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Money: An infographic detailing the costs of attending one year at Chico State broken down by tuition, additional fees and other expenses. A2

Piece of the past:

More than 1,000 Chico community members gathered to witness the opening of an 89-year-old time capsule at Bidwell Mansion on Nov. 29. B5

Opinion Thanksgiving: Arts & Entertainment editor, Ashiah Scharaga, navigates through her first holiday in a divided home. A6 Veronica Hodur/The Orion

Sports Record breakers: Athletes from Chico State’s golf, volleyball and basketball teams have broken six records this semester. B1

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Exhibit: Guest curator Reed Applegate shares the work of John Ayres, artist and former professor, who would’ve been 100 years old this year. B7

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Diversity

Rise in Hispanic, black students

World AIDS Day

David McVicker

News Editor

Chico State’s enrollment of students from a mix of backgrounds rose to its highest point in history. The biannual university census, a student enrollment demographic survey, reported significant increases in many ethnicities to higher levels than ever before. Chico State President Paul Zingg attributes the success in attracting a diverse population to campus programs aimed at getting these students to consider Chico State. Black undergraduate student enrollment at Chico State has also risen from 267 to 350 students, according to the census. “Having 94 African-American incoming freshmen is incredible,” Zingg said. “That’s the most we’ve ever had. But that number pales in comparison to the amount of Hispanic students at Chico State.” Hispanic students have tripled in the last KATIE decade, increasing PETERSON from 1,548 to 4,291 Program coordinator, — 26 percent of the Cross-Cultural student population. Leadership Center This is the first year that Chico State will be eligible to apply for recognition as a Hispanic-serving institution, a federal program designed to help U.S. colleges that assist first generation, low-income Hispanic students. “We have a lot of first-generation college students of color and they are not sure how to navigate the system,” said Katie Peterson, the program coordinator of the CrossCultural Leadership Center. Administrators need to better evaluate recruiting practices on the campus, she said. “What we’re looking at in terms of diversity is a systematic oppression,” Peterson said. “There are certain identities that face institutional racism.” Both Peterson and Zingg agreed that Chico State needs to provide competitive incentive to continue to attract and retain the best professionals who will in turn attract the brightest minds from all ethnicities. David McVicker can be reached at newseditor@theorion.com or

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Warren Haskell, director of the community chorus Doin’ it Justice, Voices for Peace, conducts the choir through a rendition of “Stand by Me” Monday at the World AIDS Day celebration at Trinity United Methodist Church.

Chico honors victims of virus David McVIcker

News Editor

ost people celebrate their 30th birthday by trying something they’ve never done before: zipping through the clouds strapped to a nylon parachute or trekking across the country with their closest friends. Former Chico Mayor Scott Gruendl spent his 30th doing something he’d never done before too. He spent it in a dingy lab facility being told by a group of doctors that he is HIV-positive. He was staring into the abyss of a quick and likely painful death. Or so he thought. Now, 20 years later and healthy as he’s ever been, Gruendl spent the last day of his final term as mayor reflecting on his life experiences and how he’s fortunate to have come this far. Gruendl: 1 HIV: 0. “I wasn’t supposed to live this long,” he said, emotionally shaken. “I never thought I’d make it to 50. That was a goal for me. I said, ‘I’ll never live to 50. If I live to age 50, that would be miraculous.’ So I can’t even tell you how important it is to be here tonight.” Chico State and Chico celebrated World AIDS Day with an informational fair in the Bell Memorial Union on Monday afternoon and a celebration of those lost to the disease at Trinity United Methodist on Monday evening. Organizations such as the Butte County Health Department, Chico State’s Gender & Sexuality Equity

Former Mayor Scott Gruendl, left, reads a proclamation declaring Dec. 1 Chico AIDS Day at the World AIDS Day celebration. Center and the Chico State’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion set up booths in the BMU and spent the afternoon informing students, faculty and staff on the dangers of the continuing HIV and AIDS pandemics and what can be done to stop them. Fabi Paniagua, intern with the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, said the campus is working with a number of organizations on World AIDS Day to inform students about the dangers of HIV and AIDS and how they can help to combat the disease. “We’re definitely advocating to go get tested,” she said. “You don’t really know

the signs until you go get tested. This is a disease that can live dormant inside of you. There’s still a lot of stigma to it so most don’t know that people can live successful lives.” The HIV and AIDS viruses are most commonly passed by unprotected sex with an infected partner and the sharing of drug-injecting equipment, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While there is no known cure for HIV and AIDS, treatments have been developed to curb their spread.

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University Farm

New sprinkler system improves usage, productivity Robert Engels

Staff Writer

Chico State’s University Farm has implemented a new watering system that faculty, staff and students who work on the farm think will improve water efficiency. The month-old wheel line irrigation system will upgrade water usage while reducing the amount of labor needed by students and employees at the farm, said Dave Daley, University Farm administrator. “It’s much more efficient than some of the other techniques we’ve used,” Daley said. “Much better than flooding. That just takes a lot of water.” Flooding, also known as furrow irrigation, is when farmers flood small trenches running through their crops in order to irrigate. The new wheel line will only be used for the organic alfalfa field at this time. The field is close to 30 acres of land. The current wheel line is about 900 feet long.

Instead of moving sprinkler systems by hand, the wheel line will roll from one water valve to the next because of a motor that connects to the piping that hold the wheels and rotary sprinklers, according to Kevin Renker, farm maintenance and equipment operator. “We thought this was the best option for our farm,” Renker said. The new system comes at a good time as the farm was concerned with their water reserves due to the current drought. Daley said the new system will do three major things for the farm: • Improve efficiency of water usage • Increase productivity around the farm • Adds another technique available to teach the students at the farm “We have to find stuff that is going to work for us here,” Renker said. John Domogma/The Orion

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Fees include facility, service cost Jovanna Garcia

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Many Chico State students pay their tuition fee without realizing what their money is spent on. Here is a list of what the fees cover: Tuition: This fee is the same at every CSU campus and based on how many units you are taking. It pays the professors, the library, advising, counseling and other classroom and campus necessities. Student Body Association: This fee supports student government, clubs and organizations such as Community Action in Volunteering Education, Community Legal Information Center and KCSC Radio. This fee also pays half of the cost for student shuttle services like the B-Line. Student Body Center: Supports the financing, construction, maintenance and

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operating cost of student body centers, such as the Bell Memorial Union and the Wildcat Recreation Center. The fee is controlled by the A.S. with guidance of the A.S. board of directors. Health Facilities: Maintain the Student Health Center building. The health center is a non-state, auxiliary-funded building which requires students to pay a fee to help preserve the building. Health Services: Pays basic services like primary care, physical exams, lab diagnostics, health education and immunization. Instructionally Related Activities: Activities and labs that require performance, competition or experience outside of class but related to formal instructions in newspaper, radio, TV, film, music production and art exhibits. The Orion is included as well as musical performances and competitions for

student teams. For a list off other activities this fee covers visit the Instructionally Related Activity webpage. Material Services and Facilities: Includes the student learning fee, which provides equipment and tutoring to improve classroom environment. There is also the consolidated course fee, which funds field trips for classes such as geoscience and pays for software used by students. Students must also budget for other costs such as: • books and supplies • housing (either on-campus or off-campus) • transportation • personal expenses (food, recreational money)

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News Briefs Art professor named Smithsonian fellow

Museum lends out artifacts in a box

Chico State art professor Rachel Middleman has been chosen for a Smithsonian American Art Museum Fellowship, one of the most distinguished awards for American art in the nation, according to a press release. Middleman, who came to Chico State in August, will have the opportunity to conduct research for her book project on women and art while spending spring semester at the Smithsonian Institution in the District of Columbia. Middleman, who has a doctorate in art history from the University of Southern California, teaches classes on art history and contemporary art at Chico State. Out of 18 fellows-in-residence for the fellowship, Middleman is one of only two postdoctoral fellows. At the institution, fellows receive support to investigate topics in American art and visual culture and are given access to a workspace near the museum. The museum is a part of the Smithsonian Institution and is home to one of the largest collection of American art in the world. “Radical Eroticism: Women, Art, and the Transformation of Sexual Aesthetics in the 1960s,” is Middleman’s book project. She argues that female artists revolutionized Western traditions of erotic art and the nude in the 1960s. “Through their representations of sexuality, women challenged the history of art as a field controlled by male artists and patrons, defied the idealizing and narrative conventions of figurative art and commercial pornography, and rejected strict formalism by fusing social concerns with artistic practice,” she wrote in her application for the fellowship.

