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The Sustainability Fund Allocation Committee has selected 13 student-created sustainability projects for the spring semester, rewarding $68,914. For the entire fiscal year, 18 projects were awarded $79,586. Some of the projects chosen were off-campus endeavors, including the improvement of the pre-existing Adventure Outings Yurt, a small dwelling structure located in Butte Meadows. One planned on-campus project is the creation and distribution of ceramic water filters, which will eventually be shared with a community in Honduras. The Sustainable Engineering and Environmental Health for Development student group is attempting to connect with communities abroad regarding the project. Additional funding will also go to the annual This Way to Sustainability conference which will be held March 2012.
DECISIONS Chico State President Paul Zingg interviews at San Diego State Thursday for the position of president at the southern California school.
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The California State University Board of Trustees will announce next week whether Chico State President Paul Zingg beat out the competition for the San Diego State presidential vacancy. The other finalists for the position are Elliot Hirshman, provost and senior vice president for Academic Affairs at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and
Steven Leath, vice president for research and sponsored programs in the University of North Carolina system. The three candidates will take turns touring the campus this week, with Zingg’s tour scheduled for Thursday, according to an update released by the board. The trustees will then announce a final decision for the position. The CSU Board of Trustees reached out to Zingg with similar offers in the past.
Campus reacts to Osama bin Laden’s death
Baldrick’s Foundation
Ben Mullin STAFF WRITER
source: Student Announcements
Students intent on graduating in spring 2012 must submit their graduation applications and pay their application fee by May 15. Those who submit their applications after this time are subject to a late fee. Failure to pay the fee may result on a hold on accounts. If there are any issues with an application the evaluations office will send notice to the student’s Wildcat email address. Submit the application to http://www. csuchico.edu/evaluations/
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BALD IS BEAUTIFUL Jaypinderpal Virdee [left], sophomore communications major and A.S. commisioner of community aff airs, Juan Blanco [middle], residential community coordinator of north campus, and Suzanne Perrin, junior agriculture education major, all went bald for the St. Baldrick’s Foundation.
Shaving heads while saving lives Allison Weeks
source: Campus Calendar
STAFF WRITER
Twenty-three people shaved their heads to raise money for the St. Baldrick’s Foundation Saturday. St. Baldrick’s is a non-profit organization that raises the second-most amount of money for childhood cancer research, behind only the federal government, said Price Peterson, event coordinator, Sutter Hall RA and senior journalism major. The event was put on by Sutter Hall resident advisers along with resident advisers from different communities, he said.
Catch the last few days of the 56th annual Student Exhibition, ending Sunday, May 15 in the University Art Gallery in Taylor Hall. The exhibition includes a variety of student pieces selected by Kevin B. Chen, artist and program director for the Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco. Twenty-one pieces by 17 artists were chosen. Fifty-four student artists submitted 80 pieces into the exhibition. Different media were included such as ceramics, printmaking, photography, sculpture and digital media. The pieces that showed the most diverse approaches and concepts were selected. For more information about the gallery, visit http:// www.csuchico.edu/art/ galleries/univgallery.html
“I was encouraged to interview shortly after the position was announced late last fall, but I declined,” Zingg said. “Someone, and I still don’t know who, went ahead and nominated me anyway, which I found out in March.” After the nomination, Zingg consulted friends for advice and chose to follow through, he said. Zingg is attracted to San Diego State more for its similarities to Chico State than its >> please see ZINGG | A7
“By shaving our heads, we show solidarity not just to kids who have cancer, but just people in general who are fighting cancer,” Peterson said. Before the event, the Sutter Hall RAs raised $4,300, more than the $3,000 goal, Peterson said. “For St. Baldrick’s, you have to be a little more outgoing and kind of have to be more aggressive when it comes to your fundraising tactics,” he said. Calling and emailing people was necessary to fundraise, but like Up ’til Dawn, contacts are limited to friends and family, >> please see BALD | A6
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The world’s most wanted terrorist is dead. Somewhere in between the spokes of the 24-hour news cycle lie the thoughts and opinions of Chico State students. To the veterans and Middle East natives at Chico State, Osama bin Laden’s death does not represent the conclusion of a war or the beginning of a backlash — just the end of one criminal. For A.S. President Amro Jayousi, a senior political science major who immigrated to Chico State from Palestine, bin Laden’s death was not cause for elation, but reflection on the legacy of a man who popularized nonproductive, violent protest. “Hardly ever is the murder of someone a reason to celebrate,” Jayousi said. Jayousi, who joined the speech and debate team and wrote an opinion column on related topics for The Orion, was able to articulate and defend himself from people who discriminated against middle easterners following al-Qaida’s attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, he said. “I was armed with the history and the tools to speak about it,” he said. Students from the Middle East who cannot speak English very well do not have the same luxury, Jayousi said. “The average Middle Eastern student who’s powerless, who can’t respond when his nation is called terrorist — that’s the person I have sympathy for,” he said. Some Middle Eastern students, like Hussain Alkhalifah, who have endured bigotry because of bin Laden’s legacy of violence, were relieved to hear bin Laden had died. “A lot of people, especially people from Saudi, were happy,” Alkhalifah said. Many of Alkhalifah’s Muslim friends went from trusted members of the community to social outcasts overnight, he said. “It’s just hard to believe how this whole thing turned their lives upside down,” Alkhalifah said. >> please see OSAMA | A6
Students have misconceptions about Meriam Library usage Teresa De Luz A SST. NE WS EDITOR
source: Campus Announcements
Students may be judging a book by its cover when it comes to the homeless and other nonstudent community members who visit Meriam Library. The misconception about the campus library is that it’s only for students and that nonstudents don’t have the right to the library, said Kathleen Purvis, student personnel and building manager of Meriam Library. It is true some homeless community members come to sleep
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or read books, she said. “We have community members who visit the library, who are regulars, and they pretty much keep to themselves,” Purvis said. Community members are welcome in the library, and those who may not look like students are not necessarily homeless, she said. “We don’t make distinctions if they are homeless or not, but if anyone, student or otherwise, are causing problems or we see someone who we are uncertain of, we will do something about it,” Purvis said.
Because Meriam Library holds government documents for reference, it is required to be open to the public, she said. Members of the general public are allowed to apply for a library card if they are a local resident, over the age of 18, have a Social Security number and a valid driver’s license. Complaints by students about homeless people in the library are rare, said Natalie Adams, junior environmental health science major and circulations reserve student supervisor who works in the library.
“I have only had one complaint so far about someone feeling uncomfortable about a homeless person, but no one really seems to mind,” Adams said. While there have been few complaints about distracting behaviors, some students have noticed outside community members but don’t mind them, said Marissa Madrid, junior animal science major who frequents the second floor of the library. Last Monday, Madrid was studying with a friend and noticed what she thought was
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an older student sleeping. “It was really silent and he let out this loud snore that woke himself up and he realized he was a distraction, I think, but he packed up his stuff and left,” she said. The man’s appearance led Madrid to think he was homeless. “It was kind of weird to see, but they never do anything bad or cause trouble,” she said. “It’s just a quiet place to come chill out and read.” Teresa De Luz can be reached at tdeluz@theorion.com
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WORLD NEWS >> Syria – At least 62 people died after
Although the Obama administration signed legislation repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” in December, they are asking federal appeals courts to maintain the ban on openly gay service members until the Pentagon is ready to facilitate the change in policy. The repeal will formally take effect 60 days after the secretary of defense and the joint chiefs of staff certify that the military has prepared necessary regulation and that the change won’t affect the military’s ability to recruit and train. Defense Department officials have said this certification is likely to happen this summer, and the completion of the repeal in September or October.
Thailand-Cambodia border — Fighting
Egypt – The Egyptian government
India – The Indian government has
Berlin – German police on Friday
what is being dubbed a “day of rage” on
has decided to permanently open the
on the Thai-Cambodia border continues
rejected offers by U.S. firms for a $12
arrested three suspected members of al-
Friday as anti-government protesters
Rafah border into Gaza in order to
despite a ceasefire agreement between
billion military jet deal that President
Qaida. Two of the suspects are German
took to the streets of the city of Daraa,
circumvent the Israeli blockade in place
the two countries. The fighting has
Barack Obama personally advocated
nationals of Moroccan origin and at least
to only be shot at by soldiers trying
on the Gaza Strip. The blockade began
created tens of thousands of refugees
during his November visit to the country.
one was trained in the tribal areas of the
to crush the political dissent that has
in 2006 after Hamas, which is in control
and at least 15 Thai soldiers have been
The only contenders left are European
Afghan-Pakistan border. The three men
been sweeping the country. More than
of the Gaza Strip, took Israeli soldier
killed. The fighting revolves around two
firms that offer the Dassault Rafale and
reportedly prepared explosive chemicals
200 Syrians have fled the country and
Gilad Shalit hostage. The announcement
ancient temples that are claimed by both
the Eurofighter Typhoon. India was
for an attack. Germany has managed to
crossed the border into Turkey. There
comes just days after Hamas and West
Cambodia and Thailand. The temples fall
concerned that the United States would
avoid major terrorist attacks on its soil
have been reports of divisions within the
Bank government Fatah agreed to unify
into areas of the border that were never
cut off spare parts and technical support
like the Madrid train bombings of 2004
Syrian military and security forces after
and prepare for elections in response to
formally demarcated.
for any jets sold in the event of a crisis
and has foiled at least two major plots
some of its members refused to fire on
mass Palestinian protests.
between India and Pakistan.
in the past.
protesters.
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source: The Washington Post
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CRUISIN’ A student choses to ride his bicycle through campus despite a possible $158 fine. Five students were given citations for riding their bicycle or long board on campus during April. It is the choice of the officer to issue a fine.
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Leniency no longer for campus riders People riding bicycles and longboards through campus risk a fine, but with more than 70 riders stopped in April, fear of punishment may not be enough. Dario Gut STAFF WRITER
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spot for students to hop on their bikes, Farrell said. Also, the paths leading to Legion Avenue, the pavement by Ayres Hall and the line of bike racks on West First Street are major places where students tend to disregard the rule, he said. Longboard rider Alex Fearn, a sophomore geography major, regularly rides to campus from his home on West Fourth Avenue. “I always try and bike or longboard to school when it’s nice outside,” Fearn said. In between his classes, Fearn tends to hop on his board and ride through the center of campus. “The ground is so much cleaner and smoother on campus,” Fearn said. “It’s perfect for longboarding.” On the other hand, junior construction major Robbie
Richmond said there is no need to bike through the small Chico campus, especially during the afternoon when it's most populated. “It can be pretty hectic for the students walking when there are people on bikes flying by,” Richmond said. However, Richmond did admit to riding his longboard through campus after his night classes. “When there are fewer people around I usually hop on my long board,” he said. “It’s a quicker way of transportation.” With only a few weeks of the semester remaining, University Police will continue to enforce the no-ride policy on campus, Farrell said. No exceptions. Dario Gut can be reached at dgut@theorion.com
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“We have always enforced the law that students can’t ride their bike or longboard on campus,” said Sgt. Brian Farrell. “It’s up to the officer's discretion if he chooses to give the student a warning or citation.” If given a citation, the student gets a court date and pays the state a maximum fine of $158, he said. “The citations could increase because of the weather,” Farrell said. The favorable spring weather has many students leaving their cars at home and using alternate transportation, which means locking up bikes on campus or carrying long boards into class. Over the years Farrell has noticed a few places where students tend to disobey this rule. The pathway underneath Meriam Library is a common
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In the April 27 article “Students play large role in remaking Alumni Glen,” a decorative feature facing Big Chico Creek was incorrectly referred to as a set of steps and Phil Petermann, a concrete industry management major, was incorrectly named as a construction management major. It was also incorrectly noted that the entirety of the concrete is pervious, whereas only a portion of it actually is, and it was also incorrectly referred to as a Concrete Industry Management Student Society project, whereas it is actually a capstone senior project.
Complaints from faculty and administrators have pushed University Police to be less lenient when spotting a student abusing the no-ride policy on campus. Between April 1 and April 28, there were 56 bicyclists and 15 longboarders stopped for riding on campus property, according to the University Police briefing log. Five of them were given citations after previously given a warning.
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GROUP TALK Students gathered in the Bell Memorial Union auditorium to discuss political issues.
Students get political at town hall meeting Ben Mullin STAFF WRITER
When Chico State President Paul Zingg took the stage to introduce his school’s 10th biannual town hall meeting Thursday, he began a political debate that would last the rest of the night. Standing under a spotlight at the front of Bell Memorial Union auditorium, Zingg announced that the nearly 600 students in attendance would be meeting in 28 dierent breakout sessions to discuss solutions to contemporary problems such as prison overcrowding, immigration reform and the California budget crisis. “I would love to know where we are going to ďŹ nd $500 million from the state of California, and maybe they know,â€? Zingg said. After the introductions were ďŹ nished, the students ďŹ led out of the auditorium and dispersed around campus into the 28 student groups debating 14 dierent issues in 10 university halls simultaneously. The meeting is a collaborative eort between Chico State’s First Year Experience program and the political science department designed to get new students involved in political discussion, said Brooke Myrman, student event coordinator of the town hall meeting. Students who participate are much more conďŹ dent talking about important issues with
fellow students and community members, Myrman said. “One of our students said she never thought she could be someone who could talk to men in suits,â€? Myrman said. One of the breakout sessions, “Tangible Solutions for the California Budget Crisis,â€? was attended by Bob Linscheid, a member of Chico State’s board of trustees who wore a light brown suit jacket over his salmon-colored tie. Linscheid, who discussed the possibility of furloughs and redistricting with 18 students who had come to debate solutions for California’s ďŹ scal crisis, said a healthy argument produces good ideas. “You need resistance to build a muscle,â€? Linscheid said. “You need diverse opinions to come up with an answer.â€? The breakout session included students from varying majors and class ranks, including Laura Jolly, a senior applied computer graphics major who consulted 12 pages of singlespaced research notes before trying to articulate the enormity of California’s problem. “It’s hard to know where to start and stop,â€? she said. When the breakout sessions ended at 8 p.m., students began to ďŹ ll the BMU again to attend the ďŹ nal event of the town hall meeting, which consisted of 44 catered round table discussions scattered around the oor of the auditorium. Each round table discussion
was actually a circular cluster of nine to 16 students sitting in padded red chairs, moderated by a political science teacher’s assistant or a member of the Chico community knowledgeable about the topic being discussed. Community members who led round table discussions included William Loker, Chico State’s dean of Undergraduate Education and Mike Maloney, Chico’s chief of police, said Brooke Myrman, the event coordinator. One round table discussion, which focused on the problem of human traďŹƒcking, was led by Dan Thompson, a graduate student studying political science. Thompson spent much of his session soliciting the opinions of the 13 students in his group, trying to get them to participate in the debate. “We’ve had a chance to talk about solutions,â€? he said. “This is good. I feel like we’re ďŹ nally getting somewhere.â€? The round table session ended at 9 p.m., signaling the end of the town hall meeting. When students ďŹ led out of the auditorium, Thompson collected their papers and spoke to the positive eect the town hall meeting had. “If it was easier for even one person to engage in a dialogue or discourse, in my eyes, it was worth it,â€? he said.
