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Student dies unexpectedly Teresa De Luz STAFF WRITER

Bradley Nalbone, a senior psychology major with a minor in music, fused his two passions in a way to reach out to others.

Nalbone, an avid volunteer, regularly played his guitar for patients at Enloe Medical Center and for children at the Jesus Center.

These acts of

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compassion contributed to the quality of life for those who knew Nalbone up until his death on Oct. 9.

Nalbone’s father found him unresponsive Oct. 10 in his son's home, said Joe Wills, director of public affairs and publications. The sheriff's department is not investigating Nalbone’s death as a homicide.

A memorial to celebrate his life will be held at the

home of his aunt Marla Stratton Saturday.

A scholarship fund has been created in Nalbone’s name for music students and is available for donations at Umpqua Bank on the Esplanade, according to a mass e-mail sent to students from the public affairs and publications office.

Nalbone participated in the Music for Healing and Wellness course.

This collaborative

effort with Enloe Medical Center sends Chico State student volunteers to play live music for patients at the center.

Nalbone’s interest in the program was inspiring, said Keith Seppanen, chairman of the music department.

“Brad was jovial,” he said. “He was always humorous and interested in fi nding the answers to his questions.”

The sudden death of

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Students working with Yes on 19 campaign registered an average 200 voters per week since the beginning of school thanks to “dorm stormin’.”

The student leader for the campaign in Butte County and agricultural major Weston Mickey thinks that the dorm stormin’ tactic – going door to door in the dorms to register and educate students – was the most successful way to create awareness and persuade people, he said.

Volunteers for the campaign offered voter registration for both republicans and democrats, which he thinks is indicative of the proposition itself, as the issue has seemed to transcend party lines.

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Schwarzenegger’s official website.

However, closing the $19 billion deficit meant that many programs – including the CSU system – did not receive the full amount of funding needed.

Zingg thinks the student voice from last semester’s Chico State Action Rally played a crucial role in getting state officials to consider higher education as a priority, he said. The state budget returned $199 million to the CSU system that was part of a $305 million one-time cut incurred last year that spawned the rally.

However, there are more people seeking a college education in California than there is room for with the current budget, said Sandra Flake, provost of academic affairs. Admissions to programs such as linguistics, instructional design and technology and special majors were suspended because they had low admissions.

“We are in very difficult economic times – possibly without precedent since the depression in the 1930s,” she said.

Students, staff and parents from Pleasant Valley High School had to cope with the loss of one of their own.

Alexander Strauss, a 17-year-old senior, took his own life Oct. 11.

The exact reasons behind this have not yet been determined, said Chico Police Department Sgt. Rob Merrifield.

Strauss was an intelligent student and had a deep religious faith, said John Shepherd, principal for Pleasant Valley High.

“Kids knew how bright he was and they would ask him questions that would challenge him,” he said. “And he would challenge them back with questions.”

He was also an active member of the crosscountry team and a close member of his family, Shepherd said.

Strauss is survived by his parents, Dan and Joan Strauss, and his older brother, Andrew, according to his obituary in the Chico Enterprise Record.

Strauss was born in Carmichael, Calif., and raised in Applegate, Calif. His family moved to Chico in 2005.

School officials are concentrating on how to prevent another incident like this from happening.

The school has already dedicated counselors and an anti-harassment hotline to deal with problems that students might have trouble coping with, Shepard said. The number for the hotline is 530-8913050, extension 333, and is open 24 hours a day.

Breaking Down The Walls is another program that focuses on developing tolerance and acceptance of oneself and others, Shepherd said.

Also in place is a peermentoring program, in which trained students meet with their peers to deal with issues of concern, said David Scott, director of student support services at Chico Unified School District.

Suicide-prevention programs start as early as junior high school, Scott said. These programs involve counselors meeting with students to discuss such issues and how to handle them.

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The full effect the recently passed budget will have on Chico State is still unclear.

Chico State will receive its allocation of the California State University system budget either by the end of this week or early next week, said Stacie Corona, assistant vice president of budget and resource management. The school will receive between 4 and 4.5 percent of the CSU system budget of $2.62 billion.

The money allocated to the CSU system from the state budget allows for $60.6 million in enrollment growth for the spring 2011 semester, said President Paul Zingg in a budget announcement e-mail.

The increase means that 1,100 qualified transfer students who applied from the service area for the spring semester will receive acceptance letters, Zingg said. The administration wasn’t planning to send the letters out if the budget had been smaller.

The Chico economy will experience

the effects of the extra students, said Frederica Shockley, chairwoman of the economics department.

Shockley has done surveys in her classes and found that the average college student spends about $12,000 per semester in Butte County, she said. If all 1,100 transfer students enrolled, there will be an estimated $18 million more circulating in the economy when taking into account the subsequent multiplier impact.

The 2010-2011 budget for higher education is about the same funding level as the 2005-2006 school year and does not compensate for cost increases in areas such as benefits and utilities, Zingg said. The budget includes additional $106 million boost in one-time federal stimulus funds.

“It does not provide all the funding we need, but no important state-supported programs – not K-12, not social services, not even corrections – have what is needed right now,” Zingg said.

The budget, which was 100 days overdue, increases the amount of money for higher education from last year, according to Gov. Arnold

Nalbone is a shock to the students in the course, which had eight other students participating, Seppanen said.

“It always strikes you when someone so young dies – it really hits you,” he said. “Especially someone like Brad who was doing so much good.”

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Quilt, free HIV testing part of AIDS awareness >> Free HIV testing will be conducted today from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. as the NAMES Project Foundation raises awareness about AIDS at Chico State.

The testing, held between Glenn and Siskiyou halls, is one of several events held today, according to a Chico State press release.

The NAMES Project Foundation focuses on combating AIDS prejudice and educating people about the pandemic.

The AIDS Memorial Quilt will be displayed in the Bell Memorial Union Auditorium during the two-day event. The quilt project, conceived in 1985, commemorates AIDS victims. Families used quilts to remember people who died AIDS-related deaths when they were prevented from holding memorial services in the early ’80s.

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Moscow, Russia – Russian spies deported from the U.S. four months ago in the biggest spy exchange since the Cold War were given the country’s highest honor.

Former president Vladimir Putin met with the spies upon their return and warned that the “traitors” who exposed them could end up “in a ditch.”

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One forcible sex offense and one aggravated assault were reported on campus last year, according to the 2010 Clery Report released by University Police Oct. 1.

In contrast, there were 37 rapes and 199 assaults reported in Chico in 2009, according to Chico Police Department statistics.

Actual numbers may be larger, said Mimi Bommersbach, interim director for the Counseling and Wellness Center.

“These are only the reported ones,” she said. “And for a victim to report requires quite a bit of inner strength.”

While law enforcement doesn’t hear from victims in many cases, counseling and health centers do.

From July 2007 to December 2009, the Student Health Center treated seven sexual assault and 25 physical assault victims, said Dr. Deborah Stewart, medical chief of staff for Student Health Service.

Enloe Medical Center treated 41 people for sexual assaults in 2010 as of October, said Christina Chavira, communications specialist for the center. There were 47 people treated in 2008 and 37 in 2009.

Hospitals are required to report sexual assaults to law enforcement, she said.

When a hospital employee calls the police, they provide an order for the staff to give a Sexual Assault Response Center exam, Chavira said. This exam is used to gather evidence.

The counseling center at the Student Services Center deals

with sleep and concentration, according to a Counseling and Wellness Center fact sheet.

Another big issue is that people don’t think an assault can happen to them, Bommersbach said. This often leads to victims blaming themselves when it happens.

“They say, ‘I should have known, I should have seen this coming,’” she said. “And it’s not the case that people can see this coming.”

Sixty percent of all rapes are by acquaintances of the victim, according to the University Police website.

“Because it was someone they knew and trusted, it’s more difficult for victims to

work through that,” Bommersbach said. “They lose a sense of their ability to trust themselves and trust their judgment.”

Even though the majority of people coming into the center are women, men come in for counseling too, she said.

The support group Prisms was launched by the center for sexual assault victims this semester, she said.

Another program that deals with such issues is Safe Start – which is run by University Police, University Housing and Food Service, the Counseling and Wellness Center and the Women’s Center, said Corinne Beck, detective for University Police. The

program covers general safety tips, sexual assault awareness and rape drugs, among other things.

While there is always more that can be done, educating students about how to support their peers is very important, Bommersbach said. Often when a victim tells friends or family about an assault, they blame the victim.

“They say, ‘If you hadn’t been out drinking this wouldn’t have happened to you,’” she said. “People really need to know how to support folks around this.”

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with about two people per week coming in for issues related to an assault, Bommersbach said.

However, this does not mean that there are two assaults a week.

“Sometimes people come in and they may have been assaulted a year ago,” she said. “They don’t put it on their paper work, but they usually come in because they’re depressed or anxious, and then we fi nd out that this has happened.”

The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act is a federal law that requires universities in the U.S. to disclose information about crime on and around their campuses, according to the University Police website.

The act is named after 19-year-old Lehigh University freshman Jeanne Ann Clery, who was raped and murdered in her residence hall room on April 5, 1986, according to the Security on Campus, Inc. website.

There are many barriers that can discourage a victim from reporting such a crime, Bommersbach said. A common response to an assault is that the victim goes into denial.

Ignoring the issue can potentially lead to post-traumatic stress disorder, Stewart said.

“When something bad happens, it changes your world,” she said. “You begin to perceive the world as a more dangerous place.”

The symptoms for posttraumatic stress disorder include reliving the trauma through nightmares or flashbacks, feelings of detachment and disinterest and troubles

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Dinner to raise money for victims of Pakistan flooding >> A fundraiser to support Pakistan flood victims will be held Thursday, according to student announcements. The proceeds from tickets sold for the dinner will benefit those affected by the July 2010 flood.

Nearly 20 million people were affected by the floods, leaving people homeless and without food or shelter.

Tickets for the event will be sold for $20 at the Cross-Cultural Leadership Center or at local eateries such as Pita Pit, Peeking Chinese Restaurant and Cold Stone Creamery.

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>> The fourth annual Campus Sustainability Day information fair will be held today from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Trinity Commons, according to a Chico State news release. The event will showcase student organizations and campus departments that follow sustainable practices, according to the student announcements.

Campus groups plan to emphasize the importance of being sustainable by using interactive displays.

Campus advancements in sustainability practices will also be presented to students.

Participating groups include the Wildcat Recreation Center, A.S. Bookstore, Take Back the Tap, Net Impact, Community Legal Information Center and the Chico State Dairy.

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Former Disney employee faces child porn charges >>A man was arrested in Osceola County, Fla., on suspicion of downloading child pornography. James Wood, 56, worked for Disney months before his wife turned him in to authorities.

Wood is currently being held on $12,500 bail on 26 felony charges of child pornography possession and could face more.

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Invasion of bed bugs has Aztecs scratching heads >> Bedbugs have invaded San Diego State dorm rooms.

The bed bug problem is growing because the insects are becoming more resistant to certain insecticides, said Chris Conlan with the San Diego County Vector Control Program.

Exterminators urge people to not dispose furniture without getting it treated because it is likely that someone may pick it up and bring the problem into their home.

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Chico State students are helping to build a wall – and it is made out of bras.

This wall of bras is known as the Wall of Hope and its purpose is to create breast cancer awareness, said Amy Lance, director of business undergraduate advising at Chico State and the founder of www.wondrouswomenworldwide.com.

“It’s to serve as a visual reminder to have people go and get checked, whether it’s a self-exam or a physician exam,” she said.

The wall, which is located in Gridley, Calif., is not the only effort to support the cause.

Chico State plans to add to the effort by building its own wall on campus.

Organizations are collaborating to raise money and awareness for the breast cancer cause.

Alpha Sigma Phi, Phi Delta Theta, The Rowdy Red and the Women’s Center are asking students to donate bras, and The Rowdy Red is selling 100 pink T-shirts for $15, said Kyle DeDiminicantanio, president of Alpha Sigma Phi. The money raised will be donated to Biggs-Gridley Memorial Hospital, which is trying to raise $300,000 for a digital mammography machine that can detect breast cancer early, he said.

The machine is a great resource and anyone in the community who may want to get checked out will be directed to this hospital, said Kimberly Edmonds, program coordinator for the Women’s Center.

“It’s a movement with momentum, and we need to keep that momentum going so we can really start finding cures and making these early detections available – and save lives,” DeDiminicantanio said.

Students should spread the word and get their friends and whatever student organizations they are affi liated with to hop on board with support efforts, he said.

“Breast cancer is not just something that affects women – men should be involved and concerned as well,” DeDiminicantanio said.

The Women’s Center is helping the cause by taking donations, tabling and raising awareness, Edmonds said.

“Donate however you can, even if you don’t have money to donate,” Edmonds said.

“You can pass the word along, and there are a lot of different ways you can donate.”

One of the ways is through the Think Pink Team of Butte County.

The organization was founded in 1992 and is a community-based volunteer organization dedicated to educating the public about early detection of breast cancer in an effort to save lives, diminish suffering and promote advocacy and support, according to the team’s brochure.

The biggest myth about breast cancer is that it isn’t a concern if people don’t have a family history of it, which is a dangerous fallacy, said Wendy Azevedo, coordinator for Think Pink Team and a breast cancer survivor.

“Out of 100 women who are diagnosed with breast cancer, 90 percent of them do not have a family heritage that has caused that disease,” she said. “I am one of those women.”

Azevedo was diagnosed with breast cancer at 33 years old, but has been cancer-free for 26 years.

“Women over the age of 20 should learn how to give themselves a self breast exam and monitor risk factors,” Azevedo said.

All accused of violating the law are innocent until proven guilty | Information cited directly from Chico Police Department Thursday, 9:02 a.m.: Suspicious subject reported at 1000 block of Elmer Street. “Male subject walking down street talking to himself.

Swinging a large machete.”

Thursday, 9:48 p.m.: Hit and run reported at 1000 block of Sheridan Avenue. “Vehicle heading westbound drove up over the curb and into the lawn of a residence in the area.”

Thursday, 11:17 p.m.: Vandalism reported at 200 block of Rio Lindo Avenue. “Reporting party witnessed a subject rip out a light pole in the complex and smash it in the road. Subject appears to be intoxicated.”

Friday, 12:10 p.m.: Family dispute reported on 1000 block of Howard Drive. “Reporting party served his adult son with eviction papers. Son lit them on fire in the living room.”

Friday, 1:54 p.m.: Reckless vehicle reported at 100 block of East Fifth Street. “Reporting party states he has known the suspect all his life.

Suspect pulled up along side of the reporting party while he was northbound on Esplanade.

Subject yelled at the reporting party, showed his middle finger then threw a hand full of ice at the reporting party, hitting him in the head.”

Friday, 11:50 p.m.: Drunk in public reported at Big Red Barn Apartments in 700 block of West Sixth Street. “Subject at the reporting party’s front door saying he is trying to buy pizza. He does appear to be intoxicated but keeps saying he needs to get inside to get pizza.”

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The new general education plan is on the path to being completed and implemented by fall 2012.

The new program will be organized around 10 or fewer “pathways” – sets of classes that will allow a student to earn a minor in that field while fulfilling general education requirements, said William Loker, dean of undergraduate education and co-chair of the General Education Implementation Team.

Seventeen proposals have been submitted to the team and the General Education Advisory Committee, said Christian Fosen, an English professor and chairman of committee.

The proposals must be narrowed down before being submitted to the Educational Policies and Programs Committee and Academic Senate, he said.

“The main challenge is to take 17 wonderful ideas and get down to 10 or fewer,” Loker said.

The General Education Advisory Committee and the General Education Implementation Team are in the process of deciding what these themes or areas of studies will be, Loker said. Some of the pathways that have been proposed are health and wellness, global development studies and sustainability.

Meetings are being put together to

discuss criteria for accepting the limited amount of proposals, said Lori Beth Way, co-chair of the team.

The goal is for the final ideas to be proposed to the Educational Policies and Programs Committee on Oct. 28 and to Academic Senate the week after, Loker said.

Academic Senate could reject the proposals entirely, Fosen said.

General education pathways will not be required, but if one does choose to take a pathway, he or she will end up with a minor, Loker said. Eighteen units will be required – nine upper-division units and nine lower-division units.

“The reason that we’re doing this is because many students complain that they don’t understand what general education is for,” Loker said.

The new plan should put general education in perspective for students, he said.

“General education pathways organize the curriculum in a way that students can make connections among courses that they are studying and hopefully bring some coherence to G.E.,” he said.

The new program shouldn’t be costly, Way said.

“I’m hopeful that it will be budget neutral,” Loker said. “It’s going to be difficult to predict if it’s going to be more costly than the existing program.”

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•If the meter is broken and can be proven, the ticket is immediately dismissed •If the officer and the meter repair person both say the meter is working properly, then it is unlikely that the ticket will be overturned.

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NALBONE: Volunteer, musician “The kids just loved him,” Bagshaw said. “We had to tell them that Brad ‘got a new job somewhere else.’”

Nalbone was a dependable person to call whenever he was needed, she said.

Brad was “Brad was the the type of person type of person to drop everything for a to drop everything friend,” she said. for a friend.”

Sean Nies, a junior Victoria Bagshaw at Butte College, was Catalyst volunteer program coordinator a band mate and friend of Nalbone for three years.

Their string band, Good guitar for children at the Jesus Center was one of his Luck Tumwater, reflected Nalbone’s commitment to favorite activities. a non-profit organization for domestic violence services, said Victoria Bagshaw, volunteer program coordinator for Catalyst. Playing

his friendships despite a busy schedule, Nies said.

