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2012 Republican presidential candiadate Mitt Romney tells fellow Republicans to denounce presidential hopeful Donald Trump in favor of anyone else

Trump responded calling Romney a ‘failed candidate’

WASHINGTON — Mitt Rom-ney, the GOP standard-bearer in 2012, delivered one of the loudest warnings to date against the man who may carry the party’s torch in 2016 — Donald Trump — using words like “phony” and “fraud” in a speech Thursday intended to rally anti-Trump forces in the party.

The 25-minute speech at the University of Utah included the type of forceful rhetoric that cannot be unsaid in the event that Trump wins the nomination and Republicans try to coalesce around him.

It was a startling rebuke by a party leader against a presiden-tial front-runner, just two days after scores of voters across the country chose Trump as their candidate.

The critique laced into Trump’s character, his policy positions, his business acumen and his temperament, warning that the country’s future was at risk in Trump’s hands.

It laid traps for Trump as well, baiting the candidate to attack Romney personally to demonstrate he is a bully, daring him to open his tax returns and challenging him to release off-the-record comments he made to The New York Times editorial board about his signature immi-gration issue.

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They don’t wear capes or utility belts and they don’t drive batmobiles or sling webs, but over the last year several task forces have been answering student dis-tress signals to bring more success to Fresno State.

The findings and progress of these su-per her-err, task forces were shared at the second Student Success Summit Wednes-day on campus.

“We are working to improve the day-to-day experience of students as they work toward graduation,” said Fresno State President Dr. Joseph Castro in an introduction. “Student success will be the

centerpiece of our strategic plan that will be released shortly.”

Mary Sauceda, communication co-ordinator for student affairs and enroll-ment management, said the summit was intended to discuss student feedback that inspired each of the six task forces now in place.

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“We are trying to get students to tell us what’s working and what’s not so we know which task forces to create,” Sauceda said.

The current task forces do not bear flashy names like the Avengers or Justice League. They do, however, fight for fur-thering student success. Each panel focuses on an area of villainy threatening student retention and degree completion. They are: remediation, class availability, uneven student to adviser ratios in college, student employment, the first-year college experi-ence and future practices.

Sauceda said the task forces implement what are called “high-impact practices” that are designed to have a noticeable improve-ment on areas that translate to student suc-cess like engagement and graduation rates.

“A high-impact practice we are imple-

menting now is the first-year experience,” Sauceda said. “This program helps serve the 70 percent of our incoming freshman who are first-generation college students. The experience really helps these students get acclimated to college life, which is usu-ally a big difference from high school.”

Sauceda said Wednesday’s summit was the second in two years, and there will likely be one next year. However it is not certain if it will continue annually for long after.

“Student success will always be here, especially in student affairs,” Sauceda said. “We want to develop students wholistically, that means even outside of the classroom.”

During the summit, leaders of the stu-dent success task forces led a panel, field-ing questions from students and faculty. Student success was the rallying cry of the discussion and the entire summit, but it took three visiting speakers to really define

student success.Dr. Ken O’Donnell, senior director of

student engagement in the CSU Chancel-lor’s Office, made the point that student success goes beyond fulfilling degree re-quirements.

“When the state asks us to justify the soaring costs of higher education, we have to have a better story than the student stayed in their seat and graduated,” O’Don-nell said.

By O’Donnell’s definition, student suc-cess is more about connecting students with their communities and themselves than pushing papers across desks. He high-lighted the role of high impact practices like service-learning programs that accomplish this type of success well.

White House official Beatriz Ceja also focused on high-impact practices and their relation to student success.

“As President Obama has said, ‘There is no better policy than one that produces more graduates,’” Ceja said.

She echoed O’Donnell’s position that student success means something deeper than putting a name on a diploma or get-ting a student to fill a seat.

“College success goes beyond enroll-ment,” Ceja said. “The first step is enroll-ment, but then college success becomes about engagement.”

To continue the type of student success championed at the summit, Sauceda says students should get more involved.

“Task forces will grow and develop as students provide feedback,” Sauceda said. “So we are really encouraging students to go to our website and give feedback.”

