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STUDENTS GO FOR THE RIGHT REASON

By Ciara Norton The Collegian When some students woke up last Tuesday morning and headed out the door for school, they slipped on their comfy sandals. Others were not so lucky, and instead walked through dirt, gravel and filth with nothing on their feet but cuts, sores and diseases.

The person seated in front of you in class exposed their dirty, stinky feet on April 5 not because they couldn’t afford a pair of shoes, but because they wanted to show their support for those who can’t.

The movement, hosted by the TOMS campus club, gathered students around the Free Speech Area for stickers, $5 off coupons for TOMS shoes and encouraged passersby to strip off their soles.

“We’re taking them off so kids don’t have to,” Spanish major and TOMS club member Sal Lucatero said. “We want to bring awareness to

people about the kids in countries who don’t have shoes.”

The event prompted students to join their fellow peers and remove their shoes for a good cause.

Andres Sviercovich decided to participate in the event because he was inspired by those around him, and the good deed they were trying to accomplish.

“As an international student from Ecuador, it’s very cool to me that Americans are conscious about other countries,” Sviercovich said.

The event that took place on Fresno State’s campus was also held at many other campuses throughout California such as California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo and California State University, Sacramento.

Inspired by the TOMS One for One Movement, the event allowed students to get a firsthand look at what life without shoes is like.

“For one day out of the year,

we can bring awareness about kids in countries who don’t have shoes,” Lucatero said.

The One for One Movement, according to the TOMS website means that “With every pair you purchase, TOMS will give a pair of new shoes to a child in need.”

Nancy Lopez, a deaf studies major and president of the TOMS campus club, said that she had been interested in the One for One Movement since she first heard about it.

“Since I knew about TOMS I was intrigued by the humane idea of doing something for those in need,” Lopez said.

“The awesome cause of the One for One Movement is just something that one cannot overlook.”

Students in countries such as Argentina, Uganda and South Africa don’t have shoes to wear on a daily basis, so their feet become infected and many children do not survive.

Children without shoes in these countries can suffer

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from hookworm disease and many other parasitic infections.

“We take our shoes and feet for granted,” recreation major Daniela Gonzalez said.

The TOMS One for One M o ve m e n t h a s n o t o n l y caught the eye of students. Companies such as Ralph Lauren and Element Skateboards have also chosen to participate in the move-

ment. At the Indigo Skate Camp in South Africa, a child will receive an Element skateboard every time one is purchased in the United States.

With the movement gaining more momentum, more people are choosing to go bare.

“Here for us it’s just a day,” Gonzalez said. “But for others — it’s their life.”

Marketing students attempt to set world records

By Leonard Valerio The Collegian While many Fresno State students are counting down the days to spring break, senior marketing students are counting down the days remaining until they attempt to break world records.

Marketing 188 is the last class for business marketing majors, and it is one of their toughest courses.

The class is divided into groups, and each group must use the skills they developed over the years to organize a mass record-breaking event.

Kaitlyn Hunter said the goal of the project is to ultimately learn from it.

“T he pur pose is to g et exposed to the real world,” Hunter said. “It allows us to take all of the tools that we have lear ned in four years as marketing students and

use them in a real life assignment.”

Brenna Blagg who is in charge of media relations for the group attempting to break the Guinness World Record for the largest water balloon fight said she too, feels the class puts all their skills to use.

“It takes everything we learned and puts them in one project,” Blagg said. “It’s not a pass or fail assignment, and to get an ‘A’ we need to use all of our skills.”

Blagg’s group came up with the idea to break the record for largest water balloon fight because they wanted to come up with something that was fun and something that would get people excited.

“The current record for a water balloon fight is approximately 3,000 people set by BYU,” Blagg said. “We are aiming for 6,000, and we know we can do it.”

Hunter’s group is attempting to break the world record for most people standing simultaneously on one leg.

“We were given the option to utilize Chukchansi Park, and we thought it would be great to do it during a Grizzlies baseball game,” Hunter said. “The current record is set at 339, and we are hoping to get over a 1,000 people to participate.”

Students in the class must become very creative in their strategies because all costs for supplies and marketing are on the shoulders of the students.

