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Juniper RoseASST. NEWS EDITOR
The 23 California State University presidents and CSU Chancellor Charles Reed decided not to cut master’s level students’ State University Grants for the 2012-2013 academic year at a meet-ing Wednesday in Long Beach.
Graduate students didn’t receive their fi nancial award packages two weeks ago when undergrad-uate students got theirs because of the review by the CSU.
The grant policy was being evaluated, and that policy and others will continue to be reviewed and evaluated in the future, said Mike Uhlenkamp, a spokesman for the CSU Chancellor’s Offi ce.
The decision to maintain the grants only applies for next year, Chico State President Paul Zingg said in an email interview.
Several CSU presidents, including Zingg, argued that the funds should not be cut with such short notice, Zingg said.
The grants are awarded to cover tuition, and average about $5,000 per semester for mas-ter’s level students, according a fi nancial aid
document record.Reed agreed to appoint a group of presidents to
study the issue beyond next year, Zingg said.“I think he was infl uenced by the arguments
of the presidents not to change the SUG policy for graduate students so late in the year without thoroughly understanding the arguments and implications of doing so,” Zingg said.
Students and faculty will be notifi ed if any changes are going to be made, Uhlenkamp said.
Students in the Graduate Council at Chico State have been working to raise awareness about the possibility of the cut to cash grants and are relieved and ready to protect their State Univer-sity Grants in the future.
“It is nice to know that just raising our voices made people aware and not just the administration but also our student body,” said Maija Glasier-Lawson, an anthropology graduate student.Daniel Levine, a political science graduate stu-dent, applauds the decision to keep the State University Grants but is still concerned, he said.
“I personally don’t see this so much as a victory, but we are really going to use this as an awaken-ing,” Levine said. “I just feel like at least folks can take a deep breath and they are not going to get beaten out of their funding for this semester. Now we just need to stay focused.”
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Natalie LessaSTAFF WRITER
Anxiety, which has tradition-ally been treated with sedatives such as Xanax, Valium and Ativan, has caused students to become dependent on their medications, forcing a change in strategy by medical staff s.
The addictive nature these drugs led to a call for policy changes, said Deborah Stewart, medical chief of staff at the Stu-dent Health Center.
Students suff ering with anxiety disorders used to be prescribed benzodiazepines fi rst, but because of abuse, doctors are now prescribing antidepressants, Stewart said.
“Policy has changed in accordance with professional guidelines,” she said.
Antidepressants fall into a diff erent type of medication and can take weeks to develop their full eff ect, she said. For this reason, benzodiazepines are prescribed for only a week or two.
“Addiction to these medica-tions is quite severe,” Stewart said. “They have very signifi cant
side eff ects with other types of medications and with alcohol and usually require a medical withdrawal.”
One in four college students has abused prescription drugs, according to a recent study on the National Council on Patient Information and Education’s website.
Sedative drugs work by slow-ing down the central nervous system and creating a calming eff ect, which can be multiplied with the use of alcohol, accord-ing to the website.
Timothy Sasan, a former Chico State student who now attends College of Marin, has had many friends who got addicted, he said.
“They take it because it gets them drunk quicker, but in the
Master’s level students still eligiblefor State University Grant in 2012-13
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They take it because it gets them drunk quicker, but in the morning they don’t remember a thing.
MIDDLE ME THIS Assemblyman
Marty Block advocates
for the Middle Class Scholarship Act in Trinity
Commons on Thursday.
Proponents say the act
would cut tuition for students
who come from families
making $30,000 to $150,000 a
year.
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Luke MintonSTAFF WRITER
About 150 students ral-lied in an attempt to cut up to two-thirds of tuition for middle class students Thursday in Trinity Commons.
The rally, called Make it Matter, centered on the Mid-dle Class Scholarship Act, which proposes cutting tuition for families mak-ing between $30,000 and $150,000, said Marty Block, chair of the Higher Education Committee.
The bill would save stu-dents about $4,000 per year and $16,000 over the stu-dents’ four years in the California State University system, he said.
“These are dollars that will make a difference,” Block said.
Chico State President Paul Zingg, who introduced the keynote speakers, lamented the lack of investment in higher education from the state.
The act is about “not just stopping cuts but reinvesting in higher educa-tion,” he said.
Committee and organization funds
have been cut, but financial issues continue throughout the CSU system.
Enrollment dropped, tuition went up and money is still being lost, said Jillian Ruddell, a non-voting CSU stu-dent trustee and senior multicultural
and gender studies major.Student clubs and orga-
nizations attended to show support.
The Community Legal Information Center, the Gen-der and Sexuality Equity Center and the Cross-Cul-tural Leadership Center offered pamphlets and fliers with information about their organizations and student involvement on campus.
The event reached out to plenty of students, said Erik Taylor, Associated Stu-dents director of legislative affairs.
“A lot of students learned more about the scholarship act, and they are pumped now,” he said.
There do not seem to be many drawbacks to the proposed act, Tay-lor said.
“The sole purpose is to help the middle class students,” he said, “and for those who think it is bad,
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MIDDLE CLASS SCHOLARSHIPACT AT A GLANCE
Students from families with incomes between $30,000 and $150,000 could have tuition slashed by two-thirds.
The bill could save students about $4,000 per year.
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Natalie EucceSTAFF WRITER
A Chico State student who was hiking with friends at Feather Falls in Oroville on Sun-day was swept away by a current and over a waterfall more than 400 feet tall.
Mitchell Padula, a 28-year-old man near-ing the completion of his engineering degree, has not been found, said Steve Collins, sergeant at the Butte County Sher-iff ’s Offi ce.
Collins said Padula and his friends were hiking a fi ve-mile trail and followed a footpath made by hikers over the years to an overlook point above the falls on Fall River.
Padula’s friends told the Sher-rif’s department that they saw
Padula trying to wet his shirt in a pool of water at the overlook point, Collins said.
The pool of water appeard calm because the water wasn’t rush-
ing, so the current wasn’t visible, he said. It was 90 degrees that day and Pad-ula wanted to be cool for the hike back to the trail-head, but he slipped into the water.
“The next thing they saw was him in the water and they were trying to get him to grab onto rocks on the stream, but that didn’t happen, he wasn’t able to,” Collins said.
The call came to authorities about 5 p.m. Sunday, he said. Cal-Fire Butte, the Butte County Sheriff ’s Offi ce, Butte County Search and California Highway Patrol responded to the call.
“We always hope that there’s a
chance that somebody’s clinging to a rock or a branch or some-thing,” Collins said. “However, if a person went all the way down the falls then their chances of survival are very, very slim.”
Padula’s family was notifi ed between 8 and 9 p.m. that night, he said.
Rescue teams searched until nightfall and had suspended the search until 11 a.m. Monday for visibility, Collins said.
“That area has just sheer wall and at the bottom all it is is rock and water,” he said.
A helicopter will fl y over the falls every couple of days, said Kevin Lucero, lieutenant for Butte County Sheriff ’s Search and Rescue.
Padula could be on the back side of the waterfall, which is not visible by air or ground, so teams are forced to wait for the water fl ow to calm down because the
danger to rescuers is too great, he said.
“It could take weeks to a month,” Lucero said. “Quick-moving water fl ow is extremely dangerous for anybody, even including rescuers that are trained to read it and deal with it. One of our last options is to go in
the water itself, and in this type of situation we would not actu-ally put anybody in the water just due to the sheer velocity and tur-bulence that is associated with the falls.”
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RESPOND Cal-Fire Butte and Butte County Sherriff ’s Search and Rescue personnel plan search eff orts Sunday at Feather Falls for Mitchell Padula.
MITCHELL PADULAChico State stu-dent who fell over waterfall Sunday.
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The resignation of Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte leaves the Netherlands leaderless. A lack of support from Geert Wilders’ Party for Freedom for an $18.6 billion austerity package led to the resignation. The party has been accused of inciting hatred against Muslims.
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Wal-Mart is conducting an investigation into the bribery of foreign offi cials by senior Wal-Mart executives and lawyers. A New York Times article Saturday alleged that Wal-Mart de Mexico execu-tives paid $24 million in bribes to secure construction permits throughout Mexico.
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An unexpected storm hit the Northeast early this week, and up to a foot of snow is expected in some places. More than 75,000 homes lost power in Pennsylvania and New York. The storm follows the warmest March on record for the region.
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The third discovery of human artifacts at the $1 billion Genesis Solar Energy Project has Native American tribes in the desert east of Los Angeles demanding that President Barack Obama’s administra-tion slow energy projects along the Colorado River.
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A measure to end the death penalty in California will be on the November ballot. If passed, California will use a life term without possibility of parole instead of capital punishment. California has executed 13 inmates over the last 23 years.
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The number of Mexican immigrants in the U.S. has declined to a standstill. From 2005 to 2010, 1.37 million Mexican immigrants entered the U.S. while 1.39 million left the U.S. to return to Mexico, according to a report by the Pew Hispanic Center.
