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ASI reveals big plans for new budget

Employee Expenses

Operation Expenses

Office supplies total about

ASI gets $15 of this from each student.

Rent for ASI is more than

$14,000.

$16,000.

The unemployment rate in Fresno reached 16 percent this May while more than 5,000 students graduated from Fresno State and began looking for jobs.

To i n c r e a s e t h e p r o b ability of finding a job, a CQ Researcher article recommends students to start early,

ments and inter nships to help them prepare for the job search.

“The social work department helped me find an internship which gave me the opportunity to learn more about the career I plan on going into,” Fresno State student Erica Sanchez said.

“I was told right before I left that I would be a great asset to them once I was done with

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asically, students today have the misfortune of graduating during the worst economy in 60 years. A lot is beyond their control, but there are ways to adjust to this reality and students can overcome it in ways that they probably didn’t consider when they entered college.”

— Aleta Wolfe, Fresno State Career Services counselor network, tailor cover letters and resumes, do summer internships, visit the career center early, engage in social networking and to be persistent when looking for a job.

With the current economic turmoil, it is not uncommon for students to have a hard time finding a job. Students can turn to professors, depart-

school. But due to their hiring freeze, I wouldn’t be able to really apply for another two to three years,” Sanchez added.

She also stated that she has been applying for jobs, but had no luck yet. She believes that the university could offer more to graduating students.

“I really feel like there should be more for us to be able to

find a job once we’re done with our degree, but I am not too sure what exactly we can do,” Sanchez said Fresno State Career Services helps students with the transition from school to professional job. Fresno State Career Services pro g ram offers students career counseling, web job search, job fairs, and interviews for internship positions.

“Many students go through college without ever setting foot in their school’s career services office,” career service counselor Aleta Wolfe said.

“Yet, outside of the academic realm, job seekers will pay hundreds, even thousands, of dollars for the very same services that are included free with the cost of tuition.”

To increase their job opportunities, students are encouraged to do inter nships to expand their workplace experience.

A study done by the National Association of Colleges and Employers found 61 percent of students with paid internships received a full-time job offers after graduation, compared to only 38 percent of students who participated in unpaid internships being See JOBS, Page 3

Office Administration

2011-12 Approved Budget

$132,458

$30,630

$14,188

See ASI, Page 3

2010-11 Actual Budget

$132,558

Another 20 percent is going t ow a rd f e e m a n a g e m e n t .

“The ASI senate passed some revisions to the budg et,” Stinecipher said. “Those will go to the president for his approval.” Stinecipher said he foresees no problems.

The budget for office sup-

Former ASI President Pedro Ramirez was paid $0.

Current ASI President Selena Farnesi receives $8,000.

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$618,523

Total Revenue (Projected) $595,674

Student Clubs Administrative and Organizations Programs

Students pay $34.50 into a student body fee.

By Rodrigo Andrade The Collegian

Total Revenue

$11,775

$12,155

$80,000

those sources.”

The vast majority of ASI m o n e y a r e s t u d e n t f e e s, Stinecipher said. Students without fee waivers pay $34.50 into a student body fee.

“ASI gets $15 from each student,” Stinecipher said.

“About 60 percent of the money goes to students and student pro g rams,” Stinecipher added. This includes anything from purchasing newspapers to funding club events and paying student employees.

Twenty percent is going toward paying staff members.

Some staff members were also given cell phones to remain on call due to the nature of their positions, Stinecipher said.

$64,922

$115,337

$185,600

$150,465

As Fresno State students wave farewell to summer and welcome piles of homework and midterms, the Associated Students, Inc. is preparing

financially for the fall semester.

“We want to do the most we can with the money students are paying this year,” Jim Stinecipher, vice president of ASI finances said.

ASI is working to make upcoming semesters even more productive than the previous, Stinecipher said.

The new budget was set at roughly $576,000 which is lower in comparison to previous semesters when it reached $648,000. “We have some other revenue sources,” Stinecipher added, “but only about $7,000 makes up miscellaneous income we get from

$105,375

By Liana Whitehead The Collegian

ASI Programs

$12,000 of the ASI budget has been designated for the new Community Revitalization Program.

Geena Davis addresses women at 2011 Central Women’s Conference

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Academy Award winning actress Geena Davis addressed approximately 2,600 attendees of the 2011 Central California Women’s Conference Tuesday, Sept. 13. The actress and women’s rights activist gave a keynote speech at the Fresno Convention Center with topics ranging from her role in “Thelma and Louise” to advice she gives future generations of women. Dozens of vendors, including businesses and local organizations, set up informational booths and provided free prizes and gifts throughout the day. According to Director of Development Jan Edwards, the event was a huge success and a 2012 conference is in development.

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THAT’S WHAT THE PEOPLE ARE SAYING...

our professors will give you some fine books to read, and they’ll probably help you understand “Y them. What they won’t do, for reasons that perplex me, is to ask you if the books contain truths you could live your lives by.”

– Mark Edmundson, Oxford American

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NOTES & ASIDES

By Tony Petersen The Collegian

This space received some criticism online from commenter Michael: I see that this platform is turning into a “hit” parade of posters that challenge, which I didn’t see coming when I read the initial post as to why this was created. I find it odd.

First, a clarification. The purpose of this section is not to indiscriminately bash commenters who disagree with my opinions. The purpose is to simply expand upon certain topics in a less formal forum. Comments certainly provide the easiest way to discuss a topic because they are provocative, in the sense that they elicit a reaction.

