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MONday Issue NOVEMBER 8, 2010

FRESNO STATE COLLEGIAN.CSUFRESNO.EDU SERVING CAMPUS SINCE 1922 UPD DEALS WITH Online effect POTENTIAL LAWSUIT on office PARKING INVESTIGATION decided to stop paying the fee, prices to accommodate that tail end of coming to some and as a result the university ten dollars,” Huerta said. type of understanding regard- By Megan Morales is now being asked to make “Here we are today with a fund ing the situation to help pre- The Collegian up for the missed payments balance that is just enough to vent a lawsuit. hours which Huerta said could operate and do some things “We could get out of this The University Police potentially be an excessively with.” much cheaper by reaching a By Christian Walker Department at Fresno State is large sum. Huerta said the department mutual agreement,” Huerta facing a possible lawsuit from & Leonard Valerio “We never raised our ticket and Fresno County are at the said. “We’re going to have to The Collegian Fresno County for unpaid fees go back a few years and owed to them. have to catch up on the With resources such as Fresno State Chief money that is owed to the e-mail, Blackboard, Twitter of Police David Huerta county.” and Facebook, faculty office said the department’s Regardless of the finan- hours may not be as important legal issues with Fresno cial issues the department to students anymore. County are still unsettled is dealing with, Huerta According to Section 338 of and have been for years. said they remain focused the Teacher’s Policy Manual, “There’s a law that says on correcting the situa- each full-time professor at that universities are obli- tion and moving forward. Fresno State is required to gated to pay the county “We’re going to have have at least five office hours for county construction to settle this amount,” each week. costs,” Huerta said. “We Huerta said. “Then we’re When visiting office hadn’t been paying that going to have to recover hours were the easiest and for a number of years from it.” quickest way of contacting because of some legal The department didn’t teachers, office hours were opinions, and we were give an estimated date of strictly enforced. Dr. Robert finally advised we needed when the issue would be Maldonado, a professor in to do that. So we’re cur- resolved. the philosophy department, rently working out negoti- In addition, requests said that teachers used to be ations with Fresno County directed to the police checked on to make sure they to resolve that matter.” Parking Ticket department regarding were in their offices. Huerta said ten dollars how parking citation “They used to actually of every parking citation money is actually being check more because it used to issued at Fresno State is used have also not been be the case that if you put ‘by required to go to Fresno met. appointment,’ they didn’t like County. Sometime before that,” said Maldonado. “They Huerta began working for don’t seem to be policing it the the university, someone See FUNDS, Page 3 way they used too.” Illustration by Michael / The Collegian The policy states: “All full- time faculty shall schedule and maintain at least five office hours per week in their assigned offices. The five- hour requirement shall be a Tuition fees to increase minimum amount of time, specifically posted, when stu- By Andrew Veihmeyer dents know that the professor The Collegian is available for consultation without an appointment.” The CSU Committee on In a random sampling of Finance and the Board of teacher’s office hours, 80 per- Trustees will be meeting on cent of teachers were in their Tuesday and Wednesday to office during posted times. approve tuition increases for “I’m actually not so sur- the next two semesters; 5 per- prised,” Maldonado said of cent for spring 2011 and anoth- the results. “The majority of er 10 percent by fall 2011. faculty want to help and want The meeting, which will be to be available.” held at the Chancellor’s Office Students seem to have in Long Beach, California, mixed feelings about the mini- will also include a request mum amount of office hours. from the CSU to the legisla- Senior marketing major, ture to buy out the 10 percent Albert Tello, doesn’t feel his increase for the fall 2011-12 teacher’s office hours fit into academic year. his schedule. Tello said it is “[The success of the buy- difficult to make time to meet out] is really unknown,” said with teachers while balancing Fresno State President John a full load. D. Welty. “We’ve got a new gov- “I never use the instruc- ernor, a number of new legis- tor’s office hours. I feel like lators, and it is projected the their office hours are not set current budget is not really up well. They typically always in balance. If there’s a huge conflict with the rest of my deficit, obviously they’ll have classes,” said Tello. difficult decisions to make Kinesiology major, Lorenzo about what new funding they Ana Mendoza / The Collegian Llorente has mixed feelings can offer.” Natalia Kasianenko (left), signs a student petition to stop tuition increases. Rebecca Asami (right), intern for Students about office hours. “Some The Board of Trustees for Quality Education, oversees the table in the Free Speech Area on campus. teachers seem to have enough acted in June to increase fees office hours and others seem for the current year, Welty There will be 30,000 stu- tional students and provide costs in tuition. to never be there when you said, and since the legisla- dents added to the CSU’s in the classes, the fee revenue is Pedro Ramirez, president actually need them,” Llorente ture did not buy out all of the the spring and more courses necessary,” said Welty. of Associated Student, Inc, said. planned increase in fees, the added, he said. He also said that a third said it was unfortunate that Some students prefer avoid- board would need to deal with “I support the recommenda- of the fee increase will go these fee increases may be ing officer hours all together the issue in November. tion that’s being made to the to financial aid, and said it implemented. and use other means of con- “And that’s what they’re Board of Trustees because would help financially needy doing,” said Welty. if we’re going to enroll addi- students to avoid the steeper See FEE HIKE, Page 3 See HELP, Page 3 The Collegian THATʼS WHAT THE PEOPLE ARE SAYING... “T hese people on Facebook..they’re not your friends. That’s all.” Opinion – William Shatner, Jimmy Kimmel Live PAGE 2 OPINION EDITOR, ANNA JACOBSEN • [email protected] MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2010