The Chico State Valene L. Smith Museum of Anthropology opened a new program which lends artifacts to elementary school teachers. The Soroptimist International of America organization donated $1,300 to the museum, which was used to open the new program Museum-InA-Box. Elementary school teachers can check out boxes which contains artifacts, hands-on projects, books and teaching curriculum. The program was created to alleviate distance and budget restraints for elementary school field trips to the museum. There are currently two boxes available: Box 1: Behind the Mask: Looking into the Human History • 10 replicas of masks from around the world • Teacher curriculum and hands-on lessons • Books on the native people • Class plays for different cultural acts Box 2: Early Humans • Sixth grade hands-on curriculum to explore world of physical anthropologists • Skull replicas of Australopithecines, Homo erectus, Neanderthals and modern humans The museum lends out the boxes to teachers for up to several weeks. Teachers can call and make reservations with the museum.

– Madison Holmes

School recognized for fundraisings Chico State’s chapter of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute has received nationwide recognition. The silver award was presented to the Center for Regional and Continuing Education, where coordination of marketing for the institute occurs, by the University Professional and Continuing Education Association during its annual marketing awards in Atlanta, according to a news release. Osher Lifelong Learning Institute offers class schedules for community members of

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Olaf, an animated character in the Disney movie “Frozen,” is one of the can assemblies from Chico State Greek’s “Can”struction event.

Greeks set new fundraising records Chico State’s Greek organizations set a record for charitable donations last month, according to a Chico State news release. Approximately 1,200 students from the university’s 19 fraternity and sorority chapters took part in events including fundraisers and a blood drive during Greek Week Oct. 13–19. During the October blood drive event, Greek chapters logged more than 780 donors and 640 pints of blood, according to the release. That was an increase of 108 pints from the previous year. Malcolm McLemore, fraternity and sorority affairs program coordinator, said in the release that this was the third straight record-breaking blood drive for Greek organizations. Greek chapters also raised $8,797 for the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk, tripling totals from last year, according to the release.

Chico, Paradise, Oroville and Willows 50 years of age and older. Classes ranging from history to mystery, from fitness to finance are taught by Chico State faculty emeriti and community members. The institute devised a membership and fundraising goal — the first ever in the institutes 25-year history — with two parameters: Increase membership to more than 1,000 members and raise at least $15,000 for more than 10 percent of its membership. The institute met those goals by raising almost $22,000 in the first quarter and growing to 1,069 members. This was an increase in

During the “Can”struction event, where Greeks built immense structures out of donated cans of nonperishable food items, more than 1,000 of those cans were donated to Chico’s Jesus Center. “It goes without saying that we are immensely proud of the contributions that members of our Greek community have made toward our greater community,” McLemore said. “We would like to thank all of those who continually support our students and the work that they do. We are looking forward to setting the expectation even higher for next year!” Fraternities and sororities also donated $1,500 raised during the Up ’til Dawn fundraiser. Organizations raised more than $11,000 in cash donations and food items during Greek Week. – David McVicker

membership of 24 percent from the previous years. “The challenge embedded in the campaign triggered a spark within the organization and among OLLI members that fueled the largest increase in volunteer participation in the history of the organization,” said program Director Ann Nikolai in a news release. The Osher Foundation’s board of directors will announce which organizations will be receiving the $1 million endowment in December. – David McVicker

– Christine Lee

Shooter response training aids campus The University Police is holding active shooter response training sessions Thursday for student and staff employees. The training sessions, known as “19 Seconds,” focuses on how employees should respond to an emergency event if there is an active shooter on campus. The sessions also teach people tactics for self-protection. The course was designed by Fresno State University Police to help employees who work in academic environments. The sessions on campus will be led by Lt. Corinne Beck and Sgt. Bryce Davison. The trainings will be held in Colusa Hall at 10 a.m. They are only offered to Chico State student and staff employees. – Christine Lee

AIDS: Key to halting spread of HIV and AIDS is awareness, tests » continued from A1 Eliza Dyer, LGBTQ+ program coordinator of GSEC, said it’s most important that students keep aware of their bodies and minds. “I think students need to take their sexual health into their own hands,” Dyer said. “There is a lot destigmatizing that needs to go on, so educating yourself about how (contracting HIV and AIDS) works, why it happens, the reason why the disease is spreading, what is and isn’t being done about it and what the barriers are to those trying to access healthcare and being a good resource for anyone that you know.” At the evening celebration, some of the This is local panels of the AIDS not about quilt blanketed the glamorizing walls and draped behind the stage signifying living with lives lost to the deadly HIV or disease. The quilt is AIDS, it’s made up of 3-by-6-foot really about cloth panels — most showing the commemorating the resiliency of lives of those who have the human died of AIDS — stitched together by significant character. others, friends and family members, Scott Gruendl, Those affected were of former Chico all ages. They represent mayor different religions and ethnicities: all interconnected, all succumbing to the same disease and showing everyone that HIV and AIDS does not discriminate. Masters of ceremony and health officials Jim Gamez and Laurie Gardner stressed the importance of open lines of communication with sexual partners, knowing one’s health status and getting tested for HIV and AIDS. Those who are particularly at-risk for contracting the virus should get tested regularly. “Desperate measures call for desperate action,” Gamez said. In his last official act as mayor, Gruendl proclaimed Dec. 1 to be AIDS Day in Chico. “It is one of those life-changing events,” he said. “The things that we dread the most, that when they actually happen it is really amazing. This isn’t about glamorizing living with HIV or AIDS, it’s really about showing the resiliency of the human character.” David McVicker can be reached at newseditor@theorion.com or

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Photographs by Ernesto Rivera/The Orion

Ashley Garlick, left, and Stephen Barry perform a scene from “The Normal Heart,” a play about the rise of the AIDS crisis in New York City in the early 1980s. Garlick and Barry are actors for the Slow Theatre production company in Chico.

HIV/AIDS facts and stats • Number of infected in California: 122,382 • Number of infected in United States: Approx. 1.2 million • Number of infected in the world: More than 35 million • An estimated 50,000 new HIV infections occur in the U.S. each year. • It is estimated that almost one-fifth of those people don’t know they are infected. • In 2011, more than 20 percent of people diagnosed with HIV in the U.S. were women. • The vast majority of newly diagnosed HIV-positive women contracted the virus through heterosexual sex. • In 2010, 31 percent of all new infections occurred among people aged 25 to 34, followed by individuals aged 13 to 24 at 26 percent.

Cassie Miracle, employee for Butte County Health Department, next to an AIDS timeline with significant moments throughout the disease’s history.

Source: amfAR.org, the foundation for AIDS research

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BLOTTER Thursday, 6:36 p.m.: Shots heard at Fair Oaks Circle on Manzanita Avenue. “Four to five shots heard between Fair Oaks Circle and Lindo Channel on Manzanita Avenue. Nothing else heard. Reporting party heard two loud bangs. Reporting party believed them to be high-powered shots. Then a couple of minutes later, he heard two more. An officer was in the area and heard nothing. Officer approached father and juvenile who were in the area. Juvenile pulled pants down and masturbated in officer’s direction.” Friday: 4:35 a.m.: Indecent exposure on Main Street. “Male subject looking at reporting party while masturbating. He is in the alcove of Lyon Books. Reporting party is afraid to take the trash out.” Saturday, 8:49 a.m.: Suspicious subject at City Council chambers on Main Street. “Reporting party states there is one at the fish fountain who is doing his laundry. Subject was advised not to do his laundry in the fish fountain.” Sunday, 2:31 p.m.: Juvenile hold at Enloe Medical Center on The Esplanade. “Mother about to be released, infant tested positive for meth. Will standby upstairs in maternity lobby for contact.” Monday, 2:19 a.m.: Domestic dispute on White Avenue. “Male voice heard yelling for last five minutes. Reporting party possibly heard two shots a couple of minutes ago. Unknown if shot or just loud banging.”

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

Wednesday, 9:44 a.m.: Animal bite on White Avenue. “Reporting party bitten while breaking up a cat fight between her two cats. She recently brought home a new kitten. The old one didn’t like it. She was bitten on the right hand. Seen at Enloe Medical Center and antibiotics given.”

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Friday, 8:39 p.m.: Welfare check at Physical Science Building on West First Street. “Attempted suicide on north side. Disposition: Checks ok.” Friday, 10:43 p.m.: Littering/urinating in public at Parking Structure Two on Normal Avenue. “Observed a white adult male wearing a bluish sweatshirt, black shorts and glasses urinate in the elevator on the surveillance monitor.”

