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Summer school at Fres-no State will now operate as a regular term, similar to the spring and fall semesters.

Fees will be similar to those of the spring and fall semes-ters except for the “Miscella-neous Course Fees” — which range from $4 to $350 — that will be slightly reduced. Financial aid will be available to those who apply and are eli-gible.

“It has been the desire of the campus and the Califor-nia State University, Fresno system to have full-time oper-ations and offer a year-round schedule,” Tina Beddall, a staff member at the Regis-trar’s Office, said.

The new program will offer a variety of starting dates that will provide courses in the majority of Fresno State’s departments and programs. The sessions are:

•One 12-week session May 21-Aug. 10.

•Two six-week sessions May 21-June 29 and July 2-Aug. 10.

•Three-week sessions with a variety of start dates.

Early registration begins March 19. Just like spring and fall semesters, appoint-ment dates and times will be assigned based upon class level and units completed.

Beginning March 5, students can view their view appoint-ment date and time at http://www.my.csufresno.edu.

Unlike the spring and fall semesters, the summer pro-gram’s course offerings will be much more limited. The official class schedule for sum-mer 2007 is available at Kennel Bookstore or online.

Junior Patricia Eskandari, 21, has never taken summer courses at Fresno State. Eskan-dari said she looks forward to summer school operating like a normal semester because it will be easier to register.

“This will give me the oppor-tunity to select classes that I may not have been able to take during previous summer sessions offered through the extended education program,” Eskandari said.

Joan Newcomb, a Fresno State women’s studies profes-sor, said professors, unlike stu-dents, will not notice as many changes.

“Having attended graduate school on a trimester sched-ule, I can see many advantag-es to treating summer school as an actual term,” Newcomb said.

For any questions regarding summer school 2007 contact the Registrar’s Office located in the north lobby of the Joyal Administration Building or call 278-2261.

Summer session is now a term

Although Lent is rooted in the Roman Catholic religion, it is becoming a cultur-al phenomenon as well.

Catholics aren’t the only ones celebrat-ing Lent; non-Catholics are joining in, too.

“Friends that are Catholic are setting an example to those who are non-Catho-lic,” Father Michael A. Burchfield of St.

Paul Newman Church said. “Some see it as a way to grow in other religions. They see value in Lent.”

Ash Wednesday signifies the beginning of the Lent season, and some Catholics give up typical habits or vices such as soda or fast food for 40 days. Lent is the 40 days before celebrating Holy Week and Easter Sunday. The 40 days represent the 40 days that Jesus went to the desert for prayer and fasting.

Mercedes Rodriguez, who was baptized as a Catholic, is giving up soda.

“I converted to Christianity a couple of years ago, but my mother raised me as a Catholic,” Rodriguez said. “I’m giv-ing up soda for my mother, even though I practice Christianity now.”

Morgan Williams, a Fresno State busi-ness major, watched students walk through the Free Speech Area with spots of black ash rubbed against their fore-

40 days and 40 nights of sacrifices

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Greeted by her mother and Adrian Wiggins, guard Chantella Perera enjoys Senior Day for the women’s basketball team at the Save Mart Center Saturday. The Bulldogs beat Utah State, 71-60.

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Seniors’ shining moment

On March 17, Fresno State will host the National Hispanic Business Association Spring Regional Meeting. It is the first time Fresno State will host the event, after winning the bid to serve as the host school.

NHBA serves as the national umbrella organization for the Fresno State Hispan-ic Business Student Association chapter. NHBA will extend invitations meeting to universities in California, Arizona and Utah. The all-day event will focus on stu-dent leadership and networking.

The Fresno State HBSA chapter was among several universities in the west-ern region to submit a bid to host the

event. David Pena, Jr., the executive direc-

tor for NHBA, described the purpose of the national organization as well as his goals for the meeting. “We hope that the resources we provided will help them develop the skills to be strong leaders, gain professional experience through internships and build the path to suc-cessful business careers.”

Pena also described how Fresno State stood out among the other universities in the running, “Fresno State won the bid due in part to its impressive number of members who attended the 2006 NHBA Leadership Conference.”

Speaking highly of the students he met, Pena said, “Fresno State had the larg-est contingency of any California school

attending the leadership conference and won the right to carry the state flag dur-ing the presentation of states at the open-ing ceremony.”

During the leadership conference, which took place in November 2006, HBSA represented Fresno State by bring-ing almost 100 percent of its member-ship. “The National Board of Directors viewed this as a true commitment from Fresno State’s student leaders to the mis-sion of NHBA,” Pena said.

Pena also revealed some of the guest speakers who will visit the campus for the meeting. “Attending the West-ern Regional Meeting will be corporate

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Also on the meeting agenda is a presentation by the His-panic Heritage Foundation. It will discuss the Latinos On Fast Track internship pro-gram.

Fresno State’s own Dr. Vic-tor B. Olivares will serve as the keynote speaker and guest lecturer for the event. Oliva-res is a coordinator for both Digital Campus and the Sum-mer Bridge Program at Fresno State. He is also the long-time HBSA adviser.

Adrian Olivares, son of Dr. Olivares, serves as the vice president of HBSA. Adrian Olivares was present when Pena announced that Fresno State won the meeting bid. “I’m excited, because the meeting is new to Fresno State,” Adri-an Olivares said. “I think the business school will get great exposure from this event.”

