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Fresno State breaks world record

By Kevin G. Hall McClatchy-Tribune W h i l e s t o r m cl o u d s i n G re e c e appeared to lift Thursday with political compromise, the broader European Union still faces numerous threats as other struggling economies remain in danger.

“The big question really is what happens to the rest of the area,” said Diego Iscaro, a senior economist in London for forecaster IHS Global Insight.

G re e k P r i m e M i n i s t e r G e o r g e Papandreou appeared to have negotiated a political deal that won the opposition party’s commitment to back a government austerity program that was key to a debt-relief accord reached with EU leaders last week.

The deal was an important symbol that Europe was working through its problems, though with Greece accounting for only 3 percent of the European Union economy, its problems pose only a small threat.

The real risks come from larger troubled economies such as Spain and Italy.

As was the case in the 2008 U.S. financial crisis, investors quickly identify who they think is the next weak link, and in Europe that’s Italy. It faces enormous financing needs and its embattled prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, is fighting for political survival.

“This Italian government will have to get its act together and really put a credible reform program in place. And without these factors, the picture looks quite gloomy,” Iscaro said.

Italy is in the crosshairs because Berlusconi has failed to deliver on promised economic reforms. He was forced to make new promises at last week’s “summit to end all summits,” yet after a Cabinet session Wednesday he ar rived mostly empty-handed Thursday at the G-20 meeting of indus-

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Axel Reyes of the California Highway Patrol watches as the final bins of fresh fruit are dumped into the 2,000-gallon water tank. Reyes served as a witness to the record-breaking event.

By Ana Mendoza The Collegian Fresno State students from the Marketing 188 course have broken the world record for the world’s largest fruit salad. Students, community members and other organizations cut fruit from 8:18 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Thursday.

The official weight of the fruit salad was 10,440 pounds. The fruit was mixed with 50, 32-ounce containers of lemon juice. Two forklifts were used to carry the fruit to the refrigerator where the fruit will be stored until Friday morning.

Friday morning some of the fruit salad will be donated to Poverello House, Fresno Rescue Mission and other local charities.

In the afternoon Fresno State student and community members can get their share of the fruit salad.

“We will have a drive through where people can get a bag of fruit,” Fresno State student Nick Morales said.

Fresno State student and active participant Sam Mabanta calculates there were about 100 volunteers that helped cut and prepare the fruit. The large number of volunteers began early by cutting about 1,000 pounds of fruit an

hour.

“We thought we were going to finish by noon,” Mabanta said. By the afternoon volunteers began to decrease which slowed down the preparation process.

Morales said there where two-tothree nicked fingers and many blisters, but no serious emergencies. Volunteers with hurt fingers were moved to other areas where they were not going to be in contact with the fruit.

Morales said he was very happy with the results of the event and he would do it again. “On behalf of the group, we would do it again.”

Army ROTC trains in San Luis Obispo

By Johnathan Wilbanks The Collegian F r e s n o S t a t e Re s e r ve Officers’ Training Corps ( RO T C ) c a d e t s s p e n t last weekend at Camp San Luis Obispo for a t h re e - d ay t r a i ning exercise. The training focused on bonding and essential Army skills.

T he Ar my ROTC provides elective courses for Fresno State students who are pursuing a commissioned of ficer career in the Army.

Scholarships are provided to students who make a commitment to serve after graduation. Deployment to various parts of the world depends on the unit officers are assigned to.

As part of the program, about 60 cadets Photo by Chris Cooper who participated in Illustration by Esteban Cortez / The Collegian

the training were thaught basic rifle marksmanship, day and night land navigation exercises and repelling.

“Being an Army officer, you can’t be afraid of anything. You have to step up and be willing to do something even if you are not comfortable,” Fresno State student Chris Cooper of ROTC said. “A lot of cadets are learning they need to do stuff they have never done before.

“Cadets are learning to have faith in their equipment and their instructors,

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eing an Army officer, you can’t be afraid of anything.”

— Chris Cooper, Fresno State ROTC student

this program helps them gain confidence in becoming a leader,” Cooper added.

The Army employs diverse personnel, such as health professionals, but trains each cadet as a soldier with their specialization being secondary to their status as a soldier.

“I am a nurse in the Army, but they train me as an infantry officer. Just because I am a nurse doesn’t mean I don’t have to learn how to use a gun,” Fresno State nursing student Angelia DeBenedetii said. “For me it’s a winwin because I get to serve my country and I have a guaranteed job after college.”

A three-day training exercise was held over the weekend starting Friday through Sunday at Camp San Luis Obispo. The first camp of the semester placed an emphasis on bonding, as this was the first event many of the freshman cadets had attended. Three essential Army skills were taught; basic rifle marksmanship (BRM), day and night land navigation and repelling. The camp had approximately 60 cadets and 10 cadre present.

“We have about 15-to-20 percent females in the program, and it can be challenging but we keep up with the males,” DeBenedetii said. “They don’t go easy on us, but I have never experienced any poor attitudes because I am a female.”