Thursday, 8:23 a.m.: Suspicious subject reported on the 400 block of Palisades Drive. “As reporting party left his residence he noticed two unfamiliar males in vehicle. When he approached them to see if they were OK they were asleep and covered in blankets. They said they were resting their eyes from driving on the 5. Reporting party thought that statement was odd since they are nowhere near the 5.� Thursday, 4:33 p.m.: Shoplift reported on the 200 block of Main Street. “Suspect left store with merchandise, then had to return for his 2-yearold child who was still in the store. Merchandise was obtained from suspect when he returned for child.� Thursday, 9:37 p.m.: Found bike reported on the block of West Second Street. “Reporting party just found his stolen bike. Never reported it to the police. It is currently locked in front of the Beach Hut Deli to another bike. Reporting party knows the combo to the lock and can prove it’s his bike by using the lock combo.� Thursday, 10:18 p.m.: Noise complaint reported on the 2700 block of White Avenue. “Upstairs apartment very loud. Reporting party asked them to quiet down and now they are being louder.� Friday, 1:46 a.m.: Drunk in public reported on the 900 block of Hazel Street. “Male subject at reporting party’s front door yelling something about his mail being stolen. Reporting party does not know who the subject is.�
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Friday, 11:32 p.m.: Noise complaint reported on the 100 block of Christopher Alan Lane. “Reporting party reporting someone in the backyard yelling to the music that is also playing too loud.�
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SUNDAY, 6:50 P.M. Chico Police Records
Sunday, 2:08 a.m.: Noise complaint reported on the 800 block of Pomona Avenue. “Loud music. Reporting party has asked subjects to turn it down and subjects refused and were ‘angry’ with the reporting party for asking.â€? Sunday, 1:28 p.m.: Civil matter reported on the 700 block of Portal Drive. “Landlord turning o PG&E trying to get reporting party to move. Reporting party lives above the garage in the apartment. Reporting party is able to turn it back on at the switch but not before her food spoiled.â€? Sunday, 4:59 p.m.: Noise complaint reported on the 3000 block of Snowbird Drive. “Loud foul music from vehicle. Could be heard over a leaf blower.â€? Sunday, 6:50 p.m.: Noise complaint reported on the 900 block of East Seventh Street. “Subject walking around his vehicle with his hands in the air blasting his music. Now he is dancing.â€? Sunday, 8:05 p.m.: TraďŹƒc hazard reported on the 700 block of West Eighth Street. “Fraternity males wearing costumes, stopping traďŹƒc. One is dressed as construction worker, placing cones in the street and pretending to direct traďŹƒc.â€? Sunday, 9:29 p.m.: Shots heard at the 1400 block of West Seventh Street. “Reporting party heard ďŹ ve loud bangs. Thought to be shots but not positive.â€? -Compiled by Andre Byik
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Chico State hosted the 37th International Festival on Saturday, entertaining hundreds of students and other community members on Kendall Hall lawn for one of the warmest days yet this year. More than 20 clubs and four community vendors participated, said Aaron Rodriguez, A.S. commissioner of Multicultural Affairs and festival organizer. Clubs cooked and sold cultural food to festival attendees, including lumpias from the Filipino American Student Organization and gelato from the Chico Italian Academic Organization. Throughout the day, clubs and organizations
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also demonstrated cultural dances and music on Kendall Lawn, the area just in front of Kendall Hall. Hassan Ghiassi, a salsa dance instructor at Cafe Culture, gave a free dance lesson to community members willing to stand in front of the audience of hundreds of people. Local band Salsa Bella followed. Ashlee Bischoff, newly elected Commissioner of Student Organizations and Programs, also attended the festival. “It really shows our diversity and our willingness to come together as a community,” she said. Liam Turner can be reached at artdirector@theorion.com
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MELTING POT Filipino American Student Organization members [bottom center, bottom right], Elizabeth Delacare [bottom left], senior outdoor education major, Salsa instructor Hassan Ghiassi [top right] and Yahya Almaq and Magid Aldosari [top left, left to right] celebrate their heritage at the International Festival. The event, sponsored by A.S., expressed diversity while bringing students together.
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Business owners feel negative, positive effects of Thursday Night Market Ben Mullin STAFF WRITER
The only thing vendors at Chico’s Thursday Night Market can’t grow is the street. Chico’s weekly farmer’s market, which runs from April to September, is held on closed streets in downtown, along a section of street running from West Second to West Fifth streets, according to the Downtown Chico Business Association website. The market is run by the Business Association, which charges each vendor $35 to rent out space for one week’s market. While Thursday Night Market has the advantage of drawing pedestrians into the heart of Chico to browse local businesses, it does hinder retail sales, said Bud Schwab, owner of Campus Bicycles and member of the Downtown Chico Business Association Board of Directors. “I am impacted once they start setting up roadblocks from 4 to 5 p.m.,” Schwab said. Though Thursday Night Market brings an increase in foot traffic to downtown as a whole, it does not guarantee that the types of customers who will purchase bikes or commission repairs will stop at his shop, Schwab said. Hotel Diamond owner Wayne Cook petitioned the Chico City Council to amend the Business Association’s franchise agreement so that West Fourth Street is accessible to guests at the hotel, which faces the street, Cook said. In past years, the hotel was losing money every Thursday night due to a lack of parking for their guests and restaurant-goers as a result of the street closure, he said. Last market season, guests of Hotel Diamond were required to pull up in front of the hotel, unload their belongings and make a U-turn back out of the market area to go park
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CROWD PLEASER The large groups of people who come to the Thursday Night Market help and hinder downtown businesses. Closing off four blocks of the streets limits access to some stores while the increased amount of patrons draws more attention to shops. their cars, said Sandy Teague, manager of the hotel. This season, however, the hotel has purchased $1,200 worth of barricades and has compromised with the Business Association to block off one lane on Broadway Street for its guests to drive through for easier access to the hotel, Teague said. Not all business owners are in agreement over the impact of Thursday Night Market, however. The increased foot traffic that accompanies the market is beneficial for some local business, said Nancy Carlson, owner of Powell’s Sweet Shoppe. On market nights, Powell’s makes nearly three times as much money as it does on non-
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Peterson said. The hair cut at the event was donated to Locks of Love, and the money raised goes to St. Baldrick’s. Three of Saturday's 23 participants were women who called themselves the “Aggie Ladies.” “We decided to donate our hair since it is the easiest thing to donate,” said Suzanne Perrin, junior agriculture education major and “Aggie Lady.” The Ladies, also including junior agriculture business major Liz Hurd and senior animal science major Audra Harl, had a fundraiser at Round Table Pizza and sent out letters to ask friends and family to donate money to the St. Baldrick’s Foundation. The “Aggie Ladies” raised about $2,700. Juan Blanco, residential community coordinator
of North Campus, had a personal stake in the event. While his long, black hair was being shaved off, he held up a picture. “My grandmother died of gallbladder cancer last week,” Blanco said. “Because of that, I was more committed to the cause.” It is important to have A.S. work with housing to show support for the campus, said Jaypinderpal Virdee, sophomore communications major and A.S. commissioner of Community Affairs who also got his head shaved. “It is important to look out for people going through a hard time,” Virdee said. “That’s what Chico State does.” Allison Weeks can be reached at aweeks@theorion.com
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market nights, Carlson said. While local businesses may not directly benefit from market night, more people in the downtown area means more familiarity with local businesses, Carlson said. “People might say, ‘That looks like a neat store, I might come back later,’” Carlson said. Like Carlson, Lt. Linda Dye of the Chico Police Department thinks the market should be enjoyed, though she added that increased criminal activity is associated with Thursday Night Market. “It’s a crowd, people are hanging out, and for some reason, thugs are attracted to it,” Dye said. Chico police will continue to keep anywhere
from two to four officers at the market in order to prevent any violence, she said. Part of the problem of the placement of vendors at Thursday Night Market is that they are situated in front of businesses, so they block off access to the storefronts, said Schwab, the owner of Campus Bicycles. The Business Association will move the vendors at Thursday Night Market closer to the center of the street so that customers have access to downtown businesses, he said. “It’s ironic that the business association does things to hurt local businesses,” Schwab said. Ben Mullin can be reached at bmullin@theorion.com
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The other members of Chico State’s community who paid the price of al-Qaida’s terrorism, the veterans of foreign wars, greeted the news of bin Laden’s death with detached analysis. Mike Gray, a retired master sergeant who served 20 years in the military, watched the network news coverage of bin Laden’s death until 2 a.m. because he couldn’t sleep, he said. “They’re making it more
important than it is,” Gray said. “And the cheerleading. I hate cheerleading.” It was several hours before the pundits even began discussing possible reactions to bin Laden’s death, he said. “It was 1 in the morning before anyone started talking about backlash in the Arab world,” Gray said. Osama bin Laden’s death will not result in immediate reprisal from al-Qaida because intricate terrorist plots take many months to plan, said John Crosby, a
political science professor. The international terrorist’s death has brought closure to thousands who lost their families and friends in the Sept. 11 attacks, Crosby said. But that does not mean al-Qaida will stop executing terrorist attacks on America or its allies, he said. “Osama represents an ideology, an idea,” he said, “and it’s very difficult to kill an ideal.” Ben Mullin can be reached at bmullin@theorion.com
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It might have been a struggle at times, and it might have contributed to the demise of a successful course at Chico State, but the marketing and design team embraced its underdog persona and brought home fi rst place honors along with a trophy heavier than a 32-inch LCD TV. The group of 20 students won best campaign in the 2011 District 14 American Advertising Federation-National Student Advertising Competition on April 23, which was held at San Jose State, said Bill McGowan, adviser to the team. The team worked with a hypothetical $100 million budget to create an advertising
campaign for J.C. Penney targeting women aged 25 to 34, a weak market for the company, McGowan said. Work on the campaign began last fall, and the team was finally able to present its “big idea” to a panel of five corporate judges from J.C. Penney in a presentation that included commercials, billboard designs, a 32-page plan book and a 20-minute keynote address, McGowan said. But a month out from the competition the team had tame expectations for its fi nal placement, McGowan said. They were competing against historically strong advertising schools UC Berkeley and University of Nevada, Reno. “If you asked me a month before our chances of winning,
I would tell you ‘one out of 10,’” McGowan said. The “big idea,” which took the longest time to come to fruition, was composed of two small words — “Think Again.” “We didn’t come up with the final idea until spring break,” said Madelyn Lombard, vice president of the team and senior business marketing major. The idea was to play with perceptions, as J.C. Penney isn’t considered a trendy department store, she said. One “risky” billboard they designed impressed the judges, she said. It portrays an open-air clothesline propping up a pair of “granny underpants” next to a red and black thong with the caption,
“Think only Grandma shops here? Think again.” “The bigger the risk, the bigger the reward,” Lombard said. The risk may have been needed to trump the University of Nevada, Reno as the team beat that school 80.9 to 80.7, McGowan said. Team president Andrew Chalmers, a senior business marketing major, also had his doubts going in about the team’s performance, he said. Chico State was the first to present and “when we needed to perform, we did our best,” Chalmers said. UC Berkeley followed after, and the team started to gain some confidence after Chico State’s presentation was clearly better, he said.
A.S. president-elect transitioning into office Bryan Clendon STAFF WRITER
She ran her campaign, won the election and now London Long is beginning her term as Associated Students president. To start off, Long will host a “dinner with the president” event during “dead week” in Sutter Hall. The event provides students the chance to share a meal and speak with Chico State President Paul Zingg and other administrators, she said. Next academic year, members of the Chico City Council and University Police could be persuaded to attend the dinner as well, Long said. “A lot of people around campus have approached me about being interested in this,” she said. In addition the dinner, Long has been introducing herself to administration and meeting with directors of A.S. organizations, she said. She also set up an A.S. president Twitter account. “I just want this office to be more transparent,” she said. Long set the first formal meeting between newly elected officers for Sunday. Prior to that, there were no formal meetings or plans between new officers because terms had not yet started. Long has been shadowing current A.S. President Amro Jayousi for the duration of the year and, as A.S. director of University Affairs, sat on multiple committees with Jayousi and asked him many questions. “Amro will be transitioning me May 1st through the 15th,” she said. The transition will involve an orientation
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PAST AND PRESIDENT A.S. President-elect London Long [right] and outgoing president Amro Jayousi. between Jayousi and Long about committees the president sits on, committees others sit on in the president’s stead, a summarization of presidential duties, updating her on issues currently in progress and insight into the daily routine of the A.S. president, Jayousi said. “I will share with her anything I’ve learned,” he said. One of the key continuing issues Long will be briefed on is the president’s involvement in the Measure A debate, Jayousi said. Measure A is a proposal to move the Chico General Municipal Election from November to June. Long plans to be working with organizers on a voter registration drive encouraging students to register to vote in the June election that
includes Measure A, she said. Long remains neutral on the issue because she feels the A.S. president should be as nonpartisan as possible. She wants to educate student voters on Measure A and get them to the polls, she said. The transition should be an easy one because Long was involved with A.S. all year as the director of University Affairs, Jayousi said. “It would have defi nitely been a more complex transition if it wasn’t someone within the office,” Jayousi said. Jayousi will fi nish his term as president on May 15 and graduate at the end of the semester. While she transitions into her new office as president, Long will also be teaching new Director of University Affairs Nikki MacDougall about her position, she said. She has already met with MacDougall to discuss the office. Meanwhile, Jillian Ruddell, runner-up for president and director of the Associated Students Women’s Center, will continue to contribute to the campus in other areas, she said. She will be transitioning out as the Women’s Center director, because directors typically step down after two years to allow others the opportunity for the position. “I’ve applied for many positions to continue activism,” she said. Positions she has applied for include event planning and diversity positions in the Cross Cultural Leadership Center, she said.
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With finals week approaching, Chico State efforts for Japan fundraising are winding down. While A.S. coordinated fundraising focused on collecting money from the campus, the Japanese Friendship Organization, which does not share funds with A.S. and donates to the American Red cross, has included community wide fundraising, said JFusion President Saya Mishima. JFusion, whose efforts are directed under the Japanese Friendship Organization which consists of 40 to 50 members, is proud of the amount that has
been collected so far, which was more than $7,000 on April 7, she said. “Actually, we are pretty certain that we have already met the May 5 goal of $10,000, but we won’t have exact figures until May 5,” said JFusion Vice President Sana Takaoka. The community focus that the Japanese Friendship organization took allowed the organization to cast a wide fundraising net in Chico, with individual community events like the Butte County Library Sale collecting around $2,000, Takaoka said. “When I ordered T-shirts to sell at the Thursday Market I didn’t really expect to sell so many,” she said. “We raised
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after which all donations were be sent to the Japanese Red Cross, he said. The student coalition decided to make April the last week for fundraising, Virdee said. “Finals week is coming up and students have to think about their priorities,” he said. With the pass of time and school obligations keeping students busy some may be forgetting about Japan. “People are starting to forget a little bit about the tsunami,” she said. “Around one billion has been raised internationally, but the estimated damages to Japan are over 100 billion.” Alexander Seymour can be reached at
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about $1,000 from that.” The fundraising will take a hiatus for finals week, but JFusion is considering how it can continue donation efforts next semester, Mishima said. As of April 27, efforts coordinated by the Associated Students, which includes the Freshman Leadership Organization and the Interfraternity Council, have managed to raise more than $400 for the Japanese Red Cross, said JayPinderpal Virdee, A.S. commissioner of community affairs. “I think it’s good that students are trying to work together instead of competing over donations,” he said. The final day planned for A.S. fundraising was Sunday,
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differences, he said. “The commitment to diversity, to a strong sense of regional service, a strong sense of community connection, a balance between the liberal arts on one hand and professional applied studies on the other, as well as the strong international program meant that this was worth exploring,” Zingg said. Staying in California and within the public CSU system were also musts, he said. While a presidency at the San Diego State campus would offer many of the same challenges as a presidency at Chico State, the scale would be much larger and come with more significant implications for surrounding regions, he said. Most students in Chico leave after graduating, but this is not so in San Diego where one of six people in the city with a college degree got it from San Diego State, Zingg said. The college graduates become a long-term investment in the city. “I am absolutely attracted to the challenge,” he said. “Actually, that is the primary reason I am considering this.” Should Zingg get the job, incoming student government members will miss Zingg’s commitment to shared governance, dedication to student service and activism, said outgoing A.S. President Amro Jayousi in an email. Jayousi is not the only A.S. official to lament the possible loss of Zingg, said incoming A.S. President London Long. “At first I was disappointed because he is such a great asset to us,” Long said. “But I can see why SDSU would want him. He has been so willing to work with the student government in Chico and will do the same for them.” If selected, Zingg’s departure is expected to have a minimal effect on the new A.S. administration, as Long has chosen Drew Calandrella, vice president for Student Affairs as a point of contact while the campus has an interim president, she said. An interim president would be selected by the CSU Chancellor, probably from outside Chico State in order to avoid incumbent bias during the selection of a new full-time president, Zingg said. The interim president would probably serve between six and nine months, with the board of trustees likely delivering a president to Chico State by the beginning of next February, he said. Regardless of any salary changes that may occur if he leaves, Zingg will continue to donate 10 percent of his salary to Chico State, he said. “President Zingg is ambitious, and moving on to a bigger university such as San Diego State University might be wise for his long-term career goals,” Jayousi said. “Regardless, his service to CSU Chico will be remembered.”
