defensive coordinator and I’m excited about it.

Obviously, I’ve played defense here. [I’ve] seen some good defense here and I want to get back to that type of defense.”

Skipper will guide the defense into Honolulu to take on Hawaii, the WAC’s top

passing offense that will be without former Fresno City College quarterback Bryant Moniz, who injured his ankle in a loss against Nevada. Still, senior Shane Austin replaced Moniz and threw for 232 yards and a touchdown. The Warriors average 313 yards per game through the air while the Bulldog defense has given up 323 yards on average in the recent three losses.

Hill has seen a number of his assistants in his tenure accept positions at prestigious programs, both collegiately and professionally. Questions arose as to whether Stewart was fired Sunday, but Hill was adamant that wasn’t the case.

“I’ve been here 15 years and I’ve never fired a coach,” Hill said. “I’ve never had to. They would get hired away so this is a first for me.”

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n today’s tough economy, getting a college degree is a necessity if you would like to have any hope of attaining what most would consider a respectable, well-paying job.

But, even with a degree, many recent graduates are still struggling to find a job. Getting a job after graduation is more than just having a degree — it is about having that extra oomph that makes the employer think they need you, rather than you needing them.

A record 19.7 million students are expected to attend college this semester, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. This is an increase of about 4.4 million since fall 2000, when only 15.3 million students were expected to attend college. This increase in those attending college will

undoubtedly cause an increase in the number of college graduates, raising the bar in the job market.

These statistics, coupled with the fact the unemployment rate is currently the fifth highest it has been since 1948, indicate the job market is becoming more competitive as the number of graduates increases and the number of available jobs decreases.

With a record-breaking number of graduates each year, employers are searching for a way to differentiate one applicant from another, and these days a college degree is not enough to differentiate one candidate from the next.

For the first time in history, the unemployment rate for those with a four-year degree has risen past the 4 percent mark. Standing out from the crowd is an absolute necessity.

A big mistake many college students make is thinking that simply attending college is a ticket to a job upon graduation. Often, many students graduate with little to no experience.

Simply put, in today’s society employers do not want to teach new employees everything after they hire them. They want people with experience who know what to do and can be thrown in the “fire” right away.

The best way to gain the kind of experience employers are seeking is through internships. Internships put students in a hands-on environment where they do many of the tasks — albeit, the easier ones — they would be doing as a professional. Another great thing about internships is the opportunity they give a potential employer to examine your work ethic, abilities

and you in general. Internships help expand your network.

We’ve all heard the saying “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know,” and in today’s society that could not be more true. Employers do not want to go blind into the hiring process. They want to hire somebody they respect, know and feel comfortable with.

Therefore, networking is paramount to getting a job. A smart way to begin networking is to join clubs related to your major. From there you can network with other people with the same ambitions, as well as professionals in the field the club may bring in.

Attending local and national conferences and functions is also a great way to network.

All these things can help boost your resume, which ultimately is the most important thing. A resume (and cover letter) are usually your first impression with a potential employer. These documents tell them if you are worth their time and if you deserve an interview. A good resume should be one page and a good cover letter should show interest in the specific company, expand on relevant work experience from the resume and tell the employer a little bit about the prospective employee. The career center is a wonderful resource for students to determine the strength of their resume and cover letter.

Getting involved is the most important thing to do while in college. A degree is not enough. Why be just another car in the garage of prospective employees when you can be the only luxury car?

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To the editor: The Fresno State football team seems like is going downhill. Seeing Fresno State lose to New Mexico State was heartbreaking. Fresno State has only a few games left, and Pat Hill needs these wins, not just for the team, but for the fans. Fans have been let down game after game by the way the team is performing, especially after

watching Fresno play Boise State.

Many fans of Pat Hill are now questioning his position too. Next season, Fresno State is moving away from the WAC and entering the Mountain West Conference. Entering this new conference, Fresno State should get a new coach to fulfill Pat Hill’s spot. Even after taking a cut to keep his job, that is a sign we need someone new. If Pat Hill doesn’t win the last few games of the season, it is time to move on and start something new.

