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Campaign for Fresno State breaks goal New wine

By Careen Wong The Collegian

After seven years of fundraising, officials with the Campaign for Fresno State announced Saturday in a news conference a roof-breaking achievement of raising more than $214 million.

Students came into the Bulldog Foundation Community Room one by one, holding colorful balloons and a single numbered card. Slowly, they stood in a single line, revealing the final fundraised amount: $214,222,190. The goal set in 2005 was $200 million.

This is recognized as even a greater achievement because it was the first ever comprehensive fundraising campaign.

“There are no cor ners of this campus that this campaign does not touch,” R. Kent Clark said. He is associate vice president for development at Fresno State R. Kent Clark in his opening speech. The money goes to Fresno State’s scholarships, faculty, programs and facilities.

“This funding provides life changing support to our students every year,” he said. “Our donors, staff and volunteers are critical to this campaign’s success.”

Others who also gave speeches in appreciation were Fresno State President John D. Welty, vice president for university Aavancement Peter Smits and alumni co-chairs Omel Nieves and Dennis Woods.

Welty said he was thankful more than 34,000 donors who helped the campaign top its goal. Welty said in his speech that people invested in the university because they know the importance for Fresno State to strengthen its

honors President Welty

CAMPAIGN FOR FRESNO STATE FUNDRAISING TOTAL:

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The Campaign for Fresno State, a fundraising mission to bring in support for the university, broke its goal set in 2005 of $200 million.

“academic program, to build our facilities and to generate support for student scholarships and faculties, going into the future.”

Welty said this isn’t the only campaign Fresno State will hold, but as the first one, the efforts and achievements paved a way for the future.

“There will be the need for future campaigns to generate the support for the university in order for us to continue to build programs of national distinctions – programs that will support our students who are looking forward to taking advantage of that opportunity

for a higher education,” he said.

Smit said the fundraising team learned many lessons along the way. He felt team members had accomplished a goal that was far greater than just numbers.

“We also learned a lot of creating a culture of philanthropy here at Fresno State,” he said. “In fact, in 2005, we did not know what that meant, but today we do. We know that our volunteers, our deans, our faculty work together to do something for the common good.”

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A new wine, created by students in the Fresno State Winery to commemorate the tenure of retiring president John D. Welty and his contributions to the university’s viticulture and enology program, was unveiled today – “Legacy – President’s Reserve Classic Chardonnay 2012.”

The president, who thought he was visiting a semester-end wine tasting by the enology production class, was surprised by the presentation of the wine, by his top advisers who commissioned the vintage.

The president has always been committed to the viticulture and enology program, and during his 22-year tenure, the Fresno State Winery became the first student winery on a university campus to become bonded to bottle and sell its wines. In the 15 years since, Fresno State wines have earned more than 500 awards in commercial competitions.

Legacy was poured at the gala retireSee WINE, Page 3

“VALVES AND VALUE” SERIES

CIT links irrigation and satellites

By Brianna Vaccari The Collegian In only a few years, farmers may be able to make irrigation decisions within moments by just tapping a few keys on their smartphones.

Students and faculty from Fresno State’s Center for Irrigation Technology (CIT) are doing their part in a project that will eventually result in a smartphone app that alerts farmers when and how much to irrigate.

CIT is working with CSU Monterey Bay and NASA in a two-part project that will predict required watering for crops. This information will be accessible through the use of an app that will be available on hand-held devices.

Photo Courtesy Florence Cassel

A lysimeter sits within a tomato field. The machine uses a large tank sitting upon a scale and buried underground. The lysimeter will record the weight difference in soil.

CSU Monterey Bay and NASA are collecting data from satellite images to predict an irrigation schedule, while CIT at Fresno State validates this information by using a specific instrument to collect data from crops.

“Overall we are all working together to deliver a model where we could predict what will be the required water for a particular crop at a particular time,” said Florence Cassel, a soil and water scientist at CIT. “So ultimately the goal is optimizing water use and efficiency and optimizing irrigation scheduling.”

CIT uses a tool called a lysimeter to validate the data collected from satellites. A lysimeter is an enormous tank that sits on a scale and is buried in the ground. Crops are planted in the field and the lysimeter records the weight difference in the soil, which is ultimately the presence or lack of water. The lysimeter is incredibly precise because it measures only one crop at a time.

Before this project, the lysimeter at Fresno State had not been used for years because of how expensive it is to operate. In order for it to be operable again, students and faculty from CIT had to make adjustments and repairs to the instrument and went through a lot of trouble shooting.

The lysimeter has been used for years and was especially popular in the ‘80s. Cassel said that there are only three types of lysimeters in California and that their use is extremely sporadic because of the cost.

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Fresno State student clubs and organizations fill the Boomtown areas at Vintage Days. Many of the clubs sold food and nonalcoholic beverages. The money raised funds their programs.