“They expected us to help the freshmen along, we had to exercise some leadership roles to take care of the See ROTC, Page 3

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limate change, greenhouse gasses, green energy — all terms are very familiar to us these days. The question is, do product manufacturers actually care about the green movement or are most of them boarding the green train because there is money to be made by producing a green product?

I don’t doubt that some companies do make an effort to be green, but I believe most companies understand that most consumers are concerned with saving money than buying a green product. I don’t see too many people at a store looking for a little green leaf on a label — they are looking at price tags.

I really don’t think a majority of Americans are buying into the whole green movement anyway, and the majority won’t unless they see some blatantly conclusive proof that there is a global climate crisis that will affect them within their lifetime. With our current financial struggles, the only way to get Americans to buy in is to stress the areas where going green saves money.

Solar power is a perfect example of the American mentality toward the green movement. If solar power for a household was much less expensive, a massive majority of Americans would jump on the opportunity because they hate power bills. The fact that it’s environmentally friendly is a second thought for most.

Fortunately, in some cases, creating a green product can be a win-win situation for producers and consumers.

Producers are beginning to use less material in products, which in some cases is a good thing.

Take plastic water bottles, for example. Producers are using less plastic and using more recycled material than ever. That makes production costs decline, which trickles down to consumers who pay less for the product, all good things.

One thing I have a serious beef with is hybrid cars such as the Prius. This car has become a status symbol, saying, in effect, “I care about the environment so much that I’m willing to drive a hideous car.”

Jay Leno said it best referring to the Prius: “In America, we like everyone to know about the good work we are doing anonymously.”

The problem with the Prius and other hybrid electric cars is that they are marketed as green vehicles, but that could be far from the truth. Some reports show that between the environmentally hazardous production of batteries in North America, shipment of those batteries to Asia for assembly, then shipment to the final destination, a Prius has created more pollution than a normal vehicle in two lifetimes.

Not to mention the hazard related to disposing of the massive batteries in electric cars.

I don’t understand why there isn’t a bigger push for hydrogen-powered cars that are already in production.

These are the only truly zero-emission vehicles around today. They still use electric motors, but that motor is powered by a hydrogen fuel cell rather than batteries and the only emission from the vehicle is water.

If there is an expectation of citizens to be green then there will have to be more affordable options. I’m beginning to believe that the entire green movement is more about a lot of people making a lot of money than it is about some supposed global crisis. If we are legitimately looking down the gun barrel toward the “end of our planet,” I think people would be trying a lot harder.

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trialized countries, held in the French seaside city of Cannes.

“The fact that they haven’t been able to reach consensus to put this package in place is quite worrying and illustrates political problems in Italy,” said Iscaro, pointing to rising borrowing costs for the Italian government.

“You’re in a vicious cycle of contracting activity that puts public finances under more stress.”

Among the promises Berlusconi made to EU partners but has failed to keep is selling off state companies, undertaking infrastructure spending to create jobs, and reducing Italy’s notorious government bureaucracy to make its businesses more competitive.

Separate from the EU promises, Italy is sinking under an aging population with costly government pensions and outdated labor laws.

Italy also has debts of about $2.6 trillion. The ratio of Italy’s debt to its overall economy is around 120 percent.

That debt ratio is what European leaders are trying to bring Greece down to by 2020, and it underscores how Italy and Greece face similar challenges.

“Berlusconi is likely to go the same way as Papandreou,” said Jacob Kirke gaard, a research fellow at the Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics, a free-market Washington think tank. “I think the likelihood of Berlusconi leaving has gone up a lot.”

Spain, another large and troubled E urop e an econo my, a lre a dy h a s imposed tough austerity measures and is lumbering through a downturn so severe that one in four Spaniards is unemployed. There has been political

buy-in for austerity measures, but elections on Nov. 20 are set to completely shift power in Spain.

Opinion polls suggest that the conservative People’s Party, which ruled from 1996 to 2004, will gain the largest parliamentary majority in decades. Its leaders have vowed to take austerity even further, promising to restructure the way government taxes and spends and revamp the relationship between the central and provincial governments.

That could put Spain on better footing, or it could create political strife that gets people out on the streets.

Portugal and Ireland, two other weak links in Europe, each have adopted severe austerity measures. Their risks are a weakening European economy that most analysts think is certain to enter at least a mild to moderate recession. If Europe’s economy struggles, it could lead to pressure on global banks to do as they did with Greece and agree to take a 50 percent loss on the bonds they hold in exchange for the issuance of new bonds with handsomer returns.

Charles Dallara, the head of the Institute of International Finance, the trade group for big international financial institutions, doesn’t think a Greeklike deal will be offered to anyone else.

“We see no evidence that suggests to us that there should be any extension of this unique approach that we have taken with Greece,” he said Wednesday in a conference call with reporters, pointing to positive improvements in Portugal and Ireland. “I have every reason to believe that a new government in Spain will be able to build on the progress that has been made, particularly over the last year or so.”

