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CHARRED Chico Fire Department personnel stand outside the Warner Street home of three Chico State students who were arrested on suspicion of manufacturing a controlled substance after the house caught fire. PHOTOS BY • FRANK REBELO
Blaze sends 3 to jail jail, and Havens was released because of jail overcrowding, Butte County District Attorney Mike Ramsey said in a voicemail to The Orion. Murphy remains in custody and will be arraigned or released today, Ramsey said. Glasco and Havens are scheduled to return to court May 4 if the DA’s office charges the two. The cause of the fire was investigated by the Butte Interagency Narcotics Task Force, which alleges that the residents were in the process of manufacturing hash oil, said Ted McKinnon, the Chico
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MOONLIT CALL The majority of Chico’s fire stations respond to the house fire, which started about 10:15 p.m. Saturday at 1061 Warner Street.
Three Chico State students were arrested on suspicion of manufacturing a controlled substance after the students’ Warner Street home was heavily damaged by a fire Saturday night. The students, Devin Murphy, 19, Nicholas Glasco, 21, and Cheyenne Havens, 19, were booked in Butte County Jail with bail set at $100,000 each, according to a Chico police press release. Glasco was bailed out of
police sergeant who supervises the task force. Chemicals are added to marijuana to extract tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, which is the chemical compound that gets people high, McKinnon said. “If being illegal doesn’t worry you enough, just the safety factor should,” he said. The fire damaged every room of the house, McKinnon said. Despite the heavy damage to the house, Chico police Sgt. Curtis Prosise said there were no injuries. Joanne Romaniuk, a junior
Trip guides attempt river rescue Kjerstin Wood A SST. NE WS EDITOR
Ariana Altier was looking up the Trinity River at the rapids her Adventure Outings group had just passed through when out of the corner of her eye she saw it. A car had slammed into the rocky embankment, rolled down the hillside and landed in the river. “It was right there in my face,” said Altier, an undeclared freshman and first semester Adventure Outings assistant trip leader. Two trip leaders, Sam Padilla and Taylor Dwyer, and two assistant trip leaders, Altier and Cara Befort, were leading a group of 10 down the river Saturday when the car had swerved off of Highway 299. Befort signaled Padilla, a senior geography major in his third semester as an Adventure Outings trip leader, to pull the participants off the river and go upstream to assess the situation. Altier was the first one out of the boat and ran up the hillside to look for help, because the group didn’t have cellphone service, she said. The team saw that there was a man inside the car, which was submerged about 7 to 10 feet under water, and quickly made a plan to rescue him, Padilla said. “We said, ‘Boom, it’s safe, let’s go,’” Padilla said. The man inside was Patrick Hume, 58, of Shasta Lake City, said Paul Reyes, a sergeant for California Highway Patrol. What caused Hume’s 1974 MGB convertible to go off the road and down into the river is still under investigation, he said. Padilla went about 15 feet upstream from the accident and jumped in the water.
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RESCUE ATTEMPT Sam Padilla, a senior geography major and trip leader for Adventure Outings, attempted to rescue a man who was submerged in Trinity River after his car rolled down a cliff. Dwyer and Befort went a ways downstream to assist in getting Padilla out of the water and Altier acted as a “spotter” for Padilla, telling him when to dive down to the car, she said. After three attempts, Padilla was able to cut the shoulder strap of the man’s seat belt but was unable to free Hume from the car, Padilla said. “It wasn’t chaotic at all, it was controlled,” he said. “We were working as a team. It wasn’t just me.” If there had been only two leaders instead of four, Altier does not think the group would have carried out a rescue plan, she said. “I think having the four leaders each with medical training allowed us to attempt rescue,” Altier said. When Padilla began going back upstream for a fourth attempt, the group saw Hume’s body come free from the car and sink to the bottom of the river, Padilla said. Dwyer was ready to jump in downstream and retrieve the man, but the group was unable to locate Hume even after searching farther downstream.
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media arts major who lives across the street from the burnt house, looked out her window about 10:15 p.m. to see flames that reached up to 45 feet high, she said. “It was so big,” Romaniuk said. The residents at the 1061 Warner St. home were detained at the scene as Chico Fire Department personnel extinguished the fire.
Hume has not since been found. Trinity River is barely above freezing, said Rick Scott, director of the Wildcat Recreation Center. “It was a heroic effort on our staff ’s part,” Scott said. Scott said he saw Padilla two days after the incident. “He was very sad he couldn’t get the guy out and get him out alive.” CHP was also glad the student group was there, and Reyes commended the group’s efforts, he said. Befort and Padilla are both trained in swift-water rescue, and all Adventure Outings trip leaders undergo safety training, said Ann Marie Hingley, assistant director for outdoor programs. The swift-water rescue program is a nationally recognized certificate focused on the recovery of people and equipment in the event of an accident in moving water. “One thing we learn in training as leaders is that our first responsibility is personal safety, second is safety of the group,” Hingley said. The group “had their priorities straight” when they
responded to the emergency situation and made sure that they and the participants on the trip were safe before attempting a rescue. After the day’s events the leaders and participants ate burritos, and since the participants were about 400 to 500 feet downstream from the incident they were somewhat “detached” from the situation, Altier said. This event has strengthened her desire to get emergency medical technician certified as well as swift-water training. Padilla will still continue to participate in trips, he said. He looks at this as a learning experience. “I think we made the right decisions for what we were given at that moment,” he said. This was Altier’s first Adventure Outing’s trip, and she is scheduled to go back on the same Trinity River trip in May, she said. “It will be eerie to see that same pool of water where the car was,” she said. Kjerstin Wood can be reached at kwood@theorion.com
A drop in enrollment for some majors has been balanced by growth in others since the Great Recession, according to records. When the Great Recession began in December 2007, there were 716 students majoring in construction management, according to the Office of Institutional Research. There are now 416. Reasons for the drop in enrollment include a lack of recruiting and the negative publicity surrounding the housing market, said Rovane Younger, chair of the construction management department. Only about 5 percent of Chico State graduates go into construction of single-family homes, the area hit hardest in the construction market, he said. The increase in fees at the university level has also been a factor, Younger said. Students are spending more time at community colleges before transferring, where fees are lower. Before the recession, between 50 and 60 companies were recruiting at Chico State per semester, he said. May 2010 had fewer jobs offered with only 20 to 25 companies recruiting. Despite the lack of initial offers, all of the graduates were employed by the end of June. In the California State University system, there are fewer than 500 construction management graduates per year, Younger said. With more than 300,000 licensed contractors in California, construction managers are needed. Chico State’s nursing program has been affected by the recession as well. Enrollment has dropped from 590 students in spring 2006 to 457 this semester, according to the Office of Institutional Research. The program was not impacted when Louise Brothers graduated from Chico State with a nursing degree in 1990. “At the time when I graduated, there was a real cry for nurses,” Brothers said. “We had all kinds of different hospitals from the Bay Area as well as in the Chico area recruiting nurses and offering really good sign-on >> please see MAJORS | A4
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Correction: A front-page article with the headline “Chico State ‘open’ to facility charge changes” published Wednesday misstated that normal business hours for campus facilities end at 5 p.m. Business hours end at 10 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 5 p.m. on Fridays. The Orion staff strives for accuracy in all it publishes. We recognize that mistakes will sometimes occur, but we treat every error very seriously. If you feel a correction needs to be made, please email the editor-in-chief at editorinchief@theorion.com
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There are organizations on campus, such as Safe Place, that work A SST. NE WS EDITOR to spread awareness about violence A Chico State student had his two and assaults, Crowe said. He hopes front teeth kicked in while walking to work with these groups to get the home through the south-campus area, word out about dangers in Chico. “Call a taxi cab,” he said. “Five four weeks after he was slashed across bucks can save you a lot of money on the face outside a downtown party. Kevin Crowe, a senior business dental work and hospital bills.” Crowe was taken to Enloe administration major, was Medical Center by friends walking alone between Ivy and was checked by paraand Hazel streets about 5 medics but was not treated, p.m. March 30 when he was said Nick Dodge, an Orehit in the back of the head gon State University student from behind and knocked who was visiting Crowe and to the ground, he said. His among those who took him attacker kicked him in the to the emergency room. mouth when he tried to raise Because the most severe his head. KEVIN CROWE injury was to his mouth, Crowe got up as soon as Suffered second south-campus Crowe was instead taken to possible and ran from the attack in March a dentist where he had two scene, he said. He never saw stitches put in his gums, the person who hit him. A stranger who was trying to get Dodge said. Incidents like this are very uncominside his friend’s party on Chestnut Street cut Crowe’s face with a knife mon at Oregon State University, Dodge said. While assaults do occur March 3. The incidents were less than a occasionally, the university and surmonth apart and have inspired Crowe rounding area feel much safer than to spread awareness about the dan- Chico. Chico police advise to travel in big gers of walking alone in Chico. “I broke my golden rule,” Crowe groups when out on the town, let people pass, not to interfere with anyone said. “Don’t travel alone.” On three-day weekends such a and not to drink alcohol excessively, Cesar Chavez Day weekend, it is even Chico police Sgt. Billy Aldridge said. It is also advised that people call more important to stick with your friends and avoid walking around the police and make a report as soon alone, even if it is still daylight, he as possible after they are victimized, he said. said. Five days after the incident, Crowe “Even if you’re a guy you need to drop the masculinity — you just need replaced his missing teeth with two temporary ones, he said. He plans to to be safe,” Crowe said. While he did not report the second get permanent replacements soon. attack to police at the time of the incident, he reported it two days later, Juniper Rose can be reached at he said. jrose@theorion.com Juniper Rose
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Goerge Zimmerman, who shot and killed Trayvon Martin, an unarmed teenager in Florida, was scheduled to go before a grand jury Tuesday. However, the special prosecutor appointed to the Martin case decided that the jury should not hear Zimmerman’s case. The special prosecutor will now make the decision about Zimmerman’s prosecution instead.
