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Thousands of sign-toting college students flocked to the state Capitol on Monday to protest rising college prices and escalating higher-education cuts and then filed into the building to chant in the halls and occupy the rotunda into the evening.

“You’ll hear us out or we’ll vote you out,” demonstrators shouted as they joined professors, administrators and other higher-education supporters on the Capitol’s west lawn. They later filed slowly into the building, passing single-file through metal detectors, to bring their message closer to lawmak-ers.

Students from public colleges and universities around the state boarded early morning buses and then marched the final mile to the rally, the second year of the “March in March” event — a continuing reminder of the state’s struggles to corral the runaway costs of its once-prized higher education system.

The morning rally was followed by an Occupy demonstration inside the Capitol, where protesters shut down

corridors and held steady into the eve-ning as California Highway Patrol offi-cers warned they’d be arrested if they didn’t leave. At 7 p.m., officers waited out about 100 protesters who refused to leave the rotunda.

“The point is to make links and see where people can get together and where we have a common goal,” University of California, Berkeley stu-dent Sally Diaz said outside the build-ing. “This crowd shows that people are starting to notice the cuts and are not going to go away.”

The rally came the same day as a Bay Area News Group report revealed the cost of attending a California State University or University of California campus had surpassed that of top pri-vate schools such as Harvard for mid-dle-income students.

The report caught some legisla-tors by surprise, including state Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco.

“It is a little embarrassing that Harvard is cheaper than the California State University,” he said in an inter-view. “When you price out so many stu-dents, it is devastating to the future of the state. Our sons and daughters won’t be here to solve the state’s problems.”

Thousands of students protest at Capitol

By Steven Harmon and Matt KrupnickMcClatchy-Tribune

“It is a little embarrassing that Harvard is cheaper than the Califor-nia State University.”

— Leland Yee, Senator D-San Francisco

Accountancy majors at the Craig School of Business may find they have broad work options upon graduation, but it could mean they’ll need to relo-cate.

Those who don’t choose to go into the public accounting side of accountancy may need to receive database and soft-ware training in order to get that first job.

In the United States, there are four public accounting fir ms: PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte touché Tohmatsu, Ernst & Young and KPMG. The Big Four recruit Fresno State students for summer work in the Bay Area between their junior and senior year, however students have to be willing to move.

“Ninety-five percent of those stu-dents who do a summer internship get a job offer after graduation from the Big Four,” said Debbie Young, director of internships and student experience

a t the Craig school.

But job prospects for accounting majors in the Valley are more difficult.

“It depends on how hard the student is willing to work to get hired,” Young said. “It takes six to eight months to get hired in this market for a graduate.”

Y o u n g believes that a graduate who wants to relocate to the Bay Area or Southern California could find an entry-level position relatively easily.

Randy Pench/ McClatchy-TribuneThousands of students converged on Sacramento, California on Monday to protest budget cuts and fee hikes for higher education.

Lawmakers and the governor need to prioritize education in the state budget, said Assemblywoman Kristin Olsen, R-Modesto.

“It’s clearly a problem, and it’s a problem that’s been brewing for some time,” said Olsen, vice chairwoman of the Assembly Higher Education Committee. “The state hasn’t invested properly in higher education for many years.”

A combination of rising tuition at California universities and a short-age of student aid has led to wide-

spread anger throughout the state. Undergraduate tuition in the 23-cam-pus Cal State campus was just $1,572 a year in 2002-03. This year’s tuition is $5,472. Tuition at the 10-campus UC sys-tem also has more than tripled — from $3,121 to $11,160 — during that time.

Deep budget cuts at the universities and community colleges also have hin-dered students’ abilities to get required classes.

“I know so many people who aren’t

Students from the CSU and UC systems marched to the Calif. Capitol to protest budget cuts

See PROTEST, Page 3

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By Stephen KeleherThe Collegian

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OpinionOPINION EDITOR, TONY PETERSEN • COLLEGIAN-OPINION@CSUFRESNO.EDUPAGE 2 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 2012

THE REAL WORD OF THE DAYpropitiate (verb) To appease, conciliate.

Source: The Lexicon by William F. Buckley Jr.

