1997_03 The Daily Collegian March 1997

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THE DAILY
COLLEGIAN
Thursday, March 20,1997
News
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Fresno State hosts high school Academic Decathlon
By Hakim Allen
The Daily collegian v
For the first time. Fresno State
and the Fresno Office of Education
have entered into a partnership to
produce an improved Academic
Decathlon for high school students.
The Decathlon for the schools in
the greater Fresno County area is
held on Fresno State's campus.
This year the School of Arts and
Humanities established an even
closer relationship in working
with students from Hoover High
School.
Baseball
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scored on Derek Feramisco's
single.
In the fourth. Pearse doubled
over the left fielders head to score
Jeff Prieto and Kevin Hook who
both had gotten on base with singles
to open the inning.
"Feramisco started it off [hitting]
and now we got a run going."
Pearse said. "Now it is pretty much
who is going to be the man to step
up next."
Another Bulldog who has
stepped up his batting of late is
freshman designated hitter Jeff
Prieto. He followed up his three-hit
attack Tuesday with another three-
hit game last night to raise his av¬
erage to a season high .300.
With the exception of one in¬
ning, the Bulldogs pitched a nearly
perfect game. Starter Kirk Griffin
shut the Cougars down on four hits
in seven innings. In the eighth.
Washington State got an infield hit,
a single to the outfield and a walk
to load the bases.
With no outs, Bennett decided
to bring in Casey Rowe. It looked
as if Rowe might get Fresno State
out of the inning unharmed when
Shell
he struck out the first batter.
However, the next batter, clean¬
up hitter Steve Curran, hit a high
fast ball on a 2-2 count, which
bounced off the scoreboard for a
grand slam that cut Fresno State's
lead to 6-4.
After the next batter flied out to
right, the Cougars got the tying run
aboard on a bunt single and an in¬
field hit. That brought up Casey
Kelley who promptly looked at
three straight strikes to strike out for
the sixth consecutive time in the
series.
After the Bulldogs rallied for
three runs in the bottom of the
eighth to build the lead back up to
9-4, Rowe struck out the side in the
ninth to finish the game.
'He [Griffin] did a good job,"
Bennett said. "He just got tired. I
should have taken him out one bat¬
ter earlier, but he had been pitching
so well."
The Bulldogs (19-12) will go to
Hawaii this weekend to play the
Rainbows in a three-game WAC se¬
ries. They will then face Hawaii-
Hilo on a Monday doubleheader.
The following weekend they will
visit TCU and their road trip will
conclude April 1 with a game at
Santa Clara.
The Bulldogs will be at home
April 4-6 when they face Rice.
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Before leaving to head the cam¬
pus police department at CSU,
Bakersfield in 1989. Shell worked
for the Kern County Sheriff's De¬
partment, where he became a
sheriff's commander.
Peach
Shell holds a bachelor's degree
in criminal justice from the univer¬
sity in 1978. and received a master's
degree in management from Cal
Poly, Pomona in 1992. In between
degrees, Shell also graduated from
the FBI National Academy in
Quantico, Virginia in 1982.
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tion, facial expressions, prepara¬
tion, meaning and emotion, and eye
contact.
The judges, speech communica¬
tion faculty and students, grade the
students on a scale ranging from
good to superior.
Diana Simpson, a teacher from
John C. Fremont Elementary
School in Corcoran, has brought
students to the Peach Blossom Fes¬
tival for the past 12 years.
Simpson said that the second
and third grade students selected
this year would be reciting poetry
in trio and duet groups.
"I've really enjoyed attending
this event," Simpson said. "The stu¬
dents are a little nervous, but they
enjoy it too."
Terry Juarez, from the Interna¬
tional Admissions office, joined in
the Peach Blossom festivites to
watch her son, Robert , and his
fourth grade class from Thomas
Elementary School perform the
play The Three Little Pigs."
'They've really been practicing
a lot," Juarez said. "But we're here
to have fun." '
Peach Blossom festivities have
been headquartered in front of the
Speech Arts Building.
The forensics team is selling t-
shirts. Several athletes have been
signing autographs for the event.
Sessions for today are scheduled
for 9:45 and 11 a.m. and 12:45 p.m.
"This year 42 students from
Hoover High participated and lis¬
tened to lectures given in the Arts,
Humanities and Linguistics," said
Judy Holtz from the Arts and hu¬
manities office.
According to Holtz, students
have to be able to compete at all 10
subjects including the main subject,
which switches from year to year.
"These students are very well
rounded," Holtz Said.
Last year the main subject was
political science and this year the
main subject was technology.