“People may not even realize that they know him,” he said. “He was in so many activities – he always had something to go do.”

Nalbone’s talent on the guitar and positive personality were assets to the energy of the band, which was scheduled to record in the coming weeks, Nies said.

“He was one of the most happy and genuine people I know,” he said.

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Some may think it saves money to not pay parking meters, but their efforts are in vain when a ticket shows up on the windshield.

A ticket for an expired meter costs $25, according to Chico Police Department’s parking ticket fee schedule.

Much of the time, there will be a parking enforcement officer walking around the downtown area from First to Fifth streets and Normal Avenue to Flume Street, said Mike DiGiordano, community services officer for the Chico Police Department.

Cassi Deremo, a senior English major, always pays her meter.

She often parks around Second and Normal streets and thinks that the change she uses to keep her meter green is worth not getting ticketed, Deremo said. She has only received one ticket.

The meter had been expired for about a minute, but just as she got to it to put in change, she was handed a parking ticket, Deremo said.

There are three traffic enforcement officers that patrol the downtown area in five-hour shifts throughout the 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. time window that the meters are active, DiGiordano said.

Sometimes they will wait until 8 a.m. to give people a 30-minute buffer in case they left their car in a spot overnight, he said.

If the meter is expired, the officers can give a ticket anytime during the 10.5-hour window, he said.

At 36-minute meters, a person can get a $25 ticket every 36 minutes they stay in that spot, DiGiordano said. The same rules apply for all other meters.

Three officers patrol the downtown area, but DiGiordano covers the rest of Chico by car, he said. He cannot easily cover every meter, but tries to keep people parking outside the downtown area on their toes.

“People never know when I’m going to come up,” he said.

Christie Grens, a senior English major, has received about 15 parking tickets for meter violations, she said.

She rarely pays her meter because she typically does not have any change on her.

She has recently discovered that even though she rarely pays her meter, when she parks on certain streets, she rarely gets a ticket, she said.

To challenge a ticket, a person can go through the appeals process.

“I have yet to see one of those overturned,” DiGiordano said.

Sometimes, people can be rewarded for good behavior, he said. If someone is polite and understanding or is already trying to get more money in the meter, sometimes the parking officer will just tear up the ticket.

Kelly Ward can be reached at kward@theorion.com

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• Controls cannabis like alcohol • Gives state and local government ability to tax the sale of cannabis • Generates revenue to fund jobs, health care, public safety, parks, roads, transportation, etc.

• Ends arrests of non-violent cannabis consumers, saving tax dollars for police to focus on violent crime and cuts off drug cartels’ revenue by eliminating 60 percent of their market of illegal marijuana users • Increases the penalty for selling marijuana to minors, bans smoking marijuana in public, on school grounds and while minors are present, maintains strict criminal penalties for driving under the influence of marijuana • Preserves employers’ right to maintain drug-free workplaces • Protects medical cannabis and patients rights

• Does not authorize state taxation, but authorizes local taxes. However, since sales are still federally illegal, sellers may refuse to pay the tax, which could lead to selfincrimination under the Fifth Amendment • No tax benefits to the state or local governments because individuals can grow marijuana in a 5-by-5-foot plot to keep and store indefinitely and tax-free • No definition of what constitutes being “under the influence” of marijuana. Drivers over 21 can’t be required to be drug-free while operating a vehicle.

• Employers are no longer able to screen job applicants for marijuana use, regulate any employee conduct related to the use unless the employer can prove job impairment or choose to maintain a drugfree workplace consistent with federal law, according to an analysis released by the L. A. County District Attorney’s office source:noonprop19.com

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Nov. 5, 1996 – Proposition 215 Compassionate Use Act of 1996 legalizes medical marijuana use for qualified patients

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Patients cannot use on campus Teresa De Luz STAFF WRITER

Marijuana will not be allowed in university housing or on any other part of campus, whether or not Proposition 19 passes.

"We align we the feds, not with California law," said David Stephen, director of University Housing and Food Service.

Patients who have a referral for marijuana are not allowed to smoke it on the campus, cannot store it in their dorm rooms and cannot have the odor of marijuana on their clothing in the halls under current policy, according to the student living handbook.

The California State University system declared campuses as drug-free zones in 1989, resulting in Chico State’s current drug-free policy, said Drew Calandrella, vice president for student affairs, in an e-mail interview. Disregarding the declaration poses a risk of losing funding.

“We are still a state university that utilizes federal funding for programs and financial aid and thus would be subject to losing such funding if we knowingly ignored and violated federal

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OPEN CONVERSATION Sophomore Eric Barlow discusses Proposition 19 with Laura Wagner while tabling for the cause.

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about the proposition.

While the Chico State Republicans decided to neither endorse nor oppose the proposition, groups such as Students for Sensible Drug Policy and the Student Democratic Club actively lobby for its passage into law.

Students for Sensible Drug Policy, which is an organization newly recognized this year, think that marijuana should be controlled and taxed like alcohol, said Eric Barlow, a sophomore political science major and organization member. Mickey approached the group this semester, and the two groups have worked closely on campaigning.

Having the government actively monitor marijuana growth and consumption is not something that Chico State Republicans President Ryan Fedrizzi agrees with, he said.

“We’ll fight to the death for the property rights of marijuana growers,” he said regarding the proposition’s clauses that say

local government can control growers’ operations. “We don’t want that kind of government regulation.”

The club’s official hands-off stance is in protest to new regulations on marijuana since Senate Bill 1449, which lowers penalties for possession of less than an ounce of marijuana and was passed this month, Fedrizzi said.

The proposition has other flaws as well, he said. While the Yes on 19 campaign estimates that California will earn $1.4 billion in tax revenue, Fedrizzi doesn’t see that money effectively aiding the current $19 billion deficit because it is not earmarked for specific recipients.

The Chico State Republicans do not want to actively sway voters one way or the other on Proposition 19, as members consider it a social issue for individual discretion and not necessarily a political one, Fedrizzi said.

The Student Democratic Club is taking a different stance.

The club actively engages

students at a table boasting a banner with a marijuana leaf on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays by Bell Memorial Union, said Dylan Shelters, the president of the club. The national organization Young Democrats of America has officially endorsed the proposition.

Club members try to incite a controversial discussion about the pros and cons of the proposition to help people develop their own opinions about it, Shelters said. He thinks that the government should play a protective role in marijuana usage and that the proposition will positively impact the safe use of the drug.

One of the most appealing aspects about Proposition 19 for Shelters and other club members is that it allows local governments to decide on how to handle marijuana legislation, he said.

“It’s about the right to choose,” Shelters said.

Patty Conover can be reached at managingeditor@theorion.com

Sept. 20, 2003 – Senate Bill 420 is adopted. The bill defined a number of terms as well as created the concept of identification cards for patients and caregivers. The bill also set limits on the amount of marijuana a patient or caregiver may possess.

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laws,” he said.

The policy violates the privacy of students who use medical marijuana, said sophomore and political science major Eric Barlow, a student who lived in University Village in the 20092010 academic year. He has a referral prescription for medical marijuana for anxiety and frequent back pain caused by a snowboarding accident.

“I’m open about why I use medical marijuana, but you wouldn’t normally ask someone why they take their prescriptions,” Barlow said. “That is a total invasion of my privacy and rights on their side.”

Finding an alternative location to use his prescribed medicine is one of the biggest challenges associated with the drug-free policy of Chico State, Barlow said.

“We have the right to have our medicine in the privacy of our own living places,” he said. “When you have to go find another place, you expose yourself to so many things like getting stopped by the cops or someone trying to take your medicine from you.”

The difficulty of finding a safe place to take his referral

prompted a string of e-mails to President Paul Zingg and university housing officials, Barlow said. The responses did not lead to help or suggestions as to what should be done.

Zingg could not be reached for comment.

The proximity of the dorms to Chico High School also poses an issue for students looking for a place to take their medicine, Stephen said.

“Our neighbors around the Chico High School baseball field are pushing us back,” Stephen said. “They say, ‘Tell your students not to come in our neighborhoods,’ when we only have restriction until the curb.”

The current punishment for possession of marijuana in university housing is termination of a student’s housing contract with no exceptions, Stephen said. He thinks the university’s current position on medical marijuana is one that keeps students safety and best interest in mind.

“The policies we have in place right now I support without hesitation,” he said.

Teresa De Luz can be reached at tdeluz@theorion.com

Medicinal marijuana referrals easily obtained by some students thing ever,” Caine said.

She paid $70 in cash before seeing STAFF WRITER the doctor, sat in a room with the Rachael Caine, a junior liberal arts doctor while he asked her why she major, has a referral for medical needed medical marijuana and then made small talk, she said. She marijuana.

She is one of many patients told him she needed it for her back protected under Proposition 215, pain, premenstrual syndrome and also known as the Compassionate anxiety.

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Caine got her referral in Woodland and I was on my way,” Caine said.

Hills, Calif., from a clinic 30 minutes from her house, she said. Kelly Ward can be reached at “Pretty much, it’s like the shadiest kward@thaeorion.com Kelly Ward

Stipulations of referrals

• Renew recommendation once a year • Do not possess more than 1 pound of dried marijuana at any one time • Can grow up to six mature or 12 immature plants at one time • If growing, must document yield after every harvest Source: Butte County Medical Marijuana Guidelines

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Jan. 12, 2010 – Internal Affairs Committee recommends council proceed with code amendments in advance of Title 19 update.

April 7, 2009 – In response to citizen complaints about outdoor grows in residential areas the Chico City Council refers the matter to the Internal Affairs Committee. Council asks committee to discuss possible regulations of both the growing and distribution of medical marijuana.

May 12, 2009 – Internal Affairs Committee considers matter and concludes it should be addressed as part of the City’s zoning regulations in the 2030 General Plan.

Feb. 2, 2010 – Council accepts Internal Affairs Committee recommendation, and requests that city attorney graft necessary code amendment.

April 29, 2010 – Chico Great Debate tackles the issue of medical marijuana and its possible effects on Chico.

July 21, 2009 – Council accepts Internal Affairs Committee recommendation.

Aug. 5, 2010 – Planning Commission calls public meeting regarding proposed municipal code amendment pertaining to cultivating, processing and distributing marijuana.

Sept. 16, 2010 – Planning Commission votes, 3-2, to approve medical marijuana zoning ordinance and passes to City Council for approval.

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Jan. 6, 2011 – If ordinance passes through second reading the ordinance will become law.

May 4, 2010 – City council requests that Planning Commission conduct public hearing and provide comment on a draft amendment to the municipal code regarding medical marijuana.

Nov. 16, 2010 – Council will vote on proposed medical marijuana zoning ordinance.

Dec. 7, 2010 – If ordinance passes the City Council will hear second reading of zoning ordinance and vote again.

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‘Stinky’ crops spur legislation Walter Ford A SSISTANT NE WS EDITOR

Escalating neighbor complaints, home invasions and violent crimes resulting from the cultivation and distribution of medical marijuana have Chico looking for a way to protect both its citizens and the rights of medical marijuana users.

It is clear that there is a desire in the community to regulate the cultivation of medical marijuana, said Chico Police Chief Mike Maloney.

A zoning ordinance has been developed at the request of the Chico City Council that would put tighter restrictions on individual cultivation and designate possible locations where medical marijuana dispensaries could operate within city limits, said City Attorney Lori Barker.

The zoning ordinance recommends that if a dispensary opens within Chico city limits, it would have to remain 1,000 square feet away from other dispensaries, as well as 1,000 square feet from any private or public school.

The zoning ordinance as written does not indicate whether marijuana paraphernalia can legally be sold at dispensaries, said John Rucker, assistant city manager. That will be something that the council will decide.

What sparked the discussion?

About two years ago, there was a shootout between two vehicles as they drove through Chico.

The battle was a result of a home invasion where medicinal marijuana was stolen and the owner attempted to retrieve the stolen goods, Rucker said.

That’s when serious discussions about regulating medical marijuana began in Chico.

Other violence resulting from the cultivation of medical marijuana has occurred since then, Rucker said. However, the real driving force behind getting an ordinance in place was the large outpouring of neighbor complaints.

said.

A preliminary report on the raids shows nearly 3,000 patients have been identified, he said. Of those identified, 25 percent are under the age of 21 and 52 percent are under the age of 30.

“I worry about the state of young people in this county,” Ramsey said.

The selling of medical marijuana for profit is not permitted by the law and has never been permitted by the district attorney’s office, Rucker said.

Residential grows The problem with growing marijuana in residential areas is that the strong smell of the plants during the “harvest season,” which is from September to October, discourages neighbors from using their own backyards or opening their windows, said Michael Ramsey, Butte County district attorney.

“It’s an overpowering, skunky smell that ruins people’s day,” he said. “Their point is that your ability to grow marijuana should stop at my nose.”

The proposed zoning ordinance will attempt to solve some of these problems, but the smell of marijuana is so pungent that it may not change anything, Ramsey said.

The foreseeable future The zoning ordinance will go to the council for a vote Nov. 16.

If it passes, it will come back for a second reading Dec. 7, Rucker said. If it is approved, then it will become law 30 days later.

If Proposition 19 passes, it might test the ordinance, but it shouldn’t have much of an impact because the city is still going to need to regulate the cultivation and distribution of marijuana, he said.

This ordinance is one step in a long process to locally manage this issue in a way that works for everyone involved, said council member Scott Gruendl.

“I don’t think this will be the fix-all,” he said. “I think we will put this in place and in a couple years we will be back at the table talking more about it.”

The issue of dispensaries On June 30, Chico and Butte County authorities raided eight medical marijuana dispensaries that had set up shop in Butte County.

No one has been prosecuted as a result of the raids as of yet because of the massive amounts of paperwork involved, Ramsey

Walter Ford can be reached at wford@theorion.com

Proposition 19 brings marijuana to the ballots of California voters, leaving Chico residents hazy about their community in a post-legalized world.

Intercounty relations State and local governments will be granted the right to adopt ordinances, create areas of zoning and regulate the sale of marijuana from city to city, according to Section 11301 of Proposition 19.

Regulation of marijuana will be the responsibility of local government under the proposition, said Police Chief Mike Maloney.

The state has 530 different local governments, which would create statewide inconsistency on how marijuana is regulated.

The bill would require all of the local governments in California to create individual sets of marijuana regulations, which would not make for a consistent government, Maloney said.

The potential for difficulties with regulation from county to county is possible, but the citizens of California will adapt, said John Crosby, a political science professor.

Employers Proposition 19 does not permit a person to be punished or discriminated against for lawfully engaging in any conduct permitted under the act, according to Section 11304.

The proposition will limit an employer’s ability – outside of public safety jobs – to regulate marijuana in the workplace, Maloney said. Pubic safety jobs would include the police force, fire department and emergency response teams.

State and local government, non-profits and social service agencies would not be able to guarantee a drug-free workplace under Proposition 19, he said. This could make California businesses ineligible to receive federal funding.

The Chico Chamber of Commerce issued a statement recommending voters to oppose Proposition 19, according to its

website. They think the passage would potentially limit a California employer’s ability to regulate employee conduct.

Some think the proposition’s unclear definitions of impairment could allow for employees to use marijuana during their breaks or before work, said Jolene Francis, president and chief executive for the Chico Chamber of Commerce.

Deciding on a clear level of impairment on the job is not defined under the proposition, Francis said.

“There are just no clear answers for those concerns of employers, and that’s why we are opposed to it,” she said.

However, the use of marijuana would be regulated like alcohol, according the proposition.

Federal relations Proposition 19 could have negative effects in connection with the federal government, said Mayor Ann Schwab. The passing of Proposition 19 could cause a loss of federal funding for the cities housing and highway projects.

“Being out of compliance with federal law may affect our receiving of funds, and that would dramatically impact the way we provide service in our community,” she said.

The legalization of recreational marijuana use in California is still against federal drug laws, Schwab said.

The risk of a federal lawsuit against the state of California is possible with the passage of Proposition 19, Maloney said.

However, Crosby thinks the state should be allowed to adopt some policies different from the

federal government’s, he said.

“I think in areas of social policy, states should have some latitude,” Crosby said. “As long as they don’t infringe upon the rights of others, the state should be able to do what they want.”

Crime California spends millions of dollars to arrest, try, convict and imprison citizens for marijuanarelated offenses, according to the findings portion of Proposition 19. That money could instead be used to combat violent crimes and gangs.

However, the proposition doesn’t provide any factual basis for stopping crime, Maloney said.

Chico will experience other effects in the wake of Proposition 19, said Councilman Larry Wahl.

He thinks public safety will be negatively affected and crime rates would be likely to increase.

Wahl thinks that driving under the influence of marijuana would increase, along with backyard growing, he said.

“Quite frankly, I don’t look forward to it passing,” Wahl said. “I think it will be a big mistake if it does, in spite of what you would like to believe.”

Others see the potential for the proposition to curb crime.

Making marijuana legally accessible will lower its value, Crosby said. Organized crime will disappear – similar to how it did following alcohol prohibition.

“I don’t see how organized crime can get a foothold into something that is legal because it’s not profitable,” Crosby said.

Lindsay Woychick can be reached at lwoychick@theorion.com

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Thumbs Down to printer error messages.

You’re a machine – you work for me, damn it!

Thumbs Up to Christmas approaching.

The faintest hint of jingle bells has my heart aflutter.

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Editorial >> Awareness months still useful October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month – there are armies of pink ribbons to remind us of this fact.

