California State University, Fresno Friday, March 2, 2007 http://collegian.csufresno.edu Celebrating Amerasia Week Above: Performing “Sasaminare Dokkoisho,” the Japanese Student Association participated in Wednesday’s Cambodian and Japanese culture night. The Cambodian Collegiate Association also was a part of the event. Right: Representing the Kendo Club, Dorian Hiro Williams, left, and Tom Cabrillo were part of the Japanese portion of the culture night. Both events were part of Amerasia Week, which ends Saturday, March 3. The goal of Amerasia Week is to promote awareness of the different Asian cultures within the community through dance and music. Want to know? Ask her and find out Addicts hooked on ‘Net MySpace ups time students spend online The Collegian revamps Web site, print edition The command written on the walkway spurred mass curiosity. “Ask her,” it ordered. Ask who? About what? Written in pink and blue chalk covering the Fresno State Free Speech Area, the slogan “Ask her” got students talking. Lilliana Torres, a social work major, said in an Internet post that her friends constantly hounded her about it. “I don’t know anything about it,” Torres said. “I would even tell my roommate, why doesn’t someone just ‘ask her’ already and find out!” Angie Lopez, a Fresno State junior, was curious about the message and speculat- ed about a possible culprit in an Internet post. “I wish I knew what it meant,” Lopez said. “Maybe women’s studies or the Women’s Resource Center is behind it.” That seemed to be the general consen- sus: “Ask her” was a message concern- ing women’s rights, and that the Wom- en’s Resource Center or other organiza- tions on campus such as Women’s Alli- ance were behind it. An official from the Women’s Resource Center said it had no involvement with the message. A few students went to the center because they thought the cen- ter was behind it, but were disappointed when they learned that it was not. “Ask her” is a promotional tool used by the Kappa Sigma fraternity for spring rush. “Ask her” had spawned a MySpace forum, where students tried to find The Collegian is pleased to announce the launch of its fully remodeled Web site and the redesign of its print edition. The revamped Web site has been the mission of Collegian Web- master and Multimedia Editor Bryan Harley for almost a year and a half. “I’m proud of it because it’s going to make future Webmasters’ jobs much easier,” Harley said. The Web site is wider, on par with The New York Times and Washington Post’s Web sites, and features improved navigation capabilities, a multimedia section, RSS feeds and overhauled archives. Collegian Editor in Chief Kirstie Hettinga said, “Bryan is leav- ing us a legacy.” Other new features include the ability to e-mail or forward sto- ries from the Web site, printer-friendly pages and the ability for readers to comment directly on a story. There is also a “share this” feature that allows readers to share Collegian articles through social networking sites such as Facebook, Dig and Deli- “I don’t know anything about it. I would even tell my roommate, why doesn’t someone just ‘ask her’ already and find out!” — Lilliana Torres Fresno State social work major By Brandon Santiago Collegian Staff Writer See ASK HER, Page 2 Staff Reports The Collegian See REDESIGN, Page 2 It’s 7 p.m. on a Friday night and time to party. You log into MySpace to see what every- one is up to. Chad slept with Larissa? Missy kicked you off her friends list? The drama unfolds and the moments turn to hours. Internet addiction is a grow- ing societal concern, as many people are seen wasting their lives away in the glow of a computer screen. “I believe there is an Inter- net addiction,” mass commu- nication and journalism pro- fessor Dr. Tamyra Pierce said. “I’ve seen some of it in the responses I get while doing my research. Some of the teens I have questioned say they get so wrapped up in using MySpace that they can’t get off of it. That’s a pretty good sign that there is some level of addiction going on there.” According to Pierce’s study, 50 percent of teens say they spend at least one to four hours online daily. In a second study, 52 percent of teens say they stay on MySpace longer than they intended to when they originally signed online. “Articles I’ve read talk about remaining online longer than you originally intended being a sign of addiction to the Internet,” Pierce said. “Appar- ently, people get so upset that they think about it all the time and it interferes with their relationships, grades and other parts of life. This also coincides with our cur- rent research about MySpace use and how that is related to lower grades amongst high school students.” Compared to the fact that instant messengers only keep 19 percent of teens online longer than they intend and only 9 percent stay online due to e-mail, this means more research needs to be done in specific areas of online usage to determine where the addic- tion really comes from, Pierce said. “Most of the research that has been done on this is real- ly bad,” psychology professor By Joe Johnson Collegian Staff Writer See ADDICTS, Page 2 Shaun Ho/ The Collegian Check out The Collegian Online for: •Online video exclusive of ROTC and Iraq •Men’s basketball vs. Boise State photo gallery http:// collegian. csufresno.edu
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California State University, Fresno Friday, March 2, 2007http://collegian.csufresno.edu
Celebrating Amerasia Week
Above: Performing “Sasaminare Dokkoisho,” the Japanese Student Association participated in Wednesday’s Cambodian and Japanese culture night. The Cambodian Collegiate Association also was a part of the event.Right: Representing the Kendo Club, Dorian Hiro Williams, left, and Tom Cabrillo were part of the Japanese portion of the culture night. Both events were part of Amerasia Week, which ends Saturday, March 3. The goal of Amerasia Week is to promote awareness of the different Asian cultures within the community through dance and music.
