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Jaywalking tickets increase at end of each month The Fresno Police Department sends out units once a month to conduct an operation aimed at keeping bicyclists and pedestrians safe on city streets.

Their goal is to let the public know they will give tickets to anyone who is

By Luke Shaffer The Collegian At the end of the month the Fresno Police are often patrolling Cedar Avenue and near Bulldo g Lane.

Motorcycle officers park behind signs, cars and bushes looking for students who are illegally crossing the street.

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think there is a quota for Fresno Police Department because there is a lot of crime around Fresno that should be paid attention to, but the police seem to go after students who don’t have much money and give ridiculous fines for just jaywalking.”

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nce a month, the cops go out to write tickets in a pedestrian-bicycle safety operation.”

— Bruce Allen, Fresno traffic division Alicia Acevedo / The Collegian

The Fresno Police Department sends additional officers to implement jaywalking laws on Cedar Avenue and Bulldog Lane near Fresno State.

“When I was getting stopped for a ticket I thought it was ridiculous. I’ve always jaywalked before because it’s a shorter distance to where I need to go,” Fresno State student Vincent Rodriguez-Ruiz said. “I even walked across the street illegally in front of a cop once.”

Although it may seem police officers of the Fresno Police Department are

unfairly targeting students, the intentions behind this monthly routine are for safety precautions.

Police Officer Sgt. Bruce Allen, who works in the Fresno police traffic division, said “So far this year, twenty-two people have been killed in traffic incidents.”

Police officers are cracking down on not just students, but all jaywalking pedestrians in Fresno.

The areas near downtown Fresno by the courthouse, Fashion Fair Mall and Fresno State generate the most foot traffic and are patrolled frequently by Fresno Police Department vehicles.

“Not just students, but all pedestrians are crossing streets downtown and other heavy traffic areas of Fresno,” Allen said. “So there’s no way to write everyone a ticket for illegal jaywalking.”

— Vincent Rodriguez-Ruiz, Fresno State student

caught violating traffic regulations.

“Once a month, the cops go out to write tickets in a pedestrian-bicycle safety operation,” Allen added. “We want to let students and other pedestrians know that they just can’t cross See TICKETS, Page 3

Obama hits Depression rates high for college students key swing states to tout his jobs plan

By Johnathan Wilbanks The Collegian

About two-out-of-ten college students have some type of mental illness and approximately 19 percent of college-aged individuals attempt or contemplate suicide according to Teendepression.org. The National Depression Screening Day event at Fresno State and around the country attempted to raise depression aware-

By Lesley Clark McClatchy-Tribune President Barack Obama on Tuesday accused his Republican critics of trying to pull one over on voters by claiming that his bid to boost jobs will raise their taxes.

“Don’t be bamboozled,” Obama told a boisterous crowd at Guilford Technical Community College in Jamestown, N.C., noting that he caught an antijobs act ad on TV Monday night while watching a football game. “Don’t fall for this notion that somehow the jobs act is proposing to raise your taxes. It’s just not true.

“I want to be clear. The vast majority of Americans would see a tax cut under this jobs bill,” he said.

His admonition came on the second day of a three-day bus trip across the presidential election swing states of North Carolina and Virginia. The trip is intended to boost popular support for Obama’s $447 billion jobs package, which is stalled in Congress, and to position the president in the public mind as trying his best to address the nation’s faltering economy.

Obama said he’s not giving up and will ask members of Congress to pass See OBAMA, Page 3

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here are a lot of resources for students pertaining to depression and anxiety which are paid for as a part of their tuition. Students don’t have to struggle with these issues alone.

There are people out there to help them through tough situations.”

— Dr. Rebecca Raya-Fernandez, Coordinator of The National Depression Screening Day event

ness and promote treatment for those previously undiagnosed.

Suicide is the third-leading cause of death for 15-to-24-year-olds and the second-leading cause of death of college students, according to the American Psychiatric Association.

Many stressors college students endure, such as relationship problems, financial struggles and family issues, can lead to depression and are all commonplace among students who are

John Roberge / McClatchy-Tribune

The National Depression Screening Day event to raise awareness was free, anonymous and took less than one hour.

making the transition from young person to working professional.

In 2008 a survey conducted by the American College Health Association found that “30 percent of students reported feeling so depressed that it

was difficult to function, 49 percent suffered from anxiety and more than six percent seriously considered suicide.”

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Confessions of a Civil War historian

By Ethan Kytle

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his weekend thousands of Valley residents will descend upon Kearney Park for Fresno’s annual Civil War Revisited reenactment. They will be treated to “the sights and sounds of the 1860s,” as self-styled “living historians” — most clad in Union blue or Confederate gray — set up camp, march in formation and demonstrate antebellum crafts.

The centerpiece will be a reenactment of the Battle of Bull Run, pitting Yanks and Rebs against one another as if it were 1861.