Clubs cook off at Vintage Days

By Elly Walker Special to The Collegian Despite the high temperature that engulfed Fresno over the weekend, Bulldog spirit was as vibrant as ever in the 39th celebration of Vintage Days.

Each spring Vintage Days promotes campus tradition and invites members of the community to the Fresno State campus to participate in weekend-long activities complete with family, friends, food and fun.

However, the renowned weekend would not be complete without the 34 food booths and 15 game booths run by student clubs and organizations.

These booths make up what is known as Boomtown.

“Basically Vintage Days is a time for all of the clubs and organizations to come together and really build as a campus and as a community and get all of the younger ages involved,” Mark Springer said, Boomtown co-coordinator.

The majority of food booths ran by student clubs and organizations were located in Boomtown South, which was situated east of the music building. Additionally, various other food and game booth were located southeast of the Satellite Student Union in Boomtown North.

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Dear Hollywood: A film lover's plea

By Zack Edwards The Collegian

and they need to make money, but I submit that if they focus on good storytelling, then they will make their money.

It is possible to make money off a wholly original story that is not based on an already existing movie, television show, novel or comic book. It has been done countless times in the past and it can be done again.

There are a few hidden gems out there this summer that do have that fresh tone to them.

In May, there is “Now You See Me,” which seems to offer an interesting twist on the heist genre. That same weekend there is also “The Purge,” about a version of America where everything is perfect because one night a year all crime is legal.

In June, “This Is the End”comes, starring just about everyone who has been in a comedy in the last six years, but it looks hilarious and different.

Those are just three, but there is also Guillermo del Toro’s “Pacific Rim,” Neill Blomkamp’s “Elysium” and Edgar Wright’s “The World’s End.” There are original movies out there, but all the sequels, remakes and reboots crush them purely because there are more of them.

We need more films like “Inception,” “Moonrise Kingdom,” “The Usual Suspects” and “Django Unchained,” and by that I do not mean sequels. I mean creativity. Movies like these that create their own world, stand on their own and make money from it.

This should be what movie studios strive to make. As a lover of both film and story, I beg of you, Hollywood, be more creative.

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After a long winter, the summer is finally coming, and as a movie fan, I am usually thrilled.

However, this year I am a bit concerned.

I watch quite a few movies, partially because I do film reviews for the Collegian, but largely because they are a passion of mine.

I hope to one day be able to make a living off of writing about movies, but you do not have to be a film buff like myself to notice the current trend going on in Hollywood.

Movie studios have forgotten what it means to be original. Everything is a sequel, reboot or remake, with few exceptions.

Now, do not get me wrong. I am not saying every non-original thing in Hollywood is bad. I am as excited for “Iron Man 3,” “Star Trek Into Darkness” and “Man of Steel” as the next guy, and I have enjoyed many sequels, as well as a handful of remakes and reboots. However, that does not mean everything needs a sequel.

I feel like a movie that I saw recently — and hated — can illustrate this point rather clearly: “G.I. Joe: Retaliation.”

“G.I. Joe” is a prime example of Hollywood thinking everything needs a sequel simply because it made a few bucks.

There is also the fact that it is based on a Saturday morning cartoon and decades’ worth of action figures, so it is nothing new. Very few people liked the first film, “G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra.”

Both critics and fans panned it.

It currently holds a 34 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. However, because it made a little bit of money, Paramount green lit a sequel.

Having recently sat through that sequel, it is equally as terrible. It has an

even worse Rotten Tomatoes score of 28 percent and I gave it an F in my review, but none of those things matter because it made money.

Paramount is already talking about a third installment. Can someone tell me why a franchise with two failed movies needs a third one? You can’t because it doesn’t.

They had their chance and failed — twice. The “G.I. Joe” franchise needs to step aside and let new material through.

Looking down the list of movies scheduled for release between May and August, very few are original. There are sequels all over the place.

I mean, really, Hollywood,"Smurfs 2?"

The “Fast and the Furious” franchise is on its sixth film. They are starting to approach “The Land Before Time” territory — there have been 13 of those, by the way — and a seventh installment is already planned. The sixth one has not even come out yet.

Then there is the third film from a franchise that symbolizes the death of story in Hollywood.

The reason I love film is because I love story. It is the reason I majored in journalism and minored in creative writing. I love telling and listening to good stories. When I saw “The Hangover Part II” two years ago, it became clear Hollywood no longer cared about story.

The first “Hangover” was brilliantly original, which for Hollywood meant exploit it for all its worth with unnecessary sequels. “Part II” was nothing more than the first film set in Thailand.

It appears the third film is changing up the story a bit, but it is still another sequel.

Movie studios have forgotten that it is their job to tell good stories — something I desperately hope they remember.

They place too much focus on the money and not enough on the story.

