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earth day
University celebrates
Earth Day with
Peace Garden
re-opening ceremony
By Erin O’Brien
The Collegian
Earth Day will be celebrated today with
the grand re-opening of the newly renovated Peace Garden, which will include a ribbon cutting ceremony, along with a private
dedication of the Dean Richard D. Memorial
Grove.
The Peace Garden, located just north of the
new Henry Madden Library, was re-opened in
February after re-landscaping was designed
to visually tie the garden to the renovation of
the Madden Library.
The events theme for Earth Day is, “The
Green Generation,” and will include guests
such as Fresno Mayor Ashley Swearingen,
the garden’s original founder, Dr. Sudarshan
Kapoor, President John D. Welty and
Associated Students, Inc. President Graham
Wahlberg.
“T
he Peace Garden is a place to
draw inspiration, energy and
stimulation for activism.”
— Dr. John D. Welty,
President of Fresno State
Nancy Ford, widow of the late Dean
Ford, will also be in attendance. The Dean
Memorial Grove is located at the west end of
the Peace Garden.
The ribbon cutting will begin at 11:45 a.m.
and is registered as an official Earth Day
event. Celebration’s will continue from 12:30
to 3:30 p.m. in The Peace Garden and includes
a teach-in on three key environmental challenges and sustainability fair offering information and volunteer opportunities.
President Welty explained that all events
are free and open to the public and are aimed
at tying the concept of caring for the planet
and peace together.
“The Peace Garden is a place to draw inspiration, energy and stimulation for activism,
and personal and social change based on the
philosophy of nonviolence,” Welty said.
“Encouraging our community to be part of
a very valuable social shift in the way we care
for our planet is likened to those individuals
honored throughout the Peace Garden who
also committed their lives to social change.”
Keeping
things green
Eric Mencher / McClatchy Tribune
Generation Green provides opportunity
for students to help restore environment
By Danielle Gilbert
The Collegian
“Generation Green is a great
opportunity to join hands with
youth from around the world in
an effort to preserve our environment,” Executive Director of
HandsOn Central California Cathy
Caples said.
On April 25, 2009 the world will be
celebrating National Youth Serve
Day.
HandsOn is recruiting approximately 200 youth volunteers from
the community, ranging from ages
12-24 to help keep this generation
green.
HandsOn is a catalyst for mobilizing volunteers to meet community needs.
Its mission is to inspire, equip
and mobilize people to take action
that changes their communities
and their world.
Project sponsors like the Fresno
Metropolitan F lood Control
D i s t r i c t a n d G o o d O l d D ay s
Antiques have made this mission
a reality.
Generation Green will begin at
9 a.m. at the San Joaquin River
“S
tudents should take
advantage of this opportunity to be active in a
service project and create a
better environment for themselves and those that share
the community.”
— Renee Delport,
Jan and Bud Richter Center
Ranch House, where participants
will be provided with educational
material on environmentally safe
practices, lunch from the project’s
sponsor Chipotle and event t-shirts
to promote the cause year round.
Following the kickoff, volunteers
will work on one of five restoration
projects in five separate locations;
the San Joaquin River, the Eaton
Trail, the McKenzie Preserve,
China Creek and Woodward Park.
Each project will incorporate
replanting of native species, habitat enhancement, removal of
non-native species and unwanted
debris, and information about the
importance of the service project.
“Last year over 100 F resno
State students participated in
Generation Green,” The Richter
Center’s Renee Delport said.
The Jan and Bud Richter Center
for Community Engagement and
Service-Lear ning program has
partnered with HandsOn in providing on campus outreach and
recruitment.
“Students should take advantage
of this opportunity to be active in a
service project and create a better
environment for themselves and
those that share the community,”
Delport said.
The National Day of Service is
just days away and is still in need
of volunteers.
Those who are interested can
pre-register by phone at 559-2373101 or register the day of at the
San Joaquin River Parkway.
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News Editor, Mathew Gomes • collegian-news@csufresno.edu
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
University introduces sign design
By Michelle Furnier
The Collegian
Helvetica font with mediumsized lettering in proportion
with the size and elevation
of the building is the current
building signage standard for
Fresno State. This summer,
the Engineering building will
break away from the norm and
create its own signage that will
be different from every other
building on campus.
This is the first time a building will have a different signage from all the other buildings on campus.
Dana Zupanovich Lucka,
director of development for the
Lyles College of Engineering
said, “The sign is in conjunction with the naming of the
college in honor of his family
and companies for their gift
of $10,000,000 to the College
of Engineering. The name
change was approved by the
CSU Chancellors office.”
Not only is the building getting a new sign but the name
of the building changed. Over
time, the amount will become
$20,000,000 total for the College
of Engineering.
Mohamad Elnatour, electrical engineering major said, “I
didn’t know about the sign but
I think it’s good to have a sign
that’s only related to engineering.”
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A team of about four men
from Taylor Teter Partnership
are working on the new sign for
the building and the men are,
Shaunt Yemenjian, designer;
Paul Halajian, designer; Doug
Mayer, structural engineer
and Santiago Rendon, electrical engineer. They have all
come up with sketches, ideas
and developed concepts. They
are in the process of doing the
drawings to give to the contractor.
All the designs were done for
free for Fresno State and only
recently the school sent a contract.
“This all started as an exercise of the building and it
wasn’t looking what we wanted it to look like and it wasn’t
something that announces
the new image of the building well enough. We wanted
something a little more interesting. This is a new College
of Engineering,” Shaunt
Yemenjian said.
Their objective is to create
something that resembles
engineering.
“A cantilever is used to take a
large object and project it horizontally. You see the exposed
parts of the exposed structure.
The base of the sign at the top
the steel is protruding from
the top of it. You begin to see
how the sign comes together,”
Yemenjian said.
Rendering Courtesy College of Engineering
Yemenjian gave an analogy
of the sign saying a piece of
paper that only has a one piece
of straw in it wouldn’t make
sense. It can’t stand without
the two straws standing it up.