“We are filling up 150,000 water balloons, and we have had many local business contribute so that we don’t have to pay for anything,” Blagg said. “The Fresno City Fire Department is donating the water, and the Smittcamp family graciously donated bins for water balloon storage during the days we fill them up.”

The groups have gained excitement for their events using flyers, window paint, social networking and the use of Fresno athletes.

Hunter’s group has partnered with the Grizzlies and Blagg’s group has partnered with several former Fresno State football players.

“We have David Carr, Tom Brandstater and Tyler Clutts attending the event,” Blagg said. “They have added extra excitement to the event, and we are still hoping to get Ryan Mathews to attend.”

Although the class is divided into groups there is no competition between the groups to out-do each other.

“Each record has different circumstances, and I think that each record just as difficult as the next,” Hunter said.

“We have to get people excited and involved as much as the next.”

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Extend library hours permanently

Throw Me A Bone Danielle Gilbert

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he Henry Madden Library is a 350,000 square foot Wi-Fi hotspot. It is the largest building on the Fresno State campus the largest library between Sacramento and Los Angeles.

It is home to more than one million books, 116,000 DVDs, VHSs, CDs and

LPs and has subscriptions to more than 60,000 online journals, magazines and newspapers. It houses up to 4,000 people. Students can check out periodicals, headphones, Flip cameras and laptops.

But, most importantly, it serves as a quiet place to study for those who do not have one.

Yet, the Henry Madden Library is open only 82 hours a week. Compared to the Miriam Library at Chico State, at 95 hours a week, and the Sacramento State University Library, at 94 hours a week, 82 hours seems insufficient, considering all three universities are experiencing the same budget cuts we have with more or less the same amount of students.

What was the point of the $105 million renovation if not to help ensure student success? Perhaps the library was remodeled to accommodate the 20,000 plus students.

Perhaps Fresno State sought an upgrade because the last time the library saw anything remotely modern was in 1980. Or perhaps the Henry Madden Library was reconstructed

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he Henry Madden Library is open only 82 hours a week. Compared to the Miriam Library at Chico State, at 95 hours a week, and the Sacramento State University Library, at 94 hours a week, 82 hours seems insufficient.

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t is time for the administration to untap our resources and expand the library hours permanently.”

for the sole purpose of bragging rights — ding ding ding ding ding. We have a winner.

The extension of library hours during finals week is not enough. It is time for the administration to untap our greatest resource and expand the Henry Madden Library hours permanently.

And if that is not an option, perhaps the library is just too large.

How much exactly does a building that size cost to heat in the winter and air condition in the summer? How much does it cost to keep the interior lights on throughout the night or power the 30-foot high LCD TV screen 24 hours a day, 7 days a week?

Use that money to keep the library open longer. Students deserve it, and not only during finals week.

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Thumbs up Spring Break

Spring Break is almost upon us. Quadruple thumbs up to beautiful weather, spending days in the sun, sleeping in on weekdays and no homework, at least for the first few days.

Thumbs up Rodney Terry

It was a good hire. He may not be as established as other candidates, but he is a solid, young. He is supposed to be a good recruiter — after all, he did get Kevin Durant and D.J. Augustin to come to Texas. So hopefully, he can recruit some good players for us. Let’s do this Terry.

Thumbs up Vintage Days

The annual spring event is back: 3-days of vendors, local bands, garage band, belly dancers, entertainment, food and game booths, kid’s area, petting zoo, pony rides, inflatable attractions, free arts and crafts, beer and wine garden.

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How old is too old for an airplane?

By Scott Mayerowitz Associated Press Most travelers don’t think twice about it — although there’s something unsettling about easing into your seat and finding the armrest still has an ashtray built in.

But fliers may be more worried than usual after a 5-foot hole opened in the roof of a 15-year-old Southwest jet earlier this month. Southwest quickly grounded 79 of its older Boeing 737s for inspections.

A well-maintained plane can fly for decades. Older planes do need more repairs, but experts say an aircraft’s age has never been the cause of a passenger death. Pilot training and fatigue, as well as frequency of aircraft maintenance, are larger safety issues.

