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Chico State student Ben Lukas sits with The Orion for a Q&A about his experience in Egypt during the revolution Story A5 VOLUME 66 ISSUE 8

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The Cross-Cultural Leadership Center will be sponsoring the Stone of Hope Awards with four $500 awards for students who are overcoming personal burdens in college. Applications for the awards are available in the CCLC located in Meriam Library Room 172 or the CCLC website and are due by Friday, April 1. The awards ceremony, titled after a line in Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, will be held April 23.

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When strangers began beating Alisyn Roberts on her way home from a friend’s house, she managed to ask her assailants one question.

“I said, ‘Let me go, why are you doing this to me?’” she said.

After Roberts broke free of one man’s grip and ripped the weave out of another attacker’s head, several people came out of their houses to her defense, she said.

Before they dispersed, two of the four assailants had left two half-dollar size knots on her forehead, along with two black eyes, and a swollen nose and jaw. They also stole her phone and purse, Roberts said.

“They picked the worst person to jack,” Roberts said. “I had $2 in my purse and a $10 GoPhone.”

Immediately after Roberts was attacked, a police officer came to the intersection of West Sixth and Hazel streets and filed an incident

report describing her attack, she said.

Because there are many cases of violent crime where no incident reports are filed, it’s difficult to assess whether violent assaults are rising in Chico, said Bob Woodward, crime analyst for the Chico Police Department.

“There’s no way for us to know,” Woodward said in a phone interview. “We’ve seen reports go down, but calls for service are continuing to go up.”

Even though the statistics

reported on the Chico Police Department’s website show fewer reported crimes, more people are calling the department and asking for help, he said.

“My personal point of view is that calls for service could be a better indicator of criminal activity than reported crimes,” Woodward said.

Filtered call requests, or calls for assistance that actually require police attention, increased by 11.5 percent from 2009-2010 and have increased by a total of 38 percent from

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2001 to 2010, according to the police department’s activity report.

Putting statistics aside, Chico seems to be a more dangerous place than it was five years ago, said Sgt. Rob Merrifield, of the Chico Police Department.

“It has a feel to it,” Merrifield said. “It’s not as safe as it once was.”

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Enrollment delays cost CSU funding Dario Gut STAFF WRITER

Ecological Reserves Student Research Grant proposals are now being accepted.

The student research grant program is providing undergraduate and graduate students research projects at the Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserve. Up to $2,000 in awards will be given to students to help with project costs, equipment, printing and other expenses.

In order to apply for the awards, students must have a faculty adviser to oversee the project. All project ideas must comply with the protocol of the Ecological Reserve.

Full requirements for the project can be found at the BCCER website or by calling the reserves office at 530-898-5010.

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CRUSHING CIRCUMSTANCES Lacey McElfresh, senior liberal arts major, stands next to the fallen tree that damaged multiple vehicles with a sign reading “$1.00 per photo,” asking for donations to help pay for her broken windsheild.

Source: Student Announcements

The Upward Bound Alumni Association, an academic program that assists students in secondary education, is hosting its annual Fresh Cooked Egg Roll Sale.

Pre-orders of egg rolls are due by 5 p.m. today at the Upward Bound office in Student Services Center 392.

Order forms are available at the office or via email.

Egg roll selections include pork, turkey or vegetarian and cost $10 for one dozen, $6 for a half dozen and 75 cents for dipping sauce. The egg rolls will be available for pick-up in the Upward Bound office at 11 a.m. on Monday. For further questions contact sthao06@hotmail. com or call 530-592-6408.

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CAFE CLOSURE Greg Fletcher, owner of Cafe Culture, has decided to close the shop after a third attempt to obtain a beer and wine license was denied due in part to the location of the cafe. The cafe will undergo renovations during the down time.

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Cafe on hiatus while applying for beer, wine license Bryan Clendon STAFF WRITER

Cafe Culture closed up shop March 13 to refocus the live entertainment portion of the business and try to obtain a beer and wine license.

The closure came after a shooting outside of the establishment

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following a hip-hop show and after being denied a beer and wine license for the third time, said owner Greg Fletcher. The city denied the venue's request for multiple reasons.

“Their reasons so far have been: incompatibility with the neighborhood, proximity to the railroad tracks and increased

potential for disturbances,” he said.

Liquor licenses are issued through the state, said Mark Wolfe, Chico planning services director. However, the selling of beer and wine along with entertainment events requires a use permit from the city.

To grant a use permit, the

city must find that the serving of alcohol will not be detrimental to the surrounding area, Wolfe said. Letters from Chico State and police expressed concern that the addition of alcohol at Cafe Culture could be problematic.

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Chico State would have received $4.5 million from the state — that is, if it had met its maximum student enrollment for the fall and spring semesters.

This budget, passed by former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, gave $60.6 million to admit 30,000 additional students to the California State University system, said Sandra Flake, vice president for Academic Affairs.

State legislators approved the budget in October 2010 for a 2.5 percent enrollment growth for the CSU system.

“Due to the unprecedented delay in adopting the 20102011 state budget, the CSU and Chico State were given a variety of enrollment targets to meet,” said Allan Bee, director of the Office of Admissions.

This provided Chico State with some “very difficult scenarios,” Bee said.

“All campuses could do was accommodate those students who had applied for spring 2011 entry,” Bee said. “This past year set a new record for late passages of state budgets.”

These funds will be cut even further for the 2011-2012 school year and will affect the CSU even more, he said.

“Currently Chico State has 14,103 students enrolled, giving the college $1 million in funds that have not been received yet,” said Stacie Corona, assistant vice president of Budget and Resource Management.

“Chico’s max potential figure to receive of the $4.5 million would be at 14,582 enrollment.”

CSU campuses were not only asked to grow late last year in enrollment, but the money that would have supported those higher enrollments is now being eliminated, Bee said.

“We decided to accommodate as many of these students as possible,” he said. “Which we did.”

This act was approved by state legislators in October when fall enrollments were already completed, said Lori Hoffman, vice president for Business and Finance.

State legislators waited until October to approve the budget, which is months after the fall enrollment deadline.

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MEXICO — The Mexican government confirmed March 16 that it had autho-

a further meltdown. Efforts to recover

rized the use of U.S. drones to collect

from the nation’s largest earthquake

intelligence on several occasions, a new

continue, especially in the northeast.

sign of the two countries’ intensify-

There, the tsunami devastated cities

ing relations against the drug cartels

where 400,000 people still remain

threatening Mexico, the Washington Post

sheltered in gyms and schools. Hot food,

reported. The U.S. government has flown

water and fuel are in short supply and

drones, operated by the Department of

phone networks are still down in many

PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI — Haitian

CAIRO — Egyptian voters approved

citizens voted Sunday to elect their new

areas, leaving thousands unable to

a referendum on constitutional change

contact missing loved ones. Police say

Sunday. More than 14.1 million voters

15,000 people could have died in Miyagi

approved the constitutional amend-

Prefecture alone, mainly from the huge

ments, with 22.8 percent voting against

tsunami that struck the coast after the

them. More than 18 million people voted,

quake on March 11. More than 8,000

breaking the record for recent elections,

people have been confirmed dead so far

Egyptian government said. Mohamed

and another 12,000 are missing.

Ahmed Attia, chairman of the supreme

president. A long history of political violence left the voting results uncertain.

TRIPOLI, LIBYA — The Libyan military

judicial committee, said this was the first

the spokesman for the Muslim Brother-

ordered a cease-fire Sunday after allied

of the month. The nation's first demo-

forces bombed one of its convoys near

cratically elected president returned to

Benghazi and damaged Libya's air

Haiti Friday after a seven-year exile in

defenses, according to U.S. officials.

South Africa. Some worry that his return

Meanwhile, President Barack Obama and

may decrease voter turnout. The United

his national security team worked behind

States and other nations have all placed

the scenes to garner support from the

observers in the country to monitor the

Arab world for the attacks on the nation,

election and to ensure Haitian election

according to senior administration

authorities are handling it properly.

Homeland Security, on the American side of the border for years. American officials have publicly hinted that the United States shares information from those flights with Mexico, the Post said.

The Mexican government said that the U.S. drones were especially sought-after in border area operations. The drones were in control of Mexican authorities when operating within that nation’s borders, according to the statement.

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he noted those whose opinions differed

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Signal confusion may cause accidents, near-misses Allison Weeks STAFF WRITER

The intersection at West Second and Ivy streets has seen some serious accidents, and streetlight visibility may be a part of the problem.

Accidents occurring once or twice a month on this street

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officials. Sunday, air strikes took out at

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corner all blend together in the mind of Griffi n Hyde, a senior construction management major who lives on the corner of the intersection.

“I have seen two cars fl ip over from people running a light and pulling their car to the side to avoid a hit-andrun,” Hyde said. “I have been here three years, and I have seen a lot of accidents.”

Being a construction management major, Hyde has most of his classes in Langdon Engineering Center.

“I remember last year I was in class in Langdon during the day, and I heard a huge car crash,” Hyde said. “They shut down the intersection of West Second and Ivy for an hour.”

Despite these observations, street lights aren’t the primary traffic issue, said Sgt. Rob Merrifield of the Chico Police Department.

“In my experience, car accidents due to traffic lights are pretty infrequent,” Merrifield said. “There is a small percentage: two to three percent of accidents due to faulty signals

or signals that are hard to see.

Most car accidents have to do with speeding.”

There are not any unnoticeable traffic lights, just ones that blend in with one another, he said.

“The traffic lights blend in with the one on the other side like Ninth and Main, and on Ninth and Broadway,” Merrifield said. “The roadways are close, and you see two sets of lights when you’re at these intersections.”

A lot of near-accidents happen on weekday nights, said Caitlyn Trinca, a freshman pre-nursing major who lives on the end of Ivy Street and drives home at night from the Meriam Library.

“A lot of times the traffic lights aren’t effective at night,” Trinca said. “I have noticed this ever since I lived there. It’s kind of obvious.”

The traffic lights do blend in because they are not clearly marked, Trinca said.

Butte County Department of Public Works, which is in charge of maintaining Chico streets, repairs lights quickly and are always driving the streets, Merrifield said.

“They know the city could be liable,” Merrifield said.

“Risk Management is looking out for city’s liability, and they call the right person to fi x the problem.”

If there are a lot of car accidents in a certain area, the most effective way to prevent them is to increase enforcement in that area, he said.

But there are also ways drivers can limit their risk for an accident, Merrifield said.

“Don’t assume the other driver is going to follow their light,” Merrifield said. “Just because you have the green light does not mean they will stop.”

THE ORION • DANIELLE BUIS

SEEING SIGNS The streetlights at the corner of West Second and Ivy streets direct drivers and pedestrians. Many accidents have occurred at the intersection over the years for a variety of reasons.

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The group behind the failed campaign to legalize marijuana in California last year announced it has set up a committee to try again in 2012.

Proposition 19 lost 46 to 54 percent in last year's vote, but a spokeswoman said the organization will learn from the defeat and try for a win during a presidential election year. Activists think that with more money and support, marijuana legalization has a good chance to pass in 2012 because voter turnout tends to be more liberal in presidential election years.

The group is still struggling to gain support from medical marijuana activists because of fears that legalization will cut into business, so it is holding conferences across the state in an attempt to win the support it could have used last year.

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The UCLA student who posted a YouTube video rant complaining about Asian enrollment and Asian students talking loudly on cellphones in the library said she was withdrawing from the school because she was “ostracized from an entire community,” and was receiving death threats. She also mocked an Asian language in the video that was posted a few days after the magnitude 9.0 Japanese earthquake. UCLA said it wouldn’t discipline the student over the video before she decided to leave because she wasn’t in violation of the student code of conduct. The video quickly went viral and garnered millions of views, which set off numerous responses, parodies and debates on race and free speech.

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The U.S. military launched 110 Tomahawk cruise missiles on Libyan air defenses Saturday in an allied effort to set up a no-fly zone over Libya. The attacks came after Libya’s leader Muammar Gadhafi failed to comply with the ceasefire he called for against Libyan rebels. The U.S., U.K., France, Canada and Italy have publicly announced their participation in enforcing the U.N. Security Council resolution that aims to cripple Gadhafi’s ability to strike against Libyan citizens and rebels. A U.S. military official said the next phase of the mission, which is called “Odyssey Dawn,” will include planes flying over Tripoli and the Mediterranean Sea near the rebel capital of Benghazi.

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helps keep partiers tame St. Patrick’s Day in Chico was quiter than usual this year, possibly due to less students and rainy weather.

The March 17 holiday saw 49 arrests between noon and 3:30 a.m. the next day, said Sgt. Rob Merrifield of the Chico Police Department.

The total is nine arrests fewer than last year.

Eight Chico State students were arrested, according to a press release from the Chico Police Department. Seven were arrested on suspicion of being drunk in public and another on suspicion of domestic violence.

Four of the 58 arrested selfidentified as Butte College students and another five as students from other schools.

Violent crime decreased from 2010 to 2011’s festivities, Merrifield said. The only possibly serious violent crimes were two non-fatal stabbings, one that involved out-of-town gang members and another involving an uncooperative victim who declined treatment for minor injuries.

While out-of-towners contributed to crime statistics for the holiday, the majority of offenders were locals, he said.

Rain and students being out of town for Spring Break helped to keep holiday crowds under control, Merrifield said.

University Police Chief Eric Reichel echoed those sentiments, agreeing that weather and absent students helped to keep things calm.

“For us, it wasn’t as busy as previous years,” he said.

“Proactive” police measures may have also contributed to keeping things quiet, Reichel said. Having police officers as visible as possible in the streets played a role in letting

people know that police were ready to respond.

Part of keeping crowds in check was having as many officers on patrol as feasable, Merrifield said. As many as 60 officers from different police departments were on patrol in Chico at any moment, including state police and Butte County officers.

Both Chico and University police, along with other departments, contributed officers to DUI “saturation” patrols, with multiple cruisers searching for drunk drivers, Reichel said.

This type of police preperation for holidays in Chico has become routine and will most likely be similar next year, Merrifield said.

The majority of activity was not at the intersection of West Fifth and Ivy streets, but more in the downtown area, he said.

“Lot of drunken idiots stumbling around down there,” Merrifield said.

Small groups of partiers in green hats and T-shirts could be seen walking to the bars as early as noon, shouting and chatting with one another.

Riley’s had a line with more than 30 people out the door not much later.

Those that stayed in town could notice the lower-thanaverage amount of partying students, said Brian Weed, a former business administration major who graduated in fall 2010. He thought the crowd control did a good job of keeping parties orderly in comparison to the past three years he had been in Chico to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. “I didn’t see any fights break out or anything like that, so everything seemed to go smoothly,” he said.

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All accused of violating the law are innocent until proven guilty | Information cited directly from Chico Police Department Thursday, 10:27 a.m.: Indecent exposure reported on Hartford Drive. “Neighbor outside talking to plants. Says he is schizophrenic and possibly on drugs. Subject lives upstairs from reporting party. Right now he is across the street on a mound of dirt throwing rocks and shaking his fists.”

Thursday, 4:03 p.m.: Threats reported on 1200 block of Manzanita Avenue. “Reporting party came home to find her renter had all the burners on the stove turned up full blast to dry his pants. Reporting party turned off the stove and the subject turned them back on, then held his fists up to reporting party and made threats to kill reporting party.”

Thursday, 6:57 p.m.: Vandalism reported on 200 block of Walnut Street. “Two males punching and kicking the payphone booth outside. Passers-by have asked them to stop, and they do and then go back to kicking it.”

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Two males punching and kicking the payphone booth outside. Passers-by have asked them to stop, and they do and then go back to kicking it.

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THURSDAY, 6:57 P.M. Chico Police Records

Thursday, 8:48 p.m.: Drunk in public reported on 1000 block of Normal Avenue.

“Reporting party advising subject just broke into his residence and now he is in a fight on the front porch with the roommate.

When reporting party tried to throw the subject — who is unknown to him — out of the residence, he began to fight the roommate.”

Thursday, 11:52 p.m.: Assault and battery reported on 200 block of Normal Avenue.

“Bouncer put reporting party in a choke hold.

Reporting party called earlier to advise he was upset and wanted back in the bar to drink his beer.”

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Subject in reporting party’s side yard bushes near white van, between fence and garage. Subject rubbing his nose, twitching and talking to himself.

