Issue 2 - Fall 2010

Since California State Univer-sity employees are now exempt from furloughs, the CSU campuses have been using other methods to save money and cut

costs.The CSU system is now

cutting back on operating and travel expenses, transferring employees to non-state fund-ing when possible and leaving unfilled employee positions vacant.

With Sacramento State’s current budget deficit of $26 million, the campus is not exempted from using these measures.

Sac State has eliminated 38 vacant staff and seven vacant management positions, trans-

ferred 17 positions to non-state funded sources and left 20 staff and eight management posi-tions vacant.

The university spends about 80 percent of its annual budget

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Campus improvements at a glanCe

• ONGOING CONSTRUCTION: - Lot 7 renovation

• RECENTLY COMPLETED PROJECTS: - Library renovation - The Well - Del Norte Hall - Folsom Hall (former CalSTRS building)

Over the past several months, Sacramento State has undergone construction projects to maintain and renovate existing facilities, and to build new ones. A number of projects, however, have been put on hold due to lack of funding.

ONGOING CONSTRUCTIONFacilities Services began repaving Lot 7, located on

State University Drive East.Mario Ruiz, interim associate vice president of Fa-

cilities, said maintenance of the parking lot had been delayed and Lot 7 would occasionally rise up. Facilities is also redesigning the parking lot to accommodate more parking spaces.

The parking lot maintenance and renovation cost $753,000. Revenue from parking permit sales through the University Transportation and Parking Services funded the project, said Freddy Orozco, assistant to the director of UTAPS.

While the project may be disruptive during the first few weeks of the semester, Ruiz said traffic can still flow smoothly through surrounding areas.

“Traffic can flow easily with the construction because

of the road way. It is easy to get in and out without an issue,” Ruiz said.

Paige Nordberg, junior religious studies and philoso-phy major, said repaving the parking lot when classes started is poor timing, but it needed to be fixed.

“There were always issues with that (flooding),” Nor-dberg said. “It flooded a few times last year.”

RECENTLY COMPLETED PROJECTSIn addition to the Lot 7 renovation, the Library has

undergone two projects since the end of spring.

By Michelle [email protected]

see CONSTRUCTION | page A6

Public Records bill on governor’s desk

A bill on Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s desk, if passed, will give the public a glimpse of how campus auxiliary organizations, such as Associated Students Inc. and University Enterprises Inc., handle their money.

SB 330, authored by Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, expands the Public Records Act

to include campus auxiliary organizations. Schwarzeneg-ger vetoed an earlier version of the bill in October 2009, saying it would scare away private donors. The bill has been amended to allow donors to remain anonymous, as long as the donor does not receive a gift worth more than $500 in exchange for the donation.

Schwarzenegger has until Sept. 30 to either veto the bill or sign it into law.

Six Sacramento State aux-iliary organizations that will be affected by the bill are UEI, University Enterprises Devel-opment Group, the University Foundation, Capitol Public Radio, ASI and the University Union.

“These auxiliary organiza-tions are there for the sole purpose of helping students, and should be subject to the

By Ken [email protected]

see SB330| page A6

Former foster youths to benefit from new grant

In the past two years, a com-mittee of legislative staffers have raised about $30,000 to help students in Sacramento State’s Guardian Scholars program.

The offices of Assemblyman Roger Niello, R-Fair Oaks, and Senate President Pro Tem Dar-rell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, have established the Julianne Mari Huerta Memorial Scholar-ship in 2008 to raise money for

the Guardian Scholars program.Joy Salvetti, Guardian Schol-

ars director, said the funds will be used for scholarships, stipends and emergency funds, which would help students with medical needs, groceries and

By Michelle [email protected]

see FOSTER| page A8

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Right: Junior psychology major Tia Holiday studies at the Guardian Scholars office at Sac State.

Sac State lays off employees to cut expenses, save moneyBy Micah Stevenson

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see CUTTING| page A8

• Eliminated 45 vacant staff and management positions

• Transferred 17 positions to non-state funding sources

• Left 28 staff and management positions vacant

• Laid off eight full-time employees

Facilities Services is now renovating Lot 7, upper right, to add more parking spaces. Other recently completed construction projects on campus are the newly opened The Well, lower right, Del Norte Hall, upper left, and the Library, lower left. Del Norte Hall now houses the campus Human Resources and technologically updated classrooms. The Library now has a User Services desk and a bigger Library Collaborative. Not shown is Folsom Hall, which is located off campus and now houses classrooms for nursing students.

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INSIDE THE STATE HORNET

Opinion | A7

Find out more about education professor

Francie Dillon’s DVD project, which will be available to Sac State

students by November.

CHILDREN’S DVD

Being born with a miss-ing limb didn’t stop

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THE MOSQUE CONTROVERSY

CAMPUS COST-CUTTING MEASURES

Read more about the club’s Catch-A-Ride

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Peak Adventures to host community rafting trip Peak Adventures invites all students to participate in its first all-campus white water rafting trip on Sept. 19. Students will be rafting for three to four hours on the upper section of the American River, starting at the Chili Bar Dam and ending in Coloma. Registration is until Friday. For more information, contact Peak Adventures at [email protected] or (916) 278-6321.

California State Student Association seeks students to serve on committees

The California State Student Association is looking for 10 yearlong student representatives to serve on California State University com-mittees. Students who are selected to serve on the committees will give input on broad areas of university policy, including academic affairs, student services, administration and finance. Applications are due Friday. Interested students can download an application form at www.csustudents.org. For more information, contact Sarah Vagts at [email protected].

Sac State breaks world record for largest dodgeball game Sacramento State broke the world record for the largest dodgeball game during the grand opening of The Well Thursday. The Well hosted a dodgeball game with 1,208 players and 150 spectators. Leslie David,

executive director of The Well, said this broke the official Guinness Book of World Record’s 712 players.

UNIQUE to host 11th annual Phlagleblast The 11th annual Phlagleblast, hosted by UNIQUE, will be from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sept. 15 in the University Union. Students who attend the Union’s open house and welcome celebration will receive a Phlagleblast game card. Students can fill out the card and be eligible to enter a prize draw-ing. For more information, contact UNIQUE at (916) 278-6997 or [email protected].

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NEWS ROUNDUP Sac State’s weekly news briefs and campus events

Correction

In the article, “Sac State students struggle as fees continue to rise”

published on Sept. 1, Naeim Zamani is a male.

Also, in the editorial, “Find a sup-port system on campus,” Christina Li worked at The State Hornet in spring

2009 and fall 2009.

The State Hornet apologizes for these errors. Please contact Katrina Tupper, print managing editor, for corrections at (916) 278-7300 or

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Professor aims to enhance communication with kids

Sacramento State education professor Francie Dillon will be distributing an instructional DVD on effective storytell-ing, which she hopes will help people communicate better with children.

“It takes expression to capture and hold a child’s attention,” Dillon said. “Being able to growl like a bear or breathe like a dragon while reading a story to a child is a simple, universal, yet an underrated skill that anyone can learn.”

The First 5 El Dorado County’s High 5 for Quality Program and Sac State’s Aca-demic Technology and Creative Services Division approved the funding for Dillon’s project this summer.

First 5 awarded Dillon about $22,000, Dillon said. Sac State chose to contribute an in-kind grant, meaning the campus would match First 5’s initial contribution to Dillon. A First 5 representative could not be reached for comment.

Dillon said even children’s psychologists may have trouble talking with children, and

anyone who has or will ever work with children, including parents, teachers, childcare pro-viders and students, can benefit from watching the DVD.

“There are so many majors and careers that involve the youth,” Dillon said. “Being able to read stories, dynami-cally, gives students an asset in communicating with young children for their profession.”

She mentioned bibliotherapy, which uses books to address psychological issues in a child, as an example of the impor-tance of the skills people can gain from watching the DVD.

Dillon’s 30-minute-long DVD will show her reading aloud stories from three books for children ages 5 years old and younger, she said.

“You’re not just telling the sto-ry to a child,” Dillon said. “By reading the story out loud and using the character’s own voice, you give life to the author’s text. By engaging their sense of hu-mor and natural playfulness, a great storyteller can encourage a child’s enjoyment of books.”

She said there are reading skills that would be effective for infants, but not for toddlers.

“The skills involved in being a great storyteller attract atten-tion like no others,” Dillon said. “This DVD will give its viewers an introduction to effectively use your voice, facial expression and body language.”

Michaeline Veden, executive producer of Sac State’s Creative Services Division, said the DVD would provide the university with teaching tools it would otherwise have had to buy from a less reliable and more expen-sive source.

“This DVD is being made for the story-reading cause,” Dillon said. “It’s not being used as a promotion of me, First 5 or Sac State. Our partnership wants to serve the population, which is why we’re making it free. It won’t just serve CSUS or El Do-rado; it will be a public service

announcement to all child-care providers.”

Dillon and her crew will film on Sept. 16 and 17, and the DVD will be ready for distri-bution to libraries and early childhood education programs by late November.

Sac State students will also be able to use the DVD when it becomes available.

“When the project is com-pleted, First 5 will receive a designated number of DVDs to use,” Dillon said. “At the same time, the DVD will be used in teacher education and early childhood education classes on campus.”

Veden said Dillon has done a lot of work with First 5, and she was able to build a strong rela-tionship with the organization.

“From this relationship, First 5 wanted to create a product based on her skills,” Veden said.

Among the work Dillon has done with First 5 is the pro-gram Jazzbabies, a performance targeted toward expanding toddlers’ awareness on litera-ture, music and of themselves. Dillon said from fall 2009 to spring 2010, she performed the Jazzbabies show for about 5,200 people.

“Ultimately, my goal is to instill a lifelong love of reading,” Dillon said.

By Micah [email protected]

Sac State receives grant for students with disabilities

The U.S. Department of Education recently awarded $275,940 to Sacramento State’s Student Support Services Pro-gram to benefit students with disabilities.

The announcement came from Rep. Doris Matsui, D-Sacramento, in August. The program received the grant through the TRIO Student Supportive Services, a group of federal educational opportunity programs.

The money is the first of the grants the program will receive over the course of five years. It will be used to pay for tutors, counselors, scribes, note takers and alternative testing for stu-dents, said Melissa Repa, project director of the program.