The average age of jets flown by U.S. airlines is 11 years, slightly above the world average of 10 but far shy of the 28 for Venezuela’s fleet — the oldest of any country with

more than a handful of jets.

Theoretically, a jet could continue flying indefinitely as long as an airline maintained it, says Bill Voss, president and CEO of the Flight Safety Foundation. The costs would eventually be prohibitive, though. Deciding when to mothball an airplane is usually a matter of the economics of the individual airline.

Older planes need more frequent inspections, and bigger and costlier repairs.

That means less time in the sky carrying paying passengers. Besides being cheaper to maintain, newer planes offer substantial fuel savings, and passengers enjoy features like personal TVs. “Aircraft become impractical a long time before they become unsafe,” Voss says.

Nearly one out of every four planes flown today by U.S. airlines is more than 15 years old.

That’s about the same share as a decade ago, according to aviation consulting firm Ascend.

The gover nment requires

more frequent inspections as an airplane or certain parts get older. The Federal Aviation Administration doesn’t set a mandatory retirement age for planes.

Age isn’t the only factor when it comes to safety. Each takeoff and landing cycle — and the pressurization and depressurization associated with it — adds stress to the skin of the plane. Aircraft that fly short, frequent routes go through more of these cycles than planes flying long distances. In 1988, a 19-year-old Aloha Airlines Boeing 737-200 that had made frequent, short hops among the Hawaiian islands lost a large part of its roof. Corrosion and metal

its 15 years and metal fatigue is suspected. Cracks were subsequently found on five other Southwest jets with more than 30,000 cycles.

That came as a shock to the industry. Boeing engineers had forecast that the planes wouldn’t need to be inspected for metal fatigue until at least 60,000 cycles.

“It reminds us that as much we know about metal structures, we haven’t figured it all out yet,” Voss says.

Flying is the safest form of public transportation. John M. Cox, an aviation safety consultant and former commercial pilot, says regulators do a good job of making sure airlines perform proper main-

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t reminds us that as much we know about metal structures, we haven’t figured it all out yet.

— Bill Voss, President and CEO of the Flight Safety Foundation

fatigue were to blame.

On April 1, a Southwest Boeing 737-300 with 118 people on board rapidly lost cabin pressure just after takeoff from Phoenix after the plane’s fuselage ruptured, causing a 5-foot tear. Passengers reached for oxygen masks as the pilots quickly brought the plane down to an altitude with more oxygen in the air before making an emergency landing at an Arizona military base.

No one was seriously injured. While the incident is still being investigated, the jet had been pressurized and depressurized 39,000 times in

tenance.

“A ‘55 Chevy in the right hands could go hundreds of thousands of miles,” he says.

But that isn’t much comfort to some passengers. After all, if the Chevy breaks down, you simply pull off to the side of the road.

Emily Kahn of Portland, Ore., says she now does more research before booking a flight and is willing to pay more for a newer model of plane.

“When the magazine rack in front of me is falling apart, it’s not the best feeling in the world,” Kahn says. “It makes

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me think they aren’t spending enough time inspecting this plane.”

Of the 5,363 jets used by U.S. airlines today, almost 1,300 are more than 15 years old and 235 of them were built before 1988, the year the government banned smoking on most domestic flights.

At least one site, airfarewatchdog.com, provided travelers this week with instructions on how to find the type of plane assigned to a route.

“If you have a choice, why not go with a newer model?” founder George Hobica says.

Passengers can check the make and model of a plane by entering the flight number on sites such as flightaware. com and flightstats.com. The airlines also usually provide that information on their websites. However, aircraft can be changed at the last minute.

And none of the sites specify the age or maintenance history of a specific plane.

Some airlines have much younger fleets than others.

Virgin America, which only started service in August 2007, is flying planes that average just 3.4 years. Allegiant Air, which bought MD-80s once flown by Aeromexico and SAS Scandinavian Airlines, has an average fleet age of 21.5 years.

A s c e n d av i a t i o n a n a lyst Andy Golub notes that Allegiant picked up its used jets for bargain prices, meaning the company has plenty of cash on hand. “ T h e y h ave m o re t h a n enough money to make sure that those aircraft are superbly maintained,” Golub says.

Even within an airline, there can be big differences.