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Facebook doesn’t up voter turnoutPoliticians’ best efforts still don’t reach young people

Ah, youth, that fickle force in politics. Young people bring energy, passion, cre-ativity and technical wizardry to the pres-idential campaign — everything, it seems, except impact on Election Day.

With their Web logs, Facebook profiles and college rallies, the 2008 presidential candidates are lavishing attention on a group that displays unbridled enthusiasm early in the campaign but tends to lose interest when the voting starts.

For all the star-studded voter registra-tion drives featuring the likes of Madon-na and Sean “Diddy” Combs, more than half of the people in the United States age 18 to 24 who are eligible to vote typically are no-shows on Election Day. By compar-ison, some 70 percent of those 45 and older cast their ballots, according to the Census Bureau.

So while young people are front and cen-ter in spreading the word on candidates, it still is the Sinatra generation that is rock-in’ the vote.

“We have a long way to go,” said Ben Unger, field director for PIRG New Vot-ers Project. “Even if we had an equal-ly engaged population as senior citizens, there’s tons of room to be made up.” One impediment: People 18 to 24 are high-ly mobile and hard to reach even with relaxed absentee balloting rules.

Voter turnout among young people rose in the 2004 election to 47 percent from 36 percent in 2000. It is an increase in moti-vation that candidates hope will build this time and last until November 2008.

“This election means a lot for young

people,” Republican Mitt Romney said in a recent interview. “This election will set a course that determines whether Ameri-ca remains the economic leader, the inno-vation leader of the world. Young people have the biggest stake in our future.”

In the interview, Romney, 59, was not aware that he had a profile on Facebook.com, the social networking Web site with some 10 million users; an aide assured him that he did.

O n e Fa c e b o o k g r o u p b a c k i n g Democratic Sen. Barack Obama has more than 300,000 members. It was F a c e b o o k t h a t helped turn out sev-eral thousand peo-ple at a rally for the Illinois senator at George Mason Uni-versity in Virginia several weeks ago.

Joe Trippi, the I n t e r n e t s av v y campaign manager of Democrat How-ard Dean’s 2004 White House bid, said there was no way the Obama campaign alone could have organized an event that drew 3,000 at such an early stage in the campaign.

Obama spokesman Dan Pfeiffer said much interest in the 45-year-old candi-date among younger voters, particularly the activity on the Internet, has sprung up independent of the campaign. “Our task as a campaign is to find ways to embrace this grassroots enthusiasm and channel it,” he said.

Republican John McCain’s outreach to younger voters includes establishing an online social network called McCainS-pace where supporters can create their own pages and connect with one another. The 70-year-old Arizona senator chose to appear on “Late Night with David Letter-man” to announce plans to make his pres-idential bid official.

Beneva Schulte, speaking for Connect-icut Sen. Chris Dodd’s Democratic presi-

dential campaign, said: “We’re not waiting for them to come to us; we’re finding them where they live. College students, unless t h e y ’ r e o v e r t l y political, don’t go to political Web sites and attend politi-cal rallies, so we’re meeting them on college campuses at Harvard and How-ard — on Facebook and YouTube.”

Dean, a for mer Vermont governor, powered his way into contention in 2004 with his use of then-innovative blogs and other Internet tools to raise money and create a buzz around his candidacy, then faded after the prima-ry voting started. “Today there are 55 mil-lion blogs, social networking tools avail-able to the campaigns,” Trippi said. “I envy them.”

Not only do Facebook and other net-

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“A big reason why students don’t vote is they’re not

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heads in a symbolic sign of the cross on Ash Wednesday.

Williams, 18, said her mother’s side of the family is Catholic but she was bap-tized Presbyterian when she was a year old.

“I am not baptized Catholic, but I am giv-ing up snacking between meals and eating after 7:30 p.m. I find it an excellent test of will,” Williams said.

A native of Fresno, Father Michael will be giving up more than just candy.

“Instead of just giving up anything, I am trying to be more patient when driving

the streets of Fresno,” he said.Sometimes the reason behind giving up

something lies in a relationship between two different religions.

Cameron Sanders, 25, was raised with Christian beliefs but is changing his

spending habits for his fiancée, who is Catholic.

“Although I am not Catholic, I am giving up spending money on unnecessary items like going out on the weekends to clubs or bars and only paying for the necessities like food and rent,” Sanders said. “I find it a beneficial learning experience.”

Brittany Dingler, Sander’s fiancée and liberal studies major, has also given up spending on unnecessary items in addi-tion to eating sweets.

“We are both giving up spending money on items that aren’t necessities,” Dingler said. “This also helps prepare us finan-cially for the future when we do get mar-ried.”

Lent: Soda, candy common items given up

“Some see it as a way to grow in other religions. They see value

in Lent.”

— Father Michael A. BurchfieldSt. Paul Newman Church

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works provide backers, they also are a source of campaign cash. On his Web site, Obama urges Facebook followers to make a small contribution.

Critical for the campaigns is whether they can keep the interest of young voters through the election. Trip-pi warned about the “self-ful-filling death spiral” in which in-house pollsters tell candi-dates that young people do not vote and urge the contend-er to focus on issues, includ-ing Social Security, that are favored by the elderly.