Arian Moazamipour To the editor: I am writing to plead with the students of Fresno State to please keep Facebook use to a bare minimum on the Fresno State networks. I walk into the library every day to use computers and see roughly 30-50 percent of people on Facebook, using up the precious bandwidth. Students, such as myself, cannot even log on to the network, let alone get to the online homework we need to get done, because people are using the bandwidth to yap about nonsense on Facebook. Granted, some use it for school related activities, but

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Derek Falk To the editor: I don’t feel safe going home after my last class. It’s dark outside by the time I head to my car. There have been quite a number of reports of crimes at our school. They may be petty crimes to some, but when will they be considered more serious?

People have not have just taken away some cell phone or some cash, they have stolen the feeling of security we all should have. I may not have been a victim, but I know that it shatters something inside of you that can never really be put back together. The crimes have mostly occured during the night or early morning, and I know that most of the crimes committed at Fresno State were against victims that weren’t with that many people.

When going home at night, always be with another person. When you are next to an emergency phone, use it.

Brenda Maravilla

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After years of staving it off, years of poking fun at those who had one and years of feigning a lack of interest, I finally succumbed to the temptation: I got a Twitter. (#Shamelessplug: follow me @ tonypetersen4.)

Why do I need a Twitter, I would ask myself. Is it not just Facebook, only less interesting? Why do I care if someone slept in this morning?

And what could someone possibly say of value using only 140 characters?

Apparently, a lot.

My first hour on Twitter prompted me to say, “I feel like I have so many things to tweet.” Which my fiancé promptly tweeted.

The best part about the social networking website is the ability to gather quick news from many different sources. Whereas I usually get my news from the few websites I have bookmarked on my computer, on Twitter I can follow a myriad of different sources and receive breaking news and analysis in that way.

Judging by Facebook’s recent troubles, what with constantly changing its website and its newfound position as the porn site of choice, it seems that Twitter will only stand to gain. Though they aren’t exactly the same type of site, those who aren’t interested as much in browsing photos and “creeping” — yours truly — will likely begin to jump the Facebook ship and wash up on the deck of the U.S.S. Twitter.

Though I still don’t understand the concept of a tiny url, nor will I sacrifice grammar to fit something into 140 characters. #twitternovice. *** Commenter Nicholas Giotto sees a particular bias at The Collegian.

He asks, “Why does The Collegian act as a mouthpiece for Matt Shupe?”

Matt Shupe, for those who don’t know or don’t care, is the chairman of the Fresno State College Republicans. Shupe, in his energetic efforts to spread the influence of FSCR, has developed a steady presence in The Collegian with constant stream of letters to the editor.

It would be of no use for me to argue that I don’t agree with Shupe most of the time — a short search of my history at our website would reveal that I am a conservative Republican. But The Collegian accepts letters from people of all political stripes. In fact, we even accept full on op-eds from students.

If what is sent to us is well-written and even semi-coherent, it will be published without hesitation, regardless of the beliefs it espouses.

So, please, liberals, Democrats and occupiers of Fresno State, I call on you to correct this grievance. Send us letters and columns. Space and quality permitting, they will be published.

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AERIAL: Students work with Air Force Base TUITION: CFA will protest CONTINUED from page 1 Three years ago, Kreihn and his colleagues, Dr. Nagy N. Bengiamin, an electrical engineering professor, Dr. Gemunu Happawana and Dr. Walter Mizuno, mechanical engineering professors, were asked to write a formal proposal to Edwards Air Force Base for funding the project.

Kreihn explaines that Edwards Air Force Base wants to prepare young engineers to be familiar with unmanned or autonomous technology before it recruits them to work at their base.

“Besides, from the university perspective, this allows us to be able to train our students to work on some new and exciting things,” Kreihn said.

Kreihn said right now the system they built has been able to track a target autonomously.

“As a plane flies around we have a data link that transfers infor mation to the ground station,” Kreihn explained.

“With Google Maps we can see where the plane is flying in real time.”

Kreihn added that the system has been able to detect earth’s magnetic field and with sensors built on board, it is able to detect the orientation of the plane and read how fast the plane is moving. They get the information about the altitude of the plane through an altimiter set up on board.