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BevMo, a liquor store chain that has been protested by locally owned busi-nesses, is coming to Chico, as City Council voted 5-0 Tuesday in support of the business opening on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway.
Chico police studied to see if there was a “public necessity” for another business to be granted type 21 and type 42 liquor licenses by Alcoholic Bev-erage Control, Chico police Sgt. Rob Merrifi eld said.
The police department found no rea-son to oppose BevMo’s Chico opening and recommended that the Council approve the request, Merrifi eld said dur-ing the City Council meeting.
BevMo does not sell cigarettes or por-nographic material, unlike many liquor and convenience stores, which makes it even less of a threat to public safety, he said.
Local business owners who sell alco-hol are concerned that another corporate chain will detract from the “mom-and-pop” businesses in Chico, said Timothy Finn, who works for a family-owned alcohol distribution company, to the Council.
“There are so many problems blamed on alcohol,” Finn said. “Why are we bringing in another source to the problem?”
Liz Zaninovich, a BevMo represen-tative, said the chain has an excellent record with Alcoholic Beverage Control.
The company has had four infrac-tions in its last 13 million transactions,
Zaninovich said to the Council.“We do understand concerns about
public safety and selling to minors,” she said.
Compared to liquor store prices in town, BevMo’s lower prices are fair, said Ethan McEnroe, a senior animal science major.
“BevMo is like the Costco for alcohol,” McEnroe said.
Keshav and Prince Pabbi of Star Liquors presented 19 signatures from area stores protesting the chain’s Chico location.
While there is always the potential for students to abuse a business like this, it may not be worse than other places that sell low-priced alcohol, McEnroe said.
Big weekends in Chico, like Labor Day, could become even more unsafe, said Christie Smith, a sophomore biol-ogy major.
“People could buy more alcohol, drink too much and get hurt,” Smith said.
But it could also reduce the number of people walking to stores downtown at night because they would stock up at BevMo, she said.
The Council’s role is not to determine if the business should be in town but to analyze where it will be located and how it will operate under city codes, Council-man Andy Holcombe said.
“From my point of view, we legally should support it,” Holcombe said.
Mayor Ann Schwab also rec-ommended the Council approve the opening.
Kjerstin Wood can be reached at
City approves liquor chain in vote
Students keep quiet to have gay pride heard Natalie EucceSTAFF WRITER
On Thursday, silence was heard.Chico State’s Prime Time Productions
hosted its fi fth annual Pride Week for the community.
The event was previously called Day of Silence Week, but the organiza-tion wanted to emphasize pride rather than just an individual day, said Shyna Deepak, Prime Time Productions’ diver-sity and social awareness coordinator.
Day of Silence is an international event that was created by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network in 1996 after a bullied student was murdered.
Day of Silence brings attention to harassment by having those who usu-ally speak out against it remain silent in support, Deepak said.
Ant, a comedian seen on shows like “Last Comic Standing” and “The Tyra Banks Show,” performed Wednesday at UHUB. He is famous in the gay commu-nity and came to Chico State to support Pride Week and do stand-up comedy, said Evan Thibeau, the Residence Hall Association diversity coordinator.
“Students take a vow of silence to raise awareness of what it feels like to
be silenced like closeted homosexuals or members of the LGBT community,” Thi-beau said.
Some people wore Day of Silence T-shirts while others duct taped their mouths, he said.
“Duct taping your mouth is a totally diff erent feeling than just staying silent to the outside,” Thibeau said. “It sends the message harder than just staying silent.”
An open-mic night was held where people broke their silence with poetry, fi ction works and short stories about LGBTQ issues.
Pride Week gives people a chance to meet those with diff erent sexual prefer-ences and realize that while they might dress diff erently, they all have the same problems, dreams and hopes, Ant said.
He added that gay people who remain “in the closet” only create more homophobia and misunderstandings about the LGBTQ community.
“Pride Week is an essential part of our visibility,” Ant said, “because it says, ‘You might not think you see us, but here we are.’”
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Faculty start vote to strike on campus
Aubrey CrosbySTAFF WRITER
The California Faculty Asso-ciation, which started voting for a fall strike authorization last week, expects support for the strike amid reopening of discussion with the California State University system.
The union will determine this week whether to give members the right to strike at the start of fall 2012.
If a majority of faculty mem-bers vote in favor of the strike authorization, CSU campuses could close for a few days at the beginning of the semes-ter, said David Bradfi eld, CFA chapter president for Cal State Dominguez Hills.
The strike vote is taking place because of contract disagreements between the CSU and the CFA, said Mike Uhlenkamp, a spokesman for the CSU Chancellor’s Offi ce.
Voting started at Chico State Monday, and the turnout has been great so far, said Susan Green, the statewide treasurer of the CFA.
“The faculty is very excited to exer-cise their opinion and right to vote,” Green said.
Online voting, which started last week at the 23 CSU campuses, has been popu-lar among faculty members, she said.
Fresno State has seen a good turnout at its polls, said Lisa Weston, the Fresno State CFA chapter president.
“I am fairly sure we are going to get a vote in favor of the strike authorization,” Weston said.
As of Wednesday, up to 35 percent of Fresno State’s fac-ulty voted at the polls, but the number is probably much higher, she said.
“We are doing a fairly good job, but most of our people are voting online,” Weston said. “We don’t get to see the online numbers until the vote is over.”
Of the 300 CFA members at Cal State San Marcos, 100 voted at the polls in the fi rst two days, with a larger turn-out expected online, said Don Barrett, president of the Cal State San Marcos chapter of the CFA.
A vote in favor of the strike is almost certain, said Jarret Lovell, Cal State Fullerton CFA chapter vice president.
“My belief is that when the votes are tallied, the Fuller-ton faculty will be united in favor of authorizing a strike vote,” Lovell said. “While we
hope such an action will be avoidable, I believe our faculty clearly recognizes the need to communicate to the chancel-lor and the board of trustees that educators are a resource worth investing in and that we and our students have been neglected for too long. Simply put, our faculty are always standing up for quality education.”
Vince Ornelas, president of the Chico State chapter of the faculty union, said the CFA’s displeasure is with Reed.
“We have been in the nego-tiation process for about two years, and we are about two-thirds through the process,” Ornelas said.
When the CFA strike vote went live on campuses, the CSU announced it would reopen negotiations in May, he said. This will allow two nego-tiations for the same contract, leading to the possibility of a faster solution, and may leave out the possibility of a strike if a compromise is met.
“We view this as a positive develop-ment and the fi rst most immediate impact of the vote,” Ornelas said.
The fact-fi nd-ing stage, which allows the faculty union and CSU to present their argu-ments and evidence to a neutral party, will continue.
The reopen-ing of negotiations will occur May 3 and 4 and is sepa-rate to include just representatives for the CFA and CSU, Uhlenkamp said.
“Both sides have indicated a desire to reach a negotiation agreement,” he said. “We both agreed to con-tinue negotiating the contract while the process has been reopened. It’s taking two par-allel paths.”
While the negotiation pro-cess will be reopened, Ornelas would rather see an “easy” end come from Reed or Zingg, he said.
“What we want is to have the chancellor tell his bargaining team to fi nd a fi nal and peace-ful ending with us,” Ornelas said. “Zingg could also just as easily pick up his phone, call the other presidents and fi nd a quick ending to negotiations.”
The faculty union is trying to gain student support by ask-ing them to sign a petition in favor of Gov. Jerry Brown’s rev-enue initiative, which would raise California sales tax by half a cent to raise money for higher education.
“Students are in a place where their education is being compromised, and they under-stand this,” Ornelas said. “They have been involved and supportive through the whole process so far because they can see the quality of their education eroding in front of them.”
Aubrey Crosby can be reached at
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President of the Chico State chapter of the
California Faculty Association
Students are in a place where
their education is being
compromised, and they
understand this.
While faculty have been voting online since last week for a strike authorization over their contract, the faculty union and California State University will reopen talks in May.
BREAK IT Sarah Ortiz sings “I’m Alive” by Becca during the Day of Silence event on Thursday.
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Visit theorion.com Thursday to read about Chico State’s Town Hall where about 650 students learned about political issues such as budget cuts to higher education.
The Gender and Sexuality Equity Center will host its fourth annual LGBTQ Leadership Conference from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday at the Bell Memorial Union Room 210. The conference will feature guests such as Jillian Ruddell, who founded the conference and is a California State University student trustee.
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Associated Students presidential candi-date Shane Morey criticized A.S. leadership Wednesday during a debate that was moder-ated by current President London Long ahead of this week’s election.
Long didn’t advocate for democracy or for what students wanted, Morey said.
He cited that students voted in April 2011 for A.S. to advocate against the Normal Street parking structure, which is scheduled for completion this year.
Long, who was asking the questions, seemed to continue running the debate with composure.
About 50 students attended the debate.If elected, Morey would support move-
ments like Occupy Chico State, because they are doing things to save education, he said.
His opponent, Jaypinderpal Virdee, cur-rent A.S. commissioner of community affairs, kept his focus on advocating for the Middle Class Scholarship Act, his enjoyment of col-lege and his attempt to keep A.S. transparent to the student population.
