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Hispanic students all-time high: 42.1%

The Dish on Dorm Dining

Michael Catelli

Staff Writer This September, many may be celebrating Hispanic Heritage month in light of the 2015 fall enrollment, making Chico State history once again by reaching an all-time high for Hispanic and Latino/a enrollees at 42.1 percent.

The number of DREAM students is a contributing factor, doubling each year since 2012, according to President Paul Zingg, who announced the accomplishment at the Fall 2015 President’s Convocation.

He added that the percentage of Hispanic and Latino/a students at Chico State has risen from 11.7 to 42.1 percent within the last 12 years.

News of the drastic increase reflects the anticipated overall demographic shift in California, in which the Hispanic and Latino population exceeded the white population, according to Zingg.

Aside from being a result of the apparent demographic change over the last decade, the university’s increase in Hispanic and Latino students is also a successful outcome of Zingg’s early commitment to diversity and, specifically, his aim to become a Hispanic-Serving Institution.

Hispanic-Serving Institutions are a federal designation from the Department of Education that addresses the statewide and national rising Hispanic and Latino demographic. Most universities in the CSU system are Hispanic-Serving Institutions, so earning this status has been a top priority of Zingg’s, he said.

Vince Ornelas, director of the social work department and member of the University Diversity Council, said the HSI title is an asset of public education’s retaliation against poverty.

Given that the majority of students are Californian residents, the Hispanic-Serving Institution title is beneficial in bringing more educated persons into the statewide workforce, he said.

“Generally, when we see more people have more education, they tend to do better,” Ornelas said. “When people come from specific communities and people complete their education, they tend to return to those communities to provide service.”

The University Diversity Council will be submitting a proposal to officially earn the title at the end of December, Ornelas said.

Jennifer Rubio, senior speech therapy major, has given a helping hand in the university’s systematic drive to become more diverse and inclusive as a Wildcat ambassador for admissions.

She travels with other representatives to local high schools and uses her bilingual advantage to recruit students with diverse backgrounds. According to Rubio, the demographic they reach out to consists

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Following the discovery of a dead salamander in one student’s salad, many students have expressed dissatisfaction with Sutter Dining.

Stephanie Schmieding

News Editor “I feel like I live off of bagels and Goldfish.”

Emily Lovato, first-year communication sciences and disorders major, delved deeper into her concerns about Sutter Dining and the quality of nutrition she is receiving with her meal plan.

“It tastes like Disneyland food,” she said.

“It just doesn’t feel like it’s made by real people.”

Following the discovery of a salamander in a student’s salad and rock-hard French toast, many students have voiced their concerns over the quality and cleanliness of Sutter Dining food.

After the salamander was found the establishment sent an e-mail to all first-year students declaring what had happened and the steps they were taking to fix the situation.

These steps included: Pulling the spring mix that it was found in immediately from all campus-dining locations Notifying the Butte County Health department, who confirmed the following day that Sutter Dining passed all inspections Contacting the vendor of the salad mix so that they could look into the level of quality control and report back However, despite the immediate action taken by Sutter Dining, both of these incidences brought to light a common theme of student dissatisfaction.

Stojanovich, first-year agricultural business major. “Dinner is the best, but breakfast is

“There’s three typical meals they serve and if we are going to be eating there the

horrible.”

Stojanovich enjoys the salad bar, but is now afraid to eat it because of the salamander incident, he said.

“We follow health department standards and procedures,” said Corinne Knapp, interim associate director for dining services.

“All of our staff are serve safe manager certified.”

The establishment passed a health inspection the day after the incident and there were no violations found in the salad bar, she said.

“I would say that it’s just as shocking to us as the average person,” Knapp said. “We are doing everything in our power to ensure that it never happens again.”

whole year, we are going to get tired of it,” said Austin Timsit, first-year business administration major.

Tyra Burks, first-year business administration major, also claims there are not enough protein options.

“I’m kind of scared to eat meat here,” she said. “I don’t remember the last time I had protein.”

According to Bassett, students are encouraged to speak with one of the managers on duty or write suggestions in the suggestion box addressing their main concerns about food variety.

However, of all the first-year students interviewed, none knew of the policy about speaking to resident advisers and managers about dietary restrictions or had seen a suggestion box.

“If they have one (suggestion box), it’s definitely in a place where you can’t see it,” Timsit said.

Lack of food choices Several first-year students have stated that the variety of food choices available at the dining hall are lacking.

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14,000 - 16,000

meals served each week

$9.40

Quality and cleanliness

average price per swipe

According to Joe Bassett, residential dining manager, 14,000 to 16,000 meals come out of Sutter Dining every week.

However, some first-year students claim they go to the dining hall for only one meal a day.

“I’d say I eat there once a day,” said Nick

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Gonorrhea, syphilis cases on rise in Butte County Sarah Strausser

Staff Writer

gonorrhea as sexually transmitted diseases on the rise in Butte County.

unable to have children later in life.

What is the difference?

There are a number of ways for students to get tested at little to no cost: Butte County Health: The department has two clinics in Butte County, one of which is just a 5-minute walk from Chico State’s campus. The clinics feature complete confidentiality and bilingual practitioners to help students of all backgrounds. The Butte County Health clinics see patients every day for STI checks and appointments are quick and painless. These clinics are a great option for students on a budget because they are most often able to work with students at very little to no cost, Almaguer said.

Chico State Student Health Center: The Chico State Health Center tests students with confidentiality. Parents can not receive confidential information unless they have specific student logins and passwords.

Gynecologists: For students who prefer a more personal experience, there are dozens of certified gynecologists in the Chico area that provide services to students.

According to the Butte County Health DeThe difference between the two diseases partment, the number of confirmed cases of may be hard to spot at first. The biggest isgonorrhea in Butte County in 2014 alone was sue with both diseases is that there can be no 300. The numbers from 2015 are not in yet, but symptoms for a very long period of time, acaccording to experts, they are going to be even cording to Almaguer. higher.

“People may think syphilis is a Lisa Almaguer, communicadifferent disease at first,” she said. tions manager at Butte County “It can show itself through sympHealth Department, said the avtoms as common as cold sores and erage age of reported cases align rashes.” with the average age of students.

Syphilis can be treated with a shot Additionally, these diseases are and is not deadly, but can stay with prevalent because many people you for the rest of your life if left unmay not know they have them. treated, Almaguer said.

LISA “Many young people do not Gonorrhea, on the other hand, ALMAGUER know they have the diseases and may be even harder to spot. GonorButte County Health do not do anything to treat them Dept. communicarhea symptoms include pain in the tions manager before spreading them to others,” pelvic area, pain during urination, she said. swelling and abnormal discharge.

Additionally, the number of reAlthough the disease is not deadly, ported syphilis cases went from two cases in if left untreated, gonorrhea can cause women 2014 to 12 cases in 2015. This puts syphilis and and men to become sterile, meaning they are

Where to get tested

Treatment

According to Almaguer, prevention of diseases like gonorrhea and syphilis is crucial.

Condoms are one of the most easily accessible forms of protection against diseases, she said. Condomfinder.org is a website students can visit to input their location and see where the closest place to get free condoms is.

“We respect you more for coming in and getting yourself tested,” Almaguer said. “When young people are choosing to have sex, they need to be picky. These diseases are out there and they can affect you for the rest of your life.”

Sarah Strausser can be reached at newseditor@theorion.com or

@strausser_sarah on Twitter.

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Chico State ranked ninth in Western US

BlueLight app guides students home safely

Chico State has been ranked ninth of the Students now have applications for everything: regional universities in the Western United messaging, banking and fittness trackers. Now, States according to “U.S. News students are using applications for their per& World Report Magazine” as of sonal safety as well.

Sept. 9.

BlueLight is a new application which foAlthough Chico State is known cuses on getting students home safely. It is for its party lifestyle among able to route calls to the closest responder other campuses, Chico has been by using the user’s location. BlueLight can ranked in the top 10 of the U.S. also send the user’s location to their listed News rankings since 1998. emergency contacts and notify them when This ranking is based on the the user is home safe. assessments of students, gradu“I haven’t downloaded a safety app yet, but JERAD ation and retention rates, finanit’s something I should think about,” said PREVOST Junior public admincial aid and student selectivity.

Nicole Curreri, sophomore. “I don’t feel comistration major In addition to these recognitions, fortable walking alone, especially at night.”

Chico State was ranked 28 out of According to the U.S. Department of 233 universities in “Washington Monthly’s” Education campus crime statistics, 55 percent of Best Bang for the Buck. students personally know someone who has been “Chico’s reputation shouldn’t change how affected by crime, and over 90 percent of college the students attending are viewed,” said Jerad women have used their smartphones to stay safer Prevost, junior public administration major. on campus.

