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Peace celebration generates controversy

By Johnathan Wilbanks The Collegian A celebration honoring international icon of peace Mohandas K. Gandhi will take place this Sunday, Oct. 2 in the Peace Garden, but the event is a topic of contention for both sides.

The program will include a pledge against violence, along with a candlelight vigil for world peace and a re-enactment of the salt march. Cultural dances are also scheduled.

“We have observed Gandhi’s birthday in the Peace Garden every year since 1990,” said Dr. Sudarshan Kappor, Fresno State professor emeritus and org anizer of Gandhi’s celebration. “Since then, we have been sharing the philosophies, dreams and visions of Gandhi

with the university and the surrounding community.”

However, not everyone feels that such an event is justified.

Fresno State student Ramanpueet Kaur will not attend the event because of injustices committed against other Sikhs like herself.

“I have heard of the Gandhi event but I might not be attending because I am not interested,” Kaur said. “How people know him is one face. Gandhi has several faces, not every person is perfect and neither was Gandhi.”

Kaur refers to the lack of support Indian citizens who practiced Sikhism received from Gandhi.

“Gandhi was a Hindu and India is a very diverse country with several religions, including Sikhism,” Kaur added. “There were some times when Gandhi only supported Hindus. I’m a See PEACE, Page 3

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Engineers Without Borders helps Cambodia Fresno State

By Luke Shaffer The Collegian Twelve-to-16 Fresno State engineering students annually travel oversees to support community-driven development programs and help poor communities become more industrialized.

“Engineers Without Borders really opened my eyes to the world and gave me an experience that I will never forget,” Fresno State student Jameson Schwab said.

EWB-USA sends a team of students from Fresno State every year to Cambodia to construct a project. This year in December, 10 students will be sent to Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia.

“Our role for this semester and project is to design, prototype, build and test a vertical access wind turbine,” Carson Schafer, Fresno State mechanical engineer and leading mechanical officer for EWB-USA, said. “We will then teach the Cambodian students

[at the National Technical Training Institute] how to use it and the basic functions behind the concept of the wind turbine.”

Fresno State engineering student and EWB-USA President Daisy Manivong hopes that in addition to helping Cambodian villages improve their lifestyle by providing electricity, the engineering program will continue to thrive and improve other communi-

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nowing we helped other students and showed them new things is something this organization has done for the past few years and will keep doing for years to come.”

— Jameson Schwab, Fresno State student and Engineers Without Borders-USA member

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Fresno State student and Engineers Without Borders-USA member Pahoua Xiong helps improve Cambodian communities.

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Manivong added that she perceives EWB-USA as a club that opens up opportunities to all Fresno State students.

“Since my freshman year I have been involved in the organization and my goal is to continually keep the club going because it benefits not only engineer students, but other majors as well,” Manivong said.

In December EWB-USA will be sending a team of students comprised of mechanical, electrical and civil engineers who will travel to Cambodia to construct a wind turbine.

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student ranked 18th in online competition

By Ciara Norton The Collegian Fresno State music composition major Ethan Castro is competing in a worldwide music contest with hopes of collaborating with musician Jason Derulo.

Each contestant made a remix of Jason Derulo’s song, “Don’t Wanna Go Home.”

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his will give him exposure, experience and competi-

— Thomas Loewenheim, Director of Fresno State orchestra Castro, a self-taught producer, entered the competition spontaneously and is now ranked 18th out of 520 contestants in an online competition titled Indabamusic.

“About a month ago I was just looking for something to do because I wasn’t that involved with school yet,” See CASTRO, Page 3

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THAT’S WHAT THE PEOPLE ARE SAYING... e want to stop subsidizing corporations. We want to stop subsidizing [wealthy] “W individuals. And you can get more money for savings to reduce the deficit without damaging the economy this way.”

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Watch out for Ole Miss

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hatever airline company Mississippi boards Friday morning when it makes its cross-country trip to Fresno better hope it has fire extinguishers and ice packs, because Rebels’ head coach Houston Nutt has possibly the hottest seat in college football following him around.

Good news for Fresno State right?

Let’s kick ‘em while their down ‘Dogs!

Weeks one and two are a distant memory after this two-game winning streak we got going, right?

Wrong, wrong and wrong again. I

can’t help but circle this Saturday on my calendar as a sleeping giant with its back so far against the wall that its embattled head coach has no reserves for pulling out all the stops.

A religious follower of ESPN.com’s Pacific-12 Conference blogger Ted Miller, I stumbled upon a post linking to www.coacheshotseat.com, a website that looks like it was made on someone’s iPhone. Nevertheless, the site ranks college’s hottest seats No. 1 through 10, with Nutt sitting not-sopretty at No. 1.

Nutt has quietly paved his way into the looming college football coaches unemployment line. Fresno State wouldn’t know it because his Rebels gashed the ‘Dogs for 578 yards and 55 points last year, the same year Mississippi bombed six of its final seven games. In a conference that has hoisted the crystal ball each of the last five seasons, tanking 16 of your 26 conference games is a good way to get 86’d.

ESPN columnist Ivan Maisel wrote in his Sept. 28 edition of “3-point stance” that “The Rebels travel 2,000 miles west Saturday to play at Fresno State. In the SEC, Ole Miss is a team that has scored a total of 34 points in its three losses. But no one at Bulldog Stadium will care. All they will see is the first-ever visit by an SEC team.”