“The campus planning board
liked the idea because of the
concrete raw materials. The
structure of a building isn’t
dressed up. If it’s a column, it’s
a column, as opposed to looking like a column. No super-
ficial materials. Everything
that’s a part of the sign is a
part of the sign,” Yemenjian
said.
The sign isn’t meant to look
flashy, but is still meant to
stand out.
“We want to memorialize
the contribution from Lyles,
but not build a new building,”
Yemenjian said. The sign is
hopefully going to be done by
the end of the summer and the
engineering building will have
a new character.
“We thought let’s do something that integrates with
the sign itself. The College of
Engineering is about conveying engineering and body and
mathematically solving problems. We want the sign to be
a problem that is solved while
looking at it,” Yemejian said.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
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News Editor, Mathew Gomes • collegian-news@csufresno.edu
news briefs
By Kaley Delarosa
The Collegian
Open forum for
provost candidate
An open forum to meet provost and
vice president of academic affairs candidate Dr. Luis Cifuentes will be held
on Wednesday April 22, 2009 from 1 – 2
p.m. in the Alice Peters Auditorium.
If chosen, Cifuentes who currently
works for Texas A&M University, will
replace Dr. Jeronima Echeverria, who
was named associate vice chancellor
for academic affairs of the California
State University system.
Echeverria began her new position
in February. Dr. Dennis Nef, a veteran
faculty member and administrator,
is the interim provost and vice president of student affairs. The campus
is encouraged to attend the forum to
meet the candidate and provide feedback to the search committee.
Conference covers
400 years of history
On Saturday April 25, the 11th
Annual History Graduate Student
Association (HGSA) Symposium,
“Perceptions of the Past,” will feature
more than 400 years of history that
has been examined by students.
The conference is free and will
begin at 8:30 a.m. at the University
B u s i n e s s C e n t e r i n t h e Pe t e r s
Business Building. Sessions will be
held throughout the day. Five panels
will feature more than a dozen history graduate students from across the
country presenting their research.
Dr. Kathryn Olmsted of the University
of California, Davis will deliver the
keynote address based on her recently
released book titled, “Real Enemies:
Conspiracy Theories and American
Democracy, World War 1 to 9/11.”
California first state
to be receiving
stimulus money
for universities
Stimulus money for education will
not provide much relief to CSU’s budget
deficit. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger
announced April 18 that California is
the first state in the nation to receive
federal stimulus money that will be
passed on the state’s universities.
Schwarzenegger submitted an application requesting that Califor nia
receive its share of the Education
Stabilization Fund that was created
as part of the federal stimulus bill. He
requested $268.5 million of one-time
funds, including $255 million already
built into the budget.
Because the funds were part of the
approved budget, they are not new
and do not change the CSU’s difficult
budget situation. The CSU’s budget
remains underfunded by $587 million
due to budget cuts and required new
costs.
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Students travel to
South Africa
By Shmuel Thaler
McClatchy Tribune
Brittany Lovato has literally run
out of lap space. The 17-year-old,
who lives near Watsonville, Calif.,
sits in the middle of a play yard in
Johannesburg, South Africa, giving
the most important gift she can give
— her time and affection. The young
recipients of Brittany’s gifts are an
exuberantly joyful swarm of children at Cotlands, an orphanage for
children infected with or affected by
HIV.
Although literally a half-a-world
away from their homes in California,
L ovat o a n d h e r f e l l ow M o u n t
Madonna School juniors and seniors
have arrived in this country of contradictions for a journey of learning
and discovery. It is the culmination
of their Values in World Thought
class led by teacher Ward Maillard.
As the students leave the Apartheid
Museum in Johannesburg, whose
exhibits document the institutionalized brutality and racism of the
South African history in the 20th century, they encounter a group of black
youth proudly singing the country’s
National Anthem. The song, a metaphor for the new South Africa, which
Archbishop Desmond Tutu calls “a
rainbow nation”, is sung three times
— first in Zulu, next in Afrikaans and
finally in English.
While severe economic disparities
still exist between black and white,
South Africa is a work in progress
and these students are witnessing
a moment in history as the nation
evolves. Rather than coming as tourists, they are here to talk with people
that are part of working toward a
brighter future.
Before leaving for the trip the
Mount Madonna students collected
enough donated clothing to fill 28
duffle bags to be given to nonprofits
in South Africa. The group travels to
Cotlands orphanage, where they will
make the first delivery.
Cotlands Marketing Mana g er
Lindy Nieuwenhuizen welcomes the
group to the orphanage, which is
bright and clean. She offers thanks
for five bags stuffed full of donated
baby clothes and gives a short tour of
the facility. Cotlands’ Johannesburg
orphanage, along with its other
facilities are home to more than 4,000
children who are either HIV positive
themselves or come from families
that are unable to care for them due
to HIV/AIDS.
The group enters a colorful play
yard full of 30 exuberant 2- to
6-year-olds. No sooner had the students entered the yard did the smiling youngsters descend on them to
fill every lap and shoulder and the
California teenagers matched the
young children smile for smile.
“It was very happy and they were
all really excited that we were visiting.” Brittany says, “They were acted
like they were part of our family and
each of them needed to have a lap to
sit on.”
During the day Archbishop Tutu’s
son Trevor guides them through the
famous black township of Soweto
(Southwest Township), and by a
squatters’ camp housing thousands
under shacks made of corrugated tin
and other materials.
Another stop is Conquest For Life,
a nonprofit that trains older at-risk
teens and sends them out into the
community where they connect with
more than 14,000 elementary school
students in Johannesburg each week
offering hope through anti-drug and
other positive messages.
Seventeen-year-old Haley Turner
of Aptos, Calif., and her schoolmates
anxiously walk the three stories up
a narrow creeky staircase in a listing brick building located near the
railroad tracks not knowing what
to expect. As soon as they cross the
threshold they are greeted with welcoming South African smiles from
more than a dozen radiant youth
from the Westbury Township.
