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An actor from the Tunnel of Oppression’s eating disorder room performed before a crowd of onlookers Monday.

By Joe Bailey The Collegian Walking through the Tunnel of Oppression is meant to be a journey in someone else’s shoes that ends after an eyeopening experience.

Aimed at giving students a deeper perspective on how oppression is ever-present and affects many people that are hidden in plain view, the tunnel is a diorama of some afflictions in society.

Devin Puente, the resident

advisor and head of University Courtyard’s diversity committee, organized the event, now in its second year at Fresno State. Puente said he hopes the tunnel helps students realize how oppression damages society.

“It might make you upset and might make you want to cry,” Puente said. “We just want to impact people with the realness of the groups that are being oppressed. It puts those things right in your face so you can’t avoid them.”

Puente said the event has been able to open up the eyes of students who attended Tuesday, as well as last year.

“Last year we got a lot of feedback from people and how it impacted them, people didn’t realize how they oppress others,” Puente said.

Approximately 120 people attended Tuesday, exposing themselves to the challenges and ridicule that face the mentally and physically challenged, those with eating disorders, the homeless, sexual assault victims, transgender and many others.

The tunnel also offers statistics and information about these groups that help the participants realize the vastness of these problems.

Professor and org anizer Mary Husain said events like the tunnel are vital in lowering the negative effects of discrimination.

“Winning support for diverse groups is an ongoing work in progress,” Husain said.

hall also incorporates a variety of drinks for students, See DINING, Page 6

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By Tara Albert The Collegian

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The University Dining Hall has some healthy food options including organic choices and the salad bar, above.

students, so the dining hall uses oils that have no trans fats to limit the fat content of the foods. He said the dining

hall also offers many steamed foods, including fish, chicken, beef and vegetables.

Fernandez said the dining

By Brionie Dixon The Collegian An on-campus org anization has prepared Diversity Awareness Week 2010, a week full of events that celebrate and honor the diversity across campus.

The Central Valley Cultural Heritage Institute’s Welcoming Diversity Workshop is a prog ram under the National Coalition Building Institute.

This is a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to eliminating prejudice on campuses and communities throughout the world.

Community member Christian Hays attended this workshop last year and said it was a great experience.

“I gained an appreciation and a better understanding of people that are unlike me,” Hays said. “I was able to hear the thoughts on discrimination from people from different ethnicities, gender, religious backgrounds and sexual orientations, and it was very enlightening.”

The workshop addresses and emphasizes their core principles: every issue counts, personal stories change attitudes and eliminating mistreatment means ending leadership oppression.

The workshop also focuses on the key insights that differences among individuals need not lead to discrimination and divisiveness, that differences among groups can be a community asset and that differences on issues need not divide communities.

Senior criminology major Jennifer Gutierrez said the workshop changed her outlook on certain people.

“I was able to address the prejudices that I have held my entire life and hear the perspectives from the groups that I had once held prejudices against, and that helped me change how I view people and understand them more,” Gutierrez said.

The Welcoming Diversity Workshop is just one of the many events taking place during Diversity Awareness Week.

There will also be a workshop on campus commitment to social justice and inclusion, a local Latina leadership conference, a showing of “Invictus,” a showing of “Nanking,” a 2010 Cesar Chavez Conference, a Wong Fu production by the Amerasia organization and the 5th Annual Diversity Conference.

This conference is an all day event made up of a morning symposium and an afternoon workshop.

Healthy choices line Dining Hall bar For senior Raymond So, e at i n g at t h e U n ive r s i t y Courtyard Dining Hall during the four years of his college career has been more than enough. He said he usually prefers to eat elsewhere.

But the food has been slowly improving each year, and there are plenty of healthy choices for students, he said.

“The food tastes much better than four years ago,” So said.

Steve Fernandez, the executive chef of food services, said the dining hall staff has been researching food options to provide students with healthier foods and vegetarian meals.

Fer nandez said the dining hall is working to expand the selection of fresh and healthy food it offers to meet students’ needs.

“We try to have a variety of fruits, vegetables and soybean products to be healthy,” Fernandez said. “Our main focus is healthy, quality, lowfat food.”

