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Federal changes on student loans creating anxiety Fresno State to host its first ULS conference

By Herb Jackson McClatchy-Tribune

Graduate students will pay more for loans taken out next July, and recent graduates will lose rebates for ontime repayment under a law Congress passed this summer to keep the federal deficit in check while protecting Pell Grants for low-income students.

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the changes will save the government $21.6 billion—meaning students would pay that much more or borrow less —over the next 10 years.

Another change that a key Senate committee voted to include in the 2012 federal budget would “save” an additional $6.1 billion by getting rid of a grace period subsidy for undergraduate loans.

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By Keelyn Hanlon The Collegian The Fresno State Hispanic Business Student Association (HBSA) will be hosting the first Norther n United Latino Students Business Leadership Conference on Saturday, Nov. 5.

This regional conference is a newly developed conference. In the past, a single conference was held in Southern California but this year a Northern conference was created and Fresno State was selected as the host.

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had no idea about this and I’m extremely well-aware of what’s going on. Everyone knows about the six-month grace period, and no one knows it’s a possibility it might end.

That’s a complete shock.”

— Anabell Palloni, Senior at Rutgers

rebates and loan subsidies for graduate students was included in the bipartisan deal reached in July known as the Budget Control Act, the law that set 10-year spending caps while raising the federal debt ceiling.

Financial aid departments at colleges and universities are now starting to

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notify graduate students that Stafford loans they take out next summer will no longer include a subsidy that keeps interest from accruing while they are in school.

“This was one of the few federal subsidies provided to graduate students,” said Haley Chitty, communications director for the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators.

“It is a pretty significant blow.”

Under the new law, students seeking advanced degrees will start owing interest immediately on loans issued after July 1, though they will have the option of deferring payments until they finish school.

ur events draw all the students in, also the campus community, legislators and elected officials.”

“They can defer it but it adds to what they owe, and we always encourage students to pay as they go so in the end it’s not so expensive,” said Ivon Nunez, financial aid director at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark.

Exactly how much the subsidy is worth depends on how much a student borrows and how many years he or she is in school.

Nunez said a student borrowing the federal maximum of $65,000 could end up owing an extra $200 a month over 10 years.

Chitty said an analysis by NASFAA

schools across Northern and Southern California are expected to attend the conference. All attendees are required to be HBSA members at Fresno State or another school with an active chapter.

The conference will feature workshops about career success, personal development and networking opportunities.

The HBSA has been an active student

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— Victor Olivares, HBSA advisor

Dallas area rapes have sorority asking why NAACP is

By Molly Hennessy-Fiske McClatchy-Tribune Betty Culbreath is normally not a fearful person. That changed when she learned that four women raped in their homes nearby were fellow Delta Sigma Theta sorority alumnae —all in their 50s and 60s.

Culbreath, 70, went out to her car and removed her Delta license plate holder.

She heeded the advice of the national president of the sorority to think twice before wearing Delta clothing or accessories, much of it in the sorority's signature color, red.

The crimes "made me fearful, more precautious," she said. "It has made me very conscious about anything that might identify me" as a Delta Sigma Theta.

Police are confounded by why a rapist appears to be targeting older women in one of the nation's prominent black sororities. For sorority members, the mystery underlies a dread that they could be the next victim at home in the leafy Dallas suburbs of Corinth, Coppell and Plano. Here the flat land is dotted with lakes, evangelical churches and seemingly safe planned communities with names like Arbor Manors, Copperstone and Meadow Oaks.

Culbreath, former director of Dallas County Health and Human Services, is particularly alarmed by the surveillance video of a "person of interest" being sought by police, and the description of the suspect: a 275-to-300-pound tank of a man, African-American,

between 5 foot 7 and 5 foot 9, mid-30s or 40s, with a shaved or balding head and distinctive swagger.

"This man is so big it's just ... oh, it's hard to think about when you reach a certain level of maturity," she said. "It makes you wonder what kind of vendetta would cause a man to be that evil, what's motivating him. We are a service sorority —we're not politicians, we're not involved in anything controversial."

Word of the attacks spread among the nation's "Divine Nine" black sororities and fraternities at their National PanHellenic Council convention in Atlanta last week, on the Black Greek Forum, the Delta Sigma Theta Facebook page and other websites. Many people were frightened.

"This has really put a chill through everyone because we can't figure out an explanation for it," said Lawrence Ross, a Los Angeles-based author who is married to a Delta.

The most recent attack took place Oct. 14 in Shady Shores, and was investigated by Corinth police. The Coppell attack occurred Sept. 15. The two other assaults, in Plano, occurred in April and last November.

All four victims attended different colleges, said Plano Police Officer Andrae Smith, adding that it was too early to assume the suspect was exclusively targeting Deltas. But Plano police spokesman David Tilley said that "everybody associated with this has said it goes past coincidence."