The grant will also help fund non-academic activities, such as disability awareness events for faculty and staff, and financial literacy for students.

Matsui helped endorse the grant and secure some of the funds. Spokeswoman Mara Lee said Matsui has always sup-ported higher education, and is “always looking for opportuni-ties to help Sacramento State.”

Sac State’s Student Sup-port Services Program’s main objective is to help students with disabilities, students from low-income families, and first-generation college students with academic and financial needs, to succeed and graduate from college.

“It’s a great program. It’s very helpful,” said junior recreation and leisure studies major Samuelu Folau, who’s part of the program.

Folau said the grant helps him with books, transportation and medical expenses. He has been

a part of the program since his freshman year. He visits the office, located in Lassen Hall, when he needs academic advis-ing and counseling.

After he graduates, Folau said he plans to get his master’s degree and focus on recreational therapy, sports, help other stu-

dents with disabilities, and show them other ways to have fun.

Folau said he loves sports, and he is hoping to one day join the Paralympics. He said he had that idea after taking a recreational class, where he took part in wheelchair rugby.

By Cayla [email protected]

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Francie Dillon will create an educational DVD on effective storytelling. The DVD will be available by late November.

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Junior recreation and leisure studies major Samueluww Folau is one of the students who will benefit from the recently awarded grant to Sac State’s Student Support Services Program.

“You’re not just tell-ing the story to a child. By reading the story out loud and using the char-acter’s own voice, you give life to the author’s text. By engaging their

sense of humor and nat-ural playfulness, a great storyteller can encour-age a child’s enjoyment

of books.”- Francie Dillon,

Sac State education professor

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Sac State receives $1 million grant for STEM research

Sacramento State’s science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, programs got a boost this past year from President Barack Obama’s 2009 stimulus package, the Ameri-can Recovery and Reinvest-ment Act.

About eight Sac State STEM projects have been awarded more than $1 million in stimu-lus funds since last year.

The projects focused primar-ily on outreach, teaching and STEM research efforts.

The California State Univer-sity system as a whole received $62 million in stimulus funds to support roughly 200 STEM projects on 22 campuses, ac-cording to a CSU press release.

The funds augmented more than $300 million of other ongoing federal funding that

helps the CSU advance educa-tion and research in science and engineering.

Some of the projects focused on health, such as Sac State chemistry professor Katherine McReynold’s biomedical re-search funded by $17,664 from the stimulus fund.

“The award provided stipends and supplies for two under-graduate students to assist with research for the summer last year and part of this year,” McReynolds said. “This allowed those students to focus on their research full time, instead of having to get non-chemistry summer jobs.”

If successful, the research would lead to anti-viral drugs to treat and prevent certain diseases, such as HIV, McReyn-olds said.

Other stimulus-funded Sac State projects went toward a study of computer security, a

math-teaching program, equip-ment and post-graduate work for biochemistry projects and 48 work-study jobs.

Almost $900,000 supported two National Science Foun-dation grants that upgraded analytical tools for chemical, biochemical and atmospheric research.

A $257,795 award to Sac State chemistry professor Brad Baker had a major research focus, which is examining how much of a particular family of chemi-cal compounds are emitted by plants, said Sean Kearns, sci-ence communications adviser for the CSU chancellor’s office.

“It’s examining the levels of sesquiterpenes in the atmo-sphere, which is a group of naturally occurring hydrocar-bons involved in pheromones and other plant physiology,” Kearns said. “Sesquiterpenes have been of intense interest

to pharmaceutical research-ers. Some have been shown to inhibit tumors.”

Three stimulus awards for STEM projects were given dur-ing the 2008-09 awards period, said David Earwicker, assistant vice president for research administration and contract administration.

Two went to the chemistry department, and one toward a teacher education project.

About eight awards were giv-en during the 2009-10 period, but the cut off date is Sept. 30, which means additional grants could be on the way.

Earwicker declined to say which projects could qualify for the grants.

“I don’t want to jinx it by saying which projects could qualify, but the proposals are out there,” Earwicker said. “At this late date, we’re not overly optimistic. We’re just quietly

waiting.”While additional stimulus

funds for STEM projects is uncertain, it is clear that re-search professionals have paved the way for growth in science fields.

“Sac State has been designat-ed an emerging research insti-tute by a National Academy of Sciences cooperative. What this means is that there’s expanded capacity to pursue federal fund-ing for our research,” said Sac State spokeswoman Kimberly Nava.

Other campuses that received stimulus funding in the past year for STEM research are CSU, Stanislaus, San Jose State, San Diego State, CSU, Mon-terey Bay, Fresno State, CSU, Los Angeles, CSU, Fullerton, San Francisco State, CSU, Northridge, Cal Poly, Pomona, CSU, Long Beach and Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.

By Ken [email protected]

ASK A SAC STATE POLICE OFFICER

Police department creates new service centers on campusGet answers to all of your questions about the Sacramento State Police

Department affairs. This week, public information officer Scott Christian introduces the department’s new programs for students.

On behalf of the Sacramento State Police Department, wel-come back.

Another fall semester, and it is already shaping up to be a busy and exciting one.

The department has imple-mented two new programs that may be of interest to the campus community, and both were started in the beginning of this semester.

The first program is the establishment of two police service centers, one located in Desmond Hall and the other in the University Union.

The Desmond Hall service center is located just off the Desmond Hall recreation room,

and is staffed from 7 to 10 p.m., Monday through Friday.

The Union service center is located in the former Recre-ational Sports Office, across from the Mellow Me Out Salon.

The service center is open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Both the Union and Desmond Hall police service centers are staffed by police officers and community service officers, and offer a variety of services.

These services include taking crime and incident reports, assistance with fix-it ticket sign-offs, bicycle registration, engraving personal property, as well as answering any questions

regarding campus safety, per-sonal safety and crime preven-tion. Be sure to stop by and say hello.

The second program is the Sac State Police Department’s Facebook page. The Facebook page can be found by searching for “Sacramento State Police Department” in the Facebook search engine.

The department is using the Facebook page for campus crime news and trends, crime prevention tips and department activity information.

If you are a Facebook user, be sure to log in and check out the page.

Lastly, the police officers and

staff want the campus commu-nity to know that we are your police department. We are here to serve you, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days per year.

If you have a question about crime prevention, have been a victim of a crime, or want to give us a tip regarding a crime, please contact us.

Stop by the Public Safety building or one of our police service centers, or contact our 24-hour dispatch telephone number at (916) 278-6851. We can also be reached by e-mail at [email protected].

As always, in the event of an emergency, dial 911 from

any campus telephone to be connected to our dispatch center.

On behalf of all the police officers, dispatchers and staff of the University Police Depart-ment, have a happy, safe, and productive semester.

If you have a question for the police officers, dispatchers, and administrative staff members of the Sacramento

State Police Department, e-mail the question to [email protected], and your question may be answered in a future column.

STIMULUS-FUNDEDSAC STATE PROJECTS:

- $17,664 for biomedical research for discovering anti-viral drugs that could prevent HIV

- $257,795 for research on a sesquiterpenes, which is known to inhibit tumors

- $900,000 to upgrade tools for biochemical and atmospheric research

- Study on computer security

- Math-teaching program

- Post-graduate work for biochemistry projects

- 48 work-study jobs


Construction: Library Collaborative now expanded The Reserve Book Room,

Circulation and Interlibrary Loan Services, where students can borrow laptops, have been consolidated to one desk called User Services.

Mary Reddick, head of User Services, said the project is to make the Library more acces-sible.

“We can better serve the faculty and students,” Reddick said. “Make things more conve-nient, modern and up-to-date.”

The Library Collaborative has been expanded into the previous Reserve Book Room area, said Linda Goff, head of institutional services.

This added more study space and materials in the

Library Collaborative, which now has 37 computers, two black-and-white printers, one color printer, two photocopy machines and one scanner.

Other improvements throughout the Library include an upgraded air handler to improve air conditioning, more group study rooms and restored seating.

To cut costs, the university tried to repair chairs in the Library before purchasing new ones, spokeswoman Kimberly Nava said in an e-mail to The State Hornet.

Nava said general funds implemented through the nor-mal budget provided funding for the Library renovations.

Tabzeera Dosu, dean of the Library, said funds were pro-

vided from the 2009-10 budget. The cost was not provided.

Reddick said a future project for the Library includes re-modeling the website to make it more accessible with Wi-Fi devices. There is no projection date of when this will begin.

Other recently finished con-struction projects on campus are The Well, Del Norte Hall and Folsom Hall, located on Folsom Boulevard.

The Well, a 150,000-square-foot recreation, health and fitness facility, officially opened Thursday. Costs of building, the $71 million facility, were paid for by student fees.

Del Norte Hall, which used to be the Hornet Bookstore, has been renovated to make room for the campus’ Human

Resources department. Nursing students have also

started using parts of Folsom Hall, which used to be the California State Teachers’ Re-tirement System’s headquarters building.

Rob Hammerstad, junior biology major, said remodeling and construction of the build-ings is necessary, but there is a misappropriation of funds.

“Two semesters ago I had classes in Eureka (Hall) and it feels like having classes in a cave, but at the same time I don’t know if this is the time to be building a gymnasium,” Hammerstad said.

Lois Boulgarides, lecturer and interim president of the Capitol chapter of the Califor-nia Faculty Association said

while the new buildings on campus are nice, the students, faculty and staff need to be prioritized.

“It is important that we keep

in mind that the priority lies in academics. Buildings are nice but let’s not forget our core mission: providing academics for students,” she said.

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SB330: Bill may deter donors, CSU spokesman saysPublic Records Act,” said Adam Keigwin, Yee’s chief of staff. “Some of student’s fees go to auxiliary organizations. That’s student money, and they should have oversight of that money. It’s the only way to ensure that administrators are accountable.”

The governor was still reviewing the bill as of Sept. 1, and would not comment on it publicly, said spokesman Matt Connelly.

Opponents of the bill said

even its amended version could deter donors, ultimately de-creasing revenue for auxiliaries and diminishing their ability to serve students.

“The bill’s language still puts requirements on donors,” said Erik Fallis, spokesman for the California State University chancellor’s office.