Obviously, movie studios are businesses

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By William Scoggin Senior, majoring in anthropology By now, if you haven’t already heard, the activists have resurfaced with fresh petitions to ban the deadly chemical dihydrogen monoxide (DHMO), which is the major chemical found in acid rain. How deadly is DHMO? According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), DHMO claims 10 lives every day in the United States, or an average of 3,553 deaths per year, according to statistics from 2005 to 2009.

During this same time period, African Americans between the ages of 5 and 14 were three times more likely to die from DHMO exposure than whites in the same age group.

When compared to deadly carbon monoxide (CO) emissions, exposure to DHMO is seven times more likely to kill a person than CO is, which claims about 500 lives per year, according to the CDC in 2004.

You might be asking: If DHMO is so deadly, why isn’t anything being done about it? Efforts to ban this deadly chemical began as early as 1989 by leading activist Eric Lechner from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

In 1994, the Coalition to ban DHMO was established. In April 2010, a member of the Canadian parliament tabled a bill to ban DHMO from all federal buildings.

This April, in Austin, Texas, reporter Lee Ann McAdoo led a successful petition drive in her hometown, gathering signatures from Austin residents to ban DHMO, among those signing her petition was a chemical major from Cornell University.

Why haven’t more chemical majors jumped onboard the bandwagon to ban DHMO? Because they most likely know that DHMO is the unfamiliar name for water, and the above death statistics are from drowning.

Collectively, Americans will sign anything if they are told it is bad for them (referring to the popular DHMO hoax) We have collectively dumbed ourselves down to below the level of “plain stupid,” where even the decade-old Penn and Teller hoax of having people sign petitions to ban water by a different name still works today. People be warned — C02 is killing us at an alarming rate.

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CAMPAIGN: Hopes of fundraising becoming tradition CONTINUED from page 1 As volunteer co-chairs Nieves and Woods represented the public in relationship to the university. They served as the advocates in the community that carry forward the campaign’s initiatives, projects and goals.

Nieves and Woods were glad they were able to volunteer. Their predecessors were community leaders Jan and Bud Ritcher.

Nieves said he was honored to be able to give back to Fresno State after all he had received when he was student.

After the news conference, Clark said the last two years with the campaign have proved intersting. Although the Central Valley is still struggling in a tough economy, Clark said he was “blown away by the generosity of people who want to provide for scholarships for students, who want to provide infrastructures for the university.”

Fresno State’s students, however, are the ones who motivated the campaign team and were the best advocates. Donors who sat down with these students saw their potential and were excited to see where these students were going and what would become of

them.

“There’s nothing that gets me more excited about my work than that, and believe that I’m making a difference in making that better,” Clark said.

Clark wants Fresno State’s students to know that the success of the campaign is a “large testament” of the community believing in their future.

Individual, corporations and organizations voluntarily donated their money because “donors believe in our students and want them to succeed,” he said.

Although Clark said he understands that students are struggling with increasing tuition fees, the fees would

be much higher without the donations.

He urges them to also give back to the university after they graduate.

“I’d like our students to know, in the future for Fresno State to be a university we want it to be, we need them,” he said. “We need them to be a part of this growing Bulldog network. I hope our students realize that we’re not done raising money. We want them to get out and get great jobs and be great successes so we can talk to them the next time we need to raise money.”

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WINE: Made from studentgrown chardonnay grapes CONTINUED from page 1 ment celebration honoring the president Saturday night at the Save Mart Center. The wine can be purchased at the Rue and Gwen Gibson Farm Market on campus.

The wine was made from chardonnay grapes grown in the Duarte vineyard in Linden, about 130 miles north of Fresno near Stockton, by the 2012 enology production class.

John Giannini, Fresno State winemaker explained that the grapes were whole-cluster pressed and barrel fermented. The wine went through a secondary malolactic fermentation and was sur lie (pronounced Sir Lee) for six months before 226 cases were bottled on Tuesday.

The first shipment is now available at the Gibson Farm Market, said Kevin Smith, the winery’s marketing manger.

The bottle retails for $14.95 Peter Smits, vice president for advancement who served as master of ceremonies at the unveiling, acknowledged professors Martin Valencia, Rebecca Barnes and graphic design students for helping create the label including the final selection created by senior graphic design major Joline Smith of Fresno. Fresno State graphic designer Todd Graves also assisted.

Vice President for Student Affairs Paul Oliaro and Sharon Brown-Welty, the president’s wife, served as judges to review the label submissions and select the final design by Smith “for its visual and historic images,” Smits said.

The back label is a compilation of several of the submissions from the graphic design students.

Welty announced his retirement in August, effective July 31.

CAMPUS CELEBS PREPARE PANCAKES

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To kick off the 39th annual Vintage Days, faculty, staff and administrators made pancakes at Friday morning’s pancake breakfast. Shirley Armbruster, vice president of University Communications, flips pancakes alongside women’s volleyball head coach Lauren Netherby-Sewell.

VALVES: Scheduling irrigation CONTINUED from page 1 the satellite images produce data for a larger area, Cassel said. The idea is to use the satellite images in lieu of the lysimeter.

