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Fire: Chico City Council is asking state agencies to fund its $500,000 program to remove the invasive plant, Arundo donaz, from Little Chico Creek. A2

On Track: Legally blind Chico State track and field athlete Kym Crosby has been invited to be a part of Team USA’s Paralympic team. B1

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Features Beer: The Orion sits down with Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.’s founder and owner Ken Grossman to talk about his reign as the king of craft beer. B5

A+E Memorial: The Aaron Drange Memorial concert celebrated the life of the deceased Chico State student who died July 8. B7

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Memorial

Halloween

Cops call backup for party weekend David McVicker

News Editor

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Daniel Helfant, far left, joins more than 100 people on Monday at Trinity Commons to remember Samantha Lewis, a Chico State student who was killed by a train on Oct. 13. “It was impossible not to smile when you were around her,” Helfant said.

Vigil held for student struck, killed by train

With Halloween fast approaching, University Police Department and Chico Police Department are preparing for an action-packed weekend.

Chico police made 99 arrests from Thursday night to Sunday last year, 84 of which were alcohol-related, according to a previous Orion article. This year, officers are trying to reduce those numbers.

Corinne Beck, lieutenant of the University Police Department, said she realized there will be an increase in the normal activity because of Halloween falling on a Friday.

She said officers on the street will have expanded duties and patrols.

They requested 33 officers from other California State University campuses.

University Police will also call on the California State University Police

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Administration

Jovanna Garcia and Madison Holmes

Employees face bullying, harassment, survey says

Staff Writers

Friends and family of deceased Chico State student, Samantha Lewis, gathered Monday night to celebrate her life in a photo signing and candlelight ceremony.

Lewis was struck and killed by a train the morning of Oct. 13. She was a nutrition and food science major.

Lewis will be remembered as the woman who was always happy and someone who had a deep connection with nature, said Stephanie Aguiar, Lewis's friend and former roommate, during the service.

"Whenever I’m walking around and there is a slight breeze or when I’m walking in Bidwell, exercising near the creek, I just feel her there," she said. "It feels like she’s a part of it and for me it’s like she’s still here all around us."

Lewis wanted to help children once she graduating, said Dr. Kathryn Silliman, chair of the nutrition and food science department.

"With her degree, Samantha wanted to find ways to incorporate healthy food into children's meals," Silliman said.

Lewis was kind and wanted to be friends with every person she met, said Isabelle Charles, Lewis' best friend and

David McVicker

News Editor

Mark and Patti Lewis look at the memorial photo dedicated to their deceased daughter, former student Samantha Lewis. roommate.

"She was so eager to share every part of her life with everyone she loved," Charles said. "She embraced the simple pleasures in life and made sure that she never lost sight about what she cared most about."

Samantha was in a very dark place

when she ended her life, said her father, Mark Lewis.

"How that starts, some of us don’t know - many of us don’t know,” he said.

“It could be a small crack in a door which was opened to darkness."

Some Chico State employees are unhappy at their jobs here on campus and fear retribution for speaking up to their supervisors and other administrators according to a campus-wide survey.

The Academic Senate released the details Thursday of the questionnaire sent to approximately 2,000 administrators, faculty and staff in late May. The questionnaire was answered by 401 employees and asked three questions: • How well does the university support your ability to work effectively in your assigned

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Fire

Porch blaze forces students, guest to evacuate home David McVicker

News Editor

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Firefighters inspect the house burned in an arson Sunday morning causing more than $100,000 in damages. Investigators are seeking those responsible for the fire.

A home with four students and one guest caught fire around 4 a.m.

Sunday morning. All escaped with one sustaining second-degree burns.

Chico Fire Prevention Bureau has determined the fire to be an incendiary fire, or one set on purpose. The damage is estimated to be more than $100,000.

The fire began on the front porch of the house, located on the 600 block of West Fourth Street, before spreading, according to Chico Fire-Rescue Capt.

Jesse Alexander. Firefighters were able to stop the fire from spreading into the inside of the home, which was only damaged by the smoke.

Two of the four residents were watching television when they saw

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sparks on their front porch. The sparks turned into a full fire and the two residents woke the rest of the occupants and escaped through the back door, according to a Chico Fire-Rescue press release.

One of the residents received burns to the bottom of both feet during the escape. He was treated by Butte County emergency medical technicians at the scene but refused to be transported to the hospital.

Residents declined to comment.

Friends of the displaced residents are raising money to repair the house through a fundraising website.

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International students often targeted a knife,” she said. “So I escaped and moved “I would expect some small rural area to out the next morning.” have racism just because there aren’t many Assistant News Editor Ikebe said she hasn’t spoken to her old international people, but Chico has so many “Fuck Asians!” was not what Rie Ikebe roommate since the incident. international students so I didn’t expect it to expected to hear on her first outing in the “I never talked with him after that because still be here,” he said.

United States. he wasn’t respectful and I didn’t understand To end racism, at least in Chico, students Ikebe, an international student from why he could say that to me,” Ikebe said. and members of the community should Japan studying communications, “It’s already over. It’s educate themselves on different and her friend were walking on time to forgive each cultures, Li said.

Nord Avenue when a man drove by other and understand The Cross Cultural Leadership and started shouting racial slurs each other.”

Center hosts workshops on at them, she said.

Japanese students different cultures so students can “It felt like they were kind of are not the only have a better understanding of cheating,” she said. “They just international students other races, he said. said that and drove off without facing racism in “Things like this happen having to face me. It’s not fair. I Chico. International because of a lack of was kind of shocked, depressed students from Saudi understanding or fear and that and sad.”

Arabia are often called can be fixed with education,” Li RIE IKEBE FRANK LI Instances of racism towards terrorists by some said.

International Director of the international students are not Americans, Ikebe said.

The next workshop, Nov. 12, will Communications International uncommon, said Frank Li, Ikebe said she had a be about Chinese culture and will Student Education Office director of the International Saudi Arabian friend directly focus on racism.

Education Office. In any who was called a “It may seem like a lofty goal to intercultural interaction, incidents of terrorist for wearing a hijab. Her friend had promote international understanding, but racism may happen. to move in with her brother because she was through these activities we’re doing it,” Li More than 700 international students are afraid. said. enrolled at Chico State and an additional 150 One international student, who prefers to Although there are many differences students are a part of the intensive language remain anonymous, is also no stranger to between cultures, it is important to focus on program, Li said. racism. cultural similarities, he said.

After spending almost one year in “I don’t really go around downtown,” he “There are so many things we have in America, Ikebe said she has now grown said. “If I do, it’s in the daylight because I common with people of different cultures,” numb to people shouting racial slurs at her. don’t want to get into trouble with drunk Li said. “We need to focus on those Ikebe said her first roommate in Chico people who make fun of Asians.” commonalities because they will bring us blamed the Japanese for killing Americans The student still does not know how together, rather than our differences which in World War II. to react when will spread us apart.”

“One of my strangers insult When international students face racism, roommates him about his they are encouraged to meet with advisors He was drunk and he kept saying got drunk race, even though so that the International Office can talk these things over and over then he and suddenly it has happened through what happened with them, he said. pulled out a knife. said Japanese many times, he “We definitely provide support when these Rie Ikebe, people killed said. incidences take place,” Li said. “We want International communications studies Americans,” “I’m a really to avoid and prevent those incidences from she said. “He quiet person and happening, we want international students started telling I can’t react in to have a safe and high quality experience.” me how much Japanese people were gross.” an aggressive manner,” he said. “I feel like After the roommate threatened Ikebe with apologizing even though I don’t have to.”

Madison Holmes can be reached at newseditor@theorion.com or a knife, she decided to move out, she said.

He said he was surprised that racism was “He was drunk and kept saying these an issue in Chico because there are many @madisonholmes95 on Twitter. things over and over and then he grabbed international students living in town.

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Geography class maps out flammable plants Anna Sobrevinas

Staff Writer

The Chico City Council is taking steps to exterminate an invasive plant species that could spark fires along Little Chico Creek.

The city council voted unanimously Oct. 20 to pay $1,500 for a grant writer to ask state agencies to fund a project that would remove the plant species known as Arundo donax from Little Chico Creek.

The grants will ask for $500,000 to fund the three to five year plant removal program, said Mark Stemen, Chico State geography professor and president of the Butte Environmental Council. The removal process will start within one year and a crew from the California Conservation Corps will be responsible for removing the plants.

The plant looks like bamboo, according to the Sonoma Ecology Center. It can grow four inches per day and up to 30 feet tall. It mostly grows in damp places like streams, consuming four times more water than other plants situated in river banks and doesn’t provide food nor shelter for insects and birds.

“If a fire started in Little Chico Creek it would probably take out 150 homes like the Weed fire did,” Stemen said. The Boles Fire in September destroyed 157 homes and eight nonresidential commercial properties in the city of Weed. The fire burned more than 500 acres of land.

Stemen led a class of students on a field trip up to Little Chico Creek where they mapped out areas where the Arundo plants were growing.

Victoria Birdseye, senior geography major, made the map with her classmates. After mapping out the coordinates with a Garmin GPS system, she used the app, Collector for ArcGIS, to upload the locations.

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Chico State students of Mark Stemen, professor of geography, walk alongside Little Chico Creek mapping patches of the invasive Arundo donax plants.

“Making a map of the Arundo is an important way to convey information about the hazardous condition and extent of Arundo in the urban part of Little Chico Creek,” Birdseye said.

The class was surprised to find homeless camps made out of Arundo when walking along the creek, Stemen said. Each camp had its own fire pit.

Interim Fire Chief Shane Lauderdale, who proposed the project idea, said the Arundo is growing extensively in both public and private property and its massive fuel

load poses as a threat to commercial and residential structures near the creek.

Stemen said the grant writer will reach out to the Department of Water Resources Urban Streams Restoration Program and Cal Fire’s Fire Fuel Reduction Grants.

Most of the money will go towards hard labor and about ten percent will go towards public education, Stemen said.