However, that is not the only way I will write in this space.

I respond to comments not to put down comments that disagree with me — though there could be times when that happens — but to use as a jumping-off point to go deeper into a subject that readers have found interesting, topical or dead wrong.

That was the case last week, where I used a comment on the meaning of the First Amendment to explain my thoughts on the subject.

Sticking with that theme, here is a question asked me by joshua4234: Try to ignore your Christian privilege for a moment and imagine having gone to a state middle school where everyone else was pagan of some stripe. Now imagine every morning there was time

where the teacher and all classmates would sing/chant a prayer to many gods of nature. How would you feel? Would you feel there was nothing wrong going on?

Though this is framed in an arguably questionable manner (my Christian privilege?), the question is legitimate.

The obvious answer to the question is I would feel out of place. I am a practicing Christian, and would not go along with a prayer to false gods.

However, this question is incomplete. Under this scenario, the community surrounding the school likely, for the most part, adheres to this pagan religion. I, being a Christian, am in the minority. In this scenario, it is completely reasonable for the community, via the local school, to want the children of the community to believe in the same gods as their parents and grandparents.

Because this hypothetical city is still in America, I still have freedom to practice Christianity, but I will be left out of the community’s legitimate interest in perpetuating the traditional values of the community.

Now, I would have a few choices: I could either attempt to persuade the other people of my community to adopt my Christian values, I could remain silent and practice my religion solely in private or I could leave, and live in a community more amenable to my values.

In order for this situation to be plausible, our schools would have to be controlled locally. However, that is not the case, so this whole question is merely

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theoretical.

*** A quick comment on a topic from Monday night’s Republican debate.

Tex. Rep. Ron Paul and former Sen. Rick Santorum got into a heated discussion of 9/11 and our government’s foreign policy. Paul argued that alQaida attacked us because we have military bases on its holy lands.

Santorum derided Paul, saying, “We are not being attacked, and we are not attacked, because of our actions.

We were attacked, as Newt [Gingrich] talked about, because we have a civilization that is antithetical to the civilization of the jihadists, and they want to kill us because of who we are and what we stand for.”

If the people occupying important government positions believe that the only reason we are attacked is because we are free, democratic and capitalist, we are in big trouble.

It is one thing to believe that America is the best country in the world; it is quite another to believe that America is perfect and that it makes no mistakes.

Al-Qaida gave reasons for why they attacked us, and Paul outlined them for us. That does not make them good reasons, but they are reasons. The 9/11 attacks, awful as they were, were not for no reason.

Acknowledging that America has made mistakes is not absolving the terrorist group of responsibility. It’s just being honest.

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I don’t heart radio

By Matt Weir The Collegian I don’t heart radio. I thought I did, but I don’t.

It all began a few months ago when I started a new job in a place where the radio was always on. In the past, I rarely listened to the radio because I had my iPod or a CD with me, so there was no need.

But after spending some time listening to different stations, I realized I enjoyed it. I started to hear new songs that I liked, old songs I forgot about and even songs that I thought I didn’t like, but ended up being better than I thought.

But the good times ended.

I quickly started to notice a pattern.

I caught myself thinking, “didn’t they just play this song a few minutes ago?” more and more often.

At that point, it became painfully obvious. It didn’t matter what station I turned to, the problem remained the same. They played the same songs over, and over, and over, and over…

I swear if I hear Katy Perry’s “Last Friday Night” one more time I’m going to drive to Yosemite and throw my boom box off of Half Dome.

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One of my favorite bands, Reel Big Fish, said it so perfectly back in the ‘90s: “The radio plays what they want you to hear…”

I couldn’t say it better myself.

The radio has so much control over who becomes popular and who doesn’t that it actually scares me a little bit.

Stations like Y101 and Alice play what they call “The Valley’s hottest music.”

But my question is this: How can music become popular if you don’t play it on the radio?

The bands that are being played on the radio tend to be the bands that are most downloaded on iTunes and other music sites. That’s how they get deemed “popular.” But I’d be willing to bet many of the buyers on these sites heard the music on the radio first, and then decided to buy it. So what we end up with is a terrifying chain of events

Matt Weir is the former photo editor of The Collegian, and a senior at Fresno State studying graphic design.

“I

swear if I hear Katy Perry’s ‘Last Friday Night’ one more time I’m going to drive to Yosemite and throw my boom box off of Half Dome.”

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that begins and ends with the radio.

I understand that there are other ways to discover new music. But try watching “That Thing You Do” or even “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” In each of these movies, the radio plays a pivotal role in the musical success of the main characters. If “The Oneders” had never been played on the radio, there wouldn’t even be a movie.

Yes, these are fictional examples, but the principle applies in real life.

Without the radio, achieving success becomes much harder.

Until I have the time and the funds to start my own radio station that does things a little differently, I guess I’ll have to stick to Pandora.

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To the editor: Provost Covino and Dean Gonzalez rightly responded critically (9/2) to Jason Aúla’s letter (8/31) for its factual errors and stood up for freedoms of speech and the press.

One additional correction is Fresno State’s publication, La Voz de Aztlán (est. 1970s), other than having the same name, has no connection with the anti-Semitic website based in Whittier, California (est. 1990s). We also express support for Dr. Torres’ continued service as Chicano and Latin American studies department chair.