When the infor mation is gathered, the team puts the system through a complex mathematic procedure on a customized motherboard that they built. This process gives information to a camera on board that tells the unmanned plane which ground target to point.

“All of that happens in real time as the plane continues to fly around,” Kreihn said.

Kreihn added that the research team is now focusing on a full autonomy system in which the plane will be capable of taking off and landing by itself.

“We want it to be able to do everything,” Kreihn said.

“Take off, land, go to three different locations and perform those activities before it comes back.”

Undergraduate and graduate engineering students are working on the project, and Kreihn said the number of students who are working on the project fluctuates from year to year.

“Students that worked with the research have gotten topnotch jobs,” Kreihn said.

Aside from gaining emplyment with Edwards Air Force Base, students got jobs at Intel, a defense contractor in Ohio, an autonomous farming equipment company and a former student almost got a job at Google.

Kreihn said that all the employers of these students

were very impressed with the UAV project that they were involved in during their study at Fresno State.

“They are going above and beyond their normal engineering education and employers are increasingly looking for students who are self-motivated and proactive with their education,” Kreihn said.

Nicholas Yingst, project mana g er and a computer engineering student, said the UAV project has given him a reason to stay at the engineering department when he was ready to leave.

“This is a good way to get a hands-on experience and is definitely interesting,” Yingst said.

Yingst added he has been gaining more technical skills in the project than he has ever experienced in his regular classes.

Paul Bennett, a mechanical engineering student, said he has been working on inspecting, analyzing and modifying the various airframes for the UAV project.

“I always feel like I learn a lot more in this project than I have in my classes,” Bennett said. “In classes, we are always told to ignore certain effects to make the problem a little bit more feasible and in this sort of environment every variable counts.”

Bennett added that throughout the project he has learned how to work with a variety of people.

Kreihn said the F resno State’s UAV project team is preparing for an annual unmanned system student competition in summer 2012.

Kreihn added that his team’s long-term vision is to expand the UAV system of this research to other kinds of technology aside from airplanes.

Edwards Air Force Base has been the primary financial contributor to the project, but the team is still working to get more alternative funding.

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Fresno State students worked with Edwards Air Force to develop an “Unmanned Aerial Vehicle.”

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“There is a lot of frustration.

Everyone in the administration shares this frustration that we cannot do for students what we want to do,” Turnage said. “We should not focus this anger internally instead of at the door of Sacramento.”

The Chancellor’s Officials also added that there have

cuts to student services. To bring more money to CSU, the Chancellor’s office had developed a budget plan for Califor nia gover nor Jerry Brown to add to his budget.

“We will know in January what he thinks,” Tur nage said.

If the new budget is accepted, it would restore student access, meet demand and enroll 20,000 students that are

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f a student asked me they could not afford tuition, I would ask, ‘Have you filed for financial aid or the tax credit?’ I hope nobody is dropping out because they can’t afford the tuition increase.”

— Robert Turnage, CSU assistant vice chancellor of budget been no wage increases for CSU campuses’ presidents since 2007 and that administrators that have received raises have been because of promotions.

“The faculty received one in 2008 when no one else got one,” Turnage said.

Officials also added that of all the promotional opportunities half were to faculty.

“The devil is in the detail,” Weston said. “When a new president has come on, that president has been given a salary that is significantly higher than the president he was replacing,” Weston said, referring to the president at San Diego State and other university presidents.

She added that administrators have gotten raises “including administrators at Fresno State. The case has been made that they do more work, but faculty are also doing more work on a daily basis, but we haven’t received extra money,” Weston added.

Chancellor’s officials said additional administrative cuts and other identified nonsustainable cuts to minimize spending are being considered.

These identified nons u s t a i n abl e c u t s i n cl u d e restricting enrolling, raising average classes and other

depending on this budget.

“We now estimate $2 billion in financial aid available to CSU students. This allows us to protect 40 percent of our underg raduate students,” Turnage said.

On Nov. 17 Weston said CSU faculty will protest “broken promises, particularly the chancellor priorities because the two items that are up for picketing have to do with part of our contract, which the chancellor decided not to honor.”