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News Briefs Greek organizations suspended by council Two years after the entire Greek system was suspended by Chico State President Paul Zingg, some Greek organizations were once again suspended after failing to abide by Fraternity and Sorority Affairs policies.

Pi Kappa Alpha's President, Dominic Trovato, said that their fraternity was suspended because some members threw a party while they were on probation.

"We were suspended for all academic year last year and now we're on social probation for all this academic year," he said. "Being on social probation restricts you from having any social activities, such as socials or formals but we're still allowed to recruit."

Suspended fraternities include: • Theta Chi • Phi Omega Delta • Sigma Pi Fraternities put on probation: • Sigma Nu • Pi Kappa Alpha • Nu Alpha Kappa Sorority put on probation include: • Sigma Kappa According to Malcolm McLemore, Fraternity and Sorority Affairs program coordinator, Theta Chi were put on probation by the Interfraternity Council because of alcohol on the fraternity house premises.

Sigma Kappa was put on probation for posting indecent pictures on social media and Sigma Nu is currently on academic probation, he said.

Because of all these policies and regulations, Delta Psi Delta, a fraternity not recognized by the university, has chosen to stay unaffiliated since 2003.

"We're Chico State college students and we want to do what college students have always done,” said Maxwell Perkins, president of Delta Psi Delta. “If I'm 21, which I am, then I want to be able to have a beer on my property.”

The other suspended fraternities and sororities Theta Chi, Sigma Pi and Sigma Nu didn't respond by deadline.

–Daisy Dardon

Chico police may equip video body cameras The Chico Police Department is debating on whether its officers should wear video cameras as an effective tool in policing efforts.

In the wake of police brutality issues in the U.S. and an incident caught on video involving Butte County Sheriff ’s

Vigil: Memories should be talked about, mother says » continued from A1 Lewis was able to enrich the lives of every person she came into contact with, he said.

"Samantha was a person—she was able to bring people out of darkness," Mark said. "What she did for everyone here was plant a spark of life and each of you need to honor her and take that spark and spread it."

Lewis' father gave Strength is advice to everyone not in the in attendance at ability to hide the memorial to appreciate their loved vulnerability. ones.

Real "Strength is not in strength is in the ability to hide recognizing vulnerability," he people who said. "Real strength is genuinely care in recognizing people and love you. who genuinely care and love you."

Mark Lewis Memories of Samantha Lewis’ Samantha should father be remembered and talked about so people will know how incredible she was, said Patti, her mother.

Patti advised the audience to always take time to remember who loves them and acknowledge that they are there for them.

"Take the time to look around you and appreciate the people around you," she said. "We don't go through our best lives alone."

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Brianna Mulvey, senior ecological, evolutionary and organismal biology major and brought the idea of tower gardens to the Wildcat Recreation Center.

Students grow plants in WREC for cafeteria The Wildcat Recreation Center is growing their own vegetables using new technology which grows plants at double the rate and uses 90 percent less water.

The new grow beds are called tower gardens and can be found on the pool deck within the gym facility. Chico State student Brianna Mulvey, senior ecological, evolutionary and organismal biology major and Associated Students compost education coordinator is the brain behind the tower gardens and is working with A.S. Dining Services to get the grown food put into the Marketplace Café’s local lunch.

The tower gardens take up less room than normal gardening beds because they don't grow outwards, Mulvey said. They have a 20-gallon water tank that feeds up through the center of the tower and filters down through each of the single pods.

They are fed a mineral solution every two weeks and can grow wherever there is sun or power outlets.

The power outlet is connected to a

tube that pumps the water to the plants constantly, so the plants are always being watered. It costs less than 70 cents per month for electricity usage.

The WREC is currently growing basil, lettuce, Swiss chard, kale, oregano and cilantro. They have already used some of the basil in salad dressings served at the Marketplace Cafe, Mulvey said.

Mulvey got the funds for the tower garden project through the A.S. Sustainability Fund. The fund was suspended this semester after former A.S. sustainability coordinator, Eli Goodsell resigned from his position about one month ago, according to a previous Orion report.

Mulvey said Goodsell got the idea from a conference he attended in San Luis Obispo which inspired her to bring the tower gardens to the WREC. “As soon as Eli showed me it I thought, ‘We have to bring this to Chico State,’” she said.

–Lana Goddu

Deputy Sam Burnett kicking a man in the head who was kneeling, the Chico Police Department wants body cameras to ensure public trust in its officers.

“The allegations of excessive force go way down when the cameras are in use,” said Randall Stone, Chico City Council member.

Chico police officers welcomed the idea of cameras during its community advisory board meeting, Oct. 15.

The American Civil Liberties Union will fund the camera program, said Chris Constantine, Chico’s administrative services director. However, the union

recommended cameras be recording at all times.

Using the cameras could be intrusive on people’s privacy, and the videos could tamper with the legal process if it was released early to the public, which can affect the outcome of the trial, Stone said.

The videos would be stored on a web-based server. Butte County law enforcement officials and the district attorney will then implement a countywide policy concerning: • Balance of private and public release • Retention periods

• Camera operation policy • Public expectations Almost all the videos will be available online for public viewing with the exception of those that would compromise the legal process or if it is too emotionally painful to the resident being recorded, said Lt. Dave Britt of RANDALL STONE the Chico Police Chico City Department.

Councilman Based off programs in Tucson, Arizona, it is estimated that the costs for Chico can be more than $1 million, according to the press release.

The cameras itself could cost up to $3,900 each unit, Stone said.

Some of the more common cameras today are seen clipped onto officers’ shoulders or their chest. There are also eyeglass cameras.

–Robert Engels

Annual walk aims to improve campus safety Chico State President Paul Zingg and the University Police Department Chief Robyn Hearn led more than 50 community members on the Moonlight Safety Walk Thursday to identify safety hazards on campus.

The Public Safety Committee and the University Police Department were also in attendance at the walk, which was initiated by Zingg in 2004.

Participants in the walk divided into four groups and took different routes through campus to identify possible safety hazards like insufficient lighting and overgrown bushes as well as to test the blue-light safety phones, Zingg said.

The overgrown bushes can be also a safety issue, said Corinne Beck, the lieutenant of the University Police Department.

There is a risk that students can be attacked in unlit areas, said junior Bryan Mery, a business accounting major.

The group gathered in Selvester’s Cafeby-the-Creek at 6:30 p.m. for pizza and drinks before embarking on the walk at 7 p.m.

The discoveries made on the walk will be compiled and put into a database where the offices of Risk Management, Environmental Health and Safety and Facilities Management can review the issues, Beck said.

–Madison Holmes and Melissa Gomes

Police: Gang initiation rumor false, unfounded » continued from A1 Critical Response Unit, a team available during busy times to help keep civil order.

“We plan to have the officers much more visible,” she said. “We also plan to have a lot more officers out in corridors that are not technically Chico State campus properties but have heavy flow of students, like on Warner and Ivy streets.”

Chico Police will also increase its presence throughout the city over the weekend, said Lt. Dave Britt.

“We’re kind of all-hands-on-deck during this time of year,” he said. “We’ve added an extra shift of officers as well as bringing in outside agency help.”

Officers from law enforcement agencies in Butte and Glenn counties will be Chico to aid in enforcement.

Rumors spread that there was a possibility of gangs using Chico Halloween celebrations for initiation.

Britt said, to his knowledge, the rumors

are unfounded.

“We have no credible intelligence telling us that there will be any gang activity in Chico during Halloween,” he said. “We have more officers on duty during this time than literally any other time during the year, so if they were considering doing something this weekend, it would be, frankly, quite foolish.”

Beck said that students should use their instincts to avoid dangerous situations and help others to the best of their ability.

“We hope people have fun,” she said.

“But we’re not going to tolerate any violence. If (students) do see something that bothers them, they should not hesitate to find one of the many officers out and come tell us. We will always do our best to help them in that situation.”

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If you are planning on celebrating this year, here are some tips from Emily Peart, of University Police Department's Safe Place coordinator, for staying safe on Halloween:

• Always stay in well-lit areas • Be aware of your surroundings • Stay in groups • Never accept a drink from a stranger or leave your drink unattended • Have a game plan for the evening — check in with friends throughout the night • If you see something, say something — If you become aware of someone in a situation that seems like it could lead to a sexual assault, step in and help that person out • Carry money for a cab • Walk with confidence

Survey: Severe lack of morale among employees » continued from A1

throughout many of the responses.

Matt Thomas, political science graduate role? coordinator, said there should be concern • How well does the university based on some of the responses of the support your efforts to survey. facilitate student learning "The way that I look at this survey and success? is in that last question, 'maintaining • How well does the a satisfactory work environment,' university maintain a three-quarters of the people said satisfactory general work somewhat or below," he said. "All environment?

I can think of is, if I asked four of Individuals who my friends 'are you doing ok?' and responded to the survey three of them said 'somewhat,' I'd be were also able to write concerned about it." statements about how they Another concern for many of the PAULA SELVESTER feel working at Chico State. employees at Chico State is their Academic Senate Chair The survey outlined 13 ability to communicate openly themes based on the written with their supervisors and other responses. The survey administrators. Many said they have highlighted a severe lack of a fear of punishment for speaking morale among faculty and staff. up when voicing concerns within their One low rating in the survey was jobs. Words like "bullied," "bullying," and employees feeling unsatisfied in their jobs. "harrassment" were found throughout the The words "dehumanizing," "hopeless," responses. disposable" and "stressful" were found Reid Cross, academic senator, said the

senate should keep in mind that the survey just isn't about numbers or statistics.

"This data represents people who are in trouble," he said. "They could be in serious trouble. Remember, this isn't just data. This represents people who deal with retribution on a daily basis and we have to be very conscious about that."

Authors of the survey recommend that the information be used to create an annual survey with more specific questions for each area of concern.

Academic senate chair Paula Selvester said the survey would be included in the package sent to Chancellor Timothy White as part of the senate resolution last month calling for an independent auditor.

David McVicker can be reached at

newseditor@theorion.com or @DavidPMcVicker on Twitter.

