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Budget cuts again affect university By Samuel Cosby The Collegian Following the trend of the last few years, Fresno State is implementing yet another budget cut for the 2011-12 fiscal year, with students and teachers seeing the largest effects. According to associate vice president of financial affairs Clint Moffitt, Fresno State’s budget is being cut by just less than $6 million for the fiscal year. Moffit said the state’s general fund is $223.8 million. Last year Fresno State spent $229.1 million. “The state has allocated less money to CSUs and UCs,” Moffitt said. “All of the schools have taken their respective amount of reduction.” Alongside this, student tuition has increased as well to make up for the cuts. To make up for losses in the budget, student tuition has increased by a total of $22 million. “[About] 52 percent of our budget comes from our general fund, student tuition and fees,” Moffitt said. “The state is only providing 48 percent.” Staff salaries and staff benefits make up 80 percent of the school’s budget, Moffitt said. After that, maintenance and utility charges are the highest percentage of spending. Those most likely to see an effect from the budget cuts are students and teachers. “Academics is going to take 70 percent of the cut,” Moffitt said. Provost William A. Covino said that students will not see large changes over the next year, rather that the bud-
get has been affecting us slowly. As provost, Covino is a part of the committee that manages the academic budget. “The largest portion of the university budget is the academic budget,” Covino said. “The budget reduction affects us in academic affairs in a big way, because it impacts the library, all of the school and colleges, all of the academic departments, our research programs, our centers and institutions, etc.” An academic affair budget reduction task force has been set up to maintain the quality of education at Fresno State. Covino explained that the budget was being cut when he arrived at the university in 2009. To make up for the cuts in the budget this year, academic affairs has cut administrative positions, reduced staff positions, reduced funding to academic-funded programs and the schools and colleges are all running on reduced budgets. “The schools and colleges are trying to decrease the cost of low enrollment, low demand courses,” Covino said. “They are putting their dollars into high-enrollment, high-demand courses.” What this means for students is less variety in terms of class selection. “Students are going to need to plan more carefully and will be faced with few options for courses that they need,” Covino said. Covino said that we won’t see any shifts toward online classes or a reducSee TUITION, Page 3
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Fresno State department tries to understand a neurodegenerative disease Major university study uses fruit flies to understand Lou Gehrig’s disease By Giovanni Winna Patricia The Collegian An interdisciplinary collaboration team within Fresno State’s biology and chemistry department is trying to understand neuron degeneration disease, or Lou Gehrig’s disease, by using fruit flies in a major study. Fresno State biolog y professor Ulrike Muller and Fresno State biomechanics student Danial Husain are conducting a study to better understand the possible cause of Lou Gehrig’s disease. The study might be published in The Journal of Experimental Biology. A poster presentation at a South Carolina science conference in 2012 is also being planned. The study uses drosophila, also known as fruit flies, to record the effect of the consumption of neurotoxin glutamate, also known as Betamethylamino-L-alainine, or BMAA. BMAA might have an effect on the motor ability of an organism. BMAA has been found in some foods. The goal is to understand the symptoms of Lou Gehrig’s disease or specifically amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/parkinsonism-dementia. The Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Association, also known as ALS association, describes Lou Gehrig’s disease as a “progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in
the brain and the spinal cord.” Muller said Lou Gehrig’s disease has become a common disease in humans, especially older generations. “People who [are] diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s [disease] usually have only a few years to live,” Muller said. “You cannot survive the disease.” She said that the 10 percent of Lou Gehrig’s disease patients are genetically prone to it, while the cause of the disease for the other 90 percent remains unknown and has become a challenge for many researchers around the world. To better understand the disease, Muller and Joy Goto from the Fresno State chemistry department decided three years ago to initiate the research. Muller explained that in understanding a disease in humans, she needed an animal model. Muller and her team of researchers use fruit flies because they have a relatively short life cycle. This makes it easier for the research team to observe their growth and eventually death. “It is a nice and fast organism,” Muller said. “Because an organism usually catches the Lou Gehrig’s disease quite young.” The syndrome progresses more rapidly “when you are reaching pension See RESEARCH, Page 3
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Fresno State researchers use fruit flies to find the connection between BMAA and neurodegenerative syndrome. High resolution pictures, such as the one above, are used to observe the effect of BMAA by documenting the flies’ walking patterns.
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uring last Tuesday’s GOP presidential debate, just about every candidate touted their plan to solve the United States’ debt crisis. Herman Cain’s now infamous 9-9-9 plan, which includes a 9 percent business flat tax, 9 percent individual flat tax and 9 percent national sales tax, was pilloried by the rest of the Republican candidates. Rick Perry touted his soon-to-be-released economic plan, which apparently will feature a flat tax. Mitt Romney has a 59-point plan. None of these really addresses the issue of the debt in this country. All candidates skirt around the edges. All except for one man: Ron Paul.