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FRIDAY, 10:28 P.M. Chico Police Records

Friday, 10:28 p.m.: Drunk in public reported on 1100 block of East Ninth Street. “Subject in reporting party’s side yard bushes near white van, between fence and garage.

Subject rubbing his nose, twitching and talking to himself.”

Saturday, 6:01 p.m.: Assault and battery reported on 100 block of West Second Street.

“Reporting party thinks something was put in her drink Thursday night. She had one drink and was instantly ill, blacked out and woke up Friday morning at 10 a.m.”

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Directly across the street from reporting party, group of males whooping and hollering every time the wind picks up. Reporting party cannot sleep.

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SUNDAY, 2:56 A.M. Chico Police Records

Sunday, 2:56 a.m.: Noise complaint reported on 1100 block of Broadway Street. “Directly across the street from reporting party, group of males whooping and hollering every time the wind picks up. Reporting party cannot sleep.”

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Theta Chi, social sororities compete for philanthropic cause in War of the Roses Trish Roche STAFF WRITER

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SETTING UP SHOP Ben Lukas, junior psychology major, sits in his glass shop Babylon Art Movement. He was in Egypt establishing a glass-blowing business when the revolutionary protests broke out.

Student returns to Chico after revolution Alexander Seymour STAFF WRITER

Chico State student Ben Lukas was in Egypt last month, busy establishing a new glass-blowing business in one of Cairo’s suburbs. He had no idea that he would be living through a revolution.

The Orion met up with Lukas, who had just returned from Egypt late February. The interview follows: The Orion: Where in Cairo were you living when this revolution began?

Lukas: I was living on Al Bostan. If you can ever find it on a map, it’s a road that basically connects with Tahrir Square, and Tahrir Square was where the main focal point of the revolution was.

The Orion: Did you see any signs of this revolution before it started gaining momentum on the 24th?

Lukas: No. On the 24th I got a call that said, “You should probably stay inside, because there is protests tomorrow.” And I was like, “Big deal, there’re protests,” know what I mean? But I guess when the people who are under a dictatorship go out to protest it’s kind of a big deal. It’s definitely something to be recognized.

The Orion: How did that feel when you watched Egyptians tear down posters of a dictator that had ruled their lives for 30 years?

Lukas: I was in disbelief. I had heard that they are super apathetic, sort of passive, you know — they just take what’s coming to them. But man, it was the most empowering thing to just really be like, we’re human, and humans have the powers

and ability to right wrongs.

The Orion: What was the most inspiring thing that you witnessed?

Lukas: My business partner and I had a mutual friend. He’s been in the square for three ■ VIDEO Watch The Orion’s days, he hasn’t slept, he’s interview and barely eaten, he has no money.

Lukas’ footage He didn’t want to say it, but he from the protests told us one of his friends had died, had taken some shrapnel at theorion.com to his neck and bled out. He went out, back to the square, to stand where he just saw his friend die. That’s what the revolution was about.

The Orion: Do you think that the lives of the Egyptian people will improve drastically now that former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has resigned?

Lukas: I think that the potential for drastic improvement is there. Egyptians are very proud, they’re kind of like, “we don’t want any other countries helping us with our election process.” I think they need help. I think any country would need help in this situation, saying to the UN, “Come help us run and regulate free and fair elections,” because that’s a hard thing to accomplish in a country where free and fair elections have never been had. If they ask for the right type of help and continue to work really hard then yes, their lives are going to be drastically improved.

Alexander Seymour can be reached at aseymour@theorion.com

Members of Greek life will be chasing students down for change as part of a battle to raise funds.

The second annual War of the Roses, put on by Theta Chi, begins today on campus with a change drive, said Theta Chi President Danny Kelchner, a junior project management major.

The competition raises funds for Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, Kelchner said. Five teams, each composed of one complete sorority and members of Theta Chi, will be competing to raise the most money.

The founder of War of the Roses, senior business marketing major Andrew Chalmers, started the fundraiser after being personally affected by the issue.

Chalmers’ high school friend was shot and killed in 2008, and he became aware of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence through his friend’s memorial service, he said.

“For me personally, it was a way for me to do something positive and honor my friend,” Chalmers said. “Now I am teaching other guys the events so they can continue that legacy, and with all the shootings in Chico I think it’s a pretty relevant cause.”

The change drive is located at the walkway between Siskiyou and Glenn Halls. On Thursday, a carnival will be taking place on the Glenn lawn, Kelchner said. There will be music and games for students to play while on campus, such as “Pie a Theta Chi.” There will also be other fundraising events held off campus, Kelchner said. On Friday a powder puff game and barbecue will be held at the Newman’s Center Park.

Last year the event raised over $3,000 and this year’s goal is to top that, Kelchner said.

While the event is run by Theta Chi and is a philanthropic opportunity for all of the sororities as well, students do not have to be Greek to participate, Chalmers said.

The event is about getting people to participate to help the community, said Liz Coffee, Alpha Gamma Delta member and sophomore art major.

All of the money gets donated to Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, Chalmers said.

The campaign’s goal is “to pass and enforce sensible federal and state gun laws and regulations and public policies,” according to the mission statement on their website.

Sometimes during change drives fraternity members get too aggressive, said Roxy Rarick, freshman kinesiology major.

“They are like, ‘Oh, you don’t have any change,’ and they get all rowdy and stuff,” Rarick said.

“I always drop whatever’s in my pocket.”

Chalmers is hoping for a high turnout, he said.

“If you care about keeping your community safe,” Chalmers said, “just stop by and bring a few bucks.”

Trish Roche can be reached at troche@theorion.com

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Sacramento intended to educate those students who were supposed to be enrolled, Bee said.

“The enrollment target change came as part of the late budget last year, that is why the target was not set until after the start of fall semester,” Flake said. “It allowed us to increase admissions for spring semester and to meet the base target.”

Chico State did not actually lose any money because enrollment never reached the necessary amount of students, she said.

“We were above our minimum, but did not reach our maximum amount of students,”

Flake said. “Enrollment will increase next semester.”

State law demands the budget is passed by the end of June. However, it is rare for the state legislature to meet that deadline, Bee said.

Chico State opened upper division transfers from the local admission area, as well as credential students and nursing students, he said.

“Chico State took a more conservative approach to spring enrollment knowing that this was a possibility,” Bee said.

Dario Gut can be reached at dgut@theorion.com

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always online >> theorion.com ASKING QUESTIONS Michael Fitzpatrick, president of Phi Sigma Tau and organizer of the event, takes the stage to help moderate the panel.

The Future of Science and Religion panel consisted of eight professors and a minister.

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Panel explores importance of understanding science, religion Andre Byik STAFF WRITER

A panel of Chico State faculty members and a Chico theologian presented one big topic with a bang — the future of science and religion.

The panel wasn’t organized to debate the admittedly divisive topic, but rather to present perspectives on the relationship of science and religion, said Michael Fitzpatrick, an organizer of the panel.

Panelists spoke to an audience that nearly fi lled Performing Arts Center Room 134. Some focused on how religion and science co-exist while others were more combative, such as John Mahoney, associate professor of biology and Chris Nichols, associate professor of chemistry.

“A lot of people, especially Americans, seem to be very afraid of the truth or the fact of evolution,” Mahoney said. “And that may be understandable

because as it turns out most Americans don’t understand evolution. They can’t give you a working definition of even what evolution is.”

Nichols continued to provide his evidence for reasoning that science is the appropriate to answer existential questions.

“My opinion, reading sacred texts, prayer, revelations — those are inappropriate ways to find answers to questions about the natural world, about nature,” Nichols said.

Neither science nor religion were spared from criticism during the three-hour event, and popculture science and religion are to blame for the simplistic discourse often seen in media, said Elizabeth Renfro, a retired professor of multi-cultural and gender studies.

Anti-religion heavyweights Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens, who appeared in a discussion called “The Four Horsemen,” were criticized for their moral attacks on religion during the event.

“The Four Horsemen tend to attack the morals and ethics of religion, when animists for instance are more interested in issues of basic existence, such as protection of spirits, good luck, health and food,” said Sarah Pike, professor of religious studies.

The physical world is not what it seems, said Lou Buchholtz, professor of physics.

“Most people are not aware that space and time are nothing like they’ve suspected,” he said.

Buchholtz listed some strange realities of the natural world, including: some events can be experienced in any order, anyone can reach the edge of the universe in one human lifetime and, while one can’t enter his or her own future, entering a neighbor’s is possible and “generic,” he said.

Then he became metaphorical, quoting William Shakespeare’s comedy “As You Like It” to argue that the world is a stage, with people as its players.

“That is, it’s a representation, a likeness, a metaphor for that which can be never be known in its fullest,” Buchholtz said. “All religion, then, is an effort at linking back.”

He then followed this point to his conclusion.

“So even as all of life is metaphorical, so also is all of life then, by my understanding, religious,” Buchholtz said. “There is certainly no conflict — there are only badly understood metaphors.”

Though it wasn’t a debate, Greg Cootsona, minister and author, displayed a photo of a beachside sunset with a caption that read, “Science versus religion — you can argue all you want about photons and miracles, I’ll be out here with a cold beer and a barbecue grill not really waiting for an answer.”

A Chico approach to the subject matter, Cootsona joked.

Andre Byik can be reached at abyik@theorion.com

Students make outreach efforts after Japanese crises

Creation of Chico Donation Platform part of campaign to increase assistance to nation in wake of earthquake, tsunami, nuclear worries Ben Mullin STAFF WRITER

After Efren Yanez watched an earthquake devastate Japan on March 11, he decided to use his job as a waiter to serve a greater cause.

Yanez, an international relations student at Chico State, is currently working to establish a non-profit organization called the Chico Donation Platform.

The group plans to send 100 percent of donations collected from people in Chico to victims of the earthquake, tsunami and subsequent radiation poisoning in Japan, Yanez said.

“We will not keep a cent of the money,” he said.

The fledgling charity has

already collected $150 of its $1,000 goal from the servers at Chili’s Grill & Bar Restaurant, who have donated some of their tips, Yanez said.

The board of directors are also organizing a “Chili’s Give Back Night” where customers at Chili’s can give 10 percent of the price of their meal to the Chico Donation Platform, he said.

Students are welcome to donate money or submit fundraiser ideas to the Chico Donation Platform, Yanez said.

Donations will be tax-deductible once the charity gets its non-profit license in roughly three weeks.

Nanaho Yamanaka, a friend of Yanez’s from Japan, inspired him to organize the charity,

Yanez said. Both international relations students, Yanez and Yamanaka met during the annual Model United Nations competition in New York, when Chico State’s delegation paired up with Japan’s national team.

After the earthquake, Yanez got into contact with his friends from Japan to make sure they were OK, including Yamanaka, who studies at Osaka University, Yanez said. He began talking with Yamanaka about what he could do to help, and Yamanaka told him that baby food is extremely scarce in areas affected by the earthquake.

With a friend in Japan that would make sure the donations were allocated to the right people, Yanez set out to organize

a local charity to which Chico State students could contribute, he said.

“The heart of people in Chico is amazing,” Yanez said.

The idea snowballed, and he soon had five people on the board of directors for his new charity, he said. The first people he persuaded to come onboard were Rebecca Lowthorp and Daniella Alcocer, fellow waitresses at Chili’s Grill and Bar, followed

by Aisha Connor, a hostess at Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. Along with Boshion Crandall, the current head delegate for the Model United Nations and former Orion columnist, they pooled their money for flier supplies and the filing

fee to establish a non-profit charity, Yanez said.

Several other clubs around campus are also raising funds to send to victims of the disaster, said Katherine Punteney, adviser to the Office of International Education.

The JFusion club, a Japanese cultural association, will collect donations at a table in the Bell Memorial Union today and Thursday, offering information on the crisis in Japan as well as a small origami making lecture, according to Chico State’s website.

The Chico Japan Friendship Club has set up a bank account for donations that will be withdrawn and sent overseas on May 5, which is Children’s Day

in Japan, according to Chico State’s website.

John Crosby, a political science professor and INFOGRAPHIC adviser to Chico’s Model United Check out a related infoNations team, graphic about stressed the the Japanese importance disaster on of students the next page offering reassurance and support to Japanese students on campus they know.

“We live in an interconnected world,” he said. “Give them support.”

Ben Mullin can be reached at bmullin@theorion.com

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are finding their way into Chico’s open parties, Merrifield said.

“There’s a certain thug element,” Merrifield said. “They get here and think it’s a ‘Mayberry’ town and think they can run the place.”

Decreasing violent crime in Chico will take broad, community-wide action, Merrifield said. Police can’t change the behavior of Chico’s citizens, many of which are silent and uncooperative when it comes to life-

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There’s a certain thug element.

They get here and think it’s a ‘Mayberry’ town and think they can run the place.

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ROB MERRIFIELD Sgt. for the Chico Police Department

threatening violence, he said.

When Butte College student athlete Khalil Abdulkarim was shot in the chest outside of Cafe Culture, a crowd of 30 people surrounded the victim and attempted to prevent police and medical personnel from giving him aid, Merrifield said.

The crowd was cursing at the officers, who were forced to use batons in order to push their way to the victim, Merrifield said.

Rather than stabilize Abdulkarim in the West Fifth street parking lot that he was lying in, attending medics were forced to hustle him into an ambulance and flee the scene, Merrifield said.

“We’ve got a whole parking lot full of people who aren’t telling us anything,” Merrifield said.

But Roberts gave her full cooperation to the police after she was assaulted and she wants others to be aware of what happened to her, she said.

“I’m not traumatized by it,” Roberts said.

“People should know that it happens.”

Ben Mullin can be reached at bmullin@theorion.com

alcohol, and I can certainly understand why they would want to do that,” Wolfe said. “But it does raise some concerns.”

One concern is the four times police have responded to incidents at Cafe Culture since January 2009, according to an agenda report from the zoning administrator. The report indicates that alcohol sales could increase these incidents.

Without the ability to sell alcohol, Cafe Culture was put into a position where they had to host private parties and after-hours DJ parties to generate revenue, Fletcher said.

These events were not in line with what Cafe Culture was trying to do as a business.

“We feel that adding beer and wine will allow us the financial freedom to be more discriminate with the type of entertainment we provide and generate good revenue with the positive type of entertainment that we want to provide,” Fletcher said.

The hiatus and change in philosophy affects event promoters who had previously booked events during the hiatus, Fletcher said. All events scheduled during the three-week hiatus have been canceled.

“Immediately it affects us, because we have an event there April 2,” said Shiloh Witcosky, chief operating officer for Ambriz Top Shelf Productions and senior communication studies major.

Top Shelf Productions held three events at Cafe Culture without incident, Witcosky said. All events were afterhours DJ parties.

“We’ve never had violence at our events or anything like that,” he said.

Top Shelf is now trying to find a new venue for their April 2 event, but haven’t yet found one, said Steven Barbieri, junior business entrepreneurship major and strategic consultant and recording manager for Top Shelf.

“We are contractually obligated to the artists, so we have to find a new venue,” Witcosky said.

Cafe Culture is using its hiatus to “gear up” for an appeal to City Council regarding the restriction on selling beer and wine, Fletcher said. He has met with the zoning administrator in the past, but this is his “first crack” at the Chico City Council.

They will also be using this time to remodel the inside of the building and to make sure that the future event calendar is free from “problematic events” such as after-hours parties, Fletcher said. All events scheduled for after the hiatus are still tentatively on schedule, he said.

“With our new commitment to stricter scrutiny of events, we may have to cancel some events that were already scheduled in the future,” Fletcher said.

Bryan Clendon can be reached at bclendon@theorion.com

Government evacuates about 200,000 people near plant; 160 tested for radiation

A hydrogen explosion occurs in the unit 3 reactor building*

Units 1 to 3 are considered to be safely under control

Officials are notified about an explosion in unit 2*

Spent fuel storage pond at unit 4 is on fire, radioactivity is released into atmosphere

Concerns over spent fuel pools at units 3 and 4; plans to drop water are made

Water was injected into units 1 to 3; containment pressures are fluctuating

MARCH 17 Radiation levels reaching nearby cities are not dangerous to health

MARCH 18 A radioactive plume reached the West Coast; no significant health risks

MARCH 18

Radioactive iodine contamination found in food near Fukushima area

MARCH 19

No health risks

Smoking 1.5 packs of cigarettes a day 13 mSv

SINGLE EXPOSURE

Efforts to restore electricity continue to be made

MARCH 20

Serious health risks

Some workers evacuated after gray smoke in unit 3; white smoke is seen in unit 2

MARCH 21

Deadly risks

Potassium iodide available to U.S. government personnel in Japan; should only be taken with instruction of U.S. government

MARCH 21

Radioactive events

Uranium-235 is often used to generate chain reactions that constantly release high energy to help produce electricity

FISSION CHAIN REACTION

Steam outlet

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Japanese authorities will measure radioactivity in the environment Tuesday, Wednesday; results will be published Thursday

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Reactors similiar to this are held inside units at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.