Middle East is most important issueW hile the media badger can-

didates with questions on contraception, birth control

and the harsh opinions of a talk-radio provocateur, the Middle East is looking like it will be the most important issue of the next presidential term of who-ever is elected.

Iran continues to be a thorn in the side of the United States. Though

American intel-ligence agencies have found no evidence that Iran is pursuing nuclear weapon capabilities, this intelligence is belied by the actions of the Israeli and American gov-ernments. The assassinations of Iranian scien-tists connected

to Iran’s nuclear facilities are widely suspected to have been carried out by Mossad, Israel’s equivalent of the CIA.

And President Barack Obama refuses to take the option of a military strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities off the table.

“I do not have a policy of contain-ment,” Obama said over the weekend in an address to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. “I have a policy to prevent Iran from obtaining

a nuclear weapon. And as I’ve made clear time and again during the course of my presidency, I will not hesitate to use force when it is necessary to defend the United States and its inter-ests.”

It is not yet known what type of gov-ernment will emerge in both Libya and Egypt, but if the countries acquiesce to calls for democracy, it seems likely that they will become Islamic repub-lics.

Indeed, Washington policymakers are cozying up to the idea. Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham, after visiting Egypt, even praised the Muslim Brotherhood.

“I was very apprehensive when I heard the election results,” Graham said. “But after visiting and talking with the Muslim Brotherhood I am hopeful that … we can have a relation-ship with Egypt where the Muslim Brotherhood is a strong political voice.”

This is the same Muslim Brotherhood that has threatened, as late as mid-February, to review the Camp David accords, which estab-lished peaceful relations between Egypt and Israel.

The situation in Syria continues to escalate. President Bashar al-Assad has shown himself to be a barbarous dictator. According to the United Nations, his efforts to quell the mas-sive protests taking place in the coun-try have thus far led to at least 7,500

deaths. Aside from the humanitarian car-

nage, Syria is the ally of Iran, the sworn enemy of the United States and Israel, and supports the terrorist group Hezbollah in Lebanon.

For all of these reasons, McCain has called for an invasion of Syria.

“The United States should lead an international effort to protect key population centers in Syria, especially in the north, through airstrikes on Assad’s forces,” McCain said on the Senate floor on Monday.

Yet, should the United States invade Syria and topple the Assad regime, the type of government that emerged could not be guaranteed. It is not known whether American interven-tion would nudge Syria in the West’s direction. Indeed, wherever some form of voting has been introduced in the Middle East, be it in Iran, Iraq, Egypt or Palestine, Islamic parties, not liber-al parties, have been the beneficiaries.

The stakes are high. Iran is slowly achieving hegemony over the region, with considerable influence in Iraq,

Syria and Lebanon. They might be attempting to make nuclear weapons, but what matters more is the percep-tion that they are.

Israel is feeling threatened at all sides. Republican presidential can-didates Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich are all calling for a more belligerent policy toward Iran. Radical Islamist groups are gaining all around the region, to the detriment of American interests.

American power is waning. Troops are stretched thin, the people are war weary and the country cannot finance another war.

But please, Mr. Candidate, tell us more of your thoughts on sex.

Tony Petersen is the opinion editor of The Collegian. Follow him on Twitter @tonypetersen4.

Tony PeTersenThe Right Tone

T he Republican presidential race, a numbing slog doomed to be with us deep into the

spring season, brings to mind the final line in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel “The Great Gatsby”:

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne ceaselessly into the past.”

Has there ever been a more dispirit-ing quartet than these finalists? The ostensible front-runner barely won his native state last week. The main challenger, an ex-Pennsylvania sena-tor who was kicked out of office by one of the largest margins in history, seems bent on rowing his boat cease-lessly into the past. The third guy, besotted by his own grandiosity, is being kept alive by donations from a casino mogul. The fourth guy, a fringe libertarian, has been a footnote from day one.

The smart Republican players know what’s going on. They can read the polls. The incendiary rhetoric (Rick Santorum says JFK’s separation-of-church-and-state speech makes him want to “throw up”); the racist innu-endo (Newt Gingrich dismisses Obama as a “food-stamp president”); the clue-

less elitism (Mitt Romney panders to Detroit by saying that his wife drives “a couple of Cadillacs”) — it’s no won-der that swing voters have been swing-ing in droves to the president.

