Fall 2010 - Issue 14

The S tate Hornet December 8, 2010 INSIDE THE HORNET WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

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Success or failure?

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EVER WONDER HOW MUCH SAC STATE OFFICIALS MAKE? HERE’S A LIST OF THEIR 2009 SALARIES: ALEXANDER GONZALEZ president - $358,681 JOSEPH SHELEY provost and vice president for academic affairs - $201,955

Kylie Kuhns is both the NCAA leader in rebounds and a Tae Kwon Do phenom.

DAVID WAGNER vice president for human resources - $199,009

Sports B4 HOLIDAY CELEBRATIONS

SANJAY VARSHNEY dean, College of Business Administration - $192,414 CAROLE HAYASHINO vice president for university advancement - $186,961

Find three fun ways to get in the holiday mood.

STEPHEN GARCIA chief financial officer - $186,740

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LORI VARLOTTA vice president for student affairs - $174,697

IT’S THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN

How do you make sure you succeed in keeping your resolutions?

Opinion A7 DREAM ACT

Students rally at the Capitol to show support for the DREAM Act.

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GONZALEZ SAYS DESTINATION 2010 BROUGHT FUNDS TO THE UNIVERSITY; CRITICS SAY IT HAD MISPLACED PRIORITIES

By Ken Paglia kpaglia@statehornet.com Six years after Sacramento State President Alexander Gonzalez unveiled Destination 2010, his pet project to foster the university’s prominence in the region, students and faculty have mixed feelings about the value it brought to campus.

Destination 2010, launched in 2004 during Gonzalez’s second year as president, is the initiative that brought student facilities such as

Course sections restored for next semester: general education

• 51 upper division general education

• 143 major classes

Police detective gives tips on how to stay safe on campus.

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the Well, the Academic Information Resource Center, the American River Courtyard residence hall and the 3,000-space Parking Structure III. “It focused more on buildings than academics,” said Lois Boulgarides, president of the Capitol chapter of the California Faculty Association. “It was very cosmetic; all about branding and looks.”

From Boulgarides’ perspective, the rise in tuition, reduction of see 2010 | page A6

LISA BEUTLER associate director, Center for Collaborative Policy - $160,856 For a full list, go to www.sacbee.com/ statepay.

Campus restores 303 spring classes • 109 lower division

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EMIR MACARI dean, College of Engineering and Computer Science - $171,972

By Micah Stevenson mstevenson@statehornet.com Because of $6.6 million in one-time federal stimulus funds received earlier this semester, Sacramento State will restore 303 courses for the spring.

The one-time funding came

from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which was intended to create additional jobs and encourage spending.

“The additional courses are being opened to be responsive to new students coming next semester, second-semester stu-

dents who were admitted in fall 2010, and continuing seniors and juniors who are experiencing bottlenecks in some of their required courses in their majors,” said Lakshmi Malroutu, special assistant to Provost Joseph Sheley, in an e-mail to The State Hornet. “Our goal

is to bring in 3,000 additional students for the spring, but we have to wait until December to see if that target can be achieved.”

Of the General Education restorations, 109 will be from see SPRING | page A8

ASI proposes to eliminate Hornet Line

By Michelle Curtis mcurtis@statehornet.com In response to the proposed cuts to the Hornet Shuttle, Associated Students Inc. proposed alternative solutions to the university’s Transportation Advisory Committee that involves cutting the Hornet Line instead of the Gold Line.

“If were talking about cutting lines, the Hornet Line goes around campus - everything on campus you can walk to,” said Chris Smith, ASI’s vice president of finance. “Also, the 82, 87, 34 (Regional Transit buses)

go to light rail directly and you can walk though the Hornet Tunnel (to get there).

The University Transportation and Parking Services is proposing to eliminate the Hornet Shuttle’s early and late morning, midday and evening routes by spring and the Gold Line by fall. Abigail Stone, associate vice president of business and administrative services for UTAPS, said the proposed changes would save about $100,000 annually, allowing for the purchase or lease of new buses.

ASI’s proposal now goes to

UTAPS for approval, and then to Sacramento State President Alexander Gonzalez for his signature.

ASI opposes elimination of the Gold Line because it has the highest ridership. Smith said spring 2010 figures show the Gold Line has 24,450 riders, while the Green and Hornet lines have 19,062 and 14,029 riders, respectively.

The Gold Line also covers routes that Regional Transit buses do not, Smith said.

Smith said the Gold Line covers the Heritage Lane/Point West area, where some students

live and Regional Transit does not cover. It also goes to Howe and Northrop where there is only one Regional Transit bus every 30 minutes.

Stone said the Gold Line was chosen for elimination because the majority of its routes overlapped with Regional Transit.

She said students can ride the Regional Transit for free with their OneCard and commuter pass sleeve from the OneCard Office.

The Green and Hornet lines, on the other hand, do not see SHUTTLE | page A8

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The Gold Line, which has the most ridership, could be eliminated in the fall.

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Students protest at Capitol to support the DREAM Act

By Lauren Greenwood and Laila Barakat news@statehornet.com A week before Congress will vote on the DREAM Act, students rallied in front of the state Capitol Thursday to garner support for the much-debated bill.

“We’re not here for people to feel sorry for us. We’re here to raise awareness to something that affects all of us,” Yeimi Lopez, organizer of the rally and member of the Sac State Coalition, told a crowd of about 60 students.

The Sac State Coalition worked with students from Sacramento City, Napa Valley and Cosumnes River community colleges­as well as UC Davis.

The coalition also had guests who caravanned from Los Angeles to speak about the impact the DREAM Act would have on students and the community.

“The most important thing about the rally was the solidarity we saw in the students. This is more than just the DREAM Act; this is about students beginning to talk to each other,” Lopez, senior digital media major, said. “Students are going through the same struggles and it comes down to students not being able to pay for their education and that’s bringing us together.”

The Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act would provide undocumented students who graduate from a United States high school, the opportunity earn permanent residency if they complete two years in the military or two years at a four-year institution of higher learning.

Congress is scheduled to vote on the bill today.

At the rally, students who will be affected by the bill spoke of their personal struggles.

Jose Perez (not his real name), a community organizer at Sac City, said not having a driver’s

license is one of the hardest challenges about being undocumented.

On average, it takes him about two hours to get to school, so he has to leave his house at 5 a.m. to get to his 7 a.m. class, said Perez, who has been accepted to Sac State for fall 2011.

“I got into to Sac State, but now what? It is so much more expensive than my community college,” he said.

Perez said he plans to take the spring semester off from school to work and save money.

Lopez said the coalition and other organizations involved with the planning of the rally were successful because they were able to connect with students across the state and started receiving more support from unions, such as the Service Employees International Union and the California Faculty Association.

“It is not our fault that our parents came here to give us a better life. The U.S. always tries and emphasize land of opportunity and now they want to shut the door of opportunities in our faces,” said Maria Rodriguez (not her real name), an undocumented sophomore business major at Sac State. “The Dream Act would be a blessing to all those wishing to have a better life. That is really all there is to it.”

Senate Republicans and centrist Democrats, however, are firmly against the DREAM Act, saying it encourages “illegal behavior.”

“The current legislation would include green cards and citizenship, which under present law would follow with amnesty for those who came here illegally as adults,” according to an e-mail from the office of Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, who promised to vote against the DREAM Act. An argument by Democratic

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Yeimi Lopez, senior digital media major and member of the Sac State Coalition, leads the protest Thursday at the state Capitol to get support for the DREAM Act, which will be voted on

by Congress today. About 60 students showed up at the rally.

supporters cites a Congressional Budget Office report released Thursday night that outlined the economic impacts of the bill. According to the report, revenues could increase an estimated $2.3 billion in the next 10 years by giving workers legal status.

Whether or not the DREAM Act passes, Lopez said Sac State Coalition is preparing for its next steps to help undocumented students.

The coalition is reaching out to Sac State President Alexander Gonzalez to institutionalize a scholarship for AB 540 students and is currently doing outreach to students in the local community, Lopez said.

“We want to educate students of the choices they have. They don’t have to just go into the military,” Lopez said. “We need to make sure students know they have a choice.”

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Obama picks alumnus for teaching excellence award

By Cayla Gales cgales@statehornet.com Shortly after failing third grade, Sacramento State alumnus Mark Fairbank found out he had dyslexia, but that did not stop him from eventually becoming an award-winning teacher.

President Barack Obama recently announced Fairbank is one of the 103 top science and math teachers in the country to receive the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching.

The award is a $10,000 grant Fairbank can use at his discretion and a six-day all-expensepaid trip to Washington D.C. to meet the president and to attend the award ceremony, which will take place in two weeks.

Even as a third-grader Fairbank knew he wanted to teach chemistry one day. So from then all the way through college, he spent extra hours studying before and after school.

“I struggled through my entire career at school. So I went to community college for three

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Sacramento State alumnus and school teacher Mark Fairbank is a recipient of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching.

“I struggled through my entire career at school ... at Sac State I used to study from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. every single day, including Saturdays and Sundays, so I could make it through.”

- Mark Fairbank, Sac State alumnus years,” Fairbank said. “Then at Sac State I used to study from 6 a.m. in the morning to 10 p.m. every single day, including Saturdays and Sundays, so I could make it through.”

He said he had a lot of help from his family, from his mother who read textbooks to him, to his wife and best friend who helped him type his papers.