Fallis cited the amended language barring anonymity of donors receiving gifts valued more than $500.

“It still has the likelihood of a chilling effect on donors who would like to be considered

anonymous,” Fallis said. The CSU proposed multiple

amendments that would have “better protected donor ano-nymity while allowing auxil-iaries to benefit students and faculty,” Fallis said.

But the proposals were not considered, he said.

“The amendments would have allowed auxiliaries to func-tion the way they were set up to - by operating as nonprofits to benefit the California State University system,” Fallis said.

Chris Chavez, president of the California State Student Asso-

ciation, the organization made up of the student governments of all 23 CSU campuses, agreed the bill could deter donors if signed into law.

“If somebody donates to the University Foundation, and other organizations can see it, those organizations can certainly hit the donors up for money,” Chavez said. “It could cause people to shy away.”

SB 330, as law, could also harm auxiliary organizations’ business operations, Chavez said.

“Let’s say the (University)

Union at Sac State puts out a re-quest for food vendors to come to campus,” Chavez said. “If those contracts become public, it becomes harder for the Union to negotiate the best contract.”

RECENT CONTROVERSIESJust this summer, two CSU

auxiliary organizations stirred controversy.

UEI came under scrutiny for paying to renovate Sac State President Alexander Gonzalez’s kitchen. A July audit by the attorney general’s office found the auxiliary’s 2003 purchase

of a new range and hood for Gonzalez’s kitchen stove “was not a transaction that fell within UEI’s charitable purposes.”

CSU Stanislaus’ University Foundation sparked national headlines in June for refusing to reveal what it paid former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin to speak at the university.

Following a court order, the auxiliary organization disclosed Palin’s $75,000 speaker’s fee.

Yee’s bill would expand dis-closure rules for those univer-sity foundations, Keigwin said.

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Lot 7 is undergoing renovation to add parking spaces.

SCIENCE COMPLEX II- Construction was supposed to start last spring- Target completion date: fall 2013- Estimated cost: $97.1 million- Funding source: state funds, federal grants, private donations- Purpose: science, math classrooms

EVENT CENTER- Start of construction: unknown- Target completion date: unknown- Estimated cost: $50 to $60 million- Funding source: proposed developer financed- Purpose: a 6000- to 8000-seating arena for sports events, concerts

RAMONA VILLAGE- Start of construction: unknown- Target completion date: unknown- Estimated cost: $150 million- Funding source: public or private development, housing sales- Purpose: faculty and staff housing

PLACER EDUCATION CENTER- Start of construction: unknown- Target completion date: unknown- Estimated cost: unknown- Funding source: unknown- Purpose: satellite campus in South Placer County

SACRAMENTO STATE TRAM- Start of construction: unknown- Target completion date: unknown- Estimated cost: unknown- Funding source: unknown- Purpose: a bus transit system that will connect Sac State to the 65th Street light rail station

PROJECTS ON HOLD

bills. She said the committee is continuously raising funds for the endowed scholarship.

Julianne Huerta worked as a fiscal analyst for the state Assembly for six years. Peter Schaafsma, Assembly fiscal staff director, said Huerta worked on foster youth’s issues and believed that education leads to better jobs.

“She believed education was a valuable thing for anybody’s resume to qualify for better jobs,” Schaafsma said. “She was interested in emancipating foster youth.”

Established at Sac State in 2006, the Guardian Scholars program provides financial resources, and academic and emotional support for for-mer foster youths, who have been released from foster care after turning 18. The program teaches students about available financial assistance, housing op-tions and health services.

“We are a support program specifically for former foster youth who are attending Sac State to achieve either their bachelor’s or master’s degree,” Salvetti said.

Tia Holiday, junior psychol-ogy major, is one of the 58 scholars in the program. She said she joined the program after attending a Guardian Scholars retreat in April.

“I am so used to doing every-thing on my own, and then I found this program,” Holiday said.

Guardian Scholars is allowing Holiday to be involved with Sac State students, who were former foster youths, while working to inspire current foster youths.

Through outreach efforts, the scholars teach middle school and high school students about the program.

“You can get all these students involved,” Holiday said. “You are going back out into the community and saying, ‘You’re a foster youth but you can do

amazing things with your life.’”Holiday said the program has

helped her figure out every-thing, from scholarships and graduate school possibilities.

“I now have a set plan of where I will be in 10 years,” Holiday said.

Other donors, such as the Stuart Foundation, Sleep Train and Foster Youth Education Fund, also provide funding for Guardian Scholars.

Students have to be admitted to Sac State to qualify for the program.

Faculty, staff and community members are involved through the program’s mentor compo-nent. Salvetti said this provides important relationship-building skills as the students interact with faculty, staff and commu-nity members.

“It is all about relationships not just academics,” Salvetti said. “It is creating, building and maintaining relationships.”

For more information, go to www.csus.edu/gs.


Foster: Support program provided by scholarship

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Junior psychology major Tia Holiday, left, chats with Joy Salvetti, director of Sac State’s Guardian Scholars. Salvetti said the program enables students to build rela-tionships with fellow former foster youths, faculty, staff and community members.

Cutting: Ruiz says energy efficiency cuts spendingon employees’ wages and benefits.

Sac State spokeswoman Kim-berly Nava said these measures do not save a set amount of the school’s funding, but they make a significant differ-ence in planning for the budget.

When the campus had the choice of reduc-ing the budget by either 12 or 18 percent, these precautionary measures helped in making the decision that cut-ting the budget by 18 percent was not necessary.

“I can’t tell you how much money our campus directly saved from these measures,” Nava said, “but because of these measures, we were able to lower our overall spending on the budget. It’s all about working within the projected budget.”

Mario Ruiz, interim associ-ate vice president of Facilities Services, agreed, saying the main concern is maintaining efficiency given the limited resources.

“You can ask how much money we’re saving by cutting costs, but I couldn’t tell you, because it’s just not that simple,” he said. “Let’s say, hypothetical-ly, that you lay off two of your five workers. Sure, you’ll save money by putting the workload on only three employees, but the real question is: Is saving the money worth the slower service and efficiency?”

Ruiz said one way to save money and still maintain ef-ficiency is by following energy

efficiency standards. He cited the American River

Courtyard and The Well, which, he said, both use energy-efficient lighting, heating and air-conditioning systems.

“Installing these systems ini-

tially costs more money,” Ruiz said, “but it will save so much more in the long run.

Sac State has also announced layoffs of eight full-time em-ployees shortly after last spring. The campus decided that of its roughly 2,688 positions, these eight positions were the least needed.

The university gave the employees, who are represented by the CSU Employees Union, layoff notices at least 60 days before their last day of work.

“Deep cuts in state support of higher education have left us with no further options, and the CSU chancellor’s office has con-curred that the limited number of layoffs is unavoidable as part of our overall need to reduce salary expenses,” Sac State President Alexander Gonzalez said in a statement issued after the layoffs were announced.

Nava said because of uncer-

tainties about the state budget, the university does not know if more layoffs will occur this semester.

It is still unknown whether CSU will receive the proposed $365 million in state funding.

Lois Boulga-rides, interim president of the Capitol chapter of the California Faculty Associa-tion, said lower-ing the univer-sity’s funding for employees not only puts a strain-ing workload on the faculty, but also results in los-ing a significant amount of classes for students.

“Ultimately, it affects the entire educational expe-rience,” Boulga-rides said. “The California Faculty

Association is very concerned on how badly these cuts affect students and faculty. It is unfor-tunate that we’ve lost so much non-academic money because of these new cuts, but education should be the most important priority for the campus.”

Boulgarides said no cost-cutting measure should ever hinder an instructor’s ability to teach or a student’s ability to learn.

She, however, agreed with Chancellor Charles Reed’s deci-sion to exempt CSU employees from furloughs, which ended for the CSU on June 30, saving Sac State a total of $16 million.

“We didn’t see the evidence that the furloughs’ benefits outweighed their costs,” Boul-garides said. “We were assured that jobs would be saved from them. However, we lost about 200 temporary and part-time employees.”

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The Well’s lobby has energy efficient skylights that control the light and heat levels in the facility. Facilities Services’ Mario Ruiz said such features may cost more to install, but saves the university money in the long run.

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CSU takeS proaCtive StanCe on admiSSionS

The California State Uni-versity system has opened its admission doors for the spring semester, without waiting for the state budget to be approved.

A new state budget should have been approved more than 60 days ago, in accordance with the June deadline.

But the final day of the legislative session has passed and there still is no budget.

Now, the next window of opportunity to get a budget approved will come in December.

Then the governor and the Legislature will have one month to get it approved.

Instead of waiting until January, the CSU has al-lowed students to apply for spring admission beginning Aug. 1. and ending Sept. 27.

Admission into the spring 2010 semester was closed due to budget cuts.

The open admission period does not mean that all transfer students who apply for admission will be

enrolled. Allowing students to apply is simply building a base of qualified students who could eventually be admitted.

Ed Mills, associate vice president of enrollment management, said all appli-cations for admission will be pending until a budget is approved and funding is provided by the state.

“On the one hand we’re not closed,” Mills said. “And on the other hand we’re tell-ing students we don’t know whether we will be able to admit them or not.”

With no budget in sight, some may argue allowing students to apply for spring admission is irrational.

But opening admission doors is not foolish at all; it would allow the CSU system to take advantage of the total proposed $365 million in funds, should they become available.

These funds would go toward student academ-ics and services as well as providing additional access to the CSU system for ap-

plicants. The $60.6 mil-lion of that total would go toward funding an increase in enrollment.

Erik Fallis, CSU spokes-man, said the CSU system is looking to create a “pipe-line” for the spring semes-ter; so if the budget passes, the proposed $60.6 million could be taken advantage of quickly and timely.

“We can’t turn around and in a couple of days have thousands more new students in our system,” Fallis said.

Should the budget fall through, there are options for what students could do with their applications for admission.

For one, students can decide to have their ap-plication fee completely refunded.

The second option would allow students to roll their application forward to the fall semester.

Both of these options al-low for the CSU system to attract more students, even though their application

status would be pending.Fallis said the CSU system

is able to open the door to more students because of the possibility of state funding.

