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FRIDAY Issue SEPTEMBER 14, 2012 FRESNO STATE
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Despite miscount, ASI votes in favor of Prop. 30 By Mark Smith The Collegian Many Fresno State student government senators left the Associated Students, Inc. meeting Wednesday believing that a resolution in suppor t of Proposition 30 had failed to pass. However, after a recount, it was discovered that one senator, Anthony Guzman, who was absent for the vote, had been counted as voting “no.” After correcting the mistake, the final tally stood 7-6 in favor
of the resolution. As a result Fresno State’s ASI, and the student body it represents, now officially support Proposition 30. Resolutions are a statement of ASI’s official support on certain subjects, said vice president of external affairs Sean Kiernan said. “Proposition 30 passing is obviously quite directly in the interest of CSU students,” Kiernan said. “The problem with the CSU for this is that the state budget is written assuming it will pass so if it
fails several trigger cuts will be enacted, one of which is a quarter-billion dollar cut to the CSU system.” Kiernan said that while traditionally ASI did not take positions on ballot initiatives such as Proposition 30, the direct effect the proposition would have on the CSU system should it fail necessitated ASI involvement. Proposition 30, which will face voter approval in November, would increase the income tax on those making over $250,000 a year by one
to three percent. It would also increase the state sales tax rate by a quarter of a percent. Kiernan said should the proposition fail, the CSU system would face what he described as a “financial earthquake.” Kiernan, who was vocal in his support of the resolution, said $20 million of that $250 million cut would be absorbed by Fresno State. Proposed plans to of fset those potential cuts include a $150 increase to tuition and a 6,000-student reduction in See ASI, Page 3
US vows ‘justice’ for consulate attack in Libya
Foster Farms sponsors new poultry facility By Rogue Morales The Collegian
By Ned Parker and Shashank Bengali The McClatchy Tribune CAIRO — The attack on a U.S. diplomatic post in eastern Libya that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans was carried out by a small group of militants who arrived late at night, unleashed a fusillade from AK-47 rifles and rocket-propelled grenades, then torched and ransacked the building, according to witnesses and U.S. officials. U.S. officials said the two-hour assault on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi appeared planned and “complex,” rather than a spontaneous outbreak of mob violence in reaction to an online video, purportedly produced in the United States, that mocks the Muslim Prophet Muhammad. The video had prompted protesters to scale the U.S. Embassy walls in Cairo earlier Tuesday and tear down an American flag. President Barack Obama vowed to work with Libyan officials “to bring to justice the killers,” and ordered security beefed up at U.S. diplomatic missions around the world. The Pentagon sent about 50 Marines from Spain to help guard the embassy in Tripoli, the Libyan capital. The Pentagon is also moving two warships toward the See LIBYA, Page 3
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During suicide prevention week, Carolyn Brown, mother of suicide victim Kari Jorgensen, thanks the crowd for their attendance to hear Jorgensen’s story.
Suicide victim’s mother speaks out By Haley Lambert The Collegian
McClatchy Tribune
President Barack Obama delivers remarks beside Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, left, on the killing of US ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens.
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Sean Kiernan, Vice President of External Affairs
Kari Jorgensen broke numerous records wearing a Fresno State basketball jersey. She fulfilled her dream of playing basketball with a full-ride scholarship at an NCAA Division One school. She overcame dyslexia. She wanted to teach and coach basketball. This young woman’s life was cut short when she committed suicide in January of 1996. Carolyn Brown, Jorgensen’s mother, spoke at Fresno State Thursday afternoon in a workshop coordinated by the
newly established Suicide Prevention Program. She describes the night she found her daughter with descriptive images: dark January sky, damp ground and cold air. Music blaring from a stereo, the telephone, a wine bottle and glass. “Kari had so many of the signs and symptoms,” Brown said. In hindsight she sees the signs leading up to her daughter’s suicide: a sense of restlessness, taking risks like walking home at night through neighborhoods thought to be dangerous. Kari’s See MOTHER, Page 4
The Fresno State Animal Sciences and Agricultural Education Department is acquiring a new Foster Farms Poultry Education and Research Facility, which is scheduled to open spring of 2013. The tunnel-ventilated broiler house will be 16,000 square-feet and house an eco-friendly research and training center that will function as a professional poultry production facility. The center is made possible by a gift given to Fresno State by Foster Farms, which also contributes to the engineering, design and construction as well as providing ongoing program support. “With state support dwindling, this is an example of an industry stepping forward and helping us meet the needs, current and future, of our student body for training in the industry,” said Dr. Art Parham, chair of the Animal Sciences and Agricultural Education Department. The facility will have advanced temperature control, monitoring systems and ultra-efficient LED lighting. The unit will take approximately four to six months to complete, Parham said. The foundation has been poured and construction of the building is scheduled to begin the Sept. 24. Parham and his colleague Michelle Ganci, a poultry professor at Fresno S t a t e, w e r e a p p r o a c h e d by t h e California Poultry Federation, expressing its wish to see more students graduate with experience in the poultry industry. Foster Farms took on the project and will provide the funds for the facility, student labor, faculty supervision and any other expense that may arise. “They are basically paying all the costs that goes into running this facility,” Parham said. The poultry facility, which will be supervised by Ganci, is set to have six flocks a year— approximately 20,000 chickens. Of these, 1,200 birds will be set aside to sell at the Fresno State Farm Market. The facility will provide broiler chickens. There will not be an egg— laying hen facility at this time, though Ganci would like to see one installed. The facility will give students an See POULTRY, Page 3