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Romney blasts Trump as a ‘phony,’ urges Republicans to shun him

Dr. Thomas Holyoke, professor of polit-ical science at Fresno State, said that Rom-ney calling Trump out the way he did most likely helped Trump.

“Romney did not do the Republican Par-ty any favors by attacking Trump. Quite the reverse, it probably strengthened Trump’s position,” Holyoke said. “The rank-and-file voter in the Republican Party is rebel-ling against the party establishment, and Romney is about as party establishment as you can get. So Romney attacking Trump probably made many Trump supporters feel even more validated in their support for Trump.”

“Let me put it plainly: If we Republicans choose Donald Trump as our nominee, the prospects for a safe and prosperous future are greatly diminished,” Romney said. “His domestic policies would lead to re-cession. His foreign policies would make America and the world less safe. He has neither the temperament nor the judg-ment to be president. And his personal qualities would mean that America would cease to be a shining city on a hill.”

It is unknown what Romney’s speech will accomplish in political terms. Trump’s core supporters have stuck with him and often celebrate establishment at-tacks against their favored candidate.

Romney’s own struggle to win the par-ty’s 2012 nomination and his ultimate de-feat also raise questions about how much influence he still wields among the rank and file.

“Mitt Romney is a stiff,” Trump said on NBC’s “Today” show Thursday morning.

But Romney appears to be trying to mobilize a group of Republicans not cur-rently committed to Trump who increas-ingly say in polls that they might be satis-fied with Trump as the nominee.

For months, party leaders alarmed by Trump’s rise have argued that the best way to defeat him is consolidating the GOP field and uniting behind a single al-ternative.

But Romney suggested a new path — urging Republicans to vote for whatev-er candidate has the best chance to beat Trump in their home state.

“That means that I would vote for Marco Rubio in Florida, for John Kasich in Ohio and for Ted Cruz or whichever one of the other two contenders has the best chance of beating Mr. Trump in a given state,” Rom-ney said.

That strategy would prevent Trump from gaining a majority of party delegates on the first ballot at the nominating convention this summer. If no one wins on the first ballot, convention delegates would be released to pick any candidate, allowing them to build new coalitions — or even to choose a com-promise candidate like Romney.

It’s a high-risk strategy, given the like-

lihood that it would alienate many Trump supporters, who already distrust the Re-publican establishment.

Romney tried to insulate himself from any suggestions that his attack against Trump would prop up the likely Demo-cratic nomi-nee, Hillary Clinton, in-stead casting Trump in that role.

“A person so untrust-worthy and dishonest as Hillary Clin-ton must not become pres-

ident. But a Trump nomination enables her victory,” Romney said.

Fresno State professor Dr. Thomas Holyoke contributed to this story.

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If students are considering not voting in the upcoming Associated Students, Inc. (ASI) elections that begin on March 15 and run through March 17, a little taste of the rainbow may change their minds.

ASI director of operations Tara Pow-ers-Mead announced that there will be a polling booth on campus operated by the League of Women Voters.

The booth will be on campus on March 15 and 16 from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. near the Kennel Bookstore.

“It will not be a pencil and paper poll-ing station,” Powers-Mead said. “It will be a laptop where they can check into their email because everything is done online with a secure username and password for

each student.”As an incentive to get students to vote,

1,000 bags of Skittles will be available to give to students who show their receipt of confirmation for voting, Powers-Mead said.

Provost Lynnette Zelezny also spoke Wednesday about changes at the Lyles Center for Innovation and Entrepreneur-ship, which recently saw the resignation of its executive director.

She said that she had made a verbal of-fer to a potential interim candidate and was going through the required consultations before making an announcement.

Zelezny also announced her intention to move forward to combine the office of research and sponsored programs with the division of graduate studies.

“We’re moving forward immediately so that we will have a new dean of research

and graduate studies here at Fresno State in July,” Zelezny said. “I think this will be very good for students.”

Chief information officer Orlando Leon also announced that part of Technology Innovations for Learning and Teaching (TILT) will join the information technology department (IT).

Leon said that the goal for IT was to do better to support the students and ensure student success.

