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Texts: new line of police defense Amazon customers to pay sales tax

By Samuel Cosby The Collegian

University Police at Fresno State have implemented a new crime-reporting system in which students can anonymously text in crimes.

Lt. Lupe Shrum of Fresno State’s University Police Department said that TipNow is a new way of using technology to get students more involved with campus police in order to prevent

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e just want students to start texting in if they see something suspicious. ” — Lt. Lupe Shrum, Fresno State University Police Department

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Fresno State students can now report campus crimes and be kept anonymous. Students can text University Police at (559) 664-3204.

crimes.

“We just began using TipNow a few weeks ago when school started,” Shrum said. “We’ve received a few texts so far, but we don’t have enough data to gauge how effective it’s really been.”

University Police hope that students on campus will be able to effectively use TipNow not only to report crimes,

but to assist the UPD in preventing crimes.

When a student sends in a tip, University Police immediately receives an alert on their computers “We get an immediate response and from there we decide what action is needed,” Shrum said. “Do we need to send an officer there right away?”

Some Fresno State students are wary

about the new system.

“I think it’s a good and a bad thing,” Senior Kim-Ngan Nguyen said. “There is so much potential for abuse, since it’s anonymous.”

Nguyen said she would use TipNow if she found the opportunity.

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Gov. Brown signs university disclosure bill

By Ciara Norton The Collegian Earlier this month, Gov. Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill 8, a university disclosure bill in an effort to bring transparency and accountability to universities and colleges in California.

The bill will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2012.

T h e u n ive r s i t y d i s cl o s u re b i l l was proposed three years ago by Democratic Senator Leland Yee from San Francisco. The purpose of Senate Bill 8 is to enforce that UC, CSU and city colleges abide by the state public record laws.

“This will end up being a good thing because before this, we didn’t know

who was spending what,” Fresno State student Gerardo Reyes said.

The bill was announced in 2010 after the CSU Stanislaus Foundation agreed to pay Sarah Palin to speak at CSU, Stanislaus. When asked, the university refused to show the public how much money was spent on Palin’s visit.

Students later found shredded parts of the contract in a campus trash bin, as well as many other documents regarding her visit.

The scandal resulted in a lawsuit filed by CalAware, The Center for Public Forum Rights. The university was held accountable for its actions and forced to reveal the contract to the public.

Once the financial information of the

contract was released, it showed that the university has included a $75,000 speaking fee for Palin as well as roundtrip, first-class airfare. In the contract, the university also gave Palin the option of flying by private jet instead of first class; she chose the private jet.

Other events such as at Sonoma State where a loan of $1.25 million was given

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he last couple of years we have been told that the university has no money.

Through auxiliaries we get a lot of donations, but students don’t know how or where that money is going because auxiliaries is considered private.”

— Luis Sanchez, Fresno State student Student for Quality Education member

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Senate Bill 8 was announced after several scandals concerning colleges’ and universities’ misuse of donations and public money. One of the most recent scandals was California State University, Stanislaus’ use of public money to pay Sarah Palin for a speech and failure to disclose the amount to the public.

to a former foundation board member two days after he resigned, have contributed to the passage of this bill. The California Senate Majority Caucus website also states that “the Attorney General’s office and the FBI are investigating a number of auxiliaries at Sonoma State.”

Among a list of similar examples demonstrating the need of transparency, the website also mentions that in 2001 the Fresno Bee was denied information concerning the “identity of individuals and companies that received luxury suites at the Save Mart Center at Fresno State.”

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Amazon will begin collecting sales tax from California residents by 2013, which will generate in increase of $200 million in revenue for the state.

After months of disagreements, A m a z o n n e g o t i at e d a d e a l w i t h California’s legislators last month.

The Legislators agreed to delay the law one year if Amazon would agree to stop pursuing a ballot measure that would seek to repel the law.

Fresno State economics professor Sean Alley said, “when shoppers make out-of-state purchases online, it is very difficult for the state of California to

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ndividuals who make purchases online are legally required to keep track of their purchases and pay the sales tax accordingly at the end of the year.”

— Sean Alley, Fresno State economics professor

tell where that transaction was made.”

This results in lost tax revenue for the state because many individuals do not report their purchases and pay the obligatory sales tax as required by law.

“When you file your taxes at the end of the year, there is a box at the bottom for purchases made online which many people are not aware of or simply do not fill out,” Alley said. “Individuals who make purchases online are legally required to keep track of their purchases and pay the sales tax accordingly at the end of the year.

“Most people don’t even know that’s there, and with a retailer the size of Amazon you are talking about an extremely large amount of money,” Alley added.

Alley said the state of California is making an attempt to get companies such as Amazon to keep track of whom they are selling to and send the sales tax directly to the state. He pointed out that it is easier for the state to collect taxes at the point of transaction rather than audit millions of people.

Until January, online retailers will not be required to collect the appropriate state sales tax if they do not have a physical presence in close proximity of where the purchase was made.

Amazon announced on Wednesday that it will open distribution centers in Califor nia which would create 10,000 full-time jobs, 25,000 part-time jobs and a half billion in investments in California. This comes as a result of the negotiation between legislators See TAXES, Page 3

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he problem with education isn’t money — we spend plenty — but quality. Yet, instead of “T figuring out how to make education pay future dividends, higher-educational institutions are building better dorms with flat-screen TVs, movie theaters and tanning salons.”