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Saturday, 11:11 p.m.: Disturbance at University Police Department on Normal Avenue. “Observing two white male adults in a verbal disturbance on the steps in front of University Police Department. One male just pushed the other male.” Sunday, 12:11 p.m.: Open door at Butte Hall on Legion Avenue. “Disposition: referred to other agency/department.” Sunday, 7:27 p.m.: Open door at O’Connell Technology Center on Ivy Street. “Subjects have meeting every Sunday night. Subjects continue to prop exit door with trash can after being advised not to by the Facilities Management & Services staff.” Monday, 12:03 p.m.: Welfare check at Meriam Library on West First Street. “Reporting party called from out of town regarding son, age 59, that may be on campus and needing to be assessed for having a mental disorder. Has history of mental illness. Did not meet criteria for being mentally ill.” Monday, 2:24 p.m.: Suspicious vehicle at Parking Structure One on Cherry Street. “Window ajar in door frame and weather stripping torn.”

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Editorial

Chico State should strive for diversity in deed, not name

hico State’s student population is becoming increasingly diverse. The school can officially be considered a Hispanic serving school now that the student body is 26 percent Hispanic.

In the last 10 years, Chico State’s Hispanic student population has almost tripled. Its black student population has also risen from 267 students in 2004 to 315 students in 2014. Oddly enough, American Indian and Hawaiian/Pacific Islander populations have declined by almost half. It’s nice to see that more students from non-Caucasian ethnic backgrounds are choosing Chico State. The closer this college’s demographics match the nation’s as a whole, the better. However, it’s not enough to simply slap a gold seal of diversity on the campus and call it a day. As Chico State’s Hispanic and black student populations rise, the university needs to make added and intentional efforts to accommodate those students.

like the Cross-cultural Leadership Center, can be effective outlets for students to put diversity into practice and build relationships with people from other backgrounds. However, with events that are largely Chico State’s student body is currently shunned by Chico State’s Caucasian stuabout 50 percent Caucasian. This student dent population, the CCLC’s efforts in fosbody is taught by a tering diversity ofteam of faculty that tentimes hit a wall. is approximately 80 Chico State percent Caucasian. As Chico State’s Hispanic and should be striving Looking beyond black student populations rise, it for a campus that the campus, these needs to make added and intenis diverse in both students will be livtional efforts to accommodate name and deed, ing and working in those students. it can start by ada town that is also dressing student about 80 percent apathy towards the Caucasian. tough and necesIf the university truly wants students of sary conversations. color to feel welcomed and supported durStudents of color aren’t the only ones who ing their four to five years in Chico, then it suffer from a campus that is unprepared to needs to invest in current leadership pro- foster diversity. grams and foster diversity conversations on Faculty members of color are oftentimes a larger scale. pinned with the responsibility of mentorCurrently existing programs on campus, ing students of color: overseeing organiza-

tions, advising students, attending retreats and events, etc. The growing students of color population can’t expect to receive the support and mentoring they need when faculty of color remain few and far between. Creating the necessary spaces to have a successful, diverse campus will take more work than new advertising on signs and pamphlets. It will take more than just good intentions and the desire to see students of color succeed. Chico State won’t be truly diverse until it does the groundwork needed to help students and faculty of all ethnicities feel welcome and empowered. The unsigned Orion editorial is the collaborative opinion of the editorial board.

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Divorce doesn’t dampen holidays

Ashiah Scharaga

Arts Editor

When I found out this summer that my parents were getting a divorce after 25 years of marriage, turkeys, pumpkin pie, sleigh bells and tinsel were the last things on my mind. I was more worried about how weird it was going to be when I came home for the first time since my mother moved out, and whether there would be strange traces of her left in the house. And I was more worried, even, about the fate of our family’s Netflix and Amazon Prime accounts and Costco cards. Flash forward to the end of the first semester of my senior year of college: Thanksgiving break. My first holiday with a divided family, or what I like to call Splitsgiving. Oh, joy. But after an emotionally harrowing week where I was forced to confront the emotions I’d successfully avoided for months, I ended up with some clarity; ended up finding a way to appreciate the changes in my life and even be thankful for them. This year, my dad, brother, dad’s parents and I spent the holiday at a family friend’s house in Chico, while my mom stayed in Oregon and celebrated with her parents and other relatives. I can tell you about the superficial changes easily: that we ate around 3 p.m., instead of 7 p.m. That there were a lot more people,

r e l a t ive s of our family friends, many that I was just meeting for the first time or had only been around briefly. That the food, no offense to my family’s cooking, was the best Thanksgiving food I’ve had. We had five homemade pies: pecan, apple and pumpkin, slices of which I am still recovering from eating. But while I’m over at our family friends’ home, enjoying fried turkey and sweet

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potatoes and joking around with my dad, who really is the happiest I’ve ever seen him, I’m still wondering how my mother is doing. Will she be crying when I call her because she misses my 17-year-old brother and me? Will I be able to handle that? And I can’t help but worry about where I will be this time next year. Will I be at my mother’s boyfriend’s house? Will I be with

my dad and brother at our family friend’s home again? I guess I am a quintessential human being: I have a strange aversion to change, that I cannot explain, and uncertainty makes me anxious because I cannot plan for something I do not see coming. Normally my reaction to things like this is to break down. And I did, several times during break. But just after the sun set and after my stomach stopped aching from eating too much, I finally stepped outside to call my mom. She was OK. She wasn’t crying. She sounded good, like she was handling things. She was just happy to hear from me. Just because something is a tradition doesn’t mean it is right or permanent; that a new one cannot form and be just as good (or even better). I am thankful that both of my parents, whether they admit it or not, are happier now than they have been in the last 10 years of their marriage. Even if that means they aren’t together. I am thankful that instead of having one family filled with people who love and care for me and my brother and who we can care for in return, we’ll end up with two. And I am thankful that I wouldn’t change a damn thing. Bring on Splitsmas. I’m ready. Ashiah Scharaga can be reached at

artseditor@theorion.com or @AshiahD on Twitter.

Thumbs Thumbs up to Greeks setting new fundraising records. Saving lives, one soupcan castle at a time.

Thumbs down Amazon’s new army of robots to help with the rush of holiday purchase. Pretty sure this is how the apocalypse starts.

Thumbs up to the St. Louis Ram’s “hands up don’t shoot” chant. Professional football players exercising free speech activism. We never thought we’d see the day...

Thumbs down to Los Angeles considering banning public feeding of homeless people. Homeless people are like a fever. Starve it, and it’ll eventually just go away.

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Buying tampons: life’s greatest torture Madison Holmes

Guest Columnist

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I have done everything in my power to avoid buying tampons since the red wave hit my sophomore year of high school. Instead of being a normal woman who could buy her own feminine hygiene products, I put the burden on others, namely the unsuspecting men in my life, to buy them for me. Countless times I would send my oblivious father to the Walgreens down the street from our house to buy tampons. Meanwhile I, the impotent damsel, would sit at home on the toilet reading People Magazine, awaiting his return. I treasure those times, which were often in the wee hours of the morning, because they truly portray the depth of my father’s affection. It didn’t even matter that he usually bought the tampons with the cardboard applicator, which inflict a pain worse than death. As long as I didn’t have to buy them, I was happy. Unfortunately, a time came when my dad couldn’t save me: college. My parents bought me a seemingly endless supply of tampons with plastic applicators, an invention I will be forever thankful for, when I first went to school.

I would be prepared for my period for a good long while. Recently, that supply ran out. It was time for me to face the music and buy my own feminine hygiene products. I told myself it would be okay. I used this as an opportunity to purchase that new sweater I’d been wanting ... which would conveniently double as a shield to cover up the tampon box. I went to Target with two trusted people I had informed of my tampon-buying phobia. I’d hoped they would help me get through such a difficult time. Upon our arrival, it was obvious that my “supporters” were solely there to torment me. They began loudly questioning which kind I would purchase, pronouncing tampons “tampens” in an upper-Midwestern accent. My so-called friends started tossing the box of tampons back in forth between each other, and when we arrived at checkout, abandoned me to pay the male cashier on my own. I don’t know how I made it through the ordeal, but I did. Once I arrived safely back home, I ripped open my sacred box of tampons to discover rows of neatly-wrapped cardboard applicators. Madison Holmes can be reached at

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Students are better off without blue lights Megan Mann

Opinion Columnist It was a dark and stormy night. I’d just arrived at the north-campus parking lot after going to the immediate care clinic here in town. I had bronchitis and didn’t feel safe walking back to Whitney Hall alone on the poorly lit path. So, I decided to do what everyone moving into the dorms was taught during safety orientation. I walked up to an emergency blue light phone to ask for a ride back to the dorms. This was an utter waste of my time. I was completely embarrassed when the light started blinking and making noises, drawing everyone’s attention to my sick self, and the van that was supposed to pick me up drove past me like a ship in the night. Needless to say, I was left to walk in the dark and cold, sicker than a dog and worried about that serial rapist that was still abducting girls from campus at the time. This incident is why I think the campus has made a horrible choice by keeping its current emergency blue light phone system over installing a new and updated one.