Fission chain reactions occur inside the rods within the core

NUCLEAR REACTOR

Some of the spent fuel pool is contained here to help rods from overheating

CORE

Anomaly

Incident

2 1

Serious incident

3

Accident with wider consequences

5

Accident with local consequences

Serious accident

6

4

Major accident

7

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*Excess steam and hydrogen explosions; not nuclear

An explosion takes place in unit 1 reactor*

MARCH 16

Nuclear reactor units 1 to 4 are automatically shut down at Fukushima Daiichi plant

MARCH 15

A 9.0 undersea earthquake hits off the northeastern coast of Japan; 33-foot tsunami follows

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MARCH 14

MARCH 11

Chest X-ray 0.04 mSv

MARCH 11

MARCH 13

57 percent missing

Cosmic radiation living in Denver 0.5 mSv

RADIATION DOSE LEVELS: Various sources emit different doses of radiation that people absorb.

MARCH 12

10.1 percent injured

Sleeping next to someone for eight hours 0.02 mSv

ANNUAL EXPOSURE

Lowest level cancer may appear 100 mSv

THE INTERNATIONAL NUCLEAR AND RADIOLOGICAL EVENT SCALE

NEWS

As of March 21, there are about 21,000 dead, injured and missing

BY THE NUMBERS

32.9 percent dead

Living near a nuclear power station 0.01 mSv

TOKYO

Air travel 0.01 mSv per 1,00 miles

11.9 mSv per hour at Fukushima plant gate 0.6 mSv per hour six hours later

Natural radioactivity in the body 0.4 mSv

MARCH 15

Mammogram 0.3 mSv

400 mSv per hour in units 3 and 4

Radon in average house 2 mSv

FUKUSHIMA

Is not highly radioactive, but has a half-life of 30 years and is able to travel in the food chain for years

CESIUM-137

Has a half-life of eight days and is highly radioactive; able to be absorbed by the thyroid gland

IODINE-131

Health risks are not in danger and potasium iodine should only be taken if directly exposed to radiation

FISSION FRAGMENTS: The two fission fragments have different amounts of protons and neutrons. As a result, fragments like iodine-131 and cesium-137 are released.

Gamma rays

Bone marrow, spleen and lymph nodes damage 250 to 1,000 mSv

SENDAI

Free neutron

Free neutron

Fission fragment

Energy

Free neutron

Bone marrow, spleen and lymph nodes severe damage 1,000 to 3,000 mSv

The 9.0 earthquake managed to sway cities as far as Tokyo, ratling buildings and sending residents out of their homes

Splits nucleus

Fission fragment

Death if higher than 3,500 mSv damages are untreated 3,000 to 6,000 mSv

TEMBLOR

URANIUM-235

Beta rays

A natural disaster has caused one of the leading countries in the world to step back and reconstruct what has been left after a 9.0 earthquake, tsunami and unresolved nuclear problems. The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, operated by the Tokyo Electric Power Company, was designed to withstand a 7.0 earthquake. The results have caused a domino effect with the world on watch. Radioactive materials have escaped and have been released into the atmosphere, traveling to the U.S. West Coast and other parts of the world.

QUAKE HITS JAPAN, AFFECTS WORLD

Eating one banana 0.0001 mSv

POTASSIUM IODINE

Death + 10,000 mSv

RADIATION WATCH 2011

Death expected 6,000 to 10,000 mSv

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‘Campus PD’ shows party persona realities Chico State is so last season — make that two seasons ago.

“Campus PD” was all anyone could talk about two fall semesters ago when the show roamed the streets of Chico looking for debauchery to fuel its first season of out-of-control coeds. But with their third season coming to a close this week with no sign of return, perhaps we aren’t the school everyone loves to roll their eyes about anymore.

To the students and graduates of Chico State, it’s probably no wonder why the show came with cameras rolling when they wanted to portray the wild and crazy college students the show is based around. With a reputation that reads like a rap sheet and the ever-present ebb and flow of students burning couches in the streets, Chico State seems like the place that would give the creators the most beer bong for their buck.

Even though we might think we are a perfect match for this show, which seems to have cemented us as the stereotype that is Chico State, they left us. Without a call, a goodbye

note or even a glance in our direction, they seem to have bolted in the night taking our title as supreme party school with them.

Just when we thought we were doing what we did best, it appears that we didn’t do it as well as we thought. And whatever “it” was, there was someone doing it much better.

You could easily say that perhaps the show just needed to move on to another town so they could spread the toxic love. In a way it would be negligent to focus on one campus when it’s obvious there are coeds doing stupid and embarrassing things all over the country.

However, “Campus PD” seems to have picked its favorite child in the form of the University of Cincinnati, which has been featured on the show for the duration.

We are by no means the jealous type, but the fact that Chico State wasn’t exciting enough for reality TV deserves to be considered as a point in our favor. The genre of modern entertainment that can make six orange Italian-Americans from New Jersey millionaires doesn’t consider us enough to focus on.

Considering this is the sort of game where

craziness gets a close-up and common sense gets cut, maybe we’re the winners after all.

Chico State students might enjoy the attention and social atmosphere that the city provides but that RELATED persona has always been a COLUMN battle. Whether it’s trying to get the community to take The Ally Way D1 us seriously or attempting to prove our own maturity, there usually seems to be one riot or another that strengthens the argument against us.

Perhaps the longer “Campus PD” keeps its distance the better off we are. In a way, their absence is a litmus test showing how the acidic levels of our behavior are slowly being diluted.

Crime and tragedy around our student community isn’t going anywhere. The recent incidents concerning our Associated Students president, drug-related student deaths and shootings close to campus remind us that crime is unfortunately hard to hide from. However, that is not the same thing as the rebellious ragers that Chico State

students gained their reputations from.

Perhaps getting passed up by this reality series isn’t so much a sign for us to consider but for everyone else. The show is coincidentally rallying for our side by exposing the madness and mayhem that can be found in most college communities and not just the one everyone remembers from the ’80s.

We get new generations of Wildcats more often than Apple gets new generations of iPhones. And just like the iPhone, each new G changes everything. Even if it’s only a slight change, it still makes you regret buying into the last big hype because by the time the new one hits, no one really remembers why the last one was such a big deal.

In Chico State’s case, the last big hype was the Pioneer Days, and ever since then, our creepy uncles and buddies from back home have been giving you a wink and nudging you with their elbows when they ask about how things are going, “over there at Chico State.”

At least now we can answer, “Well, it’s slightly more boring than Cincinnati.”

‘South Park’ parodies Protesters prefer attention over peace show sticky situations Kelly Hering storyline is the extensive controversy behind banned books and the different ideas behind the debate depending on the crowd you find yourself in. Trey Parker and Matt Stone, those dirty minds behind the raunchy paper cutouts, have come to tackle social issues such as racism, human sexuality and even contemporary politics.

This show tries to point out that if spectators are not pleased with our television programming, then they are not happy with our society.

Media lead us toward a new perception on life — whether it is the daily news, a tear-jerking drama, football games or a misunderstood “South Park” episode.

The question isn’t whether television is a positive or negative thing. It simply comes down to how we interpret it, and the attitude with which we respond.

Not every child will play a violent video game and grow up to be an axe murderer, just as not every adult will be impacted by a global warming documentary. We live in the definition of individualism in the U.S. People could easily watch a show like “South Park” and think to themselves how much they do not want to fall into the same circumstances and how to better avoid those types of behavior, or they could watch it and try to imitate all the foolishness that the show entails.

Some people have this false theory that we just sit back and watch the screen, but it’s the act of engaging that decides what we take away from the experience.

If it’s the construction paper cutout speaking with a snarky voice making your decisions, you might have problems other than watching too much TV.

Andrea Robertson OPINION COLUMNIST

Some believe that TV has hurt our youth, and by extention, our society. But just like everything, there are the good, the bad and the ugly that come along with it. And no, I’m not talking about the reruns of that movie every other weekend.

This worldwide influence might have a huge effect on us, but in the end we can only take responsibility for our own actions and act on what we feel is correct when responding to the power of television.

It is true that some shows expose children and adults to a more mature dialogue, with the F-word appearing time and time again, but perhaps there is a bigger, notso-hi-def, picture that we are missing.

The 14-year-old show “South Park” exemplifies modern day satire in its truest form. Way back in the 19th century, Mark Twain made it his pride and joy to bring crucial issues to life in the minds of everyday citizens, most of whom were aware of the issues, but needed a little push to fully grasp their magnitude.

The creators of this modern TV phenomenon disguise their insinuations so cleverly by making the four main characters children. In a way, it reminds us that kids do absorb bad behavior but even more importantly, that kids are the ones who sincerely take note on everything that occurs around them.

The writers also hide the deeper meaning of their episodes with colorful, inappropriate episode titles, such as “The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs.”

It may sound as if you are about to embark on a sticky 30 minutes, in a literal sense.

Yet, the real moral of the

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We are terrified of constitutional change and the Westboro Baptist Church has us taking a good hard look at what our first amendment can advocate.

Earlier this month, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the Westboro Baptist Church could continue protesting at the funerals of military personnel, celebrities and any other events that could lead to large doses of attention for the group. It is no mystery why this group has drawn so much negative attention.

The church’s followers believe that God is punishing our nation by extinguishing the lives of members of our military because the U.S. is too accepting of homosexuality.

Members of the Westboro Baptist Church have recently been place on a list banning them from entering the United Kingdom. Former U.K. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said the list is designed to emphasize the kinds of behavior the U.K. won’t tolerate, according to the European edition of The Wall Street Journal. It’s appalling that other countries stand up to the church’s disgusting behavior, but in the U.S. it is accepted that they bring further turmoil and pain to already suffering families of the deceased.

We need to take a look at the way our system functions. When we have laws that forbid love but inspire hatred, there is something wrong. Why is it that other countries can recognize these peoples’ acts as despicable and have no desire to respect them? Yet, in our own country, we respect their rights more than those of our military members who gave their lives to protect the rights of all Americans, including the active members of the Westboro Baptist Church.

These people should be judged by their actions and we can do this by simply taking a look at one of their websites, godhatesfags.com. According to their website, they have staged 20,000 worldwide protests in the last decade.

Many Westboro church members are related to founder Fred Phelps.

From the time a new member is born, they are shaped and brainwashed into smaller versions of their hate-filled adult counterparts.

Children hoist up hateful, disgusting signs alongside their parents. While the children may not understand what they are picketing against, they house the hatred that the church instilled in

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them at a young age. If children of the members of the church question the message of hatred they share their families cast them out, because people that share their venomous ideals are the only family they acknowledge.

While their church is small, their message is loud and clear. As a country, we need to come together and make our message to the Westboro Baptist Church even louder and clearer.

Many Americans have done their part to divert attention away from their rallies, but more should be done. As a nation, we need to have a zero-tolerance policy

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toward rampant prejudice and hatred.

There needs to be alterations to the First Amendment. It is too easy to see that in this case, it is not working.

Our country’s morals and integrity have been disturbingly warped.

I have always lived under the notion that God disapproved of hatred. However, if the afterlife is exclusive and filled with the members of the Westboro Baptist Church, it would be hard to discern the difference between heaven and hell.

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Few, futile rules in love, flirting it’s getting old. Either women say they want a nice guy and mistakenly go for assholes or women are flat out lying to us.

August Walsh

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As fun as it is to flirt with women, there are still some key components that many women expect from men that are outdated and ridiculous.

August the ATM It’s the classic scene in the movies where some guys are at a bar and spot an attractive woman across the room. One of the guys goes over and offers to buy her a drink.

Let’s stop right there. Does the fact that a man finds a woman extremely attractive qualify her for a free drink? Isn’t it reasonable to say that we are supposed to be living in a society where women are treated just as equally as men?

If so, then women who flirt with me should be expected to buy me a drink, just like I’m supposed to buy her a drink if I was into her.

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There aren’t many reasons out there why people should be receiving drinks for free to begin with and being good-looking definitely isn’t one of them. The only reason someone should buy someone else a drink without expecting to be reimbursed is when people are celebrating some occasion of significance like a birthday, graduation or wedding.

August the Nice Guy Many people say that nice guys finish last, but I disagree. Nice guys aren’t even given a chance in the first place.

Let’s use the bar situation again. I’ve just bought an attractive woman a drink and we start talking. From my perspective, she’s really interested in what I’m saying, which leads me to believe that I’ve got a shot at either getting her number or maybe something more.

Thirty minutes and a few drinks later, reality hits me square in the face. She tells me I’m just too nice and wanted a few free drinks. Well, she doesn’t directly tell me that but her body language and tone suggest it.

Us “nice guys” are used constantly and

August the Comedian During a late night gathering, I’ve finally found a woman who does seem sincerely interested in me and isn’t using me for free drinks.

She’s given me her number and wants me to hang out at her place. However, there’s been one thing that’s been bugging me — she’s been laughing at everything I’ve been saying. It’s not in a condescending way, but she seems to be finding everything hilarious, even when I’m not trying to be funny.

While I enjoy the reassurance of my comedic abilities, it’s extremely annoying when it’s blown out of proportion.

August the Go-Getter Some women love playing hard to get.

Those women either see romance as a game or they don’t want to be seen as easy, both of which are hilarious excuses.

If it’s a game, then there have to be rules and winners and losers. Who creates the rules?

Who decides who wins and who loses?

If it’s more about being seen as easy, then women should be more upfront about what they want. From experience, women tend to be mysterious about what they want and how men should go about getting what we want.

Many of my friends have turned hitting on women into a game as well. Many of them have tried getting me to read and reread the book “The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists,” by

Neil Strauss.

However, the advice given by Strauss has left me even more confused than when I started.

Maybe the nightlife situation is just too complex, but for now, I’ll stick to my usual routine — with wheels spinning, ruts being dug deeper and flirting becoming even more of a mystery.

August Walsh can be reached at awalsh@theorion.com

Heavy sigh, shoulder lean, exhausted looks in all directions for the next failed romance.

Flirting tactics, though strategic in the game of love, aren’t supposed to make you look like a pickup artist. Women are analytical by nature. The first couple of interactions that take place between us and a new male are extremely encoded from our point of view. We’ll pick up on whether you just want sex or if you’re truly interested in a relationship.

Flirting is an art that is so long forgotten that I’m not even sure a genteel methodology for it ever existed.

Although, when I think back

for you.

But — red alert, red alert!

There are too many men who are too relaxed about meeting women. These types think women will inevitably just fall into their laps. These are men who have “The Big Lebowski.” It’s misogyny at its worst.

These cultural icons are “heroes” to men but they oppose how women think and what women want. It’s a role that I’ve seen men take on as their own again and again. But cultural icons are not suits that you should want to slip into whenever the persona seems fitting to your needs.

To us, these types of men are the slyest when it comes to flirting and they’re probably least likely to be afraid of approaching women in person. This is the art of persuasion that the pick-up artist would use.

Whereas these men might

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to sixth grade, I remember the flirting being fun and secret, not tainted as though dragged through the dirt of our raunchy bar culture.

What’s worse is that our dating world is defined by mainly nonverbal flirting because of the technological times we live in. Texting, email and instant messaging can be effective by allowing us that first foot in the door when trying to get to know someone, but it almost makes flirting too easy. It allows men to “hide” behind a guard in case the rejection is too devastating.

Alcohol does the same thing — “Oh, well, I had been drinking, so … ” Men, please give up those doubtful qualifiers when your pals ask you how the flirting went. Women don’t want a man with defense mechanisms.

Women want a man who isn’t afraid to flirt with them in person. Don’t be a creep about it, if you are, we’ll let you know. Be sweet instead.

Buying us a drink or sending us a text that might have three times the meaning of something literal is only going to get you so far.

Women are tired of the covert messages. To us, a man who approaches us face to face is chivalrous. In consequence, we’ll have a lot more respect

seem brave and genuinely interested in a female, on closer inspection women become a sort of pick-up artists themselves. They’ll be “picking up” that these men are in costumes that make up the qualities of a clown.