ROTC: Students train to develop new skills CONTINUED from page 1 freshmen and show them the ropes,” Fresno State student Brian Weskamp said.

Cadets had to learn to function on little sleep and live off of Meals Ready to Eat, also known as MRE. Their days began at 4:30 a.m. to midnight. Upon waking, cadets had to pack and subsequently carry their rucksacks throughout the day, which weigh approximately 30 pounds.

For many of the cadets, it was their first time using a firear m. Many seniors from the MS force were present and muzzle awareness was emphasized to ensure there were no accidents.

For a cadet to get basic rifle marksmanship, students had to fire three rounds within the confines of a sixcentimeter circle. From there, they zeroed the rifle to the target, where the objective is to hit the center of mass of the target with each shot.

Once the rifle is zeroed and grouped, the cadets moved on to qualification

where they fired 40 rounds into the target using three different firing positions.

In total, cadets were allowed to fire about 60 rounds from an M16. Cadets had to hit the target 26 times to qualify.

Once qualified, the cadet becomes a marksman and can eventually become a sharpshooter and expert marksman.

ROTC students also received training in repelling. To do this, cadets tied themselves into a “Swiss Seat,” which is essentially a harness they tie onto themselves with rope. The right hand is used as a brake and held near the lower back, the left hand is held forward to guide the rope.

“The knots, equipment and ropes are all safe and here were a lot of cheers and good jobs as the cadets went down the tower. It was a really great way to end a three-day training exercise,” Fresno State professor of military science Lt. Col. Figlioli said.

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Anti-US politicians on the rise as Pakistan ponders elections

By Saeed Shah McClatchy-Tribune With expectations rising in Pakistan of an election being called within months, anti-American politicians are in the ascendancy, leaving the current pro-U.S. government facing defeat.

Imran Khan, a charismatic former cricket star turned politician who is fiercely anti-American, has grabbed the popular imagination recently. But it’s another critic of the U.S., former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who’s more likely to rise to the top.

Sharif’s party, which leads the official opposition and rules the provincial government in the all-important Punjab re gion, this year stopped accepting U.S. aid money as funds from an “enemy.” Khan promises to tear up Islamabad’s alliance with Washington, and he’s made resistance to U.S. drone missile strikes against suspected militants in Pakistan’s tribal areas one of the cornerstones of his politics.

The government of President Asif Ali Zardari, whose party was helped to power in 2008 under a deal with Pakistan’s military that was brokered in part by Washington, is sinking in popularity, mired in corruption scandals and tarnished by poor performance in office.

The Obama administration is pressing Pakistan to help it in Afghanistan by cutting off insurgent sanctuaries on its territory and bringing “reconcilable” Taliban to the negotiating table.

But in a country of soaring anti-Americanism, the coming to power of Sharif or Khan could sink whatever remains of the troubled Washington-Islamabad partnership.

A survey in June by Pew Research Center, a Washington-based pollster, found that 73 percent of Pakistanis have an unfavorable view of the United States, while just 14 percent believed that it’s a good thing that Osama bin Laden was killed.

Khan, who entered politics 15 years ago but has struggled to gain traction until now, staged a massive rally Sunday in Lahore, the provincial capital of Punjab, where he proclaimed that an electoral “tsunami” would sweep him to power.

He has a reputation for being favored

by Pakistan’s powerful military, which controls the country’s foreign and security policies and shapes the relationship with the United States.

“Our leaders owned this war on terror for the sake of dollars,” Khan told the crowd in Lahore, Sharif’s hometown. “You sold out the blood of innocent people.”

Pakistanis are deeply disillusioned with both Zardari’s Pakistan Peoples Party and Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League-N, which have alternated in power but are accused of corruption and incompetence. Many see the untried Khan as a savior, in a country heading toward collapse under extremist violence and an economy in free fall.

But Pakistan doesn’t have a presidential election system, meaning that Khan stands a chance only if there is a sea-change in voting behavior and millions break out of the established system of political party loyalty.

In Pakistan, voters elect local candidates, and the party with the most elected candidates gets to form the government. Khan lacks strong local candidates and party machinery, compared to the two big political parties.

That gives an important advantage to Zardari, who’s proved adept at building political coalitions, an art that has eluded Khan and Sharif. Zardari’s government is a coalition of four political parties.

But Zardari is wildly unpopular, even within his own party, the Pew survey found, with just 11 percent of those surveyed saying they held a favorable view of him.

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Recreation Administration 150 class to visit Rose Bowl

By Alene Istanboulian The Collegian This Saturday, Nov. 5, the Fresno State Recreation Administration 150 class, known as RA150, will attend the UCLA Bruins football game against the Arizona State Sun Devils at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif. The class will advise the UCLA athletic department as well as Rose Bowl officials on what they can do to improve the overall game day experience at the facility.