Want to know? Ask her and find out
Addicts hooked on ‘Net MySpace ups time students spend online
The Collegian revamps Web site, print edition
The command written on the walkway spurred mass curiosity.
“Ask her,” it ordered.Ask who? About what?Written in pink and blue chalk covering
the Fresno State Free Speech Area, the slogan “Ask her” got students talking.
Lilliana Torres, a social work major, said in an Internet post that her friends constantly hounded her about it.
“I don’t know anything about it,” Torres said. “I would even tell my roommate, why doesn’t someone just ‘ask her’ already and find out!”
Angie Lopez, a Fresno State junior, was
curious about the message and speculat-ed about a possible culprit in an Internet post.
“I wish I knew what it meant,” Lopez said. “Maybe women’s studies or the Women’s Resource Center is behind it.”
That seemed to be the general consen-sus: “Ask her” was a message concern-
ing women’s rights, and that the Wom-en’s Resource Center or other organiza-tions on campus such as Women’s Alli-ance were behind it.
An official from the Women’s Resource Center said it had no involvement with the message. A few students went to the center because they thought the cen-ter was behind it, but were disappointed when they learned that it was not.
“Ask her” is a promotional tool used by the Kappa Sigma fraternity for spring rush.
“Ask her” had spawned a MySpace forum, where students tried to find
The Collegian is pleased to announce the launch of its fully remodeled Web site and the redesign of its print edition.
The revamped Web site has been the mission of Collegian Web-master and Multimedia Editor Bryan Harley for almost a year and a half.
“I’m proud of it because it’s going to make future Webmasters’ jobs much easier,” Harley said.
The Web site is wider, on par with The New York Times and Washington Post’s Web sites, and features improved navigation
capabilities, a multimedia section, RSS feeds and overhauled archives.
Collegian Editor in Chief Kirstie Hettinga said, “Bryan is leav-ing us a legacy.”
Other new features include the ability to e-mail or forward sto-ries from the Web site, printer-friendly pages and the ability for readers to comment directly on a story. There is also a “share this” feature that allows readers to share Collegian articles through social networking sites such as Facebook, Dig and Deli-
“I don’t know anything about it. I would even tell my roommate,
why doesn’t someone just ‘ask her’ already and find out!”
— Lilliana TorresFresno State social work major
By Brandon Santiago Collegian Staff Writer
See ASK HER, Page 2
Staff Reports The Collegian
See REDESIGN, Page 2
It’s 7 p.m. on a Friday night and time to party. You log into MySpace to see what every-one is up to. Chad slept with Larissa? Missy kicked you off her friends list? The drama unfolds and the moments turn to hours.
Internet addiction is a grow-ing societal concern, as many people are seen wasting their lives away in the glow of a computer screen.
“I believe there is an Inter-net addiction,” mass commu-nication and journalism pro-fessor Dr. Tamyra Pierce said. “I’ve seen some of it in the responses I get while doing my research. Some of the teens I have questioned say they get so wrapped up in using MySpace that they can’t get off of it. That’s a pretty good sign that there is some level of addiction going on there.”
According to Pierce’s study, 50 percent of teens say they spend at least one to four hours online daily. In a second study, 52 percent of teens say they stay on MySpace longer than they intended to when they originally signed online.
“Articles I’ve read talk about remaining online longer than you originally intended being a sign of addiction to the Internet,” Pierce said. “Appar-ently, people get so upset that they think about it all the time and it interferes with their relationships, grades and other parts of life. This also coincides with our cur-rent research about MySpace use and how that is related to lower grades amongst high school students.”
Compared to the fact that instant messengers only keep 19 percent of teens online longer than they intend and only 9 percent stay online due to e-mail, this means more research needs to be done in specific areas of online usage to determine where the addic-tion really comes from, Pierce said.
“Most of the research that has been done on this is real-ly bad,” psychology professor
By Joe Johnson Collegian Staff Writer
See ADDICTS, Page 2
Shaun Ho/ The Collegian
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Amanda Mortimer said. “The majority of it points toward the addiction not being caused by the Internet itself, but by the material they are accessing. People are using the Internet to access pornography or to gamble, which means the Internet is just an access zone for addictive behaviors. That’s the prominent the-ory, but it is lacking control groups and is very limited in its research.”