We expect Collegian editors to exercise responsible journalism and not publish material containing libelous assertions about a professor and non-existent linkages between a campus publication and a nationally-identified “hate group.” The Collegian claims its “Views … do not necessarily reflect the views of staff or the university,” but strengthening editorial review policies will help it avoid becoming hijacked as a vehicle for others’ hatred. The editor’s role is to substantiate claims and sources of editorials for merit and accuracy before they are given the weight of publication.

Also, we could not find a specific “mission statement” on The Collegian website other than “the publication serves the Fresno State community.” We imagine The Collegian’s purpose is to affirm Fresno State’s mission by cultivating thoughtful and informed students, faculty and staff through awareness and discussion of university, local, national and world affairs. We advise the editors to consider and post the paper’s purpose online with an expanded statement that “Views expressed in The Collegian do not necessarily reflect those of Fresno State’s student body, alumni, faculty, staff or administration.”

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plies comes to approximately $14,000 and rent is $16,000.

“A big chunk of money goes to a number of external groups,” Stinecipher said.

Those groups include accountants, management and financial auditors. All of these are paid along with banking fees, dues to organizations, legal fees and insurance.

These costs total $105,000.

The senate approved a five percent pay increase for the office manager and ASI coordinator. “It’s about $4,000 between the both of them,” Stinecipher said.

“Times are hard right now and it looks terrible raising salaries,” Stinecipher said, “but there have been changes in job descriptions and titles and duties.”

The ASI coordinator is taking on bigger roles and her

title has changed from director of university affairs to ASI coordinator.

“The office manager title hasn’t changed, but she has taken on coordinating student systems and doing more with our organization,”

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organizations in the CSU system.

Stinecipher said some CSUs are entirely different in terms of what their ASI organizations do and what services are provided.

imes are hard right now and it looks terrible raising salaries.”

— Jim Stinecipher, ASI Vice President of Finance

Stinecipher added.

Neither employee has received a raise. Stinecipher said. ASI contacted other schools and retrieved tax documents for information and discovered Fresno State had one of the lowest paying ASI

“We try to find ones more comparable to ours and compare salaries,” he said. This would amount to a $4,000 change, which is 0.7 percent.

“Last year, president [Pedro Ramirez] was an unpaid volunteer,” Stinecipher said,

“So that cost wasn’t included in the salary. It looks like an $8,000 increase, but president [Selena Farnesi] is being paid this year. Nothing has changed with executives except being paid in full.”

ASI has money in reserves.

The organization is hoping to do more with the money available and leave less in reserves.

“From a student standpoint, that’s money not being used,” Stinecipher said. “We are planning for more this year than before.”

One of ASI’s goals is running a polling station on campus during elections so students may participate in voting.

“It was done a few years ago,” Stinecipher said. “We’re looking for the best way to make it work.”

I n h o p e s o f i n c re a s i n g access to senate meetings, ASI wants to equip the meeting room with microphones for

senators.

“The meetings are streamed online,” Stinecipher said.

“The only problem is they’re impossible to hear.”

Stinecipher said ASI is also offering internships through the New York Times and The Fresno Bee. The organization is extending into the community and spreading awareness via social networking.

A Facebook page was created in support of “Fresno State Students for Revitalization,” Stinecipher said.

“We are looking for students to sit on ASI committees,” Stinecipher added. “A lot of big work on campus happens in those committees.”

Students can visit USU 316 and 317 for more information and sign-up forms. A senator position is currently vacant within the College of Health and Human Services.

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Another option students have is to pursue a postgraduate education. An article by CQ Researcher published in 2005 showed each year of college raises a person’s average

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et, outside of the academic realm, job seekers will pay hundreds, even thousands, of dollars for the very same services that are included free with the cost of tuition.”

— Aleta Wolfe, Fresno State Career Services counselor

salary by 12.9 percent.

Although a degree is not guaranteed immediately after graduation, it does hold a lot of value. “Most students will eventually succeed in getting

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Fresno State student Matthew Hendrix visits the Career Services. Many students do not take advantage of the oportunities given by the career center.

a full-time job. It’s just going to be slower and not as smooth a process as it might have been five or ten years ago,” Wolfe said.

“I don’t have a plan regarding work, but I want to continue with my master’s degree,” Sanchez said.

“Basically students today have the misfortune of graduating during the worst economy in 60 years. A lot is beyond their control, but there are

ways to adjust to this reality and students can overcome it in ways that they probably didn’t consider when they entered college,” Wolfe added.

“There are jobs out there; there are opportunities.”

The key to success is to stand out from the crowd when looking for a job. Take the time to network, use the services provided and pursue a higher degree.

a central square, as terrified Afghans fled the sound of fighting. “Again, again!” said an elderly shopkeeper as he hastily rolled down the metal shutter protecting his carpet store and prepared to flee.

Insurgents appeared to have seized a tall building under construction as a staging ground for the attack with rockets and automatic weapons _ a tactic used previously in similar strikes elsewhere in the country. The targeted area is dense with diplomatic compounds and other foreign installations.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attacks, which began in the early afternoon, saying “heavy casualties” had been inflicted.

The strike, which came two days after U.S. commemorations of the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, appeared to center on the well-fortified “green zone” where the U.S. Embassy and the headquarters of NATO’s International Security Assistance force are housed.

Helicopters could be heard circling overhead.

The capital, and the rest of

Palestinian leaders will ask the United Nations Security Council for full U.N. membership, Palestinian officials said Tuesday, despite a U.S. vow to veto the request fears that it could be fatal blow to the moribund peace process.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas scheduled an announcement for Friday night, as two senior U.S. envoys prepared to return to the region to mount a last-ditch effort to revive Palestinian-Israeli peace talks, which have been stalled for nearly a year.