“My parents were tremendously supportive. I would not have gotten to the place that I got if my parents had not supported me all the way through,” Fairbank said. “I had a lot of people help me all the way along.”

A semester after receiving his teaching credential from Sac State, Fairbank got a job teaching at Sacramento High School, then at Elk Grove High School where he worked while he was getting his master’s degree from Sac State.

From there he moved to Paso Robles High School where he has been teaching physics and chemistry for the past 27 years.

“Mark is far more than just an amazing teacher. He is a terrific friend, and a leader on our campus. His integrity, honesty, work ethic, skill and knowledge are, without exaggerating, legendary in our community,” said Paso Roble High School science/biology teacher Mark DiMaggio, who has known and worked with Fairbank for almost 25 years.

Fairbank demonstrates a strong dedication to his profession. He spends the first half hour of every school day with some of his students, providing them with extra help.

“He arrives at school at 5:30 a.m., and by 6 a.m. there are eight or 10 students in his classroom ready to put in extra time to prepare for an exam, finish a lab report or get help on a homework assignment. How many teachers do you know who have students voluntarily come at 6 a.m.?” DiMaggio said.

Fairbank said his experiences at Sac State inspired him to have this level of dedication to his students.

“The best professor I ever had took interest in us learning, and had a passion for the content.

I’d go into his class and we would be hands on, involved, active, participating in education,” Fairbank said. “He would say ‘Hi’ to us when we were in the hallways.”

For Fairbank, teaching is not just about the curriculum, or the textbooks or the lectures; it is more about developing strong relationships with his students and helping them grow into well-rounded human beings.

“I think what it all boils down to is relationships and how we treat other people. If you treat them with respect and honor and dignity no matter who they are, you’ve made a connection,” Fairbank said. “If I teach them every day that the most important part of being a person is their ability to relate to others and how they react to others and that’s more important than the content knowledge.”

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Business majors learn how to responsibly invest money

By Michelle Curtis mcurtis@statehornet.com Business students at Sacramento State are part of a new program that allows them to invest real money into companies and gain real-life experience about how stock markets work.

The Student Investment Management Program is a collaborative project between the College of Business Administration and University Enterprises Inc. Last month, UEI transferred $250,000 from its short-term investment account into a Fidelity Investments account set up for the program, said Jim Reinhart, executive director of UEI. Nine selected students will invest the money from UEI in stocks in the Standard & Poor’s 500 index, which has the largest companies in the United States.

One rule is the students cannot invest in any “sin stocks” such as tobacco, gambling and alcohol, said Anna Vygodina, assistant professor of finance who oversees the students.

“It is a great opportunity to learn how the capital market works,” said Vladimir Petrosyan, senior business major. “(We) learn about managing money and finding ways to make money.”

Petrosyan said the program consists of researching companies and their stocks to predict how they will be doing in the future. Students then have to present an argument to the program’s board of directors, which consists of professors and industry professionals, as to why they think a particular company will grow and why this money should be invested.

Once a week, students meet with finance professors, Vygodina and Lan Liu who guide them on their next steps. Then, once a month faculty advisers, Jonathen Lederer and Hashar

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Nine Sacramento State business majors are participants in an investment program where they invest real money into Standard & Poor’s companies.

Zakaria, meet with the students to give them a general overview of the financial industry, Vygodina said.

Through voting, students make a joint decision on where to invest the money. So far students have invested $175,000 into an Exchange Traded Fund, which tracks the Standard & Poor 500, Vygodina said.

Vygodina said by investing $175,000 into the Exchange Traded Fund the money is being spread out into many stocks rather than buying one share of each of the Standard & Poor 500 stocks and having “all your eggs in one basket.”

Petrosyan said he has researched five companies: Campbell’s Soups, Oxy Occidental Petroleum Corporation, 3M, Cliffs and Union Pacific Railroad, but he wants to wait until a price he thinks the company is valued at is higher than the current market price.

“This is the first semester,” Petrosyan said. “We are learning more this semester (about companies) and next semester we will be able to choose better companies (to invest in).”

Alex Sakhnyuk, senior business major, said the hardest part is projecting what the com-

pany’s growth will be within the next five years because the projection needs to be realistic.

Vygodina said the program will prepare students for investment jobs and provide the hands-on experience employers want. If students graduate with only knowledge from the classroom, employers might pass them over. “(The program) summarizes the whole finance field,” Vygodina said.

She said the program applies the skills learned in business and finance classes such as investing in stocks, how the stock market works and the risks involved with investing to a real-life situation.

Vygodina said the biggest difference between this program and in-classroom learning is the dedication and interest of the students.

She said because students are working with real money, they are dedicated, interested and they want to do a good job.

“This allows me to compete with students coming out of Ivy League schools, by the time I leave (the program) I will have a year of experience (in investing),” said Sandra Gallo, senior business major.

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Documentary examines cancer, exposes chemical giants

By Miriam Arghandiwal marghandiwal@statehornet.com Sacramento State and Dark Cinemas of Corvallis, Ore., held the first screenings of the award-winning and controversial documentary “The Idiot Cycle,” on Tuesday night in the University Union’s Valley Suite, as a one-time free event. It was the documentary’s first screening in the United States.

The documentary, created by UCLA and film school alumna Emmanuelle Schick Garcia, addresses the reasons for the modern-day epidemic of cancer and reveals how chemical companies profit from both making chemicals that cause cancer and then from selling the drugs that treat it.

Elizabeth Martinez, vice president of the Environmental Student Organization at Sac State and senior government major, was responsible for obtaining rights to screen the film. She said the film shows the poor quality of everyday products and consumption in goods that surround us everyday, items like cosmetics, toothpastes and plastics.

The documentary is banned in the United States because it was denied an Errors and Omissions insurance due to its “subject matter.”

The insurance is necessary to ensure a film is safe from lawsuits, if a television or theater chooses to air it, Garcia said.

Garcia began researching to create the film five years ago, when she was inspired by the death of her mother.

“My mother was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 49, which initially started my investigation into what had caused it,” she said.

Garcia said when it comes to cancer, most people want to talk about treatments and research because they want to look for hope and a way to fight it.

“I wanted to know why we ignore the causes, and certainly why governments don’t make it a requirement to have longterm health testing on synthetic chemicals and genetically modified organisms before they are licensed,” she said.

The film focuses on the stories of cancer patients, as well as six major companies who allegedly took part in and benefited from creating and treating cancer.

These include Dow Chemical, Bayer, BASF, Monsanto, DuPont and AstraZeneca.

Marie-Paule Aspe of Japanese Pop Songs Films, a french film company that recently picked up the documentary, said these companies have also been part of why the film has not yet been

shown in the United States.

Recently, a school director at the University of Montpeiller in France cancelled a screening of the film after he heard the school’s sponsor BASF was cited in the film, she said.

Garcia said instances like this often happen. Many universities have corporate sponsors and the sponsors’ influence on the students’ education is usually not evident until someone does some research that is not good for the sponsors’ business, she said.

Then comes a moment students realize they are not at the university to be a student and learn subjectively, Garcia said.

Garcia said she encourages students to be aware of the conflicts of interests that may exist at their schools, for they may have direct links in the cause of the cancer epidemic or other ones as well.

She said students can become more aware by inquiring about who gives research funds to their universities, how this affects what does and does not get funded, and in turn, how this affects the students’ education.

She said asking questions would allow them to analyze and think more critically about what they are learning while preparing for their future jobs.

“In the past year I’ve been

invited to present the film at a number of universities - University of Oxford, University of Oslo, etc. and I think the most important thing is to create dialogue and have the students think outside their specialties,” she said. “Their job, no matter what it is, will have consequences on the world around us, and certainly how to be aware of that.”

Garcia said students whom she has met have been trying to voice their concerns about the issues brought up in the film.

But while some students want their voices heard, others may still be hesitant about it.

“It’s hard for debt-ridden students to say no to a goodpaying salary. You never think you are going to be part of a company that makes people sick, and you think that you can change that company for the better if that’s the case,” she said. “Unfortunately, as history shows, these companies don’t fundamentally change very much.”

Garcia said many of these companies are paying for a lot of scholarships, so students are usually grateful and professors are even consultants for companies.

While Garcia does not see anything wrong with corporations helping fund schools, she

does want to see that they are doing it legitimately.

“I’m not against corporations; I’m against companies that have been making people sick for decades,” she said. “When is that going to be regarded as criminal?”

Martinez said she is not aware of any such issues with Sac State donors, but said she would not be surprised to find there was since it occurs so often.

Courtesy Photo Even schools that “The Idiot Cycle,” a documentary on are thought to how corporations profit from both be progressive making chemicals that cause cancer like UC Davis, and selling the drugs that treat it, held are influenced by its first U.S. screening Tuesday in the companies like University Union.

Monsanto, she said. to understand what it is exactly Martinez said addressing the that’s causing it,” she said. issues in this film is the most Students are becoming a effective way to fight the battle against cancer. new class of consumers so it is “I appreciate people getting important for them to know excited and participating in the harm of the products they runs for cancer and wearing use or buy so they do not make their pink shirts in an effort themselves sick like so many to fight cancer, but in order to have, Martinez said. truly fight cancer people need

Opportunity to teach in Thailand available for students

By Cayla Gales cgales@statehornet.com While students at Sacramento State will always have the option to study abroad through school-funded programs, communication studies professor Thomas Knutson offers another option - to spend a year in Thailand teaching English.