“The 18, 19-year-old worry-ing about college says, ‘Hey, they’re not talking about things that interest me,’” Trip-pi said.

Billy Valentine, 20, a sopho-more at Franciscan College in Steubenville, Ohio, leads Stu-dents for Brownback, support-ing Kansas Sen. Sam Brown-back for the GOP nomination. Brownback, 50, is a favorite of religious conservatives.

“My main goal is to cre-ate a student army for his campaign,” said Valentine, a native of Alexandria, Va. But he acknowledges young people do not vote in the same num-bers as their elders.

“A big reason why students don’t vote is they’re not pay-ing taxes yet,” Valentine said. “They don’t have thousands of dollars taken out of their sal-aries. Their parents are pay-ing for their college education. They don’t look at econom-ics.”

One issue that could moti-vate students is the effort to raise the minimum wage at both the federal level and in some states, Valentine said. He explained that Ohio’s increase in the wage has prompted his college to cut back hours for student jobs and eliminate some employment.

“Once an issue really impacts a student directly, it motivates them,” Valentine said.

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Thumbs down to the graders of the CBEST test. A source — who wishes to remain anonymous, but who we assure is a real person — insists he or she passed, despite having forgotten almost everything about math — including how to multiply.

Thumbs up to the men’s basketball team for its third-place seed in the WAC tournament. The team fin-ished with a six-game winning streak, including wins against Utah State and New Mexico State on the road, providing those teams’ only losses at home this season.

Thumbs up to the Fresno State minds behind the Junmai skirt steak. It is a piece of “sake-infused” beef — and perhaps the cleverest means of sneaking alcohol into the football stadium that we’ve heard of.

Thumbs up to midterms. We were sleeping too much anyway.

Thumbs down to ABC for deciding to produce a sitcom based on the cavemen from the Geico commercials. Thirty seconds is long enough for us.

Everyone has a Happy Place.A couple of weekends ago my

mother and I made a trip out to the Bay Area. And while we were there we must have hit up every shop around.

But, there was one store that I had to go into.

Right in front of us was the Disney Store and I made my mother whip inside. I know what you’re thinking: Fresno’s Fashion Fair Mall has a Disney Store — what’s the big deal?

It is true, however, that in San Francisco all the shopping is big-ger and better.

As soon as I walked in the Disney store I felt like I had entered the “Happiest Place on Earth!”

The smell of cotton candy wafted about the atmosphere and the bright and cheerful colors decorated the entire store.

Disney characters were scattered every-where.

Each character, from Tigger and Pooh to Nemo had its own section, all scattered throughout the store. I quickly skipped over to the Princess wall because it had the biggest area dedicated to little girls’ fantasies.

In case you haven’t figured out, I’m a 22-year-old who hearts Disney films.

As I turned a corner, right in the middle of the floor was a huge screen that was playing “Sleeping Beauty.”

I stood there for a good 10 minutes before realizing that I was not at home on my couch secretly pretending to be Princess Aurora.

A saleswoman tapped me on the shoul-der and asked if I was finding everything okay.

I excitedly asked her if she knew when “Sleeping Beauty” was going to be put on DVD so that I could toss my VHS tape.

The woman looked at me and said, “I’m sorry. You just missed it. It was released and has already been put back into the vault possibly for another couple of years.”

I turned with tears in my eyes and my

mom patted my head to tell me that every-thing was going to be fine.

But, I reverted back to 5 years old when all I wanted to do, was do what I wanted to do and not listen to anyone. I wanted that movie.

Now!The Disney Store was not the happiest

place anymore for me, but even though I was disappointed, I still couldn’t make myself leave the store.

I started to get drawn back into coffee mugs and hats, key chains and charms.

Before I knew it, my arms were over-loaded and I started to hand my mom things to carry.

No, not everything was for me. Gosh! I do have nieces and goddaugh-ters to think about.

But, truthfully, the majority of it was to feed my own obsession.

Needless to say, I cashed out with a receipt that tallied up to close to $100. My

mom did nothing but shake her head with a slight smile.

When we turned around to leave my happy place, another worker wearing the Mad Hatter’s top hat informed me that “Peter Pan” was going to be released from the vault next week.

I looked at my mom and she knowingly nodded and we both made a mental note.

After traipsing back to the car to drop off our bags, we started on down the San Francisco streets and she started to chuckle.

When I asked her what was so funny she said that I hadn’t changed one bit.

And she was right, through many years of trying to find out the person I am and who I want to be, there are certain things that always pull me back into who I was.

And I give my thanks to Disney.

A reliable “happy place”By Nicole Tropf

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Nicole Tropf is a senior majoring in mass communication and journalism. She is also claims to be afraid of roller coasters the way most people are afraid of 8 a.m. classes.

Last Wednesday’s issue of The Collegian included an article by Brent VonCannon describing revisions in surveillance policy that were passed by the Academic Senate several weeks ago, and needs only the approval of President John Welty before potentially being exercised across campus.

Among other changes, this new policy affords limited video sur-veillance in laboratories. While we are a little wary of this modifi-cation, we can understand how this change may prove beneficial, particularly in settings with especially expensive or valuable equip-ment.