A group of 20 students will attend the event and evaluate how the facility is operated. They will observe every aspect of the stadium’s operation, including the flow of traffic, parking organization, crowd control, risk management, ease of access points into the venue, signage and the effectiveness of the venue’s staff and security. The students will then compile their findings into a report and submit it to the UCLA athletic department.

Dr. Michael Mahoney, professor of RA150, said this is the second year that his students will attend a Rose Bowl event.

“We were invited back this year because of the feedback from the report that the students compiled last year,” Mahoney said. “This lets [UCLA] create a better experience for their fans. They invited us back to do a similar exercise this year.”

Mahoney wanted his students to be able to experience a popular event at a large venue in order to understand all the aspects that are necessary to make an event run successfully.

“We can talk about it in class, but when we actually go to a venue, we are able to go in and break it down,”

Mahoney said. “Walking through it and coming back, analyzing it as a group and putting it in a professional format ties my students to the industry.

It also gives back to UCLA to look at things objectively.”

Tory Ray, a senior majoring in kinesiology and sports administration attended the trip in fall 2010.

to experience what she’s been learning in Mahoney’s class first hand.

“We’re going to go there as a fresh pair of eyes and try to notice things that the stadium personnel would usually look over,” Ragsac said. “We’ve been learning how to operate stadi-

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lot of people think that being a [recreation] major is easy, but there's more than meets the eye. It's more realworld knowledge that is utilized in doing this type of thing.”

— Tory Ray, kinesiology and sports administration major

“A lot of people think that being a [recreation] major is easy, but there’s more than meets the eye. It’s more real-world knowledge that is utilized in doing this type of thing,” Ray said.

“You’re managing a crowd of 100,000 people — that’s almost the size of the city of Clovis. There’s a lot of planning, management and execution of these plans in order to have a safe and successful game day event.”

Jestinne Ragsac, a junior majoring in public relations, is attending the RA150 trip this Saturday and is excited

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Students in the RA150 course will visit the Rose Bowl to advise the UCLA athletic department and Rose Bowl officials on what they can do to improve game day experience at the stadium.

Fresno State students to participate in the Central Valley Dance Festival

By Suzanna Gutierrez The Collegian Fresno State dance students will be participating in the dance show of the year this weekend, Nov. 5.

The Central Valley Dance Festival will be happening this weekend. This is the sixth year for the festival and many dance groups from around Fresno will be participating, including Fresno State’s very own contemporary dance ensemble.

CDE is a course offered at Fresno State for dance majors and minors.

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t's not meant for a few people, It's meant for everybody.”

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The dancers enrolled in the course are required to obtain a course number in order to be part of the class.

Associate professor Kenneth Balint, whose title for the course is artistic director, said the dance festival is in lines with what the class is about.

“The beauty of this class is that it’s a perfor mance class,” Balint said.

“The idea of the class is to train and rehearse and perform.”

Balint said the festival is a commu-

ums, convention centers and big sports complexes, so it’ll be cool to see how it all works. Hopefully we can contribute some good.”

nity festival.

“It’s not meant for a few people. It’s meant for everybody,” Balint said.

Balint said anyone who has interest in dance should attend. “It’s not like it’s going to be a ballet concert, or a modern concert or a jazz concert,” Balint said. “It’s really a little bit of everything.”

Katherine Dorn, a dance major at Fresno State, has been dancing since the age of 3. Dorn will be participating in the dance festival with CDE. She took part in the festival last year as well. Dorn said she enjoyed it last year.

“There was a lot of variety in the types of dance,” Dorn said.

Leesha Melson is also a dance major at Fresno State. She has participated in the festival as well and said it is a lot of fun.

“I love performing so it’s always good to have an opportunity to perform,” Melson said.

Melson recommends Fresno State take the opportunity to go to the festival.

“It’s a great opportunity to just see all the dancers from the Valley,” Melson said.

The piece CDE will be performing at the festival is a five-minute excerpt of a 16-minute piece.

The Central Valley Dance Festival will take place on Saturday, Nov. 5 at 7 p.m. It will be located at the Fresno Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium. The event will cost $25 at the door.

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Brian Wilson discusses his new ‘In the Key of Disney’ Rock and Roll Hall of Famer says new album has humor to it

By Randy Lewis McClatchy-Tribune LOS ANGELES — Brian Wilson’s music has consistently acknowledged his inner child, sometimes to the extent of obscuring his outer adult. So there’s a certain logic to the former Beach Boy putting his spin on songs from the Disney archives with his latest album, “In the Key of Disney,” which came out last week.

“The album has humor in it, it has sweetness in it and a little uptempo music in it,” Wilson, 69, said while seated on a sofa in the living room of his Beverly Hills home last week. “All the Disney lyrics are good; every single one of those lyrics is good.”

It’s the sound of the other shoe dropping on the two-album deal he signed with the Disney Pearl label, the first of which, “Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin,” surfaced last year, and included his completion of two song

fragments George Gershwin left behind when he died in 1937 at age 38.