Not only is the escort service completely unreliable, but our current system is just outdated all together. Only a few of the blue light phones have cameras, and current University Police Chief Robyn Hearne has admitted that they require a lot of maintenance. What this campus really needs is a cell phone app that all students must download upon enrollment. I’m not talking about the blue light app that was mentioned as being a contender for replacing our campus’s current system. I looked into that app and found out that it wasn’t originally designed to service the Northern California area. What this campus really needs is an app that’s designed for our campus specifically with our needs in mind. For example, while the blue light phones are able to tell the police department where a student in distress is, a cell phone app would be able to pinpoint their exact location in real time, not just the phone they hit as they were running by. Also, if a student uses an app, they can have direct contact with an officer while still trying to get away from a bad situation if needed, instead of being tied down to one place and staying in danger. These are just two important things that the current emergency blue light phone

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system can’t deliver, which means that the police department needs update the system. I’d hate for it to come down to the system only getting updated after it fails to protect a student when University Police

could have fixed the issue by replacing it now. Megan Mann can be reached at

opinion@theorion.com or @meganisthemann on Twitter.

Comments of the week World AIDS Day was a great opportunity to reflect on a pandemic that effects communities locally and nationally. Defeating the stigma around HIV/AIDS is crucial. Students should talk to their romantic partners about sexually transmitted diseases, and go to the Student Health Center or Stonewall Alliance of Chico to get tested.

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Record Setters

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Clockwise from top left, Jordan Semple (Orion file photo), Dani O’Keefe, Kristyn Casalino and Lindsay Quigley (Photographs by John Domogma/ The Orion) were all part of recordbreaking performances during the fall season.

Chico State shatters six records this fall Sam Wolfson Staff Writer

“It felt good to come out and play well in our first outing,” Clink said. “I felt that the reason we shot the ball so well was because we were very unselfish and made the extra pass. Our shot selection was very good. As far as the shooting percentage record goes, I don’t get caught up in that. I’m more concerned with how we played and how we executed. And I

There’s an old saying that claims records were meant to be broken. The Wildcats are taking it quite literally this year. Some of Chico State’s athletes have broken six school records this fall between golf, men’s basketball and volleyball. The men’s basketball I knew how important that team started its 100th number was for Dani, so it was a season off right by great accomplishment. breaking the school’s single-game shooting percentage in a 104-62 Nick Green, win over Pacific Union. women’s golf coach The Wildcats shot 73.8 percent, breaking a 21year old school record by 3 percent. thought we executed well.” Greg Clink, head men’s basketball Women’s golfer Dani O’Keefe broke two coach, said he could care less about breakrecords Oct. 5 at the GolfWeek Division ing the record and more about how the II Invitational in Sunriver, Oregon. She team plays. posted the best ever single-round score, a

2-under-par 69, and hit for the lowest ever three-round score with a 1-over 214. Nick Green, women’s head golf coach, said he knew O’Keefe “had that in the bag” after the first day of hitting. He was alongside O’Keefe during the final three holes of the game, and the two could agree that the more challenging of the two records was hitting under 70. “I felt as anxious as if I were playing that final hole,” Green said. “It wasn’t until she put her first putt a foot and a half away that I relaxed and could feel nothing but excited and proud of her.” No player in the program’s history has been able to break a score of 70 and O’Keefe was the first to do so. Green said she can do even better this upcoming season. “I knew how important that number was for Dani, so it was a great accomplishment in a very big tournament,” Green said. “I wouldn’t be surprised to see that number go lower next semester though. “

Another three broken records came from the women’s volleyball team, featuring seniors Kristyn Casalino and Lindsay Quigley. Casalino broke the single-match hitting percentage Nov. 8 against Cal State Dominguez Hills. She beat the previous record from 1992 by 4 percent. She now holds the record for highest hitting percentage in a single match with 86.7 percent. Cody Hein, head volleyball coach, said Casalino deserved the record. “It was quite an accomplishment and a testament to the hard work Kristyn has put into her game,” Hein said. Quigley also etched herself in the record books by recording the highest hitting percentage in a single season at 40 percent and having the highest career hitting percentage at 36 percent. Sam Wolfson can be reached at

sportseditor@theorion.com or @theorion_sports on Twitter.

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Wildcat Week of the

Robert Duncan

Duncan scored a career-high 21 points in Chico State’s win over William Jessup last week. The sophomore is averaging 16.6 points per game this year, complimented by a 60.4 percent field goal percentage and an 80 percent free throw percentage.

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Robert Duncan drives down the lane in a game earlier this season.

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1,000 (Men’s Basketball) Jordan Semple became the 15th player in team history to reach 1,000 career points.

.400 (Volleyball) Lindsay Quigley ranked fifth in the nation in hitting percentage in 2014. She was named to the AVCA All-West Region team.

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Camila Turati, second from left and Quetta Peinado, fourth from left, stay together in a race this season for Chico State.

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(Men’s Cross-Country) The Wildcats took first place at the NCAA West Regional, advancing to the NCAA Championships for the 16th straight year.

2 (Women’s Cross-Country) Chico State took second place at the NCAA West Regional to punch its ticket for the NCAA Championships.

For the 14th year in a row, the Chico State women’s cross country team is headed to the NCAA Championships. The Wildcats took second place at the NCAA West Regional in Billings, Montana, with Enriquetta Peinado taking 11th place to lead the team. Camila Turati, Alexandra Burkhart and Sadie Gastelum also earned All-West Region honors by finishing in 18th, 22nd and 24th place respectively. The Wildcats, ranked fourth in the nation entering the race, missed out on a first-place finish by nine points. The team will now prepare for the championship race Dec. 6 in Louisville, Kentucky.

Six Wildcats crossed the finish line among the top 10 to help the Chico State cross-country team claim its third straight NCAA West Regional title, sending the ’Cats to the NCAA Championships for the 16th consecutive season. Johnny Sanchez was the first Wildcat to cross, finishing fourth at a time of 31 minutes, 1.2 seconds, a fiveminute mile pace over the six-mile course. Kyle Medina followed in fifth, with Nick Grubiss sixth, Alex McGuirk seventh and Aaron Mora eighth. Dillon Breen took 10th place to make it six Chico State runners with All-West Region honors. Chico State will compete in the NCAA Championships, which are set to take place Dec. 6 in Louisville, Ken-

The Chico State men’s basketball team played a trio of games this past week, beating William Jessup 97-64 Tuesday before falling twice in the 55th annual Carl’s Jr. Mac Martin Invitational. During Tuesday’s game, Jordan Semple became the 15th player in school history to reach 1,000 career points. Sophomore Robert Duncan also scored 21 points in the Wildcats win. Chico State (3-2) then fell twice over the weekend, first to Dominican by the score of 67-61 on Friday. Semple scored 18 points in the loss, while Duncan added 16. The ’Cats fell again on Saturday against Azusa Pacific to the tune of 75-61. Duncan had a team-high 15 points in the loss, while Mike Rosaroso scored a career-high 14.

The Chico State women’s basketball team went 2-1 over Thanksgiving break. Chico State beat Dixie State 70-68 Nov. 21, then fell to Alaska Fairbanks 81-77 the next day. The Wildcats rebounded to beat Holy Names 70-40 in its final pre-conference game of the season on Sunday. Hannah Womack led the Wildcats with 17 points in Chico State’s win over DIxie State, while also sinking the game-winning three. Womack had 12 points and four assists in Chico State’s other win over Holy Names, while Annie Ward led the team with a season-high 16 points and four 3-pointers.

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Wildcat Watch

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Marcus Brown, a Chico State alumnus, glides outside the wake during a skiing session. Brown is now a professional skiier who is also starting his own film series.