“In the future we want to use satellite images to guide crop water needs,” Cassel said.

The project is in its first year and will last until 2015. It is funded by the CSU Agriculture Research Initiative, which funds five CSU projects.

Next semester, Touyee Thao, a Fresno State graduate student, will work with the lysimeter for his thesis project. He said he hopes it will improve his understanding of crop, soil and water relationships and improve his research skills.

Cassel and Thao are both working in the project with a similar goal in mind— water conservation.

Cassel said many growers do not use an irrigation schedule and are probably irrigating too much. She said that this method will show growers how to irrigate for different soils as well as irrigate to the specific size of the field.

“It will give them a better idea of their water needs,” Cassel said.

Thao said that growers need to be innovative in the way they utilize such a precious resource.

“This includes properly and efficiently irrigating their field at the right time with minimal water losses,” he said.

CLUBS: Food helps fundraise CONTINUED from page 1 nity to fundraise and get their name out in the community,” said public relations and marketing coordinator Katchen Anderson.

Each student club and organization sold different items including tri-tip and pulled pork sandwiches, hot dogs, shaved iced and fruit cups.

“It is really great to see what everyone has to bring and what they have to offer for Vintage Days,” said Kaitlyn McNicholas, another Boomtown cocoordinator In order to run a food or game booth at Vintage Days, each student club and organization is put into a lottery earlier in year, Anderson said.

“All clubs and organizations like to come back each year, which makes it really consistent for the most part,” Springer said.

The Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers has raised money for their organization by selling burritos at Vintage Days for the past 32 years.

Participation in Vintage Days is a fundraiser for all student clubs and organizations. The profit made from each food and game booth acts as direct revenue for the various student clubs and organizations, McNicholas said.

T he Org anization of Physical Therapy Students (OPTS) has between twenty and thirty volunteers throughout the weekend.

“We really like participating in Vintage Days,” Amanda Orr of OPTS said. “A lot of our members participate in building the booth and making the food.”

In addition to promoting and fundraising for their club and organization, Vintage Days allows student clubs and organizations to build their Bulldog spirit by building relationships with other student groups, interacting with the community and creating Fresno State history.

“It is an event for all ages, which is really nice and it brings together the spirit of Bulldog nation,” Springer said.

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MONDAY, APRIL 22, 2013

Metalsouls draws attention from sci-fi fans during Vintage Days

By Cameron Woolsey The Collegian Nestled between kiosks selling nuts and handcrafted woodwork, there was one stand during Vintage Days that drew the attention from many fans of both art and popular culture.

Metalsouls, an art studio from Los Angeles, ran the kiosk. The stand featured statues, vehicles and figures created from welded scrap metal.

Among the models were recreations of some of science fiction’s most famous heroes and villains, including the Predator and Alien from the “Predator” and “Alien” movie franchises, respectively.

Huy Nguyen was brought in to work at Metalsouls when his brother founded the studio.

Other relatives also contribute to building and selling the sculptures.

“He started the business in 1999 just for fun,” Nguyen said.

“It was good, and we made more and more and more.”

The art is created from any piece of metal they can gather: nuts, bolts, screws, bike chains, gears, sprockets and sheet metal.

Nguyen makes many different types of models, but there are some he prefers to make more so than others.

“I love Predators and Aliens,” he said. “Those are my favorite characters.”

Nguyen said “Predator” (1987) is one of his favorite movies.

T he company also sells sculptures from other popular franchises including “Star Wars,” “Iron Man” and “Doctor Who.” Nguyen said many of the sculptures are crafted by using action figures bought from stores.

“We buy toys and use them

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love Predators and Aliens. Those are my favorite characters.”

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or me, structure has no rules. You can make whatever you want.”

— Huy Nguyen, Metalsouls artist

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Huy Nguyen and his family create figures from scraps of metal and parts of vehicles. He poses next to a 2-foot Optimus Prime from the "Transformers" series. He has been part of the company Metalsouls for more than a decade.

as a model,” he said.

After more than a decade, Nguyen has crafted many sculptures.

“Sometimes it’s fun, sometimes it’s too much work,” he said. Nguyen’s hands and arms tell tales of years of hot metal work in the form of scars both new and old. But the physical toll does not faze him.

“It’s fun,” he said. “I like it.

I love it.”

Nguyen said the maximum size of sculptures the company creates is around 2 feet. The only statue at the event which held that height was an imposing recreation of Optimus Prime, which drew influ ence from the Michael Bay “Transformers” films instead of the original 1980s cartoon.

Besides drawing attention, the larger sculptures serve a second purpose. “ W h e n yo u s t a r t m a k ing sculptures, you make the big one first, then you scale down—that’s easier,” Nguyen said.

The company creates sculptures both large and small.