Weston added that CFA is asking for raises they were supposed to get in the past that was budgeted, but the chancellor decided to use the money for other things.

“The chancellor is always very quick to cry ‘oh there is no money’ when it comes to ‘we must increase student tuition or class sizes,’” Weston said.

“There is enough money to hire a president at a high price,” Weston added. “There is always money around if you want to give a rise to unionbusting labor consultants who are paid by the day and who get over $4,000 a day.”

Fresno State students will gather in the Free Speech area Wednesday Nov. 16 from 2 to 3 p.m. to support CFA.

OCCUPY: Protesters gather at Fresno State CONTINUED from page 1 have raised concern on the cost of arresting protesters Dominguez responded that they are not responsible for being arrested.

“It is not our choice to have 30, 40-plus officers in riot gear to come arrest 1 to 11 protestors. These are a heinous waste of taxpayers’ money.

“Many places across the n a t i o n h ave d e e m e d t h e occupation le g al such as San Francisco, Los Angeles and Portland did for a bit,” Dominguez said. “There are

many places who have chosen not to behave as Fresno or Oakland has.”

Dominguez also questioned why “county officers are being paid and funneled into this one location for a group of peaceful protesters when there is so much crime happening anywhere around Fresno.”

Other Occupy Fresno protesters like Fresno State student Luis Sanchez have questioned why there are not more minorities involved with the leadership of the movement.

The reason, he said, is because

minorities have always been “robbed our whole lives, so we are used to it.”

Sanchez hopes the movement will focus more on educating communities rather than targeting the top 1 percent income earners.

Fresno State student and member of the Fresno State College Republicans Mathew Martinez said all protesters are ill informed about how economics work. He also added that protesters should protest in front of the White House and Congress instead of occupying parks.

Martine z added that the occupy movements, especially the Occupy Fresno movement on campus, demand the top 1 percent of income earners to subsidize their education, which is he believes is unfair. “[The top one percent] didn’t have the handout, they moved up themselves. Why couldn’t you do the same as them? Why do you want the freebee? Work for what you want,” Martinez said.

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HOPE: Students volunteer for good cause CONTINUED from page 1 University HOPE for 11 years and has seen the organization utilize Fresno State students, faculty and staff to complete its mission throughout the years.

University HOPE is operated by an all-volunteer board of directors who plan and organize the work in addition to their regular professions. Chris Fiorentino, chairman of the board of directors, believes there are professional and personal benefits Fresno State students can earn by volunteering with University HOPE. “Our mission is to address poverty through providing affordable housing for local families while at the same time providing students an opportunity to use their talents towards meeting the goals of University HOPE,” Fiorentino said.

“This is a meaningful service for the community and for them,” Fiorentino added. “Student-volunteers can learn the professions of construction, marketing and special events.”

For Phaengsy Keokongmy, a Fresno State interior design student, volunteering with University HOPE has turned into a passion.

Keokongmy was introduced to the organization through the servicelearning curriculum of her interior design major. She started out as a volunteer, giving up one of her Saturdays occasionally to work on different projects. This semester, Keokongmy is the volunteer coordinator for University HOPE through an internship.

“Students walk in with no experience and then walk away with tons of experience,” Keokongmy added. “You learn to build and revitalize a house and you walk away with new learning skills.”

Keokongmy says her volunteer work has influenced her learning skills and future professional goals. She is now an aspiring humanitarian designer.

“University HOPE gives me the opportunity to get hands-on experience, understand the construction process and to be a real design consultant for the organization,” Keokongmy said.

“This experience helps me become a better designer and every day I learn something new. [Student-volunteers] are left with a rewarding feeling of pride that we were able to help a family and give them hope.”

Griffin says students will find volunteering with University HOPE to be very helpful and informative for their profession.

“Many construction management students are helping out this semester and it all directly relates to their major,” Griffin said. “While many

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tudent-volunteers can learn the professions of constructions, marketing and special event.”

— Chris Fiorentino, Chairman of the board of University HOPE haven’t had any hands-on experience, they can learn what this looks like and what it takes to do the job. They will learn by doing.”