European Union officials, meanwhile, pursued their effort to prevent a new crisis in the Middle East. struggling to draft a compromise U.N. resolution that could satisfy Palestinians and Israelis.

But a U.S.-based European dip-

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Kabul province, are now nominally under the control of Afghan security forces, in line with a plan to hand over security responsibilities by 2014. But NATO troops respond whenever an attack of this magnitude takes place.

Earlier, traffic in the capital had been paralyzed by a relatively benign event: Afghan President Hamid Karzai visiting a local school. The stringent precautions, however, were an indicator of how dangerous it is for the Afghan leader to venture even a mile or two from his heavily fortified palace.

In Brussels, NATO vowed that the attack would not deter Western forces from an orderly handover of security responsibilities to Afghan forces as the West winds down its combat mission in Afghanistan _ a process known as “transition.”

“Transition is on track, and it will continue,” NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen told reporters.

lomat, on the condition of anonymity to speak freely, admitted that EU members were deeply divided. He said that reaching a deal before the new U.N. General Assembly opens next week was “a long shot.”

“There will be a U.S. veto and then we enter unchartered waters,” he said.

Maen Rashid Areikat, the Palestinian Liberation Organization representative to the United States, said Abbas would ask the Security Council next week to pass a resolution upgrading the Permanent Observer Mission of Palestine to the United Nations to “nonmember observer state” status.

“We want to seek full membership ... and seek a resolution in the Security Council,” he said in Washington, adding that Lebanon, the current council president, has agreed to sponsor the resolution “on our behalf.”

Non-member observer status is the lowest level of full U.N. membership. It would confer on the PLO, which runs the Palestinian Authority, the same standing as the Vatican, giving it a seat in the 193-member U.N. General Assembly and access to international institutions like the International Criminal Court. The PLO is currently a U.N. observer without voting rights.

Mohammad Shtayyeh, a senior official of Fatah, the largest faction in the PLO, was quoted by the Al-Jazeera satellite network as also announcing, “We are going to the Security Council.”

“We are going to seek full membership based on the 1967 borders,” he told a news conference in the West Bank administrative center of Ramallah, referring to the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem, lands captured by Israel in the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. The move is fiercely opposed

by Israel, which denounces it as an attack on its legitimacy and a “unilateral step” tantamount to seeking recognition of Palestinian statehood in violation of the 1993 Oslo Accords, which call for a negotiated settlement.

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Ready to Rodeo

By Megan Letson The Collegian Fresno State’s rodeo club is grabbing the bull by the horns to get support for the cowboys and cowgirls this semester so they can still participate in these hard financial times.

This year the rodeo club has a full men’s and women’s team, but not a lot of money. Sunday, Sept. 18, has been set for the clubs first fundraiser barrel race. It is open to all barrel racers for entries of $35, and people who would like to donate to the club. Sign ups are at 8 a.m., and the race will start at 11 a.m. at Fresno’s outdoor rodeo arena.

“Last year we had no extra fundraising, so this year we needed an early start,” Chelse Roberts, a junior majoring in plant science with an emphasis in crop production said. “We haven’t set a goal yet, but we want to get travel and entries paid for,” Roberts added.

“If we had more support, it would be better,” Kelsey Hayden a senior majoring in animal science said.

Although it is considered a team in the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association, the rodeo club does not meet the NCAA standards, and therefore does not receive funding from the college like the equestrian team.

The cost of participating in the rodeos can be high. First, students wanting to compete in the rodeos must pay an annual $250 membership fee to the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association. Then at each rodeo it costs $65 for the first event and $35 for every additional event. There is also the cost of gas to get to the rodeos and hotel rooms. The two fall rodeos are held up north in Quincy and Susanville, Calif.

Roberts also keeps her 7-year-old horse Romeo at Fresno State’s rodeo grounds.

“It’s $80 per horse per month,” Roberts said.

That money goes to feed the cattle the students get to practice with. Roberts still has to provide her own feed for Romeo, as well as clean his stall every day.

To help offset some of these costs, the rodeo club will hold events this semester for fundraising.

“With having the bigger team, we will be holding barrel races and team roping,” Roberts said. The date and time have been set for the first barrel race. “We just have to figure out parking now,” Roberts said.

“Every year the rodeo club puts on a fundraising banquet, but it only goes to the rodeo Fresno State hosts,” Hayden said.

This banquet in the past has included the local band Cadillac Cowboys and silent auctions. While the banquet does cover the costs to host a rodeo that includes the six other college rodeo teams in the western region, not much is left over for entry costs and travel.

Insurance policies for the rodeo club also differ from the equestrian team.

“The rodeo club’s insurance doesn’t require them to wear helmets, but the Equestrian team’s does,” Equine Science major Lindsey Burham said.

On the other hand, the rodeo club cannot have rough stock practices at the college’s arena because of insurance and “the rodeo club pays more for insurance,” Burham said. Rough stock events include saddle bronc riding, bull riding and bareback riding.

“It’s nice to have horses on campus.

It saves a lot of time being able to ride whenever I want to, plus the facility is nice” Roberts said. Fresno State’s rodeo grounds include an outdoor arena equipped with lights, an indoor arena and automatic water tanks for the horses in the stalls.

