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1. COLLEGIAN.CSUFRESNO.EDUFRESNO STATE SERVING CAMPUS SINCE 1922
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) —
California lawmakers will be focused
on the state’s $26.6 billion budget defi-
cit in the weeks ahead, but that’s not
the only issue on their minds.
They introduced 2,323 bills by
Friday’s deadline. That’s roughly 19
bills for each of the 120 members of the
Assembly and Senate.
Among them are four bills that grew
out of the arrest last year of a paroled
sex offender who later pleaded guilty
to raping and murdering two teenage
girls in San Diego County.
Legislative committees will begin
considering those and thousands of
other bills in the coming weeks after
lawmakers act on proposals to close
the state’s $26.6 billion budget deficit
through June 2012.
Every seat in the Alice Peters
Auditorium was taken on Friday as
four experts spoke about the recent
events in Egypt.
The panel included Dr. A. Sameh El
Kharbawy, professor of art at Fresno
State, Nubar Hovsepian, an Egyptian-
bor n political scientist, Sasan
Fayamanesh, professor of economics
at Fresno State, and Egyptian-born
author Randa Jarrar.
The four covered different aspects
of the recent protests that occurred in
Egypt that led to the eventual resigna-
tion of their leader Hosni Mubarak.
Mubarak ruled over Egypt for
nearly three decades. According to El
Kharbawy, the revolution did not begin
in January, but it actually began last
June, when a teenage boy was tortured
and killed by their police simply for
using the Internet.
After that event, a Facebook page
was created to let the world know what
had happened to the teen. The page
attracted nearly a quarter of a million
people. Because of this, technology is
greatly credited for the success of the
revolution.
Fayazmanesh agreed that technol-
ogy aided in the success of the revolu-
tion. Television, Facebook and Twitter
are so common worldwide, and many
can access all three with their cell
phones.
“We are seeing changes in technol-
ogy that make revolution easier,” he
said.
Even though the gover nment
attempted to cut off the Internet to its
citizens, there were several who were
tech-savvy enough to use the Internet
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Club Rome opensThe Fresno State baseball team got off to an undefeated start last weekend
Four Middle Eastern scholars gave a presentation about conflicts in Egypt and spent more than an hour answering questions from the public.
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By Dana Hull
The Collegian
What really
happened and what
will happen next?
Lawmakers to consider thousands of bills
By Don Thompson
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anyway.
“There was no way they could lose,”
El Kharbawy said.
El Kharbawy had just returned from
Egypt and was able to witness some of
the events in Egypt first-hand.
“There is much I hope to forget, but
there are a lot of images that will be
impossible to forget,” El Kharbawy
said.
El Kharbawy called the recent
events a beautiful revolution, and also
stated that the challenges are far from
over.
“There is no question that [the
events of the past several weeks] are
historic — a turning point for Egypt
and the world,” he said. “But they are
also still very recent and still develop-
ing. It is too early to speculate on what
might happen — but you can be cer-
tain that the coming weeks will bring
expected challenges and opportunities,
just as the past ones brought hopes and
aspirations.”
Political scientist Nubar Hovsepian
commented that this revolution, along
with most others in history, included
people who were mostly of a younger
generation. He noted that 60 percent of
the population in Egypt is 30 years old
or younger.
He added that the discourse in the
United States is that of fear, mainly for
the economic impacts the conditions in
Egypt will have in the U.S.
“They need to learn from the young
who are struggling and dying for their
freedom,” he said. “Instead of recoil-
ing in fear, we must embrace [the revo-
lution].”
Fayazmanesh said the problems in
the Middle East have to do with dicta-
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3. torship, political dependency
and economic dependency.
“Many dictatorships con-
tain lack of basic freedom,
secret police and jails over-
flowing with political prison-
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — San
Joaquin Valley communi-
ties are reporting more cases
of an illness known Valley
fever, especially among chil-
dren, and doctors are trying
to determine the cause of the
increase.
Valley fever is caused by
the inhalation of a certain
type of fungus spore that
grows in the region’s dry
alkaline soil.
D r. J i m M c C a r t y o f
Children’s Hospital Central
California tells the Fresno
Bee that since last summer
about 15 children were admit-
ted with the disease, and some
are still being treated there.
McCarty says one child
admitted Sept. 13 is still hos-
pitalized.