This program allows for a select number of Sac State students to travel and live in Bangkok to teach English to students at the Chitralada Royal Palace School.

Knutson, who has traveled to Thailand about 42 times so far, is an advocate of traveling abroad. He started offering this

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Sacramento State alumna Erin O’Brien poses with her students at the Chitralada Royal Palace School.

opportunity to Sac State students in 2006 at the urging of a friend from Chitralada.

“They’ve really done a great job and we’ve built a really strong bridge between Sacramento and Bangkok,” Knutson said.

Knutson said he introduced the program to give students a chance to work abroad and share their skills with the Chitralada school. It is not at all funded by Sac State. But for the students who participate, it has tremendous benefits.

The Chitralada school pays for round-trip airfare, furnished accommodations and transportation from the apartment to the school. Student teachers, who are usually assigned to teach elementary students or seventh- to 12th-graders, get paid $600 every month.

“I think it’s an excellent way to take yourself out of your comfort zone and look at things from a different perspective. I loved Thailand, its people, and its rich culture, living there gave me a much deeper appreciation for the advantages we are

given merely by being born in the United States,” said Erin O’Brien, who graduated from Sac State in 2006 with a degree in communication studies and participated in the program in the 2009-10 school year.

For O’Brien, the opportunity to teach in Thailand seemed right for many reasons.

“I have always wanted to travel and live in another country, but couldn’t afford it,” O’Brien said. “I wanted the experience of being immersed in a different culture instead of just going sightseeing for a few weeks. When I came across the opportunity, I said, ‘Why not?’”

O’Brien taught 15 one-hourlong classes every week, each with 15 to 40 students. She said she found it difficult in the beginning because she was not given much training, but said she eventually got used to it.

And when not in the classroom, they were free to do some traveling.

“We also got to attend many ceremonies and special events that were closed to the general public, so that was pretty neat.

POLICE LOG Nov. 27 Victor Garcia, 41, was arrested on suspicion of DUI at an undisclosed location near campus.

Nov. 28 Michael Marquez, 24, was arrested on suspicion of DUI at an undisclosed location near campus.

Keith Anderson, 56, was arrested at

the main bus stop on suspicion of having outstanding warrants.

Nov. 29 Campus staff reported that someone broke into a vending machine at the River Front Center.

Nov. 30 An unattended backpack was re-

ported stolen at Mendocino Hall.

Nov. 29 A bicycle was reported stolen at Sierra Hall.

Thursday A vehicle was reported stolen at Lot 7.

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It is an opportunity to see a side of Thailand that most people don’t,” she said.

Knutson, who is an adjunct professor at Bangkok University and also conducts research about Thailand and its people, urges students who have never traveled abroad to consider taking this opportunity.

“Thailand is a remarkable place. It’s a great place to go if no one’s ever been abroad, because they are very welcome to foreigners. Our Sacramento State people who have returned are impressed beyond belief at the way they were treated,” Knutson said.

Knutson’s experiences in Thailand were so inspirational that his urging alone convinced some of his students to take part in the program, said Casey Mayville, who graduated from Sac State in 2007 with a degree in communication studies and was part of the first group to participate in the program in 2006-07.

Mayville, like O’Brien, found the first few weeks in Thailand challenging. But over the course

of the year she succeeded in teaching her classes English while getting the chance to know Thailand, the Thai people and herself a little better.

“You will learn how you deal with challenging situations and you will grow from them,” Mayville said. “It was one of the best years of my young life and I learned so much. I feel that I am a better, more well-rounded person because of my time there and I wouldn’t change a thing about my trip. Except that maybe I would have stayed two years instead of one.”

For more information, contact professor Thomas Knutson at (916) 278-6941, or thomasknutson@ comcast.net.

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“The criticism that we lacked focus on academics is totally false ...

Students are the beneficiaries. The vast majority of the money we raise is not in cash, but in endowments to fund scholarships.” Alexander Gonzalez, Sac State president

Campus celebrates sevenyear project at annual gala

By Micah Stevenson mstevenson@statehornet.com Sacramento State celebrated the achievements of Destination 2010 Friday night during the fifth Green and Gold Gala in the University Union Ballroom.

“It was seven years ago that we launched our initiative to improve Sacramento State, and just look how far we’ve come,” said Sac State President Alexander Gonzalez to about 360 people at the gala. “We have dispelled the notion that we are an isolated institution by reaching out to the community, forming exciting new partnerships and generating unprecedented levels of support. We dreamed big, and we succeeded.”

Tickets to the event were $200 apiece, with a $50 discount for Sac State faculty and staff.

Proceeds went toward student scholarships, according to a Sac State press release. The event’s featured sponsor, Wells Fargo, donated $100,000 to Sac State for student veterans’ scholarships.

Carole Hayashino, vice president of the Office of University Advancement, said the gala aims to increase the campus’ visibility and make a connection with the community.

“We really focused on our friends in the community and our alums,” Hayashino said.

“Tonight is a nice balance of both community and campus to come together, which was one of the four tenets of Destination 2010, so I think the gala tonight really illustrates its success.”

Although Sac State students were not given a discount to attend, seats were reserved for sponsored students from the Honors, Student Veteran Success and Guardian Scholars programs, and Associated Students Inc. “We actually have more students this year, which is great,” Hayashino said. “We’re really thrilled to have students represented throughout our program this evening. Our students have been great about even volunteering as ambassadors and greeters for our guests tonight as well as being part of the entertainment.”

The gala included a reception, dinner, dancing and entertainment by pop band Clean Slate, as well as a skit from the musical comedy act, Nunsense.

Hayashino said this year’s gala focused more on recognizing the collective efforts of Sac State faculty, staff, students and alumni, and community members in achieving the goals of Destination 2010, than honoring a single person like it did in the past four years.

“We are recognizing that it really takes a community for the success of Sacramento State,” Hayashino said. “That’s why there’s such joy and celebration

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Guests at the Green and Gold Gala start a soul train and show off their moves Friday in the University Union Ballroom.

tonight, is because everyone’s been a part of Destination 2010, and they feel so much like a part of the university now.”

Hayashino said there is more to Destination 2010’s success than the construction of new buildings.

“What has been more difficult to measure is the great sense of pride our alumni are feeling about their alma mater,” Hayashino said. “Our alumni are much more connected, and I think it shows not only in our alumni activities, but also in the private gifts coming to the university. We’ve been receiving multi-million dollar gifts, and it’s all going to students, faculty and classrooms.”

The University Foundation of Sac State manages the financial donations given to the campus.

Pam Stewart, its chief financial officer, said the gala allows people in the community to come together to and learn more about how to support the university.

“I go to social events because I’m a volunteer in the community, and a lot of times they are obligations,” Stewart said. “This, however, is a joy. Everyone here is committed to the university, so no matter who I talk to, I talk about some of the university initiatives that we’re trying to promote, and they get excited about it, which doesn’t happen everywhere you go. It’s exciting.”

Stewart said her favorite part of the night was a video detailing the effects Destination 2010 has had on the campus.

“What was exciting tonight

was being able to see up there on that screen where we’ve come, because you forget,” Stewart said. “You forget, and then all of a sudden, it’s happening. It’s so exciting. It’s all about the students. They’re why we’re here.”

Stewart said the community needs to learn more about the initiatives that the University Foundation is trying to promote because Sac State can use as much support as it can get.

“I would also like to hear from the students if there is more we can do to promote what we’re doing so they understand that we are acting on their behalf. Again, it’s all about you; you’re why we’re here. I have kids where you are, and there are people who are helping them. That’s why I do it.”

Gonzalez said this year’s gala did not just focus on the past, but also marked a new beginning for Sac State.

“We want Sacramento State to be the epicenter of Sacramento’s intellectual, cultural and economic prosperity,” Gonzalez said. “This includes world-class academic programs that prepare graduates for the workforce; centers of excellence that will make us a regional hub for innovation; and facilities and attractions that make our campus a destination for events and entertainment. We’ll go into more detail in the spring, and I hope all of you stay with us as we work to create an even brighter future at Sacramento State.”

more than 300 faculty in the last two years, and the elimination of more than 220 class sections should be a rallying call for the university to re-prioritize scholastics.

“If there’s money to put up new buildings but not for basic academic programs, then there is something terribly wrong,” Boulgarides said.

But Destination 2010 had four goals – one of which was to enhance academics. To that end, the university created a doctoral degree in educational leadership, the Guardian Scholars program for students who grew up in foster care, and the prestigious Capital Fellows program, a state government internship.

Campus officials also increased enrollment capacity for its nursing program and secured $500,000 in scholarships for its General Education Honors program.

“The criticism that we lacked focus on academics is totally false,” Gonzalez said.

Destination 2010’s other three goals were to create a welcoming campus, a dynamic campus and to elicit community support.

Bucking the naysayers was Associated Students Inc. President Terry Martin, who said Destination 2010 has helped make Sac State a place where students want to stay on campus.

“It is really focused more on the student life aspect, and that’s something worthwhile,” Martin said. “There’s much more to the student experience than academics, and being able to do things like work out at the Well

can indirectly affect academic performance.”