What’s striking is that so many play-ers are willing to air the angst publicly. That alone is a sign of serious distress.

Alex Castellanos, a Republican strategist, remarked the other night that his colleagues were “going through the stages of death” as they witness this campaign. (I think he meant to say “grief.”) Steve Schmidt, who ran John McCain’s 2008 race, said his people were “deeply, deeply unhap-py” and “increasingly pessimistic” about beating Obama. Why? Because, first and foremost, “Mitt Romney is bleeding out among independent vot-ers.”

So true. Romney is still the likeliest nominee, but his prospects of win-ning in November are nil unless he can stanch the bleeding and get those swing voters back. Obama won inde-pendents by eight percentage points in 2008 (he won the election by seven), and, thanks in part to the scabrous Republican intramurals, he’s cur-rently well positioned to capture them again.

The first sign of trouble came in late January, when a national poll reported

that Romney’s unfavorability rating among independents had risen 20 per-centage points in two months. But now comes a different survey — conducted on a bipartisan basis by a Democratic pollster and a Republican counterpart — and the numbers for Romney are even worse. Clearly, the bloody prima-ries have taken their toll.

The Politico/George Washington University Battleground Poll shows Obama topping both Romney and Santorum by double-digit percent-ages. Independent sentiment is the key. Among swing voters, Romney now trails Obama 49 percent to 37 percent. Santorum fares worse with swing vot-ers (big surprise!), trailing Obama 50 percent to 34 percent. All told, Ed Goeas, the Republican pollster who co-ran the survey, acknowledged the obvious: “This is a trend that must be reversed before the general election if Republicans expect to be truly com-petitive in the fall.”

No question, the longer these candi-dates parade themselves publicly, the worse they come off. Santorum has predictably turned off swing voters with his theocratic lectures about how women should live their private lives; he may be the darling du jour of social and religious conservatives, but their priorities are out of sync with the

mainstream. Not surprising, the more Santorum voices those priorities, and the more the pliable Romney indulges those priorities, the more they cede the center to Obama.

Romney is basically a George H.W. Bush moderate-conservative who has the misfortune of running for president in a year when grassroots Republicans are demanding far-right fealty. The tone for this primary season was set early on, when a debate audi-ence booed Rick Perry — Rick Perry! — for touting the Texas law that gives tuition aid to young illegal immigrants who want to go to college. Swing vot-ers prize tolerance; the dominant GOP tone is anything but.

Jeb Bush, brother of W. and son of H.W., lamented to an audience last week, “I watch these debates and ... it’s a little troubling sometimes when peo-ple are appealing to people’s fears and emotion rather than trying to get them to look over the horizon for a broader perspective.”

Jeb, a widely respected party player, has refused to endorse anyone this year. He already seems fixed on 2016, when presumably swing voters will have forgotten the current farce. Who can blame him?

GOP loses the independent votersBy Dick Polman

McClatchy-Tribune

“American power is waning. Troops are stretched thin, the people are war weary and the country cannot finance another war. But

please, Mr. Candidate, tell us more of your thoughts on sex.”

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 2012 THE COLLEGIAN • NEWS PAGE 3NEWS EDITOR, ALEXANDRA NORTON • COLLEGIAN-NEWS@CSUFRESNO.EDU

Journalism prof. Rice honored at Valley high

school conference

Dr. Gary Rice, an associate professor of journalism at Fresno State who coordinates the annual San Joaquin Valley Scholastic Press Association conference for high school stu-dents, received the California J o u r n a l i s m E d u c a t i o n C o a l i t i o n ’ s L i f e t i m e Achievement Award.

R i c e w a s h o n o r e d o n Saturday, March 3, during the 81st edition of the confer-ence at Fresno State where Clovis West High School won the newspaper sweep-stakes trophy for the sec-ond time and Lodi’s Tokay High prevailed in yearbooks. The event is sponsored by Fresno State’s Department of Mass Communication and Journalism.

More than 100 students from 17 high schools competed in 25 newspaper and yearbook cat-egories.

Tokay High topped Selma and Sanger in yearbook com-petition, while Clovis West edged Stockton’s Amos Alonzo Stagg High by two points in the newspaper contest. Sanger, Tokay, Selma, Fresno’s San Joaquin Memorial and Madera followed Stagg.