“It’s fun, and we want to encourage more people to join the club,” Roberts said. “You get units, get to meet new people, and get to hang out at rodeos.”

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Target brings high fashion to the masses

By Esteban Cortez The Collegian

High fashion is not always inaccessible in the Central Valley. Thanks to retail conglomerate Target and Italian fashion house Missoni, over 400 vibrant and colorful pieces are temporarily within reach in the Central Valley. The highly anticipated collaboration between the store and the prominent fashion house launched Tuesday, Sept. 13.

“We’re getting calls about the items every five minutes,” Target executive team leader Linda Vukovich said.

“We’ve had a ton of people coming in for the women’s pieces and buying hundreds of dollars worth of clothes.”

Vukovich oversees the women’s clothing department at Target located on First street and Shields Avenue.

Shortly after the store's opening, she encountered customers who piled the moderately priced pieces in their shopping carts.

“I met some people who were shopping for relatives from Los Angeles because the stores sold out over there,” she added.

A majority of the pieces reportedly sold out within minutes in various Los Angeles stores. According to The Huffington Post, a line wrapped around a West Hollywood Target store twice before opening.

Missoni isn’t new to the fashion world. The company was founded in 1953 by Ottavio and Rosita Missoni, and since then, has maintained a strong family image and a bold signature look.

Much of the excitement surrounding the collaboration is due to the affordable prices Target is promoting along with the line. A Missoni v-neck dress featured on the Neiman Marcus web store is currently listed with a price of $1,490, a price tag that is typically out of the question for the average Fresno shopper.

Missoni announced its partnership

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Target employee Rosalinda Reyes sorts through various women's pieces from the Missoni line.

with Target in May, and since then fashion enthusiasts and bloggers, as well as prolific figures in the fashion world, have anxiously awaited the Sept. 13 release.

Through collaboration, the duo produced over 400 items featuring the brands bold prints, bright colors and zigzag patterns. Items include clothing and accessories for men, women and children. Several home accessories were also produced, many of which were sold out within minutes at several local Targets.

Clovis resident and Missoni fan Lexi Kiker visited two Target stores before ultimately buying several pieces, including a luggage piece at the Target located on First street and Shields Avenue. She claimed that almost everything was sold out at the stores she visited previously.

“I ran into a woman who bought nearly $2,000 worth of stuff,” Kiker said. “I think a lot of people are planning to resell the stuff on eBay.”

Advertising campaigns featuring Margherita Missoni, granddaughter of Missoni founders, were featured in magazines, website and television several weeks before the official launch.

She was also in an interactive shopping video on Target’s official website, where she displayed some of the brand’s pieces and gave advice on how to wear them. Viewers were able to click on the items while watching the video to learn more about the piece and even add to a shopping cart for checkout, according to The New York Times.

Target’s Web site was down for several hours after the official launch due to high traffic.

For high fashion fans like Kiker, the collaboration creates a rare opportunity to acquire an expensive and wellrespected brand at an affordable price.

“I love Missoni as a brand and it’s the closest I’ll ever get to owning anything by them,” Kiker said.

A natural method for battling bacteria may be on its way thanks to coriander seed

By Robin Shreeves McClatchy Tribune

How many big food recalls can you think of from the past couple of years off the top of your head? Ground beef.

Ground turkey. Spinach. Eggs. Peanut butter. Cookie dough. Black pepper.

Those are the few that came to my mind, but there have been dozens more and they're almost always because bacteria has been detected in the foods and made people ill.

There is a lot of talk about using food irradiation to kill bacteria that can

contaminate food and cause illness and death. The Environmental Protection Agency says that irradiation is similar to pasteurization but while pasteurization uses heat to kill bacteria, irradiation uses radiation.

It seems to me that the end result of pasteurization and irradiation might be similar, but the methods are not.

Radiation is not natural and the longterm effects of eating a steady diet of irradiated foods are not known. I am leery of the process.

I am not leery about natural coriander oil, though. A new study found the

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New studies have found that oil from the seeds from the coriander plant, also known as cilantro, can be used as a natural way of fighting bacteria.

oil from the seeds of a coriander plant is a natural method of fighting bacteria.

According to a New York Times article about the study, "The researchers found that coriander oil is able to damage the membrane of bacterial cells.

This blocks the cell from essential processes, like respiration, and ultimately leads to the bacterium's demise, the researchers report."

The coriander oil was tested on E.coli, salmonella, MRSA an antibiotic-resistant strain of staphylococcus and eight other harmful bacteria. The results were promising. "Most of the bacteria were killed by solutions containing less than 1.6 percent coriander oil."

Anyone who has ever tried to grow coriander for its leaves, which are commonly called cilantro, knows how quickly the plant goes to seed. The very thing that is so frustrating to backyard gardeners wanting a supply of cilantro for fresh summer salsa could be the best thing that has happened to food safety in a while.

I would think that since the plant turns to seed so quickly, coriander farms would be able to grow the plants for their seeds with little trouble. This could be an entirely new sector in farming, and if the plants are farmed using organic and natural methods, could result in many environmentally sound farms. This is just my speculation, of course, but it's exciting to think about the promise of this finding.

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Twenty years after Eddie Vedder and Pearl Jam stormed onto the Seattle grunge scene, rock journalist Cameron Crowe was given special permission to put together a documentary on the band.

Pearl Jam comes out of its shell for 20th anniversary

By Steven Zeitchik McClatchy Tribune TORONTO — Like a high school reunion or the sight of an aging Michael Jordan, word that Pearl Jam is celebrating its 20th anniversary can elicit an unnerving rhetorical question: Where did all the time go?

