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Students aren’t known for being patient. We’re actually quite impatient.

We’re procrastinators. We’re perpetually busy. Despite these traits, students are independent and responsible — two attributes that are often associated with an adult. Yet, students are often treated like children.

The difference between most students and most children is that most students have the power to vote for California’s next governor.

I believe something was overlooked when Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman agreed to their third, and possibly last, showdown until elections on Nov. 2.

The two candidates will debate at the Satellite Student Union (SSU) on the Fresno State campus on Saturday Oct. 2.

But don’t get your hopes up, this political party is just for grown ups. Children can’t attend the debate, or even cover it as a student journalist, unless they hold a golden ticket.

And that is only possible if, and only if, you are affiliated with one of the five sponsors of the event — Univision, Fresno State, The Fresno Bee, The Fresno Area Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (FAHCC) and the city of Fresno.

Both campaigns were given an equal number of tickets to the debate.

This would be the sentence disclosing the amount of tickets each campaign distributed to each sponsor.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman speaks during a debate at University of California, Davis on Sept. 28.

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Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown and his opponent, Whitman, will have a debate at Fresno State on Oct. 2.

Our rat and roach residents

By Leonard Valerio The Collegian Fresno State gets its fair share of unwanted guests like rodents and cockroaches and much of it has to do with the school’s agricultural emphasis.

The San Joaquin Valley, called “the food basket of the world” by some, is ripened with history, culture, agriculture and apparently pests.

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Pat r i ck M c K i n n e y, t h e facilities coordinator of the University Courtyard residence halls at Fresno State said it’s almost as if the San Joaquin Valley was built on a giant anthill.

Unlike other campuses, Fresno State has to take more preventive measures to ensure the school is not overrun with pests, he said.

Rick Finden, director of plant operations said because of the agriculture department on campus, the university does get its share of pest complaints.

“We have g eneral complaints like black widows in the bar ns and flies around O’Neil Park,” Finden said.

“We do have a contract for a pest control company to come out on a monthly basis and spray the outsides of all buildings.”

On Monday, Sept. 20, S ava n n a h B r a n d l e, The Collegian distribution manager, s aw a l a r g e amount o f

cockroaches all over campus.

When she opened an outside news rack in front of the Engineering East building, about thirty roaches were inside and quickly scurried out, she said.

According to Brandle, there also was a pest control unit near the Engineering East building that morning.

Finden said that the company only sprays on weekends when there are little to no students on campus.

“All the chemicals are legal and safe but we still don’t want students to be exposed to them,” Finden added.

Many of the insects on campus are coming out more frequently because colder temperatures are approaching and the insects are hurrying to find warm shelter.

Erin Boele, director of the University Courtyard residence halls, believes that cold weather has a lot to do with the recent increase of insects seen around campus.

“When the cold comes around, there will always be an increase of movement amongst the insects,” Boele said.

To combat the increased activity of the insects during the cold seasons, the

residence halls also increases their preventive measures.

“We have a contract through Ecolab and they come out on a weekly basis and spray for pests and empty all the traps that were set,” McKinney said.

“We have over 60 bait stations disguised as rocks. You can walk right by them and not even notice them.”

McKinney said because of all the precautionary measures, the insect and pest problem is almost entirely absent from the residence halls.

Each room is sprayed for pests three times a year and even though it may be overkill, it’s better to do it and not have to worry about a problem, Boele said.

McKinney doesn’t see the presence of insects and rodents as a major problem.

“You have to remember that we live in the San Joaquin valley and this area is just full of rodents and insects because of all the agriculture and they will always be around,” McKinney said.

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Fashion liberates women

Going Madd MADDIE SHANNON

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ike any typical girl, I love clothes.

I love reading fashion magazines and looking at the newest styles of the season. I love pairing trendy pieces with classic pieces to create the perfect outfit in the morning.

There’s a strange pride in leaving the house feeling like you look put together.

As superficial as it is, wearing nice outfits and doing my hair and makeup is one of my favorite things to do.

But then again, maybe it’s not so superficial.

British journalist Linda Grant, in

her book “The Thoughtful Dresser,” explains how fashion can give a woman a sense of identity. The most insightful example she gives on the issue is a moment from April 15, 1945, the day Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was liberated by British troops in Germany.

On this day, a day when 60,000 sick and starving prisoners needed water, food and medicine, someone (it’s not documented who) asked for lipstick. Of all the things they needed, who thought ill and dying women in the camp needed lipstick?

It doesn’t seem sensible. But Grant quotes Lt. Col. Mervin Willett Gonin, one of the first British soldiers in the camp, as saying, “It was the action of genius, sheer unadulterated brilliance.

I believe nothing did more for these internees than the lipstick…At last someone had done something to make them individuals again.”

Similar to the women survivors of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, modern women find identity in their ability to express themselves by the way they dress. Though we as a nation are so far away from living in the inexpressibly inhumane and horrible conditions of Bergen-Belsen, the power that something as insignificant as lipstick has over us women can mean the difference between feeling like just another number and feeling like yourself.

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This individuality, despite what most people believe, drives fashion.

Most people believe that fashion is the clone’s playground; that twentysomething modelesque girls in trendy clothes are the only people on earth who can get away with being fashionable.