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POLICE

BLOTTER Friday, 1:12 p.m.: Evaluation requested at Lassen Hall. “Resident advisor with heavily drunk female vomiting into bushes.”

Saturday, 6:43 p.m.: Petty theft at University Village on Nord Avenue. “Bike last seen past date approximately 12 a.m. Silver Schwinn Verano.”

Sunday, 11:38 a.m.: Standby (Keeping the Peace) at Shasta Hall. “Reporting party has given permission for Enloe nurse to access his room and retrieve personal property as he is being transported to a Sacramento hospital and is unable to retrieve the property himself. He has provided her with the key and University Police provided standby only.”

Sunday, 12:28 p.m.: Vandalism at Hazel Lot on West Second Avenue. “Zip car slot broken, driver side window, compact black car, unknown brand. Zip car company was notified and will send an authorized repair shop to pick up the vehicle and make the necessary repairs.”

Monday, 7:00 a.m.: Directed patrol at Modoc Hall. “High school kids smoking controlled substance in grass area behind Modoc kiddy corner from Hamilton Hall.”

Monday, 1:04 p.m.: Assist other agency at West Sixth and Ivy Streets. “Subject stated he was assaulted by two possible Chico State students who were not named in Chico Police jurisdiction.”

Chico Police

University Police

The police blotter is a selection of information cited directly from Chico Police Department and University Police Department.

Thursday, 1:25 p.m.: Suspicious subject at Aymer J. Hamilton building. “Two custodians both report two males with a bike tried to take numerous road signs. When they saw the reporting parties, they fled dropping the property.”

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Saturday, 10:30 a.m.: Parking violation on Chestnut Street. “Across from Bell Memorial Union on West Second Street, between Chestnut and Hazel Streets. Meters are bagged. Chico State buses are supposed to be using the bagged meter area.”

Saturday, 4:59 p.m.: Transient problem on Main Street. “Female set up camp on southeast corner with shopping cart and trash bags. Has made a mess all over the sidewalk. Reporting party states this same homeless female started a fire in front of her business last spring because she was cold.”

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Sunday, 3:33 p.m.: Threats on North Avenue. “Former tenant came to the residence threatening to kill reporting party’s mother. Mother has a temporary restraining order against the suspect.”

Sunday, 9:43 p.m.: Petty theft on Esplanade. “Reporting party gave a guy a ride to Chico from the jail. When she stopped at AMPM gas station, he got out with her purse which contained cash and miscellaneous items.”

Monday, 1:10 a.m.: Drunk in public at Safeway on Mangrove Avenue. “Employee reporting a subject who was harassing customers is now in front of business doing the same. He has thrown sandwiches at customers and yelled.”

Monday, 8:16 p.m.: Harassment on East Shasta Avenue. “Reporting party has received more than 50 text messages from an unknown number today. Texts say if reporting party doesn’t get back together with an ex they will make her life hell.”

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Campus needs audit to dissolve administrative dictatorship

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When asked about the university’s quality of communication, faculty and staff stated that they are oftentimes too afraid to voice complaints and concerns for fear of retribution. They described their treatment as “bullying” and “harassment.” that they are barely keeping afloat, accordTwo employees even insisted on turning ing to the report’s in paper copies of results. the survey because They have taken they were afraid of The chancellor’s office needs to on work to cover for having their identivacant positions. ties traced through answer this plea for an audit and They’re strugthe digital version. shift the university’s paradigm of gling to accommoBased on these oppression. date overcrowded surveys, Chico classes. Staff and State sounds less faculty feel “overlike a house of whelmed” and “weary.” They feel like learning and more like a dystopian dicta“beasts of burden.” torship.

When asked about their job satisfaction, If the university expects faculty to ememployees stated that they feel devalued power students and prepare them for the and underappreciated. Their work envi- future, it can’t rule its employees with an ronment is “dehumanizing” and “hope- iron fist. less.” They feel “disposable.”

The survey results spell it out perfectly.

campuswide survey reports that 74 percent of respondent employees feel mistreated and ignored by the university. This survey will be submitted as further cause for an outside audit.

Last month, Chico State faculty and staff called for an outside auditor to assess their work environment. It’s now up to the chancellor’s office whether or not it wants to heed the request and intervene on behalf of Chico State’s employees.

As if the fact that an outside audit is needed isn’t proof enough, the damning statements from this survey make it clear: Chico State staff and faculty have suffered under the university’s bureaucracy for too long, and they shouldn’t have to keep submitting surveys to get the message across.

The chancellor’s office needs to answer this plea for an audit and shift the university’s paradigm of oppression.

When asked about the quantity and quality of their work, staff and faculty stated

Faculty and staff are “doing the bare minimum” because the university has them spread too thin. A toxic administration doesn’t only weigh on faculty and staff. It trickles down to students as well.

With employees feeling hopeless and trivialized, yet afraid of speaking out, it’s hard to imagine an environment in more pressing need of an audit.

The faculty and staff have nothing to lose but their chains. They have the world to win.

Now is the time for the California State University chancellor’s office to step in and stand up for the rights and respect that Chico State employees deserve.

The unsigned Orion editorial is the collaborative opinion of the editorial board.

MORE ON A1 AND THEORION.COM/NEWS Read The Orion’s article on the results of the academic campus climate survey.

Readers demand truth, can’t handle tragedy Matt Murphy

Opinion Columnist A picture is worth a thousand words, but in journalism the cost at which a story comes is sometimes greater than the words are worth.

It’s a line the mainstream media has trouble walking during coverage of tragic events.

Show too little of what happened, and the public feels cheated out of facts they deserve to know; show too much, and media outlets are criticized for revealing what is often the grisly reality of what happened.

ABC News was at the center of this debate for its coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings. The media giant was in hot water after it showed live images of bloody streets and quick shots of injured victims as they were rushed to receive emergency attention.

Now, it’s this paper’s turn. Two weeks ago, The Orion came under fire for initially running a graphic photo from the scene of where a Chico State student was hit by a train. The photo that ran briefly online showed an officer walking beside the tracks carrying the young woman’s severed arms in gloved hands.

After about 10 minutes, editors realized their error, removed the photo and issued an apology. That was just enough time for the image to be saved, retweeted and shared by many. By the end of the day, the ‘scandal’ was on local news.

The way a person’s death had been reported had become a bigger story than the death itself.

The public outcry was swift and highly critical. The general consensus on comment sections was The Orion crossed the line by showing such a shocking image — a consensus I agree with.

Let me ask a question though: after the image accompanying the story was changed, the story still contained words like “dismembered” and the phrase “struck by the train.”

What image came to mind after reading those words?

I’d venture a guess that it’s probably something pretty similar to the photo published the morning of the event. If that’s the image that was in people’s heads already, what changed when they saw the physical manifestation of it?

To add a dash of hypocrisy to this boiling

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controversy, commenters criticized the photo choice and then asked where they could still find the image online. At a certain point, the comment section on The Orion’s story devolved into a macabre fascination with the photo. Complete strangers were coordinating ways of sharing it with each other.

I understand that the nature of the photograph violates the privacy of the young woman’s family. Certainly, an argument could be made that it was disrespectful. I’m not questioning that.

What would we be talking about, though, if The Orion had run the

photo that now accompanies the story: a body-like shape covered by a tarp? Would that have been enough to satisfy readers? I suppose, in this case, it’s OK to be suggestive, but not forthright.

The public is the judge, jury and execu-

tioner when it comes to the media, but it’s hard to satisfy the masses when half the jury is passing evidence back and forth that the other half has thrown out.

Matt Murphy can be reached at

opinion@theorion.com or @mattmurphy93 on Twitter.

Thumbs Thumbs up to President Barack Obama hugging Nina Pham, recovered Ebola patient.

Incubators of deadly viral plagues are people too.

Thumbs down to the Arundo donax plant creating a fire hazard around Little Chico Creek.

But really, is there any plant that isn’t a fire hazard in this drought?

Thumbs up to the proposal to outfit Chico police officers with body cameras. Coincidentally, “Cops: Chico Edition” will soon be running 24/7 on Action News Now.

Thumbs down to Butte Station charging for peanut butter and salad dressing. That five finger discount though...

theorion.com/opinion | Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2014 | A7

To bro, or not to bro

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In times of tragedy, resort to humor Julianna Eveland

Opinion Columnist

People say laughter is the best medicine, and I couldn’t agree more.

To keep from getting too bogged down about tragic events, horrific news stories or troubling pandemics, I indulge in a healthy dose of “too-soon” jokes.

Whether the joke comes from me or I hear it from someone else, there’s always a laugh following the initial, “Whoa. Too soon.”

Some would say it’s disrespectful to have a few laughs about tragic events, but I’d like to think otherwise.

Let me give a few examples: “EEEBOLAAAAAA,” to the tune of the Ricola shout. That one got a few laughs from the people in the newsroom at my summer internship.

Or from a few years back, that infamous Twitter post after Osama Bin Ladin’s capture, “R.I.P. Osama Bin Laden — World Hide-and-Go-Seek Champion (2001-2011).”

In most cases, it’s not in anyone’s best interest to post too-soon jokes on social media sites. People can receive a lot of flack about publicly posting inappropriate humor.

But what’s a little harmless, dry wit among friends? We come together in times of sadness to comfort each other. It makes no sense to wallow in sadness for too long

when a person can make light of a situation through humor.

Many people shy away from too-soon jokes out of fear of being offensive. For example, when Whitney Houston was found dead in a hotel room, many questioned, “Is it too soon to crack jokes?”

I understand the apprehension, but it’s called “too-soon” for a reason.

Timing might not be everything, but a little bit of censorship has to come with the territory. “Too-soon” is fine, but the dreaded “too-far” joke is never appreciated.

There’s a little sense of guilt that comes with the giggles following a too-soon joke, but never so much so that no one laughs.

It’s not that I don’t find Ebola serious, or that I don’t feel sympathy when people pass away. Joking around is simply my best coping mechanism.