These are red flags that men can use as a checklist when engaging in the art of flirtation. But there is one more box you can check off when avoiding douchebag qualities. No matter how sexy a woman is dressed, do not use her appearance as an excuse for why your flirting tactics went haywire.

Imagine Amy Winehouse’s “Fuck Me Pumps” playing in the background.

A man sees something alluring across the room.

He tries to flirt but the filter is removed, and the woman realizes that she shouldn’t have worn such a short skirt tonight. Out comes a sleazy line that the man regrets. The woman is offended.

Men, when this happens, throw your hands up as if you were being arrested and say the one qualifier that might save you — “I’m just say’n!”

Thumbs Up to the beginning of March Madness. We’re finally back to the three weeks a year basketball is actually exciting to watch instead of predictable and overpaid.

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Serena Cervantes can be reached at scervantes@theorion.com

PIECE OF MIND >> What kind of flirting annoys you?

Marleah Singleton senior | health education

“Cheesy pick-up lines like ‘Do you know how much a polar bear weighs?

Enough to break the ice.’

Also, when [men] call you ‘girl.’ Like, ‘Yo, girl,’ ‘What’s up girl,’ ‘Hey girl, let me get yo number.’”

“When they mislead you. Girls should follow up with guys and go out with them on a second date instead of a one-night stand.”

Joey Gervais

freshman | political science

“When they don’t shave. Got that Chico State? Shave it off.”

Tara Matthews senior | health science

“With me in particular, girls tend to take my glasses whenever they’re flirting with me. It’s really annoying and one of my few pet peeves.”

Evan Mattes

freshman | political science

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Wildcat Rivals ILLUSTRATION BY ASHLEY VIEGAS

Chico State is isolated geographically from most teams in its conference. However, there are two teams that have formed major rivlaries with the Wildcats in several sports.

Kevin Augustine STAFF WRITER

At Chico State, athletics have the Rowdy Red, a fight song and plenty of memorable scenes framed in the halls of Acker Gym. All that’s missing is a clear-cut rival. At least, that’s the public perception of it all.

But there are a couple schools that have boiled the blood of Wildcat athletes much more than the rest. Here in Chico, those two major foes are the Sonoma State Seawolves and the Humboldt State Lumberjacks.

Sonoma State In terms of a personal rivalry, there is no better example than that of men’s basketball junior guard Jay

Flores, a former Seawolf himself.

Flores played in 24 games as a freshman for Sonoma State in the 2007-08 season before transferring to Chico.

“I wasn’t too familiar with the rivalry when I was at Sonoma since I was only a freshman,” Flores said.

The business major has averaged 12 points per game against his former team.

“The Sonoma games have always been intense for me. I still know a few guys on their team and there’s defi nitely some jawing at the beginning of games,” Flores said.

From trash talking to full contact, the rivalry between Chico and Rohnert Park spans across multiple sports.

In men’s soccer, the ’Cats split the season series against the Seawolves this year and are 22-29-3 all time.

To junior forward Chris Akwaja, the rivalry is nothing to joke about.

“Sonoma is our thing,” said Akwaja, an All-California Collegiate Athletic Association fi rst team selection. “When we play them, you’re gonna get kicked. We try to send them a

message and leave everything on the field.”

The ’Cats and Seawolves are rivals on the diamond as well. Especially in baseball, where the teams have a long, contentious history. Sonoma State took down Chico in spring of 2008 in the Western Regional final, as they advanced to the Division II College World Series — at Nettleton Stadium.

Wildcats baseball is 64-40 against Sonoma State, and Chico State head coach Dave Taylor has an 8-9 career record against the Seawolves.

“Sonoma has been our rival for quite a while,” Taylor said.

“They’ve always been successful baseball-wise for a lot of years and so have we. In the late ’90s to early 2000s, it was us and them competing for regional and conference championships and we had success against them in those years.”

Despite the long-standing rivalry, Taylor believes both teams keep the bitterness on the field.

“It’s been all clean, competitive fun,” Taylor said. “They’ve had some success and we’ve

had some too, but they are a defi nite rival for us.”

Humboldt State For Wildcat basketball, both the men’s and women’s teams think the Humboldt State Lumberjacks from Arcata are the defi nitive rival on the hardwood.

Since 1987, the men’s basketball team has an 18-27 record against the Lumberjacks and are currently on a six-game losing streak, including an 84-81 overtime loss in Chico Dec. 3.

Despite the tough stretch for the ’Cats, sophomore guard Damario Sims averaged 16 points in the season series against the ’Jacks.

Sims thinks Humboldt brings out the best on the floor and in the stands, he said.

“Every time we play Humboldt State, it’s always a packed house and it feels like a playoff game,” Sims said.

Just mentioning Humboldt State to the women’s basketball team and junior guard Molly Collins is enough to signify what a rivalry is all about.

Despite dominating the Lumberjacks 62-19 since 1970,

the Wildcats split the series against Humboldt this season, beating them in Acker Gym 64-62 on Dec. 3 to extend a 14-game home-winning streak against the Lumberjacks. But on Feb. 5, they lost in Lumberjack Arena 76-60.

“Humboldt State has been our rival since I can remember,” Collins said. The sociology major averaged nine points per game in the season series. “Every time we play them I hope we blow them out.”

Lumberjack head coach Joddie Gleason is a Chico State alumna, and remains the only Wildcat women’s player to be named to the Kodak AllAmerica team twice. Gleason holds the single-season scoring average record and the mark for second most points in school history.

“She was really successful here and is a huge fan of our athletic department,” Collins said. “We compete to gain recruits and if we can take a recruit from Humboldt, that is big for us.”

Kevin Augustine can be reached at kaugustine@theorion.com

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Veteran ’Cat in command from a trip to the NCAA Western Regional title game in 2006, and were primed to be nationally competitive yet again.

Allie Colosky STAFF WRITER

Chico State baseball has found its leader in Scott Newberry.

And as the only senior on the current roster in his fourth year, the veteran righty serves as an ideal role model for the younger players.

He’s even earned the nickname Papa Newbs from the freshmen on the team.

Newberry has seen his share of successful teams over the years, and learning to adjust his own game has given him the experience to set a good example as captain.

His head coach, Dave Taylor, trusts and respects Newberry as much as anyone.

“He’s the ultimate team guy,” Taylor said. “He’s taken the new guys under his wing and kind of shown them the ins and outs of the program. This is really his team.”

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He had been recruited as a pitcher, but Taylor, in his first year as head coach, told him playing outfield was his best chance to stay on the team, Newberry said.

“Anything you need me to do I’ll go do,” Newberry said.

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All kinds of Madness in Chico The phrase March Madness usually conjures images of buzzer-beaters and jubilation on a plasma screen TV, and endless chicken wings and Sierra Nevadas in the living room.

Thankfully, for many Chico State students, this is a reality every spring. The gods of fatehave granted our yearly spring solace from school to coincide with both booze-laden St. Patrick’s Day and the unofficial holiday known as the NCAA Tournament.

Luck of the Irish? Screw Notre Dame. It’s the luck of the Wildcats.

For the basketball players who fight for their postseason lives at Acker Gym on an annual basis, March Madness carries a whole different meaning.

For example, last year’s Division II men’s championship game, won by Chico’s conference foe Cal Poly Pomona, had an attendance of 3,762.

By contrast, the men’s Division I game between Duke and Butler at Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas, had a grotesquely huge crowd of 71,298.

Different venues, smaller schools and nearly no national attention are what March Madness means for Division II men and women. Fortunately, that only seems to cause a little jealousy.

At least, in the case of one buoyant Wildcat.

Damario Sims, a sophomore guard on the men’s basketball team, has been having the time of his life in his two postseason appearances as a Wildcat, he said.

Sims was part of the 200910 team that got a big upset win at Cal State Dominguez Hills in the first round of the California Collegiate Athletic Association Tournament a year ago.

“It was big-time,” Sims said.

“It was a lifetime memory.”

Sims certainly helped to make that memory happen, with a career-high 21-point performance against the Toros as a freshman reserve.

But Sims got to experience the short end of the stick this season, after the ’Cats were dismantled by Dominguez Hills on the same stage by a score of 75-59. He said that it’s always “at the back of your mind” that going home for good is an immediate possibility, once in the playoffs.

The glamour and attention that the Division I stars get does bother Sims and teammates like his roommate, junior guard Jay Flores, he said.

“I’m pretty sure we’re at the Division II level for a reason though,” Sims said, laughing.

“We can’t just sit there and mourn.”

March Madness may resonate with people the same way across most of the country, but for a few lesser-known athletes it means a much more personal drama. One that will never be mentioned in the same breath as things like the Laettner game, but one that is just as life-changing and life-affirming for all of those young ballers.

And there’s nothing wrong with that. Even if Dick Vitale never hears about it.

ILLUSTRATIVE PHOTO • FRANK REBELO

UTILI-’CAT Senior pitcher Scott Newberry has done anything and everything for Chico State baseball in his four years as a Wildcat.

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[ jock ] talk The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy.”

- Jerry Tarkanian Former national champion college coach, on success in basketball.

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Softball prepping for first-place Tritons Thomas Lawrence SPORTS EDITOR

Chico State baseball’s seriesending doubleheader against Cal State Stanislaus has been postponed yet again.

The tw0-game finish to the series, initially rescheduled to Tuesday, March 22 because of bad weather, has now been pushed back another week, to Tuesday, March 29. In Turlock on March 17, the Wildcats swept the Warriors in a doubleheader, with a score of 7-2 in a 12-inning game, and 3-2 in the second.

The Wildcats are in first place in the California Collegiate Athletic Association. source: chicowildcats.com

With the recent downpour, weather has been an issue for both Chico State’s baseball and softball teams. The softball team has yet to reschedule their matchups from this weekend, but will take on UC San Diego Friday and Saturday. source: chicowildcats.com

The Chico State Men’s golf team competed in the Mustang Intercollegiate tournament hosted by the University of New Mexico Tuesday. The ’Cats are No. 1 in the Golf World/Nike Golf Division II coaches poll and No. 2 in the Golfstat Head-toHead Rankings. The Wildcats are one of six Top 25 teams that competed in the tournament, and where they finish in the tournament will likely have great impact on their future rankings.

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Wildcat softball might say this weekend’s series against first-place UC San Diego is just another set of games, but in reality it’s anything but.

Head coach Angel Shamblin’s ’Cats will take on the California Collegiate Athletic Association-leading Tritons at University Softball Field Friday and Saturday.

The ’Cats come into the pivotal series at 11-5 in the CCAA, good for third place, and 14-7 overall. UC San Diego is 14-5 inconference and 20-6 overall.

One of Division II’s best pitchers, Camille Gaito, is a Triton and leads the CCAA with a 0.52 ERA and 13 wins. Gaito has 65 strikeouts and has walked only nine in 93 2/3 innings pitched.

The women on the softball squad, like junior outfielder Sam Quadt, have seen firsthand the parity within the CCAA in 2011, and expect more and more of it no matter the outcome against San Diego. That said, jostling for a postseason position will be as prominent as ever.

“The postseason’s always what you look forward to,” Quadt said. “As of right now San Diego’s the team to beat.”

Despite the Wildcats good shot at the top of the conference, the team is more focused on second-place Sonoma State, Quadt said. The ’Cats had a scheduled series against the Seawolves this past weekend in Chico, but it was washed away by rain — yet another rainout in an already soaked season.

Unfortunately for Chico State, that rain has been as big a part of this season as winning and losing.

Due to the initial postponed series against Cal State East Bay, which was originally set for Feb. 19-20, the Wildcats had to play 12 games in nine days from March 4-12.

Junior catcher Hailey Stockman has felt the effects of the grueling schedule stretch as

much as anyone, and has seen the fatigue in her pitching staff, she said.

It’s not only hard on the pitchers though — it’s hard on everybody, Stockman said.

There’s just not much the team can do about the weather besides persevere, said junior outfielder Britt Wright, who has the third best batting average in the CCAA at .394.

“The rain is frustrating,” Wright said. “I think we’re doing whatever we can.”

Shamblin has put together an entire regimen of drills devoted to practicing inside Acker Gym — something the Wildcats have become accustomed to, Wright said.

Not only has the rain frustrated Chico, but some early season near-misses have as well.

Three of the Wildcats’ seven losses have been by one run, including two in-conference.

“We’ve lost a couple games that we definitely should’ve won,” Stockman said.

Stockman, like several other Wildcats, has been focusing on keeping her offensive prowess at the forefront. The kinesiology major from Auburn has a .373 average through 21 games, is tied for the team lead with four home runs and has a team-leading 17 RBIs. “I’ve been putting up pretty good numbers,” Stockman said.

To sustain that success, she would just have to “forget about” what she’s done so far, and focus on improving at the plate, she said.

One thing in the Wildcats’ corner may be the intense factor of travel for UC San Diego.

The La Jolla to Chico trip is one of the longest that the CCAA has to offer, at 585 miles, and about a 10-hour drive, according to Google Maps.

“I’d say we definitely have home field advantage,” Wright said. “It’s a long, long drive.”

FILE PHOTO • JOSH ZACK

Thomas Lawrence can be reached at sportseditor@theorion.com

TURNING TWO Junior third baseman Jackie Munoz reaches back to throw in the Wildcats’ home-opening series against San Francisco State. Munoz, a kinesiology major, has started all 21 games for the ’Cats.

Clancey excels as much more than track athlete

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Blake Mehigan A SST. SPORTS EDITOR

Wildcat of the Week

Ben Manlove Baseball

The man behind the plate for Chico State was big with his bat against Cal State Stanislaus on March 17. Manlove, a sophomore recording arts major, went three-for-six with two RBIs and a run scored. The Berkeley native also handled his staff well, as the Wildcats allowed just two runs in the doubleheader against the Warriors. Chico State is now 14-3 on the season.

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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STEPPING UP Senior heptathlete Kelly Clancey leaps over a hurdle in the Wildcat Relays, Feb. 26 in Chico. Clancey is a liberal studies major from Modesto and Riverbank High School.

Heptathletes need to be multi-deimensional to compete.

Wildcat Kelly Clancey happens to extend that approach to more than just the track.

Clancey got started in track and field back in sixth grade along with volleyball and basketball, she said. She competed in all those sports throughout her senior year at Riverbank High School.

But when her high school coach gave her a chance to explore and try different events in track, Clancey discovered what she wanted to do as a track athlete, she said.

Her success in her hometown of Modesto helped get her recruited by Chico State when she graduated in 2007.

After speaking with women’s head coach Oliver Hanf, and a visit to the campus, Clancey was sold.

“I went on a recruiting trip and fell in love with Chico,” she said.

Joining coach Hanf’s track team has led to some great success for Clancey, including the third highest heptathlon score in Chico State’s history at 4,861. She is also a twotime NCAA Championship qualifier in the heptathlon.

Clancey is a hard worker

and incredibly competitive, even in practice, said teammate Michael Storer. Even when the guys get exhausted when running by Clancey, they know it’s for a good reason.

Some of Clancey’s success in track could be attributed to the team’s cohesion.

In Chico State’s most recent track meet against Sacramento State on March 19, Clancey talked about how despite the storming weather, the team was cheering each other on while it was freezing, she said.

“It really is like one big family,” Clancey said.

Storer has known Clancey since freshman year, and she is someone he has gotten to know over the course of his time at Chico State, he said.

Storer not only sees her as a fierce competitor on the track, but as a close friend and a person he holds in high regard.

Storer is not the only one.

Sophomore Aimee Rodgers also looks up to Clancey, she said. Clancey helped her as a freshman on the track team.

“She just always has the best intentions,” Rodgers said.

Besides being an athlete, Clancey is also a liberal studies major with her sights set on getting her credentials through Chico State’s teaching program.

She would look to get into the program after this semester, which will be her last before graduating with her bachelor’s degree, she said.

“You’re at Chico thinking four years is going to be so long, and then it’s over,” Clancey said.

This last semester is not an easy one for Clancey either, as she is working a healthy amount at Crush Italian Cuisine and Lounge outside of being a full-time student and practicing several times throughout the week.

“I don’t really have a life,” Clancey said, jokingly.

Despite her packed schedule, Clancey is still very dedicated in everything she does, Rodgers said. She is someone who Rodgers and many other track athletes look up to, because of her work ethic.

“She is probably one of the most hard-working girls on the track,” Rodgers said.

