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Occupy Fresno camps for a cause

By Ana Mendoza-Santiago The Collegian Fresno community members, along with Fresno State students and faculty, have gathered at the Fresno Courthouse Park in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street.

The protest began with the reading of the Declaration of the Occupation by community member Angelica Chavez.

Occupy Wall Street protesters in New York City wrote the declaration. The declaration also has been used by several leaders of similar protests around the country.

“We come to you at a time when corporations, which place profit over people, self-interest over justice and oppression over equality, run our gover nments,” Chavez said. “We have peaceably assembled here, as is our right, to let these facts be known.”

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, for one, am increasingly concerned about the growing mobs occupying Wall Street and the other cities across the country.”

— Eric Cantor, Republican majority leader Several Fresno State students and community members plan to stay at the park for an indefinite amount of time.

“Our goal is that when this protest ends we will leave the park and the surrounding area, community and hopefully the city of Fresno in better condition and in better shape than when we first arrived,” Steven Avila, Fresno Sate student and organizer, said.

The group has organized park-cleaning committees among other committees.

Avila said Occupy Fresno would maintain its presence at the Fresno Courthouse Park until they see real change, even if they have to stay several months.

Fresno State political science professor Dr. Michael Becker also attended the event and predicted what would cause the movement to continue. “[It] Depends on what happens in the economy over the next few months.

The United States seems to be, according to a lot of economists, on the edge of a new recession,” Becker said. “If the new recession occurs, if there is another contraction in the economy, then I think it definitely has the potential to grow even more.”

Becker added that the current eco-

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Community members, students, professors and children protested in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street and hundreds of cities around the country.

nomic situation has caused the movement.

Majority leader Eric Cantor and other opponents of the Occupy Wall Street and the protests that follow, blame President Barack Obama for beginning a class war and pitting Americans against Americans.

“I, for one, am increasingly concerned about the growing mobs occupying Wall Street and the other cities across the country,” Cantor said at the 2011 Values Voter Summit.

“People are hurting all over the country and it’s evident in this movement.

The frustration and anger that people feel, they are coming and joining us,” Becker added.

Avila said the only issues the organizers have faced are policies concerning their camping tents along with park

Photo courtesy of Iliana Villalta

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Fresno State student Steven Avila and other protesters held a news conference on Monday to voice their concerns and to announce that they will camp at the park indefinitely.

Exchange programs suffer the effect of budget cuts

By Viola Malone The Collegian The Inter national Exchange program and National Exchange program, among other study-abroad services, have seen dramatic cuts in their budgets due to a lack in university funding. The aftermath of these cuts has affected faculty, staff and student services.

Some programs, however, have been completely cut due to a lack of funding such as the National Student Exchange program.

The lack of funding has also resulted

in an increase in unofficial duties for staff and faculty.

Marcia Romsa is currently employed as the sole advisor for the Study Abroad and International Exchange office for the duration of the 2010-11 academic school year.

Romsa has taken the role of “unofficial” office manager —manning phones, mail, greeting all visitors to the office, ordering supplies, taking care of maintenance issues, safety issues and technical issues among other tasks.

Part-time coordinator of Continuing and Global Education Shane Moreman

has been trying to help students with scholarship opportunities. “[Moreman] is in the process of writing grants for students to study abroad,” dean in the Continuing and Global Education office Lynette Zelezny said.

Zelezny added that she supports NSE, but the study abroad program brings in more money. Aside form the economic factor, Zelezny said the National Student Exchange also lacks student interest.

“We need to know that students are interested. The NSE program only brought in students in the double dig-

its,” Zelezny said.

Zelezny added that “if students show they are interested and push for it” [those concerns can be taken to the proper officials.]

The effect on students, however, might be eminent.

“I was really bummed when I heard they canceled [the program]. It was an amazing opportunity,” Fresno State student Julie Munns said. “Without that program I would have never gone outside of California.”

Munns had the opportunity to take See BUDGET, Page 3

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on’t be fooled by the clichés of protest movements past. The most radical people today are the ones that look the most boring. It’s not about declaring war on some nefarious elite. It’s about changing behavior from top to bottom. Let’s occupy ourselves.”