However, this month also recognizes the less publicized but also vital issue of Domestic Violence Awareness.

In addition to wondering who decides which month recognizes what, this overlap raises a poignant question – which interest is most deserving of consumer attention and support? As there are only 12 months in a year and abundantly more causes than that to support, it seems there is a clear and literal conflict of interests.

It’s kind of like having two friends with the same birthday – which party do you go to?

Additionally, if an issue is important enough to necessitate having a month named for its awareness, shouldn’t it get attention all year instead of just for one month?

To some, these apparently inherent problems mean we should abandon the monthly awareness program. But before we tack up new calendars, there are a few things to consider.

The notion that having multiple causes represented by a single month leads to overshadowing doesn’t take into account that without the current monthly system, these causes would still be battling for attention. It would just be less organized and more costly, especially when you take into consideration the dozens of awareness months recognized on a national level.

Not every monthly awareness cause is important – that

October is also National Squirrel Awareness Month comes to mind – but the important issues tend to get more attention than the novelties.

This is where the value of awareness months comes in.

There will always be a bevy of causes competing for attention, whether we organize them into monthly districts or not. By breaking it down into groups, it becomes easier for people to choose what they want to support.

What rises to the top as the most important issue for that month is purely a reflection of problems being solved – and new ones being created.

Just because there is a month that acknowledges an important issue doesn’t mean it’s off the radar entirely for the other 11 months out of the year.

To revisit the birthday analogy – you only have one birthday per year, but your friends probably still like you and give you support on the other 364 days. Dedicating a month to awareness of a particular issue just means society recognizes that this is something that deserves a bit of extra attention.

With any luck, eventually these awareness months will seem unnecessary. If we ever get to the point where we move past these issues, perhaps we could reassess the worth of the awareness months.

However, if we’re ready to admit that society has more major problems than months in the year, is reducing programs that raise awareness and solutions really the right answer?

Greeks improve, benefit community problems, but the members do help the community and have demonstrated an obvious and genuine interest in improving the areas that need it.

Frankly, things could be a lot worse. The Greeks at Chico State are improving the community through philanthropic activities such as Up ‘til Dawn, community services such as the Scour and Devour campus cleanup, as well as improving overall GPAs. Considering that fraternity and sorority members make up a good chunk of the student body, this is enormously beneficial for the entire university community.

We aren’t suggesting that the Greeks should stop now and be content with the improvement – we’d like to see the advancement continue – but it’s important to give credit where credit is due.

Some of us come from college towns where the Greek system is isolated and has little interaction with the greater university or city community.

In short, they often live up to their poor reputations.

Chico State is lucky to have Greeks who are committed to being a positive force, even as they are turned into a scapegoats.

Let’s keep them accountable to this high standard, but in doing so, recognize that for all their perceived or imagined faults, these are people who are actively working to change things for the better.

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Tact eludes international representative Alexander Seymour OPINION COLUMNIST

Last week, Chico State and the Chico Hillel Center hosted speaker Ishmael Khaldi, a foreign-service officer from Israel, to represent his nation and provide insight into the peace negotiations going on right now between Israel and Palestine.

Khaldi is a Bedouin Muslim and an Israeli national. This uncommon set of traits makes him an invaluable commodity to the Israeli government, as he is living proof that Arabs and Israelis can live together.

His potential to bridge cultures was exactly what interested Catriona Lund, the center’s Israel advocacy intern.

“We thought it would be interesting to get a perspective from a non-Jewish minority within Israel,” she said.

But his ethnic and national traits were not the only thing this representative displayed. He had another, less flattering feature – an acute irreverence for both Chico State students and the people of the U.S., generally disregarding the practices of a good diplomat.

After studying international relations, visiting embassies and participating in the Model United Nations, I have a good idea of what a diplomat’s role should be – to portray his or her country in a positive manner, underplay its bad aspects, reassure allies and create an atmosphere for cooperation, understanding and concessions.

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The area immediately south of the university may be fairly raucous on weekend nights, but there’s a forgotten aspect of the Greek community that benefits the campus and city.

It’s true that the Greek system at Chico State has received its share of negative publicity, and not all of it is undeserved – in the past, the Greek system has accounted for a disproportionate use of public resources, such as police and paramedics responding to injuries, alcohol poisoning and deaths.

In fact, such circumstances prompted an inquiry into the status of the Greek system at Chico State in 2005, headed by independent consultant Dr. Thomas Jelke. The results were bleak.

However, Jelke recently returned and the results of this follow-up review suggest something that Bluto and Flounder of “Animal House” may not have expected.

“The Greek community provides students with positive developmental experiences, allows them to emerge as leaders and provides the university with a strong campus life presence,” according to the Greek System Review Task Force Report website.

While the report itself was not overwhelmingly positive, we feel that this statement resonates with the activities of the Chico State Greek community and we’re a bit more optimistic about its future.

The system may have

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Dear The Orion, I’m glad the Oct. 6 edition shed light on the abundance of robberies perpetrated against Chico residents and students this year. When my home was burglarized a year ago, I found myself feeling violated and unsafe in my own

As far as underplaying the bad aspects of his country, Khaldi cannot be faulted.

He gave up little, admitting that Israel has social and ethnic issues, just like any other country.

Improving perceptions and minimizing talk about negative aspects is exactly what a good diplomat from any country is supposed to do, but Khaldi failed in satisfying the other goals, leaving many audience members with a bad taste in their mouths.

He went too far trying to portray the positive by presenting his culture as superior to that of the audience.

“Israeli companies are leading the entire world, including America,” he said. “We will keep leading the entire Western world when it comes to freedom of speech, freedom of religion – otherwise I wouldn’t be standing here.”

Khaldi has a background in the Israeli Defense Forces, and like all military men, pride is to be expected, but these feelings of superiority are not proper displays for a diplomat. Belittling an important ally country neither reassures them nor creates an atmosphere for cooperation.

Especially since Israel’s most sophisticated technologies, such as its Iron Fist and Arrow antimissile systems, are the result of foreign funding and joint American-Israeli research projects.

Khaldi’s presumptuousness was especially apparent when he was confronted with critical questions. One of his responses stated that Israel has no problems with mosques like America does – a veiled reference to the New York Park 51 project.

This claim came at an unfortunate time

for Khaldi, as the BBC reported on a group of Jewish settlers that had burned Qurans and a mosque just days before.

“I don’t think he handled the confrontation as well as he could have,” Lund said.

“He attacked American politics when he should have been representing Israel.”

Particularly scathing was Khaldi’s mockery of the audience’s intelligence. At one point, he singled out Chico students, claiming he remembered students at UC Berkeley knowing a lot more.

Apparently, basic diplomacy and respect were outside the realm of what Khaldi was willing to give the U.S. or Chico State.

In his irreverence, Khaldi abandoned the best interests of his country and disregarded American aid to Israel.

“Someone asked him how he could speak badly about the U.S. government after we have given them so much support,” Lund said. “His response, instead of saying, ‘Thank you but we don’t need it anymore,’ was more like, ‘We never needed you or asked for help.’”

In the world of international relations, each country seeks support where it can, and even Russia and China portray themselves as developing countries when doing so will qualify them for aid or concessions in international law.

I understand that Khaldi’s ethnic background gives him valuable potential as a national spokesman, but he lacks tact.

As a representative, he does his country no service.

home, much like Ally Dukkers. For students, the home is something they hold as sacred, a place to escape the stresses of school and work, but when someone comes into a person’s space and takes from it, we often are left feeling awkward and displaced in our own homes. I wish Dukkers had discussed that as a woman she faced additional feelings of fear and vulnerability after a home burglary.

As women, when our homes are robbed and our keys are taken, we feel scared for our personal safety. Since burglars catch glimpses of us in pictures we have hanging in our houses and have access to our personal information like planners, prescriptions and computers,

how are women to know if they’re being followed by strangers who had access to our personal information? Fear of sexual assault is present in the daily lives of all women, but being robbed brings that fear to the front of our minds and is a constant reminder that there might be someone out there watching us – someone who knows our schedules, has our pictures and rifled through our possessions. I’m happy The Orion chose to address burglary in Chico, but I wish Dukkers had drawn connections between burglary, sexual assault and gender.

Alexander Seymour can be reached at aseymour@theorion.com

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Thumbs Up to “Surf Ninjas.” It’s the best worst movie ever.

Thumbs Up to fall. Rotting leaves have never smelled so good.

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Gardasil awareness absent despite benefits Serena Cervantes S OPINION COLUMNIST

I recently got my third Human Papillomavirus shot – a product that’s revolutionary in preventing cancer.

I feel more at ease about cervical cancer, but I am concerned that there is not enough awareness out there.

Now more than ever, and especially in October, the ubiquitous pink ribbon is found on a plethora of products to support the fight against breast cancer.

However, I don’t see any ribbons helping to raise awareness and funds for cervical cancer research. I find this shocking, especially when there are more than 100 different strains of HPV that can cause God knows what.

I haven’t grown up so much with the fear of breast cancer as I have with the fear of cervical cancer because commercials

for Gardasil, doctors’ pamphlets and magazine ads for the shot started showing up when I was still a teenager.

Gardasil is one of the main brand names for the HPV shot and has been around since 2006. However, we have still yet to become fully conscious of a deadly disease.

The HPV is the culprit that can lead to cervical cancer, mostly when women are in their 40s or 50s.

Freshman Adrianna Honigs, an English education major, knows the importance of the HPV shot. Honigs seems like she’s always happy and smiling, so I was taken aback when she told me that her grandmother died of cervical cancer in her 50s and her mom was diagnosed with cervical pre-cancer at age 39, later having to have a hysterectomy.

Though there are more than 100 different strains of HPV, two types of the virus cause

more than 75 percent of all cervical cancer cases and two more cause 90 percent of genital warts cases. The HPV shot helps prevent these four strains, and it is urgent for women to get the three installment shots before the age of 26. Females are encouraged to get the shot as early as 9 years old.

Honigs still worries about getting cancer since her family has a history of it and has decided to remain abstinent until the right partner comes along. Though there is substantial research that backs up the HPV shot as a preventive of cancer, it doesn’t mean that certain strains of HPV can’t still cause the disease.

Also, since HPV is contracted through skin-on-skin contact, people – gay, bisexual or straight – are all susceptible to the sexually transmitted disease.

As Honigs says this to me, the pervasive pink ribbons wink at us everywhere on campus, but there is nothing to remind us

to get the HPV shot, and cervical cancer gets tossed out of the picture.

However, the Student Health Center will start a campaign sometime this semester to get HPV awareness out on campus,

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said Cathy Felix, director of the Student Health Center.

New research has developed an HPV shot now available for males as well.

The HPV vaccine was still being tested on men when it first came out for women, said Stephanie Dunbar, chairwoman of the Student Health Advisory Council and a health educator at the Student Health Center. It was

first administered to males last year around this time, but now it is actually being advertised for men.

“Finally, just this year, it’s being recommended,” Dunbar said. “That’s the difference – it’s being recommended by places like the Center for Disease Control and other big organizations. Men are carriers of the HPV virus too and they’re spreading it to women, so why not vaccinate the people that are carrying it and giving it to women?”

Researchers are studying whether other kinds of cancer that can affect men could also be caused by HPV, Dunbar said. The shot is also important because men, like women, can still get genital warts.

The Student Health Center has received a new informational pamphlet this year with the tagline “Protect yourself against cervical cancer and

genital warts” – a qualifying advertisement that means women and men need the HPV shot, Dunbar said.

Although places such as Women’s Health Specialists don’t offer the HPV shot, students can receive the shots at the Student Health Center or Planned Parenthood.

Someday I’d like to see a bright turquoise ribbon on a Propel water bottle, a Yoplait yogurt or the late-night candy bar I’m buying and know that I’m not only purchasing a product, but am also contributing to the semiotic meaning that stands for the search for a cure. As most Americans know, results happen when advertising is good.

Let’s be the generation to promote our own health, for our sake and that of the generations to come.

Serena Cervantes can be reached at scervantes@theorion.com

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rate of physical “manvancement,” the eyeliner and makeup business may start picking up some new customers.

So my fellow gentlemen, let’s call a spade a spade and admit some of us may abuse the mirror more than necessary.

Man up and put the product down – be the man you naturally are.

Just like global warming, traffic laws and homework, it’s easy to forget that some things exist. You can now add men’s vanity to that list.

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“Damn, I look fresh tonight,” were the last words my friend Alex said after he departed the bathroom, where he had just spent the last hour and a half getting ready for the night.

It wasn’t a wedding he was getting ready for, or an important banquet or even a hot date with a girl he had just met.

He spent almost a twelfth of his day primping and “manscaping” himself so he could look fly for a casual kickback with a dozen of our closest friends.

“Manity,” or male vanity, has hit an alltime high and has become an adamant niche for young men all over the nation, but especially in college towns like Chico.

After shaving more body parts than fingers, getting haircuts more frequently than buying groceries and changing ensembles five times before being content with our appearance, men are transforming into an army of Ken dolls trained to look good – damn good.

We spend more time getting ready for the party than we are actually spending at the party.

Why this sudden spike in infatuation with self-perfection in college? Is it to look good for the girls? Is it to look better than our male counterparts? Or is it because that’s the direction our society is going, and we know no better than to follow suit?

Without question, it’s all of the above.

The social arena for young adults has transformed into a wild kingdom where natural selection comes in the form of being layered in a dozen scented beauty products for men and threads that could be pawned for an engagement ring.

The competition to be suitably hot for females and to outgun rival males has gotten dirtier – or cleaner – than ever. We’ve succumbed to trench warfare, and the war is being waged close to home – in closets and bathrooms.

This increasing necessity to attain a perfect image has turned these insignificant chambers into war rooms loaded with quivers of razors, with gel and designer jeans taking the place of battle axes and hand grenades.

We’ve become caked to the brim with hygiene fever, and there seems to be no treaty in sight.

I recently found myself in a situation where I watched a friend and his girlfriend go to get ready at the exact same time, and by the time my buddy was done perfecting every spike of his faux hawk, his girlfriend had already eaten a burrito and caught half an episode of “Grey’s Anatomy.”

Frankly, I think it’s a little embarrassing. Not to mention that if we keep up these “mantastic” shenanigans, the girls might start getting self-conscious, think they’re not making the grade and start putting in

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overtime to make up for our self-infatuation.

One of my favorite things about being a guy is the ability to go from looking like a train wreck to a GQ model in less than a half hour.

Personally, I think there is nothing wrong with looking presentable for any occasion. I take pride in my appearance and hygiene like anyone else, but I don’t care to spend more time beautifying and bedazzling my body than Lindsay Lohan spends in rehab.

A line in the sand needs to be drawn on acceptable “man-grooming” because if we continue at this

Perhaps you’re like me and until recently assumed that although guys obviously put time and effort into taking care of themselves, it was minimal at best and certainly not done in an effort to impress anything beyond their own egos. In fact, I even laughed while watching the rituals of male grooming.

But with all silliness aside, I’m starting to wonder if the joke is really on me.

There are so many facets to male beautification that I almost can’t believe the whole thing wasn’t created by a woman. One thing is for sure – the most pressing issue is to find that elusive balance between too little and too much.

The best example of this is body odor, and Chico is the best place to study this.

Chico was my first immersion into social interactions with guys who were outside my small-town group of friends. My first thought was, “Huh, I guess all guys smell the same in the real world.”

Fellas, you can go ahead and roll your eyes, but ladies, you know what I’m saying. It’s like they don’t understand the delicate nature of deodorant. Yeah, being stinky is bad, but stinky isn’t cured by half a can of Axe. This dilemma isn’t only reserved for odor-related incidents. It’s as though women either have to convince men that shampoo is actually a renewable resource and that shower time is no time to be stingy, or make them realize that there are other things to life than “Jersey Shore” routine of gym, tan and laundry.

Don’t get me wrong, I would always take the opportunity to psych someone up about the GTL lifestyle. It’s clean, healthy and at least allows me to breathe through my nose while walking

through the Wildcat Recreation Center.

But I’m inclined to believe that this Guido-inspired behavior is a slippery slope ending with a new branch of the medical field called Guidontia – an area of medicine where the professionals specialize in third-degree burns from tanning beds, prescribing hormones to counteract the steroid damage and nursing shoulders back to health after the bros fist pump their arms out of socket.

What’s worse is that when it comes to male hygiene, no man can do anything without having his decisions hypersexualized. He is either more of a man or not one at all.

Once a guy enters into the decision to take pride in his appearance, he has to choose between being a metro-sexual fancy boy or a Guido-guerilla juicehead.

Just as women often perpetuate the judgments placed upon them, those placed on men are too often perpetuated by fellow men.

But before this gets out of our self-tanner-stained hands, listen to this quick message to those who would call out their bro for taking pride in his appearance – STOP. Let those without body odor give the first whiff. In other words, you have to consider the kind of precedent that your judgment will set, not to mention the fact that this sort of good-natured teasing usually involves some offensive language.

When you “manper” yourself, you might want to be the careless-looking slob, anti-capitalist hipster or even that Ed Hardy-repping Jersey boy, but you definitely don’t want to be the jerk who lets his ignorance speak more often than his conscience.

Just remember that it’s okay to come out of the closet – literally – and when you do, it doesn’t matter if you’re sporting a popped collar or a centuries-old band T-shirt, because the biggest turn off is not being able to pull back the curtain and reveal the man behind the label.

Joanna Hass can be reached at jhass@theorion.com

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“I think guys should spend as much time as they need. Maybe 20 or 30 minutes. If I’m trying to impress a girl, I’ll take longer – it depends.”