Associated Students elections will be changing the voting ballot to ensure that candidates don’t receive an unfair advantage by being at the top of the list. Candidates have traditionally received a number that corresponds with where they were on the ballot, but for the upcoming election, the names will automatically rotate whenever a student logs in to vote, said Ashley HoltonWesthaver, the A.S. elections coordinator. “We’re not using numbers this year because we wanted to get away from candidates advertising their numbers and focus more on advertising themselves and their name and their platform,” she said. By keeping the order random, no candidate has the advantage of being at the top of the ballot, said Denise Crosswhite, the A.S. government affairs program coordinator. Twenty candidates will be running for positions for the next academic year, an increase from 18 candidates in the 2011-2012 election, HoltonWesthaver said. One surprise was that four candidates are running for vice president of business and fi nance, a position that has traditionally had only one or two candidates. “We’re really excited about
that race,” she said. “It should be interesting.” While 125 clubs and organizations took part in revenue sharing last year, 107 will this year, according to the A.S. government website. The process for dispersing students’ money for revenue sharing will remain the same, Holton-Westhaver said. Students can either give $15 to one organization, $7.50 to two or $5 to three. Although the fi ling date to run for office has already passed, the number of application packets given out this year was more than double what it was last year, she said. “Even though the number of candidates is about average, we handed out 49 applications to potential candidates this year, so I think that’s a real statement to show that the word is spreading and we’re reaching out to diverse groups,” Holton-Westhaver said. “More and more students are finding out about the opportunity to run. Hopefully, in time, it’ll keep increasing.” The Freshmen Leadership Opportunity will be hosting a barbecue for students to meet the candidates between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Wednesday in Trinity Commons. It will be followed by a debate in the Bell Memorial Union auditorium at 6 p.m.
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The new unit cap may not have as large of an impact as people think, school officials say. Students with fewer than 90 units will only be able to register for up to 16 units, while those with more than 90 units, high-unit majors and other special exceptions will be able to register for up to 17, said Meredith Kelley, vice provost of enrollment management. The department of enrollment management received a memo from the California State University Chancellor’s Office March 13 stating that unit caps were required of all universities in the CSU system, Kelley said. The unit cap is a way of ensuring fair access to a limited supply of courses, as the CSU cannot serve more students with less money, said Joe Wills, director of public affairs and publications. “We are obviously hoping that this limit does not interfere with the students’ ability to graduate and progress in their education,” Wills said.
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While it may be a good move for the uni- units for graduation. versity to limit enrollment, it may “A civil engineer who is going into not be best for students, said Eric UNIT CAP AT structures might not take as many elecRoberts, a junior business admin- A GLANCE trical engineering classes,” Pickering istration major. Roberts recognizes said. that students may not need to take a More than 90 This would make his major plan large number of units in a semester complete units: simpler. 17-unit regisif courses are mapped out correctly. Things have been “scrambled” at The department of enrollment tration cap the department of enrollment managemanagement will accept petitions ment, Kelley said. Its online software Fewer than to take more units during the add/ was upgraded before it had to deal with 90 comdrop period after priority regis- pleted units: the restrictions. tration, as usual, Kelley said. The 16-unit cap “The majority of the students will not department is still looking at ways be affected, but it’s the ones that do that to make the transition a smooth one Exceptions we have to look out for,” she said. and will have everything figured include highThe CSU’s goal is to increase access out and communicated to students enrollment to college degrees, but dealing with majors in August. “tremendous budget cuts” is difficult, A restriction on units may “streamWills said. line” course loads for some, said “Any kind of enrollment restriction is Ryan Pickering, a freshman civil engineering very difficult and unpopular for us, because we major. He has a high-unit major, so he will be want to increase access for students,” Wills said. allowed to register for up to 17 units during priority registration. Kjerstin Wood can be reached at The civil engineering major requires 128 kwood@theorion.com
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Chico State’s Model United Nations program returned from the national conference in New York with top honors Friday. The program is a course of selected students who study international relations and diplomacy in ways that characterize the actions of the United Nations, said Christian Crandall, a senior international relations major and head delegate of the team of students. Chico State’s team spent the semester researching its nation, which was Qatar, Crandall said. Crandall’s job is to instruct the class in research and prepare members for the New York conference. The conference involved more than 5,000 Model United Nations students from around the world, said John Crosby, the program’s adviser and a lecturer in the political science department. The Chico State team has participated for more than 30 years. The team took home an Outstanding Delegation award, one given by the staff of the National Model United Nations, Crosby said. In order to receive this award as one of the 400 competing universities, a team must attempt to pass resolutions in favor of their nation’s policy. Model United Nations has received this award in five of the past six years, Crosby said. This placed Chico State in the top 2 percent of all competing schools, Crandall said. The students had been preparing since August to learn specific research methods and Qatari
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DELEGATE Members from Chico State’s Model U.N. program convene in New York. The team’s nation was Qatar, which forced the group into its politics. The team earned the Outstanding Delegation Award.
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diplomacy in order to win. Delegates must stay up to date on issues such as the Syrian arms trade crisis, Crandall said. Delegate teams of two students also won four awards. Among the winners was Evin Sanders, a junior political science major who received the Individual Outstanding Delegate Award. “I had a lot of faith in my partner, Kyle Norton,” Sanders said. “It’s just so exciting to succeed in what we’ve spent a year’s worth of work preparing for.” The essence of Chico State’s program closely resembles the culture of the university, as the students are being educated at a competitive level while focusing on friendliness and approachability, Crandall said. Lead delegates like Crandall felt the passion in
this year’s group, he said. “Each of them had more focus and drive than any other MUN group I have ever worked with,” he said. The team members’ familiarity with one another was an incentive to do well, Crosby said. “I believe the continuity of the student officers and the basic idea of success breeding success motivates the students to do well,” he said. The idea of Model United Nations is to simulate what the actual United Nations does. “Now the pressure will be on the next year’s crop of officers to maintain the tradition of winning,” Crosby said.