What we can’t quite comprehend, however, involves a change that would allow undercover police officers to sit in on “public or private meetings of university-sponsored organizations or in university classrooms” with administrative approval.

We fail to see how these “covert surveillance operations” might possibly prove effective in anything other than enormous lecture-style classrooms.

Students are bound to notice the older guy who shows up mid-semester for the first time — without a book. This sort of intrusion will invariably prove distracting and entirely unfavorable to forging and maintaining a comfortable learning environment. Besides, we’re not entirely convinced that Political Science 2 classrooms function as a nexus of drug trade.

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T he city of Fresno kicked off one of its fastest growing traditions this weekend as the Rogue Perfor-

mance Festival 2007 opened in downtown Fresno and the Tower District.

The festival is modeled after “fringe fes-tivals,” which began in Scotland in 1947 to allow all artists the opportunity to show-case their work. The Rogue Festival has continued these ideas by creating a non-juried arts festival here in Fresno.

Promotions Director and performer Jaguar Bennet has been involved with the Rogue Festival since its beginning in 2002.

“What you’re getting in the Rogue Festi-val is not what we or anybody feels is the best, it is what the artists are motivated to bring to you. We believe that the audience

is the best judge of quality,” Bennet said.The first Rogue Festival in 2002 featured

16 performers and attracted an audience of more than 1,200 — far beyond what founder Marcel Nunis had imagined. In the years following, the festival has gained notoriety and last year’s event brought in nearly 7,000 spectators.

This year’s 2007 Rogue Festival began last Thursday and continues through March 10. It features about 100 artists. It has many performers from Fresno, includ-ing several Fresno State students.

Among the Fresno State performers are Deanna Pierro and Jessica Taylor. The two have created a new genre of music which Pierro describes as, “an organic sound in which we interweave music and spoken word poetry. It is emotionally pro-vocative, candid and meanwhile, musical-ly serenading.”

One important thing to remember is that there are multiple venues and shows

all occurring at once. All venues and show times can be found

on the Rogue Festival website roguefes-tival.com. You can also pick up a “Rogue Map” at the festival, which has descrip-tions of shows, a schedule and a venue map.

“For the most part it is eminently walk-able. You can get from venue to venue in five minutes or less,” Bennet said.

Bennet projects that this year’s event will bring in close to 8,000 people and he hopes that more Fresno State students will get informed and involved.

“This is a great opportunity to bring together artists and audiences. Students should embrace the rich culture that sur-rounds them. This entertainment is avail-able year round and the Rogue is a great opportunity to see it all in one place.”

Fashion blooms

Tired of wearing that same chunky sweater, the one that looked so up-to-the-minute in November, but now is covered in fuzz balls?

What about those clunky knee-high boots? They felt great those first cold weeks of winter, but wouldn’t a cool new wedge sandal be a wel-come relief ?

While it’s freezing outside, it’s warming up inside the stores, as spring fashion blos-soms and miniskirts, capped sleeve blouses and summer swing dresses push aside chunky sweaters, dark wool pants and turtlenecks.

But warm weather is still too far away to wear most of those sweet new looks.

“I understand the frustra-tion — it’s cold outside, but the stores have spring and sum-mer collections,” said Lois Joy Johnson, beauty and fashion director for MORE magazine. “The fashion industry is on a different schedule than the way women live. There used to be a very clear season called transitional clothing. It’s van-ished. We speed straight from wool into light cottons.”

So here are some suggestions for what you can do right now to fight your winter wardrobe fatigue:

Stacey Pecor, owner of New York boutique chain Olive & Bette’s, suggests picking up a spring blouse and wearing it under a dark suit. A capped sleeve blouse — a good look this spring — in white, cream, navy, or red with some embroi-dered flowers or ruffles can be just the piece to lighten up a heavy winter outfit.

She also recommends pair-ing spring’s tank jersey dress-es (you can wear them over a turtleneck or with a cardi-gan) with patterned tights and knee-high boots. Or buy new pants to wear with your sweaters, said Pecor. “There’s some great wide leg pants that are in stores right now,” she said. And don’t forget to look for jeans with the new higher rises.

When weather per mits, exchange your knee-high boots for spring’s platform pumps or something in a metallic, Lois Joy Johnson, beauty and fash-ion director, MORE magazine suggests. A matte silver or gold wedge, platform or ballet flat is big this spring. No more stilettos, she says.

“If you want to wear pants and have a leggier look, you can have some height with platforms,” she said. “If you want to be more grounded and you are into the 60s dresses — that kind of looser, A-line dress — the flats look amaz-ing.”

Or buy a white shirt and wear it under a leather jack-et. Light cotton white blouses with puffed sleeves and V-neck lines are popular. She also sug-gests adding a metallic belt

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and handbag to freshen an all-black look.“Between accessories and one or two

pieces in proportion, you can keep wear-ing the same clothes,” she said. “Rather than saying ‘I can’t wait to wear spring clothes,’ you can sort of edge into it this way.”

Trade in the sterling silver for some gold, said Jayne Chase, cohost of the radio show “A Fashionable Life” on AM 1490 WGCH in Greenwich, Conn.

“Gold is the new silver in jewelry,” she said. “Gold bangles and gold cuffs, bright colored gems set in gold.”