Fans better start caring, because Pat Hill’s Fresno State career-long search for a win over a team from the big, bad

SEC is starting to be played off as a cakewalk.

I’m obviously not one to put too much stock into numbers.

Mississippi’s leading passer has 468 yards and two touchdowns on the season. Derek Carr has 606 passing yards with seven touchdowns in the Bulldogs’ recent back-to-back victories. The Rebels’ offense is gougeyour-eyes-out, god-awful atrocious.

Mississippi has been outgained by 658 yards in its four games this season, including posting a lousy 183 yards in a loss to Georgia last weekend.

The Rebels have outgained their opponent just one time in the last nine games. That opponent was LouisianaLafayette of the Sun Belt Conference.

So why am I so gung-ho that Fresno State will have its hands full when the game kicks off around 6:30 Saturday night?

The last time Nutt faced an usagainst-the-world scenario, his 2007 unranked Arkansas Razorbacks went into the most hostile stadium in the country and knocked off the No. 1 LSU Tigers.

“Hey, we’re the best team in the country today,” Nutt exclaimed after the 50-48 overtime victory.

All Nutt and the Rebels have to be is the best team on the field Saturday night, and nothing is more dangerous than an SEC team with nothing to lose.

Take our economy back

The Sticks

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he U.S. economy remains in a dismal state as arbitrary and mediocre statistics of improved unemployment rates and consumer confidence continue to be thrown around. How many of you truly have confidence that our economy is going to get better anytime soon, or that our government has the ability to fix it?

Sadly, if there is a recovery it will be a long time coming. I don’t understand where we got the idea in the first place that recovery from such a drastic fall would be quick or easy.

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There isn’t an example in history where this type of recovery was easy, but my fear in this situation is that the government has squeezed its fat butt in the way so tightly that there isn’t any space through the doorway of recovery.

I don’t know if it was out of a hunger for control or just out of absolute panic that our government stepped right in the middle our economy. I will admit I am disappointed that we let that happen.

Somehow through this situation I think we stopped viewing this as our economy and not the government’s.

We treated it like a used-car salesman and sold the piece of junk to the government so we wouldn’t have to deal with it.

I can’t think of one industry that the government doesn’t have its hands in, be it direct control or immense regulation.

But at what point does the current administration swallow its pride and admit that the stimulus idea didn’t work rather than trying it again? I’m remembering an old phrase, “There’s no point in beating a dead horse.”

When will we finally have the nerve to tell the government to get out of the way and give us a shot?

If you’re thinking that is a bad idea because big industry is a part of what got us into this mess, I’ll warn you that

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the government being in control is absolutely not the answer. Americans have always been decent at learning lessons from bad situations, and this is an unfortunate but needed wake-up call.

One thing that needs to stop is this growing resentment for large industry and the upper class. Yes, there will always be some corruption there, but let’s not paint everyone with a broad brush. There are good people in big industry.

Would it make us feel better to see those people come crashing down with the rest of the economy? Don’t forget at a time like this that they are the people keeping the economy afloat, not to mention that they are the people a lot of us could end up working for.

America thrives when we are industrializing and creating, and that only gets harder when the government is involved. Government has never been what makes our country successful, and it has never had the ability to “fix” an economy because it wasn’t set up to serve that function.

This won’t be a quick recovery, but if we get our thought process right and accept that this is our economy not the government’s, I believe we can do it.

We have to try something else because whatever is going on right now sure isn’t stimulating my consumer confidence.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR To the editor: I am writing this in response to ASI President Selena Farnesi’s comments on a recent ABC 30 piece regarding the affirmative action bake sale by the UC Berkeley College Republicans.

I will point out that you did say “students felt,” not that you felt, that the bake sale is “racist and rude,” which is an old Fox News trick. You did say however that the College Republicans did go “too far” in their protest to California Senate Bill 185.

What I fail to understand, is how the current CSU admissions standards, which solely takes into account an applicant’s GPA and SAT/ ACT score, is racist? In addition, how is a very passive, affirmative action bake sale “too far,” especially at a campus such as UC Berkeley? Is it racist that the UC Berkeley College Republicans wanted to charge white male students the most for baked goods?

Proposition 209, which passed in 1996, amended our state constitution to ban admissions considerations based on race, sex or ethnicity. The amendment seems to me to be far more fair than SB 185 which proposes to force CSU’s and UC’s admissions to take into consideration “race, gender, ethnicity and national origin, along with other relevant factors.” Why is it so wrong to judge each applicant on their individual merits, accomplishments and hard work, rather than by their race, gender, ethnicity and national origin?

It was Martin Luther King in his famous “I Have a Dream” speech that said “I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” So I call on Selena Farnesi, as our studentbody president, and ASI to formally oppose SB 185 and do your part to not let racism seep back into American public education.

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To the editor: I am writing to you about the safety here on campus. The other day a student was robbed near campus and makes me wonder how we can increase the safety on and around campus. Most students pay thousands of dollars in order to attend Fresno State, but many of us are worried we could be the next victim of assault.

Not only is safety a concern, but I fear when NON-Fresno State/noncollege students are able to use the library computers and BLAST music while others are trying to do their college work. How is the library and Fresno State going to protect the use of computers from non-Fresno State students? I see many students waiting for a computer, but the man next to me is forcing the rest of us around him to listen to whatever he is listening to.

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CAMBODIA: Students help improve poor communities CONTINUED from page 1 “I hope we end up with a good team that goes to Cambodia and does the project well,” Manivong added.