Last week, Ron Paul released his “plan to restore America,” which would cut $1 trillion in his first year as president, achieving a budget surplus by 2015. Dr. Paul would abolish five cabinet departments — Energy, Housing and Urban Development, Commerce, Interior and Education — end corporate subsidies, stop foreign aid, end all foreign wars and return most spending to 2006 levels. As for entitlements, Paul would allow young people to opt-out of Social Security without touching our seniors’ benefits. He would block grant Medicaid to the states, freezing the program’s spending allotment. And he would do all of this while reducing the corporate tax rate to 15 percent and extending the Bush tax cuts. This is now the standard to which all Republican candidates must compare themselves to. Paul’s plan doesn’t just set us on the path to fiscal solvency — it takes us all the way there. “Ron Paul’s plan is the only one that seriously addresses the economic and budgetary problems our nation faces,” Paul campaign chairman Jesse Benton said. “It’s the only plan offered by a presidential candidate that actually balances the budget and begins to pay down the debt.” Even still, it has come under fire for its “draconian” cuts. “At the scale he’s talking about, it’s unlikely you could have an immediate reduction in government without hurtling the economy into
recession,”American Enterprise Institute economic policy director Kevin Hassett said in the Washington Post. And on Meet the Press, host David Gregory had a tough time understanding how the Paul plan would not hurt Americans. None of these concerns take into account the dire consequences of Americans if immediate action is not taken. If the United States continues to fall deeper and deeper into debt, a recession isn’t merely in our future — stagnation or a full-blown depression would be likely. And, Dr. Paul says, Americans, under his plan, would be just fine. Comparing his plan to the spending cuts the American government enacted following World War II, Paul said, “the resources aren’t diminished, the resources are put back into the economy and the people spend the money. Now all we do is give them debt. We tax, we borrow and then we inflate, and then we distort the economy and destroy production because the government takes over the economy, and that’s the negative.” Ron Paul is right. Government intervention into the economy does not help (see Bush, George W. and Obama, Barack). What our economy needs is a bold plan that will cure it of its ills in the short-term so that it will be healthy in the long-term. What it needs is Ron Paul in the White House.
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t ASI Senate meetings every other Wednesday, the Senate hears student concerns in two forums: Public Comment and Campus Issues. Public Comment is a time when students can share their sentiment about anything happening in ASI or on campus with ASI, and Campus Issues is a time to report physical problems you see around campus, such as pot holes, lighting issues, etc. Here are some updates on issues that have been brought forward through these forums by students. Bike racks in the Free Speech Area The bike racks that used to be located just outside the University Student Union across from the Professional Human Services building have been moved. They were placed there temporarily while the Free Speech Area was under construction, but can no longer fill that space as it is needed for club booths. The bike racks did not actually decrease in number, they were just relocated. The racks were spread out between several other bike rack locations near and around the Free Speech Area. For example, bike racks have been added near The Kennel Bookstore and the old Vintage Room Restaurant
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near the Memorial Fountain. However, because we have seen an increase in bikes on campus this year, there are currently plans to add even more bike racks to the area in addition to those that have been relocated. A new cement slab is being built next to the library and will be home to a new bike rack station, more than doubling the amount of bike parking available to students. This new bike rack location should be accessible from all sidewalks, whether you’re coming from the Free speech Area, dorms or a parking lot. Kinesiology Field Fence A fence is being built around the field space near the North and South Gyms and the Residence Dining Hall. ASI is currently working with students, the kinesiology department, intramurals staff and the administration to make sure the field space is still accessible to the general student body, and is not locked and closed off from students who want to use the field for pickup games, club sports practices and other recreational activities. We are currently still in discussion about the field, the policy for reserving the field, finding or creating additional field space for students and how these green spaces should be monitored and regulated. Open senator position and com-
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear editor: I feel the urge to express to the world my love affair with the Occupy Wall Street protesters. I love what they are doing, I love what they stand for and I love what they write on their signs. I love that they are standing up for themselves by defecating on police cars, openly sharing narcotics and engaging in sexual acts in public parks. I love how some want to bring down capitalism and United States. I love that they want to return the world to primitivism where we all rely on a hunter-gatherer system with little simple farming. I love how they are OK with the billions of deaths it would result in. I love that they openly admit they do not know what “credit” or a “stock” is.
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I love how even though they aren’t protesting at the White House or the Capitol, they are protesting the policies and actions of the Democrat party and not Wall Street. I love how there is now a plethora of video interviews of them on the Internet so everyone can see their ignorance. I love how the Democrat party is trying to absorb them similarly to how the Republican party tried to absorb the Tea Party. I love that even though they have no actual knowledge on anything they are talking about, they are brave enough to go out in public and on television. I want the world to know their message. I love that the OWS movement is the best thing to ever happen to the Republican party. I love that the Democrats want to assimilate a part of a generation who believes that they are entitled to everything, doesn’t think that their personal success should be their responsibility and are willing to sleep in a park every day to prove it. I love that I have never felt so optimistic and confident that a Republican will win in 2012. Thank you OWS. Matt Shupe Chairman, Fresno State College Republicans
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TUITION: Courses set to decline again CONTINUED from page 1 tion of Friday classes because of the budget cuts. There are also no furlough days planned for the coming semesters. “Online courses don’t necessarily save money,” Covino said. Professors will also see effects from the cuts, dean of
instead of once every semester, we teach them once every other semester and we advise students.” Students “are still going to get the same level of education, we are just able to deliver it at a lower cost,” Nef added. In total, teachers have seen about a 10-percent increase in class size.
