February 20 2015

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COMBATING

PLAGIARISM

AT adhere FRESNO STATE to principles of academic integrity and mutual respect while engaged in university work and related activities.

— Fresno State Honor Code

Faculty: Preventive action has been taken in recent years, but plagiarism remains an issue on campus

By Megan Ginise | @SimplyMeg13 “The first time I ever saw it, I found it in one paper. Then I started looking in other papers, and it was horrible. I lost five pounds, because it was personal. I felt like they were cheating on me.”

Fresno State communication professor Judith Scott had a problem.

In 2006, Scott caught a student plagiarizing while teaching a communications class at Fresno State. When she noticed the student plagiarized a paper, she began to search for others.

“And so I started looking through all the papers, and that was when I found out it was approximately 50 percent of my students that were

plagiarizing,” Scott said. “There were only a small percentage who knew what they were doing.”

Ida Jones, a business professor and director of the Center for the Scholarly Advancement of Learning and Teaching, said she found a similar case of plagiarism that year.

Thirty percent of students in her graduate business ethics and law class cheated on their take-home midterm assignment.

“I was just shocked,” Jones said.

“And I decided to do some research about why so many students, especially in a graduate class, a graduate

See PLAGIARISM, Page 6

Hundreds gather for campus Ash Wednesday service

By Diana Giraldo @dianainspired

Hundreds from the Fresno State community attended the Ash Wednesday service on campus, led by Bishop Armando Ochoa of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fresno, marking the beginning of Lent this season.

At noon, Ochoa entered the Satellite Student Union in his white and purple vestments Bishop Armando Ochoa making this the second year Ash Wednesday mass has been sponsored at Fresno State by the Newman Catholic Student Association and the St. Paul Newman Center.

“Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent, and many Catholics and non-Catholics can receive the ashes as a symbolism and reminder of our sinfulness and mortal nature,” Alyssa Serpa, a sophomore psychology major and member of the Catholic Student Association said. “When you go up to receive your ashes, the person who puts the ashes on your forehead will say, ‘Repent and be faithful to the gospel, or remember man that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.’”

Once the mass was over, students had the opportunity to ask the bishop questions.

See ASH WEDNESDAY, Page 3

FRESNO STATE TALKS: DRS. IGNACIO & SUSANA HERNANDEZ

Family played important role for 1st-generation college grads

By Ricardo Cano @Ricardo_Cano1

Dr. Ignacio Hernández’s first teachers were his parents, immigrants who planted roots in Southern California and encouraged “Little Nachito” to “always do your best and go to school.”

Hernández and his wife, Dr. Susana Hernández, both Fresno State educational leadership professors, were the first in their families to pursue and graduate from college.

The two earned their doctorates in educational leadership in 2013 from Iowa State University – an achievement both said would not have been possible without their families, who ingrained in them the attitude that college was a realistic possibility and desirable goal.

In what served as a tribute to their parents, the couple presented

“Degrees of Connection: Familia, Educación, and Success,” the second installment of this year’s Fresno State Talks lecture series, Thursday night at the Satellite Student Union.

Through each of their upbringings, the two professors hoped to provide a “counter narrative“ of the value of education in Latino families.

Susana and Ignacio Hernández described their parents’ hard work – Ignacio’s father immigrated in the 1960s and found work as a farm laborer picking strawberries. Susana’s mom worked 3 a.m. shifts as a machine operator at an airplane manufacturer so she could pick up her kids after school.

“For many of us, we are the first in our families to graduate from college. For me, this is not just an honor; it’s also a really big responsibility

See TALKS, Page 6

Susana Hernández speaks about her edcational experience during her Fresno State Talk With Ignacio Hernández in the Satellite Student Union on Thursday night.

Darlene Wendels • The Collegian

OPINION

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2015

MANDATORY TRAINING PROGRAM HELPS YOU RECOGNIZE SEXUAL ASSAULT

By Troy Pope @darktroy

If you are interested in continuing as a student at Fresno State, you have until March 20 to complete Haven, a mandatory training module on sexual assault and relationship violence.

If you don’t take the required training module, your records will be held, and you won’t be allowed to register for classes. But don’t fret, students, Fresno State staff are taking it, as well.

While some students have complained that they are being forced to take an hourlong online course that they don’t need, the reality is most students don’t have an understanding of how real sexual assault is, and that it does happen on this campus whether they’re aware of it or not.

For instance, one in five women are a victim of rape or other sexual assault. Look around and apply that number to real life.