EDITORIAL ONE-FINGER Culled each week CSU: Don’t raise tuition from discussions alifornia State University received from the American Recovery of-the-art library that cost tens of mil- in The Collegian’s Chancellor Charles B. Reed, a and Reinvestment Act. lions of dollars, and seven years after SALUTE newsroom. Cmuch-maligned fellow in the This, more than $365 million in completing the Save Mart Center, a eyes of many students, is proposing a 5 funding for the CSU system, should be huge arena which cost tens of millions percent tuition increase for students in plenty for CSU trustees and Chancellor of dollars more. All of these are wor- the upcoming semester, on top of which Reed to work with. thy expenditures that are beneficial Thumbs up: would be a 10 percent increase starting The CSU should concentrate on both to students and the community, Veteran’s day fall 2011. cutting spending in innovative ways but the timing of these must be ques- CSU officials will meet tomorrow to rather than reflexively raising tuition tioned. begin discussing these two measures, or instituting furlough days. The new state legislature must work A break from school is great, but let’s not though it seems that some sort of There is much waste in the CSU with California’s new governor, Jerry forget who we’re honoring—the men and tuition hike will be agreed upon. system. A front-page story in The Brown, who campaigned on improv- women who have served in our nation’s If the two proposals are enacted, Collegian today points out that Fresno ing California’s higher education, to armed forces. undergraduate students fund the CSU system with would pay $2,220 for the the appropriate amount of spring semester and money, whatever that may $4,884 for the 2011-12 be. Thumbs down: school year. aising tuition for students yet again is an egre- Simply throwing money Professional plagiarists According to The gious act by an out-of-touch, arrogant elite.” at higher education will Fresno Bee, the CSU sys- “R not solve anything, but Cook’s Source Magazine lifted an enitre tem has raised tuition giving schools their funds column from the Internet and printed it in four times since 2007. with no strings attached their publication without permission. When The school system, which would help them allocate the original author complained and asked for touted itself as “tuition- the money in the best ways compensation, the magazine requested the free” in its 1972 Master Plan, has found State potentially owes a great sum of they see fit. author pay them for their editing services. itself cash-strapped during a world- money to Fresno County due to unpaid Raising tuition for students yet wide economic crisis which has led to parking citation fees. This is an exam- again is an egregious act by an out- decreasing tax revenues for the state ple of the type of waste that schools of-touch, arrogant elite. Students of California. could cut out of their budgets, thereby already are dealing with overcrowded Thumbs up: While we understand that it is dif- lessening the burden of students and classrooms, high tuition and dropped Lamebook.com ficult to continue to provide education faculty. classes. The fact that the CSU system at the same price during a recession The CSU system also has a problem overextended itself during an eco- that has been characterized as the with enrollment. By allowing students nomic boom should not mean financial Lamebook.com collects the funniest stuff on worst economic downturn since the in en masse, universities short shrift disaster for the millions of students Facebook and puts it on one website. A must Great Depression, there must be a already-enrolled students, who have who attend these universities. read for those times when there’s nothing better way than potentially raising to foot the bill for schools’ excess. The Chancellor Reed, continue hiking interesting on your Facebook news feed. tuition six times in a four-year period. CSU should raise the standard by tuition costs and you will not be able to In the recently approved 2010-11 which students enter and force current depend on an apathetic student body California state budget, the CSU sys- students to maintain that standard. accepting your decrees much longer. tem received $199 million in restored CSU schools should quit expanding. Thumbs down: funding and $60.6 million for increased Fresno State is building a $7.5 million COMMENT: The Collegian is a Annoying TV ads enrollment. All of this was on top of aquatic center one year after complet- forum for student expression. $106 million in federal monies already ing the Henry Madden Library, a state- C http://collegian.csufresno.edu BlackBerry’s ad for their new Torch phone is the most annoying commercial on TV right now. You know the one—it has a song that sounds like a cross between a yodel and a tribal yell. It’s not that we don’t like the song, but BlackBerry had to choose the most annoying part of “Fiya,” by Tuneyards, as the crescendo. And it’s on TV—a lot.

