The S tate Hornet October 13, 2010
1960s Plan falls short
C alifornia S tate U niversity, S acramento
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Professor joins walk to raise awareness
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Group raises college funds By Laila Barakat lbarakat@statehornet.com
By Micah Stevenson mstevenson@statehornet.com The California Master Plan for Higher Education of 1960 guaranteed enrollment for a tuition-free education to every academically qualified student; however, this has changed over the years. Winston Lancaster, secretary of the Capitol chapter of the California Faculty Association, said he doubts the students from 50 years ago could afford fees for a 2010 education. “There is a huge, huge difference between the tuition today and 50 years ago,” Lancaster said. “This Master Plan gave everyone a route to the middle class. That’s what we’re losing now.” When Gov. Edmund G. “Pat” Brown signed the Donahoe Act on April 26, 1960, he introduced the Master Plan’s three key features for higher education in California: availability, affordability and differentiation of function among the systems. The University of California, focused on doctorates, was to admit the top eighth percentile of high school graduates. The California State University, offering bachelor’s and master’s degrees, was to select the top third. And the California Community College, awarding associate’s degrees, was to select “… any student capable of benefiting from instruction,” according to the act. One shortcoming of the Master Plan, Gerth said, was that it assumed California would always provide for higher education at the level in which it provided in 1960. “The actual title of the Master Plan is, ‘A Master Plan for Higher Education in California: 1960-1975,’” Gerth said. “Nobody ever argued that it would be the Master Plan for the year 2010. The Master Plan was very clear that it was providing for access and affordability, but the current financial crisis is impinging on it. Students are having trouble getting classes and gaining admission, so there are serious issues out there on the table.”
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Left: Sacramento State business marketing professor Mark Fragoso walks with his sons, 2-year-old Cruz, left, and 3-year-old Luca during the third annual Walk Now for Autism Speaks on Sunday. Top: About 8,000 participants walked the two-mile stretch from Raley Field to the Capitol.
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By Mike Suechting msuechting@statehornet.com Among the 8,000 people who participated in Sacramento’s third annual Walk Now for Autism Speaks on Sunday was the family of Sacramento State business marketing professor Mark Fragoso, whose two-year-old son, Cruz, was diagnosed with autism six months ago. “It is helping bring awareness to how wide spread autism touches everyone regardless of their race, or socio-economic situation,” Fragoso said. “Money is being raised to hopefully someday find a cure or develop something to prevent this from happening to one in every 110 kids.” The Fragoso family, dubbed Team Cruz, walked for more than two miles from Raley Field to the Capitol. The team is made of Mark and his wife, Karen
Fragoso; their three sons, Amiliano, 10, Luca, 3, and Cruz; Karen’s brother, Andrew Brown; Karen’s stepsister Jessica Thornsberry; her sister Kim Johnson and son Trevor; and friend Stephanie Brannan with kids Allison and Katelyn. Walk Now For Autism Speaks is a national fundraising event put on by the nation’s leading autism advocacy organization, Autism Speaks. Its purpose is to raise money for scientific research on causes, prevention and treatment of autism, to raise awareness about the disorder and to advocate for the needs of autistic individuals and their families. Autism is a neurological disorder that inhibits social interactions, imagination and the ability to communicate ideas and feelings. Kristen Byrne, chair of Walk Now For Autism Speaks, said the Center for Disease Control and Prevention called autism a national public health
crisis whose cause and cure is unknown and affects one in every 110 children. “If it’s just a matter of a vaccination they need to get it done,” Thornsberry said. Autism Speaks’ fundraising target for the Sacramento event was $250,000. After the walk, the total amount earned was $217,000, which will continue to grow for 10 days following the event, Byrne said. Team Cruz raised a total of $495. Karen Fragoso said they received donations from family, friends and Mark Fragoso’s coworkers by sending e-mails and utilizing Facebook. Mark Fragoso said initial feeling after learning of his son’s condition was sadness. “Then optimism to help Cruz fight
The newest organization aimed at helping students is created by Sacramento State alumnus Robert Graham, and is run by students and recent college graduates who are “passionate” about making higher education affordable. Established in 2009, Dream. Develop.Do aims to fight for affordable and quality higher education for all, regardless of background, ethnicity or socioeconomic status, Graham said. “Dream.Develop.Do is looking to support students from traditionally underrepresented and under-served backgrounds like foster youth, struggling single mothers, AB 540 students who do not qualify for state or federal financial aid, or firstgeneration students who will be the first in their family to attend college,” Graham said. According to California Education Code 66010.2, higher education institutions in California are to provide accessible … affordable … and quality education to all citizens … particularly the historically and currently underrepresented populations regardless of race, gender, age, disability, or economic circumstance. “Students in the state of California are forced to pay for education that slowly continues to deteriorate in terms of course offerings, enrollment, retention rates and quality,” Graham said. “The question is how can the government go back to offering quality education and lower costs? Dream.Develop.Do has
Dream.Develop.Do and Morris League’s Home Run Derby Fundraiser When: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday Where: McAuliffe Baseball Field, 3001 State University Dr, Sacramento
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MySacState website to have new design, more features By Cayla Gales cgales@statehornet.com MySacState, the interactive website meant to aid Sacramento State students, has been undergoing some maintenance within the past few weeks and is being revamped to make navigating easier for students. The remainder of these changes are expected to be fi-
nalized within the next month, said Lucinda Parker, project and policy manager for Information Resources and Technology. Initial changes to the website were made because the Web Portal Advisory Committee, which is behind all of the changes, is always looking for ways to improve the website to work better for the students. Information Resources and
Technology tries to upgrade the features on the website twice a year to get the “look and feel” to sync up with the university’s home page, Parker said. The site will also be made easier through enhanced navigation options. “Better navigation options are provided through drop-down lists,” Parker said. “You no longer have to navigate to a tab
to see what is on that tab or to go link a specific item on that page.” Some students responded positively toward the new changes. “I really do not think the makeover is a big deal, but I am happy to know that the website will be easier to use,” said Mayra Cordoza, sophomore English major.
Junior graphic design major Timothy Knapp said it “was about time” that Sac State updated MySacState. “I hate the old MySacState layout. The user interface is crappy, but functional. There is way too much going on that front page. They should keep it sleek and simple,” he said. “I go on there sometimes and see so many things I want to change.
I’m glad Sac State’s finally gotten around to it.” According to the university website, an update to the My Stuff tab will include a dragand-drop feature. Students can also add their own content, such as The Sacramento Bee, Google search and an online translation tool. see MySacState | page A8
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THE DEVIL’S HIGHWAY
FOSTER YOUTH FUNDRAISING
Find out who the Yuma 14 are in the review of “The Devil’s Highway.” Find out what foster youths did to help raise $50,000.
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NEWS ROUNDUP Sac State’s weekly news briefs and campus events Funds restored to CSU
On Friday, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the budget, which restored $199 million to the California State University and gave an additional $60.6 million to fund enrollment. The final budget increases CSU’s General Fund support from $2.35 billion in 2009-10 to $2.62 billion. This is the first restoration of state funding since 2007. In a press release issued Friday, CSU Chancellor Charles Reed thanked the governor and the Legislature for restoring funds to the CSU. Even with the increase in funds, the CSU will still struggle to evenly distribute funds because of fiscal obligations such as mandatory cost increases.
Blood drive rewards participants
Associated Students Inc., along with other campus organizations and BloodSource, hope to increase student participation in the third annual Causeway Classic Blood Drive. Students can donate blood in the University Union Ballroom anytime between 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today. Participants will receive a free T-shirts, coupons for food and clothing, as well as entry into a raffle to win IKEA gift cards, iPods and personal training sessions at The Well.
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Sacramento foster youths take the runway to raise funds By Michelle Curtis mcurtis@statehornet.com About 50 foster youths from the Sacramento region became stars for a day at the 9th annual 2010 Tea and Fashion Show event Sunday in the University Union Ballroom. “Foster youths don’t always have the opportunity to strut their stuff and have their pictures taken,” said Joni Pitcl, president and founder of the nonprofit Foster Youth Education Fund, which hosted the event. “We want the public to see the beauty and potential in young adults.” The organization planned to raise $50,000 in proceeds for foster youths in Sacramento, Yolo, El Dorado and Placer counties. It will also give donations to Sacramento State’s Guardian Scholars, a program that helps emancipated foster youths graduate from college. Karen Grace-Kaho, foster care ombudsman for the Department of Social Services, said the total amount of funds raised and the number of tickets sold will not be known until ticket sales are counted next week.