But fashion doesn’t necessarily mean youth or modelesque stature. What it does mean is that the wearer of a certain piece of clothing knows enough about themselves to know that a particular garment is an accurate reflection of who they are. On any given day a woman can put on an outfit that conveys how she feels: sporty, bland, smart, dowdy, artistic or sexy; there is an item of clothing for every emotion and state of mind.

Although very few people think about the philosophy behind fashion, there is indeed a comprehensive one behind every woman’s take on the way she presents herself to society. Whether she knows fashion or not, each woman dresses the way she thinks of herself.

“You are what you wear” is a true statement.

I don’t know how my perception of myself or my clothes are going to change over time, but because I am what I wear, for the time being I will continue to dress like a typical girl who loves clothes.

Do shootings like the one at the University of Texas yesterday make you feel unsafe on campus?

Zach Bohny Art Junior “Whenever I come here to Fresno State, that doesn’t cross my mind at all. I don’t worry about my safety.”

Norma Salgado Math Junior “The days I’m here, I’m always in class and I doubt there’s in-class shootings. You can’t get away from it. I’m not going to stop coming to school because of other people. It’s dangerous for the students but you can’t just stop school.”

Ramla Jirde Health Sciences Alumna 2003-2007 “There was a shooting while I was on campus in ’06 or ’07 in Bulldog Village. They had us on lockdown for a couple hours. That was a little scary, but otherwise, no, not really. It’s such a big campus. There are so many avenues of getting in. What can you do, really? Just make use of campus police if you’re going to class at night.”

GOP’s ‘pledge’ falls way short

The Right Tone TONY PETERSEN

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n 1994, House Republicans wrote and signed a “Contract with America” which outlined what they planned to do if they took control of the House of Representatives that fall.

They eventually did win the House, ushering in Republican rule in the Congress until they were summarily voted out in 2006.

This year, many conservatives, sensing that the House is ripe for the taking, have been calling for another such document, one which would, again, outline their plans for leading the lower house of Congress.

Last week, House Republicans answered that call by unveiling “A Pledge to America” which would be “a new governing agenda built on the priorities of our nation, the principles we stand for and America’s founding values.”

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As a campaign document, it is brilliant. The electoral tide is already going the Republicans’ way.

Rasmussen Reports says 66 percent of the country think that the country is going in the wrong direction. Only 18 percent approve of the Democratically-controlled Congress according to Gallup. And according to RealClearPolitics, a generic Republican polls four points higher than a generic Democrat.

All of the electorate’s enthusiasm is on the side of the Grand Old Party, and this document certainly captures that.

But what about the document as one of policy prescriptions? With that, the “Pledge” is sorely lacking.

The Pledge consists of five parts: Jobs, spending, health care, reforming Congress and national security. Republican plans for job growth include keeping the Bush tax cuts, giving small business owners a tax deduction of 20 percent, reigning in the “Red Tape Factory” that is bureaucracy and repealing a part of Obamacare that requires small businesses to report to the Internal Revenue Services any purchases that are more than $600.

There is not much to quibble with here. But it’s good to keep in mind that government has little effect on job expansion. Presidential claims about new jobs are contrary. When the unemployment rate falls, look for whichever party is in power to take the credit.

It is the spending portion of this document that is hard to take seriously.

This section uses vague language, promising to “immediately reduce spending,” “cut Congress’ budget” and “reform the budget process.” There

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are almost no specifics, and where there are specifics, they hold little to no importance. They say they’ll save hundreds of billions of dollars, which means nothing with the government experiencing budget deficits of more than $1 trillion annually.

One cannot speak of balanced budgets unless Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are brought to the table.

And they are notably absent from the Pledge, aside from saying they will give them a “full accounting.”

Heck, Republicans argued against Obamacare by saying it will cut Medicare. The party is not serious on the issue of spending.

The rest of the document covers health care (“repeal and replace” Obamacare), restoration of trust in the Congress (“we will launch a prolonged campaign to transfer power back to the people”) and national security (“we will prevent the government from importing terrorists onto American soil”). All well and good, but it’s not likely that the health care bill will be repealed with a Democrat-controlled Senate and a Democratic president. They aren’t breaking any new ground by promising power to the people and their plan for national security is the same talking point that Republicans have been saying for the last decade.

All in all, this is an unserious document from an unserious party.

Republicans are likely to take over the House, but to expect them to be any different than the edition that was rolled out from 1994 to 2006 is nothing short of a mistake.

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When there’s anything like that at school, it makes everyone feel unsafe.”

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KIDS: We’re kept out University of Texas shooting CONTINUED from page 1 However, The Collegian was rebuffed multiple times. It seems that the amount of sponsors versus the amount of students attending the debate is some kind of threat to public safety. Or should I say, the amount of adults versus the amount of children?

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ASI was the only organization that was of any assistance.

ASI President Pedro Ramirez first asked Univision if the debate held on campus could be open to the public.

Univision refused. Ramirez then requested that Univision broadcast the debate live for

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here will be no such lottery at Fresno State.

Students must watch the debate when it’s broadcasted nationally at 4 p.m., in Spanish on Univision.”

A representative from the SSU said the capacity audience for a debate is 800 seats and that it was only set up for 533 seats.

Associated Students, Inc. (ASI) said that there are as many as 300 to 500 tickets for the debate, that things are changing hourly and to call the University Student Union for logistics.