Never underestimate the power of new makeup, they advise. “Makeup is an easy way to make a difference in your look and gives you a new attitude as well,” Jennifer Goodkind, Chase’s cohost, said. “Experi-

ment with red (lipstick). Find a shade that works with your skin tone and pair it with a natural face.”

Add some color. There are more season-less colors, said New York fashion design-er Joanna Mastroianni, who even includ-ed black as part of her spring collection.

“We don’t put colors into categories any-more,” she said. “You can always wear red, orange.”

And spend some time putting together

combinations you’ve never tried before, she said. “What’s fun is to take the look and add other elements,” she said. “Play with things. Try on your jacket. Try on different earrings with it. It’s amazing when you mix and match different outfits what you get.”

But what if you really want a new sweat-er, coat or a pair of wool pants?

Most stores have cleared out their win-ter inventory, so your best bet is to shop online, said Patricia Handschiegel, editor of stylediary.net.

“You will go crazy digging through the racks,” she said. “You can browse at your leisure online and get good winter stuff. The best part is it’s 75 percent off. And if you really need it in a pinch, most places offer quick delivery.” Her recommenda-tion: shopbop.com.

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Bridging culture through dance

An Indian boy with a suit-case and an “I love NY” T-shirt stumbles onstage, grin-ning at the New York skyline and the chic Indian-American girls strolling by.

But these American-raised girls want nothing to do with an immigrant fresh from the subcontinent. What’s a boy to do?

Dance, of course.Bollywood dance competi-

tions involve teams of Indian-American students from elite U.S. universities who bring the music and dance tradi-tions of their forebears into a uniquely American world of intercollegiate competition, with its pre-performance hud-dles, cheerleading and thirst for first place.

The dancers act out the chal-lenges of living between cul-tures — familiar territory for any second- and third-gener-ation immigrant — through the sugary boy-meets-girl plots and high-energy chore-ographies of the movies they grew up watching.

“It’s like a bridge between Hindi and American cul-ture,” said Rashi Birla, 22, a fourth-year design and media arts major who dances on the University of California, Los Angeles team. “There’s noth-ing like this in India.”

The UCLA team was one of 10 that faced off recently in a competition held by Indus, the Indian student group at UC Berkeley.

As the dancing be g an, UCLA’s lead performer spun around, revealing that his “I love NY” T-shirt said “I love India more” on the back.

“Let me show you how things are done in India!” he said.

A scene later — wearing flashy new costumes glitter-ing with sequins — the new immigrant meets the Ameri-canized Indian girl at a club. After eight minutes of frenet-ic dancing — and yet another wardrobe change — she’s in love.

The 1,500 people packed into Oakland’s Scottish Rite Cen-ter roar with approval.

Dance competitions like Bol-lywood Berkeley, billed as the biggest in the country, draw on Indian art forms, but clear-ly they’re a cultural compos-ite. Even the choreography mixes the fluttering hands and lateral head weaves of traditional Indian dance with hip-hop and modern dance.

“ Wi t h a l l i m m i g r a n t s, there’s an effort to recre-ate oneself in a new envi-ronment,” said Miriam Ben-Yoseph, a DePaul University researcher whose work dis-cusses issues like “cultural homelessness.”

“You become a hybrid of your old culture and the cul-ture that you’re joining, you create something you’re com-fortable with,” she said. “And your children inherit that

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Grab a cup of coffee with culture

Pratik Sharda is a finance major from New Delhi, India. He is in his second semester at Fresno State and he is the student coordinator for the Internation-al Coffee Hour.

International Coffee Hour is a program that has been running for 14 years and is held every Tuesday in the University Student Union.

The main goal of the program is to get international and local students togeth-er, as well as faculty and community members.

The idea, Sharda said, is to get every person possible to expand his or her knowledge about other countries.

Each week, in USU 309-317, an interna-tional student or faculty member gives a one-hour presentation on a different country. On Feb. 27, Dr. Rose Marie Kuhn, a French professor at Fresno State, gave a presentation on Cuba.

She was able to give the presentation on Cuba because she traveled there for a conference. Kuhn explained that because she is a teacher, she was able to bring back some items from Cuba to show her

students. Some of the items she brought to the presentation were musical instru-ments, books and cigars.

Most of the presenters are internation-al students, who present on their own countries, Sharda said. However, some-times there are professors who will give a presentation about their own coun-tries of origin, or like Kuhn, a professor who has a background or interest in that country.

“We learn about the political and eco-nomical aspects of a country,” Shar-da said. “The presenter will talk about exports, food and tourism.”

In the past, Sharda said, International Coffee Hour has focused on large coun-tries. This semester however, some of the presentations are on smaller, less known countries. On March 20, the pre-sentation will be about the Czech Repub-lic and the following week will be about Cambodia.

What the program lacks, Sharda said, is the participation of local students. Mostly the people who attend are regu-lars who have been attending for years and students who are interested in trav-eling.

At one of the first coffee hours of the semester, there were about 65 people in attendance. On February 27, there were

only 15 people in the audience. Sharda said that he had heard a lot of discussion about midterms and that could be why there was such a low turnout.

On March 6, Sharda is scheduled to give a presentation about his native country, India and its rising economy. Sharda will talk about India’s population, its regions and its different religions.

In the last 14 years, the program has not changed days or venues, Sharda said. He hopes to get more people involved in the upcoming weeks.