– David Brooks, The New York Times

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fter President Barack Obama waxed and waned about the so-called “Buffett Rule,” named for investor Warren Buffett, which would force the super rich to “pay their fair share,” Republicans came out against it with guns blazing.

“Class warfare will simply divide this country more,” Rep. Paul Ryan said. “It will attack job creators, divide people and it doesn’t grow the economy.”

Pure partisanship, Democrats cried.

And now they’ve found their smoking gun.

A video has been making the rounds on liberal blogs in which President Ronald Reagan, the conservative Republican standard bearer, calls for an end to tax loopholes for the rich so they can pay their “fair share.”

“We’re going to close the unproductive loopholes that allow some of the

truly wealthy to avoid paying their fair share,” Reagan said in a 1985 speech.

“In theory, some of those loopholes were understandable, but in practice they sometimes made it possible for millionaires to pay nothing, while a bus driver was paying ten percent of his salary, and that’s crazy.”

Even former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has gotten in on the fun, exhorting others to “listen to Ronald Reagan when he talked about how unfair it was for a bus driver to be paying at the same rate as a millionaire … He speaks beautifully to the unfairness of that scenario.”

This, Democrats say, proves that today’s Republicans are extreme.

Could Ronald Reagan even be elected by today’s Republican Party?

Since 1988, Republicans have nominated only politicians much less conservative than Reagan. Reagan would have no problem getting elected by today’s Republican Party.

The more interesting question is this: Have Republicans grown more extreme and moved more to the right in recent years?

That is certainly what conservative activists, like members of the Tea Party, have hoped for. They feel that the Republican Party, from the late ‘90s through the Bush era, lost its way. It abdicated its role as the fiscally responsible party, running up huge deficits. Instead of making government smaller, it enlarged it, creating new bureaucracies like the Department of Homeland Security and adding to Medicare.

In response to this, conservatives acted, the evidence of which lies in the 2010 midterm election results.

To an extent, then, liberals are right that conservatives have moved more to the right since the Bush era. However, when compared to the titans of the modern American conservative movement, today’s versions seem quite tame.

Barry Goldwater in 1964 famously said, “Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And … moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.”

In 1983, Ronald Reagan said, “You may remember that when abortion on demand began, many, and, indeed, I’m sure many of you, warned that the practice would lead to a decline in respect for human life, that the philosophical premises used to justify abortion on demand would ultimately be used to justify other attacks on the sacredness of human life — infanticide or mercy killing.”

William F. Buckley took aim at the conventional wisdom of the day when he wrote, “Middle-of-the-Road, qua Middle of the Road, is politically, intellectually and morally repugnant.”

All three of these figures were hated by liberals of their day. Today, all three are venerated, and seen as “respectable” conservatives, in opposition to today’s disrespected variety.

Conservatism hasn’t moved more to the right; if anything, “the middle” has moved more to the left. “Class warfare” rhetoric aside, the GOP’s problem isn’t extremism to the right — it is a lack fealty to the philosophy it professes to espouse.

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Let’s privatize the CSU system

By Maddie Shannon The Collegian

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nce upon a time, The San Francisco Board of Education established the first publically funded post-secondary school in the state. Weekly Normal School, as it was called at the time, was the first of its kind on the west coast, and was the first school that would eventually become the California State University.

But alas, boys and girls, this is not a rags-to-riches story resembling that of Cinderella. This is a tale of good ideas gone bad, of honest intentions gone awry, of things breaking and falling apart. This is more of a humpty-dumpty story, if you will.

Humpty-dumpty, in this case, would be the California State University.

Most people would say that humptydumpty broke when the first of the budget cuts hit the system in 2009.

Those of us at Fresno State who have been here for a while remember the class walk-outs, the protests, the sitins, the marches down Shaw, all in response to declining numbers of classes being offered and postponed

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graduation dates.

Those budget cuts were not the first to hit the university. During the administration of Gray Davis in the early 2000s, cuts were made to public universities in favor of funding the state prison system. His decision resulted in more than half a billion dollars being cut from the CSU, 21.1 million of which was cut from Fresno State’s budget.

Not to beat a dead horse (pardon the phrase, those of you who read my last column), but the budget cuts through the years, with the worst of them culminating in 2009 and 2010, is only the tip of the iceberg. The deeper issue doesn’t involve the money we’re not getting. It involves the public system through which it flows.