Yet here they are, one of the seminal Seattle grunge bands — symbols, not always willingly, of a generation — marking precisely that milestone with

a double-disc set of archival recordings, an art book/written history, and a new film, no less.

Though famously press shy, the band allowed rock journalist-turned-director Cameron Crowe — who solidified the fame of Eddie Vedder and the rest of the group when he used several of their songs on the soundtrack to the 1992 movie “Singles”— to put together the documentary “Pearl Jam Twenty.”

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The film, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival over the weekend, is a sonic and video history of the group from its early days to its roller coaster of fame in the mid ‘90s to its current status as a less prominent, yet oddly happier, act focused on touring.

That enthusiasm was on display Monday night as the band played a sold-out show at Toronto’s 20,000-seat Air Canada Centre. If Vedder, 46, didn’t stage dive as he once did, he nonetheless gave an intensely physical performance for nearly 2 { hours, jumping and kicking with the energy of a man half his age. Vedder and the rest of the band also worked the crowd expertly, playing to the last row in the cavernous arena and even turning around and delighting fans who had packed the obstructed-view seats high behind the stage.

“Twenty,” which focuses more on the band’s music and popularity than the members’ personal lives, will play at the movie theaters around the country on a one-day national rollout next Tuesday. It will also air as part of PBS’ “American Masters” series on Oct. 21.

Nursing beers Saturday night at a Toronto hotel, the band members were jokey and appeared content, a sharp contrast to their anguished public image of the 1990s, when they boycotted Ticketmaster over surcharges and resisted videos and other trappings of successful bands.

“I think pretty much everything in the last 10 years has been really good.

We’re in a kind of golden-years period.

We have families now, and we’re just really happy to be playing live,” said Vedder, his trademark low, rumbling voice slow and thoughtful. “Before that it was harder. I’m not saying we’re diamond-like, but we were formed by pressure, and it seems like in the last 10 years we’ve been able to cut the diamond and see the facets.”

Crowe draws from archives of video material shot by people loosely associated with the band. There are local TV clips, haunting concert footage (a 2006 rendition of the ballad “Release Me” stands out), reflective present-day interviews and glimpses of everyday moments that turned into serendipitous events. (Vedder and his bandmates jamming on a bus and coming See PEARL JAM, Page 6

Mel Gibson’s miracle: doing it right by Maccabee

By Patrick Goldstein McClatchy Tribune No, it isn’t April Fools’ Day. But I had to do a quick check of the calendar when I heard the news that Mel Gibson was developing a movie for Warner Bros. about the life of Judah Maccabee, who led a heroic revolt in 160 BC that is celebrated every year at Hannukah

by Jews. You know, the same Jews that Gibson has infamously maligned, not only in a nasty anti-Semitic rant after he was arrested for drunken driving, but in his enormously successful film, “The Passion of the Christ.”

The announcement of the project makes it clear that Gibson is back in good standing in Hollywood, at least at Warner Bros., arguably the industry’s leading studio. As recently as last summer Gibson was in hot water again, for making racist and misogynistic remarks in a taped conversation

with his then-girlfriend. If Warners was at all worried about its image, it could have easily decided to wait until Gibson finished the film before agreeing to do a deal with the star, who will be directing, but not necessarily appearing in the film.

The fact that Warners agreed to bless the Gibson film before it even had a script in hand — it’s being penned by Joe Eszterhas — shows the studio felt it was on safe enough ground in terms of blowback to lend the Warners shield to the project.

Of course, the blowback is already here, with a host of Jewish leaders, including the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Marvin Hier and AntiDefamation League national director Abraham Foxman, already blasting the decision. Foxman said it would be a “travesty” to have the Maccabee See GIBSON, Page 6

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PEARL JAM: Cameron Crowe chronicles grunge band’s ride CONTINUED from page 5 up with the lyrics and melody that would become their hit “Daughter,” for one.)

Crowe traces Pearl Jam’s inception from the late 1980s, when Seattle musicians Stone G o s s a rd a n d Je f f A m e n t helped for m Mother Love Bone. When that g roup’s singer, Andrew Wood, died of a drug overdose, Gossard and Ament got together with Mike McCready, but they needed a frontman.

E n t e r Ve d d e r, a t h e n unknown singer from San Diego, who moved to Seattle to join the band that would become Pearl Jam; Gossard and Ament learned of him, the movie shows, after he sent them a cassette that had his phone number written on it.

The events that followed are the stuff of rock legend.

In summer 1991 the group released “Ten,” a watershed collection of rough but melodic songs about subjects including fatherlessness and bullying that sold nearly 10 million copies. In 1993 came “Vs.,” which went platinum seven times over.

At the time, Pearl Jam had plenty of company, with similar-sounding acts such as Alice in Chains, Nirvana and Soundgarden all charting.

Yet those other bands withered away as the ‘90s wore on, in several cases because of substance-abuse issues, the deaths of members or other tragedies, leaving Pearl Jam a kind of last band standing.

“As an outsider looking in, I was always impressed by

how they made decisions,” said Matt Cameron, a former Soundgarden drummer who joined Pearl Jam in 1998. “A lot of groups get to a place of success and they let other people make the decisions for them. And Pearl Jam never did.”

It was a lack of conventional music-business thinking that, by design or not, seemed to work out, Gossard said. “If you asked 10 managers, ‘Do you agree with what Pearl Jam is doing?’ I don’t think you’d get one of them to support it,” he said.