About 350 guests foster youths need and 80 volunteers the support. attend the event. A “(Foster youths) are silent auction was the next generation, also held during the and they deserve the fashion show to help same opportunities,” raise more funds. Norton said. In 2009, the show With the growth of raised $38,000. This the event in Sacis $33,000 more ramento, Pitcl also than when the event hopes the event will began in 2002. expand to regions The fashion show outside of Sacrahas raised more mento and support than a quarter milGuardian Scholar lion dollars to go toprograms at other ward the Guardian universities. Scholars program “We can help and individual foster (foster youths) get a youths since 2002, leg up on their career Pitcl said. and support to go to Jesse Sutton-Hough State Hornet She said 90 percollege,” Pitcl said. Foster youths wearing Macy’s fall line took over the runway Sunday at the cent of funds raised LaVerne Adolfo, 9th annual 2010 Tea and Fashion Show in the University Union Ballroom. go toward foster who has a foster youths and 10 peryouth housing named volunteering five years ago. especially by being a male, cent toward putting after her, started the He said rather than having you’re not limited because of the event together. fashion show 20 years ago. It mainly Caucasian females, the situations like the way you were ended when she died in the She projects that within the event also has more Africanborn,” Morgain said. “You can next five years, the event will hit mid-1990s, and in 2002 Pitcl Americans, Asians, Latinos and do anything you want to do and began hosting the fashion show a half a million in proceeds. males participating have fun while your doing it.” Freshman criminal justice again. Morgain said this allows a Audience member Cearra major Jamaal Morgain said the Pitcl said when Adolfo hosted fashion show has grown beyond foster youth to learn about the show it was called The Norton, freshmen criminal jusproceeds; it has shown more Foster Youth Fashion Show. Inanother person. tice and psychology major, said stead of having choreographed diversity than when he began “By doing a fashion show, the event is important because
dances, the models would walk on the runway, names would be called, and then the model would walk back. Sunday’s fashion show had choreography to Rihanna’s “Umbrella” and Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.” She said the first year she tried to hold the event, 15 foster youths volunteered to model. Trying to get the 15 people to model was difficult because she had to convince and beg people to be in the show, Pitcl said. This year, approximately 65 volunteered were in the show, but a few were not able to participate because of conflicts in their schedules. To be in the show, foster youths must be between the ages of 16 and 21 and must attend all rehearsals and fittings. She said there are more participants this year because several came back from previous years, and the show has gained in popularity. “This is a win-win-win situation,” Pitcl said. “The youth win, the community wins and the kids get the support they need to go to college.”
Young girls learn about careers in male-dominated fields By Mike Suechting msuechting@statehornet.com More than 300 young girls learned what it is like to work in science, technology, engineering and math-related fields in Sacramento State’s 4th annual Expanding Your Horizons conference held Saturday in the University Union Ballroom. The event was hosted by Sac State’s Center for STEM Excellence and the nonprofit group Women of AT&T. Event coordinator Sharon Puricelli said about 40 Sac State students from science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or
STEM disciplines volunteered as mentors to sixth-, seventhand eighth-grade students from schools from around Northern California. “The whole conference is designed to expose girls to the possibilities of a STEM career that they might otherwise not have known, to reduce the gender gap in the STEM disciplines, and to encourage them to stay with their studies during this crucial age when many girls loose interest in math and science,” Puricelli said. The keynote speaker, Mary Haley, director and CEO of Sacramento Zoo, talked about the
importance of having women in traditionally male-dominated fields and the individual benefits of choosing a career in such fields. Haley received her bachelor’s degree in psychology and for a time was the director of Discovery Island, a zoological park designed by Walt Disney. She also served as chair of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums in 2004. Participants had the opportunity to choose from 19 paired workshops that exposed them to STEM-related material. Each workshop is led by one or more professionals, many of whom
are employed by Sac State. “Our staff pairs each workshop with another workshop that is not directly related to that discipline in order to give the girls wider exposure to STEM related subject matter,” Puricelli said. The workshop Bone Detectives, facilitated by anthropology professor Elizabeth Strasser, was designed to educate the girls on basics of forensic science. Casts of human skeletal remains were used to provide participants with hands-on experience in determining the age and sex of the skeletons. Bone detectives was paired
with Fishing for the Future, a workshop ran by education professor Hui-Ju Huang, which used games and hands-on activities to teach participants ways they can achieve a sustainable lifestyle. “It appears that all that instructors here are females in the field of science,” said Roslin Scott, parent of eighth-grader Ricki. “It is good to show her professional women who are in the field.” Lunch was divided into two time slots so while one group was eating in the Ballroom, the other group was attending a career demonstration fair in the
Redwood Room. The career demonstration fair included women from SMUD, AT&T, Society of Women Engineers, UC Davis’ Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering and Intel who answered questions and offered advice on careers in their respective fields. “It is very affordable,” Scott said. “I feel it gives my daughter exposure to other girls with similar interests and she was able to make new friends with those interests, which is a good thing.”
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Program moved to College of Continuing Education By Michelle Curtis mcurtis@statehornet.com Due to budget cuts, Sacramento State has moved the Judicial Administration Certificate program from the Department of Public Policy and Administration to the College of Continuing Education. A change of policy in summer 2009 to the California State University system discontinued publicly supported programs that are not part of a master’s program, said Rob Wassmer, chair of the Department Public Policy and Administration. Wassmer said cutbacks to graduate education were another reason the College of Continuing Education took over the program. “We thought (the Judicial Administration Certificate) program was a good enough program and we wanted to keep it,” Wassmer said. “We are confident in the people working at College of Continuing Education.” When the 12-unit program began in 2007, the Administrative Office of the Courts meant for it to professionalize those who have a bachelor’s degree and are currently working in the courts, but lack a formal graduate education, Wassmer said. The move to the College of Continuing Education will create new benefits for students.
Statisics about court administrators State court administrators make an average of $133,562 annually. Annual salary has increased by an average of 2.69 percent from 2003 to 2008. Source: National Center for State Courts’ 2009 survey of judicial salaries nationwide
Wassmer said even though College of Continuing Education is private and does not receive state funds, the program now costs less. Students are paying 32 percent less this year than if the program was through the Department of Public Policy and Administration, according to current Sac State graduate fees. When the program was through the department, students had to pay for six units even though most only take three units, Wassmer said. Students now pay per-unit rather than the standard oneto-six or six-to-12 unit fees the university has, said Katelyn Sandoval, program manager of the College of Continuing Education. One three-unit class in the College of Continuing Education is $1,350, said Candice Palaspas, program coordinator for the College of Continuing Education. In addition to lower fees, the College of Continuing Education is not confined to Sac State’s semester start-and-end dates. This creates a more flexible schedule than the regular academic school year, Palaspas said. Classes began this month rather than in August, which is when classes on the regular academic schedule started. Despite the transition to the College of Continuing Education, the Department of Public Policy and Administration still has responsibilities in administering the program, Wassmer said. Wassmer said he oversees the applications and approves the instructors while the College of Continuing Education does the marketing and recruitment of students. The classes are geared toward the working professional, who have bachelor’s degrees in any field and have become involved
in the court system. Class meetings are held one weekend a month, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Administrative Office of the Courts. After completing the 16-month program, graduates have different job positions available for them, Sandoval said. Graduates of the program can get jobs as court administrators, according to the program’s website. “(The program) will make them more competitive candidates within the courts to move to supervisory and management positions,” Sandoval said. “(It) is going to give them the skills and information to improve their work and make them more marketable.” Alumnus Hector Gonzalez, who works as executive officer of the Mono County Superior Court, said the program provided him with knowledge about the court system. Before the program, Gonzalez was in mid-level court management. Less than a month after finishing the program, Gonzalez became the CEO of the Mono County court. “This was the best thing I could have done academically and career wise,” Gonzalez said. “There is no way I could have gotten (this) job without the program.” Wassmer said the certificate program allows students to gain an understanding of how the court system works. Students learn through lectures, tests, assignment and guest speakers from judges and lawyers. Wassmer hopes the program will become available statewide. “It’s a valuable degree,” Wassmer said. “By bringing in College of Continuing Education, with their ability to deliver things over the Internet and marketing, we are looking to probably bring this down to Southern California.”
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Sac State to promote Asian culture in upcoming forum By Cayla Gales cgales@statehornet.com Sacramento State will be hosting a forum on Asian arts, culture, education, history and Asian-American experiences on Tuesday. The forum, “Asia - Facing East: Global learning and Conversations,” will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday in the Library. It will include discussions, a movie screening and a performance from a world champion unicyclist. This forum was put together by the Honors Program in association with Sac State’s Omicron Chapter of Phi Beta Delta, the society for international scholars. Among the participants are Sac State professors, students and guest speakers from Sac State and outside Sacramento, who have traveled to, studies and conducted research in Asia. “(The purpose of this forum is to) promote this whole idea of global international understanding by having students and faculty talk about issues that are happening today in our world,” Arnaud said. Different events will take place in different sections of the Library. Some of the discussions and reading will take place in the classrooms in the Library, performances will be in the Library Quad, and the documentary showing will be in the Library gallery. “You can jump into different events, depending on your interest,” said Vanessa Arnaud, a professor in Sac State’s Honors Program and one of the organizers of the event. A guest presentation will be a screening of the documentary “The Oak Park Story,” by two professors from San Francisco. It is about three families from different backgrounds who worked together to win a settlement against the landlord of
their Oakland slum. One of the discussions will be among professors, students and emeritus staff, who studied in China, Japan and Korea and will focus on their experiences there. “Nothing is ever the same in your perspective once you study abroad,” said Virginia Dixon, professor in Sac State’s Department of Education Leadership and Policy Studies. “I think studying abroad and the Honors Program working with the Omicron chapter here of Phi Beta Delta can simply provide this sort of unique opportunity and see how it works for people.” Dixon, who is part of Phi Beta Delta, is among the Sac State professors who will be presenting. For the past 20 years, she has worked with principals of Chinese schools for children with special needs and with China’s Ministry of Education. “My presentation will be very informal, a chance where people can scrutinize what I did, how I did it and to hear some of the details about life and its predictability and its non predictability,” Dixon said. Also among the events in the forum are a presentation by Sac State chemistry professor Brad Baker, who will be discussing research he had conducted in China and his experiences there, and a unicycling performance by a Japanese student from another university. Some students from Arnaud’s class will also be presenting original short stories based on Confucius’ readings. “When you give an assignment to students and they know that they have to give a presentation at a conference or at a forum it shows them the importance of the assignment,” Arnaud said. Other student presentations include a singing performance by students from a Japanese
Asia-Facing East: Global Learning and Conversations When: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday Where: Library Contact: (916) 278-5786 class, a discussion on the ideas of Bhagavad-Gita, the Hindi equivalent of the Bible, and a demonstration from the Filipino Martial Arts Club. Dixon said having different people involved is beneficial because they would have a better understanding of what is happening in Asian countries. “Because what happens now in Japan or in China in Pakistan, really does have an impact down the road and maybe not so far down the road to things in my life and your life even though we may not see them in the next six months,” she said. Arnaud, who has been organizing the leadership forum twice a year for the past few years, said if the Phi Beta Delta society would be interested in doing a forum like this again, she would like to have a forum on a different country every year. She said organizers have talked about possibly centering the event on Africa next year. She also said organizers of the forum have been trying to publicize the event as much as possible, mostly around campus but also outside the school as well, Arnaud said. “We’re trying to open it to everyone. The more involvement from the campus the better. I like seeing events where a lot of students are interested,” Arnaud said.