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UPD needs to keep us safe I

n Fresno, more specifically the surrounding Fresno State community, safety after hours is at a premium.

Throughout campus there are safety stations, University Police officers on duty and escort services available upon request. Perhaps due to all of these precautions, the University Police Department website reports a significant drop in reported crimes since 2008.

But the recent spike in serious crime, including two drive-by shooting incidents in the last three months, has left students who are on campus at night, including those employed by the university and those attending class after the sun goes down, fearful of what might happen on the walk to their car.

In the past, partly for safety reasons, students who worked late hours on campus were allotted parking permits in staff lots, making the walk to their car shorter and safer. This year, however, The Collegian’s editorial staff and Associated Students, Inc., among others, were denied these passes. Many of these students are relegated to waiting for UPD’s escort service or walking through the campus in fear.

Consider some recent crime alerts.

From Sept. 19: At the Bulldog

Village Apartment Complex, “three Asian male adults approached the victim, displayed a gun and told him to give them his property.”

From Sept. 25: On Bulldog Lane, “four unknown black males approached the student and asked to see his cell phone. The student said no and attempted to walk away. One black male displayed a silver semi-automatic handgun. The student ran into the fraternity house to get help. As the student ran into the fraternity, the black males assaulted and took property from a non-student on Millbrook. The black males then got into a vehicle and fired two shots toward the fraternities.”

From Sept. 27: On Shaw and Maple Avenues, “the suspects asked the victim to give them his property. When the victim told them he did not have anything in his possession, one of the suspects lifted up his shirt, and displayed a gun in his pants waistband.”

Considering the vast majority of crime alerts issued by UPD have stemmed from incidents that occurred after sunset, it’s time for the authorities to take action.

UPD is not to blame for any incident that occurs on or near campus. The fault clearly lies with the perpetrators of the crime. But UPD, by definition,

is charged with the responsibility of protecting us and fostering a climate of safety. And, judging by the evidence, UPD is, at best, ineffective.

The parking situation is putting employees in a situation where they must choose to either park off campus, where almost all of the criminal incidents take place, or park in distant, “special” lots. There is no evidence to suggest that the victims of the recent crimes were a result of employee parking. Sometimes the events happen to non-Fresno State students.

But the issue at hand deals with whether or not UPD traffic operations is doing its due diligence in ensuring our campus is a safe place for everyone involved, and no potential areas of concern are being simply overlooked.

Simply put, UPD needs to do a better job of protecting us.

Students employed by the university should not have to walk to their cars in fear. Students who, because they support themselves during the day, attend class at night do not deserve to be unsure of their safety on the long trek back to their vehicles.

The recent rash of crime is unacceptable. And the onus falls on UPD to turn that around.

‘Moneyball’ yet to affect managers

The Right Tone Tony Petersen

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he most memorable scene of “Moneyball,” the recently released Brad Pitt flick on Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane’s efforts to build a winning team with a small budget, was when a plethora of “old school” A’s scouts gathered around a table with an exasperated Beane to talk about how to build the next season’s team.

The A’s had just lost stars Jason Giambi, Johnny Damon and Jason Isringhausen to free agency because they could not afford them. As the conversation went around the table, one scout opined about one particular player, “He has an ugly girlfriend. Ugly girlfriend means no confidence.”

While the line got big laughs in the

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theater, Beane, played by Pitt, did not appreciate it as much.

Indeed, not much of anybody appreciates this line of thinking any longer.

All teams, to an extent, incorporate statistical analysis of the game of baseball, sabermetrics, in evaluating players.

Traditional stats like batting average, runs batted in and wins were replaced by acronyms like WHIP (walks plus hits per inning pitched) and OBP (on-base percentage), which were replaced by even more convoluted acronyms like VORP (value over replacement player), FIP (fielding independent pitching) and WAR (wins above replacement).

Sabermetrics’ reign on major league baseball was made official when Seattle Mariners pitcher Felix Hernandez won the American League Cy Young award with only 13 wins.

Though the theories pushed in “Moneyball” have revolutionized the art of putting together teams, managing has been a different story.

In fact, baseball managers have done their best to flout these theories.

“Moneyball” gives a good representation of this dynamic. In the movie, A’s manager Art Howe, played superbly by the consummate Hollywood professional Philip Seymour Hoffman, has a hard time accepting Beane’s philosophy, telling the GM to let him manage his own team.

In order for Beane to get the team to play baseball in the style he built it to play, he had to trade the first baseman

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and send a reliever to the minors.

Things haven’t changed much.

Sabermetrics teaches that stolen bases and sacrifice bunts, long fixtures of the game of baseball, actually, over the long run, do more harm than good.

However, small-ball managers who routinely extol the virtues of the stolen base and sac bunt, such as the Los Angeles Angels’ Mike Scoscia, Florida Marlins’ Ozzie Guillen and St. Louis Cardinals’ Tony LaRussa, are often praised by fans and the media for their managing methods.

A recent example of this is from the Sept. 28 Philadelphia Phillies-Atlanta Braves game. In the bottom of the third, the Braves had men on first and second base with no outs. According to “Moneyball,” the smart play would be to let the upcoming hitters drive in those runs.

However, Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez called for a double steal.

The man on second was thrown out, and the hitter struck out. The next hitter hit a two-run home run. The double steal cost the Braves one run. And the Braves lost by one in extra innings.

If this were the movie version, Gonzalez would be the “old school” scout who lists “girlfriend’s attractiveness” next to “home runs” on his stat sheet. Only here, there was no Billy Beane to criticize him.

The “Moneyball” revolution will not be complete until it has affected baseball managing. And it clearly hasn’t.

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Anwar al-Awlaki’s demise While the predecent set — the killing of an American citizen — is admittedly a dangerous one, it cannot be denied that al-Awlaki was a very dangerous man to the United States.

As the leader of al-Qaida in Yemen and his connection to Maj. Hisan’s attack on Fort Hood and the 2009 “underwear bomber,” al-Awlaki was perhaps the most wanted terrorist in the world.

Kudos to President Obama and everyone else involved for going after terrorists with such vigor.

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Ole Miss 38, Fresno State 28 The ‘Dogs played tough against an athletic SEC team, but, in the end, mistakes killed the team. Fresno State missed three field goals, threw an interception, lost a fumble, multiple bad snaps, two dropped kickoffs and a dropped catch on our final drive. On top of all this, the Bulldogs’ playcalling on their last drive — a couple bubble screens and a draw — was pathetic. Fresno State has shown this year, with its close losses to Nebraska and Ole Miss, that it can hang with the big boys. But it won’t get over the hump with mental mistakes such as this.

Thumbs up Derek Carr

The Fresno State quarterback has continued to show that he is one of the rising stars among college quarterbacks. On Saturday, Carr threw for 281 yards with a 67 percent completion percentage and one touchdown, with his lone interception careening off of his receiver’s shoulder pads into the defender’s arms. For the season, Carr has thrown 10 touchdowns to four interceptions with a QB rating of 142.1.

Yeah, this guy’s good.

Thumbs down Fresno State fans

There was 3:42 left in the game, and Fresno State had all three of its timeouts remaining with a decently potent passing attack. And fans were leaving. Who cares whether you think the ‘Dogs were going to come back and win? We fans could have willed the team to press on.

Instead, we left in droves. Can’t imagine what that must have done for morale.

We’d rather start “the wave” than start a “defense” chant. The one time fans got loud, Ole Miss committed a false start penalty and was forced to punt. That’s how it should be every time. Fresno State will never be a big-time football team with the fans like these.

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TEXTS: Students can report crime by texts SB8: Transparency bill passes CONTINUED from page 1 “It’s a fast and easy way to take care of a problem,” Nguyen said.

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“We get good reports, but we also get some silly ones,” Laws said. “For example, ‘The guy next to me in the library smells.’ Most of the time, that’s not what we get, but it

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e just began using TipNow a few weeks ago when school started. We’ve received a few texts so far, but we don’t have enough data to gauge how effective it’s really been.”

—Lt. Lupe Shrum, Fresno State University Police

also uses the TipNow anonymous texting system John Laws, a sergeant with San Jose State University Police Department, explained that the campus has been using the program for almost a year.

“It’s fairly easy to use,” Laws said. “It helps to get the community involved in their own safety. It’s definitely beneficial to the campus.”

Laws also commented on abuse of the TipNow system.

happens.”

Fresno State University Police is now working on making students aware of the TipNow system.

“We are in the process of promoting it,” Shrum said.

“We have been placing posters around campus.

“We just want students to start texting in if they see something suspicious,” Shrum said. “If there is someone suspicious at the residents halls, or if there is someone

at a bike rack, just standing around or someone looking into vehicles.”

Shrum added that if used effectively, the TipNow system would really benefit the University Police Department and students.

“We don’t have enough officers to be constantly watching every portion of our 1,400 acre campus and the surrounding businesses,” Shrum said. “If we get the assistance of the students and the community, it is more likely that we can stop a crime from happening.”

T he number for F resno State’s TipNow line is (559) 664-3204.

Shrum said. “You can even use the number for medical emergencies,” Shrum added.

“We just encourage students to use it responsibly and to be accountable,” Shrum continued. “There are more eyes out there. Everyone can help one another to enhance community safety at the university.”

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Opponents of the law see it as a job-killing legislation.

Sen. George Runner told the North County Times, “Given all the competing interests,

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we’ll be right back in the same mess in a year; the stat of California will again be killing California jobs, driving

T he Los Ang eles Times reported that California consumers make 20 percent of Amazon’s market.

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his wil end up being a good thing because before this, we didn’t know who was spending what.”

— Gerardo Reyes, Fresno State student

auxiliaries we get a lot of donations,” Fresno State student and Students for Quality Education member Luis Sanchez said. “But students don’t know how or where that money is going because auxiliaries is considered private,” “It makes perfect sense,” Fresno State student Terry Chhoeung said. “I understand why they would want to know how much money [the universities] are spending. And there’s not really anything the universities can do to fight it because if they reject it they could be questioned.”

This is not the first time t h a t Ye e h a s a t t e m p t e d to get a transparency bill passed. His previous two attempts were denied by then

Republican Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger.