“There’s such things as the Middle Class Scholarship Act, and what that allows is stu-dents to save up to $4,000 per year for their education,” Virdee said.
These savings will allow students to spend time on the things they are passionate about, he said. If elected, Virdee promised to supply students with the information needed to be informed and active about A.S. policies.
The debate for executive vice president turned to other issues.
The biggest issue for A.S. other than finance is transparency, said Michael Barrett,
an executive vice president candidate who stood to answer questions.
Bianka Perez, the other candidate for exec-utive vice president, disagreed.
A.S. needs to utilize resources to show that Chico State is a great cam-pus and bring more people to events, Perez said.
The Wildcat Store was the main topic for the vice president of busi-ness and finance candidates.
People don’t trust the Wildcat Store, said Shane Franklin Rogers, one of the candidates. Even professors try to find cheaper textbooks online for students.
One way to turn the store’s losses around is through textbook rentals and making digital textbooks a viable option, Rogers said.
The other candidates for vice pres-ident of business and finance had different takes.
The Wildcat Store makes more money in reusing textbooks, said Keaton Bass, one of the candidates. [Disclaimer: Bass works for The Orion.]
E-books only accounts for 5 percent of the market, and the store has lost $3.5 million since 2009, Bass said.
A.S. is a nonprofit organization that needs to start thinking profitably, said Weijie Ho, the third candidate. The Wildcat Store should focus on recouping losses through the used textbook market.
The candidates for commissioner of com-munity affairs turned to the relationship between Chico State and the community.
The biggest challenge of the position is communicating between students, the City
Council and city members, candidate Brenna Dillman said. [Disclaimer: Dillman works for The Orion.]
Dillman spoke about the new noise ordi-nance Chico is proposing.
Students have to act, she said. Chico City Council needs to know students don’t want the noise ordinance.
Candidate Krista Farnady hopes to integrate Chico State students into high schools in the area to improve communication lines, she said.
Farnady spoke with Chico police to learn more about the noise ordi-nance and found that the ordinance is up to the officer’s discretion, she said.
“If someone was to call in a noise complaint, they would have to testify in court against you,” Farnady said.
The old noise ordinance worked, candidate Zach Keller said.
“Only 1 percent of the calls ended up having to go back a second time,” he said.
The two hopefuls for director of university affairs spoke on education and class availability.
The revamping of the upper-division themes into pathways is the first step toward providing an education that lasts a lifetime, said Spencer Hepworth, a candidate for direc-tor of university affairs.
The best weapons to help students get classes are students, candidate Nick Bremner said. Students need to let the school know they are not OK with losing classes.
Dan Reidel can be reached at
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DIFFERENT TAKES Associated Students presidential candidates Jaypinderpal Virdee [LEFT] and Shane Morey [RIGHT] debate on Wednesday at the Bell Memorial Union auditorium. Virdee advocated for the Middle Class Scholarship Act and Morey chided the leadership of current A.S. offi cers.
A.S. candidates take platforms to stage
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who might try to fi nd some things bad in it, is just a blatant attempt to continue to defund higher education.”
The event, which was coordinated by A.S., was well received, said Elyse Gutowski, A.S. executive vice president.
“It had a very positive impact on our campus,” Gutowski said. “It is important to see someone
was trying to make a diff erence.”Students can sign the petition at Middle-
ClassScholarship.com and upload videos stating why this act matters to them, Block said.
“You can make it matter by taking part in these activities,” he said.
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Chico Police Department
Thursday, 10:15 a.m.: Harassment reported on the 200 block of Main Street. “Ongoing problem with subject coming into businesses and harassing employees. Most recently he told them that he has been taking their business cards and putting his name on them and telling people that they can buy drugs at reporting party’s place of business. Subject has also been hanging around at closing time and waiting for reporting party’s 19-year-old daughter.”
Thursday, 10:33 p.m.: Shots heard reported on the 700 block of West 12th Street. “Two shots heard, sounded small caliber. When reporting party stepped out to investigate, she noticed a subject standing at the corner of 12th and Ivy who appeared to be holding something at his side like a longer fi rearm but unknown.”
Friday, 2:22 a.m.: Drunk in public reported on the 700 block of East Ninth Street. “Man yelling. Reporting party in his house and will not look. Subject between 9th and Cypress fl eeing in his gray Honda.”
Friday, 10:59 p.m.: Threats reported on the 1000 block of Mayette Drive. “Ex-boyfriend is sending threatening texts to reporting party’s cell. Posted naked pictures of reporting party on Craigslist with her phone number.” Saturday, 8:58 a.m.: Domestic dispute reported on Olive Street. “Reporting party says a female is spraying mace on a male subject.
The male subject is the female’s ex-boyfriend, and she is upset over the ownership of a white Pontiac.”University Police
Thursday, 2:59 a.m.: Drunk in public reported at the rugby field. “Subject walking around field, appears to have been drinking.”
Thursday, 7:36 a.m.: Welfare check requested on the south side of Kendall Hall. “Subject sleeping by flagpole. Student taking a nap.”
Thursday, 8:56 a.m.: Medical aid — non-alcoholic reported
in Tehama Hall. “Female passed out. Medical requested. Fire and medics at scene. Female staying in class, report taken.”
Friday, 8:14 p.m.: Narcotics violation reported in University Village. “Resident adviser reports the smell of marijuana. Negative contact. No one answered door — housing to handle.”
Saturday, 1:07 a.m.: Battery reported at the Wildcat Recreation Center. “Reporting party reporting she went to a party at Second and Hazel, had been drinking. She left the party and walked to the WREC. Next thing she remembers she was in the creek with cuts and bruises to her head.”
Saturday, 7:19 p.m.: Rape reported on the 400 block of West Fourth Street. “Chico Police Department reporting they are at Enloe with victim.”
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Information cited directly from Chico Police Department and University Police.
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morning they don’t remem-ber a thing,” he said.
Sasaan thinks sedative addiction is a problem at Chico State and probably at other campuses, he said.
Memory loss is one side effect, as well as impaired judgment, coordination, driving ability and sei-zures from withdrawal, Stewart said.
At Enloe Medical Cen-ter, there are severe cases of anxiety and other mental ill-nesses, said Barbra Maguire, the nurse educator in behav-iorial health there.
But having anxiety
isn’t always a bad thing, Maguire said.
Anxiety fuels students to do well on exams, apply them-selves in school or prepare for an interview, she said.
“It’s a natural reaction, like when you see a cop car in your rearview mirror and get nervous,” Maguire said.
When the anxiety begins to hinder daily chores and responsibilities and the wor-rying becomes so strong that you can’t even show up to take the test, it’s a disorder, she said.
Generalized anxiety dis-order can be genetic, but no one is sure why people have
it, Stewart said. Researchers believe it may be part of an evolutionary process, being that those individuals who were always scanning their environment were more likely to see potential dangers, and thus anxiety was created.
Humans may have used it as a survival technique thousands of years ago, but generalized anxiety disorder now continues to be a growing problem on college campuses as health care professionals develop policies regarding its treatment, she said.
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“There is an extent on how far hazing can go. I just think it shouldn’t hap-pen.”
Kelli Keefefreshman | softball
“I’ve never been hazed, but if I were I would hate it. I don’t like being picked on.”
McKenzie Dalthorpsophomore | women’s basketball
“It gives people a bad taste in their mouth. It destroys team relationships.”
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Allie ColoskySP ORTS EDITOR
Cold as iceDrinking, diapers and
drugs – if those don’t say team bonding, I don’t know what does.
The creativity in today’s college sports hazing is hitting a new level of embar-rassment, and if dressing up a rookie in an embarrassing outfit wasn’t enough, pop-ping pills and wine chugs are now done regularly.
Hazing can be defined as any humiliating act per-formed as a rite of passage or initiation into a group of people, which could trickle down to rookies carrying an abundance of athletic equip-ment and dirty uniforms.
I don’t think these more harmless things should be classified with such a dirty word, but to be under the assumption that haz-ing doesn’t happen at Chico State or anywhere else is even more ignorant than I can wrap my head around.
My astonishment continues when a school that claims to have a zero tolerance policy and doesn’t handle punish-ment for hazing “in-house” continues to sweep those incidences under the rug. If they won’t hold the athletes responsible for their actions, I’m confused as to who holds the athletic department responsible for theirs.
My friends have gone through hazing, and when I grimace at the picture of them wearing nothing but a diaper with a handle of whis-key duct-taped to their hand, they immediately attribute it to team bonding.
Wake up.Funneling alcohol or forc-
ing ecstasy pills onto your teammate or brother is not team bonding.
It’s dangerous, and Chico State is all too familiar with what happens when hazing is taken too far – remember Matthew Carrington?
Carrington was pledging to a fraternity in 2005 when a hazing ritual took his life.
While I hope that athletes are more aware of the damage they are doing to their bodies, my concern lies with how they have been socially conditioned to accept hazing traditions.