Overall, the state reported
more than 4,000 cases last
year, up from 2,488 in 2009.
Kern County is the hard-
est hit region, with more than
2,000 reported cases in 2010,
up from the 595 cases in 2009.
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MyEdu.com polled stu-
dents at Fresno State to find
the professors they love most.
The top five professors stu-
dents named “Fresno State’s
2011 Most Loved Profs” list
were:
Yishaiya Abosch – Political
Science
William (Bill) Regonini -
Mathematics
James Taylor – Decision
Sciences
Denis Driggers – Political
Science
Travis Kelm - Mathematics
In addition to surveying
Fresno State students, the
website analyzed more than
3,500 student reviews and pro-
fessor ratings to finalize its
list of favorite professors.
MyEdu.com provides
information to students about
professors and coursework
from universities nationwide.
Students name
top professors
By Dana Hull
The Collegian
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ers,” he said.
Author Randa Jarrar added
that another problem is with
the way women are treated.
She has visited Egypt several
times, and has been harassed
on the streets simply for being
a woman.
She added that Arab ste-
reotypes, from the way the
world views Arabs to the
way Arabs view themselves,
added to the unrest that led to
the Revolution. She said that
Egyptians stopped believing
the stories they were being
told by their own government.
“This time it’s not foreign
entities and agents that people
on the street are protesting,”
Jarrar said. “It’s the very
story they have been told —
the story that they are a cha-
otic and savage people that
need the iron fist of a decades-
long government for their own
good, that they don’t deserve
dignity or freedom because
they would squander it, and
that they are violent and
infantile.”
The discussion actually
wrapped up an hour later than
expected, due to the flood of
questions the panel received
from the audience. Many were
turned away in disappoint-
ment because the auditorium
filled up so fast.
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Club Rome opens
at Granite Park
By Luke Shaffer
The Collegian
Lights flashing, music and bass
pumping, the crowd swaying in a uni-
fied motion — these are just a few ele-
ments club goers will find at Fresno’s
newest club. For those who didn’t visit
the night scene this past weekend, an
intriguing attraction called Club Rome
made its grand opening at Granite
Park on Cedar Avenue near Me-N-Ed’s
Victory Grill.
Opening its doors this past Friday
night, Club Rome brought many peo-
ple from far and wide as its particular
style and charm attracted a diverse
spectrum of clubbers. People of all cul-
tures and backgrounds flocked to this
center of entertainment.
“We had a very successful week-
end,” Lewis Everk, director of enter-
tainment and promotion for Club
Rome, said. “People from all corners
of Fresno and Clovis came out, and I
believe everyone had a good time.”
With its introduction into Fresno’s
nightlife now complete, bringing
around 3,000 people, Everk hopes that
the club’s initial success will roll over
to next weekend. Justin Bobby, who
starred on MTV’s series “The Hills,”
will be a guest host for Club Rome and
this, Everk said, should bring even
more people to the scene.
“By having this type of big-time club
situated in Fresno, people don’t have
to take a flight or drive three hours to
go to premier clubs that you normally
only see in big cities,” Everk said.
“Club Rome is unique because it offers
this type of experience which you can’t
get at any other club in the area.”
Psychology major Leslie Noukhay
said she was really pleased with her
experience at Club Rome.
“I like the vibe and the building
itself, and I also like how everything
is setup,” Noukhay said. “The place is
really nice — better than the clubs you
find in Northwest Fresno like Twist or
Club Roe.”
Noukhay said she heard about Club
Rome opening from her cousin, who
lives out of town.
“Although it is not in the better
part of town, it is still the best thing
out of whatever we have,” Fresno City
College student Ethan Wright said. “It
is also a lot bigger than any other place
in town such as Swiggs or Club Roe and
definitely less ghetto.”
Originally occupied by Cabo Wabo
Cantina, a restaurant and bar, the
building closed down after an issue
came between the developer and opera-
tor. After about eight months, the man-
ager of Club Rome decided to buy the
space and the plans for instituting an
elite nightclub began.
Renovating the building to make
both the inside and outside look like
a classic scene out of Rome itself, the
venue offers not only clubbing on the
weekends, but a excellent center to
host upscale events.
The club also allows for artists of all
styles to spread the word about their
music as the facility plays various
genres. Staking its claim into the night-
life of Fresno, Club Rome hopes to be
on the minds of everyone as young and
old as they wait for the start of another
weekend.