“It’s a scholarly environment that inhibits adWhile there was a decrease in crime this past vantages and adversities, but ultimately gives Labor Day weekend, police still see crime on the students a place to learn and develop personrise in Chico. Chico State students can feel secually.” rity when using BlueLight to walk home and notify The focus of the reputation should steer their loved ones or contact police if necessary. away from the “party scene” and focus more -Katelyn Martin on the other opportunities and achievements

Faculty Affairs VP takes unexpected absence leave Wenshu Lee, Acting Associate Vice President for Faculty Affairs, announced that she will be taking a leave of absence from her position on Sept. 10.

In an email sent out to the entire Chico State faculty last Thursday

by Dr. Susan Elrod, Interim Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Elrod stated that WENSHU Judy Bordin, formerly of LEE Acting associate the Faculty Affairs device president for partment, would be comFaculty Affairs ing out of retirement to fill the position.

According to the email sent out to the campus faculty, “Judy has been a part of the campus community for more than 40 years and served in the FAAF office from 2010 to 2013. We are pleased that she has come back to assist us on a temporary basis.”

Lee’s leave of absence was unexpected and surprised faculty members around the Chico State campus.

Faculty members of the Faculty Affairs Department declined to comment.

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95% of Sacramento River salmon dead Austin Herbaugh

Staff Writer The water in the Sacramento River was noticeably cooler this past Labor Day weekend. Even though it was only a few degrees colder than last year, it can mean life or death for the salmon population.

Last year, nearly 95 percent of the Chinook salmon in the Sacramento River died because the water got too warm, according to Tim Moran, public information officer for the State Water Resources Control Board.

One-third of the Chinook salmon population is in the Sacramento River each year because the other two-thirds are maturing in the ocean. This means that nearly a third of the entire population was wiped out, he said.

Prolonged heat and low water levels due to the drought are what caused the water to heat up. To lower the water temperature and keep the river habitable for migrating fish, cold water is being released from the depths of Lake Shasta.

“We lost a huge part of the run last year,” Moran said. “And this year we’re just hoping to avoid that and preserve this year’s salmon run.”

The efforts to keep the fish alive is the main focus of the Sacramento River Temperature Management Plan. The goal is to keep the river water between 56 and 58 degrees, Moran said.

To do this, cold, deep water is released from Lake Shasta that then flows through the Keswick Dam near Redding. There are 54,000 gallons per second passing through the dam.

Moran added that the increased flow can be adjusted on an as-needed basis. The water temperature in the Sacramento River is being constantly monitored, so if it starts to spike, they’ll release more water.

“That’s made more difficult because of the drought,” Moran said. “There’s less water in the river and it’s hotter this summer so it’s harder to maintain that temperature. And it’s more difficult to maintain the cold water pool in reservoirs because the reservoir levels are lower.”

The goal is to keep the water temperature in the high fifties, because when it climbs above 60 degrees, it starts harming the salmon. The salmon start to die around 77 degrees, Moran said.

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Sacramento River is home to the Chinook salmon, which have been dying in heat waves due to the drought.

According to the Sacramento River Basin Report Card, water in a Chinook habitat should stay below 18 degrees Celsius (64.4 degrees Fahrenheit).

Chinook salmon are anadromous fish, meaning they live in both freshwater and the ocean. They hatch in freshwater, migrate to the ocean where they mature, then swim back upstream to spawn and then die.

According to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, there are 17 different runs of Chinook salmon in California, four of which inhabit the Sacramento River.

After passing under the Golden Gate Bridge and swimming through the bay, the salmon enter the Sacramento River Delta and swim upstream. When they swim upstream, the fish spawn in the Sacramento River’s upper tributaries, which include the McCloud, Little Sacramento and Pit rivers.

The Chinook salmon were listed as an endangered species

SUTTER» continued from A1 Additionally, some students have expressed that the managers and staff on duty are not approachable.

“I feel like there’s always at least one or two managers walking around or leaning against a wall staring at you,” Burks said. “It creeps me out when people watch me eat.”

A dislike of breakfast With 35 million birds affected by the Avian Flu, the egg shortage has raised both cost and dissatisfaction at Sutter Dining with the temporary removal of the omelet bar.

Liquid eggs are still served Monday, Wednesday and Friday, according to Bassett.

“I know we’re in an egg shortage right now, but you can tell when eggs are made from a bag or not,” Lovato said. “It doesn’t taste like real food necessarily.”

With the price of each swipe in a meal plan costing around $9.50, some students are not finding enough options to fit the price.

“There should be more stations open during breakfast,” Tinsit said. “The cereal selection is great and I’m down for that, but it’s definitely not worth $9.50.”

The omelet bar was removed for cost reasons since the price of eggs has more than doubled since last semester, according to Knapp.

“As consumers we see it in the grocery store, but if you take the price of that egg and you times it by hundreds of eggs, the impact in dollars can be quite large for our operation,” she said.

under the Endangered Species Act in 1989, according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. The population hit a low point in the ‘90s and has since made a recovery. But the drought has been the latest setback for the Chinook.

The water temperature in the Sacramento River will continue to be monitored in upcoming years to keep the salmon from dying, Moran said.

“The Sacramento River Temperature Management Plan is required annually,” Moran said. “It’s become more critical with the drought.”

Austin Herbaugh can be reached at newseditor@theorion.com or

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HISPANIC» continued from A1 Dining services hours and food policies The hours for the establishment vary by day and have proved to be inconvenient for students.

According to Timsit, the dining hall is open in the day during times when he has class and then closed when he is out of class.

Additionally, the policy of food not leaving the dining hall is troublesome to students.

“We’re paying $9.50 for a swipe and we can’t even take out a sandwich for later,” said Jack McGinn, first-year business administration major. “My question is ‘why?’”

Lovato wants to take food out of the dining hall so that it does not go to waste, she said.

“What if I only eat half of my sandwich? I don’t want to throw it away,” she said.

The dining services rely heavily on the money from students paying for housing plans, so cost is a main reason the rules and regulations, said David Stephen, director of University Housing and Food Service.

“Everything is cost-driven,” he said. “We are an auxiliary enterprise. We don’t get money from the university, the state or the governor.”

Overall, many students recognize the pros and cons that come with the dining services, but students still expect a certain level of quality and satisfaction that may not always be available.

“I feel like the people that work there try to do what they can,” Lovato said. “But it’s your job.”

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mostly of Equal Opportunity Program and department chair, has also noticed beneficiaries and first-generation stu- a transition among the population dents. in one of his international language “They are starting to become more classes from when he arrived to camaware that college is something that pus in 1998. they need to obtain,” Rubio said.

“Maybe 25 to 30 percent of my stuHannah Burdette, a new faculty dents were Latino or spoke Spanish at member who previously taught at Ly- home, and now in that same class, I’m coming College in Williamat about 60 to 65 percent,” he sport, PA, hasn’t seen the said.

Equal Opportunity ProBurdette has also heard gram anywhere else and about how diversity at Chico believes it would be benefiState has improved over the cial at Lycoming. years.

“It seems like a really “I have heard that Chico beneficial program for State used to be more midfirst-generation college dle-class, white students students or students comfrom the Bay Area and that HANNAH BURDETTE ing from backgrounds over recent years, that demoFaculty where they don’t necessargraphic has changed a lot,” member ily have the same kind of Burdette said. preparation as others,” she The Office of Diversity, said. “It does a lot in terms of social- along with other campus organizaization and providing different kinds tions, will hold a conversation on Hisof support.” panic-Serving Institutions and other Visibility of the Hispanic student topics of diversity throughout the takeover surpasses statistics and can month of September in celebration of be noticed throughout all aspects of Hispanic Heritage month. campus life.

As Zingg proclaimed in his convo“Just walking through school you cation, “The future is now and we are see that there’s a more diverse popula- embracing it.” tion from, say, four years ago,” Rubio said.

Michael Catelli can be reached at newseditor@theorion.com or Stephen Lewis, history professor @michaelcatelli on Twitter.

Corrupt rental property agencies: How to deal was going to get something positive back in the letter,” he said. “I know how the apartStaff Writer ment looked, and the deposit should have Transitioning away from home or out of been more than enough for everything.” the dorms and into a house or apartment Enclosed in the letter, Singh received can bring an undoubted sense of freedom. a receipt from a third-party independent Unfortunately, it can also lead contractor who took care of the to unexpected obstacles and cleaning in his apartment. When frustrations. Kenny Singh dealt he tried contacting the contracwith the frustration of aparttor, he was referred back to his ment living firsthand when he landlord, who failed to respond was charged more than $2,000 more than once to the multiple in fees after moving out of Chimessages and letters with quesco College Apartments on Nord tions concerning the condition Avenue. and cleanliness of the apartment, Singh now has plans to purhe said.