“Fresno State students will benefit from this program by not only learning,” Manivong said. “They will be able to take [that knowledge] to their fields.” Manivong encourages all students to get involved in EWB-USA. Fresno State professor Michael Jenkins said Associated Students, Inc., contributes from $10,000 to

$15,000 through the Student I n s t r u c t i o n a l ly Re l at e d Activities program to EWBUSA. “Our main challenge is funding and getting support from sponsors. But we’ve been

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ngineers Without Borders really opened my eyes to the world and gave me an experience that I will never forget.”

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helped by IRA a lot,” added Manivong.

Another challenge for EWBUSA is language barriers.

This challenge is through training, language and cultural classes.

“The impact we made as a group in Cambodia will always be something I can be proud of,” Schwab said “Knowing we helped other students and showed them new things is something this organization has done for the past few years and will keep doing for years to come.”

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Fresno State students and members of Engineers Without Borders pose for a picture in Cambodia. Associated Students, Inc. contributes from $10,000 to $15,000 to finance the trip of participating students.

CONTINUED from page 1 Castro said. “I had a couple hours of free time here and there and so I went online to a website that my friend told me about.”

The website, indabamusic. com, is a music creation website for those interested in pursuing a career in the music industry.

“I’d never heard of the website until the contest,” Castro said. “It’s a really cool website that allows independent artists and amateurs to get noticed by professionals or other established artists and allows collaboration.”

The competition has two stages and is currently in the final stage.

“I kind of just let it be until voting started,” Castro said. “I posted it on Facebook and all of my friends just started voting for me.”

Eventually, Castro received an e-mail notifying him that he was one of the top 50 contestants.

Castro was then instructed to upload his remix to the website, talenthouse.com, where other contestants have uploaded their versions of the song as well.

Voters have until Wednesday to vote for their favorite remix.

“Ethan has taken music to a whole new exciting level,” Castro’s friend Andrew Golden said.

Once the contest is over, Derulo will pick one of the top 50 finalists to collaborate a production with him in Los Angeles.

Even if Castro is not chosen to work with Derulo, he has already benefited from the competition.

“I can’t believe how much I’ve learned already just by listening to everyone else’s track,” Castro said.

Castro thinks this competition will benefit him in the future.

“I’ve always been open to feedback because what I’m trying to do with music is to

entertain,” Castro said. “I’m looking to do it as a career, so if my audience doesn’t like what I do, then I’m not doing my job right.”

Once the semester is over and he has more free time, Castro plans to enter more music competitions.

Thomas Loewenheim, director of the university orchestra, has worked closely with Castro and has watched him g row as a musician.

Loewenheim thinks that competitions like this one will only help Castro improve.

“This will give him exposure, experience and competition,” Loewenheim said. “It will toughen him up and teach him to go back and revise to

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t’s a really cool website that allows independent artists and amateurs to get noticed by professionals or other established artists and allows collaboration.”

— Ethan Castro, Fresno State student make his work better.”

Castro has worked with youth orchestras and has a musical background that specializes in the classical period.

“I wish him the best of luck in his future,” Loewenheim said. “He is very enthusiastic and dedicated.”

Golden, a business management major, is supportive of Castro’s passion for music and thinks that he has the right skills to make it in the music industry.

“It’s amazing to hear him because he can take something good and make it better,” Golden said. “He’s an-up-and coming artist and he’s definitely going places.”

Courtesy of Jameson Schwab

Fresno State students give classes at the National Technical Training Institute in Cambodia. Combodia students learn the basic function of wind turbines.

PEACE: Event to honor Gandhi CONTINUED from page 1 Sikhs, so I defenetly don’t like Gandhi for that.”

Kaur added that even though Sikhs helped Gandhi’s movement, they were never acknowledged for their role in the movement.

B h a j a n S i n g h B h i n d e r, who protested the placement of Gandhi’s statue in San Fransisco in 2010, said when interviewed by baycitizen.org, “The whole world sees Gandhi as a symbol of non-violence but we are the victims of generations of his racist policies.”

Despite these opposing

views, many students and professors perceive Gandhi as a symbol of peace.

“When I think of Gandhi, I think mostly of peace. I do think it is important for students to know about Gandhi and what he did because of his history. He changed things,” Fresno State student Gursharam Virk said.

“Gandhi’s bir thday has b e c o m e a n i n t e r n at i o n a l observance. In 2007, the UN declared it as an international day of non-violence,” Kappor said. “This promoted cultural peace throughout the world, 192 countries observed this.”

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special guest Honorable Muhammad Emyat Hossain, who is the consul general of Bangladesh. President John D. Welty and Associate Provost Dr. Ellen Junn will also be in attendance.

T he free event is being hosted by the Central Valley Cultural Heritage Institute.

The formal part of the event is schedule from 4 to 6 p.m. and the informal portion will take place between 6 and 7:30 p.m.

The event is the first of several events planned for “Stop the Hate and End the Violence” week.

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Fresno State student Ethan Castro will collaborate with musician Jason Derulo if he wins an online competion.

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Voices Echo: wind orchestra and symphonic band to perform piece composed by Fresno State professor

By Christina Napier The Collegian On Oct. 4, both the wind orchestra and the symphonic band will have a concert revolving around a specially composed piece commemorating the events of 9/11. Though the 10th anniversary of 9/11 has already passed, the emotion and confusion of that day will surely never be forgotten.