In the midst of a tough economic climate, an open spring admission period improves the CSU’s image by showing the public that the CSU system is proac-tive in its planning for the future.

A proactive plan means it does not matter what the final approved state budget looks like, the applicant will always have a choice to either remain in the system or withdraw completely.

Will we see more en-rolled students on our campus this spring? Maybe not. But the CSU chancel-lor’s plan for enrollment expansion at least allows room for positive change.

Opening admission be-fore a budget is approved is better than scrambling to collect large numbers of applicants to admit on short notice.

The debate surround-ing the construction of a “Ground Zero Mosque” is filled with irrationality.

A proposed Islamic center 60 blocks away from Ground Zero, which will be called Park 51, would house this controversial mosque. The center will focus on positive outreach to the community.

Park 51 would also serve to help Americans heal from the Sept. 11, 2001 ter-rorist attacks.

If approved, Park 51 will be a 13-story Islamic community center that will feature a culinary center, a basketball court and an art studio in addition to the mosque.

It would be open to the general public and would strive to “bring the best of the world to New York City, and New York City’s energy, diversity, and aspirations to the world,” according to Park51.org.

The aspirations of this center include education, recreation and relaxation to escape the pressures of the busy city life, according to Park51.org.

Through this center, the Muslim community would reach out to people of all faiths in order to promote these aspirations.

Opponents of the mosque say it would be disrespect-ful to the families who suffered on Sept. 11, since it would be built in such close proximity to Ground Zero, where the World Trade Center towers once stood.

The debate about the construction of Park 51 tramples on religious freedom, said Michael Bloomberg, New York City’s mayor, while speaking on The Daily Show.

Bloomberg said the opponents of the pro-posed building should be ashamed.

Hanan Hasson, former president of Sacramento State’s Muslim Students’

Association, feels the same way.

“As a citizen of Amer-ica, Muslims have equal protection under the First Amendment,” Hasson said.

In this country the First Amendment guarantees the freedom of religion. Build-ing a mosque within the Islamic center will simply serve to let Muslims freely practice their religion.

The vocal opponents of the mosque seem to ignore that Muslims, who are equal citizens like all Americans, share this right. Sarah Palin, former Repub-lican presidential candidate, is one such opponent.

Palin called out on her Twitter profile for “peace-seeking Muslims to refudi-ate the plan, in the interest of healing.” This request implies that Muslims shared responsibility in the World Trade Center attacks, when there is no absolute proof of this.

The faulty premise that many Americans share is that the only way to heal from the terrorist attacks is by pushing Muslims away.

This premise has likely caused the fight about the mosque construction plans.

Mark Brown, government professor, feels that Ameri-cans have a skewed view of Islamic terrorism.

“Some Americans seem to assume that Islamic ter-rorism is a direct product of Islam,” Brown said. “There are many different versions of Islam, the vast majority of them opposed to terrorism.”

In order for the healing to be complete, Americans must put aside their Islam-ophobia and accept others, no matter their religion.

Malina Dunk, Folsom Lake College history pro-fessor, said the best way to address fear is through education.

“The more people un-derstand the complexity of Islam, and stop associating the religion and culture with aggression and hate, the better off we will all be,” Dunk said.

Park 51, the new Islamic Community Center, is meant as an educational tool for Americans. To oppose this project is to oppose a step forward in rebuilding a more toler-ant and knowledgeable America.

Park 51 heals Islamophobia

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For most Americans, the Labor Day weekend will be a welcome reprieve from the 9-to-5 daily grind. But for nearly 15 million Americans, today is little more than a sad reminder they are without a job.

The number of people unemployed is almost double what it was at the start of the recession in Dec. 2007. Eleven states report unemployment rates more than 10 per-cent. And these figures do not take into account the millions who have given up looking for work, or settled for part-time jobs or jobs in which they are highly overqualified.

Since the end of 2007, the hospitality industry has lost half a million jobs. Same for the fi-nancial sector. The retail industry has lost more than a million jobs. The

manufacturing sector has lost 2 million.

You might be wondering if any sectors have added jobs. One notable area that has blossomed is the government.

Since the recession began, the federal gov-ernment has added more than 262,000 jobs. At a time when everyone else is being forced to tighten their belts and make pain-ful budget cuts, many are perplexed that govern-ment continues to grow.

The government work-force is 22.5 million. That means 22.5 million work-ers are relying on Ameri-can taxpayers - not the goods-producing private sector - for their pay-checks. While these jobs may put food on the table, are more government jobs really a path to recovery?

The problem is not just that the government sec-

tor is growing while the rest of the labor market is shrinking; it’s also that those jobs appear to be paying above market wages.

According to new data from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, aver-age compensation, which is wages plus benefits, for a civilian federal em-ployee is $123,000; for the private sector the same job is $61,000.

Even the most conserva-tive estimates, adjusting for differences in skill level and experience, sug-gest that private-sector employees have to work for 13 1/2 months to make the same amount earned by government employees in 12 months.

While government seems highly confident in its decision to grow, the business world is not. Businesses are holding

onto an estimated $1.8 trillion in cash reserves. This is money desperately needed to drive innova-tion and job creation.

These enormous cash re-serves are largely a result of uncertainty and lack of confidence about policies coming from Washing-ton. All of the unknowns surrounding economic policy, for example, which taxes will increase and whether stimulus money will continue to distort the market, have left busi-nesses unable to plan.

Businesses must decide where or when to invest and whether to expand and hire. So they wait, as does our recovery.

Washington continues to hold to its claim that its dramatic increase in spending has helped economic growth. For instance, a recent report from the Congressional

Budget Office suggested that the $862 billion so-called stimulus act created between 1.4 and 3.3 mil-lion jobs.

But as Diana Furchtgott-Roth, former chief economist at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, recently pointed out, the government promised us that enacting the stimulus would keep the unem-ployment below 8 percent; it is now 9.5 percent.

Furchtgott-Roth criti-cized the new report and asked, “If its models failed to accurately predict the effects of the stimulus bill then, why should we believe the models now?”

Many Washington of-ficials spent the last three months participating in a nationwide tour, dubbed “Recovery Summer,” to convince the public that government spending has worked to assuage

the nation’s labor pains and jump-start economic growth.

However, without real jobs and economic growth to back up the claims, Washington’s stimulus victory tour has done little but frustrate those who can plainly see the lackluster results.

The greatest service we could do for the unem-ployed is to demand government get serious about the unemploy-ment epidemic by cutting spending and restoring confidence to the private sector.

It’s high time we stop playing politics with Americans’ livelihoods and there’s no better time to start than today.

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Last fall, Phil Hitchcock, art professor and director of the University Library Art Gallery, approached a group of students in his Art Gallery Management class with a project idea. The team of six students continued to work together through the summer to turn the class project into a professional exhibition.

This exhibition contains art-work from contemporary female artists across the state and is open until Nov. 13 in the Sacra-mento State Library Gallery.

The exhibit is titled, “As they see it,” and was curated by Stephanie Mercado, Sac State student curator.

“The exhibition displays the work of eight female artists, each of them unique in medium and style,” Mercado said.

Hitchcock said the purpose of the exhibit is to bring work of contemporary female artists to Sacramento. He said inviting them to be part of this exhibi-tion would give these talents the exposure they deserve.

Mercado co-curated the exhi-bition with Sac State studio art majors: Charles Freeman, Elly

Johnson, Amber Massey, Leah Neher and Hailey Rathke.

“We did everything from choosing the artists and their work, as well as managing a

budget along with crating and shipping,” Mercado said.

This will be the first exhibi-tion at our campus featuring women artists only, Mercado

said. “As they see it” describes how these female artists view their lives, society, people and the world.

“The pieces require you to

look closely,” Mercado said. “There is always something you cannot see without taking a closer look. These artists are very playful with their work... all

very diverse in medium and na-ture. They all reflect something different about society (and)

gender roles.” Artist Nina Zurier’s photog-

raphy is featured in the front room of the exhibition. She at-tended the opening on Thursday with husband John Zurier, an imminent adjunct professor at California College of Arts in San Francisco.

Her works of art are essential-ly four photographs of a similar theme, placed horizontally next to one another surrounded by a white border. Her favorite piece titled “Call me,” was shot on the east coast.

“These were shot from a mov-ing train in New York,” Nina Zurier said. “You can click the shutter, but you don’t always know what you’ll get.”

Nina Zurier said even though the photos were seemingly dif-ferent, the four frames shared like compositions in subtle splashes of color and horizontal lines.

Nina Zurier said enlarging photographs means often losing the quality of a photo because it becomes more pixelated and

Carly Davis, senior kinesiol-ogy major, won Miss Congeni-ality in the Miss Lake County 2010 Pageant Friday. She also set a precedent by being the first beauty queen missing a limb to ever participate in Lake County’s pageant.

While Davis did not rank high enough to advance

onto the Miss Cali-fornia Pageant,

she said she did succeed in reaching her ultimate

goal, which was motivating others

into believing that they could accomplish

anything they set out to do. “I didn’t enter this pageant

to win, I didn’t enter it for the scholarship money,” Davis said. “I wanted to serve as a role model for all amputated children.”

Davis said an online forum on bornjustright.com initially inspired her to join the pag-eant. She said she often read posts from parents who were concerned about their children’s futures and in fear that their kids might be held back from normal day-to-day activities such as swimming and crawling.

Davis said she would try to assure the parents that their children could lead normal lives, just like herself.

“I would respond to posts by looking back at my life as a child,” Davis said.

Participating in the pageant was another way for Davis to show these kinds of families that their children would not have to hold back in life. With the pageant as her medium she had a public forum to voice her story and reach more people, said Kellie Davis, Davis’ sister.

Knowing her daughter is capable of anything was a lesson Carly Davis’

mother, Diane Davis, was fortunate to learn early-on.

“I was in the hospital with Carly when she

was a bout a week old and I saw an older ac-complished woman with a missing limb,” she said. “As

a mother, I said to myself, ‘That is how I want my daughter to be.’ And so I always encour-aged her and told her she could do anything.”

Carly Davis said she took her mother’s encouragement and spent her childhood participat-ing in various sports.

“I was the youngest advanced swimmer in our town at the age of six,” she said.