Rice’s Lifetime Achievement Award in the four-year col-lege division is recognition by peers of broad work with a positive impact on students, campus and industry.

The coalition lauded Rice’s commitment to preparing student journalists to become reporters through his com-munity journalism program and its students’ award win-

ning work for several Valley newspapers. Rice also was rec-ognized for supporting high school journalism through the conference held the first Saturday each March and for promoting his program on a national basis.

A m e r a s i a We e k unites diverse cultures across campus

F re s n o S t at e ’ s d ive r s e Asian culture is celebrated by Cambodian, Hmong, Japanese and Laotian students Tuesday-Saturday, March 6-10, in the annual Amerasia Week, with free public events at 6 p.m. daily at the Satellite Student Union.

Each night student groups will showcase unique cultural performances such as skits, dances and fashion shows, concluding March 10 with Festival Night.

T h e w e e k ’ s t h e m e i s “Metamor phosis.” “T his theme emphasizes how each Asian culture has evolved since arriving in the United States and yet people still hold strongly to their roots,” said Nu Vang, a member of the Amerasia Club at Fresno State.

Fresno State’s Asian student enrollment as the academic year began was 3,018 – 14.4 per-cent of the student body.

The Asian Faculty and Staff Association will host a dis-cussion 2-4 p.m. Wednesday, March 7, on the restoration and preservation of the histor-ic China Alley in Hanford. The free, public event is planned at the Henry Madden Library, Room 2206.

Ariana Wing and Steve Banister, authors of “Noodles through Escargots,” will lead the talk on China Alley, settled around 1877 by Chinese immi-grants who came to work on the Central Pacific Railroad and stayed to farm. Wing and Banister’s book details the Wing family’s internationally known Imperial Dynasty res-taurant over five generations as a China Alley landmark.

‘Women in Economy’ is topic of campus presentation Friday

“Women in the Economy” is the topic of a presentation by Dr. Heather Sumner, a busi-ness consultant, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Friday.

The event will be held at the Vintage Room (in University Center, just south of University Student Union).

The event is sponsored by the Women’s Campus Connection. For more information, con-tact Nina Palomino at npalo-mino@csufresno.edu or visit http://www.csufresno.edu/wcc/index.shtml.

BRIEFS

PROTEST: Result of rising tuition and shortage of student aid able to transfer because they don’t have the classes,” said Kelly Gaab, a student at Oakland’s Laney College who attended Monday’s rally.

Among the speakers Monday was Van Jones, an activist and former White House adviser, who called the students “a

truly extraordinary genera-tion” and urged them to keep fighting for affordable educa-tion.

“You’re not asking for char-ity,” he told the crowd. “You’re asking for the same chance that my generation got. Don’t let them tell you the state can’t do better.”

There is no easy answer

to the state’s higher-edu-cation problems, said Jake Thompson, a Colle ge of Alameda student, and every-body needs to pay more atten-tion.

“Our lawmakers have a huge disconnect with the people,” he said. “But it’s a system-ic problem and we’re all to blame.”

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“Locally, the job prospects are picking up, but they are looking for that high-quality 3.2 GPA or better,” said Dr. Garo Kalfayan, faculty chair of accountancy.

A my L a u , a s e n i o r i n accounting who is current-ly doing an internship as a bookkeeper, hopes Kalfayan is right. Lau is a returning student with over seven years work experience as an office manager.

“I have to stay in the Valley because I have kids here, but if that were not the situation I would branch out,” said Lau, who feels there is a lack of cor-porate jobs in the Valley.

“There are few positions locally at Deliotte and many accounting students, so the competition is tough,” Lau said. “However, you can do government accounting and local businesses.”

Another senior, Richard K r a m e r, i s l o o k i n g f o r accounting placement locally as well as in the Bay Area after he graduates next fall.

“By the time I graduate I’m hoping that I’ll have some kind of offer,” Kramer said. “There are a lot of opportuni-ties that the school helps us with. I need to get the most out of my education so I’m using all the resources that are avail-able to me.”

But for recent graduate Kethey Moua, employment prospects are difficult.