Rookie night is rookie night no matter the name you give it, and a zero tol-erance policy is not meant to discourage athletes from coming forward.
While peer pressure in col-lege is one thing, students who represent Chico State on a nationwide platform should not have the option to have their hazing incidences covered up by an athletic department or coach who has their eye on another title.
Rookie nights are dan-gerous and can spin out of control very quickly unless there is mercy shown from another teammate.
The line should have been drawn at forcing members to compete in a wine chug, but in today’s society, athletes have no problem with bit-ing the bullet and accepting their fate as a new member of the team.
The likelihood that rookie nights will cease to exist is about as likely as Chico State bringing back the football team, and there needs to be some responsibility some-where before the athletic department has its own Car-rington on its hands.
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ha • zing v. [-S, pl.] 1. Force a new or potential
member of a group to perform strenuous, humiliating or dan-gerous tasks. 2. An initiation process involving moderate to severe harassment.
HAZINGThe dangerous taboo that slips by unnoticed in college athletics
total numbers of ncaa athletes surveyed: 350,000
Chico State’s zero tolerance policy in athletics still hazy
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Adam LevinePrice PetersonAllie ColoskyTHE ORION
While Chico State maintains a zero tol-erance policy against hazing, the athletic department’s determinations of what con-stitutes the crime are concrete in policy, but seem ambiguous in application.
Chico State student-athletes caught being involved in hazing will be reported to Student Judicial Aff airs, Athletic Director Anita Barker said. The athletic department would never try to handle these issues “in-house,” she said.
“Nothing has come across my desk regarding hazing in years,” she said.
However, in an incident last year involving the Chico State softball team, multiple players were benched after a coach learned of a “rookie night” where older players had been singling out rook-ies and making them drink alcohol, said a player on the team at the time who wishes to remain anonymous.
The coach and coaches of other teams in the department had sit-downs with their teams regarding the incident to reminded them of hazing rules.
When asked about this incident, Barker said the department fi led a vio-lation of conduct – as is common with most events involving illegal drink-ing – and the matter was solved. Barker said this incident was a matter of
conduct and not hazing.There were no hazing incidences
involving non-club teams reported to Student Judicial Aff airs in the last year, according to the 2009-2010 Student Judi-cial Aff airs Annual Report.
There were 14 reports of hazing at Chico State in 2009-2010 but the three involving athletics were issues with club teams.
The athletic department tries to pre-vent hazing by keeping student-athletes informed as to what they can and cannot do, Barker said.
“Our student-athletes go through a compliance meeting every fall where they learn about the NCAA and university pol-icies and other things of that nature,” she
said. “During that time we educate them as to what is considered hazing.”
After the meeting student-athletes are required to sign a form acknowledging that they fully understand what they were taught and that they are now liable for their behaviors.
Track and fi eld head coach Kirk Freitas has never seen any kind of hazing within his program, he said.
“Hazing is brutal, and you simply can’t allow it by any means,” he said. “I haven’t ever seen it out on the track, but I make it clear to my athletes that it is unacceptable.”
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SOURCE • INITIATION RITES AND ATHLETICS FOR NCAA SPORTS TEAMS • ALFRED UNIVERSITY 1999
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79% of athletes experience hazing (about 255,637)
40% of athletes say they would report hazing
only 21% of athletes have not experienced hazing
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Hazing is recognized in col-lege, but the ugly act pops its head up more often in club sports than in varsity athletics.
The women’s rugby team was subject to punishment when an incident involving alcohol was reported in 2010.
The club’s season was sus-pended and the players have just recently been back on the field in competition.
Genevive Macaraeg, a junior first-year player on the team, wasn’t deterred from joining and didn’t think haz-ing was even an issue at Chico State, she said. She was unaware of the incident until after she was on the team when it was mentioned in hopes of preventing other cases.
“With hazing you have to have the mind-set to know it will get you in trouble and cost you your education,” Macaraeg said.
Hazing is “any method of initiation or preinitiation into a student organization or student body, whether or not the organization or body is officially recognized by an educational institution, which is likely to cause serious bodily injury to any former, cur-rent or prospective student of any school,” according to the Califor-nia Penal Code.
Chico State has a zero-toler-ance policy for hazing.
The club sport code of conduct contract states, “No individual nor organization may, by physi-cal or mental stress or by subtle
or covert technique, impair, make captive or destroy an individual’s freedom of thought or choice.”
Club sports are separate from varsity sports but fall under the same rules regarding hazing.
Bryce Tavano, the president of the men’s lacrosse team, thinks new players have to put in their time by carrying the water cooler and being subject to ridicule but not to the extent that it will dam-age the person, he said.
“Technically, hav-ing them carry the water cooler is hazing, but no one enforces it or reports it,” Tavano said.
Club teams sign a con-tract with the university to ensure the enforcement of the no-hazing policy, but incidents only get noticed if reported.
Club sports teams are not included in the National Collegiate Ath-letic Association rules and sanctions like the varsity teams are, so enforcement of rules for club teams is with the university.
The university tends to pay more attention to the club sports regard-ing hazing, Tavano said. The NCAA watches var-
sity teams and has more severe consequences when there is a violation because there is more at stake regarding scholarships.
“We play to pay, and in a sense it is different for us,” Tavano said. “Violations are more often for us, and I think the university is definitely aware of that.”
New players are often subject to a hard time on sports teams but will join the ranks as time goes on.
Micaela Hayden, the presi-dent of the women’s lacrosse team, doesn’t consider giving the
rookies a little extra work to do hazing, she said.
“We have the rookies carry the water bottles and have them arrive an hour early before games and practices to set up the goals,” she said.
For more serious hazing involving drinking and humilia-tion, club sports presidents and
officers are required to take a class that shows what hazing is and what will happen if players are found participating.
“It was almost a scare tactic,” Hayden said. “We know what is hazing and what is not.”
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QUESTIONABLE HAZING The defi nition of hazing has many people confused. Having rookies participate in grunt work may seem acceptable to some but unnecessary work [left] could be questionable to others.
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Athletic hazing is an issue that has become taboo on college campuses.
Chico State varsity athletes under-stand the severity of hazing and have become their own watchdogs in order to keep the Wildcat repu-tation positive, but some athletes and those in the athletic depart-ment may be unaware of what constitutes as hazing.
Michael Storer, a senior track and fi eld athlete, has never been involved in hazing at Chico State but is familiar with the issue, he said.
“I think there’s a really broad sense of what hazing really is,” Storer said. “I looked it up in the dictionary, and they say it’s harass-ment or any sort of ridicule to a person. A simple prank could be considered hazing.”
There have been past incidents in which individuals in the commu-nity have died because of hazing, Storer said. They were forced to do
something against their will solely to have some sort of positive eff ect on their image.
On sports teams, it is common to give the workload to the fi rst-year players to welcome them to the team.
“I don’t see it as hazing,” Storer said. “I see it more as showing respect for the system. I think a senior helps out just as much as a freshman does.”
Women’s soccer head coach Kim Sutton defi nes hazing as depreciat-ing a player or singling out a certain group in such a way that it becomes malicious, she said.
“We have rookies set up goals and set up the fi eld during practices, and that isn’t hazing,” Sutton said. “We also have rookie appreciation day where the roles are switched and the upperclassmen set up the fi eld to let the rookies know we are a team.”
Natasha Smith, a senior guard on the women’s basketball team, had a light hazing such as carrying dirty uniforms after a game, always being the last in line to eat and being the
last to choose a seat on the vans to away games.
“I really didn’t like it because it separates you from feeling a whole part of the team,” Smith said. “It’s kind of belittling to me because it seems like since you’re younger you have more responsibilities when I think everyone should be responsi-ble for themselves.”
The acts of hazing seen at Chico State are not anything extreme, said Ben Manlove, a junior catcher on the baseball team.
“I personally don’t do that,” Manlove said. “I like to make peo-ple feel included right away.”
Wildcats have relied on them-selves and team leaders to police hazing and set the example.
“With basketball it hasn’t really been an issue, but we hear about other sports teams and then we’re warned not to do certain things,” Smith said. “I think it comes from the leaders on the team, so that’s why we see it in some sports and not others.”
Sutton has relied on her team
leaders to communicate with mem-bers in hopes of preventing any form of hazing, she said.
“I have a real great communica-tion line to my players,” Sutton said. “My players come to me if they have an issue, and if something happens somehow I always fi nd out.”
Wildcats usually realize that one incident can damage not only their college career but the program.
“We’re here to compete, and that’s what we really want to do,” Smith said. “You can have fun at a certain time, but when season is under way, it’s time to control your habits.”
Women’s basketball head coach Brian Fogel is aware of the rookies carrying bags on trips but doesn’t consider that enough to cross the line as hazing, he said.
“I don’t believe in it,” Fogel said. “In all my years playing and coach-ing I have never came across hazing, and it hasn’t been an issue here.”
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There she blowsBehind the bushes on Salem
Street between Taylor Hall and Madison Bear Garden lies a tiny room hotter than the overdue sunshine this weekend.