A faculty member from the University Student Union said it’s not answering any questions and to call University Communications.

A r e p r e s e n t a t ive f r o m Fresno State’s University Communications said it’s more like 300 tickets and to call the Univision corporate office in New York.

A n e m p l oye e f ro m t h e Univision corporate office said it doesn’t answer media questions and to call Univision in Fresno.

A local Univision employee said it was surprised about what the corporate office suggested and needed to talk with corporate before talking with

student viewers. Univision refused.

It’s awful. Not as awful as Detroit, Ms. eBay, but awful. To add insult to injury, UC Davis University Communications said it held a lottery for its students and the general public for last night’s debate between Brown and Whitman. Names were drawn, tickets were gifted and sides were taken.

There will be no such lottery at Fresno State. Students must watch the debate when it’s broadcasted nationally at 4 p.m., in Spanish on Univision.

Unfortunately, I don’t speak Spanish. I speak English, which means I have to stream an edited version of the debate from my laptop.

So when I received a mass email from the FAHCC inviting me to submit a question to the candidates, I felt like a child. It was almost as if I was back in the fifth grade, and Ms. Polacheck was assuring me that no question is a stupid question, and to ask away.

Well, I’m asking — why is the debate not open to the students?

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By Kelley Shannon Associated Press A student wearing a dark suit and a ski mask opened fire Tuesday with an assault rifle on the University of Texas campus before fleeing into a library and fatally shooting himself. No one else was hurt.

The shooting began near a fountain in front of the UT Tower — the site of one of the nation’s deadliest shooting rampages more than four decades ago, when a gunman ascended the clock tower and fired down on dozens of people.

Within hours of Tuesday’s gunfire, the school issued an all-clear notice, but the university remained closed, and the area around the library still was considered a crime scene. “ O u r c a m p u s i s s a f e, ” school President Bill Powers said.

Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo expected the school to be “completely open and back to nor mal” by Wednesday morning.

Authorities identified the gunman as 19-year-old Colton Tooley, a sophomore math major. Police declined to speculate on his motive.

Tooley’s parents did not immediately respond to a message left by The Associated Press. A man who said he was a relative of the family and would identify himself only as Marcus came out of their home late Tuesday and said Tooley’s parents were distraught over losing their child.

“I want you to understand how he lived. He was a very smart guy, very intelligent, excellent student. He wouldn’t or couldn’t hurt a fly,” he said, reading from a prepared statement. “This is a great shock to me and my family. There was nothing prior to this day, nothing that would lead any of us to believe this could take place.”

Tooley’s high school principal in Austin described him as an excellent student who excelled in every subject.

“All of us in the Crockett High School community are shocked and saddened by today’s tragedy at the

University of Texas,” said p r i n c i p a l C r a i g S h ap i ro.

Shapiro’s prepared statement said Tooley, a 2009 graduate, was remembered by teachers as being “brilliant,” ‘’meticulous,” and “respectful.”

Police investigators went in and out of his family’s home in a middle-class Austin neighborhood Tuesday afternoon carrying bags and boxes.

There was no immediate word on what was in the containers.

A neighbor said police arrived

“I

saw in his eyes he didn’t care.”

— Ruben Cordoba, Construction worker

at the home about three hours after the campus shooting.

The 50,000-student university had been on lockdown while officers with bomb-sniffing dogs carried out a building-bybuilding manhunt.

After the gunfire, authorities searched the campus for a possible second shooter, but eventually concluded Tooley acted alone. Confusion about the number of suspects arose because shots were fired in multiple locations, and officers received varying descriptions from witnesses, campus police Chief Robert Dahlstrom said.

Before reaching the library, Tooley apparently walked for several blocks wearing a mask and dark clothing and carrying an automatic weapon, witnesses said.

Construction worker Ruben Cordoba said he was installing a fence on the roof of a three-story building near the library when he looked down and made eye contact with the suspect.

“I saw in his eyes he didn’t care,” Cordoba said.

T he gunman continued down the street, firing three shots toward a campus church, then changed direction and fired three more times into the air, Cordoba said.

A g arbage truck driver

leaped out of his vehicle and ran away, as did a woman carrying two babies, Cordoba.

“I’m not scared, but I was scared for the people around me,” he said.

Randall Wilhite, an adjunct law professor, said he was driving to class when he saw “students start scrambling behind wastebaskets, trees and monuments,” and then a young man carrying an assault rifle sprinting along the street.

“He was running right in front of me ... and he shot what I thought were three more shots ... not at me. In my direction, but not at me,” Wilhite said.

The professor said the gunman had the opportunity to shoot several people, but did not.

Police said it was unclear whether Tooley was targeting anyone with the AK-47.

Oscar Trevino, whose daughter works on campus, said she told him she was walking to work near the library when she heard two shots behind her. She started to run and fell down. She said she later heard another shot.

“She’s freaking out. I’m trying to calm her down. I’ve just been telling her I love her and relax, everything’s fine,” Trevino said.

Acevedo said officers were able to track the gunman’s movements with the help of students who “kept pointing in the right direction.”

The police chief said he believes Tooley ran into the library as officers closed in on him, then shot himself in the head on the sixth floor. Police did not fire any shots, Acevedo said.

Powers credited the school’s crisis-management plan and social networking for quickly warning students, faculty and staff. The university’s text messaging system reaches more than 43,000 people, he said.