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Master: College availability now slipping Walk: Participants came in costumes, displayed banners Continued | page A1
Lancaster said the affordability aspect of the Master Plan allowed people from his parents’ generation to attend universities. But according to the CSU Budget Office, system-wide fees for full-time undergraduate students went from $780 in 1990 to $4,230 today. Steve Boilard, director of higher education at the Legislative Analyst’s Office, said tuition is technically not charged in higher education. “The Master Plan permitted the universities to charge ‘fees’ for non-instructional costs,” Boilard said in an e-mail to The State Hornet. “And as you know, those fees have grown from a few hundred dollars to many thousands. So over time the spirit of the Master Plan was left in the dust.” Lancaster said along with affordability, availability is also a slipping feature of the Master Plan, using Sac State’s biology department as an example. “Last year for the first time we cut off admissions for
people who were academically qualified,” Lancaster said. “Our department is under huge stress to cut courses. We’re doing things like taking courses that used to be taught annually and making them every other year. This is going to make it very unavailable.” Lancaster said the California Faculty Association meets with the Legislature at least once a year to express the faculty’s and students’ unhappiness with the financial state of higher education. “One of the responses I would get from legislators is, ‘Well, I’m glad that you came to tell us about this, but where’s your chancellor?’” Lancaster said. “‘If the leader of your institutions is not telling us that he needs more funding, what are we supposed to think?’” This year, Lancaster said, Sac State President Alexander Gonzalez and CSU Chancellor Charles Reed are starting to request more funding for the CSU. “Where were they seven years ago when they were agreeing to these budget cuts?” Lancaster
said. Boilard agrees that college access has been slipping over the past few years. “…but generally we still do a good job of accepting all eligible applicants somewhere in the system,” Boilard said. Gerth said there is an economic urgency for the higher education systems in California to expand their enrollment. “California’s population, by the year 2020, will be short over 1 million for people who have backgrounds from universities. This state is setting itself up for an economic fall in terms of not paying enough attention to higher education.” As for solutions to restore the Master Plan, Lancaster said California needs to acknowledge the dire importance of higher education to the economy. “We have to think in the long term,” Lancaster said. “Higher education is an enormous expense, but every cent of it is an investment for our future’s workforce. The reason we have had this fantastic economic success in California in the ‘60s, ‘70s, and ‘80s is because we had
a highly educated workforce.” The Master Plan is more of a set of ideals, values, and guidelines, rather than a strict blueprint for how higher education should operate on a micro level, Boilard said. However, he said its core values are still relatively strong. “Affordability remains good as a result of financial aid and the low fees at CCC,” Boilard said, “and even with the doctorates at CSU, there remains a pretty strong differentiation of function among the three public segments.” Gerth said although he did not know the exact solution to reviving the Master Plan’s affordable college education, rethinking the state’s financing toward higher education was where to start. “I don’t have a handy-dandy answer,” Gerth said. “To say that the state needs to provide more money is an oversimplification of the issue. It’s just not that easy. It’s going to require some very careful thought, not only in California, but for the entire country as well.”
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Professor Mark Fragoso’s 2-year-old son, Cruz, joined the Walk Now for Autism Speaks.
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this,” he said. During the walk, the line of marchers was so long that as the first batch reached the Capitol, the last was just leaving Raley Field. Many people carried huge banners with pictures of family members, while others were dressed in Star Wars and Disney costumes as they paraded down the streets. About 166 people volunteered for the event, with many of them coming in groups from Sacramento schools, such as Whitney, Del Oro and Laguna Creek high schools. Sponsors for Walk
Now For Autism Speaks included Toys ‘R’ Us and Babies ‘R’ Us on a national level and regional companies, such as Car Czar, Walt Grey Ride, Celestin’s Island Eats, Surewest Foundation, Learning Solutions, Creekside Academy and KFBK 1530 AM. Stephanie Celestin, of Celestin’s Island Eats, has a 3-yearold autistic daughter. She said this is her first year attending the event, and after doing extensive research, she found that Autism Speaks was the best organization available for her family.
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Both the Student Center and Faculty Center sections will also be moved to the MySacState homepage so that users do not have to “click a hundred different links” to get to these centers, Parker said. The concept for the changes
Continued | page A1 awarded scholarships for three college students in the Sacramento area since October 2009. “Dream.Develop.Do believes in providing for the community little by little. We provide $1,000 scholarships every fall and spring (semester),” Graham said. “They may be small scholarships, but the idea is that they make a substantial difference.” Jordan Mortimer, a Dream. Develop.Do scholarship recipient, said his life has been “extremely” blessed since receiving his scholarship. He said he hopes to attend Sac State or the University of Nevada to pursue a major in social work. “Receiving the scholarship has made going to school far less stressful,” Mortimer said. “The money has allowed me to focus my energy on actual schoolwork and not the fact that I do not have my school payments covered.” The scholarship awarding process is decided by a consensus of Dream.Develop.Do.’s board members, composed of college students and recent graduates from colleges in the Sacramento area. The board members not only evaluate each applicant based on financial need, but also look for students who they feel embodies what Dream.Develop.Do is all about, Graham said. “We look for what the applicant is doing with their education, how they plan to implement what they have learned, and how they intend to utilize their education,” Graham said. “We target students who cannot afford to go or return to school, part-time students who work because they cannot afford to go to school full-time, and students who are at risk of dropping out of school due to financial circumstances beyond
to MySacState was brought together through collaboration among the portal committee, Associated Students Inc. and Public Affairs. The actual physical changes were handled by the Information Resource and Technology development team, Parker said. Parker has some suggestions
for the website that she would personally like to see updated. “Some of the changes I would like to see in the future include a MySacState version for your mobile devices.” Parker said. She said she would also like to make student network drives more accessible. These drives are personal network storage
for files that allow students to use the web portal interface to gain access to their school files from anywhere. Parker said all of these changes to MySacState are meant to help students by providing services to them so that they are more inclined to go to the portal for information.
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Student activist Robert Graham is the founder of Dream.Develop.Do.
their control.” Dream.Develop.Do is able to provide scholarships through fundraising, sponsorships and donations from the Sacramento area. The organization has collaborated with the Morris League to host a home-run derby fundraiser on Saturday at McAuliffe Field near Sac State. All proceeds will be split evenly between the Morris League and Dream.Develop.Do scholarships. Graham said he hopes to provide a glimmer of hope to kids and students who are on the verge of giving up because they feel they do not have a chance. “I almost dropped out of high school. I stopped going to my classes because I felt high school was not for me. My school counselor told me I could be anything if I just applied myself,” he said. “I took tutoring for two and a half years and was actually able to graduate on time. I became something more than just a guy with a 1.4 GPA. I made something of myself.” Graham graduated from Sac State last May with a bachelor’s degree in government.