KENNY sue legal action against the The landlord’s response indiSINGH Junior nursing major apartment complex, he said. cated Singh was obligated to pay Upon moving into the new the money because he signed a place, Singh noticed the apartcontract. ment was in poor condition and had a “I feel like the property manager is takstrange odor. Soon after, a neighbor in- ing advantage of me,” Singh said. formed him that a transient man had broTo avoid a similar situation to what ken into the apartment and lived there last Singh experienced, he recommends some semester, he said. tips for college students for a stress-free “It smelled horrible,” Singh said. “I renting experience: didn’t know where it was coming from.”

At the end of the semester when his lease Don’t be afraid to negotiate. was up, Singh cleaned the place for two Singh and his roommate were eager to days. About two weeks after vacating the move in because their landlord offered property, he received a letter explaining he them half off of their rent. owed $2,300 for cleaning fees.

However, it’s not ridiculous to ask for a “I was shocked because I was thinking I small portion off the rent, especially if the Sarah Strausser

price isn’t right, he said.

Do research beforehand.

“First look up the place, comments and how the reviews are,” Singh said.

He researched his apartment complex after already moving in and found disturbing and angry comments from previous residents who experienced similar situations. Listening to those may have saved him the hassle, he said.

Take pictures of everything.

A picture is worth a thousand words, and in Singh’s case, perhaps a picture could have been worth $2,000.

“Take photos when you enter the house and when you leave, even if you think it’s in perfect condition,” he said.

Photos can provide proof of damage that may have been there before moving in. The photo evidence can help innocent tenants from being charged.

Schedule a pre-move out inspection.

This may draw the tenant’s attention to anything that needs to be fixed or taken care of before the move out and could save money, he said.

Under California law, landlords have 21 calendar days to send the tenants either a full refund of the security deposit, or present a statement listing the charges. These

amounts must include any reason for the deductions.

The law also states that a landlord can only use a tenant’s security deposit for the following: • Unpaid rent • Cleaning to make the unit as clean as it was when the tenant first moved in • Repairing damage that’s more than general wear and tear • Replacing or restoring furniture or other personal property items The California Department of Consumer Affairs urges tenants to contact the landlord immediately for a refund in the amount the tenant believes they are entitled to. It’s important to include the reasons why the deductions were improper. If the landlord or agent is still reluctant, the department recommends trying to work out a reasonable compromise as the next best option.

As a last resort, Singh is going to small claims court, where he will argue that he deserves the deposit.

“Charging college students who barely make enough money is messed up,” Singh said. “I don’t understand how my judgement could be that far off.”

Sarah Strausser can be reached at newseditor@theorion.com or

@theorion_news on Twitter.

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Call Type: Suspicious Subject 7:45 p.m., West First Street Male subject on bike, wearing mask, camo clothes continued to ride around area. Subject was asked to leave by staff, refused and continued to ride bike around area. Last seen riding toward Holt Hall.

Call Type: Suspicious Subject 9:52 p.m., Legion Avenue Reporting party stated that there was a subject at the Whitney bike rack acting creepy. Male was wearing a shirt that said “I love cocks.”

Call Type: Petty Theft 12:18 a.m., West Sacramento Avenue A man stole a bike from Mechoopda Hall. He was described as having a shaved head, no shirt, dark shorts and large bolt cutters.

Call Type: Suspicious Subject 1:48 a.m., Arcadian Avenue A man with brown hair and blonde streaks was seen sitting at the base of a stairwell in Modoc Hall. He was sitting on couch cushions smoking a cigarette.

Call Type: Transient Call 5 a.m.

Officers performed a sweep by the Physical Science Building at Chico State, because they have been receiving daily phone calls about homeless people sleeping in that area.

Call Type: Transient Call 11:26 a.m., West Sixth/Cedar Streets A homeless person, who had set up a camp in the area, was forced to move along by University Police. Property management in the area was informed for clean-up purposes.

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Call Type: Missing Person 9:05 a.m., Esplanade Reporting party has not seen his fiance since Tuesday Sept. 8 at 8:45 p.m. She left after an argument and did not go to the place where she said she was going to be. The Help Program received a bus ticket to Bosie, Idaho.

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Call Type: Disturbing the Peace 10:14 a.m., Broadway Street Male at the plaza was harassing reporting party with a stick while saying he’s going to “get him.”

Call Type: Missing Person 10:19 a.m.

Reporting party was calling from Georgia about missing sister after she received a call from an unknown male subject from her sister’s phone saying her sister was dead. Sister lives in Michigan but was supposed to be visiting Chico.

Reporting party located sister on prostitution/ escort website which stated she would be in Chico area.

Call Type: Threats 12:53 p.m., West Fourth Street Nephew of reporting party sent text messages at midnight threatening to harm reporting party and her family. Nephew threatened to have friends he met in prison “clean house,” also said “I’m going to kill you.”

Call Type: Runaway 8:45 p.m., Esplanade Reporting party’s 14-year-old daughter left school with male subject and has not returned home. Male has pictures on Facebook showing juvenile using drugs, drinking and gang activity.

Reporting party is concerned male may hurt her daughter.

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There’s no such thing as ‘The Perfect Guy’ Erin Vierra

Staff Writer When writing a movie about obsession, there are certain details one must construct in order to successfully create a suspenseful story. These details are almost always revealed in the same fashion: The Meeting: When two characters have a chance encounter, mostly likely in a coffee shop, which is then followed by the male swooping in to save the female in some cheesy, romantic way.

The Montage: The two characters fall in love— go figure. It allows the audience to see how perfect the guy is. He wins over both her friends and family and somehow wins audiences over as well.

The Trigger: A moment when something happens that reveals the true and violent colors of the perfect guy. This detail opens up the female’s eyes and she gets out of the relationship quickly.

The Obsession: He moves intensely into the stalker stage which involves breaking into her house, killing her pet and hacking into her computer.

The Self Defense: The female lead is kicked and thrown around like a rag doll until she switches into her survival mode and fights back.

In the last decade, we have seen Hollywood bring out many attempts of recreating the best example of this formula, Fatal Attraction, with little prevail. “Obsession,” “Boy Next Door” and “No Good Deeds” are just a few of many knockoffs. The latest is “The

Perfect Guy,” starring Sanaa Lathan, Michael Ealy and Morris Chestnut.

The plot of “The Perfect Guy” has been recycled time and time again and yet, Hollywood keeps audiences thinking that they are seeing something new each time.

The plot follows the basic storyline outlined before. Leah (Lathan) feels like her two-year relationship with Dave (Chestnut) isn’t going anywhere and quickly breaks it off with him.

Having a chance encounter with a charming guy, Carter (Ealy), in a coffee shop and then later a bar where he saves her from an obnoxious drunk, the two magically hit it off. The love montage of scenes showing how perfect Carter seems to be follows.

Unsurprisingly, the rest of the film shows how psychotic Carter really is. He switches from nice guy to sociopath in a matter of seconds and doesn’t slow down long enough to let his actions sink in.

The nice thing is that the writing turns its heels by the end of the film, turning Leah from the dopey victim crying for help into a fighter. Although it’s nothing Jennifer Lopez didn’t do to her tormentor in “Enough.”

Although “The Perfect Guy” is enjoyable at times and watching Michael Ealy creep onto every scene with his piercing blue eyes and that charming smile had me going, it still wasn’t enough.

I’d rather stay home and watch “Fatal Attraction” for free.

Erin Vierra can be reached at artseditor@theorion.com or

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ABERRANCE members on crashing their van, new music

Paradise death metal four-piece, Aberrance, are no strangers to the community of Chico. Lead vocalist Ed Vance and guitarist Jake Hollingsworth describe their summer tour, surviving a major car accident and what the future holds for the band.

What is the best and worst thing about touring?

Hollingsworth: The best part is meeting new people, I think. Most of our shows on this summer tour were to complete strangers.

The worst part is playing bad shows. You tend to beat yourself up about it and it really sucks when there’s more than one in a row.

Vance: The best thing about touring, for me, is you don’t have time to be an average person with average problems. You’re so wound up with getting to the city, unloading, playing, loading, then leaving to be worried about your PG&E bills or that oil change you’ve been forgetting about. The worst thing is the smell, which I can live with. Also the claustrophobia, which I sometimes can’t live with.

Your other band, Smak City, got into a major car accident with your van a couple weeks ago on a separate tour. Could you describe how it happened and how it affected you guys?

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Members of the band, Aberrance, (from left) Ed Vance, Jake Hollingsworth, David Hordienko and Nick Rahming hang out with their slightly dented, post-accident tour van on Tuesday.