Brad Garrett, a retired FBI profiler

who's now a Washington-based consultant, said other criminals have targeted sororities, including serial killer Ted Bundy. But too little is known about the current suspect to be able to discern his motives, he said.

A serial rapist is "by and large fantasy-driven," Garrett said. "There's something that draws him. He could be trying to punish these women because they have been successful."

Delta Sigma Theta counts many notable members, or "sisters."

T h e s o r o r i t y w a s f o u n d e d by about two dozen students at Howard University in 1913, who promptly prepared to join a march in Washington for women's suffrage.

"They were told they were going to be marching separately, in the back," said Ross, author of "The Divine Nine: The History of African-American Fraternities and Sororities."

"They refused to do that," he said, "so they marched with everyone else."

Deltas would go on to fight for civil rights, staging sit-ins and campaigning against voter suppression. Both the late Rep. Shirley Chisholm, D-N.Y., the first black woman elected to Congress, and Rep. Barbara Jordan, D-Texas, the first Southern black congresswoman, were Deltas. So was Dorothy Height, longtime president of the National Council of Negro Women.

The sorority now has 250,000 members in more than 1,000 chapters worldwide, about 76 percent of them alumSee CRIMES, Page 3

coming to Fresno State

By Viola Malone The Collegian Second year philosophy and pre-law student Alyssa Smith wants to make a difference on campus. Smith is in the process of starting up a National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) college branch on Fresno State’s campus.

This will be the first college branch in Fresno.

“I feel that the NAACP has always been a champion for civil rights and social change. That in and of itself, is what encouraged me to start a college chapter. Being a part of the NAACP allows us to network with other branches, adult, college and youth units across the nation,” Smith said.

The NAACP is the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization.

“The NAACP is not just for AfricanAmericans, it is meant to be inclusive for all races. Some of the services offered would be to not only give back to the school, but to the community as well,” Smith said.

Jocelyn Sahgun who is a fifth-year psychology and criminology major is See NAACP, Page 3

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Buchanan: America is committing suicide

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merica is in dire straits. The U.S. economy is mired in 9 percent unemployment, and economists fear that the country may experience a double-dip recession.

The debt crisis is careening to Greek levels, with the legacy of Weimar Germany in sight. Politicians cannot agree on a solution, but when they do, it will either lead to massive tax increases, huge cuts in benefits to those who have depended on them for so long or near hyperinflation.

Regardless, the results won’t be good for Americans.

Even beyond economic concerns, the country’s consensus is coming apart. E pluribus unum we are no more.

The country no longer agrees on the fundamentals that describe a nation. The country’s shared morality is coming apart. Whether it’s faith, culture, history or political issues, the American consensus has ceased to exist.

This is the thesis of “Suicide of a

Superpower,” political analyst and adviser to three presidential administrations Patrick J. Buchanan’s newest bestselling book.

“America is disintegrating,” Buchanan writes. “The centrifugal forces pulling us apart are growing inexorably. What once united us is dissolving.”

Our grandfathers quarreled over big picture issues: how to wage the Cold War and what rate the income tax should be at dominated dinner-table conversations. But all shared in the same culture: they listened to the same music, watched the same movies and worshiped the same God. These basics of our civilization are now what we quarrel over.

“Will America survive to 2025?”

Buchanan asks in the subtitle to his book. From the looks of it, he argues, the answer is no, at least not the America we now know.

To look at experience, it’s hard to dispute with Buchanan’s argument.

There is even evidence of this on Fresno State’s campus with the immigration issue.

Last year, The Collegian broke the story that Pedro Ramirez, last year’s Associated Students, Inc. president, was an illegal immigrant. This polarized the campus. Students split into pro-Pedro and anti-Pedro camps, with virulent rhetoric dominating the discussion. Hispanics on the side of Ramirez and whites on the side against Ramirez accused each other of racism. One would be hard-pressed to find a good deal of unity at Fresno State last year.

With such a deep divide between Americans, what can possibly be the answer? In politics, the answers are relatively easy. All it would take to solve the debt crisis would be to raise taxes or cut spending. To increase employment, either embark on a mas-

sive public works project or remove government controls from the economy. If terrorism poses a big enough threat to the country, go after the terrorists. If it doesn’t, then stay home.

In our culture, however, the answers are not so easy. Politicians can compromise. Indeed, that’s partly how the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street movements began: these groups believe both parties are too prone to compromise.

But on our cultural issues, we cannot compromise. It is all or nothing.

On what ground is there to compromise between someone who believes that abortion is murder and someone who believes that it is an expression of the fundamental right to privacy?

How will one who sees gay marriage as immoral and one who sees it as the natural progression of human ethics ever agree?

There is no convincing one who believes that illegal immigration is leading America to ruin to agree with one who believes America should be open to all at all times.

If there can be no compromise on these issues, what, then, can happen?

Either one or the other side wins or America as we know it ends.