The American and African teens
break into small groups to share
their dreams and give voice to their
aspirations. Haley says, “At first it
was awkward, but as we talked they
became super friendly and were so
interested in what we had had to say.
The were all really passionate about
their future and had goals linked to
their passions.”
Lamb chops are grilling on the barbeque in the dirt backyard behind
the Conquest For Life building. The
Mount Madonna students join their
South African counterparts for a
meal. In one of the oldest bonding
experiences known, people of different backgrounds sit down and break
bread together.
After the experience Haley says,
“The more found out about them the
more we saw similarities.”
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That’s What the People Are Saying
On Barack’s ‘apologizing tour’ during trips outside the US
“T
he United States provides most of the leadership
in the world. We have for a long time. I don’t
think we’ve got much to apologize for.”
—Dick Cheney, foxnews.com
Opinion Editor, Daniela Lopez • collegian-opinion@csufresno.edu • Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Republican? Impossible!
far as whispering GOP.
No. Actually, it screams it just as
guns—and now, tea bags— are raised
and confederate flags are waived high
in the air.
Having these calls against the
federal government seemingly come
out of the blue, and made mostly by
conservatives, is rather problematic in
their pathetic attempt to position the
movement as a fight for the people in
general, rather than against a definite
political party.
Of course Republicans are going to
be against much of what Obama does,
or intends to do. You’re a Republican
and he’s the black Democrat in the
If it was really a movement against
the feds, regardless of who was in
power, then calls for a diminished government would have come long ago.
Probably just about the time when the
war for oil— oops, on terrorism—was
waged.
It’s almost impossible to reasonably
believe that a Republican government that promoted an overseas war
Daniela Lopez
for fuzzy purposes and ideals would
also champion a limited federal goveeing a black president elected
ernment at home. It’s incredible that
into office was a sure trigger to
people claim to have been outraged out
rattle people into action for a
of their couches to protest an imposlong time to come. That’s not surprising government yet decided to remain
ing at all.
complacent about the war in Iraq.
But it’s hard not to raise
If against big governan eyebrow when calls
ment, why weren’t more
are suddenly made to take
of these false “nondown big government. It
partisans” stirred to
ven
more
surprising,
and
too
often
unintentionbecomes especially difaction years ago? How is
ally amusing, is the goal to present their calls for a
ficult not to be a skeptic
it that the “big governwhen claims reach radical
limited government as arguments given on a non-partisan
ment” label didn’t seem
levels. Skepticism is taken
applicable with an ambiplatform.”
to another level when talks
tious government that
of secession are casually
promoted a war leading
thrown around by the likes
to the death of over 4,200
of the governor of Texas
American troops, countRick Perry and former presidential
mighty Oval Office— being regularly
less civilians and currently keeps
candidate Ron Paul.
pissed off is pretty much inevitable.
thousand others overseas?
Even more surprising, and too often
But trying to pass the movement
Limiting a government back when
unintentionally amusing, is the goal
that led to the recent Boston tea
it sought to ruthlessly expand its influto present their calls for a limited
party-style gatherings as something
ence under a sensationalist banner
government as arguments given on a
else than the GOP’s opposition to
would have seemed like a much more
non-partisan platform. Sure, because
the Democrats in power, is not only
legitimate fight than any protest curarguing against taxes for the well off,
futile— we see you!— but also serves to
rently made against the weight of the
help for the poor and those crazies trydiminish the credibility of their argupresent federal government.
ing to control guns does not even go as
ments.
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CampusSpeak
How are you dealing with
stress as we are approaching
the end of the semester?
Jessica
Lopez
Junior
Finance
“Recently, I had to cut
down on some of my
work shifts just ’cause it
would free up more time
and I would be able to devote more time
to schoolwork and I noticed an improvement once I did that.”
Adam
Fernandez
“E
Senior
Vocal performance
“To help me with my
coursework, what I did
is I went through the
syllabus of all my classes and I made a list of everything that I
need to do by the end of the semester. I
know everything that has to happen by
the end of the semester.”
Megan
Elrod
Junior
Child Development
“Right now I’m trying
to drink a lot of coffee
and get a lot of sleep at
the same time. I stay
up when I need to, but then get as much
sleep as possible so I can be ready to
study.”
Brandon
Benitez
Psychology
Junior
“Right now I’m kind of
stressing out, but not
much. Just trying to
stay up, drinking a lot of
Gatorade, try[ing] to prepare for the tests
and all the assignments coming up. Being
a psych major, you got papers like crazy
and you try to not go psycho.”
Alejandra
Munoz
Freshman
Liberal Studies
“I’m just trying to sleep
more and focus on
my studies and just
take more time to reread things in my notes. So just go over
[things] and review.”
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Rap’s resident frat boy, rapper Asher Roth, loves college
and wants the world to know
it this week when his debut
album, Asleep in the Bread
Aisle, hits stores.
After gar nering national
attention at this years MTV
Spring Break and releasing his first single, “I Love
College,”Roth celebrated the
counterculture holiday, 4/20,
by releasing his first album
— which means, for his fans,
the wait from inside the bread
aisle is over.
The unapologetically white
emcee (MC) from Morrisville,
Pa., caught the ear of many
with his infectious ode to beer
pong and keg stands. Having
released only an internet mixtape, produced by DJs Don
Cannon and Drama prior to
Asleep in the Bread Aisle,
Roth’s rapid ascent into mainstream consciousness proves
that the music industry still
has an untapped market — college students.
The buzz surrounding the
West Chester University alum
and former elementary education major helped propel
“I Love College” into one of
the fastest growing singles in
America. The song has spent 9
weeks on the Billboard Hot 100
and peaked at number 12.