Chico State’s organized fundraisers for Japan coming to conclusion Alexander Seymour
The course, Marketing 480, won’t be returning next semester partly because of the intense workload it thrusts onto the advisers, McGowan said. It’s validating to the program to go out on a win, however, Chalmers said. The next challenge for the team will be the national competition held in San Diego, June 1-5, but the team doesn’t expect to make many changes to their presentation, Chalmers said. “We’re going to keep the winning formula,” he said. Students can watch the winning presentation at 5 p.m. Thursday in the Performing Arts Center Room 144.
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Measure A vote puts pressure on students It’s time to vote on voting — if students can even be expected to do that. Measure A, which would move the traditional November voting date to June, has the potential to alleviate the majority of students from the responsibility of knowing what’s going on in the community or to disenfranchise an entire population within Chico, depending on your view. Whatever the outcome, the necessary action is the same — students need to vote. A special election in June will be the deciding factor in this unfortunate state of affairs. As it stands, Measure A could sever the ties between students and their ability to participate in city and municipal elections. The Orion doesn’t claim to know whether this is called for, appropriate or even fair. However, it is quite clear a student body response is essential. The foundation of this measure is an obvious move to discard seemingly irrelevant voices from Chico’s voting process — especially those whose votes are seen as opposing the
core values or interest of the Chico community. So, if students are seen as irrelevant, there is no better way to prove this wrong than to make ourselves as visible as possible. This means stepping one by one into secluded voting booths. Making an impact as a student body doesn’t always have to mean marching through downtown or burning a couch in the street. Actually, some of our more apparent activities have something to do with the community’s interest in passing Measure A. Perhaps this measure is the right thing at the right time. There’s no amount of sugar to make this medicine go down easily, but if students aren’t taking the right and responsibility to vote seriously then those students have not earned the community’s trust. The results of this special election in June will be a skewed indicator of whether or not this measure is even warranted. If students do not show an overwhelming opposition to the
change then those who support the measure will simply be proven right. Unless students take the duty to vote seriously and do so absentee, the results will already be biased in favor of passing Measure A not because those who want to pass the measure are correct, but simply because the spring semester will be over, ensuring that most students have returned home for the summer. This could be the first of many local elections where students will be required to vote absentee if they wish to participate. Mayor Ann Schwab has come out in opposition of the measure in a Sept. 22 Orion article stating that the students who potentially represent 25 percent of Chico’s population need to be spoken for. The Orion agrees with Schwab, up to the point where students dismiss the importance of voting and protecting their interests no longer serves the community. It’s also important to note that Schwab, who
earns many student votes through her liberal politics and involvement with CAVE, could suffer if student votes decreased. Measure A will do more than assert the separation of students from local government. It will mean an extra cost to the city to host elections in June instead of November. The measure will do nothing to encourage voter participation, which is something of importance. Alternatively, Measure A could be a positive step toward eliminating the partisan interests that usually distract from the issues at hand. These are all factors that need to be considered, discussed and decided upon by each voter, whether or not they are seasonal residents of Chico. The right to vote has never been simply handed to a group of people. In the case of Chico State students, we don’t have to secede from tyranny or overthrow anyone. We just need to send in a ballot.
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Opposite sex friends not the same August Walsh OPINION COLUMNIST
Men and women can’t be friends. There, I said it. When my male friends and I interact, the bulk of what we talk about is sex, video games, cartoons, food and more sex. Sound slightly stereotypical? That’s because it’s true. What do women talk about? Like men, women talk about sex and gossip, but from my own observations, the similarities end there. How are those two types of conversations supposed to mesh? It’s like mixing oil and water or trying to fit a triangle into a circular hole. There are so many boundaries and barriers that go up when men and women interact that make it virtually impossible for each to have that camaraderie that two men or two women share. Out of politeness, we put on masks to make sure not to offend the other. Let’s
say I go out one night and get lucky with an attractive female. I would immediately call one of my guy friends to tell him of my triumphant victory, but I would never consider letting my female friends know about how amazing or unlucky my sex life has been. The same probably goes for women. Now let’s hypothetically say that a man and a woman become comfortable with each other to the point where they consider themselves as “friends.” They hang out all of the time and talk to each other about everything. The majority of the time, one of them will probably become attracted to the other. There have been too many “friendships” that have ended because of sexual tension and unplanned crushes, because once that comes up, somebody is going to want a relationship and the other person isn’t. Someone is going to try and tell the other, “But we’re just friends,” thus killing the friendship with what I like to call “the friend dagger.” If a friendship can be killed that easily, then it was never
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a friendship to begin with. Two male or two female friends rarely have to worry about this, which leads to a more holistic and honest friendship. Whether we want to admit it or not, we’ve all probably been in the dreaded “friend zone,” and it’s close to impossible to get out of it. The worst part about the friend zone is how much of a negative connotation it has, usually because one person feels forced into it. So, what’s the solution? Are males and females never supposed to be friendly with each other when they’re not trying to court each other? Well, that’s preposterous. If I really had an answer to this dilemma, I’d make sure I’d do my best to at the very least try and make some money off that idea. While there are plenty of women I enjoy hanging out with, I’d like to call them my friend unless I suspect there might be some unnecessary chemistry.
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The funnel cake fanbase is known to be a little obsessive. I’ve heard legendary tales of people honking at and directing traveling funnel cake trailers off Interstate 5 just to ask the driver where they can meet them to get a funnel cake. People have also said they intentionally paid $20 admission to a fair only to walk in, get a funnel cake and leave. I know these tales from firsthand experience — I travel the fair circuit and work at events. Imagine your workplace and home is on wheels. You work in a trailer, you eat in a trailer, you sleep in a trailer. Your days are long and the labor is hard, but you get to travel throughout the summer at little to no expense. The world literally becomes your backyard. Exciting and satisfying job opportunities are to be had in the place you would least expect them — your local county fair. Despite being called a “carnie” by some, the work is so interesting and rewarding that it’s totally worth it. My boyfriend’s parents are the owners and operators of a fleet of funnel cake trailers. This time each year, the sleepy winter morphs into a mad dash that continues until the hot summer nights have melted away and fall begins to lap our faces with its cool breeze. I began working for my boyfriend’s parents in summer 2007. During summer 2009, I had the privilege of traveling with them along the California coastline while working in their booths. I’ve traveled up and down the coast, selling funnel cakes in sleepy towns and big cities. My backyard has been an ever-evolving cycle of various floral and fauna. I have stepped out of the little trailer I slept in and been welcomed with beachfront breezes and
views of beautiful mountain vistas. I’ve worked in chilly locations, in lush park settings and in 100-plus-degree heat while my work trailer sat on the hot blacktop. When you work at fairs, the soundtrack varies throughout the day, but still manages to become repetitive. On a typical day, you will hear “Pipeline,” “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” and “The Twist” on average of four times. When you are working at an event for 20 days, this manages to be a little nervegrinding. In fact, as I write this very article I am at work and have been listening to a steel drum player pounding out tunes from the Top 40. You haven’t lived until you have heard “I Kissed a Girl” on steel drums. I’ve always been astounded by my boyfriend’s indifference to, well, “interesting” people. Now I know where he gets this. You meet some of the most interesting people out there when traveling the fair circuit. Aside from the usual — clowns, jugglers, stilt walkers and bearded ladies — you come across many more people full of quirks. My personal favorite? The infamous carnival ride operator who is incredibly shy and awkward but wears a shirt inscribed, “Save a ticket, ride a carnie.” And I knew I was ready to head home from a fair once when I passed a hair extension salesman pole dancing and exclaiming at the top of his lungs, “Come on girl, get your hair did!” While some of the expected annoyances from working at fairs may become a bit grating, the rest of the experience is totally worth it. As a college student, I highly recommend it as a summer job. You rack up hours and get to see and live in parts of the country you may have never experienced. If anything, you get to say when you are old and gray that you have truly seen it all. Kelly Hering can be reached at khering@theorion.com
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THUMBS >> Thumbs Up to finally ending the search for Osama bin Laden. Ten years, thousands dead and one solemn thumbs up.
30% of Americans have a passport 1% of American students study abroad ILLUSTRATION BY ASHLEY VIEGAS
300 Chico State students study abroad per year Chico State offers 32 country destinations
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Thumbs Down to commencement ceremony. There’s got to be a better system than showing up drunk and having a long ceremony that our parents leave halfway through.
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Students miss opportunity abroad Let’s be honest with ourselves — before February, very few of us could have pointed out Libya on a map. I’m hoping that most students could have recognized Japan and Egypt before their earthquakes and riots, but to be honest, I’m not holding my breath. Americans, be we college students or retired persons, seem to ignore the existence of countries outside our own until we either go there or something bad enough happens to make international news. For some reason, America seems to like sticking its fingers in its ears and going “lalalalalalalalalalalalala” to the rest of the world. It’s shocking, I know. There’s an entire world outside of our borders that isn’t the U.S. Le gasp. I’ll confess I’ve been as guilty of this insular frame of mind as the next person, but at least I was able to point out Libya on a map before the revolt. This was not thanks to a geography class, but through becoming friends with a Libyan dorm mate last year. That same year, I lived with a Romanian, an Italian, a Nigerian, a French
girl and a whole slew of English folks. Yes, Toto, we weren’t in Chico anymore. I was fortunate enough to spend a year studying abroad in England at the University of Essex. The school had an international population of 40 percent. Having seven nations represented in my dorm was normal. I didn’t meet a single student that didn’t have their passport. The news in England covered events in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and yes, America. I became hyper-aware of the existence and happenings of other countries without going out of my way to find news. I knew that soccer was kind of a big deal before the FIFA World Cup started. Let’s compare. Only 30 percent of Americans have a passport, according to a CNN report, and only a tiny fraction of students ever study abroad — just one percent every year, according to Matador Network. It’s a depressing statistic that only highlights America’s insistence on being insular. At Chico State, our passport
numbers are significantly better, thanks to our study abroad program. More than 300 Chico State students study abroad each year with a choice of 32 country destinations, according to the study abroad website. The program has also been ranked third in the nation for the number of students sent abroad for a year or longer. In my own experience, the study abroad office is not only constantly promoting itself and its programs, but the staff, like coordinator Tasha Dev and adviser Mike Nieto, bend over backward to make sure students who want to go abroad get there. I didn’t think I would be able to find an affordable year-long program and graduate on time, and yet here I am, mission complete and passport filled. I gained a lot from my year abroad — too much to fit into one column. But one of the most important things I gained was perspective. I followed the news of the royal wedding from the perspective of Facebook updates from English friends — I think we were more excited than they were. When I first saw footage of the
Libyan protests on the news, my thoughts went to the people, not the event. I thought of my friend from last year and I wondered if he was there. I wondered where his family was and if they were safe and if he was able to contact them. I said a quick prayer for everyone’s safety. I wouldn’t have had that human connection if I hadn’t met him. I wouldn’t have met him if I hadn’t gone abroad. There are many reasons to travel outside our country’s borders and live in a completely different place. But that perspective is probably the most important. There are a lot of differences between Americans and people of other countries. But at the end of the day, we have more in common than we would have thought. Those similarities and perspective are what let us put faces and names on the countless people involved in major world events and lets us find exactly where they are on a map. Stephanie Maynard can be reached at smaynard@theorion.com
Couch surfing next wave of travel experience Serena Cervantes S OPINION COLUMNIST
The heart might not always have a home, but the couch is always open. Sites like Facebook, MySpace, Craigslist and Yahoo! cannot do what one site provides — the Internet experience. CouchSurfing.com may be the only website whose purpose is to not only connect people around the world via the Internet, but to turn those connections into face-to-face meetings. The purpose behind the Couch Surfing website is to interact globally so that what once was considered out of reach becomes an obtainable experience that goes beyond an itinerated vacation. It follows a methodology that becomes the template for outlining the site’s philosophy — to make the global local. The equation goes like this — sign up for the site, create a profile, share your travel history, tell others whether or not you are a host for a couch or a surfer looking for one and get verified.
Getting verified is a feedback tool much like a forum system for Couch Surfing members to comment on other members’ profiles. Members will tell what the experience of the host was like, what activities they did together, perhaps where they’ve traveled together, and will rank them as someone they trust so others can use them as a host or take them in as a surfer. Chico State junior Garrett Haffey, a mechanical engineering major, utilized Couch Surfing last summer as a means to
make his way to Alaska for a one-month summer job on a fishing boat, he said. He stayed at about seven or eight couches on his journey and realized that couch surfing transcends the limited experience of staying at a hotel or hostel. “I refuse to go to any hotels because wherever you couch surf you’re on completely unfamiliar territory,” Haffey said. “You’re seeing that territory in the eyes of a local when you stay with a local. They’re bringing you into their way of life and culture.”
Haffey let his black hair grow out into a curly shag with a grizzly beard and let his guard down to experience porcupine hunting and bluegrass dancing. The experience pushed Haffey so far out of his comfort zone that he learned to hitch-hike and camped for a week and a half in a national forest. He did use some air and train travel but wanted to use those means as little as possible. “It was one of those things really, where I wanted to test myself — all right pick a spot on the map, drop me and let’s see if I survive,” he said. “Let’s see if I can actually
carry myself instead of being, ‘Oh, I don’t know anyone! I don’t know anything! How am I supposed to enjoy this?’ I don’t know — people have that mindset I feel.” It was on a backpacking trip through Europe that Haffey first discovered the couch surfing experience, he said. Haffey and his friend went to Florence, Italy where they met a guy named Marco who told them about surfing couches. Couch Surfing does not allow for posts about rental opportunities for apartments and neither is it a place for hook-ups or crashing at someone’s pad, Haffey said. Surfers should at least expect to make friends with their hosts for a day or two, according to the Couch Surfing website. The goal is for a friendship to emerge so that the global nomad and the local native can one day meet again and use each other for references. Haffey stressed that it’s one of the most rewarding opportunities because you see more than 2 million surfers and hosts connected for a common goal — traveling the world.
Thumbs Up to social media being the way people heard about the death of Osama bin Laden, thereby giving us another excuse to be on Facebook during class.
Thumbs Down to finals. Two weeks away and they’re already a pain in the behind.
Thumbs Up to doing laundry at the parents’ house. College cliches have never been too cheap and easy.
Thumbs Down to realizing that after the next “Harry Potter” comes out, that’s it. But where will we get our fill of Hippogriffs and wizarding prophecies?
Thumbs Up to anyone who can stay focused during the last few weeks of the semester. Hats off to you my friend — now what’s your secret?
Thumbs Down to people getting too familiar with the teacher during class. Calm down teacher’s pet — that’s what office hours are for.
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SPIKED BY SAN DIEGO Senior lefty Kevin Brahney was one of the few Chico pitchers who held back San Diego this weekend, surrendering three earned runs in five innings Friday.