“The differences between us are wide, deep, and enduring,” Buchanan writes. “Less and less often do we take the trouble to find common ground with people unlike us in views and values.”

It’s easy to share Buchanan’s pessimism. If America continues down this path — an “inexorable” one, according to the author — not much could save it.

It is not too late. The American people have proven to be very resilient in the past, and they may find common ground once more.

But this resiliency better kick in soon.

Make baseball chaw-free

By Minneapolis Star Tribune McClatchy-Tribune

Besides the recent World Series duel between the St. Louis Cardinals and Texas Rangers, another significant battle is occurring in Major League Baseball — over the use of smokeless tobacco by players.

Commissioner Bud Selig wants to stomp the chomp. He’s supported by the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Cancer Society, the American Medical Association, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids and others.

Banning smokeless tobacco from pro baseball makes good sense for health reasons. Players are role models, and tobacco addiction is a nasty and sometimes deadly habit.

Studies show that smokeless tobacco is every bit as hard or harder to give up as cigarettes. Health risks include

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addiction, tooth and gum disease, and various cancers (oral, esophageal, pancreatic) that can be painful, disfiguring and deadly.

Some players who dip or chew argue that a ban would infringe on individual rights. That viewpoint ignores the impact that player behavior has on young people. It also ignores the change in attitude about tobacco in American society.

The Centers for Disease Control reports that a startling 15 percent of high school boys use smokeless tobacco. Those students are more likely to be adult cigarette smokers.

Think the tobacco isn’t noticed by fans? Last month, Milwaukee Brewer Nyjer Morgan, a brash and hot-tempered center fielder, tossed his chaw at an opponent, igniting a bench-clearing tussle.

Swaying minds in baseball on this issue is hard, because the marriage

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between the sport and tobacco is a long one. USA Today reports that Bull Durham tobacco, first produced in 1860, played a role in the term “bullpen.”

“Players chewed tobacco to generate saliva on dusty infields,” the newspaper reported. “When gloves came into vogue, they’d spit into the mitts to keep the leather soft. Saliva, generated by chewing tobacco, was the lubricant of choice for the sharp breaking pitch known as the spitball, banned in 1920.”

We know too much now about the ills of tobacco to let the chomping continue. Several former players who were struck by disease because of chewing are bravely supporting the call for a ban.

While a ban won’t stop on-field melees, it’s a terrific idea that the players’ union should support. After all, baseball should be a game remembered for hitters rather than spitters.

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Opinion editor Tony Petersen gets engaged Two Fridays ago, opinion editor and veteran Collegian writer Tony Petersen got engaged to his girlfriend. He hatched an elaborate scheme to ask her, including a scavenger hunt, poetry and chalk. Lucky for him, she said yes, once again proving that true love is indeed blind.

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Gadhafi (Qaddafi? Gaddafi?

Kadafi?) is gone. But what has come in his place? First, the way in which he was executed was more reminiscent of Paris 1793 than Philadelphia 1776. Second, the new government looks like it’s going to be a radically Islamist one. Is that really better than Gadhafi, who, reprehensible as he was, at least worked with the West in the war on terror? Time will tell if Obama’s and NATO’s intervention proved to be the correct choice. But, at the moment, it’s looking like a mistake.

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The World Series The St. Louis Cardinals seven-game defeat of the Texas Rangers was perhaps the best Fall Classic of the last decade. (Don’t tell Editorial Faculty Adviser and avid Ranger fan Reaz Mahmood though.) However, conspiracy theories are bound to arise after Game Six was postponed due to light rain, allowing the Cardinals to start ace Chris Carpenter in Game Seven. Regardless, congratulations to the Cardinals and their fans.

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November NBA games cancelled What on earth are the higher-ups in the NBA thinking? The league is coming off its most entertaining season since the Jordan era. There is no excuse for the league to be cancelling games. The onus falls on the players: the owners are determined to see this thing through, and the players, who are likely lacking in any skill set outside of basketball, stand to lose the most money for a missed season. They need to budge a little. But fans are the ones losing the most.

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found that a medical or dental student taking out the maximum subsidized loan of $8,500 a year for four years got a $4,624 subsidy while in school.

Even if it’s a much smaller amount, however, students are worried about the impact.

“Students can barely make i t n ow, ” s a i d Ja c q u e l i n e Velastegui of Kearny, who’s seeking an advanced degree in industrial engineering at NJIT. “We don’t live. We survive.”

E v a n To t h i s w o rk i n g full time as a teacher at the Community School in Teaneck while pursuing his master’s degree in English at Rutgers University in Newark. He said he’s borrowed nearly all of the roughly $20,000 in tuition and fees, and “it was really helpful” not to have to pay interest while studying.

“I looked at that as being a great benefit,” Toth said. “An extra $1,500, or whatever it would end up being, would be a great financial burden.”

He expects to finish his coursework next semester, so the change in the law won’t

hit him. But he said that in the future, it will hurt “the selfdriven student who lacks independent wealth.”