“Ilike the vibe and the building itself, and I also like how everything
is setup.”
— Leslie Noukhay,
Psychology major
Janessa Tyler / The Collegian
Club Rome displays the Eiffel Tower and
houses two bars, spotlights and chandeliers
inside.
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Arts & EnterTainmentARTS & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR, MADDIE SHANNON • COLLEGIAN-FEATURES@CSUFRESNO.EDUWEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2011 PAGE 5
‘A Day Without A Mexican’
brings new perspective
to polarizing issue
CineCulture film explores reality of no Latino population
By Karlena Franz
The Collegian
Sergio Arau and his wife Yareli Arezmendi directed “A Day Without A
Mexican,” a film CineCulture showed on Friday, Feb. 18.
“A Day Without a Mexican,”
CineCulture’s latest film, filled
every seat on Friday night in
the Peters Education Center.
The film explores the reality of
what California would be like
if the state’s Mexican popula-
tion, 14 million people in total,
ceased to exist.
The film opens
with in a fog envel-
oping the borders of
California, causing
any communication
in or out of the state
to be impossible. One
by one, all the people
with a Latino back-
ground vanish. The
fog leaves their cars running,
leaf blowers still blowing and a
void in the state.
The movie revolves around
two different stories, one a
Caucasian lady whose hus-
band and son disappear, and a
woman named Lila Rodriguez,
who should have disappeared
but didn’t. Rodriguez is seen as
the “missing link” and perhaps
the answer to the missing peo-
ple lies with her, as she is the
only Mexican still there.
Panic sets in as people storm
the grocery stores to buy fresh
fruits and vegetables, since
there is no one to work in the
state’s fields. Latino teach-
ers, who make up a quarter of
teachers in California, disap-
pear. Restaurants that employ
Mexican cooks and waiters
close, and garbage litter the
streets of Los Angeles. It seems
to some an apocalypse has
begun.
Sergio Arau, the film’s direc-
tor, did an excellent job of pok-
ing at the issues surrounding
illegal immigration and the
concerns of how Mexicans are
perceived in California, but did
so in a comical way.
The film also illustrated the
view of many Californian’s
attitudes: If Califor nia’s
Mexican population disap-
peared, not only
would the state
lose out on the jobs
those Latinos have,
but the rich cul-
ture they brought
would be lost.
The film itself
spoke to conser-
vative attitudes
towards Latino workers in
the state. Needless to say, the
character’s attitudes towards
those who disappeared change,
something Arau wanted to por-
tray.
Associated Press
“If California’s Mexican population disap-
peared, not only would the state lose out
on the jobs those Latinos have, but the rich
culture they brought would be lost.”
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3x3 box contains every digit from 1 to 9 inclusively.
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ACROSS
1 It may be enough
5 Tell secrets
11 Sib, either way
14 Fork location
15 Conan of TV talk
16 Baking amt.
17 Repertoire
19 Auburn Univ. locale
20 “___ had so many
children ...”
21 Type of year
22 Chink in the armor
23 ___ fatale
24 Very serious
26 Like this puzzle answer
29 Large Asian desert
30 “I see”