Gonzalez, confidently backing his vision of university priorities, said Destination 2010 projects have brought donors to the university, which in turn helps students.

When billionaire philanthropist Eli Broad gave Sacramento State $2 million in 2006 to help build the Broad Field House, the university’s football and track facility, it was the first time he had donated to a California State University.

Gonzalez said Broad’s interest was directly correlated to an enhanced campus reputation carved out by Destination 2010 projects.

“All of these projects attract people and interest, and ultimately what we want them to do is support us financially as well,” Gonzalez said, citing several other examples.

The university’s fundraising arm, The University Foundation, in 2009 raised $150,000 for student veteran scholarships when the Veterans Service Center moved to a larger facility in the spring.

The university’s annual Green and Gold Gala used to bring in about $2 million to $3 million. But recently, the event has raised around $17 million, Gonzalez said, attributing the rise to donors’ increased interest in projects stemming from Destination 2010.

“Students are the beneficiaries,” Gonzalez said. “The vast majority of the money we raise is not in cash, but endowments to fund scholarships.”

But Boulgarides said there is no evidence that the Well itself,

or any other Destination 2010 building, directly procured donations.

“There have always been people willing to donate money,” Boulgarides said. “They didn’t need three new buildings to have the Green and Gold Gala.”

Calling Gonzalez’ donation examples “a distraction,” Boulgarides said most donors help fund projects, buildings and stadiums, and not academic programs.

Destination 2010 is also, in all fairness, incomplete. Its original drawings included a new event center for concerts and sports, and a science complex slated to be built next to the Hornet Bookstore. Gonzalez said the hurdles preventing completion were purely fiscal.

“With the economy the way it is, and the state budget the way it is, we don’t have the capital yet,” he said.

But there are still plans to complete those projects, Gonzalez said.

He said he will be unveiling his post-destination 2010 initiative this spring, which includes both projects.

“Destination 2010 was really the precursor to a much broader initiative that will take place over the next 10 to 20 years,” he said.

Looking back at his sevenyear project, at times in the face of disapproval, Gonzalez maintains that Destination 2010 brought a new sense of pride to campus.

“When I first became president here, no one wore Sac State paraphernalia and clothing. But now you see it everywhere you go,” he said.

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Spring: Next school year’s classes still left uncertain Continued | page A1 the lower division and 51 will be from the upper division. For majors throughout the campus, 143 courses will be restored.

Six restored classes will be online.

“The 300 additional courses being added to the spring 2011 schedule will help in ameliorating (improving) the studentfaculty ratio,” Malroutu said.

“If at the end of the admission cycle we find that there is still unmet demand then Academic Affairs is willing to open additional course sections.”

Thirty-three courses will be restored in the kinesiology and health science department, which endured cuts over the past year, said Joan Neide, interim chair of the program.

An additional 133 kinesiology majors and 91 health science

majors will also be enrolled, she said.

However, Neide said she is unsure if the department will have the resources to sustain the incoming courses and majors after spring 2011. She said although every department is working to give students a quality education, the lack of courses has been a huge obstacle.

“Right now we have only

been given the directive that this is a one-time funding of those classes that we have added back into the schedule because our budget has not been released on what we will be doing for next fall,” Neide said. “It will ease the enrollment, but I don’t think it will be a cure. It will definitely help our enrollment for the spring, but with 3,000 students coming in, what do we do with them in

fall? We just don’t know at this time, but we are hoping to be able to meet the needs of all of our students, but it all depends on what the state allocates to the university.”

At the very least, the onetime funding will significantly help in the spring, Neide said.

The funding will also allow for some of the laid off part-time kinesiology instructors to return to campus.

“It helps out a lot,” Neide said. “Some of these people have been working for us for years and lost their job as of last spring, so it’s great news, but again, this is a one-time stimulus funding. The rest is unknown at this point. I wish I knew.”

Shuttle: Students say Gold Line should not be cut Continued | page A1 overlap because the Green Line services the area from La Riviera to Watt and along Folsom Boulevard and the Hornet Line goes to Folsom Hall and the 65th Street light rail station, Stone said.

She also said students who live in the Heritage Lane/Point West area can take the No. 22 bus stop on Arden Way near Heritage Lane and transfer to the No. 87 on Howe Ave to get to Sac State.

But transferring buses can turn the 20-minute commute to campus into an hour, Smith said.

“We encourage students living in this area to look for opportunities to car pool to and from campus or to consider alternate locations to live next year if that opportunity is available to them,” Stone said.

Because students have yearlong leases at apartments near Heritage Lane/Point West, Stone said UTAPS would not eliminate the Gold Line until fall 2011.

ASI’s proposal said the Hornet Line should be considered for elimination because it has the most redundancy with Regional Transit. The Hornet Tunnel provides access to the Light Rail

Station and students can get to areas within campus like Folsom Hall via the Hornet Night Shuttle.

Danielle Hamel, a teacher credential student, agreed.

She said UTAPS should eliminate the Hornet Line because it stops at the light rail station, which is only a 15-minute walk from Sac State.

The proposal also said UTAPS needs to evaluate cutbacks on a per-route basis and time-pertime basis rather than cutting routes and schedules in a block. “(UTAPS’) assumption in cutting in blocks like this assumes (students are) going to share rides in some other way, that’s not necessarily true; they might take their own cars and the whole point in ride sharing is clearing up the roads and making our environment a better place,” Smith said.

ASI President Terry Martin said he has received many calls from students who do not want the Gold Line cut.

“It’s rare for me to receive this level of feedback from students unless the issue is fee increases, so it’s important to me that we do what we need to in order to keep the bus route running,” Martin said.

GOLD LINE AND REGIONAL TRANSIT ROUTES

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Make holiday Hornet sports thrive gifts personal EDITORIAL

despite our disinterest Dec. 17 will not only mark the last day of finals for Sacramento State, but it will also end one of the greatest athletic semesters in university history.

For a commuter school and a campus community that does not pay a whole lot of attention to its Division I athletics, the fall 2010 semester has witnessed a monumental shift of success and progress.

With some championship game heroics by Elece McBride and Rory O’Day, both the men’s and women’s soccer teams won their respective conference championships and advanced to the NCAA tournament. This is the first time both soccer teams have won the conference championship in the same year since playing in Division I. Our men’s soccer team found its way back into the second round of the NCAA tournament in back-to-back years while having an undefeated record at home since

2008, 16-0-5 at Hornet Field.

Freshman goalie Cesar Castillo has been the backbone for the men’s soccer team and recently got named to the Freshman All-America team by goal.com for his spectacular play this season including the most shutouts in school history, with eight.

Men’s tennis standout Kiryl Harbatsiuk became the first player in school history to win the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Northwest Regional Championship title. He advanced to the quarterfinals of the ITA National Championships, and along the way beat the No. 4-ranked player in the nation.

For anyone who has ever watched a college football or basketball game on ESPN, it is not hard to notice the packed stadium and the crazy student section. The students are making the most out of their college years because they care about their school’s sports.

They take pride in doing

school cheers in the stands and yelling and celebrating when their team does well.

They get disappointed when their team loses, yet they wear their school colors with pride. Now would be a great time for Sac State students to jump on the bandwagon.

Attendance for football games dropped 23.75 percent this year, the same year our team posted a winning record for the first time since 2000 and beat two ranked teams. In a stadium that fits 21,000, less than 8,000 people on average showed up.

Students do not have to pay a penny for any game on campus. Clearly, the interest for sports on campus has been left behind.

Looking deeper into the football team’s 6-5 overall record, the team was only 11 points away from holding a 10-1 record and having the best record in Division I-AA football. The losses were all to ranked teams and UC Davis.

Sac State sports now have appeal, which comes with good results. Our hardworking players and coaching staffs are not content on anything besides winning.

Coaches and recruiters can let the results speak for themselves when recruiting high school and transfer athletes to Sac State. It doesn’t take a whole lot of talking if an athlete wants to go to a successful university.

And it is not looking like Sac State athletics is calling it quits after one semester.

Women’s basketball star Kylie Kuhns is leading the entire NCAA in rebounds with 13.4 per game. The women’s gymnastics team is also looking to capture its seventh conference championship in 11 years.

Progress is being made at Sac State. School records were broken in just about every fall sport this semester.

Coming from a school where the campus has been used to disappointing results - a change is here.

Resolve to enact steps not goals

By Talecia Bell tbell@statehornet.com

He’s making a list, he’s checking it twice, he’s going find out who’s depressed about life … new year’s resolutions are coming to town.

In the wake of the holiday season, December usually marks the time of the year that most people are assessing their lives and preparing positive resolutions.

Although identifying areas within your life that need improvement and setting goals is important, do not overanalyze and create extensive lists of unachievable resolutions. It may leave you feeling gloomy.

Psychology professor Kelly Cotter said setting too many resolutions will not be very

effective and can lead to negative behavior.

“Setting too many unreachable goals concerns me because if you are unsuccessful at one goal, you are more likely to give up on all the others,” Cotter said. “Focusing on one or two main goals is much more effective and leads to better health and self-efficacy.”

When we succeed in achieving our goals, we are more confident in our ability to accomplish things and are therefore more likely to succeed at larger goals in the future.

This year, rather than coming up with big resolutions, I chose to set several shortterm goals: lose the extra 30 pounds I gained this year, lead a healthier lifestyle and

be more family-oriented.