Former ’Cat sets sights beyond the water University World Championship in Tianjin, China.” Staff Writer Brown was on the Chico State water ski Marcus Brown knows his way around the team from 2000-2003. He won the University water. World Championship for men’s slalom in 2002 Brown, a Chico State alumnus, has made for Chico State. himself into a professional skier. But it As a professional water skier, Brown wasn’t an overnight process. In fact, it was has won and placed in many tournaments far from it. and championships over the entire globe. Brown’s water skiing career began in his Currently, Brown is the residing US Open hometown of Biggs, just 32 minutes from Champion. Chico State. His passion for water sports and The Australian Moomba Masters is one of the lake lifestyle began at age six. Brown the most prestigious and dangerous events competed in his first ever water skiing tourin waterskiing today. The event is held in the nament that summer. center of Melbourne on the choppy, fast-flowBoth of his parents were teachers and his ing Yarra River and brings over 30,000 attendsummer breaks were spent on the lake each ees to watch the finals year after year. year with his family. Brown credits his older “The first time I ever won a pro event brother and continues to be one parents as his of my greatest and The first time I ever won a biggest influfavorite moments,” ences in shaping Brown said. “In 2005, pro event continues to be on his passion for I was the Australian of my greatest and favorite water skiing. Moomba Masters moments. Slalom is Slalom champion.” Brown’s best A competitor from Marcus Brown, professional skier event in water New Zealand tied skiing; slalom with Brown and is an event where the skier weaves at highthey were forced into a extra playoff round speed, slashing back and forth trying to make in which Brown would get his first pro win tough cuts across the wake through a series during his birthday in the land down under. of buoys. The competitor from New Zealand offered to At age 14, Brown had an early set-back. split the purse before the extra round began, During a jumping event in which he had a but Brown rejected him and won the event bad landing, Brown completely shattered his outright. Brown was the first water skier femur. The injury required major surgery ever to compete in the Australian Moomba and ended his jumping and trick event career. Master’s for their first time and become the However, Brown’s waterskiing career and champion in their event. rise to becoming one of the biggest icons in After winning one of the biggest and waterskiing men’s slalom had just begun. toughest victories in professional competitive “My biggest accomplishment (as a Wildcat) waterskiing, Brown began to think about was in 2002,” Brown said. “I got invited to the what else he could accomplish next. Lars Gustafson

Marcus Brown cuts close to the water on a course during a ski session. “That’s where the seed was planted, its not all about trying to be the best in the world,” Brown said. “Even though I still continue to try to be the best, I had to figure out what else there is.” Over the next year, Brown plans to release four cinematic films focusing on the “FlowPoint” movement, he created. These films will give a rare look into some of the most talented individuals in sports in their quest to find the “FlowPoint”. Brown described his “FlowPoint” movement as “that place we all go when we lose ourself in the moment, we become the moment, and reach our highest potential. It’s that feeling we never stop searching for” “the act of doing something crazy or challenging or impossible. It reveals a deeper layer within ourselves, our problems disappear, we feel

limitless, We become the moment. That, is the Flowpoint.” The “FlowPoint” film series will explore individuals who are experiencing the ultimate feeling you get when you accomplish greatness in whatever you’re doing. “Ultimately I want to speak to all types of people about their FlowPoint. The FlowPoint is the moment that we all live for,” Brown said. “Not everyone is going to win a Superbowl or hit a grand slam, but you can feel these FlowPoint’s through other people: it’s when you lose yourself in the work, the sport, or the activity. I want to tell stories from any walk of life about people who are doing things for, and living life at the FlowPoint.” Lars Gustafson can be reached at

sportseditor@theorion.com or @theorion_sports on Twitter.

Signing Day

Chico State brings fresh faces to the pack Nick Reddy

Staff Writer

National Signing Day was Nov. 12 for many high school and junior college student-athletes around the country. The Wildcats made the most of the occasion. Future NCAA participants signed their letters of intent to compete at the next level of competition. Chico State athletic programs brought in fresh Northern California talent, while also reaching across the country for a new recruit. Two high school seniors and one junior college sophomore signed on to don the Wildcat cardinal and white in 2015. Vinnie Safin, Matt Hutchins, and Dana Thomsen will join Chico State’s men’s basketball, men’s golf, and softball programs respectively. Safin, a 6 feet 4 inches tall senior guard out of Rocklin High School, had offers from Division I programs such as the Air Force Academy and Chicago State, among others. On his official visit to Chico State, Safin and his family took in a team practice and weightlifting session, toured the campus and experienced Chico’s vibrant downtown. “What influenced me to choose Chico State was the culture, coaching staff and continuing hospitality of the students and players,” Safin said. “I’m looking forward to playing at the college level and experiencing the college atmosphere. Most of all, I am excited to get in the gym and go to work.” Greg Clink, the head men’s basketball coach, was full of praise for his program’s newest recruit. “Vinnie is a dynamic scorer who can shoot the 3,” Clink said. “He handles the ball well and is extremely skilled with the

Photo courtesy Matt Hutchins

Matt Hutchins, a golfer who has recently been recruited by Chico State. ball. He’s a fantastic student and will be a great fit in our program. The other thing that I really love about him is that he is very driven to improve. We are expecting great things from him.” Lucas Gabriel, an assistant men’s basketball coach, echoed Clink’s words. ”We are very excited about Vinnie joining our program,” Gabriel said. “He is a big-time shooter with an unreal work ethic. He will fit right in with the guys that we currently have in the program.” Moving from the hardwood to the links,

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“One of the main reasons I chose Chico was that it was a very competitive golf team who has a great chance at contending for a national championship,” Hutchins said. “All the guys were great to play with, and I had a great time getting to know and learn about Coach Brown and the team. I’m looking forward to competing with the guys on the team every day in practice and at tournaments. I really feel like that will help my golf game a lot.” Brown said Hutchins’ continued improvement over the years has been one of the more exciting prospects for the team. “What’s most impressive about Matt is his improvement over the last 14-15 months,” he said. “He has improved five to six shots per round. He’s an all-around great young man and a great student. We’re really excited to get him out here to the West Coast next fall.” Thomsen rounds out the trio of early signees. A Petaluma native and Petaluma High School product, Thomsen enters her sophomore season this upcoming spring at Santa Rosa Junior College. She originally committed to Humboldt State before deciding to take the junior college route. She was named to the 2014 All Big 8 Conference first team as a pitcher with a record of 15-4. These three future ‘Cats signed early on when they could have spent more time mulling over their other options. Chico State won them over, and the Wildcat family is sure glad to have them. Nick Reddy can be reached at

sportseditor@theorion.com or @NickIsReddy on Twitter.

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Wildcat of the Year

Molina, Park ’Cat of the Year nominees

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Pitcher Alex Molina winds up a power pitch last spring during a game.

Sean Park shoots a shot from the paint in a game with the Worcester Wolves.

Wildcat pitcher reflects on long softball career, lasting impact during her time at Chico State

Former Chico State powerhouse continues basketball career overseas

Angelo Boscacci

Staff Writer

Starting pitcher Alex Molina did her best Babe Ruth impression. She pitched and hit the ball through rain or shine. Because of her accomplishments on the mound and at the plate, the former Chico State softball player has been nominated for the 2014 Wildcat of the Year. “I had great hitting coaches growing up and I’ve always stuck with those fundamentals,” Molina said. “When I came to Chico State, I had coaches that were willing and open-minded enough to let pitchers also hit.” Along with her 12 wins, 3.09 ERA and 72 strikeouts, she was able to hit two home runs and rack up eight RBI’s. And on March 3 I had great in a game against hitting coaches top-ranked Humboldt State, Molina growing had a game she up and I’ve will never forget. always stuck “It was pouring with those that day and we fundamentals. weren’t sure if we were going to play,” Alex Molina, she said. “I rememsoftball pitcher ber the rain hitting me in my face and

it was a struggle.” When they played that day, Molina made the most of it. “When I got that grand slam, it was surreal,” she said. “I hit it and I couldn’t believe it. I finally realized it when I got back into the dugout.” The Wildcats ended up winning that game 8-7. Another one of Molina’s highlights was against UC San Diego. After pitching a complete game in game one of a doubleheader, she came back and saved the second game by pitching 2.2 innings. For both games she would pitch a total of 8.2 innings. “I didn’t really have much left,” Molina said. “I took it pitch-by-pitch and my presence on the mound projected on the whole team.” Molina said she wants to finish her schooling at Chico State and has one more year to get her teaching credential. She also has other offers to ponder. “I have gotten some offers to play overseas,” she said. “I also got an offer to be an assistant coach at the junior college I went to.” Whatever Molina decides to do, one thing’s for sure: she wants to continue her softball career. Angelo Boscacci can be reached at

sportseditor@theorion.com or @boscacci6 on Twitter.