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tudents are going to need to plan more carefully and will be faced with few options for courses they need.” — William A. Covino, Provost and vice president for academic affairs
undergraduate studies Dennis Nef explained. “We can see some of that this fall when you look at the average class size,” Nef said. “The average class size has gone up a little bit in most programs.” Departments are having to offer larger sections so they can fund smaller major courses that they still need, Nef said. “We have a lot of small-section courses,” Nef said. “If we teach them less frequently,
But this doesn’t take into account that some courses are larger, while some classes remain the same, said Lisa Weston, chair of the California Faculty Association and the English department at Fresno State. “ O bv i o u s ly, we a re n o t happy about this,” Weston said. “What this means is less time for students. It effectively increases our workload. We are getting paid the same amount of money to do more work.”
Weston said she has been noticing much fuller general education courses. One of the other problems that Weston has seen is an increase in the “invisible work” that professors do without credit or pay. “We haven’t been replacing retired faculty,” Weston said. “And what that means is we have more work to do because there [are] fewer people to sit on the same committees and task forces.” Weston also noted that more and more of her colleagues are taking more sick days. “We’d like to see a rational workload that will allow us to teach the students as we think best, rather than what’s efficient,” Weston said. “In terms of the budget, during tough times, it would be a good idea to see more money go into the classrooms, rather than new creative and wonderful initiatives.” Moffitt says that students may also see longer lines in campus offices. “Students are going to find that some services have d e c re a s e d , ” M o f f i t t s a i d . “There will be longer lines in some areas because administrators have reduced their staff.” One thing students won’t see though is a decrease in library hours. Because of continued complaints re g arding the library hours, funds have been allotted to maintain those as well as the tutoring center, Moffitt and Covino explained. Moffitt said that it is likely students will again see tuition increases in the coming years. “If the state appropriation is reduced again, we will most likely see some tuition increases,” Moffitt said. Moffitt explained that one of the only ways to fix the longstanding problems that Fresno State has with the budget is for students to talk to their representatives. “Students need to get into contact with their local legislatures and state representatives,” Moffitt said. “We need to reinforce the concept that the CSU system provides higher education to students. The trend needs to be to stop providing less and less.”
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RESEARCH: Ongoing study CONTINUED from page 1 age, so you want to have an organism that gets old very fast,” Muller added. Muller explained that some humans start developing this disease because they consume BMAA, an amino acid that is produced by blue-green algae and has been found in some foods. Fresno State researchers
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believe the symptom is mostly environmental. Muller and her voluntarybased research team have been conducting the research by feeding BMAA to the fruit flies and observing the results. “Indeed our fruit flies developed similar problems as humans,” Muller said. “They lose motor control just like Parkinson’s [disease] patients.” Besides focusing on the molecular effects caused by BMAA, Muller said the research is also focusing on the behavioral outcomes from the infected fruit flies. The fruit flies are given different doses of the neurotoxin BMAA and the researchers are observing how different levels of neurotoxins work in the fruit flies’ motor ability. So far, the study has found that at higher dosages of consumption, about the same level as daily food consumption for human, the fruit flies faced an elevated mor tality. They had severe motor disability compared to those who were fed a smaller dosage of BMAA. However, the fruit flies with smaller dosages of BMAA develop unexpected behavioral outcome. “The surprising thing is when you give the flies lower dosage of BMAA, they become hyperactive,” Muller said. “That is surprising because
we expected them to go shaky but we didn’t expect them to become hyperactive.” Muller said that even the fruit flies with small dosages of BMAA eventually got Lou Gehrig’s disease. However, in lower dosage of BMAA, the flies went through a hyperactive period before they finally lost their motor ability. By using an animal model for a very lethal disease, Muller explained that they need people from different departments to collaborate in the research. Biologists are in charge of observing the behavioral outcomes of the infected fruit flies, while chemists are focusing on the molecular level of the research. Computer scientists are working on the programming to make the research process more effective and efficient. Students who are working in the research study are learning how to work as a team and collaborate with different departments. Husain said that through this project, he has gained not only academic benefits, but has also been able to learn how to work with people and different responsibilities. “I have been learning a lot from this project, probably more than I have learned in any of my classes,” Husain said. “Because ... in classes people tell you what to do, but when you have to do it yourself, it’s kind of a different feeling.” Husain said he is working on the abstract and introduction of the paper and plans to have it published next year. “Any help from anyone interested in gaining new experience in research would be very helpful for us,” Kevin Maxkwee, co-author of the research paper, said. “I suggest science students to start getting involved in research as early as their sophomore years.” M u l l e r s a i d A s s o c i at e d Students, Inc., (ASI) and Fresno State have been supporting the research financially, although in the future Muller and Goto are hoping to get other funding.
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Meat judging takes the bacon By Megan Letson The Collegian Competing on Fresno State’s meat judging team isn’t always a picnic, but the team does provide a feast of opportunities for students. “If you are going to be in the meat industry, you want this on your resume,” graduate student and meat team coach Crystal Waters said. “Opportunities for our really small program are endless.”