“Now that I’ve graduated this past December, and I’m not going down the public accounting path, it’s a lot harder to get a job because a lot of companies want some-one with experience already,” Moua said. “I did focus on the Valley in my last semester in school, but I could never find anything that I wanted so now I’m in the Bay Area.”

Moua has had some previ-ous accounting experience in Fresno, so she initially thought it would not be hard to find work. But she found that a lot of companies want skill and experience in accounting and database software, partic-ularly Oracle and QuickBooks, which are not taught at Fresno State.

Demand for accountants in the West is down right now, as Moua has discovered.

“If you don’t have that and you’re just as strong as the next candidate, they’re going to go with the one that has that experience,” Moua said. “I just went out last week and they chose the one with Oracle experience over me.”

The accounting curriculum at Fresno State does offer a course in Peachtree, which is similar to QuickBooks, but there are still hurdles for the recent graduate.

Recent studies reveal that accounting is not one of the top five sought-after majors by employers in the west. Currently there is more call for accounting graduates in the midwest and the east. Demand in Fresno and the Central Valley is dependent on the overall recovery of local businesses in the area.

But Kalfayan encourages students in the accounting major and recent graduates to be flexible.

“The degree is portable beyond accounting because there are many other financial jobs and many of them want accounting units or degrees,” Kalfayan said. “Graduates can cross over to finance-oriented jobs.”

This is the first article in a series that will cover the cur-rent job market across majors offered at Fresno State.

MAJOR: Accountants most desirable in midwest and northeast regions

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CorrectionA March 4 article on page 1 and 3 of the News section of The Collegian referred to the Valley Children’s Hospital.

The correct reference should have been the Children’s Hospital Central California.

Randy Pench / McClatchy-Tribune

The students marched on the Capitol the same day as a Bay Area News Group report revealed the cost of attending a CSU or UC had surpassed the cost of such schools as Harvard.

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SCIENCE & CULTURESCIENCE & CULTURE EDITOR, JOHNATHAN WILBANKS • COLLEGIAN-FEATURES@CSUFRESNO.EDU PAGE 5WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 2012

Health Center will hold screenings to diagnose and assist those in need

Feeling stressed or anxious about your upcoming exams? Are you having difficulty con-trolling some of your worries? Or have some family issues you are struggling with?

A c c o rd i n g t o N at i o n a l Institute of Mental Health, anxiety disorders are the most common mental illnesses in America. More than 19 million Americans are affected each year.

A n x i e t y d i s o rd e r s c a n include panic disorder, obses-sive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disor-

der, generalized anxiety, social anxiety or specific phobias. Typically 75 percent of these stressors occur by the age of 21, making college years a peak time of development for these disorders.

T he Universi ty Heal th and Psychological Services is collaborating with Dr. Christine Edmondson from the Psychology Department to host the National College Anxiety Screening Day event on Thursday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Student Health Center, Area E.

Fresno State students, staff and faculty are encouraged to attend a free anxiety screen-

By Laura Pola The Collegian

Rapper Drake to play for sold-out crowd Thursday

Grammy-nominated artist, Drake, will per-form to a sold-out crowd at Fresno’s Save Mart Center for the first time Thursday.

S i n c e s i g n i n g w i t h Yo u n g M o n e y Entertainment in 2009 under the guidance of rap superstar Lil’ Wayne, Drake has released two studio albums and has been nominated for nine Grammys. His first studio album, Thank “Me Later,” was released in mid-2010 and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200.

The Canadian-born hip-hop artist, who released his second studio album titled “Take Care” in November 2011, was originally known for his role as Jimmy Brooks in the television series “Degrassi: The Next Generation.”

Fresno State students have shown immense support and enthusiasm for Drake’s upcoming

sold-out show. “When I first heard that

Drake might do a show in Fresno, I knew that without a doubt I was going because who knows if he’d ever come back to Fresno again?” said Josh Vega, a senior at Fresno State.

Vega said Drake’s multi-tal-ented shows are what makes him so appealing to fans.

“He raps and sings about stuff that you can relate to. His lyrics are clever,” Vega said.

This Thursday wil l be Drake’s first performance in Fresno. Fans were left hang-ing in October 2009 when Drake’s scheduled concert at The Big Fresno Fair was called off and replaced by rap-per Flo Rida after Drake suf-fered a torn ACL.