Wilson didn’t have to finish any uncompleted work this time, but he applied his signature ar ranging, orchestration and vocal harmonies to a dozen songs from recent-vintage Disney films including “Toy Story 3” (“We Belong Together”) and “The Lion King” (“Can You Feel the Love Tonight”) back to such quintessential movies as “Dumbo” (“Baby Mine”) and “Pinocchio” (“When You Wish Upon a Star”).

The latter song was the first thing that sprang to mind for Wilson when Disney Pearl execs broached the idea of him singing an album’s worth of Disney songs.

“I knew right away I wanted to do that one,” Wilson said, “because I’d heard Rosemary Clooney sing it. It’s a wonderful tune.” To illustrate the See DISNEY, Page 6 Lionel Hahn / McClatchy-Tribune

The 69-year-old Brian Wilson is excited for the release of his new album “In the Key of Disney.”

The album contains a little bit of everything, Wilson said.

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In “Winter’s Bone” he plays a methaddicted hillbilly who helps lead his niece to the corpse of her missing father. And in the Sundance sensation “Martha Marcy May Marlene,” he’s the charismatic, Charles Manson-like leader of a deadly cult.

“I’ve only played a couple characters like that in my life,” Hawkes said in a recent phone interview. “I’ve been in a hundred movies and television shows, so I’m not worried about being typecast.”

On the red carpet at this year’s Academy Awards, where Hawkes was nominated as best supporting actor for “Winter’s Bone,” he was grinning like a giddy kid.

At 52, Hawkes has taken flight from the flock of anonymous actors who subsist on leftover roles. He’s co-starring in the biopic “Lincoln” for Steven Spielberg. Yet Hawkes says success has been a mixed blessing.

“On some levels, my life is better, and

the Oscar nomination made my family proud,” he said. “But on some levels, it’s a hassle. I don’t want to sell myself out to the highest bidder and just make studio movies. I’ve done a few big-budget movies, like ‘The Perfect Storm’ and ‘American Gangster,’ but for the past 15 years, I’ve mostly chosen to do independent films, and that’s what I will continue to do.”

Between movies, the Minnesota native has had recurring roles in t h e a c cl a i m e d t e l ev i s i o n s e r i e s “Deadwood,” in which he played a frontier merchant, and “Eastbound and Down,” in which he plays the brother of a misbehaving baseball coach.

Hawkes, whose road to Hollywood took him through Austin, Texas, is also a musician who has a roots-rock band called King Straggler.

“I’m not interested in a life of fame or being a movie star,” he said. “That’s not sour grapes — it’s just the truth. I want to have a normal life and do my work, and I can’t do that if I’m insulated in some mansion somewhere. I’m a private person who doesn’t want to be famous. I’m willing to do publicity for films I believe in, but I’m not interested in yammering about myself. And I don’t think I can do effective work if people know too much about me. I’m trying to be a mystery.”

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DISNEY: Two-album deal finally coming to finish CONTINUED from page 5 point, he started humming the opening of the song a cappella, adding, “It’s got beautiful ascending and descending lines.”

Another facet of the appeal of that song, he said, is that it originated with his favorite Disney film. “’Pinocchio’ is the one I like the most. That’s my very favorite Disney character.”

“In the Key of Disney” includes a pair of songs written by one of Wilson’s contemporaries and another of the most gifted composer-arrangers in all of pop music: Randy Newman. Along with “We Belong Together,” Wilson opens the album with the theme song from the first entry in the “Toy Story” franchise, “You’ve Got a Friend in Me.” Newman’s trove of work aside from his film scoring over the last 30 years didn’t escape Wilson’s notice.

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interesting lyric, to tell you the truth. I can’t describe it _ it’s just a really crazy lyric; really crazy lyric.”

The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer saved perhaps his greatest praise, however, for “Stay Awake,” the lullaby from “Mary Poppins,” a film that came out the same year Wilson and the Beach Boys were flying high on the pop charts with hits including “Fun, Fun Fun” and “I Get Around.”

“Stay Awake” never attracted as much attention as that film’s upbeat numbers “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious,” “Chim Chim Cheree” and “A Spoonful of Sugar.” But to Wilson, composer of heart-rending ballads such as “God Only Knows” and “Don’t Worry Baby,” “Stay Awake” is “the most beautiful song I’ve ever heard.”

“I love that song, I love it,” he said.

“It’s just the prettiest song I’ve ever heard. I don’t know what it is about

he album has humor in it, it has sweetness in it and a little uptempo music in it.”

— Brian Wilson, musician on his new album “In the Key of Disney”

“I bought ‘Sail Away’ in 1972, listened to it and it blew my brains, it really did,” Wilson said. “He’s a helluva music guy. ‘I Love L.A.,’ that was great one too.”