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f you are going to be in the meat industry, you want this on your resume.” — Crystal Waters, meat judging team coach
Not only is Fresno State’s meat judging team small, it is the only four-year university team to compete on the West Coast. “ T h e cl o s e s t t e a m t o u s i s i n Colorado,” Waters said. “We are so small, no one has heard of us, but we’ve actually done very well." The team itself is broken down into a senior team and a junior team. The five current members of the senior team
compete in three fall competitions while the junior team learns the basics of judging carcasses and cuts of meat. The junior team then must try out to compete in the three spring contests. “You have to try, you have to be good and you have to be competitive,” Waters said. There is only room for six people to go to each competition, and so far there are eight junior members working for a spot. The team travels to places such as Colorado, Texas and Nebraska for competitions against 20 other universities, on average. “It takes a lot of logic,” Waters said. “You have to be very fast and quick thinking.” Judging is also very methodical and takes a lot of memorization, Waters added. The students learn to evaluate both carcasses and wholesale cuts of beef, pork and lamb. At a competition the students don’t know what type of animal, cut or carcass they will be evaluating until the competition starts. They will be presented with either four cuts or four carcasses of one of the three animals. They then have to rank the products from best to worst. After that they present structured written reasons as to why they ranked the products the way they did. This all has to be done within a time limit. “It is a ton of stuff they have to prepare for the first semester before they start traveling,” Waters said about the junior members.
“I think it’s fun,” animal science major Jenny Krage said. “It’s a good learning experience, you get a lot of industry connections.” To help prepare for the competitions, the team evaluates animals not only from Fresno State’s livestock but from local plants such as Harris Ranch, Cargill, Superior Lamb and Yosemite Meats as well. “We have the opportunity to judge and evaluate all the species within four hours of Fresno,” animal science professor John Henson, the team advisor said. The team also goes on industry tours where it gets to see the large meat processing plants such as Tyson Fresh
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hey've seen things on industry tours I would say students across the country haven't, like high pressure processing and product irradiation.” — John Henson, team advisor
Meats Inc. “The industry tours are g reat,” Henson said, “They’ve seen things on
industry tours I would say students across the country haven’t, like highpressure processing and product irradiation; opportunities that you can’t get anywhere else.” On one tour, the team went to 14 meat plants in three days. “They met all of the powers to be at those companies and made contacts they’ll use later when they’re ready to be employed,” Henson said. The team doesn’t necessarily consist of only agriculture majors, however. “It is open to anyone in the university who has an interest in critical thinking, oral communication, written communication and networking for future employment,” Henson said. The team’s students have to prepare for competitions, travel for days at a time to get to tours and competitions, get their school work done and sometimes have jobs to account for. “It really does take a special breed of person to handle the pressure. It takes a lot of balance,” Waters said. The rewards of the experience can be great, though. “I was a student at Fresno State and probably one of the most significant experiences I had was being on a judging team. The opportunity to travel across the country, see what’s going on at other universities, visit industry folks and their facilities and compete at a very high level with like universities across the country; it’s a great opportunity,” Henson said.
Study: $4 billion goes to community college dropouts By Rita Giordano McClatchy-Tribune A new national study reports that federal, state, and local governments invested nearly $4 billion in full-time community colle ge students who dropped out after their first year. In Pennsylvania, that five-year expenditure amounted to about $87 million $98 million in New Jersey in government aid to students and support to schools, according to data released Thursday by the American Institute for Research of Washington. Nationally, the report's authors say, nearly $1 billion in government funds was spent on these first-time students who dropped out in 2008-09, the most recent year surveyed, a 35 percent increase from five years before. "The Hidden Costs of Community Colleges" comes when the colleges are seeing swelling enrollment and increasing demands on their services. Their student bodies now include displaced workers, remedial students, non-English speakers, and students seeking more affordable higher education. Also, community colleges feature prominently in the Obama administration's pledge to substantially increase the number of the nation's college graduates by 2020. "Given the central role that community colleges play in the nation's plans to regain its position as the numberone country in the world when it comes to college-educated adults, and given the increasing fiscal difficulties facing individual states and the nation as a whole, it is clear that 'business as usual' is far too expensive," the report states. The report by the nonpartisan socialissue and behavioral-science research group calls for improved measures to try to ensure that students who enter certificate and associate-degree programs actually graduate. Christopher Mullin, an of ficial with the American Association of Community Colleges, said the colleges serve multiple missions and are committed to seeing more students graduate.