Fer nande z said the deep fried food is popular among

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On the South Park fiasco

ut there’s still a sense in which the ‘South Park’ case is particularly illuminating. Not because it tells us anything new about the lines that writers and entertainers suddenly aren’t allowed to cross. But because it’s a reminder that Islam is just about the only place where we draw any lines at all.”

— Ross Douthat, New York Times

Not racist, just dumb

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llow me to confess something. I am an immigration restrictionist. I think that immigration—legal and illegal—is too high. A wall should be built on our border where vast numbers of illegal aliens cross. Harsher penalties should be imposed on businesses that hire illegal immigrants.

The “anchor baby” system where illegal’s cross the border and give birth to automatic United States citizens should come to an end. There should be a moratorium on immigration for a short period of time to allow the current immigrant population to assimilate into the culture.

I think that immigration is a huge problem, and something must be done to correct it. The law recently passed in Arizona, however, isn’t it.

The law states, in part, that “for any lawful contact made by a law enforcement official of a law enforcement agency…where reasonable suspicion exists that the person is an alien who is unlawfully present in the United States, a reasonable attempt shall be made, when practicable, to determine the immigration status of the person.”

The controversial part of the text is the term “reasonable suspicion.” Some have compared it to Nazi Germany, apartheid and Jim Crow. That it

The Right Tone Tony Petersen most certainly is not—to compare it to any of those is to cheapen the memory of those who suffered at the hands of that evil. But it does raise one’s eyebrows.

Proponents of the bill have pointed out that the key passage is “lawful contact.” “That means the officer is already engaged in some detention of an individual because he’s violated some other law,” said Kris Kobach, who helped write the bill, according to an article in the Washington Examiner

by Byron York. “The most likely context where this law would come into play is a traffic stop.”

The bill even explicitly says, cry its supporters, that race and ethnicity cannot be the basis of the suspicion.

While I can certainly sympathize with Kobach, York and the rest of

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those who support this legislation, that is mostly wishful thinking.

There is too much gray area in this law. Who’s to say that a cop wouldn’t pull someone over, punch out their taillight and then use that as an excuse to ask for the driver’s identification?

There are too many ways a bigoted police officer could circumvent the law for his or her own discriminatory purposes.

Out of this law one can easily find fault in the federal government. For it is their lackadaisical effort at solving this problem that left the Grand Canyon State feeling as though they had to take so drastic an action.

Roughly 14 percent of the state’s population is illegal immigrants. The citizens of Arizona needed something to be done, and if the feds weren’t going to do it, the state was.

But didn’t mom always tell you that two wrongs don’t make a right?

There are sensible ways to fix the immigration crisis. The so-called “comprehensive immigration reform” that the Obama administration wants passed isn’t it, and neither is the Arizona law. But something must be done.

You may not be an immigration restrictionist like me. But at least we can agree on that.

Are you a closet gamer?

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umor has it that the prequel to the epic Halo Trilogy titled “Halo Reach” will inject into your boyfriend’s Xbox 360 on the first of September.

Having suffered minor injuries from dating a gamer, I would consider myself an expert in the field.

As embarrassing as it is to admit, a Halo addict did in fact pop my cherry.

It is not the act of wasting countless hours on World of Warcraft, Gears of War or Call of Duty that screams sex appeal. It’s substituting personal hygiene, physical activity and sleep for game play that really turns me on.

Ridicule me if you must, but we both know the person on the opposite end of the headset isn’t going to shower and shave for you.

You may think I am over exaggerating. And yes, I tend to do that a lot.

However, this is not one of those times.

The term closeted originated in the 1600s as a means to keep something hidden. However, in the mid-20th century, the catchphrase “in the closet” classified lesbian, gay, bi and transgender individuals who chose not to disclose their sexuality.

Most recently, the expression spawned a new breed—the closet gamer.

My friend, who would prefer to remain anonymous, is in a relationship with a WOW groupie. For all you non-gamers out there, WOW is the acronym for World of Warcraft.

As the amount of time her boyfriend spends simulating the

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And he isn’t alone. Criminology major and avid Modern Warfare player Adam Anguiano said he can stay on his PlayStation for two to three hours and not even notice time went by so quickly.

“The longest I’ve ever played is between five to six hours straight,” Anguiano said. “Of course sometimes you’ve got to eat, so you have to turn off the system. Or your girlfriend calls to yell at you because you’re not talking to her.

However, it’s not deliberate.