I don’t make too-soon jokes to offend, disrespect or stir up controversy. I make them because life is too short not to laugh.

Julianna Eveland can be reached at

opinion@theorion.com or @janexa12 on Twitter.

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LGBT+ rights: A cause divided cannot stand Alyssa Dunning

Opinion Columnist

Zachary Phillips/ The Orion

I’ve been fighting for LGBT+ rights my entire adult life. It isn’t a choice for me, it is just the right thing to do. However, sometimes it feels like allies are treated more like enemies when they speak out of turn.

I’ve read several articles talking about how to be the best ally possible, but never one about what allies need from their LGBT+ comrades.

I have come across issues between allies and the LGBT+ folk many times. Most of the problems stem from misunderstandings and assumptions on both sides.

Many problems come from the idea of privilege and the assumption that allies don’t recognize their own. I know I am straight, and that people don’t stop my husband and I on the street to either harass us or celebrate us. I know that I don’t have to deal with misgendering and incorrect pronouns. I have taken the time to acknowledge and appreciate this.

Although we don’t deal with nearly the same amount of struggle, allies have to make sacrifices too. My family doesn’t support me being an ally. It has hurt our relationship and strained it over the years.

There are also other things I personally struggle with that threaten my schooling and job opportunities.

Again I am not comparing. I am just pointing out that everyone has struggles, be they obvious or unseen.

Another source of conflict is when allies use the wrong terminology. Although I can’t begin to understand how frustrating this must be for LGBT+ people, antagonizing allies for their ignorance never solves anything.

Allies just want to help, and sure they make mistakes, but many of them haven’t been in the fight as long as the LGBT+ community and they’ve never faced the front lines.

Whether someone is LGBT+ or an ally, we’re all fighting for the same cause. We have to look out for each other, protect each other and reach our ultimate goal of equality together.

We are all in the same trenches; let’s act like it.

Alyssa Dunning can be reached at

opinioneditor@theorion.com or @alyssadunning3 on Twitter.

MORE ON THEORION.COM/TWEETTALKS Check out Alyssa Dunning’s Tweet Talk about LGBT+ allyship.

Comments of the week

Talking Point Cops from all over California will be rolling in to patrol Chico’s streets on Halloween weekend. It sounds excessive, but one weekend of near-martial rule has been proven to work.

When it comes to keeping the kids in line, the best approach is an army of babysitters.

Orion file photo

In response to the opinion column, “LGBT+ rights: A cause divided cannot stand” by Alyssa Dunning: “While not all allies are ignorant or problematic, many are. I have been commodified, stereotyped and verbally harassed for my sexual orientation, and more often it has come from allies who don’t understand how to interact to LGBTQ+ Identifying individuals..”

-Guest on theorion.com

In response to the opinion column, “Heritage deeper than appearances” by Megan Mann: “It seems like you don’t fully understand the concept of white privilege. It has nothing to do with the cultural practices you participate in but rather that because your white, you have a family lineage that has been here for several generations.”

-Guest on theorion.com

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Cross-country: A freshman runner was recently featured on a TV series. B3 theorion.com/sports | Wednesday oct. 29, 2014 | Vol. 73, Issue 10 |

Track & Field

GOING THE DISTANCE

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Kym Crosby, a Chico State sprinter, rests during practice. She was invited to join the Team USA Paralympic team after only her second year as a Wildcat.

Junior sprinter makes Team USA’s Paralympic team, with a shot at the 2016 games Jose Olivar Staff Writer

I

n 2015, Kym Crosby will toe the line to compete against athletes from around the world.

The sprinter for Chico State’s women’s track and field team has officially become a member of Team USA’s Paralympic team.

Crosby is visually impaired, due to the lack of pigment in her hair, skin and eyes. This causes twice as much light to reach her pupils and irises. A person with 20/100 vision is considered legally blind. Crosby has a vision of 20/400 in both eyes.

As a member of the team, she will get the chance to travel to several countries to represent the United States. Being a part of the national team will also give Crosby the opportunity to qualify for the 2016 Paralympic games in Rio de Janeiro.

As a Wildcat, Crosby has excelled, bringing with her the same success she has experienced throughout high school.

It did not take long for others to take notice.

After Crosby’s second year with Chico State, Cathy Seller, the high performance director of Team USA, reached out to Oliver Hanf, Chico State’s head men’s track and

“It’s almost like you have one shot, so you better make it worth it and do your best,” she said.

This summer, Crosby met her coach for the field coach, about inviting Crosby to become national team, Joaquim Cruz, after competa member of the national team. ing in her first Paralympic meet in Arizona.

“I was thrilled,” Hanf said. “I’ve had zero Cruz said that seeing Crosby’s athleticism experience with that branch of the sport, so and experience on the track was the reason I was a bit taken by surprise. But it was quite why he invited her to the Olympic Training clear why she was recruited.”

Center in Chula Vista, where she spent six Crosby said that being invited to join the weeks training over the summer. national team did not sink in right away, and “It was a little challenging at first, before I it was not until she got her Team USA gear in even started,” Crosby said. “I was really nerthe mail that she realized it was all real. vous, because I thought that I would get my “I didn’t butt kicked really while I was know what down there.”

It’s almost like you have one shot, to say,” Cruz put so you better make it worth it and Crosby her through do your best. said. “I rigorous was just endurance Kym Crosby, sprinter like trying training and on all this sand drills. stuff, like, Despite ‘Yeah, this the training is awesome,’ and I finally feel like my dream being hard at times, her coach had a way is starting to come true.” of making the experience a lot more fun by Next year, she will go to the World Chamslowly easing her in through the process, pionships in Qatar, and the 2015 Parapan Crosby said.

American Games in Toronto.

“All I had to do was wake up, eat, go train She will also get the opportunity to for a few hours out of the day, and then I had compete for the 2016 Paralympic Games, her the rest of the day to myself,” she said. “It ultimate goal, where she knows that the level was like heaven for an athlete.” of competition will be tougher, she said.

One of the challenges Crosby faces is

making sure that she does not overtrain, she said. With the world championship still a year away, she wants to be sure her body does not peak too early.

“I’m definitely anxious,” she said. “I’m ready for this year to be over, because I just want to get back down there and just train.”

While Crosby is in school, Chico State women’s track and field coach Robert Nooney is one of the people helping her stay focused.

Nooney said he talked to Crosby about keeping her usual focus and dedication.

Because of her maturity, he is confident that she will maintain her composure.

“There is something motivating her just like a job is motivating another athlete, so it’s kind of the same thing,” Nooney said.

“I don’t see her trying harder now because of that. She’s developing and evolving as a student-athlete, and this is just another motivator.”

Crosby said that becoming a part of the national team is an experience that has made her more patriotic, and she feels like she is making everyone proud.

“Being visually impaired, I know that I can’t serve my country, or do anything like that,” she said. “I feel like this is a way I can serve my country: running for them and representing for them and making them proud.”

Jose Olivar can be reached at

sportseditor@theorion.com or @jpu_olivar on Twitter.

Women’s Golf

Veteran stays on par during fall season pars. Nick Green, the women’s golf head coach, helped O’Keefe focus when her nerves creeped in while going into the final three Achieving consistency in any athletic enholes. deavor is tough, and maybe even more so in “I was really proud of myself to shoot in golf. Not too tough, though, for Dani O’Keefe. the 60s for the first time in a collegiate event,” O’Keefe, a junior Chico State golfer, had a she said. “I was also pretty excited, (and so career-best and program record performance was my team).”

Oct. 4-5 at Sunriver Resort’s Meadows golf O’Keefe was introduced to golf by her course in Sunriver, Oregon. The golfer posted father, who is the head golf professional at a 54-hole score of 1-over-par 214, placing her Rancho Maria Golf Club in Santa Maria. at a third overall individual finish in the “My dad is and always has been my big61-player field. O’Keefe’s efforts set a new gest fan,” O’Keefe said. “He has taught me school record for a three-round score. everything I know about the game leading O’Keefe got better as the weekend proup to my college experience. He picked me gressed, recording her best score Sunday. up when I failed and encouraged me to push She had three birdies and 14 pars to put up a through and work hard.” career best 2-under-par 69. O’Keefe now has With the conclusion of the Sonoma State seven top-10 tourtournament nament finishes Oct. 21, the Dani, to her credit, has done a to her name and team begins very good job over the last two a 79.35 stroke a lengthy average per round winter hiatus, tournaments of showing me that for her Wildcat returning to she’s capable of being a leader on career. competition in this team.

“I felt pretty late February. good during my The team finNick Green, women’s golf head coach first round,” ished in third O’Keefe said. “I place overall, felt focused and was in a pretty good mind and O’Keefe finished with another third place state. I gave myself a lot of good birdie individually. opportunities, which helped keep my spirits O’Keefe said she will keep playing golf on up after a couple of bad holes. By the second her own to stay sharp during the time off. round, I started to feel a little mentally “I plan on working on my putting,” she drained, but I pushed my way through and said. “I have improved my putting tremenput up a pretty decent round.” dously over the past few months, but there She said she went into autopilot Sunday, is always room for improvement. Playing a which enabled her to finish with 11 straight lot of rounds of golf is how I really improve Nick Reddy Staff Writer

my game, so that’s what I plan on doing this winter.”

Prior to her performance in Oregon, O’Keefe was disqualified due to a number error on her scorecard at the Western New Mexico Fall Intercollegiate tournament.

However, she showed true resilience and confidence in bouncing back with her lowest career score.

“As funny as it sounds, I’m so happy I was disqualified because it taught me a very important lesson,” O’Keefe said. “And I was able to prove to myself the kind of person and golfer that I am and that I really am capable playing great golf.”

She said Green was instrumental in helping her overcome the shock and disappointment of her disqualification.

“I’ve talked a lot about emotional stability with her — not being too excited or too down when things are good or bad,” Green said.

“Dani, to her credit, has done a very good job over the last two tournaments of showing me that she’s capable of being a leader on this team. Dani is a very hard worker, she takes it seriously. She was also very close to being an academic All-American last year. She’s the kind of player I like to have on my program.”