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CSUS websites should connect us
Sacramento State’s websites should become more “social” to allow students to better connect with their classmates using such popular social networking sites as Facebook and Twitter. Wouldn’t it be cool to be able to update a Facebook status from MySacState? The main Sac State website, www.csus.edu, has recently undergone a major facelift and now its “skin” is a lot more green and gold. Although the website has a few links to Facebook and YouTube, it does not integrate the websites directly. Now, a new version of the student website MySacState is slated to be released sometime this week, said Lucinda
Parker, project and policy manager for the Information Resources & Technology department. The exact date and time of the release are still pending, she said. These updates are not doing much to promote student-to-student interaction, or even interaction between students and professors. Parker said the new student website will feature a more interactive “My Stuff ” page, less duplication, faster loading times and the ability to add “skins” to alter the look of the website, among other small changes. In the current iteration of MySacState, “My Stuff ” is not filled with content and requires students to do
the work of adding tabs to it. Parker said not a lot of students have been using this page. Even though the new page would be prefilled with interactive content, it will still be unfamiliar territory for students. The new “My Stuff ” will allow students to integrate web gadgets in a way that is similar to iGoogle. On iGoogle, users can personalize the Google search page by adding news, communication, games and other fun gadgets to the page. What it will be missing, however, is a close integration with social networking websites, which is key to getting students to actually
use this page. There needs to be more to “My Stuff ” besides being able to add different gadgets. It should connect students with the people they already know and interact with on social networking websites, as well as their classmates, to be completely successful. Although SacCT, Sac State’s online course management system, already does this by directly connecting students and faculty – the online system has a very clunky interface. SacCT is designed in an archaic way and its Javacoded interface is prone to crashes. Students use this website to simply do what is required for their classes, but
not much more. We as students are more familiar with the simple white-and-blue Facebook layout. This type of recognition is necessary for SacCT to gain more traction than it now has with students. Sure, students can upload profile photos to SacCT and there is a way to e-mail classmates – but it has a complicated design and not a lot of students seem to be using these features. And unless a professor makes the class roster available, there is none. There is also a chat room feature in SacCT, but students do not seem to use it because it is outdated. The chat room layout has not
changed since 2006, and the web has undergone a lot of changes in design since then. To promote interaction, there should be a chat option at the bottom of the page similar to what students could find on a social network site such as Facebook. Social networking websites have already become a huge part in students’ lives. A more social Sac State student website would invite students to spend more time connected to it – and would benefit Sac State itself by driving more traffic to its websites. See related news story on A1
Politics are a show for voters Campus should
By Cole Mayer cmayer@statehornet.com
Politics suck. Perhaps this is overgeneralizing; the back-and-forth arguments, debates, the lying, and especially politicians out for personal gain, make me gag. With the upcoming gubernatorial election on Nov. 2, the political wheeldealing is in full swing. Everywhere I turn, I cannot escape politics. Campaign advertisements on TV and the radio, political signs on people’s lawns, the discussions about political figures in classes – politics seem to be all around. Take, for instance, the recent debate between gubernatorial candidates Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown. Did the debate add anything to anyone’s view of each candidate? Probably not, and especially not for those who already have bumper stickers attached to their cars. Maybe not watching the debates for that reason makes me ignorant, which is something lobbyist Julianne Broyles of California Advocates is against. “Politics itself doesn’t suck,” Broyles said. “It’s people who are ignorant and
think other people should handle politics for them that suck.” Broyles has a point – people need to know what it is they are voting on. But should that mean seeing Meg Whitman’s face in every commercial break, or hearing Jerry Brown’s voice on the radio every five minutes? It does not help; it just over-saturates the candidate’s name, making me highly annoyed. Stan Oden, government professor, does not think
do much. He believes that people should be involved in shaping the future, but didn’t give them a vehicle to do so.” Waving a carrot on a stick, saying that people should be more involved and not letting them, makes me hate politics that much more. What about Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his promises to help California? Michael Semler, government professor, argues that the governor is doing a poor job. “The current governor may have the poorest capa-
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California gubernatorial candidates Meg Whitman, left, and Jerry Brown shake hands before their most recent televised debate Oct. 2 at Fresno State.
highly of either candidate, but favors Jerry Brown, who was governor of California from 1975 to 1983. “I don’t think Brown will be any different than last time,” Oden said. “He basically said he would do a lot of things, and didn’t
bilities and understanding of the job than any (governor) since Hiram Johnson,” Semler said. Johnson famously had the Alien Land Law of 1913 written and passed, making it impossible for immigrants from Asian countries to gain
citizenship. Because the law was clearly unconstitutional, his law was later overturned by the California Supreme Court for violating the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. More recently, according to the Huffington Post, a liberal news website and blog created by Arianna Huffington, Schwarzenegger’s approval ratings in March were the same as the ratings of former Gov. Gray Davis at the time of this recall. Oden agrees with Semler on Gov. Schwarzenegger’s performance. “Schwarzenegger is the worst governor we’ve had,” Oden said. “He trashed education the first few years of his term, until students and faculty approached him and made the nation aware of the problem.” Finally, the far-overdue budget. The budget was finally passed, but Broyles said the state is already looking at a $10 billion deficit for next year’s budget, proving once again why politics makes my blood boil. To get a state budget passed, political deals must be made. Each side has its own agenda to fulfill. This creates an environment where nothing gets done. With an upcoming vote to decide who will be the next governor, I will certainly pay attention to the state government – but I will still despise the politics game and the politicians who are out for personal gain.
be smoke-free
By Talecia Bell tbell@statehornet.com
Sacramento State requires those who smoke to do so at least 20 feet away from the buildings on campus. Considering the harmful effects caused by smoking, Sac State would benefit students more if it were a smoke-free campus. Those who do not smoke should not have to feel like they are at a hookah lounge while trying to scarf down a Togo’s sandwich outside the River Front Center. “I do notice the (cigarette) butts on the ground, which I think is inconsiderate and sloppy,” said Poul Larsen, junior journalism major. “There’s no respect when it comes to smokers, they get irritated if someone (a nonsmoker) gets annoyed by their smoking.” If Sac State becomes smoke-free, this kind of problem would be mitigated. It is not so much an issue of imposing restrictions on students’ personal rights, but it is about public health and safety. In its “Vital Signs” publication, the Center for Disease
Control recently reported that 443,000 people die from a tobacco-related death every year. Living healthy in today’s world is crucial to how tomorrow’s generation will turn out. Raquel Semintal, director of public affairs for Planned Parenthood, said most young people are not smoking because it is cool; they are smoking because they are inherently prone to smoking. “Young adults that smoke, particularly those that our education clinics in Sacramento, Sierra and the Foothills work with, have had a parent or close relative that were heavy smokers,” Semintal said. Remember going through grade school and being taught how raunchy smoking is? Our generation has always been encouraged to refrain from smoking through campaigns and advertisements, and still is. This is not to say that we should discriminate against smokers and punish them for their preferences. Sac State does not have an issue enforcing higher standards in regards to enrollment acceptance, conduct and graduation requirements, so why leave promoting the development of healthy life habits out? Let’s lead the university in a healthy direction by making Sac State smoke-free.
Facebook, why give us a phone when we have your app?
By Dante Frattini dfrattini@statehornet.com
As someone who was recently shopping for a cell phone, I can attest to the sheer abundance of mobile products that are available to consumers today. There are BlackBerrys, iPhones and uh ... the other ones. So many options could leave a prospective buyer overwhelmed, until they realize the phones all basically do the same exact things. Phone calls? Obviously. Text messaging? Uh-huh. Camera? Yep. Internet? Of course!
The cell phone market is a lot like the female crowd at a night club. There is a lot to choose from but everything looks the same – sleek, pretty, and alluring, but ultimately too expensive to be worth it. In an attempt to offer something new, Facebook, the company that did for stalking what Justin Timberlake did for sexy, is rumored to be developing software they hope to use in a Facebook brand phone. A Facebook phone would probably deeply embed Facebook functions into every aspect of the device. Normal features such as messaging and contacts would be given a face-(book)-lift so that users would never forget who their social-networking daddy was. This comes as really great news to those without access to a computer or a cell phone
that was made after 2003. Finally! Facebook could be right at our fingertips! “It’s not a bad idea because Facebook has what Apple had, a multi-faceted product that people use for everything,” said Evan Boylan, Sac State alumnus. “Why not make it a phone too?” He is correct in that Facebook has a widelyused product that has the potential to generate more revenue. Since they have found a new way to exploit their product, the phone will be a success, right? Oh absolutely! Because it’s not like almost every modern phone can access the Internet. And there aren’t easy-to-use applications that streamline users right to their Facebook content. Oh wait, what is this? Oh, I just received a friend request from my grandmother, because even she is able to
get online. Facebook, I think we need to have a talk. You are a social-media behemoth. You have more than 500 million users. According to The Daily Telegraph, Britain’s highest-selling newspaper, you are worth an estimated $33 billion. Oh, and have you not been around a TV lately? A Hollywood movie all about your immense success has just been released! So please, tell me, what has got you so insecure? Yes, I know cell phones are cool. Yes, you are right, they are very popular and can be a viable business. But the thing is –. Yes, Facebook I know you want to be the best. But just listen –. What? Yes, Facebook, I like you. But the thing is, you are not a phone company. Nor is there any need for you to pump a phone full of your
blue-and-white goodness. Look at Google and Microsoft. Both of those successful companies tried their hand at developing phones and both failed miserably. How many people do you see with Google’s Nexus One or Microsoft’s Kin? None? Shouldn’t that serve as a warning to you? Alex Davis, junior electrical engineering major, reacted amusedly when he heard about your plans to make a phone. After a long “pffft!” he said, “Come on! If Google can’t do it!” I am sorry Facebook, I know that is not what you want to hear. But I am your friend and I am always going to tell you the truth. I think you should stick to what you are good at. Just be yourself, buddy. Facebook ...? Come on, don’t walk away, I am just trying to help.