Laura Leskoven, a graduate student from Waco, said she was in a media management class when she received a text message from the university saying there was an armed person near the library. For the next 3½ hours, Leskoven and about 30 of her classmates sat in a locked conference room trying to keep tab on events through Twitter, blogs and text messages.

“We were kind of shocked,” Leskoven said. “Our professor said, ‘Well, we need to get upstairs’ because we were on the first floor of the building.”

Student Joshua Barajas said he usually is in the library in the mornings but was delayed Tuesday when he made a rare stop for coffee.

“These little mundane decisions could save your life. If I hadn’t stopped for coffee — and I never stop for coffee because it’s $4 — I could have been in that building,” Barajas said. “It’s creepy. I don’t even want to think about it.”

On Aug. 1, 1966, Charles Whitman went to the 28th floor observation deck at the UT clock tower in the middle of campus and began shooting at people below. He killed 16 people and wounded nearly three dozen before police killed him about 90 minutes after the siege began.

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Vampire phenomenon has fans thirsty for immortality

By Karlene Mello The Collegian “Twilight,” “True Blood” and “The Vampire Diaries” are three vampire series that are currently capturing our generation’s attention with bl o o d , ro m a n c e a n d ve n geance.

The superstitions of blood sucking vampires be gan hundreds of years ago, but why did this obsession with immortality start?

E n g l i s h p ro f e s s o r L i s a We s t o n t h i n k s t h e c r a z e revolves around two things: Sex and death.

“Both sex and death continue to be subjects associated with our deepest and darkest desires,” Weston said. “Both a re c o n s e q u e n t ly h e d g e d about with fear, awe and fascination.”

From “Dracula” to “Interview with a Vampire” and “Queen of the Damned,” vampires have been a part of the film and book industries for decades.

Psychology major Corey McPhetridge said the first vampire movie she recalls watching was “Interview with a Vampire” in 1994.

“I think it could have something to do with vampires being immortal and because they are typically portrayed as being very lustful creatures,” McPhetridge said.

Society and the media go

through phases rather quickly, but the vampire phenomenon still hasn’t passed after several years. Vampire novels have leaped their way onto the big screen with box office hits like “Twilight,” “New Moon” and “Eclipse.”

Weston said it’s important for fans to know the difference between folk beliefs in vampires and the literary and film traditions of vampires.

“Folk beliefs presume the reality of vampires,” Weston said. “The literary and film traditions depend on us knowing that vampires aren't real and being willing to suspend that knowledge in the interests of the pleasure and fear.”

“I

think the vampire craze has been with us from day one of humanity.”

— Corey McPhetridge, Psychology major

Some believe that the vampire fixation will fade once the movie portion of Stephenie Meyer's “Twilight” saga ends in 2012. “Breaking Dawn,” the fourth and final book in the “Twilight” saga, is planning to be released in two movie parts.

“Breaking Dawn, Part One”

will hit theaters in November 2011 and “Breaking Dawn, Part Two” will be released in November 2012.

“I think the craze will die once the Twilight movies are over,” said theatre major Rebecca Coffey.

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has g rossed an estimated $1,789,551,797 worldwide and has the potential to double its gross with the final two movies in production. However, some people believe the fixation will continue even after the movies conclude.

“I think the vampire craze

has been with us from day one of humanity,” McPhetridge said. “I think it’s going to stay with us forever.”

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Flamingo

A la carte picks: “Crossfire” “Only The Young”

Albums with The Killers: Hot Fuss (2004)

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Solo Project evokes Vegas strip Brandon Flowers’ new album lacking

By Anna Jacobsen The Collegian Brandon Flowers, who is best known as the front man for The Killers, released his first solo album, “Flamingo,” earlier this month. While his band is taking what they call a “hiatus,” Flowers cracks his creative knuckles on his own.

At first listen, “Flamingo” is an awkward mess of songs that are either too experimental or too predictable to land on a Killers album.

Cut loose from the synthrock sensibilities of his bandm at e s, F l owe r s ch a n n e l s

sounds from Springsteen (“On The F loor”), to Kraftwerk (“Only The Young”) to U2 (“Crossfire”). At some points, it’s a brilliant combination.

“Crossfire,” for all its bombast and biblical allusions, successfully conveys the earnestness so innate in Flowers’ work. At other points, though, Flowers loses the pacing and tone native to Killers songs. Tracks like “Welcome to Fabulous Las Ve gas” seem like one drawn out crescendo that is gratuitous, if not insulting, to listeners. It’s as if Flowers launches into a five-minute rant without taking a breath.

If Flowers’ focus in The Killers album, “Sam’s Town,” centered on his love affair with the desert, his focus in “Flamingo” has shifted to his love affair with Vegas. It’s not exactly a surprising focus from an album named after a casino on the strip.

U l t i m at e ly, t h e b i g g e s t shortfall of “Flamingo” is weak songwriting. Flowers has a penchant for grandiose sonic expressions, as so exuberantly exhibited on “Jilted Lovers & Broken Hearts,” but he fails to support his enthusiasm with solid lyrics. Clichéd and tired lines—“The house will always win” and “roll your dice, show your cards”— are wince-worthy as Flowers repeatedly reminds us that he is indeed from Vegas.

Lacking lyrics with depth and the indie-rock guitar of Dave Keuning, the album is a less-coherent cousin to The Killers’ “Sam’s Town.”