The piece was composed by professor of music theory and composition Dr. Benjamin Boone, who incorporated the thoughts and comments from music students of that tragic day. The wind orchestra will perform this two-part piece called 9/11: Voices Echo, Attack and Aftermath.

Director of bands Gary P. Gilroy said he remembered Emily Willingham, the principle flute for the wind orchestra, speaking quite emotionally of 9/11 as an undergraduate, one of the many echoing voices in this two-piece composition.

“It’s still definitely emotional,” Willingham said. “I was much more emotional back then. I don’t know if it was because I was really young but you know, you just don’t think something like that could happen.”

In early 2000, Boone was hired to teach at Fresno State. The following semester he received a commission from the then-director of bands who wanted him to write a piece for the wind orchestra.

“We knew we wanted something that involved student input,” Boone said. “I wanted them to be part of the compositional process but I didn’t quite know how. Then 9/11 happened very shortly after I got commissioned. So, when I met with the students and asked them what type of piece they would like to write, all of them immediately said I want you to do something having to do with 9/11.”

Boone said he had written about a total of 30 minutes of music before he realized it seemed more like something that would be played in the background for a Disney movie and that it was overly emotional without a real core to it.

Photo courtesy of Director of Bands, Gary P. Gilroy

The wind orchestra and symphonic band will perform a piece composed by Fresno State professor Dr. Benjamin Boone. The piece is titled "9/11: Voices Echo, Attack and Aftermath" and was inspired and meant to commemorate 9/11.

“It was really complicated and I put my soul into it,” Boone said. “I really just had to look in the mirror and say, No I’m not going to this. This music is not worth the event of 9/11.'”

He thought it all sounded really good but when he really thought about it he believed it didn’t capture a true expression of 9/11.

“I threw it away, and I literally threw it away because back in that day I was writing a lot more on paper,” Boone said.

Boone began fresh and tried to figure out how to really get in touch with his feelings about that fateful day.

“I started to think about the interviews I did with the students at the very beginning and how they were talking about their confusion and their pain and then I thought to myself well, ‘What did I do on 9/11, how did I process that?'”

Boone said he then completely saturated himself with all the news coverage and horrible images going on and

how everything was unfolding.

“I just really couldn’t deal with it anymore,” Boone said. “So I went to my computer and next to my computer is a keyboard and I just banged things out. I thought to myself, ‘Wow, I wonder what that sounds like?’ So I went back and I listened to it and that captured the essence of 9/11 because it sounded horrific.”

Then Boone thought back to the initial meeting where the students talked about what 9/11 meant to them. He got the idea, ‘Why don’t I just interview them?’ he thought.

He put a sign up that said, “During these hours if you have a poem, a song or maybe you just want to talk I’d like to record anything that you have to say or any sound you have to make about 9/11.”

“I was really touched by what the students had to say,” Boone said. “There was a theme that began to emerge with what each of them were saying.”

He believes it provided a window to

what 18, 19 and 20-year-olds were going through at that time. Boone took what they said and used them in a musical way and as a musical component and then weaved the other musical material around it to create the final movements, Attack and Aftermath.

A year after the tragedy, 9/11: Voices Echo premiered. Boone had people from all perspectives give their insight.

Many said the emotion and the search for meaning really came through.

Boone said after the premier performance, there was silence. No one started to applause, nobody did anything.

“It was probably the greatest feeling I’ve ever had after a piece, that people were still in the piece when it ended,” Boone said. “I hope that students today will come to the concert because it’ll help them understand 9/11 from a different perspective, and they’ll be able to relive 9/11 from the perspective of students at that time.”

World's No. 1 DJ to perform in Fresno

By Sarah Boyle The Collegian Electronic music might not be a new music trend, but its popularity is on the rise and on Monday, Oct. 3, international DJ Tiesto will perform at the Selland Arena.

“Bringing Tiesto to Fresno is to give hope that there will be a spark of interest in electronic music,” Level 10 Productions partner Luke Monteleone said. “It is a growing trend in major cities.”

With the funky breakbeats, drum and voice machines and pop samples, electronic music is the latest musical revolution in clubs and other venues.

Tiesto has been around for almost 20 years, and has been a single headliner with countless sold-out shows.

His career took off in in 2001 when his first solo album "In My Memory" was released, and was named “World’s No. 1 DJ” three consecutive times by DJ Magazine from 2002 through 2004.

He performed the opening ceremony for the 2004 Summer Olympics, making him the first DJ to play on stage at the Olympics.

In 2009, he released his fourth album "Kaleidoscope" where he featured artists such as Tegan and Sara and Nelly Furtado. This album was considered Tiesto’s most experimental album and reached the top 10 chart on iTunes in its first week.

“When I heard that Tiesto was coming to Fresno, I was shocked,” Fresno State sophomore Leslie Tu said.

“Tiesto is one of the first electronic

dance music artists that I started listening to.”

Tiesto’s perfor mance can be described as the biggest dance party one will ever experience. The music is more about the culture of it, full of peace and love, making it a great opportunity for the Central Valley.

“Everyone should come to see Tiesto.

He's the No. 1 DJ in the world and it would be an experience of a lifetime,” Tu said.

Tickets are relatively inexpensive, when Tiesto’s tickets are usually double or triple the asking price.

“There is no excuse to not go,” Monteleone said.

Tiesto coming to Fresno is very rare, and could be a one-time deal for Fresno.