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Kevin Lucena

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Before the crowd gets riled up, before the sneakers hit the hardwood floor, before that first tipoff, Sean Park catches up on sleep. Park, a former Chico State men’s basketball player, has been nominated for the 2014 Orion Sports Wildcat of the Year. Last year, Park started in 33 games for the Wildcats, bringing his career total to 119 games, tied for the most in team history. Before every game, Park would take a roughly 90-minute nap, allowing him to clear his head before waking up in time to shower and eat before leaving for shootaround. He said he doesn’t model his game after his idol Kobe Bryant, but a pregame nap is one thing the pair have in common. Growing up in Goleta, Park was introduced to the game by his father, Craig Park. The Wildcat alumnus has memories of watching the Los Angeles Lakers and Bryant, and then playing basketball at recess in elementary school before moving onto Dos Pueblos High School. In his last year, he led the Chargers to their first undefeated league season. He was awarded the Santa Barbara County Player of the Year in 2008. “Senior year, I hit a game-winning 3-pointer that clinched us the league championship, and it was against our rivals,” Park said. “The crowd had been taunting me the entire time so I lost a little bit of composure after I made it.” After graduating high school in 2008, Park signed with Westmont College. He was forced to redshirt that first year, however, after a shoulder injury required surgery. Park transferred to Chico State in 2010 and broke

into the starting lineup partway through his first year. During his senior year at Chico State, Park averaged 12.6 points per game. He was a starter on the first Wildcat team to claim the NCAA West Region Championship after a comeback victory and to reach the Elite 8 before falling to South Carolina-Aiken. “The most memorable moment was cutting down the nets after our comeback Elite 8 win,” Park said. “Emotions were running so high, people were in tears.” Getting to that point didn’t come without his share of shootarounds and team practices. Park spent time in the gym working on his shot from the line. It paid off, as Park was named to the All-California Collegiate Athletic Association second team that season. “During his senior season Sean came to me and asked me to work in the gym with him,” said Justin Blake, Chico State’s assistant men’s basketball coach. “We would be in there at 7 or 8 a.m., three or four days a week. I’ll always remember how hard he worked and how much effort he gave in the morning, and then would still come back to put up shots after class and then practice with the team after all of that.” Park left Chico with both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in exercise physiology, giving him plenty of options off the court as well. Park decided to continue on with his basketball career since graduation, signing with the Worcester Wolves of the British Basketball League. Kevin Lucena can be reached at

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Men’s Soccer

Seniors reflect on final season as Wildcats wanted to get back with the medical redshirt, and this last season was supposed Staff Writer to be the season to do it all and it didn’t The Chico State men’s soccer team will work out again. So it’s pretty disappointlose five graduating seniors after this ing.” season. Despite the disappointment of not Among the seniors leaving next being able to close out his career with a spring are two of the team’s key players, playoff appearance, Janjigian said that he defender Michael Janjigian, who has still took away some positive things from been with the team for six years, and his time in Chico State. midfielder Justin Saul, who was the only “It was like an amazing experience, I player in the team to earn a first-team All- just learned a lot from the six years here,” California Collegiate Athletic Association he said. “When I came as a freshman I award this past season. didn’t know as much and now it’s like I’m Along with Janjigian and Saul, the a whole other person so it’s just a really team will also lose two midfielders in good experience for me.” Akwafei Ajeakwa and Joachim Gasmi, as With the amount of experience under well as forward Malcolm Ekeruche. his belt, Restrepo considered Janjigian as Here’s a look back at each player’s the backbone of the team, and someone career and where they are headed after who was an extension of the coaching graduation. staff on the field, Restrepo said. Michael Janjigian; Position: DeJust a few weeks removed from the fender; Major: Exercise Physiology season, Janjigian is already talking to a Among the seniors this semester is number of soccer coaches to play profesMichael Janjigian, who has been with the sionally, he said. team longer than any other player under If that fails to materialize, he said that Felipe Restrepo, the team’s head coach. he would go back to school to study phys“He’s been a staple in our program,” Reical therapy. strepo said. “He’s been at every workout, Whatever Janjigian ends up doing, he’s been through Restrepo said every piece of that he is certain The atmospheres at the adversity, all that he will be games are like no other the wins, all the successful. that we’ve played at. losses. (He has) “Mike is one of a bunch of titles, those guys that and stuff under Justin Saul whatever he does his belt.” Men’s soccer player he’ll be the best Janjigian is the at,” he said. only player on the Justin Saul; 2014 roster who has been through all the Position: Midfielder; Major: Business ups and downs with the team. In his first This past season Justin Saul became two seasons with the team, he was able to the 18th Wildcat to earn a first team All-Cplay in the NCAA Tournament. CAA award. As a freshman, Janjigian was part of In his final season with the team, Saul the team that made it to the Elite 8 of the finished with one goal and four assists, tournament, which is the most memorawith seven points total. ble moment playing for Chico State, he Despite being recognized as one of the said. best players in the conference, Saul said He is also the only player who is still that he is frustrated that none of his around from the last time that the team other teammates besides Janjigian—who failed to make it to the playoffs. received an honorable mention—were rec“When I was a junior we didn’t make it, ognized for their hard work this season. but I figured I’d have my senior year left,” “It’s tough,” he said. “I was the only one he said. “So then I got injured and then I to make the (All-CCAA team) or whatever, Jose Olivar

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Akwafei Ajeakwa, a senior men’s soccer player, dribbles towards the defense in a game earlier this season. Ajeakwa is one of five seniors in 2014. and no one else really got anything. So it’s kind of just like, I don’t believe that our team had only one player that got recognized, like I thought a lot of us played well.” Saul transferred to Chico State from Santa Barbara City College. While other teams in the CCAA were recruiting him, Saul ultimately decided to go to Chico State because he wanted to have a good college experience along with the school’s great atmosphere during soccer games, he said. “The atmospheres at the games are like no other that we’ve played at,” he said. “And as a player, that’s what you want to play in front of.” According to Saul, despite the frustration of seeing other players on his team not get an award this season, he appreciates the coaches in the conference recognizing all his hard work, especially now that he is trying to get signed to a professional team, he said. Saul has already started the process of trying out for professional teams like the Colorado Switchbacks, a USL pro soccer team. Along with the Switchbacks, he will also try out for teams in Texas, Florida

MORE ON THEORION.COM/SPORTS Read the rest about of the senior men’s soccer players and their farewell to Chico State.

and Ventura. Restrepo, who coached Saul for two seasons, said that he is in the process of being ready for the next level. “He has expectations for himself, and he’s trying to achieve, and he’s trying to use the program as a way to kind of elevate himself there and that’s helped us too,” he said. Saul said that he plans to try and make it as a professional soccer player at least for the next couple of years, and if that fails, he always has his second passion— fashion and his clothing line—to fall back on, he said. Saul works for a clothing line called Elwood, where he helps with sales and design. He also owns a clothing line with his friend called “Kings of Clothing” that he said he will focus on if he does not end up playing soccer. “That’s just where my second passion is so that will be my kind of fall back,” he said. “Which isn’t a bad one at all but when it all comes down to it, I would rather play professional soccer.” Jose Olivar can be reached at

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Time Capsule

LOST, FOUND:

Photographs by Veronica Hodur

Kirk Coon, supervising ranger, smiles in anticipation as the time capsule gets pried open carefully by State Parks Official Shawnee Rose.