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The ’Cats are in a dogfight for the playoffs after being swept by UC San Diego at home this weekend. With four straight losses against the two-time defending conference champions, the Wildcats have now lost five in a row while losing their lead in the California Collegiate Athletic Association. Meanwhile, San Diego has won 13 straight and has built a 3 1/2 game lead on the ’Cats in the CCAA. The Tritons outscored the Wildcats 35-19 in the series, as head coach Dave Taylor’s crew committed nine errors in four games. Shane Kroker, a junior transfer from Wake Forest, went 4-for-11 at the plate over the weekend with three RBIs and scored two runs. “It was a tough weekend for us,” Kroker said. “They jumped all over us offensively. Hopefully we can rebound from this.” The sweep could not have come at a worse time for the ’Cats, who have just four regular season games remaining, he said. “It’s not good this happened to us this late in the season,” Kroker said. “We’re still in a good position for playoffs and we’ve got to take care of business this last part of the season.” Senior communications major Kevin Brahney, a native of Sunnyvale, pitched the best game for the ’Cats in the series’ opener on Friday night. He took to the mound and lasted five
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innings while giving up three runs on seven hits, and struck out seven. Nick Baker, a freshman from La Quinta, had his shortest outing on Sunday, and couldn’t get out of the second inning. He gave up seven hits and eight runs, even though only four were earned. “It was a combination of bad pitching and errors,” Baker said. “It’s a team thing. They were hitting most of my pitches. No one person is at fault.” While the series did hurt the ’Cats in the CCAA standings, they are optimistic about not only their season, but also their chances to qualify for and make noise within the playoffs. They still feel like they are in a good position to make a run at the title, Taylor said. “We have played pretty good all year,” he said. “It was a weekend where we didn’t pitch well and didn’t play good defense. We have to put it behind us.” The ’Cats are happy that they have a doubleheader with Cal State Stanislaus only two days after the series with the Tritons, Taylor said. This weekend, Chico State takes on Sonoma State in a split series, with the season concluding Sunday at home in Chico with a doubleheader starting at noon. The CCAA’s top four teams will meet May 12-14 at Stockton’s Klein Family Field for the conference tournament and a chance at an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. THE ORION • KEVIN LEE
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A well-deserved honor The kindly patriarch of Chico State athletics is about to get what he deserves. Kirk Freitas, the coach of Wildcat men’s track and field since 1979, is to be inducted into the Chico Sports Hall of Fame May 10 at the Elks Lodge. And nobody deserves it more. Freitas embodies Chico State sports, as an alumnus himself, and was a track athlete here from 1968-71 on nationally competitive relay teams. More important than the talent, and the results of his teams since, though, is the grandfatherly attitude and deep care and connection that he has with each and every one of his athletes. As a student assistant with the sports information department last summer, I got a fi rsthand experience with Coach Freitas. While doing some research on track and field results from the ’60s and ’70s, I ventured into Freitas’ office to get some help, and got story upon story with as much help as I want. And no matter how little I care about ancient collegiate track, I hung onto every word. Because he’s the grandpa of Chico State sports. Plain and simple. The fact that Freitas is anything but dictatorial is key to Chico State’s continued success — the men’s team has won seven straight conference titles — because of the recruiting it allows. Anybody and everybody who wants to be a collegiate track athlete, especially those gunning for a Division II town like Chico, would want to play for Freitas. Because, let’s face it, track isn’t nearly as much of a coaches’ sport as college basketball. It’s all about individual talent and dedication. It’s Freitas’ infectious personality that ropes in stars like sprinter Isaiah Haywood and decathlete Talor Fulfer. That’s how the program remains mighty year after year. Freitas, who is in his 60s, still seems to have plenty left in the tank. That spells only good thing for the men’s track and field dynasty, and everybody who clocks in as a Wildcat every day. With the impending conference track championships Thursday through Saturday, not a Wildcat sports fans should worry about the results. It isn’t the conference championships that have been able to hold back Freitas’ squads, but the nationals. His team’s highest mark at nationals in his tenure was sixth, in 2007, when Scott Bauhs was the national champion in the 10,000meter and Charlie Serrano won it in the 5,000. Whether Freitas can reach that summit to0, nobody knows. All that matters is what he does for his athletes every day. Freitas smiles. He talks. He listens. And most importantly for an athletic department, he wins.
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POROUS D Freshman shortstop T.J. Yasuhara made three errors this weekend against UC San Diego. The Wildcats lost four straight to now first-place UC San Diego, and have four games remaining.
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Senior Chico State Kara Lubieniecki set a Chico State record in the 1,500-meter run at the Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational in Stanford Saturday. Lubieniecki posted a time of 4 minutes 27.68 seconds, which is .78 seconds better than her previous school record set during the 2010 season. She is already assured a spot at nationals in the 5,000-meter run. source: chicowildcats.com
Senior middle distance runner Clinton Hayes recorded the seventh-fastest 800-meter time in the nation at the Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational this weekend. Hayes won the event with a time of 1:51.61, a time that cut .04 seconds off his NCAA Provisional Qualifying mark. source: chicowildcats.com
Chico State baseball and softball were both swept this weekend in crucial series. The baseball team was swept in four games by the two-time defending conference champion UC San Diego Tritons, while the softball team lost in two straight to be quickly eliminated from the California Collegiate Athletic Association Tournament in Stockton. Next up for baseball is a split home-away series with Sonoma State, while softball has to wait two weeks for regionals.
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STOCKTON — Chico State softball is livid. Livid about getting swept out of the California Collegiate Athletic Association Softball Championships, and waiting another two weeks before the NCAA West Regional Tournament. On Friday, the ’Cats were taken down by Sonoma State and their fi rst-team CCAA pitcher, Samantha Lipperd, 6-2. Saturday they staged a miraculous comeback against fourth-seeded Cal State Dominguez Hills, only to be upstaged by the Toros 9-5 in extra innings. Junior outfielder Erin O’Hara scored a run in the bottom of the seventh as a pinch runner. Even as a role player on the ’Cats, her hunger and hurt sentiment over her team’s pair of postseason losses echoed the entire roster’s feelings. “We have fire, we have heart, we’ve worked our asses off to get to this point,” O’Hara said. “To lose to a team we’re better than — it’s tough.” Chico won three of four against Dominguez this season on the road, and posted a 20-12 conference record compared to the Toros’ 17-15. In Saturday’s loss, it was a big third inning that did in the Wildcats, as Dominguez put up five to break up a scoreless tie, and further a frustrating weekend for junior ace Sam Baker, who went 20-8 with a 1.70 ERA in the regular season.
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ROUGHED UP After a 20-win regular season, junior pitcher Sam Baker got tagged in two losses for the ’Cats against Sonoma State and Cal State Dominguez Hills at the CCAA Tourney this weekend. Baker gave up three earned runs in five innings against the Toros, after allowing six earned to Sonoma State the day before. “I think at this point in the season, they’ve seen her a lot of times,” O’Hara said, about Baker. “Sam’s a great pitcher, she’s a great kid. She can
defi nitely shut them down.” The 5-0 deficit created in the third carried through to the bottom of the seventh, when the Wildcats got singles from junior left fielder Jessie Minch and freshman shortstop Taylor Hanamaikai to start things off. After a fly out, junior second
baseman Diana Payan reached on an error by the Dominguez Hills shortstop, Emiley McEwen, as Minch scored. Junior catcher Hailey Stockman, the Wildcat leader in home runs, then ripped a single through the left side to score Hanamaikai and cut the Toro lead to 5-2. Baker, pinch hitting, reached on an error by the right fielder Veronica Vazquez on a deep fly ball down the line, which put Stockman and O’Hara — pinch running for Payan — in scoring position. After junior first baseman Rachel Failla fouled out to right field for the second out, which scored O’Hara, junior third baseman Jackie Munoz singled to score Stockman and cut the deficit to one. Finally, it was up to Christina Wieck, one of only two seniors on the 2011 Wildcats. Wieck had recorded only one hit so far in the season, and fought tirelessly with Toro pitcher Stephanie Jimenez. Deep into the count, Wieck hit a little dribbler toward the pitcher’s mound, which was too soft to field in time, and good for a game-tying RBI single, her second hit of the year. But after Minch fl ied out to end the inning, everything slid downhill. Junior Jessica McDermott, who entered in the sixth, gave up four runs in the top of the eighth. Dominguez Hills wouldn’t look back, and shut down the Wildcats in the bottom of the eighth to end Shamblin’s crew’s conference tourney run. “It’s good to see us come back, but I think sometimes we’re too satisfied with what we’ve done,” Stockman said. “I know we’re a better team than them. We’re way better, we should’ve beat them. It’s a tough loss.”
Chico has made it a habit of waiting too long to get the job done at the plate, she said. “Our hitting can’t come in one inning,” Stockman said. “We always wait until the last inning to do it.” Shamblin thinks the ’Cats need to improve on “everything” before the Regionals, not just hitting, she said. The comeback attempt wasn’t enough to appease her either. “I think a loss is a loss,” she said. “Hats off to them for coming back, but it wasn’t good enough to get the win. We just weren’t at our best today.” Things even started sourly for Chico, in their 6-2 Friday loss to the Seawolves of Sonoma State. The ’Cats were in a scoreless battle with their Bay Area rivals until the bottom of the fi fth, when Sonoma unloaded on Shamblin’s squad with six runs. The Seawolves compiled three doubles, three singles, and two walks in the 11-hitter inning that effectively ended Chico’s chances to start off the tourney with a win. Stockman said that the Wildcats’ pitching woes are fi xable, but need to be addressed thoroughly before regionals begin. “Our pitching wasn’t there,” she said. “We need to pick our velocity back up.” As for the rest of the team, there isn’t head-hanging, only further determination, O’Hara said. “All of us want it so bad, nobody wants to go home,” she said. “When we play with confidence, we’re unstoppable. “We are a damn good team when we play with confidence.” Thomas Lawrence can be reached at sportseditor@theorion.com
Stockman shines as ’Cats star power hitter, catcher earned her a first team selection for the 2011 All-California Collegiate STAFF WRITER Athletic Association Softball Team. After one of her teammates makes Ranked fourth in the CCAA with a .386 a great play, Chico State catcher Hai- batting average, Stockman has also ley Stockman puts her hands in the tied the Chico State all-time single air and wiggles her fingers toward the season home run record with eight. dirt. She’ll then laugh out loud and She also finished the regular season with 34 RBIs. take her place behind the plate. Softball head coach Angel ShambBut don’t let that fool you — if there’s one thing Stockman takes seri- lin appreciates Stockman’s tenacity as much as her talent. ously, it’s softball. “She’s one of the hardest players I “I’m a very competitive person, but I like to have fun,” Stockman said. know,” Shamblin said. “She’s very “I’m very sarcastic and I’m always determined and wants to finish on top of everything she does.” cracking jokes.” Shamblin, who is currently in her A transfer from Sierra College, second season with the Stockman has clicked with ’Cats, said Stockman uses the Wildcats from the get-go. her intensity and leadership She left Rocklin with a .340 to manage the pitchers as batting average, 30 RBIs and well as everyone else on the 10 stolen bases as a sophoI lead by diamond. more. As the Wildcats’ power Behind the plate, the hitter, it’s Stockman’s job example. If to drive in the runners, she I’m running Auburn native can work with every pitcher to reach their said. hard and potential. Her voice — though Stockman has clicked with her teammates, as well as the they see that, not always her strongest Chico State offense. they’ll push approach — is valuable to the staff because she is Junior outfielder Sam themselves pitching able to help make decisions Quadt is one of the Wildtoo. about a pitcher, Stockman cats who has gotten to know said. Stockman the best. The ’Cats finished the “You wouldn’t be able to regular season with a 29-17 tell that she’s new this year,” HAILEY STOCKMAN Junior catcher overall record and a 20-12 Quadt said. “She has a differmark in the CCAA. They ent attachment to everyone were defeated in consecutive and is always there to pick someone up if they aren’t doing well.” games at the CCAA Tournament, but Stockman’s sarcastic nature and are still hopeful for the West Regionplayful personality have made her als May 13-15. As for Stockman, this first season a favorite to the entire roster, Quadt said. Her chemistry with the team has with Chico State has been the best in already pushed her into a leadership her softball career, she said. “Softball’s my life,” Stockman said, role. “I am more of a silent leader,” “so once it’s done I’m going to be wonStockman said. “I lead by example. If dering what’s next.” I’m running hard and they see that, they’ll push themselves too.” Allie Colosky can be reached at Stockman’s work ethic recently acolosky@theorion.com Allie Colosky
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Junior second baseman Diana Payan shone for Angel Shamblin’s Wildcats, going 6-for-9 in two losses against Sonoma State and Cal State Dominguez Hills. Payan is now batting .373 with 21 RBIs in 2011. The Wildcats, however, were not able to rally around her performance this past weekend and will now have to wait two weeks for the NCAA West Regional. Wildcat of the Week is a regular feature meant to acknowledge the contributions made by individuals to the team. Winners are chosen by The Orion sports staff from nominations taken from all sports. To nominate: sportseditor@theorion.com
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YOUNG GUNNER Junior catcher Hailey Stockman has given Chico State softball something it hasn’t had in a while — a home run hitter. The transfer from Sierra College is the slugger, the jokester and the backstop for Angel Shamblin’s 2011 Wildcats.
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Track and field to defend title at CCAAs in Turlock Gina Pence STAFF WRITER
The track and field teams will defend their championship titles beginning Thursday at the California Collegiate Athletic Association Championships at Cal State Stanislaus in Turlock. Both teams took top honors last year at the championships at UC San Diego in La Jolla. The men’s team has dominated the conference for the past seven years, and earned 290.5 points in 2010 over second-place UC San Diego, which had 140 points. The women’s team had a closer race against the Tritons, and has consistently placed in the top three overall at conference since 2001. Distance coach Gary Towne is looking forward to some tough competition again this year, at the meet where times don’t matter as much as the points do, he said. “It’s about competing for the team and scoring as many points as you can for the team,” Towne said. “We set up goals for each of the kids depending on where they’re ranked and where the people ahead of them are ranked and trying to beat some people that are higher up going into the races.” Sophomore distance runner Sara Mikesell will be defending the ’Cats’ pride in the 5,000 and 10,000-meter races. The sophomore exercise physiology major from Arnold is looking forward to her chance to defeat the rival Tritons. “I’m excited, I’ve put a lot of training into the 10K,” Mikesell said. “San Diego is our big rival and we’re really looking to take them down again.” The men’s decathlon team took the top three spots on the podium last year, with returner Talor Fulfer, from Bieber, earning gold with his score of 6,802. The senior humanities major is hoping to repeat his victory and earn 7,000 points before competing in Nationals later this month, he said. “That 7K mark would be really nice to hit,” Fulfer said. ”I feel like the last two decathlons I’ve done I wasn’t ready to go on day one, so I’m hoping that conference will be a little different.” Junior Michael Storer is also looking to place in the top eight among his teammates in the decathlon event. Because the event is less competitive this season than it has been in the past, the Chico State decathlon team has a high chance of dominating conference and qualifying for Nationals, said the junior civil engineering major from Danville.