That statistic is disturbing.

What’s worse, 90 percent of women know their attacker. He isn’t some stranger lurking in the dark. He is an acquaintance; he is a friend – even a boyfriend.

Instead of complaining about how the school is making you learn things, perhaps you should take the opportunity to try and better yourself.

The kind of knowledge the school is trying to impart on you is valuable, even if you don’t think it has anything to do with you, or that you might know it already. Plus, it never hurts to have a refresher.

Yes, it does take around 45 minutes to an hour to complete. But you have until March 20 to find that hour.

Men aren’t immune to sexual assault.

One in 19 has been stalked, and one in 33

Graphic from Haven

has been raped. So the information Haven has is relevant to men, not only as bystanders, but as victims of crime as well.

Gentlemen: don’t think it’s going to happen to you, so you’re unconcerned? Well, what if it happens to a good friend of yours?

How will you respond if they choose to confide in you? Will you become visibly angry, or will you sit and listen calmly?

The information has many values. On top of knowing the general statistics behind sexual assault, you also gain some ideas on how you can help prevent sexual assault if you see warning signs at a party.

Do you know what the number one rape drug is? No, it isn’t roofies. In fact, it’s alcohol.

Using alcohol to induce a “yes” to having sex is not an affirmative consent, and

you’ve just utilized drugs to get someone to have sex with you – whether or not you gave them the alcohol.

Simply being aware that you could unknowingly be committing a crime could stop you from doing so.

Some people don’t realize that a drunk “yes” is not a “yes.” It also helps you realize when someone is being preyed upon. And if you see it, other people do it, it only takes one person to act to change the course of events.

Where do college students generally feel the most safe? Probably in their home, dorm or other residence.

In 60 percent of cases, assaults happen in the victim’s residence hall. That statistic isn’t meant to scare anyone.

It’s a fact that everyone should know, so

they’re always alert and aware of their surroundings. The course goes into another area that is an even more common sight: relationship violence.

Not that we all witness relationship violence every day, but we can definitely see the signs if we are paying closer attention to our friends around us.

Signs of an abusive relationship include a person constantly having to report where they are and who they’re with, being constantly put down, jealousy or rage, and threats that they will commit suicide if you leave.

If these things are happening in public, imagine what happens when no one is around.

Haven demonstrates a couple of situations and asks what you would do, even if your response is that you are too afraid to act.

While I feel that every student should have to take a full course on race and gender at some point, this mandatory online training is a good first step in helping students understand that these things happen all the time, and many assaults can be prevented.

Less than half of victims report their attack for fear that they will not be believed or that the attack itself will stigmatize them. If victims had someone to confide in that would listen to, support and encourage them, perhaps that would change.

All of the facts and statistics in this article can be found within the Haven training module at my.fresnostate.edu under Student Self Service.

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THE COLLEGIAN • NEWS

CRAIG SCHOOL COULD CLOSE HONORS PROGRAM NEXT YEAR

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Campus mass strives for student convenience, inclusion

"I’m incredibly disappointed by this. We were told we would have the option to do this program as seniors."

— Kaitlyn Sims, Associated Students, Inc. Senator

By Tomas Kassahun @TomasKassahun

The Associated Students, Inc. held its third meeting of the spring semester Wednesday in the University Student Union.

Among the topics discussed at the meeting were the Craig School of Business possibly closing its honors program for next year.

Senator Kaitlyn Sims said she was told about the Craig School of Business closing its honors program during an Honors Council meeting Wednesday.

Because the Craig School of Business accepts only seniors in its honors program, Sims was hoping to join the program next year. Now, Sims said, she is not sure if she will have that option.

“I’m incredibly disappointed by this,” Sims said. “We were told we would have the option to do this program as seniors.”

Sims said she has not been told why the honors program will be cancelled, but expects to have more information after meeting with the dean next week.

If the honors program does close,

Sims said she hopes it will not be for more than a year.

She expects the Craig School of Business to send out emails to students in the coming days.

In the meantime, Sims wants to represent other students who are in the same predicament.

“If any students have questions, feel free to come to me,” she said. “As I get more information, I will inform the senate. I know it’s something that a lot of students will be upset about. I hope it’s only closed for a year, but we’ll see what happens.”

Also at the ASI meeting Wednesday, the senate approved the committee appointments of former Fresno City College Associated Student Government president Daniel Gai and Fresno State 101 graduate Nick Stephens.