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You guys played a show called “Metal In The Mountains.” Could you tell us what made that event stand out from other shows?

Hollingsworth: Metal In the Mountains is put on by our good bud, Jim from Visidian, and it is the weirdest thing— 300 metal dudes, ladies and their children having a blast all day eating barbecue and moshing in a small town named Dunsmuir off of I-5. We had 10-year-old kid mosh pits who knew all the words to our songs. Those are the best people we’ve met yet playing music. This has been our second year in a row. We look forward to it every year now.

Vance: I’ve always said that the scene up there is Aberrance’s second home scene. Ev-

What does the band have going on for the next couple of months? Are you guys working on new material?

Hollingsworth: Well the van thing means we really don’t have a choice but to stay at home and write. We are planning on releasing a full-length sometime down the road and we are five songs in currently. We are going to book some local shows and hopefully finish writing the whole album thing by the end of the year.

Vance: This new stuff we’ve been coming out with sounds like Hell’s soundtrack so I’m very pleased so far. Once that CD’s out you can bet we’ll be back at it driving around the states some more. We’re looking to have a new means of transportation by the winter.

Any last words you guys would like to say to the readers and fans?

Hollingsworth: We like you in a “like, like” kind of way. We think you are cute and you should go to our next show on Oct. 30 at Lost on Main with From Hell.

Vance: I’d just like to say thank you personally. Aberrance went from being the weird-sounding garage band to one of the most-watched bands in Chico. And that’s all from people physically going and seeing us at shows, which I think is way rad. We wouldn’t be still going after four years—seven for the other guys—if it wasn’t for the immense love and support we’re shown from the Chico scene and our brothers and sisters in the RDC (Red Dirt Crew). Many local acts don’t realize how spoiled they are with our scene because we’ve seen other scenes and they’re almost never like Chico.

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eryone is way nice and they’re all legitimately into metal. It is nuts showing up to this giant park and see 12-year-old kids wearing your shirt and singing along to all the words.

It’s surreal.

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Hollingsworth: Smak City was finishing our short run with Termanilly ill from Anaheim, CA and was already sleep deprived. We played San Jose the night before, drove back home that night and right outside of Chico at about 5:30 a.m., Tyler, who was driving, nodded off for half a second. We hit the dirt, spun out, hit an embankment and flipped our van twice, possibly three times. Luckily for us, all of our gear was safe and a few drum parts were unharmed. We went home and played the last show at our house that night. It really didn’t affect us all that much, other than our van being destroyed. We made jokes literally three minutes after we assessed that all the humans in the vehicle were alright. Our drummer even went back to sleep.

Vance: I mean I would be lying if I said I wasn’t slightly PTSD about cars now but mostly I’m more driven to pursue this music thing. Something about overcoming odds brings you closer to your friends, band mates or collective.

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Acclaimed French electronic music producer Madeon stops in Chico as part of his North American tour.

Catch the final day of the fifth annual “Shortz! Film Festival” at the El Rey.

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COMIC STRIP EDITORIAL

Students deserve more from renters The time is approaching for Chico State students to begin looking for new housing.

With that comes handing a blank check to the rental agencies of Chico.

Whether it is moving into a house with a big ole’ porch for a couch or a ground floor apartment on Ivy Street, one thing is for sure, students will be taken for a ride by their landlords.

In Chico, it is nearly impossible to find anything shorter than a year-long lease— which is not so realistic for the nine-month school year. It’s also increasingly difficult to find reasonable security deposits that will actually be returned by the end of the year.

Chico housing providers are taking advantage of students and their naivety, which is ridiculous because no real adults would put up with the condition that more than half these places are in.

Some people will argue that students need to educate themselves on the renting process and be more tenacious with their rental companies, but it’s not that simple.

At the end of the day, these agencies are going to find a way to wring the not-so-extra change from the pockets of its renters.

Rental companies feed off the scheme that forces students to pay for the three months of rent during summer that they aren’t even in Chico utilizing their housing.

Once students sign the lease, renters continue to slap insane fees on them.

In the reasonable circle of living locations around Chico State, there are very few rental companies that charge less than $500 for security deposits and some agencies have deposits as high as $7,000 per unit.

It’s basically common knowledge that those deposits will not be returned.

On top of security deposits, rental companies have lists of rules stated in its leases, such as banning pets or playing games in the yard, in order to charge the renter for damages.

At the end of the leasing period, students will still cling to the hope that maybe, just maybe, they will get a portion of their money back.

Instead, they will likely be slapped with a bill for something completely ridiculous like fingerprints on the door knob or a beer can in the backyard.

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

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Fighting for equality: A genderless duty They told the women things we have heard since we were preteens— Be aware of your surroundings, stay in large groups, high heels are a bad idea to party in because you can’t run away as fast, don’t go down dark streets, protect your girls because no one

in these videos made it seem like it was a fun and enjoyable experience.

Growing up, I had never realized what problems my sex and gender would cause for me later in life.

Everything I do is sexualized. I cannot be bossy because that connotation will classify me as a bitch.

My future job will pay me less than my male

else will.

T hose are only some of the many tips that they gave us at this hourand-a-half-long meeting. At the end, they gave us all rape whistles because, apparently, that will protect us if we were to ever be attacked.

Fury boils from within when talking about how women are treated in our society. The worst part is that it does not look like it will be changing any time soon, only because it is so deeply engraved into our society.

Some believe this has been influenced by music videos that show women being doused with alcohol and touched all over. The dancers Katherine Kurz/The Orion

counterparts. Abortion is still a sensitive subject that government officials like to dance around because they feel that there are so many factors that go into play.

If I fight for these rights, it will be seen as me bringing my personal problems into the public arena.

But arguing for gun control and legalization of marijuana is not a personal problem, simply because men are also advocating for it too.

We are done being afraid of the predator lurking around the corner. We are ready to stand up for ourselves in the workplace. We are ready to face any more trials that society wants to throw at us. After all, they can’t oppress all of us if we continue pushing for our rights as human beings.

Elizabeth Ernster

Staff Writer

On the first day of dorm move-in, every floor was required to attend a meeting hosted

by University Police in which the men and women were separated so as to receive information specific to each sex.

Elizabeth Ernster can be reached at opinioneditor@theorion.com or

@Liz_Ernster on Twitter.

The black sheep of mental disorders Brittany McClintock

Staff Writer

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, better known as ADHD. If you’re asked to describe what a kid with ADHD looks like, you’d probably say it’s the boy who can’t sit still and talks about the most random things, unable to stay on one topic.

Statistics prove that boys are more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD, so when I displayed signs of the disorder, many didn’t think it would be ADHD. Most people just figured I was lazy.

ADHD makes the simplest things, like reading, some of the most difficult tasks one can do. When your mind wanders, but you see the words on the page go by, you might think you know what you read when in reality, you could go pages without understanding a single letter.

Often times, people with ADHD seem very happy on the outside, but homework and other normal tasks can leave kids easily frustrated— most give up quickly. Without treatment, grades tend to drop and students’ GPAs suffer.

I can’t speak for all who suffer from ADHD but when I was put on my medicine, my GPA went from a 2.8 to 4.0 in less than a year. I heard about kids who said their personality suffered when they got put on medication, but I disagree. I almost didn’t even notice I was on medicine until it would start to wear off.

But I can’t always rely on Ritalin to help me read or stay focused; I had to learn certain

tools to cope with my disorder. When I read, I annotate each paragraph, or draw out the story so I can visibly understand text.

However, the hardest challenge I have encountered with ADHD is memorization. I can’t always draw a picture or make notes because I would have to remember the picture then remember what the picture means then remember the actual text.

I have to actually take my medication for situations like memorizing.

Taking medication has side effects, just like any medicine does.

I can handle a little nausea, or dizziness. The one thing that hurts the most is the insomnia the medication gives me.

If I’m studying for a test, I take my medication to remember study material. But the best thing for a test is a good night sleep, which I don’t get because I take my Ritalin. Luckily for me, that side effect only lasts a few days.

Now the thing about ADHD, which makes this disorder different from ADD, is the hyperactivity.

People tend to think this means I’m bouncing off the walls and I can’t calm down. Sometimes that’s the case. But more often than not, it’s really just me not being able to sit in a chair for more than three minutes without having to get up or reposition myself.

I often tell people I don’t go to movies be-

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cause I don’t know how to sit through a whole movie. I want to get up and walk around— I always need to be moving.

I bounce my leg when sitting, I tap my pen if I’m holding one and I’m always looking around unfocused.

My Ritalin helps me focus— as odd as it sounds— on sitting. I can chill and actually do work.

It seems like such a little thing, but ADHD is a serious mental disorder that needs to be taken with care.