The smaller statues, however,

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Though Huy Nguyen makes many different figures, his favorite are from the "Predator" movie franchise. Many variations of the Predator were at the kiosk.

are actually the end result of a long scaling process.

After collecting the scrap materials, figuring out how to create a model is the first important step in the process, and where to start is not the same for each statue.

“It depends on the sculpture, because most of them you have to start at the bottom because it’s easier,” Nguyen said.

Sculptures that stand must

be started from the feet to make sure the model is balanced.

Figures that are held in suspension, such as a metal scuba diver, as well as vehicles, are built from the middle out.

Not every sculpture is made from a model, however.

At the stand, Nguyen had 3-inch human figures, made of

welded nuts and bolts, playing musical instruments or lifting weights. They were simpler in design compared to the robots, tanks and aliens surrounding them, and therefore didn’t require models.

“You don’t need to get a toy for dolls,” he said.

As the company g rows, Nguyen said he wants to focus on how to make sculptures easier to make, as well as making costs reasonable for all potential buyers.

“Welding is easy, but getting the right part takes a lot of time,” he said.

Each sculptures takes a certain amount of time to complete, and the longer it takes, the more costly it will be, Nguyen said.

For example, the cheapest items, the bolt dolls, take around 30 minutes to finish, while a 1-foot Tyrannosaurus Rex could take up to two hours.

The 2-foot Optimus Prime on display took nearly a month.

Statues based on that model can take up to a week and come with a comparable price tag— the Optimus model was priced at $600.

“Optimus Prime has a lot of parts, so every time you see one, they may have different parts,” Nguyen said.

To find the right parts, the company buys scrap in bulk from junkyards or auctions.

Some parts like bicycle chains have to be ripped right out of the vehicle.

For Nguyen, the best part about creating models from discarded metal is the artistic freedom.

“For me, structure has no rules,” he said. “You can make whatever you want.”

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Students to share stories at Study Abroad Fair

By Jeff Smith The Collegian For students who have wanted to see the world while they are in college, the opportunity is there for the taking.

The first annual Study Abroad Fair will be held on Thursday at 11 a.m. on the University Student Union balcony.

While in the fall, there is International Week. But there was no event in the spring for students to learn about visiting other countries while still earning course credit.

The event originally started as a small one. However, it will be more than five times than was planned.

Countries from all over the globe will be represented at the fair, with international students who will be available to answer questions from students.

Representatives of China, Norway, Thailand, South Korea, Germany and India as well as many other countries will be there to help inform students on how they can visit places and keep it affordable.

Moaaz Gill, a graduate student who is working toward a master’s degree in counseling, is in charge of organizing the fair.

“It’s going to be very informal for students, and because we are learning as well, it’s informing everyone out there,” he said.

There are many programs available for students to take advantage of if they are interested in leaving the country for a semester. One of the main programs is the University Study Abroad Consortium (USAC). There is also the California State University I n t e r n at i o n a l P ro g r a m ( C S U I P ) , which is available to students at every California State University campus.

Gill said, “We feel like the students need to know about this opportunity because sometimes, students come in here, they’re seniors, and they say, ‘Oh, I didn’t know about studying abroad.’

So we’re trying to create this awareness that there are more opportunities now.”

After the fair ends, at 3 p.m., there will be a separate information session

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The first Study Abroad Fair will take place on Thursday at 11 a.m. on the University Student Union Balcony to inform students about the available opportunities to study in other countries all around the world.

led by a representative of the CSUIP. T h e eve n t t a ke s p l a c e d u r i n g Diversity Week on campus.

Students taking part in the fair will be eligible for prizes. Fake passports will be given to students and if at least five of the 10 booths are visited and stamped off in the passport, they will be eligible to win more prizes, such as a Buffalo Wild Wings coupon for six free wings and free ice cream from the Rue and Gwen Gibson Farm Market.

A grand prize can be won by those who submit an evaluation sheet about the event, which includes a Fresno State Bulldogs sweater, a Red Robin gift card and two tickets to the Kenny Chesney concert at the Save Mart Center in July.

The giveaway is a way to inform stu-

dents about international travel as well as entice them to visit the booths.

“Even if you don’t win, you’re going to end up learning about other countries,” Gill said. “Even if you aren’t interested in studying abroad, if you ever wanted to travel to these countries, just go and ask. There are people at the fair that come from these places and lived there.”

While the trips range in prices from $3,000 to more than $10,000 for a semester, students can receive help from financial aid and scholarships to make the expenses a little easier on the purse strings.

“European countries are very popular,” Gill said. “It’s the first choice that students think of. It’s just where they

want to go. Really, it’s the most expensive place to go because everything is in Euros. We want the student to be excited, but we want to be realistic at the same time.”

Gill said that studying abroad is not for every student and that you can’t just pack your bags to leave.

Gill said, “The key is that you come early and you do a lot of research. I treat it as a big research paper. You can’t just show up, you have to do your legwork and research.”