Mechanical engineering student Karla Velazquez said that the problem probably lies with loneliness, as most Internet addicts may use it to connect with a wider world of people than they know in their immediate social cir-cle.
“When you say ‘addiction,’ there is this con-notation of physiological dependence,” health sciences professor Gerald Davoli said. “There is a difference between actually depending on something or having a habitual need.”
Habituation is defined as a belief that an individual cannot function without a given element in his or her life. For someone who is addicted to this element, removing it will cause heavy physical withdrawal symptoms. A habit-ual person will grieve and become depressed,
but according to Davoli, it won’t kill him. “The behavior of an Internet addict may
look compulsive like a drug addiction, but it isn’t the same thing,” Mortimer said. “If you want to change problematic behavior, then you would need to change the rewards structure for what they are getting in return for the behav-ior. However, I would suspect that if a person has these kind of problematic behaviors, then they might be related to an underlying depres-sion. This would have to be analyzed on a case by case basis.”
The Chinese government has implement-ed rehab centers to treat children who have an online addiction. An article written by The Washington Post said the facilities use a “tough love” approach to treating the patients, which includes “counseling, military discipline, drugs, hypnosis and mild electric shocks” to break the habit.
“I believe [Internet addiction] has the poten-tial to become a grave social problem,” Davo-li said. “I teach health-related courses and I believe that anything that comes at the expense of a well-rounded life is a concern, whether it be online addiction or becoming a workaholic. Anything that prevents people from having a social circle and networking with other people can have a detrimental effect.”
answers to sate their appetite for information about the mes-sage. One post by Chris Michel, a graphic design major, sug-gested that the answers may be found at one of the Greek societies on campus.
“I believe it was a sorority because I saw a bunch of girls wearing shirts that said that also,” Michel said in a post.
Bradley Norris, president of Kappa Sigma, said, “It was an advertising stunt for spring rush to try and recruit some new members.”
Norris said it worked real-ly well. The goal was to have students wondering about the message. Kappa Sigma then had girls wear shirts that read, “Ask me” two weeks ago. When someone asked the girls, they would provide informa-tion about how to join the fra-ternity, and invite them to the information and dinner nights that occurred Feb. 15 and 17.
“It was just really cool see-ing all the reaction and spec-ulation before we had the girls out there,” Norris said. “I couldn’t believe there was a whole MySpace discussion board about it.”
Laura E. Williams, Greek life and activities adviser, said the spring semester brings a whole new approach to recruitment for fraternities and sororities.
“Spring rush is less formal than fall recruitment week,” Williams said. “There isn’t just one week of events and advertising. For the spring there is continuous open bid-ding throughout the semes-ter.”
The vagueness and obscu-rity of the message caused so much speculation and inter-est in the fraternity that Nor-ris plans to eventually use the tactic again.
“It was fun,” Norris said. “And with the reaction that followed, we will be glad to do it again.”
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W hen I heard that academic advising is now required for all incoming students, I thought it was a great idea.
Now students are required to see their advisers at least once a semester to make sure they are on track with their classes. This is extremely helpful, because students often get confused about what they need to take for their majors.
Talking to an adviser can ensure they graduate according to plan. The guidance of an adviser is invaluable.
With this in mind, I can’t under-stand why students would be hesi-tant to visit their advisers. And I know that many are.
I suppose that not all advisers are as focused on their students as they should be, but this means that we should demand more of them.
After all, if every student on campus has to see an adviser, then they need to step up and provide their services without the aloofness some professors are known for — the reason why some students would want to avoid them.
Then I remembered that when I was a sopho-more, I wasn’t really keen on talking to my profes-sors, either.
At that time, my older brother was a senior and a dedicated philosophy major. He would visit his
favorite profs during their office hours all the time, which bewildered me.
What could they possibly be talking about, and how could he consider them to be his (gasp) friends?
For a long time, I had trouble thinking of my teachers as real people.
They have lives outside of school, families, grocery shopping to do. But to me, they were author-ity figures, nothing more than an entity in a classroom. Their sole purpose was to assign homework and give me a grade.
When I would see a teacher com-ing toward me as I walked to class,
I had to suppress the urge to duck behind a tree to avoid having to talk to them and face an almost cer-
tainly uncom-fortable conver-sation.
Yet, even this isn’t entirely true. In elemen-tary school, I was attached to my teachers. I even cried when my 3rd grade teacher told the class she was
moving to Colorado. I think things changed by the time I got to high
school, where the classes were bigger and I had multiple teachers to keep track of at once.