His popularity has even
sparked a cult-like following
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Asleep
in the
bread aisle
Rapper Asher Roth releases first album
among the college educated
and slacker crowds.
In addition, the 23-year-old’s
trademark look spawned a signature varsity inspired t-shirt
from the urban clothing line
U n d rc r w n . A n d re c e n t ly,
Roth was named one of XXL
Magazine’s Top 10 hip-hop
freshmen of ’09.
Although highly visible,
Roth’s presence in and of
itself is an anomaly. Forced
somewhere between a novelty act and a credible rapper,
most don’t know what to make
of him. But to those confused
about who he is as an artist,
Roth on his 2008 mixtape, The
Greenhouse Effect, offered
his own description: “If Jason
Bourne was to perform and
join forces with Zack Morris
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they’d form my performance.”
The Greenhouse Ef fect
became an internet smash,
and rumblings about the paleskinned MC were abound.
Quickly signed to Steve
Rifkind’s SRC Records, Roth
began work on his major label
debut.
Asleep in the Bread Aisle is a
lighthearted jaunt through the
mind of a 23-year-old college
student. With blithely titled
songs like “La Di Da,” “Sour
Patch Kids,” and “Lark On My
Go-Cart,” it’s hard to take Roth
serious as a rapper.
At times, however, Roth’s
music feels like a rehash of a
“Saturday Night Live” digital
short. He raps about OshKosh
B’Gosh overalls, MILFs, Teddy
Ruxpin and getting as intoxicated as possible on cheap
liquor. Nevertheless, Roth
manages to interweave adroit
lyrical rhyme schemes with
comedic wordplay.
For instance, the songs “Bad
Day” and “Fallin,’” illustrate
Roth’s adeptness for storytelling — a gift that separates him
from other rappers.
But to no avail the proverbial white shadow follows Roth.
The rapper’s voice, and familiar cadence, conjures images
of that other white rapper
from Detroit. But, upon further inspection it’s obvious
that the similarities are only
skin deep.
Unlike Eminem, Roth’s dis-
position is atypically chipper. He doesn’t feel the need
to “keep it real” or bolster his
resume with tales of strife and
turmoil. Admittedly, Roth’s
just like millions of other
suburban white kids who fell
in love with hip-hop. He says
“dude,” plays beer pong and
the first CD he ever bought
was Dave Matthew’s Band
“Crash.”
Roth even mocks his own
preppy lifestyle in his remix
of the 2007 hit “Dey Know,”
where he raps: “Excuse me
waiter, where are my capers?
For real? I don’t wanna be a
pain but I ordered capers on
this salad.”
Roth’s suburban candor has
received its share of admirers
and critics.
Danny Salas, after noon
music director at B95 radio,
sees Roth as a breath of fresh
air.
“I think Asher Roth is a welcomed change from the mostly
“cookie-cutter” artists seen on
MTV and heard on radio over
the last year or so,” Salas said.
“His longevity will be based
on whether or not he’s willing
to cater to the mainstream.”
On the other hand, co-owner
of Fresno music and apparel store, FTK, Sam Hansen
thinks Roth is overrated.
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“He’s getting a lot of hype
from fans, like the spring
break crowd, who don’t truly
appreciate hip-hop,” Hansen
said. “I think he’s a ‘gradeA’ technical lyricist, but he’s
bringing in the drunken frat
boy, opened-toe sandal element into the game and that’s
not what hip-hop is about.”
It’s true. Roth dresses like
it’s eternally spring break.
Complete with plaid cargo
shorts from American Eagle,
flip-flops and perfectly quaffed
“bed-head.” Roth basically
embodies everything hip-hop
isn’t supposed to be. But, that
may be the reason fans relate
to him.
“Asher is just easy to swallow for people who aren’t hiphop heads,” Hansen said. “The
crowd he caters to is completely disloyal. They just want the
latest party track to put on
their MySpace—it’s the whole
ringtone/social networking
culture.”
Roth has built a fan base out
of social networking sites.
His first venture into hiphop came when he released
a song through his MySpace
page. Shortly thereafter, Roth
became a viral video star by
re-making the video to Jay-Z’s
“Roc Boy’s” and recording his
unabashedly silly encounters
with the likes of Akon and
Ludacris.
“I expect any artist with a
style that’s different from the
norm to receive lots of attention,” Salas said. “It’s similar
to the attention given to Lil
Wayne or Kanye West after
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Come celebrate at the sustainability fair from 12:30 p.m.
to 3:30 p.m. near the Peace
Garden. Take the time to
appreciate mother nature and
remember to recycle and conserve energy.
April 22—The Good
Company Players performs
musical rendition of “Little
Women” at 6 p.m. at Roger
Ro ck a ’ s D i n n e r T h e at re.
Tickets are $75 (includes
dinner). All proceeds will
be donated to the Marjaree
Mason Center.
Photo courtesy of Asher Roth's MySpace
they changed up their styles
and went the vocoder route
with their music.”
Roth’s eclectic style and selfassurance have drawn comparisons to Kanye West who,
like Roth, ushered in his own
brand of hip-hop.
But Hansen disagrees with
the comparison. “He’s Kanye
without the swag, but hangs
out in Hollister and wears
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class kids, with a mouthpiece.
“It’s cool that hip-hop has
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and be accepted as an artist,”
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Perhaps, the cliché that talent is what matters most is
true—and Roth is plenty talented, despite the “frat boy”
schtick.
Still, if Roth had his way
“he’d pass out at 3 a.m., wake
up at 10 a.m., go out to eat then
do it again, because he loves
college — Ay!”
April 23—The Armenian
studies department is showing a film on the Armenian
genocide, followed by a discussion, from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. in
Engineering East room 191, in
honor of Armenian Genocide
Week.
April 24—It’s time for the
history department’s monthly
Pub Quiz. The fun begins at
6:30 p.m. at the Round Table
Pizza on Bullard and First.