“A lot of times I’ll be playing my video games and my girlfriend will call me and I don’t answer because I’m doing so good in a round,” Anguiano said. “I don’t want to mess up. The second you answer you’re going to get picked off.”

Although he may not consider himself an addict, the signs are clear.

Tamyra Pierce, Ph.D., an associate professor in Fresno State’s mass com-

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The predictable results indicated that males tend to play more war games than their female counterparts.

In addition, Pierce attested that firstperson shooter games and Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPG) are addicting because they have no ending.

Even a few men of The Collegian staff are in denial about their favorite pastime. But one in particular—you know who you are—makes the claim that he is an ex-gamer. What does that even mean? Did you and Dungeons and Dragons have a falling out? Is it just strictly friends with benefits now?

Personally, I don’t get it.

What I have discovered is that it’s the amount of time spent with a game console that defines each player. So, all my single ladies and my non-closet gays brace yourself for the only three categories: Hardcore gamer, closet gamer or the friend of one of the first two categories that plays because he’s bored and has nothing better to do.

Is gaming a hobby? Absolutely. Is it an appropriate use of time? Of course not.

However, it all boils down to one question: Does chasing a new high score beat spending time with your main squeeze?

If the answer is yes, it’s time to find a new hobby or a new partner.

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Obama supports racism rclark0313: “It’s clear that this is an anti-abortion article, a conservative article, and an article that doesn’t review full facts. I won’t argue with the fact that the founder of planned parenthood was racist, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that the organization is. If we assumed that any organization formed by racists is still racist perhaps more than half of the businesses in the US could be considered racist. Going along with the fact that, yes, there is a significantly higher chance of finding a planned parenthood in areas of less fortunate and of minorities, but that’s due to the significantly higher birthrates. Not so much overall, but particularly among teens who, I’m sure no one can argue, often aren’t equipped to handle a child.

If anyone would be believe that isn’t so, then by all means support your position that teens are old enough, mature enough, responsible enough, and have the time to take care of a child. Often it is so that when a child is then born into these neighborhoods, where the mother often (not all the time) has little time or care for the child, the child is likely to grow up around gangs that will happily take in and be an influence for that child.

The lack of care of these parents and the influence entailed then will most often lead to a repeat of this cycle. Could you honestly wish that upon any child?

Ideally there would be a planned parenthood in every neighborhood, but it is perhaps more important to put one in the neighborhoods where they can’t as easily afford birth control, and likely, aren’t receiving much of a message of abstinence.”

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The daily crossword

Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Lewis Los Angeles Times

ACROSS 1 Hist. or sci.

5 Penn. crosser 9 “This is for real!”

15 Composer Schifrin 16 Noah of “ER” 17 Singer Morissette 18 Response to comic Anderson’s “What’s for dinner?”?

20 Forceful, as an argument 21 Response to Spanish tenor Kraus’s “What’s for dinner?”?

23 1861-’89 territory 25 MFA, for one 26 Oater okay 27 Get ready 29 Bighorn sheep, at times 33 What’s up?

34 Like machine-stamped mail 37 Response to Revolutionary Arnold’s “What’s for breakfast?”?

42 Most proximate 43 Cold and wet 46 Flute relative 49 Leather source 53 Tokyo, once 54 Sitter’s handful 57 Sly 58 Response to actress Bracco’s “What’s for brunch?”?

63 Dump 64 Response to jazzman Peterson’s “What’s for

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68 Nastase of tennis 69 Maestro Klemperer 70 They’re sometimes worn under helmets 71 Building extensions 72 1966 Jerry Herman musical DOWN

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3 Mark of shame 4 Change positions often 5 Like many garages 6 Stooges’ laugh 7 Practiced, as a trade 8 New Hampshire college town 9 Table salt, to a chemist 10 Swedish statesman __ Palme

11 Five-time NHL scoring leader Jaromir 12 Cyclops feature 13 More considerate 14 Prevents, legally 19 __ fire under 22 Accept 23 Infielders’ stats 24 Indy’s pursuit 28 Involve, as in conflict 30 Dull finish?

31 “Something tells __ goofed” 32 CLX x X 35 Wide shoe spec 36 Heavy wts.

38 Health food co.

39 Former GM division 40 Actor Mineo 41 Potentially lucrative track bet 44 Do something 45 “Give me a reason” 46 Ahab’s whaler 47 “Don’t ask me!”