Chief among those decisions was the fight against Ticketmaster. After the band became ir ritated with socalled convenience charges they believed were unfair to fans, Pearl Jam refused to play any venue for which Ticketmaster sold tickets, and even testified about the company’s business practices before Congress. The band members’ stance led them to play only minor venues and even stop touring, though they were at the height of their popularity.

“The Ticketmaster episode left them as the lone wolf out there,” Crowe said. “But that worked out too. Who would have known it was a way to gather a whole new generation of fans who would know them for taking a stand?”

Pearl Jam would come to take more stands, particularly Vedder, who in the last decade became known for strident comments against the Iraq war and President George W. Bush. The band was also vocal

in its support of the so-called West Memphis Three, a trio of Arkansas teenagers convicted of murder who recently were freed after questions arose about the case.

But asked to name the band’s g r ave s t c r u c i bl e, Ve d d e r replied without hesitation: “Roskilde. I think everyone in this room would say that,” he said, referencing the festival in Denmark where in 2000 nine fans were killed during a riotous Pearl Jam performance; the police initially sought to hold the band members accountable, but later exonerated them.

Less dramatic but still trying, said Vedder and his bandmates, was the mainstream popularity. Although to outsiders such a statement may seem whiny or ungrateful, the reality, they contend, is more complicated _ struggling to live up to expectations, even as they faced charges of selling out from hard-core fans.

P e a rl J a m , w h i c h l a s t released an album in 2009 (the New Wave-influenced “Backspacer”), is now on a small tour _ after the handful of Canadian dates, it will head to South America. The band’s members are happy to continue working as they enter its third decade. But the reflection may only go so far.

“I know it’s an anniversary and so we’re supposed to be not only looking back but looking ahead to where the next five or 10 years are going to take us,” Vedder said, then with a small smile, added, “But we don’t have to do that right now, so let’s not.”

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GIBSON: Talent again put to the test CONTINUED from page 5 story told “by one who has n o r e s p e c t a n d s e n s i t iv ity for other people’s religious views.” Hier topped that, railing against the way Gibson portrayed Jews in “Passion of the Christ” as “idiots and buffoons” before adding a coup de grace, saying that having Gibson at the helm of a story about Judah Maccabee “is like casting (Bernie) Madoff to be the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, or a white supremacist as trying to portray Martin Luther King Jr. It’s simply an insult to the Jews.”

But is it? It’s tr ue that Gibson’s portrayal of the Jews in “Passion of the Christ” was one-sided and deeply stereotypical. And it’s pretty clear, from his own actions, that Gibson, drunk or sober, is a man with a lot of enmity inside him, not just for Jews but for African Americans and women. But does that disqualify him for making a movie about Judah Maccabee?

H a r d l y. F i r s t o f f , u n t i l Eszterhas turns in a script, we have no idea what sort of story will be told, much less how it will portray its characters, in terms of tone and shading. Gibson clearly loves mythic heroes from the past — remember “Braveheart”?

— so his adoration for an embattled warrior fighting a powerful foe might trump his lack of respect for his religion. Stranger things have h ap p e n e d . C o n s e r vat ive s

were in an uproar when it was announced that uber-liberal Oliver Stone was doing a 9/11 movie. Yet the final product, “World Trade Center,” was viewed as incredibly reverential and uplifting, even by longtime Stone critics.

Gibson has a lot of serious flaws as a human being, but he has always been a gifted filmmaker. It’s unfair to judge him so soon. What concerns me most is Gibson’s motives for making the film. Even though he has been notoriously selfdestructive in his personal life, he must surely realize that a film from him that in any way undercuts the heroism of Maccabee would be a career killer of the highest order. But it would be almost as bad if he were doing the film as an act of penance for his sins, since dutiful acts of penance rarely lend themselves to great artistry.

There are many hurdles to come, starting with the fact that Gibson has put the story in the hands of Eszterhas, the author of all sorts of pulpy, over-the-top thrillers who, by the most generous standards, hasn’t written a decent screenplay in 20 years. But if, Hanukkah miracle of all miracles, Gibson were to end up with a great story to tell, I’d be happy to see him celebrating one of the great Jewish heroes. When it comes to art, sometimes the people who have the most demons to confront end up being the most riveting storytellers.

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Toma replaces four-year starter

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Sophomore Jeremiah Toma is apart of the youth movement on defense where the ‘Dogs will be starting seven players who weren’t starters last year but will be against North Dakota on Saturday.

By Angel Moreno The Collegian Coming into this season, Fresno State football was going through a transition from a veteran-laden roster to one scattered with youth.

One of the key positions where the ‘Dogs got younger was at middle linebacker where four-year starter Ben Jacobs ran out of eligibility last May. Jacobs’ replacement became sophomore Jeremiah Toma, who has learned behind Jacobs since he first came into the program in 2009. Filling the shoes of Jacobs as the man in the middle on the Bulldogs’ defense is more than a challenge for Toma.

Now that Toma has started at middle linebacker in the Bulldogs first two games of the season, he has kept his eye on the prize and his head high as he hopes to meet expectations and fill the void of Ben Jacobs who was a mainstay in the linebacking corps.

“I know I can’t be Ben [Jacobs],” the Sacramento native said after Tuesday’s practice. “When I took this job I knew there we’re going to be a lot of big expectations but I just play my game. I can’t replace a four-year starter. I can’t do everything he did. But I just know I got to do what I have to do to make the defense better.”