Humpty-dumpty may have been broken long ago, before the budget cuts of 2003 and 2004 were implemented, maybe even before Fresno State was founded. Maybe public education was not meant to exist in the first place, because there’s no way for it to work effectively. When you’re talking about one little teacher’s college in San Francisco, maybe. A 23-campus university that spans the length of the state

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and costs billions of dollars a year to maintain, while simultaneously cutting the monetary and intellectual value of each student’s education is an entirely different story.

But, boys and girls, do not despair!

There is a way to put humpty-dumpty back together again. All the governor’s horses and all the governor’s men may not be able to, but maybe we can. Gaining control of the university, or rather individual campuses, is the only way to ensure that we get the education we want, the way we want it. Taking the personal initiative to ensure that kind of privatization would take the effort of many individuals who realize that the government can no longer provide for its students, who perhaps has never been able to provide for its students. Let’s hope that someday, all the boys and all the girls will grow up into men and women who no longer depend on the daddy state, and take the responsibility of educating themselves.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear editor: I can’t help but notice that at the top of every Monday issue of The Collegian, you display the American casualties in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. I readily acknowledge that, as a news outlet, it is your duty to report the news and that those American casualties in these wars are relevant to the student body.

But I also cannot help but think that there is a very subtle message being delivered by the only publication I know of that does this (especially for putting it in bold and color at the top of the front page). I feel that the message is anti-war, and it implies all of the other rhetoric about how unjust and horrible these wars are. Well, I found some other annual death facts.

Let’s get the two big ones out of the way. World War II American annual deaths tallied 73,032 and the Vietnam War tallied 5,827 per year. But now in the 2000’s, 41,000 Americans die

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feel that the message is anti-war, and it implies all of the other rhetoric about how unjust and horrible these wars are.”

annually from the flu. Ten thousand Americans die tragically each year from being a passenger in a vehicle.

Three thousand-four hundred unfortunate Americans drown every year.

Diarrhea claims an additional 1,500 American lives annually. The 1,400 American deaths every year due to alcohol poisoning are probably more relevant to the student body. Another unexpected American tragedy is the 630 yearly deaths from riding a bicycle.

You know what other group has an annual death rate of 630 per year (actually slightly less, 628 per year)? United States service men and women fighting two wars 6,000 miles away. I believe that you should applaud the U.S. Military at the top of every issue for such an impressive job, the likes of which have never been seen in war.

Finally, I think as a warning to the vast number of students who ride their bike to campus, you should post the year to date or decade death totals caused by the fatality-ridden act of riding a bicycle in the United States.

Matt Shupe Chairman, Fresno State College Republicans

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conditions.

“Our biggest concern at this time is sprinklers; the rain we are not too worried about,” The future of the movement is still under consensus.

“Historically, what tends to happen is that the Democratic Party has latched on to popular demand and taken a few of those demands and turned them into legislation,” Becker said.

“The best example of that is in the New Deal. Many of the policies of the Roosevelt administration were actually Socialist Party policies that the democrats adopted.”

More than 400 cities have had similar demonstrations.

“Obviously the economy has created a savage inequality that the top one percent controls now almost 25 percent of the income,” added Becker.

“The top one percent controls over 30 percent of the wealth, that translates over political power that continues the cycle and gives them more wealth,” Becker added. “What this movement is about is demanding that everyone has an equal voice.”

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A diverse crowd of protesters gathered at the Fresno Courthouse Park holding signs and voicing their political concerns.

part in the NSE program when it was active at Fresno State. She attended the University of Alabama.

Other Fresno State students, such as Lauren Beal, have no other choice but to strive for the study abroad program or other alternatives.

“I came in as a freshman really wanting to have that experience. I wanted to go to the East Coast and now I have to go study abroad because I may never get this chance to get away again,” Beal said.

Programs that remain active, such as the Fulbright program, offer opportunities for graduating students to further their education abroad.

Websites share user data more often than previously thought

By Jim Puzzanghera and Jessica Guynn McClatchy-Tribune Popular websites are disclosing personal information to advertisers and others more often than previously believed, according to new research, and the finding is renewing calls to let Internet users block companies from tracking their online surfing.