Carly Davis also played basketball, soccer and rode dirt bikes. She said when it came to baseball, she forced her mother to put her on a boy’s baseball team because playing with the girls was too easy.

“I’ve always been a tomboy so I had to go through the transfor-mation of being like, ‘Okay, this pageant is whatever,’ to ‘Oh my god, I love these girls and this is so much fun,’” Carly Davis said.

One of the things Carly Davis enjoyed most about the pageant was all the people she got to meet.

“Everyone was incredible,” she said. “It’s a nonprofit orga-nization so everyone is there on their own time trying to help you and make you a better person.”

Although Carly Davis enjoyed her experience in the pageant, there were some obstacles she had to face - discrimination be-ing one of them.

“I’ve been told a number of times, ‘Oh you’re so beautiful,’ and then when they notice I use a prosthetic, they’ll go, ‘No you do not, you’re too pretty,”’ Carly Davis said. “And to me I’m just like what do you mean I’m too pretty?”

Carly Davis said she has never been able to recon-cile with the meaning of the statement, “Too pretty to use a prosthetic,” but with this beauty pageant she hoped to redefine what beauty really meant.

She said technology like prosthetics are being integrated into the human body and while some choose to beautify their bodies with plastic surgery and implants she has a prosthetic that helps her complete every-day tasks.

“Some people have hip place-ments some have their knees fixed, the only difference is that mine is visible - on the outside,” she said. “(The pageant) was my way of saying, ‘Hey this is still beautiful.’”

Aside from letting others see the beauty of her prosthetic, Kellie Davis said one of the most effective ways Carly Davis and her family deal with discrimina-tion and ignorance is by educat-ing people.

“(Carly) explains to people, ‘I was born like this but I can still

do X, Y and Z and I can do them the well,’” Kellie Davis said.

Carly Davis said her great-est obstacle in the pageant was getting people to look past the prosthetic.

“I understand that it’s not normal to see someone with a prosthetic and I understand that there’s a shock value involved in it,” Carly Davis said. “During that pageant I wasn’t wearing a long sleeve shirt, I was wearing dresses so it took a while for people to look past the prosthet-ic and see me for who I am.”

Carly Davis said while she understands how others can see her as being “special,” she does not consider herself to be anything of the sort.

“I think we all go through life with what we have and make the best of it,” she said. “Personally I’m one of those people where if you tell me I can’t do some-thing I’ll do it - just to prove you wrong.”

Carly Davis said the title of Miss Congeniality was fitting because she knew she had given her fellow contestants a new point of view about herself by getting them to see past her prosthetic and treating her as an equal.

Other con-

testants even felt comfortable enough to joke about Carly Davis’ prosthetic with her.

“On the night of the pageant one of the stage managers came out and ran through anything we might be forgetting,” Carly Davis said. “One of my fellow contestants turned to me and said, ‘Oh my God Carly, you for-got something…your arm!’ And we all burst into laughter.”

Carly Davis said she has a great sense of humor and loves to joke about her prosthetic.

“One of my favorite things to do is to make up stories about how I lost my arm,” she said. “I’ve lost it by a shark attack, an alligator attack, etc.”

Overall, the most rewarding part of the whole experience was the feedback Carly Davis got back from families that wrote letters to her after the press had covered her story, she said.

Carly Davis said she feels that if someone sees a problem in something and makes no moves to do something to make the situation better, then they have no right to complain.

“(Carly) hates the word inspi-ration,” Diane Davis said. “Inspi-ration is when someone admires what you’re doing - Carly wants to motivate kids into knowing that they can do anything.”

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Beverly Rayner, one of the featured female artists at the gallery “As They See It,” created a coat using various forms of paper that where strategically placed. The train extended for more than 12 feet.

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Carly Davis set an example and won Miss Congeniality at the Miss Lake County 2010 pageant.

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Davis was the first person with a missing limb to compete for Miss Lake County.

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Some professors practice their trade, others just teach. Keith Bohm, professor of music at Sacramento State, plays the dual role of musician and educator.

As a soloist, Bohm has performed in recitals across the United States and toured through Europe. As an educator, Bohm has taught master-classes, lectures and music theory, saxophone and music educa-tion at elementary schools, high schools, community centers, summer camps and universities like Sac State.

“You have to be doing what you are teaching; otherwise you aren’t keeping up, especially as a music teacher. You have to be playing at the highest level. My goal is to inspire my students,” Bohm said.

Bohm inspired his student, Marlon Ramirez, senior music performance and composition major. Marlon spoke of Bohm’s virtuosity, the fluent skill and style, exhibited in his instruc-tion to the saxophone quartet.

Ramirez spoke of a rehearsal in which all four members of the quartet were struggling with their parts. Ramirez recalls when Bohm said, “Playing this difficult technique is not hard, you just have to have rhythm.”

After his students argued that the technique was more than just keeping time, Bohm pulled out his own saxophone, transposing and playing all four of their parts on the spot.

“That’s when I knew he prob-ably knows something about sax,” Ramirez said.

According to Bohm, every-thing in life has an opportunity to teach or an opportunity to perform. John Cozza, the staff accompanist and music teacher who works closely with Bohm, said his students get the kind of teacher that really loves profes-sion.

“He has his heart fully in both fields, studio teaching and stage performance,” Cozza said. “He is

a fine teacher and a really good colleague.”

Bohm and Cozza are perform-ing a recital tonight at Sac State in Capistrano Hall at 8:00 p.m. for their students and the com-munity.

Ramirez said he is looking forward to seeing his teacher perform on a professional and virtuosic level.

“He is a standard of perfor-mance excellence. You aren’t as great as he is, but you are always striving for that excellence,” Ramirez said. “He is prob-ably practicing right now - he practices almost two and a half hours a day.”

Cozza said Bohm is always prepared for every rehearsal. Even after devoting his life to perfecting the piano, Cozza said he can barely keep up with the tricky repertoire of the saxo-phone and the control, color and dynamics characteristic of Bohm.

Rich, chocolate, velvet, dark, these were the words Bohm used to describe the tone of his saxophone technique. It affects the listener to hear the beauty that Bohm weaves into classical music, different from the bright and jazzy style of contemporary artists, Cozza said. Despite the compliments of being named a virtuoso by publications such as the Sacramento Bee and the San Francisco Classical Voice, Bohm humbly said he thinks of himself as a student of his art.

“He can make whatever sound he wants come out of the sax,” Cozza said.

Bohm said he is the solo clas-sical saxophone player in this area, unknown by the commu-nity and having to prove himself worthy in the world of classical music. The saxophone is con-sidered the black sheep of the musical world, Bohm said, but he performs out of the love of music and the lifestyle of music.

“No matter what kind of day you have, the minute you start playing, it changes your mood completely,” Bohm said.

Bohm said he began learning

the saxophone in the fifth-grade. Both of his parents were instru-mentalists, accordion and trom-bone musicians, but neither pushed him towards the stage. Instead, he said they gifted him with the passion for music and the self-will to pursue it.

Bohm considered himself lucky in high school for the op-portunities he had to join over four bands, choirs and orches-tras in order to grow in musical theory and performance. These included chamber music, vocal jazz, jazz band and choir.

Bohm said he was a well-rounded student, also partici-pating in sports and academic activities. It was the Raschèr Saxophone Quartet from Lör-rach, Germany that inspired Bohm to switch from a practical business major into a full-time musician.

Bohm said he first heard the sound of the German Rashchèr Quartet at Sac State’s New American Music Festival, which he now co-directs. After seeing that a saxophone could adopt so many versatile sounds, Bohm earned a bachelor’s degree in music performance from Sac State.

Additionally, the Rashchèr Quartet motivated Bohm to move to Germany for six months, taking four private lessons a week with each instrumentalist in the Rashchèr Quartet. Bohm said this gave him opportunity to perform abroad with some of the most renowned saxophone musicians.

After moving back to the United States, Bohm received a master’s degree in music performance from the Univer-sity of Southern Mississippi and received a doctorate in musical arts in performance from the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music.

After his education, Bohm toured around the United States for two years, sharing his pas-sion.

Bohm has continued to pursue this passion at Sac State for the last ten years, this time

as a professor. Bohm teaches many styles of music education, but the German methodology which encourages improvisation is his favorite.

Bohm holds his students to a high standard, Ramirez said, and they trust his because of his impeccable technique.

“He makes sounds come from the sax that we can only dream of,” Ramirez said.

Bohm said that it is hard to draw the line between the con-structive criticism of student’s music and being an encouraging influence.

One way that Bohm does this is to have a high standard of air, articulation and phrasing, and yet be inspiring and positive.

“Leave your dramas at the door,” said Bohm, “and let the character of the music take you into a new place.”

Bohm said he loves when a student becomes an artist because it humbles him. But it can also be sad when a talent student does not practice, Bohm said.

“I give (my students) my heart and soul in every lesson. But if you aren’t self-motivated, you aren’t going to make it, not in anything in life,” Bohm said.

Bohm said his passion is to perform, not as an entertainer, but as an artist. This concert with John Cozza tonight is a connection between two talent-ed music teachers, Bohm said. Not one person is in control, Cozza said, but we will instead let the music lead us back and forth.

“We are creating art. Creat-ing an atmosphere. Playing one piece that pushed the audience and gets them thinking. Tonal and atonal. Tension and release,” Bohm said.

Bohm is not only a performer and a teacher, but he is also always looking for ways to grow in his own art.

“You always have to be learn-ing. You never stop being a stu-dent in life. No matter how good of an instrumentalist you are,” Bohm said.

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Music professor Keith Bohm rehearses with pianist John Cozza for their concert tonight in Capistrano Hall at 8 p.m.

hues of reds, blues and greens become more dominant. The challenge she faces with her photography she said, is keeping the quality when the photos are enlarged.

John and Nina Zurier said they are familiar with some of the featured artists who include: Cassandra C. Jones, Caitlin Mitchell-Dayton, Mary Oros, Beverly Rayner, Kelly Reemsten, Sondra Schwetman, Joyce Hsu and Kathy Venter.

John and Nina Zurier said they are friends with Mitchell-Dayton, whose work was also featured in the 2006 film “Art School Confidential.”