And that’s exactly what Toma has done so far this season against some tough competition in California and at Nebraska.

Although the Bulldogs have slumped to a 0-2 start this season, their defensive game has improved in the past two weeks in crucial situations, especially against the Cornhuskers last Saturday where they were a three-and-out away from giving the offense a chance to pull out the upset victory in the fourth quarter. Toma says that the players that play alongside him are the ones he wants to impress.

“It’s only been two games,” Toma said of his defensive efforts this season. “Consistency is the key for this whole season. And I know I got a whole lot of games in front of me. I just want to be there for my teammates. That’s the biggest thing for me.”

Toma is coming off two strong performances during the first two weeks of the season, accumulating nine tackles and one for a loss. In the Nebraska contest he had five tackles and forced quarterback Taylor Martinez to fumble in the second quarter, creating a fourth-and-one situation.

Linebackers coach Tom Skipper agrees with Toma and is proud of how he has developed to meet expectations this season.

“He has paid his dues,” Skipper said.

“Now it’s his time and he’s handled the first two games well.”

Toma has been waiting for his chance to show what kind of player he could be for two years while learning behind some veterans since he’s been in the program. But Skipper talked about what he expects from the Grant Union High School graduate.

“I still think there are a couple notches to reach,” Skipper said. “But I think he’s on the right path to be very successful as a Bulldog.”

The reason for the quick development of Toma is the high level of athleticism and speed he brings to the already experienced group of linebackers alongside him. Senior Kyle Knox and junior Travis Brown both are returning starters at the outside linebacker positions for a Bulldogs defense that finished fourth in the Western Athletic Conference in total defense just a season ago.

Skipper said Toma not only brings athleticism and physical prowess to the 4-3 defensive scheme, but is an added component that Fresno State needed.

“He gives his all everyday, understands the game plan and he executes it.” Skipper said.

And with the athleticism and dedication Toma has added to the ‘Dogs’ defense, both of them know there is always room for improvement, especially going into this weekend’s home opener against North Dakota still searching for that first 2011 victory.

“It’s the first day of practice,” Toma said of the 0-2 start. “We’re going to work and we’re hungry for a win.”

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Lindstrom gets national recognition

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Lauren Lindstrom (23) has started all of the games since she’s been at Fresno State, but her presence is not usually felt on the box score. Still, she has helped the ‘Dogs on defense this season.

By Jerry Huerta The Collegian During this past weekend the Fresno State soccer team traveled south to UCLA to face the fourth-ranked Bruins.

The game was close in the first half with the ‘Dogs holding UCLA to a sologoal lead, but in the second half the Bruins proved their national ranking and cruised to a 4-1 victory.

Sophomore Kayla Kret scored the only goal for the ‘Dogs, her second of season. Senior Molly Nizzoli assisted Kret on the play and it was her third assist of the year. Freshman goalkeeper Katie DeVault finished the game with a career-high nine saves in the contest.

Sophomore Lauren Lindstrom is one of the Bulldogs’ key defenders on the team, playing a role in UCLA’s narrow first-half lead. Head coach Brian Zwaschka talked about what type of player Lindstrom is.

“Lauren is a fantastic player and very strong athlete,” Zwaschka said.

“She can be a dominating force for our team.”

The Oaks Christian High School p ro d u c t h a s c o n t r i bu t e d t o t h e Bulldogs’ four shutouts so far this season, but Lindstrom’s impact is usually not felt on the stat sheet, especially since she has started every game this year and has only taken two shots to go along with one assist.

Although Lindstrom doesn’t rack up eye-catching numbers, she was invited to the U20 U.S. team selection camp during the summer. She is the first Bulldog under Zwaschka to get selected to the camp. The camp consists of 25 players from all over the country that are born from 1992 to 1993. Lindstrom talked about what it meant to get selected to the national camp.

“It’s great,” Lindstrom said. “Having Brian [Zwaschka] recommend me and actually being able to go. I was excited to represent him and kind of get his name out there. And get Fresno [State]

out there just to show that we aren’t just some Califor nia State school.

We’re the real deal.”

Now, that Lindstrom has helped put Fresno State’s soccer program on the map nationally, she will have some new visitors in the stands at the Fresno State games to watch her play. Some of the U20 national selection committee members will be watching Lindstrom’s games throughout the year to determine if she will be selected for the U20 national team.

With so much added weight on her shoulders to perform well individually and collectively with her teammates, Lindstrom addressed whether the pressure has affected her play so far this season.

“I mean it’s a little nerve wrecking knowing these people could be at my games, but for the most part I’m just focusing on Fresno [State] at the moment,” Lindstrom said. “Just trying to get this season going and hopefully do very well.”

The ‘Dogs have started the 2011 season going 3-3-1 after facing some tough competition early on against nationally ranked soccer programs in Texas A&M and UCLA. With the tough early-season schedule Fresno State will go into Western Athletic Conference play prepared to defend its WAC Tournament title.

The Bulldogs won last season’s WAC Tour nament and advanced to the NCAA Tournament where they came up short against Central Florida, 2-1.

If the ‘Dogs want to get back to the national stage, Lindstrom says they will have to follow in the footsteps of last year’s team.

“I think we need to come together as a team,” Lindstrom said. “I know last year it took us awhile to come together as a team and finally play to our full potential. We just need to come together quicker and I think have fun. When we have fun we tend to play better.”