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Because of a $3.5 million decrease in textbook sales over the past three years, the Wildcat Store is considering closing off its second floor and terminating the lease of one of its two downtown warehouses. The Wildcat Store has been looking into using only the first floor because it pays part of the building debt for use of the second floor, said Jon Slaughter, director of Associated Students programs and government affairs. “The annual cost of roughly $45,000 is a component of the overall Wildcat Store budget,” Slaughter said. “The A.S. is researching throughout the corporation to minimize expenses while still providing programs and services that are responsive to the students’ needs.” Options include merging shipping and receiving into A.S.’s warehouse on the corner of West Fourth and Cherry streets, merging operations into the Wildcat Store or a combination of both, Slaughter said. These are ways to be as
financially responsible as possible. COMPETITION them for,” Geresy said. “The only “Any good corporation worth itself fallback is waiting for the books to should always be looking at ways to be Textbook: arrive.” “Critical more efficient,” he said. There seems to be a transiThe move from two floors to one is Thinking” for tion from customary textbooks to a “strong option” and most physical Philosophy 102 e-books, Slaughter said. changes would likely happen in the sum“The e-book is viable but not Wildcat Store: mer, Slaughter said. ready to take over,” he said. $120 new The possible termination of the lease Chico State does offer a buyback $89 used of the Wildcat Store’s warehouse on Oak program for textbooks, but it has Street is another sign of the financial Amazon: several obstacles, textbook manstruggles surrounding the store, Slaugh- $93.31 new ager Linda Riggins said. ter said. The warehouse is primarily $65.07 used “For a book to be on our buyback used for shipping and receiving goods list, it must first be re-adopted or for the store. ordered for the upcoming term,” Riggins said. Higher buyback rates for textbooks could The buyback prices are severely low cominfluence the number of buyers in the bookstore, pared to what is spent on textbooks each year, A.S. Executive Director David Buckley said. Geresy said. Many students use other avenues to get text“The buyback prices are a joke,” she said. books at lower prices, such as shopping online “That is if I’m even lucky enough they will at retailers such as Amazon.com, said Jennifer buy back the textbook.” Geresy, a senior liberal arts major. “The books are usually half the price or The Orion can be reached at even more than the price the bookstore sells editorinchief@theorion.com
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Thursday, 9:38 p.m.: Assault/ battery reported on the 1500 block of Broadway Street. “Reporting party says subject came into his house, uninvited and drunk, walked inside the house and punched him, then left on foot. No medical needed.�
Thursday, 12:19 a.m.: Drunk in public reported by Selvester’s Cafe-by-the-Creek. “White male in his 20s wearing a beanie is ranting and kicking things. Friends took him home.� Thursday, 3:07 p.m.: Welfare check reported on the campus side of Plumas Hall. “Reporting party concerned for three young children who have been outside for several hours. They appear to be selling candy bars.�
Friday, 7:46 a.m.: Threats reported on the 300 block of West Second Street. “Reporting party states during the past two days two subjects have followed and approached reporting party saying that there is ‘a hit’ out on him. Keep Resident adviser asking reporting party observed subjects to show paperwork proving he’s been drinking beer on in prison in order balcony — subjects are to leave him alone. now refusing to open Suspect associated with ‘white power’ their door. group. Reporting party believes this is related FRIDAY, 11:44 P.M. to his swastika and University Police other types of tattoos records that are visible.�
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Friday, 4:43 p.m.: Suspicious circumstance reported on the 1100 block of Cedar Street. “Unknown male ran into reporting party’s house saying he is being chased by another unknown male. Reporting party doesn’t feel comfortable with the male there and asked him to leave but he hasn’t. Suspect in yard possibly in possession of a knife. Reporting party doesn’t see it but told reporting party he has it.� Saturday, 1:09 p.m.: Drunk in public reported on the 100 block of West East Avenue. “Following reporting party and trying to grab his arm. Reporting party is taking his child inside the store. Subject stated he was going to take reporting party around back because reporting party would not give him a cigarette.�
Friday, 1:58 a.m.: Burglary — vehicle reported by O’Connell Technology Center. “Reporting party reports a male wearing a black cap and was looking in the window of his silver Hyundai Sonata near O’Connell and possibly tried door handle.�
Friday, 10:02 p.m.: Traffic hazard/ hazardous situation reported in the facilities management yard. “Smell of natural gas in FMS yard.� Friday, 11:44 p.m.: Suspicious subject reported on the 1300 block of Nord Avenue. “Resident adviser observed subjects drinking beer on balcony — subjects are now refusing to open their door.� Saturday, 10:16 p.m.: Fire incident reported on the 1000 block of Warner Street. “Fully engulfed fire with four occupants outside with police. Propane and butane cooking H and S.� -Compiled by August Walsh and Dan Reidel
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of kinesiology. “It’s an incredibly growing field,� she said. packages.� The nursing program gives a good foun- “Twenty years ago, personal trainers didn’t dation for students to branch out and try even exist.� New equipment and labs were included various aspects of nursing such as labor and delivery, maternal care and medical surgery, when Yolo Hall was built to help make the kinesiology program impressive and Brothers said. She now works materexciting, she said. nal care at a hospital in Campbell. The College of Agriculture has also Nursing jobs may not be as numergrown in spite of the recession. There ous when current students graduate. were 375 agriculture majors in spring One downfall is that big-city hospiTwenty 2006, while spring 2012 data shows tals want nurses who are experienced years go, 521 students in the major. with working in big hospitals, said The agriculture professors think Kristyn Revelli, a senior nursing personal spending time with students in the major. trainers classroom and in office hours is Going to the Bay Area to find work after graduation could be challeng- didn’t even important, said Travis Cardoso, a exist. Chico State agriculture graduate. ing, but the nursing program’s good This is why the growth won’t negareputation will help, she said. tively affect the sense of community Although Chico State’s overall SABRINA the program has. enrollment has grown and shrunk FAIRCHILD Agriculture is growing because the because of budget cuts, in fall 2011, professor of general public is seeing that agrithe university had nearly the same kinesiology culture is “not just cows, plows and number of students it did in 2005, tractors,� Cardoso said. with 2011 enrollment at 15,920 and fall Agricultural business majors are 2005 enrollment at 15,919, according to headcounts from the Office of Institutional great assets to employers who need people to handle business in farm production, he said. Research. The College of Agriculture has to keep up Some majors, like kinesiology, however, are growing. Forty-nine students were major- with growing demand, as 98 percent of the ing in kinesiology with the movement studies general public lives off the 2 percent of the option in spring 2006, and there are 223 now. nation that farm. Jobs such as personal trainers and strength and conditioning coaches are in high Dan Reidel can be reached at demand, said Sabrina Fairchild, a professor dreidel@theorion.com
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 2012 Allie Colosky SPORTS EDITOR
Stay on your feet Out of bounds I’m a white girl. I’ve never been followed through a store to make sure I don’t steal anything. There aren’t any jokes about Canadians that make me uncomfortable. And people don’t assume I am good at sports because of the color of my skin. In staff writer Carly Caumiant’s article about race sensitivity in sports, a lot of players don’t recognize racial barriers on their teams, and I can’t say that I ever did in the 18 years I played sports. For a white woman, the line that divides racial groups isn’t one I usually recognize until someone pulls the race card on me or laughs when they realize I can actually shoot a basketball. Race is a tricky thing in sports. Growing up and playing with girls of different skin colors and ethnicities only increased my ignorance concerning the race boundary. I didn’t realize that boundary until I came to Chico State. The general idea that white men can’t jump is almost as bad as assuming volleyball players are all tall, blond female athletes. Analise Riezebos, a sophomore forward on the women’s basketball team, and I have felt the same distinct judgment as female basketball players. “Sometimes I have felt disrespected in the sense that white girls can’t play basketball,” Riezebos said in Caumiant’s article. I reach 5 feet 6 inches tall on a good day, and although I played all four years in high school, my bragging rights as a shooter are only earned when I beat someone, namely ex-boyfriends, in a game of H.O.R.S.E. While walking on campus two years ago, a classmate of mine whispered to me as we passed former Associated Students President Joseph Igbineweka, that he “must just be a basketball player.” My eyebrows shot to the roof and it was in that moment that I realized just how predominately white Chico State is. This stereotype and the jokes that an athlete performs better if he or she is of a different race make me want to scream and shake people by the shoulders. But it also made me want to be a better athlete. I wanted to prove my worth as one of the few white women on my high school basketball team. My favorite part of that story is that my closest teammate – who was one of only a handful of redheads in my senior class – was arguably the best threepoint shooter on the team. To be written off because of the color of my skin doesn’t only offend me, but it offends entire races on both sides of the issue. Not every Latino is good at soccer and not every tall blonde can send a bullet over the net for an ace, and assuming those ideas are correct writes off a vast majority of the student-athlete population. Part of a minority group or not, if you can make that shot from the arc, you belong on the court. Allie Colosky can be reached at sportseditor@theorion.com
Athletics keeps race out of bounds Carly Caumiant STAFF WRITER
In the world of competition, some Chico State athletes feel singled out because of their skintone, while others feel united among their diverse peers. Jazmine Miller, a sophomore on the women’s basketball team, does not believe Chico State athletes discriminate against one another, she said. No matter what color someone’s skin is, each of the athletes will hang out and get along. “I hate when people always put the race card first,” Miller said. “I think people need to move past that. You can’t always discriminate.” Although Miller believes all her teammates get along, cliques may seem present to outsiders, she said. “It might look like there are race cliques, but in reality it doesn’t really matter what you look like on the outside,” Miller said. Groups form and separate black athletes from those who are white, but multiracial cliques form as well, she said. “People will mention, ‘Oh, he’s racist,’ or, ‘He doesn’t like white people,’ but in reality you can think that but you won’t really know,” Miller said. Maddison LeRoy, a sophomore on the women’s golf team, has also never been personally discriminated against or seen discrimination projected onto any of her teammates, she said. “We have a pretty broad range of girls, and we’re all treated pretty equally,” she said. Although LeRoy does not experience discrimination at Chico State, she does recall a time when race issues were more prevalent in her athletic world. “I noticed race issues a lot more in high school when I played basketball,” LeRoy said. “I felt it more in the competitive sports.” Golf is more of an individual sport and racial boundaries occur more in teamrelated sports such as basketball, LeRoy said. The prevention of such issues can be a difficult task. “Discrimination happens more to the players on a secretive level, not in front of coaches or officials,” LeRoy said. “It’s more on the court, like a slur directed at you while you’re playing.” Junior decathlete Adam Nikssarian said he has experienced more diversity in his years spent at San Francisco City College before transferring to Chico State. “I came from a team where I was one of five white people,” Nikssarian said. “It was a predominantly black track team, and there was a little more diversity.”
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Like golf, track and field is an individual sport, and athletes focus more on increasing their personal marks, he said. Because of the more personal aspect, less competition is seen and race issues seem to disappear. “Coaches are good about not discriminating, singling people out,” Nikssarian said. “Performance determines your game time.” Analise Riezebos, a sophomore on the women’s basketball team, has a different outlook on the issue of race, as she has seen her team divided by skin color. “When we travel, there are two buses, one with all black people and one with all white people,” Riezebos said. “We don’t do this on purpose. It just happens naturally.” Equality among teammates seems to dwindle off the court, and Riezebos feels at a disadvantage because of the color of her skin, she said. “Sometimes I don’t feel as equal to the black people on my team,” she said. “I feel like they laugh at me instead of with me, but I feel equal with them on the court.” Riezebos has also felt the sting of stereotypes from other peers who assume her physical appearance determines the sport she plays. “Sometimes I have felt disrespected in the sense that white girls can’t play basketball,” she said. “People assume I play volleyball because I’m tall and blond.” Riezebos is disappointed with the racial issues she has experienced and doesn’t like to think of how much worse they were in the past, she said. “I love every single girl on my team because they are my family and we’ve been through so much together,” Riezebos said. “We are a family of all different races and colors.” The Orion can be reached at editorinchief@theorion.com
Homegrown Wildcats find comfort in familiarity Price Peterson STAFF WRITER
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FAMILIAR PLACES Austin Prott knows Chico like the back of his hand. The junior first baseman enjoys showing his teammates his hometown.
j[ ock ] talk What would you be doing if you didn’t coach at Chico State?”