According to Holtz. the engi¬
neering department, allowed some
of the students from Hoover to sit
in on various lectures to prepare for
the topic this year.
In addition to the exposure to
college life, the partnership has al¬
lowed the students to earn between
two and four units of college credit.
This innovation was instrumented
through the leadership of Dean Luis
Costa and Associate Dean Vida
Samiian of the School of Arts and
Humanities.
Other features allow students to
hear lectures on campus, and will
provide $15,900 in savings bonds
awarded to the participating stu¬
dents.
The 15th Annual Fresno County
Academic Decathlon was held on
February 1. The event reached
record heights with 300 high school
students from the Fresno area par¬
ticipating.
The California Academic De¬
cathlon will be held sometime in
mid march in Pomona, where the
team from Edison High, who won
the county contest, will compete
with students from 42 California
counties.
It's Spring Break time in Daytona
By Gwyneth K. Shaw
Knight-Ridder
Tribune News Service
DAYTONA BEACH. Fla —
Just when residents thought it
was safe to return to Daytona
Beach, the young and the some¬
times crazy are headed their
way.
Welcome to Spring Break
'97, that annual celebration of
drunkenness and debauchery.
The kegs are iced, the shot
glasses are washed and the wel¬
come sign is lighted.
"We've got everything all set
up by the pool," said Emil
Shenoda, a reservations agent at
the Holiday Inn SunSpree resort,
one of the most popular crash
pads for Spring Breakers.
*"We're ready to go."
A throng of up to 200,000
college students will arrive dur¬
ing the next three weeks, many
looking to thaw out from a long
Northern winter and make sure
those memories are quickly blot¬
ted out by beer and sunburn.
While Panama City has over¬
taken Daytona as the Spring
Break capital of the Sunshine State
and Cancun, the Bahamas and Ja¬
maica are becoming more and more
popular destinations — students
looking for the quintessential Break
experience still choose Daytona.
"You've got a lot more history
there." said Robert Baranoski, a
sales manager for the Student
Travel Service, a company that
books vacations for students.
"Daytona's infamous for Spring
Break. It's a classic." he said. Still,
Baranoski said, STS now promotes
only two hotels in Daytona Beach,
compared with 10 in Panama City
and 30 in Cancun. Panama City
lured 500.000 bikini-clad and bi¬
kini-watching students last year.
"Over the last five years, we've
really had a lot more people mov¬
ing over to Panama City,"
Baranoski said. "The real word
we're getting from the kids is the
fact that they can drink on the beach
and that the clubs are open until 4
a.m."
Another reason is the cold shoul¬
der Daytona Beach has given
Breakers in recent years.
Since more than 500.000 stu¬
dents overran the town in 1989.
Daytona Beach officials have
tried to discourage the Spring
Break business, preferring to
concentrate on attracting fami¬
lies.
Slowly, that's changing back.
Mike Jiloty, president of
Jiloty Communications, the ad-
vertising firm that handles
spring break promotions for the
Daytona Beach Convention and
Visitors Bureau, said the budget
for this year was up almost
$30,000 compared with last
year.
Among the tamer offerings
this year i% a job fair March 20
and 21, allowing salt-streaked
students to drop off a stack of
resumes with corporate recruit¬
ers.
"I think the city and tourism
officials are much more com¬
fortable now than they were in
the late '80s." Jiloty said. "It's a
much more controlled event, and
the kids still have a great time.
We could probably handle more
kids than we are now, but the
"intent was to re-engineer the
event to make it a better fit with
the community."
Degree
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to Bradshaw.
She said three major criteria are
used to determine who will receive
the scholarships.
Judges will determine the degree
of "under representation" in a na¬
tional pool of doctoral recipients in
the applicant's proposed area of
study. African Americans. Latinos.
American Indians and students with
disabilities are under represented in
most disciplines, according to
Bradshaw. She said another ex¬
ample was males working as
nurses.
Bradshaw said nobody should
assume they would not qualify.
"We encourage all students to
apply," she said.
They will also be judged by po¬
tential for success in completing a
doctoral program, an<fthe probabil¬
ity of the student/faculty plan's ef¬
fectiveness.
All applicants must be upper di¬
vision or master's degree students
enrolled in a CSU institution. They
must also have a faculty sponsor
who will be available throughout
the duration of the plan.
About 300 applications will be
received. Out of those, five will be
awarded to Fresno State students.
Three will receive an honorable
mention. Samples of former win¬
ning applications are also available
for viewing, according to
Bradshaw. The scholarship dead¬
line is April 15.
Students who want further infor¬
mation can contact Bradshaw at
278-2448.
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