December’s music calendar at California State University, Fresno includes several student groups’ fall semester final performances, holiday-flavored jazz, gospel and a kickoff recital of student composers’ work.
All events are open to the public, with tickets available through the Box Office in the Music Building next to the Concert Hall. The Box Office is open 11 a.m.-1 p.m. weekdays and one hour prior to performance.
A British teacher at an exclusive Sudanese school was sentenced to 15 days in prison after allowing her class to name the class’ communal teddy bear, “Muhammad.”
Charges against the 54-year-old educator could have earned her 40 lashes and up to six months in prison.

Performing for the first time at the Save Mart Center last night, the rock band Van Halen has been on a year-long tour now likely to extend into 2008.
SITTING INDIAN-STYLE in front of my TV, I waited for my favorite tennis player, Martina Hingis, to start her match.

Student choreographers Kensington Stettler and Anthony De La Paz tested lighting cues and directed dancers with the ease of professionals as they rehearsed their respective pieces for the theatre arts department’s show, “Emerging Choreographers 2007.”

Ciggy Buttz thinks that smoking on campus is out of control.
So does Kelly Miller, a senior biology student and president of the American Medical Student Association (AMSA) campus chapter.
In July 1968, Fresno resident Jesse Fabela was drafted. Five months later he shipped out to Vietnam.

Fresno State Bulldogs (7-4, 5-2 WAC) at New Mexico State Aggies (4-8, 1-6 WAC)
The Bowl Championship Series computer thinks Missouri is the best college football team in the country. So, too, do a group of pollsters who are charged with the weekly task of rating teams.