48 Menacing snake 50 Libra symbol 51 Small band 52 Kidnapper’s demand 55 Dinner companion?

56 Head & Shoulders competitor 59 Musical finale 60 Den __, Netherlands 61 Nestlé ice cream brand 62 Track fence 65 PIN requester 66 Fish delicacy

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Hip-hop

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By Julie Bounchareune The Collegian If you tuned into a hip-hop radio station, songs like “Tik Tok,” where rapper Ke$ha sings about brushing her teeth with a bottle of Jack Daniels, and “how Low” where rapper Ludacris’ rhymes about someone getting low on the dance floor—Fresno State senior Idrees Gill’s music is nothing like that.

“It’s hip-hop that actually has a purpose and meaning about real life situations that we go through on a day-to-day basis,” Gill said.

He considers his genre “Progressive hip-hop,” and his lyrics are about real life situations. His song “Fall Before Rise” was written about his diagnosis with Ulcer Atibe Colipis, a stressrelated condition that causes a massive amount of blood loss.

“There were times like I felt like I wasn’t going to make it, but I managed to survive,” Gill said. “The song is about how you feel like everything is going right for you and all of the sudden one thing can just come and change everything.

Then you realize that you have to take those kinds of falls in order to rise to the person that you need to become.”

In the sixth grade, Gill discovered his talent for writing poetry, which he later developed into writing different types of rap.

In high school, he started producing beats and made friends who shared the same interest—one of those friends, Juan “Jukebawks” Duarte, is his producer today.

“Idrees’ music is nothing like what you hear on the radio,” Duarte said. “It’s not music telling you to shake your butt or telling you to take shots of tequila. It’s music made with a purpose.”

Gill’s musical influences include rap artists Mos Def, The Roots and Talib Kweli.

“They have a real unique style the way the flow and they way they get their message across is very dynamic,” Gill said.

Gill has been recording and performing music since 2005. He has performed at UC Berkeley, San Jose State, San Francisco State University, UC San Diego, as well as Fresno State.

Gill is working on his debut album titled “Scratch the Surface” that is set to release in May. Gill has been working on his album for three years and covers the span of his college career.

For his album, Gill is working on a project that is incorporating education in the music field called Voice

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t’s not music telling you to shake your butt or telling you to take shots of tequilla.”

—Juan Duarte, Producer

Clips Projects (VCP). The project involves Fresno State professors being recorded about topics pertaining to how individuals work in their own worlds to help people and tying that into their own professional fields. Gill plans to record Fresno State professors and possibly put them on an interlude over dramatic music on his album.

Aside from music, Gill is on the board of directors of MY DEEN, a nonprofit organization.

MY DEEN provides the resources necessary for youth to reach out to the community.

MY DEEN President

Sheraz Gill, “Idrees is almost graduating so he works with a lot of youth ages 13-19. He tries to provide a good mentorship role and demonstrate good positive skills to people younger than him,” Sheraz Gill said.

When predicting how far Gill will go in the music industry, Gill said, “Sky’s the limit. Even if it doesn’t lead to anything, at least I can feel accomplished at the end of the day- I did what I wanted to do.”

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TUNNEL: Receives good reviews from students, professors CONTINUED from page 1 “Anything we can do to help is for the better. There’s so many steps still to be made.”

Africana and American Indian studies professor Meta Schettler said an event, like the Tunnel of Oppression, even though she realizes there can be a challenge in organiz-

ing such an occasion.

“The only challenge is inclusion,” Schettler said. “It would be really hard to include all the angles, and have as many groups represented, and have everybody included because diversity is so complex.”

Shettler said that inequality

can be the greatest proponent of oppression.

“Sometimes it is hard to see that inequality,” Schettler said. “It’s a much harder goal to achieve equality. To eliminate [inequality] completely is not realistic, but the goal of activities like this is to raise

awareness. We have to do small things to make a difference.”

Jeremy Eggman a freshman dorm resident walked the tunnel and said he was enlightened by the information it presented.

“It was awesome,” Eggman said. “It really opens your eyes

to the statistics that you really wouldn’t be aware of. It makes you think about how you treat others”

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WEEK: A fundraiser is also planned CONTINUED from page 1 Diversity Awareness Week will take place during the week of April 26 through May 1. This week is not all about diversity awareness, there will also be a fundraiser throughout this week.