Delta Air Lines has an average fleet age of 16 years. Its 737-700s average less than two years old. But it also has more than 30 DC-9s that date back to the 1970s. They are the oldest commercial passenger planes flown today by a U.S. airline.

Delta plans to retire those jets next year.

Not even new planes have spotless safety records, of course. The last two U.S. fatal airline crashes — a Continental Express flight to Buffalo, N.Y., and a Delta C o n n e c t i o n fl i g h t o u t o f Kentucky — were both on relatively new planes, one and five years old respectively.

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Bulldog Cycling Students ‘CAN’ fight hunger Club rides to campus

By Danielle Fontana The Collegian

Photo Courtesy of William Foster

Students can join the Bulldog Cycling Club now, but the club won't officially launch until the upcoming fall semester.

By Thomas Pearson The Collegian A new club has arrived on campus for students with a passion in cycling or bikes.

The Bulldog Cycling Club hopes to bring together students with a passion for leisure, competition or commuting cycling.

Club President William Foster said he is excited to bring the club to Fresno State because cycling and the public scene in Fresno is huge.

“There are half a dozen public cycling teams in Fresno and a number of bike shops,” Foster said.

This is the third time that the club has been on campus after folding the previous times. The club originally began in the 1980s, and was fairly big on campus until around the mid-1990s.

The club was then brought back around 2006, and was introduced to the campus for the third time this last January.

“We want to stress that we are open to all types of cyclists,” club secretary Trent Sherman said. “If you have a love of riding and own a bike, we encourage you to join.”

The club plans to do a lot of different things this time, and stresses the fact that it is open to anyone not just those that are heavily into racing.

The clubs activities will include things such as m a i n t e n a n c e, s a f e t y a n d nutrition workshops, fun rides and socials to involve all club members.

The club is also willing to help people find bikes whether it is for competition or commuting.

While open to anyone with an interest in cycling, the club is also in the works to become an official club sport on campus. Starting next fall, Fresno State will recognize t h e cl u b a s o f f i c i a l cl u b sport. The club will then be eligible to compete with other universities through USAC Collegiate Cycling — which is in charge of 4,500 collegiate athletes.

USA Cycling manages all amateur and professional levels of cycling. T hey manage everything from high school cyclists and teams to professional ones competing in things such as the Tour de France.

The club will begin playing in the West Coast C ycl i n g C o n f e re n c e n e x t fall. The conference features California schools and teams from Nevada. The conference currently features 21 schools, but will expand to 22 teams with the addition of the Bulldog Cycling Club.

The club currently consists of 12 members including eight men and four women with 26 others on the contact list. The club hopes to one day expand to the size of the powerhouse teams in the conference such as Cal Poly and University of California, Davis.

C o m p e t i t i o n wo rk s by categorizing riders as A-E

riders — A being the most skilled, and E being the least skilled or newer riders.

T he dif ferent styles of riding are road, mountain, track and cyclocross.

Cyclocross is a form of bicycle racing that combines the road and mountains.

The teams are also co-ed, but the men compete against each other and the women race against women. The scoring for the teams works by taking the scores of all categories of riders and genders, and combining them into one team score to determine the team’s final score. This means that the men and women and Category A-E riders are all equally important.

“You don’t have to be a Category A to be important to the team, all are equal,” club vice president Syd Newson said. “We are also very willing to help the newer members.”

Inspired by National Volunteer Week this year, F r e s n o S t a t e ’ s a dv a n c e d public relations students a re p re p a r i n g t o k i cko f f their “iCAN: fight hunger” campaign.

The campaign is launching today until F riday, April 17. The campaign not only focuses on raising as much food and money as possible, but its mission is to raise awareness for The Salvation Army among the Fresno State community.

P u bl i c re l at i o n s m a j o r Janeen Walter is one student who is heavily involved in the campaign.

“Recently, our city was named the hunger capital of the nation,” Walter said.

“People need to know that what we are doing is important to them, and is crucial to people who are struggling in our community.”

Not only will there be donation bins collecting monetary and canned food donations throughout the Fresno State campus, but there will also be a “text to donate” component. Anyone can text “ICAN” to 8088 to donate $5 to The Salvation Army.