It’s Taylor Hall Room 100, otherwise known as the glass-blowing studio, and unless you’ve taken a glassblowing class at Chico State, chances are you’ve probably walked right by it numerous times and never even noticed it.
I’ve always had a fascination with glassblowing and when I started this semester as arts edi-tor I made it my personal goal to actually blow glass before the semester was up.
Thanks to a friend of a friend, I fi nally did. And let me just say that I had to blow a lot harder than I thought I would.
When I showed up to the studio, I was given a brief and informative hands-on demon-stration by Robert Herhusky, a professor of art. He handed me a pair of safety goggles and an experience I won’t be forgetting anytime soon.
Blowing glass is like blowing bubbles, except it’s a million times hotter, you have to blow a lot harder and instead of the bubble fl oating away gra-ciously, it morphs into a weird shape if you don’t know what you’re doing, which is what hap-pened to me.
Because the glass gets extremely hot after being put in the furnace you have to work quickly and, as I learned, in pairs or as a team.
I wasn’t allowed any-where near the furnace, but even if I had been there’s no way in hell I would have done it.
I know I can be a hot mess sometimes, but I didn’t need to suddenly be literal about it.
My hands-on fun lasted about 20 minutes or so, and then I hung out and watched the glassblowing students make their own creations, such as caterpillars and mugs, work-ing together to help each other out. Apparently when you want to add the handle to a mug it’s a lot easier if you have a friend helping. Or a few arms.
Although I didn’t actually make anything, I did learn a lot and left much more curious than I was when I walked in, and I still made it home with a souvenir thanks to one of the students in the studio.
For anyone else interested in glassblowing, classes are off ered to beginning students. Check it out, and who knows, you just may see me in one of your classes behind a sweet pair of safety shades. Just don’t expect me to get anywhere near the furnace or any type of fl ames for the fi rst few months. Try me again when fi re isn’t so hot or when glass can be melted by other means.
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Fans of the annual Comic-Con event held in San Diego without the means or desire to head south were in for a treat Saturday as Tehama Hall became host to Chico State’s Mini Con, bringing anime, card and game fans together.
The convention, scheduled to last eight hours, included a video game tourna-ment, a variety of panels including “Life in Japan,” “How to Doodle” and “Time Travel 101.”
This was the sixth time Mini Con was put on at Chico State, and it was a joint venture between the Japanese Animation Club, Japanese Fusion and the Harry Pot-ter Club.
There were about 45 people at the event, and those who felt adventurous went in costume, while some with a craving for magic got lost in the “Magic: The Gather-ing” room.
Mini Con works as an event to give back to the campus and de-stress, said Chris Brand, a senior anthropology major and volunteer at the convention.
“It’s to help spread the subculture of being a nerd,” he said.
The video game room was busy with activity and a Super Smash Bros. Brawl tournament, while the swap meet room held Chico businesses and merchants sell-ing their merchandise.
Part of the experience is the plea-sure of putting on an event yourself, said Kyle Erickson, a volunteer and health science major.
“If you don’t get to go out to a lot of the bigger conventions, it’s a little slice of that experience,” he said.
The convention is open to experiment-ing with a larger variation of games and consoles in the future if more people become involved, Erickson said.
As the day progressed, attendees went from panel to panel, learning and shar-ing diff erent aspects of what makes comics, movies and games appreciable. The most popular panel was “Cosplay: Overdoing It.”
Cosplay is short for “costume play,” a sort of performance art in which partici-pants dress up as their favorite characters.
The panel went over the best materials and techniques for making costumes.
Panelist Adam Cullen compared cos-play to football fans in all their gear at a live game.
“When we go to a convention, people really freak out and they really love us,” he said.
Making costumes takes a lot of time and practice, as learning how to model, hunt down sales and learn from past mistakes is key in progressing, Cullen said. The smallest details can sometimes bring out the best in some of the costumes.
After the panels ended, the free comics had been handed out and the swap meet had calmed down, the rest of the conven-tion awaited its end.
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Among the clouds and into cyberspace, a new uprising of music awaits.
Chico Music Cloud is a website created to highlight the musical talent of bands and artists in Northern California.
Wild Oak Music Group has been working on the site since spring 2010 and will officially launch it Sunday. Chico Music Cloud makes
music available for customers and businesses by acting as a gateway for musicians in the area through any device.
Most students are unaware of the music scene in town, said Paul Friedlander, the Wild Oak Music Group adviser and a professor of music.
“Chico Music Cloud is designed to be a one-stop portal to much of the area’s best artists
— a smorgasbord of discovery,” he said.
The publishing team is currently working on inviting bands to sign the contract for their music to be on the Cloud.
Bands should contact Wild Oak Music Group through email to get music on the website, said Garrett Miller, a junior music industry and technology major.The website has genres ranging from indie to metal and electronic to reggae.
There are currently eight genres with separate storage clouds. When users go to the site, they can click on a cloud genre of their choice to hear
music and get links to the artists’ social media pages.
The cloud has 30 artists and is continuing to network and contact talent for additional music, Miller said.
The publishing team has an agreement with Charter Media, a cable advertising sales group, to link the website’s music from the Cloud to TV for free in order to expose the public to the Chico music scene.
The future of the music industry appears to be cloud-based storage with listeners and purchasers in connection, Friedlander said.
Wild Oak Music Group works as an experimental learning laboratory that uses innovations in the industry for a consistent representation of other music programs nationwide.
The Web design team created the website, and aside from a few minor software challenges, a template has been created and will be completed by the launch date, said Ryan Murphy, a junior music industry and technology major.
Although students come in and out of Wild Oak Music Group on a yearly and sometimes semester basis, the Chico Music Cloud is part of the publishing department and should continue to grow and evolve, Friedlander said.
“Wild Oak is always being a forefront at Chico State to reflect changes in the music industry,” he said.
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Standing at the front of the stage with a silver trumpet in hand, jazz director Rocky Winslow faced Jazz X-press, and with a wave of his hand the instruments exploded with sound.
The Jazz X-press spring concert, “Up Jumped Spring,” was put on Saturday in the Harlen Adams Theatre.
The Quincy High School Jazz Ensemble started the event with a classic, upbeat jazz tune titled “Sing, Sing, Sing.”
With a deep drum bass and loud trumpets, the song was a lively number for a strong beginning.
The band then transitioned into the hit “Blue Moon” and featured vocals by its cello player Natalie Kepple. Her soft melodic vocals were paired with the ensemble’s strong clarinets and fl utes.
The Quincy High School band impressed Chicoan John Williams, he said.
“The Quincy band was a really great, impressive small-town production,” he said.
Despite being a small school, Quincy High gets to participate in a wide range of activities for that very reason, said Tanner Johns, the conductor and musical director.
“This helps produce really well-rounded students,” he said.
Johns is a Chico State music education graduate with a teaching credential, he said. He chose Chico State because of its excellent music education program and got to work with some of the best professors in music, he said.
The Jazz X-Press of the Chico State jazz program continued the night’s events with Rocky Winslow, a conductor and professor of music.
The group performed songs composed by Winslow, student conductor Chris Navarrette and guest saxophonist Steve Williams.
The fi rst song, titled “Simple Complications,” was written by Winslow after he was involved in a car crash in Las Vegas.
The song started off with dark motifs and fast-paced instrumentals as Winslow waved his hand and each section lit up with music.
The dramatic song included strong trumpets and an eerie undertone before transitioning into a smooth, subtle ending.
“We’ve been writing a lot,” Winslow said. “It’s one of the most important things you
can do.”The night also featured passionate trumpet
playing from Winslow, as his fi ngers moved so quickly across the device it released notes that resonated through the theater.
After conducting two songs, Winslow introduced Williams to the stage, who is an alto saxophonist for the U.S. Navy Commodores Jazz Band. He emerged and jumped right into one of his compositions called “Certifi ed.” William’s powerful saxophone playing was harmonized alongside the Jazz X-Press ensemble.
“This is a group of really talented young musicians,” Williams said.
Williams arrived in Chico on Wednesday for rehearsal and was amazed by how prepared the band was in performing his songs, he said.
“The music I proposed was very diffi cult,” Williams said.
The last song of the night, “Yes, My Friend,” featured loud, steady drum beats and dominant trombone sounds.
The audience of more than 100 people gave a standing ovation as Williams, Winslow and the band stood with instruments in hand.
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I WANNA SAX YOU UP Guest artist Steve Wil-liams, an alto saxophonist for the U.S. Navy Commodores Jazz Band, jams out Satur-day night at the Harlen Adams Theatre.
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Earth Day festivities celebrated downtown
THE ORION • KEVIN CRITTENDEN
DEEP ROOTS Hap Hathaway of The Resonators performs at the City Plaza Sunday in Chico’s afternoon Earth Day celebration.
““““PAUL FRIEDLANDER
Wild Oak Music Group adviser
Wild Oak is always being a
forefront at Chico State
to refl ect changes in the music industry.
Orion Staff
Hundreds gathered Sunday afternoon in the City Plaza to hear music and celebrate Earth Day.