Thumbs up: Winning the WAC soccer championship

The women’s soccer team’s season couldn’t have been more different from last year. Congrats, WAC champs!

Thumbs down: Getting tracked down on Twitter and stabbed Thugs tracked British rapper DJ Ironik through his tweets. When they found him, they robbed him and stabbed him in the but- tocks. Here’s the irony: DJ Ironik has a vocal campaign against knives.

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Videographer Christopher Rios Advertising Faculty Adviser Jan Edwards of the staff or university. http://collegian.csufresno.edu All content Copyright © 2010 The Collegian. Online Reporter Danielle Villalobos Editorial Faculty Adviser Reaz Mahmood Online Reporter Megan Morales Online Faculty Adviser Don Priest MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2010 THE COLLEGIAN • NEWS PAGE 3 NEWS EDITOR, ANDREW VEIHMEYER • [email protected] FEE HIKE: Students speak out FUNDS: Police keep silent CONTINUED from page 1 operations employee that the request- ed numbers had been passed along to According to California Education Fresno State Chief of Police David Code, Section 89701.5, money from Huerta. parking citations is strictly required to When Huerta was asked for the doc- go to alternative transportation. When umentation and statistics, he had noth- the traffic operations department at ing to give and said his department Fresno State was asked to provide sta- is not responsible for providing that tistics that validate how the money is information. being used, The Collegian was told it However, The Collegian had previ- would receive the statistics via email ously contacted Fresno State’s account- within one day. Two weeks and multi- ing services, which said the traffic ple attempts later, the documents have operations department deals with that still not been received. information and they should be able to The Collegian was told by a traffic provide the requested documents. HELP: More avenues for faculty, student interaction CONTINUED from page 1 it’s really important I just talk to them Ana Mendoza / The Collegian after class.” Some student groups are against the fee increases. This display at the Free Speech Area factors in tacting professors or getting help with Maldonado believes that, at least both fee increases proposed for the spring and fall semesters. assignments. in his department, students might be English major Daylen Prinz said she intimidated to meet with teachers. CONTINUED from page 1 prefers not going to a professor’s office “It’s difficult to know compara- tively, but I think I get fewer students “After receiving an increase in than some of my colleagues,” said funds and opening enrollment for the A Wednesday protest has also been t’s diffi cult to know compara- Maldonado. “I think some students get spring, I think it sends mixed signals planned with members traveling down intimidated by their own text.” to the students and the politicians,” to Long Beach. “Itively, but I think I get fewer Llorente is one of the students that said Ramirez. “If the trustees want to Tuesday will be devoted to the students than some of my col- may get intimidated. “I prefer to con- hold the politicians accountable and Finance Committee adopting a recom- leagues.” tact teachers by e-mail because I don’t pressure them into increasing funding, mendation for the board. Wednesday is like talking to my teachers face to face, they shouldn’t show how easily they when the full Board of Trustees comes one on one,” Llorente said. can raise fees.” together to proceed with the meeting — Robert Maldonado, Llorente added that he often uses Members from Students for Quality agenda. Philosophy professor, Fresno State Blackboard to get help from other Education, or SQE, have begun a peti- classmates and finds it to be very effec- tion to combat the tuition increases. Ana Mendoza contributed to this report. tive. Hector Cerda, a graduate student Maldonado said that despite some involved with SQE, said students hours and has never had a problem get- misconceptions, teachers are willing should be able to have evidence that spe- COMMENT: The Collegian is a ting help when she needs it. and are available to help. “It’s just up to cifically states why these fee increases C forum for student expression. “I have never used a professors the students to benefit from their assis- are necessary and how the added rev- http://collegian.csufresno.edu office hours before,” Prinz said. “I tance,” Maldonado said. enue will be used within the university. think e-mail is proficient enough, or if PAGE 4 THE COLLEGIAN • FEATURES MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2010 FEATURES EDITOR, JANESSA TYLER • [email protected] Campus night safety: Standard Time resumes