“If everything goes to plan, LUCKY we should take places one NUMBER through five,” Storer said. EIGHT? Despite only competing in one official decathlon this sea- The Chico State son, sophomore John Brunk is men’s track and confident his performance will field team has earn him a spot on the podium won every sinand get his team some points, gle conference title since 2004. he said. Head coach “There was a competition in Kirk Freitas Berkeley, but it got hurricaned and company out,” Brunk said. “There were will look to four inches of water on the get No. 8 in track, and they wouldn’t let Turlock Thursus pole vault higher than day-Saturday. seven feet because it was super dangerous, so it didn’t really count.” For Brooke Bergesen, a senior pre-nursing major, this will be her last conference meet, competing in the steeplechase. She’s currently ranked third in the conference for the steeplechase, which she started competing in her freshman year at Chico State. “When I was a redshirt, a lot of the girls that I became friends with were steeplechasers,” the Walnut Creek native said. “Our track team is really competitive and there weren’t a whole lot of people doing steeplechase so I decided to try it out.” Bergesen and the rest of the women’s team are confident going into conference, which is the attitude they will need if they want to succeed, Towne said. Last year’s conference matchup between the ’Cats and Tritons came down to the last two races to determine the winner. For senior triple-jumper Brandy Tummings, it’s the last chance to compete and qualify for nationals. Last year, the kinesiology major from San Francisco finished fifth in the triple jump. There’s a lot riding on the line, but Tummings is trying to stay relaxed and focused despite the pressure, she said. “I’m excited and I think I’m going to jump far because I’ve progressed each year and this time I have a chance to get on a podium,” she said. “It would be nice to go to nationals in my last year but I’m trying to stay realistic and humble. Really, my ultimate goal is to get on that podium.” ILLUSTRATIVE PHOTO • KEVIN LEE
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Frisbee flourishing with new coach Ultimate Frisbee has taken a turn for the better after enlisting the help of new coach, and team alumnus, Scott Burghardt. The ’Cats are headed to the regionals. Kevin Augustine STAFF WRITER
The saucer carrying the Chico State men’s Ultimate Frisbee team is floating into regionals this weekend, and despite the odds, the smallteam spirit is flying high. After placing fourth in the 2011 USA Ultimate Northern California Division I College Open at Morgan Hill in April — and defeating Stanford University and UC Davis in the process — the ’Cats are returning to the South Bay looking to take one of two spots out of a field of 16 teams. Head coach and alumnus Scott Burghardt thinks when the ’Cats are in sync they can scrap and compete with anyone. “We’ve always been that underdog team,” Burghardt said. “But at this point, if we show up, everyone’s scared and teams are hoping not to draw us.” Chico State is a part of the Northern California Conference, a nine-team conference that ranges in competition from community colleges to Division I schools. As the ’Cats prepare to face teams outside their conference, Burghardt thinks the game becomes more mental than physical in preparation. “At this point you hope all the work’s done,” Burghardt said. “We’re always working hard to keep in shape, but it’s all mental at this point. It’s about doing everything right and making fewer mistakes than the other team.” The 13-man team Chico State will be sending to the regionals is smaller than Division I schools they will be facing, Burghardt said. “We’re playing with a small
crew,” Burghardt said. “We always seem to have smaller teams but everyone’s dedicated and works hard. We tend to have really athletic crews, so we do what can.” So far, doing what they can has worked for the Wildcats, who have come a long way from their humble beginnings. Behind Burghardt, the first coach the team has had, Chico has begun to create a tradition of sorts, he said. Burghardt jumped on the chance to coach last April. “Earlier we were all over the place and didn’t quite have it together,” Burghardt said. “Now that we have a structure down and are a little more disciplined, we’ve really come a long way.” Burghardt and fellow alumnus Ryan Watson came up with ideas for the team to buy in to. It was all about defining the offense and defense individually, and creating a sense of team identity, Burghardt said. “We’re always catching up,” said Burghardt, about the new Ultimate trends in Chico. “There are teams like Stanford who’ve had a program going since the early ’80s. We had something in the ’80s, but it died out so the team really hasn’t started until 1999 and we are slowly grasping the idea of a program.” The ’Cats are facing teams that have more than 20 players, usually recruited and on scholarships, Burghardt said. “These schools usually have $25,000 budgets, but we base ourselves off of $3,000 from the school, fundraising, paying our own way and in a sense, proving that we want to be out here,” Burghardt said. If anything, the ’Cats have proven themselves competitors on the field, as they’ve faced four tournaments this season alone, including a near sweep in the San Luis Ultimate Tournament in January. But for many outside the game, the sport itself is unknown. For co-captain senior Max
ULTIMATE DIVE Chico State Ultimate Frisbee player Cavan Ewing lays out to make a catch. Ewing is a part of a Frisbee squad that has improved considerably, with wins over Division I opponents like Stanford.
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Udsen, what began as curiosity, quickly turned to intrigue. “I came out my freshman year and I wasn’t as seriously involved since it was a new thing to me,” Udsen said. “I played soccer my whole life and came out wondering, ‘What is Frisbee?’” The construction management major continues to defend the toughness of the sport with proof — a torn right rotator cuff he injured on a dive to catch a disc in the Stanford Open in April. “The hardest part is convincing people this is a competitive sport,” Udsen said. “It’s something we work hard for and take seriously, yet it’s one of the craziest
sports I’ve ever played.” Senior philosophy major and treasurer Eric Nyberg thinks anyone can help the team. “We get a lot of guys who were athletes out of high school and are still in great shape,” Nyberg said. “They might not make it on another team, but they make our team better.” The game is played within 100 yards on a field with two end zones, each team starting in their own end zone. After flipping a coin and choosing a side, the team starting on defense throws the disc down the field, which is called pulling. When the offense catches it, the disc is live and the
thrower has 10 seconds to pass the disc. If it sounds similar to a football field, it should, Udsen said. “The reason its name is Ultimate is that it combined parts from all the different sports,” Udsen said. “For instance, there are football-like cuts and the field of play is like a football field, but you have to be quick with your hands and guard like basketball.” Besides the influx of nontraditional talent, and the eclectic nature of the roster, the turnaround has been largely due to the presence of that coach, Udsen said. Udsen, who was on the team before Burghardt began
coaching, thinks with so many factors playing into the game, having a coach was critical to Chico State succeeding. The team lacked communication and focus that more program-oriented teams had before Burghardt arrived, which in turn would lead to conflicts on the sideline and between players, Udsen said. “Scotty is a legend and probably the best player to come out of Chico State,” Udsen said. “We asked him toward the end of last season to be our coach. He’s helped us improve our level of consistency and team mentality.” Kevin Augustine can be reached at kaugustine@theorion.com
Redshirts grind on in the shadow Gina Pence STAFF WRITER
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BEHIND THE SCENES Redshirt Mike Rosaroso practices with the Chico State men’s basketball team in a spring workout. Those like Rosaroso and fellow redshirt Jordan Semple work hard but don’t suit up.
The life of a collegiate redshirt isn’t easy. It can be devastating to train with the team every day but sit on the bench when game time comes. However, redshirting may be a smart decision, especially for freshmen beginning their collegiate career, cross-country coach Gary Towne said. “Competing for college isn’t like competing for high school, and redshirting gives the kids a chance to acclimate,” he said. “The workouts are tougher, and their bodies aren’t going to respond well to that, so it takes some pressure off to not have to compete.” Adjusting to college is hard enough without having to worry about competing for a Division II collegiate team, said Sara Mikesell, a redshirt freshman on the women’s track and field and cross-country teams. Besides the normal obstacles involved in moving to a new city, making new friends and adapting to the new course load, athletes at Chico State face other challenges most college students wouldn’t consider. “Especially for distance runners, you come in and you’re not used to the mileage, the type of workouts, and your body is trying to respond differently,” Mikesell said. “For me it was a year of experience, a building year, and just from last year to this year I noticed a huge difference in my times.” Mikesell considers her year of training a learning experience, a year for her to enjoy college life without the added stress of trying to qualify for nationals just as she’s facing her first semester of finals. But not all athletes use their freshman year as their redshirt season, she said. “Sometimes people will do it in the middle of their career because they know that in their next couple of years they’ll be a lot stronger, so they use that year to build technique,” she said. Injuries can also force an athlete to redshirt so they don’t waste a year on the bench unnecessarily. If a player gets sick or injured in the early season, they can redshirt for that season until they’re healthy again. Mikesell was allowed to run in collegiate races as an “unattached” athlete, unaffiliated with any club or school. Though competing gives her valuable experience, there is a slight feeling of isolation
because she’s not allowed to wear the uniform, she said. “The whole, ‘you’re not in uniform’ thing is kind of a bummer,” she said. “There’s a lot of pride when you put on that uniform because you’re racing for Chico and when you’re a redshirt, people don’t know where you’re from and it’s like you’re a part of the team, but you’re not a part of the team.” Her teammates don’t treat redshirts any differently, but because they compete as unattached athletes, they aren’t allowed to travel with the team and they must enter and pay for meets by themselves, said Brooke Bergesen, a senior distance runner. Arranging a ride to meets and missing out on team bonding opportunities during road trips can be disappointing, she said. “Most of the time, a lot of the fun stuff happens in the vans when you’re traveling to a meet, and when you’re a redshirt you don’t really get as much of that,” Bergesen said. “And it’s expensive, especially when we go down to San Diego for a meet, a lot of people can’t go to the race because of the cost of gas and hotels, which we have to rent ourselves or find a floor to crash on.” Because a lot of meets are local, most redshirts get to compete, Bergesen said. However, it’s not as easy for other sports to be so accommodating. Jordan Semple was a redshirt as a freshman this past season for the men’s basketball team. Though he was reluctant to wait a year, he found that it was the best option for him. “I really wanted to play,” he said. “Having to tell everyone you’re a redshirt, and coming right out of high school playing in every game to not playing in any was tough. People were telling me that I shouldn’t redshirt, but they don’t know what they’re talking about.” Semple would practice with the team in addition to redshirt morning practices, but would periodically be sent to the weight room during practice. During games, he and the other redshirts would warm up and sit through pre-game locker room discussions, but would sit at the end of the bench and cheer their teammates on during game time. “It’s a full time job, being a redshirt athlete,” he said. “I got a full-ride and I had a redshirt season. It pays off because now I have four years to play.” Gina Pence can be reached at gpence@theorion.com
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Feb. 5
Simpson University
Nov. 7
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Nov. 7
Academy of Art
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Nov. 18
Bethany University
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Nov. 19
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Montana-State Billings
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Northwest Christian
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Nov. 20
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Nov. 26
Dominican
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Nov. 23
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March 11
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Nov. 27
Humboldt State
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Nov. 27
Humboldt State
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March 17
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Dec. 3
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Dec. 3
Sonoma State
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March 22
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March 25-26
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Dec. 8
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Dec. 11
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Dec. 11
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April 5
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Dec. 30
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Dec. 30
@Cal State Dominguez Hills
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April 8-10
Cal State San Bernardino
Dec. 31
UC San Diego
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Dec. 31
UC San Diego
Jan. 7
Cal State East Bay
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Jan. 7
Cal State East Bay
Jan. 8
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Jan. 14
@Cal Poly Pomona
Jan. 15
San Francisco State
Jan. 21
Cal State Monterey Bay
Jan. 22
Cal State Dominguez Hills
Jan. 28
Cal State L.A.
Jan. 29
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Feb. 3
@Humboldt State
Feb. 5
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Feb. 10
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Dominican
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Feb. 5
Cal State San Marcos
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Feb. 5
San Francisco State
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Feb. 6
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April 29-30
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Jan. 14
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May 1
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May 3
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April 11-12
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May 6-7
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April 15-16
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May 8
Sonoma State
April 21-22
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Jan. 15
San Francisco State
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Jan. 21
Cal State Monterey Bay
L 66-76
Jan. 22
Cal State Dominguez Hills
L 53-71
Jan. 28
Cal State L.A.
W 63-60
May 12-14
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Jan. 29
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May 19-22
NCAA West Regional
May 13-15
NCAA West Regional
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Feb. 3
@Humboldt State
L 60-76
May 20-21
NCAA Super Regional
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Feb. 5
@Cal State East Bay
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May 26-30
NCAA Division II College WS
@UC San Diego
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Feb. 10
@UC San Diego
L 60-71
Feb. 12
Cal Poly Pomona
W 62-58
Feb. 12
Cal Poly Pomona
L 79-93
Feb. 18
Cal State San Bernardino
L 60-67
Feb. 18
Cal State San Bernardino
L 60-70
Feb. 19
@Cal State Monterey Bay
W 68-66
Feb. 19
@Cal State Monterey Bay
L 48-54
Feb. 24
@San Francisco State
L 62-64 (OT)
Feb. 24
@San Francisco State
Feb. 25
@Cal State Dominguez Hills
L 59-75
Feb. 25
@UC San Diego
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W 60-52 L 71-76
March 1
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Sept. 27-28
Grand Canyon Invitational
Oct. 11-12
Viking Invitational
Oct. 18-19
Golf Mart Lady Otter Invitational
March 5-6
Cal State East Bay Invitational
March 21-22
InterWest Chico State Invitational
March 28-29
CSU Monterey Bay Otter Invite
2nd
April 4-5
Grand Canyon Invitational
TBD
April 11-12
Tarleton State Invitational
May 1-3
NCAA Super Regional
March 28-29
Grand Canyon Thunderbird Invite
5th
April 18-19
NCAA Super Regional
April 11-12
Hanny Stanislaus Invitational
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May 2-4
NCAA National Championships
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Feb. 26
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March 19
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April 2
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April 8-9
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April 15-16
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April 30
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May 5-7
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May 13-14
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NCAA Championships
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Wild Oak showcases diverse music scene Nicole Walker STAFF WRITER
eggae here, rock there, folk down the street and electronic a few blocks over — it’s a musical formula that may overlap the agendas of music fans and potentially mislead diehard fans of a particular genre. Four separate venues will be overflowing with an assortment of styles by 16 performers hitting Chico’s stages for a night of musical mayhem Saturday during Wild Oak Music Group’s Chico Music Fest. “It will defi nitely promote the local scene,” said Juan Gomez Jr., washtub bass player and vocalist in Brass Hysteria!, who will be performing in the reggae showcase at The Graduate. “Chico is this tiny town with a shitload of bands and a lot of diversity.” Although Brass Hysteria! is in the reggae showcase, the band considers itself “hillbilly ska” and can play a set with just about anyone, guitarist Jeff Reiken said. “By segregating the music, you separate the people,” he said. “Especially with a band like us. We don’t really fit into any category.” Wild Oak is promoting the Music Fest as an all-ages event, but the show times do
overlap with one another, so it’s impossible to listen to every performer, said Kelly Cronan, media relations for Wild Oak. The festival will showcase the musical talent Chico has to offer, said Hypatia Runcie, bass player for That’s What She Said, in an email interview. “It sounds like this is Wild Oak’s version of the CNR’s CAMMIES,” Runcie said. “I believe that there will be some music fans that want to hear what is coming out of Chico in every genre. However, I also believe that there will be a separation of fans by genre.” Wild Oak’s mission for the Chico Music Fest is to appeal to everyone through the art of music for the fans’ enjoyment, Cronan said. But segregating the genres, typecasting fans by their choice of music and creating time confl icts between the four events doesn’t allow potential fans the opportunity to experience all that the Chico music scene has to offer, Brass Hysteria! vocalist Rusty Johnson said. “The beauty of the festival is that we have all types of music for all types of people,” Cronan said. Nicole Walker can be reached at nwalker@theorion.com
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THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID Guitarist Dustin Rohleder [left], singer Andrea Desmond [middle] and bassist Hypatia Runcie of That’s What She Said perform in the studio. That’s What She Said is one of the bands featured in Wild Oak Music Group’s rock showcase.
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Realism isn’t real, but it doesn’t have to be In a two-week period, I finished all five seasons of “The Wire,” HBO’s ambitious serial drama about the drug trade in one of America’s poorest, most violent cities — Baltimore, Md. Each season of “The Wire” focuses on a different level in Baltimore’s hierarchical society, from blue-collar dock workers to white-collar politicians, all while documenting the lives of cops, pushers and addicts fighting in the war on drugs every day. As I followed each episode, I was stunned how real this morally ambiguous world felt compared to any crime show I’d ever seen. But then I watched the last season, which focused on the newspaper industry, and found it to be the phoniest of bolognas. While it vividly depicted the problems caused by consolidation and layoffs, the fictional Baltimore Sun fell victim to every gotcha journalism cliche in the book, from the courtroom media blitz scene where reporters crowd around the suspect with a cacophony of questions to another moment where a veteran reporter holds off on a big story because the police ask him to. This portrayal of the media made me question the credibility the show had built up over four seasons. I’ve bought drugs before, but I’ve never bought drugs from a gang member on an inner-city street corner. That scene is completely foreign to me. If one element of the fictional universe is flawed based on my experience, I thought, how could I expect the rest of it to be true? It might seem like this level of realism is a lot to ask from a television show, but for any work of art striving for this level of Dickensian immersion into the underbelly of society, it should be expected. If you’re going to voice the kind of cynical criticism toward American institutions that “The Wire” espouses with every episode, then the thousands of people being thrown into the inferno have the right to see their world represented accurately. I eventually concluded that it was more important for the message of a given work of art to express some truth about the human experience and “The Wire” does that in spades. Even if the journalism cast fits every newsroom stereotype since “All the President’s Men,” the show still manages to bring a wide range of contradictions in personalities and behavior to the table, while offering an important message — in the game of life, a man must trade his morality for success. Earl Parsons can be reached at artseditor@theorion.com
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REVIEW CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? Storey Condos of Hot Mess belts into a microphone at the Chico Area Music Awards rock showcase Thursday at Cafe Coda.