“Flamingo” is worth a listen if you enjoy getting lost in sonically-rich creations, but “Crossfire” is the only track you’ll hear belted out at a karaoke bar.

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Horror movies sure to scare New thrillers open this week

By Maddie Shannon The Collegian Oh, the horror.

Much to the amusement of scary movie fans, four horror films are scheduled to be released on Friday, Oct. 1.

They feature elements appreciated by most scary movie f ans: Possessed children, demons, swamp creatures and chainsaws.

Here is a rundown of horror films opening this week.

Let Me In (Overture Films) What it’s about: Owen, a bullied and lonely 12-year-old boy, meets his new neighbor, a little girl named Abby who lives with her guardian. The two become best friends, but soon things get shaken up by a string of gruesome murders.

While the rest of their little town is on high alert, Owen has to come to terms with the fact that his new friend might have something to do with it.

Something to look for: Despite the fact that it’s a horror movie, the friendship between the two is endearing.

But watch out for an unexpected twist that explains why Abby is the way she is.

Be aware: While not the bloodiest movie, it’s the one that will stick with you the most after watching it.

Starring: Chloe Moretz, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Richard Jenkins, Elias Koteas and Cara Buono.

Case 39 (Paramount Pictures) What it’s about: A social services worker named Emily Jenkins rescues one of her cases, a 10-year-old named Lilith Sullivan, from her abusive parents. Shortly after Lilith moves in, things take a strange turn when the people around Emily start dying of weird causes.

Something to look for: A moment in the movie that makes you think Lilith isn’t as innocent as you think she is.

Be aware: Out of all the horror films coming out this week, this just might be the darkest. Demons pop up frequently out of nowhere.

Starring: Renee Zellweger, Jodelle Ferland, Ian McShane, and Bradley Cooper.

Chain Letter (Twisted Pictures) What it’s about: A group of high school kids receive threatening chain emails, which they all refuse to forward. One by one, each person in the group dies, leaving the remaining few to await their deaths.

Something to look for: Nikki Reed, one of the Twilight Saga stars, tries her hand at something a little bit bloodier than what her audience is used to seeing.

Be aware: This movie features quite a bit of blood. And watch out for chains showing up in more than just the chain emails.

Starring: Nikki Reed, Keith David, Brad Dourif, Betsy Russel, and Ling Bai. H a t c h e t I I ( D a rk S k y Films) What it’s about: A continuation of Adam Green’s 2006 film, Hatchet II picks up where the first movie left off.

Marybeth, the only surviving member of a New Orleans sw a m p l a n d t o u r, e s c ap e s the swampland and makes it back to civilization. But Victor Crowley, the mutant swamp creature who killed Marybeth’s family, isn’t done killing yet.

Something to look for: T h e c o n n e c t i o n b e t we e n Marybeth’s family and Victor Crowley.

Be aware: This is probably the bloodiest movie coming out this week. If you don’t like slasher movies, don’t see it.

Starring: Danielle Harris, Tony Todd, Kane Hodder, Parry Shen, Tom Holland and R.A Milhailoff.

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The daily crossword ACROSS 1 Impassioned, as a plea 7 Cracked a bit, as a door 11 Alternative to JVC or Panasonic, once 14 Temporary property holder 15 ___-pattern baldness 16 Clerical garment 17 Electrical current unit 18 What bodybuilders pump 19 Something you might jump for 20 Actually happening 23 Filly’s brother 26 “Bad call!”

27 “Beg pardon” 28 Builds, as a fortune 31 Tandoor-baked bread 34 Apprehend 35 Away from gusts 37 Lighthearted 41 Wild West contests 44 Readied for feathering?

45 Yard entry 46 The middle of dinner?

47 Yemen’s Gulf of ___ 49 Deerlike 51 Like some church matters 54 Whisperer’s target 56 ___-Contra affair 57 Like some rejected lovers 62 ___ Khan 63 Metallic deposit 64 “___ Madness” (1936 anti-marijuana film)

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Tango maneuver Appoints democratically “Quo Vadis” emperor Abound Kind of acid found in protein 8 It’s hard for laymen to understand 9 “Little Things Mean ___” 10 Where people ask to be hit?

11 Asian prince 12 In the vicinity 13 Deep cavity, poetically 21 “A Doll’s House” author 22 Stampede cause 23 Is able to, Biblically 24 City in Nebraska 25 Delivery preceder 29 Far from famished 30 Ignore in pronunciation 32 Diminish in intensity 33 Take in, as a dress 36 ___ foo yung 38 Possessive pronoun 39 Brownish dye 40 City of the Ruhr valley 42 Spinachlike plant 43 Computer operator’s timesaver 48 It’s difficult to find in a haystack 50 MTV features 51 Prepares a cannon 52 One of Charlie’s crimefighters 53 “Boot” in the Mediterranean 55 Crosswise to a ship’s keel 58 Reindeer relatives 59 ___ canal (dental operation) 60 A language of Pakistan 61 Vegas sign filler 65 U.S. drug safety org.

66 Bridge whiz Culbertson 67 “Do” followers on a musical scale

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British library News Briefs posts Greek manusripts to web Brief news for the brief attention span

By Raphael G. Satter Associated Press LONDON (AP) — One of the world’s most important caches of Greek manuscripts is going online, part of a growing number of ancient documents to hit the Web in recent years.