“That looks really suspicious,” Reyes said. “He could have been using money that he shouldn’t have been.”

The CSU Office of the Chancellor reported in 2009 that “20 percent of its $6.7 billion budget, or $1.34 billion, was held in their 87 auxiliaries and foundations.” Before Yee’s transparency bill, universities could hide money by not reporting it. Now, with Yee’s bill, universities are required to report.

“Universities have always been transparent,” Chancellor’s office spokeperson Liz Chapin said.

Chapin said that Yee’s bill only changed the fact that universities are now required by law to list their finances as public record.

Yee’s bill also protects university donors.

“To maintain donor privacy, those that give more than $2,500 will still be able to remain anonymous because not all donors want their information released to the public,” Chapin said.

On the CSU Office of the Chancellor’s website reports of finances are available for some universities. Fresno State financial information is available for those who wish to know how much money the university is spending and receiving.

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ost people don’t even know that’s there, and with a retailer the size of Amazon you are talking about an extremely large amount of money.”

— Sean Alley, Fresno State economics professor

away investment and inviting costly litigation.”

Major cor porations like Walmart, Home Depot and other conglomerates that have stores in California agree with the new legislation since the lack of taxes allows out-ofstate Internet retailers to have an advantage over them, the Los Angeles Times reported.

“I have purchased many items from Amazon including books, movies, toys, and gifts.

They have a great selection of things to choose from,” Fresno State student Andrew Stearns said. “As far as charging tax goes, I thought it was part of the sale along with shipping cost unless noted by the seller.”

“I order truck parts and video games from Amazon all the time. I had no idea that I had to report it on my tax return,” Fresno State student Jarred Allred said.

“I was under the impression that as long as it was coming from outside California, I didn’t have to report it at all.

They should make sure this is clearly stated on the sites,” Allred added.

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Fresno State features outlandish play

By Suzanna Gutierrez The Collegian Fresno State will be featuring the second production ever of a play by one of America’s top new playwrights.

The play, “T.I.C. Trenchcoat in Common,” is written by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb. “T.I.C.” made its world premier in January of 2009 in San Francisco.

J. Daniel Herring, associate professor in the department of theatre arts at Fresno State and director of “T.I.C.” described the play as a sort of modernday Greek comedy. He said the play deals with relationships.

“We are so plugged in and so connected to computers and technology that sometimes we forget how to have a relationship face to face with people,” Herring said.

Her ring said he chose “T.I.C.” because he wanted to do something contemporary and cutting edge.

“This is a play that definitely has a very sort of absurdist abstract theatrical style to it,” Herring said. He said he feels it’s important for all theatre arts majors to work on a script that’s not typical realism.

Herring said the students starring in “T.I.C.” are playing roles they would not typically be asked to play.

“But as they go out into the real world they very well may be asked to do characters like this,” Herring said.

Herring said the play is filled with characters that everyone knows. Some of the characters include a flasher, a musician, who is not a very good one, a father who doesn’t quite know how to be a father and others that could typically be found in TV shows, movies and plays. “But I don’t know that you’ll always find them in the same TV show,

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Fresno State students will be performing the second ever production of the play, "T.I.C. Trenchcoat in Common" written by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb. The play opened Sept. 30 and will run through Oct. 8. The play is considered very contemporary and cutting edge.

same movie, same play,” Herring said.

Along with the six roles written into the script, Herring casted six additional roles for “T.I.C.” He calls them icon manipulators. The icon manipulators at times mirror the actors’ emotions and at times they represent or become extensions of props.

Freshman Austin Yarbrough plays the role of an icon manipulator.

“I feel that we’re more important as a group then we are individually,”

Yarbrough said. He also said they help make the play as different as it is.

Walter Teng is a senior at Fresno State and is a sound designer for “T.I.C.” Teng said “T.I.C.” is out of the norm and a challenging play. Teng said Herring has made the play come alive.

“What an awesome director,” Teng said referring to Herring. “He does things really, really well.”

The cast of 12 has been rehearsing since the beginning of the semester.

Herring said they rehearsed about 15 hours a week.

“T.I.C.” will be performed in the John Wright Theatre. The first showing of the play was Friday, Sept. 30 and will run until Saturday, Oct. 8. The play does contain mature subject matter, mature language and brief nudity.

A new attempt for Equal Rights

By Erica Hernandez The Collegian The United States prides itself on the notion of liberty and justice for all, but when it's still struggling to ratify an amendment that simply seeks equality for half the population, one must ask, exactly whom does “all” include?

T he Equal Rights Amendment, which is only one sentence long and just under 25 words, is simple.

“Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.”

The ERA was written in 1923 by Alice Paul, suffragist leader and founder of the National Women’s Party, shortly after women gained the right to vote.

T h e E R A w a s re i n t ro d u c e d t o Congress every year until it finally passed in 1972 and has been ratified by 35 out of the 38 states needed so far.

Though American women have come a long way since the passing of the 19th Amendment, the right to vote, they are still fighting inequalities in forms of sexual discrimination every day.

The types of sexual discrimination vary. They usually range from, but are not limited to, issues based on maternity rights, equal pay and whether or not women belong in certain occupations. Ratifying the amendment will help eliminate these issues.