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>> “South Park” (TV) Matt Stone and Trey Parker must be tired. Not only must the two contend with the day-to-day functions of their Broadway musical “The Book of Mormon,” but now they only have a week to produce each episode of “South Park,” and they’re usually not done until the Wednesday morning of its premiere. Last week’s episode, which poked fun at Apple, felt a bit rushed, but I’m still looking forward to the show’s take on the Charlie Sheen controversy.
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Hot Mess highlights night of rock Isaac Brambila STAFF WRITER
>> Grantland.com (WEBSITE) Bill Simmons revolutionized sports opinion on the Internet when he debuted on ESPN’s Page 2 alongside Hunter S. Thompson’s “Hey Rube” column. Simmons’ “Sports Guy” column bring a fanatic’s perspective to athletic issues while loading up on astute observations on pop culture. Simmons parlayed this early success into ESPN’s first podcast “The B.S. Report,” featuring a diverse roundtable of the best minds in sports, movies, law and entertainment. Most recently, he’s served as the executive producer of the brilliant “30 for 30” documentaries, which bring aesthetic and historical context to the largest and most
The small crowd melted under the scorching voice of Hot Mess vocalist Storey Condos. Hot Mess, Mute Witness and Perpetual Drifters displayed their musical abilities Thursday night at Cafe Coda at the Chico Area Music Awards rock showcase. A multi-rhythmic style by Mute Witness got the crowd going with fast, catchy drum beats by Donovan Melero and Perpetual Drifters entertained with a mellower vibe, but Hot Mess jumped on stage to set the night on fire. The harmonization between guitar, bass, drums, keyboards, lap steel guitar and strong vocals mixed with an energetic stage presence livened by an already chirpy night of rock ’n’ roll. With a low feminine voice that ripped from her vocal cords as she pushed herself to what seemed like the limit song after song, Condos possesses a strong voice rarely seen in local rock. Energy
seemed to flow from the stage to the audience and vice versa. Condos sung passionately, swaying provocatively with eyes closed, as bassist Hypatia Runcie’s dreadlocks bounced around in the background and the hand speed of drummer Pete ParI feel everything ada increased. The audience when I’m responded to every on stage. song with cheers worthy of a famous It’s the band. ultimate headlining Both Condos’ parhigh. ents are singers and she has been singing since she was a child, she said. STOREY CONDOS Her involvement Hot Mess vocalist in musical theater for almost 10 years has also shaped her experience with Hot Mess. Her performances on stage, however, are all raw and emotional
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experiences that come from what she feels in the moment — unrehearsed. “I feel everything when I’m on stage,” she said. “It’s indescribable. It’s the ultimate high.” Mute Witness started the night with a nonlinear style that seemed to put the concert in a purely artistic mode. The thundering of the guitars began and the vibrations of their sound paired with a poor tape job brought down a large Coors Light poster that was on the wall behind the band. It seemed as if the music was escaping its corporate stranglehold. The poster incident was referenced throughout Mute Witness’ set when someone sarcastically cheered to Coors Light. The band mockingly introduced one number as “Coors Light.” Mute Witness continued with shifting drumbeats that produced pleasant rhythmic changes. The varying tunes were complemented with a high pitch voice that resembled Cold War Kids’ Nathan Willett. Bass player Daniel Nelson, who also
plays keyboard in Hot Mess, likes to challenge himself musically, he said. Each band brings out a different creative aspect in him. “I just like playing with my friends,” Nelson said. “I’ll play whatever. If you play metal, I’ll play metal.” Nelson thinks being nominated in the CAMMIES and having the exposure that comes with it is the real essence of the awards, and winning is not as important, he said. Perpetual Drifters shaped their set with a calmer brand of rock that seemed to relax the crowd. With cycling riffs, vocally driven tunes and occasional guitar solos, Perpetual Drifters split the night with a smoother sound. The winners of the CAMMIES will be announced May 15 and all categories are now open to voting at the Chico News & Review website at newsreview. com/chico. Isaac Brambila can be reached at ibrambila@theorion.com
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>> “The Other Guys” (FILM) Before being forced into watching this movie, I’d grown pretty tired of Will Ferrell’s schtick. But I was pleasantly surprised by Ferrell’s understated role in “The Other Guys,” where the “Anchorman” star gets as close to a straight man as he’s been in his entire career.
>> “Penn and Teller: Bullshit!” (TV) Magic sucks, but political cynicism is awesome, as evidenced by this Showtime series from Penn and Teller. Las Vegas’ Jay and Silent Bob provide plenty of fuel for arguments against liberals and conservatives alike as they attack commonly-held assumptions about drugs, profanity, the Boy Scouts and countless other topics.
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Con men steal musical laughs Leila Rodriguez STAFF WRITER
Dirty, rich and fabulous is the lifestyle two con men endeavor to attain in Chico State’s spring musical. “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels,” written by Jeffrey Lane with musical score written by David Yazbek and based on the 1988 film, features the talent of Chico’s theater department. The audience is first introduced to Lawrence, played by Ben Day, a sophisticated con artist who enjoys the finer things in life at the expense of rich women. He then meets Freddy, played by Korey Emslie, a crass con man swindling rich dames out of their money with sob stories of his grandmother’s poor health. The two are acquainted on a train where Freddy learns of Lawrence’s game and follows him back to his villa on the sumptuous French Riviera. Lawrence takes Freddy under his wing and teaches him the rules and with it takes to swindle big bucks from the unwary well-to-do women. Greater stakes are set when Lawrence wants Freddy out of his town. The first to acquire $50,000 from clumsy Soap Queen Christine, played by Simone Kertesz, gets to stay. The loser takes the next train out of town. But the Riviera isn’t big enough for two gentlemen of this craft. The characters get tangled
in each other’s elaborate and hilarious fabrications as Christine grows closer to each man. Emotional attachments to the lovely Christine cause both men to lose track of their initial scheme to make money. “It’s more than a frothy feel-good comedy,” Day said. “It’s about learning how to let your guard down.” With plot twists, unsuspecting romances and a surprise ending, this musical has something for everyone to enjoy. “A little bit of a fantastical because it’s written so lavish,” Day said. Every scene is enriched with detailed beachfront backdrops, wonderfully complemented by built-in balconies and a rotating platform that helps transport audience members from scene to scene. Conductor Kyle Wiley Pickett’s small orchestra enhances the stunning solos and cast vocals. The adult humor and content is a bit racy but carries well with each character, adding dynamics to the stage. “It’s the perfect date night kind of show,” said Director Sue Hargrave Pate. “It’s not just a girly musical, it’s a guy thing too.” “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels” opens today and will run through May 8 at Laxson Auditorium.
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OH, YOUR HIGHNESS Korey Emslie [left] as Freddy Benson and Ben Day [right] as Lawrence Jameson work to scam Hanna Covington-Bernard as Southern belle Jolene Oakes out of her money.
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DIRTY LITTLE LIARS Ben Day and Korey Emslie work out the tricks of the trade when the stakes are set high.
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Open letter to certain women J.W. Burch, IV STAFF WRITER
Dear seductresses of Chico State, Let me first begin by saying that it is indeed a pleasure to be accompanied in this realm of higher learning by such angelic beings as yourselves. Indeed, each day is an honor. You lighten the darkest of moods and bring a smile to the saddest face. However, there are a few complaints I would like to file. These may be somewhat skewed, but I simply feel it to be right and respectful for you to be privy to this knowledge. Complaint 1 For the record — not every conversation is a feeble attempt to seduce you. Sometimes a man misses a class. This can be for many reasons, such as work, illness or simply not wanting to attend a lecture. Regardless of the excuse, chances are that if we ask if
we missed anything important during our absence, it is not code for, “What are you doing this weekend?” or, “Are you seeing anyone?” Generally such a statement means, “I don’t want to be unprepared for a test,” or, “I’m already struggling in the class and every bit of information helps.” Complaint 2 We understand you are pretty and the warm spring weather is well underway. But please put on at least a few more clothes — or expect stares, ogles and winks. We all try to be polite and not pay too much attention, but it proves difficult when you are so intent on making each day a test of our fidelity. As is the case with any test, you must study to pass. If I was a single man on campus, I would be falling in love every 10 feet, throwing myself at the feet of such visages of beauty as yourselves and offering my ever-waking moment to your utter happiness.
Complaint 3 Please keep in mind that some of us here are married. The more happily betrothed among us are flattered by your caring touches, playful giggles and generally appealing demeanors, but is the flirting really necessary? Is it the safety of knowing a man is married that causes you to act in such a way? Or is it executed in hope that you are special and may be the one who makes him waver in his faithfulness? There should be a plethora of single guys willing to bend to your every whim, making such antics to involve us unnecessary. Once again, I do not aim to disgust, offend, anger or repulse. I simply think that informing you of these matters is the honorable thing to do. Granted, it is all greatly appreciated, but I am not convinced you fully understand what you are doing and may want to address this knowledge appropriately. J.W. Burch, IV can be reached at jwburchiv@theorion.com
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GRRRRR! Bear Hunter recorded a collaborative album to be released at their final show at Cafe Coda.
Bear Hunter say farewell to Chico, leave musical tracks Paige Fuentes STAFF WRITER
Bear Hunter is gearing up for their last show in Chico in a big way. With member Maurice Spencer departing for Portland soon, the band has collaborated with more than 20 local artists to create their “Thank You Chico, Goodnight” album. The CD will be released Friday at Cafe Coda, where Bear Hunter will also perform their last show in Chico. All proceeds from the event will go toward the Josh Read Memorial Scholarship for music performance and education majors at Chico State. “I wish I had time to be in a band with all of the people on this album,” said Spencer, adding that the album contains 21 tracks about Chico from local artists. “Twenty-one songs about a place we all hate and love.” It’s easy to become a big
fish in Chico’s small BEAR pond and he HUNTER’S needed to FINAL SHOW move on to Time something new, Spen- 8 p.m. cer said. “It is an Admission easy place to $5 make art and Location a relatively Cafe Coda inexpensive place to do so,” he said. “But there is something of a glass ceiling.” Making the album with minimal equipment was a tricky process. “I can remember wanting to tear my hair out when one of my recording machines ate up and spat out a tape,” Spencer said. He wanted the opportunity to act as producer and help mold the tracks of local musicians he had become a fan of.
“Amazingly, they agreed,” he said. “Who knows? Maybe a few new collaborations will grow out of ‘Thank You Chico, Goodnight.’” Bear Hunter has been together since 2001, when it began with Clint Bear on drums and vocals and Chris Hunter on guitar and marimba. Soon after, they added the vocals and guitar of Spencer and the bass and Wurlitzer of Kirt Lind. In 2008, Bear Hunter received the “Best Local CD” award at the Chico Area Music Awards for their album “You Will Be Heard!” Spencer hopes Bear Hunter will have a few more get-togethers in the future but is sad to say they are done writing songs. “I have had a great time in Chico,” he said. “I wanted to leave our little music scene a little parting gift.” Paige Fuentes can be reached at pfuentes@theorion.com
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‘NEVER SLOWING DOWN’ [below] Noah Villagomez played alongside Luke Byron.
Folk singers get political, personal Tim Kerber STAFF WRITER
Luke Bryon, Garrett Gray, Muddy Boot Campaign and J.P. Gutierrez played at Cafe Coda Friday, enlightening the crowd with their various styles of folk music. J.P. Gutierrez, playing solo with an acoustic guitar, started the night off playing songs inspired by life, nature, politics and beer. Despite the difficulties in playing solo, Gutierrez had no problem captivating the crowd. “Sometimes playing solo can be hard,” he said. “But there seemed to be a lot of people listening and digging it tonight. I thought it was a good night. It felt intimate and real.” The last song he played, “Devil’s Seed,” is largely influenced by the documentary film “The World According to Monsanto,”
which deals with the questionable business practices of U.S. agriculture corporate giant, Monsanto, as well as the controversy of genetically modified seeds and the plight of the many farmers sued by the Monsanto corporation. Muddy Boot Campaign, a band with large jazz and bluegrass influences played their first, and perhaps last, acoustic show, as they have plans to make the band more electric. They were received with enthusiastic applause. Their focus in creating music is just to have fun, said Ethan Swift, who plays banjo and guitar. “We try not to write for an audience,” he said. “We create music for the sake of music.” Garrett Gray also played a solo set. Though Gray draws on many different styles, his music is largely influenced by Americana.
“It’s probably lyrically based,” he said. “I pay a little more attention to the lyrics than I do the music.” Gray is also a member of Perpetual Drifters who performed at Cafe Coda on Thursday night and the Oroville Beer Festival on Saturday — three days in a row, all while sick. “My voice currently sounds like I’ve been smoking a pack of cigarettes a day from an early age,” he said. “But that could be a good thing.” Last was Luke Byron, a folk acoustic rock group with a heavy blues influence. By the end of their set they had the audience howling for more. The group includes saxophonist Noah Villagomez, keyboardist Albert Shribbs and Luke Byron himself, who played the harmonica and guitar and sang. Though they’ve been playing together for a long time, they don’t really consider themselves a
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band since Byron moved to Oregon after graduating and is currently in Chico visiting friends and family. Songs they played that night included “Dark Side of You,” which is about watching friends battle with drugs and alcohol and helping them go through it, and “Never Slowing Down,” which is a title track on one of Byron’s CDs and perhaps one of his more popular songs that many students can relate to as finals week approaches. Byron wrote the song during his last week of school, he said. He felt his life was moving a million miles an hour. “I was like, “Holy shit, my college experience is coming to an end,’” he said. “I don’t know what I’m doing next. I felt like I was sitting down and the world was spinning around me.” Tim Kerber can be reached at tkerber@theorion.com
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‘Weirdos unite’ for progressive rock festival BIRDS OF FIRE Guitarist Adam Scarborough, and drummer Casey Schmidt of Birds of FIre light up the stage at Blue Room Theatre.
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A saxophone player dressed from head to toe in black began playing jazzy notes as men dressed in Jasonesque convict suits ambled on stage with walkers. “Prog Out with your Hog Out,” a progressive rock mini festival, took the stage at the Blue Room Theatre Friday. The show featured local progressive rock artists as well as the Bay Area band MoeTar. Opening the night featured the two-man band The Mahout Chisel, which melded heavy metal guitar riffs with melodies and prerecorded intros. Shortly after, Birds of Fire, a fourman band with duo guitars, drums and a bass, took the stage. As they played their song “Weekend Warriors,” audience members tapped their feet and banged their heads along with the musicians. Birds of Fire kept the audience in good spirits, as one of the guitarists took off his shirt. Josh Hegg, keyboardist in local progressive band Clouds on Strings and former Orion staffer, put together the mini festival. “There are a lot of bands, locally, that fit into that category — the progressive experimental genre,” he said. “We said ‘Fuck it, let’s do a full-blown progressive show. Weirdo’s unite.’” Hegg contacted MoeTar about performing for the show. It was their fi rst time in the area, MoeTar lead singer Moorea Dickason said. The band formed in 2008 and began playing around the bay area, bass player Tarik Ragab said.
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“Progressive rock bands are on the lookout for each other because it’s sort of a niche audience,” keyboardist Matt Lebofsky said. Hegg’s band, Clouds on Strings, performed in eccentric costumes, with Hegg wrapped in Christmas tree lights and their lead singer and vocalist in a floor-length kimono
and belt. MoeTar, a name derived from Tarik and Moorea’s names, was the only band with constant vocals. Dickason’s ability to sing on tune with the quick tempo of the band impressed audience members. “I have been a fan of MoeTar from Oakland for a long time,” Hegg said.
As a fan of their music, he was glad to have them here for Chico’s benefit as well as his own, he said. MoeTar, decked out in homemade striped outfits, blew away the crowd as audience members rushed Dickason asking for hugs. Despite its deep roots stemming from the ’70s, progressive rock
doesn’t seem to be dying out. “It seems like the scene’s starting to mushroom a bit too,” Lebofsky said. “And there are more groups coming out, more of that kind of style.” Madison Parker can be reached at mparker@theorion.com
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7:30 p.m. @ Laxson Auditorium $10 student admission Chico State’s Spring musical about con artists in the French Riviera is based on a film starring Steve Martin.