Information that could easily identify you — your name, user name or email address, for instance — typically

is embedded in the Uniform Resource Locator, or URL, that websites share with online advertisers and other third parties, said Jonathan Mayer, a Stanford University graduate student who studied the issue and released his findings Tuesday.

The practice is pervasive, though not necessarily intentional, on some of the more popular websites, including home improvement center Home Depot’s online store and photo-sharing site Photobucket, Mayer said.

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Online privacy advocates said the Last year, the alliance launched a selffindings show the need for a “do not regulatory initiative, at www.aboutads. track” mechanism, similar to the popuinfo, to let people check their Web lar “do not call” list to block telemarbrowser for tracking devices known as keting calls. Such a mechanism would cookies placed by participating compaallow enable consumers to opt out of nies and then opt out of receiving taronline tracking, which is used to delivgeted ads. er advertising targeted to a person’s Some leading Web browsers, such as online behavior.

Microsoft Corp.’s Internet Explorer The Federal Trade Commission is and Mozilla Corp.’s Firefox, have an pushing Internet companies to develoption that allows enables users to op a “do not track” option beyond the send a message to websites saying they current haphazard, voluntary system. do not want to be tracked. But it is up to Some in Congress have proposed legisthe sites as to whether they honor the lation mandating a “do not track” sysrequest. tem.

Mayer said the ability to link a person FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz likened to the unique sequence of numbers companies that track people online to of a Web browser is the key that could the paparazzi who follow celebrities. allow enable a company to connect that He called them “cyberazzi.” person’s past and future online move“It is true that paparazzi know who ments. their celebrity sub“Many times, jects are, while the Web developers cyberazzi may not aren’t thinking have linked, at least about privacy nd that e-mail and first not publicly, our issues, and it’s a name get associated not identities to the profact of life that just with what you’re doing right files they are buildinformation is now, but get associated with ing, but that could going to leak to happen,” he said at third parties,” what you’ve done in the past and an online privacy Mayer said. “I what Web browsing activity you for um Tuesday think we have to might have in the future.” before the new findrecognize that ings were released. that’s just the “It could be way the Web — Jonathan Mayer, traced throughout works.”

Stanford University graduate student a n i nv i s i bl e l at The personal tice of companies, information snowballing into is transferred an exhaustive profile of you, avail- because the Web address, or URL, creable to those making critical decisions ated when a person logs on to a site is about your career, your finances, your sent to third parties to deliver ads and health and your reputation,” Leibowitz other content on the page, he said. warned.

For example, when a user logs on to the Privacy advocates said widespread Home Depot website and then looks at data leakage means that Web browsing a local ad, the person’s first name and is not as anonymous as the industry email address is sent to 13 companies, has claimed.

Mayer said.

“That information is not anonymous “And that email and first name get and is often shared with sites,” said associated not just with what you’re John Simpson, privacy project director doing right now, but get associated with for Consumer Watchdog. what you’ve done in the past and what The Future of Privacy Forum, a Web browsing activity you might have think tank that advocates for responsi- in the future,” Mayer said. ble data practices, said websites should Mayer also found that even when trybe careful to avoid “mistaken exposure ing to log on to the Wall Street Journal of personal information.” website with the wrong password, the “What the study fails to empha- user’s email address was sent to seven size is that most companies targeting companies. Changing user settings on ads online have no use for personal video sharing site Metacafe sent the information,” said the group, which person’s first name, last name, birthis backed by major online and bricks- day, email address, physical address and-mortar companies. “If they are and phone numbers to two companies. getting that kind of information, it is Mayer studied 185 of the most-visited most likely because of (an) inadvertent websites that offered free individual mistake.” log-ins, though he excluded the main Re presentatives of the Digital Google, Yahoo and Facebook sites Advertising Alliance, a coalition of because they offered so many features online advertising companies, were that it was impractical to study them not available for comment on the study. all.

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'You're never too young': Woman, 29, fighting breast cancer, reaches out to others

By Patricia Montemurri McClatchy-Tribune More than 2.5 million Americans are breast cancer survivors.

Meghan Malley, 29, a physical therapist from Berkley, Mich., wants her name on that list.