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TEAMWORK Women’s basketball sophomore forward Analise Riezebos [right] and teammate freshman guard Caressa Williams [left] work together in the weight room. Riezebos said that despite racial differences, she feels the team has become a strong family unit.
While many students think living at their parent’s home while going to college is less than ideal, many Chico State athletes love the ease and simplicity of being so close to home. Jake Ward, a sophomore defender on the men’s soccer team, reaps the benefits of having his parents in Chico. “I love going home to use the washer and dryer,” he said. Ward’s parents are also the owners of The Gooney Bird Bar & Grill, where he often goes to get a meal. While some athletes use the proximity to home to their advantage, others decide not to. Austin Prott, a junior first baseman on the baseball team, doesn’t spend much time with his
“I would probably be working for a service in the mountains. It was my main focus in college.”
parents, he said. Coming from a family of Chicoans, Prott already has a firm grasp of the town and where to go for food and where to stay away from, he said. This allows him to focus on getting to know his teammates instead of going through the adjustment phase many incoming student-athletes face. Prott also enjoyed helping his teammates get to know the town, he said. Junior distance runner Michelle Johnson decided to live on campus instead of with her parents to get the full college experience, she said. She loved the freedom that came with living in the dorms. One of the benefits for these Chicoans is that their parents are almost always able to attend in-town games or meets. Ward’s parents always try
to come to games, he said. He always knows his mom is cheering when he hears her distinctive yell. A dreaded drawback, however, is the ease in which parents can embarrass their children. “My dad is pretty sociable, and there have been a couple times when he has dropped me off at events and he has embarrassed me,” Johnson said. Being from Chico has its pros and cons, and whether or not student-athletes take full advantage of being close to home, at least their parents are closer than a phone call away. “It is always nice to know that if I am having problems I can get in my car and head home and see my parents,” Ward said. Price Peterson can be reached at ppeterson@theorion.com
“I thought I’d be a history teacher until high school. I wanted to teach in a gym rather than a classroom.”
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 2012
Hardwood Classic tourney returns to Acker Andrew Delgado A SST. SPORTS EDITOR
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Sam Baker sof tball The Wildcats senior pitcher threw a six-inning no hitter in Friday’s 8-0 win against Cal State Dominguez Hills. Baker then tossed five innings without recording a hit before she gave up a twoout double in the sixth inning of the ’Cats’ 3-0 win on Saturday. Chico State faces Cal State San Bernardino Friday at University Stadium.
Basketball is coming back to Acker Gym, as the women’s basketball team is set to host the Chico Hardwood Classic Saturday. The Classic is a threeon-three tournament and fundraiser for the team. This is the second annual Classic, and the players and head coach Brian Fogel hope to have a better turnout than last year, he said. In the inaugural tournament, the program raised close to $3,000. “I just want this to grow,” Fogel said. “We want people to come out and have a good time while playing basketball and also a great fundraiser for us as well.” The Chico Hardwood
Classic was created based on Fogel’s inspiration from the University of Notre Dame’s annual tournament. “There are thousands and thousands of people that attend,” Fogel said. “Bringing it here I was thinking about getting people outside the basketball community to be aware of what we do and give the campus an opportunity to come out and play.” The women’s basketball team members will help out during the tournament, as they will be referees and scorekeepers and provide information such as which teams play each other and on what court. Sophomore Jazmine Miller will be on the court but not posting up for a jump shot. Instead, she’ll have a whistle as a referee.
“It’s easy to ref,” Miller said. “It’s nothing we don’t already know. I like to let them play and not call them out.” It’s a different experience for Miller and the other ’Cats to be off the court, but it is fun to see people outside of basketball and from different sports come out and play, she said. You do not have to be a star or highly competitive to play on the hardwood at Acker Gym. The Classic will feature three divisions, a men’s competitive division for those who “ball so hard,” a men’s recreation for those who might want to take it a bit easier and a coed division for the women to break some ankles. A $30 fee per team is required, and each team is allowed a maximum of four
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program has been helpful, as redshirted freshman Weston Littlefield doesn’t think the team would be as bonded without it, he said. Veterans like being the big brothers and being looked up to, Restrepo said. The experienced players also stress responsibility and the need for getting to practice on time, junior midfielder Micah Miranda said. The close-knit structure allows veterans to be open and honest with the rookies and give them helpful feedback. Incoming players have to learn to take advice from more experienced people because new players are no longer the best, Paulo said. The mentor program has brought a feeling of family for the freshmen and given them people they can turn to for advice, no matter the situation.
The amount of batters senior Sam Baker allowed on base in the softball team’s opening series victory against Cal State Dominguez Hills. It was Baker’s first perfect game as a Wildcat.
The baseball team lost its first series of the season this weekend on the road against Cal State San Bernardino. The Wildcats won the first contest 9-1 before dropping the next three outings 9-1, 7-6 and 4-3.
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Save it for a rainy day. The athletic department has had to do just that, as rain-delayed games inconvenience not only the players but also those who must account for schedule changes. Athletic Director Anita Barker has to consider where the team will travel and where they will stay, she said. When the rain postpones a game, Barker has to scramble to make sure the teams extend their stay if necessary. The softball team had to hang out in Humboldt a few weeks ago, as rain pushed back the series an extra day. The department sets aside $100,000 as a reserve fund for such events. “Our goal is to not extend road trips if possible,” Barker said. Mitch Cox, the assistant athletic director, finds it difficult for the teams and those who work at games, he said. “When we reschedule a game we have to take into account the umpires and make sure we can get them for whenever the game is played,” Cox said. The altered game days haven’t negatively affected funds, We pay for Barker said. the cost “The amount of games upfront, and days we stay doesn’t change, just the days we but the play,” Barker said, “so it NCAA doesn’t affect hotel cost, reimburses just the inconvenience of us so it rescheduling.” The athletic department doesn’t must also take into account affect the the cost of a potential budget. playoff run. This season, the women’s soccer team made it to the Final Four of the ANITA BARKER Athletic Director National Collegiate Athletic Association Division II tournament in Florida. The ’Cats played seven playoff games. “We pay for the cost upfront, but the NCAA reimburses us so it doesn’t affect the budget,” Barker said. The NCAA pays for the regional and national championships. Kim Sutton, the women’s soccer team’s head coach, plans her squad’s trips during the season. “We do the leg work of finding the hotels and making sure it works out for our schedule,” Sutton said. “We have corporate credit cards which come out of the fund.” The money does not come out of the coaches’ pockets, but it is up to them to decide where their team will stay, and a flexible fund is used for the season. While a team may know a family in the area while on the road, NCAA rules state that teams must stay in a hotel and cannot stay with others to save money. April showers are looming, and the Wildcats may have to save money for a rainy day a few more times before the seasons are over.
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players. Each player will receive a T-shirt and have three guaranteed games. Adidas is sponsoring the event and will be offering gear as well as other prizes for the top teams. If former Wildcat basketball player Jon Baird has anything to say about it, he plans to take the top prize once again. “There were pretty good teams last year,” he said. “This year, there looks like five or six tough teams.” The event is a chance for non-players and former players to get out on the court and play against talent from around the area, Baird said. The Hardwood Classic is set to tip off at 9 a.m. in Acker Gym Saturday.
Veteran players mentor rookies Price Peterson STAFF WRITER
Transitioning from high school to college can be challenging, but it is even more so for student-athletes. Over the last few years, Felipe Restrepo, the men’s soccer team’s head coach, has instituted a veteran-to-rookie mentor program that allows teammates to bond in their own way. Since the implementation of the program, new players have gotten a true feel for the town and Chico State, Restrepo said. There was previously much more division between new players and veterans, said Zach Bradford, a former soccer player and Chico State alumnus. The program doesn’t just help the freshmen get used to the athletic program. It is also meant to help them learn about the city and university. Many of the mentors have
seen plenty of people who come to Chico State and think they are just there to play soccer, Restrepo said. These are most often the students who don’t get a chance to play because of their poor academics. A point emphasized among freshmen is that they are students. Junior midfielder Tyson Crim tries to stress that the student in student-athlete comes first, he said. Time is spent working to build bonds with incoming freshmen in the weeks before school starts, Restrepo said. The main goal is to bring them in and make them feel at home, and the veterans get a lot of help from the department and the community. Chico State athletes show little animosity and are very accepting of new teammates, junior defender Chris Paulo said. It is not only the older team members who think the
The men’s lacrosse team beat Stanford University on Friday 8-6 and served up the University of Nevada, Reno Saturday 22-2. The team is now 7-2 overall with three games left in the season. source: The Orion FILE PHOTO • SAMANTHA YOUNGMAN
The women’s rugby team beat UC Santa Barbara 36-19 and Colorado State University 14-9 this weekend in the Pacific Mountain Conference playoffs.