Mitchell-Dayton’s oil paint-ings hang more than 11-feet tall. She had two paintings on linen hanging next to one another - one of a teenage boy with acne in camouflage shorts and the other a female in a mini dress, combat boots and short blond hair.

Every artist used a different medium. They varied in style from sculpture to oil paintings to digital photography slide shows.

Berit Anderson, a studio art gallery major said her favorite artist at the exhibition is Reemsten. She liked the paint-ing titled, “The Escape,” an oil painting on canvas.

“I like her unique composi-tion,” Anderson said. “One (painting) has no head and still portrays a lot of emotion.

Anderson said she also enjoyed the final piece by Rayner. She constructed a coat using strategically placed cards, newspaper clippings and other various forms of paper. The train of the coat extended more than 12 feet onto the floor.

“I just like the idea of how the cards come together to make a coat,” Anderson said.

The coat was lined with old black and white photographs, mostly head-shots and some with more than one person. The train of the coat was made up of letters from insurance compa-nies, place cards from a wed-ding, Christmas cards, mother’s day cards, newspapers clippings, and more.

One newspaper clipping read, “Life is a mission. Every other definition of life is false, and leads all who accept it astray. - Mazzini.”

Rayner’s work takes a look

at how women see themselves, how women relate personally and socially to one another, she wrote in her artist statement. She wrote that she examines how women negotiate with nature through science and through industry.

“This exhibition has been a priceless experience,” Mercado said. “Not many students are given this opportunity. The knowledge and trust Phil Hitch-cock has instilled in myself and the others is something we will be eternally grateful for.”

It’s safe to say my favorite meal of the day is des-sert. Whether it is fudge brownies with chocolate chips, German Chocolate cake or deep fried Oreos, I am a fan. I could eat peanut butter cups for breakfast, Twinkies for lunch and mix it up with some Flan for dinner. But the one dessert I always come back to, the one that never gets old, the one that goes with everything, is ice cream.

Ice cream, for those who can tolerate lactose, is one of the most satisfying, delicious and comforting foods ever. It comes in hundreds of different flavors and is usually the first dessert I turn to.

This brings us to this week’s competition; I will be throwing my scale away and indulging in three of Sacramento’s finest ice cream parlors. While there are many different frozen concoc-tions to try I will be sticking with a staple: the classic Ice Cream Sundae.

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Nothing says ice cream like a plethora of whipped cream

Now this is a competition, and I have to choose a winner, but honestly if you’re on your way to get ice cream you’re already a winner. For this soiree of the sundaes though my winner is Burr’s Fountains. I loved this sundae. The quality of the toppings including the real strawberries floating in the absolute heaven that was this sundae made me wish I was there right now eating another one rather than writing this column. The ice cream itself, my favorite Rocky Road, and the ever so delicious Strawberry Cheesecake blended together perfectly with the hot fudge and strawberry sauce to form a concoction that would rival ancient Rome! If ancient Rome

was an ice cream flavor. This sundae was so good I wanted to make

it into a house so I could live in it. I wanted to take Beyonce’s advice and put a ring on it. I wanted to take it home with me and introduce it to my family. I wanted to make a critically acclaimed but short running sitcom starring this sundae. Mostly though I wanted to eat it, and at the end of the day, or even the beginning, that is what ice cream is good for.

If you do not agree or want to share your ice cream adventures, comment or write me at [email protected].

For next week’s challenge, Sacramento’s best sushi!

Leatherby’s has always been about family, well family and ice cream. Family is great and all but I came here to get a sundae, and a sundae is what I got. I ordered the Matthew’s Small Sundae, which is two scoops of ice cream; I chose Rocky Road and their delicious Vanilla, topped with the would-proba-bly-taste-good-on-everything hot fudge and whipped cream, nuts and a cherry. This sundae was served in a tall glass rather than a bowl like the other two and the difference did little for me. In fact I feel like the amount of ice cream and toppings was pretty disproportionate to the amount I received in the other two. Don’t get me wrong, this sundae was awesome, but I am a man who likes his whipped cream and I like a lot of it. While the ice cream to cost ratio was a bit off here I still enjoyed my experience. The atmosphere was nice, the ice cream was good and I left full. I would recom-mend Leatherby’s to anyone, but only if you’re tired of going somewhere else.

A neighborhood fixture of the Curtis Park area, Gunther’s has been serving ice cream since 1940. The diner is filled with ancient wooden booths showing off people’s names and messages etched in to the wood from the years and years of visits. For my visit my sundae consisted of Black Raspberry Fudge, Fudge Brownie and Vanilla ice cream, hot fudge, raspberry and marshmallow toppings and topped off with a heaping dose of whipped cream, nuts and of course, a cherry. Diving in the fudge gushed over the sides of the bowl and though I didn’t slow down, it didn’t seem like I was making any progress. I eventually finished the three scoop sundae really savoring the mixture of the hot fudge and the marshmallow sauces over the fruity taste of the raspberry ice cream and sauce. I could feel the cavities forming. Overall Gun-ther’s was very tasty and had a wonderful atmosphere, I plan on going back and maybe leav-ing a little message on my booth.

Going into Burr’s I wasn’t expecting a lot. I had heard good things but I didn’t know how this place would stand up to the tried and true Gunther’s and Leatherby’s. To my sur-prise and elation Burr’s more than carried it’s own weight. I ordered the two scoop sundae with Rocky Road and Strawberry Cheesecake ice cream, hot fudge and straw-berry sauces, which had real strawberries in it - amazing, whipped cream, nuts and a cherry. It came out to me with strawberries and sauce drip-ping over the sides of the bowl and while I could be wrong, I’m pretty sure it was calling my name. From the first bite of this sundae the chocolate and berry flavors mixing together was my best combination so far. While it only had two scoops, the scoops were huge and the quality of the ice cream was very good. The nuts were actual chopped almonds and added a layer to the sundae the other two lacked. Overall, this sundae believer.

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Right: Leatherby’s Matthew’s Small Sundae. Center: Bur’s Fountains’ rocky road and strawberry cheesecake sundae. Right: Gunther’s Black Raspberry Fudge Sundae.


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The captivating piece, “Black in Blue,” by Mary Oros stands in the University Library Gallery. Oros is one of eight featured artists whose work is displayed in the Women’s Contemporary art exhibit, “As They See It.”

The 2009 Mountain Pacific Soccer Federation’s Player of the Year is constantly improving. As the Sacramento State men’s soc-cer team continues to strive for another record-breaking season, senior midfielder Ernesto Car-ranza has the national spotlight on him.

Last season, he racked up six goals and six assists, which helped lead the Hornets to the second round of the 2009 NCAA Tournament. He was awarded with a first team all-MPSF honor.

Carranza said he hopes the

team will successfully integrate the upperclassmen with the freshman to achieve a successful season.

“My personal goals are to make it to the NCAA championships and to get further than the sec-ond round, as we did last year,” Carranza said. “We have a good complement of young players and veterans and we have a lot of players which have different tal-ents and will take us to achiev-ing our goal this year.”

Carranza also earned first team all-Far West Region honors, which is the first time any Sac State player has done so while playing in Division I. He led the Hornets with four goals and two

assists throughout the 2009 con-ference matches.

"I try not to pay attention to these honors. I try and focus on the team," Carranza said.

Carranza was given Third-Team All-America honors from College Soccer News this pre-season, which makes him the first player in school history to receive this accolade.

Over his three-year career, Carranza had 11 goals and 12 assists. With his assists total, he ranks fourth in Sac State’s his-tory.

“It’s nice to have the recogni-tion,” Carranza said. “It only says that - I’m not going to go on the field and accomplish what I

need to do just by those people saying that I’m good. I just need to keep working harder at this moment.”

Head Coach Michael Linen-berger said he feels strongly that Carranza deserves the recogni-tion he has been given.

“I’m very happy for him. He’s been a very good player for three years and last year he had an outstanding year,” Linen-berger said. “For me, he’s the type of player that I’d pay money to watch play. He’s so exciting, different, creative, fantastic on the ball. He’s not your generic cookie cutter player.”

The Sacramento State vol-leyball team faces a few major obstacles this season. The obsta-cles? Two knees and a shoulder.

The team is facing a season without two players who would have been in the starting lineup, including setter Hannah Het-tinga and middle hitter and co-captain Maddison Thivierge who both are benched because of knee injuries. Right side hitter Anna Schoener was originally out with a shoulder injury, but has been placed in a new posi-tion that would be less strenu-ous on her shoulder.

“We are definitely going to have adversity this season,” said co-captain Janelle Currey. “I think we are mature enough and tough enough that we should be able to fight for it and still be successful.”

Hettinga started feeling pain in her knee last season due to Ten-donitis, when she appeared in 24 matches. She came into August

practice and tried to see if she could play through the discom-fort. But it was not good news. She will be redshirt as she and the coaching staff opted for sea-son-ending surgery on Aug. 12.

“It’s rough not playing especial-ly when you play the first couple days of double days and then the decision is that you can’t play,”

Hettinga said. “It’s rough but I’m trying to support and do what I can.”

Thivierge hurt her knee last season during a practice where she did a twist and plant, and landed on her knee wrong. She will continue to be co-captain

As the Sacramento Mountain Lions near its season opener, the team has been preparing in training camp this summer for its debut season in Sacramento.

Before coming to Sacramento, the team was known as the Cali-fornia Redwoods and played its home games in San Jose and San Francisco. The team finished the season with a 2-4 record and placed third in the United Foot-ball League.

This season the Mountain Li-ons will play their home games at Hornet Stadium.

The Mountain Lions train-ing camp started Aug. 23 at the Harvard Corporate Center and is going exactly how head coach Dennis Green expected.

“We’re giving it all we got,” Green said. “We have a lot of guys fighting for their spots on the roster. That’s what makes for a good training camp.”

Green and his coaching staff currently have 69 players in camp and will make cuts to eventually end up with a 52-man roster before the season starts.

“The only pieces of this team that are pretty much set is both the offensive and defensive lines due to experience,” Green said.

Green said he has another po-sition on his team that is very secure. The starting quarterback will be former NFL star Daunte Culpepper for the Mountain Li-ons.

“Daunte is one of the best pro quarterbacks around,” Green said. “Having a player of his cali-ber will mean a lot to this team’s success.”