This year’s event takes on a special significance. It comes on the 150th anniversary of the start of a war that nearly tore the nation in two. It is high time that we take stock of how we remember this pivotal moment, both at our annual Kearney Park event and beyond.

I confess that as a Civil War historian I find events like Civil War Revisited frustrating. On the one hand, I am thrilled to see people engage history — especially my period of expertise — with enthusiasm. Many of the students who turn up each year in my classes say that trips to the reenactment stoked an early interest in the past.

On the other hand, I am discouraged by what tends to be remembered and forgotten at such events.

Fresno’s Civil War Revisited, like countless reenactments across the U.S. and the popular histories of the war that dominate big-box bookstores, focuses on military minutia to the exclusion of more significant issues.

Meticulous attention is paid to how soldiers marched, what they wore and where they slept. Yet little time is devoted to the unprecedented horror of a war that claimed more American lives than World War I, World War II and the Vietnam War combined. And next to nothing is said of the larger meaning of the conflict, especially

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for the four million slaves it helped to emancipate.

One of the unfortunate byproducts of this narrow approach to the Civil War is that the general public is misinformed about the conflict. Take its causes. Despite consensus among professional historians that slavery was the most important factor in precipitating the war, a recent Pew Research Center poll found that almost half of Americans believe states’ rights was the main cause. Among the underthirty set, that figure climbs to a galling 60%. The unwitting victims of a propaganda campaign — which sought to resurrect the reputation of the Confederacy by downplaying the issue

general’s primary aim was to be rid of the thousands of impoverished freedpeople who trailed his army. Sherman had little sympathy for African Americans, whom he deemed “not fit to marry, to associate, or to vote with me or mine.” A moral warrior he was not.

Events like Civil War Revisited are not the prime culprits in the spread of such misconceptions about the war. But they are a lost opportunity to redress them. As such, reenactments do a disservice not only to the past but also to the present.

After all, we still live in the shadow of the Civil War. The racial inequalities that continue to plague America — from alarming incarceration rates for black men to income and educational gaps for AfricanAmericans more generally — testify to the racial legacy of the war. Meanwhile, our polarized political culture hearkens back to sectional crisis. When conservatives today appeal to states’ rights, talk of nullifying federal laws, even threaten disunion, they sound a lot like antebellum secessionists.

Sadly, these connections to the Civil War are lost on many Americans.

As we commemorate the Civil War sesquicentennial over the next four years, both at Kearney Park and elsewhere, Illustration by Ben Ingersoll and Dalton Runberg / The Collegian we would do well to keep in mind of slavery — much of the country misthe full scope and enduring legacy understands the origins of our most of our most important conflict. How destructive war. soldiers marched matters. But bigger Other Americans make the mistake issues — why the war was fought; what of turning the Civil War into a simple it changed and left standing; and how morality play, as if the North held the it continues to shape American culkeys to what Robert Penn Warren once ture — matter more. called the “Treasury of Virtue.” Yet we must also be wary of glorifying Ethan Kytle is a history professor the victors. Fresno State’s own Victor specializing in 19th century American Davis Hanson has fallen prey to prehistory and the Civil War at Fresno cisely this sort of thinking, portraying State.

Union General William Tecumseh Sherman as a moral crusader.

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These individuals include disabled veterans and women of color who desire to acquire an education that will help them become productive members of society.

California is in a budget crisis.

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TICKETS: Fresno State students cited for jaywalking CONTINUED from page 1 anywhere like Cedar Avenue.”

Working in conjunction with The Fresno Bee, the police department issues press releases to the public on a monthly basis regarding safety operations to further spread the word that they are trying to make the streets safer for all pedestrians.

“The whole purpose of the operation put on by ten officers is to impact and make

people aware of the rules of the road,” Sergeant Allen said.

“If you spend any amount of time traveling Fresno’s streets, you’ll see traffic violations happening,” Allen said.

“The purpose of the motorcycle cops is to go places where cars can’t and sit and watch for pedestrians who are illegally crossing.”

Allen believes jaywalking tickets averaging $130 are necessary due to an increase in accidents involving pedestri-

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he purpose of the motorcycle cops is to go places where cars can’t and sit and watch for pedestrians who are illegally crossing.”

— Bruce Allen, Fresno traffic division ans.

“In a vehicle-versus-pedestrian collision incident, it doesn’t matter who’s at fault because the pedestrian will be severely injured, if not killed,”

Allen said. “On Wednesday, Oct. 26, the cops will be out again.”

Some students feel they are being targeted unfairly and are cited tickets that amount

to absorbent fees.

“I think there is a quota for Fresno Police Department because there is a lot of crime around Fresno that should be paid attention to,” student Rodriguez-Ruiz said. “But the police seem to go after students who don’t have much money and give ridiculous fines for just jaywalking.”

OBAMA: President promotes job plan STUDENTS: Event raises CONTINUED from page 1 the bill piece by piece, since eve n t h e D e m o c r a t i c - l e d Senate fell short last week of rallying enough votes to advance it. Republican leaders of the House of Representatives have said that major portions of the bill are dead on arrival there.