In the general education classes at Fresno State, it’s even more difficult when you’re sitting in a huge room with 200 other kids.
A greater distance is created between teacher and student. A student begins to feel anonymous in
a sea of faces, and apathy for the class can set in. That’s where this academic advising comes in. Students have the advantage of meeting with a
professor face to face and get individualized atten-tion.
You get the chance to ask questions about your major and the professional field you’re interested in. You can build a working relationship with this professor, a mentor of sorts.
If you are thinking about going to graduate school or getting a job after you graduate, you can ask this professor to write you a letter of recom-mendation.
Hopefully by that point, you will have someone that knows you and your accomplishments well enough to speak on your behalf.
I noticed a change in my attitude towards profes-sors when I became a tutor at the Writing Center (located in the Education building, room 184; come visit us sometime). I was often working with fresh-men and if they were having particular trouble with a paper, I found myself asking them if they had talked to their teachers about it.
I don’t know why I was surprised when they often said no.
I had to explain that’s why they have office hours, folks. They are here to help you. They are in the best position to offer clarification.
So go make an appointment to see your adviser. While you’re at it, stop by to see your other profes-sors during their office hours.
They get lonely sometimes. Have a conversation. You might find that they have something cool to
say. It could be a truly enlightening experience. Don’t forget: professors are people, too.
(in)explicableSharn Dhah
Anisha D. Seals is a senior at majoring in mass com-munication and journalism.
To comment on this article, visit our discussion forums at http://collegian.csufresno.edu/forums
Sharn Dhah is a senior at Fresno State majoring in English.
A s I sat in my bed recuperating from my early morning aerobics class, I watched a segment on “Good Morning America.”
This segment was about a contest that Dove had as a part of its Campaign for Real Beauty.
As a part of this campaign, advertisements show more women of different shapes, colors and sizes, as opposed to the typical stick-thin, light-skinned women as other advertisements display.
Lindsay Miller, from California, won this contest and her commercial was aired during this past Sunday.
The commercial was presented during the Oscars by Sara Ramirez (from “Grey’s Anatomy”) and both Ramirez and Miller were featured on this segment of Good Morning America.
Miller expressed how great it felt to do this com-mercial, which was similar to an Herbal Essence com-mercial.
While lathering up in the shower, she sang pas-sionately into her magenta hair brush like an 80s rock star and even slid across her shower floor a bit.
As I watched the show, I began to think to myself how far our society has come regarding body image, especially for women.
So many things influence the way that women feel about themselves.
When you don’t see someone that looks like you on TV, it may be tough to even think that you’re beautiful.
When magazines have models gracing their front covers with their ribs practically protruding, it may make women wonder if that’s the way they’re sup-posed to look.
I remember when it was rare to see different types of women as models.
Every woman on the tube or the billboard has been tall, thin, and has had every other quality that we can think of when we imagine a model.
Dove probably isn’t the first, but has done a great job of showing fuller women, women of color, shorter women, etc., in its commercials.
CoverGirl has Queen Latifah as one of its spokesper-sons and I love it!
She’s beautiful, intelligent and talented, and she doesn’t fit the cookie-cutter norm.
Ramirez plays Dr. Callie O’Malley on “Grey’s Anatomy” and she breaks the mold of the stereotypical actress.
“Good Morning America” aired a portion of an epi-sode where she shook her groove thing in her T-shirt and pink unmentionables.
Most people may think that it’s not attractive to see a woman with extra meat on her bones showing that much skin, but it’s about time that someone is trying to change those ideas.
Dove’s way of doing it is by showing that beauty is not defined by a specific look, size or shape.
It’s defined by simply knowing that you’re beauti-ful and accepting yourself regardless of whether or not
you look like a Vogue model.I’m not saying that we shouldn’t see people that are
thinner in advertisements, but I think we’re way over-due for something different.
By Anisha D. Seals Collegian Staff Writer
Media gives unfair representation of beauty
Try making time for your professors
“Students have the advantage of meeting with a pro-fessor face to face and get individualized attention.
You get the chance to ask questions about your major and the professional field you’re interested in. You can build a working relationship with this professor, a mentor of sorts.”
Letters to the editor
I am writing in response to Katrina Garcia’s article entitled “Dialing campus PD: a fast response,” from the Feb. 21 edi-tion of The Collegian. The new Campus Police emergency phone number, (559) 278-8400, was not introduced “recently;” the number was activated and operational on Jan. 1, 2005, more than two years ago. In my opinion, half of a student’s tenure at this University does not qualify as recent.
Further, Ms. Garcia states in her “Fighting Instincts” subsection that dial-ing 278-8400 “could potentially be the better option.” For on-campus emergencies, this is always the best course of action.