The man who once sang “columnated ruins domino” in “Surf’s Up,” for which he collaborated with lyricist Van Dyke Parks, said he chose to take on the ballad “Colors of the Wind” from “Pocahontas” because “It’s a very

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it. Even ‘Strangers in the Night’: Well, that’s a pretty tune. But ‘Stay Awake’ is even prettier.”

His exploration of songs spanning more than half a century of pop songwriting reinforced his feeling that “Songwriting has evolved a little bit.

I think it reached its peak in the ‘60s.

There were some (good songs) in the ‘70s also, but I think it all wound up in the ‘60s as the renaissance.”

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PLAY REVIEW: “FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE

CONSIDERED SUICIDE WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF”

By Ezra Romero The Collegian Director Thomas-Whit Ellis made a brilliant move when he decided to stage Ntozake Shange’s “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf” in the arena-style theatre at Fresno State.

The 20-poem choreopoem, originally written by Shange in 1975, tells the story of seven African-American women and what it is like to be a colored woman in modern America. Each of the women is embodied by a different color and is known by that color for the play’s entirety. The play deals with a wide range of issues including rape, abortion, breakup, murder and domestic violence. Each issue is told through the womens’ stories.

The high level of acting brought by the local actresses personally floored me. In just shy of two hours the audience and I were in tumultuous laughter and were brought to the point of fighting tears.

The play fueled with eloquent words, humor and dancing, takes the audience through the lives of these seven women beginning in childhood.

Because of the arena-style seating in the Dennis and Cheryl Woods Theatre, “For Colored Girls” places the audience in the living room of a woman who has been date raped, the backseat of a Buick where a girl loses her virginity, the scene of a crime where a woman plagued by domestic violence witnesses her childrens’ murders, the streets of Harlem where a woman is taunted, into the imagination of an African-American 8-year-old girls and others.

The costume design was simple, but lacked the flair to embody the sultriness of the women in the play. The costumes could have been a little more elaborate. I felt they were slapped together a bit.

Throughout the play the acting is what really blew me away. These women owned the four corners of the stage and even ventured into the

crowd. They brought such ferocity to the stage that I dare say University Theatre has not felt in years.

Near the beginning of the play the women discuss how they lost their virginity. Lady in Yellow confesses to the others that she lost her virginity in the back of a Buick on prom night. After her confession a sea of heads turned as all the other women in turn repeated something in unison like, “You gave it up in the back of a Buick!” After that line the audience was hooked.

The play continues as each woman takes turns acting out scenarios as herself or that of a male lover. It was interesting and amusing as an audience member to look into the life of each woman through the filter of an African-American woman, especially when it came to viewing the AfricanAmerican man.

Despite the vibrancy of speech the dancing lacked motivation. The group choreography could have been stronger, but the individual choreography was phenomenal. Especially when it came to Lady in Blues last big number. Her performance had notes of Africana in it. The vigor and tenacity in her lines within the number pulled the audience in engulfing the viewers into the story whole-heartedly. Lady in Blue, hands down, stole the show.

To the naked eye the production may seem like it has a man hating spirit to it, but as long as women are plagued with issues that many times men load onto women, its messages remain relevant.

“For Colored Girls” concludes with the story of a tragic domestic violence dispute, which leads to the uniting of the women.

This production is well worth seeing and I would consider it to be the gem of the season for University Theatre at Fresno State.

The play runs through Nov. 5.

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Fresno State’s soccer facility opens just in time for WAC Tournament

By Tim Salazar The Collegian Fresno State’s soccer team hosts the Wester n Athletic C o n f e re n c e To u r n a m e n t , which began on Thursday on its new soccer facility.

This is the final year that the Bulldogs will compete in the WAC because they will make the move to the Mountain West Conference next season.

The Bulldogs are the reigning WAC Tournament champions and are looking to recapture the magic they had last year when they defeated San Jose State, 3-1, with a couple penalty kicks.

The penalty kick factor could also come into play again this postseason with the ‘Dogs having the ability to stretch games into overtime, something they did six times during the regular season. Five of the overtime games ended in ties after the games remained tied after double overtime. If a game goes that far in tournament play, penalty kicks will decide the winner.

Head coach Brian Zwaschka realizes that penalty kicks could decide Fresno State’s fate, but also recognizes the importance of having the home field advantage.

“We love playing in front of our home crowd,” Zwaschka said. “The very idea of knowing the bulk of the fan support

will be a tremendous lift for the team.”

The Bulldogs will go into the tournament as the No. 2 seed behind only Utah State. With the second seed, Fresno State has a bye in the first round of the tournament. The ‘Dogs earned their seeding by going 3-1-1 in conference play and finished the season 10-4-5 overall.

Having the WAC Tournament in the Bulldogs’ back yard this year means a number of differences compared to previous years, as senior Laura Dodd pointed out.

“I think it’s huge,” Dodd said. “Usually this trip is so long. It’s nice to be more relaxed at home.”

The six-team tour nament will be held at the new soccer and lacrosse facility near Bulldog Stadium. This will be the first event that will be held on the new field.

