The Collegian Arts & Entertainment Sports Hockey club team paves The Collegian reviews their own way, John Mayer's new Page 7 album, Page 4 Fresno State | Serving the campus since 1922 December 4, 2009 | Friday collegian.csufresno.edu Kremen gets Up close and donation from retiree’s estate personal By Collegian Staff Marina Gaytan / The Collegian A retired professor’s estate Welty gives exclusive, candid interview set up a trust of $875,000 in October to benefit California Provost State University, Fresno fac- ulty. M a x i m a D a n d o y holds willed the endow- ment to the K r e m e n forum School of E d u c at i o n By Kristin Berquist & H u m a n The Collegian Photo courtesy of Fresno Development. State News A wide range of faculty The proceeds can be used as questions and student con- early as next October. They cerns were addressed at the will go to funding the Dandoy Provost’s Forum Wednesday Center, which supports faculty afternoon. research, development, leader- The provost and vice pres- ship and travel. ident for academic affairs Dr. Paul Beare, the dean of the William A. Covino, Ph.D. Kremen School of Education spoke to over 100 people & Human Development, said in attendance. The forum that a committee would decide began with Covino provid- how the money would be used. ing informational updates He said that it is rare for the and answering questions department to be able to use submitted in advance. The meeting, which stretched See DANDOY, Page 6 for one and a half hours, ended with an open forum for questions from faculty Matt Weir / The Collegian and students. Covino offered brief Sculptor dies, details about a student suc- tating that California State University, Fresno’s Master Plan is on life support, university cess task force currently president John D. Welty on Wednesday offered his perspective on recent actions that have working on an initial plan Staken place on campus as well as the fiscal turmoil that has befallen the CSU system. leaves legacy to launch a series of activi- In recent months the university has seen a 32 percent fee increase, deep cuts to class sec- ties that will encourage tions, furloughs and layoffs. In response, students have taken to staging protests and conducting students to attend and be town hall meetings. At the center of it all is President Welty. of work at successful in their courses. The Collegian had the chance to sit down with Welty for a wide-ranging interview He stressed the importance regarding the current state of affairs at Fresno State. Welty spoke candidly about the role state of a system-wide effort for legislature has played in shaping the current budget for the CSU system, student’s perception Fresno State improving graduation rates of him and the future of the university. Here is a look at highlights from Welty’s exclusive inter- and student success. view with The Collegian: “I will tell you that my overarching priority is stu- dent success. This is the mantra that you’re going to Image Sacrifice Funding hear from me over and over and over again,” Covino said. “I think that our Welty on public On relinquishing On funding for longer-term strategic plan and academic plan needs to salary and home: reference student success perception: Fresno State: at every turn. And that’s where our focus needs to understand that people f I thought giving up his coming year, legis- continue to be.” re frustrated and an- my salary and living lative analyst are pro- Photo courtesy of Fresno State News In terms of faculty hires, “I “I “T Covino said that Fresno gry. Usually when there’s in a tent would solve this jecting a $21 billion deficit By Collegian Staff State is only doing five or six someone that’s the head of problem I’d do it today. But again. That’s not good news. faculty searches this year, an organization that’s who the fact of the matter is that That means the legislature is The sculptor of prominently down drastically from past you blame. The fact of the it is not going to solve the going to have to make some displayed art on the California years. The provost intro- matter is, we’re faced with problem. It is so large that extremely difficult choices to State University, Fresno cam- duced the concept of cohort a difficult state economy, a cutting administrative salary build a budget. I think it’s pus died on Tuesday, Dec. 1, in hiring, explaining that the Fresno. university might advertise legislature that has failed to and these things is not going critical that the state have Clement Renzi, who suc- for positions that not only make decisions in a timely to solve the fundamental the debate about key policy cumbed to cancer at the age of meet the