“Well, one thing about having an amendment in the constitutions is it’s not just a law. It’s not susceptible to the same kind of easy overturn of laws,” Fresno State women’s studies chair Loretta Kensinger said.

There are still laws that exist where women are judged or seen as not having equal rights, “A constitutional amendment will say it will not be tolerated,” Kensinger said.

The ERA isn’t just one sided though.

Ratification is important because it would set a zero-tolerance rule in sex discrimination across the board.

Whether it be for a woman’s legal right to equal pay or for a man’s right

to equal custody of his children, the amendment “creates a more solid standing, gives it more solid legal footing,” Kensinger said.

Contrary to popular belief, the struggle for equality among men and women is still an issue many don’t know about.

There are still people actively fighting the ratification of the ERA. “It’s shocking. Most people don’t even know that it’s not in the constitution.

When you talk to non-women's studies majors who don’t know about the ERAs, and the fact that it’s nonexistent in the constitution, they cant believe that in the eyes of the constitution women are not equal to men,” political science major Leila Alamri said.

The reasons for opposing the ratification are just as extensive as those that support it.

Oppositions range from social practice and the belief of two separate spheres for men and women, religion and the belief that God created women under men and protective rights for women in the military.

One of the biggest arguments against the ERA has been that ratifying it would take away women’s protection from combat.

“Its anachronistic…it pretends that were in a different kind of a historical time,” Fresno State women’s studies professor Jan Slagter said.

Although she doesn’t condone war, Slagter understands the significance of the military in the struggling economy. Regulating women in the military cuts another slice out of women’s already limited work options “We live in a social reality where there are so few jobs,” Slagter said. “It’s a way to get a job, to get some training, to learn a skill and people are relying on the military to get that.”

As of this year a new bill has been introduced to Congress which will remove the ERA’s ratification deadline and make it part of the constitution when three more states ratify it. So far we are still waiting on three-out-of-15 states that have yet to ratify.

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End of the reel thing for small movie theaters?

By Michael Phillips McClatchy-Tribune GALVA, Ill. — One hundred and sixty miles southwest of Chicago, a man has planted a pair of reconditioned 20-by48-foot drive-in movie screens in what used to be a cornfield.

I went out there the other night, to Galva Autovue Drivein (admission: $3 for anyone older than 3), owned and operated by a full-time factory worker, mellow drive-in fanatic and Peoria native named Justin West. “Cool” doesn’t be gin to describe it. The Autovue was one of the great outdoor filmgoing experiences of my life. Beautiful late-summer weather. The Big Dipper tipping high above the screen showing “Captain America: The First Avenger.” A concession stand in a steel building

serving Sprecher’s root beer, “cheesy tots” and excellent popcorn. A slow cooker filled with melted butter, inches from the cash register. It was enough to make a nostalgist weep buttery tears of joy.

But a question kept nagging at the experience: How much longer will something like this be around?

It’s not just drive-ins I’m talking about. I mean movie theaters, outdoor or indoor, showing films on actual 35mm film, on big platters, instead of being projected digitally.

West finds himself faced with an expensive decision. Right now it costs about $75,000 per screen to convert to digital projection. That’s $150,000 (lower if he waits a couple of years for used equipment) for a weather-dependent outdoor theater open four or five

months out of the year, in a town of 2,589 at the last census.

So does he pony up or, in a year or two or three, call it a day?

“I don’t know,” West says.

This weekend, West closes up shop for the season with “Spy Kids 4” and “I Don’t

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digital the film companies are forcing on the theaters _ I know it’s going to save them a lot of money ...” West says, his voice trailing off. Bucking every entertainment trend on the planet, West opened the Autovue in 2005. “Ever since I opened I’ve had people come up to me in one of the projec-

he studios will save over a billion dollars a year in distribution costs.”

— Chris McGurk, chief executive office, Cinedigm Digital Cinema Corp.

Know How She Does It.” “This place,” West says, “has paid for itself, though it hasn’t really given me anything else.

But I enjoy it.”

He loved drive-ins as a kid.

When he left Peoria for college in the early 1980s and returned four years later, his favorite drive-ins were already gone.

The Autovue keeps the dream and the tradition alive, he says.

But “this conversion to

tion booths and ask: ‘Where are the DVD players?’ They don’t have a clue how this works!” He chuckles, ruefully.

West thinks a lot about how the forced conversion from film to digital will zero out an untold number of small-town theaters, outdoor and indoor, along with various second-run houses in larger urban areas.

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Average moviegoers don’t know or care much about whether the film they’re seeing is being projected digitally or on 35mm film stock. Digital has been with us for several years now; the distinction is blurred. And the projection conditions vary widely from screen to screen, from multiplex to multiplex.

Still, “You don’t have that graininess with digital,” says Doug Knight, general manager of Knight’s Action Park and Route 66 Twin Drive-In in Springfield, Ill., the state’s only digital projection drivein. (Illinois has 11 drive-ins still operating.) Knight claims his business is up around 15 to 20 percent since installing the digital projection system.

Higher up the food chain, you don’t hear a peep about 35mm, except in comparison to buggy-whip manufacturers in the early days of the automobile. Chris McGurk is in the catbird seat; as chief executive officer of Cinedigm Digital Cinema Corp., in Woodland Hills, Calif., he’s making millions in the business of installing digital cinema equipment.