Alicia Palenyy State Hornet
What the –? Did you just unfriend me? Oh, real mature! Seriously, the last thing we need in this society full of disconnected 20-somethings is another device that makes it even easier to avoid reality. What we really need is .... Oh, sweet! My Facebook app just finished downloading! Would write more but I have some ex-girlfriends to catch up with.
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Fraternities strip to aid blindness By Leia Ostermann lostermann@statehornet.com
Anchor Splash made waves on campus and in the pool this weekend. The Delta Gamma sorority’s annual fundraiser drew more than 200 people, raising an estimated $3,000 to support the blind through a man pageant and a synchronized-swimming dance show. Anchor Splash is the sorority event of the year, said sophomore social work major Kristin Pries, one of the Delta Gamma coaches. Since August, Delta Gamma has been working to plan events, enlist fraternities and also volunteer for the Sacramento Society for the Blind. “We are hoping to raise money to support national blind societies and local ones as well. The Sacramento Society for the Blind is where we volunteer our time as personal assistants for the blind. We even read Cosmopolitan aloud to them when they want it,” said junior economics major Lauren Greenwood, director of Anchor Splash. Delta Gamma raised these funds through the selling tickets to Friday’s Anchor Man Pageant. This was the ticketed event of Anchor Splash, where the sorority raised money to support the blind, Brown said. The students watching screamed and yelled in excitement. Delta Gamma is the only sorority on campus that hosts a three-day philanthropic event, said Ellen Mason, one of the sorority coaches. “Delta Gamma has helped so many people in the United States, we have even started
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Top: The members of Pike, a fraternity at Sac State, perform a dance routine during Delta Gamma’s Anchor Splash philanthropy event on Saturday at the pool in Yosemite Hall. Left: John Jackson, a member of the Pike fraternity, struts his stuff in the Anchorman pageant on Friday. Right: Jason Brown, Cameron Murray and Josh Kentner show off their moves in the Anchorman Pageant.
blind schools through our Service for Sight grants and foundations. At Sac State we have been supporting blind societies since the 1980s,” said senior marketing a design major Courtney Brown. “All apart of the Delta Gamma motto to do good.” Anchor Splash is about having fun and the bonding of fraternities, sororities and philanthropy, said Greenwood, assistant news editor for The State Hornet. Thursday kicked off with the treasure hunt. Fraternities searched the campus for Delta Gamma women and their prize paper anchors, earning points in the process. At the end of the weekend, all the points were tallied up to announce the winning sorority. The competition is fun but also a serious rivalry for fraternities, Brown said. “Some of the girls don’t give out their anchors so easily,” Greenwood said. “Many of the girls ask the boys to shout ‘I love Delta Gamma’ in the middle of the Quad or to serenade them before they give away their anchors. The girls get really creative.” The events are structured to be embarrassing and entertaining, the highlight being the use of Speedos on the men, said Michelle Camello, a Delta Gamma coach. The traditional Anchor Man Pageant on Friday night included a swimsuit competition, lip-sync and dancing performances. “This is where we pick our sweetheart for the year,” Brown said. Sophmore Curtis Morte, Sigma Phi Epsilon’s anchor man contestant, wore a Speedo bedazzled with a pink anchor to show his support for Delta Gamma’s nautical theme. “All of the pageant contestants really enjoy the swimsuit competition, which makes for a colorful lineup of Speedos, wet suits and even bright gold swim trunks,” Greenwood said. Morte said he was chosen by his fraternity to compete in the Anchor Man pageant because of his abs. Most of all, Morte said he loved the lip-sync and dance event in the pageant. His chosen song was an N’Sync classic, “Its Gonna Be You,” complete with back-up dancers. “I wanted to look like N’Sync so I watched the music video over and over and took down notes. But it’s a lot harder than it looks,” Morte said. Sigma Phi Epsilon placed third in the pageant, beaten by the charismatic performance of Pike. The fraternities practiced relentlessly to perfect their dances and their attire for the pageant, Greenwood said. “One guy even oiled himself and drew on fake abs. It was hilarious,” Greenwood said. “Some of the guys strip down to their underwear and do crazy dance moves like the worm.” As the opening event, the pag-
eant also reminded the audience what this whole event is about. “We had a blind man come from the Sacramento Society for the Blind come to the event to share his story. It is super inspirational and it reminds people what they are supporting,” Brown said. Although the event is hosted by Delta Gamma and the participating fraternities, it is the non-Greek community that buys tickets and supports the sorority’s charity. “We definitely try and make the effort to reach out to the community, nationally and locally,” Greenwood said. The final Anchor Splash events on Sunday were all water competitions. Being an experienced swimmer is not the point of this competition, Greenwood said. The events included a turtle race where one of the fraternity members sat in a tube and paddled across the pool, and the save-the-mermaid competition where a Delta Gamma woman rode a tube pushed across the pool by two fraternity members. The wet sweater event received the most cheers from the crowd; the big, wet sweater was traded among swimmers in a relay. This was just the beginning for the DJ, fraternities and cheering crowd as the event culminated in the dance and synchronizedswimming competition. “You have to love seeing all these boys dancing in Speedos,” Camello said. The fraternities choreographed a two-minute dance routine to their choice of music, completing the effect with costumes and accessories. The crowd of students watching could not stop laughing and clapping during the performances. Each team ended the routine with one to two minutes of synchronized swimming in the pool, making the signs for Delta Gamma as well as their fraternity. “It’s just so funny to watch,” Greenwood said. Pries’ team practiced for three weeks at the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity to perfect their routines. They were one of the first to start their practices, Pries said. “We are so bossy but in the end we are making good friends. And these guys are great. They are really genuine and will be our friends even after this event. We just need more excuses to hang out with them,” he said. Delta Gamma was full of sorority pride and passion for their philanthropy, communicated by Greenwood as she passed out the final trophy to Pike and again expressed thanks to everyone involved in Anchor Splash. “It’s an event for family and friends to come out and become aware of blindness in our community. But most of all its just fun and hilarious,” Brown said.
One Book reveals harsh realities of immigration By Tzahuiztil Sanchez tsanchez@statehornet.com Illegal immigration from Mexico to the United States has been a source of increasing controversy. Most of the information we hear from the mainstream media addresses issues of the economy, job availability and illegality from a macroscopic perspective. Luis Alberto Urrea’s book, “The Devil’s Highway,” offers a rare opportunity for us to put a face to the undocumented people who cross the deadly deserts of Arizona. “The Devil’s Highway” is the true story of 26 Mexican men who attempted to illegally cross into the United States through the Arizona border in May 2001. After becoming lost, more than half the men baked to death in the searing desert. The dead became known as the Yuma 14. Urrea tells the whole story
of the ordeal, beginning with the criminal organization that recruited the “pollos” or undocumented immigrants, and ending with the aftermath of the deaths. He describes how human smugglers, “coyotes,” joined the criminal organization of the Cercas gang that led the 14 men to their deaths. The reader learns information regarding the personal lives of those involved. Instead of the impersonal information on illegal immigration that is heard in most media, we learn that these men were fathers, brothers and sons. Two of the 14 who died were father and son, and Urrea describes the father’s pain as he watched his son die. We read about the loved ones they left behind, and the tragic story of their motivation to create better lives for their families. Urrea said he extensively researched the incident for a year in order to compile his story, investigated legal documents,
taped interrogations and travlearns Urrea does not judge any eled to various locations such as of the groups involved in the Border Patrol stations and the book as being right or wrong, Arizona desert itself. or “good guy” and “bad guy.” Although the story is heavily He does a good job of staying researched, Urrea’s narration neutral in his narration and makes the focuses on book flow like instead on dea novel, takscribing what ing the reader happened. In on a journey a questionthrough the and-answer intricate section in the details of back of the “coyotes” book, Urrea and “pollos,” describes “tonks” and the different “cactus cops.” perspectives Instead of just people have. stating facts in Depending an organized on perspecmanner, Urtive, people rea provides view law Courtesy Photo very detailed enforcement, Cover of Luis Urrea’s book, informasmugglers, “The Devil’s Highway,” tion about undocuwhich tells the true story of the people mented, or 26 men as they attempt to involved. the Border cross Mexican border into The reader Patrol as the the United States.
“bad guy.” He said he could not be prejudiced toward any of the groups in order to fairly present the story. “I have to trust my readers to make up their own minds. Even if that means reaching decisions I didn’t intend for them to reach,” Urrea said in the question-and-answer section of the book. Throughout the book, there is an underlying theme of supernatural forces and dark legends that surround the infamous Arizona deserts. Urrea makes references to heads laughing under the desert sand and devils “spitting insults” from under rocks, offering a glimpse of how the desert heat can drive dying border crossers insane. A map in the front of the book shows the paths that the men followed, and provides date and time information. I found myself constantly flipping to the map while reading in order to better understand where they
were located. This allowed me to get a good perspective on how disoriented and lost they were. For those who are not familiar with heat-related death, after reading “The Devil’s Highway” you will come out with a new understanding of the power of the sun. The most memorable part in the book is when Urrea describes the six stages of heatrelated death. With lines like “chunks of cooked meat are falling out of your organs” and descriptions of drinking urine and radiator fluid from abandoned vehicles, Urrea creates vivid images of how the Yuma 14 were literally cooked by the sun. Once a year, Sacramento State faculty, students and community members select a book for the One Book program. “The Devil’s Highway” is 2010’s One Book selection. The program creates an opportunity for students to connect with each other and discuss the issues involved in the selection.