Zachary Phillips

Opinion Editor

When construction workers Thomas Williams, Ken Piercy and Brian Wood started digging on the corner of Sol-Wil-Le-No Avenue and the Esplanade, they expected to find concrete, dirt and maybe a few old bottles. What they found instead was memory itself, sealed in a copper box. A time capsule, lost and forgotten for 89 years, lay in waiting underneath a monument dedicated to John and Annie Bidwell, Chico’s founders. Williams, Piercy and Wood were the only workers at Bidwell Mansion that day and were moving the monument to make way for an improved sidewalk. “The day that we took it off we were on the crane,” Wood said. “We were standing there and we popped it up and we saw the black box.” Wood and his co-workers immediately knew the box was something special. They called city parks officials to come examine the time-lost capsule, but couldn’t help doing some of their own investigating. “I picked it up — it was pretty light,” he admitted a little guiltily. “I shook it a little bit and flipped it over. I wasn’t the only one who did it.” The box itself was small and light. Dust and smoke rose from its lid as state parks official Shawnee Rose sawed it open Nov. 29 at 10 a.m. More than 1,000 onlookers from Chico and neighboring cities gathered to get a look at the capsule. “Eighty-nine years ago in 1925, important historical events were taking place,” Eduardo Guaracha, Northern Butte State Park superintendent, said in his speech before the box’s opening. Guaracha said they combed through nearly century-old newspapers until they found a story documenting a festival dedicated to John and Annie Bidwell. “On Oct. 16, 1925, thousands of residents of Chico, similar to today, gathered in front of the Bidwell Mansion to commemorate a monument to remember and honor the legacy of one of California’s greatest pioneers,” he said. “On that day, 89 years ago, a time capsule was sealed and placed at the base of the monument erected to the Bidwells.” Guaracha and the other parks officials were amazed to see that there were no

records of the time capsule’s existence. After its burial, the copper box disappeared from sight and memory altogether. “If not for the unexpected findings of the city sidewalk revalue project, the box may have remained undisturbed for another 89 years, or hundreds of years,” he said. The crowd’s anxious excitement could barely be heard over the saw’s buzz, but as smoke and dust cleared away, the crowd went silent. The crowbar came out, and the lid was pried off. Flutters of nervous laughter and looks of bemusement crept onto the faces of parks officials and the crowd alike. From a distance, the capsule looked to be filled with straw, maybe a couple blocks of wood. Sighs of relief replaced laughter as Kirk Coon, supervising ranger, announced that the box was actually full of what appeared to be paper scrolls wrapped up in hay. The crowd shuffled after the time capsule as it was taken to the Bidwell Mansion Visitor’s Center to be put on display. Amongst the throng was Keith Earnest, a relative of the Bidwell family. “Certainly it’s a connection to our family and to our heritage,” Earnest said.“We were hoping for objects,” he said. “Like maybe gold or commemorative coins or something like that. Or maybe Annie Bidwell’s missing diamond ring.” John Bidwell found a three-carat diamond in the Feather River Canyon and had it made into an engagement ring for Annie, Earnest said. The ring disappeared after John and Annie’s deaths, and its whereabouts remain a mystery to this day. “That would be amazing because no one knows what actually happened to the three-carat diamond,” said Earnest. “You know, John Bidwell was a very hard worker, but things like finding a threecarat diamond — that just doesn’t happen.” The capsule’s contents are too delicate to be handled by just anyone, and will have to be examined by a professional, Guaracha said. As of now, the small, patinated box is on display in the Bidwell Mansion Visitor’s Center, open for the public to see. Its contents, however, remain a mystery yet to be revealed.

Kirk Coon, supervising ranger, and Shawnee Rose, state parks official, carefully open up the copper box in front of

If not for the unexpected findings... the box may have been undisturbed for another 89 years. Kirk Coon,

supervising ranger

Kirk Coon, supervising ranger, smiles in excitement as soon as the long-lost time capsule left behind was opened.

Zachary Phillips can be reached at

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The time capsule, sealed in a copper box for 89 years, was filled with delicate paper scrolls.

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Alumna

Chico graduate discusses career success Stephanie Schmieding

lucky to be on her team just before the launch of the NeXT computer. It was such a thrill.” The Silicon Valley has produced some of After her time at NeXT Inc., the biggest companies and Ernst discovered her passion most influential executives for the field of healthcare. Her in modern technology. Amid skills and knowledge grew trethese technological leaders mendously when she worked for lies Chris Ernst, a wildcat several cardiovascular device and spirit dominating her field as pharmaceutical startup compavice president of marketing nies including Heart Technology, and corporate communicaHeartport and Scios. tions for El Camino Hospital. In the midst of her blooming Ernst arrived at Chico career, Ernst decided to take State’s 119-acre landscape in time off to start a family. After the fall of 1984. She graduher daughter’s birth, she was CHRIS ated in 1988 with a bachelor’s recruited by El Camino Hospital, ERNST degree in communication VP OF MARKETING AND where she has been for five years. studies, with an emphasis in CORPORATE COMUNIAs the vice president for El business. CATIONS Camino Hospital, Ernst leads Right out of college, Ernst the marketing communications landed an introductory strategy and implementation position at NeXT Inc., a startup company team. Her team is responsible for all of founded by Steve Jobs. the positioning, marketing and communi“A few short months after my arrival, cations of the hospital along with crisis my mentor, Kathryn Kilcoyne, created a communications and proactive public position for me on the marketing comrelations. munications team,” Ernst said. “I was so

Staff Writer

In addition to her position as vice media are so prevalent. president, she is also on the Pulse Point “It provided me with an incredible Board, a CPR first-responder app in the environment to learn and grow, and it enSanta Clara County. The app saves lives by abled me to have a wonderful career doing alerting citizens who are trained in CPR exactly what I love to do,” Ernst said. of situations involving sudden cardiac Ernst now lives in Los Altos with her arrest. husband Clay and It helps her two children involve Colton and CamDo something you love and bystanders ryn. After her sucare passionate about and and creates cess both at Chico pursue it. power State and in her within the career endeavors, Chris Ernst, vice president of marketing and commuErnst advocates for corporate communications nity. students aiming “I for success to folthought so low their dreams. highly of the app that El Camino Hospital “Do something you love and are sponsored the build and implementation passionate about and pursue it,” Ernst for Santa Clara Country,” Ernst said. said. “Be open and embrace things that Through all of her successes in areas make you uncomfortable. That is how you of her career, her college experience was learn.” what helped her learn to connect with others by creating engaging and interestStephanie Schmieding can be reached at ing communication, Ernst said. This has featureseditor@theorion.com or helped her in her field, especially now @stephbottt on Twitter. that digital communication and social

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The O-Face: Period

Tips for students on cab etiquette Michaela Sundholm

Staff Writer

They pick you up when you are drunk, cold or just too lazy to walk. On a weekend night, you can find them lined up outside the bars waiting to get you home safely. Cab drivers are the unsung heroes of downtown Chico One of on those late, weekend them nights. puked in Richard Perez has my cab. been driving for Liberty Then she Cab in Chico for the last 20 years. He was a newslaughedpaper printer before he she made the switch. Even laughed! after 20 years of driving, Perez still enjoys it. Richard Perez, “There are worse jobs Liberty Cab I could think of,” Perez driver said. “I like talking to people and getting to drive all around.” Being a cab driver can have its more difficult moments too: people puke in cabs and don’t know where they are or where

they are going. If there is one thing that cab drivers ask for in their customers, it is common decency. “Everyone is out there just trying to do their jobs,” Perez said. “The easier it is for us to do that, the easier it is for everyone.” Most of the people he picks up are friendly, but some of the things people do are unbelievable, he said. The most annoying thing is when a cab is on the way, people find a new way to get where they are going and don’t call dispatch to cancel their cab, he said. When the wait for a cab is long, such as 45 minutes to an hour, not calling and canceling the cab makes the whole system go slower. “It makes everyone have to wait,” Perez said. “It’s so easy to call a cab in the first place. Why can’t people call and cancel?” On busy nights when people aren’t canceling their cabs, Perez can go for an hour without picking any one of his calls up, he said. “Before I pick up a phone and call a cab for myself, I know exactly where I am and that I am ready to be picked up,” Perez said. “How is a cab going to find you if you don’t even know where you are?” Cab drivers see all kinds of people, which

is something they usually enjoy except when those people do something like puke in the cab. “One time I picked up these four college girls,” he said. “One of them puked in my cab. Then she laughed — she laughed! And then said, ‘You’re the cab driver, you clean it up.’” The drunk don’t always puke, but if he thinks that if they are on the verge of blowing chunks, he will roll the back windows down and try to get the breeze on their face, Perez said. “People also fall asleep when they are really drunk,” Perez said. “They get in the cab and before they can even tell me where they are going, they are out. I’ll drive them to the cops to wake them up. It’s quite fast how quickly they sober up when they wake up to a cop.” At the end of the day, cab drivers are out there trying to help people get where they need to go, he said. It is their job. It is what they go out there to do. Michaela Sundholm can be reached at

featureseditor@theorion.com or @Michaela_Sun on Twitter.

Humans of Chico State: Holidays Q: What do you do for the holidays? A: “Being from Eastern Europe, Thanksgiving really isn’t in our tradition. Being Americanized, we do participate in the normal tradition such as Thanksgiving dinner with the big family. It’s less of a holiday where we experience thanks and more of a holiday like, ‘Well everyone else does it too, so let’s go buy a turkey.’”