With the help of Fresno State students, faculty and staff and the community, University Hope has built 10 homes, all of which have been sold to first-time buyers with low income.

“At the end of the process, we have something of a housewarming, where we hand over the house key to the family. A lot of the students come and it’s very rewarding for them to see how they helped the family and what they have accomplished,” Griffin said.

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Fresno State College Republicans give students access to hands-on experience, local politicians

By Thomas Pearson The Collegian After being inactive for a number of years, the Fresno State College Republicans are back on campus. The club was brought back by chair man Matt Shupe and vice chair Matt Martinez after the hiatus.

The club was officially chartered on campus on Sept. 21, and has become fairly active on campus since then. They had a booth at the Fresno Fair and have held other events for members such as debate viewing parties and tailgates.

Since being chartered, the clubs membership has grown rapidly. The club currently has 32 official members on its roster and 54 on its Facebook.

"The great thing about the club is that it truly defines itself. The members decide what they want to do," Shupe said.

One of the group's biggest goals is longevity. "We want there to be a foundation strong enough to survive when the current leadership leaves. We want a group that has the ability to contribute to the party, the community and the campus," Shupe said.

Another goal that the club has is to create a database that lists all the open staff positions for local elected officials so that students can see what positions are open for them to pursue. They hope to eventually open a database for students to browse for jobs, internships and volunteer positions.

The club also aims to form a coalition of conservativeleaning groups where issues within the community can be discussed.

The Fresno State College Republicans offer members several advantages. Some of the advantages include helping students find internships, networking with local and national officials and gaining hands-on experience in politics.

"Students should get involved with the club because the club offers new friendships, a wider political outlook in the sense that you need to know both sides, and it provides great networking opportunities," social chair Marissa Cabusas said.

Cabusas also added that it’s a great experience for students who may not know a lot about politics but wish to become more politically inclined.

“We are also the most active political organization on campus,” member chair Cameron Whitworth said. “We also of fer more oppor tunities because more elected officials are Republican, and therefore there are more opportunities for members of the Republican party."

Shupe first thought about bringing back the club in fall 2009 when he transferred to Fresno State.

Shupe had always had an interest in politics, which dates back to his childhood.

While in high school he was a member of the Model United Nations, and the YMCA Youth

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The Fresno State College Republicans attended the California Republican Party Fall 2011 Convention in Los Angeles which was held on Sept. 16-18.

and gover nment. He also inter ned for Assemblymen Jim Battin in Palm Springs, Calif.

When he arrived at Fresno State he noticed that there was no active conservative group on campus.

Then, after attending a couple Greater Fresno County Young Republican meetings and talking with a couple of the members, decided to bring

the group back to campus.

Shupe and Martinez then began working on bringing back the group last June.

The club was then officially recognized and chartered this fall.

To become a member of the group, prospective members submit their contact information and attend a meeting.

After deciding if the club is right for them, they then pay

a $10 membership fee and then become official members.

"The great thing about the club is all the opportunities that it gives members. It is also great because it gives people in politics access to quality individuals," Shupe said.

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By Joyia Sandoval The Collegian This weekend the Kinesiology Club will celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday by hosting the 5K Turkey Run in an effort to promote healthy living within the community.

H oweve r, t h i s ye a r t h e Kinesiology Club decided to make the Turkey Run a little different and more unique than it had been in previous years.

Unlike other running events, this year’s Turkey Run gives

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ur race is a 5K with a twist. Each canned food will be worth six seconds. This means 10 cans will take a full minute off your total time.”

— Grant Garza, president of the Kinesiology Club participating runners the chance to reduce their overall finishing time by donating canned foods.

“Our race is a 5K with a twist,” president of the Kinesiology Club Grant Garza

said. “Each canned food will be worth six seconds. This means 10 cans will take a full minute off your total time.”

Each runner that donates canned foods will have their time re-calculated based on the number of cans they brought. This will allow runners a better chance of placing in the top 10.

The idea of using canned food donations as a way to improve a runner’s time is an effort to increase the number of donations. All canned fo o d s c o l l e c t e d f ro m t h e Turkey Run will be donated to the Poverello House.