Ms. Garcia failed to point calling 911 from a cell phone automatically routes to the dispatch center in Sacramento. For someone who is confused or scared, calling for help and speaking with a dispatcher 150 miles away is not a better option than call-ing the source of help directly — Fresno State PD.
During the fall semester, I organized a Campus Police phone number drive. This drive impressed upon students the impor-tance of having the “new” police phone number in their cell phones. The drive was a complete success, reaching more than 1,000 students, who received free pens and Post-It notes that had the number printed on them.
This is just another example of the many ways that Associated Students, Inc. serves students and our community. Please feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns you may have, at (559) 278-2656, or via e-mail at [email protected].
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Fresno State’s first theatre produc-tion of the spring semester, “The Little Foxes,” opens tonight in the John Wright Theatre. The play focuses on the Hubbard family, a selfish, greedy bunch living in the post-Civil War South. The play is a critique of capital-ism. “This play is like the scary pre-quel to how money came to be the most important aspect of society,” said Kathleen McKinley, the play’s director and chair of Fresno State’s theatre department.
T he story of the Hub-bard family is one of cor ruption, g reed,
immorality and relationships. The play “The Little Foxes” features the tale of siblings Regina, Ben and Oscar Hub-bard and has become one of the great classics of Ameri-can theatre.
Set in the post-Civil War Deep South, the play’s author, Lillian Hellman, was a com-munist and wrote the play with anti-capitalism in mind during the Great Depression. The play is being directed by Kathleen McKinley, who said she is proud to have “The Lit-tle Foxes” at Fresno State’s University Theatre.
“This play is like the scary prequel to how money came to be the most important aspect of society,” McKin-ley said. “Looking into Don-ald Trump’s living room and overhearing his conversa-tions with his family would be similar to overhearing the Hubbard family. This plays shows the dark side of capi-talism.”
T h e c h a r a c t e r s t h e m -selves are entertaining as well. “These characters are extreme in their greed, self-ishness and manipulations,” McKinley said. “They are deliciously villainous charac-ters because you will love to hate them.”
“It is like a contest between the three siblings with their manipulations about who can sink the lowest,” McKin-ley said. “These characters represent what is wrong with America. They made their wealth from taking advantage of people suffering after the Civil War.”
McKinley said that as the story moves along, the Hub-bards’ web of deceptions only grows, which is fun to watch. Plus, audiences already enjoy watching wealthy families struggle with relationships on television shows like “The O.C.” and “Brothers & Sis-ters,” she said.
“The Little Foxes” is popu-lar with most audiences, and students are no exception. “This play deals with mis-placed values, racism, sexism, many of which are relatable to students,” McKinley said. “There are also family issues involved. Regina’s daughter Alexandra is a teenager and she examines the way that her parents behave. She wonders, ‘Is it time to separate from my family?’ She represents the hope for the future.”
The play sends a very impor-tant message about America, said sophomore Jordan Rob-erts who portrays Oscar Hub-bard in the play. “It is about what happens when people take capitalism and exploit it,” he said. “Anyone can be blinded so much by what they want that they’ll do anything to get it. The story is intrigu-ing because it touches a polit-ical base without ramming it down your throat. It is inter-esting for the audience to watch the three of us go at it, since we are all terrible peo-
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begin to cheer for them a little bit,” McKinley said.
The play’s lead role is Regina Hub-bard, who is portrayed by sophomore Hayley Galbraith. “Regina is a real-ly complex character from an actor’s perspective,” Galbraith said. “She is thought of as a villain by some, but she is in a powerless position after her father’s death, with a daughter to look after. She tries to regain a sense of ownership of her life, and she goes to extremes to get this.”
Regina’s brother Oscar is “the one who most desperately wants to be a player, but isn’t,” Roberts said. “He is a really short-fused, powder keg kind of fellow. He is in a very unhappy, abu-sive marriage and he married his wife
only so he could g e t h e r c o t t o n fields.”
Junior Jay Felix takes on the part of Ben Hubbard and was enthusi-astic about being involved in “The L i t t l e F o x e s , ” which he said is an iconic play. “The Hubbards are some of the best parts in the-ater,” Felix said. “They are kind of jerks, which makes them fun charac-ters to play. The Hubbards are hated by everyone in their community because they cheated people like Civil War sol-diers and slaves out of money. The Hubbards’ money is ill-gotten and they are also always at each other’s throats,
and I think that is important for story-telling.”
For Felix, this is a play that should be seen by every-one, even those who may not like other theatrical productions.
“ ‘ T h e L i t t l e Foxes’ will be a really good expe-rience all around, especially for stu-
dents who are made to go because of a class assignment and would end up hating other plays,” he said. “I feel especially strong about this play. Everything about it is solid, from the production to the acting.”