April 24—The CineCulture
Club presents the film
“ Wa t e r m a rk s , ” f o l l o w e d
by discussion with Marsha
Wernick, from 5:15 p.m. to 7
p.m. in McLane Hall room 121.
April 24—The 95th Annual
Clovis Rodeo kicks off at 5:30
p.m. For $20 you can watch the
rodeo and see a performance
by country band Lonestar.
Visit ClovisRodeo.com for
more information.
Ap r i l 2 5 — T h e H i s t o r y
Graduation Student
Association hosts it’s
11th annual symposium,
“Perceptions of the Past,”
8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the
University Business Center.
Come and see presentations
from several graduate students and hear keynote speaker Dr. Kathryn Olmsted of UC
Davis at 11 a.m.
April 25—Football's annual
spring scrimmage at 2 p.m. at
Bulldog Stadium. Admission
and parking are free.
April 25-26—The Social
Work Student Association
hosts the Invisible Children
event from 2 p.m. Saturday to
10 a.m. Sunday in the Satellite
Student Union. A group of
300 students will walk from
People's Church, to the east ag
area and write letters to politicians to promote awareness
of the abducted children in
Uganda. Group plans to camp
out on campus overnight.
Events are listed as space allows.
Please e-mail calendar information to the
features editor at
vnevens@csufresno.edu, with the subject
line: features calendar.
The deadline is one week before publication.
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Features Editor, Valerie Nevens • collegian-features@csufresno.edu
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Quote of the Day
The daily crossword
ACROSS
1 Nest noises
6 Fall lead-in?
10 Thick block
14 “Anybody home?”
15 She played Glinda in
“The Wiz”
16 Skeletal unit
17 Forest nymph
18 “Potpourri for 200, ___”
19 They may be on the back
20 Advice for fishermen
23 Cracker’s focus
26 Result of hocus-pocus
27 Wear through weathering
28 Went silent (with “up”)
30 Obsessive whaler of fiction
32 Not just feuding
33 Page with views, briefly
34 Thumbs downs
37 Advice for rowing crews
41 Barbecue sound
42 Some ­retirement accts.
43 Crimea conference
attended by Churchill
44 Bela’s “Son of
Frankenstein” role
45 Tax loophole
47 Wife of Abraham
50 Consumed consomme
51 Study surface
52 Advice for deck hands
56 Hip to
57 Reverse, as a typo
58 Billionaire into books
62 Possessive declaration
63 Pirate’s potation
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Universal Press Syndicate
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64 Blue-blooded
65 Defendant, to a juror
66 Bronte’s Jane
67 Support for a clown
DOWN
1 A degree of success?
2 Air homonym
3 ’60s Tarzan Ron
4 McDonald’s tray liner
5 Part of a float
6 Metal-coated
7 Put one’s feet up
8 With a clean slate
9 Vehicle with a checkered
past?
10 Splendiferous
11 Argentine plain
12 Earned a hand?
13 Cookbook directive
21 Start of a daisy-­plucker’s
phrase
22 Nickname for a sharpshooter
23 Hordes
24 Choral components
25 Deer offspring
29 Dream guy
30 Well-chosen
31 Cynical laugh sound
33 Stamps one’s approval
34 “Cape Fear” star
35 “The ­Tattooed Girl” novelist Joyce Carol
36 Kind of contrast
38 ___ y plata (Montana
motto)
39 Word yelled to halt a
stickball game
40 Unlocked area?
44 Tedious affair
45 Shemp, for one
46 Like cool cats
47 Pinch pennies
48 Broadway orphan
49 “Wide World of Sports”
producer Arledge
50 Gusto
53 Unusually large
54 Professor ‘iggins, to Eliza
Doolittle
55 Billion-year increments,
in geology
59 Triple Crown stat
60 Alternative to nothing
61 Riled (up)
“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your
abilities! Without a humble but reasonable
confidence in your own powers you cannot
be successful or happy.”
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The Collegian • Sports
Sports Editor, Logan Hopkins • collegian-sports@csufresno.edu
NCAA
bigger than
Facebook?
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NFL DRAFT 2009
By Iliana Limon
McClatchy Tribune
T
he all-powerful institution
governing college sports
expects universities to step up
and help it enforce recruiting rules in
the decidedly unruly online world.
The Associated Press reported
last week that North Carolina State
University freshman Taylor Moseley
felt the ire of the NCAA after starting
a Facebook group called “John Wall
PLEASE come to NC STATE!!!!” Nearly
1,000 fans joined the group expressing
its admiration of one of the top high
school basketball prospects in the
country.
The NCAA views the routine
practice of launching new Facebook
pages and groups during the heart of
recruiting season as out of bounds and
a violation of recruiting rules. The
NCAA refers to fans creating and posting on these Facebook pages as boosters attempting to influence the choice
of a recruit.
N.C. State compliance director
Michelle Lee was well aware of the
rules and sent Moseley a cease-anddesist letter warning the college freshman of “further action” if he failed
to stop. Lee told the AP further action
could include Moseley being denied
tickets or formally being “disassociated” from the athletic program to protect the school.
Moseley has declined interview
requests, but he did change the name
of the Facebook group to “Bring a
National Title Back to N.C. State.” He
still has a picture of Wall featured on
the page and wrote, “The name of this
group has been changed to comply
with a request in regards to NCAA
Regulations.”
The NCAA has long insisted its
rules are “technology neutral” and
it does not have to adapt its regulations to fit Internet trends. It expects
member institutions to keep track of
its fans and discourage inappropriate
recruiting efforts.
Seriously?
Because Facebook is so saturated
with fans and every school is well represented, it seems extremely unlikely
one page would play a significant role
in a recruit’s college selection. I have
interviewed more than 100 college football and basketball recruits during the
past two years and not a single one told
me Facebook played any role in their
college selection.
Even if the same rules regulating
fans’ contact with recruits apply to
the online world, the NCAA at least
has to acknowledge there are millions
of Facebook groups and schools have
a heavy burden trying to police them
online.