Garza says the Kinesiology Club’s goal is to have as many canned foods as possible to give to the Poverello House.

“These items will go toward local community residents who need some assistance,” kinesiolo g y professor Dr. David A. Kinnunen said. “The donations are what count in an event like this.”

Along with making donations to the Poverello House, the Turkey Run will give the top-10 finishers with the shortest time a free turkey for Thanksgiving.

“It’s all about turkeys,” Garza said. “Our race is so close to the national turkey holiday we wanted to save people a trip to the grocery store by making a trip to Woodard Park for a run.”

In the past years the Kinesiology Club held the

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t's all about the turkeys. Our race is so close to the national turkey holiday that we wanted to save people a trip to the grocery store by making a trip to Woodard Park for a run.”

— Grant Garza,

Turkey Run on Thanksgiving day. However, many people found it problematic because it did not give the winners enough time to prepare their turkey for the holiday.

This year the Turkey Run will take place the week before Thanksgiving to ensure that all winners know ahead of time that they do not need to purchase one, Garza said.

The Turkey Run will take place on Sunday, November 20 at 7 a.m. at Woodward Park.

The race will start and finish at the Mountain View Picnic Area inside the park. The event will provide food, beverages, raffles and live music throughout the run.

Kinesiology Club Secretary Yanira Barrera is anticipating 50 participants for this year’s Turkey Run and hopes the

turnout exceeds her expectations.

Bar rera and other club members have posted fliers across campus and local department stores to promote the Turkey Run to not only Fresno State students, but the community as well.

In addition, club members conducted several classroom presentations to hand out informational material regarding the event.

Bar rera would like to emphasize the importance of the Turkey Run; not only

as a way to donate during the Thanksgiving holiday, but as an event that strives to promote an active lifestyle.

“This event is extremely important for the Kinesiology Club, as well as the community in general,” Barrera said.

“As a club we strive to promote physical activity and if we host a 5K run people will be able to share that experience with us as well as become more familiar with our club and our purpose to Fresno State.”

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Twilight Saga star Robert Pattinson poses for the cameras during the handprint and footprint ceremony honoring Twilight in Hollywood, California.

By Roger Moore McClatchy-Tribune ORLANDO, Fla. — Three years and three films into “The Twilight Saga,” Robert Pattinson can see the finish line for the role that made him famous.

Wi t h t h e r e l e a s e o f “Breaking Dawn — Part 1,” he knows that the whirlwind surrounding him and his cast mates is about to peak. then

subside. He says he’s relishing the end, and he’s taking it all in: the attention, the career boost and the way his peers have coped with the sudden fame of a film series whose fans are nothing if not fanatical.

“I am constantly amazed that no one has gone totally crazy,” he says, chuckling.

“Everybody has their own way of coping. We’re all trying to be artists at the same time

this whole thing is going on around us.”

The 25-year-old British actor has worked with Oscar winners Reese Witherspoon and Christoph Waltz (“Water for Elephants”) and a for mer James Bond (Pierce Brosnan (“Remember Me”). But he says his contemporaries — his “Twilight” cast mates — “have taught me the most.

They’ve grown up in the eye of the storm. I learn from how they’ve dealt with fame. For me, that’s obviously the most overwhelming ... thing I’ve had to deal with. You learn a lot about the world and a lot about people when you and they go through something like this.”

That “something like this” has been in evidence since before the first film opened.

Pattinson was an all-butunknown 21-year-old, best known for a glorified cameo as Cedric Diggory in “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” when he landed the role that would change his life the instant he was cast.

Tim Guinee, one of his costars in “Water for Elephants,” recalls the paparazzi in helicopters above that film’s set, the scores of fans hanging around, “hoping to catch a glimpse of him. What an extraordinary amount of pressure this was for such a young guy to deal with and I was always amazed at the dignity and fortitude with which he dealt with all of it.”

Pattinson knows that he’s in select company, having come from almost nowhere to star in three spectacularly successful movies — “Twilight” (2008), “New Moon” (2009) and “Eclipse” (2010) — with one

more sure-to-be-a-hit installment opening this weekend and another opening next year at this time.