“The first time I saw him was this past summer in Las Vegas at the Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC),” sophomore Anthony Vanegas said. “Tiesto’s stage was full of lights, great music and the vibe of the audience was unbelievable.

“This isn’t like any regular concert.

At any other concert there isn’t a connection between audience members, but when Tiesto performs, his music is calming and it makes everyone happy and want to dance,” Vanegas said.

The opening act for Tiesto is Porter Robinson, a 19-year-old prodigy from North Carolina, and is blowing up in the electronic scene.

“I have wanted to see Porter Robinson perform ever since I heard his music for the first time,” Vanegas said. “I was at the front stage of EDC watching him play his music. He had such great tim-

ing and flow to his transitions. I had mid expectations for Porter, but he definitely showed me wrong.”

This event is open to all ages and will begin at 6 p.m. on Oct. 3.

“I can’t wait to see both Porter

Robinson and Tiesto again on Monday.

I h ave b e e n c o u n t i n g d ow n t h e days since I purchased my tickets,” Vanegas, who stayed up till midnight the day they went on sale, said.

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Tiesto was named the world's No. 1 DJ three times by DJ Magazine and will be performing at Selland Arena on Oct. 3.

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‘50/50’ successfully tests dramedy waters

By Irene Velez “50/50” portrays Adam (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), a 27-year-old who is diagnosed with a rare form of spinal cancer and his odds of survival are, well, 50/50. The movie centers on his learning to cope with not only the disease but his relationships with his mother (Anjelica Huston), best friend Kyle (Seth Rogen), girlfriend Rachel (Bryce Dallas Howard) and his healing counselor Katie (Anna Kendrick).

The film delivers sound performances and the ensemble of actors presents the movie carefully on a balance beam; neither too melodramatic nor too satirical.

Gordon-Levitt is the lucky man that portrays Adam. There is little to be said about the actor that has not already been said. For being so young and talented, he is truly one of the great actors of our time. In “50/50” Adam carries himself with an external poise, but you see the struggle in the actor’s eyes, as few can execute. He is calm more for himself than those around him who anguish awkwardly

over the position that they are thrust into, be that any of those close to him.

The audience will recognize Rogen’s character, due to him being a similar character as that of “Pineapple Express,” or several others. If you enjoy Rogen in that role, it’s highly likely you will like him here. However, I’d like to see him explore different avenues. Rogen plays the drunken friend who tries to capitalize on Adam’s cancer for the simple goal of his own sexual pleasure. Despite his repetitious character choices, his comedy is well delivered and his heartfelt caring comes across. Howard is this summer’s favorite villainess; first in “The Help” and now as the amateur artist girlfriend of Adam. Despite whether she intended to care or not, it lasts for only a second, and we are happy with her outcome. Anna Kendrick plays Katherine, an eager post-grad healing counselor, which is altogether is too unprepared to help Adam constructively. Albeit, she does serve her own purpose in the movie we come to find.

Huston’s role is the most heart wrenching as the neglected, overbearing, worrisome mother.

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Joseph Gordon Levitt is quickly rising up the actors ladder after his performance in “50/50.”

The film is directed by Jonathan Levine (“The Wackness”) and written by Will Reiser, who battled a form of the disease that Adam suffers from on screen. In reality he is quite good friends with Seth Rogen, who doubles as a producer for the movie as well.

These men deliver a comedy with cancer as the main character. This movie reflects current trend on the subject of cancer, as featured in shows like “The Big C” on Showtime, or “Breaking Bad” on AMC. However, this movie is a

dramedy, a hybrid of drama and comedy that in this case works surprisingly well.

50/50 did exceed my expectations, and pleasantly so. The actors have wonderful chemistry together. They present themselves awkwardly around each other without making the audience feel uncomfortable. You will be touched and some of the one liners hit hard and fast. For my money it was worth every penny.

Guns N’ Roses, Heart, Red Hot Chili Peppers deserve induction

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AKRON, Ohio — The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation released the list of nominees for 2012 induction Tuesday, and its eclecticism continues the voting body’s widening of the definition of rock ‘n’ roll.

The nominees are: Beastie Boys, the Cure, Donovan, Eric B. & Rakim, Guns N’ Roses, Heart, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Freddie King, Laura Nyro, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rufus with Chaka Khan, the Small Faces/ T he Faces, the Spinners, Donna Summer and War. Of those, Beastie Boys, Summer, Donovan, the Peppers and War are repeat nominees.

Acts are eligible for enshrinement

25 years after the release of their first single or album and will be voted in or out by the foundation’s more than 500 voters.

For music fans who have lost interest in the induction process, perhaps the knowledge that the 2012 ceremony will be held April 14 in Cleveland (tickets go on sale to the public in December) will bring you back to the fold.

Or not.

Nevertheless, it is an interesting group with the classic 1970s R&B and disco of Summer, the Spinners, and Rufus with Chaka Khan mingling with goth’s first entry, the Cure, along with late folksy songstress Nyro and the hardcore hip-hop of Eric B. & Rakim.

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HOF: Inductee Red Hot Chili Peppers has 10 albums CONTINUED from page 5 Part of the fun is handicapping which artists will eventually walk the red carpet, step on stage and give a long rambling speech come next spring, so let’s have at it, shall we?