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the use of that cement stage is not allowed by student organizations. “I find it odd and mildly disturbing that so much concrete was poured and a metal structure that screams, ‘Hang some lights and a banner on me,’ was placed in front of a wide-open space with a lot of student traffic, and the resulting stage can’t be used to host any music,” he said. However, with a pop-up stage in place of a cement stage, the show will go on, and music will be showcased. “We love live music and wanted to see more of it on campus,” he said. Rockupy Chico State lets bands play live music for the student population without paying for the space, making students pay or incorporating age restrictions. It is simply live music with benefits, including the fact that each band is paid $100 to participate. Students can’t always go to or pay for shows, and through Rockupy, they get to hear music at their convenience and bands get exposure, said Juliana Corr, a junior Spanish major. “The free speech area doesn’t have a lot going on all the time, and having live music will give the campus more of a college feel,” Corr said.
Point, click, snap Photo enthusiasts of today’s world, I’ve got some good and bad news for you. The good: Instagram has been made available on the Android market, now known as Google Play. The bad: Instagram is available to just about anyone with a smartphone. For those of you who don’t know what Instagram is, get ready to hear a whole lot about it as Facebook just purchased the application on Monday for around $1 billion, according to The New York Times. Instagram is a free photo editing and sharing app. Once you’ve snapped a picture with your smartphone you can then apply filters to enhance colors, create soft edges or instantly age your photos. They are then uploaded to be shared with your Instagram community, composed of friends and random followers. As someone who has taken photography classes, both darkroom and digital, and is on Android instead of iOS, I have to say I’m not as thrilled as the millions of users who have been waiting for this day to come. I’m not saying I don’t have photo editing or sharing apps on my phone. I do. My gripe with Instagram isn’t about its PHOTO TIPS purpose or techniques. For other It’s about what ways to creit has done ate cool to photogra- effects for phy because your camera without any of its immense classes or popularity. apps, check Now twice out the DIY the number of on B2. people will be able to take a picture of just about any mundane thing, add a filter and call it artistic. Remove all the filters, and guess what? It’s still just a picture of your cat. Photography is about capturing a moment in time and letting the picture speak for itself. Most of the effects added to pictures with photo editing apps can be done in a darkroom or by adjusting the settings on your camera. I guess I’m just a firm believer of having to know the rules before breaking them. One year, as a gift to my best friend, I gave her a picture I had taken with my film camera and developed myself. I spent a while in the darkroom after nunmerous attempts got it just the way I wanted. I framed the best one and named it “Flowers for Lupe.” I can’t imagine any of that having had the same effect with an Instagram picture. While I can’t say I don’t enjoy where photography has gone, I’d much rather have the rawness of film photography and the splendor of human error. Not knowing what your prints are going to look like until you’ve developed your film just adds to the mystique of it all. So while darkroom courses have become obsolete, I can at least feel better knowing I can add my own effects to my pictures, sans Instagram, if I so choose to do so.
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FELINE FRENZY [above] The colorful felines of “Cats” pounce on the stage for one of the many musical numbers in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s classic production this Sunday at Laxson Auditorium. [below] Two castmates show off their cat-like abilities such as being light on their feet.
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The original style and troupe of entertaining felines in “Cats,” Andrew Lloyd Webber’s classic musical, were on display to a sold-out crowd in Laxson Auditorium Sunday night. The play, presented by Chico Performances, started off with lights strewn across the stage and ascending onto the balconies. The cats emerged from various sides of the stage with eyes bright and green and curiously roamed the aisles past audience members. As flashing strobe lights began flaring, the performers leapt onto the stage, striking a pose. With more than 30 cats onstage, each character had a different look to their fur coat. From colorful tabby cats to brown-spotted calicos, they pranced around with impressive animalistic grace. The limber actors broke into song as the music commenced and they introduced their group as the Jellicle cats. The show was wonderful, Chicoan Dorothy McDonald said. The first act featured comedic quips and whimsical, dramatic music. In the third scene of the act, curious tomcat Rum Tum Tugger leapt into an upbeat rock song and swung his hips vigorously. The show transitioned from high-energy rock ballads to slow harmonies. The expressive dance moves were blended with gripping compositions and opera-style vocals. The first act ended with a strong solo of the hit song “Memory.”
This performance was Paradise resident John Burell’s fourth time seeing “Cats,” and it was still just as entertaining as ever, he said. “The choreograraphy was great,” Burell ell said. “The show had ad my attention the whole ole time.” The second act wass just as theatrical as the first. rst. The lights strung up around ound the auditorium shined with th rainbow colors, and the dance ce numbers were energetic and powerful. The fast-moving scenes were ere vibrant and introduced acrobaticss and clean, choreographed routines. A cat named Mr. Mistoffelees istoffelees put on a magic show that was illustrated through his flawless dance moves. The crowd cheered for or his impressive turns and back flips. ips. It was the first time Blake Burell, John Burell’s son, on, saw the show, and he enjoyed it. “It wasn’t what I was expecting,” he said. The show featured a strong ending with a second performance rmance of the song “Memory” as thee singer belted out the chorus in a loud oud solo that resonated through the room. The final song of the he night,
“The Ad-Dressing of Cats,” was a comical finale that explained the diverse collection of cats as they sang, “Cats are just like you.” Kayla Wohlford can be reached at kwohlford@theorion.com
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Local bands liven up campus during lunch hour Nicole Walker STAFF WRITER
The Occupy movement takes on a whole new meaning with the musical revolution that is Rockupy Chico State. It is a student event series meant to occupy Chico State with live music, said Katie Enloe, an event programmer at Bigcat Productions. Formerly known as “nooners” before the musical events stopped in fall 2011, Rockupy Chico State has new students behind the scenes and a new lineup of free music playing at noon every Wednesday beginning today in Trinity Commons. The on-campus concerts were discontinued because of the re-tooling of the Associated Students production program. The program lived in the past as A.S. Presents and A.S. Live! before becoming Bigcat Productions last fall with the incorporation of a new staff. Its visibility on campus is increasing because of time set aside for learning and programming, said Jody Strong, assistant director of A.S. Programs. With the temporary absence of the program and budget cuts limiting funding, events such as “nooners” were stopped, said Kelly Cronan, a senior music industry and technology major and
member of the Music and Entertainment Industry Students Association. This not only affected the live music on campus but the jobs of student employees in charge of operating the events. The Music and Entertainment Industry Students Association, or MEISA, has worked side by side with Bigcat Productions to re-establish the events. Rockupy Chico State will provide an outlet for artists to share their music with fellow students, while Bigcat and MEISA will gain recognition as musical organizations on campus. The musical performances will bring students, clubs and organizations together, as bands will provide entertainment for an hour, Cronan said. “This is about implementing change and creating a space on campus for creativity and art,” he said. With musical expression come the university rules and regulations MEISA and Bigcat Productions have to respect in order to have events. The campus will only allow music to be played between noon and 1 p.m. in Trinity Commons. The stage and sound will be provided and run by A.S., and some MEISA members and friends will be a part of the technical crew. A stage setup would not be required if the event could be held on the stage in front of the Student Services Center, Cronan said. But
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Emerald city keeps stage aglow Kevin Crittenden STAFF WRITER
There is no place like Chico for community theater. Theatergoers took a detour through Oz Saturday night before returning home. Chico Theater Company hosted a captivating musical rendition of L. Frank Baum’s classic children’s story, “The Wizard of Oz,” for an energetic crowd. A 10-minute drive from downtown, Chico Theater Company is an unpretenSEE “THE tious venue WIZARD OF that seats OZ” PLAY about 200. With When: Thursdays, impressive Fridays and technical Saturdays effects and at 7:30 p.m. well-cast through April characters, 22, with shows Chico Theater at 2 p.m. on Company Sundays took the audience from Where: Chico Chico to the Theater Company land of the 166 W. Eaton enchanted Road #F where munchkins Cost: $12-$20 dwell and witches die in curious ways. Fantastic sound effects, sparks from the Wicked Witch’s hands and a giant, glowing face with flashing, red eyes were a few of
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SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW [left to right] The tinman, scarecrow, Dorothy and the cowardly lion follow the yellow brick road all the way down to the stage at the Chico Theater Company. the memorable technical highlights. Strong acting had the building buzzing during intermission, as excited spectators jabbered about The Jitterbug scene, the Wicked Witch, the Scarecrow and Dorothy. There is no comparison of a live show to a movie, said Cody Gonzales-Burrows, a Butte College theater major who played the Mayor of Munchkinland. “You see a movie once and you go again, nothing’s going to change,” he said. “You come to see a show, you never see the same show.”
Gonzales-Burrows is one of more than 30 actors who range from grade school students to college students and beyond, giving the play layers of experience. Chico Theater Company draws people of all ages together, giving them a chance to be involved with live theater. After the show, the actors greeted audience members as they left the building. Everyone in the group is so kind, said Kaila Davidson, who played Dorothy. “We are like a big family,” she said.