Green said that if O’Keefe’s disqualified score at the tournament had counted, she would have a season stroke average of approximately 76.

“She’s on pace to be an All-American with that scoring average,” he said.

Nick Reddy can be reached at

sportseditor@theorion.com or @NickIsReddy on Twitter.

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Dani O’Keefe shoots toward the green during practice at a local golf course.

B2 | Wednesday, oct. 29, 2014 | theorion.com/sports

Wildcat Week of the

Pooja Patel

Patel scored a goal in Friday’s game against San Francisco State to help the Wildcats extend their winning streak to three games. Patel has two goals and three assists on the season for Chico State, which won its fourth game Sunday to clinch a playoff berth.

POOJA PATEL

Class: Freshman Major: Undeclared

Sport: Soccer Position: Midfielder

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Pooja Patel sets up for a shot four minutes into the match Friday for Chico State.

Stat ’Cat

In Case You Missed It Women’s Soccer

71.1

WEEKEND PERFORMANCE

2-0

(Men’s Golf) Alistair Docherty, the California Collegiate Athletic Association Golfer of the week, has a season stroke average of 71.1.

The Chico State women’s soccer team added a pair of wins to its season total, beating San Francisco State 2-0 Friday, then picking up a win against Cal State Monterey Bay. Pooja Patel and Lindsey Dias both scored in Friday’s win. And in Sunday’s victory, Katie Woodrum scored in the 71st minute to put Chico State ahead. The win was the fourth straight for the ’Cats, that are 10-4-2, 7-2-1 in the California Collegiate Athletic Association. It was also goalie Brianna Furner’s 38th career shutout, just two behind Chico State’s career mark.

26th (Men’s Cross-Country) John Domogma/The Orion

Kyle Medina finished 26th out of 182 runners at the Santa Clara Bronco Invitational.

Sean Gallagher heads down-field during Friday night’s game against San Francisco State.

10 (Men and Women’s Soccer) Chico State held its senior day for both soccer teams on Sunday, honoring five seniors.

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Men’s Soccer

Volleyball

WEEKEND PERFORMANCE

WEEKEND PERFORMANCE

2-0 The Chico State men’s soccer team nabbed two wins over the weekend, beating San Francisco State 2-0 Friday night, then besting Cal State Monterey Bay by the same score Sunday. Matt Hurlow and Carter Johnson scored in the Wildcats’ win Friday, while Johnson and Justin Saul scored again to win Sunday. Freshman goalkeeper Luke Dennison recorded both shutouts for Chico State, that is 8-6-2, 3-6-1 in the California Collegiate Athletic Association.

(Women’s Soccer) Chico State is on a four-game winning streak, its longest of the season. Its fourth win also clinched a playoff berth for the Wildcats.

CCAA

Overall 15-0-1

2. Cal State L.A.

8-1

12-2

3. Cal State Dominguez Hills

6-2-1

8-6-2

4. UC San Diego

4-2-3

9-4-3

5. Cal State San Bernardino

5-4

9-4

6. Humboldt State

4-5

8-6-1

7. Cal State Stanislaus

3-4-2

5-7-3

8. Sonoma State

2-5-2

7-7-2

2-6-1

7-6-2

2-6-1

7-7-2

1-6-2

2-8-4

11. Cal State Monterey Bay

WOMEN’S SOCCER

The Chico State men’s golf team ended the first round of the Rock Barn Invitational in first place, led by Lee Gearhart’s 4-under 68. Gearhart has a three-stroke lead over the rest of the pack, while the Wildcats as a team hold a one-shot lead over Newberry College for first place. Justin Wiles also cracked the top 10, finishing the round tied for seventh at a 74. Alistair Docherty and Zachary Sardina tied for 33rd in the 104-player field. The event wrapped up Tuesday, but results were not available at press time. For full results, visit theorion. com/sports.

Upcoming Games 9-0

10. San Francisco State

1st

MORE ON THEORION.COM/SPORTS Follow along online for the latest results. For live updates, follow along on Twitter @theorion_sports.

1. Cal Poly Pomona

9. Chico State

The Chico State women’s volleyball team split a pair of games this weekend, getting past Cal State Monterey Bay in four sets Friday before losing in four sets to Cal State East Bay on Saturday. During Friday’s sets, Chico State made runs of 13-5, 12-5 and 10-3 to get the edge over the Otters. Ellie Larronde had 17 kills and 13 digs, while setter Torey Thompson had 52 assists and 10 digs.

Lindsay Quigley and Kristyn Casalino had 14 and 11 kills, respectively, in Chico State’s loss Saturday. The split brings Chico State to 9-10, 7-8 in the California Collegiate Athletic Association.

WEEKEND PERFORMANCE

-Compiled by Nick Woodard

Standings MEN’S SOCCER

1-1

Men’s Golf

CCAA

Overall

VOLLEYBALL

MEN’S SOCCER

Friday, Oct. 31

Thursday, Oct. 30

7 P.M.

4:30 P.M.

VS.

VS.

Humboldt State

Cal Sate San Bernadino

WOMEN’S SOCCER

CROSS COUNTRY

Thursday, Oct. 30

Saturday, Nov. 8 9 A.M.

8-0-1

13-1-2

7 P.M.

6-2-1

9-4-2

3. Cal State San Bernardino

6-3

13-3

VS.

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4. Sonoma State

6-3

13-3

5. Cal Poly Pomona

6-3

11-4

Cal State San Bernadino

CCAA Championships

6. UC San Diego

4-3-2

7-5-3

7. Cal State Stanislaus

4-4-1

11-4-1

8. Cal State East Bay

3-6

6-8-2

9. Cal State Monterey Bay

3-6

6-8

2-6-1

5-8-2

1. Cal State L.A.

2. Chico State

10. San Francisco State

theorion.com/sports | Wednesday, oct. 29, 2014 | B3

Cross-Country

Cross-Country

Student stars on TV series Wildcats key in on running strategy

Samuel Wolfson

Staff Writer

Camila Turati is only a freshman on Chico State’s cross-country team, but she’s already made a number of accomplishments. One of which may be a little more unexpected than the rest.

She’s a TV star.

Turati was one of three female Chico State athletes to be featured on the television show “Game On.” The episode aired Oct. 10 on the Comcast Hometown Network.

Mark Baker, the show’s current producer, created “Game On” because there aren’t enough shows to appreciate female athletes.

“The show is to shed light on amazing female athletes,” Baker said. “There are plenty of shows out there that just focus on men’s sports and there is not much on women’s. There are a lot of tremendous women out there that are doing incredible things.”

Turati was the only freshman to be picked from Chico State. Baker wanted a true freshman athlete as a centerpiece for one of the stories.

Luke Reid, Chico State’s sports information director, reached out to Gary Towne, Chico State’s head cross-country coach, for his opinion on who should be featured.

Towne immediately thought of Turati.

The “Game On” crew recorded the episode Sept. 17 and 18, taking about three hours each day. Crew members interviewed Kym Crosby, Kim Sutton and Turati to talk about their experiences as Chico State Camila Turati represents female athletes athletes. They also recorded some of their practice. to work harder to fulfill their expectations Towne said Turati’s segment was a and add value to this season. difficult one because it was only her second Towne said in the episode that Turati has week of school. a lot of traits he thought would blend really “It’s hard for a true frosh in her second well with the rest of the team, like dediweek of classes to talk about her college cation and patience, which makes her one experience of the top when it’s still recruits this so new, and year.

It was a great honor to be she’s still Turati said chosen for the story, and to so young,” she wouldn’t represent the Chico crossTowne said. be where country team.

“She did a she is today great job of without Camila Turati, cross-country runner handling the her El Toro situation, and High School sharing her cross-counthoughts on the topics they asked her to try coach, Ken Chai. He believed in her speak about.” before she believed in herself, but now he Turati said it felt surreal after seeing the has helped her reach her potential, and she episode air. After listening to what Towne will try her best not to disappoint, she said. and assistant coach Ayla Granados said Turati has loved the team chemistry about her in the episode, it made her want since her recruit visit, and it was one of the

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on the tv show “Game On.”

main reasons she picked Chico State over other programs, she said.

“I know that the individual efforts of each runner can make or break a team,” Turati said. “But to know that I am part of the Chico team with these amazing teammates and such a fun coaching staff, and that we are all working on the same goal, it is the greatest feeling ever.”

She looks up to the older Wildcats and to be running on the same team with them was the best decision she ever made, she said. She plans to contribute as much as she possibly can to the program, and hopes to break school records and eventually become an All-American runner.

“It was a great honor to be chosen for the story, and to represent the Chico cross-country team,” Turati said.

Sam Wolfson can be reached at

sportseditor@theorion.com or @theorion_sports on Twitter.

Cross-Country

Senior runner pacing pack for ’Cats Hanf gave him permission to finish his McGuirk is set to graduate with a degree workout. When McGuirk was done, he in exercise physiology. However, he is still Staff Writer helped the coach continue his preparations planning on competing and hopefully repreFour years ago, Alex McGuirk was almost for the team practice. senting Team USA in the future. kicked off the track during a meet. For the “He just kindly came up to me afterwards For now, though, he has his eyes set on the sake of him and his team, it’s a good thing and helped me set up all the hurdles,” Hanf conference championship. he wasn’t. said. “So I texted Gary Towne and I said, With only three weeks left in the McGuirk, a senior runner for Chico ‘Hey, I met one of your young guys. He cross-country team’s schedule, McGuirk State’s cross-country and track and field helped me set up all the hurdles. Nice guy.’ and the rest of his teammates are hoping to teams, earned All-American honors in the Gary’s response was, ‘Yeah, that’s our future make a statement to finish off the season. steeplechase after finishing fourth at the steeplechase record-holder.’”

“We’ve never gotten second, top two at NCAA Track & Field Championships in Fast-forward five years later, and Towne, nationals before, and I think that this year spring. McGuirk is striving for All-AmerChico State’s cross-country coach, turned we have a pretty good shot at being top two,” ican yet again this fall, only for out to be right. he said. cross-country.