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tudents can barely make it now. We don’t live. We survive.”

— Jacqueline Velastegui, NJIT student

“This is exactly the kind of student that our country must encourage to stay in the classroom,” Toth said.

Congress also voted to end subsidies, starting with loans issued next July, that reward graduates who pay back their loans on time.

Under the pro g ram that is ending, bor rowers who signed up for automatic debit repayment got a bonus equal to half the loan origination fee they paid, said Vincent Tunstall, financial aid director at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Borrowers could keep the rebate if they made

their first 12 payments on time.

From the $21.6 billion the two changes to loans are expected to save, Congress applied $4.6 billion to deficit relief and $17 billion to the Pell Grant program, which benefits lowerincome students.

A spending bill for 2012 a p p r o ve d l a s t m o n t h by the Senate Appropriations Committee would end another interest subsidy, this time for undergraduates. Right now, there’s a six-month g race period after graduation during which students who have taken subsidized Staf ford loans do not have to make loan repayments.

Under the current system, the government pays the interest during those six months, but that would end under the proposal that the Senate committee said in a report it adopted “reluctantly.”

If the proposal becomes law, there will still be a six-month grace period on loans issued after July 2012, but interest will accrue during those six months.

Over the next 10 years, the change is expected to save

the government $6.1 billion, according to the office of Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, who is chairman of the appropriations subcommittee that controls education funding.

From that amount, $1.3 billion would go to fill a shortfall in Pell Grants in 2012 and an additional $1 billion would go toward Pell Grants in 2013.

be reconciled before a final spending plan for 2012 is adopted.

Anabell Polloni, a senior at Rutgers in New Brunswick and former state board chairman of the New Jersey Public Interest Research Group, said most students are not aware of the changes Congress is making to loan programs.

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hey can defer it but it adds to what they owe, and we always encourage students to pay as they go so in the end it’s not so expensive.”

— Ivon Nunez, financial aid director at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark

A draft bill in the House Appropriations Committee would leave the grace period alone but make changes to Pell Grants eligibility to cover the shortfall. Harkin’s office said the House changes would make 500,000 current grant recipients ineligible.

The different approaches taken by the House and Senate committees would have to

“I had no idea about this and I’m extremely well-aware of what’s going on. Everyone knows about the six-month grace period, and no one knows it’s a possibility it might end. That’s a complete shock,” she said.

HBSA: Campus event addresses Latinos conference WORD: Sororities worry about crimes CONTINUED from page 1 chapter at Fresno State for 39 years. It was established in 1972 with the objective of providing students with tools for success in life after college by emphasizing leadership, professionalism, education, family and community values.

“The organization provides a connect from the academic classroom experience to the real world of work,” HBSA advisor Victor Olivares said.

Fresno State students of any ethnicity or major are welcome to be a part of the club.

“Any student can come, it’s not just for Hispanic students.

It’s the name we have, but any student or any major can come,” Olivares said.

HBSA offers students opportunities to connect with the corporate world through a strong network of supporting businesses. Meetings and events often incorporate speakers and sessions that help students develop skills

to help them succeed in a job, understand the aspects of business and provide contacts with future employers.

“We have many companies that are highly interested in

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ny student can come, it’s not just for Hispanic students, it’s the name we have but any student or any major can come.”

— Victor Olivares, HBSA advisor

students because the market is shifting in California,” Olivares said. “It’s not just a matter of bilingualism. It’s really a matter of the understanding the market habits and the purchasing power and also the habits of the Latino

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community.”

HBSA has opportunities for members to develop interests in areas they previously had not pursued.

“I joined my second semester of my freshman year,” said Jessica Jacobo, director of community relations and a pre-business major. “I became a part of the fundraising committee and learned that I love fundraising.”

The active members of the club form a network that lets them navigate through their educational challenges and into the cor porate world.

There are approximately 60 club members this semester.

“We focus on being professionals but we’re also very family oriented,” cur rent HBSA president and marketing major Anadelia Rodriguez said.

The group meets weekly on Monday evenings and actively holds events at least twice a month on weekends. These events range from workshops to community service activities.

“Our events draw all the students in, also the campus community, legislators and elected officials,” Olivares said.

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nae, according to a spokeswoman. The list includes some of the most accomplished black women in America, from U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin to for mer astronaut Joan Higginbotham, Rep. Marcia Fudge, D-Ohio, and singers Roberta Flack and Natalie Cole.

Honorary Delta and pioneering black educator Mary McLeod Bethune wrote a poem about the selfless "Delta Girl" driven by "a purpose which directs her activities and all that she may control toward lifting somebody else."

"Deltas value leadership development," said Tamara Brown, a Delta alumna and co-editor of a book about black fraternities and sororities.