A few of these folks’ chances appear pretty slim. Disco queen Summer will likely have to wait, but she will probably be able to commiserate with Detroit vocal group the Spinners, who under the guidance of producer Thom Bell gave the world “Rubberband Man,” “They Just Can’t Stop It the (Games People Play),” “Could It Be I’m Falling in Love,” “One of a Kind (Love Affair)” and “Working My Way Back to You/Forgive Me, Girl.”

Also likely to remain on the nominee list are Rufus with Chaka Khan, who had big hits with the Stevie Wonderwritten “Tell Me Something Good,” “Ain’t Nobody” and the oft-covered “Stay.” Khan would probably have a better chance of getting in as a solo artist (her debut was released in 1978), but as yet the 10-time Grammy winner hasn’t been nominated.

The Afro-Latin band War is one of the few R&B groups whose songs get played on classic-rock radio (specifically “Low Rider” and “Cisco Kid”) and through much of the 1970s they brought a nice Latin soul flair to their run of hits.

Their influence on hip-hop is undeniable, as songs such as “Slippin’ Into Darkness” have been sampled by artists from Janet Jackson to Korn. But they will probably have to wait a while, too.

Eric B. & Rakim? Not a chance. As influential as emcee Rakim was on a generation of rappers and hardcore hip-hop fans, they simply didn’t have the commercial cachet of say, LL Cool J or (gulp!) Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince or the Beastie Boys.

If there can be only one hiphop inductee per class, it’ll be the Beasties, whose mix of goofy charm, dope beats and old school (nonthreatening) energy gave the genre a needed dose of humor and helped ease the music into the mainstream.

While some hardcore gothkids (who would be gothadults

w i t h i t s h i t s “ L u l l a by, ” “Fascination Street” and “Lovesong.” That made them goth-rock superstars, so their chances of being first-ballot inductees look pretty good.

Arguably the biggest surprise of last year’s class was that the Red Hot Chili Peppers weren’t in it. The once wild and crazy punk-funkers turned power balladeers have had a fairly steady stream of successful records, and though they are seldom namedropped as big influences, the L.A. band helped turn altrock into mainstream rock.

They are still active, having just released their 10th album “I’m With You” last month.

boozy, loose Faces had the radio staple “Stay With Me.” With some higher-profile names on the nominee list (what, you say that shouldn’t matter? Ha!), both versions of the band will probably be seeing their names back on next year’s list.

As for the ladies _ silky folk songstress Nyro, badass rock chick Joan Jett and the Blackhearts and classic-rock sister act Heart _ the last should be a shoo-in.

Nyro is probably better known by the masses (who don’t get a vote) as a songwriter, with artists such as Three Dog Night, the 5th Dimension and Blood, Sweat & Tears

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erhaps the only true slam-dunk inductee is Guns N’ Roses, which from 1987 to the mid-1990s was the biggest rock band in the world.”

now) may argue that the Cure’s late 1970s contemporaries Joy Division and/or Bauhaus should get the first look for the genre, singer/songwriter/ guitarist Robert Smith and his band of morose men took the macabre underground music and its equally spooky visual style to MTV and into arenas for much of the ‘80s through mid-’90s, scaring the parents of millions of fans. Early modern/alternative rock hits such as the once-controversial “Killing an Arab,” the bouncy “Close to You” and the dreamy “Just Like Heaven” all lead up to their landmark 1989 Top 12 album “Disintegration”

Chances are they won’t be waiting much longer.

The Small Faces/The Faces is a curious case, as they were two distinct bands with a lot of the same members. The psychedelic, bluesy Small Faces were primarily driven by future Humble Pie guitarist Steve Marriott, while the group’s second act, simply the Faces, became a launching pad for Rod Stewart’s solo career.

Neither version made it as big on this side of the Atlantic as in their native United Kingdom, with most folks knowing the Small Faces hit “Itchycoo Park,” while the

having hits with her songs “Eli’s Coming,” “Stoned Soul Picnic” and “And When I Die.” Nyro is often listed by 1970s artists such as Alice Cooper and Todd Rundgren as a songwriting influence, but Nyro, who died of ovarian cancer in 1997, has yet to receive a posthumous career boost / rediscovery so she may be on the nominee list a few more years.

As for Jett, she and her Blackhear ts had attitude (she’s often referred to as the original Riot Grrl) and fist-pumping songs, including the No. 1 hit “I Love Rock and Roll” and “Do You Want to Touch Me” along with her

theme song “Bad Reputation,” making tough guitar-slinging rocker chicks sexy. But there’s simply no logical way she can be inducted before Heart.

The Wilson sisters, singer Ann and singer/guitarist Nancy, founded Heart in 1973 and suffered many sexist, condescending slings and arrows from the rock ‘n’ roll industry boys club (the galloping “Barracuda” is not about a fish). They turned out hardrocking radio staples “Crazy on You,” “Magic Man” and “Straight On,” and not only survived, but also became a big arena act through the latter half of the 1980s with power ballads such as “These Dreams” and “Alone.”

Perhaps the only true slamdunk inductee is Guns N’ Roses, which from 1987 to the mid-1990s was the biggest rock band in the world. The breakthrough “Appetite for Destruction” has sold 28 million copies worldwide and is still one of the better hard rock records of the past 25 years, with “Welcome to the Jungle” a constant on rock radio (and the all-important new revenue streams: video g a m e s, c o m m e rc i a l s a n d movie placement). Its twopart, four-album follow-up “Use Your Illusion 1 & 2” was considerably more sprawling but also sold boatloads of records.

