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Private universities have smaller classes, more classrooms and better parking availability, but at a much higher price than public institutions like Fresno State.

By Ciara Norton The Collegian Choosing to attend which college is hard enough. Between location, money, friends, degree programs and campus life, things can start to get a little complicated when it comes down to making a decision. When the option of a private university versus a public college is thrown into the mix, it can create an even greater whirlwind of dilemmas.

Both public and private universities offer students different incentives, which can make the decision making process very difficult.

At most private universities the class sizes are smaller, creating a more personal learning environment between the student and the professor.

Ashley Oliver, a Fresno State psychology graduate and a current Fresno Pacific student earning her master’s degree said that, “at private universities the professors want to really know

you, even the administration. You’re not just another face in the crowd.”

The Fresno State campus website states the student-to-faculty ratio is 25-to-1. The Fresno Pacific University website affirms thst its student to fac-

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ome students feel like Vanguard babies us, and that we are unable to experience the real world because of the rules we have to follow.”

— Sara Jansma, Vanguard University student ulty ratio is nearly half at 14-to-1.

Oliver also added that one great thing about private universities is that parking is always available.

Even though private universities may be able to offer students more attention, it doesn’t come cheap The collegeboard.org website states for in-state students the average cost for one year at a public, four-year college is $7,605, while a private four-year college is approximately $27,293.

U n d e rc ove r t e s t i n g i n 2 0 1 0 by t h e U n i t e d S t a t e s G o ve r n m e n t Accountability Office, known as GAO, specified that a certificate for a computer-aided drafting in California will cost students $520. The same certificate will cost students $13,945 at a private institution.

There is a large gap between prices for certificates, associate’s and bachelor’s degrees among private and public universities.

The popular Public Broadcasting Services documentary See FOR-PROFIT, Page 3

International student adapt to Fresno

By Giovanni Winna Patricia The Collegian For much of the freshmen class, college life is just another level of academic experience after high school, but for international freshmen it means being far away from home, experiencing new cultures, new social relationships and a new academic system.

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hat’s why it is very hard for me to meet people, because I need to make an appointment for a movie or lunch at least one week in advance.”

— John Elisha T. Ang, Fresno State foreing exchange student Paul Yunouye, Fresno State’s foreign student advisor, said there are 128 international students enrolled at Fresno State this fall semester.

This fall, every international student

has to pay $372 per unit taken at Fresno State in addition to any other fees paid by local students. Every international student has to be “in status” with the United States immigration system, and are required to take the minimum of 12 units per semester at Fresno State Yunouye said every semester new international students encounter similar problems.

“One of the problems is housing.

Where to find affordable housing and where to find good roommates they can trust and feel comfortable with,” Yunouye said.

“Along with housing, the earlier they come to Fresno State the more they have to pay for housing before school starts,” Yunouye added. “So that becomes the issue: How early should I come to secure housing? Am I prepared to pay for it before school starts?”

Yunouye added that new international students try to arrange housing from abroad, but it is no small task.

He added that new international students deal with other basic problems which include understanding unit and semester system, letter grades and how credit, no-credit systems work.

Yunouye said this has always been a

setback for new international students.

Gabrielle Loo, a new international student from Malaysia, revealed that life in Fresno is the “total opposite” of her life back home.

Loo, who charectarized herself as a shy person, said it was not easy for her to talk to strangers that she had to meet every day in her classes.

“Here, it is pretty hard to actually communicate with people,” Loo said.

“Here, you have to put yourself in it and go talk to new people by yourself, but in Malaysia we [mostly] talk to people we know.”

Living at the University Village just off campus and surrounded by American students who like to party on weekends has been very difficult for Loo as well.

“I’m not an outgoing person. I don’t like partying,” Loo said. “I don’t have the mood to go party with them. So, on weekends I am always stuck at home for the whole day and I get really bored.”

After the first “hectic week” of school, Loo managed to socialize with See INTERNATIONAL, Page 3

Talk in recent weeks of post office closings and the elimination of Saturday mail delivery has shifted to a more dire prospect: The entire U.S. Postal Service could go out of business within a year.

Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe told a Senate hearing Tuesday that the postal service is running out of money and could go into default as soon as next month unless Congress acts.

“Without legislative change this year, the Postal Service faces default,” Donahoe told the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

If the Postal Service is forced to make its required $5.5 billion annual payment to the federal health care benefit plan, it will exhaust its $15 billion line of credit from the U.S. Treasury and trigger a default. John Berry, the director of the Office of Personnel Management, told the panel that the White House would ask Congress to grant the Postal Service a 90-day extension on the health care payment.

But that’s only the first step. Donahoe said the Postal Service, which is on track to lose $10 billion this year, must take additional, drastic measures to avoid shutting down and is seeking Congress’ blessing to cut back delivery, close thousands of mostly rural post offices, consolidate processing centers and eliminate at least 120,000 jobs.

“Short-term, stopgap measures will not help,” Donahoe said. “These are aggressive steps, and they are necessary.”

A shutdown of the Postal Service would deal a staggering blow to the economy. With more than 500,000 employees, it’s the second-largest employer in the country behind WalMart. It supports millions of other jobs in related industries, such as newspaper and magazine publishers, and paper and printing companies, businesses that would be crippled without it.

“That is the last thing our struggling economy needs and the last thing our country needs,” said Sen. Joe Lieberman, a Connecticut independent who’s the committee’s chairman. “We must act quickly to prevent a Postal Service collapse.”

The sluggish economy has contributed to the Postal Service’s woes, but nothing has eroded its business more than the Internet. Total mail delivery is down 22 percent in the past five years, but first-class mail is down 26 percent.

About 60 percent of Americans now pay their bills online, and electronic forms of communication have made the handwritten letter a thing of the past.

Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., said that letters help fill “gaps in history,” and that the Postal Service should See POST, Page 3

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Part ways with the party

By Maddie Shannon The Collegian

W

e college kids are generally regarded as a hard-core, drinking, partying bunch.

Society has probably always thought kids in the 18-23 age range are a bunch of partiers anyway, but I can’t help but think that the party mentality has recently reached a fever pitch.

Parties have been the same for as long as I can remember. I recall watching my seventh-grade peers freak dancing to Nelly’s “Hot in Herre” as I sat on the side of Kastner Intermediate’s gym munching on some greasy Clovis Unified pizza.

I was hoping that the dances and parties my friends and I went to would be different in high school — but they weren’t. The same kind of music was played at house parties the popular kids hosted for all four years, and the dancing was exactly the same as the kind we engaged in during junior high.

“Maybe college will be different,” I thought.

Nope. The party culture didn’t change there either.

As I sadly realized that the same horrible top-40 music would be played at skanky frat parties as well (not to mention the drunk masses simulating something much dirtier than dancing), I resigned myself to being in the two percent of college students who don’t like to drink and don’t like to party.

While I do realize that puts me in a very small minority, I wonder what partying would be like if it was a little classier. What if instead of listening to J.Lo (who is overrated, by the way), we listened to Michael Buble? And what if, instead of the girls having a contest on who can bare the most skin while still being technically clothed, we actually dressed like the ladies we claim to be? Dresses and heels, anyone?

At some point, one would think that we college kids would grow out of our partying ways and grow up a little bit.

But sometimes, it just isn’t meant to

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ood stories come out of things you remember, not things you have to piece together the next morning in an alcohol-induced fog.”

be.

This summer I went to a wedding that brought together this man and this woman ‘til death do they party, and boy, was that reception a party.

The groom, 30, got plastered, and the bride, 29, was a little out of control.

Every single person in the bridal party had at least three beers during the cocktail hour, and later into the night, more than one 20-something guest had passed out on one of the tables.

Parties like these are the norm, I know, but a less-than-gentlemanly guy I knew my sophomore year told me, after getting drunk in Santa Barbara and getting arrested for public intoxication, “Why not? At least I got a good story out of it.”

Good stories do not have to come out of getting drunk every weekend and feeling like you’re hung over the rest of the week, as a few people I know have come to realize. Good stories come out of things you remember, not things you have to piece together the next morning in an alcohol-induced fog.

I don’t know about you, but I prefer to remember my college experience, thank you very much.