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UNDERGROUND ALBUM OF THE WEEK | BLACK MILK
Emcee pulls strength from adversity in his new album, ‘Album of the Year’ By Miriam Arghandiwal arghandiwal@statehornet.com Live music in hip-hop is not a new concept, from auto-tune, to the sound of tablas to blending rock records; nowadays, it is hard to find a concept hip-hop has not covered. For 27-yearold producer and emcee Curtis Cross, publicly known as Black Milk, demonstrating that music can still be renovated comes naturally. The producer, who has been around for nearly a decade, has made a reputable name for himself with four solo albums as well as his work with artists like Slum Village, Phat Kat, Pharaohe Monch, J Dilla, Canibus and Lloyd Banks. Through the years, Cross showcased his ability to sync intonation and vocals to create an organic new sound. This sets Cross’ sound apart from any categorization. Cross continues to pave his way to becoming a memorable hip-hop pioneer with his new and fourth solo album, “Album
of the Year.” The album, he said, serves as a soundtrack to the hardest year of his life, 2009. His set stage for the soundtrack: his hometown of Detroit. The screenplay: written by himself. The musical score: also produced by himself. The album has a more experimental sound than his other three albums. Usually, the strong production on his albums overshadows him being an exceptional lyricist, but the maturity of lyrics on this album as he raps about his adversity make them hard to overlook. “Album of the Year” kicks off with a intro that gives a sneak peek to the things Cross will rap about throughout the album. Among other things, he mentions the death of his aunt and close friend Baatin, a nasty car accident and the sudden stroke of his manager and dear friend, Hex Murda. Although the album has tracks like “Distortion” that are raw and lyrically fueled with emotions, the 12 tracks are hardly
filled with Cross complaining about his hardships or even dark enough to be considered emo songs. Instead the rappers tracks are uplifting at times, like in the song “Closed Chapter,” the track lets listeners move past the hardships with Cross himself as if they are part of the story but not making them want to dwell on the pain. Cross’ reality is a reality that hurts and is unfair but he does not let life stop or make excuses, instead it finds strength and moves on. Poor beat production for underground artists are often excused, due to the fact they do not have the money to acquire high quality mixing. This leaves their flow and lyrical content to be the most prominent aspect of their albums. This does not apply to Cross, as he takes the matter into his own hands and hunts down music from different places whether it be a sample he hears while walking down the street, or an instruments he plays himself to create a beat. His musical ear makes
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Detroit rapper and producer Black Milk, also known as Curtis Cross, performs live.
the sound on his album exceed production on albums from even the largest mainstream artists this year. On tracks like “Gospel Psychedelic Rock,” Cross’ ear for music is evident, he mixes the rock sample with gospel tunes and while the beat itself is enough to listen to alone, his raps cannot be ignored because of how well they flow to the beat. It is as if one could not have existed without the other. Cross’ ability to make his lyrics flow effortlessly with his beats is because he sees a vision when he hears a beat that certain artists and songwriters cannot, he said in an article on his site blackmilk.biz. Staying true to his belief that some of the best talent in hiphop comes out of his hometown, Cross only features Detroit rappers on his album, including Royce da 5’9” and Elzhi on his track “Deadly Medley.” “Deadly Medley” holds a traditional hip-hop beat and both rappers along with Cross prove his theory to be true by slaying the track with their lyrical skills in a way few rappers could. The album may not be the album of the year to most, but for anyone who is a hip-hop fan or can appreciate hip-hop, the album deserves nothing less than three plays. Once to listen to production, a second time to for lyrical content and a third to hear how smoothly both are synced. In another article with Metro Times, Cross said he now understands that people write and create the best music when they go through hardships in their life. He said now that he understands he is moving at a good pace. The producer and emcee can only excel in future projects.
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Robert Matsuura was unintentionally hooked by his teammate Peter Lee.
Robert Matsuura and Peter Lee of the Sacramento State Bass Club won the Forrest L. Wood College Fishing Western Regional Championship, an event held Thursday through Sunday at Folsom Lake. Matsuura and Lee were declared the winner by 2 ounces at the weighing ceremony that was held outside of Hornet Stadium just after the Hornets’ homecoming game. The crown came with a berth
into the 2011 FLW College Fishing National Championship in Kentucky, a $50,000 scholarship and a new Ranger boat for the Sacramento Bass Club. The only team representing Sac State was not declared the winner until the final weigh-in. Matsuura and Lee finished the tournament with a final weight of 29 pounds, 2 ounces; Chico State’s weigh-in was 2 ounces less. “I wanted to bring it home for Sac State,” Matsuura said. “My family was going to be here, I knew it was going to be
a big crowd and I didn’t want to disappoint.” Another duo from Chico State rounded out the top three, followed by San Jose State and Cal Poly. “We thought that we needed at least 10 pounds to feel safe and have some confidence coming into check in,” Lee said. “When we saw Chico State come up here and they had 29, we didn’t feel that we were going to take first place at all.” The addition of a boat to the Bass Club is something that can only be a help to a club looking
to spread its sport. “The Bass Club right now doesn’t have any boats,” said Sport Clubs Coordinator Robert Clakley. “So they’re fishing from the shore or they’re fishing from their personal boat. So they’re having to depend on other people. Now they’ve got their own boat.” Without the team of Matsuura and Lee, that boat would never have seen the waters of Sacramento. see Fishing| page B5
Homecoming for all ages
By Matt Harrington mharrington@statehornet.com
Several events took over Hornet Stadium and the surrounding area on Saturday for the 2010 edition of Hornet homecoming against the University of Northern Colorado. Each spectator at this year’s game had his or her own reasons for attending and participating in the day’s events. Beyond the traditional tailgating before the 42-7 victory over the Northern Colorado Bears, there were other opportunities for interacting with Sac State community. Such activities included an obstacle course set up and sponsored by the National Guard. Also sponsored by the National Guard was the Forrest L. Wood Collegiate Bass Fishing Western Regional Collegiate Championships. Bass fishing sports clubs from several collegiate institutions, including Sac State, participated in the tournament. The tournament saw the final weigh-in at the conclusion of the football game, and Sac State’s Robert Matsurra and Peter Lee walked away with a $50,000 check from their total catch of 29 pounds, 2 ounces. For Sac State alumnus Peter Kitowski, the tailgating before the football game is a way of catching up with his fellow fraternity brothers from the past. “Everyone here in our tailgate area I went to school with. We just started getting back together three years ago,” Kitowski said. “We are members of Pi Kappa Phi and we used to be one of the few organizations on campus that would tailgate before a game. It is great to be able to come back 30 years later and have a great time.” For the new generation of tailgaters, senior Louie Montengro said when students get involved in homecoming activities, they will be better linked to the student body. “It is nice that students participate in these kinds of things, because it really connects you to the school and you feel a
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sense of belonging,” Montengro said. “You’re going to root for your team and then they are going to win. Then hang out with friends, fraternity brothers and have a great time. It is an experience you won’t ever feel again after graduation.” The tailgate experience is not limited to former students who come back to reunite with old friends or even the younger generation. This whole experience allows the family members of the players and coaching staff to get involved and be heard in their own way. Parents like Debbi Doverspike, mother of offensive lineman Nate Doverspike, want to experience the college’s community atmosphere while cheering on a member of her family, and a member of the Hornet family. “It is absolutely an honor to be here and our player is so proud to be playing for Sac State. We have met amazing groups of families and we party see Home| page B6
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Top: The football team celebrates with the Marching Band, singing the Hornet Fight Song after the 42-7 victory over Northern Colorado University. The Hornets are 5-0 alltime against the Bears. Left: A young fan watches the football game dressed in a hornet costume. Right: Running back Stephen Tezanos-Pinto looks to catch a pass from quarterback Jeff Fleming. Tezanos-Pinto scored one of six Hornet touchdowns during the game.
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By Cassie Kolias ckolias@statehornet.com Men are constantly recognized for the athletic abilities, but sometimes a woman comes in and gets the kudos she rightly deserves. Here are the top 10 female athletes. 10. Danica Patrick
In case you didn’t know, she’s a pretty talented race car driver. In 2008 she won Twin Ring Motegi and became the first female to win a major closedcourse auto race. Girl power at its finest. 9. Venus Williams Venus Williams is ranked World No. 3 in singles. She is reigning champion for women’s doubles at the Australian Open, and both the French and U.S. opens Williams has won three Olympic gold medals. The only tennis player more active than Venus is her younger sister Serena Williams. 8. Michelle Kwan Michelle Kwan is quite obviously the most renowned figure skater in U.S. history.