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want to be clear.

The vast majority of Americans would see a tax cut under this jobs bill.”

— Barack Obama, U.S. President phone or pay them a visit or write them a letter or tweet, and remind them to do the right thing,” he said in the Guilford school’s gymnasium.

“Remind them that ‘No, we can’t’ is no way to face tough times. Now is the time to act, now is the time to say, ‘Yes, we can.’ “ Republicans have derided the trip as a campaign gambit for a president who faces significant headwinds in his reelection effort.

The White House says it’s an opportunity for the president to get beyond the Washington beltway and talk to Americans about their economic worries.

But his reference to “Yes, we can,” the signature slogan

of Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, wasn’t the only echo of a presidential campaign as Obama’s high-tech bus — the president said it had been “decked out pretty good” —rumbled past Piggly Wiggly grocery stores and mom-andpop barbeque shacks.

The crowd in Jamestown, N.C., chanted another 2008 campaign mantra: “Fired up!

Ready to go,” as they restlessly waited for Obama to appear.

And the president, casual in a blue-checkered shirt with no tie, worked the lunch crowd at Reid’s House Restaurant in Reidsville, N.C., asking one man whether he’d eaten all his vegetables before tucking into dessert.

He also chatted with an elderly couple —marveling at their 59 years of marriage — and opted for a cheeseburger, fries and a sweet tea, forgoing any of the homemade pies offered on the dry erase board above the counter.

H i s bu s h a s t a ke n h i m through Republican strongholds. Obama said it’s because his plan should be seen as helping the country’s problems —not his.

“I’m not the Democratic president or Republican president,” he said to loud applause at Greensville County High School in Emporia, Va., in late afternoon. “I’m the president.

I’m everybody’s president.”

Republicans have offered a plan of their own —the “real American Jobs Act” to counter Obama’s “American Jobs Act.” At one point, he mocked the GOP version.

“They don’t get points for originality,” Obama said to laughter.

Republicans want to roll back regulations they say are smothering businesses, as well as to expand tax cuts.

Obama said the plan would result in “dirtier water and dirtier air” and a return “to the good old days before the financial crisis, when Wall Street wrote its own rules,” he said to a round of boos.

Obama met with a small group of teachers and pointed out that his plan includes $30 billion to help cities and towns keep teachers in the classroom and stem a tide of educator layoffs. He warned that without the money the U.S. could fall behind its competitors.

The aid to teachers is scheduled to be the first section of his plan the Senate takes up separately.

At one point he noted that a North Carolina teacher told him: “We didn’t cause the poor economy. If anything, we built the good parts.”

In Skipwith, Va., he visited Bluestone High School, where he toured the school’s computer lab and robotics workshop.

Under his proposed jobs plan, $3.5 million would go to that area’s Mecklenburg County public schools for teacher jobs, plus $1.3 million for K-12 modernization. The county also could compete for a share of some $212 million more that Virginia would distribute based on need, the White House said.

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Clinical depression is a serious illness and can lead to suicide, according to Mental Health America, an organization that helped organize the successful Fresno State event “Breaking the Stigma.” Two thirds of those suffering from depression do not seek the medical treatment they need.

are paid for as a part of their tuition. Students don’t have to struggle with these issues alone. There are people out there to help them through tough situations,” coordinator of the event Dr. Rebecca RayaFernandez said.

“Many times we have helped students who would not otherwise come in. They came in with their peers and felt more

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any times we have helped students who would not otherwise come in. They come in with their peers and felt more comfortable that way.”

— Dr. Rebecca Raya-Fernandez, Coordinator of The National Depression Screening Day

F re s n o S t at e h a s m a d e an effort to combat depression among college students. National Depression Screening Day took place on Thursday, Oct. 13th in the Student Health Center from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The screening was free, anonymous and took less than one hour.

Many professors also offered extra credit for attending the event. The Health and Psychological Services department, in collaboration with Dr. Christine Edminson from the psychology department, hosted the event.

“There are a lot of resources for students pertaining to depression and anxiety which

comfortable that way,” RayaFernandez added.

“My ex-girlfriend has used the Student Health Center for psychological screening in the past,” a Fresno State student who wished to remain anonymous said.

T he national event was developed by Screening for Mental Health Inc., a nonprofit company dedicated to promoting the improvement of mental health by providing the general public with screening, education and treatment resources. The American Psychiatric Association acknowledges it is important to have psychological services on college campuses.

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2011

Former Fresno Take Back the Night takes over campus with State professor this year's theme 'The Invisible Woman' now a successful artist and poet

By Mackenzie Oakes The Collegian

By Alejandra Garcia The Collegian Dixie Salazar has been a working artist and writer for 40 years. Salazar was once a part-time lecturer for the English department at Fresno State for 16 years and retired last year. She spends her retirement as an active participant in the artistic community.