By Antonio Figueroa "We have quite a few people than 30 emergency phones The Collegian working, but we still want are located near almost every students to be proactive and building and parking lot and The old saying “spring for- keep an eye on what's going on are checked once every month ward, fall back” is a reminder around them, letting us know to make sure they are working of how Daylight Saving Time if they see something dan- properly. changes our clocks twice a gerous or suspicious that we Mass communication and year. When Daylight Saving haven't seen and report it to journalism major Maria Time begins in the spring, us," Armstrong said. Iñiguez takes night classes as clocks are turned an hour Business administration well, and she is afraid that the forward, shifting an hour of major Georgina Perez has a campus may not be safe. sunlight from morning to eve- class Wednesday nights this “I worry about my safety at ning. semester and said she's a bit night because it's harder to see The sun will be setting an concerned about campus safe- and be able to recognize peo- hour earlier now that Standard ty once the clock shifts back ple,” Iñiguez said. “There are Time has resumed and many an hour. less people around at that time Fresno State students have “I do worry about my safe- so it's scary to think you're night classes. Therefore, there ty at night because there are alone in case of an emergen- are several important safety some areas on campus with cy.” tips to remember. not enough light,” Perez said. Armstrong hopes that stu- According to Amy “I think there should be more dents who have night classes Armstrong, public informa- lighting on the sidewalk by the will be aware of anything unsafe or suspicious. "When you walk from the parking lot to your classroom, do worry about my safety at night because there you will know if something “Iare some areas on campus with not enough light.” doesn't seem right because you walk that path everyday,” — Georgina Perez, Armstrong said. “If you see something out of the ordinary, Business administration major we want you to tell us and we'll go check it out.” Students can see the safe light paths printed on the tion officer of the Campus Kremen Education building, campus map. She advises stu- Police Department at Fresno and also between the Music dents to let others know of State, there are 19 sworn (cer- and Joyal Administration their location if they're alone, tified) and 18 non-sworn offi- buildings.” to stay in well lit areas after cers on patrol who work full Armstrong said if students dark, and to report any areas time with 25 student assis- ever feel unsafe walking to or where the lights are off to the tants. Some police officers are from class on campus, they Campus Police Department at in patrol cars while parking can call the Campus Police 278-8400. officers and safety escorts are Department for a safety escort, in the golf carts. available 24 hours a day. More Matt Weir / The Collegian The Collegian Arts & EnterTainment MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2010 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR, MADDIE SHANNON • [email protected] PAGE 5 Students use blogs to boost creative interests