Ignoring the 15-year saga of the band’s leaden sixth album “Chinese Democracy” _ which still managed to go platinum _ Guns N’ Roses has certainly ear ned a spot in hallowed halls of rock.

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REBELS: Mississippi’s cross-country trip to Fresno State on Saturday will be its first visit to Bulldog Stadium CONTINUED from page 8 Magazine refer red to The Grove at Ole Miss as the “Holy Grail of Tailgating.”

Although Fresno State can hold its own tailgating in the white, red and other lots surrounding Bulldog Stadium prior to a football g ame, Bulldog fans could lear n a thing or two from their upcoming competitor on tailgating the way it should be done.

“Ole Miss’ school spirit is different than any other school I know,” said Saralauren Peacock, who is a senior at Ole Miss. “No other university has a tailgate quite like Ole Miss.

It’s one of a kind.”

Tailgating at The Grove was used mainly for frater nity and sorority social gatherings until the 10-acre lot was discovered and is now shared a m o n g s t u d e n t s, G re e k s, alumni and dedicated Rebel fans.

On Mississippi’s game days, the tailgating grounds are covered with a sea of red and blue tents for as far as the eye can see. Many of the tents are converted into mini kitchens with fine kitchenware, portable cookers and ovens.

“Regardless if we win or

lose, we always know we’re going to have a good time at The Grove,” Peacock said. “I don’t travel to many outside games. Not because I don’t want to, but why would I? There’s only one Grove and that’s where I want to be on game day.”

Tailgating the Rebel way is slightly different than tailgating at Fresno State. Although there are no formal rules on the proper attire to wear at an Ole Miss football game, schools in the South are known to be more proper with a sense of formality. It’s rare to see Mississippi students dressed in jeans and a T-shirt.

The young ladies of Ole Miss often wear sundresses or cocktail attire and the gentleman dress in slacks with collared or buttoned-down shirts.

“The Grove is our pre-party and after party. We want to look our best for all of them,” Ole Miss senior Cassie Bryant said. “Some people say that we wear our Sunday’s finest. We take pride in our school and want to dress our best to represent that.”

Another southern football tradition is a procession of the players a few hours before the game. Ole Miss is no different;

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Mississippi fans have some of the best tailgates in the country on The Grove, seen here before a home game.

fans gather and crowd an old historic brick walkway called, “The Walk of Champions.”

The 1962 Mississippi national championship team dedicated the brick walkway to the university. The Grove itself and the different traditions from the South at University of Mississippi are as unique as

one will find in modern college football.

Over 1,400 tickets have been purchased by Mississippi fans for the upcoming battle between the Bulldogs and Rebels with fans showing how big of a deal Rebel football is.

“We’re definitely known for our dedicated fans,” assistant

manager of the Mississippi ticket office Pam Smith said.

“I believe California is the farthest we’ll play West, but our fans, students, boosters and alumni will certainly be there.”

A: The Ole Miss offense is the worst in the Southeastern Conference and among the worst in the country with only two of fensive touchdowns against Football Bowl Subdivision opponents. One of those came late against Vanderbilt and the other came on a trick play against Georgia. The offensive line has been a disappointment which has led to the lack of running lanes and more pressure on the quarterbacks this season. There’s also a lot of youth and inexperience, particularly at wide receiver.

Q: What kind of quarterback is Zack Stoudt?

A: Stoudt is your typical pro-style, drop back passer.

Going into fall practice, he was thought to be third on the depth chart behind more mobile quarterbacks Barry Brunetti and Randall Mackey.

Mackey was suspended for the season opener and Stoudt came on in relief and sparked the offense. He has been the starter since despite five interceptions against Vanderbilt.

He is a junior college transfer and his dad won two Super Bowls with the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Q: What kind of impact can Brandon Bolden have?

A: When healthy, Bolden can be the workhorse in the Ole Miss offense with speed and power. From Peyton Hillis to Darren McFadden to Felix Jones to Dexter McCluster, running backs have been the focus of Houston Nutt offenses. He’s been banged up since

the BYU game and has only 62 yards on 17 carries this season. With injuries to him and Enrique Davis, the smaller, faster Jeff Scott has been the feature back in the offense.

Q: What can Fresno State e x p e c t f ro m M i s s i s s i p p i ’ s defense?

A: A bend-but-don’t-break defense that gives up a lot of yards, but is stingy around the red zone and forces teams to settle for field goal attempts.

Although not as much as in 2008 and 2009, Ole Miss blitzes more this season than last season. There’s a lot of youth on the defense with freshmen and junior college transfers throughout the two-deep depth chart. Also, a new thirddown defensive package for pass rushing and pass coverage.

Q: Which players are difference makers in the secondary, linebacking corps and defensive line?

A: Charles Sawyer is the biggest playmaker on the team.

He had a big game in the season opener against BYU with a 96-yard interception return.

Also, he is the best cover guy on the team and moves to cor ner in third-down passing situations. Aside from Sawyer, Wesley Pendleton is the best cover corner on the team. When Ole Miss blitzes its linebacker, Mike Marry is the guy. He leads the team in tackles and sacks. There’s a lot of inexperience on the defensive line and Kentrell Lockett continues to recover from his season-ending injury last sea-

son, Wayne Dorsey is the biggest difference maker on the defensive line.

Q: Are there any dangerous players in the return game?

A: Ole Miss leads the nation in both punt returns for touchdowns (2) and punt returns average (32 yards per return).