In late 2011, the word began to spread that Drake might possibly be making a stop in Fresno on his upcoming “Club Paradise Tour.”

After months of uncon-firmed information, the con-cert was officially announced in late January 2012 and

Fresno State students learned that they would have first pri-ority at purchasing tickets at 10 a.m. on January 24 at the Save Mart Center box office, days before tickets were avail-able to the general public.

Alyssa Mandas, a pre-nurs-ing student at Fresno State, said that she lined up outside of the box office two hours before the sale began. Mandas said she waited in the near freezing weather to get the best possible seats before tick-ets went on sale to the public.

“We had been waiting to see when the tickets would come out. As soon as I found out we could buy the tickets me and my roommates got our money together right away so that I could go get them that morn-ing.”

Mike Osegueda, a features reporter at The Fresno Bee who covers music, said that he was not surprised the concert sold out, but was surprised in how fast it did.

“It’s one of the few shows that has sold out as quickly as it did,” Osegueda said. “Only a handful of artists have sold out that quickly and they’re all pretty elite folks like The Rolling Stones, Madonna, Britney Spears and Taylor Swift. That’s big company to be in.”

The “Club Paradise Tour” kicked off on Valentine’s Day in Miami and Drake has been performing nearly every night since as he makes his way across the country. In addition to Fresno, Drake will be per-forming in the Los Angeles, San Jose and wraps up his U.S. tour in San Diego on March 11. He will be joined on the tour by opening acts Kendrick Lamar and ASAP Rocky.

By Kristen FurtadoThe Collegian

ing.Dr. Rebecca Raya-Fernandez,

a licensed psychologist at the University Health and Psychological Services said the anxiety screening day is very helpful for students to gain knowledge and informa-tion about how to cope with everyday stressors.

Raya-Fernandez said every-day stressors for students might include academic situ-ations, problems with insom-nia, relationships with family, friends and work.

“Everyone has a certain amount of anxiety or stress. But when that stress reaches a certain point it may become more acute. And this is when we are starting to go into the area of perhaps panic disor-ders or other disorders within the anxiety spectrum,” said Raya-Fernandez.

Students will have the oppor-tunity to fill out a screening form Thursday, watch a brief video and meet individually on an anonymous basis with a counselor and discuss their results.

During this time, students have the chance to have their screening form reviewed with a counselor and the opportu-nity to utilize the resources Psychological Services has to offer. This may include psy-cho-educational information or referral information.

“It’s really a screening tool to give students more informa-tion,” Raya-Fernandez said.

“It actually gives them the opportunity to meet with a counselor and get more clarity on their... concerns or issues.”

Psychology Student Mary Varner is looking forward to participating in the National

College Anxiety Screening Day.

“It’s more of a fun activ-ity to participate in National College Anxiety Screening Day,” Varner said. “Not only will it be good for me, but also for students in getting educat-ed on knowing themselves and knowing how to ask for help.”

A n o t h e r o r g a n i z a t i o n , Mental Health America of the Central Valley, will also be part of the event and will pro-vide informational pamphlets to students about the services within the community.

Students of al l majors are encoura g ed to vis i t the University Health and Psychological Services for screening Thursday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Student Health Center. For more infor-mation about the event stu-dents may call 278-6738.

College years are a peak time for development of anxiety disorders

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A substance formed by the combination of two or more elements, at least one of which must be a metal.

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Nominations are now being accepted for the Provost’s Awards for the 2011-2012 academic year. Students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to submit nominations of full-time tenured and tenure-track faculty, or an academic program for the Assessment of Learning award.

Nominations may be submitted in the following categories:• Excellence in Teaching• Technology in Education• Graduate Teaching and Mentoring • Faculty Service • Distinguished Achievement in Research, Scholarship or Creative Accomplishment • Promising New Faculty Award • Distinguished Achievement in Assessment of Learning

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Forms are also available in the Office of the Provost, Haak Administration Center, Henry Madden Library, 4th floor, room #4116.

All nominations must be submitted to the Office of the Provost on or before 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 12, 2012.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 2012 THE COLLEGIAN • SPORTS PAGE 7SPORTS EDITOR, ANGEL MORENO • COLLEGIAN-SPORTS@CSUFRESNO.EDU

Men’s tennis ranked No. 14 in the country

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Men’s tennis head coach Jay Udwadia has led his team to a No. 14 national ranking this season.

