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Homecoming Wellness Carnival promotes safe partying

By Valerie Nevens • Oct 19, 2007

Homecoming week is prime time for Fresno State party-goers.

Free depression screening offered to students

By Joanne Lui • Oct 19, 2007

Classes. Homework. Tests. Work. Relationships. Typically, there are many things going on in a college student̢۪s life that can lead to stress and sadness. It can become difficult to distinguish whether negative feelings are simply the result of a little extra pressure in life, or if there is something more serious going on, like clinical depression.

Stacy Johnson-Klein goes to court

By Staff Reports • Oct 19, 2007

The Stacy Johnson-Klein vs. Fresno State lawsuit took shape this week as opening arguments and the testimony of university employees were presented before the jury of 11 women and one man.

ASI calls for parking equity

By Katrina Garcia • Oct 19, 2007

Associated Students, Inc., agreed yesterday to request that the California State Student Association push for the renegotiation of collective bargaining agreements, which the California Faculty Association made regarding parking equity.

Students dive right into homecoming week

By Shaun Ho • Oct 17, 2007

Mui Vuong from the Educational Opportunity Programs gets wet on a slip 'n' slide.

Latino summit to address academic achievement gaps

By Brent VonCannon • Oct 17, 2007

Educators are preparing for what promises to be a lively discussion on the somewhat taboo topic of why academic achievement gaps continue to exist for Latino, African-American and Southeast Asian students.

International students persevere amid drop in numbers

By Brent VonCannon • Oct 17, 2007

International students have become a fixture at Fresno State and at many other campuses throughout the country, albeit a declining fixture in recent years.. While seeking an education in a foreign land, international students also have to pay many times more money than most students in order to attend, while also abiding by a myriad of government restrictions on their activities in the United States, which is tied to a clampdown on immigration generally.

‘Green’ housing community launches

By Kyle Lazarus • Oct 17, 2007

There’s a movement going on in northeast Fresno with the goal of creating a place that resembles the safe communities of decades ago, and some Fresno State staff are hoping to be a part of it. La Querencia, Fresno’s first cohousing community, is a project that is looking to provide an “intergenerational, earth-friendly neighborhood based on simple-living values.â€Â Four Fresno State professors and administrators are involved with the project that is aimed for completion in the late summer of 2008.

Wellness Carnival places emphasis on alcohol

By Brent VonCannon • Oct 17, 2007

Wellness Services will be putting on the Wicked Wellness Carnival on Thursday. Starting at 10 a.m., students will have the opportunity to participate in numerous “safeâ€Â activities, including paying a dollar to dunk a professor. Proceeds from the anti-drinking-themed event will benefit Alcoholics Anonymous.

Milutinovich lawsuit settled out of court

By Brent VonCannon • Oct 15, 2007

A three-year-old lawsuit filed against Fresno State by a former associate athletic director came to a close Thursday when an out-of-court settlement was announced in the amount of $3.5 million. Diane Milutinovich, whose gender discrimination trial was set to start this month, agreed to the settlement.

Forever blowing — noisy exhaust fans in the University Student Union Pit cause complaints

By Vicente Reyes • Oct 15, 2007

The long lines, the loud conversations and the lack of seating plague the lower level of the University Student Union. Yet the Pit has a new inconvenience – large and noisy exhaust fans.

California DREAM Act vetoed

By Brent VonCannon • Oct 15, 2007

The “dreamâ€Â part of Senate Bill 1, the California DREAM Act, was snuffed out, at least for now, by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s veto pen.