In the growing Dallas-Fort Wo r t h m e t r o p l e x , wh i c h encompasses a dozen northern Texas counties with a population of about 6.4 million, membership in Delta Sigma Theta and the "Divine Nine" has helped locals integrate with new arrivals, said Rhetta Washington McCoy, 39, past president of a Dallas chapter of the Zeta Phi Beta sorority.

"A lot of people think sororities and fraternities and think a social club on a college campus and once college is over, you're done," she said. "Our organizations have more of a social service aspect."

That's one reason so many black alumnae in the Dallas area wear or carry sorority insignia with them, she said.

But the attacks have them thinking differently.

NAACP: Organization to help students CONTINUED from page 1 highly interested in being a part of the NAACP club.

“I would definitely like to be involved in this club because I like what the NACCP stands for,” Sahgun said.

According to the NAACP website, its mission is to ensure the political, educational, social and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racebased discrimination.

C o o rd i n at o r o f s t u d e n t activities, Josh Edrington, thinks it is a great idea to have a club stem from a national organization.

“All I ask for is a letter of approval [from the national o r g a n i z at i o n ] fo r F re s n o State’s name,” Edrington said.

In order for a new club to be recognized on campus, founders must complete an application packet, adopt a constitution and return it to the Student Activities Office before recognition can be granted.

“An upcoming club can be granted temporary recognition in order to get the word out around campus about what the new organization is, its purpose and to increase

membership numbers,” Edrington said.

Dr. Francine Oputa, director of the Central Valley Cultural Heritage Institute, is one faculty member who supports what Smith is trying to do.

“I believe young people have a certain energ y and new ideas. They are willing to push to give things another try. It’s always exciting to see what they’ll accomplish,” Oputa said.

Oputa is in the process of helping Smith find an advisor for the NAACP college branch and will act as temporary advisor if need be.

The club is cur rently in the process of completing and submitting all necessary for ms and Smith plans to begin meetings next semester. “ I h o p e eve r y b o dy g e t s involved with this organization, because I believe it’s a great opportunity to better ourselves as a minority. I also hope everyone gives this wonderful organization an opportunity and that we welcome it with open arms,” Sahgun said.

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Gamma Alpha Omega newest sorority on campus

By Leonel Barajas The Collegian On a summer night a young lady had an idea to start something new at Fresno State.

Maira Enriquez, a communication and disorders student, is currently trying to establish a recognized chapter of Gamma Alpha Omega Sorority, Inc. (GAO) at Fresno State.

Enriquez, president of GAO, is very proud of what she and her other founding mothers have accomplished recently.

Gamma Alpha Omega Sorority, Inc. was founded in Tempe, Arizona on Jan. 25, 1993 at Arizona State University.

There are currently three chapters established in Arizona, and two chapters in California.

GAO is a Latina-founded multicultural organization that exists to increase the number of women with a college education and advanced degrees and to provide mentors for youth, women and under-represented communities.

“I wasn’t really into sororities. I knew what they were and what they were about, but nothing called my attention, at least the ones on campus didn’t for me,” Enriquez said.

An acquaintance of Enriquez asked her why she didn’t get involved with a

sorority since she’s always participating and attending Greek social events.

Enriquez was later informed that other students had been trying to bring GAO to campus for the past seven years, but had failed to do so because there has not been much support from students to start the process of bringing the organization back to campus.

“I kept contact with a sister at the CSU Northridge chapter. I started reading about their philanthropy and what they were really about. I started looking at their website, pictures and contacting other universities and seeing if they were legit,” Enriquez said.

Their recruiting process was just word of mouth and most of the ladies in the organization that joined have known each other for some time now. They started with 33 ladies and now stand with 23, Enriquez added.

They are currently the only group of women establishing a chapter at Fresno State.

Crystal Reyes, a business student and historian for GAO, and founding mother is enthusiastic with the progress of their organization.

“I’ve always been interested in joining organizations, but since I started college I haven’t had the time to do so. When a close friend of mine told me about this amazing opportunity I couldn’t refuse to be a part

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Gamma Alpha Omega Sorority, Inc. is the newest sorority on campus. Gamma Alpha Omega is a multicultural organization dedicated to increasing the number of women with a college education.

of it,” Reyes said.

GAO enhances the individual leadership qualities in each member to provide a lifelong support system for sisters who live their lives by the pillars of honesty, integrity, leadership, scholarship and unity.

“The reason why I chose to join GAO is because of the pillars they go by for unity, integrity and honesty. I feel that

by joining this sorority I will have many more opportunities in life, not only am I going to be a part of a long-lasting sisterhood, but we will become founding mothers,” Yesenia Marrujo, a criminology student and standards for GAO, said.

Marrujo is also pleased with progress she and her sisters have made with the organiza-

tion.

GAO is an official interest group at Fresno State, but not a recognized chapter. It is now in the process of becoming a recognized chapter.