“Our society thrives on competition,” public relations major Mia Munoz said. “By implementing a competition we are creating a fun and more exciting way for students to get involved with their community.”

These competitions will be mainly located in areas such as the dor ms and at several academic departments throughout campus.

The “text to donate” element is also a new tactic that the students are utilizing.

Not only does it provide a convenient and inexpensive way to donate, it is also beneficial because it allows people from the Fresno

community to get involved in the campaign without physically being on campus. “ T h e s t u d e n t s h ave exceeded my expectations,” Betsy Hays, professor of the advanced public relations course, said. “There is so much passion and love that has been put into this project, a n d t h e s t u d e n t s a re a l l working very hard.”

T h e a dva n c e d p u bl i c relations students have not only been promoting the campaign for the last couple o f we e k s, bu t t h e y h ave been working on the project throughout the semester.

Although the timing may be coincidental, the students have managed to correlate the launch of their campaign with the annual tradition of Vintage Days by including a live remote by KISS Country today, and a perfor mance by the country rock band Chaparral tomorrow.

But the Fresno State campus is not the only place where the community will be seeing campaign promotions.

KSEE 24, a local news station and NBC af filiate, has partnered with the class to run the students commercial approximately 50 times during the next month.

“This campaign has really given the students a lot of visibility in the community,” Hays said. “KSEE 24 has really come on as a supporter.”

Other than the television publicity, the students have started a Facebook and Twitter account, and have also starred in various TV and talk radio interviews.

“Working with a group of students with one common goal is beneficial because we each bring new and different ideas to the table, which will allow us to be more successful with our campaign,” Walter said.

Students, faculty and staff can gain more information about the campaign by logging onto iCANfighthunger.com.

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Opera workshop performs favorites Voice majors prepare months in advance of performance

By Karlena Franz The Collegian The music department hosted a night at the opera when students from the Fresno State Opera Theatre perfor med scenes from famed operas to showcase their talents on April 9.

The show was comprised of five pieces, each just a scene from a particular opera.

Director of the Opera Theatre, Anthony Radford, is a professor in the department and helps students prepare their roles. Although it is mostly a student-run operation, down to creating sets, he assists in piecing together the final project.

“This is, in a way, their

final project for the course,” Radford said. “Every semester the students get to put on a show.”

Some students had to learn parts of a different language to perform their roles. Three of the scenes from “La Boheme,” “Beatrice et Benedict” and “Le nozze de Figaro” were sung in French and Italian, as most operas are. “West Side Story” and “Candide” were in English.

Shannon Mills, a graduate student in voice performance, felt learning the languages for the roles were at first intimidating.

“It is quite a feat,” Mills said. “You have to know what you are saying, you need to

make it sound like French and try to be musical and artistic all at the same time. Once you get into it, it becomes a little easier.”

Mills was born in Canada and knowing some French has benefited her in learning some of the opera roles. She spent two years learning the song “La Boheme” and around six months to learn “Le nozze de Figaro.”

In order to be able to perform an Opera piece, especially if it is in a different language, students take classes where they learn the history of it and the meaning of what it is they are saying. When they are on stage, they are not just singing, they are performing by

using their facial expressions and body language.

Freshman Katie Simmons, a voice major, finds working with older students rewarding and a great learning experience.

“The voice department is really connected,” Simmons said. “You can bond together.”

Preparations for the perfor mance be gan around Christmas of 2010 when the information was handed out.

In between that time and the performance, rehearsals occurred two times a week.

“It is really difficult because you have to know exactly what you are speaking,” Simmons said about performing in a different language. “I trans-

lated the part but found it a bit difficult to learn all the vowel sounds and being able to transform it all for the performance.”

This event is a great way for students to get experience performing in front of an audience and to learn what it is like to do so under pressure.

The scenes were only around 10 minutes long each, which helped keep the audience engaged in the performance and understand what was going on. Many full-length operas can last up to four hours.

“It’s great for those with a short attention span,” Radford said. “It’s kind of like an opera tasting.”

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After being moved to the practice field, the annual football spring scrimmage still drew a large crowd of fans on Saturday evening.

