15 Daylight Saving Time facts that won’t put you to sleep OPINION KI-KI MOORE CALLS IT QUITS Drag queens The Kinsey Sicks put on crazy and crude show CULTURE The Bulldogs’ leading scorer choses to forgo final season due to lingering pains Men’s basketball gets late-season wins to nab No. 7 seed SPORTS MONDAY Issue MARCH 11, 2013 FRESNO STATE COLLEGIAN.CSUFRESNO.EDU SERVING CAMPUS SINCE 1922 Revitalization works with El Dorado youth By Elly A. Walker With the support of ASI children to engage with college Special to The Collegian and the Every Neighborhood students through sports, crafts, Partnership, El Dorado Park is games and a positive character Gangs, drugs, vandalism now home to a Saturday Sports talk,” said Roberto Munoz, stu- and robbery are some of the program. dent coordinator of El Dorado unwanted activities in the com- This program encourages Saturday Sports. “It gives the munity around Fresno State. Fresno State students to play children something to do on However, Associated Students, sports and make crafts with the weekend and helps keep Inc. (ASI) is determined to children from the neighbor- them out of trouble. make a stand for revitalization. hoods around Fresno State and In addition to Saturday In the summer of 2011, El Dorado Park. It aims to give Sports, Fresno State students ASI created Community these children a safe, produc- have paired with Community Revitalization. Its mission is tive weekend activity in the Revitalization to volunteer at Photo Courtesy of Melissa Ellis to empower Fresno State stu- midst of the neighborhood’s Basecamp — a weekly commu- Students participate in a Greek Clean Up Day. This is one of the events spon- dents to help make a difference many crime problems. sored by the Community Revitalization, started by Fresno State ASI in 2011. in the area around the campus. “Saturday Sports allows the See YOUTH, Page 3 a ‘peak’ of the Dust tunnel machine key Sierra Nevada to pollution research By Kimberly Wheeler Special to The Collegian Professors and students at Fresno State are creating a dust tunnel device to research whether mist can reduce harmful particles in the air. Studies show the smaller the particle is, the more likely it is to enter the body and cause damage to the lungs or heart. Fresno State professors Athanasios Alexandrou , Diganta Adhikari and Patrick Barnes plan to test microscopic dust particles to see if mist will have any effect on how far these particles can travel. “Particulate matter is small par- ticles that are what we call dust,” Alexandrou said. Research shows that when humans Dalton Runberg / The Collegian Following a weekend of rainy and cloudy weather, the Sierra Nevada mountains peeked out on Sunday and were visible from campus, especially See TUNNEL, Page 3 from across the Fresno State vineyards on Bullard and Cedar avenues. The silent fall of the Fresno State Amphitheater By Cameron Woolsey in the fall of 1975. The Collegian “There were not a lot of shows in Fresno,” Rush said. “There wasn’t even There was an amphitheater at a place to rent sound or light equip- Fresno State once. It was a place where ment. There was nothing going on in thousands of people gathered and lis- this town show-wise.” tened to music, comedians or just found Rush, who now owns the entertain- ways to have fun. ment lighting company Live Light in The space that’s called the Fresno, and CUSS worked to fill that Amphitheater still exists, but it hasn’t empty air space with sound and even- been used for a long time. The reason tually set their sights on the amphithe- stems from financial issues, as well as ater. the Save Mart Center, which drew away At the time it was a banged-up stage much of the amphitheater’s crowds. of rotten plywood with no roof or Back in the mid-1970s, it was the goal power. of a group of enterprising men that “It was about three feet tall and rick- organized into the College Union Sound ety beyond all belief,” Rush said. System, also known as CUSS, to work The group cobbled together funding together to bring shows to Fresno State. to get the amphitheater updated into a The music scene at the school and venue where promoters felt comfort- in Fresno in general was dishearten- able bringing Hootie and the Blowfish, Roe Borunda / The Collegian ing to Reggie Rush, a CUSS member The Go-Go’s and others. and student from Riverside in Southern Though no longer officially used by the university, the stage of the Fresno State Amphitheater is California, who arrived at Fresno State See SILENT, Page 4 still used by student groups and various clubs to practice for upcoming events. The Collegian GOT OPINIONS? We