Brittany McClintock can be reached at opinioneditor@theorion.com or

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THUMBS Thumbs up to women’s volleyball head coach Cody Hein on his 200th win with the organization. So far, the team has a 6-0 record and it looks like Hein is set for a great season.

Thumbs down to the Butte and Valley Fires. So far, nearly 100 thousand acres have burned and Gov. Brown has issued a state of emergency. No time like the present for that El Nino.

Thumbs up to National Grandparents’ Day. Without Nana and Pop, we wouldn’t have candy drawers, outdated couches or our entire existences.

Thanks grandparents for all that you do.

Thumbs down to a man breaking into a home by kicking in the door only to drink the beer in the refrigerator. It’s the first week of the NFL season— what will fans chase their nachos with?

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Letting it loose with your love Nick Bragg

Staff Writer

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Netflix is on, the mood romantic and the next thing you know your significant other lets out an aggressively loud butt whistle.

Mood killer? My girlfriend thinks so.

But farting is a natural body function that sometimes just needs to be let loose.

It goes by a magnitude of names— flatulance, tooting, passing wind and farting.

In Western culture, it is deemed as an embarrassing act that should be done in private— but in some cultures, such as the Yanomami Tribe in South America, the fart is used as a greeting. That’s quite a smelly “hello.”

To understand farts further, let us first enlighten ourselves with some fun facts about farting: Farts are the result of trapped air, which comes from swallowing tiny amounts of air while eating and drinking or from digestive bacteria that breaks down the various foods you eat.

The average person, male or female, farts around 14 times a day, resulting in about a half liter of fart stench.

The smelly part of the fart results from hydrogen sulfide gas which takes up less than 1 percent of the total gas in your toot.

Holding in your farts can be unhealthy and cause unnecessary cramps and pains.

If you hold in your farts, they will just be released at nighttime, under the covers.

This is a perfect time for the ladies to gain revenge by dutch ovening their partner.

Is farting in front of your partner acceptable? Or is it a reason to question the status of your relationship? These agelong questions remain up to the couple and their comfortability level with one another. I, for one, try to keep my girlfriend’s best interests in mind, and move to another room or bathroom when I need to let it loose. But more often than not, I forget and it just slips out, which usually results in a “what the hell” face from her.

On the other hand, when my girlfriend lets one rip, I usually think it’s funny and proceed to laugh.

I feel like my girlfriend and I have gotten to a point in our relationship where we aren’t going to bicker extensively at each other for letting our natural gasses pass, but it’s always courteous to excuse yourself and leave the room if you are going to fart up a storm.

If you are in a relatively new relationship and have been clenching to hide your farts this whole time, consider talking to your partner about it. Maybe they have been holding in their farts for far too long as well. It is a natural function that all animals perform, and you should be able to find a healthy medium between you and your partner. Just be glad you aren’t dating a termite.

Let it rip, Wildcats!

Nick Bragg can be reached at

opinioneditor@theorion.com or @theorion_news on Twitter.

The ups and downs of the unexpected road to Mr. Right Megan Mann

Staff Writer

I never thought I’d be here.

Three years ago, I was that girl who was still with her high school boyfriend in the dorms.

Oh yes, I was the one who annoyed her roommate and friends because I’d drop everything when he’d call and I’d hang on to my phone like a life preserver just in case he did.

Now I’ve been single since we broke up during finals week of freshman year. And here I thought I’d be picking out wedding dresses by now.

No, I’m not delusional. He had proposed to me before I even graduated high school, so I knew it was only a matter of time before the wedding bells would ring.

But life happens and it goes on, and here I am all alone (with no one there beside me).

Most people in my position would probably revel in the solitude, looking at the breakup as an opportunity to just enjoy college.

Me? While I may live alone, I do appreciate a good romantic relationship with the opposite sex.

Since my breakup, I’ve been on the hunt for a good guy to call my own.

Unfortunately, I seem to be having trouble finding Mr. Right in a sea of Mr. Rightnows.

See, I don’t want just a fling, tryst or love In all honesty, I have learned from my affair. I want a serious relationship— two last relationship and the long time I’ve people who honestly care about each other spent as a single flamingo. and aren’t just in it for the fun.

For one thing, while many people told Now, I’m not saying freshman Megan I want a ring right up that it would be betfront. Oh no, I’ve been While I may live alone, I do appreciate ter to break up with down that rushed road my then-boyfriend a good romantic relationship with the before and I’m good for before college, I opposite sex. now. don’t regret being But I can say that that girl with the it’d be nice to be with someone who doesn’t high school boyfriend. play games and who knows what he wants.

I had no regrets in that relationship beOK, this is starting to sound like a Tin- cause I let it play out, unlike some of my der profile. friends in the dorms.

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Who needs to wonder about “what ifs” when you’ve already got your answers?

Also, while I do feel like I missed out on the “freshman dorm experience” by staying with that guy, I do honestly think the relationship kept me grounded and out of the murky waters that are floorcest and awkward encounters in the dining hall.

Plus, by not getting distracted by guys at school, I was able to focus on, well, school.

Finally, being single this long after such a serious relationship has let me learn more about myself as a person. I’ve been able to grow and figure out what exactly I want, not just in a relationship, but in life

as well.

Before I had to worry about appeasing another person when I was trying to figure out my future, but now I only have to worry about whether I’m happy.

So, lessons learned. While these past three years have been lonely, I wouldn’t trade the experiences and wisdom I’ve gained for anything.

I still have two semesters left, so it’s not too late to find Mr. Right, right?

Megan Mann can be reached at

opinioneditor@theorion.com or @meganisthemann on Twitter.

COMMENTS OF THE WEEK

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Chico State was ranked ninth in the nation by U.S. News & World Report Magazine. This is the 17th year in a row that the university has landed in the top 10 for a combination of things such as its graduation rates, diversity and student opinions. It’s refreshing to get accolades that prove Chico State is not just Playboy Magazine’s top party school of 1987.

In response to the story “ADHD is no laughing matter” by Brittany McClintock: “Great article Brittany, I totally get this.”

-Jeff on theorion.com

In response to the story “Salmon population on the Sacramento River nearly wiped out by warm water”

by Austin Herbaugh: “The article misrepresents the temperature needs of Chinook salmon. Salmon eggs begin to die at temperatures below ‘the high 50’s.’ The US EPA temperature standard for full protection of incubating Chinook salmon eggs is 55 as an average of daily maximum temperatures over 7 days.”

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Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Homegrown

Sport Sweeps the Nation

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Preston Bies, Tom Whitt and Taylor Johnson focus in a spikeball match on the Shasta and Lassen Halls’ volleyball court, top. Avery Wolfe takes a dive, bottom left.

Billy Buchhauser, Preston Bies, Tom Witt, and Avery Wolfe face off, bottom center. Preston Bies, Taylor Johnson, and Josh Thompson warm up, bottom right.

Nick Reddy

Staff Writer Stroll through the beautiful Chico State campus on almost any afternoon and you will be hard pressed not to see at least one group of college-aged individuals surrounding a small yellow and black trampoline, frantically bumping a squishy ball between them and off the circular platform.

No, those people are not just playing a silly little game, and no, they are not inebriated.

They are playing the sporting world’s new kid on the block, Spikeball. Chico State students can be found playing Spikeball on the grass fields outside Yolo Hall, on the volleyball court between Shasta and Lassen Halls and even in the WREC pool.

Preston Bies, senior exercise physiology major and member of top 25 team “Brock and Wolly,” has been playing Spikeball for three years. He has been playing Spikeball competitively for a year and a half, but was first introduced to the game back in his native Santa Barbara three years ago. Bies saw others playing competitively and was instantly hooked.

“I’m a competitive guy and I wanted to get

better,” he said.

Bies says he plays Spikeball about five times a week. He plans on participating in the Spikeball National Championships in Nashville, Tennessee, this October.

“A lot of people are skeptical of the game because it’s new, but it’s been getting bigger since Shark Tank,” Bies said, referring to the sport which was featured on ABC’s reality show this past spring.

Chico State graduates Skyler Boles and Shaun Boyer made appearances on “Shark Tank” with Spikeball founder and CEO, Chris Ruder, back in May. Boles and Boyer demonstrated how to play Spikeball to a panel of investors, one of which opted to provide financial backing for the company and sport.

Together, Boles and Boyer form the team “Chico Spikes,” currently ranked first in the country according to the USA Spikeball rankings.

While they are not the founders of Spikeball, Boles and Boyer are the elder statesmen of the Chico Spikeball community.

According to Bies, this has caused awareness of the sport to grow rapidly. Having such prominent local ambassadors of the game, along with a spotlight on national television,

has propelled Spikeball’s popularity to new heights.