She's networking, rallying and blogging publicly about her disease to bring attention to the times when breast cancer isn't a lump. For about 5 percent to 10 percent of breast cancers, the warning signs may be a change in the feel of the breast or breast skin that becomes dimpled, puckered or reddened.

"I want women to know that breast cancer doesn't always begin with a lump," said Malley, whose hair has grown back pixie-cute after chemotherapy. "I want people to be aware that unfortunately you're never too young to get breast cancer."

During a monthly self-breast exam in January 2010, Malley sensed something different about her right breast. She had experienced some jolts of pain in the breast, and felt a denseness, almost a change in its weight. After an ultrasound and mammogram, doctors said she had fibrocystic breasts, which can make breasts painful and lumpy in response to women's changing hormones, but isn't cancerous.

A little over a year later, Malley was undergoing fertility treatments. She still was concerned about the changes she felt in her right breast

and pressed her doctor for additional testing. She had an ultrasound, which showed distinct changes, but doctors thought it might be related to the hormones she was receiving for fertility treatments.

But to be sure, she underwent a biopsy.

On March 23 two days after her 29th birthday she learned that she had invasive lobular breast cancer, which occurs in about 5 percent of breast cancer patients. She started chemotherapy one day after she learned additional tests had detected cancerous spots on her spine, making it a Stage 4 the deadliest of cancer diagnoses.

"There's a lot of misconceptions about metastatic disease. They look at you like you're going to die any day," said Malley. "And although it's scary, I feel that with more research and more funding, we can live a long time and live very fulfilling lives."

Invasive lobular breast cancer forms in the milk-producing glands and causes an area of thickening in parts of the breasts, or sensations of fullness or swelling. It may also make the skin over the breast dimple or thicken.

Malley's oncolo gist, Dr. Lawrence F laherty of the Karmanos Cancer Institute, describes lobular breast cancer by likening breast tissue to spaghetti.

"Most breast cancers are like a meatball in a bowl of spaghetti, so they're easy to find," said Flaherty. "Her particular type is more like a glob

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Meghan Malley hugs friend Kyle Dorcey at a cancer group fundraiser in Royal Oa, Michigan, on Sept. 27, 2011. She was diagnosed with breast cancer at 29 and has recently finished a five-month round of chemotheraphy.

of meat sauce in a bowl of spaghetti."

Malley will have a double mastectomy at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Mich., later this month after undergoing 15 rounds of chemotherapy to shrink the cancer in her right breast and take out the spots on her spine.

The survival rate for women diagnosed with Stage 4 breast cancer is about 23 percent after five years.

"She's gotten an excellent response in her treatment and her cancer is in remission," said Flaherty. "And based on that, her outlook is certainly a more favorable one. I have people in my practice who are five

and 10 years and more years out with that stage of the disease."

Flaherty says Malley may be a candidate for clinical trials of new drugs down the road. In 2010, about 27 percent of breast cancer patients at Karmanos participated in some 30 clinical trials involving drugs and other research.

Others have faced down and triumphed over similar odds.

One of Flaherty's patients was Kathleen Mulheron, a Harper Hospital nurse who cares for cancer patients recovering from surgery.

First diagnosed with Stage 2 breast cancer in 1998, Mulheron underwent a single

mastectomy and chemotherapy. She was just shy of her 10-year anniversary of being cancer-free when doctors discovered that the cancer had metastasized to her right hip in November 2007. She had 10 rounds of radiation to her hip and takes a medication an estrogen inhibitor. She has been back at work since March 2008.

"In the back of my mind, I still think about it. My inspiration are the patients I take care of and who are going through the same thing," said Mulheron. "I tell them you can do well after this, that it doesn't have to be the end."

Women's full-contact football team prepares for third season in Valley

By Shannon Williams The Collegian The Central Valley’s one and only women’s full-contact football team, the War Angels, are preparing for their third season.

The War Angels make up one of 60 teams across the country in the Central Pacific Division o f t h e Wo m e n ’ s Fo o t b a l l Alliance. The team is based in Fresno, but players come from all over California to play on the team.

“We average at around 40 players on our roster and we have players from Los Angeles, San Francisco and we have a number of Fresno State alumni players as well,” Lisa King, founder of the team, said.