“It inevitably skews your idea of what this business should be,” he says. “But you have to fight against that. The whole fun, the whole point of being an actor is to keep reinventing yourself.”

Pat t i n s o n h a s m a n a g e d that, squeezing in a couple of non-vampire roles amid the run of the saga. He earned “acquits himself quite nicely” (Leonard Maltin) notices for last spring’s period piece “Water for Elephants.” He hopes his work will get a fair v i ew i n g o n c e “ T w i l i g h t ” ends, that critics and fans won’t make as much of his “brooding beauty” (Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News) as they do now.

“It gets scary. You worry that this is all they’ll let you do.

But I could take chances (with other roles) because I always had another ‘Twilight’ movie coming out.

“At the same time, it’s kind of nice that they’re coming to an end, to know I don’t have that safety net and that I have to really strive to do new things and wholly commit to them because there’s nothing to fall back on.”

Pattinson began the films by feeling he was just playing author Stephenie Meyer’s creation — the simmering, silent vampire dreamboat, Edward Cullen, who wins the fair Bella (Kristen Stewart) with just a furtive glance. But as the films have progressed, he’s taken ownership. “Things intermingle, and he becomes more like me, more ‘my character.’”

Pattinson’s take? “Edward

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spends this whole series trying to catch up to being 17 in today’s society. Even though he’s 108, his values are more old-fashioned. He doesn’t know how to have a relationship with a young moder n woman his age. He has to learn. He’s been hidden away from the world for so long that through the saga he’s had to learn how to love all over again.

“Love makes you both feel you have reason to live, especially if you really needed one.

Edward has the understanding. He knows what it’s like to live forever without loving.

And Bella hasn’t quite gotten to that understanding, yet. I guess that’s what she learns during the saga.”

He can joke about the new film’s overheated sex scene, which necessitated a re-edit, and not missing “this pale, pale makeup, which is covering more and more wrinkles.

You start to look like a faded clown with fangs, eventua l ly. ” B u t h e ’ s p o n d e re d “Twilight’s” imponderables — why this mortal-in-lovewith-a-vampire-but-lovedby-a-werewolf romance has become a global sensation.

“I think people are into endlessly impossible relationships. Maybe everything’s so easy to get these days — love, sex, whatever. People want it to be hard, at least in the movies.”

Pattinson doesn’t know what he’ll do after “Twilight.” But he isn’t worried, no more than usual, he says with a laugh. “It helps to have tremendous selfdoubt. That keeps you humble.

It’s a very English mentality, that glass is always half empty.”

‘The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim’

By Billy O’Keefe McClatchy-Tribune Bethesda’s massive openworld role-playing games have forever been an endearing battle between vision and technology, with the limitations of the latter always causing bugs and weird production value hiccups that keep the former in check.

Quirks like those still make appearances in “The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim,” but a sparkling new engine makes these occurrences feel like occurrences instead of the norm.

Technology finally appears ready to ride along with vision, and “Skyrim” takes it to the ends of its earth in what almost inarguably is the biggest game anyone has ever made.

Improvements make subtle introductions during an opener that spotlights two elements _ voice acting and character

design — that ranked among previous games’ biggest reality checks. They remain weak links here, but the days of faces even a mother wouldn’t love and one voice actor seemingly voicing half the cast appear to be over.

From there, ambition takes over. “Skyrim” quickly introduces you to your first dragon — the game’s star attraction, and the lynchpin in a big firstact reveal that won’t be spoiled here. The scope and individual pieces of that encounter — dragon artificial intelligence in particular — are immediately stunning.

Shortly thereafter, you’re fully loosed into Skyrim — with a quest and a burgeoning storyline, but with the freedom to ignore them indefinitely and explore the land’s 16 square miles as you please.

And what a world it is. That “Skyrim” is gargantuan isn’t a

surprise, because these games always are. But when you experience the enormity and variety of terrain — mountains crawling with everything from blizzards to bears to wooly mammoths, elaborate caverns and towns that exist far off the storyline’s main road, lush forests and fields that house bandits, dragons, giants and more — that exists between two locations that appear so close to each other as dots on your map, it’s just staggering.

Best of all, everything is fair game. Dragon chasing you?