“This year has been a lot cooler now that more people are aware of what Spikeball is.

We used to get a lot of people looking at us from afar, but now people come up and ask to try it,” he said.

A combination of volleyball and four square, Spikeball is played with two teams of two around a circular net. There are no out of bounds and players may move all around the net, without hindering their opponents progress. A team is allowed up to three contacts with the ball before it must be hit off the net for the opposing team to receive. Play continues until the ball hits the ground. Games are played to 21 points, winning by two. Simple to learn but difficult to master, Spikeball can be played most competitively on sand, featuring ample displays of athletic diving, or more casually on grass.

Another Chico-based team is “Johnson and Johnson Co.” comprised of Taylor and Bryce, who share a surname but are of no relation aside from a mutual love for Spikeball. They played against each other at a tournament and decided to join forces afterwards.

“I played with and against Skyler and Shaun when I was in high school,” Taylor Johnson said of how he got started with Spikeball.

As for what makes Spikeball so appealing, Bies says it is all about the different ways to play. “It can be as competitive as you want it to be. I would say it takes as much talent and skill as any sport out there,” he said.

“Everyone starts out on the same playing field, so you won’t be as far behind as you might think,” Bies said. The Spikeball community is still relatively small, Bies said, but more people are playing than ever before. There are even small companies sponsoring teams now, and tournaments are sprouting nationwide.

“If you haven’t tried it, you have to try it. A lot of people shy away from competition if it is not something they’re good at,” Bies said. “But Spikeball doesn’t have to be competitive if you don’t want it to be. Give it an open and unbiased look, you never know how much you’ll like it,” he said.

Nick Reddy can be reached at

sportseditor@theorion.com or @NickIsReddy on Twitter.

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The Chico State women’s volleyball team was unable to continue its string of success, losing to Concordia and WisconsinParkside in their match up Saturday at the Western Oregon Invitational. The Wildcats won their first two sets against Wisconsin-Parkside, at 25-19, and 26-24, but were swept in the last three, at 25-27, 16-25, and 11-15. Despite the loss, Olivia Mediano and Shannon Boling both came away with 16 kills in the match. Against Concordia, the Wildcats lost their first two sets at 21-25, and 22-25, but made a comeback in the following sets. The Wildcats scored 25-19 and 25-21, but lost in the final set at 13-15. Anna Baywatch set her career high for kills at 14, and Olivia Mediano had 21 kills in the game, bringing her total between the two games to 37. With the two losses, WIldcat’s now have an 8-2 record, and look toward their match on Sept. 18, at 7 p.m. against CSU, Dominguez Hills

The Chico State men’s and women’s cross country team showed a dominant performance at the Ash Creek Invitational on Friday. For the men, Will Reyes proved himself to be a fierce competitor, finishing the 6,300 meter race in 17:47, leading the team to victory. The men’s team saw a total of 12 runners finish in the top 16, as Falco DiGiallonardo took second and Kyle Medina took third. Steven Martinez finished fifth, and Arturo Arevalo finished six, with Brandon Taylor coming in at 10th. The 12th through 16th spot were claimed by Connor Fisher, Aaron Mora, Steven Velarde, Andrew Cobourn, and Derek Morton. For the women’s team, Sadie Gastelum finished second overall, with Lora James finishing seventh, Quetta Peinado eighth, McCall Habermehl 11th, and Olivia Watt 14th. The Wildcats look forward to the Garin Park Challenge, their next meet, held Sep. 26, at 9 a.m. in Hayward.

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Pooja Patel is entering her second year on the women’s soccer team and is a crucial part of a relatively young Wildcat squad. In her 2014 season, Patel scored two goals and tallied five assists and earned AllCCAA Honorable Mention.

Patel scored a crucial goal against Dixie State on Saturday in the ‘Cats 3-2 victory. Patel currently has two goals and one assist on the season and has played on average 83 minutes per game.

The Chico State men’s soccer team recorded its first win of the season, beating Dominican University of California 2-1 in overtime on Saturday night. A goal by junior Rajee DeLane gave them a 1-0 lead until an own goal tied the game at 1.

In overtime, sophomore Carter Johnson scored to send the Wildcats to victory. On Thursday, the team tied with the Academy of Art after a full two periods and two overtimes without a score. The tie and win puts them at 1-2-1 on the young season.

The Chico State women’s soccer team won their second game of the season against Dixie State University on Saturday night by a score of 3-2. A goal by sophomore Pooja Patel started the scoring, then freshman Carlie Reader followed with two of her own. On Thursday, two scoreless halves and two overtimes resulted in a tie against Concordia University. The tie and win puts them at 2-1-1 so far.

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Cailin Keenan, first-year student, fights for possession of the ball during Thursday’s soccer match against Concordia.

(WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL) The Chico State women’s volleyball undefeated season ended over the weekend as the ‘Cats lost both games over the weekend. However, the Wildcats are 6-2 on the season so far and have had one of the best starts they have had in years.

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(MEN’S SOCCER) Chico State beat Dominican University 2-1 in overtime over the weekend with transfer Rajaee Delane by scoring one goal and setting Carter Johnson up for the winning goal in overtime. Triston Montoya played the 2nd half of the game and overtime getting his first save and victory as a Wildcat.

83.08 (WOMEN’S SOCCER) Carlie Reader hit a rocket at 83.08 from 15 yards out in the near corner to give the Wildcats a 3-2 lead over the Dixie State Red Storm. The goal ended being the difference for the ‘Cats as they went on to win the game, advancing their record to 2-1-1 for the season.

Will Reyes lead the men’s cross country team to a first place finish at the Ash Creek Invitational in Monmouth, Oregon Reyes ran the 6,300-meter course in just 17:47, averaging a 4:32 time per mile. The Wildcats finished with a dozen athletes finishing in the top 16 at the event.

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WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL STANDINGS 1. Cal State Stanislaus 2. Cal State Los Angeles 3. Cal State San Bernardino 4. CHICO STATE 5. Sonoma State 6. Cal Poly Pomona 7. Humboldt State

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Collegiate athletes are broke, fight back Nick Martinez-Esquibel

Staff Writer

Photo courtesy of Luke Reid

The 2015 Chico State women’s soccer team is young and untested, with over half its roster being first-year players.

Young ’Cats pounce into big roles for soccer season Kenta McAfee

Staff Writer With the 2015 soccer season underway, the Chico State women’s soccer team is going to need its 19 first-year players to jump right in and compete. The team only has a total of 11 returning players. With a young and untested team, the ‘Cats will rely on their seasoned players while also utilizing their new talent.

Despite having a young team, Head Coach Kim Sutton is unfazed. “We never really have a rebuilding process,” she said.

“We’re always a younger team.”

While Sutton is confident in her team, she has the resume to back it up as well.

Sutton has a 141-97-45 career record in her 14 years coaching the Wildcats. Sutton found great success last year, finishing the season 8-2-1.

Cassie Scroggins, defensive player and one of four returning seniors, has high hopes for the team alongside with head coach Sutton.

“We’re a team who supports each other and we make every second count. We have a lot of great freshman this year,” Scroggins said.

Carrying high hopes for the team, each member aims to do their part, including first-year Carlie Reader, a forward from Roseville.

“We’re a big family and we’re starting a whole journey together, one that I feel will lead us to a solid season,” Reader said.

Although hopeful, the team has several obstacles still ahead after losing its start-

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Defender Cassie Scroggins pushes the ball forward during Thursday’s match against Concordia. ing goalkeeper, defender and midfielder from last year. Losing five seniors in total after the 2014 season, We’re a team the team is relying who supports on its new starters to each other and succeed in their posiwe make every tions. second count. We The Wildcats have have a lot of great started the season freshman this year. with a 2-1-1 record with big wins over Cassie Scroggins, Saint Martin’s Unidefensive player versity and Dixie State University while suffering a tough loss to Seattle Pacific University, 1-0.

In the 2015 season so far, the Wildcats have been undershot, shooting just 10.3 shots per game comparable to their opponent’s 12.3 shots per game. But they’ve found success having a 0.488 shots on goal percentage, compared to their opponents average of 0.306.

The team is confident in its ability to find great plays from the 19 first-year players and surpass last season where the ‘Cats finished second in the CCAA conference.

Kenta McAfee can be reached at sportseditor@theorion.com or

@Kentamcafee on Twitter.

Triathlete puts club on his back Jason Spies

Staff Writer Not many people can say they rebuilt an athletic program and returned two years later to compete— but triathlete Mathew Taylor can.

“You can do it. All you have to do is try” is the motto of the Chico State Triathlon club. Former club president Mathew Taylor took this motto to heart when he revamped the club that was on the verge of falling to pieces.