“If you just want really good story-telling and characters that you will
love to hate, come see this play,” Felix said. “I think people will be pleasantly surprised.”
Galbraith concurred. “This play is very accessible to any audience,” she said. “If you like money or have prob-lems with your family, then you can relate to this play.”
“The Little Foxes” debuts March 2 in the John Wright Theatre. The per-formances will be on March 2-4 and March 6-10. The play begins at 8 p.m., except for Sundays when it starts at 2. It is a three act play with a duration of two and a half hours, including two intermissions. Tickets are $8 for stu-dents, $13 for staff and $15 for the gen-eral public. To purchase tickets, go to www.csufresno.edu/Theatre or call 278-2216.
FOXES from page 4
“The Little Foxes” examines the excesses of capitalism
“Anyone can be blinded so much by what they want
that they’ll do anything to get it. The story is intriguing because it touches a political base without ramming it down your throat.”
— Jordan Robertsactor in “The Little Foxes”
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Ahh, can you smell it? Spring is in the air. The grass is getting greener. The weather is getting nicer. The semester is getting into full swing and all those midterm papers that you’ve been putting off are now coming due.
And yes, the unmistakable sound of aluminum striking cowhide in the form of a base-ball resonates through the air from the corner of Cedar and Barstow Avenues.
And what could be better than going out to a game with a couple of buddies, taking in some of the wonderful spring-time weather and settling in for a few hours to partake in a slice of Americana?
Baseball…It’s back!And what could be better
than sitting there watching that game with a nice ballpark hot-dog, a bag of peanuts and a beer.
WHOA! Hold the phone here. There is no more beer at Fresno State baseball games? A tear nearly fell from my eye when confronting this tragedy
for the first time this season. Is this what things have come to? PC, or whatever you want to call the no beer policy sweep-ing across college campuses throughout the West Coast, is ruining my sports viewing experience.
What could have been so egregious the violation to prompt this action? Did someone get killed? What could have led Fresno State to pull from its stadiums such a financial boon as the six-dol-lar-beer? Why would they do this to me?
But then it all came rush-ing back to me in a flash. Memories of football fans throwing screwdrivers at
opposing players. Front page articles in the USA Today showing Fresno State tail-gaters unabashedly slamming beers for all the world to see (as if Fresno State didn’t have enough bad press following the Jerry Tarkanian experiment). And yes, the university’s attempt to make itself look appealing in the off chance the PAC-10 ever felt compelled to make itself the PAC-11.
So it all became clear then. Somebody had to be thrown under the bus in order to clean up a struggling public image, and beer drinkers were the ones who found themselves choking on the exhaust.
Now there are certain things in the world of sports that I find sacred. The sports fan should have certain inalien-able rights when going to a ball game. At a Giants vs. Dodgers game, it is perfectly fine to tell Jeff Kent how much he stinks. Nobody is going to tell you not to throw peanut shells on the ground or not to pee in the sink when the bathroom line
is too long…wait, that might be going a little bit too far. And I feel that I should be able to go to a baseball game on a 110-degree day in the middle of the summer and drink a beer.
But unfortunately, someone in charge of things at this university is under the impres-sion that a football stadium full crazed, drunken, violent and unruly fans who are all on the brink of riot makes for a poor family atmosphere. Someone thinks that the comforts of the many outweigh the whims of a drunken few. Someone thinks that a college football game should be a safe place to bring women and children.
Some reasoning that is. Okay, all kidding aside. I
suppose it does make a modi-cum of sense to ban alcohol from Fresno State athletic events. After all, who wants to take their life into their own hands just to go to a football game? The risk involved in going to a Fresno State foot-ball game three years ago was roughly equivalent to taking a
bath with your toaster or wres-tling a hungry grizzly bear. It made “The Black Hole” at Oakland Raiders’ games look like a daycare. So yes, I accept that cutting off beer sales may have been a necessary step to repair the poor public image Fresno State and its fans were receiving in the national media.
But that doesn’t mean I have to like it.
So for the time being I sup-pose I will just have to content myself with more tangible and practical pleasures. Like the weather, the smell of fresh cut grass, and the ability to go home after a baseball game with the capability to open up a book and read.
Perhaps a day without the sauce isn’t such a bad thing after all.
• This is the debut column for Douglas Sulenta with The Collegian. Sulenta joins Kyle Lazarus as the newest additions to The Collegian sports staff. Both can be reached at [email protected]
To beer or not to beer, that is the questionSpo r t s C ommen t a r y
Fresno State Sports Calendar
Today
Saturday
Sunday
Equestrian vs. Delaware
State, TCU, SMU, SDSU, UTMFresno, Calif.