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The classic story of Dorothy’s adventure appeals to both children and adults. From a technical standpoint, the show was more challenging than others done at the venue, said Joe Behm, the set designer. “We are trying to take it to the Land of Oz,” he said. To fi nd the yellow brick road, head north on U.S. Highway 99. Exit at Eaton Road and look for Chico Theater Company. The show runs through April 22.
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Books lose meaning in transition to films Paige Fuentes STAFF WRITER
he emerged as dark and very creepy. He weaved magnificently from wary defense to open rebellion and delivered pitch-perfect laughs where they were supposed to be. Reactions from the attendees were favorable. The performance was well done and intricate for a play of its caliber, said audience member Yuriko DeLorenzo. DeLorenzo felt the passion of the story evolve on stage. There was elegance to the two well-choreographed central sword routines. At various times the fight was played out in slow motion to build a dramatic feel, and it succeeded. The recollections of the crime played out on a main stage with simple props. A tree stump and what looked like large bamboo sticks set the forest-like setting. The effect of the set design, combined with some carefully crafted pieces by Ruth Palmerlee, the costume designer and a professor theater, is justly evocative. The play was excellent, said Lorena Heredia, senior English major. “The actors were really great at portraying who they were suppose to,” she said. “Rashomon” successfully marveled in 87 short minutes, thanks to a cast that really pulled the show together. The thriller shines as a perfect examination of truth and human nature.
I understand that films must meet budget restraints, but I don’t understand why they must keep cutting out my favorite scenes from the “Harry Potter” or “Twilight” books. I love to read and I love to watch movies. However, I don’t love to watch movies based on books I’ve read. The experience of reliving the book is mangled in what can only be called a vague interpretation of the text. I am a very avid reader of all genres, and I just so happen to read the latest teeny bopper books, too, like “The Hunger Games.” For those of you who don’t share my unsolicited obsession with teen series books because you think you’re too cool for them, I know you would get hooked if you bothered to read them. So before judging me for falling into this black hole of books and film, let me just say it is easy to get sucked in and much more difficult to get out than it looks. I have no problem giving movies based on books a chance. I will openly admit that I’ve seen many Nicholas Sparks-based movies, and every time I was let down. How dare the director change the love story that made me tear up in “A Walk to Remember.” There are exceptions to my books-don’tmake-good-movies theory. For instance, I thoroughly appreciate author Chuck Palahniuk’s book “Fight Club,” and the director, David Fincher, did the book justice with his manipulation of the film. This exception aside, I always get excited for the book to come alive on film and am usually let down when it only briefly touches on the main points of the book and is only barely breathing. Movies obviously won’t be the same as the books because the author is not the director, said Jessica Fox, a Butte College student. “The director’s interpretation will be the factor in whether you like it or not,” she said. I suppose my infatuation with a book may make me biased in any change or alteration made in the movies, but why do all movies stray so far? Why can’t the movie truly represent the book? As the mania of books-turned-movie grows and keeps rolling in the money for Hollywood, I suppose the slaughtering of loveable books will continue.
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Rashomon gate unravels twisted reports of death Angel Huracha STAFF WRITER
“Rashomon” packs a dramatic punch and brings the perfect amount of laughter. Its exotic swords cut a deep chunk of dramatic meat and pack it into a short space of time. In Wismer Theatre, Cynthia Lammel, the production’s director and a professor of theater, delivers a grim tale of a brutal assault that led to the demise of a samurai warrior told from four different perspectives. A priest, horrified at the nastiness and lies of his crumbling society, decides to leave town, but the pouring rain leaves him at the deteriorating Rashomon gate. A woodcutter comes out to stop him from leaving, and they meet a wig-maker who recounts the tales told at the trial of the horrific death and how it all came about. Erin Duffey, a sophomore musical theater major, stands out in the play, as she performs as the brutally raped wife who has just lost her husband. Looking radiant in an orange kimono, she takes the stage frazzled and disconcerted after encountering the horrific ordeal. Her emotional responses were extremely wellconveyed. “It is a play about truth and eyewitness, and I truly enjoyed being a part of it,” Duffey said. Daniel Beldi played the charismatic wig-maker, a part that could all too easily look outrageous, but
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Ecklund said. Students who do yoga report doing better in their other classes, Himberg said. People from all walks of life take these Two papers are due tomorrow, the laundry’s dirty, the cat’s using those new pants classes every semester, said Sabrina as a scratching post and the neighbors are Fairchild, another yoga instructor and at it again with that earth-shaking levels professor of kinesiology. In her doctoral theof bass. TRY OUT A YOGA CLASS sis, Fairchild proved Relax. Where: WREC that practicing yoga Inhale peace. General yoga (all levels) lowers systolic blood Exhale stress. Sunday: pressure, the type Yoga is available at Chico State. exerted when the Students who need a break in 4 to 5 p.m. heart pushes blood their day can enroll in yoga classes Monday, Wednesday throughout the body, for exercise and one unit of credit, 6:15 to 7:15 a.m. she said. said Cathrine Himberg, a professor 5:15 to 6:15 p.m. Friday: In addition, yoga of kinesiology. leads to increased Students can also drop in on 5:15 to 6:15 p.m. flexibility and yoga classes in the Wildcat Recreational Center at any of the Yoga II (Intermediate level) strength, tones muscles and improves weekly scheduled times, said Kayla Tuesday, Thursday balance, Fairchild Lusby, a front desk attendant at 7:30 to 8:30 p.m said. the WREC and senior business Core yoga : Many students administration major. are afraid they’re Each semester students from Monday, Wednesday not flexible enough, many majors, ranging from engi- 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. their body shape neering to art and from physics to music, come to Himberg’s yoga classes isn’t good enough or that yoga is just for women, she said. But yoga is for and learn how to relax, Himberg said. “Yoga allows them to come to a class everyone. The goal is to get students to where they can leave everything at the recognize anxiety and stress and give them tools to turn it around. door,” Himberg said. “You do what your body is able to do,” Ashley Ecklund, a social science graduate student, has found yoga to be a great Fairchild said. way to de-stress, she said. “I can feel my mood change from the The Orion can be reached at beginning of class to the end drastically,” editorinchief@theorion.com Christopher Tavolazzi
Mullin it over Academic echo When I penned “They Practically Took Over the World” in the first grade, I thought I was a genius. I mean, sure, the seven-sentence story was a wholesale rip-off of H.G. Wells’ “The War of the Worlds.” And yeah, it was crudely illustrated in purple and yellow Crayola markers that probably spent more time inside my nose than on the top of the page. But it was my work, and I was proud to share it with the handful of my classmates who could read. Since then, I’ve become a little more reluctant to share my writing with other people, which is somewhat problematic given my chosen profession. The more I read, the more I realized I was nibbling at the corners of stale ideas with whatever I wrote. As many students do, I became my own worst critic. But the English department is finally putting that fear MORE ON to bed with WRITE ON! its new event, Event will take Write On! The work- place on May 4. shop is, among other Read online exclusive at things, a theorion.com/ place where features students can share their written work — papers, short stories and poetry — with other people in attendance. No matter how long, short, wordy or concise, any work is welcome, as long as it’s legible. This event may well be the best thing for student paperwriters since Red Bull. Far too often collegiate writing is an insular event, with only two pairs of eyes involved: the student’s and the professor’s. Now, regardless of whether the essay or story is complete or not, several other people will have the chance to peruse your work and figure out if it’s up to snuff. No more red ink question marks, bold strikethroughs or clarifying questions written in the margins by frustrated professors. By calling attention to the importance of editing, the English department is reminding students of the most important lesson learned in college: Meaningful creative work is never created in a vacuum. Right or wrong, poorly crafted or refined, the work students do should be shown somewhere besides a gradebook. To be invested in learning means to care about the work you do — not because the work is required for class but because it’s necessary for living. I’d like to think I’ve come a long way since my failed stint as a short story writer in the first grade, but I know I’ll always have room to improve. And the first step to that improvement is to share that work with the world, nerves be damned. Ben Mullin can be reached at featureseditor@theorion.com
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Project’s end cements homes, friendship Paul Smeltzer ASST. FEATURES EDITOR
Editor’s note: The following story is the last installment of a three-part series covering the Joplin Blitz Build, a community service project in Joplin, Mo., in which Chico State students rebuilt four homes in the tornado-torn city. JOPLIN, Mo. — Time ticked away as students hustled to nail gables onto roofs, run electrical wire and hang drywall on Thursday, March 22, the last day before Blitz Build workers flew home. With 12 hours remaining on day seven, 84 Chico State students worked together to finish rebuilding four houses destroyed by the May 22, 2011, tornado in Joplin, Mo. Aside from a brief lunch break, the students worked nonstop in the intermittent rain. Outside the house of tornado victim Kathy White, Lauren Cowden, a junior construction management major, finished installing siding while listening to a boom box blast, “It’s gonna be a good life.” Two miles southeast, Erik Lindstrom, a senior construction management major, cut drywall while three other students laid the sheets inside the newly repaired house of Joplin resident Bob Covey. At the construction site of Teresa Burrell’s house, Evan Green, a senior construction management major, finished nailing the gables onto the porch roof. Inside, drills squealed in anticipation of the oncoming deadline. Between the hammering and hanging, Jim O’Bannon, a professor of construction management, made trips to Home Depot from the newly repaired home of tornado victim Sam Alderman to replenish materials when they ran low. But amid the hustle, friendships were also being built, refined and cemented, and Mike Borg, a senior construction management major, saw it firsthand. “When you work 14-hour days in the rain with a crew that you trust, it builds camaraderie,” he said. Unlike the houses they built, the young men and women who helped piece Joplin back together were assembled, not scattered, by the four winds.