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Registration Introductions/Welcome Opening Address: California Central Valley’s role in the challenges and opportunities of feeding a hungry world: 9 billion by 2050 Corny Gallagher Senior Vice President, Agribusiness Executive, Global Commercial Banking Bank of America Merrill Lynch

The Economic Outlook: Volatility and Emerging Opportunities

Terry Bar Senior Director of Industry Research CoBank, ACB

International Markets Update

James Christie President and Managing Partner Bryant Christie, Inc., International Affairs Management

Break Winegrapes and Nuts: Historical Review of Production in the SJV and Implications for the Future

Jim Lapsley Adjunct Associate Professor Dept. of Viticulture and Enology University of California, Davis

Valley Water: Current situation and a look toward the next 30 years

Kamyar Guivetchi, P.E. Manager, Statewide Intergrated Water Management California Department of Water Resources

Current Labor Issues and a Glimpse at the Future

Monte Lake CJ-Lake Washington, DC

Luncheon and Keynote Address

Karen Ross Secretary California Department of Food and Agriculture

MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2011 THE COLLEGIAN • ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT PAGE 5 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR, JOHNATHAN WILBANKS • COLLEGIAN-FEATURES@CSUFRESNO.EDU

Alice is a fright

Lionel Hahn / McClatchy-Tribune

Alice Cooper, pictured here at the Walk of Fame in December of 2003, is gaining publicity with his new album “Welcome 2 My Nightmare,” and an attraction at Universal Studios.

By Geoff Boucher McClatchy-Tribune LOS ANGELES — Every Halloween is a career moment when your name is Alice Cooper. This particular October is especially notable for the veteran rock star: He’s back with a new album, an attraction at Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights and a recently completed cameo in Tim Burton’s upcoming “Dark Shadows,” which features the singer as himself in all of his gory glory.

“This is my season,” the 63-year-old singer said with a satisfied grin during a recent visit to Los Angeles. “Welcome to the nightmare, all over again.”

“Welcome to My Nightmare” was the name of Cooper’s 1975 concept album that delved into the nightmares of a child named Steven. That vintage vinyl moment is echoing now at Universal Studios Hollywood, where this year’s elaborate Halloween attraction includes a “Welcome to My Nightmare” maze with music and imagery from that album and others by Cooper.

Halloween Hor ror Nights r uns through Monday night and features other mazes this year based on “The Thing,” “The Wolfman,” Rob Zombie’s “House of 1,000 Corpses,” Eli Roth’s “Hostel” and the legend of La Llorona as imagined by Diego Luna.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee said he was giddy as he walked through the maze and saw his dark creations come to life.

“It’s like a movie: There’s a beginning, a middle and an end,” said the

Detroit native whose birth name is Vincent Furnier. “It’s so well thought out and it’s so ambitious.... It’s a nice thing for Alice Cooper. Alice Cooper is synonymous with Halloween; I’m amazed no one has done it before. We did a haunted house at my restaurant in Phoenix but having Universal do it and do it on this scale, that makes it special.”

Cooper was equally impressed walking through the huge, elaborate sets of “Dark Shadows,” the Warner Bros. film that stars Johnny Depp, Michelle P f e i f f e r, E va G re e n a n d H e l e n a Bonham Carter and reaches theaters in May 2012.

“They should take that set and make it a haunted house next year,” Cooper said of the Pinewood Studios constructs that include a sprawling Gothic mansion and a harbor city complete with pier and boats floating in an artificial ocean. Cooper plays himself in the film, which is set in 1972. Depp’s character, the recently unleashed vampire Barnabas Collins, hires the rock star to play a private ball at his seaside home in Maine.

“He’s a guy you have to watch when he’s up on the stage, and the songs are just classic,” Depp said last month about Cooper, who, wearing his trademark makeup, plays “No More Mr. Nice Guy” in the film. (His collaboration with Depp went beyond Pinewood — the actor brought his guitar along to perform with the rock star and his band during a London gig.)

Cooper said he also found in Burton a simpatico soul.

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Controversial topics examined COOPER: new album at Conley Art Gallery show not a “one trick pony” CONTINUED from page 5 “Rock and horror and comedy work together — that’s something I’ve known a long time and people like Rob Zombie know, and Burton knows that too,” Cooper said. “Sometimes the comedy is disguised a little bit, it’s dark, but it is there.... I just saw ‘Final Destination 5’ and I was laughing so hard. I mean, it was Wile E. Coyote, all these elaborate things leading up to this moment of impact.... There’s something like that in our shows too.

Hitchcock would do it too. There’s the setup, the misdirect and then the delivery. Tim Burton knows it so well. He’s one of a kind. He’s a kindred spirit.”

“This is what an album should be,” Cooper said. “If you’re a young man, listen to this album. It’s not a one-trick pony. It goes left, right, up, down, it goes everywhere. These days if you’re a band, you don’t make an album, you make a single. But if you’re an Elton or an Alice or a Bowie, you have a fan base that expects an album. There’s a community out there that wants to hear what Alice is doing. It’s a generational thing too. When we started, in the 1960s, it was the golden age. A record company wanted 20 albums, they wanted to build your career and there was fine-tuning and an investment. They wanted to build your career to the point that every time you put a record out, it was a million seller.