The ‘Dogs will find out if the new facility can provide the similar home field advantage that Bulldog Stadium has all season long as Fresno State went 4-0-2 at home.

With the WAC Tournament at home, it will be the final tournament for seniors Molly Nizzoli, Kendall VanDine, Rachel Pickett and Dodd.

“It’s exciting the tour nament can be at our home field my last year,” Dodd said. “I’ll

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The new soccer and lacrosse facility was finished just in time for this weekend’s Western Athletic Conference soccer tournament. Fresno State is the reigning WAC champion and now has a facility to help it defend its title.

miss my teammates we built a pretty good friendship, with everyone.”

Their collegiate careers are not over yet and it might not be a quick exit in the tournament since no opponents have been able to play a game on the new surface before the tournament.

There are some differences between Bulldog Stadium and

the soccer and lacrosse facility. The main difference is the new field is wider, which could benefit the Bulldogs’ style of play.

This could come in handy with first matches starting on Thursday at noon between No. 4 San Jose State and No. 5 Idaho. Fresno State will be paying close attention to the second game between No. 3

Hawaii and No. 6 New Mexico State with the winner moving on to face the ‘Dogs on Friday.

Zwaschka gave some thoughts on WAC Tournament’s playing surface. “ I t ’ s a g r e a t s u r f a c e, ” Zwaschka said. “We’re really proud of it.”

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resno State is coming off a much-needed bye week after losing two of its last three games.

Now the ‘Dogs move back into Western Athletic Conference play against Louisiana Tech this Saturday. The Bulldogs have been up and down all season similar to their West Coast counterpart.

Last year the ‘Dogs traveled to Ruston, La. to play Louisiana Tech. Fresno State came away with the 40-34 victory ag ainst an improved Bulldogs team. The 2011 version of Louisiana Tech should provide the ‘Dogs with another tough task.

Sarah Brown is the cosports editor at Louisiana Tech and sports editor Jerry Huerta caught up with her to talk about what the ‘Dogs can expect from the Bulldogs in another Western Athleic Conference game for Fresno State this season.

Q: What can Fresno State expect from Louisiana Tech’s offense?

A: Fresno State can expect a new offense out of Louisiana Tech. Since starting quarterback Nick Isham’s injury at Utah State on Oct. 22, the offense has really stepped it

up and has done a better job of executing plays. Running back Lennon Creer and wide receiver Quinton Patton are two of the main powerhouses for the Louisiana Tech offense.

Everyone knows to look for No. 4 and No. 5 when the offense is on the field.

Q: What has quarterback Nick Isham meant to the program this season?

A: Isham was the best thing to happen to Louisiana Tech. In the past, its always struggled with a quarterback problem, but now Isham is a favorite. I was at the Signing Day luncheon when they announced him as a recruit, and his videos from high school were beyond astounding. A lot of people in Ruston, La. see a lot of potential from him in the next few years to become a great quarterback.

Q: What kind of impact can Lennon Creer have?

A: Creer is one of the strongest guys on the Louisiana Te c h o f f e n s e. O n c e h e ’ s released with the ball, it takes a lot to stop him. That’s why he’s scored nine touchdowns this season. Patton is right behind him with seven touchdowns.

Q: What kind of offense will

Louisiana Tech run?

A: I’m not sure what kind of offense the Bulldogs will run, but junior quarterback Colby Cameron is expected to start. With his experience, he appears more poised than Isham and is more comfortable with the receivers.

Q: Who is the leader of the defense?

A : Defensive back Chad Boyd is definitely the leader of the defense. He’s made some key plays that have helped the Bulldog defensive line to force three-and-outs, interceptions and cause frustrations among the opponent’s offensive line.

Q: What can Fresno State expect from Louisiana Tech’s defense?

A : Louisiana Tech’s defense’s goal is to try to find a way to shut the offense down.

They’ve improved a lot from the start of the season and have held the opponent from making some stellar plays that could really change the momentum of the game.

Q: What kind of scheme does Louisiana Tech run?

A: Fresno State can expect to have some of their key plays shut down, and to be on the lookout for Louisiana Tech to come together as a whole and

stop them. That’s the thing about Tech — it’s not about one player — it’s the whole team.

Q: What are your thoughts on punter Ryan Allen?

A: Junior Ryan Allen is an extremely poised punter. I always watch to see how far the ball goes once we’re forced to punt. He’s up for the Ray Guy Award for his exceptional punting skills.

Q: How has head coach Sonny Dykes impacted this program?

A: Head coach Sonny Dykes has been a good coach after having for mer head coach Derek Dooley leave. He’s not the perfect coach, but he’s worked hard with the team to make sure the only place they go is up.

Q : What will it tak e for Louisiana Tech to beat Fresno State on Saturday?

A: If Louisiana Tech just holds its ground and executes well, it’ll most likely beat Fresno State. The other key is playing all four quarters. The Bulldogs will play stellar the first half then give up in the second. Dykes has really been on his team about playing all four quarters, and the past few weeks have really shown that.