Salazar’s artwork is figurative and a common theme in her artwork and writings is discovering identity.

“My heritage is a dual nationality: Anglo on my mother’s side and Hispanic on my father’s side. Being mixed makes you feel like you don’t belong to any one race and I think this is why identity is an important aspect of my work,” Salazar said.

This process can be seen in a piece entitled “Spanish Cooking,” an assemblage in a box format in which Salazar used aspects of recipes from both cultures. Inside there are stamps from Spain and the United States, an electrical device, beads, chiles (peppers) and cucharas (spoons), bones, cards from the Spanish lotería (a Spanish Bingo style game), directions for the recipe and even a “D” for Dixie.

Salazar is also a successful published poet and author. Her first novel, “Limbo,” was published in 1995 and was followed by three novels of poetry: “Hotel Fresno,” “Reincarnation of the Commonplace” and “Blood Mysteries.” In 2010 her volume of poetry, “Flamenco Hips and Red Mud Feet” was released. This fall, she is set to release “Altar for Escaped Voices” from the Ash Tree Poetry Series.

“Dixie’s paintings are expressionistic, narrative and very complex. She is a brilliant writer and there is definitely a connection between the visual language of poetry and the visual language of art,” longtime art colleague Grude McDermott said.

Salazar digs into her poetry as well as her family history for inspiration.

“When You Get Mad at Him Do What I Do, Buy a Hat,” is a crossed over from one of her poems.

“My grandmother would actually go out and buy a hat when she was mad at my grandfather. The story in my family was that she had hundreds of hats, but that no one knew how many she really had. I wrote a poem about this piece of family history and it inspired the painting,” Salazar said.

Jonathan Mathis, the web coordinator for the College of Health and Human Services, is currently finishing a documentary on Salazar and says it was inspired by Salazar’s stories.

Salazar said each of her paintings can hold more than one story and can vary from person to person.

“Artwork changes and evolves with time and the viewer. When I work on a piece, it changes even as I’m working on it. Later, when I revisit a piece, I find that it changed again or I see something I didn’t see the first time,” said Salazar.

Mathis says Salazar’s artwork is easily accessible and that Salazar herself is extraordinarily approachable. “You can feel her creativity bursting out and students, particularly art students, should want to visit her gallery. You can get direct information from Dixie without the gallery or art museum as a go-between. You walk into the place where she works and you feel more connected to the art because you can see her paintbrushes and her materials where she actually paints,” Mathis said.

As for Salazar, she says the importance of ArtHop is the opportunity to talk to a lot of people and get some feedback.

The Fresno State Women’s Resource Center and Women’s Alliance will present “Take Back the Night” on campus at the Free Speech Area on Wednesday, Oct. 19 from 5 to 9 p.m.

Take Back the Night is an annual event worldwide that gives people, women or men, the chance to break the silence and understand the power of speaking out. Rape, sexual assault, sexual abuse and domestic violence are often considered “crimes of silence” because of their social discomfort with public discussion and are often crimes that go unreported to police. “[Take Back the Night] is a safe place for people to come share their stories,” Karina Lopez said.

Karina Lopez is the president of Fresno State’s chapter of Take Back the Night. She started out as a volunteer and has gradually worked her way to becoming president of the chapter.

“Take Back the Night began as students or workers, the majority of them women, who feared walking alone at night,” Lopez said.

“A woman walks alone down a dark, deserted street. With every shadow she sees, and every sound she hears, her pounding heart flutters and skips a beat. She hurries her pace as she sees her destination become closer. She is almost there. She reaches the front door, goes inside, collects herself and moves on, forgetting at least for tonight the gripping fear that momentarily enveloped her life,” Lopez said.

The first Take Back the Night event occurred in Philadelphia in October of 1975 when citizens of Philadelphia came to g ether after the murder of a young microbiologist, Susan Alexander Speech, who was stabbed by a stranger a block from her house while walking home alone.

Survivors of these “crimes of silence” are asked to Shatter the

Phong Ly / Collegian File Photo

Fresno State students and community members participate in a candlelight vigil during last year's "Take Back the Night" event.

Silence. Shatter the Silence is located at the Take Back the Night headquarters and promotes the power of speaking out against the violence. It allows people to post their stories and show that they will not tolerate these crimes anymore.

Take Back the Night is a rally that is normally followed by a candle-lit march around campus to symbolize a woman’s walk through the darkness to overcome the fear of violence and raise awareness to future violence.

Senam Bansah is a second-year volunteer for this event who will be presenting poems, setting up booths and talking to the media.

“This really is an incredible event to have on campus,” Bansah said.

The rally will start in the Free Speech Area where poems will be read, victims will give their testimonials and then a march that starts out towards Shaw Avenue all around campus and ends at the pit where there will be an “open mic night” for anybody to tell stories.

Everybody is welcome to come to this event and give his or her support.

“You get a warm feeling inside, it makes you realize that people do care,” Bansah said.

