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Find us on Facebook Spring football up and running under new coach Tim DeRuyter SPORTS facebook.com/TheCollegianOnline Health Center to hold free screenings SCIENCE Middle East should take on more importance OPINION WEDNESDAY Issue MARCH 7, 2012 FRESNO STATE COLLEGIAN.CSUFRESNO.EDU SERVING CAMPUS SINCE 1922 Accountancy students may need to The green relocate for map shows the per- centage of companies that are hir- work ing by region. In the light green box the numbers show the percentage of the By Stephen Keleher In the United States, there are three most inter- The Collegian four public accounting firms: ested employers for PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte accounting majors that are hiring. Accountancy majors at the Craig touché Tohmatsu, Ernst & Young and Infographic by Dalton Runberg / The Collegian School of Business may find they have KPMG. The Big Four recruit Fresno broad work options upon graduation, State students for summer work in the Bay Area between their junior and a t but it could mean they’ll need to relo- Young senior year, however students have to the Craig school. cate. believes that a graduate who wants to be willing to move. But job prospects for accounting Those who don’t choose to go into the relocate to the Bay Area or Southern “Ninety-five percent of those stu- majors in the Valley are more difficult. public accounting side of accountancy California could find an entry-level dents who do a summer internship get “It depends on how hard the student may need to receive database and soft- position relatively easily. ware training in order to get that first a job offer after graduation from the is willing to work to get hired,” Young job. Big Four,” said Debbie Young, director said. “It takes six to eight months to get of internships and student experience hired in this market for a graduate.” See MAJOR, Page 3 Thousands of students protest at Capitol Students from the CSU and UC systems marched to the Calif. Capitol to protest budget cuts By Steven Harmon and Matt Krupnick corridors and held steady into the eve- Lawmakers and the governor need spread anger throughout the state. McClatchy-Tribune ning as California Highway Patrol offi- to prioritize education in the state Undergraduate tuition in the 23-cam- cers warned they’d be arrested if they budget, said Assemblywoman Kristin pus Cal State campus was just $1,572 Thousands of sign-toting college didn’t leave. At 7 p.m., officers waited Olsen, R-Modesto. a year in 2002-03. This year’s tuition is students flocked to the state Capitol out about 100 protesters who refused to “It’s clearly a problem, and it’s a $5,472. Tuition at the 10-campus UC sys- on Monday to protest rising college leave the rotunda. problem that’s been brewing for some tem also has more than tripled — from prices and escalating higher-education “The point is to make links and time,” said Olsen, vice chairwoman $3,121 to $11,160 — during that time. cuts and then filed into the building see where people can get together of the Assembly Higher Education Deep budget cuts at the universities to chant in the halls and occupy the and where we have a common goal,” Committee. “The state hasn’t invested and community colleges also have hin- rotunda into the evening. University of California, Berkeley stu- properly in higher education for many dered students’ abilities to get required “You’ll hear us out or we’ll vote you dent Sally Diaz said outside the build- years.” classes. out,” demonstrators shouted as they ing. “This crowd shows that people are A combination of rising tuition at “I know so many people who aren’t joined professors, administrators and starting to notice the cuts and are not California universities and a short- other higher-education supporters going to go away.” age of student aid has led to wide- See PROTEST, Page 3 on the Capitol’s west lawn. They later The rally came the same day as a Bay filed slowly into the building, passing Area News Group report revealed the single-file through metal detectors, to cost of attending a California State bring their message closer to lawmak- University or University of California ers. campus had surpassed that of top pri- Students from public colleges and vate schools such as Harvard for mid- universities around the state boarded dle-income students. early morning buses and then marched The report caught some legisla- the final mile to the rally, the second tors by surprise, including state Sen. year of the “March in March” event Leland Yee, D-San Francisco. — a continuing reminder of the state’s “It is a little embarrassing that struggles to corral the runaway costs Harvard is cheaper than the California of its once-prized higher education State University,” he said in an inter- system. view. “When