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She’s taken home 42 championships, which include five World Championships, eight U.S. Championships, and two Olympic medals. 7. Jennie Finch Jennie Finch is the most famous softball player in history. She won gold in 2004 and then won silver in 2008. She was the pitcher of the U.S. National team, and also for the Chicago Bandits. Oh yes, I’d be daft not to mention that she tops many of the “hot lists” written by men. By all means, she’s a stunner. 6. Serena Williams Serena Williams is ranked World No. 1 in singles and see Women| page B5
Center focuses on student-athletes By Alyssa Huskinson ahuskinson@statehornet.com Even though there are 168 hours in a week, student-athletes still manage to find time to be successful on and off the field, which makes them realize the true value of their time. By implementing academic programs to help the studentathlete, Sacramento State can now say the success of its student-athletes is from the Student-Athlete Resource Center. In 1985, when Sac State discussed the potential move to Division I, programs like athletic advising had to be implemented before the program could continue with the changes. Although Sac State did not go Division I until 1991, athletic advising was already put in
motion and led by adviser Len Wycosky. Ever since Sac State made the move to Division I, the school continues to constantly improve athletic programs for studentathletes to maintain successful college careers. The center is a support system designed to enhance the experience for NCAA Division I student-athletes at Sac State. “The success of the studentathlete is not just about the academics and going to class,” said Paul Edwards, the director of the Student-Athlete Resource Center. “It is about providing the services and support so that the student-athlete can adapt in all areas of college life.” Edwards joined Sac State in 1987 and was selected as the see SARC| page B5
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Marching band boosts morale for both fans and athletes By Brad Schmidt bschmidt@statehornet.com Among the sounds of the hard-hitting players and loud screams of cheering fans at Sacramento State football games, the marching band can be heard playing spirited music in hopes of filling Hornet Stadium with competitive energy. When the football team has home games, the marching band puts in a 12-hour day, arriving two hours before the football team. They spend the first two hours rehearsing for their halftime performance. Following rehearsal the band gets a quick meal break and then it is time to get dressed. Once dressed, the band performs what is called a troop, which is playing for the tailgaters in the parking lot. “Trooping is awesome,” said tuba player Taylor Haros. “We get to interact with fans and perform among them.” The band then plays pre-game entertainment for entering fans and players as they warm up, followed by playing in the stands until the halftime performance. A final performance is given after the game, and then it is time to put the equipment away, get changed and call it a day. “We are the hype man at athletic events,” said tuba player Chris Peppers. “We try to bring
spirit and get the crowd fired up - it can be infectious.” The marching band also performs for men’s and women’s basketball and volleyball games. Although the band is a great source of energy and school spirit, Marching Band Director Clay Redfield said they strive to be much more. “We have our own personal standards of music performance,” Redfield said. “We are not just a spirit organization, we really try to be a fine musical and visual organization. We want to play sophisticated music very well, make sure we are doing everything right that musicians should do and that our marching skills are good quality.” The marching band has several different roles within the university and wants to be represented as more than simply a group of musicians. “We are a representative and ambassador of the music department,” Redfield said. “We make sure that what we teach is a good representation of our music department. We are an ambassador to the community and region,
band members. The band played Telephone by Lady Gaga and Your Love is My Drug by Ke$ha. “Band Day is a huge recruiting tool for us so we pick songs that the high school students like so we can show them that it’s fun,” said Co-Drum Major Rachel Lethco. The majority of the marching band members are Sac State students, but you don’t have to be. There are students that participate in the band who attend local community colleges as well as walk-ons and alumni. “Marching band is a constantly evolving thing, especially with the unit caps which have made thing difficult, but we try to give everyone that is interested and that can make the commitment a chance be apart of the organization,” Redfield said. “We have students with lots of experience as well as students that start when they get here.” The marching band has grown in size each of the three years Redfield has Steven Turner State Hornet been with them. Top: The Marching band marches off the “We have been very field and back to the stands after their blessed that the students halftime performance on Oct. 2. The band have been very committed performs multiple songs during each and we’re always looking and halftime. trying to find more students Left: Freshman music major Raymond which is why we spend a Hunt plays the cymbals during the Oct. 2 lot of time out at the high football game against Montana State. schools,” Redfield said.
we represent the university as a whole and we do a lot of guest appearances at high school marching band contests. It’s a chance to be seen by the region as well as recruit students and let them know a little bit about our music and Sac State.” This year the band will participate in the 40th annual Santa Cruz Band Review on Saturday, as well as local band reviews in Folsom on Nov. 6 and in Fairfield Nov. 20.
“The kids all get really excited when we perform for them,” Haros said. “I remember when I was a kid and I was in a similar situation watching Sac State perform and I knew that’s where I wanted to go to school and pursue music.” The band held Band Day during the Montana State University home game, which gave four local high school bands the opportunity to perform side by side with the Sac State
The band has also been able to gain members from the Mandarin Bugle Corps, which is a local organization that focuses on the musical development of the area’s youth. “About half of the Sac State marching band are also members of the Mandarin Bugle Corps,” Haros said, who is a member of both bands. “The Mandarin is definitely a much more serious setting. I like to call it military style teaching. The Sac State Marching Band is a great way for those who are a part of the Mandarin, to stay sharp during Mandarin’s offseason. So when it’s time to start up again, there won’t be any rust.” Redfield’s wife, Loralee Redfield works with color guard, Adam Jones is a percussion instructor and Glenn Disney is an alumnus who works as events coordinator for music department. The interaction within the band is the same as any other team on campus. They are a unit that becomes bonded through close friendships and a common interest. “My favorite part about being in the Marching Band is definitely the people,” Haros said. “We have all become really good friends and it truly feels like a family.”
On Second Thought: 2010 World Series Pick Members of The State Hornet sports section share which team will be crowned as champions.
By Brad Schmidt bschmidt@statehornet.com Now that the San Francisco Giants have ousted the San Diego Padres for the National League West crown, I believe they will ride this wave of momentum all the way to a World Series championship.
In recent years, Giants fans have had little to cheer about, and to me, this is the time for them to give their fans what they deserve - a championship. Giants fans have consistently packed AT&T Park to root for the Giants whether or not they were in playoff contention. For that, the Giants owe their loyal fans at least one magical finish. The key to the Giants winning the World Series relies on their pitching staff. The Giants are going to need their all-star party animal Tim Lincecum to stay away from all medicinal plants during the playoffs. If he indulges during this playoff run it can be catastrophic for the team. A clear-headed Timmy means a World Series Championship for San Francisco.
By Alyssa Huskinson ahuskinson@statehornet.com This year, it is all about the San Francisco Giants. I know I have mentioned I am a Giants fanatic a few times, so it should be no surprise what team I think is going to win this year’s World Series.
The Giants have such a solid lineup and a ferocious bullpen to address all the skepticism. In a battle to clinch the National League West, it came down to the last game of the series against the San Diego Padres. The Giants finished the regular season with a 92-70 record. This is the first postseason appearance for the Giants since 2002 when they lost to the Anaheim Angels in the World Series. Giants baseball is long overdue to win a pennant. This is the year of the Giants and no team is going to stand in the way of the orange and black. October baseball is here and my prediction is that the Giants are going to own postseason play. Game on and go Giants!
By Cassie Kolias ckolias@statehornet.com It is against all of my better judgment that I make my World Series pick. I’m not saying I’m rooting for them to win, I’m just stating the inevitable. The New York Yankees are going to win it all.
Again. They rarely do anything but win championships. The Yankees have won 27 World Championships, which is nearly triple the number of wins as the St. Louis Cardinals, who have taken home the second most with 10. The Yankees are the defending World Champions, so what will make this year any different? When the Yankees shut down the Twins in three and clinched the ALDS series, it was the ninth time in a row. It really doesn’t matter who goes up against the Yanks because no matter what, they are going to lose. The Yankees’ battle for the American League Championship starts Friday. Jeter wants his sixth ring.
Hockey program finds success after past eligibility fraud By AJ Taylor ataylor@statehornet.com Sacramento State’s Hockey club may technically be a “recreational team”, but they are far from being a non-competitive one. The club is currently 3-1, on top of the Pacific Collegiate Hockey Association. They may only be in the beginning of their 2010-11 season, but the team is well on their way to achieving their goal of a Pacific Collegiate Hockey Association championship. The club started in the 200607 school year and has been competing in the PCHA since that time. In its five year history the club has qualified for league playoffs twice and made regional playoffs once. Over one-sixth of the way through their 2010-11 season
the team is undefeated in the PCHA (3-0), and 3-1 overall. “Obviously now that we’re winning, it feels really good,” said Gokalp Gurer, goalie. “The best part about it is just having a team of brothers. The comradery is the best part.” After such a strong start for head coach Jeff Harper and his Hornets this season, the team has its eye set on adding to its young history. “It’s like the perfect storm. You’ve got good players on a team, you’ve got good chemistry, a lot more pleasant than last season and so we’re having fun,” Harper said. This team is unlike most college teams. These players are not paid to play for the school, they pay. The players were not scouted or recruited, they made their own effort to join. “I just walked by the booth in
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Team captain Brian Cowell pushes through the Bulldogs’ defense to score a goal, resulting in a 9-8 win on Oct. 1. The game took place at Skatetown in Roseville.
the quad and I just thought we had a nice hockey team,” said assistant captain Matt Price. This team came together through either total chaos or complete harmony. “One of my buddies was a goalie on the team and I was going to community college over at Sac City and he basically got me to apply at Sac State and to transfer in as a sophomore,” said team captain Brian Cowell. The team is atop the PCHA, but they still welcome all newcomers. “We’re a club team so that means we can’t make any cuts not like NCAA,” Gurer said. “So by being club that means we aren’t sponsored by the school but we’re just as competitive.” Aside from the desire to be a member of the team, the only requirements are to be a student of Sac State and each player must pay a player fee of $1,500. “If there’s a new player and he tries out they tell him how to get involved, there’s no blockade on it,” Harper said. Being a member of the team is a commitment. The team will travel as far as San Diego this season and has a schedule of 21 regular season games. “We practice twice a week for about an hour and a half each day,” Cowell said. “Also we have dry-lands, that are around an hour and a half. And about two games usually in a week. It’s close to 12 hours a week.” The stands at Skatetown in Roseville, the home for the Hornets, are thin, yet open seats remain at most home games.