“It’s hard to say.

Thirty minutes would be too much, but at the same time they have to look good, shave, wear cologne – not look scruff y.”

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“I think they should spend as much time as they feel they need. My husband never spends time getting ready.

He needs to spend more time getting ready, he does need to do something.”

“I would say 25 minutes. I take a shower, do my hair, put cream in it and brush my teeth. I also wear cologne – Armani. It cost $50 for a small bottle.”

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“We’re going to be playing some of the best schools on the West and East Coast,” Souza said. “I’m definitely excited because we don’t get to play them much.”

The Championship Preview was the last golf tournament of the season, unless the team makes it to the NCAA Division-II Championship Tournament.

Small town rivarly There is only one week out of the year that I miss being in high school.

It’s not the week before prom or even the week before graduation – it’s the week leading up to Almond Bowl.

The annual Almond Bowl football game between rivals Chico High School and Pleasant Valley High School is not just a high-school football game – it is a Chico tradition.

The game, which will take place Friday at University Stadium, reminds Chico that football is still very much a part of the community.

University Stadium transforms within hours from a simple football field to complete chaos. A scattering of red and gold balloons and streamers from one side battles the blue and white decorations on the other.

Rivalry isn’t only on the field, but also in the stadium.

Each school’s student government has an unspoken competition to see who can hang more signs, unroll more streamers or build the bigger balloon arch.

Being a 2006 Chico High grad, during the week leading up to the big game, I still feel the rivalry with the Vikings that I did when I was in high school.

No matter who has the better record, bigger players or better skills, when it comes to the Almond Bowl, Chico High and Pleasant Valley are on the same playing field for one night.

I miss standing in the bleachers, decked out in ridiculous red-and-gold outfits. I miss the rattle of the stadium as the fans jump up and down right before kick off. I miss copying college football chants and shouting them the whole game.

One of my greatest memories of high school comes from the Almond Bowl of my junior year. I was surrounded by friends and fellow Panther fans, and we shouted out as the remaining seconds in the fourth quarter clicked down – we knew we had won. We had been warned not to storm the field, and a yellow line of police tape was set up as a weak deterrent.

As the horn blew and the last second ticked off the clock, we stormed the field.

We ran to meet the football team and its coaches, and it was like every college stampede ever seen on TV. It was a sense of community – a student body and family all wrapped into a 100yard confinement. We jumped and shouted, and tears of joy fell from some of the players’ eyes. For the seniors, it was one game that culminated the whole season. For the juniors, it was proof that next year would be just as tough.

We had won the Almond Bowl – and it was something to hold onto forever.

I know every high school has a rivalry, but when it comes to the Almond Bowl, I truly believe that nothing compares.

If you are in town Friday and in the mood for a hard-fought football game, look no further than University Stadium to get that fix.

The JV game kicks off at 5:30 and the Varsity starts at 7:30.

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HOLDING DOWN THE HOUSE [left to right] Molly Ratto and Jessica Simms come together to attempt a play. Simms pops a pass into the air. Jordan Bambas takes an aerial strike at the ball. The ’Cats defeated the Toros and Golden Eagles over the weekend.

Wildcats claw back, end six-game skid Dane Stivers A SSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

As the young ’Cats trudged through the past few weeks, they promised it wasn’t talent they were lacking.

This weekend, it proved to be a lack of resiliency that had been the issue, after the Wildcats doubled the total amount of wins they’ve had in the past month with victories over Cal State Dominguez Hills and Cal State L.A. The Wildcats jumped out to an early 12-8 lead in the first set against the Toros Friday night in Acker Gym. Despite being just 1-16 on the season, the Toros would go on a 4-0 run to notch things up at 12.

But the Toros would take part in their own undoing, failing to capitalize on three straight serves that they sent out of bounds as gifts to the Wildcats.

The ’Cats would capitalize from there, hanging on for a 25-20 win that didn’t see the advantage for either team reach more than four points until the final Wildcat point.

In the second set, things started poorly for the ’Cats and

didn’t get much better throughout the game.

Though a 1-3 Wildcat start was stomped out by an early 7-6 lead, the Toros would gain momentum from there, turning an initially back-and-forth match into a 25-20 victory.

With the match tied at 1-1, the ’Cats would need to show some fight if they wanted to hand the Toros their 17th loss in 18 attempts.

However, the ’Cats showed quite the opposite at the beginning of the third set when a 13-15 deficit ballooned to a 14-21 deficit as the Toros charged at the ’Cats.

But the ’Cats didn’t quietly surrender as they had many times this season when facing big deficits.

They would come clawing back, turning the late sevenpoint deficit into a 24-24 tie, as the home crowd roared with applause.

The pivotal set would be won two points later, and the wild 26-24 win gave the ’Cats a 2-1 match advantage and growing hopes of ending their six-match skid.

The Toros would have nothing left in the fourth and final

set, as the ’Cats jumped out to an early 7-1 lead and didn’t look back, taking the set, 25-13, and the match, 3-1, for their first victory in October.

The victory has the team feeling good vibes again, said freshman opposite and outside

We have all the talent in the world, that’s not an issue.”

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hitter Alex Shurtz, who scored a team-high 17 kills on the night.

“Everyone was smiling and laughing,” Shurtz said. “We really want to make the second half of the season that much better.”

On Saturday night, the Wildcats would face significantly tougher competition against the Cal State L.A. Golden Eagles, who were ranked fourth in the California Collegiate Athletic Association with a 7-6 conference record and a 10-7 record overall.

In the first set, the Wildcats pounced early. A quick 3-0 Golden Eagle start was made a

memory after the ’Cats scored nine of the next 10 points for a 9-4 advantage.

But the Golden Eagles would right the ship, going on a 13-7 run to put them ahead, 17-16.

Despite the ’Cats knotting the score at 22 after one of freshman outside hitter and defensive specialist Makenzie Fahnestock’s teamleading 16 kills, the Golden Eagles would take it from there, scoring the next three points for the 25-22 victory.

In the second set, the ’Cats would find themselves in a situation similar to the one they were in Friday night.

After an evenly played match to start, the Golden Eagles cashed in with a flurry of points, flying all over the ’Cats for a comfortable 21-15 advantage.

But history would repeat itself, as the Wildcats scored 10 of the next 11 points for yet another wild, come-frombehind victory, 25-22.

The third set would also be a tight one as a late Golden Eagle run knotted the score at 24 after the ’Cats had built a 22-18 lead just moments earlier.

But the ’Cats again showed resiliency, gutting it out

when the stakes were highest for a 27-25 set win and a 2-1 match lead.

The fourth set started off in a dead heat, but the ’Cats turned a slim 13-12 advantage into a 19-13 lead after head coach Cody Hein called a quick timeout to keep the team relaxed and focused.

The ’Cats would cruise from there to emerge with a 25-16 win for another 3-1 match victory, erasing memories of their losing streak with the weekend sweep.

This weekend’s two-match inner-conference sweep showed that improved Wildcat play is key to keeping the current wining-streak alive, Hein said.

“Our passing, our tip pursuits are getting better,” Hein said.

“This weekend, we were better at keeping our heads together.”

The amount of maturity the team shows will make or break games for the Wildcats, Fahnestock said.

“We have all the talent in the world, that’s not an issue,” Fahnestock said. “We have to keep our confidence.”

Dane Stivers can be reached at dstivers@theorion.com

Nationally ranked Wildcat golfers anticipate strong finish to season Sophia Horn STAFF WRITER

of the week

Chico State’s men’s golf team, which is currently ranked third in the nation, has had a successful season so far.

The team has finished among the top five in 16 consecutive tournaments since the beginning of last year. This includes its third-place finish at last year’s NCAA Championship, according to www.chicowildcats.com.

The team has won three tournaments and gotten second place four times, third place four times, fourth place once and fifth place twice.

The team arrived back from its win at the Western Washington Invitational on Sept. 27-28 with three top-seven finishes

by Eric Frazzetta, Kevin Rei and Kyle Souza.

Souza, a junior who was an All-American and All-Region performer last season, has shot under par in six of nine rounds so far this season and finished in the top seven in all three tournaments.

“It was really something special since our team is so young,” Souza said about the Western Washington Invitational. “I

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wasn’t really expecting it.”

After the Western Washington Invitational, the Wildcats had home-field advantage for the InterWest Wildcat Classic on Oct. 11-12 at the Butte Creek Country Club.

The Wildcats took second place to the Western Washington Vikings, who are currently ranked No. 1 in the nation.

However, a second place finish did not discourage freshman golfer Ricky Owaki.

It was really something special since our team is so young.”

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“I’m very proud of our team,” Owaki said. “We came back in the last round and did not give up.”

Owaki had trouble during the beginning of the Wildcat classic, but his game improved after a team meeting with coach T.L. Brown regarding strategy, he said.

“The first day was pretty brutal with the wind conditions,”

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TEEING OFF [Left to right] Wildcat golfers Kevin Rei, Kyle Souza, Matt Williams and Eric Frazzetta.

Owaki said. “I was hitting the ball pretty solid for the first two rounds, but I could not make a putt.”

Souza, Frazzetta, Owaki, Rei, and freshman Dane Petersen, who made his debut on the Chico State golf team, all played in the Wildcat Classic.

Souza finished in fifth place at even par for the tournament and carded a 3-under par 69 on Tuesday.

Frazzetta shot 1-under par 71, while Owaki came in at 1-over par.

After claiming the second place position, the team will head to Alabama to play at the Robert Trent Jones Fighting Joe Golf Course for the Division-II Championship Preview Monday and Tuesday.

The Wildcats were able to get a feel for the course in the hopes of playing at the same course for the NCAA Division-II Championship Tournament that will take place May 17-20.

The Wildcats faced five of the top 12 golf teams in the nation, including top-ranked Northern

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Division II balances academics, athletics Sophia Horn STAFF WRITER

Cal State Stanislaus volleyball defeats Chico State >> The Cal State Stanislaus Warrior volleyball team beat the Chico State Wildcats Oct. 13 in a California Collegiate Athletic Association match for the second time this season. The Warriors defeated the Wildcats 3-1.

The Warriors improve to 10-7 overall record, matching last year’s win total, and 7-5 in the CCAA. Chico State drops to 8-10 overall, 3-9 in the CCAA. source: goccaa.org

Triton outside hitter named player of the week >> UC San Diego outside hitter Roxanne Brunsting has been named Molten/California Collegiate Athletic Association Women’s Volleyball Player of the Week for the week of Oct. 11-17.

Brunsting led the Tritons to a pair of road wins over Sonoma State and Humboldt State that moved UC San Diego into a tie for fourth place in CCAA standings.

She tallied 16 kills, 33 assists and 17 digs in the win over the Seawolves and racked up 12 kills, 20 assists and 16 digs to beat the Lumberjacks 3-1. source: goccaa.org

UC San Diego ranked as CCAA’s preseason No. 1 >> Four-time defending regular-season champion UC San Diego has been tabbed to capture the 2010-11 California Collegiate Athletic Association women’s basketball title, according to a poll of league coaches. The Tritons received 114 points and six first-place votes to finish ahead of Chico State. The Wildcats collected four first-place votes and 103 points, and Cal Poly Pomona was picked third after totaling 89 points. source: goccaa.org

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Chris Akwaja men’s soccer

Chris Akwaja scored two goals Sunday afternoon against Cal State East Bay for his fifth and sixth goals of the season, already surpassing his goal total from last year.

The junior forward’s effort helped give the ’Cats a 3-1 win over the Pioneers and a 10-4 record that sits them firmly at the top of the CCAA North Division.

When discussing college sports, most people think about schools that are Division I or are home to a well-known football team.

However, universities such as Chico State have a balance of sports and education that has some advantages over these bigger or more widely known schools.

Because Chico State is a Division-II school, the athletes are able to play the sport they choose while still attending all of their classes and being a regular student.

Taylor Lambert, a pre-nursing major, plays intramural soccer at Chico State and had to make a difficult decision when picking which school to attend, he said.

He had the option of joining track and field for Chico State, but decided to focus on academics instead.

“I wanted to go to college and play a sport like I did in high school, but in college it seems like you have to focus on either sports or academics, so I chose the option of intramural,” Lambert said.

Senior Taylor Lydon, who plays for Chico State’s women’s basketball team, thinks she made the right decision picking a Division-II school, she said.

“Division-II schools are a lot more focused on the overall schooling, and it is a less demanding commitment compared to Division I,” Lydon said. “Division I is more like a business, where I think Division II is more into personal relationships and future life skills.”

Some student athletes admit that they did not initially consider the school’s division a

Rowdy Red, which encourages an abundance of students to attend sporting events to raise the popularity of games.

Division-I schools tend to receive more money for their athletes because of the popularity of the sports, the revenue produced from sporting events, thanks to their ability to produce large scholarships for the student athletes, according to the NCAA website.

These schools can afford to pay for a student’s tuition, room and board, books and other fees, while Division-II schools can only afford to pay for a student’s tuition, fees and books.

This means that attending a Division-I school becomes

that much more attractive to students looking for a place to stay while playing sports.

Division-I schools receive more money because DivisionII schools do not need higher funds for athletic scholarships and game attendance, according to the NCAA website.

Being a Division-II school, Chico State does not receive as much money as it could when it comes to athletics. However, there may be some benefits to that.

Mitch Cox, the assistant athletic director, is a Chico State alumnus, has been involved with college athletics for 20 years and enjoys the aspect of being a part of a Division-II school, he said.

“Since we’re not a DivisionI program, student athletes are not separated from the student body and are regular students who just happen to be in sports,” Cox said.

This outlook reflects how Division-I schools have athletes focus primarily on sports.

Division-I schools do not have a budget, according to the NCAA website.

They are able to scout anywhere they desire to handpick the athletes they want wearing their school’s jersey.

In Division-II, however, the athletes choose the school best suited for them.

Sophia Horn can be reached at shorn@theorion.com

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Sacramento risks losing Kings by keeping Arco Arena Blake Mehigan STAFF WRITER

If the Kings were to leave Sacramento, I’m not entirely sure I could still follow them as a fan.

Geographically, I may have to convert to a Warriors fan.

Last month, Cal Expo officials aborted the proposal of a land swap between Cal Expo and the Sacramento Kings’ Arco Arena, according to the Sacramento Bee. This is one of several ideas regarding a new arena for the Kings that has been nixed in the past 12 years.

The plan involved the state fair grounds relocating to Arco Arena and a new arena – along with shops, restaurants and housing – would be built on the current fair grounds.

With the news of the most recent deal falling through, murmurs have spread of the Kings leaving Sacramento for a new city and shiny new arena.

Arco Arena opened its doors on Nov. 8, 1988. Unfortunately, upon opening it was already an out-of-date, small and underwhelming piece of architecture.

The Kings have been contacted by various cities about potentially moving, but are hoping to fi nd a new facility in Sacramento, said co-owner of the Kings Gavin Maloof in an interview with Fox 40.

Even the NCAA deemed Arco Arena unfit to house opening rounds of the Division-I tournament, and there are some college arenas considered superior to Arco Arena.

The Kings leaving Sacramento is not an easy thought

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Chico State cross-country runner Jeremy Brummitt did not take the school’s division into consideration, he said.

“It was what team fit best with me,” Brummitt said.

“Chico State competes like a Division-I school, so it was perfect.”

Other student athletes took the division into consideration for reasons other than just the financial aspect.

Freshman Tommy McGuan, another member of the crosscountry team, enjoys attending a Division-II school as well.

“I picked a Division-II school because it seemed more familybased than Division-I schools,” McGuan said.

The school’s division can be a major factor for an athlete to take into consideration.

Division-II schools have to sponsor at least five sports for men and five for women, or four for men and six for women, according to the NCAA website.

There must be two team sports for each gender, and each playing season must be represented by each gender.

In contrast, Division-I schools have to sponsor at least seven sports for men and seven for women, or six for men and eight for women, with two team sports for each gender.

Division II is nestled between the high-profile appeal of Division I and the cachet of Division III’s non-scholarship approach.

In a sense, it has the downside of both divisions – the cost of scholarships without the appeal of Division I, according to David Moltz from Inside Higher Ed. However, at Chico State there are certain organizations that promote a higher-division atmosphere, such as The

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to stomach. My parents had season tickets for more than twenty years, dating back to when the Kings fi rst moved to Sacramento. I even follow them today, despite the heartache.

Watching your team win a meager 17 games in an 82-game season takes some serious dedication and hell of a lot of positive thinking.

The Kings are a team on the rebound and chalked with young talent – many of the players are in their early 20s.

None of them are older than 30.

Tyreke Evans and DeMarcus Cousins are thought by many to be the future of the team. To witness these two promising athletes come into their own in a different city would be the ultimate dagger in the heart.

Just ask the Sonics fans in Seattle about Kevin Durant. Two years after the team relocated, Durant became one of the best players in the league. The team’s sale and relocation was due to a lack of interest from the city to help organize a new arena.

On the heels of this most recent failed attempt at breaking ground on a new arena and growing potential that the team will move, the thought on my mind was, “Which team will I root for?”

What did the Sonics fan do when their team ceased to exist after 41 years? Did they root for the Portland Trail Blazers?

Start following curling? Pick up knitting?

Sacramento’s apathetic view on the situation shows the city has little to no interest in building downtown life indicative of the metropolitan area that it could be. An

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arena in the thick of downtown Sacramento would draw world-class performers, stimulate local business, create jobs, benefit the growing nightlife and potentially make it a city known for something other than its trees.