you price out so many stu- The morning rally was followed by dents, it is devastating to the future of an Occupy demonstration inside the the state. Our sons and daughters won’t Capitol, where protesters shut down be here to solve the state’s problems.” t is a little embarrassing that Harvard is cheaper than the Califor- “Inia State University.” — Leland Yee, Senator D-San Francisco Randy Pench/ McClatchy-Tribune Thousands of students converged on Sacramento, California on Monday to protest budget cuts and fee hikes for higher education. The Collegian THE REAL WORD OF THE DAY propitiate (verb) To appease, conciliate. Opinion Source: The Lexicon by William F. Buckley Jr. PAGE 2 OPINION EDITOR, TONY PETERSEN • [email protected] WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 2012 Middle East is most important issue hile the media badger can- a nuclear weapon. And as I’ve made didates with questions on clear time and again during the course W contraception, birth control of my presidency, I will not hesitate and the harsh opinions of a talk-radio to use force when it is necessary to merican power is waning. Troops are stretched thin, the people provocateur, the Middle East is looking defend the United States and its inter- are war weary and the country cannot finance another war. But like it will be the most important issue ests.” “A of the next presidential term of who- It is not yet known what type of gov- please, Mr. Candidate, tell us more of your thoughts on sex.” ever is elected. ernment will emerge in both Libya and Iran continues to be a thorn in the Egypt, but if the countries acquiesce side of the United States. Though to calls for democracy, it seems likely American intel- that they will become Islamic repub- deaths. Syria and Lebanon. They might be ligence agencies lics. Aside from the humanitarian car- attempting to make nuclear weapons, have found no Indeed, Washington policymakers nage, Syria is the ally of Iran, the but what matters more is the percep- evidence that are cozying up to the idea. Senators sworn enemy of the United States tion that they are. Iran is pursuing John McCain and Lindsey Graham, and Israel, and supports the terrorist Israel is feeling threatened at all nuclear weapon after visiting Egypt, even praised the group Hezbollah in Lebanon. sides. Republican presidential can- capabilities, Muslim Brotherhood. For all of these reasons, McCain has didates Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum this intelligence “I was very apprehensive when I called for an invasion of Syria. and Newt Gingrich are all calling for is belied by heard the election results,” Graham “The United States should lead an a more belligerent policy toward Iran. the actions of said. “But after visiting and talking international effort to protect key Radical Islamist groups are gaining all the Israeli and with the Muslim Brotherhood I am population centers in Syria, especially around the region, to the detriment of American gov- hopeful that … we can have a relation- in the north, through airstrikes on American interests. ernments. The ship with Egypt where the Muslim The Right Tone Assad’s forces,” McCain said on the American power is waning. Troops ONY ETERSEN assassinations Brotherhood is a strong political T P Senate floor on Monday. are stretched thin, the people are war of Iranian scien- voice.” Yet, should the United States invade weary and the country cannot finance tists connected This is the same Muslim Syria and topple the Assad regime, another war. to Iran’s nuclear facilities are widely Brotherhood that has threatened, as the type of government that emerged But please, Mr. Candidate, tell us suspected to have been carried out by late as mid-February, to review the could not be guaranteed. It is not more of your thoughts on sex. Mossad, Israel’s equivalent of the CIA. Camp David accords, which estab- known whether American interven- And President Barack Obama lished peaceful relations between tion would nudge Syria in the West’s Tony Petersen is the opinion editor of refuses to take the option of a military Egypt and Israel. direction. Indeed, wherever some form The Collegian. Follow him on Twitter strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities off The situation in Syria continues to of voting has been introduced in the @tonypetersen4. the table. escalate. President Bashar al-Assad Middle East, be it in Iran, Iraq, Egypt “I do not have a policy of contain- has shown himself to be a barbarous or Palestine, Islamic parties, not liber- ment,” Obama said over the weekend dictator. According to the United al parties, have been the beneficiaries. in an address to the American Israel Nations, his efforts to quell the mas- COMMENT: The Collegian is a The stakes are high.

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