The club was struggling when Taylor took over as club president in 2013. The relationships between the players and coaches were strained, and people started quitting the team.

“The club just didn’t have a lot of direction my first two years on the team,” Taylor said. “I did a lot of training on my own and by the end of the year, it was literally me and one other guy who would consistently go train.”

It was hard for the club to keep people interested enough to stay and club management didn’t even provide the team with proper uniforms until Taylor took over his senior year.

“We didn’t have jerseys and a lot of people would wear black sport shirts and put duct tape on it that said ‘CSU Chico,’” Taylor said. “We were like the rag tag Berenstain Bears team that was the bad end of a lot of jokes.”

However, Taylor took the challenge of

Photo courtesy of Mathew Taylor

As president of the Chico State Triathlon club, Taylor provided the team with brand new jerseys.

putting his team back together again to heart, despite the fact that he had only been involved in triathlons for a short period of time and had competed in just three events.

One of the first things he did was go to the coaches of the team and explain the direction he wanted to take the club in. The coaches liked his ideas and saw how passionate he was about this, so they agreed to stay on and help Taylor turn the club

around.

“I had one year to create enough structure in the club to make it last,” Taylor said. “After going out and recruiting and letting people know that we were a club that wanted to make a dedicated change in the community and ourselves, we managed to get the club back up to 10 athletes.”

Taylor’s hard work and dedication paid off as he returned to Chico State two years later to a triathlon club that is alive and well. There are about 25 members now, more than double the amount they had when Taylor was president.

Joining the club as a member gives Taylor the opportunity to look at what all his hard work has done not only for the club, but for the people in it.

“Coming back and seeing how the club has almost tripled in size and still stands for all the values that I wanted it to stand for is very impactful,” Taylor said. “I have a sense of pride now, like this club meant something to them— enough to keep it running and growing.”

The new president of the triathlon club, David Wilson, says he is excited to have Taylor on the team this year and that they have big goals they wish to accomplish.

“We are a sport to pay attention to this year,” Wilson said.

Jason Spies can be reached at

sportseditor@theorion.com or @Jason_Spies on Twitter.

NCAA athletes may be stars when they’re on TV, but they are still broke when they get home.

According to a report by USA Today, the National Collegiate Athletic Association raked in $989 million during the 2014 fiscal year, just barely missing the billion dollar mark.

How much of that money went to the athletes who put their time, sweat, effort and life into such programs? Not nearly enough.

Picture this— it’s a cool November night in Tuscaloosa, Alabama at Bryant-Denny Stadium where the University of Alabama Crimson Tide football team plays. Head Coach Nick Saban calls over one of his players to ask him what happened on the previous play. In that conversation, there is a $7 million difference in income between the two.

Those against paying college athletes say that they’re getting paid in scholarships for an education. How much is an education worth if they don’t even finish school?

For example, the University of Kentucky has been a factory for “one and done” basketball players who play only one year of college basketball before declaring to enter the NBA draft. NBA stars Anthony Davis, John Wall and Michael Kidd-Gilchrist only attended their freshman year at Kentucky before making the leap to the NBA. It is pointless for these “student-athletes” to risk their careers and injuries just to enter the big leagues after a single year of school.

All fingers point to one man when it comes to why college athletes don’t get paid: Walter Byers. He invented the term “student-athlete” while he was the executive director of the NCAA in 1964. “Student-athlete” meant that the individual was a student first and an athlete second. His or her job was to go to school and get compensated in scholarships. Ever since, students have tried to fight for their right to some sort of compensation.

Even though I am all for paying college athletes, it’s not that simple. If the NCAA started paying players, other problems might arise.

First is the difference in revenue for each sport. Alabama football totaled almost $53.3 million in profit this past fall from football alone. Kentucky basketball earned almost $24 million during its season this past spring.

That’s a difference of $29.3 million.

Alabama golf ? Negative $1.12 million in profit. Kentucky swimming and diving? $2.17 million in profit.

If all athletes were to get paid the same salary, those in the more popular sports could feel cheated because their sport is making more of a profit. If you divide it up based on profit, the sports that don’t make as much have the possibility of feeling cheated as well.

There’s also the disparity between men’s and women’s sports. Men’s sports make significantly more money due to their popularity. College football, March Madness and the College World Series are slotted during primetime TV. Should the men be paid more because their spots are more popular? That will bring up even more problems.

But what about the Chico State Wildcats?

The school doesn’t have any lucrative milliondollar TV deals to pay its players. Would only Division I schools be paid and leave schools like Chico State left out?

The movement to pay college players is only getting stronger and stronger. The NCAA might want to start planning now, because they have a lot of questions to answer as soon as the checks start cashing out.

Nick Martinez-Esquibel can be reached at sportseditor@theorion.com or

@THENickMartinez on Twitter.

ALABAMA FOOTBALL

+ $53.3 million + $24 million + $2.17 million - $1.12 million

KENTUCKY BASKETBALL

KENTUCKY SWIMMING

ALABAMA GOLF

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Mackenzie Boulton, sophomore transfer goalkeeper from the University of San Diego, is excited to join the Wildcat pack this fall season as a goalkeeper.

Boulton blocks shots for ’Cats

Mackenzie Boulton looks to kick off her soccer career as a ’Cat Julie Ortega

Staff Writer Mackenzie Boulton, sophomore transfer student, has taken over as goalkeeper in the 2015 season.

Boulton transferred from the University of San Diego after she redshirted during her first season. She was one of multiple goalkeepers on the team in constant competition with each other for playing time.

How do you feel about your position right now and where you stand?

Boulton: Because I redshirted last year, it is kind of hard to not be enthusiastic, but it’s just hard because you’re not playing, especially as a keeper. But coming in here, and the back line, I love working with them and they’re great defenders.

They’re really helpful.

What do you like about your position?

Boulton: Making a really big save is the best feeling. Obviously, if you don’t make the save it’s a little disappointing. You just

have to be on your toes and mentally try to stay focused because you can get distracted if it’s not a very competitive game.

What kind of pressure comes with your position?

Boulton: I mean, there is a lot of pressure, but during the games it’s more of I’m just in the zone of playing. So it’s not as much. But before a game, there is definitely that mindset of ‘OK I need to make sure I work on the things I’m struggling with.’

Is there a game you’re excited to play?

Boulton: I’m going to say the Sonoma State game because I know a couple of girls there, but one them I’ve played since I was little. She just transferred there too, so it’s her first year and that’ll be exciting. She’s a forward, so that should be a fun game.

Is there a school in particular that you think there is a rivalry between?

Boulton: I think Cal State Stanislaus.

I’ve just heard that’s our rival team, so that will probably be an intense game.

Julie Ortega can be reached at sportseditor@theorion.com or

@julieOrtega_ on Twitter.

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Boulton, first-year Wildcat, cradles the ball after a save and plans her next move.

ONLINE: Food columnist, Grace Kerfoot, spices up a cookie recipe with Chico’s favorite brew.

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Photo courtesy of Chico Community Observatory

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Photo courtesy of Chico Community Observatory

The Chico Community Observatory is a non-profit organization located in Upper Bidwell Park. Clockwise from left: One of the few buildings that sit at the site of the observatory, the stars as seen by visitors of the observatory and the whirlpool galaxy captured on a clear night.

Shooting For the stars The Chico Community Observatory, a hidden gem of Bidwell park, offers stargazing to guests Photo courtesy of NASA

Sabrina Grislis Staff Writer Going to school in a small college town, the pool of activities can run dry after a few fun weekends. Instead of heading back to square one, Chico State students can find alternative ways to light up their weekend nights by stargazing. Luckily for students, there is a complete observatory in Chico’s backyard— for free.

Frequenters of Upper Bidwell Park may have noticed a small building just past the gate. That is the Chico Community Observatory (also known as the Anita Ingrao Observatory), just a short drive past Five Mile off the left side of the road.

Several volunteers work each night to show star gazers what is visible through their two telescopes and explain what a star actually is.

After 32 years of working in aerospace, Mike Davis volunteers with the observatory two nights a week. With the aid of resources from the Hubble

Space Telescope, Davis illuminates the observatory with images and simulations of colliding galaxies, star clusters and black holes.

The observatory is a non-profit organization funded by the Chico Sunrise Rotary Club and by donations from its guests. The Chico Community Observatory gladly appreciates any donations during guest visits.

The observatory’s hours of operation are based on the Earth’s location in the solar system relative to the sun.

Though they are open year-round, the observatory’s summer hours, which end on Oct. 1, are from sunset to 10:45 p.m. Friday through Sunday. Visitors should always check the weather before heading out as clear skies are a necessity for stargazing.