JumpStart-ing the Future

By Joyia Sandoval The Collegian For the last 10 years a campus program consisting of 40 Fresno State students has dedicated its time to help make a child’s preschool experience more rewarding. JumpStart Fresno is a program that aims to teach children the fundamental learning skills while still allowing them to have fun.

“Programs like JumpStart are important because we are providing the extra attention that some children need in order to develop and be prepared for later years in their education,” Neil Dion, director of JumpStart Fresno, said.

Located in the Jan and Bud Richter Center for Community Engagement and Service Lear ning, JumpStart Fresno was started at Fresno State in the fall of 2001.

JumpStart Fresno focuses on helping low-income children and their preschool programs. However, it does not provide the entire preschool experience for a child. Currently, JumpStart Fresno works with four Head Start centers and the Joyce M. Huggins Center on campus.

“JumpStart is a supplemental program that takes place in existing preschool programs,” Dion said. “Our tutors are hired to work with all of the children in the classroom.”

The program heavily focuses on language and literacy skills, targeting oral language, vocabulary, comprehension and rhyme awareness.

JumpStart sessions are led by corps members who implement lesson plans

in an existing preschool classroom, twice a week. Corps members are Fresno State students that are dedicated to assisting and teaching children basic learning skills in early education.

Sessions consist of a variety of activities that provide children with a learning environment that is fun. Activities used in JumpStart sessions include reading time, where students read from 20 different core storybooks; circle time, where the class learns songs and poems; and center time, where children choose which activities they would like to participate in.

“The goal is to make these activities as fun as possible,” Dion said. “We want children to play, as that is one important way they learn new things at such a young age.”

Recreation administration major C h r i s t i n e Z e l e d o n b e l i eve s t h e JumpStart program is successfully structured to work hand-and-hand with children instead of simply teaching them the skills they need to learn.

“We are able to work one on one with our students and by doing that we are able to focus on what each child needed to learn individually instead of working with a large group of 30 kids,” Zeledon said.

As a corps member, Zeledon said they focus on establishing a personal connection with the children inside the classroom. By doing this, the corps members create a welcoming environment for the students that will help each child learn and become successful.

“I loved working with the preschool-

ers,” Zeledon said. “They were so amazing and adorable. I feel like I learned so much from them even though they were only about three years old.”

Although Zeledon had to resign from JumpStart this year due to educational plans, she strongly believes that most students who work with JumpStart care tremendously about the children and what is best for them.

Along with a strong care for children, many Corps Members concentrate on the impact they are making on a child’s educational future. By mainly focusing on working with low-income children at select preschool centers such as Head Start center and the Joyce M. Huggins Center, JumpStart is giving children opportunities they may not have at home.

According to Dion, many studies have shown that children from a lowincome background are not exposed to the same vocabulary and opportunities to interact with literacy that many other children from a higher income background may be exposed to.

Three-year Corps Member Grizelva Morfin says JumpStart is successful because it is a non-profit organization that works hard to better the community.

“We are giving children basic skills that will help them in school, which could lead to a higher education,” Morfin said. “Some of these children have parents that do not speak English or that do not have time to implement these skills at home, which is why we can make an impact in their lives.”

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It isn’t black and white with Kevin Spacey

By John Anderson McClatchy-Tribune NEW YORK — Istanbul is more than 5,000 miles from Wall Street, but Kevin Spacey has been making his presence felt in both. A week or so ago, he brought the Sam Mendes-directed “Richard III” to the Harbiye Muhsin Er tug rul Sahnesi theater in the ancient Turkish city.

“It was a really good audience,” the actor said by phone, moments after leaving the stage. “We opened last night, do four more and then move on to Naples.” And San Francisco, Beijing, Singapore, Sydney and Doha, Qatar. The production, which originated at London’s Old Vic, ends its run at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in January.

Sooner than that — this Friday, in fact _ moviegoers can see Spacey play a different kind of tortured monarch: “Margin Call,” debuting writer-director J.C. Chandor’s dialogue-and-character-driven take on the financial meltdown, features Spacey as Sam Rogers, a high-ranking member of a high-flying Manhattan financial house, whose investment in risk has overtaken its assets. Rather than panic — and there’s much reason to — Sam’s superior (Jeremy Irons) decides to sell the company’s worthless holdings to who-

ever will buy them, before the bloodhounds of Wall Street have a chance to sniff out that the firm is doomed. In a business built on trust, it’s the equivalent of a murder-suicide.

But unlike the homicidal hunchbacked king of “Richard III,” which has earned Spacey rave reviews this season, the hero of “Margin Call” is not a font of unbridled villainy, but moral ambiguity.

“What attracted me, what always attracts me,” Spacey said, “is that if you’re going to be playing a character who’s not all white and not all black, but maybe gray, which is frankly where most people live, then at least you can try to create a human being, and then let an audience make a decision.