Reflecting on her time at Chico State, Clancey was almost at a loss for words when recounting the last four years. The time left is precious though, she said.

“It goes by so fast,” Clancey said, “so you can’t take any moment for granted.”

Blake Mehigan can be reached at bmehigan@theorion.com

STAT CAT >> SOFTBALL

12

Number of games the Chico State softball team played in nine days, from March 4-12, thanks to a Feb. 19-20 rainedout series against Cal State East Bay. The Wildcats went 7-5 during that stretch.

BASEBALL

8

National ranking of the Chico State baseball team, the first-place team in the California Collegiate Athletic Association heading into this weekend’s games.

TRACK AND FIELD

7

Number of events won by Chico State men’s and women’s track and field at the Hornet Invitational in Sacramento Saturday.

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W WATER POLO POLO PROWESS Brian Brearley, the team captain of the men’s water polo club, is one of the major reasons for a cultural and winning change for his team.

Brearley, a senior marketing major and native of Pleasanton, said that nastiness in the pool and focus outside of it have earned his team more wins.

ILLUSTRATIVE PHOTO • KEVIN LEE

Water polo winning with self-discipline Gina Pence STAFF WRITER

All they wanted was to be taken seriously.

But until the 2008 season, the Chico State men’s water polo club was struggling with unimpressive results and a rowdy reputation.

Coach Cli Kunkel knew what it was going to take to get respect, and it would require the commitment of all the players, he said. “We wanted to make it into a more serious program, and we all had to improve tenfold for it to work,â€? said Kunkel, a senior art history major.

It started with an overhaul on the coaching sta. Four years ago, the players decided to elect a student as a coach in hopes of getting more eďŹƒcient practices and more focus on the games instead of partying, said Peter Jacobs, former team captain and senior civil engineering major. “We set some ground rules, made sure everyone’s heads were on straight and that we were focused on the games,â€?

Jacobs said. “We did more team activities, like team dinners, and we had meetings before and after games.�

Team captain Brian Brearley, a senior marketing major,

thinks the new leadership has brought undeniable improvement to his club, he said. “We turned this team around drastically from two or three wins in a season to at least 10 or 12,� Brearley said. “The old team would go to tournaments and carry the Chico nightlife into those communities. We’re not about that anymore.�

The men’s team’s most recent victory was against Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in their last tournament, by a score of 7-6. “We’ve never beaten them before,� Brearley said. “It was a really dirty game, it looked

simple above the water, but below is where it gets dirty.

There was grabbing, kicking, punching, elbowing, holding — it was nasty.�

In addition to the improved record, three players were named First Team All-League in the PaciďŹ c Coast Division, including Jacobs and goalie Taylor Kudell, a senior geography major. The award is given to the top six ďŹ eld players and the top goalie in the division. “It’s really a great honor to be named as a part of that team,â€? Kudell said.

The program has come a long way from where it started, Kunkel said. The teams now

practice at the Wildcat Recreation Center, as opposed to the dive well in Shurmer Gym. The diving well was too narrow to allow for the team to practice with all ďŹ ve players, and so the scrimmages were four-against-four, he said. “We didn’t even have a real pool to practice in,â€? Kunkel said. “Why would anyone take us seriously?â€?

Though Kunkel is the oďŹƒcial coach, all the players help each other improve, Jacobs said. “A bunch of us have been coaches in the past, and we all bring this collective knowledge together,â€? he said. “And though Cli is our

oďŹƒcial coach, we’re all to the point where we take advice from each other, and it’s respectful.â€?

The team hopes that their collective knowledge will help them achieve their next goal — making nationals. As Jacobs said, Chico State water polo has just as good a chance as any other squad at their level. “We’re just as competitive as any other team,â€? he said. “It always comes down to the last quarter — who’s going to suck it up, and swim their ass o for those last seven minutes.â€?

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Nov. 7

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L 58-104

Feb. 5

Simpson University (DH)

Nov. 7

@University of Pacific

L 44-59

Nov. 19

Academy of Art

W 73-55

Feb. 18-20

@Cal Poly Pomona

Nov. 18

@Cal State Stanislaus

W 64-59

Nov. 20

Hawaii Pacific

W 64-46

Feb. 27-28

Montana-State Billings

Nov. 22

Bethany University

W 63-44

Nov. 23

Cal State Stanislaus

W 74-59

March 4-6

@Cal State Monterey Bay

Nov. 26

Northwest Christian

W 85-72

Nov. 27

@Cal State Stanislaus

W 88-80

March 11

@Western Oregon

Nov. 27

Dominican

W 71-52

Dec. 3

Humboldt State

W 64-62

March 17

@Cal State Stanislaus

Dec. 3

Humboldt State

L 81-84 (OT)

Dec. 4

Sonoma State

W 52-41

March 22

Simpson University

Dec. 4

Sonoma State

W 69-65

Dec. 10

@Western Washington

March 25-26

Dec. 8

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Dec. 11

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L 56-57

March 27

Dec. 11

Pacific Union

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Dec. 30

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W 68-58

Dec. 30

@Cal State L.A.

L 62-71

Dec. 31

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W 71-59

Dec. 31

@Cal State Dominguez Hills

L 65-76

Jan. 7

UC San Diego

Jan. 7

UC San Diego

W 68-55

Jan. 8

Jan. 8

Cal State East Bay

W 65-47

Jan. 14

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Jan. 15

W 65-62 (OT)

W 21-9, W 6-2

Feb. 5

Dominican

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Feb. 5

Cal State San Marcos

3W

Feb. 5

San Francisco State

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Feb. 18-19

Cal State East Bay

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Feb. 25-26

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Canceled

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San Francisco State

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March 11-12

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March 18-19

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March 29

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Grand Canyon

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April 2

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Jan. 15

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April 3

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April 8-9

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Jan. 21

San Francisco State

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Jan. 22

Cal State Monterey Bay

May 6-7

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April 15-16

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Jan. 22

Cal State Monterey Bay

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Jan. 28

Cal State Dominguez Hills

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May 8

Sonoma State

April 21-22

Cal State Monterey Bay

Jan. 28

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May 19-22

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May 13-15

NCAA West Regional

Feb. 3

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Feb. 5

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May 20-21

NCAA Super Regional

Feb. 5

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L 60-65

Feb. 10

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NCAA Division II College WS

Feb. 10

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Feb. 12

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Feb. 12

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Cal Poly Pomona

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Feb. 18

Cal Poly Pomona

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Feb. 19

Cal State San Bernardino

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Feb. 19

Cal State San Bernardino

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Feb. 24

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Feb. 25

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March 1-5

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March 12-15

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Oct. 18-19

Golf Mart Lady Otter Invitational

March 5-6

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March 21-22

InterWest Chico State Invitational

March 28--29

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Feb. 6

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L 1-4, W 5-2

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L 38-51

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Feb. 26

Chico Multi-event

March 3-4

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March 5

Aggie Open

March 12

Hornet Invitational

March 19

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March 23-24

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April 18-19

CCAA Championships

April 4-5

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March 25-26

American River College

March 28-29

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May 2-4

NCAA Super Regional

April 11-12

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April 2

Chico Distance Carnival/Twilight Invite

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Hanny Stanislaus Invitational

May 17-20

NCAA National Championships

May 1-3

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Mt. Sac Relays/Woody Wilson

April 15-16

CA/OR Border Battle

April 22-23

Peyton Jordan Invitational

April 30

CCAA Championships

May 5-7

Stanislaus Twilight

May 13-14

NCAA Championships

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STAFF COMMENTARY

Former ’Cats clawing their way to majors Kevin Amerine STAFF WRITER

With the San Francisco Giants coming off their championship season, and our ’Cats boasting a record of 14-3, it is a prime time to be a baseball fan in Chico.

The upcoming MLB season will be an exciting one for Chico fans, especially with a number of former ’Cats attempting to make a name for themselves in the big leagues.

First of all, there’s Drew Carpenter, a right-handed pitcher on the Phillies 40-man roster who is the first former Wildcat to don a major league uniform.

Carpenter came up in fall 2008, the season in which the Phillies won their second title in franchise history.

The Grants Pass, Ore., native has one career win in five appearances.

Former Chico State pitcher Kyle Woodruff, a 6-foot-6incher from San Jose’s Leland High School, is one ’Cat trying to do just that. After being taken by the Giants in the 27th round of the 2008 draft, he signed with the organization. He has had impressive minor league numbers thus far.

Woodruff has posted an ERA of 3.14 in 154.2 innings from 2008-10, with Giants’ affiliates in Arizona, Georgia and San Jose, according to baseball-reference.com.

Woodruff will most likely start the 2011 season with San Jose, and if he continues to put up similar numbers he should move up in the Giants’ farm system.

Another former Wildcat pitcher trying to make it in the pros is Billy Spottiswood.

Drafted in the 25th round in 2007 by the Arizona Diamondbacks, Spottiswood

has an outstanding fastball and changeup, according to theshow.ootpleagues.com.

After being drafted, he debuted with the Yakima Bears, moved up to the South Bend Silver Hawks in 2008, and progressed to the Visalia Rawhide in 2009, all single-A ball clubs.

After a brief stint in Visalia, Spottiswood then made the jump to triple-A later in the ’09 season playing for the Reno Aces, where he had a 4.28 ERA in 27.1 innings.

Spottiswood was then traded to the New York Yankees. In 2010, he played for their triple-A affiliate, Scranton, where he had a 3.91 ERA in 53 innings.

In 2010, the Boston Red Sox drafted former Chico State workhorse pitcher Mike Gleason in the 34th round.

The 6-foot-1, 195 pounder out of Chico has an impressive strikeout percentage and excellent control.

Gleason made his debut last year on June 23, pitching for Boston’s Gulf Coast League rookie club Red Sox. At 22, Gleason finished off his season with a 4.28 ERA in 14 games. He had 30 strikeouts in 40 innings pitched and had a record of 1-2, according to soxprospects.com.

Joining Carpenter, Woodruff, Spottiswood and Gleason in the pros as former standout Chico State pitchers are Kris Krise and Garrett Rieck.

The Los Angeles Dodgers drafted Krise in the 12th round of the 2005 draft, and the Cleveland Indians drafted Rieck in the 29th round of the 2007 draft, according to thebaseballcube.com.

The ’Cats should be proud of their former players who are making a name for themselves in the world of professional baseball.

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2008, Newberry approached Taylor again in his sophomore year when his confidence fell and he struggled at the plate. He asked if he could take the mound again.

He did, and it worked, Newberry said. He then split time between pitching and outfield in 2009 before his breakout season in spring 2010.

“I bring a lot of confidence,” Newberry said. “I want the ball in the pressure situations.”

He made 25 appearances as a relief pitcher for the ’Cats and finished a successful 2010 season with a 3.86 ERA and one save. He also played in the California Collegiate Athletic Association Tournament and the NCAA Tournament for the third straight time as a Wildcat.

In 2011, Newberry has pitched in six games and has a 2.08 ERA, the fourth best on the team.

His main goal for now is staying healthy in the Wildcats’ hunt for another trip to the College World Series. He’s continuing to set the example for the younger players who will eventually step up to the plate as leaders themselves, he said.

“I’m getting old,” Newberry said, jokingly.

“I’ve been fortunate not to have any pretty serious injuries but I’m trying to keep up with the young guys and keep my body in shape.”

But for a self-appointed “old man,” Papa Newbs still has plenty of energy. Regarded as one of the most competitive on the ’Cats roster, Newberry’s hunger continues to inspire confidence in his teammates. His liveliness has been an especially great motivator for freshman pitcher Nick Baker.

“He’s made me feel welcome as a freshman, Baker said. “He’s made me more confident.”

Baker is one of three freshman pitchers for the ’Cats.

Newberry can relate to their situations and knows from experience that confidence can be just what this team needs, he said.

The ’Cats are currently ranked No. 1 in the CCAA standings with a record of 8-2 in conference, and are 14-3 overall. They travel to San Francisco State for the start of a four-game series, which ends with a Sunday doubleheader in Chico, at Nettleton Stadium.

“I see him being the guy to have late-inning opportunities,” Taylor said. “He’s our toughest and most competitive, so to have him in crucial situations is his best role right now.”

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BIG-TIME HEAT Right-handed hurler Michael Gleason pitched with the Wildcats for two seasons. In his senior year of 2010, Gleason led the ’Cats in strikeouts with 90.

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“SOME THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE THE WORLD ENDS” Date 7:30 p.m.

ThursdaySaturday Price $16 general admission Location Chico Cabaret 2201 Pillsbury Road (off Cohasset Road between Highway 99 and East Avenue)

Theatrical production from Chico Cabaret hallucinates sermons Paige Fuentes STAFF WRITER

In this eclectic two-man show, the hallucinating Reverend Eddie, Brother Lawrence and “the one true church” are in a battle against Satan.

In the Chico Cabaret’s most recent production, “Some Things You Need to Know Before the World Ends (A Final Evening With The Illuminati),” Jerry Miller plays Reverend Eddie and Jeff Dickenson plays Brother Lawrence. The play will be running shows at 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday.

Directed by Miller, Dickenson and Mark Cunha-Rigby, this show delivers hilarious religious satire at a pulpit made out of a rusty oil barrel.

Reverend Eddie awaits his death as his archenemy the Illuminati taunts with whisperings only he can hear. The paranoid, pill-popping preacher experiences a handful of hallucinations after he and several townsfolk are exposed to nerve

gas and the audience is allowed insight into his visions as he gives several absurd sermons.

Miller and Dickenson play the nameless characters in these hallucinations, and the various insane renditions of “the one true church” include a person approved for sainthood for folding a roadmap by himself and a Western song about Lutheranism.

The hearty laughs elicited by the tech rehearsal seem to have been matched by shock and awe in the audience.

While it may be easy to get lost in the jumps between Reverend Eddie’s reality and the hallucinations, Dickenson and Miller have a chemistry on stage that allows the audience to follow along easily. Costume designer Christy Sullivan said Dickenson and Miller did this same show back in 1988.

“The two know what they are doing,” Sullivan said.

Reverend Eddie warns his congregation of the dangers that can come about when you sin — comedy follows.

This dark comedy is suggested for a mature audience. Needless to say this show will prove to be unpredictable.

Paige Fuentes can be reached at pfuentes@theorion.com

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PHOTOS COURTESY OF AMY BROWN

PREACH ON IT Jeff Dickenson [left] and Jerry Miller star in Chico Cabaret’s production of “Some Things You Need to Know Before the World Ends,” showing Thursday through Saturday. The play stars Miller as a hallucinating preacher.

Laughter in a can A new form of situation comedy has risen over the past decade, but viewers still want to be told when to laugh.

Sitcoms like “I Love Lucy” and “The Honeymooners” were filmed before a live audience in the early days of television, and the ambient background laughter of those shows became a household staple.

This tradition continued as crowds devolved from polite claps and chuckles to thunderous hooting and hollering by the early ’90s with “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” and “Married …

With Children.” Even shows recorded on tape employed pre-recorded laughs and applause from the Golden Age of Television.

Approaches to the genre moved in more experimental directions as reality television began to make the genre feel unrealistic.

Inspired by the mockumentary technique of “This Is Spinal Tap,” the American version of “The Office” was the first in a movement of NBC sitcoms filmed using a single-camera perspective without laugh tracks. This approach is not exclusive to mockumentaries, either — the format’s flourished on cable with shows like “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” and “Eastbound and Down.”

But this refreshingly realistic style still pales in the ratings to the CBS comedies like “Two and a Half Men” and “How I Met Your Mother,” shows eschewing that aesthetic in favor of updating a tired format that’s been rendered obsolete since “Seinfeld” took it as far as it could go.

Even though people criticize NBC for the way they’ve handled basically every programming decision in the last 10 years, their dedication to comedy on Thursday nights is paying off with a steady, cultish viewership, even if the rest of America is busy watching Charlie Sheen give misogynistic advice to a teenager.

What keeps single-camera sitcoms fresh compared to the traditional approach is their ability to compress dialogue into quick exchanges or let a scene breathe for dramatic, ironic effect. “30 Rock,” for instance, relies on its cartoonish, rapid-fire writing style to deliver its surreal brand of humor.

When the show broadcast a special live edition earlier in the season, most of that humor fell flat because the laughter in the crowd broke the flow of the dialogue.