31 Logic’s counterpart
36 Stem-to-stern stabilizer
37 Bone just above the foot
38 Move like a river
39 Some fedoras
41 San Antonio landmark
42 Sleuth’s quest
43 Whooping birds
44 Food poisoning, e.g.
47 Oct. 31 transport
49 On the other team’s turf
50 Diamond and Abner
51 They deliver
announcements
54 Is able to
55 Elaborate sham
59 Question
60 Fit for cultivation
The daily crossword
Puzzle by Cliff Reed
61 Expressed, as an adieu
62 Wondering word
63 Yellowstone’s Steamboat,
for one
64 Vast number
DOWN
1 Spheres in space
2 Sailor who sent forth a
dove
3 Zoo unit
4 Old Tokyo
5 Emblems
6 Biblical patriarch,
originally
7 Utter nonsense
8 Personality quirk
9 Albania’s monetary unit
10 Short dashes
11 Hard, as bread
12 Religion with pillars
13 What salmon seek to do
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18 Skeleton’s lack
22 Swindle
23 Police may suspect it
24 They’re often loaded
25 Japanese wrap
26 Web-footed diving birds
27 “Big Brother” host Julie
28 Satellite of Saturn
29 Serengeti antelopes
31 Stated
32 Tree with samaras
33 Verve
34 Seward Peninsula port
35 Yahtzee category
37 Buffet meal carrier
40 Carefully cultivated plot
41 Stein threepeat?
43 More wintery
44 Noisy parrot
45 Overflowing with water
46 Tall and long-limbed
47 Vague shapes
48 Drill item
51 Sound made by a bell
52 White House assistant
53 Crockpot creation
55 Shake, as a finger
56 Outmoded preposition
meaning “before”
57 ___ of Biscay
58 Major American network
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includes cuss-replacements you learned from
your grandma. Potentially embarrassing if
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the company of your drunk friends.
Word of the Day
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SPORTS EDITOR, BEN INGERSOLL • COLLEGIAN-SPORTS@CSUFRESNO.EDU
Harlan, bringing in Luke
Acosta who had a singled but
made it all the way to third on
one of the Bulldogs’ errors.
Harlan would finish the game
pitching 5.2 innings, striking
out four and allowing only one
unearned run.
The Bulldogs answered
back in the second, bring-
ing in three runs, once when
Andy Qualls scored when the
Beavers’ Jordan Poyer mis-
played a would-be single hit by
freshman Aaron Judge. After
a walk by Pat Hutcheson, pre-
season All-WAC third base-
man Danny Muno hit a two-
run double. Judge also added a
RBI single in the sixth inning.
In the seventh inning, with
the bases loaded and one out,
relief pitcher Cody Kendall
almost got out of a jam when
he struck out the Beavers’
Susac for the second out of the
inning. Kendall then allowed
Parker Berberet to hit a two-
run single, inching closer to
the ‘Dogs at 4-3.
In the ninth the Beavers’
quickly knotted things up at
4-4 when Wynns overthrew
Muno at third base.
In the ninth inning Wynns,
who has taken over the start-
ing job at catcher due to
Trent Garrison’s knee inju-
ry, redeemed himself with
a walk-off single. Junior
Brennan Gowens provided the
winning run.
“He was great with the
exception of one play, but he
answered back right away in
the bottom of the ninth to get
the game winner,” head coach
Mike Batesole said of Wynns.
“He did some major stepping
up, Trent [Garrison] got hurt,”
Kendall said. “He’s stepping
into a big role. He did great.”
The Bulldogs enjoyed an effi-
cient pitching staff on open-
ing weekend, as oppose to last
year. In the Bulldogs’ three
season-opening wins in 2010
over Nebraska, Batesole was
forced to rotate in 15 pitchers.
The wins over Gonzaga and
Oregon State, however, saw
just two pitchers featured in
each win.
“Three games, we brought in
three guys out of the pen and
that’s why we called them fin-
ishers,” Batesole said.
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‘Dogs line up hoops double header
Thursday will mark the
sixth time the women’s and
men’s basketball teams share
the same court this season,
with the men hosting Boise
State and the women hosting
Idaho.
With both teams playing on
the same night at home, fans
get to watch the both games
right after each other. It allows
supporters of both teams to
see them play.
Fresno State men’s basket-
ball coach Steve Cleveland
sees how the double header
affects the university.
“We’ve had a number of
doubleheaders and they’re
always great,” Cleveland said.
“It’s great to be able to play on
the same night, have fans from
both groups. It’s a positive
thing for the school. It helps
attendance. It’s always good.”
Like coach Cleveland,
Fresno State women’s basket-
ball coach Adrian Wiggins
acknowledged the signifi-
cance of the doubleheaders,
but also gave another reason
why Thursday will be a big
night.
“It’s senior night,” Wiggins
said in a phone interview. “It’s
a big night for us; We have five
seniors and they’ve all done a
lot for this program. They’re
all going to graduate. One of
them is already in graduate
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school so they’ve just been a
huge part of the university for
the last four years and it will
be sad to see them go.”
The doubleheader will fea-
ture Wiggins’ team playing
against Idaho, a team it beat
earlier in the season 84-67. The
‘Dogs are riding a four-game
winning streak and will face
a tough challenge with a capa-
ble Vandals squad.
“They’re a tough team,”
Wiggins said. “They’re quick.