Maddie Shannon is the former Arts & Entertainment editor of The Collegian, and will be a biweekly columnist throughout the semester.

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n a recent blog post, I wrote, “The First Amendment’s Establishment Clause only prevents the federal government from establishing a state religion and from prohibiting a person from practicing their religion. By my reading, the First Amendment does not preclude prayer in public schools.”

Commenter joshua4234 disagreed: I don’t think you read the First Amendment right. It doesn’t say, “Congress shall make no law establishing a state religion,” it says, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.” Let’s break this down, what is “an establishment?” You ever talked about a business by saying “this establishment?”

Basically it’s an institution, so an institution of religion, aka church. Now what does “respecting” mean? Does it just mean establishing as a state religion?

Or perhaps treating it favorably compared to a different religious thought? This is why I take it to mean it shouldn’t give one religion preferential treatment to another, and thus by extension not prefer any religion or not having one.

Thus, public teachers, being an

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extension of the state, shouldn’t lead prayer.

To an extent, this is merely an academic discussion: the Supreme Court holds that the Fourteenth Amendment incorporates this clause to the states, and also holds that teachers in public schools cannot lead students in prayer in class.

However, that doesn’t mean that the Court cannot be wrong. All one must do is look at the Dred Scott case. So the question is relevant.

Joshua4234’s reasoning, however, is difficult to follow. One can reach the same conclusion that he reaches without using these convoluted (and, frankly, false) definitions of “establishment” and “respecting.”

The view I take is the one that the country took until the Supreme Court interpreted the Incorporation Doctrine into the Bill of Rights.

The relevant First Amendment clause reads thus: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

Therefore, Congress could not establish a State religion, and neither could they pass laws which prohibit people from practicing their religion.

The words “respecting” and “establishment” do not change this reading of the clause. To establish a religion means exactly that — instituting a

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NFL and college football are starting/have started Finally! After all the wait, it is here.

College football started last weekend, and the NFL starts tomorrow, when the defending-champion Packers will romp on the New Orleans Saints. Happy days are here again.

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Fresno State’s beatdown in San Fran Or so we thought. The ‘Dogs got smashed in ‘Frisco by Cal, 36-21. And it wasn’t that close. Here’s to hoping that the season gets better. Though it’s not likely to next week: We visit the Cornhuskers of Nebraska, where we likely await the same fate.

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State religion with a State church, a la Great Britain. That the Constitution outlaws Congress from making a law respecting such a church just means that they cannot pass a law that does this.

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doubt that the Framers envisioned that the same Supreme Court that prays before it begins its business could outlaw the same action in public schools.”

On top of this, the clause only applied to the national government (Congress shall make no law…). States could and in fact did have state churches, up until the 1830s.

With the advent of the Fourteenth Amendment, this changed a bit — there have been varying views on how this amendment should be interpreted, but pretty much everyone believes at least part of the Bill of Rights are to be incorporated to the states.

Even still, I doubt that the Framers envisioned that the same Supreme Court that prays before it begins its business could outlaw the same action in public schools.

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FOR-PROFIT: Private Universities involved in unethical practices CONTINUED from page 1 Frontline uncovered that private institutions “enroll 10 percent of all post-secondary students. For-profit schools receive almost a quarter of federal financial aid.” The documentary also stated that in 2009, “44 percent of the students who defaulted within three years of graduation were from for-profit schools.”

Thinkprogress.org posted that “CEOs of for-profit colleges receive up to 26 times the amount of pay that the heads of traditional universities do.”

The Frontline documentary, College, Inc. also stated “private colleges’ add costs rival those of multi-national brands.” In most cases, the documentary also added that most private schools spend more money on advertising to bring students in than on the actual education.

“Once the money goes into private schools, it’s not just going to the education or to the books,” Fresno State computer science major Nick Acosta said.

The movie continued on to say that in 2008, The

University of Phoenix actually spent $130 million on advertising.

E ve n w i t h s u ch a h i g h tuition price, many private colleges have succeeded in bringing students in by offering benefits such as a fast

Tif f any Collins decided t o at t e n d F re s n o Pa c i f i c University because she “wanted to have a speedy education and be able to enjoy fast-paced classes.”