NBC’s Thursday sitcom block, which includes “30 Rock” and the similarly paced “Community,” doesn’t have to appeal to the lowest common denominator to elicit laughs. It can rely on the strength of its writing and the evolving dynamic between cast members, pushing the humor into unpredictable directions with every episode.

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>> “Thank You Happy Birthday” (ALBUM) Cage the Elephant’s newest album stitches together everything good about rock music in the past 25 years — from the nostalgic hooks of The Strokes to the frenetic dancepunk rhythms of Arctic Monkeys and The Libertines, with a hint of Pixies and Sonic Youth thrown in for flavor. The band proves they’ve got the loud-quiet-loud thing down over the course of the album, moving from the dulcet mood of songs “Shake Me Down” to the bombastic abrasiveness of “Sabretooth Tiger.”

THE BAD >>

>> “The Office” without Steve Carell (TV) No matter how much the writers of “The Office” try to tout their ensemble cast, everyone knows that the show is never going to be the same without Michael Scott. He’s been the awkward, oblivious force holding it together.

“The Office” has devoted countless episodes over the course of the last two seasons fleshing out its supporting cast, but I’ve never felt connected to any of those characters like I have with Carell’s lovably irritating boss character.

Sitcoms always suffer when the lead character disappears — it happened to “That ’70s Show” and it’s going to happen to “Two and a Half Men” if they do the same. Besides, the show’s humor peaked in the third season and has been floundering ever since. The only way the show can redeem itself is to make Creed the new boss.

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Shedding black light Nicole Walker STAFF WRITER

Eye-Que and Jx are returning to the heart of hip-hop — the lyrics.

Their upcoming CD encourages the audience to listen to the words, said Quentin “Eye-Que” Fields, public affairs major at Chico State.

The beats can distract listeners from the meaning behind the song.

“You have to care what you write,” Fields said. “I focus on being a lyricist and getting people to understand what I am saying.”

Fields and producer Juan “Jx” Zapien, will be holding a CD release party Friday at Trucker for their new project, “Eye-Que & Jx — The Black Light EP.” The CD takes a second look at hip-hop by commenting on the issues within the genre, exposing the imagery like a black light and showing ‘EYE-QUE & JX how it might — THE BLACK LIGHT EP’ mislead young listen- RELEASE ers, Fields Date said.

The proj- Friday ect began 5:30-9 p.m. when Zapien Location was exposed Trucker to Eye-Que’s talent and rhymes, Zapien said.

“Plain and simple, he’s a real emcee who raps,” he said.

“Meaning the dude lives hiphop and happens to rap.”

Today’s artists tend to forget that rap was fi rst used as a verb — they call themselves “rappers” while using the banner of hip-hop for an image, Zapien said, adding that Eye-Que is sincere about what he says on a track and doesn’t set standards for his listeners to live up to.

This will be the first project that Fields and Zapien have worked together on. There are a lot of upbeat, fun-sounding tracks with serious content that tricks the mind into listening, Fields said. This separates this

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KINGKILLER Patrick Rothfuss’ Kvothe the Bloodless makes his latest appearance in “The Wise Man’s Fear,” the second entry in the Kingkiller Chronicles.

New book in fantasy bestseller Tim Kerber STAFF WRITER

Anyone watching cannot help but feel uncomfortable.

Rape played a prevailing role in this movie because its plot was based on the two young women’s brutal attacks.

Justice was served and people left the theater satisfied, but rape should not be a form of entertainment.

Movies portraying the horrific act make me wonder if writers are being sincere or just trying to get away with showing another naked body. Horror films are one genre where the extra female brutality does not belong.

It’s OK to look away at the bloody mess horror films deliver — I did it multiple times watching “The Human Centipede.” But it is not OK to violently exploit a woman’s body and call it a plot. Turning a blind eye to real life violence is worse than shutting your eyes to it in a movie.

Fantasy readers can finally rejoice, for the long awaited sequel to Patrick Rothfuss’s second book in the Kingkiller Chronicles, “The Wise Man’s Fear,” has finally hit bookshelves and has already reached the top of the New York Times Best Sellers list.

The Kingkiller Chronicles follow the story of Kvothe the Bloodless, a musician and magician as well as a thief and a liar, and how he became a legend in his own time.

The narration jumps back and forth between two time periods, one set in the present with Kvothe retired as an innkeeper hiding from unknown enemies and another set in the past with the story of Kvothe becoming an accomplished lute player and learning secret magic.

Structured in such a way as to allow for much foreshadowing, it not-so-subtly hints that a terrible tragedy caused Kvothe to retire, and that it likely involved him killing a king. But it also allows a great contrast between how others view Kvothe as a legend of distortedly mythical proportions, and how he views himself as just “that smart guy who got lucky often.”

After his last adventure, where he unsuccessfully tries to overdose a dragon with a barrel full of fantasy cocaine, Kvothe goes off to foil an assassination attempt, learns forbidden sword fighting techniques from the legendary Adem mercenaries, and is taught Kama Sutra and the ways of women from the faerie maiden Felurian.

What more could you possibly want in your fantasy?

Rothfuss’s first book in the series, “The Name of the Wind,” won the consumerdriven Quill Award, and publisher Elizabeth Wollheim called it “the most brilliant fantasy novel I have read in over 30 years as an editor.”

“Wise Man’s Fear” matches the fi rst book in the series with its lyrical prose. The characters feel realized and authentic and you can connect to them like someone you have known your whole life.

Be forewarned — if you start reading this book you won’t be able to get anything else done until you finish it.

You will call in sick to work, skip class and blow off homework assignments. But it will be worth it.

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BUT WHAT IF I WANT TO ENTER THROUGH THAT DOOR? Public aff airs major Quentin Fields, better known as rapper Eye-Que, debuts his collaboration with producer Jx Friday at Trucker in downtown Chico. project from past material.

Fields is inspired by music and strives to provide that same inspiration for his listeners.

“I want my music to be heard everywhere, worldwide,” he said. “So people can take what they want from it and use it in their lives to overcome and voice their frustrations.”

Fields has made his dream of being an artist a reality by earning the respect of his listeners,

and finding himself focused more on the music than the business, he said.

“It was never about getting paid,” he said. “It was about expressing myself and giving people the opportunity to show them the way I feel and relate to their lives. Changing someone’s whole perspective on hip-hop, hearing what the music did and how it affected him or her after the show is the most thrilling.”

Fields and Zapien hope to produce the same relationship with the listeners and remind them of what hip-hop is with this CD. “If you miss hearing breaks, cuts, flips, lyricism and that boom-bap sound,” Zapien said, “you might find yourself pressing repeat.”

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I can stomach zombies mauling limbs off humans, children possessed by demons and people being chomped away by mega piranhas, but I cannot handle watching a woman tortured and raped in a movie.

I am a huge horror films fan.

Horror films tap into the mind’s deepest and darkest fears, surfacing them on screen for a good scare. Adding rape to a horror film takes that fear too far.

I still remember cringing in my seat as I watched a tattered hand cup a young woman’s face as the villain drooled and huffed over the sight of her.

Instantly my gut knew what was next for her. The scene cut out and the young woman was crying with bloodstains — apparently, we weren’t watching the unrated version of “The Hills Have Eyes.”

As if the hill people weren’t already savage enough, the extra few moments where he rapes the teenage daughter were not necessary. Plunging a pick through her father’s head was service enough.

For decades, female roles in horror films fall into two categories — the over-sexualized fox or the damsel in peril.

The female heroes that are depicted are usually virginal and the female characters that are going to die almost always end up having sex.

“The film industry generally gravitates toward patriarchy, adolescent sexual desires,” history professor Kate Transchel

said in a phone interview.

“Very few images portray strong, capable women.”

Screenwriter Trent Haaga’s “Deadgirl” is a prime example of adolescent desires. Two high school students find what seems to be a dead woman while roaming through an abandoned mental asylum.

The woman, who is zombie-like and cannot die, is left naked and chained to a table through the entire film. After adopting the nameless girl as their sex slave, they invite friends to join in repeatedly raping her.

In one scene it is suggested that they considered using her bullet wounds as points of entry for sex because there was lubrication oozing from her lesions.

“Deadgirl” indulges a base fantasy of having a silenced female accessible for sexual pleasures — the submissive sexualized female for the insistent dominate male. It’s a redundant male ascendancy theme of feminine objectification interlaced into today’s media.

“Men are taught to be this aggressive, dominant figure,” said women’s study major and Chico State’s Women’s Center intern Trina Walker. “That type of anger is so accepted.”

Walker finds it odd.

“Are they glamorizing it or being critical?” she said.

Rape has no relation to fulfilling a sexual appetite, just power. The act should never be suggested in a film because it does not capture the emotional outcome of the violent violation.

“It’s not just forcible intercourse,” author Alice Sebold said in her memoir, “Lucky.”

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“Rape means to inhabit and destroy everything.”

Rape happens too often in our society.

During Transchel’s speech, delivered March 8 at Bell Memorial Union, she said 232,960 females survived a rape or attempted rape last year, which equals more than 60 women a day.

Survivors of sexual abuse do not always have the benefit of seeking revenge or justice on their assaulters. Watching a film do just that might be compelling, but it’s still hard to stomach.

Wes Craven’s “Last House on the Left” movies preach more of a revenge horror. His original film, released in 1972, is more disturbing than his later remake in 2009, but they both take the audience through a vigorous survival scheme of two girls trying to escape a group of sick people they accidentally got mixed up with.

Both films’ rape scenes zoom into the grit and carnage witnessed on the victim’s faces.

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STREAM OF RIGHTEOUSNESS POWER BREAKFAST A plate of biscuits and gravy from the Morning Thunder Cafe, served a la carte with an orange wedge and a sprig of garnish.

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A man of my metabolism needs a hefty power breakfast, and the only thing that will fill the void in my stomach is biscuits and gravy. After living in the Chico area for six months, I realized that I had yet to find a serving that pleased me.

My search began with Mom’s, in the hopes that the place closest to campus would satiate my craving.

I entered and took a seat at the bar. A waitress appeared with a menu.

“Large biscuits and gravy,” I demanded before she could hand me the roster. “And coffee.”

“We only have one size and it comes with one,” she informed me. “With eggs, potatoes and such.”

“You can’t just give me two biscuits on a plate with gravy?”

“No,” she said.

“Fine,” I replied. This was already off to a bad start. I didn’t want any of this other stuff — I wanted bread smothered in grease, flour and sausage bits.

That’s it.

Biscuits and gravy are intrinsically American. In fact, there may very well be a Norman Rockwell depiction — the family sitting in the kitchen, the father in a suit, reading the newspaper, the mother at the stove, wearing an apron and ladling the gravy onto a biscuit for the father, the child dressed formally for school with his plate and the spoon midway to his mouth.

The waitress brought me my coffee and my plate. The presentation was nice but I immediately knew that this venture was for bust. Three eggs, a mound of potatoes and a slice of cantaloupe occupied most of the dish’s real estate.

A single average-sized biscuit dapped with brownish gravy was tucked to the side like a dilapidated apartment complex on the outskirts of town.

I ate the eggs, a couple of bites of the potatoes and, finally, the biscuit and gravy. It was a waste of money. I only wanted the dish a la carte, not as a component to a well-rounded meal.

I wanted to be stuffed without having to fork out much money.

I paid my bill and made my

way back to campus, planning my next destination for the following morning.

I inquired at the Bell Memorial Union if they offered biscuits and gravy and was mortified when they informed me that they do not. If anyone would seize the opportunity to rob students of five bucks for 50 cents worth of ingredients, the school would.

I went to Country Waffles next, the Cohasset Road location, more on a whim than anything else. The place seemed promising enough. But inevitably, I was let down. The serving amount was better proportioned with only two eggs, a few hash browns and a big biscuit with a hefty serving of gravy.

My only major complaint was the gravy. It was good, but it was that same brown gravy you can tell is made from mixing sausage grease with a little flour and sausage — the same as Mom’s.

Granted, it’s a matter of opinion as to what makes exceptional gravy. My preferred model apparently is not in line with the town of Chico. I do not have my finger on the pulse of

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I began to get fearful. How can I be expected to successfully make it through college without a decent breakfast?

I decided to give one more place a chance before giving up — the three strikes rule. I was informed of a cafe a little bit farther away from campus on Vallombrosa Avenue called Morning Thunder Cafe. I arrived and took a seat at the bar.

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I was able to rest easy. Biscuits and gravy brings a special kind of confidence that can’t be explained. And so, with full belly and joyous disposition, I made my way to class.

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Storytelling a low priority in 3-D generation Isaac Brambila STAFF WRITER

My mom always fell asleep when we went to the movie theater, so we didn’t go often. But I remember the first time we went as a family.

We watched “The Lion King.” It was one of my favorite movies then, and still is. I don’t remember why I liked it so much when I was a boy — it was probably the jokes, Simba’s fight against Scar or Rafiki’s awesome martial arts skills. As I grew older, I liked “The Lion King” because it contained a full story about friendship, jealousy, greed, love and growing.

I’ve always been a fan of movies based on great stories like “Marley and Me” or even 2009’s “The Lovely Bones.” I like movies that have the power to make you laugh, make you angry or sad or make your stomach tight thinking about the world and humanity’s place in it.

But movie genres have evolved with technological advances. Blu-Ray, 3-D and high definition have made big explosions a higher priority than traditional storytelling.

“Avatar” was the highest grossing movie of all time, and its colorful and visually striking fictitious world made it the first great true 3-D movie ever made. Yet all those effects couldn’t mask its weak, tired message about environmentalism that was done better in Disney’s “Pocahontas.”

The movie industry has become a money-hungry monster, stripping recent blockbusters of any artistic content they could have had. As a result, many decent movies later spawn sequels in an attempt to ride the first film’s success as long as it is profitable, such as with the “Matrix” sequels, the horribly bad string of dance movies that are all the same and the newest entry in the “Fast and Furious” franchise, “Fast V.” Even movies that didn’t have success in the beginning, like the “Crank” movies, have sequels.

These movies hide all the art left in the industry. A lower standard for greatness has been created, devaluing awards like the Oscars.

My mom will always fall asleep at the movie theater, but for the sake of the rest of us, I want to stay confident that the good old days of creative and emotional filmmaking will return.

Isaac Brambila can be reached at ibrambila@theorion.com

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Master of Fine Arts Exhibition 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. @ University Art Gallery Free

MFA student Erin Kelley’s gallery is on display in Taylor Hall all week.

T H U R S DAY

Jimmy Grant 8 p.m. @ Cafe Coda $5

A night of swing music and gypsy jazz the Jimmy Grant Quartet and special guest Hot Potato.

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Crashed Giraffe 8 p.m. @ Cafe Coda $5

Crashed Giraffe premieres their new CD with Goat, The Remainder and Master Lady Lady.

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Electro-Sunset 9 p.m. @ 1078 Gallery $5

Wild Oak Music Group’s first electronic showcase features Mike Z and Simple Science, Team No Sleep and KO-DI-AK.

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Noon-4 p.m. @ Community Park Free Get out your kite and hope it’s windy, because the city will be flying kites together.

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All day @ Bell Memorial Union Free A large, interactive exhibit about the impact of the Gulf oil spill on people and wildlife.

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Mr. Greek Universe

7-9 p.m. @ Bell Memorial Union Auditorium $5 Frat boys compete to see who’s the belle of the ball at this event sponsored by the ladies of Lambda Sigma Gamma.

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“Microbes: Invisible Invaders… Amazing Alles!” noon to 5 p.m. @ Gateway Science Museum $5

An exhibit about the influences of microscophic organisms on history and culture at the museum of the College of Natural Sciences.

“Project Teams That Work”

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La Fin Du Monde 8 p.m. @ Cafe Flo $5

Local veterans La Fin Du Monde perform with West

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Acoustic Africa

7:30 p.m. @ Laxson Auditorium $14 student admission A night of African guitar with Habib Koite, Oliver Mtukudzi and Afel Bocoum.

8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. @ BMU 210 Free

F R I DAY

Sgt. Dunbar and The Hobo Banned 7 p.m. @ Has Beans Free

The Albany, New York band performs with Fera and Max Minardi.

Bach Festival: Germans Galore!

7:30-9:30 p.m. @ Harlen Adams Theatre $6 student admission The Chico State Chamber Singers join with local musicians to perform music from the German Baroque period.

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Rum Rebellion 8 p.m. @ Monstros Pizza $5

Portland’s Irish street punk band Rum Rebellion performs with Shivaree, DC Fallout and Born Into This.