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t’s so well thought out and it’s so ambitious...It’s a nice thing for Alice Cooper. Alice Cooper is synonymous with Halloween; I’m amazed no one has done it before. We did a haunted house at my restaurant in Phoenix but having Universal do it and do it on this scale, that makes it special.”

— Alice Cooper, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee

Esteban Cortez / The Collegian

Graduate art student Kristina Störk welcomed the public to her exhibit opening reception on Thursday, Oct. 27 at the Fresno State Conley Art Gallery. The masquerade-themed reception displayed an accumulation of nearly three years worth of work and featured various paintings and mixed-media pieces. Störk hoped that viewers deeply examined the narratives of her pieces, many of which are autobiographical. Gender roles, religion, faith and personal biases were just a few of the themes Störk explored through her displayed pieces. She said her show was invigorating and reminded her why she is an artist.

- By Esteban Cortez

Cooper’s just-released album, “Welcome 2 My Nightmare,” is a sequel that updates the earlier spook show with all of the 21st century things that frighten Cooper’s alter ego _ namely technology, hip-hop and the devil.

“And the devil is Kesha, because the devil wouldn’t look like Christopher Lee, it would look like this new creature,” Cooper said, referring to the pop singer who contributes a bit of hellfire vamping to the track “What Baby Wants.”

“Now a band has no chance for that because radio doesn’t really care,” Cooper continued. “Now you’re better on your own selling your albums from your website and just playing live and playing and playing. Guys who came up in the 1960s are still playing now; you won’t see that 40 years from now.

Lou Reed, Jimmy Page, Iggy Pop, Pete Townshend, Rod Stewart, they’re all still playing to audiences. That’s going away _ or it’s already gone _ and for a real music fan, that’s scary.”

MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2011

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USC loses close one in triple overtime

Wally Skalij / McClathy-Tribune

This was the scene after Saturday’s game that went to triple overtime. Junior quarterback Matt Barkley wasn’t able to lead USC to a game-tying touchdown against No. 6 Stanford in triple overtime.

By Michael Lev The McClathy Tribune LOS ANGELES — USC threw everything it had at Stanford.

The 20th-ranked Trojans went toe to toe with the fourthranked Cardinal, exchanging haymakers throughout a wild second half and three overtimes.

But in the end, USC fumbled away its golden opportunity for a program-resurrecting upset.

Stanford hung on for a 56-48 victory on Saturday night in front of a raucous sellout crowd of 93,607 at the Coliseum.

The Cardinal (8-0, 6-0 Pac-12) extended its national-best winning streak to 16 games and its series streak over the Trojans (6-2, 3-2) to three.

A game featuring numerous lead changes and mood swings came down to one, final, crushing sequence.

Needing a touchdown and two-point conversion to tie, USC advanced to the 3-yard line on Matt Barkley’s 22-yard

pass to Marqise Lee. On firstand-goal, Curtis McNeal took a handoff from Barkley, got hit by Terrence Stephens and fumbled the ball into the end zone. Stanford’s A.J. Tarpley fell on it, and the Cardinal escaped.

“It hurts right now because we were so close,” Barkley said. “We had it. It just slipped away.”

Stanford had gone ahead on Stepfan Taylor’s 5-yard touchdown run. Star quarterback Andrew Luck followed with a two-point conversion pass to Coby Fleener. (Teams are required to go for two starting in the third overtime.)

No team had come remotely close to defeating Stanford b e f o r e S a t u r d a y. T h e Cardinal’s smallest margin of victory was 26 points. It had won 10 in a row by at least 25, believed to be the longest such streak since 1936.

USC appeared to be on its way to pulling off the upset when Nickell Robey intercepted Luck and returned the ball 33 yards for a touchdown with 3:08 left in the fourth quarter.

But that was too much time for Heisman Trophy front-runner Luck, who engineered a 76-yard counterstrike. Taylor capped the drive with a 2-yard run with 38 seconds left.

USC had all three timeouts and advanced to the Stanford 40-yard line with nine seconds remaining. Matt Barkley passed over the middle to Rober t Woods, who raced toward the left sideline but couldn’t get there before regulation time expired.

The officials went to a replay review to make sure and determined that Woods’ knee was down with one second left. The referee ruled that time would have expired anyway, much to USC coach Lane Kiffin’s chagrin. Kiffin said he told the officiating crew that he wanted to call time out in the event that Woods was down with time still on the clock.

“I’m really disappointed in the officials. Extremely disappointed,” Kiffin said. “I’m not complaining about it. I’m just giving you the exact facts of the situation.”

With Kiffin’s plea falling

on deaf ears, USC headed to overtime for the first time since a triple-OT loss to Cal in September 2003.