“It’s an amazing experience,” Shar-da said. “Learning about international business and travel.”

The presentations are great for stu-dents who have never been outside the United States, Sharda said. It gives them a way to visit those countries and learn more about the culture, as well as the tourism, economy and experiences of others.

This semester, there will be a total of 12 presentations total. Beginning on March 6, the countries to be covered are India, Kenya, Czech Republic, Cambodia, Thai-land, Taiwan, Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh and Canada.

mixture and create their new one, because they have more of the new place’s stamp on them.”

The Bollywood movies from which the songs and kitschy plots are drawn are mass entertainment in India — fan-tasy films that “mingle the allure of wealth and luxury around a core of traditional morality,” said Robert Gold-man, professor at UC Berke-ley’s Department of South and Southeast Asia Studies.

The rise of popular cul-ture as an academic disci-pline, which brought analy-sis of hip-hop and Star Wars to university classrooms, has also led to a recent scholar-ly examining of Bollywood, said Goldman. But there’s still a lingering embarrass-ment that comes with enjoy-ing these films — a little like the guilty pleasure of watch-ing soap operas here.

“It’s like junk food,” he said. “It’s schmaltzy. You know it’s not the most intellectual stuff in the world, but it’s fun, it’s entertaining.”

For Indian-American stu-dents reared in the United States, Bollywood dance com-petitions have become a way to connect with their parents’ culture without losing touch with what they see on MTV.

Rohit Bal, 20, a third-year management science major at the University of California, San Diego, grew up in a most-ly white suburb of Los Ange-les, with few other Indians.

“Up until college, I was more ... I guess you could call it whitewashed,” he said. The dancing “was a window to get in touch with my culture, with my parent’s culture, while making it fun for myself.”

Approving, Indian-born par-ents filled the seats closest to the stage at the Scottish Rite Center.

“He’s picking up Indian cul-ture, which he was never into before,” said Bindu Amar of her son Karun, part of the UCSD team. “He was never interested in anything Indi-an. He’d come home and ask for pizza. All of a sudden, he was part of the team. It was just something he could asso-ciate with.”

Her attention turns back to the stage, where an Indian-American girl had to chose between three suitors. She rejected the Westernized fra-ternity president and the new-comer fresh from the Indian state of Maharashtra, before settling on the academically accomplished Regent’s Schol-ar.

The end, of course, was a happy one.

“In the Indian communi-ty, Bollywood is a huge part of people’s lives,” said Priya Gupta, 22, a UC Berkeley stu-dent who helped organize the competition.

“It’s something I grew up with,” she said. “I can’t imag-ine my life without Bolly-wood.”

Dance: University students channel Bollywood

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The Fresno State women’s basketball team had two play-ers named to the 2006-2007 all-Western Athletic Conference teams.

Guard Chan-tella Perera was selected to the six-player all-conference first team. The selec-t ion was the senior’s first all-conference nod.

Perera led the Bulldogs in scoring and assists during conference play. Her 16.1 points per game average tied her for second overall in scor-ing in the WAC.

Junior guard Tierre Wilson was named to the all-confer-ence second team. Wilson was the Bulldogs second leading scorer and leading rebounder. The dynamic guard averaged 13.8 points and 6.9 rebounds per game during conference play.

The Bulldogs finished tied for third in the WAC with Nevada but received the fourth seed in the conference tournament. Fresno State will play Hawaii in its first tournament game on Wednesday.

The Fresno State men’s bas-ketball team struggled early on during the team’s Western Athletic Con-ference sched-ule but a late win streak pro-pelled the Bull-dogs into third place in the regular season final standings.

Despite the inconsistencies, the Bulldogs two most consistent players were all-conference selections.

The nine WAC coaches select-ed Fresno State forwards Quinton Hosley and Dominic McGuire to the all-conference second team. McGuire was also chosen to the all-newcom-er team and all-defensive team.

Hosley was selected to the all-conference second team for the second straight season. The senior was a preseason All-WAC selection and led the Bull-dogs in both steals and points,

averaging 14.4 per game. McGuire had a record-break-

ing first season with the Bull-dogs. The junior, who trans-ferred from Cal, set a Fresno

State single-season record of 107 blocked shots. McGuire d e m o l i s h e d the previous record of 92, set by Melvin Ely during the 1999-2000 sea-son. The junior forward led the

Bulldogs in rebounds per game, averaging 9.7 per contest.

Hosley and McGuire were consistent scorers and steady on the glass for Fresno State all season. The duo recorded a total of 14 double-double per-formances (McGuire eight and Hosley six) during the Bulldogs 16 WAC games.

The all-conference standouts will look to continue the ‘Dogs win streak against the WAC tournament sixth seed Boise State on Thursday.

’Dog BitesSoftball Equestrian

Fresno State’s softball team took home wins against Nebraska and Cal, but fell to Southern Utah and DePaul in the UNLV Invitational at Eller Media Stadium this weekend.

Friday, the Bulldogs took down the No. 18 ranked Golden Bears 2-1.

On Saturday, the ‘Dogs started out strong against No. 23 Nebraska, with sophomore Robin Mackin pitching her second complete game in two days. Despite Nebraska taking the early lead, Fresno State battled back with sophomore Haley Perkins’ scoring hit and finished the game over Nebraska, 3-2.