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PHOTO FINISH After seven days and more than 7,056 hours of community service, students and faculty who participated in Blitz Build say goodbye to Missouri before driving to Kansas City International Airport to fly back to Chico. The diversity of those brought together by Blitz Build was amazing, said David Shirah, a professor of construction management. “It’s a multicultural melting pot,” he said. Like the tornado that obliterated Joplin nearly a year before, Blitz Build was a rarity, a confluence of people and goodwill that occurs far less often than freak windstorms. It takes a lot to create a tornado like the one that tore through Joplin, said John Monteverdi, a professor of meteorology at San Francisco State who studies California tornados. The thunderstorm’s supercell merged 15 to 30 minutes before letting loose one of the deadliest tornadoes in history throughout Joplin homes, businesses and schools. “There were many things that just came together coincidentally to produce that violent of a tornado,” Monteverdi said. Less than a fraction of tornado-ripe weather patterns produce a twister as powerful as the one that tore through Joplin, Monteverdi said. The chances >> please see FINISH | B5
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Fending off former flames When a friend I used to regularly hook up with asked me to dinner after an exchange of a few slightly inappropriate text messages, I realized I hadn’t drawn a clear enough line. My boyfriend knows I’m a shameless flirt, but I couldn’t allow an advance like that. I haven’t spoken to said friend since I received this invitation. Maintaining the appropriate balance between friendly exchanges and sexual advances can be tricky, but it is important to keep your distance. I believe wholeheartedly that it is possible for men and women to be friends, even if they’ve had sex before, but it’s way too easy to get caught up in “reminiscing.” What I’ve learned from getting hit on by someone who I thought understood my boundaries is that you can’t dredge up the past and expect it to be forgotten. Another hazard to happycouple-harmony comes when you go out separately. My boyfriend and I can’t go clubbing together because he isn’t 21, so he isn’t around to tell my would-be suitors to buzz off. So let me make the following statement loud and clear to anyone in a similar situation: Being in a relationship is not pickup kryptonite. That goes for men and women alike. Women are better pickup artists than men, and they can be just as unscrupulous.
When going out without your significant other, it’s important to avoid seeming interested in anyone else, or you could be perceived as available — and therefore a target for anyone out to take someone home. I understand the desire to be nice, but misunderstandings happen way too easily. In this case, it is better to be cold than risk encouraging a come-on. For instance, if you run into someone at a bar or party who you used to have a crush on or have been intimate with before, beware the too-close hug. In case you don’t know what that looks like, it’s when the hands are placed anywhere other than around the shoulders. A gentle hand around the neck or waist says, “I’m still totally attracted to you,” and opens a Pandora’s box of unwelcome attention. On the other hand, if the attention is welcome, you’ve got a bigger problem and should probably reconsider your relationship. When I run into former fl ings, it’s difficult not to openly acknowledge the sexual connection because of my fl irtatious nature. But doing so is relationship suicide. Should you ever receive the odd “I miss you” text message, which occurs more frequently than I would like, my advice is to just not respond. Sexual tension runs rampant in college as it is, but it can often be especially powerful between two people who have had it before. If you want to have a successful romantic relationship with someone you care about, do whatever it takes not to let the tension overwhelm you. Otherwise, you could be stuck rehashing an old relationship for the wrong reasons with the same horrible ending.
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FINISHING TOUCHES In between rain showers, Blitz Build workers race to finish installing the outer covering to the gable on the last day of the build.
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were astronomical. But then something even more amazing happened. Organizations nationwide came to Joplin’s rescue. Answering the Call Together, a religious nonprofit organization, drove from Ohio to work side by side with Chico State students. Eight students from Iowa State University also joined forces with the project. On that Thursday, a group from Emmanuel Baptist Church in Tennessee helped finish the electrical jobs at Burrell’s house. Even a man who met Blitz Build workers for the first time Tuesday morning in the lobby of the Holiday Inn he was staying at offered his construction expertise. By 8 a.m. that day, he was drilling holes for electrical outlets. Without the collective effort, the project never would have begun. The man mostly responsible for the houses chosen for repairs during the Blitz Build was Ben Tarpley, a philanthropist who ended up in Joplin after hiking and riding his bike more than
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4,678 miles across the U.S. Tarpley walked through 14 states from Georgia to Maine over a sevenmonth period, he said. He then biked from St. Augustine, Fla., to San Diego in more than 12 weeks for the health benefits. Finally, after losing 42 pounds during a hike across the Appalachian Trail, Tarpley hiked to a class reunion in Tennessee, where he heard what happened in Joplin. “That was when I decided that I’d like to come up and volunteer, and everything has led to this,” he said. Tarpley met construction management professor O’Bannon in October while O’Bannon was in Joplin for the same cause. “Him and his group were struggling to keep track of their finances,” O’Bannon said. “I decided to help them organize.” Together, they started a nonprofit organization called Hearts and Hammers before joining with other groups such as Answering the Call Together, Next Step Ministries and Clark Construction, all organizations that sponsored Blitz Build. Five months later, at the end of the seven-day project and after more than 7,056 hours of community service, students finished all of the homes, except
for some drywall and electrical work, a feat that would have taken contractors three months, O’Bannon said. The houses were finished completely by a small contingent of Chico State students who worked through that Sunday. After they drove past farms, over snaked rivers and through the Ozarks’ green vegetation to Kansas City International Airport, Chico State students flew back to Sacramento with an unforgettable experience. Chico State student Lauren Cowden, who stayed until Sunday, watched tears fall from Joplin resident Kathy White’s face as she looked at her finished home. “It’s rewarding to make something from the ground then give it to someone,” Cowden said. Ultimately, there is no natural disaster that can outlast the power of charity and hope, said Pam Clifton, a receptionist at a church between the two Blitz Build job sites. “Seeing all the people coming in to help gives people hope, and that’s more powerful than any tornado,” Clifton said. Paul Smeltzer can be reached at psmeltzer@theorion.com
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Spring forward to taste fresh, local foods veggies cheaper and more plentiful, but they almost always taste infinitely more delicious than they did only a few months Rebecca Mahan before. FOOD COLUMNIST That pile of avocados at the Springtime has always been grocery store isn’t only getting known for ushering in new bigger in size but in flavor, too. Others that thrive in things — ideas, beginspring are artichokes, nings, relationships and THURSDAY NIGHT asparagus, avocados, of course, produce. carrots, mangoes, peas You can buy almost MARKET and pineapples. It’s also any produce all year Downtown from Second Street the beginning of strawlong nowadays thanks to Fifth Street berry season. to supermarkets, but from 6 to 9 p.m. In Chico, springtime in-season produce is also means the start of usually the better pick. Not only are in-season fruits and the Thursday Night Market. For
those of us who aren’t exactly morning people — or rather, Saturday morning people — this is great news. You can buy all the fresh spring produce your stomach desires at fair prices and support the community while you do it — if you can manage not to spend all your cash on beaded jewelry and kettle corn, that is. So grab a friend and some reusable shopping bags, go check out what’s sprouting up in stores or at the farmers market and follow the recipe below to welcome the new season.
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ASPARAGUS BRUSCHETTA
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serves 4
Ingredients
Directions
• 1/2 pound fresh asparagus, cut into half-inch pieces • 2 cups grape tomatoes, halved • 1/4 cup fresh basil, minced • 3 tablespoons fresh parsley, minced • 3 green onions, chopped • 1/2 lime, juiced • 1/2 cup crumbled feta cheese • 2 tablespoons olive oil • 4 garlic cloves, minced • 1 teaspoon paprika • Salt and pepper to taste • 1 French baguette, cut into 12 slices and toasted
Bring a large pot of water to a boil, then add the cut-up asparagus. Boil for about 3 minutes, drain with a colander and place cooked asparagus slices into a large bowl of ice water. Once asparagus is cooled, combine with spices, tomatoes, cheese and oil in a separate bowl and
stir together. Spoon onto toasted baguette slices and enjoy. Editor’s note: Rebecca is looking for traditional family recipes to showcase in her column. If you have one you’d like to share with The Orion, email her at foodcolumnist@theorion.com
Other things you’ll need: • Large pot • A stirring spoon • 2 large bowls
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SEASONAL SEASONING The beginning of downtown Chico’s Thursday Night Market heralds a smorgasbord of fresh in-season spices and bread. Take advantage of the market with this bruschetta recipe.