Matt Mahood, the Sacramento Metro Chamber president and CEO, said that a new arena in the area could provide more than 5,000 new jobs, according to the

Sacramento Press.

For example, the HP Pavilion in San Jose provides about 4,000 jobs per year and about $5.4 million in direct fiscal benefits, Mahood said.

While I can salivate at the thought of what a state-ofthe-art arena coupled with a team that has finally realized its potential in a booming downtown Sacramento looks like, I should probably start imagining what a Kings jersey

might look like in Las Vegas instead.

Or Kansas City.

Or Anaheim.

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Women’s Soccer The ’Cats lost to a hot UC San Diego squad 3-1 in Friday’s game. Sunday, the teamed played to a scoreless draw against Cal State East Bay.

Women’s Volleyball The Wildcats went 2-0 over the weekend, first defeating woeful Cal State Dominguez Hills 3-1 at home. Saturday the ’Cats wiped out conference-nemesis Cal State L.A. 3-1.

Stat of the Week Adrian Sherrod of the men’s cross-country team earned the CCAA Male Cross-Country Runner of the week for Oct. 11-17.

Sherrod set a personal record in the 8k at the Willamette Invitational earlier this month. source: chicowildcats.com

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CROSS COUNTRY

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Nov. 6

Red/White Scrimmage

3 p.m.

Dec. 31

@Cal State Dominguez Hills 12:30 p.m.

Sept. 19

Cal State San Bernardino

Nov. 7

@University of Pacific

5 p.m.

Jan. 7

UC San Diego

5:30 p.m.

Sept. 24

Humboldt State

Nov. 18

@Cal State Stanislaus

7 p.m.

Jan. 8

Cal State East Bay

5:30 p.m.

Sept. 26

Nov. 22

Bethany University

7 p.m.

Jan. 14

@Cal State San Bernardino

5:30 p.m.

Oct. 1

Nov. 26

Northwest Christian

7:30 p.m.

Jan. 15

@Cal Poly Pomona

5:30 p.m.

Oct. 3

Cal State L.A.

Nov. 27

Dominican

7:30 p.m.

Jan. 21

San Francisco State

5:30 p.m.

Oct. 8

@Sonoma State

L 1-2

Nov. 20

TBD

TBA

Dec. 3

Humboldt State

7:30 p.m.

Jan. 22

CSU Monterey Bay

5:30 p.m.

Oct. 10

@Humboldt State

W 2-1

Dec. 4

TBD

TBA

Dec. 4

Sonoma State

7:30 p.m.

Jan. 28

Cal State Dominguez Hills

5:30 p.m.

Oct. 15

@UC San Diego

Dec. 8

Cal State Stanislaus

7 p.m.

Jan. 29

Cal State L.A.

5:30 p.m.

Oct. 17

@Cal State East Bay

W 3-1

Dec. 11

Pacific Union

7 p.m.

Feb. 3

@Sonoma State

5:30 p.m.

Oct. 22

San Francisco State

7 p.m.

Dec. 30

@Cal State L.A.

2:30 p.m.

Feb. 5

@Humboldt State

5:30 p.m.

Oct. 24

CSU Monterey Bay

11:30 a.m.

Dec. 31

@Cal State Dominguez Hills

2:30 p.m.

Feb. 10

@Cal State East Bay

5:30 p.m.

Oct. 27

Cal State Stanislaus

4:30 p.m.

Sept. 3

@Dominican

W 3-1

Jan. 7

UC San Diego

7:30 p.m.

Feb. 12

@UC San Diego

5:30 p.m.

Oct. 30

@Cal State Stanislaus

7 p.m.

Sept. 3

@BYU- Hawaii

W 3-1

Jan. 8

Cal State East Bay

7:30 p.m.

Feb. 18

Cal Poly Pomona

5:30 p.m.

Nov. 5-7

TBD

TBA

Sept. 4

@Grand Canyon

W 3-1

Jan. 14

@Cal State San Bernardino

7:30 p.m.

Feb. 19

Cal State San Bernardino

5:30 p.m.

Nov. 12-14

TBD

TBA

Sept. 4

@Seattle Pacific

Jan. 15

@Cal Poly Pomona

7:30 p.m.

Feb. 24

@CSU Monterey Bay

5:30 p.m.

Nov. 20

TBD

TBA

Sept. 7

William Jessup

Jan. 21

San Francisco State

7:30 p.m.

Feb. 25

@San Francisco State

5:30 p.m.

Dec. 2-4

TBD

TBA

Sept. 10

@Cal State L.A.

Jan. 22

CSU Monterey Bay

7:30 p.m.

March 1-5

TBD

TBA

Sept. 11

@Cal State Dominguez Hills

W 3-0

Jan. 28

Cal State Dominguez Hills

7:30 p.m.

March 6

TBD

TBA

Sept. 15

@Simpson

W 3-0

Jan. 29

Cal State L.A.

7:30 p.m.

March 15

TBD

TBA

Sept. 17

Humboldt State

W 3-1

Feb. 3

@Sonoma State

7:30 p.m.

Sept. 18

Sonoma State

L 3-0

Feb. 5

@Humboldt State

7:30 p.m.

Aug. 17

@Nevada

exhibition

Sept. 22

Cal State Stanislaus

L 3-0

Feb. 10

@Cal State East Bay

7:30 p.m.

Aug. 25

@Southern Oregon

exhibition

Sept. 24

UC San Diego

W 3-2

Feb. 12

@UC San Diego

7:30 p.m.

Sept. 2

Western Washington

L 1-2 (2OT)

Feb. 18

Cal Poly Pomona

7:30 p.m.

Sept. 24-25

@Saint Martin’s Inv.

2nd

Sept. 4

Central Washington

Feb. 19

Cal State San Bernardino

7:30 p.m.

Sept. 27-28

@Western Washington Inv.

TBA

Sept. 10

@Cal State Monterey Bay

Feb. 24

@CSU Monterey Bay

7:30 p.m.

Oct. 11-12

InterWest Wildcat Classic

TBA

Sept. 12

@San Francisco State

Feb. 25

@San Francisco State

7:30 p.m.

Oct. 18-19

D-II Championship Preview

TBA

Sept. 17

Cal Poly Pomona

Sept. 25

@Stanford Invitational

6th/9th

W 1-0

Oct. 2

@Williamette Invitational

2nd/3rd

Sonoma State

W 2-0

Oct. 16

@Santa Clara Invitational

TBA

Cal State Dominguez Hills

W 3-0

Nov. 6

@CCAA Championships

TBA

L 0-1 (OT)

Nov. 6

@Doc Adams Invitational

TBA

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L2-3 (OT)

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Sept. 25

Cal State East Bay

L 3-1

W 2-1

Oct. 1

@Cal State San Bernardino

L 0-3 L 2-3

W 2-0

Oct. 2

@Cal Poly Pomona

L 0-1 (2OT)

Oct. 8

San Francisco State

L 1-3

L 0-1 (OT)

Oct. 9

CSU Monterey Bay

L 2-3

March 1-5

TBD

TBA

Sept. 19

Cal State San Bernardino

W 2-1

Oct. 13

@Cal State Stanislaus

March 12-15

TBD

TBA

Sept. 24

Humboldt State

W 1-0

Oct. 15

Cal State Dominguez Hills

March 23-26

TBD

TBA

Sept. 26

Sonoma State

W 4-0

Oct. 16

Cal State L.A.

Oct. 1

Cal State Dominguez Hills

L 0-1

Oct. 22

@Sonoma State

7 p.m.

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8th

Oct. 3

Cal State L.A.

Sept. 27-28

@Grand Canyon Inv.

TBA

Oct. 8

@Sonoma State

L 1-3 W 3-1 W -31

L 0-2

Oct. 23

@Humboldt State

7 p.m.

W 2-0

Oct. 29

@Cal State East Bay

7 p.m.

Nov. 7

@St. Mary’s

2 p.m.

Oct. 11-12

@Viking Inv.

TBA

Oct. 10

@Humboldt State

L 0-2

Oct. 30

@UC San Diego

7 p.m.

Nov. 12

@University of Nevada

7 p.m.

Oct. 18-19

@Golf Mart Lady Otter Inv.

TBA

Oct. 15

@UC San Diego

L 1-3

Nov. 5

Cal Poly Pomona

7 p.m.

Nov. 19

Academy of Art

7:30 p.m.

Oct. 17

@Cal State East Bay

T 0-0

Nov. 6

Cal State San Bernardino

7 p.m.

Nov. 20

Hawaii Pacific

7:30 p.m.

Oct. 22

San Francisco State

4:30 p.m.

Nov. 12

@CSU Monterey Bay

7 p.m.

Nov. 23

Cal State Stanislaus

6 p.m.

Oct. 24

CSU Monterey Bay

2 p.m.

Nov. 13

@San Francisco State

Nov. 27

@Cal State Stanislaus

2 p.m.

Oct. 27

Cal State Stanislaus

7 p.m.

Nov. 18-20

TBD

Dec. 3

Humboldt State

5:30 p.m.

Sept. 2

Western Washington

W 2-1

Oct. 30

@Cal State Stanislaus

Dec. 2-4

TBD

Dec. 4

Sonoma State

5:30 p.m.

Sept. 6

Seattle Pacific

W 1-0

Dec. 10

@Western Washington

5 p.m.

Sept. 10

@Cal State Monterey Bay

Dec. 11

@Seattle Pacific

5 p.m.

Sept. 12

Dec. 30

@Cal State L.A.

12:30 p.m.

Sept. 17

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Nov. 5-7

TBD

TBA

W 2-1 (OT)

Nov. 11-14

TBD

TBA

@San Francisco State

W 2-1

Nov. 19-21

TBD

TBA

Cal Poly Pomona

W 3-0

Dec. 2-4

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Poker players look to fatten their pockets Kevin Augustine STAFF WRITER

For students willing to test their poker faces, Chico’s bestkept secret and only card room might be the best bet.

Since 1997, Angie’s Poker Club has been dealing students and the community of Chico more than 21 years old with a flush of opportunities to try their hands at community card games.

Texas Hold ’em, along with various vari r ouss forms of lowball, lowba all ll,,

Omaha and seven- and fivecard stud are played on the five tables that fill the room.

Though the club is considered to be a gambling establishment and the employees are required to have a valid state gambling license, to many who play at Angie’s, poker is a not a gamble – it is a game of skill.

Senior Erika Miller, a dealer who started working at Angie’s in June of last year as a cashier and hostess, thinks the many aspects aspe as pect cts of poker pok oker err allow allow ow the he

game to be considered a legitimate sport, she said.

“Reading other players, the odds of the cards and the calculating all factor into poker being a game of skill,” Miller said.

Though Angie’s offers several different styles of poker, Texas Hold ’em seems to be the most popular and most played.

Texas Hold ’em is a community game, which means that cards dealt on the board are shared by players to make their hands, according to Angie’s Poker Basics and House Rules.

For senior Mark Thompson, who has been playing poker since he was 8 and playing at Angie’s for more than a year, the attention given to the sport is justified by the challenges it brings, he said.

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However, there are some come out and play,” McGuire ment starting time. they can, he said.

“Since our tournaments are factors that affect the student- said. “It’s a great way to get out, The secret is out and the stube social and test your skill.” every day in the afternoon, stu- to-player ratio. dents are in.

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Four bands will converge at Nick’s Night Club tomorrow night to settle a long-standing debate on the nature of music.

These musicians, who measure music by measures rather then verses, will showcase the power of instrumental music and prove that chords can sing a song just as well as a vocalist.

Chico locals La Fin du Monde, Birds of Fire and Clouds On Strings will mix melodies alongside Silian Rail – a two-person band from Oakland, Calif., known for its musical versatility. The impending show is the brainchild of Dan Elsen, drummer for La Fin du Monde and organizer of many local shows.

“I’ve been trying to put on a prog-rock show for years and the time just felt right,” Elsen said in a phone interview.

“We’ve got some very talented, newer bands now with Silian Rail and Clouds On Strings, as well as some great older bands, with us and Birds of Fire playing.”

Elsen, who began playing with La Fin du Monde in 2003, is excited that the show will give him an opportunity to highlight the music being played rather than the

musicians who play it, he said.

“With lyrical music, people naturally attach themselves to the singer,” he said. “But in instrumental music, you can’t pinpoint a certain style. It’s the kind of music we dig.”

Though the music performed will be subtle and refined, make no mistake – it will also be loud. Matt Daugherty, one of two guitarists from Birds of Fire, forecasted the forthcoming noise.

In Daugherty’s world, volume isn’t measured in decibels – it’s a tangible, physical force that moves the listener, he said.

“La Fin du Monde is going to be ridiculously loud,” he said.

“They have two bassists, so if you stand there, you can feel the bass thrumming through your body, vibrating every bone.”

The only non-local band that will perform at Nick’s Night Club is Silian Rail, a small group that has made a name for itself with big sound. Drummer Eric Kuhn uses one hand to hammer away at his kit while he plays the synthesizer with his feet.

Kuhn explained his part in Silian Rail’s music casually, but a careful re-read of his description will leave any audiophile scratching his head and counting his appendages.

“I have a foot-synth bass that

I play while I’m playing drums,” Kuhn said in an e-mail interview.

“And I also play guitar on a few songs while I’m playing drums.

We even have a new song where I do all three. That’s fun.”

Kuhn, who has been playing instrumental music in one form or another since the beginning of his career, thinks it’s strange to assume that music should have lyrics, he said. Instrumental music allows Silian Rail to push the envelope and perform outside of lyrical music’s confinement.

“Music has been assigned a limited role in modern Western culture,” Kuhn said. “We enjoy operating creatively outside of that limited role, and that has something to do with why we play instrumental music.”

La Fin du Monde’s songs, whose only words are in their titles, line up well with this philosophy. With names like “The Brutal Chicken Divine” and “These Babies Are Edible,” La Fin du Monde creates an absurd framework upon which they can build a song that goes anywhere.

Elsen described these titles as representative of La Fin du Monde as a whole.

“The goofy titles are a natural extension of the band,” he said. “We’re lighthearted

people, but we take our music seriously.”

The music won’t be the only experimental element at the upcoming concert. Tomorrow’s show also represents the revival of Nick’s Night Club, which used to be one of Chico’s most frequented venues until the management changed hands and the club stopped booking bands.

The club has a storied history, stretching back many years and at least two names, Elsen said.

“Nick’s Night Club used to be called Off Limits, and it was the most fun rock bar in Chico,” he said. “We used to play there all the time, but it went down the tubes when the management changed. But it’s under new ownership now, and they’ve put in a new stage, new lighting and a new green room for the bands. This will be the first show hosted at Nick’s since the renovations.”

With experimental music, a newly renovated venue and a concentration on style and substance over singing, the show promises to be instrumental in the progression of Chico’s music scene. Check your expectations at the door, Chico.

• Time 6:30 p.m. Thursday • Place Nick’s Night Club •Bands La Fin du Monde, Silian Rail, Birds of Fire, Clouds on String • Cost $5

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MADNESS La Fin du Monde play at Paradise Lost last year. They’re set to headline a show at Nick’s Night Club Thursday with Silian Rail, Birds of Fire and Clouds on Strings. La Fin du Monde [clockwise from top left] Mike Crew, Chris Roberts, Adam Scarborough and Josh Kinsey.

Wicked Honey play with one goal, two drummers Tyler Ash STAFF WRITER

With two drum kits, two guitars and a bass, Wicked Honey melted faces with their brand of classic rock and blues Thursday night at Cafe Coda.

Before they began their deafening set, vocalist and guitarist Will Watje informed the Coda crowd that the cafe does sell earplugs. But with two hardhitting drummers and songs filled with wah-peddled woes and intense guitar solos, some fans are going to like the way their ears hurt.

The setup that night was out of the ordinary for any band. Drummers Alex Coffin and Casey Schmidt sat backed against each wall on Cafe Coda’s stage, sandwiching the rest of the band within their

double rhythm.

The drumming duo would smile back and forth during songs and see who could drum the last beat before the end of the song. They would even mirror each other at times, providing the same beat, but with double the force.

Wicked Honey decided on using two drummers after Coffin, the original drummer and drummer for local band Teeph, came back from studying abroad in Thailand.

“I absorbed the culture, and it changed my perspective,” Coffin said about his experience in Thailand.

Schmidt, who also plays for several other local bands including Aubrey Debauchery & the Puke Boots, Red Giant and Birds of Fire, was asked to fill in for Coffin at shows until

he returned.

“When Alex got back, I said jokingly, ‘We should do a show with double drums and then I’ll just quit,’” Schmidt said.

But after playing a show with double drummers at Cafe Coda prior to this one, the band decided that it was just too much fun playing with two drummers.

Wicked Honey ended the night with “Lazy Boy,” a song about a kid who doesn’t care what his parents tell him to do. The bluesy ballad broke out into a drum battle between Schmidt and Coffin, where band members and the audience alike couldn’t take their ears off of the barrage of beats.

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It’s all in a name Titles are important.

The name of a work, whether it’s an album, movie, book, video game, song or anything else, colors our relationship with it.

That’s why I never understood why some bands give themselves such unattractive names.

I have a pretty “wait-andsee” attitude when it comes to music, but names have affected my decisions on what to listen to and will continue to do so.

One band that has a seriously off-putting title is ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead – or as I like to call them, …

AYWKUbtToD. What’s worse than the use of an ellipsis in the unwieldy title is the fact that these guys have some real indie-rock skills. It took me a long time to give them a chance. In a market flooded with talent, it wouldn’t hurt to have a title that people can at least repeat.