Creative blogging increasing in popularity

By Melissa Jones The Collegian

Pablo Torres, a junior information within the blog at Fresno State, found his and to keep it relatively gen- creative outlet when he eral. stumbled upon a blog that “You can blog anony- inspired him to post his cre- mously, but if you want to ative ideas online. take credit for the content “It was a way for of the blog in the future, try me to express my to keep out your personal opinions and write life as much as possible,” t was a way for me to express my opinions and about personal and Torres said. “This should “Iwrite about personal and school projects.” school projects,” go for almost anything you Torres said. post online, blog or not.” A blog is defined Torres explained that a as a frequent and friend who also blogs makes — Pablo Torres, chronological pub- about $100 a week just from Fresno State student and blogger lication of personal blogging. thoughts, pictures “It is possible to make and website links. money off of this, but it Illustration by Michael Uribes /The Collegian “Surprisingly, takes a lot of time and com- I know a lot of mitment, which can be dif- people who don’t ficult for full-time college even know what a students,” Torres said. blog is,” Torres explained. Along with the possible “Compared to when I start- income that blogs can bring ed two years ago, blogging is in, many scholarships are a lot easier to do.” offered to student bloggers. Blogging among students “If you’re passionate and the general public is about a subject, then blog,” becoming more popular as said John Walker, who blogs blogging platforms such as through his literary maga- “Blogspot,” “Wordpress” zine, Trachodon. and “Tumblr” let people Walker cautioned to avoid blog for free. These sites blogs as sources for any still offer users the option of research paper. customizing their blog site “A blog can contain any- to their preferences. thing from creative writing Torres suggested that stu- to public librarianship, and dents who want to get into usually contain a single per- blogging search for a blog spective,” Walker said. that caters to their interests, Kalis Kim, a recent Fresno views or writing style. State graduate and blogger, “I didn’t even think about recommends that students starting my own blog until start their own blogs. I came across a college “It gives students prac- student from UCLA that tice with writing, a fresh inspired me to start blog- perspective and analysis, ging,” Torres said. [and provides] a creative It took Torres two years outlet,” Kim said. “The abil- to get enough content in his ity to read and analyze a blog to attract a lot of read- non-objective piece of writ- ers. Those readers can com- ing allows people to become ment on his content, along better students. It lets them with being able to repost his read about a subject that posts on their own blogs. interests them, while also Torres said that blogging leaving the door open to is a great way to build a pro- gaining exposure to new fessional or school portfolio. topics.” Along with building a portfolio, it is a way to net- work and find people with similar interests and views. Whenever a certain blog catches his interest, Torres COMMENT: The Collegian is a forum for student expression. subscribes to it and receives C http://collegian.csufresno.edu weekly newsfeeds through his email. He cautioned to not include too much personal PAGE 6 THE COLLEGIAN • FUN & GAMES MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2010 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR, MADDIE SHANNON • [email protected]

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PALM DESERT, Calif. (AP) — The SAN MARCOS, Calif. (AP) — Riverside County coroner has deter- Authorities say gun-toting police mined that the one-time contestant on stormed a classroom at California State “” reality TV show University San Marcos after a drama whose body was found off a highway class skit on school violence sparked in Southern California died of a self- real panic. inflicted gunshot wound. University Police Chief Ronald A family spokeswoman, Audrey Hackenberg says students saw a seem- Doherty, said Friday that Julien Hug ingly wounded woman fall out of a door- left his parents a letter explaining he way shortly before 4 p.m. Thursday at was suffering from depression and felt the San Diego-area school and thought suicide was the only way out. Hug’s she’d been shot. File photo by Koumrian Photo/ The Collegian body was found Wednesday in the Students fled and called 911. The cam- The Fresno State College marching band performs at a football game at Ratcliffe Stadium during remote Pinyon Pines area off Highway pus activated its emergency system, the 1956 season. The picture ran in the Nov. 7, 1956 issue of The Collegian. 74 in Riverside County, about 90 miles which warned students by speaker and east of Los Angeles. text message to barricade their doors. Hug was a contestant on the ABC Hackenberg tells the North County show, a spinoff of the network’s com- Times that campus police and county petitive dating show “,” sheriff’s deputies finally stormed the in May 2009. passed him drama classroom and held about 15 stu- over for Ed Swiderski in an early epi- dents at gunpoint. They were told stu- sode of the show. dents were performing a skit with cap guns and didn’t realize they’d caused MIAMI (AP) — The attorney for the panic. Marion “Suge” Knight says the rap mogul plans to appeal a judge’s deci- sion that dismissed his lawsuit against Kanye West. Knight was shot in the leg in 2005 at a Miami Beach party hosted by West, and Knight blames West for lax security. His lawsuit is seeking more than $1 million in damages from West. Knight’s attorney, Mark Brumer, said Friday his client was disappointed in COMMENT: News briefs courtesy the judge’s decision. of Associated Press. The shooter has never been identi- C http://collegian.csufresno.edu fied. In Thursday’s order, the judge con- cluded there’s no evidence that a shoot- ing at the party was foreseeable. West’s attorney, Adam Josephs, said the lawsuit was ill-conceived from the beginning. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2010 THE COLLEGIAN • SPORTS PAGE 7 SPORTS EDITORS, BEN INGERSOLL AND VONGNI YANG • [email protected] The Sports Desk