At most private colleges, students are often guaranteed the

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our [of 15] colleges encouraged fraudulent practices and all 15 made deceptive or otherwise questionable statements to GAO’s undercover applicants.”

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degree process.

GAO found that of 15 private institutions, “four colleges encouraged fraudulent practices and all 15 made deceptive or otherwise questionable statements to GAO’s undercover applicants.”

These practices ranged from encouraging students to lie on their financial aid application to “exaggerating potential wages after graduation.”

classes they want and need, and as long as they stay on track and get decent grades, all four years of college are mapped out for them and their graduation date given early on.

At public colleges it can be harder to find required classes, possibly because they are either full or have been cancelled due to the lack of funding.

“At Fresno Pacific I was given my graduation date in the beginning,” Collins said.

“All I had to do was finish my classes with good grades.”

Classes are sometimes quicker at private colleges because they offer courses that are only six weeks long.

“I liked the shorter classes because there was no messing around,” Collins said. “You just go on your first day, write a few papers, read for a few weeks and you’re done.”

S a r a Ja n s m a , a fo u r t h year student at Vanguard U n iv e r s i t y o f S o u t h e r n California majoring in religion, with an emphasis in Christian formation and discipleship, decided to attend a private school because of the unique degree options offered.

“For me, a pro is faith integ rated lear ning,” Jansma said. “Most of my professors have a Christian worldview, and this is refreshing to me, and is especially helpful with what I’m studying.”

For Jansma, there aren’t very many cons to a private college.

“Some students feel like Vanguard babies us, and that

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her classmates, which made college “pretty good.”

An article published in the Inter national Jour nal of Intercultural Relations in

Philippines, said that his life here is “very different” compared to his life in Southeast Asia, but not in a negative manner.

“But life here is much bet-

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ere, you have to put yourself to put yourself in it and go talk to new people by yourself, but in Malaysia we [mostly] talk to people we know.”

— Gabrielle Loo, Fresno State international student 2010 stated that it is essential for immigrants, to be able to assimilate to the new host culture. By being able to blend in to the new environment, it is easier for students to succeed not only socially, but also academically.

John Elisha T. Ang, also a new transfer student from the

ter,” Ang said.

Ang explained that most of the problems he encountered at Fresno State were social problems since his classmates in Asia don’t usually work.

“That’s why it is very hard for me to meet people, because I need to make an appointment for a movie or lunch at least

one week in advance,” Ang added.

To a d d re s s t h e g e n e r a l problems faced by new international students, Yunouye explained that Fresno State’s Inter national Student Services and Programs also known as ISSP, over the year offer an international orientation for new students.

For the fall 2011 semester, around 90 percent of international students got two days of international orientation preceded by five days of check-in periods held by the ISSP. In the international orientation days, Yunouye said, ISSP officers provided basic information such as, tuition payment system, fees due, the U.S immigration system and how to enroll in classes.

Yunouye affirmed that international orientation is a good chance for new international students to socialize and inter-

act with each other. Students are also given infor mation about Fresno State clubs and organization that can help them socialize. ISSP will usually meet with students individually to guarantee their adaptation.

Fresno State website encourages students to attend Fresno state because of its affordability, entertainment, “world-class agriculture,” academic excellence, campus location near Yosemite and other California tourist attractions, academic research and distinguished alumni such as former governor of Nevada Kenny Guinn, NA S A a s t ro n a u t C o l o n e l Steven Nagel, among other important figures.

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we are unable to experience the real world because of the rules we have to follow,” Jansma said. “In my opinion, these rules are not cons.”

Fo r J a n s m a , Va n g u a r d University has always been the right place.

“I was first interested in Vanguard because it was a private Christian university, and this fit my criteria for the college I wanted to go to,” Jansma said. “I liked that it is affiliated with the Assemblies of God, which is the denomination that I grew up in.”

Only the student can put a price tag on their education.

Just as product consumers, students are pulled one way and then the other back and forth until the right college has intrigued them, either from their advertising or from what the college actually has to offer.