He disagreed with the study's cost estimates and said many dropouts are actually "stop-outs" who reenroll. Mark Schneider, AIR vice president, countered with other data that indicate a poor graduation prognosis for students who leave. Locally and nationally, community colleges have been exploring ways to retain their diverse student populations so they meet their education needs and goals, including the nationwide Achieving the Dream project, a collaborative effort by many colleges with foundation funding. "We've always been about open access," said Jacob Farbman, spokesman for the New Jersey Council of County Colleges. While numbers vary from campus to campus, New Jersey's two-year colleges average about 70 percent of their students requiring some remedial or developmental courses. The Pennsylvania Commission for Community Colleges says it does not keep such statistics, but some campuses report similar numbers. In some parts of the country, they are higher still. For the last two years, county colleges in New Jersey have taken part in the "Big Idea Project" aimed at finding solutions to problems such as the huge need for remediation and the low retention that often goes with spending so much time and funding on noncredit courses. Often community college students have time-consuming jobs, which can cut into their studies, as may other issues. "The issue of remediation in college is a serious one," said Raymond Yannuzzi, president of Camden County College. His school is one of the New Jersey county colleges working with local schools to give high school students their placement exams before they enter college so they can identify academic weak spots early.
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‘Paranormal Activity 3’ scares off competition $54 million made over the premier weekend, more than “Contagion,” or “The Lion King.” By Steven Zeitchik and Amy Kaufman McClatchy-Tribune
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LOS ANGELES — “Paranor mal Activity 3” vanquished the box-office ghosts this weekend, taking in a whopping $54 million upon its premiere in the U.S., according to studio estimates. The other two new films in wide release this weekend, however, flopped. An expensive 3-D version of “The Three Musketeers” grossed a disappointing $8.8 million. And “Johnny English Reborn,” a comedy starring British comedian Rowan Atkinson, did not resonate with American audiences. While the film is a hit overseas, it collected a weak $3.8 million in the U.S. this weekend. Still, the results for Paramount Pictures’ third “Paranormal” made for the first truly stellar box-office weekend of the fall, which has been characterized by middling performances from high-profile releases. Even past weekend winners such as “Contagion,” “Real Steel” and “The Lion King 3-D” had failed to open much beyond $30 million. “Paranormal’s” opening, on the other hand, was the highest-ever October debut, and helped power the top 12 movies to their highest total, $110.3 million, since the middle of August. Analysts had anticipated $40 million to $45 million for the third installment in the supernatural franchise. The numbers for the Paramount release represented a significant increase over other horror films, which have struggled of late, and demolished the opening of “Paranormal Activity 2,” which drew $40.7 million in its premiere on the same weekend last year. “Horror fans came out in very large numbers this weekend, and that’s a testament to the filmmakers and the enduring power of this franchise,” said Rob Moore, Paramount Pictures vice chairman, alluding to the movie direct-
ed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman. While Moore declined to elaborate on future plans for the franchise, the numbers all but assured there will be a fourth “Paranormal” film, and solidified “Paranormal’s” status as the Halloween heir to the “Saw” series, which reliably yielded a hit every October for the past seven years. In keeping with the general pattern for horror pictures, “Paranormal” drew a higher proportion of women, who came out to see “Paranor mal Activity 3” at a ratio of 54 percent to 46 percent compared with men. About 53 percent of the total audience was under age 25. The movie grossed an additional $26 million upon its debut in international territories, which included France, Australia and Russia, Paramount said. Still, it remains to be seen how the movie will perfor m in the coming weeks. While filmgoers came out in sizable numbers to see the horror prequel, they didn’t necessarily like what they saw: The film notched an average grade of C-plus, according to market research firm CinemaScore. The first “Paranormal Activity” took in $107 million in the U.S., while the second film garnered about $85 million. Meanwhile, fortunately for Summit Entertainment, the studio does not have much money invested in “Musketeers,” as the movie was financed by Germany’s Constantin Film for about $90 million. Summit, which is distributing the movie domestically, paid only for prints and advertising. On Friday, actress Milla Jovovich — who stars in the film directed by her husband, Paul W.S. Anderson — took to her Twitter account to criticize Summit’s marketing of the film. Jovovich said the studio was “resting on their laurels from ‘twilight’ n makSee PARANORMAL, Page 6
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A world-renouned orchestra performed the Academy Award-winning “The Lord of the Rings” film score live on Friday, Oct. 21 at Fresno’s Save Mart Center. More than 200 musicians performed the score of the first film, “The Fellowship of the Ring,” as it was digitally projected on a 60-foot screen in high definition. Several props from the first feature film were on display in the Save Mart Center’s halls, including the original hobbit feet worn by Sean Astin, one of the film’s key actors. The Lord of the Rings in Concert is a three-year installment celebrating the trilogy’s 10th anniversary. A second tour is scheduled for 2012, in which the score for the second film, “The Two Towers,” willbe played. The score of the final film, “The Return of the King,” will be played in 2013. - By Esteban Cortez
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PARANORMAL: High gross at the box office CONTINUED from page 5 ing no effort” — a reference to the teen vampire franchise that is far and away Summit’s most lucrative property. On Sunday, the studio said it had no comment on Jovovich’s remarks or the film’s marketing campaign. The limited number of people who did see the film in the U.S. were on the older side, with 64 percent of the crowd over age 25. Audiences gave the critically panned film an average grade of B. About 55 percent of the film’s ticket sales came from 3-D receipts.