Is there any incentive for the six major film studios, plus all the other film distributors, to continue striking film prints for exhibition?

“None whatsoever. None,” he says. “The studios will save over a billion dollars a year in distribution costs. It took probably five, 10 years too long to even get to this point in digital conversion because this industry is very resistant to change ... a lot of talent was suspicious of the new medium. Some people were, and are, wedded to film, the arguing being that it’s ‘richer,’ it’s this, it’s that, it’s the other thing. Which is not true.”

Some numbers: Film distributors commonly spend $1,200-$1,300 to strike a single 35mm print, plus shipping costs. Digital delivery of a

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new release, by contrast, is more like $100, according to Cinedigm’s McGurk.

T h e s t u d i o s h ave b e e n steamrolling this one for several years while squabbling with exhibitors over the bill for the digital conversion tab.

The industrywide conversion to digital has been financed by what’s called a virtual print fee (VPF) for mula. Digital projection equipment costs between $50,000 and $80,000 per screen on average. The majority of those costs will be repaid to the theater owners by the studios.

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THEATERS: 22,000 screens have gone digital CONTINUED from page 5 But it takes up to a decade.

And the studios are saying that after September 2012 they won’t be striking any new VPF deals. No deals, no subsidy.

The current 3-D wave, of uncertain duration, got its mojo from the enviable international success, in 2-D, but especially in digital 3-D, of James Cameron’s “Avatar.”

That film’s monumental appeal posed a tough question to exhibitors: Can you afford not to convert to digital, and miss out on the next “Avatar”?

Right now North America has about 39,000 movie screens. (Worldwide estimates run between 100,000 and 150,000.) Cinedigm has already handled the digital conversion on 10,000 of those North American screens. In all, 22,000 screens have gone digital. That’s more than half, and that means 35mm is going to have a very hard time hanging in there for very long, outside the realms of archives, academia and the most puristdriven of the revival and art houses.

You can hear the veiled pity coming through phone line when talking to Julian L ev i n , 2 0 t h C e n t u r y Fox International executive vice president of digital exhibition and non-theatrical sales.

The language of digital conversion is very much like the language of war, as when Levin talks about how “the pacing of deployment varies from month to month.” Some overseas film markets, he notes, are already 100percent digital, including Hong Kong and Macau. Norway, he says, should be all-digital by the end

of 2012. By early 2013, he estimates, Australia, Britain and South Korea should be there, or close.

And “by early 2014,” he says, “the very big and lagging countries such as the U.S., Canada, Russia, France, Germany and Spain should be converted.” Latin America, he adds, will take a little longer.

“There’ll be some casualties,” Levin says. “But a lot of the exhibitors have sat on the fence for years. And you can’t stop technology from advancing.”

There are other opinions on the look of a digitally “ingested” and projected feature versus the warm, tactile, wonky analog 35mm image.

“I don’t like digital,” mutters Dan Talbot, owner/operator of Lincoln Plaza Cinema in New York. First double bill he showed back in 1960? “Henry V” and “The Red Balloon.” On film. Obviously.

“Digital’s a very flat image.

No sparkle,” he says. And yet here he is, paying “about $50,000” to buy a digital projection system himself. He says he has no choice.

Ted Mundorff, head of the national Landmark Theatres c h a i n , ove r s e e s C e n t u r y Centre Cinema in Chicago and Renaissance Place in Highland Park, Ill., among others. Landmark, which was put up for sale not long ago, has 297 screens in 21 U.S. markets.

He’s sad about the prospect of converting to digital projection. “The efficiency of 35mm for the exhibitor will never be sur passed by anything digital,” he says. “When something breaks on a projector, usually you can get it up and

running in a few minutes. And usually it’s a $5 part. When something goes wrong in the digital realm, you have to call your IT department. And I don’t know anyone who likes to call their IT department.”

“My buddy put it best,” says Chris Johnson of Classic C i n e m a s, wh i ch ow n s 9 9 screens in 12 Illinois theaters. T he exhibitors, he says, “are like a gas station.

The money isn’t made at the pump. It’s made at the well.”

But Johnson remains bullish about the exhibition game.

And, he says, “the good thing about digital is that, in theory, it delivers a pristine image from viewing No. 1 to viewing No. 200. That’s where digital shows its worth.”

Still, says Michael Barker, co-head of Sony Pictures Classics and a chief supplier to the Landmark specialty chain, “I hate to imagine a world without some 35mm in it. To be honest with you, I like both formats. In the best of all possible worlds the audience has access to both.”

Bill Schopf, the man behind Chicago-based distribution company Music Box Films and owner of Music Box Theatre, agrees with Barker.

But if Landmark converts to wholly digital projection, the distribution ar m of Music Box will be required to provide digital-release packages sooner rather than later. It won’t be cheap. Still, Schopf says, “We’re going to be stuck in both worlds for some time.

Music Box is leveraged pretty well, in that it’s a distribution company along with an exhibitor. And we’re going to get our films to our customers one way or the other.”

Everything chur ning in the movie business affects everything else in the movie business. The only thing that doesn’t seem to have changed much is the singularly timewarped experience of going to a drive-in. Throughout September, McHenry Outdoor T heater in McHenry, Ill., turned its single screen over to a “Fall Throwback Series.”