POST: GOING BANKRUPT CONTINUED from page 1 mount a marketing campaign to promote the lost virtues of letter writing. There’s “something special about that piece of first-class mail,” McCaskill said. “You might be surprised what it will do for your Christmas season.”

But Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, the committee’s ranking member, said there was no going back.

“Americans are unlikely to abandon email and text messaging and return to first-class mail,” she said.

“First-class mail is going away,” said Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla.

Faced with the ir reversible decline in first-class mail, Donahoe said the Postal Service would focus its attention on growth areas, such as direct-mail advertising, its package business and even venture into digital communications.

“America de pends on a financially strong Postal Service,” he said. “This will always be so, even in an increasingly digital age.”

Donahoe said the Postal Service relies solely on the sale of postage to fund its operations and isn’t seeking a bailout from taxpayers.

“We do not want taxpayer money,” Donahoe said.

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Fragmented sleep may impair memory, learning

By Melissa Healy McClatchy Tribune Forgotten how to do something you just learned yesterday? Consider the possibility that last night's sleep was punctuated by mini-awakenings, robbing you of the ability to commit that new skill to memory. You might have gotten eight hours of sleep, and may not even feel tired. But when sleep is interrupted frequently as it is in a wide

range of disorders, including sleep apnea, alcoholism and Alzheimer's disease the ability to learn new things can be dramatically impaired, says a new study conducted on mice.

The research, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, used a novel method to isolate the effects of sleep fragmentation from overall sleep quality. Studies to date have shown that when sleep is frequently interrupted,

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Fragmented sleep patterns can cause students to lose concentration and be off task when trying to study

'Colombiana' combines action and suspense to create a perfect blend

By Dylan Patton The Collegian 'Colombiana' has the formula for the typical revenge movie. A woman seeks revenge on the criminals responsible for the death of her parents. But this movie shows enough potential to be different. There is action, but it is done with a unique style that successfully blends action and suspense.

T h e m o v i e o p e n s w i t h yo u n g Cataleya (Amanda Stenberg) witnessing the death of her father, Fabio (Jesse Borrego) and mother, Alicia (Cynthia Addai-Robinson). Both are killed at the orders of a Columbian crime lord, Don Luis (Beto Benito). Cataleya escapes to the United States and seeks out her uncle Emilio (Cliff Curtis).

Cataleya wants to be a killer. Emilio agrees to train her, but insists she gets an education. He explains that anyone can pull a trigger. But if Cataleya is educated, she can think for herself, understand people, thus enabling her live longer.

Fast forward 15 years, and now Cataleya (Zoe Saldana as the adult Cataleya) is a ruthless assassin for hire. Emilio gives her assignments that has her executing criminals.

Cataleya does these kills hoping she will attract the attention of Don Luis, thus enabling her to fullfill her mission of vengeance. At the same time, she falls for an artist, Danny Delanay (Michael Vartan). Cataleya hides her true self from Danny in order to protect herself and Danny.

Cataleya's actions have brought on the attention of FBI Special Agent Ross (Lennia James). Ross is determined to stop Cataleya but is hampered by a shady CIA agent Richard (Callum Blue). Now Cataleya must dodge both

men as she gets closer to avenging her family.

Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen show enough skill to create an action thriller that doesn't go over the top.

The action is intense. However, they along with director Oliver Megaton portray Cateleya as a skilled killer who uses her brains. She doesn't just jump into action guns blazing. She uses her brains first. She outthinks her enemies, setting up them to be gunned down.

Oliver Megaton directs the movie subtley and with flair. Each action scene is drawn out with a touch of suspense. His shots and flow of each scene makes sure that each action scene is crafted. He clearly doesn't want to use the same formula twice.

Zoe Saldana does a good job showing her acting skills. Saldana combines the mannerisms of a ruthless killer with a woman racked with grief and anger. Cliff Curtis' Emilio is a criminal who wants to help his niece, but is concerned for her safety. Curtis' acting skills allows him to come across as a criminal but believable that he truly cares for his niece. Michael Vartan plays the usual nice-guy role. However, his characters seems so forced during the course of the movie. His character has no purpose than to serve a romantic interest for Cataleya.