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Fresno State clubs clean up for Earth Day Via University Communications Fresno State observed Earth Day Saturday, with events both on and off campus: a cigarette butt clean up on campus and activities for children including a poetry contest off cam-

pus.

The Chemistry and Geology clubs held an Earth Day activity for kids Saturday morning at Kuppa Joy Coffee House in Clovis.

Keeping with this year’s Earth Day theme, “Our Earth:

Handle with Care,” the clubs showed children how the upper layers of the Earth’s crust filters water as it travels through the different layers to the water table. Kids had the opportunity to make their own filtration bottle, mimicking this natural phenomenon.

In addition, many of the Chemist Celebrates Earth Day poetry contest entries were featured at this event.

The Chemistry Earth Day celebration will continue at 10 a.m. on Saturday, with a lecture by Stephen Rodemeyer, Fresno State chemistry professor emeritus and former director of the Smittcamp Family Honors College, in the Science 2 Building, Room 109.

The lecture, sponsored by the Chemistry Club and the local section of the American Chemical Society, is titled, “Moveable Feasts: Incredible Journeys of the Foods We Eat.” Recognition for students who par ticipated in the Chemistry Olympiad and the Chemists Celebrate Ear th Day poetry contest will be announced preceding the presentation. Winners from the

poetry contest will advance into the American Chemical Society national poetry contest.

For more information about Chemistry activities, contact Melissa Golden, Earth Day coordinator, 559-278-6822.

Organizers of the cigarette butt clean-up, Project IMPACT 4 Life, which is made up of a group of Fresno State students concerned with second-hand smoke exposure who advocate for a smoke-free campus, hoped to raise awareness of the detrimental impacts of tobacco products on health and the environment.

Student club officer Swar npreet Kaur, a senior public health major from Caruthers, urges other Fresno State students to volunteer and take a stand against secondhand smoke.

“A naked eye can’t see whether the air you breathe is clean, but our lungs can definitely tell the difference,” she said. “Would you let someone kill your lungs with secondhand smoke? This is your campus, you decide.”

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Memorial Fountain by the Kennel Bookstore at 9 a.m., where they were briefly trained and assigned to an area of campus to pick up butts and litter. Volunteers were provided with gloves and bags and were formed into separate clean-up crews. Project IMPACT 4 Life’s mascot, “Ciggy Butts,” a giant cigarette butt, was also present during the clean-up.

A d r aw i n g f o r p r i z e s was held after the pick-up.

Volunteers were automatically entered for taking part in the event, as well as an additional entry if they brought a friend to help with the pick-up.

Activities will also be held throughout the week, which includes a cigarette butt display in the Henry Madden Library. Students and visitors can submit an entry to guess how many butts were collected. One winner will receive a $50 Visa gift card at the event, Friday, when the actual number of cigarette butts collected will be displayed at an informational table in the Free Speech Area. Students will also petition for a smoke-free campus at the event.

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Fresno State finishes weekend 1-2 SOFTBALL

By Ricardo Cano The Collegian

The Fresno State softball team had just grabbed its first-ever Mountain West Conference series sweep two weekends ago.

This weekend, the tides turned – the Bulldogs were trying to avoid getting swept in a Mountain West series for the first time.

It was not the ideal weekend for the Bulldogs, who lost to Colorado State 3-2 and 7-4 in Saturday’s doubleheader, but ended the series on a winning note.

Fresno State, behind freshman pitcher Jill Compton, shut out Colorado State 5-0 on Sunday on the road.

Compton took the circle and struck out nine Rams for her fourth complete game shutout and 12th win of the season.

“We had nothing to lose and wanted to leave it all on the field,” said Compton, who struck out 20 batters in her two appearances this weekend and lowered her ERA to 3.18.

“We came out ready to play," she said. "Once we started getting runs on the board I started to feel more comfortable. The defense played really well behind me and Paige caught a good game.”

Colorado State outhit Fresno State 15-10 in the first two games of the series – which included a monster sixth inning in the second game for the Rams, who hit three home runs en route to a 7-4 win.

Sunday was a different story.

The Bulldogs outhit the Rams 12-2 in the third game, which, coupled with Compton’s outing in the circle, was enough to ignite a shutout.

Senior Diane Runge scored the first run for the Bulldogs on Sunday in the midst of Colorado State’s confusion after Michelle Solomon stole second base.

Stesha Brazil led the Bulldogs in hitting on Sunday, going 4-for-4 at the plate.

Fresno State improved to 26-20 overall and 7-5 in conference play and is tied with Nevada for third place in the Mountain West standings.

The Bulldogs have two Mountain West series left to play: one road series against San Diego State this weekend and another one at Bulldog Diamond on May 3-5 against New Mexico.