“I played a much broader caricature recently of a horrible boss,” Spacey said, referring to “Horrible Bosses,” which co-starred Jennifer Aniston and Colin Farrell, “but that was a comedy fueled by a certain energy. Here, I play this man who’s the moral compass of the movie. The other one was fun, but that’s more typical of what you see in the movies. I suppose there was a little part of me that said, when I read the ‘Margin Call’ script, ‘That’s the role Jack Lemmon would have played.’

That made me smile.”

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SPACEY: New movie to debut Friday Take a hue from the CONTINUED from page 5 Spacey, who played opposite his longtime hero in “Glengarry Glen Ross,” has been — like Lemmon — an actor’s actor. From the time he played Mel Proffit on TV’s “Wiseguy” in the late ‘80s through his Oscar-winning roles in “The Usual Suspects” and “American Beauty” to the more recent efforts at the hallowed Old Vic _ where he

respect and the firm to which he’s devoted his professional life. The barons of Wall Street are not currently in much favor. In fact, they’re objects of much derision.

“And that’s because it’s a very easy and human reaction to look for someone to blame and an industry to blame,” Spacey said. “So it’s an easy thing to point fingers.

I’ve known bankers, and the truth is, as I hope you can see

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ere, I play this man who’s the moral compass of the movie.”

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has been artistic director since 2003 — Spacey has been ranked among America’s better actors. England’s too, perhaps: Praising Spacey’s “powerful central performance” in “Richard III,” the Guardian’s Michael Billington wrote, “What is impressive about Spacey is that he acts with every fiber of his being. His voice has acquired a rougher, darker edge ... he still bustles about the stage with ferocious energy.”

Conversely, Sam Ro g ers is a subdued character, one in whom emotions roil, but whose issues are more pedestrian and hence universal: He’s not faced with questions about how to seize a throne, but to choose between his self-

in the film, every time you think you’ve met the top person, there’s someone else they have to answer to. This guy, then that guy, and you start to realize that the decisions ultimately made are not made by the kind of character that I’m playing. The guy I play is among the ones who did their level best to stop the decisions that were being made because they thought it was going to destroy the market.

A n d , by t h e w ay, t h e i r careers.”

Spacey has taken his own career in several abrupt directions. His Old Vic tenure will end in 2015, he says. “Then I will move on, and it will be time for this theater to have new blood,” he said. “It will

have been 11 years, and I made a commitment for 10.”

Foreshadowing Richard III and Sam Rogers in its own strange way was Spacey’s portrayal of Jack Abramoff (“Casino Jack”), another character he sees in shades of gray.

“I don’t know why, but I relish the challenge of taking someone everyone has essentially dismissed, and putting flesh and bone and a beating heart in them and maybe letting people go, ‘Oh, wow, I sort of understand that now.””

While Spacey finds wiggle room in the morality of his various characters, he has no qualms about another issue: T he authorship of Shakespeare’s plays. It’s the subject of the upcoming costume drama “Anonymous” and sure to fuel the debate over whether the Bard was the Bard we know, and not the Earl of Oxford, or Francis Bacon, or Christopher Marlowe. The clincher for Spacey was a portrait of Shakespeare unveiled in 2009 and reputedly the only one painted during his lifetime.

“I went up to Toronto where it was on display,” Spacey said, “and it was incredible, because it was done when he was 37 years old, and an actor at the Globe and a major playwright. But the most remarkable thing is the naughty look in his eyes — as if he is a man who gets the joke of life. And I looked at that face and absolutely believed for the first time that that man wrote those plays. And I have never doubted since.”

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By Ellen Warren McClatchy-Tribune Red is hot. Scorching, even.

It was the major color story on — what else? — the red carpet at the Emmys this year. And it’s not just television stars in their freebie designer gowns who are red all over. Walk into any clothing or accessories store and you’ll find wares in every reddish hue from brick to stop-sign bright. Why red?

Why now? It’s the economy, stupid. “It’s a really optimistic color and I think everyone is feeling a little uncertain,” says Rokhee Kim, senior vice president of women’s design for the Express chain, where shop windows and stores are brimming with all things red for fall.

“I think red is an instant mood booster,” adds Susan Swimmer, fashion features editor of More magazine.

And in these dire times, I don’t know a recession-weary soul whose mood couldn’t use a tuneup. In other words: Wear red to beat the blues.

Kim points out that something red “can easily refresh” what you already have in your closet. “It’s an easy way to inject newness without having to flip an entire wardrobe,” she says. “ I s t h e r e a n y b o dy wh o can’t wear red?” I wondered.

“You’re asking the wrong person,” Kim replied. “I love red on everyone. Even if it’s (just) red lipstick. I love red lipstick, even on a redhead.”

Whether it’s a lipstick, a blouse, jeans or a jacket,

there’s a right red out there for you — but it might take some trial and error to find it. Bluer reds often are the best choice for those with fair skin, while reds with some orange work well with darker complexions.