Against Southern Utah, pitcher Merryann Barr struck out four, with two walks and one run on four hits.

It took extra innings to bring down Fresno State on Sunday as the game remained scoreless until DePaul’s Linda Secka batted in Katie Hanson for the game’s only scoring run. Fresno State junior Ashley White got the only hit for Bulldogs, with a single to center.

The Bulldogs will host a double header Tues-day against Connecticut and begins its Bulldog Classic on Thursday, March 8.

With outstanding individual performances the Bulldogs Equestrian team took home the team title from this weekend’s “Best in the West” com-petition. Fresno State’s Kristin Sohns capped the weekend off by being named MVP of Equitation on the Flat.

The Bulldogs started the weekend strong with Saturday’s western competition. Two Fresno State teams advanced to the Hosemanship event finals with Heidi Smith winning both reining and horsemanship. Rebecca Flood was named MVP of the event, rounding out the Bulldogs’ dominat-ing western win.

Sunday, Fresno State came in second on the English competition, but the ‘Dogs finished the weekend by winning the team title by nearly 20 points. Tennessee-Martin came in second and South Dakota State rounded out the top three.

“All in all, it was great to host these schools,” head coach Becky Malmo said. Malmo credited the assistant coaches with making “this a suc-cessful event.”

The Bulldogs have a breather coming their way until March 16, when they travel to the undefeat-ed Oklahoma State.

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Since Fresno State dropped out of the top 25 rank-ings, it has won five of its last six games, including two games against nationally ranked teams, including Cal and Nebraska.

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The Fresno State baseball team ran circles, or rather diamonds around No. 16 San Diego last weekend.

Technically, it was the play-ers doing the baserunning, but it was Fresno State assistant coach Matt Curtis that did the waving, putting pressure on the Torero defense in the Bull-dogs’ 2-of-3 series victory.

“I think where we’re at as a team — we’re not swinging the bats as well as we’d like — so when we get a chance to score we gotta just try to be as aggressive as we can,” Curtis said.

Of all the aspects that play

out during a baseball game, baserunning can easily be mistaken as an area of unim-portance. However, for the Bulldogs, that area proved to be the decid-ing factor in the rub-ber game of the series ag ainst one of the nation’s top teams.

Before the Bulldogs could even be in a posi-tion to win the series against the Toreros, they had to beat perhaps the nation’s best pitcher Friday night in San Diego’s Brian Matusz. Entering that game, Matusz was coming off his second national pitcher of the week award, with an ERA just over one.

“He’s gonna pitch in the big leagues in two or three years,” Fresno State head coach Mike

Batesole said. “Beating a guy like that has to give you confidence.”

The Bulldogs scored six earned runs off of Matusz, eventually winning the game 12-4, but followed that per-formance with a sub-par performance Sat-urday, setting up Sun-

day’s showdown.A constant struggle for the

Bulldogs this season has been the way their batters have approached at-bats, and their ability to score runs and exe-cute on the basepaths once again depended on that ability

in Sunday’s game.The team’s silent leader, Erik

Wetzel, got things rolling early in the game, earning a leadoff walk for the Bulldogs in the bottom of the first. Although the Bulldogs wouldn’t go on to score in the first inning, Wet-zel’s approach set the tone for the remainder of the Bull-dogs’ at-bats, which would pro-duce six runs in the final four innings to win the game.

“I’m more of a leader by example,” Wetzel said. “I’m not a big talker to the team. I try sometimes, but it’s more of the other guy’s roles.”

It just so happened that the Bulldogs chose the right lead-er to follow, all the way to a series victory.

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Fresno State outfielder Steve Detwiler slides into home safely following freshman Tom Mendonca’s RBI single in the sixth inning in Sunday’s victory.Juan Villa / The Collegian

BULLDOGS: Men’s basketball team clinches third seed in WAC tourney

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Western Athletic Conference with the 71-66 win in Logan.

The win puts Fresno State on a six-game winning streak and demolished Utah State’s 15-game winning streak at home. It was the second streak Fresno State h a s b ro u g h t d o w n , a s i t e n d e d N e w Mexico State’s home-winning streak at 19 on Feb. 24.

On Saturday, the ‘Dogs were able to kee p Utah State ’s leading scorer and First Team All-conference selection Jay-cee Carroll to 2 of 12 from the field. Carroll had six points on the night with both of his baskets coming from behind the arc.

To go with his career night, Fresno State’s Bell had seven assists. Forward Dominic McGuire was the ‘Dogs sec-ond highest scorer with 18.

McGuire made it a dou-ble-double with 11 rebounds and finished out the night by adding to his season total of blocks, bringing his total to 107. Fresno State’s previous record stood at 92.

Fresno State was hot from 3-point range, particularly in the second half as it shot 5-of-8 for 62.5 percent. Fresno State was 10 for 27 in 3-point attempts for the game.

Utah State got desperate as the clock wound down, with both Bell and McGuire end-ing the night with free throw attempts in the double digits.

Their efforts at the line would prove to be the differ-ence in the Bulldogs’ five-point victory.

In the WAC tournament, Fresno State will face No. 6 seed Boise State on March 8. Fresno State is 10-6 in confer-ence play while Boise State is 8-8.