Shouldn’t compliance officers be
more worried about potential academic fraud than a funny Facebook
post that a recruit may not ever see?
At a time when a lot of schools are
putting athletics department staff
on furloughs and eliminating jobs to
save scholarships, it seems wasteful to
worry about Facebook groups.
There also is prickly little question
about free speech.
The NCAA can regulate its members, but can it really ask colleges to
police what fans say online?
NCAA spokesman Erik
Christianson told the AP this isn’t a
free-speech issue.
“We don’t see it as a free-speech
issue. What we do see it as is a recruiting issue,” he said. “We want to be sure
that we limit that level of intrusion
that comes into their lives.”
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Former West Virginia quarterback Pat White was initially projected to be a wide receiver in the NFL, but could be a quarterback in the Wildcat.
NFL goes Wild-cat
By Harvey Fialkov
McClatchy Tribune
MIAMI – As soon as Miami Dolphins
running back Ronnie Brown shifted
behind center Samson Satele to take
the shotgun snap, one could hear the
buzz of anticipation spread throughout the stands while sensing the panic
of surprised defensive coordinators.
The Wildcat was about to strike.
The ancient version of the old college Wing-T was hatched by first-year
coach Tony Sparano and quarterbacks coach David Lee on a flight last
year following a 31-10 rout by eventual
NFC champ Arizona that dropped
Miami to 0-2. That chat resuscitated
the Dolphins’ offense and fueled an
11-5 season.
The following week, offensive coordinator Dan Henning shocked coach
Bill Belichick and the Patriots in a
38-13 blowout in Foxborough, Mass., as
Brown accounted for five touchdowns,
four out of the Wildcat, including a
19-yard TD pass to tight end Anthony
Fasano.
The Wildcat spread like wildfire
throughout the NFL, with at least
a dozen teams utilizing it. With the
draft looming this weekend, Sparano
and GM Jeff Ireland have been asked
if they would select versatile players
such as West Virginia’s Pat White or
Rice’s James Casey for Wildcat purposes.
“I wish I had a dollar for every person who ran it,” Sparano said. “There
are a lot of those kinds of players
out there, the potential Wildcat guys,
whether they’re different positional
players that have the skill to run the
football that maybe have thrown the
football. It all depends on whether
you’re married to this philosophy.”
The Dolphins prefer a power running attack out of the base offense so
they don’t have to rely on “gadget”
plays. That’s why they jettisoned
Satele and signed Raiders center Jake
Grove. However, that doesn’t mean a
complete divorce is imminent or that
Henning won’t reach into his bag of
tricks.
“There was an awful lot left on the
bone that we didn’t roll out there during the season,” Sparano said. “This
gives us the chance during the offseason to push the envelope a little
more.”
The Dolphins ran 91 plays out of the
Wildcat and scored eight touchdowns,
while averaging 6.1 yards per rush or
nearly 2 yards more than their overall
average of 4.1.
But with the element of surprise
gone, has the Wildcat run out of lives?
“It caught people off guard,” Bears
coach Lovie Smith said. “There are
a lot of good defensive coaches out
there. You’re playing with 11 guys,
right? So I think people will eventually be able to figure it out.”
White’s stock has risen since earning MVP honors at the Senior Bowl,
but it’s his ability to run, catch and
throw that has Wildcat proponents
salivating.
“White is sitting there at the
Wildcat,” NFL Network draft pundit
Mike Mayock said. “What do you do
with that free safety that you’ve been
moving up in the box against Ronnie
Brown? Do you bring him up or do you
leave him back there?
“If you bring him up, then White is
going to have one-on-one (coverage)
on the outside with no help. But that’s
what he’s going to force you to do.
Because he’s going to run the option,
which NFL defenses hate.
“If you get 10 to 15 snaps a game
from a guy like Pat White that can
run the option and throw the football,
you’ve got something special in the
NFL. I think it’s the next evolution of
the game.”
Future Wildcatters?
P a t W h i t e, W. Vi r g i n i a , Q B /
Returner
The buzz: Outfielder drafted by the
Angels threw for 1,842 yards and ran
for 974 more. Ran a 4.55 40 and had a
35-inch vertical at Combine; projected as a slot receiver/returner in the
NFL.
James Casey, Rice, TE/H-back
The buzz: Pitcher drafted by the
White Sox caught 111 balls for 1,329
yards with 13 TDs while rushing
for 241 yards with six TDs as senior.
Directed ‘Thor’ package as option QB.
Derrick Williams, Penn St., WR
The buzz: Parade All-American QB
in high school had 44 catches for 485
yards with four TDs while gaining 243
yards and three TDs as senior. Added
three TDs returning kicks.
Percy Harvin, Florida, WR
The buzz: A lightning-quick gamebreaker who often took the direct snap
and gained more than 1,300 yards as
WR/RB with a combined 17 TDs. Size,
durability and character issues are
negatives.
The Collegian • Sports
Sports Editor, Logan Hopkins • collegian-sports@csufresno.edu
W
hile women’s
lacrosse is almost
literally a brand new
sport to Fresno, the city may
have the most talked-about
lacrosse team in the country.
It seems everyone has an
opinion on the team, its future,
its place in the community and
the Valley ­— even its right to
exist. But after Thursday the
talk should mercifully subside
and lay dormant until next
spring.
The Fresno State lacrosse
team ended their first regular season April 13 with an
18-1 beat down at the hands of
Denver.
They will play their first
– and surely last – game of
the Mountain Pacific Sports
F e d e r a t i o n To u r n a m e n t
tomorrow at 1 p.m. against
Oregon in Palo Alto.
Currently, the team is much
better known for off-the-field
controversies than on-thefield performance. Some have
reduced the team’s very existence to just another example
of the unfairness of Title IX.
Others have lashed out at
the university as it continues
to struggle with adjusting to a
policy that took effect in 1972.