After watching the Mountain Lions practice, it is clear Culpep-per gives this group the veteran leadership that every successful

football team needs.“I’ve always embraced the lead-

ership role,” Culpepper said. “I’m not a loud or real cheerful leader, but I will speak up when neces-sary. It’s very important to make sure that the team is doing all the little things. Like never walking but rather jogging on the prac-tice field.”

In recent years, Culpepper’s career has been hindered by a nagging injury to his right knee. Culpepper is finally not wearing any protective knee braces and is moving around the pocket like

he did in his early years in the NFL.

“The knee is 100 percent,” Cul-pepper said. “I’m not battling any injuries this season and that feels great.”

Culpepper is not the only play-er on the Mountain Lions that is poised to make an impact.

The Mountain Lions may have two of the best players in the UFL at running back. Cory Ross, who led the UFL in rush-ing yards last season, is compli-mented with former Michigan Wolverine Chris Perry.

Ross attended college at the University of Nebraska where he ranks ninth all-time in career rushing yards. He also played from 2006-08 with the Baltimore Ravens as a back-up running back and kick returner.

While at the University of Michigan, Perry acquired a long list of accomplishments. His se-nior season 2003 he rushed for 1,674 yards and 18 touchdowns. Perry finished fourth in the Heisman Trophy vote, received the Doak Walker Award and was the Big Ten Conference MVP.

Perry was a first round draft pick by the Cincinnati Bengals in the 2004 NFL draft. Perry was cut from the team in 2009 and is poised to prove he can become a dominant running back once again.

Perry has not appeared in training camp due to a passing in his family. He is expected to join training camp this week and compete with Ross for the start-ing spot.

On Monday and Friday nights if you listen close enough, you may be able to hear the Lady Gaga remixes playing on repeat in Yosemite Hall. You probably did not know the low buzzing was coming from the Hornet Girlz, Sacramento State’s dance team.

The Hornet Girlz are the danc-ers you see on the sidelines at nearly every game, from football to women’s basketball, dressed in some form of sparkly green and gold, not to be confused with the cheerleading team. Unlike the majority of college dance teams, the Hornet Girlz main purpose is not eyeing national trophies. The team is completely focused on provid-ing a spirit squad at Sac State.

“It’s really important because we kind of serve as ambassadors to the school,” said senior team leader Courtney Haun. “We can

get our friends and the crowd involved in different things.”

Roberts said that being part of the Hornet Girlz is not easy work, and it is quite the oppo-

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Quarterback Daunte Culpepper takes a snap during a scrimmage and hopes to succeed this season with head coach Dennis Green. The two worked together previously in the NFL on the Minnesota Vikings from 1999 to 2001.

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Volleyball team thrives despite major injuries

Hornet Girlz work to boost spirit and help community

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Injured players Maddison Thivierge (right) and Hannah Hettinga (left) cheer on the team from the sidelines.Thiv-ierge is still named co-captain despite being injured.

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Coach Jolie Roberts leads the team in step drills dur-ing practice on Aug. 30.

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Sacramento State football de-fensive linemen Christian Clark went from a 2006 walk-on to a 2010 first-team preseason All-American and is poised to make a big impact for the Hornets.

Clark grew up in Los Angeles, where he played a number of different sports such as football, basketball, baseball, track and field and volleyball. Clark said his favorite sport of the all was basketball, but he knew it would never work because he can not jump very high.

Clark credits his father for get-ting him into sports as a young-ster, but gives credit to his moth-er and godfather for helping him turn into the successful young man he is today.

“My mother gave me my guid-ance,” Clark said. “My godfa-ther was my basketball coach. He instilled in me hard work, determination and passion for the game. He also taught me to listen to those that came before you and help those coming up behind you.”

Playing different sports in his childhood helped Clark make the important decision of which sport he wanted to pursue in college.

“They gave me a break from

playing football so I didn’t get burned out,” Clark said. “I had a good opportunity to try differ-ent sports and pick the one that I was best at.”

Coming out of Palisades Char-ter High School, Clark was get-ting very little attention from college football scouts. Clark attended a lineman camp at the University of Pacific, where he met with a Sac State offensive line coach. Clark eventually got into contact with Lou Bias, who wanted Clark to walk on and play defense. So he did and never looked back.

Clark has started 22 straight games for the Hornets and is coming off of a huge year. Clark led all defensive linemen on the team with 44 tackles and led the Hornets with 15.5 tackles-for-loss. Clark also led the team with 10 sacks, which tied him for sixth-most in Hornet single-season history.

“When I first came here, I had goals set for myself and every year I’ve been trying to work towards those goals,” Clark said. “Especially coming from being a walk on to where I’m at now, I have met all my goals except for one and that’s making the play-offs.”

Making the playoffs is Clark’s No. 1 goal for this upcoming season. He also said picking up

where he left off last season and helping players behind him are his goals for this year.

Sac State’s defensive line coach Jon Osterhout said he knew he had a special player when he met Clark for the first time.

“He is very intelligent, has a high football IQ, and is very low key both on and off the field,” Osterhout said. “As I got to know him better, I saw his im-peccable work ethic on the field and he’s one of the best practice players I’ve ever seen. He’s a coach’s dream.”

Clark is a proven leader on the defense. However, he is not someone you are going to hear yelling at teammates.

“I try to lead by my actions,” Clark said. “Anytime you have success, people tend to gravitate towards you and put you in a leadership role.”

Clark’s teammates are aware of his vast understanding of the game, as well as his abil-ity to share with others what he knows.

“Clark is a team guy all the way,” said sophomore offensive lineman Aaron Gasper. “He shows that by mentoring all the younger defensive lineman in practice everyday.”

Osterhout said he is aware of the importance of having a guy like Clark with a good work-

ethic.“Christian is received in the

locker room very well,” Oster-hout said. “He leads by example and is not your vocal leader that’s going to bark and yell, but he’s going to show up everyday. I don’t think he’s missed a single practice since I’ve been here. He’s a true team guy that the football staff has really been able to rely on.”

Clark’s intensity on the practice field is something that separates him from other players.

“Christian brings it everyday at practice,” Gasper said. “He expects everyone else at practice to bring it too and that makes us all better.”

Clark’s success has made him a recognizable name and said he is aware of what comes with that.

“I wouldn’t say there’s any add-ed pressure, just higher expecta-tions from others,” Clark said. “Once I step on the field, all that stuff goes out the window and I just focus on playing. I’ve put in the work so I don’t worry about other peoples’ expectations be-cause I know the expectations I have for myself are higher than anyone else’s.”

Clark plans to graduate this fall while maintaining a 3.0 GPA.

“I hope to continue playing football,” Clark said. “If not, get

a job - maybe as a firefighter. But I want to play the game as long as I can and ride till the wheels fall off.“

It’s not often that a walk-on ends up receiving All–American honors in their career. Clark is someone that his coaches and the Sac State community should be proud to call their own.

“All it takes is for one team to fall in love with you,” Osterhout said. “His productivity stands for itself. It’s going to be hard for someone to get rid of him because of the way he shows up everyday.”

The eyes of the baseball world were focused on former pitch-er Roger Clemens’ hearing in Washington, D.C. on Aug. 30 as he pleaded not guilty for his six-count indictment for allegedly lying to Congress about his use of steroids and human growth hormones.

This normally would not be a big deal, say if you’re a little kid lying to your teacher that your

dog ate your homework. How-ever, allegations by his own per-sonal trainer knowing he took steroids and human growth hor-mones didn’t help his situation.

Clemens played on five differ-ent MLB teams throughout his 24-year.

In 2008, Clemens was only trying to save himself from any prosecution by Congress, but instead he made himself look guilty by dodging around the questions of the committee members.

Clemens should be investi-gated for allegedly lying to Con-gress, but not two years after the fact.

Who Congress should be in-vestigating and prosecuting are those members of gasoline giant British Petroleum for its major mishandling of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. There are more impor-tant things than who is doping up to play a game.

Roger "The Rocket" Clemens might have made his most im-portant pitch ever on Aug. 30.

Clemens said, “not guilty, your honor,” in his arraignment on his six-count indictment for al-legedly lying to Congress for the use of steroids and human growth hormones. The trial is set for April 5.

Clemens was originally alleged of using anabolic steroids by the

release of the 2007 Mitchell Re-port.

I don’t foresee any sign of a plea bargain in Clemens’ future. Clemens pled not guilty, after he was indicted on Aug. 19 for perjury, false statements and ob-structing Congress.

Clemens was an 11-time All-Star selection throughout his career.

If found guilty, Clemens could face up to 30 years in jail and let’s face it, he’s not going to be doing hard time - especially not for any lengthy period like 30 years.

He’ll be like all of the other fa-mous people doing time, isolat-ed from the general population.

In reality, I don’t really care about the use of performance enhancement drugs.

If an athlete is going to use a substance to enhance their per-formance, they’re the ones doing harm to their body - just trying to get an edge on the game.

The steroid era in baseball has tainted the game as we know it and also branded some of its best players as cheaters.

Roger Clemens is the latest to make headlines about being in-dicted for his steroid allegations.

Clemens has had many oppor-tunities to come clean about his steroid usage, but has instead remained defiant on the subject. His long time trainer, Brian Mc-

Namee, said he told congress he injected Clemens with steroids and human growth hormones. Clemens’ former teammate and good friend, Andy Pettitte, told Congress Clemens talked to him about his steroid usage.

Is there any way Clemens is telling the truth?

Well there are two ways of looking at this case. The first is to realize Clemens is facing a mini-mum of 12 to 15 months and a maximum of 30 years in prison, if convicted. The fact that Clem-ens is willing to jeopardize his own freedom is enough to take what he says seriously.

The other argument is this is a man full of pride and has a larg-er than life ego that has gotten himself in some really hot water.

Despite the evidence presented against him, I’m going to wait until the final verdict is made before I label Clemens a cheater. He deserves a fair trial just like anyone else.

Last season proved to be a re-cord breaking season for the Sacramento State men’s soccer team.

The team went 6-0-1 in con-ference play; with this record they won the Mountain Pacific Soccer Federation conference and were named tournament champions, obtaining the sec-ond MPSF regular season title ever. The team finished with an overall record of 12-6-3, setting a single season record with 12 victories.