King, who has played on a women’s football team in Los Angeles, decided along with

the exercise,” Nave said. “It would also be a good way for me to show my guy friends that women can play the same sports as men.”

As the team enters into its third season, King’s goals for the team include making it to the championships and gaining women’s interest for joining the lineup of players.

“Women have never been

allowed to play football before and this would be an opportunity to actually not only play football, but play it well,” King said. "Women can play it at a high level and be taught by some of the best coaches in the league and most importantly they can have something to tell their grandchildren about.”

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The 2010 rookie player of the year, Chantel Wiggins, is a former Fresno State tennis player and the 2011 rookie player of the year, Jamie Fornal, is currently in Fresno State's physical therapy master's program.

“We really try to recruit college athletes to play for us,” King said. “There are no qualification for trying out for the team but we just ask that players be over 18 and have a desire to learn the game and have some athletic abilities.”

When Fresno State biology major Kylie Nave was asked if she would ever consider joining the team, there was no reluctance in her answer.

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“My husband and I started recruiting players for the team in the fall of 2009 and we began our first season in the spring of 2010,” King said.

In the last two years of the team’s existence, King and her staf f of coaches have taught most of the players on the team how to play football because the majority of the players have never played before.

“In 2010 and 2011 we have had the rookie of the year picked out of 60 teams,” King said, “So we do pretty well teaching the players how to play.”

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DJ Tiesto is a rock star for the digital age

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Tiesto was voted the greatest DJ of all time in February by the British magazine Mixmag. The music genre has quickly spread to the mainstream from Europe to the United States.

By Jessica Gelt McClatchy-Tribune SAN DIEGO — Standing onstage at San Diego’s Valley View Casino Center, the DJ Tiesto twisted some knobs on his Pioneer CDJ-1000 turntable as 6,500 screaming fans formed a sea of waving hands, flashing cellphone cameras and wide-eyed faces. Jets of smoke burst from cannons below the stage, igniting the crowd into a dancing frenzy.

Among the most popular DJs in the world, the Dutch superstar is one of a handful of DJs who pulls down a rockstar-size salary jetting across the globe to cash in on electronic dance music’s rocket ride from underground movement to red-hot mainstream commodity. Tiesto spends more than 200 days a year on tour, flying from London to Bangkok to Los Angeles — typically somewhere new every day.

The U.K.-based dance music magazine Mixmag in February voted him the greatest DJ of all time. His Kaleidoscope World Tour last year, with 175 dates on six continents, raked in more than $28 million, ranking it among the top 25 highest-grossing tours of 2010, according to Billboard magazine.

The migration of electronic dance music’s popularity from Europe to the United States in the last three years has fueled the trend in superstar DJs. Today, DJs such as Tiesto, David Guetta, Deadmau5 and Armin Van Buuren play stages and stadiums as big as any occupied by Lady Gaga, Arcade Fire or Britney Spears.

The week before last, in a milestone for the rise of electronic music, Swedish House Mafia sold out Madison Square Garden in nine minutes, and that was just a presale geared mostly to its Facebook fans. It will be the first dance music act to headline the historic venue when it takes the stage in December.

“Dance music has hit the spot in America and that’s amazing news,” says Steve Angello, one of three DJs in Swedish House Mafia. “It came out to the masses maybe three years ago. Pop artists and R&B artists started to look into dance music. A lot of people say it’s gone commercial now, but the fact is that it’s good for the scene.”

Though the salaries of these globetrotting DJs are tightly guarded secrets, they are estimated in the tens of millions of dollars a year. Tiesto, for one, owns his own jet, and houses in Sweden and Ibiza, although at the moment he calls Los Angeles’ Chateau

Marmont home.

The average price of a ticket to a Tiesto show is $58.10, compared with $50.21 for Bob Dylan and $37.04 to see Snoop Dogg, according to Pollstar, a trade publication for the concert industry.

“It’s an insane life,” Tiesto says with a thick accent. “How did this happen? I was a small DJ playing to 100 people at a club in Holland. Ten years later, I’m playing in stadiums and arenas.”