On Sept. 27, the observatory will be open for a special celestial event. A lunar eclipse will be visible around 7 p.m. and will be showcased at the observatory, if weather permits. In the coming months, guests can look forward to seeing more of the Androm-

eda Galaxy, the Crab Nebula and the Pleiades star cluster.

Davis suggests that stargazers come on nights when the moon is not visible in the sky. That allows other objects in the sky to be seen without light from the moon blocking the telescope’s vision.

“Bring a sense of wonder,” he said.

“Feel free to ask questions, and have fun— It’s always fun here.”

Based on Earth’s location relative to other points in the sky, the observatory’s two telescopes will be adjusted to view various objects in space. One telescope is used specifically to view galaxies, millions of light years away, and then photograph them. The other can be pointed at objects in the sky, like Saturn, Neptune and even the surface of Earth’s moon.

What looks to the naked eye like a regular star or a mundane section of a dark sky can actually be a dead star or a cluster of galaxies.

Guests can learn about the Milky

Way’s future collision with the Andromeda Galaxy. Don’t worry though, Earth will not hit for another four billion years.

The observatory posts information regarding hours and if the weather is permitting, on its Facebook page.

This as the best way to keep up-to-date with the Chico Community Observatory, Davis said.

The Chico Community Observatory offers a wonderful experience to share with friends or family. People of all ages will enjoy the amazement of the sky above.

So next weekend grab some friends or bring a date up to the Chico Community Observatory and take a gander out into space.

Sabrina Grislis can be reached at featureseditor@theorion.com or @sabrinagrislis on Twitter.

Photo courtesy of NASA

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Theater club helps people find their niches Samantha O’Reilly

Staff Writer About a week before his first year at Chico State, Owen Hansen decided to explore campus. He entered the Performing Arts Center with curiosity. Among bustling students and unlocked doors, Hansen made his way through the building.

Hansen did not realize that just a few years later, he would be a theater major reviving the theater-driven club, Ink Blot Arts.

Ink Blot Arts is designed to help all students explore art through theater. This includes prospective actors, playwrights or students looking to develop technical lighting or sound skills.

The goal of Ink Blot Arts is to compliment the theater program and facilitate academics.

In the past, Ink Blot has organized different workshops to help teach students new skills such as playwriting, character exploration and even public speaking through open-mic nights.

The club has been working on re-writing its constitution to move away from being a mock theater organization and become a production house instead in which students can learn to create their OWEN own work as an asset HANSEN President of Ink Blot for themselves.

Arts Ink Blot Arts is planning its next workshop for students to learn and practice long-form improvisation. The club is open to ideas as to what workshops the club will offer so long as the goal to enhance student theater skills while exploring new talents remains, Hansen said.

Though his life is centered around theater now, Hansen wasn’t always interested. It was by chance that a senior student told him about auditions for the production of “Arabian Nights.”

Hansen’s first experience with college theater wasn’t perfect. He didn’t understand the entire audition process.

“I dressed up in costume, played a part that was ten times older than me and did an accompanying song that was from the same show,” Hansen said.

Hansen left the audition in tears with no intention of coming back. He was taken by surprise when he got a callback from the director of “Arabian Nights.”

An auditions is one of the most stressful parts of being an actor, he said.

Hansen has no regret, though. He enjoys the excitement of acting, in which people are pushed beyond their comfort zones to find out what they are capable of.

This is why Hansen and other students decided Ink Blot Arts needed a resurrection.

Ink Blot Arts officially became a club in 2001, but it slipped off the grid. Ink Blot regained its club status in 2014, a year after Hansen became the club’s treasurer. Hansen is now the current president for the club, and he has high expectations.

“We look to help expand interest and find people’s niches in what they hope to do beyond the undergraduate program,” Hansen said.

“We really try to encourage people to take an opportunity to do something more than academics, work and sleep by adding more to what makes Chico State, Chico State.”

Photo courtesy of ENVY

ENVY performs a showcase for MAC night hosted by Chico State. The hip hop dance team, recognized as a campus favorite for the past seven years, encourages students of all backgrounds to try out.

ENVY on the dance floor Thembiso Mawema

Staff Writer Chico State’s hip hop dance team, ENVY, knows large audiences, loud cheers and major rounds of applause all too well.

ENVY has been recognized as one of Chico State’s favorite dance teams for the past seven years.

Dejai Polk, junior kinesiology major, has been dancing with ENVY for years.

“I’ve been dancing for ENVY for about two and a half years,” Polk said. “Ever since I was a freshman and I absolutely love every moment of it.”

Before dancing for ENVY, Polk danced competitively and cheered for her high school cheer squad.

“I’ve been dancing for about seven years and I usually do hip hop, but I’ve also done cheer,” Polk said. “Cheer was a really big part of my dance culture, but now I’m just sticking to hip hop.”

Cheerleading and dancing fall under the same umbrella. However, they are completely different from each other, said Polk.

“Dancing hip hop routines for ENVY is ex-

News.”

Performances come with a lot of practices to make sure all dancers do their best.

“We practice three days a week, for about two hours each practice,” Polk said. “We practice a little more depending on whether or not we have a performance coming up.”

ENVY thrives on working collectively as a team.

“We’re just a group that’s able to collaborate together, rather than one person being in charge of everything. We’re able to communicate as a team,” Polk said. “That’s really my favorite thing about the team. I love the way we come together and I really enjoy the family aspect of things.”

ENVY regards its dedication to the team and support for each other as one of its best aspects.

“What has kept ENVY going for so long is the people and the commitment to the school and overall commitment to dance,” Polk said.

“It has to be something that you love to do, and we all love to dance and perform.”

Thembiso Mawema can be reached at featureseditor@theorion.com or

@theorion_news on Twitter.

THE O-FACE: SPICE UP YOUR SEX LIFE BY KEEPING THE CLOTHES ON Emma Vidak-Benjamin

Sex Columnist

Samantha O’Reilly be reached at featureseditor@theorion.com or

@theorion_news on Twitter.

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tremely different from doing cheer routines,” Polk said. “The movement, the attitude and the motion and speed of the dance moves overall give off a different energy.”

Being true to herself as a person is something Polk continues to do as a dancer, she said.

“I chose ENVY because I love the style and manner in which we dance, and I am able to be myself,” Polk said.

The majority of the dance team members are women. As a result, there is a misconception that the team only recruits women dancers.

“ENVY is for everyone. Boys, girls, everyone,” Polk said. “Our team is diverse and we encourage students of all backgrounds to try out and be a part of something great.”

With dancing comes performances, and this team knows all about performing.

“We perform at MAC night which is a really cool event the university puts on,” she said. In addition, we perform at the Momentum and Expressions showcases, and this semester we’ll be performing at basketball games.”

“We also do flash mobs which are always fun, and we’ve even performed for Action

Do you ever find yourself sitting around thinking of ways to spice up your sex life or making the whole process more sexy? If you do, then lingerie is your answer.

I feel like the term “lingerie” always comes with a negative stigma— a word reserved for the costumes that porn stars, strippers and prostitutes wear. However, we should all know that lingerie is meant for much more than a profession and can instead be used as an extra-added bonus to enhance sex. There’s no need to continue viewing wearing lingerie as scandalous because our bodies are beautiful, and we should be entitled to feel comfortable accentuating that.

Personally, I have never gone out and purchased a full lingerie set (as much as I want to), and this is because of a few different reasons. For one, us girls know that lingerie is not cheap— at all. It’s actually quite expensive, which nearly makes it a luxury item that can be fun to splurge on.

Of course there are alternatives to expensive lingerie. For one, you don’t have to go to Victoria’s Secret and can instead go to different retailers that sell lingerie for cheap. Also, a sexy bra and panties can

have the same effect as lingerie without breaking the bank.

Unfortunately, the idea of wearing lingerie (especially for college-aged women) isn’t all that common. And some girls are probably a little reluctant to try it out. There shouldn’t be a reason for women to feel uncomfortable trying on or even wearing lingerie in a sexual situation.

Lingerie accentuates the body and instills self-confidence, an amazing feeling during any sexual encounter. Although I’m a firm believer of only doing what makes you happy, I don’t think it hurts to try to make your sexual partner happy and satisfied as well. And from what I’ve gathered from different men, seeing their partner in lingerie will guarantee both happiness and satisfaction.

So, I think it’s finally time to break out of the mold and start exploring the world of lingerie.

Being able to feel sexy in a cute, lacy, matching undergarment may sound superficial, and that’s why it’s necessary to look at the deeper meaning behind lingerie. It stands for self-confidence. You should never stop exploring the wonderful world of sex, and I think lingerietown is always a fun one to visit.

Emma Vidak-Benjamin can be reached at sexcolumnist@theorion.com or

@gnarlyemma on Twitter.

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