8 a.m.
Women’s Basketballvs. Utah StateFresno, Calif.
1 p.m.
Baseballvs. San DiegoFresno, Calif.1:05 p.m.
Equestrian
Baseballvs. San DiegoFresno, Calif.6:05 p.m.
vs. Delaware State, TCU, SMU,
SDSU, UTMFresno, Calif.
8 a.m.
Baseballvs. San DiegoFresno, Calif.1:05 p.m.
The Way I See ItDouglaS Sulenta
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GuardCamille Brox - 5’5”, Sr.Brox, who recently moved into the starting rota-tion, isn’t a dominant scorer but she is extremely accurate from 3-point territory.GuardTaylor Richards - 5’4”, Jr.The Aggies leading scorer can light it up from both inside and outside. ForwardBrittany Phillips - 6’0”, Sr.The Bulldogs must keep Phillips off the free-throw line where she is most effective and exploit her tendency to get in foul trouble. ForwardBrittany Hagen - 6’1”, Sr.In the game for defense and rebounds, don’t expect Hagen to provide much on the offensive end. ForwardJenny Gross - 6’2”, Jr.A talented scorer inside, but if Fresno State forces her to shoot from the outside it could be “brick city.”
GuardChantella Perera, 5’9”, Sr.Perera has seen perhaps the greatest growth of any female basketball player ever at Fresno State. Adrian Wiggins will miss all she brings to the table. GuardPaige Diggs, 5’9”, Jr.After Jasmine Marshall left the team, Diggs filled her spot better than anyone could have ever imag-ined. Her all-out play is key on defense. ForwardAndrea Roberson, 6’1”, Sr.Roberson, even as a senior, still hasn’t reached her full potential, but she is capable of going off at any time.ForwardBrittani Green, 6’2”, Sr.As steady as they come, Green has always been one to do the little things that are not reflected on the stat sheet. ForwardJenny Thigpin. 6’3”, Sr.Her aggressiveness and tenacity get her in trouble sometimes, but her height causes problems for opposing teams.
Women’s Basketball PreviewThe Collegian’s Darrell Copeland III and Jeff Christian break down Saturday’s game
Saturday: 1 p.m. at the Save Mart Center TV: None Radio: 1430 ESPN Radio
Fresno State Bulldogs (16-12, 8-7) at
Utah State Aggies (11-16, 7-8)
Fresno State senior Andrea Roberson and the rest of her Bulldogs senior teammates will play their final home game this Saturday against WAC foe Utah State.
File photo by Juan Villa / The Collegian
The Fresno State women’s basketball team has saved its best for last. After struggling to find consistency for a majority of the season, the Bulldogs have caught fire down the homestretch, the lone exception coming on the
road at Boise last night. After a long road trip, Fresno State made the most of its return to the Save Mart
Center. The Bulldogs defeated Louisiana Tech and Boise State, the top two teams in the WAC. Fresno State also avenged an earlier conference loss against New Mexico State during the homestand.
Fresno State will look to regain that home momentum and get retribution from an overtime conference loss on Saturday when the Bulldogs host Utah State. Satur-day’s contest will be the final regular season home game for Fresno State’s seniors. Chantella Perera, Paige Diggs, Brittani Green, Andrea Roberson and Jenny Thig-pin will be honored before Saturday’s tip-off.
The emotion will be high on the Bulldogs’ behalf, but if it’s too high, that could spell trouble. The seniors on this team have been through more ups and downs than arguably any other team on cam-pus, and would love nothing more than to make a postseason run. Defensive intensity will make the difference.
’Dogs win if:
The Aggies are about to run into a buzz saw, which will either be a good or bad thing. Utah State won’t be able to dictate any part of the game, but if it can capi-talize on the Bulldogs’ mistakes — which is bound to happen even-tually — then it will be in it at the end. And that’s all it can ask for.
Aggies wins if:
P r o bab l e S t a r t e r s P r obab l e S t a r t e r s
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Wh e n y o u look around, chances are
somewhere nearby will be a Timeout.
No, not a short stop-page in a sporting match.
Rather, you are likely to see Fresno State’s mas-cot, whose name happens to be Timeout.
This fierce Bulldog stands as a symbol of pride for students, facul-ty and the community.
It’s branded on sweat-shirts, hats and license plate frames.
One of the biggest bull-dogs around is the bronze bulldog at Fresno State’s Save Mart Center.
The Bulldog Foundation, in addition to sponsors, made the statue possible by raising money to fund the project.
Executive Director of the Bulldog Foundation annu-al fund Patrick Ogle said among other things, the Bulldog Foundation decid-ed to have the bronze bull-dog as centerpiece in the building.