They run a matchup zone. It’s
unique to deal with so expect
them to be very aggressive
toward us. They’ve tradition-
ally come out and played us
very hard. So we’re going to
have to match that intensity
level. They usually have four
or five people on the court that
can all score and that means
that we have to play hard on
the defensive end.”
The men’s team is fresh off
a game against UC Riverside
where it won 68-49 on ESPN’s
BracketBuster Saturday. Like
the women’s team, the men
also face a familiar foe with
Boise State coming to the Save
Mart Center. Two weeks ago,
the ‘Dogs played against Boise
State with the Broncos com-
ing out on top 75-61, so coach
Cleveland knows this game
will be challenging.
“They’re a very good bas-
ketball team,” Cleveland said.
“We played them already and
they have outstanding guards.
They’re a great three-point
shooting team. They’ve won
their last couple league games
and beat a good Idaho team
at home. They went down to
Santa Barbara and beat an
outstanding Santa Barbara
team that was in the NCAA
Tournament last year, in over-
time. So we have our hands
full.”
With the WAC Tournament
beginning in a couple weeks,
Cleveland knows the sig-
nificance of each remaining
game.
“Every game is big right
now,” Cleveland said. “We
take them one at a time, but I
mean these are all big games
in terms of preparing for the
tournament but also for solidi-
fying seeds. We can finish any-
where from 4th to 8th still so
how we perform the next three
league games will dictate what
our seed is.”
Mike Howells / Collegian File Photo
Kevin Olekaibe has struggled in recent games, averaging just six points per game in the Bulldogs’ last four matchups.
Mankins gets franchise tag
According to a Feb. 11 report
by ESPN.com’s Tim Graham,
the New England Patriots
placed the franchise tag on
former Fresno State tackle
Logan Mankins.
Mankins, a six-year NFL
veteran, has run into contract
negotiation issues with the
Patriots’ front office before,
holding out for a large por-
tion of the 2010-11 season.
Makins initially refused New
England’s offer of a one-year
restricted free-agent tender,
but ended his holdout on
Tuesday, Nov. 2 according to
an ESPNBoston.com report.
Tim Graham re por ted
Mankins is expected to receive
around $10.5 million next sea-
son.
Softball earns big victory
The Fresno State softball
team scored a big win in the
San Diego Classic I tourna-
ment on Friday afternoon,
knocking off No. 8 Missouri.
The Tigers were coming off
a 51-13 record in 2010, but ran
into a hot Bulldogs squad at
the plate.
Head coach Margie Wright’s
team slammed in three home
runs and scored six runs in
the first two innings, extend-
ing Fresno State’s record to a
perfect 3-0 on the season.
Michelle Moses turned in
her first win of the season
with seven innings of work,
allowing three earned runs on
seven hits.
Women take down NMSU
On Presidents’ Day the wom-
en’s basketball team extended
its winning streak to four
games with an important road
victory over conference oppo-
nent New Mexico State.
The Bulldogs held off a sec-
ond-half surge by the Aggies
to move to 10-2 in WAC play
with just four conference
games remaining in the regu-
lar season.
Hayley Munro paced the
‘Dogs with a team-high 14
points off the bench, giving
Fresno State a boost on an oth-
erwise rough shooting night.
Head coach Adrian Wiggins’
squad shot just 29 percent
from the field and 18 percent
from beyond the arc.
8. Derek Benny
o p e n e d h i s
2011 cam-
paign with
a bang in
S a t u r d a y
night’s sea-
son opener.
The junior
ace gave up
one earned
run in five
i n n i n g s
o f w o r k
in a 10-4
w i n o v e r
Gonzaga.
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SPORTS SPORTS EDITOR, BEN INGERSOLL • COLLEGIAN-SPORTS@CSUFRESNO.EDUPAGE 8 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2011
Opening weekend provid-
ed a quick spark for Fresno
State baseball en route to
a 3-0 record against Pacific
Northwest foes Gonzaga and
Oregon State.
After Friday’s opening
night was cancelled due to
inclement weather, the ‘Dogs
picked up their first win of
the young season in a 10-4 rout
of Gonzaga behind the strong
pitching of junior Derek
Benny on Saturday. J.D. Salles
picked up the save, pitching
four innings.
The ‘Dogs got the ball rolling
again a day later in a 2-1 grind-
it-out victory over Oregon
State.