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orror fans came out in very large numbers this weekend, and that’s a testament to the filmmakers and the enduring powers of this franchise” — Rob Moore, Paramount Pictures vice chairman The film will at least make up some financial g round ove r s e a s. A b ro a d , wh e re “Musketeers” is being released by Constantin, the movie has so far debuted in 56 countries and grossed about $65 million. Wi t h “ J o h n n y E n g l i s h Rebor n,” Atkinson a g ain failed to connect with American audiences. The
actor, best known for playing Mr. Bean, has never been a favorite stateside. 2003’s “Johnny English,” in which Atkinson originated his role as an incompetent secret agent, opened to a better $9.1 million but ended up grossing only $28 million in the U.S. Overseas, the picture collected a healthy $132.5 million in sales. It seems “Johnny English Reborn” will follow a similar trajectory. Although the film will probably make less in America than the original did, it is on pace to easily out-gross its predecessor abroad. This weekend, the movie crossed the $100 million mark at the international box office, collecting $13.5 million from 44 countries. The film’s foreign total now stands at $104.5 million, and the movie has yet to open in 15 markets overseas. “I guess it’s just that British humor,” Nikki Rocco, president of domestic distribution for Universal Pictures, surmised about the movie’s U.S. failure. “Unfortunately, the American grosses are exactly what we predicted they would be, but when you look at the level of business the film is doing inter nationally, it doesn’t matter.” This weekend, the movie played in about 1,500 fewer U.S. theaters than any of the weekend’s other wide-release debuts. Universal Pictures and Relativity Media spent about $45 million to produce the picture, which received an average grade of B from moviegoers.
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‘Fast and Furious’ 6 and 7 may speed into production together Paramount also looking into more ‘Transformers’ By John Horn and Ben Fritz McClatchy-Tribune LOS ANGELES — Eager to move ahead with new installments of what’s currently the studio’s hottest series, Universal Pictures is considering shooting its sixth and seventh “Fast and Furious” movies back-to-back with a single story connecting the two films. Screenwriter Chris Morgan, who wrote the last three films, is busy working
be shooting the seventh film before he could edit the sixth. By making the two movies together, the seventh film could be in theaters sooner than the typical two-year gap between the Vin Diesel movies. The idea of shooting multiple films has been tried (and has succeeded) before. Recent examples include “Back to the Future,” whose first and second sequels were filmed consecutively, as were the second and third “Pirates of
reduce the combined cost of the two films and also minimize scheduling and staffing issues, as the lead cast and filmmakers essentially work on one longer production rather than coordinating their calendars to reassemble two separate times. Universal’s potential “Fast and the Furious” strategy would represent a risk for the studio, as it already would have invested hundreds of millions to make a seventh movie before knowing if the
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he “Fast and Furious” franchise, which began in 2001, almost died with 2006’s modest performer “Fast and the Furious 3” before reviving back with 2009’s fourth installment and this year’s hit “Fast Five,” which grossed $624 million worldwide.”
on story ideas while director Justin Lin, who also worked on the last three “Fast” movies, is expected to retur n behind the cameras for both films, according to people familiar with the studio’s plans but not authorized to discuss them publicly. Universal already has penciled in a May 24, 2013, release for “Fast and the Furious 6,” but the consecutive shooting schedule may result in a later launch, as Lin would
the Caribbean” movies. Peter Jackson shot all three “Lord of the Rings” films in one epic swoop, a pattern he is following with his two “Hobbit” films, due Dec. 14, 2012, and Dec. 13, 2013. Pa r a m o u n t P i c t u re s i s also considering shooting the four th and fifth “Transfor mer” movies to g ether, according to a report in Variety. Such combined production schedules can significantly
sixth was a hit. The “Fast and Furious” franchise, which began in 2001, almost died with 2006’s m o d e s t p e r fo r m e r “ Fa s t and the Furious 3” before revving back with 2009’s fourth installment and this year’s hit “Fast Five,” which grossed $624 million worldwide. A Universal spokeswoman declined to comment.