want to hear them. Opinion [email protected] PAGE 2 OPINION EDITOR, LIANA WHITEHEAD • [email protected] MONDAY, MARCH 11, 2013 U.S. COLLEGES JOIN Daylight Saving Time 101 By Liana Whitehead 'DREAM' CHALLENGE Opinion Editor “The Dream is Now” campaign immigration system. Rise and shine, fellow sleep- Arizona) never change their clocks announced a contest Tuesday challeng- "I have been moved by the stories I've deprived students – happy Daylight because of their climates and amount ing college students to sign an online seen in making this movie and believe Saving Time. The impending day of of sunshine and heat. petition and submit art — including that a documentary can change poli- doom has passed, leaving us in zom- videos, songs, drawings and poems — tics, but it takes people on the ground to bie mode for the next week, or until 8. Driving across a certain 100-mile stating their support for immigration demand real change. our brains and bodies adjust and we stretch in Arizona (including Hopi reform that includes principles of the "This is a huge moment. Now it is feel human again. reservation and the Navaho Nation) Dream Act. time for all of us to come together and The want and need for DST is wide- will take you through seven different The contest runs through April 5, make sure Congress takes the right ly debated. While one side claims clock changes. with the University that gets the most steps to fix this problem. We need to that changing our clocks makes sum- students to sign the petition winning a show them the urgency and by creating mer days longer and more fulfilling, 9. With the loss of sleep, an increase special screening of the Dream is Now energy on campus, college students can the opposing side worries that our in heart attacks is seen during the documentary on campus. play a key role.” already sleepless nation will suffer first week of DST. The rate of heart In addition, the students respon- President of Miami Dade College, further consequences. attacks reduces when ‘Standard sible for gathering the most signatures Eduardo J. Padrón, added, What we can’t argue with are the Time’ comes around again. in four regions around the country “Some people say that immigration facts. In the spirit of everybody’s will earn an all expense paid trip to reform is complicated. When it comes favorite controversial time phenom- 10. Getting out in the sun as quickly Washington, DC, for the official pre- to the Dream Act, it is not rocket sci- ena, here are some odds and ends as possible helps reset the body clock, miere of the Dream is Now documen- ence. Do we want to take advantage of about “time change.” says Karin Mahoney, spokeswoman tary. To learn more about the contest, the extraordinary wealth of talent in for the Better Sleep Council. visit www.thedreamisnow.org. this nation or waste it? 1. New Zealand insect-lover and The Dream is Now is a partner- "At Miami Dade, I've seen first-hand astronomer George Vernon Hudson 11. Kazakhstan abolished DST in 2005 ship formed by filmmaker Davis the incredible potential that undocu- suggested the concept of DST in a let- due to its negative health effects. Guggenheim and Emerson Collective mented students have to contribute to ter to the Wellington Philosophical to provide supporters of immigration the economy and make our communi- Society in the 1898 so that he could 12. This year, Daylight Saving Time reform with a platform to voice their ties better places. collect insects in daylight after his in the United States began at 2:00 a.m. support for an earned path to citizen- "Our country cannot afford to waste shift-work — and it worked. on Sunday, March 10 and ends at 2:00 ship for undocumented youth. one single talented person which is why a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 3. The campaign website allows indi- policymakers in Washington, DC need 2. The official name is Daylight viduals from around the country — to pass federal legislation that will once Saving Time, not Daylight Savings 13. The majority of the world does documented and undocumented alike and for all provide an earned path to Time. Most people do not drop the ‘s’ not participate in DST. — to tell their own stories in writing citizenship for undocumented youth. at the end. or through video and to sign a petition The energy of students on campus can 14. The further away a country is affirming their support for the princi- move mountains and I encourage stu- 3. The week before we “spring for- from the equator, the more likely it is ples of the Dream Act. dents nationwide to ensure that policy- ward” and lose an hour of sleep is, to observe DST.