Nickolas Brassell and Jeff Scott both have punt return for touchdowns. Brassell scored his on a reverse handoff in last week’s game against Georgia. Scott had another punt return for a touchdown called back for a penalty.

Special teams is the strength of this year’s team, with the ability to flip field position in the kicking and return game.

Q: What will it take for Mississippi to beat Fresno State on Saturday?

A: Ole Miss needs more consistency on offense, both to move the ball and score points and also to keep the defense off the field and in the game.

Ole Miss also needs to make plays on defense and on special teams. Ole Miss also needs to take care of the ball and win the turnover game. Opening up the playbook with trick plays on offense and more blitzes on defense. Ole Miss needs to get off to a good start and at least stay in the game going into the fourth quarter because the confidence of this team after the four games remains in doubt, despite everything being seen and heard from the players and coaches after the games.

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resno State welcomes its first Southeastern Conference opponent to Bulldog Stadium this Saturday.

Last year, the ‘Dogs traveled to Mississippi to face the Rebels, but returned to Fresno with a bad taste in their mouths with a 55-38 loss. This is Fresno State’s third chance in 2011 to get a win against a Bowl Championship Series

automatic-qualifier in front of the Bulldog faithful.

Austin Miller is the sports editor at Mississippi and sports editor Jerry Huerta caught up with him to talk about what the ‘Dogs can expect from the Rebels in their first game in front of the red wave at Bulldog Stadium.

Q: What can Fresno State e x p e c t f ro m M i s s i s s i p p i ’ s offense?

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Keys to Victory 1. Contain Bolden Last season’s battle with Ole Miss didn’t go the way Fresno state wanted with RB Brandon Bolden exploding for 228 rushing yards and two touchdowns. The ‘Dogs will have to contain him in his first game back from injury if they hope to get the win.

2. Limit the ‘Big Play’ Bolden shredded the Fresno State defense last season and the ‘Dogs have been prone to giving up the big play this season, so they have to keep all the running plays and passing plays to minimal gains.

3. Convert the ‘Big Play’ In the last two games, QB Derek Carr has been converting the deep ball with a variety of targets. The ‘Dogs will need to continue that against the Rebels if they hope to get out to an early lead on Saturday.

Position match ups

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Quarterback Derek Carr is seen here finding his favorite target so far this season in sophomore receiver Jalen Saunders who leads the the team in receiving yards.

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ississppi is making its first trip to Bulldog Stadium looking to get back to its winning ways. The Rebels are currently 1-3 and inconsistent on both sides of the ball.

On the offensive side of the ball, Mississippi will have running back Brandon Bolden to help its rushing attack, which might strike fear in the minds of the Bulldog faithful after Bolden had his way with Fresno State last season to the tune of 228 yards rushing and two touchdowns.The Rebels have a new quarterback behind center with junior Zack Stoudt providing the Rebels with more of a pocket pass-

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er. Quarterbacks Randall resno State is coming Mackey and Barry Brunetti off its best game of the have also taken snaps for the season against Idaho Rebels. They will provide last week. The ‘Dogs played Fresno State will two quarthe closest thing to a comterbacks that are threats plete game with all phases of with their the team conlegs. tributing to EDITOR’S PREDICTION: On defense, Fresno State’s Fresno State 28 the Rebels second win. have had some Sophomore Mississippi 21 tough compequarterback tition, which Derek Carr might be the had the bigreason they have allowed gest game of his young colso many yards on averlegiate career with 371 passage. The Rebels will have to ing yards and five touchdown tighten it up if they want the passes.

Bulldog fans to leave Bulldog Carr has started to spread Stadium with a bad taste in the wealth also getting all their mouths. of his receivers involved throughout the games. He

may have another weapon at his disposal with redshirt freshman receiver Victor Dean starting to get more reps with the offense. Junior running back Robbie Rouse has stayed consistent with three games over the century mark in the first four weeks.

On the defensive side of the ball, the Bulldogs’ defensive line has made a splash in the Idaho game with sophomore Nat Harrison getting his first fumble return touchdown of his collegiate career.

If the ‘Dogs want to beat Mississippi in its first visit to Bulldog Stadium, they will have to contain running back Brandon Bolden and limit the big plays.

Tailgating the Rebel way

By Blair Smittcamp The Collegian The Saturday buzz around the city of Oxford, Miss. from the residents and the students

attending the University of Mississippi is simply about the motto, “We might lose the game, but we’ll never lose the party.”

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University of Mississippi, better known as Ole Miss, know as well as anyone across the country that a football game can’t go on nor be completed without first tailgating at The

Grove.

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When Fresno State runs: Advantage - Fresno State Mississippi has given up over 200 yards on the ground per game so far this season. Junior RB Robbie Rouse has gone over the century mark in three-out-of-four games this year.

When Mississippi runs: Advantage - Mississippi Fresno State’s run defense is allowing almost the same amount of yards as last year. And when the ‘Dogs played Mississippi last year, Bolden ran wild all afternoon.

When Fresno State passes: Advantage - Fresno State The Bulldogs’ passing game has been gaining momentum with QB Derek Carr having by far his best game of his young collegiate career last week.

When Mississippi passes: Advantage - Even Mississippi is averaging only 144 yards per game through the air so far this season, but with the loss of strong safety Phillip Thomas and Derron Smith, it’s a toss up.

Special teams: Advantage - Fresno State Fresno State senior Kevin Goessling has been consistent with his only miss coming in the season opener.