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Spring game: Defense During Saturday’s final spring scrimmage, the Fresno State defense surrendered multiple touchdowns through the air and gave up a few big runs; however, when the situation was elevated and when it mattered most, the defense rose the occasion.

Toward the end of Saturday night’s spring game at Valley Growers Field, head coach Pat Hill intensified the situation giving the offense 60 seconds to work with from midfield with no timeouts.

The Bulldogs defense twice flustered the first and second-team offense, and both times the offense failed to even reach field-goal range.

“We played fast — we played really well,” outside linebacker Kyle Knox said. “We played a lot better than we did last spring. The intensity in our minds was a lot better. The coaches came and had a little talk with us and said, ‘All we need is three and outs.’”

But what impressed most was the defense’s ability to create turnovers in a highly controlled scrimmage session. Redshirt freshman Davon Dunn, who converted from receiver to cornerback this spring, picked off a

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deep pass intended for At 160 pounds, Jalen

By Vongni Yang Victor Dean down the Saunders is the lightThe Collegian left sideline. Twice, the est player on the Fresno Bulldogs defense forced State roster, but what the receivers to fumble the football, and 5-foot-9 receiver lacks in mass, he more there was a quick scramble by the than makes up for it with speed on the defenders to recover the loose ball. gridiron.

“We were really emphasizing fumOn Saturday, during the team’s final bling over the spring,” Knox said. “I scrimmage that concluded spring mean at the beginning of spring, the camp, Saunders displayed the lightcoaches told us that no matter what ning-quick acceleration, speed and that if the ball was on the ground, even agility that earned him playing time as if it was an incomplete pass we had to a true freshman in 2010. run to pick it up. We had to strive for With a full year under his belt, the ball every single time.”

Saunders has emerged this spring as The extra time put in the spring to a potential go-to receiver to first-year create turnovers is something that starter quarterback Derek Carr. Carr players and coaches hope will pay off targeted Saunders numerous times come fall. Last season, the Bulldogs throughout the scrimmage’s two-hour defense was next to last in the Western session and looked Saunders’ way Athletic Conference in fumbles recovmore often on passing downs. ered with just five, only two more than “Me and Jalen [Saunders] — we’ve Utah State. been on the same page for a long time, As an entire unit, the defense finished and hopefully we can continue that,” the 2010 season forcing only 13 total Carr said. turnovers in 13 games. In comparison, Although light on the weight scale, Hawaii led the conference with 38 comSaunders made defenders look silly on bined fumbles recovered and intercepthe Fresno State practice facility with tions. The statistical differences prove the ball in his hands. He caught a short why coaches have stressed to players pass from Carr, spun away from a tackthis spring about how important it is le, juked a defender and was finally to force turnovers. brought down after a huge 36-yard gain “We got turnovers, so that’s a really during the team’s 11-on-11 live contact big improvement from last spring scrimmage. because they have been really empha“I think I did pretty good overall,” sizing turnovers,” Knox said. “I was Saunders said. “From a grading scale, happy with the way we played. We I think I did about a B-minus. I could played like one ‘D.’” have done better, and I did some things The defense also struggled last seathat were good too also.” son defending in the red zone, and that Saunders finished with a team-high again is something that players hope four catches for 52 yards, but was tarthey can improve on from a year ago. In geted by Carr much more than that.

2010, opposing teams scored on 85.7 perOn the first play of 7-on-7 drills, Carr cent of red-zone opportunities against heaved a deep pass to begin the scrimthe Bulldogs, which finished eight in mage that failed to connect with the conference in red-zone defense.

Saunders. That play was just one of But on Saturday, the defense stood many deep passes that Carr threw to tall in one red-zone possession, holding Saunders. the offense short of reaching the end “I think we have a good connection ... zone for a touchdown. mainly because of my speed and all,” “That’s our field — wide field, short Saunders said. end zone — so that’s where we’re supSaunders has the talent to stretch posed to prosper,” Knox said. “That’s defenses, and with a strong-armed were we need to win.” quarterback in Carr, many fans are

hoping that the Bulldogs will go to a more air-oriented attack on offense.

“I’m pretty sure we are going to be throwing it around a little bit more,” Carr said. “We got the wide receivers and the offensive line to do it, and the running backs are good with that spread offense looking at those running lanes. They’re really good at that.

