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HOMEWARD BOUND Unless you’re staying in Chico over the break, you’re probably about to make a long trek back home. We’ve compiled a list of tips and prices to make your life easier after finals week.

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Snowglobes, a Christmas mainstay, are only allowed onboard if they’re smaller than a tennis ball. Any larger and you’ll have to plan on shipping it home. 3.4 ounces is the maximum volume of any liquid, aerosol or gel allowed on a plane. Gravy, jams and jellies are not exempt from this rule, according to the TSA’s website.

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AS proposes new investment plan a website that supports nationwide fossil fuel divestment by colleges and universities. The Environmental Affairs Council, an A.S. government body, is asking the University Foundation to commit to a 7-year divestment of funding from top 200 publicly traded non-renewable energy companies. Lori Hoffman, Chico State’s vice president for business and finance, contributed most of the feedback to the proposal. Pulling investments from these companies would not prevent them from reinvesting in fossil fuels, Hoffman said. Investment returns are also likely to decrease with divestment, Hoffman said in a previous interview with The Orion. Most of the foundation’s returns and endowments are used to fund student scholar-

Mozes Zarate

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A proposal to pull student government investments from fossil fuel companies was presented for feedback during a Chico State Board of Directors meeting Monday afternoon. The Associated Students, the student government at Chico State, has invested $271,000 in mutual funds with the University Foundation, a nonprofit organization that accepts donations for the university. Exxon-Mobil and ConocoPhillips are among the corporations that A.S. money has invested in, according to an endowment report. Both are among the top 10 fossil fuel companies in the world, according to 350.org,

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Sabers, cattle-prods and ski poles are on the no-fly list. Though if inline skating is on your list of holiday activities, you can bring your ice skates on without fear.

Elevator to be repaired over winter intersession

ships. Hoffman recommended pulling all of A.S.’s endowment money out of the foundation. In a student government meeting earlier that afternoon, Haley she was hoping student government and the university could collaborate to make divestment a reality. “We don’t want to further a divorce between A.S. and the university,” Haley said. Once a final version of the proposal is drafted, Haley said she plans to present it to the University Foundation’s investment committee for approval. Mozes Zarate can be reached at mzarate@theorion.com or

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Christmas Spirit Singers in Sounds of the Valley chorus belt out holiday jingles at City Plaza at the community tree lighting Friday.

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Christmas tree lighting brings community to downtown plaza

Chico State will spend $1.1 million to replace the staff elevator in Meriam Library during winter intersession, and three more elevators may be repaired in the summer. The interiors of the four elevators will be demolished and completely remodeled within their respective shafts, said Michael McNairn, contracts coordinator in the department of procurement and contract services. Additionally, all of the equipment, such as motors and rope brakes, will be replaced, according to the request for proposal drawn up for contractors. “The plan is to have the service elevator for staff remodeled over the winter break, and the three main elevators would be done the following summer,” McNairn said. A similar project was completed in the summer to modernize the elevators in Butte Hall, at a cost of about $1.2 million. The contract for the project was awarded to a company that does not typically work on campus elevators, said Joe Wills, Chico State’s director of public affairs and publications. Sacramento-based Otto Construction, the same company that built the new Arts and Humanities Building, will The plan is to be handling the have the serremodel. vice elevator These costs for staff recome in addition modeled over to Chico State’s the winter $130,000 contract with ThyssenKbreak, and the rupp, the company three main that performs elevators regular monthly would be done maintenance on the following the university’s elsummer. evators, Wills said. “If there are problems, ThyssenKrupp comes out sometimes for Michael McNairn as much as weekly Contracts coordinator, maintenance,” department of Wills said, “but procurement and they always do contract services monthly maintenance regardless.” Per the contract, ThyssenKrupp has to come repair and maintain elevators as soon as problem is reported, Wills said. This is different from the state required permitting process, which is an annual occurrence. “We are currently in the process of having the state inspector come to the campus and inspect the elevators,” Wills said. “They place the cards in the elevators that people see that reflect when the inspection was. They inspect them, but are not in charge of the main inspections.” Chico State’s facilities management division keeps a log of reports of problems in the elevators, Wills said. “When the Butte Hall elevators were replaced, there were many reports as they worked out the problems with the new equipment,” Wills said. “The number of calls have since subsided.” The Orion can be reached at

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Many sexual assaults go unreported to local officials, experts say As much as 60 percent of sexual assaults Clery Disclosure Act, a federal statute go unreported in the that requires all U.S., according to colleges and uniIt is unfortunate but true the Rape, Abuse and versities to pubIncest National Netlish their campus that a percentage of sexual work. crime statistics assaults are not reported. “It is unfortunate annually. It sumLT. CORINNE BECK but true that a permarizes sexual University Police Department centage of sexual assaults and assaults are not reother crimes that ported,” wrote Lt. occur on or adjaCorrine Beck of the University Police Decent to the university campuses.

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Data from an annual report and expert testimony indicates that sexual assaults may be significantly underreported at Chico State. At Chico State, five sexual assaults were reported on campus in 2012, according to the 2013 Clery Report, an annual compilation of crimes reported at Chico State. The report is required by the Jeanne

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partment in an email to The Orion. For every eight out of ten sexual assault incidents, the perpetrator is someone that the victim knows, according to Chico State’s website. This could be the primary reason why many sexual assaults go unreported, said Rocky Cruz, director of Rape Crisis Intervention, a 24-hour sexual assault call line in Chico. “Society was raised to believe that it’s a

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