The steeplechase is a 3,000-meHe said that he is looking forward to McGuirk was named the ter race that includes a water competing against top Division II programs California Collegiate Athletic pit and a number of immovable such as Adams State and Western State in Association Men’s Cross-Country hurdles, unlike regular hurdles.

Colorado at nationals.

Runner of the Week for the period “It’s been quite the transition,” “We’re just over here in California, just of Sept. 29–Oct. 5, after placing McGuirk said. “My first 2 1/2 like watching from afar, and we only get to eighth at the Charles Bowles XC years, I was one of those bottom race them once a year,” McGuirk said. “And I Willamette Invitational on Oct. 4. guys and not really feeling like I think showing them that we are legit, that’ll McGuirk was the first Diviwas really useful to the team.” be fun.” sion II runner in the race to Towne said that for most of As for finishing eighth in a race against ALEX MCGUIRK cross the finish line. He helped McGuirk’s high school career, a nationally ranked team like Oregon, McCross-country third-ranked Chico State climb he was under the radar. Late Guirk said that it does not rank that high in runner to a second-place finish behind a in McGuirk’s senior year, his his list of accomplishments. nationally-ranked Division I team coach from Mountain View “It’s just such an early season meet, in Oregon.

High School called Towne to let there’s a lot more to come this season that’s In the last year and a half, McGuirk has him know that hopefully going become one of the best runners for Chico McGuirk had to rank higher,” I think that this year we have a State’s men’s track and field and cross-counbroken some he said. “We pretty good shot at being top two. try teams, but things were not always how of his previwant a swe.ep they are now. ous personal again at conferOliver Hanf, Chico State’s men’s track and records. ence, another Alex McGuirk, cross-country runner field head coach, said the first time he saw “It wasn’t regional chamMcGuirk running his freshman year, Hanf your typical pionship for the came close to kicking him off the track. story of a really team and hope“We were setting up for a track meet good high school runner that a college coach fully podium again at nationals this year. I and this little guy was running around the reaches out to and tries to lure him to the think being All-American in cross-country track, and I was trying to set up hurdles, and campus,” Towne said. “Just one of those would be a great way to end the season.” you know,” he said. “I kind of fell short of last decisions that you’re really thankful for, kicking him off, but definitely questioned after the fact, because I had no idea just how Jose Olivar can be reached at who he was.” talented he was, and what lie in store as far sportseditor@theorion.com or After McGuirk explained who he was, as his career here and his future here.” @jpu_olivar on Twitter.

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The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare, said Juma Ikangaa, a three-time second place finisher at the Boston marathon.

Imagine how that reflects on Chico State’s men and women’s cross-country teams.

Both teams run each race with a unique mental strategy.

Gary Towne, Chico State’s head cross-country coach, said the approach to races is based on the competition the teams face.

“For instance, if you’re in a really large field in a cross-country race, then you want to get out enough initially so that you are not running into a traffic jam in the later stages of the QUETTA race,” Towne said.

PEINADO The traffic jam Cross-country effect occurs when runner runners come up to turns on the course. As they approach the turns, they slow down, and in turn, slow the rest of the pack down.

At the Stanford Invitational in September, the women’s team didn’t start fast in the 300-runner field. It cost them because they couldn’t claw their way back to the front of the field.

Towne said runners can’t go too hard in the beginning because although it may mean a nice position, it can compromise breathing and the ability to run their best.

He described it as a tricky scenario and something the teams have been working on this year.

Before every race, the team previews the course, Towne said. This helps with everything from the turns of the course to the terrain.

“On a course preview, I emphasize to them that they want to know the course well, because just knowing where you are at in accordance to the overall course is really helpful,” Towne said.

Sophomore runner Aaron Mora said that it really depends on the race, but national races might start a little slower and finish faster than regular races. Knowing the course is a great advantage in races.

“Just to know the course and imagine it the day before and know where you want to make AARON moves,” Mora MORA said. “Knowing Cross-country how many loops runner you’re going to do, so then you’re not getting lost, because that is the worst thing to happen.”

Junior runner Quetta Peinado said awareness is a priority. Finding out who is in the field and not getting stuck at the back of the pack is tough, but the runner figures it out at about the 1-mile mark.

“Every course, every competition, is different and Gary does a great job of letting us know where we should be,” Peinado said. “The goal is to get out fast, but you don’t want to get stuck at the back because making up that distance is tough.”

Something the runners are eager to compete in is the NCAA Championships Dec. 6 in Louisville, Kentucky.

“I had my first nationals last year and the intensity — you could just feel it on the line with all the teams lined up,” Mora said.

“That is the one meet we train for all year.

We have others to prepare us, but that is the main meet we want to run our fastest. It’s just something to take in, remember, and not overthink it.”

Chance Keenan can be reached at

sportseditor@twheorion.com or @chancelikelance on Twitter.

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Women’s Soccer

Photographs by John Domogma/The Orion

Katie Woodrum sends a shot past the defending goalie for a score in the 71st minute of play Sunday against Cal State Monterey Bay. Chico State won 1-0.

Playoff ’Cats net 4 straight wins Staff Reports The Wildcats are going to the playoffs.

Chico State’s women’s soccer team has won four games in a row, the team’s longest winning streak of the season. By doing so, the team clinched a playoff berth.

The streak began with a pair of overtime wins during the weekend of Oct. 17-19. The Wildcats beat Cal State East Bay 1-0 Friday behind Stephanie Vaquerano’s gamewinner, and came away with a double overtime win two days later when Katie Woodrum put the game to bed.

A week later, the ’Cats continued their winning ways with two more wins. Lindsey Dias and Pooja Patel both scored in a 2-0 win over San Francisco State on Friday, and Woodrum scored the go-ahead shot over Cal State Monterey Bay to give Chico State its fourth consecutive win Sunday.

With the win, Chico State officially clinched a spot in the California Collegiate Athletic Association championship tournament. With one game left to play in the regular season, the Wildcats are 10-4-2 overall and 7-2-1 in the CCAA.

Pooja Patel unloads for a shot against Cal State Monterey Bay on Sunday. Chico State won 1-0, its fourth straight win.

Cassi Scroggins pierces the defense Sunday against Cal State Monterey Bay.

Stephanie Vanni of the San Francisco State Gators pulls Wildcat forward Ella Frie’s shirt as she wins the ball Oct. 24

Wildcat midfielder Lindsey Dias towers over Cal State East Bay to win the header.

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Q&A

King of his craft

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Ken Grossman, owner, founder and president of Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., outside the Sierra Nevada brewery on East 20th Street.

Ken Grossman, founder of Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., looks back at the rise of his craft beer empire Ernesto Rivera

Editor-In-Chief

I

t began just before 5 a.m. on Nov. 15, 1980. Ken Grossman woke up and went to an old converted metal warehouse on Gilman Way near Highway 99.

Here, he brewed Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.’s first test batch of beer, not its flagship Pale Ale but a stout.

Grossman, president and owner, had spent years converting that old warehouse into what would become Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. He traveled from farm to farm in search of high-quality hops. He taught himself refrigeration and welding to re-purpose old dairy equipment.

Funding his project and supporting a family with odd jobs, Grossman was determined to contribute his mix of hops, malts and ales to the craft brew industry.

Almost 34 years later the company has gone from producing five barrels in one day to producing more than 1 million barrels per year of its iconic craft beers.

The Orion sat down with Grossman to talk about his journey from Southern California to Chico, opening up his home brew shop on Broadway Street and expanding Sierra Nevada to the east coast.

Even though I was only 17, I had brewed quite a few batches of beer by then. I was aware of Anchor and Fritz Maytag (former owner of Anchor Brewing Company and who many consider the father of modern microbreweries) from my home brewing connections.

That was the first time I had the chance to taste a bottled product.

One year after you opened The Home Brew Shop on the 300 block of Broadway Street in 1976, you and your business partner amicably parted ways. Your wife Katie came to help you at the shop with your three-week-old daughter Sierra.

What do you remember most about your time at The Home Brew Shop?

It was my art and passion, and fun to do but I had a young child and not a lot of money so I kept working at one of the bike shops to make ends meet. We ran The Home brew Shop somewhat hobby but with the hope that the business would grow enough so we could support ourselves.

In 1980 when you were in the middle of your plans to build Sierra Nevada, the U.S. brewing industry wasn’t looking so great, with only 40 legacy breweries in existence. Was that discouraging to your plans?

Tell me about your close friend’s father The bigger breweries were monopolizing who exposed you to home brewing. What the marketplace and producing pretty similar was that experience like? light lager styles of beer so I was certainly I probably first saw him making beer when aware of the market enough to know there I was 7 or 8 years old. He was a very avid wine was a niche for beers like ours. I wasn’t too maker and home brewer. Regularly I would aware of what was happening in the Midwest see him brewing something. Early on it was and East as far as brewery closures until I just smells and odors and bubbling airlocks, I joined the Brewers Association of America wasn’t too clued in on what exactly was going and started going to those conventions. They on but as I grew up I became more aware of were back in Florida and there I got to meet what he was doing. I became fascinated with other smaller brewers. Then I became more the alchemy and aware of their the science of plight and how More flavorable, more robust brewing. hard they were struggling. and hoppy ales were sort of You grew up After I got into where we thought we could in Southern it I realized, “Oh hang our hats and that was the California and this doesn’t look direction we headed. moved to Chico too good in the Ken Grossman, founder of when you were small brewing Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. 17. You describe industry,” but your first visit before I was not here as an unbearably hot June evening as aware. and eventually ending up in a hotel room with blood splattered in bathroom. What What was it like to travel to Florida was it about this city that you fell in love and talk to all these brewers? with?