We’re going to be excited about this one.”

Saunders was just one of the handful of young receivers that caught the attention of fans. Redshirt freshman Josh Harper caught the first touchdown pass of the night, catching a rifled pass in the end zone from Carr and the 6-foot-6 Victor Dean caught several jump balls in the end zone.

Senior receiver Devon Wylie also found the end zone on a short crossing patter n as we l l a s J. J. S t a l lwo r t h , who beat his defender in the seams for six. Isaiah Burse and walkon Gerome Sur rell also got into the mix, hauling i n a t o u ch down pass from backup quarterback Greg Watson during the 7-on-7 sessions. “ We g o t fast ones, we got tall ones,” Carr said of the receivers.

“They can do it all. It’s so fun just to throw it up to them.”

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THIS COMING WEEK

The Fresno State track and field team heads to Walnut, Calif., for the Mt. SAC Relays on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

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Newcomers impress in final spring session what his playing style could be.

“Milton Knox ran physical,” Hill said. “That’s what we need out of him.

We didn’t play Robbie at all tonight.

With the 2011 season opener only Robbie’s had a great spring. We still got about five months away, the Bulldogs Michael Harris and [A.J.] Ellis. We’ve hit the field for their annual spring got a stable of skill players. It’s excitgame. ing.”

But due to poor weather in the days The highlights didn’t just come leading up to Saturday’s scrimmage, from the offensive side of the ball; the difference between this year’s the defense came up with big plays spring game from previous years is throughout the spring game. that it took place at the practice facility The defensive unit made some noise adjacent to Bulldog Stadium. with tight coverage on receivers, sacks, As the ‘Dogs took the field on the cold constant pressure on the quarterback, Saturday evening, fans pulled in to see forced fumbles and tipped passes. the 2011 version of the Fresno State With the defense being so active, Bulldogs. it showed a lot after it had replace With some notable newcomers getsome key cogs from last season which ting their chances to hit the field for includes: Western Athletic Conference the first time, excitement was in the Defensive Player of the Year Chris air. The most notable newcomer to the Carter, four-year starter at middle linestarting lineup is quarterback Derek backer Ben Jacobs, two-year starter at Carr. free safety Lorne Bell, as well as corAfter watching from the sidelines for nerback Desia Dunn, the past two seasons, defensive end Chris Car r finally got his Lewis and nose tackle chance to be under cenBreakdown of offense and defense Cornell Banks, a threeter with the first team from Saturday’s spring game year starter. and get some g ame Although the ‘Dogs situation reps before have to replace a lot of experience on the players have to conduct workouts the defensive side of the ball, Hill still with no coaching supervision until fall recognizes that the returning players camp in August. have something you can’t teach.

Head coach Pat Hill is aware of his “I think they’re playing really well,” young quarterback’s potential, but is Hill said. “Last week’s scrimmage, the also aware there is still some stuff he defense really dominated in a thirdhas yet to experience. down oriented scrimmage. We got a lot “I think he’s really good right now,” more team speed. We held a lot of startHill said after the spring game. “Once ers out tonight on defense, but I think again though, it’s going to be different. a lot of people by watching the scrimCandlestick Park and 70,000 against mage you’d have to say that the team Cal will be a lot different situation speed looks better. We’ll be able to play than he’s ever seen. Like I said, we’ll more man-to-man this year.” see how we pass that next test. Talent With Saturday’s game marking the wise, I have no doubt. Knowledge wise, end of the spring practice period, Hill I have no doubt. It’s just we got to get it gave some thoughts about his team’s done in a real big boy game situation, effort. and he’s going to get that in his first six “I was really happy with the way games.” we scrimmaged tonight,” Hill said. “I As Carr started with the first-team thought for the end of spring ball and offense for the first time, some notable for a lot of young guys getting reps, I players didn’t play on offense, which thought the execution was well. The included running backs Robbie Rouse, contact was good and they competed at A.J. Ellis and Michael Harris. a very high level. So I was happy with With those players sitting out our progress throughout the spring.”

Saturday, UCLA transfer Milton Knox hit the field as the first-team running back and showed some glimpses of

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