If you’re not ready to add Coke-can red to your wardrobe or makeup kit, Kim suggests trying shades of beet, burgundy or bordeaux. They’re not quite so look-at-me, “but make you feel like you’re taking part in the trend.”

The Express catalog shows a beautiful young blonde looking red hot in the brightest shade of the season wearing a tomato-colored jacket, shirt, pants and shoes. But for the not-a-gorgeous-model majority, Swimmer raises a red flag: “Do not wear it tip to toe.”

Instead, ground your major red piece with camel, gray or black.

And if you do chose a memorable garment, “It’s best when the red piece is uncomplicated. Avoid ruffles. Let the color do the talking for you,” Swimmer says.

Not ready to plunge fully into the red zone? Get your feet wet with just a pop of color in a belt, bag or shoe, keeping everything else neutral.

Speaking of neutral, Swimmer says that if you’re wearing red near your face — a shirt, coat, scarf — choose a neutral lip to avoid a costumey Miss Firecracker overdose.

In fact, just like candy, pizza and Champagne, with red it is possible to have too much of a good thing.

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Wylie provides field position weapon

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Senior punt returner Devon Wylie, seen here against Utah State this past weekend, has provided quarterback Derek Carr and company with good field position throughout the season.

By Tim Salazar The Collegian Fresno State redshirt senior wide receiver Devon Wylie has flourished this season with his special teams play. This season he has already been awarded twice for the national punt retur ner of the week from College Football Performance Awards.

Wylie is considered the fastest player to ever come through Fresno State and was clocked running the 40-yard dash in 4.25 seconds during fall camp the offseason before his junior season. The 5-foot9, 185-pound punt retur ner

has electrified the nation, as he is one of top returners in the country. He has two punt return touchdowns so far this season.

In the Boise State game, Wylie provided the lone bright spot for Fresno State with his 79-yard return on Oct. 7.

Wylie’s second touchdown came against No. 10 Nebraska on a 67-yard return to start Fresno State off on the right foot at Memorial Stadium.

Wylie has provided Fresno State with a spark all season, leading the nation with 425 punt return yards this season and averaging 60.7 punt return yards per game.

He continues to give the offense good field position giving them an extra 17.7 yards per punt return, which ranks eighth-best nationally. With Wylie contributing so much to the special teams, he sees how important his returns are.

“I’m glad I can contribute to the team,” Wylie said. “I’m just glad to help out the offense with field position.”

The Bulldogs have not only received quality punt returns this year, but a large quantity as well. He has returned more punts than any two players in the Western Athletic Conference. He is second in the nation in total punts with

24 one behind Alabama’s Marquis Maze. Wylie current leads Maze by 91 punt return yards.

“I like to return anything possible. Our defense does a good job of stopping teams in punting position,” Wylie said.

Wylie was named to Phil Steele’s midseason AllAmerica second team as a punt returner last week.

Wylie has missed at least four games due to injury in each of the previous three years. He was g ranted an extra year of eligibility by the NCAA after injuring his foot his senior year.

Not only has Wylie dem-

onstrated knack for making plays on special teams, he also has made his presence felt on the offense. He is fifth on the team in receptions with 19 and has over 50 yards receiving three different times this year.

He is also fourth in net rushing yards.

“I come out and play on [offense and special teams] as hard I can,” Wylie said.

“Whether I get the ball in a game or not isn’t in my power.

If I get open, I get open. I just have to hope I can make as many plays as possible.”

Home field advantage pays dividends

By Angel Moreno The Collegian The Fresno State soccer team is riding an unbeaten streak at Bulldog Stadium as the ‘Dogs enter the home stretch of conference play before hosting the Western Athletic Conference To u r n a m e n t f ro m N ov. 3 through Nov. 6 at the new soccer and lacrosse stadium next door.

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“I think when you mix in all the other variables for any team that’s traveling you should have some kind of advantage playing at home,” Zwaschka said of the current unbeaten streak at home.

Fresno State has played some tough opponents on the road this season in No. 11 Texas A&M, No. 21 Loyola Marymount, No. 4 UCLA and No. 8 Pepperdine that has translated into a 5-4-2

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and Sunday, respectively. In the final home games before the WAC Tour nament, the ‘Dogs will then travel to take on Nevada and Utah State in the week before the tournament in hopes of securing a spot as one of the top two seeded teams, which are given a bye heading into the semifinals.

Head coach Brian Zwaschka is confident that his squad will perform well since its record is unblemished at home so far with only half of the remain-

record. The ‘Dogs haven’t lost a game on the confines of Jim Sweeney Field and one of the advantages is the support the soccer team gets from the Bulldog faithful.

“We feel pretty lucky that we’ve got such a good home crowd,” Zwaschka said. “It’s that extra energy boost when the players need it. They’re always excited to play in front of their families and friends at home. They add that extra boost.”

The added motivation is what can potentially reserve the ‘Dogs a spot in the semifinals of the WAC Tournament.