The season ends this weekend with a singalong double bill of “Grease” and “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.”

A few weeks ago I saw “E.T.” there. The total number of cars, according to the nice lady at the box office, was 338.

That’s a strong number for the year 2011 _ “especially considering half the people there probably have a copy of ‘E.T.’ at home,” says Scott Dehn, general operations director of “C” You at the Movies, the company that owns the McHenry as well as various indoor theaters.

“Worst case scenario, and film does go out?” Dehn asks.

“They maybe we end up playing classics all summer long.

Those prints will always be there.” Then again, “always” is a dangerous word to use when you’re talking about a can of film.

And it’s a misleading one, when so much of film history, dating to the era of flammable nitrate prints, has been consigned to the ashes of nevermore.

“It’s sad,” says Landmark’s Mundorff. “But then if I could buy a good dial telephone, I’d do that too.”

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By Gerrick D. Kennedy McClatchy-Tribune LOS ANGELES — Tony Bennett’s 85th birthday was in August, but the legendary crooner got a major belated gift this week when his album “Duets II” took the top spot on the Billboard 200 chart.

The disc, which pairs the singer with some of music’s biggest players, including Lady Gaga, Mariah Carey, Norah Jones, John Mayer, Aretha Franklin and Carrie Underwood, bowed at No. 1 after logging 179,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Bennett, a 14-time Grammy Award winner, made history as the oldest living artist to hit No. 1. He’s also the oldest living artist to hit the Billboard Hot 100 chart after his duet with the late Amy Winehouse, “Body and Soul,” debuted on the chart.

Bennett pushed Lady Antebellum to No. 2 as its “Own the Night” sold an additional 125,000 copies, while Adele’s “21” maintained its staying power by clutching onto the No. 3 spot.

Other notable chart debuts include Demi Lovato’s postr e h a b d i s c, “ U n b r o ke n , ” opening at No. 4 with 96,000 copies sold, teeny boppers Mindless Behavior entering at No. 7 with their debut, “#1 Girl,” and the soundtrack to Cameron Crowe’s “Pearl Jam Twenty,” which features rarities and unreleased tracks from the grunge rockers. It rounded out the top 10 after selling 27,000 units.

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Fresno State has strong showing in season’s first tournament

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The Fresno State women’s tennis team is coming off a successfull 2010 season in which it won the Western Athletic Conference championship. Now, the ‘Dogs look to duplicate the success.

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A new season brings about some high expectations, especially after the season the Fresno State women’s tennis team had last year, winning the Wester n Athletic Conference Tournament, as well as a perfect 5-0 record in conference competition in the regular season.

The ‘Dogs enter this year as a more mature team with a handful of players returning from the team that qualified for last season’s NCAA Tournament.

During the NCAA Tournament appearance, Fresno State came up short against Notre Dame in the first round.

The Bulldogs qualified for the tournament by having a strong showing in the WAC Tournament where Fresno State defeated Louisiana Tech 4-0, Nevada 4-3 and Boise State 4-3. The ‘Dogs have some talent returning this season and head coach Simon Thibodeau talked about his 2011 roster.

“All of the players have improved in different ways through experience or maturity,” said the seventh-year head coach. “They are better.”

One of the key returning Bulldogs from last season is reigning WAC Player of the Year Marianne Jodoin, who is entering her sophomore season.

Jodoin was a standout in his first season as a Bulldog, collecting many accolades including Freshman of the Year, WAC Player of the Week and named to the All-WAC first teams in both singles and doubles. She was also was named to the All-WAC Tournament team.

The sophomore was solid in singles play with a 25-15 record. In doubles she finished with a 17-17 record. Jodoin also qualified to play in last season’s NCAA Championships, falling to Alexandra Poorta of Saint Mary’s 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (16-14).

Last year’s team had an abundance of youth consisting of four sophomores and two freshmen with junior Laura Pola as the lone upperclassman on the team.

Pola was named to the first team All-WAC in both singles and doubles going 16-17 in singles and 21-15 in doubles. Pola is used to being part of

young teams. As a sophomore, she was a part of a team that consisted of five freshmen. Pola was named first team All-WAC in both singles and doubles.

She was also named to the WAC AllTournament team in both singles and doubles last season.

Along with Pola, F resno State returns three of four sophomores for last year’s team in Melissa McQueen, Bianca Modoc and Olga Kirpicheva.

McQueen was named to the WAC AllTournament team in singles. Modoc went undefeated in singles play against the WAC, winning all five matches that she was competed in. Kirpicheva was the only Bulldog to record a point against No. 16 Lyndsay Kinstler of USC in a super tiebreaker.

The Bulldogs have two newcomers on the team this year in freshman Anne Susdorf and sophomore Tanya Murtagh. Susdorf is a Hart High School graduate and the younger sister of College World Series champion Stephen Susdorf. Murtagh is a transfer from Portmarnock Community School in Ireland and is one of five international players on the team.

Despite the Bulldogs’ strong showing against conference opponents, Fresno State finished the 2010 season with an 11-14 record. The ‘Dogs had a lot of trouble on the road, going 2-8. The only away wins came against WAC foes Louisiana Tech, 7-0, and Utah State, 6-1.