Over the last several years the global electronic music touring market has grown into a billion-dollar industry, based on the sale of tickets to clubs, concerts and private events for both rock star DJs and smaller “bedroom DJs,” according to Joel Zimmerman, head of the electronic music division at William Morris Endeavor agency.

The explosive growth is directly related to the rise of social media and the Internet, according to dance music lovers and the DJs themselves. These digital tools have taken the tastemaking power away from major labels and mass media and placed it squarely in the hands _ and laptops and phones _ of music fans. Their power was on display this July, when DJ Kaskade tweeted to his 40,000 U.S. followers that he would play a free set on Hollywood Boulevard before the premiere of a rave film. The concert was canceled when thousands of fans swarmed the street, inciting a near riot and a police response. The following month Kaskade’s new album, “Dynasty,” opened at No. 5 on iTunes Album Chart, which includes all categories of music.

At the same time, personal computers have democratized the process for creating electronic music. Ten years ago, you needed a big budget and a major studio to make chart-topping hits. Today you need a basic computer and a $200 download of FL Studio, a popular digital audio workstation.

Coldplay, Rihanna and Usher are on a growing list of big-name musicians who have collaborated with DJs on songs and remixes recently.

Dance music has long enjoyed widespread adulation in Europe. The Spanish island of Ibiza is considered the dance music capital of the world since the genre experienced its first burst of popularity in the late 1980s.

But it was only a few years ago that North and South America became huge emerging markets. On his current tour Tiesto played for 35,000 fans in Mexico City and says Mexico is probably the See TIESTO, Page 6

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At the core of the movement are the young fans, particularly between the ages of 16 and 21, who have grown up on dance music thanks to the doors opened and barriers broken by DJ-producers like Tiesto, who at 42, has been DJing for more than half his life.

netic hours.

Tall and handsome, with tanned skin, short-cropped brownish-blond hair and a broad smile, Tiesto is wearing teal track pants, a white T-shirt, flip-flops and a Texas Longhorns cap. The hat is a testament to his recent obsession with football. He is in a fantasy football league, although he doesn’t have much time to manage his team and it loses most of the time.

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“Nobody can compete with Tiesto. He’s done more things in the DJ world than anybody else,” says Swedish House Mafia’s Angello, 28. “He was the first DJ to do the arena shows, I mean he played the opening ceremony of the Olympics.”

That was in the summer of 2004 in Athens; Tiesto is in talks to DJ the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

“That would be huge, even bigger than the Olympics,” says Tiesto, sitting with his road manager Kelly Cobb and a few friends over a lunch in San Diego before the Oct. 2 show, which started at 11 p.m. and lasted more than two fre-

That doesn’t bother Tiesto, who at the moment is focused on that night’s show. After lunch, he goes back to his room at the Hard Rock Hotel, takes a power nap and works on music for an hour or two.

That’s usually his routine on the road.

If he ever gets a long enough break from his relentless touring schedule, Tiesto says he would like a buy a proper home in a single city and outfit it with his 18,000 records, laptop and DJ booth.

“I’m going to make one room that’s just the Tiesto room,” he says, laughing. “That’s my dream to have my own club in my own house.”

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MOVIE REVIEW

‘Free Ride’ spotlights a single mom survivor

By Wade Tatangelo McClatchy-Tribune SARASOTA, F la. — The independent film “Free Ride,” starring Anna Paquin and Drea de Matteo, takes place in late 1970s Florida. After fleeing an abusive relationship, Mom turns to the marijuana trade to support her daughters, ages 15 and 7. It’s based on the real-life story of writer/director Shana Sosin, the youngest of the siblings.

Paquin plays Sosin’s mother Christina. At age 11, Paquin won the Academy Award in 1994 for Best Supporting Actress in “The Piano.” In 2009, she won a Golden Globe for playing Sookie Stackhouse on the HBO television drama “True Blood.”

“My mother was a very vibrant character and very good at surviving,” Sosin said while location scouting filming locations in Sarasota.

“There’s something very raw and real about Anna’s performance and person; she’s retained that rawness my mother had.”

De Matteo, who won a 2004 Emmy Award for playing Adriana La Cerva on “The Sopranos,” has been cast as Sandy in “Free Ride.”

“She’s the one who gets my mom into the marijuana trade,” Sosin said.