Of course, none of this is the
fault of the players or coaches.
“People need to look at the
big picture,” said Sue Behme,
head coach of the fledgling
team. “There are so many
variables, not only with Title
IX, but with the entire office
of civil rights.”
Behme is enthusiastic about
the team and her position as
head coach. She says she is
swamped with interest for
next year and already has ten
commitments.
Behme was also quick to
note the community support,
saying, “We had the highest
overall attendance in the conference this year, over 500 fans
a game. I really want to thank
Fresno for that.”
Now that it’s over, let’s look
at the numbers for the inaugural season:
13: number of games played.
3: number of home games
played.
4: number of time zones the
team played in.
8: number of states the team
played in.
0: number of wins.
229: number of goals by
opponents.
3 7 : number of goals by
Fresno State.
218: number of total turnovers by opponents.
275: number of total turnovers by Fresno State.
The Upper Upper Deck
Haisten Willis
23: number of players on the
Fresno State team.
6: number of players with
any previous lacrosse experience.
2: number of players with
lacrosse experience in the last
three years.
0: number of local high
schools fielding a women’s
lacrosse team for the 2008-09
school year.
7: number of local high
schools fielding a women’s
lacrosse team for the 2009-10
school year.
1 2 : number of women’s
lacrosse scholarships available under NCAA rules.
6: number of scholarship
players for Fresno State this
season.
9: number of scholarship
players for Fresno State next
season.
5: number of sports added or
dropped by Fresno State since
2004 in an effort to seek Title
IX compliance.
COACH: After two years at Cal,
Zwaschka joins Fresno State
CONTINUED from page 12
Fresno community.
QUESTION: Out of all
the Division I schools with
vacant head coaching jobs,
why did you chose Fresno
State?
ANSWER: There are a
couple of reasons I chose
Fresno. I was in a good situation at Cal and enjoyed
working there, but I didn’t
want to go into just any
situations. I wanted what
was best for me and my
family. This is a great place
for me to bring up a family,
and professionally the athletic department has really
impressed me. This program has been left in good
shape and has great potential.
Q: Do you feel a sense of
pressure in following the
success Steve Springthorpe
had here?
A: There is no question
Steve put together a quality
team. It’s a great opportunity to continue that, because
this team already has that
built-in desire to succeed.
Q: Why did you decide
to keep assistant coach
Christine Johnson on your
staff ?
A: It speaks volumes that
Christine was compelled to
stick around. I know that
she was compelled to stick
around and stay by the
team, so there was some glue
there. I have had the opportunity to interact with her on
the recruiting trail, but realizing what she did to make sure
the ship kept sailing with a lot
of unknowns was great. I can
lean on her very heavily.
Q: Are you surprised that
you were able to get a head
coaching job so quickly?
A: I am really excited that
this has worked for me. I don’t
think it surprises me, because
I have done the right things
to prepare and really put in
the time. It is a major jump
though.
Q: What do you want to be
able to do with the soccer
community as a whole in the
Central Valley?
A: There are a lot of things
that can be done. As a soccer
coach, at any level, you have
to be a representative of the
community as a whole. I think
it is an opportunity to create
lifeskills with the team and
help them to get involved. It
is important that people who
grow up in the Valley feel
like they have opportunities
as well; making connections
with the community. It is definitely about getting involved
and meeting the needs of community.
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CARTER: Junior plays two
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the New York Jets, but played
a significant role in tutoring
Plemons.
“Kerry Locklin was a good
coach and I learned a lot from
him,” Plemons said. “I think
he’s going to do well at the next
level. I really enjoyed the way
he went about his business.”
So far during spring practice,
defensive end Chris Carter has
liked what Plemons is teaching the line. Carter is transitioning from linebacker to the
outside edge rusher.
“I think he’s doing great to
be honest with you,” Carter
said. “He works very hard
with us. He’s very patient with
us. He understands the correct
technique. He didn’t just hear
about how to do it from someone else. He really knows how
to do it and how to teach it.”
Car ter believes that the
teaching from Plemons is a
must during spring practice,
as he and the linemen look to
push themselves for the 2009
season.
“I think that’s the best thing
for us on the defensive line,”
Carter said. “I feel that as a
defensive line we really comprehend with him. He pushes
us and he makes us want to
push ourselves to work harder.”
One of those things Plemons
is preaching to Carter and the
defense, is the little things
about the line, which includes
getting off of the football after
it’s snapped.
“He makes us pay attention
to the little things,” Carter
said. “The little things make
big plays and that’s what creates a pass rush.”
For Tim Skipper, he made
his living on the Fresno State
football field stopping running
backs in their tracks as a former linebacker.
But for the first two years of
his coaching career, he had to
help coach the ground game as
the running backs coach.
Now he’s back on defense,
coaching the position that
made him an All-WAC perfor mer and a Dick Butkus
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John Madden won two super bowls as a coach for the Oakland Raiders back
in the 1970s. Madden was the analyst for “Sunday Night Football” on NBC.
MADDEN: After 40
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Chris Carter said Will Plemons makes the team pay attention to the little
things during practice. Plemons was named defensive line coach.
award finalist.
“I pretty much had to go back
to what I’ve always known,”
Skipper said. “It was harder
for me to transition to the running back spot because I never
played it or coached it. Moving
back to linebacker is something I’m very familiar with,
so it’s a smooth transition.”
Not only is it a comfortable move for Skipper, but he
gets to teach the likes of Ben
Jacobs, Nico Herron and the
rest of the linebackers every-
thing he learned from his
playing days.
“I give them everything
I know,” Skipper said.
“That’s all I do. I don’t hold
anything back. Every little
thing I know, I give it to
them and hopefully it works
out on the field.”
Skipper actually doesn’t
have a preference with
where he coaches – he just
enjoyment with what he
does and hopes it leads to
victories for his team.