The British Library said Monday that it was making more than a quarter of its 1,000 volume-strong collection of handwritten Greek texts available online free of charge, something curators there hope will be a boon to historians, biblical scholars and students of classical Greece alike.

Although the manuscripts — highlights of which include a famous collection of Aesopic fables discovered on Mount Athos in 1842 — have long been available to scholars who made the trip to the British Library’s reading rooms, curator Scot McKendrick said their posting to the web was opening antiquity to the entire world.

McKendrick said that London could be an expensive place to spend time poring over the Greek texts’ tiny, faded

script or picking through hundreds of pages of parchment.

“Not every scholar can afford to come here weeks and months on end,” he said. The big attraction of browsing the texts online “is the ability to do it at your own desk whenever you wish to do it — and do it for free as well.”

Although millions of books have been made available online in recent years — notably through Google Books’ mass scanning program — ancient texts have taken much longer to emerge from the archives.

They don’t suffer from the copyright issues complicating efforts to post contemporary works to the Web, but their fragility makes them tough to handle. They have to be carefully cracked open and photographed one page at a time, a process the British Library said typically costs about 1 pound ($1.50) per page.

John Franklin, an associate professor of classics at the University of Ver mont, said that the British Library’s efforts were “part of a quite general move to making manu-

scripts available online.”

“Hundreds of institutions have done or are doing the same,” he said, including his university.

Franklin said it was “wonderful that the general public can have an intimate view of so many manuscripts,” but stressed the material’s academic applications, noting that it could serve as a teaching aid for students learning to unravel medieval Greek handwriting, for example.

The British Library has worked aggressively to put much of its collection on the Inter net, from 19th-century newspapers to the jewels of its collection — The Lindisfarne Gospels, a selection of Leonardo da Vinci’s sketches and the Codex Sinaiticus, the oldest surviving complete copy of the Christian Bible.

The library’s Greek manuscript project was funded by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, which supports Greek-related initiatives in arts and culture.

Another batch of about 250 documents is due to be published online in 2012.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The actor who played the principal in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” will serve three years of probation after pleading guilty to failing to update his sex offender registry info.

Los Angeles District Attor ney’s spokeswoman Jane Robison says Jeffrey Jo n e s e n t e r e d t h e p l e a Tuesday to a felony charge of failing to update his registry information in June.

Jones’ registration was required because he pleaded no contest in 2003 to employing a 14-year-old boy to pose for sexually explicit photos.

The 64-year-old actor is also required to perform 250 hours of community service.

His sentence was first reported by celebrity website TMZ. com Jones has also appeared in “Beetlejuice” and other films.

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(AP) — Grammy-nominated Christian artist Francesca Battistelli and husband Matt Goodwin are the proud parents of a baby boy.

Battistelli’s publicist, Jensen Sussman, tells The Associated Press the couple welcomed their first child,

Matthew Elijah Goodwin, on Sept. 22 at 8:47 p.m. He weighed 8 pounds, 15 ounces and was 21.75 inches long.

Sussman says mom and baby are doing well.

Battistelli is the reigning Dove Awards female vocalist of the year. She is known for her hit songs “I’m Letting Go” and “Free To Be Me.” NEW YORK (AP) — Will J.K. Rowling write another book about Harry Potter?

That’s among the topics discussed on Oprah Winfrey’s first interview with the author, whom she met recently in Edinburgh (EH’-dihn-bur-uh), Scotland. The interview will air Friday on Winfrey’s television program.

Harpo Productions a n n o u n c e d M o n d ay t h a t Rowling will also discuss how she has coped with the fame brought on by her famous series. The books spawned a movie franchise and theme park. More than 400 million copies of the books starring the boy wizard have been sold worldwide.

Forbes magazine has ranked Rowling as one of the richest women in Britain, with an estimated wealth of $1 billion.

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Slocum returns to his roots

By Jesse Gonzalez The Collegian T racy Slocum made the dif ficult decision to move t o F re s n o a f t e r h e s p e n t three years playing his college football at University of California-Berkeley.

He still wanted to play football and chose to walk-on at Fresno State. However, he found out doing so wasn’t easy; he needed to complete 39 units in order to be eligible.

“I decided to come back home because I have two kids and my family is here,” Slocum said.

Slocum stepped away from football for an entire year.

Now a senior, he successfully completed his required units and he is currently playing football for the Bulldogs.

“If I keep working hard and practicing hard everything will take care of itself and when I get my opportunity I will make the most of it,” Slocum said.

Slocum’s opportunity came in Fresno State’s second game of the season against Utah State on the road. With starting r unning back Robbie Rouse nursing a shoulder and ankle injury, the ‘Dogs employed Slocum and A.J. Ellis in their 41-24 win at Utah State. Ellis got the start and scored three touchdowns, but Slocum also found the end

zone. He carried the ball five times and finished with 12 rushing yards.

Slocum once dominated opposing teams under the Central Valley’s Friday night lights at Clovis East High School.

Fans throughout the Central Valley thought Slocum was destined to be a college football star and he was. However, instead of staying home to play Fresno State, Slocum decided to take his game elsewhere.