Mahalate Hagos, a junior criminology major and Black Student United (BSU) member, said BSU plans to hold a Got Water? Project during this week.

“There are a lot of homeless people who need clean drinking water so BSU will be collecting bottled water to give to the homeless,” Hagos said. “Those who would like to donate water can bring to the Thomas Building, room 110 by April 30.

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DINING: While the variety of choice may be limited for some students, the dining hall offers some organic food CONTINUED from page 1 including milk and vitaminenhanced water. He said the effort to provide healthy food also extends to the desserts.

The cookies offered in the dining hall are made from low-fat dough. “We provide everything that we can to ensure the students have a quality experience here,� Fernandez said.

The salad bar, Fer nandez said, is another source of healthy food choices for students. He said there are several different types of lettuce and a variety of toppings. He added there is also a special salad, like potato or macaroni, twice a week. “We try to incorporate different types of salad,� Fernandez said.

He said fruit is always limited, because most of it is not in season during the peak operation of the dining hall.

But during the summer, when more variety is available, the dining hall expands its fruit choices. However, Fernandez said the facility provides some fruit year-round.

Deborah Guill, the senior manager at the dining hall, said the facility tries to follow market trends, and representatives attend several food shows throughout the year to discover new products. She said the dining hall also hosts vendor fairs that allow students to sample new food items from food companies.

Guill said much of the food in the dining hall is purchased from a variety of vendors, but a large amount of the produce and dairy products come from

local companies and Fresno State. “The dining hall purchases and features farm fresh organic produce from the campus organic plot,� Guill said. “All of our produce is delivered fresh six days a week.�

Sajeemas “Mint� Pasakdee, a research scientist and adviser for the student-operated farm at Fresno State, coordinates sales of organic produce from the farm.

She said a majority of the produce grown on the farm is conventional field crops, but a small portion of the farm is designated for organic produce. “One acre of all campus farmlands is currently certified organic, which grows only seasonal organic produce,�

Pasakdee said.

She said the crops that are grown in the organic far m include lettuce, cauliflower, broccoli, onion, cabbage and strawberries.

Guill said the facility serves between 1,550 and 1,700 people each day, and about 450,000 meals each year.

She said the facility has several staple foods that are offered each day, including a sandwich bar, a grilled and deep fried food station, a pasta and grain station and a salad bar. Guill said there is also a feature station, which has different food each day. She said the dining hall also has several theme meals throughout the year to add fun and variety to the medley. “We have a large selection of different types of food,� Guill

said. “We prepare American, Italian, Mexican and Asian cuisines.�

Freshman Christine Glymph said she likes the dining hall, because it offers a variety of food and many healthy options. “It has a little bit of everything,� she said. “It can pretty much fit everyone’s needs and likes.�

However, she said the food is not always as fresh as she would like. Glymph said the lettuce in the salad bar is occasionally wilted, and some entrĂŠe items are cold.

Guill said all of the dining hall meals are prepared daily with the freshest ingredients available. She said the dining hall works to accommodate people with special eating preferences. “We feature a vegetarian entrĂŠe everyday at both lunch and dinner, and have a large salad bar with lots of choices,â€? she said.

But sophomore Vishal Vyas, who prefers a vegan diet, said his choices at the dining hall are very limited. “I just eat fruit, milk and cereal; sometimes potatoes and spaghetti,� Vyas said.

Vyas said he would like the dining hall to label each of the meals as vegan, vegetarian or non-vegetarian. He said he currently has to ask about each product to see if it is something he can eat.

He said there are a variety of food options each day, but many of the meals are repeated weekly. Vyas said a good thing about the dining hall is

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Though students often opt for the deep fried food, the executive chef of food services said the University Dining hall offers salad, fruits and vegetables.

that it consistently has healthy choices. “The food is very healthy if you know how to choose,�

Vyas said.

Guill said the weekly menu can be viewed on the dining services website. But students

hoping to view the nutrition facts of each meal will be hard pressed to find them. “Unfortunately, we do not have a menu program that is capable of this function at this time,� Guill said.

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Welcome to college Freshman talk about the major adjustments to being a student-athlete and away from home.