Lead him into a giants den and watch giants, dragons and who knows who else duke it out (and come for you next if you make a play for the post-fight spoils). In an era of games growing obnoxiously reliant on cutscenes, “Skyrim’s” most memorable encounters just happen — organically, dynam-

ically and differently for every player who plays it their own slightly unique way.

That stands to reason, because you can sink 100 hours into “Skyrim’s” optional quests, guilds and storylines before even setting another foot on the main road, which should be good for another 50 or so hours. If you want to get technical, “Skyrim” never completely ends, thanks to a system that generates random secondary quests into perpetuity. There’s a limit to the variety of those quests, of course, but that’s the price paid for endless adventure.

“Skyrim’s” first-person melee combat still feels clumsy and artless, though ranged and magic attacks work well, especially with the ability to map different spells to each hand. Happily, Bethesda has finally figured out how to make the third-person per-

spective something more than useless curiosity fulfillment.

It looks good, and it feels good for melee combat. A button press swaps perspectives at will, so you can enjoy the benefits of both in tandem.

Much more roundly improved is “Skyrim’s” overall interface, which organizes your quests, maps, inventory and development with considerably more polish than in the past. Leveling up is exponentially more dynamic: As you flex certain skills _ be it combat and defense or persuasion and lock-picking _ those skills improve and contribute to your overall development, which you can augment with special perks that are neatly arranged across all 18 skill categories. The interface still presents a learning curve, but it’s Bethesda’s most accessible system by several orders of magnitude.

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‘The Descendants’

By Cary Darling McClatchy-Tribune

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t’s f all, the Academy Award season is upon us, and it’s time for those films that seem to be beg for Oscar attention. You know the ones where an actor either plays a historical figure, gains or loses a lot of weight, or has lots of opportunities to chew the scenery like a Texas steak.

“J. Edgar,” we’re lookin’ at you.

But then there are other types of films where it’s less about the grand gesture and the big moments than the intimate details and the subtle performances. Such is the case with “The Descendants,” a comedic family drama where nothing brutally explosive happens but is quietly powerful nonetheless.

Georg e Clooney is Matt King, a Hon ol u l u l aw ye r whose wife is in a coma after a boating accident. He has two rebellious daughters — teen-age Alexandra (Shailene Woodley, “The Secret Life of an American Teenager”) and 10-year-old Scottie (newcomer Amara Miller) — that he doesn’t know how to raise.

He also has a busload of cousins on his back because he’s the trustee over valuable real estate that the family owns and most of the cousins want to sell. “The Descendants,” then, is a story of a man in the midst of crisis: a guy becoming untethered from the world _ marriage, family, the land — that he had long known.

Based on a novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings and directed/ co-written by Alexander Payne (“Sideways”), “The Descendants” possesses a light touch that’s disarming. The

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cinematography from Phedon Papamichael (“The Ides of March”) is postcard-pretty — though you get glimpses of an urban Hawaii not necessarily seen in a lot of movies. And, as in “Sideways,” there are plenty of humorous moments, m a ny o f t h e m i nvo l v i n g Alexandra’s clueless boyfriend, Sid (Nick Krause).

Yet underneath the smooth surface roils an emotional ocean. Before the accident, Matt had promised himself that he was going to try and repair his collapsing marriage. And Alexandra, in the throes of acting out in the early part of the film, had had a big fight with her mother. If Mom doesn’t wake up, both of them may end up hounded the rest of their lives by regret.

While the (largely unknown) ensemble is excellent, it’s Clooney who really stands out.

Avoiding many of the tics and mannerisms that have become his trademark, he plays a man who suddenly finds himself helpless in the face of what life has tossed at him. It’s not a flashy, showy performance, merely one that is instantly recognizable as honest.

Also intriguing is the setting, the Hawaii of contemporary reality as opposed to tourist cliches. Many of the peripheral and secondary characters appear to be of Polynesian/ Hawaiian descent and these aren’t faces usually seen in major Hollywood dramas.

“The Descendants” isn’t the loudest film of the season but it doesn’t need to be. This is a case where speaking softly reveals hard truths.

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