Saturday’s Standouts Saturday’s Standouts

Game-changing moment: Punt block Interesting stat of the game: Time of leads to huge fourth quarter possession difference Austin Raphael’s blocked punt set up In every contest except the opening- the Fresno State offense deep inside season victory over Cincinnati, Fresno Louisiana Tech territory. The seven-play State has controlled the time of posses- drive started late in the third quarter sion, but by no more than 11 minutes. and was finished off early in the fourth What we learned: Ben Ingersoll and Vongni Yang from the Louisiana In Saturday’s win over Louisiana Tech, with Ryan Colburn’s one-yard touchdown The image of Ryan The Collegian Tech defense. Ryan Fresno State held the ball for 41:02, plunge. The score gave Fresno State a Mathews in Bulldog Colburn and Jamel more than 22 minutes better than the red shredding opposing lead it would never relinquish, ripping Hamler are stretch- opposition. The ‘Dogs haven’t had that defenses has become ing secondaries as the off 23 points in the fourth quarter as the big of possession difference since losing a little bit more vague with a seem- two hooked up for three scores and 118 ‘Dogs improved to 6-2 on the season. ingly new-and-improved Robbie Rouse. yards. Center Joe Bernardi was insert- to Cincinnati last year on Sept. 26. Mathews never carried the ball 43 times ed back into the starting lineup after Unsung hero: Jamel Hamler, receiver like Rouse did Saturday, but the tiny missing the previous game at San Jose Call of the game: Rouse’s 51-yard run Although overshadowed by Robbie back from San Diego put the offense on State with an ankle injury. With another After running power play after power play Rouse’s record-setting day, Hamler his back in the Bulldogs’ third straight week of rest under him, guard Andrew to the strong side of the formation, the proved that he is indeed the team’s No. conference win. The defense, however, Jackson may see the field again when Fresno State coaching staff finally dialed 1 receiver. Playing healthy for the first is going to need to tighten some things Fresno State takes on its first ranked up a run play to the weak side. Results? It time since the Ole Miss game, Hamler up if it has any hope to slow down a opponent of the season in Nevada this paid off as Robbie Rouse sprinted down- Nevada squad this weekend that posted dominated opposing defensive backs Saturday. field untouched for the sophomore’s first an astonishing 844 total yards on Idaho. for eight receptions for 118 yards and a touchdown of the game. The unit had its moments, and surren- Defensive breakdown: career-high three touchdowns. dered just 308 yards, but looked sloppy Despite putting the Fresno State offense early on in Rustin. The defense is start- in a quick 14-0 hole, the defense stepped Dog bone giveaway: Robbie Rouse, run- Fresno State sealed the deal when... ing to create some turnovers, a prom- up when it counted. After allowing the ning back ...Robbie Rouse capped off his career ising sign for a team that ranks in the second touchdown of the day on a trick Three weeks ago fans all wondered how day with a 51-yard touchdown romp with bottom-half of the WAC in turnovers. play to Lousiana Tech, the defense shut Fresno State would trek through the 2:20 remaining in the game. The one- the Tech offense out of the end zone November schedule with no proven fea- play drive put a dagger into Louisiana Offensive breakdown: until the 7:11 mark in the third quarter. ture back behind Ryan Colburn. Robbie Tech’s comeback hopes and gave Fresno The perennial run game that Fresno Desia Dunn’s fourth-quarter intercep- Rouse has answered the call