Eclipse

7 p.m. @ El Rey Theatre $20 advance admission Pink Floyd tribute band Eclipse is set to tear down the walls of the El Rey Theatre.

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The Pushers 9 p.m. @ Lost on Main

The Pushers perform in what might be their last show with Dead to Me and Fight Music.

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Bach Festival: Rothe’s Bach

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The Department of Music’s Bach Festival continues as Chico State Organist Emeritus plays Bach favorites on the Centennial Pipe Organ.

The Meriam Library’s exhibit about invention continues in the Turner Print Museum.

2-4 p.m. @ Harlen Adams Theatre $6 student admission

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Gentleman’s Coup 7:30 p.m. @ Origami Lounge $5

Chico’s newest band composed of members from Candy Apple and Soft Crest performs their first show with Atlanta rock groups The Booze and Biters at 7th and Cherry.

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One in six Californians is hungry or at serious risk of hunger

In 2009, approximately 60 percent of CalFresh recipients were children

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ON $4 A DAY? Students take the “Hunger Challenge” to see if they can survive on the daily food stamp allowance Melissa Hahn M STAFF WRITER S

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In Butte County, 30.4 percent of adults live in food insecure households.

pending $4 per meal may be ideal for some, but millions of Americans are forced to spend just $4 each day on all their meals.

For one week starting April 3, students and community memstude bers are a dared to spend $4 a day for th their entire daily food and beverage budget. bever The Hunger Challenge is dedicated to the experience of food stamp recipients. The average amount amou a recipient has to spend on groceries is $28 per week, g which is about $1.33 per meal, said W Wendy Kaplan, a health and community services professor comm who iis organizing the event.

Millions of low-income AmeriMil cans are forced to make difficult decisions and overcome barriers decis to avoid avo hunger, pay bills and stay healthy, Kaplan said. The purpose healt of the challenge is to give a taste of rea reality for this population.

San Francisco Food Bank has implemented the Hunger Chalimple lenge for three years, she said.

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THE RRULES OF HUNGER CHALLENGE: From Chico State Hunger Challenge pamphlet

Spend just $4 a day or $28 a week (per person) for fo your entire food and drink budget.

The $ $28 limit includes any food and drink consumed inside or outside of your home, consu as we well as any staples or condiments you have o on hand. Salt, pepper and tap water are co considered “free.”

Do not no accept free food from family, friends or at w work, including coffee.

If you have a garden, please price-out any produce p you source from your garden based on supermarket or Farmers’ Market prices in your area and include that cost to your to total $28 budget.

community services department are creating their own version of the challenge for a class project. Their edition is based off San Francisco Food Bank’s rules.

A grocery list which falls within the $28 per week, per person budget, is being compiled for the challenge by Gabby Siragusa, a senior nutrition major. Most of the items will be based on WinCo Foods’ prices.

Siragusa aims to keep the items reasonably healthy, wide in variety and offer an adequate amount of calories, she said.

“The first thing that might go is variety,” Siragusa said. “You’re going to have to use some staple ingredients every day like beans and potatoes, but I’m hoping not to compromise micronutrients and fiber.”

California Budget Project found that a family with two working parents and two children would need an annual income of $72,000 a year to make ends meet. But if the parents make more than $28,668, they wouldn’t qualify for CalFresh, California’s Food Stamp Program.

Nonetheless, more than 50 >> please see HUNGER | D4 Note: Most urban poor do not have access to land for gardening, nor do they have the time to cultivate a garden as many work two or more jobs.

If you forage for food, please consider whether the urban poor with limited transportation and time would have access to those food items in their neighborhood.

Please share your experiences if you can and help create awareness about what it’s like to eat on a tight budget.

Share your experiences on Facebook on what’s it’s like to plan menus and select recipes, shop for food and eat day-to-day.

Is it difficult? How do you feel? What do your family and friends think?

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Shirt design competition helps Africa Tasha Clark STAFF WRITER

The book in common provides students with opportunities to participate in a community outside their own. This year, students have created events and projects including a shirt design competition for a charity based in Africa.

First-Year Experience, a program at Chico State designed to help first-year students successfully transition into college life, has activities all year for the book in common, “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind,” by William Kamkwamba. It’s a novel about a boy who built a windmill that generated electricity throughout his village in

Africa. One related activity was a competition for students to design a shirt that would then be sold for a scholarship fund.

The winning shirt was designed by senior and graphic design major, Samantha Salas.

Salas’ shirts will be selling for $10 and proceeds will go to Kamkwamba’s Moving Windmills scholarship fund, which helps pay for children in Africa go to secondary school, said junior Brooke Myrman, a liberal studies major who is helping with the shirt sales.

The concept of the shirt is focused on the windmill being the power source for the village, and that was put within a light bulb symbolizing the idea that Kamkwamba started,

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POWERFUL SHIRT Senior Samantha Salas, a graphic design major, wears the shirt she designed, based on the book in common, to raise money for a scholarship fund for children in Africa.

Salas said. In Kamkwamba’s village, people disowned him because they thought he was doing black magic, but he still stuck with his idea.

Last semester Salas and about 30 Chico State student members from the San Francisco chapter of AIGA, a professional design organization, were asked by First-Year Experience to design a shirt for the book in common, she said.

It was a three-week process of gathering information from the book and coming up with different designs for the shirt.

“It wasn’t a cutthroat kind of competition,” Salas said.

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Hassle of house guests It is no secret that Chico State students like to party.

Even when I go visit family members on the East Coast they give me the “oh you must like to party” look and my aunt even gave me a Breathalyzer keychain as a joke this past Christmas.

Although my family may judge me and my fellow Chicoans for our celebratory ways, my friends from my hometown of Marin County also recognize this reputation and are always eager to come visit me and get their own taste of the Chico scene.

Generally, when a holiday weekend rolls around such as Cesar Chavez Day my Facebook and text message inbox start blowing up with messages from friends asking me what my plans are for the weekend.

I love my friends but sometimes hosting guests can be quite a hassle and out-of-towners have high expectations of the party culture that is Chico.

I feel like too often I am tricked into having people stay at my house. Friends will make small talk, asking me how I’m doing, how school is going, what I’ve been up to, then — BAM, suddenly they are saying they want to come visit soon, and what a coincidence, they have next weekend off work.

Another inconvenience to having houseguests is they never bring their own food and always expect to eat out for every meal, which can get quite pricey.

It also seems like people who are not used to weekends in Chico always seem to get the most drunk or be the most obnoxious partygoers.

This is annoying because I feel that my guests are a reflection on myself, and feel in some way responsible for their actions.

The Monday morning after a weekend of entertaining guests, my living room is a disaster area, and it seems even if visitors offer to help tidy, there is always an abundance of garbage.

Another setback is that if you are planning to get any school work done while hosting company, well, good luck with that.

You may deduce from this column that I resent having friends come visit me, which is not always the case. My friends are important to me and I love spending time with them and am happy that they will drive three hours to visit me. However, in order for their visits to be special they must be sparse and planned according to everyone’s schedule.

If you are going to have house guests make sure they are someone that you trust and make sure the trip is well-planned out and that it is a weekend when you have a light homework load.

Ally Dukkers can be reached at featureseditor@theorion.com

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WORD OF MOUTH >> If you only had $4 a day for food what would you eat? See story above DICTIONARY

“A whole pack of chicken. You can never go wrong with that and it provides protein.”

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[lay• bore • hood] The neighborhood in which you work, if different from the one that you live.

“I don’t want to go downtown, I try to avoid my laborhood on the weekends.” source: urbandictionary.com

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“Protein bar and a pint of milk.”

Michael Estrada sophomore | business

“Rice or pasta — it fills you up.”

Colleen Rodman junior | English

“I would buy a lot of peanut butter — there’s a lot of nutrients in it and it’s a bang for your buck.”

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Hiking gives outdoor education, research Stephanie Consiglio

Vacation hookup regrets Vacation can be the perfect opportunity to throw inhibition to the wind and have as much fun as possible.

Let’s face it, pretty much everyone gets off on the chance to go wild for a week, otherwise Joe Francis of Girls Gone Wild would be out of a job.

Foregoing our everyday realities for a short period of carefree fun can improve both our health and happiness, but it’s important to keep it in perspective. Seeing everyone back from Spring Break, I’ve noticed several classic signs of what I refer to as the “Spring Fling Folly.”

Having heard the phrase “It was great during break but break is over,” or some equivalent repeated several times, I’ve taken that sentiment and compiled some important guidelines for handling vacation hookups.

In the glow of time off from work and school, anything can seem perfect, but too often men and women forget that vacation sex is just that: sex under nonnormal circumstances for a brief period of time.

This makes for an exciting hookup, but not necessarily a meaningful connection. Upon your return to reality when you find yourself wondering if you should call or Facebook the cutie from the beach or the ski lodge that you got it on with all week, the answer is probably “no.”

You both have lives to lead that you have to get back to and there’s no point in trying to sustain something that wasn’t meant to last in the first place.

If your vacation was more of a staycation and travel wasn’t on the agenda, you’re still susceptible to the feeling that you can get away with anything, so the same rules apply.

Vacation time can bring even the most clear-headed adults to the level of a horny teenager, and the last thing anyone wants is to have to run into your spring fling at school.

On the other hand, if you’re someone who’s looking for love, you can also fall victim to the carefree mask of vacation and make bad judgment calls in bed-sharing.

The best way to sum all this up is to just think about how easy it is when you’re on vacation to spend hard-earned money on crap you don’t need. Sex is the same way.

It might seem like a great idea at the time, but in a week or so you could be feeling the sting of a bad decision.

If the most recent break has you feeling just that, relax, the regrets will pass.

Everyone does something — or on occasion someone — stupid once in a while.

I’ve found the best remedy is to put your mistakes in the past and leave them there. As long as you learned something, even vacation mishaps can be worth having.

If you want to avoid them, however, keep in mind the carefree vacation attitude can be a decisionmaking trap. That’s not to say you should avoid a spring fling altogether.

After all, some release from reality is healthy.

The key to making any good hookup a success is to be honest and define your boundaries for both yourself and your limited-time lover.

Lexi Brister can be reached at sexcolumnist@theorion.com

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Wild turkeys, black-tailed deer, sandhill cranes, newts and many other wildlife live right in Chico’s backyard on a 4,000-acre stretch of land above Bidwell Park.

The land is maintained by the Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserve to preserve the number of birds and wild animals that roam over the area, along with many trees and wild flowers.

This spring, the reserve is hosting a variety of weekend hikes to invite the community to come out and enjoy the rich scenery that is so close to home, said Jeff Mott, director of the BCCER. The hikes have been held for the last few years to give the community a chance to get outdoors other than Bidwell Park.

They are here mainly for research and education, not just for Chico students, but for other schools in the CSU and UC systems, he said. Researchers come from everywhere.

It is a wonderful outdoor laboratory and a way to reach out to the community and show them the beauty of the place, Mott said.

Hopefully people will come and create a connection with their own natural world, graduate student and reserve employee Brendon Armstrong said.

“You have Upper Park, which is totally awesome, but you go up the canyon more and it becomes much more wild and remote, which gives the opportunity to see a place that isn’t impacted by humans,” he said.

The reserves are open all the time so people can come in and hike, but these hikes go one step further because they go places people normally wouldn’t see, Mott said.

Upper Park always has a lot of places to go, but there are always a bunch of

people there. The reserve hikes go into so many more canyons, Armstrong said.

“You can kind of see it as Upper Park kind of on steroids in a sense,” he said. “It’s a lot bigger and a lot more extreme.”

Hikes range from difficult to moderate to easy for different levels of abilities, so everyone has the chance to get out there, he said. If they don’t want to be out there a full day, it gives people the opportunity to do something more mellow with less gradient.

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You can kind of see it as Upper Park kind of on steroids. It’s a lot bigger and a lot more extreme.

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outdoors, but these hikes will allow the chance for them to gain knowledge about the Chico wildlife.

People will learn about the ecology of the area, fire ecology, various research projects being done, and how to manage a landscape, Mott said.

On a couple of hikes, people will be led around and together be able to go “birding” and identify bird songs, Armstrong said.

A lot of birds are mating right now, so people will learn which birds are making which sounds.

Another hike will involve catching and tagging different butterflies for research, Mott said. Butterflies are not killed, but tagged, so if it is caught again, we can study its aging and life.

People should know about their environment and the “picturesque scenery” that surrounds the area, said

Phillip Graber a Butte College sophomore and English education major.

“I feel like there is just a connection with nature that people forget they should have,” he said. “When you go hike around Chico and Upper Park you experience something different than the city life.”

It is important that the community and students have a bond with the land, the watershed, the habitat and the systems that are really a part of everyone, Armstrong said.

Students should take advantage of this because you never know when something is not going to be there, said Hillary Labelle, a junior speech pathology major. There aren’t that many places like that near school campuses.

“Being from SoCal, there is no area of nature that large being preserved like that,” she said.

“It’s a great place to have fun and do other activities.”

A bunch of state parks are having trouble with funding, so it is good to see that Chico is taking care of the area and opening it up for the community, Graber said.

Some people don’t understand how beautiful these areas are and don’t have a personal relationship to them, Armstrong said. The hope with the hikes is that people will go back to their roots and bond with the ecosystems that support human existence.

“We are nature and we exist with nature,” he said. “I like feeling a part of the communities and in them, opposed to just being in town. You can go up there and spend some time just looking and listening and really connecting with the natural history that we’re so much a part of.”

The hikes are filling up, Armstrong said. Students should take advantage of this opportunity and sign up as soon as they can.

Stephanie Consiglio can be reached at sconsiglio@theorion.com

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WILDERNESS ADVENTURE Students hiking at the Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserve. They learn about the area, plants and birds.

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TREKKING The Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserve hosts hikes for students and the Chico community to experience the outdoors.

Sunday, April 17 Dawn Garcia, BCCER Bird Banding (Easy, with a maximum of 10 participants)

HIKES Saturday, March 26 Dr. Paul Maslin, Natural History of the BCCER (Difficult) Sunday, April 3 Dr. Jadea White, Natural History/ Nature Photography (Moderate) Saturday, April 9 Dr. Emeritus Paul Maslin, Natural History of the BCCER (difficult with steep trail hiking)

Saturday, April 23 Dawn Garcia, Butte Creek Ecological Preserve Bird Banding (Easy, with a maximum of 10 participants) Sunday, May 1 Scott Huber, President, Altacal Audubon, Identifying BCCER Spring Bird Songs, an Auditory Adventure (Moderate)

Saturday, May 7 Kurt Geiger, Kids & Creeks Outdoor Classrooms, Natural History of the BCCER (Moderate) Saturday, May 14 Brendon Armstrong, Reserve staff, steep trail hiking, Natural History of the BCCER (Difficult) Friday, June 3 Dr. Don Miller, All day event, BCCER and BCEP Butterfly Survey (Moderate)

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Healthy video competition shows different services Hailey Vincent STAFF WRITER

Free healthcare seems a foreign idea to America, but at Chico State free healthcare for students comes with the territory.

The Student Health Advisory Council is putting on a video contest until April 1, open to all students in order to raise awareness about the free services the Student Health Center offers, along with other information about the health center that students may not know about. Topics for videos include the hours of the health center, costs of medicines and antibiotics and the different services that the health center offers.

The goal of this contest is to let students know about the services and benefits of the health center, SHAC president Katie Phillips said.

Along with prizes being awarded to the winners of the competition, the videos will be played in the health center, on SHAC’s website, as well as YouTube and Facebook, Phillips

said. This contest is a great way for students to build strong multimedia skills.

“There’s a lot of misconceptions about the health center,” she said. “We want students to know everything that the health center can actually do.”

Augrea Garcia, a sophomore criminal justice major, has some knowledge of what the health center provides to students, but is indifferent about health center services, she said.

“I’ve only been there a couple of times and it’s always a long wait,” Garcia said. “I do think it’s a good resource though for things like prescriptions, which are cheap.”

The videos are meant to bring attention to the different services, cost information for things like co-pays, hours of the health center and things that students are not always aware of, Phillips said.

“The overall purpose is to get people to understand the health center more,” she said. “I don’t think many students know everything that it provides.”

SHAC also hopes to use this

contest to get students to use the health center more. It’s a free service that comes with tuition costs, something not all students understand, Phillips said.