All the brewers that were in Florida at that The next day we went to Bidwell Park and meeting were from really established, old biked around and it was much different from family breweries. They were losing market where I grew in up Southern California. It share, they had old breweries and they didn’t had a real small town feel. I thought it was have the money to reinvest in them. They a neat, quaint little college town. I ended up were at a disadvantage in the marketplace. riding my bike around town and applied for a job at a bike shop and got a job offer and Did they offer you any advice? called my mom up and said I’m not coming No, they were actually looking to us as home, I’m going to move to Chico. a sort of new spark in the industry. Fritz Maytag had been an active participant of Before you moved to Chico, you went the association and he was the one who on a bike ride along Highway 1 in the suggested I join. He was really the shining California coast and first tasted Anchor star for them because his business was Steam Beer. How significant was that mogrowing and most of these other smaller ment to the creation of Sierra Nevada? breweries were shrinking. I think a lot of I was going up to Chico State with a couple them thought what he was doing was the of my high school buddies who were going to vision for the future. Others didn’t get that be attending Chico State. They were dropping higher-dollar, more-robust beer style was me off to start a cycle tour on the coast. At going to be what allowed you to survive as a that point I was a pretty avid home brewer. small brewer.

Sierra Nevada at a glance

2nd

786,000

barrels of beer produced in 2010

biggest craft brewer in the U.S.

=

259,380,000

7th

biggest overall brewer in the U.S.

Sierra Nevada uses whole-cone hops for all of its ales and lagers.

It is the largest buyer of organic hops in the U.S.

12-ounce bottles of beer

Sierra Nevada opened its newest brewery in North Carolina in 2014 to expand distribution.

34

The company will celebrate its 34th anniversary on Nov. 15.

Pale ale is its topselling beer.

Sierra Nevada is powered by 10,000 solar panels that create more than 1.5 megawatts of electricity.

98.8

percent of Sierra Nevada’s waste was diverted from its landfill in 2012.

It won the “Green Business of the Year” award in 2010 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Sources: sierranevada.com, brewersassociation.org Infographic by Ernesto Rivera/The Orion

What qualities did you want to establish in your beer when you were first dreaming up Sierra Nevada?

We realized that we needed to make a distinctive product that would stand out.

Without any advertising or marketing budget the only way we could survive was to make something that really was a niche of the brewing industry. More flavorful, more robust and hoppy ales were sort of where we thought we could hang our hats and that was the direction we headed.

On Nov. 15, 1980 — after years of financial struggles and gathering equipment and materials — you brewed Sierra Nevada’s first test batch of beer. 150 gallons of stout even though you had been testing your pale ale recipe for months. Why did you start with a stout instead of the pale ale?

We thought that making a stronger, dark beer would cover some of our sins. We figured we had a pretty good shot at making a drinkable stout right off the bat. As the beers get a little lighter, the flaws show up and we knew we weren’t going to do things perfectly in our first brew. And we enjoyed drinking stout, too.

When you first started, you tried to sell your beers to the bars in downtown Chico. What was it like playing door-todoor salesman?

We carried a little ice chest around with us and took individual bottles out and let people take samples of our beer. We were able to sell it to 10 or 15 places.

Almost 34 years later, Sierra Nevada has transformed from a small operation into one of the top 10 biggest breweries in America. What do you attribute to its massive success?

We’ve had a lot of dedicated focus that helped us get there. It’s not just me by any

means. We worked really hard and we were in the right place at the right time. We all worked hard to make great beer. We continued to grow as the industry grew with us.

Why do you think the craft beer industry has grown so much?

The timing was right back when we started. Small bakeries were opening up.

People didn’t want to just buy Wonder Bread, they wanted bread with character and flavor. The time had turned. For us, we had a product that was well received because it was handmade and unique and different and appealed to a lot of people’s sensibilities.

You and your son searched more than 200 locations for a new brewery. Why did you choose Mills River, North Carolina?

It wasn’t just my son and I, we had a team of senior management. The area we found is beautiful. The area has a lot of culture things going for it: food, recreation, kayaking, hiking, mountain biking. It seemed like a good place to build another brewery and a good fit for us.

It’s your birthday on Nov. 11. How old are you turning and what is next for you and Sierra Nevada?

Sixty. I’ll hopefully be able to wrap up the construction in North Carolina in the next few months. Hopefully by February or March we’ll be fully wrapped up there. Then my plan is to take a little bit of a breather, not work so hard. I’ve been traveling pretty much every other week to North Carolina for the past 2 1/2 years. I’d like to take a vacation.

Ernesto Rivera can be reached at

editorinchief@theorion.com or @ernestorivera on Twitter.

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Scholarship

Highest CSU honor awarded to student

and it basically tore us apart,” she said.

Even with all her personal struggles, Editor-In-Chief Holmberg-Douglas used them as motivation Natalie Holmberg-Douglas is not one to to pursue her dreams. sit still.

“I kept seeing a lot of people from successIf she’s not tutoring agriculture and ful families become successful and I felt like chemistry students, she’s being the vice maybe my family circumstances weren’t president of the Chico State Chemistry going to allow me to be successful,” she Club. When she isn’t planning the Chico said. “I didn’t want that to happen because I State Future Farmers of America Field Day, didn’t think that was fair.” she is developing drugs to help cure cancer.

Now, Holmberg-Douglas is well on her Her achieveway. Over the ments haven’t summer, she She knows what this education received a gone unnoticed. is worth and the effort she Not only has research grant she won dozens and immedishould put toward it. of scholarships ately began — including the Carolynn Arpin, chemistry professor working on deprestigious Lt. veloping a drug Robert Merton that will kill Rawlins Merit Award — Holmberg-Douglas, cancer cells by trying to synthesize a small a senior double major in animal science library of inhibitors to inhibit a protein and biochemistry, is the recipient of the called GRB7.

California State University Trustees’ Award “I’m trying to make a drug that’s going to for Outstanding Achievement. The award, stop GRB7 from interacting with another given to one student from each CSU, is the protein, and that’s going to kill cancer highest honor the Cal State system awards. cells,” she said. “GRB7 is over-expressed But her life hasn’t always been a success in various cancers, including ovarian and story in the making. She and her family breast cancer.” have struggled for years through many Her research mentor Carolynn Arpin, problems including income troubles, the an assistant chemistry professor, said loss of her house in Penn Valley and health Holmberg-Douglas takes advantage of the issues. opportunities available to her.

“In high school, my brother got into hard “She knows what this education is worth drugs and it was really hard on my family and the effort she should put toward it,” Ernesto Rivera

Ernesto Rivera/The Orion

Natalie Holmberg-Douglas is this year’s recipient of the prestigious California State University Trustees’ Award for Outstanding Achievement.

Arpin said.

After graduation, Holmberg-Douglas wants go to veterinary school, pursue her Ph.D. and continue to do research.

“I want to somehow increase the world’s knowledge of science somehow,” she said. “I want to be able to help people.”

But Holmberg-Douglas admits that all this doesn’t come easily.

“It’s hard to stay focused and stay driven,” she said. “I have this really strong ambition to be successful and even though there’s all these hiccups, I don’t want that to slow me down.”

Ernesto Rivera can be reached at

editorinchief@theorion.com or @ernestorivera on Twitter.

Health

The O-Face: Issues

Students create food market for kids

of interracial Dating

Taylor Sinclair

Staff Writer

It’s a Friday afternoon. School has been let out and before boarding the bus, excited and energetic students walk into the Central Middle School gym in Oroville.

Once they arrive at the gym, they are provided with ten dollars of green paper play money and a reusable Home Depot bag so they can buy potatoes, carrots, bell peppers, onions and other fresh produce to take home.

Chico State’s Center for Nutrition and Activity Promotion has been putting on a weekly farmers market for the students of Central Middle School since May 2014.

Alyson Wylie, one of the Center for Nutrition and Activity Promotion’s supervisors, said the vision is to help create healthy communities.

“We have created a student-focused farmers market to teach them about the benefits of selecting fresh fruits and veggies,” Wylie said. “(It’s) a very important learning experience, given all the the fast food advertising competing for their attention.”

Nearly 200 students show up to each farmers market. The Food Bank donates one ton of food for each farmers market and any leftover food is donated to shelters.

The Center for Nutrition and Activity Promotion is a research organization on campus and has been around for nine years. Macy Fitch, a senior nutrition management major, got started in the organization as an intern and is now a paid staff member.

Fitch said watching the kids walking away with 10 pounds of free produce is the most rewarding part of her job.

“The kids get really excited about particular fruits or vegetables,” she said.

Oroville is considered a low-income and low-access community, according to USDA.gov, meaning that most residents live farther than one mile away from a market or grocery store.

Maifeng Yang, a junior nutrition communication major, went to Central Middle School and knows how hard it is to come

Veronica De La Cruz

Staff Writer

finally got to eat pears because he doesn’t usually get them at his house,” Graham said. “So with his fake money, he bought 20 pears to take home to his family.”

Central Middle School’s students were also allowed to volunteer and help distribute food. This included Linda Vang, 13.

She said she likes helping out because all the vegetables are free and it is a fun activity to be a part of.

Yang said that being involved in the farmers market is important and it can benefit the future generation.

“I see how health and nutrition can be a negative part of this side if you’re not exposing yourself to these kinds of things,” Yang said. “I just feel like by being a part of it we can help improve the kids, teaching them to eat healthier and be more active, which could really benefit the future generation.”

Growing up, my dad came from a strict Catholic community where it’s the norm to be with someone of Hispanic heritage. Being raised in a Catholic household, I disagreed with some of the values and the judgment if anyone did anything out of tradition.

The way I was brought up has a lot to do with my relationship expectations. For me, it’s not about the color of their skin; it’s more about how educated and well-mannered they are.

The only type of guys I’ve dated are Caucasian. Don’t get me wrong, I can appreciate a good-looking Hispanic guy. That shouldn’t mean that I should be obligated to seek a relationship with them just because it’s what society considers to be normal.

There are times when I’ve wondered if something was wrong with me. My sister had married my brother-in-law, who’s Mexican, and my brother had plenty of Hispanic girlfriends. Most of my Hispanic friends also found themselves attracted to guys of their race.