Liana Liberato, best known

for her work in the 2010 Clive Owen movie “Trust,” plays the writer/director’s older sister.

“This movie is about a single mother who’s uneducated and doing the best she can and she’s not your typical drug dealer,” Sosin said. “It’s also my homage to the end of innocence in America as well as a love letter to my sister and my mother.”

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he crew will be using facilities provided by the Saratosa Film Festival.”

In addition to the stars, the filmmaker wants locals in “Free Ride.” “We’re looking for people who are rough around the edges with long hair, very tan locals,” she said.

“The kind of guys who would work fishing boats and bikers with handlebar mustaches.”

The crew is also seeking boats, cars and homes to use in the movie.

“As a small budget film we’re so dependent on the kindness of the community,” said Wendy Williams, line producer on the picture. “We’re looking for period boats and

cars of the early to late 1970s and period home from the late 1970s that have not been updated.”

“Free Ride” marks the first full-length movie featuring major stars for Sosin.

She comes out of the acclaimed, Los Angeles-based experimental theater troupe “The Actors’ Gang,” cofounded by Tim Robbins. Her filmmaking credits include the 2010 shor t film “T he Convention of Dying.”

As an actor, she has appeared in numerous films as well as the television series “Cold Case.”

“I come out of the theater and I’m a strong supporter of theater and community theater,” Sosin said. “And the community theater that exists here is great.”

“Free Ride” is being prod u c e d by S u s a n D y n n e r, whose credits include co-producer on the 2005 Sundance Special Jury Prize winner film “Brick.” The crew will be using facilities provided by the Sarasota Film Festival.

“Shana and her crew are exactly the kind of talented, creative people we want to work in this area,” said Mark Famiglio, executive director of Sarasota Film Festival.

“They represent the new wave of independent filmmaking and exceptional storytelling.”

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2011 recruiting class is already paying dividends

By Tim Salazar The Collegian The 2011 version of the Fresno State football team has had its share of injuries paving the way for younger players to step up.

Defensive end Donavon Lewis and fullback Malique Micenheimer are from the most recent recruiting class and have made an impact in their first seasons wearing Bulldog red.

Both players have shown glimpses of the potential that head coach Pat Hill saw in them during offseason recruiting.

Lewis was recruited out of Clovis West High School and is following in the footsteps of his older brother Chris Lewis, who missed playing with his brother by one season as he graduated in May. Lewis has collected 1.5 sacks and 2.5 tackles for loss on the season.

He recorded the first sack of his young collegiate career during the season opener against California.

“There’s no fear in him,” defensive line coach Will Plemons said. “He’s not overwhelmed by who we play.”

With the Clovis West High School graduate on the field, the defense will look to put more pressure on the opposing quarterbacks. The Bulldogs’

defense has combined for just eight sacks on the year and has also given up the 96th-most rushing yards this season.

“I’ve seen a lot of production in him at such an early time,” Plemons said.

“We didn’t see the point in redshirting him because he’s ready to go.”

Micenheimer was on the defensive side of the ball with Lewis when he first arrived at Fresno State during fall camp, but was moved to fullback after junior Tapa Taumopeau suffered a season-ending knee injury.

The McNair High School graduate is used to playing multiple positions since he played linebacker, tight end and fullback in high school. With this jack-of-all-trades from the 2011 recruiting class on the roster, running backs coach Joe Wade sees how Micenheimer can help the team.

“There are a lot of similarities between linebacker and fullback so it’s a natural transition for him,” Wade said The starter at the fullback position throughout the season has been senior Austin Raphael, who himself made the switch from the linebacker position earlier in his Bulldog career.

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kidney, the door has opened for Micenheimer. He will make the first start of his career against Utah State on Saturday and will have to be a key part of the Bulldogs’ rushing attack that has averaged 131.8 yards a game.

In Bulldogs’ offense, the fullback plays such an important role because it opens up running lanes for running back Robbie Rouse. Micenheimer will have to help Rouse get back to performances he had earlier in the season

when he posted four consecutives games of over the century mark.

“I think Malique [Micenheimer] is the best person for the job right now,” Wade said before Tuesday’s practice.

“I have a lot of confidence in how he’s going to play on Saturday. I expect him to play real well.”