The Fresno State women’s basketball team will compete in its final Western Athletic Conference Tour nament, beginning today in a 6 p.m. contest against eighth-seeded New Mexico State.

The top-seeded ‘Dogs, who won the conference season title with an 12-1 record, will defend last year’s WAC Tournament championship as well as exit the WAC as out-right champions.

“That has been our aim this whole season,” said junior Rosie Moult. “We want to be the last team to win the WAC. It would be great having fin-ished winning the conference in season and the tourna-ment.”

Moult, who is averaging 12.9 points and 5.3 rebounds per game for the ‘Dogs, was named to the All-WAC defensive team. Sophomore Ki-Ki Moore was named WAC Player of the Year. She is the third Bulldog to earn the award.

Despite the added bounty on her head as the WAC’s best player, Moore knows the team will need to focus just like they have for every other game.

“We come to every game the same,” Moore said. “We know that after playing and beat-ing everyone this season, that everyone is after us. Everyone usually plays their best game against us, so we just have to play our hardest and not worry about what everyone else is thinking about us.”

Moore, who sat out last sea-son to fulfill NCAA trans-fer regulations, will make her first trip to the WAC Tournament for the ‘Dogs.

“We’re not treating the tour-nament any different than we’ve been treating league or preseason,” Moore added. “Everything is still the same. We prepared the same, so I think we’re ready.”

Should the ‘Dogs win today’s contest they will play the win-ner between fifth-seed San Jose State and four-seed Idaho.

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Women prepare for WAC Tournament

The men’s tennis team con-tinued to climb in the polls last week, reaching No. 14 in the Campbell/Intercollegiate Tennis Association Team Rankings.

The No. 14 ranking is the highest spot the ‘Dogs have reached since 2000 when the team was ranked No. 12.

Eighth-year head coach Jay Udwadia has led the team to a nine-match winning streak, including an upset over then-No. 9 Stanford. Stanford is cur-

rently ranked No. 10.The team is led by senior

Remi Boutillier, who although suffered a singles loss in last week’s win at San Diego State, is ranked No. 17 among singles players in the nation.

S o p h o m o r e F r a n c i s Alcantara, or “Niño” as he’s known by his teammates, is currently ranked No. 52 in singles.

The ‘Dogs, who defeated San Diego State 4-3 last Thursday, will host Wisconsin Saturday 2 p.m. in the Wathen Tennis Center.

The Peyton Manning era in Indianapolis is about to end.

The future Hall of Fame quarterback, who was drafted first overall by the Colts in 1998 and led them to the Super Bowl title after the 2006 sea-son, is expected to be released from his contract Wednesday.

The Colts have scheduled a news conference to announce the move, according to a per-son familiar with the team’s situation. Manning and Colts owner Jim Irsay are expected to attend. ESPN first reported that the Colts would release Manning on Wednesday, the day before he would be due a $28-million roster bonus.

Manning missed the 2011 season because of neck prob-lems that required four sur-geries the past two years, including three in 2011.

Manning, who will be 36 March 24, will be one of the most highly sought-after free agents in NFL history. He is expected to draw interest from the Jets, Dolphins, Redskins, Seahawks, Cardinals and Chiefs and possibly the 49ers, Cowboys and Jaguars.

It’s uncertain whether the Jets will be able to sign him,

but two people familiar with the situation said the Jets are prepared to make a seri-ous run. Coach Rex Ryan and general manager Mike Tannenbaum said last month they are happy with Mark Sanchez as their starter, but both said they would not rule out upgrading at any position.

That was a softening of their previous stance on Sanchez. When asked by Newsday in early December about their potential interest in Manning if he were available, Ryan said he stood by Sanchez.

In August 2008, the Jets trad-ed for Packers quarterback Brett Favre, who was 38 at the time, and released longtime starter Chad Pennington.

Teams will be free to sign Manning as soon as he is released. He does not need to wait until the start of unre-stricted free agency Tuesday to sign with another club.

The Dolphins, Redskins, Cardinals and Chiefs are known to covet him as long as he is healthy enough to play. He has been working out in Indianapolis, Florida and North Carolina in recent weeks in an effort to further rehabilitate his arm.