I used to be anxious whenever I’d bring a boyfriend of a different race around, because I would worry about being judged by friends and family for not dating Hispanics. However, that never prevented me from pursuing a relationship with them.

When my parents got divorced, I lived with my mom and luckily she’s been completely accepting of who I date. Because of how much society has socially progressed, it’s surprising to me that people are still judgmental of those who are in an interracial relationship.

Since I’ve had experience with this kind of relationship, I think that it has taught me how to be more open-minded about who I date­­. When it comes to love, color should never matter, but instead, who they are as a person.

Taylor Sinclair can be reached at

Veronica De La Cruz can be reached at

featureseditor@theorion.com or @Tay_Sinclair17 on Twitter.

opinioneditor@theorion.com or @Veronica_dlc on Twitter.

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Tong Thao, psychology major from Butte college, helps kids at Central Middle School in Oroville in their own farmers’ market that is run by Chico State. across fresh produce.

“Going to school here, we are always surrounded by fast food chains,” Yang said. “There are no grocery stores here. I just think it is a really great opportunity for kids to indulge themselves in farmers and introduce themselves to food.”

At one table in the gym, students could write down recipes they wanted to make with the produce they were taking home.

Aryannah Henderson, 12, shared what her mom cooked the previous week with some yummy vegetables she picked up.

“The day after the farmers market last week, my mom made mashed potatoes and stuffed red peppers,” Henderson said.

Mariah Graham, a senior nutrition communications major and intern with The Center for Nutrition and Activity Promotion, said some kids get excited about certain fruits and vegetables, including one student who was thrilled to take home pears.

“Last week, it was really cool, because I was working the pear section and there was this one kid who was so excited he

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Q&A

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Clay Finch, guitarist of Dakota Cree, discusses his music and philosophy.

‘Homegrown’ DJ spins local bands, style Michael Quiring

Staff Writer

The Orion caught up with Clay Finch, senior music industry major and guitarist of folk-rock band Dakota Cree, about Bob Dylan, Auto-Tune and finding a higher consciousness through music before his KCSC Radio local music show “Chico Homegrown,” on air 7 p.m. every Wednesday.

The Orion: How long have you been involved with music?

Finch: Fourth grade. I had started playing piano, but music has always been around my life.

The Orion: What else do you play?

Finch: I play guitar mostly, but I plunk around on the piano and the banjo.

The Orion: How did Dakota Cree form?

Finch: Well Seamus (Turner, a Chico State music industry student) got me into it.

He was one of the first people I met when I first came into Chico. We had a similar interest in music and we would jam a lot. I lived with him during my sophomore year and now this year. We have always been playing and jamming with a bunch of different groups of people. We found Nate (Ward, a Chico State recording arts and music industry student), our drummer, who became a roommate, and just kept jamming. We finally have a solid setup now with this girl, Emma Blankenship, who plays bass. She is a badass who used to play stand-up bass with (The Railflowers).

The Orion: Who are your biggest musical influences?

Finch: Bob Dylan of course, and all the old blues dudes. All of the old bluegrass guys like Earl Scruggs. I like Neil Young, The Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane.

Y’know, I like everything, man. Bob Dylan, Hank Williams, surf music. All of it.

The Orion: Would you say that you have an interesting philosophy on music?

Finch: Maybe a bit more unique one than the majority, or a lot of the musical world.

I’m pretty over the heavily digitized sound.

Just like everything coming heavy to the floor with that 808’s drum sound. And I’m tired of people thinking they have to have a perfect sound using Auto-Tune to perfect their voice. A huge point of music is to be original. I don’t want to bash electronic music, but a lot of it just isn’t as moving to me when you can hear some more human elements in other stuff.

The Orion: What’s one of the most interesting things you have experienced while performing?

Finch: The experience of writing a song and bringing it to a couple of your friends and having them put on vocal harmonies, bass lines and filling out is cool. Almost like starting with a skeleton and just filling it up.

Sometimes it doesn’t come out, but when it does, it’s very rewarding. Playing live and doing improv stuff and having it work out really well is really cool. There is not one specific moment, nothing like seeing the Virgin Mary, but when you can feed off the audience’s energy and you can tell they’re feeling it and the band is jamming, it gets the adrenaline pumping. It’s like reaching a state of higher consciousness.

The Orion: You play local music as DJ The Bird every Wednesday night on KCSC Radio. How’s that going?

Finch: It’s going good. It’s fun. I’ve had a couple different interviews with artists who come in and play an acoustic set and just talk about local burritos.

The Orion: Do you have anything in the works musically that you’re excited about?

Finch: Just the arrangement of this new setup that we have with (Dakota Cree). We have gotten a lot more ambitious and we are trying to be a harder-working band. I’d like to leave Chico thinking that I played an important role in the music scene.

Michael Quiring can be reached at artseditor@theorion.com or @theorion_news on Twitter.

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Aaron Drange’s father Michael Drange, third from left, performs at the memorial concert in honor of his son.

Showcase honors music student, his work She said he loved the stars and the ’80s no matter what was going on, except for TV show “MacGyver,” and what a high if he was going to do farm work over Staff Writer honor it was when he let her carry his the summer, he would always wear a axophone, trumpet, percussaxophone. button-up shirt, jeans, shirt tucked in, sion, trombone, piano, guitar, Drange’s mother, Diane, belt, Vans and a tie,” Hedribass and tambourine players described his history as a ana said. gathered for a display of musician, starting with his Phillip said: “And the rearhythmic love for Aaron very first instrument, a red son he did that is so he would Drange on Friday night at recorder. always be ready to play. That’s Harlen Adams Theatre.

“He could not pass a what he told me. He was alFriends, family and professors shared piano without touching it,” ways ready to play. He always stories in honor of Drange, a Chico State Drange’s mother said. carried this binder around student who died in July, and played After a few video clips with him with a bunch of some of his original music and arput together by the Drange songs just ready to go.” rangements at the “I Remember Aaron” family were shown, Drange’s Aside from the music, one AARON concert. band The Upstairs Neighthing that was heard loud and DRANGE “I feel like Aaron would be pretty bours were ready to perform. clear at the memorial concert stoked because he loved to get as many “Most of the songs Aaron was how much of a genuine, people out to the shows as possible, rewrote are a lot of fun to play,” said caring person Drange was. gardless of who they were, regardless of Hedriana. “Some of them are really sad, “Something Aaron told me when where he met them,” said Harrison Heslow ballads but some of them, the ones we were first hanging out was that no driana, Drange’s friend and bandmate. that we are going to be playing, are just matter how he feels about someone, At 7:36 p.m., members of Chico State’s a lot of fun.” doesn’t matter who the person is, he’ll A Cappella Choir filed on stage one by Drange’s father, who is also a singtry his hardest never, ever to say a bad one. The choir unanimously repeated er-songwriter, joined the band on stage thing about them and always try to see “remember me.” to play saxophone and sing. the good in everybody regardless of who David Scholz, a faculty member of the After a few songs, all but Drange’s they are,” Hedriana said. music and theater department, stood father cleared the stage.

“He always tried to get along with behind the lectern and was the first of He sat down at the piano and instead everybody and see the best in people,” many to speak about Drange. of speaking, he played a song he wrote Phillip said. “He always went out of his “Just by for his son a way to help people that others might being around few weeks afbrush aside.” him made me ter his death.

The concert ended with kind words I feel like Aaron would be want to be a “This is from Steve Schibsted, Bidwell Presbytepretty stoked because he loved better man,” my song for rian Church head pastor. Drange sang in to get as many people out to Scholz said. you,” he sang. the church choir every Sunday morning.

Follow“No need for “I don’t know too many college stuthe shows as possible. ing Scholz, mountain dents doing anything at 8:30 in the mornHarrison Hedriana, bandmate Drange’s older cathedrals, no ing on a Sunday,” he said. brother Matt need for the Schibsted reminded the audience of a expressed his love for his brother. He Taj Mahal, a simple song is what I need belief that he and Drange both shared: also mentioned that the scholarship and this is my song for you.” life does not end here; life here on Earth created in honor of Drange has received Next, the whole stage was filled with is not all there is. more than $10,000. members from The Upstairs Neigh“It’s a scholarship that’s in memory of bours, and another band that Drange Emma Wood-Wright can be reached at him and it’s for potential music stuhad belonged to: Jiving Board. artseditor@theorion.com or dents,” said Drange’s twin and lifelong The music came from the heart and @emmawoodwright on Twitter. music partner Phillip. filled the entire theater with warmth.

Kim Pearson, Drange’s girlfriend, said Each musician performed with as much MORE ON THEORION.COM/ARTS Listen to she wanted to settle any misconceptions dedication as Drange had every day of Michael Drange’s song for his son and about Drange being reserved or serious. his life.

Harrison Hedriana and Phillip Drange “He was actually really goofy,” she “That was the thing about Aaron: no on Aaron’s long-term goals. said. matter what the weather was outside, Emma Wood-Wright

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Local artists, poets and entrepreneurs will display current projects at one of the last Table Tops Series of the year.

Sid Young, The Shimmies and Bogg will host a thrilling Halloween concert that also doubles as a costume party. All proceeds will go to Crohn’s syndrome research.

Chico State’s Symphonic Wind Ensemble will host “Symphonic Winds: Evolution,” treating audiences to a musical history of band hits from pre-1900 through early 2000.

Photo by Northern California Regional Land Trust

The Museum Without Walls presentation “Developing Our Local Food System: The North Valley Food Hub” will be given by Noelle Ferdon and Jacob Brimlow.

WHERE: GATEWAY SCIENCE MUSEUM TIME: 7:30 P.M. PRICE: FREE

Photo courtesy of Connie Wright

WHERE: CHICO WOMEN’S CLUB WHEN: 5:30 – 7 P.M. PRICE: FREE

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WHERE: 1078 GALLERY TIME: 7 – 10 P.M. PRICE: $5-$15

WHERE: HARLEN ADAMS THEATRE TIME: 7:30 P.M. PRICE: $6

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