How will I accomplish all this in just one short year?

Truthfully, I do not see myself being able to accomplish them, as they stand right now. They are too broad.

Kalyn Coppedge, health educator at the Student Health Center, said being more specific when setting your goals well help you to be more successful in accomplishing them.

“Keeping it simple and being specific in setting your goals will make them more easily integrable into your life,” Coppedge said.

Take my resolution goals for example; saying I want to lose 30 pounds does not explain how I will accomplish this. Instead of saying, “I want to lose 30 pounds,”

Some serious, yet kooky resolutions you could make • FarmVille on Facebook will to remind myself to not stop becoming a chore. procrastinate.

• I will not yell at inanimate • I will stop incorporating text language in everyday objects.

• I will quit pretending “realscenarios.

• I will not procrastinate ity TV” is actually reality.

I could be more specific and say, “I will eat a healthy breakfast every day.”

In turn, I have the direction I need to ultimately accomplish my goal to lower my weight by the end of the year.

Also, instead of saying, “I will live a healthier lifestyle,” I could specify this goal by saying, “I will drink a glass of water with every meal.”

This also provides me with the direction I need to succeed in living healthy throughout the year.

Lastly, rather than saying, “I will be more family oriented,” I could set a more specific goal such as “coordinating family night once a week.”

Oftentimes, identifying what our goals are may seem easy; however, the hardest part is tackling these goals.

Instead of trying to achieve one huge goal, strive to achieve smaller goals that will lead you there eventually. Start the new year off with a plan that will actually work.

By Cole Mayer cmayer@statehornet.com

My dad wants Rock Band for Christmas. My mom wants a Kindle. My cousin wants a new PlayStation.

My girlfriend wants a new smartphone. What happened to the holiday spirit?

What happened to giving a gift for the sake of giving?

It seems that all people want for the holidays is a new technologically advanced toy; most of these “toys” out of a reasonable price range. How do they expect me to pay for the newest gaming system when I can barely afford to get them a used game? Should I even bother?

The fast answer is no, I should not. The advent of new technology has brought with it greed and desire for ever more pricey items, in an economy that might as well be part of a depression.

Yet, here people are, asking for gizmos and gadgets.

Hmph. They want a Kindle? I will get them a book I know they will love.

They want a new gaming system? I would get them an awesome board game. They want an entire Rock Band set? I will get them a book on how to play guitar.

Candyce Moore, junior journalism and women’s studies major, agrees that there is something wrong with being too focused on high-tech gifts.

“It’s (become) less about the act of giving because you care about someone and more about everyone wanting the latest tech gadget,” Moore said. “Anything (that is) not bought is not considered a good gift.”

Ryan Musser, senior communication studies major, disagrees, and does think that giving a present is still personal.

“We have not become too high-tech in our demands, the world has just become high-tech in general,” Musser said. “I know plenty of family and friends that love to buy others presents that they feel will be

greatly enjoyed. I don’t see a problem with that as long as people still engage in physical interaction.”

I still see no reason to giving in and buying whatever thingamabobbit is the latest techno fad.

Not many people bother to take the time to lovingly pick out a gift specifically tailored for their loved ones; for the majority, it is simply a motion of buying what the person they are buying for wants, not what they need or something that they will feel is connected to the giver.

When was the last time you handmade an ornament as a gift for your significant other? Or what about the last time you went to Borders, taking two hours to find the one novel that hits all the story ideas that your best friend loves? I will hazard a guess that the closest you came to that is getting a gift card and calling it quits.

Nay, I say, it is time to take

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the holidays back and make it a proverbial giver’s market.

It is time to put a thinking cap on (cleverly disguised as a Santa cap), and hand-pick the perfect present.

Think of alternatives and be creative. Get something that is not horribly expensive.

Get something that is needed, not “wanted.” I want this, I want that. Want, want, want. What about what people need?

The holidays are, in part, a time for feeling connected to one another through giving gifts, not just shoving some shiny gizmo at someone and waiting for reciprocation.

Make a gift or spend an hour in a store searching for something that screams their name.

But for the love of the holidays, do not get a gift card.

Guest column: ASI President Terry Martin wraps up the semester One of the reasons I used to get very frustrated with ASI presidents’ administrations is that I never felt like they took the time to let the rest of us know what the heck they were doing!

In order to give the students more bang for their buck, I decided to try this thing out where I would write a column for The State Hornet newspaper at the end of the semester to give a little bit of an update on what your representatives are doing. Ready? Sweet!

First, we have been hard at work developing college joint councils to improve communication and collaboration between ASI and the clubs on campus.

Joint councils are committees that are composed of all of the various clubs and organizations of an academic college and include the relevant ASI director.

These joint councils are ways for ASI to foster closer interaction with the campus community in order to spur student involvement.

Just this semester we have started three new councils in the Colleges of Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies, Health and Human Services, Education, and Arts and Letters.

Second, we have increased ASI’s visibility on campus by visiting clubs, making classroom presentations and tabling in the Quad.

We have also expanded outreach to the residence halls both through events such as the ASI Block Party and through meeting with residents and resident advisers to discuss campus issues.

Third, we have continued to reform our club funding process by making sport clubs eligible for the ASI Dollars for Organizations

and Clubs program for the first time.

Fourth, we have effectively cut much of the bureaucracy and red tape out of running for ASI election. The newly passed 2011 ASI Election Code takes new steps to ensure that candidates can more easily navigate ASI elections without fearing frivolous election complaints.

Finally, we have filled nearly every available student position on university committees to ensure that we, the students, have a say in the way our campus is run.

So there you have it! This is a small list of what we’ve been up to over the last semester.

Although the spatial constraints of this article prevent me from listing everything, I hope you come away with a better understanding of our

student association so you can hold us, your representatives, accountable!

As we break for the holidays I would like to encourage you to get involved in ASI if your spring schedule permits it. Whether it is by influencing statewide legislation as a member of the ASI Strike Force, crafting campus policy by serving on a university committee, or running for student body office.

We are always looking for students willing to get involved to make sure that the student voice is well represented.

Your questions are our questions, so get involved in the conversation! ▶◀ ▶◀ ▶◀

Terry Martin, ASI president.

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A ballet, a drama and a musical bring the holiday season to life with colorful performances.

THEATRE OF LIGHTS Enjoy a free live show, themed street vendors with treats like spiced nuts and hot cocoa, free pictures with Santa Claus and a history lesson in Old Sacramento’s “Theatre of Lights.”

“Theatre of Lights” is an unconventional 20-minute production that will be playing at 6 and 7:30 p.m. Thursdays through Sundays during the holiday season. The actual show will take place on tops of buildings, motioned with a symphony of lights and music. The audience will not be seated but instead be standing out on the street between K and Front streets.

Staying true to the nature of Old Sacramento, where some of the buildings are at least 200 years old, the show will be narrated by Mark Twain as he tells the story of how Old Sacramento celebrated Christmas in the old days.

Living history characters will make an appearance as well as Santa Claus, who will appear on one of the balconies and recite “A Night before Christmas,” while actors come down to visit the audience below.

After the show there will be singing of Christmas carols and Santa Claus will come downstairs to take pictures with the audience for free.

On select nights, charities like Make-A-Wish-Foundation and the Salvation Army will stop by to collect items and the show will feature guest celebrity “Papas,” such as news anchors from local news channels and representatives from charity organizations.

A CHRISTMAS CAROL When Christmas traditions are forgotten and its meaning lost, “A Christmas Carol,” reminds us of what it originally meant.

The play, presented by Sacramento Theatre Company, tells the tale of the spirits of Christmas’ past, present and future that visit a mean-spirited old man. This old man has forgotten how to give and the spirits are meant to help him see clearly again. As the old man finds himself alone on Christmas Eve, he turns away his nephew and refuses to be charitable.

Then the spirits come, the ghost of the old man’s dead partner shows up to warn him of the three following spirits who will visit to make him aware of how he has changed and what he will lose if he does not work to make things right.

The journey starts, as the old man looks at his past Christmases, what his actions have caused for the present Christmas and what future Christmases hold for him.

The Sacramento Theatre Company has created its own musical version of the story. With vintage costumes of times in old Britain and a creative stage set, the cast brings Charles Dickens’ story to life.

The production runs through Dec. 26 at varying times. Tickets are $25.

THE NUTCRACKER Placer Theatre Ballet practices storytelling through the art of dance this holiday season by featuring a memorable production of “The Nutcracker.” The ballet which is originally based on the story, “The Nutcracker and the King of Mice,” tells a tale of a young girl who falls asleep under a Christmas tree and dreams of her toy Nutcracker her grandfather has given her.

In her dream the Nutcracker comes to life and battles the King of Mice; he then becomes human and takes the little girl on journey through the lands of snow and the land of sweets. Along the way they meet dancing snowflakes, pink ballerinas, and sugar plums, candy canes, dancing flowers and Spanish, Arabian, Russian, and Chinese dancers.

The dancers take the audience on a wild imaginative ride through dancing and their colorful costumes. The little girl then wakes up satisfied with her dream. The Placer Theatre Ballet had their last showing Sunday, but you can still catch the a performance of “The Nutcracker,” at the Sacramento Ballet through Dec. 23, at varying times. Tickets are $75 for adults and and $39 for children 12 years of age of younger.