Last semesters SHAC students came up with the idea for this video contest, thinking that only members of SHAC would make the videos to raise awareness, said Holly Nevarez, SHAC faculty adviser. Quickly, the idea changed into making it a campuswide competition, although first intended for Associated Students organizations only, now all students are encouraged to participate, Nevarez said.

“I’m always amazed by students’ work with videos,” she said. “I hope students take this opportunity and show me something great.”

SHAC is looking for different takes students have on the health center and different experiences students have had with the health center to be incorporated within their videos, Nevarez said.

“If students are interested in producing a video, I think it

is relatively little work — and they have different experiences and backgrounds that can get brought in,” she said.

The SHAC encourages members to join and any students interested in health service issues would benefit from their program, Nevarez said. They are involved in many aspects of health education on campus.

The SHAC is a necessary program and students should join if they have an interest in the health service, Phillips said.

It’s a way for students looking at going into the healthcare field to build their resumes, and is also open to students of all majors to gain lifelong skills, Phillips said.

“We act as a voice between the students and the health center,” she said. “And SHAC has given me so many leadership skills, creativity and ideas, and it has only been one semester.”

Among educating students of the health center’s services, SHAC takes surveys to gauge student’s needs, wants and awareness of services, Nevarez said. It’s also involved with

VIDEO COMPETITION RULES: Video Length Requirements: Minimum of 30 seconds or a maximum of two minutes Due Date for Videos: April 1 Prizes: Winners may choose between gift certificates at Dragon Tobacco, Woodstocks, The Bear, Staples or OfficeMax in the amount of: $150 for 1st Place $75 for 2nd Place $50 for 3rd Place

flu shot clinics and is currently starting a new campaign for stress management.

“We do a lot of good things on campus,” she said. “I hope students learn about the health center, and SHAC and to just have fun with this.”

Hailey Vincent can be reached at hvincent@theorion.com

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Psychics receive mystical messages Griffin Rogers STAFF WRITER

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PARANORMAL ACTIVITY Mary Kay Winterstein gives a Tarot Card reading at Karma Psychic Boutique.

illamena glides around in her nightgownwithout a word or whisper, so subtle and silent someone would think she’s a ghost.

And she is.

Willamena lives in Mary Kay Winterstein’s psychic boutique, Karma, after she “walked” over from a nearby building, Winterstein said. She’s from the 17th century and ejects the CD player when she feels like taking a picture with a visitor.

Because she missed her chance to go to the light after she died, Willamena is stuck on Earth, she said. At least until somebody can help her find her way.

“A word of advice: when you die, go to the light,” Winterstein said. “Don’t wait around, just go.”

Chico is home to a number of psychics and mediums — people who can talk to the dead. This mysterious society offers to read the future, heal bodies, speak to descendants and fine-tune the sixth sense. Meanwhile, some people look on in speculation, awe or skepticism.

Winterstein was also a skeptic before she became a psychic 10 years ago, she said. She used to practice interior design. Now she talks to the dead.

She still remembers her first experience.

“I was remodeling a house for a widow and had a powerful enough experience,” Winterstein said.

She could sense the dead husband around her, she said The first step to learning more was to go through a year and a half of psychic school in Chico followed by medium school in England. At first she was nervous, afraid that society and her three sons would disapprove of her new calling.

Now, Winsterstein helps others hone in on their sixth sense and find their likes, dislikes and

even broaden their understanding of physical ailments, she said.

This can be accomplished through a past life reading, where Winterstein uses her clairvoyance to determine who the person was in a previous lifetime, she said.

Winterstein told one 55-yearold customer that she used to be a pirate with a peg leg, providing an explanation for the customers reccurring sore leg.

Another was a Geisha whose feet were constantly bound, a reason for the customer’s many foot surgeries.

All of this can be seen by using different levels of energy inside the human body, said Margaret VanLaanMartin, owner of Age of Aquarius and Winterstein’s former teacher.

Most of the time, she “turns on” her energy to answer customers’ most frequently asked questions about love, money or health, she said.

“I look at the energy and see how they can make changes or focus on an area that is working for them,” she said.

Age of Aquarius provides many services including paranormal investigations. Clients who are hassled by ghost or aliens can call Margaret VanLaanMartin to visit and assess the problem area for $300 an hour plus travel expenses. It usually takes about two hours to clear the area, she said.

Mostly the ghosts just want closure on an issue, and at times the situation can be very frightening, she said. But VanLaanMartin doesn’t let it get to her.

“I just don’t let something come into my space that I don’t want,” she said. “I’ve always been weird. I’ve always been my own person.”

VanLaanMartin meets skeptics all the time, but said it doesn’t bother her and would never push anyone to try her services or try to “sell them.”

And not everyone is convinced of these psychic “powers.”

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Psychic claims cannot be supported by evidence, said John Mahoney, biology professor at Chico State. Even past events in history that were thought to be magic turned out to be mere coincidence or explained through science.

“Magic tricks don’t work against the laws of nature, they just fool us in clever ways,” Mahoney said.

People who claim to be psychic take advantage of gullible people with insecurities, he said. And in many cases, psychics will make strings of predictions in hopes to find a special connection to any given situation. But when only one out of a hundred guesses comes true, that’s not psychic energy.

That’s coincidence.

Psychic abilities aren’t backed by science, he said.

However, they do make for great stories.

Students like Alex Isley, a junior sociology major, share Mahoney’s point of view.

“This is not a comic book,” Isley said. “It’s real life.”

The business of psychics is a con full of “fake prophets” that give people’s hopes up, he said.

“It’s sad,” he said, “because people are trying to believe in something and get let down.”

Griffin Rogers can be reached at grogers@theorion.com

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Local wrestlers practice smack-down Chatter Nick Pike STAFF WRITER

Sweaty men hit the vinyl covered wooden stage as they charge each other from opposing sides of the ring.

Propelling themselves off the elastic ropes, the wrestlers lunge at each, other meeting halfway across the mat.

This is a typical day at the Work Farm in Loma Rica — training headquarters for the Professional Championship Wrestling Co. The world of entertainment wrestling reaches more than 20 million viewers in more than 140 countries annually. There is a professional training facility geared toward that sport 15

minutes outside Marysville.

Zach Reeb, also known as Mr. Primetime in the wrestling community, decided that he had a passion for wrestling and wanted to take his love for this sport further than what started as a high school assignment and turn his dream into a professional business.

PCW turned into a serious wrestling training center when a few friends got together and decided to take it to the next level, Mitch Valentine a trainer at PCW said. Reeb trained with a professional wrestler for a number of years before opening up his own shop.

“He’s the best trainer I’ve had experience with and what he’s done has helped me with

my professional career and my life,” he said PCW focuses on teaching people of all ages techniques and moves for pursuing a career in professional wrestling, Valentine said.

The company tours and performs shows all over Northern California including Oakland, Yuba City, Marysville and Chico.

PCW’s next event is the “Living the Dream” contest on March 27 at the Work Farm headquarters.

The contest costs $25 to enter and the contestants are put through a workout along with ring training and a showmanship demonstration to show their personality.

The professional trainers will choose the winner who will receive a free 18-month wrestling training program with a value of $3,500.

“We’ve had about five Chico State students go through our program and have two students currently training with us,” he said.

Senior Maurice Conner, a liberal studies major, has been training with PCW for six months and wants to be able to perform with World Wrestling Entertainment someday, he said.

“I wanted to one day recreate the magic I felt during my childhood while watching guys like The Rock, Stone Cold Steve Austin and my personal favorite,

The Undertaker,” Conner said.

The way they appeared on TV and at live events was so surreal and very few wrestlers in the WWE can do that these days, he said. His goal is to recreate that magic and make fans forget that they’re watching a show.

Sophomore Political Science major Swan Toma has some reservations about the wrestling entertainment industry.

“It’s something I eventually grew out of and I think most kids do eventually,” he said.

However, it is a very large industry that generates a lot of revenue and employs a huge amount of people, Toma said.

Around campus poll

Q: Do you believe in psychic’s powers to predict the future A. Yes, absolutely No response

B. I’m not really sure Gregoire Zaldua

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C. No way Joey Wilson

senior | liberal studies

Phillip Etcheverry junior | communications

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gave suggestions.”

The group practiced their designs by ironing them on shirts, then hung them on a wall and discussed what could be done better, she said.

AIGA submitted the shirts to be a part of the windmill competition outside of the Gateway Science Museum, she said. Salas did two designs on her own.

Each shirt that was designed at the competition were all created by student members, AIGA President Ryan Sanders said.

The last event First-Year Experience is putting on for the book in common will be Kamkwamba’s speech at 7:30 p.m. on April 14 in the Laxson Auditorium, Myrman said.

Salas will get to present Kamkwamba with a shirt when he comes to visit, she said.

In order to get the word out, the group has used Facebook, made fliers and contacted different departments on campus, Myrman said.

Starting Monday, AIGA is

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having a T-shirt competition of their own by getting students to make a shirt for the design department, Sanders said. The winning shirt will be printed for everyone in the department to wear.

There are no graphic shirts for their department so it would be nice to have one finally, he said.

“It will be our ‘department pride’ T-shirt,” Sanders said.

Tasha Clark can be reached at tclark@theorion.com

percent of the 3.6 million eligible Californians are not participating in CalFresh, Kaplan said. California has the second lowest participation rate in the country.

One of the reasons is the stigma behind getting government aid, she said.

“People don’t want to be on food stamps,” Kaplan said.

“They are embarrassed and ashamed that they rely on public assistance, but they have to in order to feed their family.”

What people don’t realize is that CalFresh gives back to the economy, she said.

Each food stamp dollar spent generates $1.79 in local economic activity, Kaplan said. Every billion dollars worth of food stamps spent generates 3,300 farm jobs, which is significant in a highly agricultural area like Butte County.

Following this logic, eligible participants who aren’t signed up for food stamps are causing $8.7 billion loss of California’s federal funding.

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“If the public can be more sympathetic, maybe some of the stigma could go down and more people are willing to access to those dollars,” Kaplan said.

Students can experience the difficulties of a tight budget, like first year graduate student Steve Anderson, who struggles financially while attending school full-time and works part-time, he said.

Paying rent and utilities are his priorities over health,

Anderson said.

“There was a summer once where my roommate and I managed to pull together money and bought six dozen eggs and survived off that,” he said. “I can almost go shrimp and Forrest Gump and say: hard-boiled eggs, scrambled eggs, egg salad sandwiches, sunny side up.”

A goal for the health and community services department is to have 200 people sign a banner at a kick-off

event during the Saturday Farmers’ Market, stating that they’ll participate in the challenge, Kaplan said. The event will be held from 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m April 2.

Another goal is to have 150 people comment on the Hunger Challenge’s Facebook page, talking about their experiences and difficulties.

“Just being open to talking to people about it would help,” Kaplan said. “Not judging people for the fact that they need help would bring awareness.”

Melissa Hahn can be reached at mhahn@theorion.com

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“Butte Station expansion begins” Jan. 26, 2000 Butte Station was just a trailer outside of Tehama Hall with limited snacks and supplies for students.

In order to get a cup of joe, students or teachers near Tehama, Butte and Plumas Halls had to walk across campus during the process of revamping the

popular snack station.

“But a new building is on the way to save the day,” said Julie Schubert, in her spring 2000 article.

Butte Station started out as a 250-square-foot shack, which had hungry students often times lining up outside the door. It turned from a shack into a trailer in the fall 1999 semester. Students, teachers, employees and managers

were all eager to see the new building completed after construction. The money for the project was raised in part by Associated Students while the land was cleared by the university to help reduce costs.

One of the decisions to be made during construction was whether the new mini mart would keep the name Butte Station or change its name to Plumas Express.

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Butte Station kept its original name and is a pivotal spot for students and teachers to refuel between classes. They no longer have to travel long distances or cut their breaks short in order to get a snack.

Butte Station, it appears, has saved the day. The 1,200-square-foot one-stop

nebula

snack shop is still as busy as ever because of its convenient location and wide variety of products, said Kayla Boardway, a senior geography major working at Butte Station over the last four years.

Sandwiches, hot dogs and soups — Butte Station has it all. But the recent construction of UHUB on the other side of Tehama, a site that will also

sell snacks, has the 19 Butte Station employees wondering what will happen to their mini mart, Boardway said. Rumors have been spreading that the station could turn into a produce stand for University Farm, she said. Whether the rumors are true or not, Butte Station will likely see changes.

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Engineering professor receives honors for teaching, projects THE ORION • FRANK REBELO

Chair of Department of Civil Engineering Curt Haselton is making significant advancements in his research to create and simplify national codes for engineers, in order to construct safe buildings and predict their collapse during earthquakes.

Haselton and his research contribute to a $1.1 million project funded by the National Science Foundation.

He is one of four faculty members at Chico State who have been selected to receive Professional Achievement Honors.

The Faculty Recognition and Support Committee gave the 2010–2011 PAH awards to professors and scholars who stood out in the past three years.

Q: What was your research about?

Haselton: It’s in the area of structural earthquake engineering. I do fundamental research as far as advancing the state of knowledge. I have a National Science Foundation project and working on collapse analysis. Another avenue of research I’m working on is a building code development for the American Society of Civil Engineers document called ASC7. It’s more or less a national building code.

Q: What advancements did you make in your research?

Haselton: For the National Science Foundation project, which is in its first of three years, a bunch of lab tests in Minnesota are being done to better understand how buildings might fail in an earthquake and to be able to

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prevent that. It’s specifically focused on concrete frame buildings and advancing computer modeling.

Another one is for a building code chapter, chapter 16, and basically proposing revisions to it. I’m chairing an eight-person issue team from all around the world. This would change how people design the buildings and how people analyze the buildings.

Q: When will these advancements be implemented?

Haselton: The revised building code chapters will be done a year and a half from now. It would be proposed for the first step of the building code process and then the next revision of the building code would be considered. So like 2016 to 2018 is as early it would get in. It’s purposefully a slow process so engineers aren’t yanked around all the time. You want stability with it.

Q: What do you think is the biggest risk to a building collapsing?

Haselton: This point in the United States, our building code is pretty well-developed.

The problems that we know about are pretty well-solved, so I would say the biggest risk to buildings collapsing are things that we don’t know about – or things that are just designed poorly by an engineer that doesn’t know how to design for earthquakes. I don’t know how to say that in a nice way.

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Across 1- Agile 5- Exclamation to express sorrow 9- Biblical birthright seller 13- “Hard ___!” (sailor’s yell) 14- Exodus origin 15- Repair 16- Ventilates 17- “West Side Story” song 18- ___ Rhythm 19- Prima ballerina 21- Horned viper 22- Atlantic mackerel 23- An apple or a planet will have this at the centre 25- Heave 27- Throttle 31- Takes care of 35- “Pure Guava” band 36- Mild oath 38- More recent 39- B & B

D5

Campus 2000 | Butte Station expands from trailer into mini mart Spotlight: THEN

c. 1980

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40- Rescues 42- Chemical ending 43- Attack 46- First name in country 47- Tabula ___ 48- “Hogan’s Heroes” setting 50- Furrowed 52- Jutting rock 54- Great quantity 55- Zeno’s home 58- Destiny 60- Bad blood 64- Loud yell 65- Fertile area in a desert 67- Injectable diazepam, in military lingo 68- Regretted 69- Sudden convulsion 70- Indigo 71- French 101 verb 72- German Mister 73- Elegance

Down 1- Call at home 2- Land map 3- “All The Way To ___”, song by REM 4- Sammy Davis Jr. autobiography 5- Turkish title 6- Vega’s constellation 7- Imitative 8- The ear’s “stirrup” 9- Person who is thrown out of house and home 10- Wise 11- Cupid 12- As far as 14- Appears 20- Actor Chaney 24- “Pomp and Circumstance” composer 26- Marsh 27- From Bern, say 28- Belief 29- Oscar de la ___ 30- Roof overhangs

32- Perspire 33- Keyed up 34- Mountain nymph 37- Sums owing 41- Bitter derision 44- Mayor having judicial powers 45- Paving material 47- Extreme 49- Waterproof overshoe 51- Author Fleming 53- Flip out 55- Bronte heroine 56- Boor 57- Large jug or pitcher 59- Boris Godunov, for one 61- Hindu lawgiver 62- Windows alternative 63- Ad word 66- Leb. neighbor;

POWERKIDS by Max Nelson

Hey, when did these bricks get darker?

Oh, yeah. I forgot...

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I don’t know, but it sure makes it easier to distinguish that there’s a barrier between these panels.

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