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Come celebrate Mexican victory in the Battle of Puebla with music by Los Papi Chulos and salsa dance instruction from Hassan Ghiassi.
There are no degrees of separation between Kevin Bacon and his brother Michael.
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Andre Nickatina Chico Music Fest All night @ Everywhere
Wild Oak’s Music Group’s annual festival kicks off with the rock showcase at Cafe Flo on 7:30 p.m., followed by the folk showcase at Cafe Coda on 8 and the reggae and electronic showcases on 10 p.m.
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“No on A” Mother’s Day Brunch 10 a.m. @ The ARC Pavilion $25 The Chico Conservation Voters are holding a brunch in opposition to Measure A.
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Go winetasting at 3363 Hegan Lane on the outskirts of Chico while supporting local restaurants and retailers.
National Public Radio broadcaster Scott Simon of Weekend Edition Saturday discusses his life as an author and journalist.
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A Holy Ghost Revival 9 p.m. @ LaSalles
A Holy Ghost Revival performs with Carcery’s Vale and Draw from the Effect.
CLIC Bi-annual Burger Feed 5-7 p.m. @ The Graduate $6.50
Support the Community Legal Information Center by purchasing a burger at The Graduate.
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Concert for the Japa- Bear Hunter 8:30 p.m. nese Earthquake @ Cafe Coda Relief Effort 7:30 p.m. @ Rowland-Taylor Recital Hall $10 student admission
All proceeds from this concert and silent auction on the Japanese Children’s Day will be donated to the relief efforts of the Red Cross.
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7 p.m. @ Senator Theatre $29.50 advance admission Papa Roach performs with Finger 11 and Pop Evil.
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Bear Hunter debuts the CD “Thank You Chico, Goodnight” with special guests in their final show.
Punk showcase 7 p.m. @ Monstros Pizza $5
The CAMMIES conclude with the punk showcase, featuring Beaten by Midgets, Nothing Left, Born Into This, the Suspects, Disorderly Event, Pushers, Brass Hysteria! and others.
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Jello Wrestling! 9 p.m. @ The Maltese $5
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‘Own the Night!’
7:30 p.m. @ BMU Auditorium $7 student admission Chico State’s Expression Dance Team presents this showcase at Bell Memorial Union.
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New Monsoon 8 p.m. @ Lost on Main
New Monsoon performs with Five-Eyed Hand.
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7:30 p.m. @ El Rey Theatre $16.50 advance admission Chris Boomer performs with SOJA.
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Measure A Voter Registration Drive
An exhibit by art education students in a wide range of media and perspectives.
Organizations will be giving out information about Measure A and voter registration.
All Day @ Bell memorial Union Free
10 a.m.-2 p.m. @ Trinity Commons Free
56th Annual Student Exhibition
10 a.m.-4 p.m. @ University Art Gallery Free These artistic works by Chico State students are evaluated by an outside juror.
STAFF FAVORITES >> ACTOR Peter Sellers — This British actor is a man of a thousand voices, evidenced most prominently when he portrayed three different roles in Stanley Kubrick’s satirical masterpiece “Dr. Strangelove.”
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John Lithgow — More recently, Lithgow is known as Arthur Mitchell from the fourth season of “Dexter” but has proven to be a master of every type of role, from slapstick to Shakespeare. Without a doubt, his comedic best is his performance in the late ’90s NBC sitcom “3rd Rock from the Sun.” >> J.W. Burch. IV Arts Columnist
Steve McQueen — What else needs to be said about Steve McQueen? He is a consummate badass. McQueen is always cool, calm and collected. Plus he did his own stunts and could drive like nobody’s business. The man always looked sharp and acted quick. Just watch “Bullitt,” home of the greatest chase scene ever. >> Blake Mehigan Asst. Sports Editor
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Police dogs sniff out crime Chico police K-9 unit train to catch criminals
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CRIME HOUND Brett Smith and his dog, Bak, work as a team for the Chico police. finally found his match h — Ray. “I was nervous at first,” he said. “You think, ‘Is it something I’ll be able to handle?’” The dog becomes thee full-time responsibility y of the specifically chosen en officer, and it works and trains with no one else. se. It sits in the back of a squad uad car when the officer is on duty, and comes home to the offi cer’s family fficer’s after punching out. The K-9 unit comprises two German Shepherds and a Belgian Malinois. Smith owns the second German shepherd, a 9-year-old named Bak who is nearing retirement. Many law enforcement dogs don’t live long enough to see retirement,
Smith said. The Sm stress that stems from the job can be a heavy burden for the animal. California law requires a police dog to be trained d a minimum of 16 hours per month, ho and Chico police go well beyond that. b The training focuses on tr improving all of the canines’ techniques, practicing everything from proper apprehension methods to using an appropriate bite, Smith said. In bite training, dogs are taught to shove objects as far into their mouths as possible to avoid nipping. Non-trained animals often tear off chunks of flesh. Bak has bit four suspects in his
police career, all of whom were treated with nothing more than a few bandages, Smith said. He is a very easygoing police dog, Smith said. He never seems anxious or hurried. However, both K-9 officers describe their dogs as light switches. Around kids at school or at parties downtown, both animals appear calm, constrained and friendly. But all it takes is one command, and they can turn into a formidable force. Bak, the oldest canine in the police department, has lost some of his energy in his old age, but still has enough to get the job done, Smith said. He gets deployed about two to three times per night on weekends, usually to break up fights. With a new dog coming to the department in July, Bak will officially be retired, Smith said. He’ll spend the remainder of his days at Smith’s house, watching over his family or sleeping by their bed. When out on duty, people sometimes try to antagonize Bak by waving their arms and yelling to get his attention, Smith said, but it’s important to remember that the dog is only there to protect them. This behavior could be the result of an individual’s personal opinions of police, related to specific experiences they have had with officers, said senior anthropology major Audrey Anthony. For this reason, some people may feel they are opposing law enforcement by antagonizing a police dog. “It’s not like the dog can do anything about you yelling at it,” she said. The job can be difficult dealing with public perceptions of canines since the dogs are trained to be aggressive on command, but having knowledge of both sides ultimately helps the community, Durkin said. “We’re out here to help people and to maintain public trust,” he said. Griffin Rogers can be reached at grogers@theorion.com
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Chico Police Officer Jeff Durkin was on patrol with his German Shepherd, Ray, on Feb. 15 when a call came through of a man waving his machete at pedestrians. Ray gets restless when pulling up to a crime scene, and starts barking eagerly in the back seat of the squad car, Durkin said. He doesn’t understand how Ray knows when it’s time to get to work, but every time a situation arises, Ray is ready. As it turned out, the machetecarrying suspect wasn’t ready for Ray. The man took off through the neighborhood’s adjoining backyards when Durkin and his 85-pound canine showed up, Durkin said. The officer set up a perimeter and made a loud announcement, yelling to anyone in the vicinity that his friend, and partner, Ray was on the way. The suspect was arrested after Ray found him moments later. The three dogs in the Chico Police Department’s K-9 unit serve the community in many ways, said Officer Brett Smith of the K-9 unit. They search buildings and neighborhoods, protect the officers and help apprehend criminals, all of which are performed in an effort to keep Chico’s students and residents safe. Officers with a strong interest in the unit are hand-selected after an interview process, Durkin said. Before he became a part of the K-9 unit, he showed interest by helping current members with their dog training. “I basically put on a bite suit and got bit a whole bunch of times,” he said. After Durkin was selected for the unit, the next step was going to Adlerhorst International, Inc., a company in Riverside that specializes in training police dogs, he said. Here he would go through the process of choosing a dog that best fit his standards and personality. Sometimes the process can take a long time. The officers test the young dogs, which are usually around two years old, on different tasks such as biting, obedience and reflexes, Durkin said. On his third dog, Durkin
Students leap into Parkour, hope to recreate campus group Hailey Vincent STAFF WRITER
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JUMPER Senior Brian Benbow, a project management major, practices Parkour as he runs and flips off a tree outside Glenn Hall.
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They took off running at full speed directly toward a large tree between Glenn Hall and Meriam Library without hesitation. Instead of an instant crash, however, their feet swiftly carried them up the base of the tree as they propelled themselves into synchronized backflips, landing effortlessly on their feet. This is Parkour, a little-known athletic activity that has held the interest of Chico State seniors Brian Benbow, a project management and communications double major, and Jeremy Adams over the past few years. “It’s kind of a lost art,” said Adams, a finance major. “I don’t really know how we came about doing stuff — we just went out and started busting moves.” Parkour is an individual sport where participants use moves like jumping, running, vaulting and climbing to overcome obstacles that stand in their path, according to the
American Parkour website. After learning to do backfl ips in sixth grade, Adams has continued teaching himself Parkour to become more familiar with complex moves, he said. “It’s like having sex for the first time,” Adams said. “It’s pretty nerve-racking at first, but with practice it gets better and better.” Benbow, who has a background in gymnastics and wrestling, considers Parkour a hobby, performance and physical art, he said. “For me it’s a workout and a hobby,” he said. “There is no competitive edge, but we are always trying to push each other to learn new things.” Parkour also allows participants to use their minds to come up with creative situations and implement ways to get out of them, Adams said. “You get to play some imagination into it,” he said. “Then you get to figure out how to physically maneuver around things and that’s where it becomes fun.” Coming up with fake situations like pretending >> please see PARKOUR | D4
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The Ally Way Productive summer Slacking on schoolwork starts as anticipation for the season that symbolizes a break from the usual routine and a chance to relax draws near. Sometimes doing nothing can be a nice break, but that can get boring fast. Don’t waste your vacation bumming around or catching up on sleep — make this summer one to remember or a chance to learn something. Outdoor activities If you’re staying in Chico for the summer, the weather can get pretty brutal. One summer, my roommates and I had a hard time leaving the house due to the sweltering heat and decided to watch three seasons of One Tree Hill. When we had finally finished and went outside we were able to enjoy all the swimming holes hidden around this town. No matter where you are this summer, make sure to take advantage of the outdoors whether it’s by swimming, floating, camping or walking your dog in the park. New experiences Try something new and develop a new skill. Lots of places offer summer courses for anything from dancing and cooking to scuba diving. This time can also be an opportunity to learn a new language. Software such as Rosetta Stone will teach you to speak in a new tongue. Another opportunity is to go on a trip. Even if it is just a weekend road trip with some friends, take advantage of the time off to enjoy a change of scenery. Time for things you don’t usually have time for It can be hard to find time to do some of the things you love between studying for exams, writing research papers and reading pages and pages of textbooks during the semester. Summer can be a great time to read a book that you are actually interested in and not just one you were assigned. The time gap can also be fi lled with other things you enjoy but have a hard time squeezing into a school schedule, such as a working out. Get a job or catch up on a needed class There are lots of summer job opportunities no matter where you are and the summer can be the perfect time to make some cash. It is also a good time to take that GE class you’ve been avoiding. Enjoy the vacation because after college you might not have these three-month periods of nothingness. Appreciate this time of year and take advantage of the chance to remove some of the layers you’ve been wearing for last five months, hang out with friends and do those things you don’t normally do. Ally Dukkers can be reached at featureseditor@theorion.com
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“All of the tree limbs on the water. If you are tied up with a bunch of other people, you can get pulled under.”
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[bah• k • seat • brow • ser] Anyone who sits behind someone who is browsing the web while instructing them on what to click on or type. “He’s a Backseat Browser, he kept telling her what links to click on.” source: urbandictionary.com
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“I saw this one dude chuck a half-full beer into a crowd and hit another guy in the face. His lip started bleeding really bad.” Jake Coleman
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Cayla Clapham
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“People walking around with their feet cut from glass, fighting and drunk driving.”
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Sexual hygiene If you’ve ever gone to unzip your mate and experienced what I like to refer to as “funk in the junk,” you understand the importance of genital hygiene. From unpleasant hair to foul body odor, there’s a whole array of cleanliness issues that can get in the way of your ability to get off. First off, I don’t think I’m alone in my preference for a well-groomed man package. Grown men shouldn’t necessarily have hair-free private areas, but I’m fully endorsing the practice of manscaping. So if you’re a guy who’s always thought the natural look was more rugged, allow me to set the record straight. Grooming is one scenario where the word “pretty” should apply to your penis. An added bonus to keeping it trimmed is it can make your member look bigger. If you don’t know where to begin, buy a high-quality electric razor, then start with the sack and work your way forward, making sure to clip any strays when you’re done. The same type of razor you use on your face will work for this as well. For women, the general rule is less is definitely more, because very few people want to hunt through the forest to get to the goodies. My preference is for shaving over waxing because I don’t want anyone but me taking care of my ladybits. Also, waxing can be inconvenient because most aestheticians recommend not shaving for three weeks prior to your treatment, and avoiding strenuous exercise for a few days before and after to reduce the chances of irritation. Now ladies, when it comes to taking care down there, there are some serious safety tips to consider. First, nothing but basic soap and water belong anywhere near your lady parts. If you get any other chemicals in there, like flowery-scented moisturizers or whatever froufrou garbage is in body wash, it can mess with your natural pH levels, which cause a lot of unwanted bacterial infections, according to health experts at thebody.com. I checked this with my gyno, and it turns out that also means douching can be dangerous. I’m all for keeping the flowers smelling pretty, but your begonias shouldn’t actually smell like flower petals. The best thing to do to stay clean and fresh is gently scrub with mild soap. When it comes to the question of cleanliness, there’s a debate among females about whether an uncircumcised member is less hygienic. I prefer a penis free of extra skin, but some women would disagree. Having a little foreskin doesn’t mean unclean, it just means extra work in the shower. Men make sure to slide back the skin and soap up the tip. If this step is skipped, there will be a buildup called smegma. It can have a funny smell and in some cases cause an infection in your partner. It might seem obvious that to have a healthy sex life you need good hygiene habits, but I’m sure we’ve all had the unpleasant experience of seeing “What’d I do?” written all over a partner’s face when they proudly unzip only to reveal a disaster area that should be marked with yellow caution tape. So make good use of your soap, be careful with your razors and keep your junk funk-free. Lexi Brister can be reached at sexcolumnist@theorion.com
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PASTA PARTY Sophomore Michael Faney a electrical engineering major feeds junior Genevieve Jones a international relations and Psychology major a mouthful of pasta at the Pasta Olympics on April 28. This event was put on by the CIAO as a fundraiser for their Italian club.
Competitive Pasta Pasta Olympics on April 28, members of CIAO made pasta dishes that were judged by the public. Proceeds from the competition went to a scholarship fund to send students to Italy. Tasha Clark STAFF WRITER
The Chico Italian Academic Organization brought a new Olympic event to Selvester’s Cafe-by-the-Creek. Unlike the traditional games, this tournament was all about eating pasta. More than 130 students and community members came out to the Pasta Olympics April 28, to judge and eat traditional Italian dishes made by students. CIAO has held the event since spring 2009, said Fulvio Orsitto, the organization’s adviser. “This idea was a way to spread Italian-ness,” Orsitto said. The Pasta Olympics, which charged $10 per person, was a fundraiser to help CIAO raise money for future projects, said senior international relations major and CIAO President Efren Yanez. The organization also plans to use some of the money for
scholarships to send members abroad to experience the authenticity of Italy. CIAO promotes multiculturalism throughout campus and showcases the Italian community, Yanez said. He has been a part of the organization since it fi rst started three years ago. Students in Italian 101 and 102 classes were recruited to cook pasta dishes and attend meetings to train for the pasta challenge, Yanez said. The event was attended by both students and community members, Orsitto said. Those who attended were split up into teams. Each team was assigned a different color toothpick to identify their pasta and each of the students’ top three picks won the competition. Just like the traditional Olympics there were gold, silver and bronze medals for winners, he said. They also received gift certificates to Italian restaurants in Chico. Georgina Brown, silver medal winner and junior graphic design major, participated in the competition after hearing about it in her Italian class, she said. Brown served an old family recipe of rigatoni pasta with Italian sausage.