Dropped acorns, chewedthrough screens and a chittering bark are all coming from the same creature on campus: the squirrel. The squirrels at Chico State are everywhere and have had a lasting, if not comical, effect. One of the problems with them is that they chew on window screens, said Luisa Garza, a lead grounds worker for University Housing and Food Services. One student got billed for damage to a chewed-through screen but complained that she did not make the hole, Garza said. When the student’s supervisor didn’t believe her, she snapped a picture of the offending mammal and gave it to him. This happened two more times and only at Mechoopda and Esken halls, Garza said. Squirrels also grow another problem for the university, said Chuck Grant, assistant director for custodial and ground operations. They disperse acorns, which grow into trees in places that are inconvenient for the campus’ natural landscape. However, the squirrels do help the ecosystem by fertilizing the ground and serving as prey for animals like the hawk, said Jeff Ryker, the animal care technician for Chico Creek
Nature Center. “I’ve lived here for 37 years and have always been entertained by the squirrels,” he said. “I love them so much.” On occasion Ryker has seen squirrels teach each other how to jump, he said. Chico State tour guides mention the squirrels while showing prospective families around because they’re a common part of the university, said Jessica Dietrich, the public contact coordinator. The squirrels are a part of the Chico State experience, said Courtney Harrison, a senior kinesiology major. “If I had to have one word to describe them, they would be nutcases,” Harrison said. Some squirrels will run away if people approach within 100 yards, Harrison said. Others will come close and wrestle with their fellow squirrels. They bring a little bit of life, and there is never a dull moment, Harrison said. The squirrels enhance and enrich the university, said Shweta Hegde, a junior nutrition and food sciences major. Hedge has had several friends say the squirrels throw nuts at them when they ride their bikes, she said. “If that ever happened to me, I would just laugh it off,” Hedge said. “I think it’s funny.” The Orion can be reached at editorinchief@theorion.com
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IFC punishes Phi Kappa Tau unfairly Greek life, only a few years ago, was endangered. Because of the behavior of Greek members and hazing incidents in the past, current and future generations have inherited strict policies and regulations. It has proven necessary for these rules to be in place, but the punishments for violating them, levied by the Interfraternity Council, a governing body made up of members of each fraternity, are too harsh. Members of Phi Kappa Tau, a
university-recognized fraternity, drank with potential new members during recruitment week this semester, violating alcohol rules. The IFC reacted by stripping the fraternity of privileges, in addition to the punishments imposed by the university. The university disallowed recruitment for this semester and enforced educational punishments that involved fraternity members working with the Campus Alcohol and Drug Education Center.
The sanctions added by the IFC prevented Phi Kappa Tau from participating in socials, intramural sports and recruitment for the fall 2012 semester. The fraternity appealed the IFC’s sanctions, and it was decided by a group of so-called on-campus “professionals,” another story in itself, that Phi Kappa Tau can now recruit in fall, although it is still on probation with both the university and the IFC. It seems as though the IFC is
trying to send a message to the university saying that these are actions it won’t tolerate out of the fear of walking on a tight-rope once again. The IFC shouldn’t be so focused on proving to the university that it will enforce these rules so strictly and instead aim to propose punishments that are just and fitting to the crime. If the IFC has confidence in its fraternities, it shouldn’t need to make an example of them.
of globalization. The free market ideal works but only if the life, liberty and property of the people are protected. One doesn’t need to be a history scholar to know that corporations have taken advantage of individuals in the past. A government should provide reasonable protection to its citizens. Overregulation was not the cause of the “Great Recession,” as Paul contended. A corrupted regulatory system and years of deregulation led to the financial collapse. Smart people took advantage of the system they helped corrupt. I see why Paul is appealing to young voters, but rousing rhetoric and appealing talking points are not enough to back a candidate. The government has problems, but that is no reason to do away with it. Not to mention “Dr. Ron Paul’s Freedom Report,” the controversial newsletter he published in the ’90s, often espousing racist rants and conspiracy theories. He did not write them and has denounced their content, but he published them. You can delegate authority but not responsibility. They bore his name. He is responsible for the content, regardless of who wrote it. If he did not care what his newsletter was publishing, is he going to care what his government is doing? Paul benefits the political spectrum by bringing about conversations regarding the state of our republic, but he is not the man to save it.
Oh my god, did anyone see last week’s “Jersey Shore?” MTV has portrayed reality to a tee. The stars are admired, and there’s a reason most sane people can’t miss an episode — it’s real life. The Situation got drunk, just like I did during Cesar Chavez Day weekend. Ronnie and Sammi fight like my neighbors, and the cast members of “Survivor” starve themselves like a freshman in the dining halls. Jeff Giles, a sophomore music industry and technology major, thinks reality shows are scripted, he said. “They have producers, and I imagine they re-do scenes just like any other show,” Giles said. But here is where I think he’s wrong. There’s no possible way reality shows could be scripted. That’s why they are called reality. Duh. The situations on reality shows are often seen in real life. The women seen at Riley’s scream and yell, just like the women on “Bad Girls Club.” The Wildcat Recreation Center is crawling with “Situations” and orange-toned broads. All reality shows have parts that are fake, and some are more fake than others, said Melissa Britt, a senior political science major. It’s clear that a scripted show like “How I Met Your Mother” is fake. There’s no way Barney gets that many women. Snooki is expecting a happy, bouncing baby, who she will surely be a loving mother to and show the wonderful sights of the world. I wish my parents would take me to the hot tourist attractions of Italy, Miami and New Jersey. Emma Hesz, a freshman criminal justice major, enjoys reality TV, she said. “It’s still really entertaining television that lots of people like to watch,” Hesz said. Someone get this woman a medal. Better yet, someone get her to the Emmys. Wait, get her to the shore. My dad is a stockbroker, and my mom is an interior designer. No one hates on them for making a living. Don’t hate on reality stars because they’ve all got a baby-mama to care for. Students get their “New Joisey” tans on under the Chico sun and drink their liquor until their hearts are content. People don’t have to understand these shows, because reality is life and these people should be our gods.
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Ron Paul talks the talk, no walk Sam Kelly A sign swimming in the crowd at the Ron Paul rally last Tuesday perfectly summed up my feelings about the presidential candidate: “I agree with Paul 50 percent of the time...the other 50 percent scares the shit outta me.” He has appealing policies, such as a domestic focus on the country rather than spreading it thinly around the world, said Nick Maalouf, a senior communication design major. “I would vote for him, and I think it’s a shame that he doesn’t have the monetary backing and lobbying power that the other candidates do in order to really make it on the ballot,” Maalouf said. “If he did, I would definitely consider voting for him.” Perpetual global warfare, an exploding prison population, the failed war on drugs, a burgeoning national security state, crushing debt and the erosion of our constitutional liberties are among the valiant concerns Paul espouses. These are government policies that have cost trillions of dollars and millions of lives. Conversations regarding how to understand these issues in order to address them are imperative for the country’s health. Paul consistently brings up the grave and complex problems this country faces in an inspiring, courageous way, but referring to liberty as the simple, catchall solution is not enough. Isolationism is no longer possible in the age
Ben Hames O P I N I O N CO L UMN IS T
Diversity Cesar Chavez Day — or weekend, as Chico knows it — was a time when Chico State showed its true colors. Casual racism filled the streets, though I’m sure all in a lighthearted way, and nothing was meant by it. But as an outsider looking in, I can certainly see why some people would abhor the sombrero and fake mustachewearing. This is from a university that is apparently values its cultural diversity. I don’t see this campus as particularly diverse. I mean, a recent poster around campus supporting diversity had only white faces on it. I know people in Chico who came from all over the world, every continent except Antarctica, but that’s because I’m an international student. I am from a large city — one of the largest in the world — and I have to say the diversity is much more apparent there. The white population in London is higher than that of the student population of Chico, but multicultural views are ingrained in the culture in London. In a way, it puts Chico’s to shame. My university back in England is home to more than 130 different nationalities. Can Chico compete with that? I have heard of many racial attacks since I’ve been in Chico. A former head of the student body was stabbed a few years ago, and it was believed to have been related to racism. I have heard numerous students use racial slurs behind people’s backs. Chico State needs to embrace diversity. I’m sure Cesar Chavez Day 2013 is going to see sombreros, mustaches and terrible Mexican accents, but I would like to see the day improve. You don’t exactly see people “blacking up” for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. It’s a shame that such a thing happens in Chico. This is the 21st century after all.
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THE ORION • TASHA CLARK
DEBATE Kendra McCoy [left], a senior history major, and Jesse Lenaker [right], a junior natural sciences major, discuss Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul’s visit to Chico State.
The Orion: Did you know Ron Paul visited Chico State? Kendra McCoy: Yes. I was let out of class early in order to attend his speech. Jesse Lenaker: Yes. I found out through Twitter and attended. The Orion: Do you support Paul’s campaign? McCoy: No, because I’m a teacher and he does not support public education. Lenaker: I support 70 percent of it. The concept of individual liberty is more important than more government. The Orion: Paul mentioned that he would change the drug laws because they are victimless crimes. Do you agree? McCoy: No. I think drugs are dangerous, and the laws need to be enforced at all times.
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Lenaker: Yes and no. Addiction is a medical problem, not criminal. They are problematic because it leads to problems we’re seeing in drug wars, but sometimes addicts need the tough love the criminal justice system provides. The Orion: Forty-thousand new laws went into effect this year, according to Paul. Should some be eliminated? McCoy: I think laws are put into place for a reason. For most laws to come about something bad had to happen for it to be a law in the first place. Lenaker: Each law would need to be looked at by a case-by-case basis. If it’s creating more layers of government then it needs to be eliminated.
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