“I had a lot of Pac-10 schools trying to recruit me, but my decision was simple,” Slocum said. “I chose Cal-Berkeley because I have family there,” Slocum was heavily recruited by Cal, Arizona State, F re s n o S t at e, U C L A a n d Washington State.

Coming out of high school, Slocum was considered the 16th-best running back in the country according to Rivals. com. He rushed for 1,800 yards as a junior and added 800 yards and four touchdowns in his senior season before an injury slowed him down.

Slocum, who led his team to a valley championship two years prior, ended his high school career with a fractured ankle.

“Tracy was the most talented football player I ever coached,” Clovis East head coach Tim Murphy said. “He

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After spending three seasons with the Cal Bears, running back Tracy Slocum (22) walked on to the Fresno State football team for his final year. Slocum is fourth on the team with 18 yards rushing and a touchdown.

was powerful, could break tackles and has that break away speed once he turned up field. He was just an all around back.”

The ankle healed in time to get his college career started at Cal, but he quickly found out he was not the superstar that he was at Clovis East.

Playing behind future NFL players Marshawn Lynch (Buffalo Bills) and Jahvid Best (Detroit Lions), Slocum didn’t see much playing time as he played in eleven games rushing for 125 yards and a touchdown against Washington State.

But his arrival on the Fresno

State campus has been welcomed with open arms, especially by his teammates and coaches.

“Tracy Slocum and A.J. Ellis will contribute to this football team this year. Everyone will get their opportunity at one point in time during the season,” said head coach Pat Hill.

Evans an example of redshirting benefits

By Jerry Huerta The Collegian When the Fresno State football players run onto the field for the first game of the season and the excitement is in the air, most fans understand some of these players will not play this year.

After the season begins, the countdown begins when the coaching staff will decide which of these players they will redshirt.

Head coach Pat Hill plays a big role in determining who redshirts every season.

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medical [redshirt], a young man gets injured in the early part of the season and he can’t perform,”Hill said. “He has five years in which to play four so that can count as a year that he sits out of football and the other one would be if he is not ready to play yet mentally or physically.”

Redshirting players every year allows them to still have four years of eligibility.

“Usually they’re not ready to play or we have enough depth and just need to get them more mature,” Hill said.

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for the first time.

“It gives [them] a chance to learn the system and all the things that go along with being a college student and out of the house for the first time.”

Although players get redshir ted every year, many advantages come from it.

In 2007, receiver Rashad Evans played as a true freshman hauling in 21 rece ptions for 232 yards. He also contributed with a 56-yard punt return for a touchdown against Louisiana Tech.

But heading into his sophomore season, Evans pulled his hamstring and was forced to use his redshirt season.

Sitting out paid off for Evans as he has recovered from the hamstring injury and now contributes to the offense as a starter. “[Redshirting] improved my game, I got to work on all the technical things. [It allowed me] to remember plays and work on my route running so it worked out pretty good.”

While redshirting last year, Evans was voted offensive scout player of the year, giving the defense a good look and helping them prepare for opposing offenses. “[I was] just trying to give our defense a look since I was redshirting. It was the best I could do for the team and I did it with my full potential.”

The redshirt year helped Evans grow as a player, something he feels others can benefit from as well.

“It helps in development, but some players are ready to go like (true freshman wide receiver) Isaiah Burse.

[Some are] just ready to play out the gate and some aren’t.

Everybody goes through the development stage.”

One player who could potentially redshirt is highly touted sophomore quarterback Derek Carr.

Last year as a true freshman, Carr played in five games and completed 10-of-14 passes for 112 yards. By playing last year, Carr was unable to redshirt then, but is likely to use it this season.

With retur ning star ting quarterback Ryan Colbur n back for his senior season and playing healthy, Carr redshirting is looking even more promising.

The Bakersfield Christian graduate, like Evans, looks at the positives of redshirting.

“It’s a win-win, I’m either going to be playing next year or this year,” Carr said. “It’s all in a matter of time. It is God’s will, whenever he wants me on the field.”

Carr also said the redshirt year could benefit him off the field as well.

“It is just going to be more reps [for me],” he said. “One more year under my belt to get bigger, stronger, faster and just gain more knowledge.”

Even if Carr is redshirted this year, he is still going to continue to prepare the same way.

“I know God [has] a plan for me in the end, so I’m just going to keep working harder to get to the top of the game and see where God wants to take [me] from there.”

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know they’ll be ready to come down and try to beat us. Plus we’re “W ecoming off a loss, so we have that nasty taste in our mouth.”

– linebacker Ben Jacobs

On this Saturday’s home game against Cal Poly

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Cal Poly brings triple threat

BEN JACOBS Linebacker

Linebacker is primarily responsible for the dive back. If he tries to do someone elseʼs assignment, the dive back will get big yards.

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Defensive End

Defensive end is the QBʼs first read. If he crashes down on the dive back, the QB will keep it. If he stays home, QB will likely pitch.

Free Safety Safety has outside containment and is the pitch man if the QB decides to pitch it. He is the last resort, and if he gets burned, itʼs six.

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By Ben Ingersoll The Collegian For the fourth straight game, the Fresno State defense will be forced to game plan against a mobile quarterback.

The dif ference with Cal Poly, however, is the Bulldogs’ defense will also have to strategize against an offensive style a Pat Hill-coached team has not seen since Rice six years ago: The triple option.

