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Fresno State, already scheduled to join the Mountain West in 2012-13, will be included in the newly-formed conference, along with fellow WAC members Nevada and Hawaii. - FresnoStateAlum

Fresno State’s President John Welty and Director of Athletics Thomas Boeh will meet with the media at 5:30 p.m. Monday at the Save Mart Center to discuss the announcement of forming a new conference, announced today by the Mountain West Conference and Conference USA. - FresnoStateAlum

Proposition 8, the California ballot measure that banned same-sex marriage in 2008, was ruled unconstitutional by a three-judge panel to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday. This legal decision appears to give same-sex couples the right to marry in California — but not yet. - FresnoStateAlum

Guadalupe Rivera Marin, the daughter of famous painter and muralist Diego Rivera, came to Fresno State last week to discuss her children’s book, “My Papa Diego and Me.” - FresnoStateAlum

It might be safe to say that if you are a college student on Valentine’s Day, you are perhaps working with a tight budget, and dealing with a major time limit due to the procrastination students are so often guilty of. - FresnoStateAlum

Is the Republican Party a racist political party? I said no; some of our readers said yes. Here are some of your responses, with some extra commentary by me. - FresnoStateAlum

Current and former Bulldogs took to the diamond Saturday in the annual baseball alumni game.  The current edition of the Bulldogs overtook the alumni in the eighth inning for a 9-3 victory. - FresnoStateAlum

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