Senior Gre g Gonzale z
turned in Western Athletic
Conference Pitcher of the
Week honors in the win over
the Beavers, sitting down
eight batters in seven innings
of work.
But late-g ame heroics
capped off another successful
opening weekend when sopho-
more Austin Wynns provided
the latest heroics for the ‘Dogs
during Monday’s showdown
with Oregon State. With the
score tied 4-4 in the bottom of
the ninth. Wynns hit a walk-
off single bringing in outfield-
er Brennan Gowens to win the
game, 5-4.
“I was pretty much thinking
put the ball in play and hit a
line drive somewhere,” Wynns
said
Monday’s game was far
from flawless, however. The
Bulldogs committed five
errors, all leading Oregon
State’s unearned runs.
Oregon State jumped to
an early lead when catcher
Andrew Susac hit a sacrifice
fly off starting pitcher Tom
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The Collegian
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successful season opener
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INSIDE: Men’s and women’s basketball feature
doubleheader Thursday night
![COLLEGIAN.CSUFRESNO.EDUFRESNO STATE SERVING CAMPUS SINCE 1922
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) —
California lawmakers will be focused
on the state’s $26.6 billion budget defi-
cit in the weeks ahead, but that’s not
the only issue on their minds.
They introduced 2,323 bills by
Friday’s deadline. That’s roughly 19
bills for each of the 120 members of the
Assembly and Senate.
Among them are four bills that grew
out of the arrest last year of a paroled
sex offender who later pleaded guilty
to raping and murdering two teenage
girls in San Diego County.
Legislative committees will begin
considering those and thousands of
other bills in the coming weeks after
lawmakers act on proposals to close
the state’s $26.6 billion budget deficit
through June 2012.
Every seat in the Alice Peters
Auditorium was taken on Friday as
four experts spoke about the recent
events in Egypt.
The panel included Dr. A. Sameh El
Kharbawy, professor of art at Fresno
State, Nubar Hovsepian, an Egyptian-
bor n political scientist, Sasan
Fayamanesh, professor of economics
at Fresno State, and Egyptian-born
author Randa Jarrar.
The four covered different aspects
of the recent protests that occurred in
Egypt that led to the eventual resigna-
tion of their leader Hosni Mubarak.
Mubarak ruled over Egypt for
nearly three decades. According to El
Kharbawy, the revolution did not begin
in January, but it actually began last
June, when a teenage boy was tortured
and killed by their police simply for
using the Internet.
After that event, a Facebook page
was created to let the world know what
had happened to the teen. The page
attracted nearly a quarter of a million
people. Because of this, technology is
greatly credited for the success of the
revolution.
Fayazmanesh agreed that technol-
ogy aided in the success of the revolu-
tion. Television, Facebook and Twitter
are so common worldwide, and many
can access all three with their cell
phones.
“We are seeing changes in technol-
ogy that make revolution easier,” he
said.
Even though the gover nment
attempted to cut off the Internet to its
citizens, there were several who were
tech-savvy enough to use the Internet
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anyway.
“There was no way they could lose,”
El Kharbawy said.
El Kharbawy had just returned from
Egypt and was able to witness some of
the events in Egypt first-hand.
“There is much I hope to forget, but
there are a lot of images that will be
impossible to forget,” El Kharbawy
said.
El Kharbawy called the recent
events a beautiful revolution, and also
stated that the challenges are far from
over.
“There is no question that [the
events of the past several weeks] are
historic — a turning point for Egypt
and the world,” he said. “But they are
also still very recent and still develop-
ing. It is too early to speculate on what
might happen — but you can be cer-
tain that the coming weeks will bring
expected challenges and opportunities,
just as the past ones brought hopes and
aspirations.”
Political scientist Nubar Hovsepian
commented that this revolution, along
with most others in history, included
people who were mostly of a younger
generation. He noted that 60 percent of
the population in Egypt is 30 years old
or younger.
He added that the discourse in the
United States is that of fear, mainly for
the economic impacts the conditions in
Egypt will have in the U.S.
“They need to learn from the young
who are struggling and dying for their
freedom,” he said. “Instead of recoil-
ing in fear, we must embrace [the revo-
lution].”
Fayazmanesh said the problems in
the Middle East have to do with dicta-
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