“It could be as simple as the students in the dorms and they want to connect their Xbox to the Internet so they could play games and play with each other,” Leon said. “Those things matter to me because it af-fects how our students perceive our Fresno State campus and their experience while they are here.”

No matter how trivial something may

sound, like playing video or computer games, IT wants to make sure that students are satisfied with the technology services provided by the campus, Leon said.

ASI vice president of finance Anthony Farnesi wanted to remind clubs that spon-sored activity grants would probably close by the end of March or beginning of April.

“People who want to do events by the end of the year need to be applying earlier to ensure they have the funding available before sponsored activity grants closeout,” Farnesi said.

As of now, $67,000 of $90,000 has been awarded to clubs from the sponsored activ-ity grant funds, Farnesi said.

The next ASI meeting will be March 16 at 4 p.m in the University Student Union, Room 312-314.

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In front of the largest crowd of the year – 9,948 in attendance – Wednesday for Senior Night, the Fresno State men’s basketball team routed the Colorado State Rams for its fifth-straight win.

Fresno State senior guard Julien Lew-is showed up big for his last game at the Save Mart Center, scoring a career-high 30 points while making a career-high six 3-pointers to lead the team to an 87-73 win. Fellow senior guard Marvelle Harris added 23 points, his eighth-consecutive game with 20 or more points.

A trio of seniors in Harris, Lewis and Cezar Guerrero were honored before the game as part of Senior Night festivities.

“These seniors have been with us for a long time,” Fresno State head coach Rod-ney Terry said. “Julien has been here for three years, Cezar has been here for four years, and Marvelle has been here for four years. They've really been the building blocks of this program, and they've given us the foundation to move this program in the right direction.”

After struggling early, the Bulldogs tightened up on defense, and some shots

started to fall as they asserted themselves offensively and went on a 15-2 run over six minutes to build a 32-16 lead. That same defensive intensity helped extend the lead to 43-23 at halftime for the team’s largest halftime lead this season at 20.

Colorado State came out strong in the second half, pulling to 50-38 early, but Lewis and Harris took the Dogs’ on an 8-0 run as the Bulldogs cruised to the 14-point win for their seventh-largest margin of victory ever in a Mountain West game. The 87-73 victory was their seventh in eight games and moved them one win closer to clinching second place heading into next week’s Mountain West Confer-ence Tournament.

Lewis shot 11-for-16 for the game, in-cluding 6-of-7 from beyond the 3-point arc. After the game, he said he is most grateful for how the coaches and commu-

nity have embraced him since coming to Fresno State from Texas.

“When I first transferred in, I realized it was a different environment coming from Texas,” Lewis said. “The building environ-ment that Coach Terry set has improved over time. The community has helped us and was behind us the entire time, and I really appreciate that. I am just ultimately happy by the game today. My teammates fought hard tonight, and today was very special for us all, not just the seniors. It is the last time Coach Terry gets to coach us here in the Save Mart Center, and this is a really happy time for us.”

Fresno State controlled the game be-hind its seniors but also got productive minutes from the entire team. Junior for-ward Karachi Edo added 13 points, and fellow junior forward Cullen Russo had seven points, 10 rebounds and six assists as the Bulldogs improved to a confer-ence-best 16-2 at home and set a new Save Mart Center record for most home wins in a single season.

With one game remaining in the reg-ular season Saturday at Utah State, the Bulldogs are the hottest team in the con-ference and are buying into Terry’s philos-ophy.

“I just think we realized that if we play together as a team and play for everybody, not just ourselves, we can beat anybody,” Russo said. “Coach always says, ‘You need to be two feet in, you can’t be one foot in and one foot out.’ Everybody has really been two feet in and believing in each oth-er and believing in our motto.”

Joe De Ciman and Antwan Scott scored 15 points apiece for Colorado State. Tiel Daniels added 11 points on 5-of-5 shooting.

“People are going to get behind what they feel good about, and we've worked really hard to earn the trust of this com-munity to come in and support what we're doing,” Terry said. “We try to do it by do-ing the right things on and off the court the right way. These guys have done a re-ally good job of that.”

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