Mountain West Conference standings T-1. San Diego State (28-16, 6-3 MWC) T-1. Colorado State (20-20, 6-3 MWC) T-3. Nevada (28-19, 7-5 MWC) T-3. Fresno State (26-20, 7-5 MWC) 5. UNLV (18-25, 4-5 MWC) 6. Boise State (19-23-1, 3-6 MWC) Khlarissa Agee / The Collegian

7. New Mexico (19-29, 3-9 MWC)

Freshman pitcher Jill Compton threw her fourth complete game shutout of the season during Sunday's 5-0 win against Colorado State on the road.

SWEEP: 'Dogs win 'Dogs nab third seed in tournament five in a row at Beiden WOMEN'S TENNIS

By Ricardo Cano The Collegian

The Fresno State women’s tennis team, which concluded a whirlwind season of sweeps and win streaks and road losses this weekend, will enter the April 25-28 Mountain West Conference Women’s Tennis Championship as the third seed.

The Bulldogs, ranked 55th in the nation by the Intercolle giate Tennis Association, will play sixth seeded Wyoming in the quarterfinals Friday at 1 p.m.

Fresno State beat Wyoming 4-3 in thrilling fashion this season. Rana Sherif Ahmed, who played at the top of the Bulldogs’ singles ladder for most of the season, clinched the match for Fresno State in three sets in a deciding game on Court 1.

The Bulldogs finished 14-7 overall and 7-2 in conference play under first-year Fresno State coach Ryan Stotland.

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Aishwarya Agrawal and the Fresno State women's tennis team enters this weekend's Mountain West Tournament as the third seed.

“We finished 14-7 this year, and I am very proud of the girls,” Stotland said. “Our seven losses were to very good, ranked teams. We ended the regular season on a high. We’ve had a great, great year so far and we don’t want it to stop.”

Fresno State finished the regular season in dominating fashion.

The No. 55 Bulldogs beat New Mexico 6-1 on the road on Sunday, winning all three doubles matches.

S o p h i e Wa t t s , M e l i s s a McQueen, Bianca Modoc, Olga Kirpicheva and Anneka Watts all won their singles matches against the Lobos.

Mountain West regular-season champion San Diego State enters the tournament as the top seed. The No. 41 Aztecs fin-

ished conference play 8-0.

After starting off the season against tough nonconference competition – losses to No. 7 Cal, No. 4 USC, No. Arizona and No. 29 Arizona State – Fresno State turned its season around and finished on a 10-3 run.

“We are looking forward to the conference championships and showing everyone what we’ve got,” Stotland said.

“Our goal is to prove to everyone how good we are and show them how we are starting to peak now and we don’t want our season to end. “ Wi n n i n g a c o n f e r e n c e championship has been our goal since Day One, and I know our girls are ready to do it.”

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this sweep. The next game for the Bulldogs (13-24, 8-10 MWC) is on Tuesday at CSU Bakersfield (27-14) against a team that has already beat them twice this year, including last Wednesday.

They then move far ther south, for a three-game series in San Diego against Tony Gwynn and San Diego State Aztecs (19-20, 10-9 MWC).

body language the way they went about their business.

They were thinking ahead when they were supposed to think ahead and a lot of clutch, tough stuff going on which hasn’t been going on around here for quite a few weeks.”

The Bulldogs are now on a five-game winning streak thanks to this series.

It is their longest of the year so far — the Mountain West mark before this was two games.

Conference standings This is also only the second series the Bulldogs have won all season, with 1. New Mexico (24-16, 14-4 the last one coming MWC) against USC over the first three days of March.

2. UNLV (27-12, 11-7 “It’s exactly what MWC) we needed,” Batesole said.

“I can’t remember, 3. San Diego State (19-20, since I’ve been here, having a five-game 10-8 MWC) sweep. I know we’ve had some fours in the WAC, when we 4. Fresno State (13-24, used to play four, but getting three from 8-10 MWC) somebody is very, very difficult.

"These are 5. Nevada (19-20, 7-11 D iv i s i o n 1 b a s e MWC) ball games. They’re tough to win. You get five in three days, 6. Air Force (10-28, 4-14 you’re doing a lot of things right.”

MWC) Fresno State does not get long to enjoy

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The Bulldog Bulletin Men’s tennis draws No. 5-seed in MWC Tournament The Fresno State men’s tennis team will enter its inaugural Mountain West Conference Tournament as the fifth seed.

The Bulldo gs finished the regular season on the road – and on a sour note.

UNLV, seeded third in the conference tournament and ranked 64th in the nation by the Intercollegiate Tennis A s s o c i a t i o n , sw e p t t h e Bulldogs 7-0 in Saturday’s regular-season finale.

Fresno State (7-16, 2-4 MWC) will play No. 4-seeded New Mexico (12-12, 3-3 MWC) in the first round of the tournament Thursday at 10 a.m. in Colorado Springs, Colo.

New Mexico swept the Bulldogs 7-0 on April 7 at home.