Led by quarterback Andrew Broadous and a plethora of other able ball carriers, the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) Mustangs make the trip to Fresno for the first time since 1985 with their high-powered rushing attack.

The triple-option offense, made famous by such teams as Air Force, Navy and Georgia Tech, relies heavily on quarterback reads of the defensive end and linebackers, low blocks from offensive lineman and, most importantly, deception.

The style of offense commands all defensive players, especially the middle linebacker, defensive end and safeties to

honor their own assignments each and every down. The middle linebacker is often responsible for the dive back, while the defensive end contains the quarterback and the safety must shut down the “pitch man.”

A breakdown in assignments with the triple option can, if run correctly, result in big plays, a reoccurring theme in Fresno State’s 55-38 loss to Ole Miss last week.

“They’ve got an athletic quarterback, once again,” Hill said. “They really come off the ball, cut you and play low. It’s a different looking scheme. Once again it will be assignment football and we really need to limit big plays. We’ve done that in two games, we didn’t do that last week.”

Cal Poly has rolled to a 3-1 record so far this season, primarily on the ground, averaging 258 rushing yards per game to just 90 passing yards per game. Two of the Mustangs’ wins this season have come to FCS powerhouses, including then top-ranked Montana and last week’s blowout of No. 19

McNeese State.

The game marks Cal Poly’s only matchup in 2010 against a Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) opponent, and Hill stresses the Mustangs are up for the challenge.

“They’re off to a 3-1 start and I’ll guarantee you they’ll come in here and play five feet off the ground,” Hill said. “They’ll play very, very hard just like we do when we go into big venues. It’s an exciting event for us when we go on the road and play the UCLA Bruins or people like that. It will be the same atmosphere for them coming into Fresno.”

Senior Fresno State linebacker Ben Jacobs will have a key role in stuffing the inside run of Cal Poly’s offense. Jacobs said that although the defense may be “tweaked” slightly for Saturday’s matchup, assignment football is crucial to reverse last week’s poor outing on the road.

“We got some new schemes we’re going to work on today,” Jacobs said Tuesday. “We just got to get used to that and do our jobs.”

But preparing for the unique offense is no easy task, Hill said. In recent weeks defensive preparation has come a little simpler, primarily because opponents’ offenses have been similar to the Bulldogs’ arsenal.

But with the triple option’s unusual blocking schemes and multi-threat attack, mimicking exactly what the Mustang’s will show is nearly impossible without risking injury in practice.

“You can’t duplicate the cutting because I won’t,” Hill said.

“It’s very hard to duplicate at that speed. The other offenses we’ve been able to duplicate a little bit better because we’ve got it in our playbook.”

The Mustangs’ heavy ground game has to travel only 140 miles for the contest, and Hill anticipates the Cal Poly faithful will arrive in big numbers for Fresno State’s secondannual Bulldog Football Fiesta Night.

“I expect Cal Poly hopefully to bring 10-15,000 fans with them. I think that would be great,” Hill said.

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lowouts–it’s happened at least once a year in the past five seasons.

Either the Fresno State offense sputters out of control and shuts down, or the defense completely coll ap s e s a n d i s almost nonexistent.

Yin and Yang I n 2 0 0 6 a t VONGNI YANG home a g ainst Hawaii, Warriors’ quarterback Colt Brennan marched into Bulldog Stadium and put a whipping on the Bulldogs, winning 68-37. It was one of the biggest blowout losses in Bulldog Stadium history.

The game also led Coach Pat Hill to bench starter Tom Brandstater in the second quarter in favor of backup Sean Norton.

After a thrilling tripleovertime loss to Texas A&M in 2007, the ‘Dogs went into Eugene, Ore., and got thumped 52-21. It was so bad that a then-redshirt freshman Ryan Colburn saw his first ever live action.

The team was outrushed by the Ducks, giving up 307 yards while only rushing for 60. The defense stepped out of running back Jonathan Stewart’s way and allowed the bruiser to record the longest run (88 yards) in Autzen Stadium history.

Who could forget the debacle in 2008 at Boise State?

The ‘Dogs began that season ranked No. 25 and finished the regular season getting dominated on the Blue Turf in an embar rassing 61-10 defeat at the hands of quarterback Kellen Moore, a redshirt freshman.

And then there’s the Nevada game just last year. The 2009 squad headed into that contest on a five-game winning streak, averaging well over 35 points per game during that stretch, but the team ran into a road block after record-setting running back Ryan Mathews suffered a concussion in the second quarter and lost 52-14 in embarrassing fashion.

Lastly, there’s last Saturday’s Southeaster n Conference match at Ole Miss where the ‘Dogs were dominated in all three phases of the game, losing 55-38.

After getting off to a fast start and jumping out to a quick 7-0 lead, the porous defense allowed Rebels’ quarterback Jeremiah Masoli to convert on a 3rd-and-7, after scampering for 56 yards to set up a touchdown.

It was downhill from there for the ‘Dogs and the defense.

Thankfully, Colburn was able to keep the score respectable, but the game was still a blowout. The defense gave up 55 points, the fourth most a Pat Hill team has ever given up.

Blowouts happen. It happens to nearly every team in college football. Even Washington was blown out by Nebraska 56-21 last week. Fresno State has seen its fair share of them. At some point, the tide is going to turn and Fresno State’s going to see itself on the other end of those blowouts.