“I just like coaching man,”
Skipper said. “Football is
football. Running back and
linebacker is very similar, you try to find an open
hole and you fill it. I like the
game and I like winning. I
don’t care what I’m doing, I
just want to win.”
C
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http://collegian.csufresno.
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ing in the “Madden Bowl,”
because of the video game’s
However, you didn’t need to
enormous popularity.
watch a football game Madden
I started playing Madden
was covering to fully undervideo games since the 1993
stand the game. Gamers also
version came out on Super
learned through his renowned
Nintendo. Honestly, I somevideo game collection.
times wish I could dust off
Gamers discovered what
my SNES and play Madden ’93
the single back formation
again; even though I love the
could do against the opponent.
games he has out right now.
Or how a three man front can
Madden’s enthusiasm for
handle a running play. There
football is the same vibrant
was even an “Ask Madden”
attitude I want to have if I
feature, in
ever become
which he tells
a play-by-play
you what play
announcer.
you should run
Even if I don’t
onestly, I somein a certain
make it to a
times
wish
I
could
situation.
broadcast booth,
dust off my SNES and
He also
I still want to
had the gamplay Madden ’93 again.” be passionate
ers live the
about my job,
life of an NFL
the same way
player with
John Madden
his “Superstar
approached his.
Mode.” The player you creEvery football fan has to
ated went through the draft
appreciate what Madden did
process, training camp, the
for the game. He made you
regular season and even the
understand football, underinterviewing process with the
stand the players and coaches
media.
and understand why he was
Madden helped create a
instrumental in revolutionizvideo game pop-culture pheing the football world.
nomenon with the “Madden
Because of my appreciaNFL Football” series. The
tion for Madden, I now must
games became a top-seller at
pull one of his video games
electronic stores everywhere.
out, even if it’s the Super
ESPN even created a televiNintendo version.
sion show about kids play-
“H
Sports
The
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Collegian
This day in sports history
April 22, 1970
Fresno native and New York Mets, hall-offame pitcher Tom Seaver had 19 strikeouts
against the San Diego Padres, including
strikeouts against the last 10 Padre batters.
Sports Editor, Logan Hopkins • collegian-sports@csufresno.edu • Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Recognize This
Lorenzo Reyna
Madden’s
legacy will last
longer than his
40-plus year
career
Spinmove
n
i
p
S
evom
Bulldog
assistants are
flip-flopping
positions, but
knowledge of
the game will
transfer
F
ootball season doesn’t
officially start until
the fall, but I’m
already going to miss the following phrases:
“Boom! Pow! Bang! Whap!
Wham! Doink! Brett Favre!
Hey folks, it’s John Madden!”
Yes, I’m going to miss John
Madden. Football became a
pastime in my family thanks
to the works of Madden. I
appreciated the game of football because of him.
It all began at an early age,
when I grew up around family
members who talked about
the Raiders. They began to
tell the story of a young, passionate football mind that was
only 33 years old when he got
his first head coaching opportunity in Oakland.
Later came all the praise
for being one of the youngest
coaches to ever win a Super
Bowl in 1977. He was 42 when
he retired from coaching in
1979 and had over 100 career
victories. But it was his work
inside the broadcast booth
where I began to pay attention.
Madden helped break down
a play and how it worked to
perfection for a certain team.
He described what “hitting
the hole” meant, when a
running back ran past the
middle of the defense. He also
explained the 4-3, 3-4, and
cover 2 defense and the different schemes used.
He also began describing
why there were so many great
players on the football field.
Why LaDanian Tomlinson
had the ability to find the end
zone. How Tom Brady stayed
calm under pressure. The way
Ray Lewis raised the level of
play for his teammates. And
of course, what made Brett
Favre so special.
He also did this with past
football greats. He explained
Dan Marino’s arm strength,
John Elway’s comeback ability, Jerry Rice’s catching
ability and Mike Singletary’s
fierce facial expression inside
his helmet.
John Madden was a football
mind who drew the average
fan closer to the television set.
I happened to be one of those
fans.
See MADDEN, Page 11
By Lorenzo Reyna
The Collegian
Bryan Cole / Collegian File Photo
Fresno State’s Chris Carter is one of few players to play under Tim Skipper and Will Plemons. Skipper and Plemons
were both on the staff in 2008, but will be assuming new roles with the team this season.
T i m S k i p p e r a n d Wi l l
Plemons both have one thing
in common, and it’s not the
fact that they’re on the defensive coaching staff for Fresno
State football.
Both coaches began their
careers on the opposite side of
the ball.
Before becoming the defensive line coach, Plemons started his career with the tight
ends and offensive line at Cal
Lutheran from 1998-2002.
“There are some steps you
have to lear n, but attitude
and technique is where you
get groomed as a defensive
line coach,” Plemons said.
“There’s some things you got
to do differently on that side
of the ball.”
Plemons got his first taste
of coaching the defense in
2002, when he was named the
defensive line coach for the
Kingsmen.
He joined Fresno State in
2004 where he worked alongside Kerry Locklin for two seasons.
Locklin has now moved on to
See CARTER, Page 11
One-on-one with the
’Dogs’ newest addition
By Megan Poindexter
The Collegian
After five seasons of success for the Bulldog soccer
team, under head coach
Steve Springthorpe, the athletics department was on the
search for the next coach and
leader of the program.
Springthorpe led the
’Dogs to two consecutive
WAC titles and trips to the
NCAA Tour nament. His
success didn’t go unnoticed
as Springthor pe left for
the draw of the ACC and
North Carolina State last
December.
It took the Bulldogs a fair
amount of time to find a
suitable replacement for
Springthrope, but they seem
to have found their man in
Brian Zwaschka, former Cal
Bears assistant coach.
The Collegian caught
up with Zwaschka to talk
about the pressures to come,
his coaching staff and the
Photo Courtesy of Athletic Media Relations
New soccer coach Brian Zwaschka hired after two years at California.
See COACH, Page 10