Action movies come and go. It helps for them to be remembered if they actually try to be more than a movie full of guns and explosions. 'Colombiana' offers guns, explosions, action and manages to provide some interesting characters and style that make it enjoyable.

memory suffers. But no one really knew whether the memory problems they observed were the result of shorter cumulative sleep times, poor overall sleep quality, the degradation of some distinct part of the sleep cycle, or the sheer annoyance of being prodded awake repeatedly while sleeping. This study suggests that even when frequent waking doesn't affect sleep quality and doesn't cut into overall sleep time, memory takes a hit.

Researchers at Stanford University stimulated "microarousal events" in mice by injecting their brains with a virus carrying a red fluorescent protein. Once established in the brain, the protein found its way to specialized brain cells in the hypothalamus involved in awakening. When stimulated by a laser diode directed at that region of the brain, those specialized neurons became active and the mice briefly awakened. During four hours of daytime sleep, scientists "lit up" the awakening neurons every 60 seconds, causing the mouse's brain briefly to stir, and then fall back to sleep. The frequent awakenings did not drive down the amount of rapid-eye-movement (REM), or deep, restorative sleep the mouse had. Nor did it drive down cumulative sleep time. And it didn't appear to cause the mouse any stress.

A control group of mice had the laser diode flashed at them. But since they had not had the specialized protein introduced into their brain, they did

not experience microarousal events, and slept through.

Before tuck-in time, each mouse had been put into a cage where it had two novel areas to explore (when introduced to two new things, a mouse will typically explore both equally). After four hours of daytime sleep, researchers sought to test whether a mouse would remember having explored these areas before.

After four hours of sleep, the mice whose brains had been prodded awake every 60 seconds showed no familiarity with the cage to which they had been introduced earlier, and their patterns of exploration reflected that. The mice whose sleep had not been interrupted behaved as if they remembered having explored the cage.

Researchers suggest that new skills and infor mation are committed to memory or "consolidated" during sleep when our brains "replay" recently learned actions or sequences. In the process, the memory, now neatly packaged and ready for storage, is transferred from the hippocampus to the neocortex, from which it can be retrieved when needed. The Stanford researchers who led the study biologist H. Craig Heller and neuroscientist Luis de Lecea suggested that when frequent awakenings interrupt that process, the memory can be lost or compromised before it is stored.

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‘Rescue Me’ ends with a salute to fallen firefighters

By Rick Bentley McClatchy Tribune LOS ANGELES — “Rescue Me” is more than a TV show to Denis Leary.

T h e F X N e t wo rk s e r i e s Leary and Peter Tolan created three years after 9/11 was meant as a continuing memorial to the 343 firefighters who died in New York the day of the terrorist attack. It’s a reminder that firefighters run into burning buildings when everyone else is running out.

Now, the series is coming to an end Wednesday night.

In keeping with the spirit of the show, the final images will be one last salute to the fallen firefighters.

Leary brought a personal understanding to the show. His cousin, a firefighter in west-

ern Massachusetts, was killed in the line of duty in 1999. He saw how firefighters, especially the ones who are still working, avoid dealing with loss and tried to show that through his character, Tommy Gavin _ a character Leary says tried to “to drink it away or (expletive) it away.”

The show has been a labor of love for Leary, who not only starred in it but was the executive producer and one of three main writers, along with Tolan and John Scurti.

Like a good commander, Leary gives most of the credit to his team _ Larenz Tate, Andrea Roth, Callie Thorne, Steven Pasquale, John Scurti, Daniel Sunjata, Mike Lombardi _ for making the See RESCUE, Page 6

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Alan Jackson’s 9/11 ballad resounds

By Randy Lewis McClatchy Tribune

LOS ANGELES — Country singer Alan Jackson has been tapped to perform his postSept. 11 song “Where Were You (When the World Stopped Tur ning)” at the Concer t for Hope at the Washington National Cathedral on the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks.

President Barack Obama also will speak at the event, which will culminate a week of observances to commemorate the anniversary.

Jackson’s song became perhaps the most widely played of the responses from musicians to the events of Sept. 11, 2001, and it will be highlighted Monday on an A&E Biography special, “When Pop Culture Saved America.”