The Butte Environmental Council and the Chico State Envi-ronment Action and Resource Center partnered to host a day of celebration, pedal-powered smoothies and community-build-ing crafts and activities.
Chicoans sat in the grass, stood by the stage and danced to the music provided by Brass Hysteria!, Soul Butter and The Resonators.
Visitors beat the heat and cooled themselves in the shade of the trees as the fountain sprayed water up into the wind.
A man selling balloons used a manual pump to fill rubber tubes with air and twist them into ani-mal shapes and hats for children.
Children planted California poppies in empty eggshells at the Kids and Creeks booth, and free fair trade organic chocolate was distributed to all attendees. Teri Snow, a fair trade advocate
working in conjunction with the Chico Peace and Justice Center, collected the chocolate wrappings for a zero waste art project.
Butte College sustainability activists brought their blender bike. With a few mechanical components, a smoothie machine was mounted on the rear tire to provide iced refreshments to thirsty revelers.
The event felt a bit like a farmers market, said Tracy Walworth, who came from Santa Cruz to visit with her parents.
The Resonators took the stage at about 6 p.m. to deliver message-driven hip-hop featuring freestyle, guitar and ranged rhyme delivery.
The music brought a larger
crowd to the event, said Ben John-son, a Butte College senior and its sustainability director.
“It’s definitely a good sound for an Earth Day event,” he said.
At one point during the set Chico emcee TyBox jumped onstage from the crowd to take the micro-phone and join The Resonators for a song.
In a combination of talent under the sinking rays of the sun, the division between audience and entertainer blurred as two became one.
There were no more than 300 people at the event at any one time during the festivities.
Though there were some col-lege-aged people in attendance, families made up the majority of those who came out to enjoy the day.
Even after the musicians began to stow their gear, the City Plaza chattered with satisfaction on Earth Day.
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Hot problemsApparently, hot girls are
just like us — except that they’re hot.
If your brain isn’t drib-bling from your ears after that line, you need to check out “Hot Problems,” the “official single” by high school singing duo Double Take.
The song features two young women belting out gems like, “Weird guys call my phones and girls call me names, but like Miley said, I can’t be tamed.”
What bothers me about this song isn’t the nasally chorus. It isn’t the lyrics, which are less interesting and far more confusing than an 8 a.m. calculus course. It isn’t even the stupid music video, which features both sing-ers bouncing around in a stationary limo with uncertain smiles fixed on their faces.
No, what bothers me is that their “single” has taken the Internet by storm, garnering more than 1 million YouTube views in just over a week.
Most of those viewers are people like me, who played the video because of a morbid and inescap-able fascination with the embarrassment of others. People like me elevated Rebecca Black’s “Fri-day” to superstar status, while other legitimate, creative works sat on a server somewhere, totally forgotten.
This lack of recognition is not a new phenomenon, of course. Emily Dickin-son’s and Vincent Van Gogh’s brilliance was not recognized until years after their deaths. But never before post-2000 America has any culture elevated blatant stupidity to such dizzying fame.
If it sounds like I’m preaching from a soapbox, it’s because I’m worried my soapbox will soon dis-appear, to be replaced by a chorus of screeching women, every one of them bemoaning the difficulty of having a picture-perfect face.
“Hot Problems” by Dou-ble Take has gained more attention in the last week than the ongoing war in Syria. More people are swaying their heads, cow-eyed, to the lyrics of “Hot Problems” than following the nuclear disarmament talks in Iran. And by the time the video hits 2 mil-lion views, President Barack Obama and likely candidate Mitt Romney will have made opening salvos in what could be the most important presi-dential race in America’s history.
With the advent of social media, we can each pick and choose exactly what we want to see, hear and think about. The problem is, at least 1 million of us would rather think about “Hot Problems” than actual ones.
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Mullin it over
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“Pink’s my favorite
color.”
Jenna Wilsonsophomore | liberal studies
“They really
just say, ‘It’s
summertime’ for
me.”
Andrew Delgadosenior | business adminitration
“I would say since
it’s warm outside
now, I would tend
toward my brighter
shorter shorts than
the black ones.”
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“shek-o”
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Christopher TavolazziSTAFF WRITER
Weeks after a skateboard made from fl ax fi ber won a sustainable manufacturing competition, Chico State is still riding it to prestige.
One of the grand prize-winning skateboards lies in a glass case on the fourth fl oor of O’Connell Tech-nology Center. Ten of them are lying unclaimed in a classroom in the Langdon Engineering Center. They’re not being ridden anywhere, but they are still moving the depart-ment of sustainable manufacturing toward recruiting new students and helping it teach its existing ones.
The skateboard was the winning entry at the Western Tool Exposi-tion and Conference for designing and manufacturing on March 27. Chico State’s team beat 14 univer-sities including Cal Poly Pomona, Western Washington University and Brigham Young University to take home the top prize at the Los
Angeles Convention Center.The skateboard, which is not
produced with any petroleum prod-ucts, is sustainable in more than one way, said Cody Leuck, a senior sustainable manufac-turing major. It has been used to wow potential students at Choose Chico Day and represent the sustainable manufactur-ing major.
“It’s living right now,” Leuck said.
The fi xtures used to hold the trucks, or axles of the skateboard during the manufacturing pro-cess, were demonstrated in an upper-division tooling class, said Louks Hendricks, a junior sus-tainable manufacturing major.
The level of detail in all stages of the project set Chico State apart from the rest of the uni-versities, said Daren Otten, the coordinator of the sustainable
manufacturing program.Usually, skateboards are made of
plywood, but some are made from carbon fi ber for greater structural integrity.
Leuck wanted to make boards from fl ax fi ber to prove it was a viable and sustainable replacement for the petroleum-based carbon fi ber, he said.
“Our kind of philosophy isn’t to invent a new prod-uct,” Leuck said. “What we want to be able to do is apply a new material to it and also make the manu-facturing process better.”
The team began plan-ning the project in September and began working on it in Janu-ary, Leuck said. They divided into teams, each taking a diff erent part of the project.
They documented the whole process in detail and produced a binder, Hendricks said. The
binder could then be handed off to a business, and without any other instruction, the business could manufacture the skateboards.
This project was the fi rst time Hendricks had to work closely with other people, he said.
“What really allowed us to win the grand prize was essentially the older students working with younger students,” Hendricks said.
The project was very involved and stressful but was also a learn-ing experience for everyone, he said. Those involved worked in an environment where there was teamwork, communication, man-agement and a drive to avoid mistakes.
“Without the other club mem-bers’ help and involvement, it would have been an impossible task,” Hendricks said.
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Juniper RoseASST. NEWS EDITOR
Eight minutes after she put on her riding boots, 10-year-old Jessica Lavine was taken away in an ambulance.
Jessica took weekly horse-back riding lessons near her home in Folsom. She was kicked in the head in 2010 by a horse and suffered traumatic brain injuries that forced doc-tors to remove part of her skull to relieve swelling.
Jessica spent 11 days in the pediatric intensive care unit and seven weeks in the hos-pital. The hospital intended to send her home when she was still in a vegetative state, but a physical therapist fought for her to go to a Children’s Miracle Network hospital for rehabilitation instead, said Jolene Lavine, Jessica’s mother.
Doctors anticipated that Jessica might never recover her speech, sight, hearing or mobility. But after two years of intensive therapy at the Children’s Miracle Network hospital, she has regained her sight and hearing and is in a wheelchair and learning to walk.
In mid-April, the Chico State chapter of the national fra-ternity Sigma Chi held Derby Days, a charity event that raised more than $15,300 for the Children’s Miracle Network — for children like Jessica.
The money was donated to the UC Davis Children’s Hos-pital, a member of the Miracle Network, where it will support children from Northern Cali-fornia, including Chico, said Jacquelyn Kay-Mills, a repre-sentative of Children’s Miracle Network.
Chico State fraternities and sororities raise money for a variety of different philan-thropies that benefit national causes.
The Theta Chi fraternity is raising money this week to fight gun violence with its philanthropic War of the Roses event.
Derby Days is a weeklong event, and university-rec-ognized sororities compete to raise the most money for Sigma Chi’s philanthropy, said Isaac Brown, the Sigma Chi Derby Days chairman and a senior communication design major.
The Chico State chapter of Sigma Chi more than doubled
the $6,000 it raised in Derby Days last year by starting an online fundraising program, Brown said.
Sigma Chi and sorority mem-bers sent emails to friends and family to ask for contributions through the new online fund-raising program Webraze, Brown said.
“Just from Webraze we raised over $10,000 this year, which was more than our total amount last year,” he said. “We just completely blew our last year’s total out of the water.”
During Derby Days, soror-ities buy T-shirts and hold coin drives on campus while Woodstock’s Pizza and Kind-er’s Meats and Deli donate a percentage of their profits, Brown said. Sigma Chi mem-bers are also auctioned off to sororities, and they then have to work for the sorority by cleaning its house or making the members a picnic.
The sororities’ participation was a big part of the success, said Ryan Quintero, Sigma Chi president and a senior busi-ness administration major.