By Ben Ingersoll The Collegian Whether it is the dreaded freshman 15, suddenly having to buy textbooks or being cramped in a cluttered dorm miles away from home, being a freshman college student has its turmoil.

But for the more than 120 Fresno State freshman student-athletes, dorm life and textbooks are just a small portion of hectic everyday life.

Gone are the days in high school

where practice lasted two hours at the most and a home-cooked meal was waiting on the table. In comes yearround training, two practices a day and a steady dose of dining hall food or macaroni and cheese. “What do I miss about home? The cooking, definitely,� diver Stacey Luke said. “I guess being able to see my parents everyday and talking to them. Just having a place to get away, because you’re constantly around people all the time, and when you’re home you have a

little more of your own space.�

L u ke, wh o i s o r i g i n a l l y f r o m Kenmore, Wash., closed her inaugural campaign as one of the most successful freshman athletes competing for Fresno State in 2009-10. In her first season, nearly 1,000 miles away from home, Luke rewrote the record books by being the first diver to compete in the NCAA diving zones.

Despite Luke’s stellar season, the transition from high school to college preparation and competition has taken some getting used to for the 19-year-old mass communication and journalism major. “I know it’s a big switch from high school,� Luke said. “You have a lot more homework and definitely a lot more practice time. I’ve practiced twice a day before, but not nearly as intensely, and I’ve never had a practice in the morning, so that was definitely hard to adjust to.�

Likewise, Baseball player Justin Charles has felt the effects of being away from his home in Galt, Calif., to be a key player in head coach Mike Batesole’s 2010 freshman class. “At school, I’m cooking my own meals and making sure laundry gets done,� Charles said. “I probably miss the home cooked meals from mom the most. It was a big jump for me and I feel I’ve grown and matured as a person.�

Charles has appeared in 27 of Fresno State’s 39 games this season, batting .308 in his first season in a Bulldog uniform. Although home is only twoand-a-half hours away, Charles is still settling into apartment life while balancing school and helping Fresno State chase its fourth straight Western Athletic Conference title. “I was expecting a different lifestyle,�

Charles said. “Just knowing that I was going to have to get my studies done as well as performing on the field at the same time. Make sure I balance my time and get my things done. I was trying to come prepared and please everyone.�

While practice, game and meet schedules have erased a lot of Luke and Charles’ free time, both have managed to find time to return to their respec-

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tive hometowns and reacquaint themselves with the life that once was. “I’ve been home maybe four times this whole year,� Charles said. “It was good getting home and seeing my family and catching up with them, other than being on the phone. It’s just much different when you go home now. You have people asking how the season is going and acting different toward you.�

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Baseball: Thursday, at Pete Beiden Field vs.

Dallas Baptist at 6:05 p.m., Friday at 6:05 p.m. and Saturday at 6:05 p.m.

Sports Editor, Brianna Campbell • collegian-sports@csufresno.edu • Wednesday, April 28, 2010

“Drafty” Predictions

Mid-season Analysis

Baseball Offense

Ben there, done that Ben Ingersoll Perhaps nothing in sports is more overanalyzed than the now three-day long NFL Draft.

For days, weeks and months on end, so-called “experts” studied, examined and debated what team would pick who and how that player would transition from college to the big show.

There’s only one problem with all of this: They are essentially debating the unknown. Determining what players will make the successful leap to the “League” is like flipping a coin and arguing with a friend which side it will land on. What it all boils down to is the NFL Draft has to be just about the most unpredictable thing in sports that everyone seems to think they have a firm grasp on.

In the 1998 NFL Draft, experts toyed with which quarterback would ultimately be taken with the top overall pick. The choices: Peyton Manning from Tennessee and Ryan Leaf from Washington. Both seemed like perfect fits for either of the top two picks, which belonged to Indianapolis and San Diego. In the end, Peyton Manning went first overall, while Ryan Leaf fell to second. Leaf became the league’s laughingstock.

Now Leafon to fill police reports with drug charges while Peyton Manning is rewriting NFL history books.

More recently, in 2005, the San Francisco 49ers sat at the top of the draft quarterbackless. Utah’s Alex Smith was labeled a “natural leader” who “stays away from mistakes,” according to Sports Illustrated. In that same draft room in New York sat California’s Aaron Rodgers who the same experts said “lacks pocket stature” and “must improve his accuracy.” Today Alex Smith has a 37-to-43 touchdown-to-interception ratio, has been benched in favor of such guys as Shaun Hill and J.T. O’Sullivan.