core needs of a manner to deal with this problem we’re faced with.” issues and make some 84, has work on exhibit in pub- department, but also share dramatic economic down- structural changes in order lic places around the country. a common interest to work turn.” to get stability.” He had sculpted from his back- with colleagues in other yard studio in Fresno since departments on educational the 1960s. or research projects. Three One of his two sculptures faculty members asked for VIDEO: To see the entire inter- on campus, “The Three clarification about this pro- view with President Welty, visit. Graces,” can be seen outside C http://collegian.csufresno.edu See FORUM, Page 6 See RENZI, Page 6 The Collegian That’s What the People Are Saying On his birth was conceived by Gloria Carter and “ I Adaness Reeves who made love under the sycamore tree, which makes me." OpinionOpinionPage 2 Opinion Editor, Haisten Willis • [email protected] • Friday, December 4, 2009 — Jay-Z, December 4th TIGER -SPE @K The worst of TIME’s? Culled each week from discussions on The Collegian Online. IME magazine, the rag that Deferral of responsibility: “Our declared “YOU” the person of power grid needs an upgrade and our T the year in 2007, has made a bridges are falling down because we similar hyperbolic declaration in its have not mustered the political and Be sure to read the most recent cover story. It is entitled, popular willpower to fix them.” print edition of The “The ‘00s: Goodbye (at Last) to the Let’s eradicate sin to make the next Collegian next Friday Decade From Hell.” decade a better one! Come on everyone, for featured comments. To make their case, TIME trots out let’s all chip in! the same sad story we’ve all heard The Right Tone This smacks of the same utopian before: the 2000 presidential election, TONY PE T ERSEN fantasies that tyrants have always 9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq, Katrina, used to fool the people. Welcome to a special edition of Web the financial crisis, Bernie Madoff, The world will never be perfect. Speak. Here, in the midst of perhaps Guantanamo Bay. All this qualifies down a bit. People make mistakes. Man is sinful. the biggest celebrity scandal since The piece gives four reasons for this this decade as the “worst.” This will never change. Saying neglect, Bill Clinton, we bring you a new Web Pardon my cynicism, but mightn’t decade’s crappiness. greed, self-interest and deferral of Neglect: “Our inward-looking cul- phenomenon which is all the rage: this have a wee bit to do with TIME’s responsibility caused the awful things TIger Woods jokes! dwindling readership? ture didn’t heed the warning signs that happened this decade is akin to Was this decade really the worst? from around the world — and from saying that a man cheated on his wife Worse than the ‘60s, when because he lusted after the other race riots ran rampant, pro- woman. Gee, thanks for that info miscuous sex and unlimited Sherlock Holmes! drug use became accepted and aying neglect, greed, self-interest and Our problems won’t be solved Vietnam eroded our national deferral of responsibility caused the if we “avoid the easy outs of “I heard Tiger Woods is changing confidence? “S deferral and neglect,” as the his name from Tiger to Cheetah.” Worse than the ‘40s, when awful things that happened this decade piece says (as if we ever could). World War II ravaged all of is akin to saying that a man cheated on Lamenting scandals like Bernie “Tiger Woods owns lots of expen- Europe, where roughly 60 mil- his wife because he lusted after the other Madoff’s Ponzi scheme will sive cars. Now he has a hole in one.” lion soldiers and civilians per- result in nothing so long as ished, 12 million died in Nazi woman. Gee, thanks for that info Sherlock the U.S. Federal Government “What were Tiger Woods and his death camps, an atomic bomb Holmes!” remains the largest Ponzi wife doing out at 2:30 in the morn- nearly destroyed an entire scheme ever conceived by man. ing? They went clubbing.” country, and death, as Joseph Pointing out that we are still Stalin said, became a statistic? “the leaders in technological innova- “Tiger Woods crashed into a fire Worse than the ‘30s, when the devel- within our country — that Islamic ter- tion” does nothing so long as the prod- hydrant and a tree. He couldn’t oped world went through the worst rorism was heading for our shores.” ucts we innovate are produced else- decide between the wood or the economic crisis it had ever seen, where Greed: “Our absolute faith in the where and globalism is looked at as the iron.” unemployment in America reached 25 markets, fed by Wall Street, combined golden calf.