The band Godspeed You! Black Emperor stick an exclamation mark in the middle of their name. It’s an inconsiderate thing to do if you expect people to finish reading it.

I have to give them at least a little slack though, because their music, like the title, requires patience and is slightly weird and jarring. The name foreshadows the content.

The question remains – why have such a ridiculous name?

I think a lot of it has to do with how young some of these musicians are when they get big. When you’re 18 and all of a sudden everyone thinks you’re awesome, maybe it’s easy to forget that the name you’ve chosen will be attached to absolutely everything you produce for the rest of your career.

It’s a tough situation though, because once you choose, you can’t really change it.

Thrice have been reinventing their sound almost every album since 2000’s “Identity Crisis.” They chose their name on a whim, and 10 years later it’s on posters in bedrooms all over the world.

Colorado post-hardcore group Fear Before the March of Flames dropped “the March of Flames” when they released the 2008 album “Fear Before,” making it self-titled.

At that point, the group had gone from harsh metalcore to a more experimental, less abrasive sound, and most fans called them “Fear Before” anyway. It still seems strange, and whether or not it made a difference, the album wasn’t a deserving follow-up to their previous two albums “The Always Open Mouth” and “Art Damage.”

If you’re choosing a band name, go with something people can remember and something they can say. It wouldn’t hurt to have good music as well.

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DOWN ON MY KNEES Will Watje of Wicked Honey gets rocking Thursday at Cafe Coda. Mute Witness also played at the show.

Matt Shilts can be reached at entertainmenteditor@theorion.com

VIRAL VIDEOS >> SPEAKING

“You don’t need no reason or a threepiece suit to argue the truth.”

Brett Dennen “Ain’t No Reason” 2006

“Hand Job, Bland Job, I Don’t Understand Job” Funny or Die

“My VCR collection VHS recorder” YouTube

Online musical duo Garfunkel and Oates detail their troubles with the elusive sexual act.

A Finnish man with a bowl cut shows off his extensive VCR collection. At eight minutes long, it’s more for scanning than watching the whole thing.

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>> “You Don’t Know Jack” (DVD) The made-for-TV movie is coming out on DVD for those who aren’t fortunate enough to have HBO. Al Pacino stars as Dr. Jack Kevorkian during the controversy that eventually sent him to prison. The show won two Emmy Awards, so it should be a solid buy.

>> “Rock Band 3” (VIDEO GAME)

SEE STORY ON C4 >> The third game in an amazingly successful series, this one will be played in living rooms at parties for years to come. With a guitar controller that doubles as a fully functioning electric guitar, it may quiet those who criticize the rhythm games for cheapening actual musical ability.

>> “The Fool” (ALBUM) Los Angeles’ Warpaint’s first fulllength album sounds extremely promising. The all-female quartet’s subdued melodies and experimental approach should win them fans.

THE BAD >>

>> “The Fire” (ALBUM) Senses Fail started in 2001 – a time when many now college-aged folk were interested screamo. Eight years and five albums later, their sound just isn’t cutting it. They have improved in a few ways, but there doesn’t seem to be that many more ideas in their collective creative pool.

THE UNDECIDED >>

>> “Paranormal Activity 2” (MOVIE) The original film made almost $200 million worldwide of pure profit because of the miniscule budget and innovative marketing strategy.

The new one is set to capture the same feel as the original – that is, a faux documentary filmed on home cameras with enough jumpy moments to make you spill your popcorn. The sequel to the “Blair Witch Project” was awful, and this may fall into the same pit.

>> “Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2” (VIDEO GAME) This game’s predecessor was lauded for its deep and complex storyline, while the gameplay was criticized harshly. This is a game for “Star Wars” fans, not pure gaming fans.

That said, there are plenty of “Star Wars” fans in the world.

THE LOCAL >>

>> “Amarok” (ALBUM) The newish local four-piece, featuring two members from The Makai, is releasing its self-titled debut album – a three-track, 45-minute behemoth of the slowest heaviness to ever come out of Chico. You can call it “patience metal.”

>> “Next Year Will Be Beautiful” (ALBUM) Chico mainstay Sean Harrasser’s solo project is a two-disc set of music he’s written over the past seven years. For anyone who’s seen the performer at any of the seemingly millions of shows he’s played around here, this should be a welcome addition to the ol’ CD collection.

ceiling of Cafe Culture’s upper room, Kiser asked for volunteers from his 12-person Mind, body and soul met audience. He demonstrated music, massage and medicine how to tap into energies as well as heal energy fields of a speat Cafe Culture Saturday.

The cafe hosted its third cific person.

“Those of us that work with Holistic Arts Faire from 10:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. and featured energy fields know that they’re a variety of vendors, live music invisible,” Kiser said. “We can’t and lectures all revolving see what we work with, but we can see the results.” around the holistic theme.

To show differences in energy The event was thought up

by David Winglifter, who has fields, Kiser used two dowsbeen attending and organiz- ing rods that spun around in ing holistic shows for 20 years circles when indicating a flowand was asked to put on a sim- ing, healthy energy field and ilar event in Chico. Winglifter turned into each other, creatdescribed holistic in terms of ing a visible X when the energy field was blocked. Unblockbeing connected.

“People tend to put things ing energy fields was as simple into categories and groups as having the group concenand separate them,” Winglifter trate on a positive or negative said. “Holistic looks at every- thought and direct it at the central person. thing being Thoughts, connected – like people, awareness, We can’t see are made of perception, what we work with, energy and spirit, life, can affect mind and but we can see the each other, body.

Separesults.”

Kiser said. ration is an Lawrence Kiser “Everyillusion.” energy expert thing is Holistic arts interconuse this basic idea of interconnectivity and nected,” Kiser said to his synergy to create healing and audience, many of whom were self-betterment programs and fellow vendors. “I know I’m schools of thought that involve speaking to the choir here.”

Throughout the event, venmany areas of life, best shown in the variety of the vendors. dors visited with each other.

Natural medicine, massage, A card reader got a massage, a card readings, crystals and masseuse had her energy field energy were all present, but no healed and an energy healer two vendors went about it in received a card reading.

Many of the visitors to the the same way.

One vendor combined mas- event knew some of the vensaging the body with energy dors. One woman greeted two work to heal sore areas. women at their booths with a Another used the idea of words hug and the greeting, “Hello, as energy to heal and dowsing beautiful minds.”

Chico resident Michael Carr rods. One woman specifically targeted energy blocks that attended to see some friends develop in the prenatal stages who had booths at the event.

“I thought it was a really neat of life. Yet another vendor used radio transmitters and crystals idea,” Carr said. “I’m interin necklaces to target electric ested in alternative healing waves to provide healing and methods and find it interesting to see what people like.” shielding.

Carr practices mediation but Lectures by specific vendors were spread throughout the does not actively practice any event every hour, with titles other form of holistic healing, such as “Self Help with Home- he said.

“The way I see it, non-tradiopathy” and “Tapping the tional healing methods take Ocean of Energy.”

The latter was given by Law- into consideration that humans rence Kiser, a prosecution are more than physical beings,” Carr said. “We have electrical lawyer turned energy expert.

“I used to run to de-stress, currents running through our and then I got injured and body, so acupuncture isn’t that couldn’t run anymore,” Kiser hard of a leap to make.”

Even concepts that Carr said. “I looked for another way to de-stress and got into describes as a “harder leap” to accept, such as energy fields meditation.”

From there, Kiser encoun- and crystals, he can find some tered a style of energy healing basis for, he said.

“I know that crystals and that could heal and calm without even touching the person, minerals all have different he said. In his lecture, Kiser dis- vibrations in them and I’ve cussed ways to do this to friends been to natural mineral hot and to oneself, as well as how springs, so I can see how that to tap into the energy in the could work,” he said. earth and air to both calm and energize.

Stephanie Maynard can be reached at Beneath the bamboo-draped smaynard@theorion.com Stephanie Maynard STAFF WRITER

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REALIGN YOUR SOUL Spiritual healer and Chico State professor Peggy DuFon discusses holistic healing through archetypal readings and spritual direction Saturday at Cafe Flo’s Holistic Arts Faire.

TAKING IT ALL IN >>

>> What are holistic arts?

Holistic arts can greatly improve student life by making people less tired, stressed or prone to illness, which is especially useful in flu, midterms or finals season.

Many holistic medicines are easily accessible at Chico Natural Foods Cooperative.

A few drops of Bach Rescue Remedy into a full water bottle can make your water not only quench your dry throat, but also calm your nerves. Holistic arts have no side effects and many of the techniques and methods can be done by yourself in your own home.

Holistic arts are nonWestern, non-traditional self-betterment programs and treatments that work to maintain health of the body, mind and spirit. This can manifest itself in something as simple as all-natural medicine or as complex as energy and chakra manipulation. Other aspects of holistic arts can include card reading, massages, crystals or a combination of any of the above.

All holistic arts share the view that healing the body goes hand in hand with healing the mind and the spirit – everything is connected.

>> Does this stuff work at all?

Different people report different effects.

More concrete examples can be found in holistic medicine, also called homeopathic or “green medicine,” said Marci Mearns, a homeopathic consultant. The natural flu medicine oscillococcinum is currently France’s top flu remedy and recommended by Mearns in place of a flu shot.

There are also scientific links to show how bettering mental health betters physical health, such as how stress is a known cause of stomach ulcers, Mearns said.

Source: LA Times

>> What kinds of things can people do?

Holistic treatments Herbal Fever Treatment 1 oz. dried elder flowers 1 oz. dried peppermint leaves ½ pint distilled water Source: Holistic Online

Oscillococcinum A homeopathic treatment for the flu, invented and popular in France. Actually heavily

diluted duck offal, the idea is that the original ingredient will leave an imprint that will help you heal.

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Meditation • Meditation should quiet yourself and center your mind. Here are a few tips for the unitiated.

• Make time for it. If you don’t make it a priority, it won’t work.

• Stretch.

• Focus your breathing.

• Focus your attention on what you want to achieve mentally.

• Eliminate distractions.

These make it impossible to truly relax.

• Be aware of your body as well as your thoughts.

• Set the mood with lighting, candles, incense – whatever you need to relax the mood of your meditation space.

• Don’t over-analyze your progress.

• Seek out authorities on meditation. This means books, CD’s, movies or people.

Source: Zenhabits

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Concert to change lives through music Cafe to donate portion of profits to benefit struggling kid’s charity

Meekins, a junior music industry major, came up with the idea to create an organization that would lend a hand to nonprofit organizations and local groups by sponsoring music benefits and fundraisers, she Candyce Chilson said. From this idea, C.A.L.M. STAFF WRITER Productions was born.

C.A.L.M., which stands for Chico State students bonded together by lending their Changing All Lives through hands and musical talent to Music, became an established raise money for struggling student-run organization in the beginning of fall 2010. local organizations.

MeekThe ins and 12 Sunshine Conother Chico nection benefit There’s no State stuconcert will dents strive be from 5 to reason why you 8 p.m. Satur- wouldn’t want to go.” to help the community day at T. Tea Allison Meekins by “comBar & Fusion junior music industry major bining the Cafe. Admisheart of sion is free and the concert will feature music with the hands of sermusicians Zach Zeller, Erin vice,” Meekins said.

After several meetLizardo, Geoff Baker and Vinings and days of sitting at cent Newsom.

The tea bar will offer its tables on campus promotnormal food and drink selec- ing their cause, C.A.L.M. was tion and with the presentation approached by a local orgaof a coupon, will donate 20 nization facing financial percent of the proceeds to The troubles.

The Sunshine ConnecSunshine Connection.

In spring 2010, Allison tion, recently changed from

Sunshine Kids Club, got its start more than 15 years ago by Faelin Klein and her daughter Briana Beaver. The two created a place for children with and without disabilities to come together in a comfortable and welcoming environment to just be kids.

The Sunshine Connection works with more than 300 kids per year with the help of hundreds of volunteers in the community, said Jesse Miles, the organization’s administrative coordinator.

After losing the majority of their funding because of state budget cuts and trying to sustain themselves through a hefty lawsuit over the Sunshine Kids Club name, The Sunshine Connection has been working to stay afloat, Miles said. Typically offering four or more programs per week to allow the kids to interact, play and just be themselves, the club has lately only been able to offer one or two activities a month.

Klein reached out to the members of C.A.L.M. in hopes of keeping The Sunshine Connection up and running.

“We just kind of started planning after I heard about what Sunshine Kids Club was about,” Meekins said. “I was completely inspired because I have a sensitive heart for disabled people.”

After only one month’s time, C.A.L.M. Productions is presenting its first event welcoming students, families and community members of Chico to come and support the group.

Newsom, a junior music industry major and one of the featured acts, has a folkrock acoustic sound and was set up with the gig through friends involved in C.A.L.M. Productions, he said.

“I’m really glad to be a part of it, especially because it’s started by my friends,” Newsom said. “If something like this really blows up, especially in Chico, I could be like, ‘Oh, I played the first show.’”

The indie and folk-rock music featured at the benefit will go along with the relaxed and refreshing theme of the night.

“It’s a free concert with

awesome music,” Meekins said. “It’s a very diverse event showing all aspects of Chico.

It’s at a place that’s fun and all-ages oriented – there’s no reason why you wouldn’t want to go.”

The event will also feature a raffle put on by The Sunshine Connection. Louie Vito, professional snowboarder and a past contestant on “Dancing with the Stars,” donated an autographed snowboard, and $5 tickets will be sold to win the snowboard in December.

Candyce Chilson can be reached at cchilson@theorion.com

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Black Ball features ’80s tunes, drag show Lauren Beaven STAFF WRITER

Grim, grinning ghosts came out to socialize early this year – and they brought their spandex with them.

Though Halloween was still weeks away, Cafe Flo turned Saturday’s ’80s dance party into The Black Ball costume party, giving guests a blast from the Halloween past.

Cafe Flo’s ’80s dance parties are a monthly occurrence hosted by Ultra Beautician, a neighboring beauty salon. They combined themes this month to celebrate the day on everyone’s minds – Oct. 31.

“People love Halloween, so why not?” said Cafe Flo co-owner Monikah Niemczynowicz. “I know that when we have events where people can dress up any time of the year, people come out.”

While the majority of guests were in everyday dress, some took full advantage of the creative license a costume party entails.

Fangs, wigs, jewelry and heavy makeup turned humans into zombies with teased hair, or in some cases, into drag queens.

Lip-sync performances by three in-character queens kicked off the party as guests continued to arrive. The performers sang to ’80s classics as well as more modern tunes, such as Britney Spears’ “If U Seek Amy.” The Black Ball emphasized the dark side of both Halloween and the ’80s with creepy, crawly decor, fog machines and a disc jockey spinning Depeche Mode.

This party was a departure from the ’80s pop that the event usually revolves around, Niemczynowicz said.

The gothic approach, however, didn’t inhibit the fun atmosphere of the night or of the upcoming holiday itself.

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SING IT SISTER [left] Deryl Northcote performs in drag as Claudette Versailles at Cafe Flo’s ’80s-themed Black Ball dance party Saturday. Versailles has been doing drag shows for more than 25 years. [above] Mini Merna sings as Chris Harper supports the cafe and the show.

Beautician and party host corner, Chico is gearing up for a Deryl Northcote commented wild end to October.

“My favoron the differite part is that ence between people get to spooky and I think be carefree,” scary.

Niemczyno“I think Hal- Halloween is way wicz said. loween is way less scary than Buck “They get to less scary than go out and Buck Night at Night at Riley’s.”

Deryl Northcote let loose and Riley’s,” Northbeautician and party host have fun.” cote said.

Chico’s colWith Halloween now just around the lege student population is what

makes the holiday a grand, month-long celebration, she said.

“I was out today looking for fog liquid for the fog machine, and there are so many Halloween stores in this town,” Niemczynowicz said. “It’s crazy.”

Costume and decoration businesses aren’t the only ones lining up for a piece of the Halloween-related revenue students provide.

Events such as Thrill The World, where Chico citizens can dance to help break the world record for the largest simultaneous dance of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller,” and the Bicycle Harvest, a 20-mile costumed bike ride hosted by Wheeled Migration, are just two of many Halloween-themed activities offered this month.

Sophomore Drew French appreciates that the events are spread out over the whole

month of October, he said.

“There are tons of October activities,” French said.

“What’s really important is not everything is crammed in the last weekend of the month.”

Cafe Flo’s Black Ball was one of the starters of the season.

Thrill The World takes place Saturday and the Bicycle Harvest is on Oct. 30.

Lauren Beaven can be reached at lbeaven@theorion.com

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Fall’s new video game lineup has fresh releases from the guys that revolutionized the music game genre. “Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock” and “Rock Band 3” have special features that turn amps all the way up to 11.

“Warriors of Rock” takes a tip from last year’s heavy metal adventure game “Brütal Legend” and has a narrative

focus in gameplay. This new quest mode, narrated by Gene Simmons of Kiss, is the most story-intensive feature “Guitar Hero” has seen. The game also boasts 93 tracks, giving it the largest on-disc setlist ever.

The biggest added feature to “Rock Band 3” is Pro Mode, where the game teaches you how to play a real instrument.

Through tutorials and difficulty progression from easy to expert, gamers can learn how to play drums, guitar or the newly added keyboard.

Legendary guitar manufacturer Fender has produced a special guitar-controller hybrid for the game. The new

Squire Stratocaster is real enough to make those who have criticized the plastic guitar games take a shot at it.