The Green Bay Packers stole Rodgers with the 24th overall pick, after he sat in a nearly empty draft room embarrassed for being picked after 23 others.

How did Rodgers respond? He threw 28 touchdowns in 2008, his first year as a starter, and was selected to the NFL Pro Bowl last year after tossing 30 scores.

Are you starting to see a pattern?

The NFL Draft is about as predictable as JaMarcus Russell’s future.

Mel Kiper, an ESPN NFL Draft expert, said about the 2007 draft bust, “Jamarcus Russell’s going to immediately energize that Raider Nation, that fan base, that football team- on the practice field, in that locker roomthree years from now you could be looking at a guy that’s certainly one of the elite top five quarterbacks in this league.”

So, if you think this year your team scored big last week and the doomed days are over, remember a few things.

Rookies are still rookies. What they did in college no longer matters. And wait a few years before you believe “experts.”

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Fresno State’s baseball team has had an up and down season at the plate. The ‘Dogs rank in the middle of the conference pack in batting average (.309), runs (283) and RBIs (268). It is difficult to tell which Bulldog team will show up each night. Junior Jordan Ribera has taken over the spotlight for the ‘Dogs as the national home run leader with 20 and second in the conference in RBIs with 51. The Bulldogs took a lot of early season lumps, but have shown signs of improvement since.

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The defense has been a lot like the offense for Fresno State- inconsistent. The Bulldogs allow nearly seven runs a game. Junior Danny Muno, starting second baseman has a high fielding percentage but has recorded 16 errors this season. Compared to opponents the ‘Dogs have recorded 63 fielding errors this season, while opponents close in with only 51.

Coaching

Although Mike Batesole is one of the best in the WAC after leading the ‘Dogs to three straight conference titles and a national championship, he has struggled to develop consistency with his relatively inexperienced squad. Through 42 games Batesole’s Bulldogs own a 24-18 record, up from a 20-22 record at this point last season.

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Most of the success of the 2010 squad so far has been credited to the 2009 carryovers.

Freshman Austin Wynns recently caught junior college transfer Gonzalez’s no-hitter, and freshman Justin Charles has started 12 games while batting .308 on the season, but outside of those three, the newcomers have had limited roles.

Returners

Prior to the beginning of the season, most believed highlights would come from preseason All-Americans Dusty Robinson and Danny Muno. Junior Jordan Ribera leads the country in home runs and is clearly the anchor of the Bulldogs’ offense. Both Garrett Weber and Brennan Gowens have decent batting averages with .346 and .345 respectively.

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With a team batting average of .300, Fresno State has looked sufficient at the plate in 2010. Junior Haley Gilleland has carried over from last season to be the team’s most consistent batter with a .389 average. The offensive surprise of the season may be Michelle Moses, who with six games left in the regular season has 16 home runs and a .727 slugging percentage.

Defense

The ‘Dogs allow the fewest earned runs, post the fewest errors and lead the WAC in fielding percentage. Sophmores Michelle Moses and Mackenzie Oakes have anchored Fresno State on the mound. Both Melloh and Oakes have thrown no-hitters this year, while Moses is the top pitcher in the WAC with a 1.11 ERA and an 8-0 record.

Coaching Head coach Margie Wright is one of the most prolific coaches not only in the conference, but the country as well. Upon picking up her 1,200 win as a Fresno State head coach on March 19, Wright launched herself into the national record books. She is the Fresno State, WAC and NCAA all-time winningest coach with 1,300 career victories under her belt.

Returners

The 14 Bulldog carryovers from 2009 are the primary reason for Fresno State’s second place standing in the conference with a 33-14, 12-3 record. While preseason expectations for certain players have not been met, returnees such as Moses, Oakes and Haley Gilleland have stepped up in 2010. Moses’ 16 home runs and 49 RBIs place her on the conference leader boards.

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Fresno State softball welcomed four rookies into the program. Hannah Williams gave Bulldog fans a taste of the future in her first game, driving in five RBIs, three from a home run. Moore is second on the team in RBIs with 22, and home runs with five. Freshman Rebecca Walker starts at second base and has a .956 fielding percentage.

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