Jackson had introduced the song about two months after the attacks, during the Country Music Association Aw a r d s t e l e c a s t f r o m Nashville, Tenn., singing what amounted to a string of questions without easy answers. ___

Did you weep for the children who lost their dear loved ones And pray for the ones who don’t know?

Did you rejoice for the people who walked from the rubble And sob for the ones left

below? ___ The vast majority of Jackson’s repertoire up to that point, and pretty much since, had consisted of songs about See WORD, Page 6

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Alan Jackson’s song “Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)” will be performed live at the Washington National Cathedral on Sept. 11.

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show work so well. He knew he had a great cast when he heard them read the first script.

Leary says that reading made him realize the show could go from silly to serious and each actor would be able to handle the challenge.

The hardest part about ending “Rescue Me” was coming up with the proper finale.

Ideas ranged from Gavin sitting down in the middle of a burning room in a chair _ as either a suicide or a heroic gesture _ to having him swim out into the ocean.

The ending they picked was based on one question: Will a man who has survived this great tragedy actually survive it or not?

“I think in the face of seven seasons of television, you don’t want to say no to that question. You don’t want to bring people along on a journey that long and then say, ‘No, he’s not going to survive.’ It’s just a very negative message.

So we decided to, at that point, go with something a little more hopeful,” Tolan says.

As has been the case throughout the show, even “hopeful” can come with a lot

of dark humor and touching moments. Whether dealing with life or death, “Rescue Me” found the humor in sad situations and the sadness of lighter moments.

Leary had always hoped the series would remain popular enough to stay on the air until the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11. It not only survived, it’s such a part of pop culture that Tommy Gavin’s bunker gear was donated to the Smithsonian Institution.

That’s when Leary and Tolan realized they created a culturally significant TV show.

“Working in television, that’s the last thing you expect to happen to anything you write. It made me really stop and think about how this show is how we really deal with things,” Tolan says. “This is how people move forward.

They continue to live, and they laugh, and they bust each other’s balls. Life goes on.

“You don’t think that when you are starting it. You just think, ‘Oh, let’s do the show, and let’s make it the best it can be.’ And then, all of a sudden, it’s significant.”

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love, the joys and sorrows of small-town life, the hopes, dreams and struggles of working people.

The closest he’s gotten to a political statement is some of those songs detailing the hard times blue-collar workers have faced in recent years.

“I find I generally don’t like songs where people express their political views,” the softspoken Georgia native told the Los Angeles Times not long after he’d written it and started singing it in public. “And this one isn’t political. It’s still pretty simple.” ___ I’m just a singer of simple songs I’m not a real political man I watch CNN but I’m not sure I can tell you The difference in Iraq and Iran ___ He said he’d had a sleepless night shortly after the attacks, woke up with a head full of questions, and then fashioned them into the song.

“I felt like I was just reporting,” Jackson said, “asking the kinds of questions anybody might ask.” ___

Did you feel guilty ‘cause you’re a survivor In a crowded room did you feel alone?

Did you call up your mother and tell her you loved her?

Did you dust off that Bible at home? ___ In fact, he said he was initially hesitant about the song in a couple of ways. First, he was reluctant to take on such a loaded issue. But he said the fact that the song came to him relatively quickly convinced him it was worth doing. ___ Did you open your eyes, hope it never happened Close your eyes and not go to sleep?

Did you notice the sunset the first time in ages Or speak to some stranger on the street? ___ After writing it, Jackson wasn’t sure he ought to play it in public. “I didn’t want it to look like I was trying to sell my career with this” tragedy, he said. But family members and friends persuaded him otherwise.

He also didn’t release it as a single, again because he didn’t want it to be viewed as something he was trying to sell.

Last year, when Jackson had his star added to the Hollywood Walk of Fame, he was asked whether he still plays “Where Were You.” He said he’s been surprised by how many people continue to request it in concert, long after the original shock of the events of that day subsided.

He said he’d expected fans to be interested for a few weeks or months after the song first surfaced but a show hasn’t gone by when someone doesn’t ask for it. So he’s kept it in his set list. ___ Did you go to a church and hold hands with some strangers Did you stand in line and give your own blood?