with three State football is so well known for is State a 40-28 lead. Louisiana Tech tion all but sealed the game for Fresno straight huge games, including toting the starting to emerge, and it could not State. Although the defense allowed would tack on another touchdown late, rock for 283 yards on a school-record 43 come at a better time. The ‘Dogs never four touchdowns through the air, the but Rouse’s huge run provided the ‘Dogs strayed away from putting the ball in run defense proved it was more than carries with just enough margin to wrap up Robbie Rouse’s hands, despite falling capable of stopping the talented Lennon another conference victory. behind 14-0 early on. Rouse finished the Creer, holding him to 56 yards. As a night with career-highs in carries (43) team, the ‘Dogs allowed just 89 yards and yards (283), and showed his tough- rushing and 3.7 yards a carry. Defensive ness after taking a handful of big hits tackle Logan Harrell also added a sack. Soccer wins WAC ‘DOGS: Fourth-quarter surge too much for Tech CONTINUED from page 8 a 33-yard touchdown lob to would add onto his record-set- Hamler. Goessling would tack ting day with a 51-yard sprint By Ben Ingersoll In the opening round, Fresno After penalties stalled on a field goal in between to for a touchdown, cushioning The Collegian State took down Idaho 3-0 to Fresno State’s next offensive extend the ‘Dogs lead to 33-21. Fresno State’s lead, 40-28. keep its season alive. drive, punter Andrew Shapiro But Phillip Livas would Rouse was nine yards shy The Fresno State soccer Tournament MVP Katie shanked his fourth punt of the keep the game interesting for of Fresno State’s all-time 295- team revived a tulmultu- Lee’s first career goal came game 24 yards out of bounds. Louisiana Tech with a 95-yard yard single-game rushing ous regular season by taking in a 1-0 semifinal round win Then Fresno State’s special kickoff return for a touch- record set by Wright in 2006 home the Western Athletic over Utah State, allowing the teams prowess peaked after down to narrow the Fresno against Louisiana Tech. Conference tournament cham- ‘Dogs to take on San Jose State the defense forced its sixth State lead to 33-28. “We have a lot of work to pionship. in Sunday’s championship three-and-out of the game. On With momentum on do, but we’re looking forward On Sunday in Ruston, La., round. 4th-and-5 from the Louisiana Louisiana Tech’s side, the to getting home and going to head coach Bryan Zwaschka’s Fresno State, which fin- Tech 30-yard line, fullback Tech defense forced another work but its better to have a squad took down top-seeded ished the regular season 7-8-4, Austin Raphael bulldozed his Fresno State punt with 3:06 win under your belt instead of San Jose State in a double- will find out today at 1:30 p.m. way past blockers to record left to play in the final quarter. anything else,” Hill said. “We overtime, penalthy-kick 0-0 who and where it will play in the first blocked punt of his Louisiana Tech would get just have to win in November.” thriller to claim the school’s the first round of the NCAA career. the chance to go for the go- Fresno State will return second title in three seasons. Tournament. After the momentum- ahead score, but on second home Saturday after back-to- changing special teams play, down, cornerback Desia back road games to host No. the Fresno State offense Dunn intercepted a deep over- 21 Nevada (8-1, 3-1) at Bulldog would reel off 17-straight thrown pass by Jenkins that Stadium at 7:30 p.m. unanswered points, led by all but ended Louisiana Tech’s Colburn’s two scores: a 1-yard chance of a comeback. plunge into the end zone and On the very next play, Rouse