Both games are perfect for multiplayer nights of rock ’n’ roll, but on a student budget, buying both may be out of the question. While “Warriors of Rock” has a lot of songs ondisc, there are more than 2,000 songs available to download for “Rock Band 3.”

“Warriors of Rock” feels like more of the same old song, while the additions of keyboards and Pro Mode in “Rock Band 3” are the best way to re-energize the crowded music-game market.

Mark Rojas can be reached at artdirector@theorion.com

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Students should spring for shows, not booze Josh Hegg STAFF WRITER

All right Chico State, it’s time to put down the red cups and try something different.

Chico boasts one of the most complete music scenes I’ve ever had the pleasure of being a part of, yet many students on campus haven’t experienced it and have no clue if it is something they would enjoy.

There seems to be a strained correspondence between local artists and the student majority.

There are plenty of venues presenting music and many ensembles playing, so the only

missing piece in that equation is the student population.

I’m not sure of the reasons.

Maybe everyone is so busy with schoolwork – or maybe they just detest artistic expression.

I think the answer is much simpler – getting drunk over the weekend is more entertaining than seeing a local artist perform.

Spending a weekend under the influence isn’t necessarily wrong, and I am not here to preach about how to spend some hard-earned free time.

However, Chico offers quite a bit more than just the house parties that go on between Chestnut and Orange streets.

Try to indulge in a night of music from the plethora of

local talent. Artists put these shows together for the sole purpose of entertaining others and themselves, as there is very little money to be made as a local musician.

If you haven’t found that band in Chico that really holds your attention, don’t give up – new bands are sprouting up every day.

It would be pretentious of me to list every band in Chico that I think is worth listening to because it is not up to me to decide for you.

Everyone likes different genres of music, and the beauty of this is that Chico caters to a diverse range of musical styles.

Chances are that with enough digging, you will find a band

that you really enjoy.

The intimacy and togetherness experienced at a local concert is unlike anything at larger venues or with more wellknown bands. Seeing a favorite artist perform can potentially be a life-changing experience.

However, as a member of a local band, I eventually found myself asking, “What’s the point of promoting if the same five people are the only ones I am going to see at the show?”

Bands, this is a dangerous mentality to fall into. Part of your job as a do-it-yourself musician is to market yourselves. Sell your band to the freshmen getting crazy at the corner of Fifth and Ivy streets and let them know how much

more rewarding the concert will be than the usual crowded kegger.

Most of the time when my band plays a show, it’s to a small group of friends and other musicians – and I’m fine with that.

The venue owners are some of the nicest people I’ve ever met, and everyone who does attend is positive and supportive.

There is this phenomenon in the local music world called the “band group-hug.” It was introduced to me by local guitarist Sesar Sanchez, and I have come to experience it many times.

The band group-hug is a simple act that all artists on the local level have participated in.

The premise is that when

there’s no one at the show besides the bands, all members who are not playing form a semicircle around the band in a desperate attempt to make it look like more people came to see the show.

That sounds depressing, doesn’t it? Well, it is.

Go experience what Chico’s musicians have to offer. Half the fun is trying to find that one group that really inspires you.

So take that extra leap, bring a friend and journey over to one of the city’s wonderful music establishments – Ivy Street will still be there when you get back.

Josh Hegg can be reached at jhegg@theorion.com

WICKED: Wicked Honey play Coda Even though Thursday was a “mellow show” for Holy Rolling Empire, Shochat was very animated throughout their set. He resembled a musically talented Pauly Shore with a voice similar to Jim Morrison.

Shochat walked around the floor with his tambourine and stared at members of the audience. He even jumped up onto a chair during a song, looked at the crowd standing outside, fell off the chair face first onto the ground and flatly laid there, still singing.

“I feel like today was the least crazy I’ve been all month,” he said of his performance. “Sometimes it results in falling off of a chair, sometimes it results in tearing apart the drum set. Who knows?”

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Vocalist Rett Mathews’ haunting, high-pitched style of singing resembled that of Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, while each member of the band combined voices for harmonies in many of the songs.

Even drummer Donovan Melero, who’s also in local band Hail The Sun, chimed in for backup vocals.

After Mute Witness’ set ended, a touring band from Tucson, Ariz., called Holy Rolling Empire showed Chico their “psychedelic pop” for the second time this year.

They played at Cafe Coda in June and they’ve come to enjoy the Chico environment once again, said lead singer Orin Shochat.

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Mute Witness 9 p.m. @ LaSalles $3 cover

Mute Witness fuses indie-rock with an alternative-pop edge sound. The local fiveman group will also be play with Glass Elevator, a psychedelic rock group on tour promoting their album “Psychic Battleship,” along with local progressive rock group Clouds on strings.

T H U R S DAY

La Fin du Monde 8 p.m. @ Nick’s Night Club $5 admission

Tired of the same old rock ‘n’ roll? Come join math duo Silian Rail as they play with some of Chico’s premier experimental acts. Your face will be progged off.

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Sunshine Connection Benefit Show 8 p.m. @ T. Tea Bar & Fusion Cafe Free

Zach Zeller, Erin Lizardo, Geoff Baker and Vince Newsom bring acoustic folk comfort to benefit The Sunshine Connection, a children’s charity.

SU N DAY

“Divine Winds”

2 p.m. @ The Pageant Theatre $6 student admission The last chance to catch North State Symphony perform from the classic works of Beethoven and two modern European composers.

MON DAY

Aaron Jaqua 6 p.m. @ Cafe Flo Free

A performer who the Chico News and Review calls a “country music machine will be performing, dripping with bluesy harmonica and singing with soul.

T U E S DAY

Ruthie Foster & Eric Bibb

7:30 p.m. @ Laxson Auditorium $15 student admission Blues duo Ruthie Foster and Eric Bibb will make Laxson weep this Tuesday on their “Thanks for the Joy” Tour. Foster’s blend of blues, folk, gospel and soul paired with Bibb’s bridging of old blues with 21st-century sensibility will be sure to bring joyous sounds to your ears.

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AIDS Memorial Quilt comes to Chico 9 a.m. @BMU

One of the largest ongoing community projects in the world, the AIDS memorial quilt is made of panels to memorialize those who died of AIDS. Free HIV tests will also be available on campus from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Open Micful

7 p.m. @ Cafe Culture Free Every Wednesday, Cafe Culture offers a microphone to anyone willing to take the spotlight and entertain the crowd with a melodic tune.

T H U R SDAY

The Winebirds 7 p.m. @ Cafe Flo $3

F R I DAY

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7 p.m. @ Cafe Flo Free

Feel like taking it easy and listening to down-toearth folk music? Then Cafe Flo is the place for you to spend your Thursday night.

Anaura heads from San Francisco to Chico to showcase their indie pop rock sound. Also featuring Jeb Draper and Deedee Vest.

Pakistan Flood Victims Fundraiser

Fall Arboreteum Tour

6 p.m. @ Selvester’s Cafe $20 admission

Learn about what you can do to help the victims of Pakistan. A great way to spend your time and money that helps others and gets you so some great food!

10 a.m. @Bidwell Mansion Free

Had a stressful week?

Gather your thoughts Friday morning on a stroll around Chico State as you learn a bit about the remarkable collection of native and exotic trees and shrubs on the campus and mansion grounds.

SAT U R DAY

Robin Bacior CD release 8 p.m. @ Cafe Coda $5 admission

Originally from Chico, Bacior has honed her chops in New York and returns to show us what she picked up. Also featuring solo acts by Surrogate’s Chris Keene and The Shimmies’ Sean and Jimmy Galloway.

Envelope Peasant CD release 7 p.m. @ Cafe Flo $5 admission

SU N DAY

“Sharing Our Stories and Impacting Our Society” 10 a.m. @ Cafe Flo Free

Part of the “Writing Loft: Sunday Mornings with the Author” series at Cafe Flo, this week’s presentation is given

by Vikki Ward, author of “Savvy, Sassy and Bold after 50” about the power of women writers.

Karaoke

@ LaSalles

Run on Sentence, Hello Mountain, Crashed Giraffe and Zach Zeller – playing his second set of the night – join Envelope Peasant as he releases “Next Year Will Be Beautiful,” an album seven years in the making.

Come on. The world needs to hear how much better than the “Glee” kids you are at “Don’t Stop Believing.”

MON DAY

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@ Madison Bear Garden 9 p.m.

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Cheapskate Mondays

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T U E SDAY

’90s Night @ LaSalles

Don’t be the freshman.

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STAFF FAVORITES >> FIGHTING GAME “Marvel vs. Capcom 2” – “MvC2” is as unbalanced as David Bowie’s eyes, but that doesn’t stop it from being most kick-ass game of all time. I’ve owned at least four different incarnations of this game since 2002, which means something when copies run as much as $80. If any of you want to challenge me, I promise I’ll take you for a ride.

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“Soul Caliber 2” – Nothing says “fighting games” like giant swords and giant boobs – and “Soul Caliber 2” has plenty of both. This long-awaited sequel had some pretty dope weaponry that made you wonder what these guys were compensating for. But damn did they look cool.

“Super Smash Bros.” – Back when this game first came out, I knew it was good. I didn’t truly understand how epic it was until we had massive multiplayer battles in the dorms freshman year. And the final boss of the game being the hand that draws you? Genius…

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Community raises funds, awareness for suicide prevention Gina Pence STAFF WRITER

More than 350 people stood silently in a circle at Bidwell Park remembering those they lost.

Holding hands with bowed heads, all of the strangers shared a common grief – the loss of a loved one to suicide.

The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, in partnership with Active Minds and Out of the Darkness Community Walks, held a community walk Saturday to raise money and awareness for those struggling with depression and suicide.

The walk was the inaugural event for Northern California.

Students from Chico State and community members donated $12,000 to the foundation at the walk. The money is used for education and research into mental health issues.

Ariel Ellis, a sophomore mechanical engineering major, is the president of Active Minds, an on-campus organization that works to draw attention to mental health issues, she said. The group also offers resources to students struggling with symptoms of mental illness and works to remove the stigma that surrounds suicide and mental illness.

“Suicide is the second leading cause of death in college,” Ellis said. “There’s definitely a stigma about suicide and depression. We need to change that by creating awareness, providing resources and letting people know it’s OK to find help.”

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During her junior year of high school sophomore Ariel Ellis had a close friend commit suicide.

This tragedy influenced Ellis to join Active Minds, a student-run organization working to change the conversation about mental health issues on campus.

“People don’t know how much suicide occurs because no one addresses it,” Ellis said, the Active Minds president.

The second leading cause of death among college students is suicide, according to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention website.

It is also the third leading cause of death among all youth 15 to 24 years old, according to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.

Freshman year, Ellis viewed The Depression OutReach Alliance Project’s short film on students sharing their stories on suicide and depression, she said. It made her want to get involved with raising awareness of suicide and depression on campus.

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Suicide talk hard but needed She hated her body. She hated the way her shirts creased into her stomach and that she wasn’t tall enough to prevent her jeans from getting dirty and fraying at the bottom.

She loved her boyfriend, but hated the relationship. They were always arguing.

She hated her life.

Despite the countless signs, nobody noticed that “Brittany” was contemplating suicide – not even when she said she wanted to die.

Usually her comments about dying would be followed with a “stop being so dramatic,” or “shut up, you’re dumb” from friends such as myself, not realizing these were not just meaningless words to her, but an obsession.

The truth is that talking about suicide made me uncomfortable, and it still kind of does. However, losing a loved one is more than uncomfortable – it can be heartbreaking.

One night after a fight with her boyfriend, Brittany, who was 21 at the time, ran out of the house.

Her boyfriend, her sister and I ran after her because she was crying hysterically.

As soon as we were out the door, we saw her finally do what we had told her to shut up about.

She ran into the middle of the street and was purposely hit by a truck.

The truck was going about 40 to 45 mph, according to the driver.

Her sister yelled. Her boyfriend ran. I just froze.

I never thought she’d actually do it.

Luckily the driver saw her and swerved enough not to hit her head on, which prevented any lifethreatening injuries.

It’s important that suicide isn’t perceived as some taboo thing that no one wants to address.

Had we taken her seriously and been better friends, we could have tried to help her before things took such a drastic turn.

I don’t think I would have been able to deal with her death knowing I could have gotten over my discomfort and reached out to her when she needed me – when she needed someone to listen to her.

After that night, I kept asking myself why she would do that. What was so horrible about her life that she wanted to die?

Those are all the wrong questions.

I should have been asking, “What can I do to help my friend?” before she ever ran out that door.

Make sure you don’t do what I did if you have a friend who needs help.

Thankfully, Brittany is better. She still has some things to work through, but she’s found help.

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WORD OF MOUTH >> What’s your favorite midnight snack?

textrovert

Someone who feels a sense of bravery over texts.

“He’s a textrovert. We didn’t make progress until I went home and he spilled his guts over texts.” source: urbandictionary.com

Spencer Cooper senior | agriculture

“Kit Kats – I have a whole bag of them in my fridge right now. They’re pretty much delicious.”

“I have to say either cupcakes or cheesecake because I like to make them and they’re delicious.”

“My favorite midnight snack is an Otter Pop – strawberry flavor. And a granola bar.”

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Marcy McCormick senior | economics

Anthony Macias junior | legal studies

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“Popcorn because it’s easy to get, it’s easy to make, it’s cheap and it’s good at all times of the day.”

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Midnite Munchies satisfies cravings

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Delivery times: 9 p.m. to 3 a.m., seven days a week.

Might be closed on special holidays.

Ordering: Phone: (530) 321-4511 during business hours.

E-mail: orders@midnite-munchies.com are also accepted, but must be verified by phone.

Delivery area: Anywhere within Chico.

Delivery to dorms is acceptable.

Due to dorm lockdowns, students will receive a call and must meet her at the entrance when their order has arrived.

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Cost: $1 per cookie, $2 per bar, $4 per half gallon milk, $7 minimum delivery order.

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BAKER’S DOZEN Paige Connell, owner of Midnite Munchies, s packs a dozen oatmeal cookies for late-night delivery Oct. 13. at 4 a.m., Connell is shutting off her phone and going to bed.

The hours aren’t too hard for her, she said. This business allows her to enjoy life during the day and her love of baking at night.

“I’m doing something I love and I’m getting paid for it,” she said.

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Peanut Butter: A dense cookie with peanut butter. Available plain or with peanut chunks.

People check in often, become mayors on social networking site

Badges and “mayorships” are offered to loyal customers and those that remember to take out their smart phones and check in, according to Foursquare’s website.

Malik, a senior public relations major, is an example of that. She has 22 mayorships,

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Talia Malik’s fi ngers glided over the glossy surface of her iPhone 3GS as she sat inside the Marketplace Cafe. She wasn’t texting, sending an e-mail or browsing the Web – she had just checked in.

Foursquare, a locationbased social network website, has about 4 million users worldwide. The company was established in March 2009 and offers a platform for users to display where they are and share venue tips for future customers or patrons.

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building, it’s natural for me now to have my phone out and check in,” she said. “I feel like I’m almost not even in there physically if I haven’t checked in on Foursquare.”

However, sharing personal information with others opens a gateway to potential stalkers, she said. Knowing that, Malik is very cautious of who she allows to be her virtual friends and chooses wisely before sharing her information on the site.

This concern is valid and was addressed by Erin Gleason, Foursquare public relations manager, in an e-mail interview.

“We feel it’s extremely important for our users to understand exactly where their information is being shared and the implications of this sharing,” Gleason said.

If Dennis Crowley, cofounder of Foursquare, was asked a year ago where he saw the company in 2010, he would have been happy with 1 million users, Gleason said. But in the past 10 months, 850,000 people have signed up.

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Sex with friends bad idea There’s an old saying that “friends are friends, pal are pals, and buddies sleep together.”

The time-honored adage describes FWB – short for “friends with benefits” – or what I like to call “bed buddies.”

However, FWBs suck and will make your life miserable – or at least all mine have. Sure, it’s the quickest way to get laid short of paying for it, but it’s also the fastest way to dissolve a friendship.

For me, the transition from friend to bed buddy usually involves alcohol – as do most of my bad decisions. I understand how alluring the idea of a bed buddy is after a few shooters, but the cons of having a FWB outweigh the perks.

Sure, sex is readily available and enjoyable if everyone involved can remain detached, but at some point, someone develops feelings if they didn’t already have them.

I was once hooking up with a friend on my rugby team who knew I was seeing someone else, but she said she didn’t mind. As we continued to be intimate, my friend grew increasingly jealous because she wanted to date me and couldn’t.

Jealous people are more likely to engage in casual sex with a friend, according to a survey by Jennifer Puentes. Initially her findings surprised me, but after my experience with FWBs, I can attest that jealously always finds a way into the equation and divides the two friends.

No matter how hard you may try to fight it, being intimate establishes a deeper bond between two people whether they want it or not. If third parties are involved, then jealousy is sure to transpire.

Also, be aware that bed buddies can come back to haunt you and can affect future relationships.

My boyfriend found out about a different friend of mine I had slept with a few times, and now every time I hang out with her, he raises an eyebrow. I think he believes that since it happened once before, it could happen again.

This may sound callous, but it’s better to hook up with a random person or acquaintance.

That way, when things go bad – and they always do – it isn’t a big hassle to cut the person out of your life.

With friends, it’s much more complicated – just like it was with my teammate. She grew angry that I wouldn’t date her and did everything in her power to make my life a living hell. Trying to distance myself from her became challenging since we shared mutual friends and had to see each other every day for rugby.

Our friendship was completely destroyed once we blurred the lines between friends and bed buddies. The few good times we enjoyed weren’t worth devastating our friendship and driving our friends crazy complaining about each other.