Everyone was on their “A-game,” Quintero said.
“Our goal was always $10,000, but this is the first year that we did it,” he said. “Now that we saw that we
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PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY • MARK ROJAS
RECOVERY Jessica Lavine, a Children’s Miracle Network patient, and her mother, Jolene Lavine, 38, celebrate Jessica’s 12th birthday March 21 with friends at their home in Folsom. Jessica’s party was rock-themed to refl ect her favorite hobby — painting rocks. It was Jessica’s second birthday since her injury.
HISTORY OF DERBY DAYS
1922: A Sigma Chi chapter at UC Berkeley puts on a skit show called “Channingway Derby,” which led to the cre-ation of Sigma Chi Derby Days.
1935: The “Channingway Derby” comes to the University of Ten-nessee, Knoxville, where the Sigma Chi fraternity holds an all-day track and fi eld meet with 1,000 people in attendance.
1960s: Derby Days becomes a formal fundraising event.
1992: Sigma Chi makes the Chil-dren’s Miracle Network its main philanthropic organization.
2005: The Huntsman Can-cer Institute in Salt Lake City is added as an optional charity for the benefi ts of Derby Days.
2012: Chico State’s Sigma Chi chapter raises more money during its annual Derby Days fundraiser than ever before in chapter history.
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SUSTAINABLE AWARDS
This is the 13th time Chico State has won the top award at the Western Tool Exposition and Conference since 1986.
Children’s miracle fundraiser helps
Stephanie GeskeSTAFF WRITER
If you want to stay in Chico over the summer, you’ve also got to stay busy.
Unless you have the money or connections to bankroll an all-expense-paid vacation in a vacant college town, check out the following tips that can help you land a job and keep you from spending the summer at your parents’ house.Career Center
Chico State’s website, hosted by myinterfase.com, allows students to create an account through their portal user-name, learn of job opportunity announcements and career fairs, and search for available jobs and internships.
Applicants can specify the kind of job they’re looking for,
what career position, whether they want an internship or student employment and the region.
The Career Center has career fairs for students, and the next one for all majors will be in the fall semester.
There is an educational recruitment fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday in the Bell Memorial Union auditorium.Summer living in Chico
Couch surfi ng is an option for stu-dents who don’t have a lease on an apartment for the summer, but a more stable option is taking over someone’s lease, said Gina McCam-mon, director of human resources for A.S. Many stu-dents go home for the summer and leave their apart-ments empty.
Craigslist.com lists sum-mertime temporary housing from $310 to $435. A.S. Human Resources
Each year, Associated Stu-dents employs between 700 and 800 students, according
to its website.To apply for an A.S. posi-
tion, go to aschico.com and fi ll out an application.
A.S. is one of three employ-ers on the Chico State campus, according to its website. On the same website both stu-dent and career job openings can be found as well as a description of benefits pack-ages and the application process.
Places like the Wildcat Store and the Wildcat Rec-reational Center still need student employees over sum-mer, McCannon said.
Others, like the Child Development Lab, need stu-dents only when school is in session.
After graduation, A.S. employers will know what vacancies they need to fill.Shopping Tips:
To maximize savings on groceries, here are some tips to creating a grocery list:1. On one side of a paper cre-ate a daily menu.2. On the other, write down the ingredients needed for those recipes.3. Make note of leftovers and when you can use items twice or recycle food.4. Check the Internet and mail for coupons.5. Make your grocery list in the kitchen so you know what you already have and can cre-ate meals around extra items.
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Liquid courage evaporatesI don’t care how many
stereotypes say otherwise. Alcohol is not an aphrodi-siac.
The rumors surrounding college students’ alcohol consumption are limitless, and unfortunately most are baseless.
Perhaps the biggest of these is the so-called libido-boosting power of a few too many drinks.
First of all, no one is sexy when they’re drunk.
Stumbling, stuttering or otherwise appearing intoxi-cated in any way really doesn’t turn anybody on.
All alcohol really does is prevent you from being able to question your own decisions while at the same time heightening the chances that those deci-sions will be monumentally bad.
“To bed or not to bed the stranger at the bar?” is not the question you want to cross your mind under the influence of a strong cocktail.
We’ve probably all expe-rienced at some point the unfortunate lost soul who looks at a drunk person and says, “I wanna take that home tonight.”
So let me make it very clear that said lost soul is just looking for an easy lay.
This type of person should be avoided at all costs.
In case you don’t know how to recognize one of them, they’re the one who looks like they’re picking out dinner in a butcher shop rather than enjoying a fun night out.
In the moment it can be hard to tell how drunk is too drunk, so a good test is usually whether you can complete your own thoughts. If you’re having a hard time finishing a sen-tence in your mind, don’t even think about formu-lating one to pick up that blurry hunk across the bar.
Also, never underesti-mate the importance of having a sober friend to pick you up.
Men, please also under-stand that your inability to get it up at the end of a night of drinking doesn’t impress anybody. This is both the greatest irony of alcohol and it’s saving grace for confused, mis-guided couples.
If you want to make a woman happy, try dinner and limit yourself to only one or two drinks.
That limit goes for the ladies as well.
While most men would jump at the chance to take you to bed, it’s usually not when you’re blurry-eyed and tripping over your heels.
Although you may feel more confident, liquid cour-age usually just encourages you to do something really stupid.
Trust me when I say that agreeing to play strip-poker with no idea how to play poker is a very bad call.
If you are going to drink, allow me to set the record straight: When trying to avoid consequences, the “I was drunk” line is never a legitimate excuse for anything.
An unfortunate side effect of an environment where binge drinking is not only acceptable but normal is that other activities become less fun without the influence of alcohol.
If you reach that point, chances are your drink-ing habits are affecting more than just your sexual behavior, and it’s time to cool it.
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Rebecca MahanFOOD COLUMNIST
You may have an allergy and not even know it.
This one typically isn’t accompa-nied by red, itchy eyes and sneezing. In fact, with symptoms like irrita-bility, fatigue and skin problems, you may think it’s just another day in college.
There is a chance, though, that the culprit is gluten, a protein found in wheat and products that have come into contact with it.
About one in every 100 people is aff ected with celiac disease, the most severe form of gluten intol-erance, according to the Lance Armstrong Foundation.
You would probably know if you had a reaction that serious, but many people go every day dealing with discomforts caused by eating gluten without the slightest idea that the solution is as simple as a diet change.
Perhaps it’s because of a growing awareness of the allergy in recent years, but I personally know many people who have been diagnosed.
Last week a good friend of mine told me that ever since removing
gluten from her diet, she feels like a brand new person.
The reaction seemed extreme to me, so I decided to give it a try myself.
Upon asking those aff ected what they miss most about their previous diets, the answer was almost unan-imous — cake.
So, half in response to their wishes and half because I couldn’t think of a better way to start a new diet, I decided to try my hand at some gluten-free cake baking.
The resulting recipes were so tasty I may very well fi nd myself “allergic” to anything else for a while.
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Ingredients
1/2 cup coffee• 3/4 cup raw sugar• 18 ounces bittersweet • chocolate chips1 cup butter• 6 eggs• Raspberry syrup• 1 cup raspberries •
GLUTEN FREE RASPBERRY MOCHA CHOCOLATE CAKE
2 hours serves 6
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Preheat oven to 300 F and grease a 9-by-13 baking dish or one similar.
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Pour the sugar and coff ee mix-ture into the larger pot containing the butter and chocolate mixture. Keep over medium-low heat, and mix together until smooth.
Add the eggs one at a time and mix each into the mixture. Once you have a smooth batter, pour it into the pan. Place your 9-by-13 pan with the cake batter into a larger pan, and fi ll the larger pan with boiling water so that it goes about halfway up the sides of your smaller pan.
Finally, place in your already pre-heated oven and bake for 45 minutes. Remove from the oven, and carefully empty water from the larger pan. Drizzle rasp-berry syrup on top of the cake and top with raspberries. Place the smaller pan with the cake in the refrigerator overnight. In the morning, or after at least 8 hours, it will be fi rm and ready to serve.
can go above that there is no stopping us.”
It is inspiring to know more about how the money raised is benefi ting others, said Cece LeMay, a junior liberal studies major and member of the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority.
Students come together to help provide services that change the lives of children and families, LeMay said.
Twice a week, Jessica Lavine goes to therapy sessions at the Children’s Miracle Network hospital where she is relearn-ing how to brush her hair, dress herself, speak, swallow food and do all the things she used to.
It’s been two years since the accident, and as a parent, the situation can become very tir-ing, Jolene Lavine said.
“There are good days where I think she is going to conquer the world,” she said.
Then there are the days when it seems that Jessica is never going to get any better, Jolene Lavine said. At the Children’s Miracle Network, however, they never have those bad days.
“They are always reminding us that she can move further,” she said. “They are cheering her on and pulling us through when we are at that point where we want to give up.”
Jolene Lavine periodically gets survey calls from the
Miracle Network company in Nebraska asking her to rate her experience with the hospital.