Did you just stay home and cling tight to your family Thank God you had somebody to love? ___ “I don’t know where it came from,” Jackson said. “It’s like one of my favorite things Hank Williams said when he was asked about where he got his songs. He said, ‘I just hold the pen _ God writes the song.’

That’s how I feel about this one.”

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Fresno State comes up short against California

By Jerry Huerta The Collegian SAN FRANCISCO — The Bulldogs’ faithful covered Bill Walsh field with a sea of red as they came to see their ‘Dogs battle it out with California Golden Bears.

The ‘Dogs got started with a n e a rly i n t e rc e p t i o n by sophomore L.J. Jones, putting Fresno State in scoring position in Golden Bear territory.

Jones made his second career start and made his presence felt early on.

Junior Robbie Rouse plowed it in from nine yards out to give Fresno State the 7-0 lead early in the first quarter. He finished the season opener with 86 yards on 17 carries.

Center Richard Helepiko went down with an ankle injury during the first quarter, causing an offensive line shift for the ‘Dogs. With Helepiko out, the Fresno State coaching staff was forced to shift players to unfamiliar positions and use untested linemen off the bench.

“For a lot of our kids it was an opportunity to see what they look like in a division one game,” head coach Pat Hill said after the game. “[Leslie] Cooper got his first start not only at guard, but a center when [Richard] Helepiko went down.”

The Golden Bears would answer back with a rushing touchdown of their own when junior Isi Sofele plunged in from a yard out on the ensuing

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Junior Robbie Rouse was one of the few bright spots during the season opener. He finished the game with 86 yards on 17 carries and one touchdown.

drive. The ‘Dogs would block the extra point to make the score 7-6 in the first quarter.

Later in the quarter, the Golden Bears would extend their lead with Sofele’s second score of the afternoon,

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this time on a 39-yard touchdown run. Fresno State again blocked the extra point, but California took the lead with five minutes left in the first quarter.

It was a lead Califor nia would never relinquish.

Junior Zach Maynard starting his first game with his new team, found senior receiver Marvin Jones for a 42-yard touchdown pass at the end of the first quarter to give California the 19-7 lead.

With four minutes left in the half, the Bulldogs’ defense sacked Maynard to force a fumble in the end zone for a

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Bulldog touchdown. The score cut the Golden Bears’ lead to 19-14, but Fresno State would never get any close after a powerful California secondhalf effort.

I n t h e s e c o n d h a l f, t h e Golden Bears got on the board first with Maynard finding

game with 266 yards and two touchdowns in the air. He also rushed for 53 yards on five carries, extending Fresno State’s long struggles against dualthreat quarterbacks.

On the other hand, sophomore Derek Carr had little time to flash his abilities facing constant presVIDEO: Check online to see the sure all night with Califor nia recordFresno State vs. Cal recap. ing four sacks. One of those sacks came http://collegian.csufresno.edu from Califor nia Jones again for a 23-yard defensive end Trevor Guyton touchdown pass to extend who forced a fumble and Califor nia’s lead to 26-14. returned it for a touchdown.

Maynard torched the ‘Dogs G u y t o n ’ s s c o r e g ave t h e throughout the game with his Golden Bears a commanding arm and his legs finishing the 33-14 lead in the third quarter.

In the fourth quarter, the Golden Bears would score a g a i n o n a f i e l d g o a l by Giorgio Tavecchio to push the California lead to three touchdowns at 36-14.

For Fresno State, the game was a story of numerous three-and-out drives as it was forced to punt eight times, but Fresno State saw a pair of collegiate firsts as Carr found freshman wide receiver Josh Harper for a fourth-quarter score.

After the score, the ‘Dogs still faced a daunting twotouchdown deficit with a little more than four minutes remaining.

The Carr-to-Harper connection would prove to culminate the Battle by the Bay’s scoring.

The Golden Bears held on to win 36-21. The Bakersfield Christian High School graduate talked about what the final touchdown meant to the team moving forward.

“It was crucial,” Carr said.

“We needed that. You don’t like going out there and scorFollow us on ing just one touchdown especially when you lose. We went out there and we fought hard.

They were just a good defense tonight.”

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