Do yourself a favor and find someone else to bang. And remember, friends don’t let friends sleep with friends – it’ll save you a headache.

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It’s a bummer when the fate of a late-night craving results only in a growling stomach. However, students don’t have to resort to eating frosting out of the jar to get their yum on.

A new business in town targets Chico State students by offering a nighttime delivery service of milk and cookies, said Paige Connell, owner of Midnite Munchies.

The name alludes to the sudden urge to eat in the middle of the night, which prompted the 22-year-old to cater to this crowd of cravers, she said. She bakes in the evening and delivers between 9 p.m. and 3 a.m. for customers that tend to be college students.

Students spend their days at school or work and are usually home by night studying, partying or hanging out with friends, Connell said. That’s when they have their social life.

However, delivering in the middle of the night can be scary, she said. One call had her worried because the man sounded so serious – unlike her usual drunk customers – and she had to deliver to him out in the orchards. Although she is always prepared to defend herself, it turned out she knew the guy.

Many of Midnite Munchies’ initial customers were with friends of Connell’s, she said. Business soon picked up through tabling and networking, which led to a wider array of regular customers.

One particular house is among Midnite Munchies’ regular customers, she said. There was a two-week period when they skipped delivery only one night.

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types of cookies and two types of bars, as well as milk, Connell said. The Wildcat Scat, a no-bake cookie made with chocolate, peanut butter and oats, is by far the most popular among her customers, such as junior history major Tyler O’Connell.

“It’s the perfect combination of the cookie and the brownie,” O’Connell said.

Some customers will finish their cookies before they finish paying, Connell said. Others will scrounge their change together in order to buy from her in the middle of the night.

“I’m so happy with that because they’re using their last dime to buy my cookies,” she said. “That’s such a compliment.”

The idea for her business started out as something of a joke, Connell said. Three years ago, her boyfriend had several delivery jobs and she wanted to be a baker, so he suggested the business idea to utilize both their skills.

She laughed it off until he came back with a news article about similar businesses elsewhere, she said. From then, it took three years to develop her business plan and raise funds to get it started.

Starting a new business presented challenges that discouraged Connell at times, she said.

“If I could give up I probably would have, but I was already so invested in it and I already told everyone that’s what I was going to do,” Connell said. “I didn’t want to be like some loser who gave up on it.”

A late-night delivery service is a great idea for someone that’s tapped into a particular market, said Lori Powers, co-owner of Upper Crust Bakery.

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1987 | Students raise awareness for AIDS with quilt, HIV testing THEN â&#x20AC;&#x153;AIDS focus of health programâ&#x20AC;?

Oct. 7, 1987 Chico State nursing students hosted several events to raise awareness of the AIDS epidemic in 1987.

The students sponsored a series of programs beginning

with a presentation of the video, â&#x20AC;&#x153;An Epidemic of Fear, AIDS in the Workplace,â&#x20AC;? which showed discrimination against people with AIDS who have been fired and treated unfairly because of their illness.

Nursing professor Juanita Bellew encouraged people who were going to marry and

have kids to take the HIV test so as not to pass the disease to their children.

The nursing department also suggested people should get tested if they had a drug transfusion, shared needles or syringes, had sex with multiple people in the last five years or whose partners had â&#x20AC;&#x153;high risk behaviors.â&#x20AC;?

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activities and adapting them for people with a variety of disabilities or impairments and helping everybody to be able to move and learn. Programs include the Autism Sensory and Motor Clinic, BE:WEL and KIDS:PLAY.

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SEWN MEMORIES The AIDS Memorial Quilt, which was started by Cleve Jones and is now about 26 football ďŹ elds long, will be displayed at the Bell Memorial Union Auditorium today and Thursday.

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The AIDS Memorial Quilt, brought by the NAMES Project Foundation, will be on display from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. today and Thursday at the Bell Memorial Union Auditorium.

The NAMES Project Foundation is focused on raising awareness of the worldwide epidemic, according to the foundationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website. Political activist Cleve Jones thought of the idea for the quilt in 1985

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at a march to honor the memory of San Francisco supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone when he learned that more than 1,000 San Franciscans had died of AIDS. To this day, friends and family of AIDS victims are asked to create quilt squares to commemorate loved onesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; lives.

Other activities for AIDS awareness will happen on campus, such as a reception at 5 p.m. today in BMU Room 210, and the Doing it for Justice Choir will put on a short performance. Free

HIV testing will be provided by the Student Health Center and Butte County Department of Behavioral Health.

Although this is an annual event, this is the ďŹ rst year that the health center has become a major sponsor, said Cathy Felix, director of the Student Health Center. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I fully believe in prevention,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s our responsibility as health providers to raise awareness and prevention.â&#x20AC;?

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Adapted Physical Education Program provides services to community Chico State has been training students while assisting people with disabilities through the adapted physical education program for more than 20 years. Josie Cline is a program coordinator for the Autism and Sensory Motor Clinic and has been working with the adaptive P.E. program for 10 years.

Q: What is the Adapted Physical Education Program?

A: Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s taking physical

Q: How do Chico State students play a role?

A: Most students majoring through the kinesiology department sign up or volunteer for the BE:WEL program. They are paired up with an individual that they work with throughout the semester.

Q: What sort of work are the students actually doing with these people?

A: With the Autism Clinic, some students are taking data and others are actually facilitating and working the program with the clients. With BE:WEL, students take data and create workout plans. Many clients come from Enloe Medical Center or somewhere else with a workout plan already in place, so these students are like a oneon-one workout partner for the clients and they use our gym for that.

Q: Are there other programs like this in the area?

A: There isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t anyone oďŹ&#x20AC;ering anything in the area that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re oďŹ&#x20AC;ering in these programs, which is why theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve come about. The Autism Clinic came about because many clients in the Kids Play program had autism and their needs werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t best served in that situation. So we started having one-on-one sessions here for them, to teach motor skills and then translate that back into sports, school and the community, wherever they were wanting it. So weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re the only facility, as far as I know, that does anything that we do with the Autism Clinic.

Q: What is the age range of your clients?

A: Between all the programs, the youngest kid we have right now is 4 and the oldest is 92.

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FARE-ING WELL Dave Coito, or Taxi Dave as most know him, has been driving his white Grand Marquise cab in Chico for seven years. Most of Coito’s business comes from referrals and regulars.

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Shortly after they got in the cab, the three women wearing little black dresses began fighting.

“Taxi Dave” had picked up the group at 1:30 a.m. at the 7-Eleven on Nord Avenue. Their voices were raised, and they were clearly intoxicated.

A loud argument broke out between the women, bickering about the events of the night.

The driver turned up his music and in no time the argument turned into “woo-hoos” and singing in unison – the fight was over.

“My seat’s still warm, did you just drop someone off ?” one of the women asked as she slid across the seat to make room for her friends.

“We love you Taxi Dave!” they shouted as they exited the cab, handing him a $5 bill and reaching out to give him a hug over the seat between them, ignoring the barrier.

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of those years, working seven days a week from 6 p.m. to 8 a.m. Unlike many taxi companies in Chico, Coito is his own boss and chooses not to hire additional drivers.

“It’s easier that way,” he said. “I don’t have to worry about anyone else.”

The flood of partygoers on the streets of downtown Chico might see Coito’s white Grand Marquis cab with bright, angeleye headlights driving around, blasting music from a playlist with a wide selection of songs for his many passengers.

“Just look for my blue headlights, I’m coming your way,” Coito said to a caller.

Most of Coito’s customers are regulars, and he relies on referrals and returning customers.

Coito is well known by many students, including senior Eddie Marquez, a business major who calls Taxi Dave whenever he needs a ride.

“He is extremely sociable and a great laugh,” Marquez said. “We made fun of drunk people walking one time.”

One customer got in the cab and instructed Coito to turn

down the music.

“No music tonight, Dave, I’ve got gossip,” she said.

She then spilled all the gossip about the events of the weekend. Coito got an earful of all the juicy gossip from threesomes to cheating boyfriends.

Most of his clients confide in him, Coito said. He enjoys making friends.

“I’m like a vault of secrets – I love it,” he said.

Senior psychology major Mike Visgilio thinks Coito is different from other cab drivers, he said.

“He was more down to earth and a lot less sketchy than some other cab drivers I’ve gotten in Chico,” he said. “And he played good music.”

Coito provides students with more than a ride home – he tries to give them a different perspective, he said.

“I’ve been through a lot in life,” he said. “And by the time they get out of my cab, hopefully they have a different outlook.”

Ally Dukkers can be reached at adukkers@theorion.com

Women will learn how to transform hate for their lopsided breasts, uneven feet and unforgiving curves into a love for their beautiful and defining features.

Putting a new perspective on the female body, the Women’s Center is hosting Women’s Bodies Week from Oct. 25-28 in the Trinity Commons. The center will be tabling with more than 20 organizations and will hold workshops surrounding the theme, “Know Thy Body, Rock Thy Body, Love Thy Body.”

Workshops on health, sex and body image will be held in the Common Grounds coffee shop downstairs in the Bell Memorial Union throughout the week, followed by a poetry slam in the Cross-Cultural Leadership Center to wrap it up.

Women’s Bodies Week is to empower females physically, sexually and emotionally, said Sharina Jackson, the program coordinator for the Women’s Center. Its goal is to reach an audience that the group doesn’t normally see and to teach students to accept themselves.

“I want them to see that there is no such thing as the ideal body and everybody is different,” she said.

At the center’s table there will be two silhouettes of the female figure on display and note cards for women to fi ll out. Jackson, the other three staff members and 15 interns will ask passers-by to fi ll out cards with the things they like most and least about their bodies.

The participants can then tape their cards to the

silhouettes and read what other students think about themselves, Jackson said. The idea is for these women to realize that other people feel the same way and to embrace their physical appearance.

The table will also have a

Week activities: Monday Oct. 25 - Info Fair: Trinity Commons - Body secrets and favorite body part silhouettes - Noon, wage gap bake sale - African/Afro-Caribbean Dance with Jeanne Christopherson - Body casting display Tuesday Oct. 26 -Info Fair: Trinity Commons -7:00 p.m. Common Grounds, women’s health and body workshop - 8:30 Common Grounds, sex education workshop dedicated to improving women’s sex lives through attaining agency and confidence Wednesday Oct. 27 - Info Fair: Trinity Commons (tabling activities) - 6:30 p.m. Common Grounds, body talk workshop – Stephanie Chervinko of the Counseling and Wellness Center will focus on women’s interactions and how society affects body image, including discussion around self worth and “body secrets” Thursday Oct. 28 - 6:30 p.m. Cross-Cultural Leadership Center, Women’s Center potluck and poetry slam – an evening of original and powerful poetic works, free food and empowering conversation Source: Women’s Center

“gender wage gap bake sale” to highlight pay discrimination between men and women, Jackson said. The center will be doing this by selling cupcakes to females for 50 cents, while selling them to men for $1.

Students will also get to

I want them to see that there is no such thing as the ideal body and everybody is different.”

Sharina Jackson

program coordinator for Women’s Center

decorate casts of women’s breasts and stomachs to show the differences from one woman’s body to the next, Jackson said.

Abby Teicheira, a women’s studies major and intern at the Women’s Center, thinks women should understand the difference between a female’s natural body and the body image portrayed by the media, she said.

“I think it’s important to be able to convey to women at this age that their bodies are perfect the way they are,” Teicheira said.

To finish the Women’s Bodies Week, the center will be having its final discussion on body image, a potluck and the poetry slam Oct. 28.

Bryan Tilos, Women’s Center intern and coordinator for the poetry slam, has had about seven students sign up to participate as of Oct. 13, he said. The poetry reading will be an opportunity for students to share their feelings about women’s bodies.

“Being real is being beautiful,” Tilos said. “You don’t have to please anyone but yourself.”

Amanda Jacobs can be reached at ajacobs@theorion.com

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ACTIVATING MINDS President of Active Minds, Ariel Ellis, helped organize Saturday’s Out of the Darkness Community Walks event.

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WALK TO REMEMBER Participants of the Out of the Darkness Community Walk raise money and awareness for people struggling with depression and suicide Saturday at One Mile. Students from Chico State and members of the community donated $12,000.

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Shasta and Butte counties, said Charles Rosa, chairman for the Chico branch of Out of the Darkness Community Walks.

The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention sponsors walks all over the nation, which typically take place in the fall, and have raised as much as $10 million for the foundation annually, Rosa said. Donations from the Chico community will be accepted until Dec. 31.

“We want to raise awareness

in our public because we can’t always know when someone is going through a depression,” he said.

Congressman Wally Herger, a guest speaker at the walk, restated his devotion to Suzy’s Law in remembrance of Suzy Gonzales, who committed suicide in March 2003 with coaching from online suicide groups.

The bill, also known as H.R. 853, is narrow, specific and makes it a federal crime to use the Internet to encourage people struggling with depression

to commit suicide, Herger said in his speech. The law was carefully written to ensure that no freedom of speech laws were limited.

“If congress closes before we get the law through, then we’ll try again next year,” Herger said in his speech.

Chico State has resources for students struggling with depression and thoughts of suicide – the Counseling and Wellness Center offers free counseling to students who need help.

After losing friends and

family to suicide and dealing with suicide and depression in the military, Andrea Huelsnitz, a sophomore mechanical engineering major, got involved and volunteered with the Out of the Darkness Community Walks to help educate her community, she said.

“Suicide’s a big thing and it’s very taboo,” Huelsnitz said. “It’s hard to get help because you’re afraid to be shunned from society.”

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about suicide because it’s taboo, she said. Many are afraid about it or to seek help.

“We want to get rid of the stigma that surrounds mental illness,” Ellis said.

The organization aims to encourage students to get help, she said. Students should be able to identify symptoms of mental illness.

Active Minds has been around nine years nationally and four years at Chico State, Ellis said. Founder Alison Malmon started the organization after her older brother committed suicide because of depression.

Mimi Bommersbach, the faculty adviser of Active Minds, helps members navigate issues on campus.

The organization deals with sensitive topics such as suicide and depression, Bommersbach said. Members go to her as a soundboard for when they have ideas.

There are a couple of events Active Minds planned for the school year, Ellis said. The group had its National Day Without Stigma on Oct. 4.

The goal was to de-stigmatize the campus by tabling and by students spinning the “wellness wheel” that had pictures of celebrities with mental illnesses on it, she said. Whichever picture it landed on explained what illnesses each celebrity had.

There was also a poster that students signed stating, “I

support de-stigmatizing mental illness.”

Saturday was the Out of the Darkness Community Walk at One Mile Recreation Area sponsored by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, Ellis said. The walk was to create awareness to the campus and community.

Bommersbach was a guest speaker at the walk, she said.

She talked about how to prevent suicide and depression from occurring.

In May before finals week, Active Minds and the Counseling and Wellness Center will host a “stress-out day” with tips to stay relaxed, such as getting eight hours of sleep and eating healthy meals, she said. The organization is also trying to bring knowledgeable speakers to campus.

There are services on campus where students can receive help, Ellis said.

Stephanie Chervinko, a psychologist and adviser of the Counseling and Wellness Center, provides counseling and guides interns on programming and outreach.

Students can choose from individual, couples or group therapy, she said.

It’s important that students receive help because depression is treatable, Chervinko said. Students can get better – they don’t have to suffer when counseling is available.

Tasha Clark can be reached at tclark@theorion.com

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Forget about tie-dye and puff paint – when it comes to T-shirt design, dirt is the new fashion trend.

David Rivers, a Chico resident and lifelong entrepreneur, began making Chico Dirt Shirts three months ago. He then marketed the shirts to customers looking to wear a little piece of the town.

After living in Maui for a year in 2001, Rivers was introduced to red dirt shirts, he said. Rivers then thought of bringing this idea back to California and making Chico Dirt Shirts.

Rivers makes three variations of his dirt shirts – the original Chico Dirt Shirt, the Chico Dirt Squirt for the younger crowds and the recently added Older Than Dirt version that is marketed to older crowds.

The shirts turn out a

permanent caramel-brown color and feature one of the three screen prints in brown, squiggly lettering on the front.

Rivers produces the shirts in his backyard in a 1950s Maytag washing machine that he bought in Oregon specially for the project, he said.

“I usually make about 25 shirts at a time,” he said. “It takes roughly 10 scoops of dirt to make one batch.”

Rivers sells his dirt shirts in sizes ranging from infant to sixXL, he said. Adult sizes sell for $24.95 while children’s sizes sell for $14.95. The Chico Dirt Shirts can be purchased at Made in Chico, a store on West Third Street in downtown Chico.

The website, www.californiadirtshirt.com, will soon feature photos of his products and shopping cart so that people can buy online, he said.

Rivers has always had fun side projects in his life, he said.

“Since I was a kid, I’ve done lemonade stands, door-to-door selling, paper routes, you name it,” he said. “It’s in my blood.”

Connie Pincus, a sales associate at Made in Chico, thinks the shirts have been well received by the public, she said.

“People really seem to love the shirts,” Pincus said. “Dave is doing really well.”

Rivers is also planning to make additional Chico Dirt products in the future, he said.

“I’d love to do tank tops, maybe shorts – I’m game for anything really,” he said. “I’ve joked about making underwear.”

Rivers hopes to make dirt shirts using dirt from all over California, he said.

Senior communications major Kyle Miller thinks the idea is really creative as well as innovative, he said.

“This idea has the potential to redefi ne what we consider average, everyday clothing,” Miller said.

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