“It was a big hit,” Brown said. The ingredients consisted of lots of cheese, sauce and flavor, said Elba Coronado, a senior electrical engineering major. She favored Brown’s family recipe. At the Pasta Olympics last semester, Matthew Dring, a junior nursing major, received fourth place for his bow-tie pasta with light olive oil and apple Gouda, he said. “It was delicious and shouldn’t have got fourth place,” Dring said. This year, back for revenge and a higher placing, he took the bronze medal home with rigatoni with spicy Italian sausage, extra cheese, garlic and red sauce, he said. The dish was very meaty, which made it really good, said Veronica Guzman, a senior electrical engineering major who voted for Dring’s recipe. The food students made was delicious and the raffle distributed cool prizes, Guzman said. She would attend this event again. CIAO tries to expand as much as possible in academic, social and cultural aspects to get more people involved, said freshman and CIAO Director
of Activities CIAO ITALIAN CLUB Layton Piver. The group has meet- CIAO Facebook ings every page — Monday to http://on.fb. me/m3JZPb discuss ways of improving CIAO the club and membership will be hav- for the semesing their last ter is $15, movie night includes entry on Tuesday, to all movie May 10, Piver nights, amici nights and said. To spread Pasta Olympics awareness of Email chitheir group, cociao@ they often gmail.com table and have bake sales on campus. Aside from the Pasta Olympics, the group has Italian fi lm nights and plays bocce ball, a game similar to horseshoes that was created in Italy, he said. Students don’t have to be Italian to join, Yanez said. Students should join if they are interested in learning about the heritage to get a deeper sense of what Italian culture is. Tasha Clark can be reached at tclark@theorion.com
Safety encouraged, no beer at Beer Can Nick Pike STAFF WRITER
Alcohol may soon be less prevalent on summer holiday floats down the Sacramento River. State Assemblyman Dan Logue proposed a bill Feb. 15 that would eliminate alcohol possession on the river for holidays such as Memorial Day, Fourth of July and Labor Day due to the increasing popularity of the river’s infamous celebratory floats. The bill, titled AB 494, would prohibit floaters in certain sections of the river from possessing any container holding an alcoholic beverage during the same periods of the summer season that the Butte and Glenn County Boards of Supervisors prohibit alcohol on the land portions of the river. A Facebook event has been created announcing the “end of the year float” for May 7, with over 1,000 people on the attending list. The Governmental Organization Committee of the California State Assembly is set to hear the bill for the first time today. A previous hearing, scheduled April 13, was canceled at the request of Logue.
Despite the often lengthy bill-to-law process, students who expect to end their school year with a Keystone and a rubber tube may feel 494’s effects sooner than anticipated due to the bill’s urgency. If a two-thirds vote prevails, the law would take into effect immediately. Glenn County is currently in charge of policing the small island known as Beer Can Beach and has taken as much action as possible to keep the partiers in this section of river safe, said Glenn County Sheriff Larry Jones. The Sacramento River, however, is a state-mandated body of water and the proposed bill must be passed at a state level to be enforced by county authorities. “We don’t want to stop the event in its entirety, we just want to keep it limited to more of a local attendance,” Jones said. A significant police presence, however, is often a necessity, said Thomas Fennelly, a senior business management major. “I get what they’re trying to do — it’s to make everyone safer,” he said. “I’ve seen everything from a blacked out
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girl get thrown into a bush and a tarp put over her, to my buddy’s being hit in the head with a full beer can.” Safety becomes a greater concern with the rising numbers of participants at the floats — around 15,000 people attended last year’s Labor Day weekend float according to an article in The Orion. The event has become so costly for the state and detrimental to the environment that
its management has become a priority, Jones said. “Last Labor Day, Enloe ER was overflowing with alcohol poisoning and assault victims,” he said. “We had to make 68 water rescues along with three helicopter landings in the Scotty’s areas for kids who missed the exit point and were disoriented and lost walking through the forested areas.” Some students have doubts
as to whether this effort to deter reckless visitors will actually slow the flow of floating fans, said senior sociology major Cynthia Ripley. “I think it will lead to more citations rather than safety,” she said. “People usually drink before the float anyway and students will fi nd another day to celebrate.” Nick Pike can be reached at npike@theorion.com
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The warm breeze blows the scents of barbeque and stir-fry through the crowd as people of all ages walk the streets of downtown tasting and purchasing food and locally grown produce at the Thursday night and Saturday morning markets. The streets are lined with a variety of vendors selling everything from honey and almonds to fresh strawberries and in-season greens. A number of local restaurants set up prepared food stands. The Thursday Night Market is held from 6 to 9 p.m. every Thursday until September, rain or shine, according to the downtown Chico website. The roads on Broadway Street from Second to Fifth streets are blocked off to car traffic. The Thursday Night Market brings in a younger group of people with more sweets and food for sale. The Chico Certified Farmers Market, held Saturdays yearround from 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., caters mostly produce to families and an older crowd. The Farmers Market is all for the regulars who come weekly for vegetables and other basic meal components, said Erin Hull, a Bordin-Huitt Ranch representative and vendor at both markets. “Thursday Night Market to me seems a bit more social,” she said. “Though Saturday is social, Thursday is more of a street fair than farmers market.” No matter what day they are out tabling, they bring in about the same income, Hull said. But that doesn’t mean the vendors don’t play favorites. “I enjoy Saturday more because Thursday is a different crowd that isn’t necessarily here for a farmers market,” Hull said. “Saturday they are there
CHICO DOWNTOWN MARKETS Thursday night market 6 to 9 p.m. Broadway from Second to fifth Street until September, more sweets and food for sale Saturday morning market held 7:30 to 1 p.m. year round, more produce for sale.
for vegetables and fruit, which a farmers market truly is.” The Saturday market may be more appealing simply because it is available year-round and shoppers can support local growers, senior criminal justice major Alan Campos said. While Saturday’s market may be ideal for its products, however, the atmosphere of the Thursday Night Markets is also a draw. “I like the Thursday night one because it is nice out and all the ladies start wearing their sun dresses,” Campos said. Vendors such as Smokin’ Mo’s Barbecue, Kinder’s Meat & Deli and Speedy Burrito get to showcase their goods on Thursday night, though not on Saturday morning. Most students favor the Thursday Night Markets because there is more product variety and entertainment, said Jessica Varela a freshman and undeclared major. Musicians and singers perform surrounded by the colors of bright bouquets and tiny potted cacti for sale as other eye-catching oddities such as a clown blowing balloons and a man ardently selling his locally grown eggs vie for the attention of passers-by. “I always go with a couple of friends about every other week and I always buy my produce there,” Valera said. “I like to pick up a few flowers for my dorm room.”
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SHOPPING SOUNDTRACK The band Hangtree plays at Thursday Night Market, providing entertainment for the local shoppers and vendors.
MARKET VALUES Roundhouse Ronny [left] makes balloon art at Thursday Night Market. [right] Crowds walk around the booths at the Chico Certified Farmers Market.
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ROBOTICS [above] James Holloway, a junior mechatronics major, shows off his robot. [left] Mechatronics majors test out their robots in a robotronics competition.
Students develop robots to influence technology Melissa Hahn STAFF WRITER
obots are taking over the world — they are nestled in pockets, cars and houses. With advanced modern technology, humans are becoming accustomed to using self-automated “smart” machines to perform daily work. Machines today, such as phones, GPS and TVs, provide convenience, speed and accuracy as everyday appliances. But the brains behind smart machines are mechatronic engineers. Mechatronic engineering is an innovative field
that combines mechanical, electrical and computer engineering. It is an important means to societal prospect, said James Holloway, president of the American Institute of Mechatronic Engineering and junior mechatronic engineering major. “Mechatronics is the way of the future,” he said. “Automation is going to be the key survival for industrial robotics, especially with the way things are going. People are consuming more.” Chico State has one of the only accredited mechatronic engineering program in the country. Since there was no established national organization for mechatronic engineers, Chico State students formed their own student union,
AIME, in 2000, Holloway and help his students better understand educational said. Currently, robots such as materials. “Schools, in a lot of ways, iPhones and Anroids are popular mediums for human are caught in the 1950s methcommunication. In time, self- ods of getting the information automated lawnmowers and across,” he said. “Things are changing so fast self-driving cars in a technologi— which could cal standpoint, help eliminate drunken driving We can achieve a lot of and it’s become expensive — will do labor things easily by using less and more pownow reserved for technology. erful to support humans, Holloeducation.” way said. In order to John Cowan, celebrate robots a Fairview High ALOK MEHTA and mechatronSchool scicomputer science ics, AIME hosted ence teacher, major a public event thinks mechatronics can be a learning tool April 23 called “Robotronica,” for youth that stimulates cre- in which mechatronic engiativity and curiosity, he said. neering and computer science Cowan looks forward to seeing students showcased robots how technology can influ- they built. “This would be a good way ence his teaching methods
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to inspire other people to robotics and get the general public, especially younger generations, interested in the mechatronics program,” Holloway said. The event was also chance to show the community that mechatronics exists within Chico, he said. “That’s something that Chicoans should be very happy to take pride in,” Holloway said. Robotronica hosted guest speakers from Chico State faculty and held robot battles and a robot art competition, where art students were invited to submit their work. “SumoBot Robots” were built and featured in a SumoBot competition. Alok Mehta, a second year graduate computer science major, made a SumoBot with a foundation of Legos as well as sensors and motors, which gave it the ability
to follow designated lines and push physical obstacles out of its way. “We can achieve a lot of things easily by using technology,” he said. Holloway hopes that AIME will host Robotronica again next year and is currently in the process of creating an official “spokesbot” — Artificially Intelligent Mechatronic Engineering Exhibition. AIMEE will be able to “speak” at public presentations with the help of a prewritten dialogue, and will talk and interact with the elementary and middle school students she is being built to meet. “It’s our way of reaching to the community,” Holloway said. Melissa Hahn can be reached at mhahn@theorion.com
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to be chased are ways in which to play imagination into Parkour training, Adams said. “We make up situations like, ‘Oh if the cops are about to chase us, we can just dive through this window, off this building, back flip off this wall,’” he said. Although many people do not know what exactly Parkour is, practicing on campus always gathers a small crowd of interested people wanting to know more about it, Benbow said. “One guy told me he’d give me $1,000 if I could teach him to do a backflip,” he said. “He got my number and everything but I still haven’t heard from him.” Benbow and Adams typically train by themselves, finding it hard to recruit others because of the lack of We are knowledge the Chico commualways nity has of Parkour, Adams trying to said. After creating a Chico State push each Parkour Facebook group in other to 2007, the scarce interest of learn new Chico residents provided the group a short life span, said things. senior geography and planning double major Caleb BRIAN BENBOW Weeks in an email interview. “It’s hard to keep up train- project management ing with so few people and communication major interested,” he said. “Well, I shouldn’t say that because a lot of people are interested, but coming out and practicing on a regular schedule is a whole different thing.” The most active practitioners in the area, known as traceurs, can be found in the Bay Area and can meet up through online forums, Weeks said. Having a group to train with through a program like the A.S. Adventure Outings would
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HIGH JUMP Jermy Adams, a senior finance major and Parkour enthusiast, does a flip near Meriam Library.
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potentially be a good idea for Parkour, Benbow said. “It would be cool to have them do something like Parkour,” he said. “Especially if they set up some cool spots we could go out to and practice.” Adventure Outings is always interested in exploring new ideas for activities, said Adventure Outings Coordinator Ann Marie Hingley. Parkour is no exception to this. “We would have to learn more about it,” she said. “I can’t say we wouldn’t be interested in it, but we would definitely have to learn more.” Along with a growing interest of Parkour in the U.S., it is practiced widely around Europe and can be seen on TV every now and then, Benbow said. Adams and Benbow recognize the danger that comes with such an intense activity, having taught themselves everything they know when it comes to Parkour, Adams said. “I skidded out from underneath myself trying to throw a gainer at Bidwell one time, landing on my neck,” he said. “It probably wasn’t the best idea in the first place, though.” Frightening failed attempts are all a part of the added nerves that keep practicing Parkour exciting, Benbow said. “It’s the butterflies that keep us doing it,” he said. Hailey Vincent can be reached at hvincent@theorion.com
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Jan. 31, 2001 “Parking problems cost students time, money.” The idea of building a new parking structure was also present in 2001, but the amount of funds necessary for the project were unavailable, according to the Orion article. Construction for a new building couldn’t begin until there was enough revenue in Chico
State’s parking fund to buy land. The money going into the fund was generated from sold parking passes, but that revenue stream did not create a sufficient amount of funds. Administration had an idea of where the parking garage might be — the parking lot directly across the street from Madison Bear Garden on West Second and Salem streets — but a timetable for acquiring the funds was unforeseen.
The demand for parking spots was said to be a result of an increase in enrollment, but enrollment had decreased from 2000. Even with about 300 fewer students during the spring 2001 semester, parking spaces were limited. The hassle of fi nding a spot before class led to illegal parking. University Police said the amount of parking tickets issued could be a result of confusing signs.
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MORE SPOTS Parking structure on Ivy and West First Streets where faculty and students park. A new structure was proposed due to shortage of spaces and will be built on Normal and Chestnut Streets.
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SCIENCE Chico Junior high student Anna and Kathryn Duncan, a parent of one of the students, test out Anna’s sediment core project.
Campus Spotlight: Junior high students present projects on planet climate change Mary Anne Pella-Donnelly is a life science teacher at Chico Junior High School who has done extensive research on climate change. She and two of her seventh grade classes administered their first Climate Summit April 29 at Gateway Science Museum, where more than 50 seventh grade students did research and taught the public about climate change. Pella-Donnelly strives to allow her seventh graders to get some scholastic experience offcampus.
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The problem of poor parking may be coming to an end. The necessary funds to build a second parking structure have come from various campus sources, including the university’s parking fund that has been accumulating for years, according to Chico State’s facilities planning website. Renderings of the new parking facility show offices on the first floor, which would be the new headquarters for University Police, and solar panels on
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top of the four-story structure. The project will be under consideration by the CSU board of trustees next month, said Joe Wills, director of public affairs. If approved, the first stage will be to clear the site for construction, which would begin later this year. The lot will be located on Second Street, between Normal and Chestnut Streets, and will hold approximately 330 parking spaces. In addition to extra parking, construction plans will include new bike lanes, as well as a wider sidewalk to
accommodate commuting students and staff who prefer more environmentally safe transit. Although parking is an ongoing problem, some students oppose the building of a new structure due to issues with sustainability, Wills said. Nevertheless, the university has decided to continue pushing the project forward with hopes of accommodating the students, faculty and guests who drive to campus. -Compiled by Griffin Rogers
Q: How will the Climate Summit work? Pella-Donnelly: There was somewhere between 12 to 16 different stations that junior high kids directed and covered different aspects of climate change. Several of them focused on what research techniques scientists use to give evidence of climate change in the past, some of what research has shown us, some just about carbon dioxide, what it is, how it’s measured and how it really affects our planets. Q: What kinds of activities were there? Pella-Donnelly: There were some displays where people could actively participate. We’ve
designed it so people would be at each station for a few minutes. Q: Some of these activities are based off ANDRILL curriculum. Can you explain what that is? Pella-Donnelly: ANDRILL stands for Antarctic geologic drilling. It’s an educational curriculum that gives lessons to students about climate change, and it actually suggests doing a public venue where students can become somewhat experts and give the public their understanding of the dynamics of climate. Q: What inspired you to put this together for the students and the public? Pella-Donnelly: I’ve had a couple of great experiences that led me to get more involved in it. I did a polar track expedition to Greenland for a month with some scientists, and was accepted to present at the polar science conference in Norway last summer. I was there with a lot of other teachers and professionals getting up-to-date climate research that was phenomenal. I thought this is something that is in the news, but kids have every little understanding of — and there are a lot of skeptics out there. I’m interested in getting kids out in the community where they can get empowered and teach other people. - Compiled by Melissa Hahn
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HEAD by Larry Pocino I think I have a new idea how to put out the fire. As long as it doesn’t involve eating me.
Not at all. I’m just gonna smother the flame with one of these text boxes.
Cool. It worked. Great. Now we can get back to trying to get out of here.
. . . okay. Not at all. I’m just gonna smother the flame with one of these text boxes.
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