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The Fresno State football coaching staff is finally com-plete, and preparations for the upcoming season are already underway.

The initial feeling out process for new offensive coordinator Jim McElwain is over, making the time from here on out noth-ing but official business.

McElwain, who last year served as quarterbacks coach for the Oakland Raiders, is already looking forward to spring football action, where the current Bulldogs squad will begin to show what it’s made of.

“I think that’s what spring ball is for,” McElwain said. “In college, it lets you develop a per-sonality as a team and it lets you sit back after those 15 practices and say, ‘OK, this is who we are, this is what we need to be.’

“We’re gonna be physical and we’re not gonna back down from anybody.”

McElwain very much wants to simplify things for Bulldogs players, and his previous expe-rience at other colleges as an offensive leader should give him instant credibility with current Fresno State players. That’s why McElwain has set early and realistic expectations for his new team.

“Just what we expect as a staff out of them,” McElwain said. “Don’t think you need to do too much. Do it within the system. Take what the defense gives you and eventually they’ll give you the game.”

And like Fresno State head coach Pat Hill, McElwain is all about winning, and poor offen-sive numbers don’t always have to affect a team’s overall perfor-mance.

“The ideal outcome is win. Offensively we get caught up in numbers too much. It’s about wins and losses,” McElwain said.

But that’s not to say that when the time comes, McElwain’s playbook won’t have a trick or two up its sleeve.

“I think if you look into the background of what we’ve been involved with, there may be some unique formations that you may scratch your head at, but those will only be used if the defense has a weakness to that,” McElwain said.

Assuming all goes well with that, McElwain doesn’t intend on leaving Fresno State anytime soon.

“I really hope it’s home,” McElwain said.”I really do.”

In some ways it was the end, but in another way, it could be just the beginning.

The Fresno State women’s basketball team disposed of the Utah State Aggies in per-haps the final game of the sea-son for the Bulldogs in the Save Mart Center.

With a 71-60 win over the vis-iting Aggies, the Bulldogs will head into the Western Athlet-ic Conference Tournament winning four of their last five games.

Although each of the last four wins have come at home, the Bulldogs’ all-around game is becoming to round into form, according to Fresno State head coach Adrian Wiggins.

A fine Bulldogs (17-12, 9-7) season has been complicated by inconsistent play and fluc-tuating levels of confidence, but it is something that Wig-gins feels is very close to being cured entering the WAC tour-nament.

“I feel like our mistakes are correctible ones,” Wiggins said. “I haven’t been real excit-ed about their play consistency all year. These last four games I’ve been very excited. They’ve done a lot of good things.”

Those good things will need to continue at least through the duration of the WAC tour-nament, if the Bulldogs are to have an opportunity to play in the NCAA Tournament, where the Save Mart Center will play host to the regional finalists.

With a poor showing, the Bulldogs may have to settle for a WNIT bid, if they are even that fortunate.

For the Bulldogs to advance in the WAC tournament, to be held in Las Cruces, New Mexi-co, Wiggins has three keys that his team will need to be mind-ful of.

“We have confidence, that’s No. 1,” Wiggins said. “You need to stay out of foul trouble, for us. We don’t have a lot of depth. You gotta get some breaks, and we haven’t gotten a lot of breaks this year.”

The Bulldogs will now need to be able to carry their perfor-mance against the Aggies on the road, a place that has been hit and miss all season.

Their postseason chances depend on it.

Grading the ’DogsThe Collegian sports staff rates the team

Fresno State (men) 71,Utah State 66

Kevin Bell drops in 25 with seven dimes

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Held the Aggies’ best player, Jaycee Carroll, to only 6 points on 2-of-12 shooting, easily the difference in the game.

On defense, the Bulldogs struggled to stop the Aggies, allowing 40 points. On offense, 24 points isn’t too shabby.

Shooting 5-of-8 in the second half was incredibly clutch. Bell and Hosley combined for five of the 10 3-pointers.

Nobody expected Kevin Bell to sink the game winner in Boise, but nobody expected Bell to step up his offensive game to 25 points on 8-of-12 shooting. Good thing he did.

Who knows how much momentum was created when Bell threw that alley-oop to McGuire, but it sure did look pretty.

Fresno State senior forward Jenny Thigpin joins in on the scramble for a loose ball with Utah State’s Danyelle Snelgro in the Bulldogs’ 71-60 Western Athletic Conference finale Saturday. It also marked senior day for Thigpin and Bulldogs teammates Chantella Perera, Andrea Roberson, Paige Diggs and Brittani Green.

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Senior day a smashing successNew hire looks to build on offense

By Darrell Copeland III Sports Editor

By Darrell Copeland III Sports Editor

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Even on road, ’Dogs still hot

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Junior guard Kevin Bell con-tinued his superhuman effort of carrying the Bulldogs for a second straight game with Fresno State’s Saturday win over Utah State.

Bell, who had a career-high 25 points helped the Bulldogs to a third place finish in the

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WOMEN ’S BASKETBALL Fr e sno S t a t e 71 , U t ah S t a t e 60

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Fresno State seniors Chantella Perera and Brittani Green embrace after being subbed out in the Bulldogs’ regular season finale.

’Dogs enter WAC tourney on high note