San Diego State, which finished the season 18-7 overall and a perfect 6-0 in Mountain West play, earned the tournament’s top seed and a firstround bye.

Lacrosse finishes season 2-13 The Fresno State lacrosse team dropped its season finale against USC, 19-1, on Saturday.

The Trojans outshot the Bulldogs 29-7 in what was the first-ever meeting between the two programs.

Kara Concheck, who finished the season with teamhigh 22 goals and 28 points, scored the sole goal for the Bulldogs.

Fresno State finished the 2013 season 2-13 overall and 0-8 in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation under second-year coach Jessica Pausewang.

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'DOGS FLUMMOX FALCONS Fresno State halts losing skid with five-win weekend streak at Beiden Field

By Zack Edwards The Collegian It seems like after 32 games, the Bulldogs are finally starting to figure things out.

This weekend looked to be a daunting task for Fresno State, playing five games in three days against Air Force.

However, it helped that the Falcons are the only team in the Mountain West Conference with a worse record than the Bulldogs.

The doubleheaders were scheduled after a series between the two teams in Fort Collins, Colo. was canceled due to a snowstorm.

The Bulldogs played back-toback doubleheaders on Friday and Saturday and took all four games, winning 9-4, 8-5, 7-0 and 8-6. The NCAA regulation length for the the first game of a double header is seven innings.

On Sunday, the Bulldogs looked to take the fifth and final game of this series for the sweep, and sweep they did -- their first of the season.

Pitcher Jordan Brink would be the one to lead Fresno State to its win over the Falcons. The sophomore pitched his first complete game of the season

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Chris Mariscal (32) celebrates after hitting a three-run homer during Fresno State's 5-3 win over Air Force Sunday at Beiden Field. Mariscal's homer gave the Bulldogs a 5-1 fourth-inning lead that they would not give up.

and threw a career-high 12 strikeouts to help the Bulldogs walk away with a 5-3 victory.

Even with the strikeouts piling up, Brink said the numbers never weighed on him.

“I wasn’t really paying attention to that,” Brink said. “I was just making sure to keep the ball down and hit the spots.

Men’s golf finishes ninth of 11th in Winchester Classic It was the tournament’s reigning champion a year ago.

The Fresno State men’s gold team, which placed first in the Winchester Classic a year ago, found itself on the opposite end this season: ninth of 11th place to be exact.

The Bulldogs fired their lowest round of the threeday tournament on Sunday and made 15 birdies to finish at 33-over par, 897 (302, 299, 296).

Senior Rufie Fessler led the Bulldogs in the tournament, finishing 3-over par, 219 (71-74-74), and tied for 11th place.

The Bulldogs next head to Tuscon, Ariz. to compete in the May 3-5 Mountain West Championship.

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Good things happen when you gears on them and then at the hit your spots, so I just kept end he came back and he had sticking with that.” either one to go to and he went Brink has established him- to both of them,” Batesole said. self as one of the rocks of this It was clear from his reacyoung pitching staff, leading tions on the mound that Brink the team in ERA (2.58) and was happy to get this win, but strikeouts he was quick to (41). F resno credit his teamState coach mates as well t was an emotional time, Mike Batesole for the successgood to get the sweep said he could ful weekend. with great plays and a great not remem“I mean a offensive day.” ber the team lot of great ever having plays behind a pitcher — Jordan Brink, u s , ” B r i n k with power Fresno State sophomore said. “You had like Brink’s A a ro n Ju d g e before. with a diving “ I t ’ s b e e n s o m e t i m e, ” catch, Trent (Garrison) saving Batesole said. “When (Matt) that ball from being a double. It Garza was here, he certainly was an emotional time, good to wasn’t that guy, and (Tanner) get the sweep with great plays Scheppers wasn’t that guy and a great offensive day.” most days, but to have someThis weekend continued a body out there patter n for pumping 96, the Bulldogs 98 (miles per of playing bethour). Even in ter once the Fresno State travels to CSU the last couple weather startBakersfield on Tuesday for the of innings, ed to warm up. third of four games the two he’s pumping “Cer tainly teams play against each other 93 a few times over the last this season. and to pound six or seven the zone the years, as it’s way he did.” warmed up • Records: Fresno State (13-24, Batesole we’ve played 8-10); CSU Bakersfield (27-14) said it is more better and than just good for these • CSU Bakersfield leads the seaBrink’s ar m kids,” Batesole son series 2-0. that sets him said. “We’ve apart. It is also got a system his on-field intelin place. It’s not ligence. His first time through always simple, and this weekthe Falcons lineup he relied on end they seemed like they fighis fastball, and then the next ured out quite a few things.” time through he showed them “They just played with more his breaking ball. confidence and much better “I thought that was really smart that way he switched See SWEEP, Page 7

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Pitcher Jordan Brink (3) leads Fresno State in ERA (2.58) and strikeouts (41). He helped lead the Bulldogs to a 5-0 weekend run at Beiden Field.