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Fresno State 40, Louisiana Tech 34 ‘Dogs, Rouse grind out road win

By Vongni Yang won its third-straight down pass from Colburn The Collegian game with a 40-34 victory to Hamler in the first over Louisiana Tech (3-6, quarter, and a 49-yard 2-3) at Joe Aillet Stadium Kevin Goessling field goal Ryan Mathews never in Ruston, La. in the second quarter to ran for as many yards, “I’m very happy we cut Louisiana Tech’s first- and Dwayne Wright never got a win on the road,” half lead to 14-10. carried the foot- head coach Pat Hill said After consecutive three- ball as often in a press release. “This and-outs by both offenses as running is a tough place to play, to begin the third quar- back Robbie but we’re going to have ter, Rouse took over and Rouse did to improve a lot before stole the show. On the for an entire Nevada.” ‘Dogs second offensive game on Behind Rouse’s 28 carry, series of the second half, Saturday. 245-yard second-half Rouse took a handoff and Against explosion, and quarter- darted 60 yards to the Louisiana Tech, Rouse back Ryan Colburn’s 229 Louisiana Tech 10-yard delivered his most yards passing and three line to set up a Fresno impressive performance touchdown tosses to State touchdown just one to date after carrying receiver Jamel Hamler, play later. Colburn would the ball for a school- the Bulldogs were able connect with Hamler on a record 43 times for 286 to overcome a 14-0 deficit slant pattern for a 10-yard yards and a touch- early in the first quarter to touchdown strike to give down as Fresno outscore Louisiana Tech the ‘Dogs its first lead of State (6-2, 40-20 in the final three- the afternoon, 17-14. 4-1) and-a-half quarters. But Louisiana Tech Facing a stifling would answer three pos- Louisiana Tech defense, sessions later with a the Fresno State offense five-play, 56-yard march, was able to muster capped off by quarterback only 10 points in Ross Jenkins’ touchdown the first half pass to a streaking and with a 6-yard wide open Taulib Ikharo touch- in the end zone to regain the lead, 21-17.

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Stefan Armijo /The Spartan Daily Basketball tips off against Fresno Pacific By Luke Shaffer pressuring the ball handler for past the halfway point of the The Collegian Fresno Pacific, the ‘Dogs flew second half, sophomore cen- all over the court and seemed ter Greg Smith began to take On Saturday night, the to surround the Sunbirds and over and had a stretch of scor- Fresno State men and wom- suffocate their offense. Senior ing multiple baskets en route en’s 2010 basketball campaign forward Hayley Munro led to acquiring a game-high 16 kicked off with exhibition Fresno State in scoring with points. games against cross-town 20 points and went to the free Head coach Steve Cleveland NAIA foe Fresno Pacific. throw line five times, making was pleased with his team’s In the first game of the 8-of-9 attempts. efforts, and cited that they doubleheader, women’s head Redshirt freshman Taylor played tough and maintained coach Adrian Wiggins’ squad Thompson was strong on the a defensive posture. pummeled the Sunbirds with night, showing composure as “Well, we’re, going to a final score of 94-44. The sec- the point guard. talk about the positives,” ond game of the night pitted “It was pretty obvious she Cleveland said. “And the posi- the men’s teams and Fresno does a great job,” Wiggins said. tives are that we defended, got State won again by a score of “She was effective tonight. in the lanes and played very Sophomore Greg Smith scored a game-high 16 points in the exhibition game 71-50. The biggest compliment is she competitive defensively. I’m against Fresno Pacific. Smith is a pre-season first-team All-WAC selection. Wiggins was quite pleased did what Emma (Andrews) very pleased about that. In the with his team’s overall play. and LaShay (Fears) have been second half we committed to “I’m happy with it,” he said. doing. It doesn’t look like we throwing the ball into the post “I thought they came out and have any deficiencies there.” and attacking them by getting played hard. We tried to do Tipping off the second into the paint.” a lot of things and had suc- game of the night in which Cleveland’s squad starts cess. The good news is we the men’s basketball team of regular season play against could cover better defensively. Fresno State took on Fresno BYU on Nov. 12 in Provo, Utah, I thought we could shoot the Pacific, the flow of the match while Wiggins’ quest for an ball better from the perimeter. was sluggish at first. Yet, as NCAA tournament bid begins Our returnees did a great job the game wore on, the scoring against Santa Clara on the executing and being confident picked up and was a back-and- same day. in themselves. Our newcom- forth battle throughout the ers were very aggressive.” first half. Right from the start of the At the end of the first period, first game, Wiggins’ squad the score stood 28-19 in favor showed a lot of energy and of the ‘Dogs. However, the COMMENT: The Collegian is a aggressiveness defending as Sunbirds continued to keep it forum for student expression. C http://collegian.csufresno.edu Photos by Matt Weir / The Collegian the team came away with 18 close after the teams resumed Taylor Thompson impressed with 11 points, five rebounds and two assists. total steals. By constantly play in the second half. A little