Top left: Scenes from this year’s productions of “The Nutcracker,” “A Christmas Carol” and “Theatre of Lights.” These are all holiday shows that will be playing in Sacramento this month. Bottom, from left to right: Old Sacramento’s “Theatre of Lights” is an outdoor show where the audience lines up on the street and watches

how Christmas used to be in Sacramento in the olden days. The show takes place on the balconies of old historic buildings; Sacramento Theatre’s “A Christmas Carol” takes an old man back to his youth when he proposed to his wife; Production of “The Nutcracker” done by Placer Theatre Ballet.

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Dancers communicate by putting emotion in movements

By Leia Ostermann lostermann@statehornet.com More than 30 hours of work per week for the last four months were all part of the journey for students and choreographers in the department of theater and dance’s annual performance, Dance Sites 2010. This year, students really focused on communicating through this art work by putting emotion into all their movements.

This year, Dance Sites expresses many emotions, from a more powerful masculine energy to ballet-influences like softness and thoughtfulness.

“This year there are three guest choreographers – not faculty – on the program. This is the most we have ever had and I think this just reflects the growing dance community in Sacramento. Sacramento State’s dance

program has become a central hub for dance in this area. There are also two pieces in the show with all-male casts which is also a first for Dance Sites,” said Randee Paufve, director of Dance Sites, choreographer and faculty member.

The evolution of the dances in Dance Sites usually begins with the vision of the choreographers, picking music or exploring a literary subject as a theme for their dance, Paufve said.

“For me, I usually begin by developing movement, both alone and with my dancers, and then I try to let the piece tell me where it wants to go,” Paufve said.

The title, Dance Sites, refers to many different places or sites of dance. Each of the choreographers have their own site. This year all seven of the choreographers used seven unrelated stories to showcase different styles

of dance, including parkour, hip hop, African Caribbean, and modern dance.

One of the pieces used modern dance to show the story of a solider writing love letters from war, requiring just as much acting as dancing.

“The face is the most important part of this piece. If we

only move, we can’t really say anything so we express with our faces. At one point, when we move very slowly, the only thing we have is our face to transmit what we are saying,” said Diego Campos, sophomore dance major.

Because of the amount of acting involved in dance, rehears-

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From left to right: Ure Egbuho, Emily Anuszczyk, Lautrell Smith and Windy Kahana performed Sunday night in Nathan Jones’ “Elsie and Olivia Holding It Down.”

als tended to be hard, with occasional touches of humor.

One of the choreographers,Tony Nguyen’s, senior dance major, rehearsals was conducted over Skype. A small computer and a larger cast made it hard for the company to get feedback from their choreographer.

“We had to resort to using gestures, large facial expressions and fitting into a small window of space for the cameras,” he said. “It was particularly funny because our piece is rather seriously themed but none of us could stay serious at all.”

For these dancers, Dance Sites 2010 has been a fun journey involving a lot of hard training and learning how to transmit feelings from stage.

Campos’ final performance required calm energy, something he had to practice.

“We want to base everything on human feelings and experi-

ences so that we can transmit that to the audience. They can then catch that and relate to it.

I’ve seen pieces before that make me want a cry or scare me. I hope the audience catches these feelings and think ‘I can relate to that. I get that,’” Campos said.

By the time these dancers were under the spotlight, all their hard-work paid off, Paufve said.

“We were interested in well trained dancers that are virtuosos and good performers.

As you can see, we have had an amazing combo of both in our cast. I am very happy with that,” Paufve said.

The dances in this program varied between more athletic movements and more gestural, emotionally based dancing, but all of the dancers were passionately involved in practicing and perfecting their dance, Paufve said.

Artist portrays commonalities amongst different cultures

By Tzahuiztil Sanchez tsanchez@statehornet.com When the driver of a truck illegally transporting cattle in India spotted photographer Robert Radin taking photos in the late 1980s, the driver took off with Radin on the back, swerving back and forth on a mountainside while Radin held on for his life.

This near-death experience did not stop Radin’s journey documenting dozens of cultures and landscapes over several decades, and now Sacramento State has the privilege of showcasing a collection of his photos titled “This Beautiful World” in the University Union Gallery. Running through Dec. 16, graphic design manager, gallery coordinator and Sac State alumna Tiffany Dreyer organized the exhibit.

Although the gallery did not

have enough room to fit all 65 photos of the collection, the exhibit still features 35 photos of children, people and landscapes from all over the world.

Radin offers the “This Beautiful World” exhibit free to colleges and universities in the United States. He said he does this because younger people are more open to the vision which he is trying to share. He believes although there is such variety of culture in the world, we are all still one people and share basic human emotions and needs.

“We are all of a common seed walking a common path and I believe sharing a common destination,” he said.

Under each photo in the exhibit is a short paragraph by Radin adding more detail and context. Some of the descriptions give insight to what he was thinking at the time.

Dreyer said she liked the

descriptions of the pictures.

“Once you read the story then it made the picture come to life,” she said.

One picture, titled “A Long Hello,” shows a gathering of Buddhist monks. A child in the crowd is looking directly at the camera with his hand waving.

In the caption, Radin wonders what the child may have asked him.

“I have never forgotten him.

Our only connection was life itself,” Radin’s caption said.

One of Dreyer’s favorite photos in the collection shows two young brothers holding hands titled “Strange Visitor.” The picture was taken in a remote part of Bhutan. The curious expression on their faces and the bond from their held hands invoke feelings of nostalgia and the innocence of childhood.

Many of the photos in the exhibition are of children. Radin

said children are more open to getting their picture taken. With older people, he said, there is a greater need for understanding about why the picture is being taken and what the picture will be used for. He said as adults we seem to complicate things, but children are simple and pure. “(As adults) we get cluttered.

We get pushed and pulled, manipulated, over-washed, over-educated, over-everything,” he said.

Radin said he does not focus on the technicalities of photography, but instead uses intuition to choose the right moments to document in his photos.

Choosing which pictures to include and how to organize them in the gallery was most challenging for Dreyer. She said she focused more on photos of people because they were more personal.

He is working on a second

collection of photos in order to scene becomes a part of you and have his exhibitions more availyou are urged to record it, for in able to colleges. that shot you have danced with “I’m going through it with the your soul,” Radin said. second collection exactly the same as the first and there’s no answer other than going insane,” he said.

Dreyer said what she enjoyed most about organizing the exhibit was working with Radin.

“He has a really amazing insight on the world and I hope that I can travel someday to take pictures like him,” she said.

Radin said inspiration that drives him to take photos is a spiritual process. He said he finds something within himself that connects to the scene and urges him to capture that Courtesy of Robert Radin moment.

“Each of the pictures I have Radin’s work is up in a extaken is a millisecond of hibit in the University Union magic, for in that moment the Gallery until Dec. 16.

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Senior men’s tennis player Kiryl Harbatsiuk had one of the best playoff runs in Sacramento State history. On Oct. 19 Harbatsiuk became the first Sac State player to win the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Northwest Regional Championship title.

He went 6-0 throughout the tournament and found himself going to Flushing, N.Y., to play for the National Championship.

“The few seconds right after the match when I won I thought, ‘I’m going to New York!,’” Harbatsiuk said. “It means a lot to me. It means I’m doing everything right and I’m on the right way. It felt great because I was working hard.”

Harbatsiuk’s time in playoffs did not end there. While at the ITA National Championships, Harbatsiuk knocked off the No. 4-ranked and No. 20-ranked players to make it to the top-8 quarterfinal match. He eventually ended his impressive championship run at quarterfinals.

Harbatsiuk also won the Hornet Award for “Best Male Athlete” in spring 2010.

Senior forward Leah Larot of the women’s soccer team knows what it like to go out on top. Larot led the team with 10 goals and 21 points and was to the named First Team all-Big Sky Conference as a forward.

“Being my last year and knowing that my effort has made a big enough impact for me to get something like that is just really an honor,” Larot said. “Knowing four years of experience of what to do, knowing when to implement and when to start training really hard was just from experience.”

Larot led the Hornets to a 2-1 comeback victory in the Big Sky semifinal match against Portland State University and went on to win the conference championship for her second time in four years.

“My senior game wasn’t pretty outside at all, but that’s how you go out when it’s just pouring outside playing the game that you love,” Larot said.

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Sacramento State freshman goalkeeper Cesar Castillo is ranked first in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation for saves and was also named Freshman All-America Team on Goal.com after the completion of his rookie season.

Castillo helped Sac State reach an overall record of 11-5-7 this season, which highlighted the Hornets as the MPSF tournament champions and a first round win over Santa Clara University in the NCAA tournament.

“Hopefully next season I will maintain a starting position and continue to have the same hunger to win another championship,” Castillo said.

In the MPSF he ranked second in shutouts and save percentages .825 and third in goals against average.

In the 20 games Castillo played, he racked up 88 saves, had eight shutouts and ended the season 18th in the country with a 0.90 GAA.

Early on in the volleyball season, true freshman Kayla Beal’s future was uncertain. After she lost time to an abdominal strain entering the regular season, Beal had to work to push herself past a setback she never planned on facing.

Beal missed most of the preseason and was still dealing with her injury early on in the regular season. But upon her arrival at Sacramento State she had her sights set on making the starting roster.

“It was nerve-racking because there I was a true freshman - I was injured, I hadn’t really gotten to show anybody what my potential could be, so I was nervous,” Beal said.