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Where NBA owners stand on the lockout
By Lance Pugmire, Mike Bresnahan and Broderick Turner Los Angeles Times
Thirty men, 30 opinions. The NBA owners presiding over the league’s increasingly bitter lockout of players aren’t united behind the idea that it’s better to lose an entire season rather than accept a bad labor deal. For now, however, the hawks outnumber the more conciliatory owners, such as the Lakers’ Jerry Buss, the New York Knicks’ James Dolan, the Miami Heat’s Micky Arison and the Dallas Mavericks’ Mark Cuban. B i l ly H u n t e r, e xe c u t ive director of the players’ union, said those four want to make a deal. B u t T h u r s d ay t h e l a t est negotiations came to an end. Union attorney Jeffrey Kessler said the ne gotiations were “hijacked” when Portland Trail Blazers owner Paul Allen made it clear that owners would not allow the players anything more than a 50-50 split of basketball-related income. No new labor talks are scheduled, and more regular-season games almost certainly will be scrapped in the near future. League executives are forbidden by the NBA from speaking about the labor dispute. But The Times surveyed front office executives, league officials, players, attorneys and others close to the game to get a sense of where the owners stand. HAWKS Paul Allen, Portland: The
Microsoft cofounder is a billionaire, but Portland is a small market and Allen wants spending control among all owners. David Stern, New Orleans: The Hornets are owned by the NBA, so Stern has an extra vote in his pocket. Rober t Sarver, Phoenix: Sarver is right next to Stern in demanding lower player salaries. The Suns would have lost about $15 million if the season had been played under the former salary structure, but only a few million if there is no 2011-12 season. Amare Stoudemire blames Sarver almost entirely for the divisive tone of talks with players. Dan Gilber t, Cleveland: Gilbert watched LeBron James leave for South Beach, while the former title-contending Cavaliers finished last. One executive said Gilbert is “one of the tough owners who wants to break the players.” Ted Leonsis, Washington: Leonsis is a hard-line owner “who has been through this with his NHL team, the Washington Capitals, (and the) NHL missed an entire season,” an NBA executive says. Michael Heisley, Memphis: He’s been trying to sell. The Grizzlies had a nice playoff run and their arena is one of the league’s newest, but Heisley wants the big-city boys to start spending more like him. Glen Taylor, Minnesota: had one of the NBA’s smallest payrolls and wants everyone else to face similar spending restrictions. G av i n a n d Jo e M a l o o f ,
Sacramento. The Maloofs are ringing the cowbell for cost control. The Kings have an outdated arena and a sagging franchise that might move to Anaheim. Clay Bennett, Oklahoma City: Successful in a small market thanks to quality draft selections. But he wants some cost controls, plus he owes Stern for green-lighting his team’s move from Seattle. Peter Holt, San Antonio. Has done incredibly well in one of the NBA’s smallest markets but wants to level the playing field with the big-city owners. Greg Miller, Utah: Small-
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market franchise showing cracks in the foundation after the trade of Deron Williams and the “retirement” of Jerry Sloan. Stan Kroenke, Denver: Lost Carmelo Anthony in a trade to the NBA’s largest market. No fan of the old system. One executive noted Kroenke’s deter mination: “Stan owns Wal-Mart and he won a classaction lawsuit at the U.S. Supreme Court.” Michael Jordan, Charlotte. Has millions but is “looking to save money and lower salaries. M.J. is getting cheap,” a league executive said.
Herb Kohl, Milwaukee: Kohl “believes that the current CBA agreement is broken,” a league official said. L aw r e n c e T a n e n b a u m , Toronto: Lost Chris Bosh to Miami, and his young team vanished; supports revenue sharing, tighter spending. Donald Sterling, Clippers. His teams lose on the court, not on the accounting ledger. Has plenty of money to wait it out. DOVES Jer ry Buss, Lakers: Any time away from the court is lost money for a successful owner who has little revenue stream outside of basketball. Mark Cuban, Dallas: Wants to play basketball immediately, especially with the Mavericks defending their first NBA title. One caveat: might want shorter player contracts; he’s on the hook with Brendan Haywood for five years and $45 million. James Dolan, New York: Dolan is “financially motivated to play,” said one league executive, because his stars, Anthony and Stoudemire, will fill seats. He also has a lucrative local TV deal. Micky Arison, Miami. Poster boy for how to manipulate the old system; put together James, Bosh and Dwyane Wade. Wyc Grousbeck, Boston: He “has a new television deal that is a financial windfall for the Celtics. Wants to play,” a basketball official said. M i k h a i l P r o k h o r o v, New Jersey: Is similar to Grousbeck; has “new TV deal, (plus) new arena (coming) in Brooklyn,” basketball official
adds. Rich DeVos, Orlando. Has a cushy arena deal and Dwight Howard at his peak. Les Alexander, Houston: Is often willing to spend, but not quite with the big boys. Alexander paid $34 million the last two seasons as Yao Ming played only five games while battling foot injuries. Shorter player contracts might be on Alexander’s mind. ON THE FENCE Joshua Harris, Philadelphia: His purchase of the 76ers ap p rove d l a s t we e k . N o t expected to be a prominent voice. Peter Guber and Joe Lacob, Golden State: Still new to NBA ownership but seem willing to spend when a new collective-bargaining agreement is reached, having already secured Jerry West as an advisor. Tom Gores, Detroit: Another new owner likely to side with the hawks. Jerry Reinsdorf, Chicago: A Stern ally “on the side of the owners who say the CBA needs to be fixed,” a basketball official said. But the Bulls are in a big market with returning most valuable player Derrick Rose, so money is flying away during a lockout. Herbert Simon, Indiana: Simon has a “small-market team that wants revenue sharing,” a basketball executive said. A l e x M e r u e l o, A t l a n t a : Southland pizza magnate is awaiting approval of his purchase of the team from an Atlanta group; was surely aware of what Stern wants.