The Bulldogs traveled for the first time this past weekend at the 2011 Cal Nike Women’s Invitational. The newcomers were already paying dividends in the tournament with Susdorf winning both of her singles matches for her first wins of her young collegiate career. Murtagh was the only one of three Fresno State competitors to make it past the round of 32.

The Bulldogs will compete at home on Nov. 11 and 12 for the Bulldog Classic.

With the first home tournament more than a month away, Thibodeau gave some thoughts on his goals for this season.

“This is our last year in the WAC so we want to try and win that,” Thibodeau said.

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‘Dogs again suffer 4th quarter collapse

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Sophomore wide receiver Jalen Saunders is having a breakout season with 17 catches for 462 yards and four touchdowns. He also has three carries for 60 yards and one touchdown on the ground.

By Jerry Huerta The Collegian Fresno State welcomed a Southeaster n Conference opponent to Bulldog Stadium for the first time in program history with Mississippi making the cross-country trip to Fresno.

But with their back against the wall and facing the Bulldogs with a 1-3 record, the Rebels spoiled head coach Pat Hill’s bid at his first victory over the SEC. Sophomore quar terback Derek Carr got the first drive of the game going with another deep pass to wide receiver Jalen Saunders. The connection was the third week in a row where Carr found Saunders on the early in the game.

Car r would then led the ‘Dogs down the field for the first touchdown of g ame, finding junior wide receiver Rashad Evans for a two-yard scoring strike for the early 7-0 lead. Carr finished the game completing 25-of-37 passes for 281 yards and one touchdown.

Mississippi answered back quickly with a familiar foe in Brandon Bolden, who ran for 225 yards in last year’s meet-

ing. Bolden found a crease for a 21-yard touchdown run to tie the score at seven apiece.

The Rebels got on the board again when quarterback Zack Stoudt found wide receiver Melvin Harris for a 22-yard touchdown strike, but the ‘Dogs would block the extra point. Mississippi still led 13-7.

On the next drive, Car r started getting in a rhythm with his wide receivers as he led his ‘Dogs down the field.

The Bulldogs’ offense dipped into its bag of tricks with Carr handing off to Saunders for the 26-yard touchdown run to give Fresno State a 14-13 lead. Saunders had his biggest game of the season with six catches for 127 yards receiving and two rushes for 57 yards and a touchdown.

In the second quarter, Bolden found another hole and shifted his way through almost the entire Fresno State defense en route to a 12-yard touchdown run to extend Mississippi’s lead to 20-14.

The Rebels’ defense got into the act when Mississippi cornerback Charles Sawyer got his hands on an interception to impede the Bulldogs’ offensive attack.

Carr would get the offense

on the same page on the next drive and again the main contributor was Saunders, who torched the Rebels’ defense to put the ‘Dogs in scoring position. Fresno State would settle for a field goal, but senior kicker Kevin Goessling pushed the attempt wide, keeping the score at 20-14.

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thought it was a good game for our fans and the city of Fresno.”

— Pat Hill, head football coach

On final play of the first half, Goessling tried to bring back memories from the Bulldogs’ game against Utah State in 2008 when he hit a 58-yard bomb to get the victory. This time, however, the senior came up short on a 57-yarder.

On the first drive after the half, Carr drove the ‘Dogs down the field with another pass to Saunders to put Fresno State in scoring position. A couple plays later, running back Robbie Rouse got into the action with a seven-yard

touchdown run to give Fresno State the lead 21-20. The two teams would exchange leads seven times in the back-andforth contest. Rouse finished the game with 28 carries for 128 yards on the ground to extend his cur rent streak 100-plus-yard-games.

Mississippi would answer back with a score of its own as running back Jeff Scott raced 69 yards to pay dirt to give the Rebels the lead, 27-21.

With the ‘Dogs down by six points, Carr took it into his own hands with an 80-yard drive to get Fresno State down the field. Then, the Bakersfield Christian High School graduate called his own number with a quarterback sneak to give Fresno State the 28-27 lead.

It would be the final time Fresno State would find itself ahead in the ball game.

Mississippi wouldn’t let Carr’s touchdown be the winning score as the Rebels again marched down the field. Scott scored his second touchdown of the game on a 16-yard run.

Scott finished with 24 carries for 148 yards and two touchdowns. The Rebels would get the two-point conversion to give Mississippi the 35-28 lead.

The Mississippi defense slowed down the ‘Dogs on offense in the fourth quarter, shutting out Fresno State in the final 15 minutes. Then, on the ensuing drive, the Rebels made it a two-possession game when senior kicker David Hankins hit a chip-shot field goal to give the Rebels a 38-28 lead. Fresno State had one more shot to put points on the board, but Goessling missed his third field goal of the game to end it.

After the game, Hill gave his thoughts on another loss against an SEC foe.

“I thought it was a good game for our fans and the city of Fresno,” Pat Hill said during Saturday’s postgame press conference. “I told our kids after the game I thought they played very hard a lot like in Nebraska. You can’t give up the big plays.”

The ‘Dogs have a short week to prepare for former Western Athletic Conference member Boise State, who is the fourthranked team in the country.

The ‘Dogs will face off against the Broncos on Friday during a nationally televised matchup.