The club is still building its fan base and is still fighting to make a name for itself. “Our club has grown exponentially since we started in 2006,” said Team Manager Justin Ellison. “We have gained so many fans and players in such a short amount of time. In five years, the club has been to league playoffs twice and regional playoffs once.” The club has been digging itself out of a hole that was dug for them in the late ‘90s by the previous Sac State Ice Hockey Club. “There was actually a club before us, back in the ‘90s and early 2000s. That club got disbanded because of eligibility fraud,” Ellison said. “It really gave ice hockey at Sac State a bad name and we have been trying to repair it ever since.” Wining is a great way to erase the negatives of the past and to developing a strong fan base. “When you see a crowd out there you’re like ‘Ohhhhh! People really care about us,’” Gurer said. “It actually makes a huge difference win or lose. When they’re still coming out that means a lot, the fact that they’re supporting you.” When the fans go to watch the Hornets, the team always gives them its best effort, said Price. The team’s next home game is against UC Davis on Saturday, Oct. 30. “That’s what we play for,” Price said. “Especially at the Davis games, it’s sold out and it’s loud and I think we play a little bit harder that way.”
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Top: Team captain Brian Cowell fights for the puck against a Fresno University player. Bottom: Both teams get in an altercation on the ice during the game.
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SARC: Resources provided by Women: Dominating females center help monitor athletes make way into record books Continued | page B3 center director when the program officially started in 2006. The main purpose of the program is to help in the development of student-athletes as individuals, as well as to help them become independent while obtaining skills to achieve their academic goals. The program also provides help for Sac State student-athletes to become more successful after college. “The resources have helped me tremendously,” said senior defensive lineman Christian Clark. “I don’t know where I would have been had I not had the resources. Tutoring and study hall keeps me focused and disciplined.” Athletic Academic Services include help with the following: summer school, the posteligibility scholarship program, the academic progress report system and the processing of student-athlete graduation evaluations. The following services are included in the development of the student-athlete: individual advising, orientations, seminars, group and team meetings, coaches’ compliance and rules education sessions, freshman seminar classes, and a variety of student development and academic workshops. Communication continues to be effective between the coaching staff, athletes and advisers because of mandatory progress reports. These reports help maintain a structure so the student-athletes can continue to work hard 24/7.
“The advisers guide you through the program to where you need to be,” Clark said. “And if you’re not on schedule, they will let you know.” Two portions of the center, Athletic Academic Services and Life Skills and Student-Athlete Development are located in Lassen Hall, Room 3002. While in the athletics building, the NCAA Compliance and Financial Services are located in Yosemite Hall, Room 122. The majority of student-athletes utilize the benefits that are offered, whether it is tutoring or workshops, Edwards said. “I could have probably done it in three years without them. No, no, no, this program definitely helped me,” Clark said. “I probably wouldn’t be where I am without it.” The academic support system offered through the SARC program is encouraged by the staff to be utilized regularly, Edwards said. One objective is to increase the student-athletes’ Academic Progress Rate. By increasing the Academic Progress Rate, Sac State will continue to receive scholarships for athletes and remain compliant under NCAA guidelines. “A lot of what we do is not possible without NCAA support,” Edwards said. “We receive funds based on being affiliated with the Big Sky. Those funds support our tutoring, mentoring, computer lab, fifthyear scholarships and summer scholarships.” The football section of the center was implemented at Sac State in 2006. Football Aca-
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Cross-country runner Lauren Mugnaini studies inside the Student-Athlete Resource Center located in Lassen Hall. demic Adviser Bob Shook came to the program in 2008 and has continued to monitor the football team. “As an athlete, they’re being monitored constantly,” Shook said. “The coaches are becoming more directly involved with the academics so that we have more successful athletes.” The coaches have become such a significant part of this program. Not only do the coaches like to maintain a close relationship with student-athletes the advisers like to as well. Shook tries to be an inspiration to students, as he gives the occasional words of advice. “You will never be in another setting like this again,” Shook said. “So enjoy yourself!”
Fishing: Victory gives duo an automatic entry to Nationals Continued | page B3 Although the competition was held in Matsuura and Lee’s home lake, the two claim they had absolutely no ‘home lake’ advantage.
“I don’t fish Folsom at all. This past week was the first time I fished there in years, so I had no advantage whatsoever coming into it,” Lee said. Matsuura and Lee had to deal with another bump in the road
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Peter Lee of Sac State’s fishing team poses with the check he and teammate Robert Matsuura received for winning the College Fishing Western Regional title.
in the early morning of the third day. Before the two had time to search for a single bass, Matsuura suffered a serious injury to the back of his head. Lee caught him on the backswing of one of his casts and the jerk bait was lodged in the back of Matsuura’s head for the rest of day. “First thing in the morning, we pull up to our first spot, we’re excited to be fishing during the championship day,” Matsuura said. “We’re all hyped throwing our baits and I tell (Lee) to throw on a jerk bait and he starts whipping that thing out there and I heard it go by my ear one time. So I stepped a little bit to the left closer to him and, what do you know, the next cast I dropped. I just dropped to the floor. I was devastated.” The team now has automatic entry to the 2011 FLW College Fishing National Championship held in Kentucky. “I’m still hyped on this so I haven’t even really thought about it” Lee said. “Hopefully what I’ve learned will come through in Kentucky and it will help.”
is the reigning champion in two categories in the Australian Open, the champion in singles at Wimbledon, and in women’s doubles at the French and U.S. opens. She has won two Olympic gold medals in women’s doubles and when she has played against her sister Venus, she has won 13 out of 23 professional matches. 5. Kerri Walsh and Misty May-Treanor Kerri Walsh and Misty MayTreanor are considered to be the greatest beach volleyball team of all time. The gruesometwosome took home gold medals in both the 2004 and 2008 Olympics. During one point in their career, they had a winning streak of 112 consecutive victories. 4. Natalie Coughlin Natalie Coughlin is best-
known for her 11 Olympic medals in swimming. In the 2008 Olympics, she was the first female athlete in modern history to take home six medals at one Olympics. She also was the first woman ever to win gold in the 100-meter backstroke at two consecutive Olympics. 3. Lindsey Vonn Lindsey Vonn is the most successful American woman skier in history. Let’s do the math, shall we? Thirty-three World Cup wins. Olympic gold and bronze. Two World Championship medals and two World Championship silver medals. Looks like the numbers add up. 2. Lisa Leslie: Lisa Leslie was one of the most prominent female basketball players of her time. She played for the Los Angeles Sparks for 12 years and during her time with the team, she won three WNBA Most Valuable
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Kerri Walsh and Misty May-Treanor celebrate during a match. They had a winning streak of 112 matches and won gold medals in both the 2004 and 2008 Olympics.
Player awards and took home four Olympic gold medals. Oh, did I forget to mention that she was the first player to dunk in a WNBA game? 1. Mia Hamm Mia Hamm played on the U.S. Women’s National soccer team from 1987 to 2004. With 158, she has scored more goals in her soccer career than any other athlete, female or male. Hamm may be one of the most iconic women athletes of all time, and she was successfully able to popularize women’s soccer. She was inducted into the World’s Soccer Hall of Fame just three years after her retirement.
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Home: Community becomes connected Continued | page B3 with them every week,” Debbi Doverspike said. “We love that this family atmosphere is going on out here. We honor and relish it every week.” Quarterback Jeff Fleming said his first homecoming experience at Sac State was encouraging and rewarding. “It is a really positive feeling for me. I am new to everything, so I don’t really know what everything is about around here yet,” Fleming said. “Gosh, I am still struggling to learn the fight song. I am just really happy being here and being a Hornet.” As a three-year starter at running back for Sac State, Bryan Hilliard said being able to compete for the fans gives the players energy on the field. “It makes you feel good. We get to show everyone how the team is doing,” Hilliard said. “The more fans that are at the game, the harder it makes you want to play.” As a member of the planning committee for this year’s homecoming events, Rich Clakeley, coordinator of Sport Clubs, said homecoming is a time that Sac State welcomes those who work closely with the university. “It is not just an opportunity for students to come together but also alumni and community members that are connected to the university in one fashion or another,” Clakeley said. He said there is also a strong desire to expand on the current model as it is being presented by the university. The ultimate goal, Clakeley said, was to get the entire university in the homecoming experience. “I think as years go on, this event will grow and be a lot more than just a football game and tailgating,” Clakeley said. “Hopefully it will become a week’s worth of activities that will embrace the academic side as well as athletic side of the university. We want to show off all that we have going on here at Sac State.”
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Running back Bryan Hilliard jukes Northern Colorado defenders during the homecoming game. Hilliard is now fifth all-time for most 100-yard rushing games at Sac State.
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