This would be a return trip after Fresno State won the WAC Tournament last year and made it to the NCAA Tournament where it came up short against UCF, 2-1. With Fresno State having the WAC Tour nament in a familiar environment, Zwaschka sees how important it is to win at home.

“Everybody likes to protect their house and we’re no different,” said Zwaschka. “We take each game one at a time.

Try to figure out a way to put the best package on the field and throw everything we can at a visiting team so they

never get comfortable.”

And the opposition has yet to get comfortable as the ‘Dogs are 1-0 in conference and 3-0-1 overall at Bulldog Stadium, including a tie against fifthranked Pepperdine on Sept. 25.

Leading the way is junior Callie Hancock, who has netted a team-high eight goals this season, including all four of the team’s past four goals.

Fresno State hopes to continue its unbeaten streak through the weekend behind Hancock and freshman goalkeeper Katie DeVault, who has recorded five shutouts for the Bulldogs.

The team is also celebrating Senior Night on Sunday for its final home game of the season. Seniors Laura Dodd, Molly Nizzoli, Rachel Pickett and Kendall VanDine will suit up in Bulldog red one last time inside Bulldog Stadium.

With four games remaining before the WAC Tournament, including their final two at home, Zwaschka and his team hope to finish out the season with a top seed for the tournament.

“Each game is going to have its own challenges and we’re going to take it one game at a time,” Zwaschka said.

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alley Fresno #42 DeAndre Boughton, Senior LB, Fresno City #45 Kendall Brock, Freshman RB, Clovis West HS #71 Jordan Mudge, Senior OL, Bakersfield JC #55 Rykeem Yates, Freshman DL, Edison HS

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#59 Kyle Papendorf, Redshirt Freshman OL, Buchanan HS #29 Lampford Mark, Senior RB, Buchanan HS

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By Angel Moreno The Collegian Fresno State will travel to Nevada this Saturday for the battle of the last two undefeated teams in the Western Athletic Conference. The Wolf Pack (3-3, 1-0 WAC) and the Bulldogs (3-4, 2-0 WAC) will meet for the 42nd time in what has become much more than a regular-conference meeting for both teams.

The Bulldogs are fighting for sole possession of first place in the WAC, as well as recruiting authority in the Central Valley. Since Chris Ault returned for his second term as head coach of Nevada, the Wolf Pack have taken their share of high school football players from the talent pool in Fresno’s backyard.

A m o n g t h o s e a re t h re e of Nevada’s four running backs in sophomore Stefphon Jefferson, senior Lampford Mark and freshman Kendall

B ro ck . T h e s e t h re e h ave helped Nevada average 248.8 yards per game on the ground and have combined for six of the Wolf Pack’s 13 rushing touchdowns so far this season.

“Nevada does a good job recruiting the Valley and they get good players out of the Valley,” head coach Pat Hill said after his Monday press conference. “All three of those running backs are very good players. We looked at them all right out of high school and thought they were really good.”

Things have not panned out well for Fresno State recently, possibly why it has translated to its performance on the field against the Wolf Pack since the ‘Dogs have lost the last three games.

The all-time series has gone in Fresno State’s favor 24-16-1 and this will be the final game between the schools as WAC members. The WAC rivals will be making the jump to the

Mountain West Conference next season.

Although both teams are undefeated in conference play heading into this weekend’s game, Hill is keeping the same mantra that was used against

“W

inning against a team like Nevada, who recruits here is an important win.”

— Pat Hill, head football coach

Utah State.

“We’re taking on the same slogan we had last week,” Hill said. “We’ve just got to be 1-0 this week. We’re not worried about anything else. Just going to Nevada and winning a game against a team the last two weeks that has been pretty darn good on offense.”

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improved their play in backto-back home wins against UNLV and New Mexico after losing to Boise State 30-10 three weeks ago.

Nevada will look to catch the ‘Dogs off guard with a couple formations with multiple running backs leading the way.

Those running backs include the Central Valley’s trio that will be on the opposing sideline on Saturday when Fresno State crosses the CaliforniaNevada border.

“It depends on who has the needs,” Hill said. “We’ve had times where we don’t recruit a couple kids because we don’t have a need at that position.

There’s been some times we didn’t recruit a kid because we’ve had someone higher on our board. It all works that way.”

A good reason Fresno State hasn’t felt too many negative effects of missing out on multiple Valley talents is because it landed a San Diego recruit

named Robbie Rouse, who is leading the Bulldogs’ ground game. The 5-foot-7, 185-pound junior has rushed for 812 yards for five touchdowns on the season. With Rouse being recruited to be a Bulldog, Hill talked about not being able to bring every player to Fresno State.

“You can’t take them all,” Hill said. “They were great players in high school. I knew every one of them. I met every one of them personally and they’re great kids. I wish them the best of luck.”

Despite facing a handful of Central Valley talent on Saturday in Mackay Stadium, Hill and company are focused much more on taking sole control of the WAC. “Winning against a team like Nevada, who recruits here is an important win,” Hill said.