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The lefty student government at a local California university rejected a proposal that would grant its student body free subscriptions to The New York Times, citing issues with how The Times covered major world-happenings. “The New York Times has historically been a little bit problematic and controversial in their reporting and in their journalism,” student official Alya Hassan, who voted against the proposal, told the Fresno Bee. Hassan referenced its coverage of Israel and Gaza as one example, adding the organization lacked journalistic integrity for avoiding words like genocide, ethnic cleansing and occupied territory in its reporting. The paper has...

California State University, Fresno (CSUF) is in the process of developing The Middle East Studies Project, a collection of interdisciplinary courses that, by 2009, it hopes to offer as a minor in Middle East studies. But, already, some in the Fresno community are raising red flags about what direction CSUF's Middle East Studies Project will take. Considering the biased nature of Middle East studies departments across the country – and California is no exception – their concerns are not unwarranted. The website FresnoZionism.org, which bills itself as "a pro-Israel voice from California's Central Valley," recently posted an item on CSUF...

Fresno -- Saturday's women's basketball game at Fresno State carried the familiar trappings of a home finale. SNIP The ceremony also contained one small omission, The video message taped by senior Veronica Mack, played on the huge screen above midcourt, thanked every Fresno State coach -- except deposed head coach Stacy Johnson-Klein, the erstwhile public face of the program. Johnson-Klein had been fired three days earlier, the culmination of a three-week saga rife with splashy headlines and explosive allegations against her: taking prescription painkilling medication from players, financial misdeeds, even ordering the team bus to stop at a department store...

Rather than simply studying the phenomenon of "revolutionary environmentalism," a California university has asked former "eco-terrorists" to address its students.An upcoming event at California State University, Fresno, is called "revolutionary environmentalism." But instead of studying the topic, the school has invited the "revolutionaries" to speak. Another word for the past actions of some of the conference invitees is "eco-terrorism." "One of the participants, Paul Watson, said that there's nothing wrong with being a terrorist, as long as you win," said Doug Heye, spokesman for U.S. Rep. Richard Pombo, R-Calif. Pombo says it's outrageous that the university is playing host to...