The Bulldog Foundation also sponsored the display cases around the arena and the Bulldog Foundation Community Room, which was decorated by the foun-dation.
Located in the Shehadey Lobby on the southeast corner of Shaw and Chest-nut, the bronze statue stands 10 feet high.
“[The Bulldog] is the pictorial mas-cot that Fresno
State has used for a number of years,” said Dennis Woods, CEO of United Security Bank — the company that made a donation for the statue. “A local artist designed that then a company in Visalia beefed it up and changed the look.”
Included on the statue is an engraved plaque, which reads: “This is our mascot and he ain’t no hound. He’s an English bull and weighs lots of pounds. He’s got two rows of teeth and a terrible frown. Hey, nobody’s kicking our dog around!”
The 4,200-pound dog (3,200 without its base), contains nine time capsules, which were placed inside its base in 2004.
The capsules, which will be opened in the year 2054, con-tain items which represent all aspects of Fresno State including: the Bulldog Foun-dation, administration, alumni, Associated Stu-dents and athletics.
“The Bulldog Foun-dation organized the whole time capsule event,” Ogle said. “We contacted groups to put their stuff i n t h e time cap-sules.”
Included in the Bulldog Foundation’s time capsule were: bylaws, brochures from the 40th and 50th annual fund drive, vision statements for 2003 and 2004, letterhead, a book about the first 50 years titled “The Team Behind the Teams,” stickers and paper weights, among other things.
In his time capsule, Pres-ident John Welty includ-ed a letter to his successor explaining how the Save Mart Center came to be.
In the Associated Students’ capsule, items included were T-shirts, a copy of The Colle-gian, on-campus living litera-ture, a Korean flag, a Russian Bible and other items, which represent the diverse student culture of the university.
Also included were com-memorative pins, programs, CDs of the march-
ing band, mementos from the Save Mart Center’s opening week activities and video of the construction of the bull-dog statue.
The company that made the statue was EMI, Inc. out of Visalia, Calif.
EMI has been in business for more than 25 years, spe-cializing in bronze sculpture casting. One of the compa-ny’s owners, Jim Dritsas, is an alumnus of Fresno State.
Dritsas could not be reached for comment.
The statue took about four to five months to complete, a very short period of time for a statue of this caliber, EMI employee Renee Robbins said.
The process of making the dog, which stands 7 feet wide and 9 feet long, is known as
lost wax.“The Bulldog looks like
a simple piece,” Robbins said. “But that’s far from
what it was.”Included in this pro-cess are about a
dozen steps start-ing with find-
ing the art-w o r k
for
the piece. After making a rubber
mold, wax is poured into it then is removed and chased, which means a metal tool is used to rub out all the marks where the pieces of the mold came together.
After sprucing and slur-rying, the shell is tested for leaks. A few more finishing touches and patinating which means coloring and the stat-ue is complete.
Not a simple or quick task at all.
“Our job was to write the check,” Woods said. “We’re certainly happy with the way it came out.”
And although most people are excited about the bull-dog, not everyone agrees that where it stands is the best spot for it.
“I think it’s in the worst spot ever,” kinesiology major Allyson Souza said. “It would be better if it were some-where where everybody could see it.”
Criminology major Chris-topher Kelm argues that the statue can be seen from the street which shows school pride.
“I think that it’s an interest-ing location because you can see it from the street as you drive by it. It allows people to see our school pride as they drive past it,” he said.
“However, it would also make more sense to use that entrance more than they do, possibly by making it the stu-dent entrance.”
R e g a r d l e s s o f w h e r e i t s t a n d s, m a ny p e o p l e expressed satisfaction with the statue.
When the time capsules are opened in 2054, those involved will get a piece of everything the bulldog stands for to Fres-no State.
“This was something I was happy to do,” Woods said. “And I hope the community likes it.”
By Kim Anderson Collegian Staff Writer
Bronzed and supersized
Bas k e t b a l l
Bulldogs’ home finale saved by the BellFr e sno S t a t e 78 , Bo i s e S t a t e 77
Photos by Juan Villa / The Collegian
The Fresno State basketball team got into a back and forth battle with the Boise State Broncos Thursday night, winning 78-77.
Bulldogs guard Kevin Bell (being lifted by Quinton Hosley and teammates at left) drained a fade-away jumpshot from about 15 feet from the basket with 0.6 seconds left on the clock.
Bell had 17 points and 11 assists in the game, while Hosley led all scorers with 24 points in the game.
With the win, the Bulldogs (21-9) earn their 21st victory of the season, and continue a win-ning streak that has now reached five games.
Photo Illustration by Juan Villa / The Collegian
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