TJ Carter

Staff Writer

I tip my hat to the brave souls who are able to put on their red wings and get down to business. I’m talking about river rafting the bloody gulch of no return. Having sex while your partner is on their period is a little gross to me. My wife and I do some weird stuff, but that one takes the cherry cake. The first time we tried to have sex while my wife was on her period was in the shower. We thought it would be a little cleaner for the blood to flow down the drain if it started to leak out. It wound up becoming a reenactment of the shower scene from “Psycho” in color. That turned us off of the idea for a while, but one night we decided to try it again. We couldn’t wait another week for the bleeding to stop so onward we marched toward the promised land. We decided to try it on the bed with a towel laid down to keep things from getting messy. It turned out to be 10 times worse than before. It looked like a Charles Manson murder scene, and after only five minutes into it, we both threw in the towel for this match. I went soft and Maria was just as turned off with the entire experience. She said she was going to wait from now on, and that I had better make up for lost time when she is good to go or else. Some people find no problem with sex during their partner’s period, and there is nothing wrong with that. I’m all for a healthy sexual relationship between two consenting adults. And there are no health risks with having sex while on your period. So go out there and have your midnight fun, you vampires of the bedroom.

Kostadinos Hondros, freshman political science major. TJ Carter can be reached at Annie Paige can be reached at

sexcolumnist@theorion.com or @tjdreadhead on Twitter.

photoeditor@theorion.com or @anniepaige3on Twitter. Annie Paige/The Orion

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Furlough Fridays is a local four-piece rock band that won “Best Rock Act” at the 2013 Cammies.

Furlough Fridays on ‘Bay Watch,’ The Rolling Stones Jeffrey Fox

Staff Writer

Local rock band Furlough Fridays took a break during its practice session Nov. 22 to chat with The Orion about Pamela Anderson, the band’s dynamic and sticking together. Half the band, which is made up of two married couples, lives in Redding, and the other half in Chico. Furlough Fridays’ next performance in Chico will be for Wanderers & Wolves’ EP release show Dec. 6 at 1078 Gallery. You have been a band for eight years. What has kept you together? Linda Bergmann, singer: Stubbornness, and we iron through the problems and communicate issues so that we make it work. ... There was a bandmate who was letting his girlfriend get in the way, and so I decided to dump the whole band (once) because of it. Adam Yates, guitarist: And when Meagan and I moved to Redding, there was talk of us discontinuing. But Linda kept us together. Linda: They drive here or we drive there every weekend, and every time we do, part of my soul dies. But we’re willing to do what it takes to stay together. How did the four of you meet? JP Bergmann, drummer: When Adam and I met at Sears, we had both just gotten out of bands after both our bands broke up, and we were like, “I’m never gonna be in a band again.” Then our wives decide to start a band. Adam: We weren’t supposed to be in it at first. Meagan Yates, bassist: We were going to make it an all-girl band. You consider your genre rock? Linda: Yeah, but today we are going to have to go acoustic, ’cause Adam broke (JP’s) amp last night. Adam: My guitar broke it. Meagan: Yeah, Spamela died. Why is the amp called Spamela? JP: It’s named after Pamela Anderson. I had a thing for “Bay Watch” at the time. I think I was probably 13 when I got it, and I was a bit enthusiastic about that show then. Who inspires you? Linda: We are inspired by goals and the need to accomplish those goals. Getting a Cammie was one of our goals. Getting on the cover of The Synthesis was a goal we had for like, four years, and we finally got that done. What’s the band dynamic like since you are all so close? Linda: I’m always trying to mellow out the nerdiness. Just being like, “Let’s just calm it down a little bit.” It’s OK to be a little nerdy, but ... JP: Adam Yates, what is your favorite thing about playing small bars with very few people in the audience? Adam: Hitting them in the head with my guitar on accident when I’m really excited. Meagan: Yeah, Adam tends to move around a lot on stage. Adam: But I don’t know anything about this nerdiness you speak of. Linda: Unzip your jacket. Adam: (Unzips jacket slowly, revealing a shirt featuring characters from Cartoon Network’s “Regular Show”). What does the future look like for Furlough Fridays? Linda: We kind of want to do this forever. Whether that’s realistic, I don’t know, but look at The Rolling Stones. If you have a passion and desire to continue and a means, then what’s stopping you? Jeffrey Fox can be reached at

artseditor@theorion.com or @FoxyJeff on Twitter.

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Jean Ayres-Clark, right, John Ayres’ daughter, and granddaughter Cara Ayres-Clark enjoy the University Art Gallery exhibit that celebrates the deceased professor’s life and artwork.

John C. Ayres: More than just a name on campus The artist and professor will be celebrated at the University Art Gallery through Dec. 18 of whom was Janet Turner, Ayres also taught art history, medieval art and Staff Writer studio painting. harp, precise lines intersect, Back then, the art classes were held making shapes on a piece of in Bidwell Mansion, Applegate said. white paper. The watercolor “When teaching art history, (Ayres) shapes overlap, forming a showed slides in the dark because he building that looks like the was kind of shy,” he said. “I still have Emerald City from “The Wizard of Oz.” all the notes and the books from his There is no bleeding. There are no classes.” imperfections. Ayres was a father figure to some This year celebrates the centenary faculty members, Applegate said. of the artist of that piece, whose name And even before Ayres began making is all over campus, although his story strides at Chico State, he was highly remains unknown to most. Professor praised for his own artwork. Emeritus John C. Ayres was not only In early 1943, at Ayres’ first show in an incredible artist, but also the dedSan Francisco, Alfred Frankenstein, a icated teacher who developed the art well-known art critic for the San Frandepartment at Chico State. cisco Chronicle, said Ayres was very A collection of his artwork, guest talented and probably one of the best curated by Ayres’ former student and watercolorists in this part of the world, art collector Reed Applegate, will be Applegate said. displayed at the University Art Gallery Ayres wasn’t even 30 years old at the until time. Dec. 18. Ayres’ (People should) realize “It’s daughter, Jean that he’s more than just a because Ayres-Clark, name on the building and a of John remembers her portrait in the hallway. Ayres father as being that the very reserved. art stu“He never Reed Applegate, dents are talked about his John Ayres’ former student here in art,” she said. the first He was not the place,” Applegate said. stereotypical artist, and he kept things Born in 1914, Ayres grew up in Movery neat. desto and achieved his master’s degree “He always wanted things just so,” in art from UC Berkeley. After graduAyres-Clark said. “He wouldn’t even ating in 1936, Ayres taught at several let my mom decorate anything in the schools before accepting a position at house without his approval.” Chico State in 1946. Ayres was fascinated by architecture, At the time, Chico State was mainly Applegate said, which is evident in his a teacher’s college with only 50 faculty later works. and 700 students. President Aymer J. “Personally, I think he should have Hamilton wanted to expand the departbeen an architect,” Ayres-Clark said. ments to full accreditation, and hired His structural watercolor paintings Ayres as the chair of the art departdisplay meticulous technique. It must ment. have been quite the process waiting for In addition to hiring art teachers, one one layer of watercolor to dry before Emma Wood-Wright

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“Glorious Sounds of the Season” will feature holiday songs performed by Chico State choir and band ensembles, the Children’s Choir of Chico and local solo acts. Read the full preview at theorion.com/arts.

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Kevin Lyman, founder of Vans Warped Tour and the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival, will speak with students about his successes in the music industry. Look for the story later this week at theorion.com/arts. WHERE: ROWLAND-TAYLOR HALL WHEN: 5 P.M.- 6:15 P.M. PRICE: FREE

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applying the next so the colors wouldn’t bleed together. Watercolor is a difficult medium, because it tends to have a mind of its own. But like an architect, Ayres had the patience to master his material in order to create a masterpiece. In fact, Ayres actually designed some houses to cut costs on his home in Chico. On Berkeley Lane, a street in Chico that Ayres named after his alma mater, there still remain some houses he designed. Travel was another thing that inspired Ayres’ artwork. Ayres-Clark said her father especially liked British boats because of tea time. “We traveled a lot, and he would take pictures and then he would paint from the pictures,” Ayres-Clark said. Ayres was so passionate about traveling that he and another teacher organized the first trip for students to Europe in 1954, Ayres-Clark said. The current chronologically-organized exhibit for Ayres, whose artwork has been featured at the de Young Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, is not to be missed. Some of the pieces his daughter hasn’t even seen in over 50 years, she said. From his earlier, more figurative work, to his later, more structural work, it’s clear why the building that houses the art and art history departments on campus is named after Ayres. “(People should) realize that he’s more than just a name on the building and a portrait in the hallway,” Applegate said. Emma Wood-Wright can be reached at

artseditor@theorion.com or @emmawoodwright on Twitter.

MORE ON THEORION.COM/ARTS Check out photos of the exhibit and an interactive map of Berkeley Lane, which still includes some of the houses Ayres designed.

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