“I have yet to get through one of those calls without cry-ing,” she said. “I get so moved by how much they do for my daughter – how they care for her and how much they care for us.”
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WHAT IS A COMA?A coma is a profound or deep state of unconsciousness.
In a coma, patients can move their eyelids and have natural sleep cycles but lack brain function.
Spontaneous movements some-times occur, and the eyes may react to changes in light and touching. Some people in a coma can even frown, cry or laugh.
People have emerged from comas to meet physical or emotional needs.
Some individuals never get past very basic responses to changes in the environment, but many even-tually recover total awareness.
The most common cause of death for someone is a coma is an infec-tion, such as pneumonia.
After the injury that causes the coma has been fi xed, doctors and nurses focus on preventing infections, providing enough nutri-tion and making sure the patient does not have bedsores.
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BEFORE INJURY Jessica Lavine stands with horse named Della during her second week of riding lessons in 2009 near her home in Folsom. She suff ered brain damage after a horse kicked her one year later.
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The animal kingdomI recently came across an
insanely rare and beauti-ful creature that I’ve never seen before and wouldn’t see in my home country in any place other than in some kind of exotic space zoo.
A hummingbird just hap-pened to be flying over my previously unaware head and the steps of the Plumas Hall courtyard.
It was definitely a great surprise, and it made me think about wildlife in this country.
To be perfectly honest, I’m jealous.
There is some beautiful wildlife in England, but if you just look at the size of the territory we have com-pared to that in America, the difference is immense.
In California there are wild bears roaming the for-ests. In the United Kingdom we have nothing that size roaming around in nature — unless you count the Loch Ness monster.
Chico State has a wide variety of wildlife around campus, from the daz-zlingly beautiful blue jay to the apparently blood-thirsty gray squirrel, which is no surprise as they have effectively kicked the red squirrels out of my coun-try in a form of rodent-based ethnic cleansing.
America has some wild-life I could only dream of having in a zoo back home: monstrous creatures such as alligators and bears, huge buffalo and gigantic birds of prey.
The list also includes whales, seals and great white sharks. I’ve only ever seen some of these animals in horror films, let alone in real life.
This is something I defi-nitely want to see more of while I am in this beautiful country. I want to go to sanc-tuaries, wildlife hotspots and any other places to check out the animals.
I just hope that America seeks to keep all of these spe-cies alive. Animals are going extinct at an alarming rate.
About 150 to 200 spe-cies of mammal, bird, plant and insect go extinct every day, according to the United Nations Environmental Programme.
That is a crazy statistic.It is safe to assume that in
the amount of time you have been in classes today, at least a handful of species have been wiped off the face of the Earth, never to return.
I feel that conservation needs to be taken up a step everywhere — especially in America.
For a country that is largely responsible for deforestation all over the world, it would be nice to see wildlife pre-served in America itself, at the very least.
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Editor’s note: Ben Hames is an international
exchange student from London. Every week, he
will voice his opinions about the differences
he sees at Chico State.
Ben HamesOPINION COLUMNIST
Sam KellyOPINION COLUMNIST
Money in America means freedom of speech at the expense of others.
The upcoming election is going to be extremely ugly with overt media saturation by both sides.
This will be one of the most vicious elections since this country’s inception based on how much money is involved and what is at stake, said Mitch Eggers, the press secretary for the Chico State Republicans.
“There are a lot of things working for each can-didate and a lot of things working against them,” he said. “It will be interesting to see how this turns out.”
Two very different paths the country may take will be in the hands of our generation.
Mitt Romney wants to take a step back to the old status quo and is intent on ensuring that the elites are still in charge of the way this country is heading, said Erik Taylor, president of the Chico State Student Democratic Club.
The attack advertisements are going to dredge up all of the same things about race and religion and ultimately take away from the issues we need to talk about, Taylor said. If President Barack Obama can make it about the issues he will win.
Obama has accomplished goals long sought after by the Democratic Party, but how successful he has been is questionable. It is things like the Affordable Care Act, immigration and the econ-omy that will determine the election, Eggers said.
This country has been enjoying a “decadent” lifestyle for decades, but reality is slowly setting in, he said. The president is going to be the one who leads us into the future, be that the right way or wrong way.
Obama’s first term has come back with mixed
reviews. He has largely kept in place or expanded much of the Bush era’s war on terror tactics, both domestically and internationally, and faces a still slowly moving economy.
As echoed by the donkey and elephant that I spoke with, as much as any other elec-tion, this country is going to go one way or the other with the elected candidate.
Obama is not the man who will save us and neither is Romney, but seeing the election for the struggle it truly is can help one navi-gate the money stream to somewhere the true issues at play can really be considered.
The country is at a crossroads between reverting back to the pre-Obama strategies and continuing with the broad strategic shifts he is striving for. It is slow, painstaking and at times unfulfilling because Obama is attempt-ing to do the unfathomable — make America true to its constitution.
Indefinite detention, domestic sur-veillance, targeted killings and global perpetual warfare aside, this is a con-frontation with the great American paradox — a country founded on the principle of equality that still struggles mightily with race, tolerance and equal-ity. Creating this type of society has never been accomplished before in human his-tory, and it very well could be idealistic bullshit.
This election is about what direction we want this country to go in. It is about us — the college demographic — much more than any candidate. This is us deciding to either perpetuate the same society no one seems to be thrilled with or work to create an entirely new one.
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Lucas MeekOPINION COLUMNIST
I’ve never felt more belittled than when I was informed that I donated to the wrong bake sale. All I wanted was a cupcake, and I got yelled at by people at neighbor-
ing tables for not con-tributing to their cause.
The area between Glenn Hall and the Meriam Library, in my opin-ion, is the
most annoying section on campus because of the constant tabling.
People are yelling and crowd-ing the walkway, attempting to get you to donate to their charity — which they seem to believe is 10 times better than the charity being hyped just seven feet from them.
Tablers are rude, said David Simmons, a senior business administration major.
“One time I was on the phone and this kid still kept talking at me,” Simmons said. “Don’t you under-stand I’m doing something?”
I understand that setting up a table is probably an effective method of making money, and I’m sure organizations have had lots of success with their fundraisers, but they don’t need to do it in such an annoying way. If I don’t have change, then I don’t have change.
Israel Medina, a junior anthropology major, said cam-paigning on campus is a good way to
raise money.“I think tabling is the most effec-
tive way to put yourself out there for fundraising or anything,” Med-ina said. “It’s very visible. Having people at a booth allows students to come up and really see what your organization is all about.”
Just this week, I was bar-raged by a religious group, a festival information booth and the Greek system.
I’ll make my own decisions as to when I donate. Your yelling or mob mentality isn’t going to change my opinion.
Most students don’t come to campus prepared to donate, said Ileana Enriquez, a senior environ-mental science major.
“If people are gonna donate, they will,” she said. “Your adver-tising technique doesn’t play “a role.”
But there are kinder ways to fundraise.
Quiet advertising on television is just as effective as those info-mercials that yell at you — and far less annoying — so I don’t get why the method on campus is the exact opposite.
If the people at the tables calmed down and let the students make their own choices rather than try-ing to be the most invasive in order to make the money, students would be more inclined to donate.
I understand how marketing and advertising work, but I’m just asking for a little less yelling on my walk to class.
I’ll still donate when I do have change, but you don’t have to yell to make me do it.
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Disrespectful candidates lack focus
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Some of the Associated Students candidates need to shape up.
Several candidates at Wednesday’s A.S. debate paid more attention to their cellphones than the event itself.
Texting, using your phone or not pay-ing attention at an event that is aimed toward boosting your campaign isn’t going to help you get elected.
Any leaders holding political positions wouldn’t be texting or livetweeting during a debate. Doing this in the public eye isn’t going to gain votes or support.
It’s not only disrespectful to the candidates who are taking it seriously but shows uninter-est and lack of commitment to Chico State and its students.
Some even seemed lost in what was being discussed at the debate, according to two Orion staff members who attended the event.
Rebuttals are a part of the debate. Without rebuttals there would be no debate. So when Lau-ren McLane, who’s running for comissioner of student organizations and programs, said she did not want to rebut because she thought it was rude, it gave the appearance that she was unsure of her position.
There seems to be a lack of professionalism among some of the A.S. candidates.
These students are supposed to be exam-ples for our student body, but some don’t seem to take these various leadership positions seriously.
Some of the candidates’ actions make it seem as if serving in A.S. is just a way for them to strengthen their resumes rather than use their talents to better our campus.
At the debate, there were candidates who were focused and attentive with their arguments and their conduct.
At The Orion’s meeting with the candidates two weeks ago, some shared inspiring ideas and seemed committed to improving the campus.
But some of the others weren’t so professional.Some of the candidates are loosely throwing
out terminology — transparency and account-ability, for example — that they don’t support with examples of how they will put these words into action.
Students need candidates who care about Chico State and have concrete plans for change.
At the rate we’re going, the students’ concerns are going to have to wait until these leaders finish their next game of Angry Birds.
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