DOGS: Fresno State will have to wait until next weekend to rebound against WAC opponent Louisiana Tech CONTINUED from page 8 With only seconds left on the clock, Nevada raced down the field before the half to get into Hardinson’s field-goal range. He hit a 48-yarder to give the Wolf Pack the 23-17 halftime lead. It took more than half of the game, but senior wide receiver Devon Wylie finally got his hands on the ball, but he made it worth the wait with a 71-yard catch. Freshman wide receiver Victor Dean made the
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biggest play of his young collegiate career with a 9-yard touchdown catch from Carr to give the ‘Dogs the 24-23 lead, their lone lead of the second half. Fresno State’s defense finally got a stop with junior defensive end Matt Akers getting the first Bulldog sack of the game, but Wylie would lose a fumble in the end zone. Nevada would recover to take the lead 30-24. The game then turned into a defensive battle after that as both teams came up short on multiple drives. The Wolf Pack defense forced a Bulldog fumble to give Nevada the ball with a short field to work with. Nevada got down into field goal range, but Fresno State
blocked another field goal. The block was the eighth of the season. With only six minutes left in the game, Nevada drove down
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ottom line, Nevada made more plays than we did.” — Pat Hill, head football coach the field with a heavy dose of Ball that ended in a 16-yard touchdown to extend Nevada’s lead to 37-24. Fresno State would not quit as it raced down the field with
Carr utilizing his weapons. The best weapon was Rouse as he put the exclamation point on the drive with a 25-yard touchdown run to cut the score to 37-31 with a couple minutes remaining. Rouse carried the bulk of the Fresno State load with 24 carries for 167 yards and two touchdowns. Nevada utilized the pass and the run, ending the drive with a Fajardo 23-yard touchdown run to give the Wolf Pack a 45-31 lead. Fajardo finished the game 19 of 27 for 313 yards and one touchdown pass. Carr and company were still not done as he lead another late drive to bring the ‘Dogs within seven points, 45-38. Ball proved to be Nevada’s closer as he got the key first
down to put the game out of reach, 45-38. Ball pounded the rock all game with 26 carries for 198 yards and one touchdown. Rouse talked about the outcome of the game. “Coming here and losing is heartbreaking,” Rouse said. “Especially when both teams are undefeated in the WAC, but we got to continue to go 1-0 every week and the scoreboard will do the rest.” Fresno State no longer controls its own destiny for a WAC championship. The ‘Dogs are now forced to rely on a Nevada loss in order to gain even a share of the conference title. With the loss, head coach Pat Hill will likely leave the WAC next season without winning an outright WAC title, but was relatively pleased with his team’s effort, just not the outcome. “I thought the kids played hard,” Hill said. “I think both sides played hard today. Bottom line, Nevada made more plays than we did.” Fresno State will get back to conference play against Louisiana Tech in couple weeks. The Bulldogs have the upcoming weekend off, their lone bye week the 2011 season.
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Fresno State loses dog fight in Mackay Stadium
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Fresno State had trouble limiting the big play all game long as Nevada running back Mike Ball (left) ran all over the defense with 26 carries for 198 yards. Another critical play occurred the third quarter when senior Devon Wylie fumbled a punt return and the Wolf Pack recovered in the end zone for a momentum-shifting touchdown that gave Nevada a 30-24 lead late in the game.
field goal to give the Wolf Pack the 13-7 lead. Sophomore quar terback Fresno State traveled to Derek Carr made his presence Reno, Nev. for a battle between felt on the following drive, the remaining two undefeated leading the ‘Dogs on a 15-play teams in the Western Athletic drive, the longest drive for Conference – and the showeither team in the game. On down didn’t disappoint. the drive, Fresno State mixed The Wolf Pack started off up the pass and the run to drive fast when freshman quardown the field. Carr found his terback Cody Fajardo hit top target sophomore wide senior wide receiver Rishard receiver Jalen Saunders for a Mathews with a 58-yard pass 6-yard touchdown pass to give to put Nevada in scoring posiFresno State its first lead of tion. Fresno the g ame, State would 14-13. Car r come up with a finished the oming here and big stop to hold game going losing is heartthe Wolf Pack 20 of 37 for to a 22-yard 315 yards breaking.” f i e l d g o a l by and three junior Allen t o u c h d ow n — Robbie Rouse, passes. Hardinson to junior running back N eva d a l e t give Nevada the 3-0 lead. the pack M a t h e w s loose on the wasn’t done making plays on next drive with junior runthe next Wolf Pack possesning back Mike Ball outrunsion. He returned a punt to the ning the Bulldogs’ defense for house from 86 yards out to give a 35-yard gain. Ball finished Nevada the 10-0 lead. off the drive with an 18-yard Following Mathews’ elecreception from Fajardo to give trifying return, it was Fresno the Wolf Pack the 20-14 lead in State’s time to answer back the back-and-forth affair. with junior running back It was Carr’s turn on the Robbie Rouse putting the next drive to shake things up, ‘Dogs within striking distance leading Fresno State down the of the Nevada lead, 10-7. gridiron with a variety of runs On the next drive, Nevada and passes. The ‘Dogs had to converted another big play settle for a Kevin Goessling with senior wide receiver 22-yard field goal after the Shane Anderson catching a Nevada defense came up with 55-yard pass to put the Wolf the stop in the red zone. The Pack in Bulldog ter ritory. Wolf Pack still clung to a 20-17 Fresno State’s defense bent margin. but didn’t break, holding Nevada to another Hardinson See DOGS, Page 7 By Jerry Huerta The Collegian
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Sophomore Derek Carr did his part to keep the ‘Dogs in the game with 315 passing yards and three touchdown passes. The offense put up 38 points on the Nevada defense, but it wasn’t enough.