After the 2009 season, head coach Michael Linenberger was selected as MPSF Coach of the Year and midfielder Ernesto Carranza was named the 2009 MPSF Player of the Year.

Linenberger, entering his 22nd year as part of the men’s soccer program, said he is optimistic about the upcoming season.

“Our goals are pretty consis-tent from year to year; we always want to finish with a winning record, try and win our con-ference championship and get a berth to the NCAA playoffs,” Linenberger said. “Having said that, last year is the first time we accomplished our goals. So our goal this year is can we duplicate and repeat our title.”

The team was ranked 28th in the College Soccer News pre-season top-30, which is the highest they have ever ranked in the poll.

“It’s nice to be recognized,” Linenberger said. “This is a new team, a new season; we’ve

been trying to tell our players you can’t get too excited about any early press you’re receiving. You’ve got to go out every single game and prove yourself. If we go out and drop the first four games, then that ranking doesn’t really matter. We got to back it up with our performance.”

The team hopes to advance in the NCAA tournament even further than they did last sea-son - last year they advanced to the second round of the tourna-ment. This was the first time in Sac State history the team ad-vanced in the tournament.

“First of all, soccer is a team sport. So one of my goals is to make it to the NCAA tourna-ment and make it further so we have a chance to play at a top level,” said senior midfielder Fernando Cabadas.

Even with newcomers, the team is hopeful this season will be victorious.

“We have a pretty big team. We feel one of the things we did this year with our recruiting class is we brought in better athletes - bigger, stronger, faster.” Linen-berger said. “We think we have good quality athletes.”

Cabadas ranks third in school history with 14 career assists and is on his way to break the school record during his final season as a Hornet.

“A personal goal is that the coaches have been telling me to shoot more, so I can score and get my stats up - achieve five goals and coming off last season with 10 or more assists to main-tain that level of play,” Cabadas said.

Six of the team’s seniors gradu-ated last semester, including center David Von Stockhausen.

“We have a good returning group with probably two of the best pure soccer players we’ve ever had in the history of our soccer program,” Linenberger said. “Fernando and Ernesto, both of whom are seniors; so we expect them to lead the team this year.”

Although, a few key players graduated last semester Linen-berger said he has many reasons to be optimistic about the team.

“We’re still waiting to see who’s going to step up, it’s a little early but so far the guys that look good in the beginning of the season are: Erick Lariz, Chim-dum Mez and Rory O’Day,” Linenberger said. “We have two good freshman goalies, so we’re still waiting to see who will step it up for starting goal keeper.”

With a mixed group of seniors and freshmen, the team is find-ing leaders throughout the ros-ter.

“My personal goals are to win a starting spot in goal. Hopeful-ly if I can do that, then get ten shutouts,” said freshman goalie Frederico Antionelli. “As a goal keeper I need to be a leader. Re-gardless of class, whether I’m a freshman or a senior, that’s something I really need to fo-cus on. Soccer, especially at this level, anything can happen, we have the talent to defend our title.”

The team hopes to achieve its goals this season and Cabadas said defending its title will take commitment and perseverance.

“It’s all about chemistry. We have the same midfield as last year, the back line has changed a little bit, and we’ve add a few forwards like Chris Bettencourt, he’s a great addition to our at-tacking force,” Cabadas said.

With established leaders the team embarks on a new season.

“We think we have a lot of cre-ativity; central midfield is defi-nitely the strength of our team. They’re creative, good on the ball and its fun to watch them play,” Linenberger said. “They can break a game at any time. In the past, I think some teams have overlooked us and this year we’re going to get everybody’s best performance.”

There is definitely a high level of commitment and effort from Cabadas and his teammates.

“In any college game you’re not assured anything offensive-ly. You might have some days where your team struggles to keep the ball or score, what is guaranteed is the effort,” Caba-das said.

The Hornets are still looking to find the winning success the team had last season.

After coming up winless in the Duke Nike Classic over the weekend with losses to Duke University and North Caro-lina State, the Hornets fell to an 0-2-0 record for the season. The Hornets have yet to play a MPSF conference game this season

The men’s season continues as they face the UC Davis Aggies as part of the Causeway Cup battle on Friday.

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Top Right: Christian Clark celebrates after a sack. Above: Christian Clark looks to tackle the running back.

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Above: Junior Adam Bettencourt hits a header during the game against UC Davis on Monday Oct. 5, 2009 at Hornet Field. Bettencourt was the team’s tri-captain and was an MPSF All-Academic honoree last year.

Below: Sophomore Oscar Torrico runs down the field looking for open teammates during the game against UC Davis on Monday Oct. 5, 2009 at Hornet Field. Torrico was an MPSF All-Academic selection last season.

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for the team.“It’s very different,” Thivierge

said. “I have to find different ways to lead and not just on the

court and not physically. I have to be more vocal, so now is a time to look at the game from a different perspective and to offer different kinds of advice rather than being able to show it through work ethic.”

Schoener will get playing time at the setter position, a position she has never played before. As a setter she will not have to handle as much arm swinging as as her normal position. She will battle through the shoulder injury as a setter where she can provide a block with her 5-foot-11 frame.

Schoener has come back from multiple injuries during her five seasons with the team, including a season-ending shoulder sur-gery in 2007 and a knee injury in 2008. She came back in 2009 and played in 30 matches.

“I don’t think I’ve ever been that nervous to play before,” Schoener said about her new position. “But I really enjoyed it. I think if we just work hard and

remember that it comes down to how much we want it and not just individual skills. I think we showed a little of that this week-end.”

Despite injuries, the team went into its first tournament in Cor-vallis Oregon on Aug. 27-28 and ended with a 2-1 record. The team beat Oregon State Univer-sity and University of Portland. Currey and junior middle hitter Kelsey Elston led the team. Cur-rey averaged 4.13 kills and 3.53 digs per set, while Elston aver-aged 1.60 blocks and 1.13 blocks to follow her five service aces.

The team still holds out hope for a good season.

“This season will be a little bit interesting,” Volta said. “We’ve been a little bit snake-bitten with some injuries, so we’ve got some people playing new posi-tions, and some new people on the floor. I think they are work-ing hard and I like what I see at practice.”

The Mountain Lions have ac-quired former Sac State Hornet standout receiver, Otis Amey. Amey played at Sac State from 2001-04, where became the school’s all-time leader in nearly every receiving and returning category. Amey played for the San Francisco 49ers in 2005 where he served as a kick re-turner.

Amey says he is not the only reliable target for Culpepper on this roster.

“Joe West, Sonny Shackelford, Cameron Colvin and Antonio Chatman can all make big plays,” Amey said. “We are all batting for the top two positions on the depth chart.”

On the defensive side of the ball, the Mountain Lions are led by stand out linebacker Dontar-rious Thomas. Thomas was a four-year starter at the Univer-sity of Auburn where he finished his career with 350 tackles, 6.5 sacks and 15 interceptions.

“Thomas is our leader on de-fense,” Green said. “His work ethic and attitude rubs off on the rest of the guys. That’s what makes him special to this team.”

The Mountain Lions training camp wraps up on Sept. 10 and they will open their season on Sept. 18 on the road against the Hartford Colonials. The follow-ing weekend will be Sacramen-to’s first look at Mountain Lions as they host the Florida Tuskers.

Carranza only needs nine more points to break the top-five in total points.

“We’ve been talking to him that he can’t get caught up in the early press. We know he’ll be a marked man every game we play,” Linenberger said. “He’s go-ing to have to work harder this year to have another good year, but if he can do that, I think he can have a very bright future playing at the next level.”

With Carranza’s level of com-mitment, teammates agree that they enjoy playing soccer with the midfielder.

“He’s one of the best players I’ve ever played with,” said fresh-man goalie Frederico Antonelli. “I’ve seen a lot of players and he definitely has what it takes to go to the next level.”

Senior midfielder Fernando Cabadas said he agrees Carran-za deserves all the recognition he has been awarded.

“Ernie’s one of those players that’s one in a million,” Cabadas said. “Even when we train on a daily basis, you appreciate it. You see things that other play-ers or teams can’t see because maybe that day he didn’t have his best day and at practice, he does it day in and day out."

site. “It’s underestimated how hard

they work,” Roberts said. “I think there are a lot of things that go unnoticed. And they are just a bunch of great girls that do this on their own time. There are no scholarships that are avail-able. They do this because they love the program and they love to dance.”

Aside from dancing and study-ing, the Hornet Girlz do a lot of community outreach.

They participate in events like the Breast Cancer Awareness walks, the Relay for Life and Vi-sion Walks. The Hornet Girlz perform at local high schools and sometimes for the Shriner’s Children’s Hospital.

You will also see them show-ing pride at all school events, including when new students move into their dorm rooms, Homecoming Week and the Choreography Showcase.

“I like how involved we are in the school,” said sophomore Ra-chael Jensen. “It’s a great way to enhance your college experience and be a part of your college,

and really be proud of where you go to school, and get people involved.”

Roberts said the team continu-ously finds more ways to bring a higher level of energy to every-thing they do.

“The best part of performing at events is entertaining the crowd and just having a lot of school spirit and seeing the crowd react to us and seeing how the team reacts to us,” said junior team leader Danielle Rego.

Jensen said when recruiting new girls, Roberts looks for peo-ple who really want to work as a team, and essentially as a unit that is close like a family.

“It gives the girls a sense of be-longing at the school,” Roberts said. “It gets them pumped up and I think they bring a great amount of energy.”

You might not know it, but next time you see the Hornet Girlz perform during halftime, you will probably see more to them than just dance moves.

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Carranza: Honored midfielder shoots for school records

Lions: Summer camp comes to a close as team prepares for season-opener

Injuries: Middle hitter forced to redshirt her senior year

Girlz: Dancers stay involved with outreach and athletics

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Heated support comes from the bench as injured players cheer on the team.

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Otis Amey, Sacramento State alumnus, runs the ball for the Mountain Lions offense during a full contact scrim-mage. The training camp ends Sept. 10.

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Sac State junior Ali Bryant holds a pose during prac-tice for the Sacramento State Dance Team.

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