When she was added to the starting roster, Beal began to reveal some of that potential. In her first two games she averaged a .444 hitting percentage.

As a true freshman, Beal led the Hornets with a .216 hitting percentage in 619 attempts.

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most improved female athlete

Junior defensive lineman Zack Nash played his best year in his college career.

Not only was his conference-leading 13 sacks a school record and more than doubled second-place Dan Ogden of Montana State University (six), Nash also only trailed Clemson University’s Da’Quan Bowers for the most in the nation with 15.5.

“Getting in the weight room with the coaches and watching game film with the coaches really helped this year,” Nash said.

“I understood it a lot more.”

During the season, his five-sack game against Idaho State University set a conference record, and Nash was named firstteam selection because he also lead the Big Sky Conference in tackles for loss with 16.5.

During his freshman and sophomore seasons, he was given honorable mention for all-Big Sky and had a total of six sacks.

“I made all my individual goals for the season and I definitely exceeded my goals for the season,” Nash said.

With two game-winning goals in the Big Sky Conference Tournament and being named the tournament’s Most Valuable Player, it should come as no surprise that forward Elece McBride of the women’s soccer team is this year’s most improved female athlete.

McBride established herself with six goals made to go along with one assist.

“As a team we all started this season with the confidence that we will win conference this year.” McBride said. “The extra confidence and belief that we can succeed really helped me play my best and give all of my energy to my team.”

The forward’s performance in the Big Sky Tournament was filled with careerdefining plays and is something that she will not soon forget.

“My most memorable moment of the season was hearing the final whistle blow during the Big Sky Championship game and celebrating with my team on the field,” McBride said.

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Michael Linenberger delivered on his 22nd season as the Sacramento State men’s soccer head coach with a Mountain Pacific Sports Ferderation championship victory.

Linenberger led the Hornets to the second round of the NCAA tournament.

Sac State finished the season with a mark of 11-5-7.

“Overall it was a great year,” Linenberger said. “The question going in to the season was, could we duplicate this season what we did last season or was it going to be a one shot wonder. We pretty much accomplished that goal identically and I’m very pleased with this season.”

Since 2008, the Hornets have an amazing unbeaten record, 16-0-5 on their home field. As head coach, Linenberger has a cumulative career record of 148-221-43.

“Being able to sustain this level of consistency is great for the program,” Linenberger said.

When senior quarterback McLeod Bethel-Thompson went down with a broken ankle in the first half against Stanford University, head coach Marshall Sperbeck had no choice but to call No. 18 to replace him.

After only nine days in Sacramento, transferring from New Mexico State University and merely five days of practice with the team, Jeff Fleming took over to replace Bethel-Thompson at quarterback. “(Sperbeck) is telling me what to do from the sidelines, telling me who to throw to, and I don’t know who he’s telling me to throw to because I don’t know any of the guys names yet,” Fleming said.

After that game and as a starter, Fleming led the Hornets to a 6-5 record, losing four games by only 11 total points. Fleming threw for 23 touchdowns and had a 147.4 pass efficiency rating, which ranked second and third in the Big Sky Conference.

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‘Ergathon’ provides funds and awareness for men’s rowing

By AJ Taylor ataylor@statehornet.com

On Nov. 30 and Dec. 1, the Sacramento State men’s Rowing club put on two 12-hour ergathons in order to raise both money and campus awareness of the rowing club and team.

What the men’s rowing club calls “erging” is actually an exercise done on an ergometer, which models a rowing stroke.

Throughout the ergathon two team members both erged for an hourlong shift. When their shift was up another team member would take their position.

“It essentially comes down

to pain,” said Adam Splewski.

“It is one of the hardest things you’ll do but it’s one of the best training methods that we have.”

The Men’s Rowing Club has been putting on the annual event for more than 10 years, and this year’s was the first that was not 24 consecutive hours - only due to the administration’s failure to provide the club with an overnight permit.

In response, the club split the event into two blocks. Both beginning at 6 in the morning and ending at 6 that night.

Money was raised through a letter-writing campaign in which donations were pledged

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Juniors Christopher Dykzeul and Mariel Garcia erg on Nov. 30 to raise money for the men’s rowing club.

for every hour the ergometers were spinning.

“Historically the team’s main fundraiser has always been a 24-hour ergathon, we would erg through the night and that’s the main stave of our funding,” said Dustin Kraus, head coach of the men’s rowing. “We can be on campus, have a presence, show students what rowing is and it’s fun for the guys to do.”

This year the club raised more than $4,000 and is still receiving donations - its goal was set at $10,000. Last year, the club raised $7,000. Each year the club raises money in the hopes of getting enough for a new boat.

“A new boat would mean everything to this program,” said assistant coach Mike Brandt.

“We haven’t bought a new boat since ‘99 and with the technology like everything else, if you don’t have last year’s model or this year’s model, you’re toast.”

The Men’s Rowing Club finished in ninth place in the national tournament in 2008.

Nonetheless, the club still deems the purchase of a new boat necessary.

“We haven’t been able to buy a boat in 11 years, and a new boat can range anywhere from $20,000 to $40,000,” Brandt said. “It depends on

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Starboard Christopher Dykzeul and coxswain Mariel Garcia participated in two 12hour ergathon sessions with the team to raise money for the men’s rowing club.

how much you want to spend, what kind of a boat we want to get, and how much wear and tear we’re willing to pay for because usually if you’re going to spend anywhere between $20,000 and $40,000 on the boat, you’re getting a used boat that is probably two or three maybe five or six years old.”

The club is self-sufficient; the students involved and presi-

dent Armando Guerro are in charge of all fundraising for things that range from new oars, uniforms, a $40,000 boat and their coaches’ salaries.

“We’re a student-run club, so it’s all on us,” Guerro said. “We pay our coaches. We fundraise to pay for our coaches, our trips, travel, any equipment we need to purchase, such as the boat, blades or even a rowing

machine - we need to pay for them ourselves.”

The team does manage to have fun with the fundraiser even though it solely consists of two shifts of an hourstraight workout.

“It’s difficult, but it’s fun … kind of,” said Justin Carter, member of the Men’s Rowing Club. “It’s definitely rewarding though.”

Successful Tae Kwon Do black belt excels with basketball

By Brad Schmidt bschmidt@statehornet.com

There is a Tae Kwon Do black belt on campus, and in her free time you can catch her grabbing rebounds out of the air and scoring baskets.

Sophomore post player Kylie Kuhns has been a bright spot early this season for the Sacramento State women’s basketball team. The Hornets have gotten off to a slow start this season with a 1-6 record, but Kuhns has given the team a reason to believe it can be turned around.

Kuhns has been a statistical monster this year. She leads the NCAA with 13.4 rebounds

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Forward Kylie Kuhns shoots a free throw against the University of San Francisco.

per game and already broke the school record by grabbing 23 rebounds in one game against the University of San Francisco. Kuhns has posted six double-doubles in the first nine games. She earned a career high in points this year against Fresno State when she dropped 30 points to go along with 11 rebounds.

“Kylie plays the game fearlessly,” said head coach Jamie Craighead. “She focuses on being an elite athlete and because of all of her work to be in top physical condition, she is capable of playing against anyone. She is disciplined and goal oriented and strives to be as good as she can possibly be.

Ky is a true competitor and has been a consistent force to be reckoned with for our opponents.”

The fearless and physical style that Kuhns plays with can be attributed to her experience in martial arts. Kuhns participated in Tae Kwon Do for eight years as a youth, where she competed in the Junior National Olympics, the highest level of competition for that age group.

When Kuhns was younger she struggled with selfconfidence and was very shy around her peers. She attributes this to a “separative anxiety” that she felt when apart from her mother.

“Anytime I would leave her side, I would crawl into a

shell,” Kuhns said. “I wasn’t confident with who I was and it would show up in school. I was a very quiet kid.”

Kuhns’ mother knew she loved to be active and participate in sports so she enrolled her daughter in Tae Kwon Do. During one of Kuhns’ first Tae Two Do classes, she had an embarrassing moment that almost had call it quits with her martial arts career.

“The sensei would make one of us count or sing while the class stretched and one day I was chosen,” Kuhns said. “I walked out of class and started crying because I didn’t like that attention. But eventually I learned that I needed the confidence to carry myself through those situations. I’m still a quiet person, but I’m now able to step out of my shell and voice myself on and off the court.”

Kuhns’ quiet style of leadership has been embraced by her teammates as they look to her to be the teams spark plug of energy.

“She leads by showing us her effort on the court and that motivates all of us,” said sophomore forward Mallorie Franco. “When she talks, we all know it’s important and we should listen because she doesn’t talk much.”

As far as her Tae Kwon Do skills go, that is also something that her teammates have come to rely on.

“We joke around about it a lot and it’s awesome,” Franco said. “When we’re in a dark alley we joke and say, ‘OK, where’s Ky?’” Surprisingly enough, Kuhns is not the only one on the team this year with martial arts

experience. Freshman Jordan Kealoha also has a martial arts background and the debate on who can take who is a bit one-sided.

When asked of the martial arts showdown between the two, Franco replied, “Sorry

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Forward Kylie Kuhns goes up for a layup against University of San Francisco. Kuhns leads the entire NCAA in rebounds with 13.4 per game.

-Jordan, my money is on Kylie.”