Manning signed a five-year, $90-million contract extension last February, then had sur-

gery last May to alleviate neck pain and arm weakness. He had a follow-up procedure in June, then had cervical fusion surgery in September. He was cleared to resume practicing in December, but he did not play for the rest of the season.

The Colts are expected to draft Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck or Baylor quar-terback Robert Griffin III with the first overall pick.

Rya n o f t e n h a s c a l l e d Manning the best quarterback in the game when healthy. He has said he considers him better than the Patriots’ Tom Brady, winner of three Super Bowls.

The Jets reportedly also are intrigued by the possibil-ity of adding Manning and Colts free-agent wide receiv-er Re ggie Wayne; Sports Illustrated reported last week that the two would be inclined to play for the same team if Manning were available on the open market.

But if the Jets do go after Manning, they’ll have plenty of competition. Chiefs coach Romeo Crennel said any team would be “crazy” not to con-sider Manning if he became available.

That time has come, so let the bidding war begin.

By Bob GlauberMcClatchy-Tribune

Colts to call it quits on Manning

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Peyton Manning is expected to be released by the Indianapolis Colts today. Manning spent the past 14 seasons in Indianapolis, earning four MVP awards and a Super Bowl ring in 2007.

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THIS WEEKENDThe nationally ranked men’s tennis team (No. 14) will host

Wisconsin on Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Wathen Tennis Center.

DeRuyter preps ‘Dogs for spring gameSPRING FOOTBALL

Bulldog football hit the ground run-ning last week with the kick off of spring practices with a new head coach for the first time since 1997.

New head coach Tim DeRuyter said the team’s focus for the spring’s 15 prac-tices leading up to the annual spring game on March 25 is clear and simple.

“I want our guys to have a basic under-standing of our offensive and defensive schemes, but more importantly than that just how we’re going to play — that fast, physical and fanatical on both sides of the ball,” DeRuyter said.

With spring practices open to the pub-lic, DeRuyter said fans are already able to get a taste of the team’s new playing style.

“It’s gonna be fast and furious,” DeRuyter said. “Where it may seem like chaos on the sideline, and right now initially it is, eventually that’s just gonna be our MO.”

Senior running back and 2011 team MVP Robbie Rouse said he’s already fairly comfortable with DeRuyter’s style of play. Rouse said it’s the way he learned to play football in San Diego.

“If you’re going to make a mistake, make it full speed,” Rouse said. “I like that he pressures that upon everybody on the team.”

Junior quarterback Derek Carr said the up-tempo style will only help him in leading the offense.

“Us just playing fast will slow the defense down and that makes my job 10 times easier,” Carr said.

Learning the new systems will take his team some time, but DeRuyter said he’s already very pleased with the team’s work.

“Although we’re not anywhere near where we need to be, the concepts are getting through to them,” DeRuyter said.

DeRuyter said he attests the play-ers’ steady development to his fel-low coaching staff: “I really am impressed with our staff. They are great teachers.”

Rouse said running backs coach Joe Wade, the lone returning coach from last year, taught him football in a general

way so that scheme changes wouldn’t be too difficult. Rouse said this has made transitioning to DeRuyter’s for-mations easy.

“Football is football,” Rouse said. “It’s just different terminology.”

DeRuyter said he’s enjoying the fresh slate he’s been given as a brand new head coach. He said the energy his players and coaches are showing will give him many options when it comes to securing positions for the spring game.

“They know they have a new chance to write their résumé and you see some guys emerge,” DeRuyter said.

Rouse considers himself one of these players and is ready to take on the challenge.

“I’m a competitor,” said Rouse. “I just come out every day and play as hard as possi-ble to keep that spot certain.”

Aside from his own goals for the boys on the field, DeRuyter wants to see the team’s reputation really take shape over this spring train-ing as well.

“That signature of who we are and what bulldog football is, I want that to be estab-lished in the spring,” said DeRuyter.

The annual football spring game is set for March 25 at noon at Bulldog Stadium.

By Lindsey JonesThe Collegian

“I want our guys to have a basic understanding of our offensive and defensive schemes, but more importantly than that just how we’re going to play – that fast, physical and fanatical on both sides of the ball” -head coach Tim DeRuyter

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