The Trojans and Cardinal exchanged touchdowns in the first two overtimes, each side responding after the other had taken the lead.

It was that kind of game throughout the second half.

USC trailed, 10-6, at halftime but surg ed ahead on two McNeal touchdown runs in the third quarter. The first covered 61 yards, the second 25. Both went to the left side behind mammoth tackle Matt Kalil.

McNeal — subbing for the injured Marc Tyler, who reinjured his left shoulder on the opening series — finished with a career-high 145 yards, the third game in a row he has established a personal best.

Luck, befitting his reputation, calmly led Stanford back.

First, he directed a 75-yard drive capped by a 5-yard pass to Ryan Hewitt with 6:34 left in the third quarter. After USC went three-and-out, Stanford successfully executed a trick

play. Anthony Wilkerson took a handoff out of the Wildcat formation and flipped the ball to Luck, who was split to the right side. Luck fired a 62-yard strike to Ty Montgomery to the Trojans’ 13. Luck finished the drive with a 2-yard scramble, skipping over the goal line and putting the Cardinal back ahead, 24-20, with 1:22 to play in the third.

USC regained the lead on Barkley’s 28-yard touchdown pass to Lee with 13:04 left in regulation. Eric Whitaker’s 29-yard field goal with 5:10 remaining tied it at 27, setting up the dramatic final sequence.

Luck finished 29 of 40 for 330 yards with three touchdowns.

Barkley was 28 of 45 for 245 yards and three scores.

Kiffin looked stunned as he left the field. He and his team will have to recover quickly.

USC has a short week ahead before visiting Colorado on Friday.

DOGS: Fresno State only has a couple weeks remaining in WAC play before the postseason CONTINUED from page 8 last year,” Netherby-Sewell said. “So this team and staff are really eager to get back to the WAC Tournament and do some damage there.”

T he Bulldo gs have four remaining WAC games to perfect their bite to match their bark before the tournament begins on Nov. 21 in Las Vegas.

Fresno State is currently 11-12 overall and 5-5 in the WAC. It will travel to face the second place New Mexico State and Louisiana Tech this week for their final road trip of the regular season.

Following the final road trip, the ‘Dogs will complete their regular-season schedule against third-place Idaho and fourth-place Utah State.

Netherby-Sewell recognizes the tough upcoming WAC schedule, but has seen the improvement in this year’s team to last years.

“We’re getting better physically and our consistency in practices is leveling out,” Netherby-Sewell said.

With the marked improvements in practice benefitting the ‘Dogs on the court, Netherby-Sewell’s team hopes to make the most of its remaining season before the muchawaited trip to Las Vegas for the WAC Tournament.

“It’s a must this year, so it’s in our mind, but again we’re taking it match by match right now,” Netherby-Sewell said.

“If we think too big and too broad it can get a bit intimidating.”

Alicia Acevedo / The Collegian

The ‘Dogs attempted to stop a spike against Hawaii, who is in first-place in the WAC during last week’s game.

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Men’s basketball will start its season off with an exhibition game against Fresno Pacific to the Save Mart Center on Nov. 1.

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Fresno State looks to finish WAC play on positive note season.

Senior middle blocker Brianna Clarke added 11 kills and four blocks Fresno State will be making the trip against the Spartans. Her efforts to the postseason after all this seaincreased her career blocks total to 415, son with its performance on Saturday moving her into a tie for third place all n i g h t a g a i n s t We s t e r n A t h l e t i c time. After the big win, Clarke recalled Conference rival San Jose State. on how last season went for the ‘Dogs.

With the win, the ‘Dogs clinched the “Last season we were edged out [of fifth seed in the upcoming Western the tournament], but this season we’re Athletic Conference Tournament aftermore determined to stay dedicated to barely missing the the gameplan,” Clarke cut last year. said. e were extremely The Bulldogs lost That dedication has the opening set to the disappointed last p a i d o f f fo r F re s n o Spartans 20-25, but State since they will year.” sophomore Lauren be making the trip to Albertson’s careerLas Vegas for the WAC — Lauren Netherby-Sewell, Tournament after last high 15 kills helped the ‘Dogs rally back head volleyball coach year’s failure to qualify as they took the next for the postseason. three sets 25-22, 25-21 Head coach Lauren and 25-13, respectiveNetherby-Sewell is in ly. The middle blocker talked about the her fourth season as the face of the win against one of the conference foes. program and has led the ‘Dogs to three “This was an important win for us as wins of the current four-game home a team,” Albertson said. “Just knowing stand. that we can beat a team like that shows A lot has changed in a year and this we are capable of beating anyone when win was the remedy that Netherbywe play our game.”

Sewell felt was a must after last season.

Fellow sophomore libero Korrin Wild “We were extremely disappointed also had 15 kills along with 12 digs to See DOGS, Page 7 record her fifth double-double of the

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Fresno State came up short against Hawaii last week in the Save Mart Center.

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