When Kuhns was asked of the possible match she smiled and said, “I would take her, without a doubt.”

As Kuhn embarks on what appears to be a record-breaking sophomore campaign, her teammates are already talking about the high ceiling that their dominant post player’s future entails.

“I think she’ll be one of the best Sac State athletes of all time by the time she graduates,” Franco said. “I think she is already on that pace, since she played so much as a freshman and now what she is doing as a sophomore.”

When asked about her future, Kuhn says she is going to continue on the path with what has already gotten her this far.

“I work really hard,” Kuhn said. “I’m athletic, but I’m not the most athletic on our team and I rely on my work ethic.

I’m not the fastest on the team; I’m not the best shooter. I’m a 5-foot-11 post, which is really short, I’m not the most physically gifted, but I work hard and make for it with effort. I make hustle plays. My baskets are never the prettiest plays, but they still count.”

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On Second Thought: Favorite Bowl Game All 35 bowl games were selected on sunday. Which college bowl game has the best matchup?

By Brad Schmidt bschmidt@statehornet.com The National Championship game is the one I’m most looking forward to.

What can we expect? How about the nations number tworanked offense versus the nations fifth-ranked offense. How about likely Heisman winner Cam Newton versus the likely runner up LaMichael James.

This game has all the ingredients to become a real high scoring shoot out.

We have all heard the saying defense wins championships.

Well, this game will be decided by which defense gets shredded the least. I am here to say that there is no stopping either of these two offenses and many records may fall when the two meet up.

Another match up worth mentioning is the Discover Orange Bowl which will feature Stanford and Virginia Tech.

These two games are just a part of many that makes this time of the year one of my absolute favorites. This is what teams have fought all year for and for many players that are graduating, the last time they will ever put on a helmet. Truly a special time in the sports world.

By Alyssa Huskinson ahuskinson@statehornet.com The road to the 2010 Bowl Championship Series has taken a few unexpected twists and turns along the way. But in the end, the University of Auburn and the University of Oregon are BCS bound.

The BCS bowls feature the only undefeated teams in the nation - No. 1-ranked University of

Auburn, No. 2-ranked University of Oregon and No. 3-ranked Texas Christian University. The Tigers and Ducks will be playing for a crystal trophy, while the Horned Frogs will have to settle for roses.

TCU becomes the first team in the BCS era to play in the Rose Bowl from a non-AQ league.

But the game I can’t wait for is the championship game.

A first for the bowl season never before have two teams that started the season ranked outside the Associated Press’ top-10, played for the BCS title.

Both Auburn and Oregon have had an unstoppable offense at times and I expect to see a highscoring game. In the end, there can only be one winner because these two teams are equally matched.

By Matt Harrington mharrington@statehornet.com The game that I am looking forward to is the Rose Bowl held in Pasadena. The teams in this game are No. 4 University of Wisconsin and No. 3 Texas Christian University.

Wisconsin earned the bid to the Rose Bowl by finishing first in the Big Ten Conference. Their schedule was not very flashy as they defeated two out of the three

ranked teams on their schedule.

The Badgers scored 70 points or more three times and held teams to 30 points or less as they dominated weaker opponents.

TCU is undefeated and earned the bid to the Rose Bowl as an at-large non-automatic qualifier in the sometimes confusing computer calculations. They won the Mountain West Conference by not letting teams score more than 35 points and blanking two different teams twice.

There won’t be very much offense in this game as both teams are very good defensively. What will be most interesting in this game is if the Horned Frogs can stay undefeated and put doubt into the minds of the voters as to who is the best college football team because both Oregon and Auburn are also undefeated.

The final score in the Rose Bowl will be 28-21, TCU over Wisconsin.

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Women’s football league should showcase talent not skin

By Cassie Kolias ckolias@statehornet.com I found the reason why female athletes are not taken as seriously as their male counterparts.

It’s called the Lingerie Football League. It’s an actual league of 10 football teams made up of women.

Since women have been fighting for rights, all that they have

ever wanted was to be equal.

But honestly, women won’t be considered equal until they stop competing in male chauvinistic creations like the LFL - created to basically make every man’s fantasy come true.

Yes, I know that sex sells. And yes, I know that these women clearly choose to be scantily clad playing full-contact football. But the point still remains that why are there wannabe Playboy girls bending over and tackling each other, and why are we considering that a legit sport?

I’ll bet the September issue of Playboy is their media guide.

I am definitely game for having a women’s football league.

But the one requirement I have is that they be wearing more than cheek-revealing panties

and a garter on their thighs.

There have even been accusations that the league has been fining players for wearing too many clothes. The fine, which is in the standard player’s contract, is $500 if a woman wears any “additional garments” underneath her uniform.

So basically the reason for that was that the league didn’t want women wearing bras or underwear because it would take away the times that players were exposed due to play?

Women should not have to strip down to their unmentionables for people to take notice of the athletic talent these women obviously possess.

Many of the women who make up the 10 LFL teams have backgrounds in competitive

sports, and come from a college or semi-pro background, so they can’t just make the cut based on their cup size or how well they fill out booty shorts. If they didn’t have athletic abilities to go with the beauty, the whole league would just be a joke.

Oh wait, it already is.

Since the games can usually only be viewed through Pay-PerView, they might as well have these women strip down and tackle each other a lot while they attempt touchdowns. They are a mud pile and a heavy rain away from the best porn ever. Cue the rain and bring in the mud.

The league also lends itself to many different marketing strategies. I mean they even have a beer pong table featuring the nearly naked players

and team-specific pong balls that you can buy. Christmas gift for your mom? I know she’s a fan. A cardboard cutout for your uncle? A calendar for your grandma? Game-worn jersey for your pops? You can get all your Christmas shopping done in one place.

I am by no means a prude, but how can a league be taken seriously with names like the Philadelphia Passion, Denver Dream, Dallas Desire, Los Angeles Temptation or the San Diego Seduction? Who knows, we could welcome our very own LFL team. Sacramento Sleaze, anyone? Well, you couldn’t get much more sexist, that’s for sure.

The mastermind behind all this sexism, LFL founder Mitchell Mortaza, was a former con-

testant on “Blind Date.” He has admitted in the Orlando Weekly that the league was created for the enjoyment of “mostly beerdrinking college students aged 21 and up.”

It’s really sad that the only ways these women can play football professionally is by doing so in their panties, and by grabbing at each other’s butts and boobs. If you don’t believe me, there are plenty of photographers at each game capturing each and every grab, and in many of them the player’s face isn’t even included.

The pathetic thing is the players also really believe people take them seriously. Sorry sweetie, but your fans could actually care less if you even had a face.

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Well trainers push students toward fitness goals

By Alyssa Huskinson ahuskinson@statehornet.com Personal trainers at the Well are not moving anywhere for a job.

Five of the seven personal trainers are current and former Sacramento State students who are leading their own personal training sessions for the school that gave them an education.

Personal trainer Randall Bowens is a Sac State student studying kinesiology with an emphasis in physical education.

“Having played football for the greater part of my life I developed a passion for fitness and training that I hope to pass on to as many people as possible,” Bowens said, according to the Well’s website.

Personal training sessions durations are one hour and range from $50 for one session

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Personal trainer Sam Brinkhuis, right, demonstrates medicine ball lifts with the help of a Well employee. to $600 for 20 sessions. For buddy sessions, one session is $65 and 20 sessions are $900.

The Well continues to hire staff that have all areas of fitness knowledge, so people can reach their fitness goals.

“It is a lot of fun helping people reach their fitness goals,” said personal trainer Steven Melanson. “Because many times they have tried and tried without the results they are hoping for and the reaction

they have once they get close or actually reach their goals is always great to see.”

Although Melanson continues to work hard in the gym, the Sac State graduate was influenced to become a personal trainer earlier on in his life while being involved in sports.

“I played soccer since I was 4 years old and playing for University of California, Los Angeles made me realize what being in great shape really meant,” Melanson said. “Also, it showed me that just working out was not enough, but instead you have to push yourself beyond the comfort point in order to get truly great results.”

Melanson said he wants to teach people that getting in shape takes more than going to the gym and just going through the motions.

Sometimes making excuses can be a lot easier than working hard, Melanson said, and someone who is willing to work hard in the gym will likely work hard in other areas in their lives such as school and work.

“I saw all types of injuries while playing college soccer and realized that the reason I never suffered from them was due to my work ethic outside of games and practice,” Melanson said. “Training my entire body instead of just the ‘beach

muscles’ and making sure to train functionally allowed me to take hits without any serious injuries. I thought that doing similar types of exercises with people of any age would help them in sports, work or even getting through the day.”

The personal training staff likes to have fun while getting in shape and offers various options for training.

“The Well has been a blast to work at,” Melanson said. “I have worked at some of the biggest gyms in Southern California and some of the nicest gyms in Northern California, but the Well is near the top of the list when it comes to enjoying where I work.”

Another co-worker of Melanson’s is Courtney McKinnley, a personal trainer who emphasizes on weightlifting.

“While playing college basketball I found a love for weightlifting and strength and conditioning. I then got into powerlifting and have competed in the American Powerlifting Association, raw power lifting competitions,” McKinnley said, according to the Well’s website.

To jumpstart a personal training session or to find out more information to utilize the Well’s facilities visit their website www.thewell.csus.edu.

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