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WEEK 9 PREVIEW

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, AT 7:30 PM, BULLDOG STADIUM

Bulldog Game Day

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3-1

2-1 Analysis by Jerry Huerta

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Keys to Victory 1. Contain the Creer Fresno State faces another stellar rushing attack with Louisiana Tech’s Lennon Creer coming to town. He has 411 yards on 98 carries and six touchdowns. Creer just ran for 119 yards against San Jose State. The Fresno State defense needs to keep contain if it hopes to stop Creer.

2. Limit the ‘Big Play’ The big play has hurt Fresno State all season long, so this is the perfect time for the ‘Dogs to finally limit these plays, especially if they want to stay in the conference title race and reach another bowl game.

3. Continue making plays In the past two games, the ‘Dogs have continued to make plays in the run game and pass game.

Fresno State will need to continue to utilize the deep ball and power runs to keep the Louisiana Tech defense honest.

Position matchups

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The Bulldog faithful will be counted on to pile into Bulldog Stadium to create noise with WAC foe Louisiana Tech coming to town.

Breakdown: La. Tech

Louisiana Tech has not only shared the same mascot as Fresno State this season, it has also shared the same level of inconsistency as the West Coast’s version of the canine. Louisiana Tech narrowly lost to two Conference USA teams in Houston and Southern Mississippi. The Bulldogs have also lost to Southeaster n Conference member Mississippi State, 26-20.

The Bulldogs, like Nevada, employ a star ting freshman quarterback, but he recently went down with an injury. Junior quarterback Colby Cameron will step in behind center for Louisiana Tech. Senior Lennon Creer will be in the backfield to help Cameron against the

Fresno State defense. Creer has 411 yards on 98 carries and six touchdowns. He will give Fresno State a reason to respect the run. Helping out Cameron at wide receiver is junior Quinton Patton, who has 55 catches for 789 yards and seven touchdown receptions. He will keep the Fresno State secondary honest in the passing game.

O n d e f e n s e, Louis iana Tech has been playing better recently with the Bulldogs currently on a three-game winning streak. During the winning streak, Louisiana Tech has allowed 18.6 points per game, playing much stiffer defense than seen earlier in 2011.

Breakdown: Fresno State

Fresno State returns home for its second-to-last game in Bulldog Stadium in 2011. The ‘Dogs are coming of their bye week after playing eight straight weeks, allowing all the players to get back on the same page for final stretch through the WAC. The ‘Dogs have four remaining WAC games and will need to win four of the last five games to become bowl eligible.

On offense, Fresno State will need to utilize its weapons, star ting with quarterback Derek Car r, who will manuever the offense.

Running back Robbie Rouse is closing in on his second consecutive 1,000-yard season. By the end of his collegiate career, he could be the all-time leading rusher in

school history. The offense’s best weapon could be punt returner Devon Wylie, who has to rebound from a key lost fumble against Nevada.

They say the best offense is a good defense, so if Fresno State limits the big plays and first downs to get the ball back to Carr and company, the ‘Dogs could be in good shape. Defensive lineman Logan Harrell has provided the leadership and nonstop motor the defense has needed all season long. Harrell and the rest of the defense will need to be on the same page this weekend.

If the ‘Dogs can control the line of scrimmage and play stout defense, Fresno State could get the big WAC win Saturday.

Getting to know the ‘Bayou Bulldogs’

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Player to watch: Lennon Creer, running back

Wins against: San Jose State, Utah State, Idaho, Central Arkansas Losses to: Southern Miss., Houston, Hawaii, Mississippi State Head coach: Sonny Dykes, 2nd year Offense: Multiple Defense: 4-3 Key players: Lennon Creer, RB, Quinton Patton, WR, Nick Isham, QB, Adrien Cole, LB

Series record: Fresno State leads 9-3 Last meeting: 2010, Fresno State won 40-34 Point Spread: Fresno State favored by 3 points EDITOR’S PREDICTION: Fresno State: 33, Louisiana Tech: 30

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When Fresno State runs: Advantage - Fresno State RB Robbie Rouse could finish the season in historic company with some of the best backs in Fresno State history. Rouse is currently eighth in country with 123 rushing yards per game.

When Louisiana Tech runs: Advantage - Louisiana Tech Fresno State’s run defense ranks in the bottom tier of rush defenses in the WAC and faces a talented back in Lennon Creer.

When Fresno State passes: Advantage - Fresno State QB Derek Carr continues to provide efficient efforts while limiting the amount of turnovers he gives up. Carr needs to continue to play turnover-free football.

When Louisiana Tech passes: Advantage - Louisiana Tech Louisiana Tech’s offense has mostly been a run-based attack, but with new starting quarterback Colby Cameron behind center, the other Bulldogs could air it out.

Special teams: Advantage - Even Senior Kevin Goessling has given Fresno State a consistent scoring option in the kicking game as he has made seven of 11 field goals so far this season.