Fresno State 101 is a set of three workshops designed to educate students on higher education issues while showing the importance of student representatives within the university.

Fresno State 101 students were invited to the meeting Wednesday and were recognized by ASI.

Darlene Wendels • The Collegian Bishop Armando Ochoa of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fresno (right) leads an Ash Wednesday Mass at Fresno State’s Satellite Student Union.

ASH WEDNESDAY from Page 1 “They were clearly really heartfelt questions, because they had that look on their faces but he fully engaged them,” said Dr. Honora Chapman, the Catholic Student Association club advisor.

When he saw students outside, Ochoa encouraged them to participate in the service.

“Then further still he said, ‘Well, you know it says we have to go out in the high ways and the by ways, so I’m going to go outside and find more people,’ so he walked outside the front door of the SSU, and he had his canister of ashes, and students who hadn’t even been at the service walked up, and started talking to him and he was blessing them with ashes outside the SSU.”

At the end of the service, a light lunch was provided by University Catering for those who attended. Last year, the bishop suggested having a meal for students who attended mass, saying that there needed to be nourishment for the people.

“And so it was his idea, and then President Castro was kind enough to take the idea, and he got to put on that beautiful spread,” Chapman said.

Despite some college students’ hectic schedules, the CSA wanted to provide a convenient place for students to participate in the ritual.

“We wanted them to be able to still re-

ceive ashes on campus even if they are busy doing school,” Elvira Arias, junior environmental science major and vice president of CSA said.

Chapman noted the impact on students’ lives of having a personal, religious experience on campus.

“It’s so convenient because you are all so busy, so many commuter students, so many students that honestly don’t have time between work and classes and family life and they’re exhausted by the end of the day or they work at night.”

Carina Pichardo, a junior communicative disorders major, grew up celebrating mass with her family and was grateful to be able to experience Ash Wednesday on campus.

“I work at night, so I can’t attend the night ones, and in the mornings I have classes so this is the right time for me,” Pichardo said. “For those that have that conflict with their schedules and can’t go to mass at another location, it helps them out a lot.”

During the six weeks prior to Easter Sunday, Lent is a time of year where Catholics are encouraged to look inward and ask hard questions about behavior and personal faith, which usually includes prayer and self-denial in some form.

“Thinking hard about being a better person, and that’s what ultimately these times of reflection should be about,” Chapman said.

Black History Month event celebrates natural hair

By Dolores Peralta @The Collegian

As part of Black History Month, Fresno State senior Nelissa Harris paid tribute to what she says is a natural hair trend amongst African-American women, and organized a Thursday evening event to empower this natural journey.

“Believe it or not, it was controversial issue when a lot of young African American women decided to stop using relaxers and chemically treating their hair,” Harris said.

“This event is really a great opportunity to unify and support those who are in transition.”

When Harris decided to go natural, she was her worst critic.

“I was very, very critical of myself looking in the mirror, because I was used to

looking one way,” Harris said. “I felt like I was losing my confidence.”

Harris looked for answers for why she felt that way and decided to join the local Natural Hair Society.

“We talked about hair products and how everyone was doing with their transition, and I became very proud of myself and my hair again,” Harris said.

Harris said that it does not matter how your hair looks and encouraged everyone to love and accept themselves and hair the way it is.

“For every woman who decides that they don’t want to process their hair to fulfill the status quote, you don’t have to live up to Hollywood’s standards of beauty.”

There were a variety of speakers sharing information about hair products and tips including Fresno State communication professor Dr. Marnel Niles Goins.

ARTS & ENTE

4 IN PHOTOS: AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH EXHIBITION

Photos by Darlene Wendels • The Collegian

Top: The exhibit illustrates content showcased within the courses offered by the Africana Studies Program at Fresno State. Students’ learning outcomes within the courses are associated with a particular art display. The exhibition is called “Black Agitprop (Art or Propaganda?), Africana Studies and Curriculum Outcomes.” Top right: A poster from Essence Magazine titled “Tribute to Black Women” by Varnette Honeywood. Bottom right: A “Dialectics of Civil Rights to Black Power” poster.

WEEKEND WONDERS Where to go, what to see and what to do

By Yvette Mancilla @yvette_mancilla

CineCulture screening Fresno State’s CineCulture program will screen “Field of Amapolas” or “Jardin the Amapolas” tonight in the Peters Education Center in the Student Recreation Center on campus at 5:30 p.m.

The Colombian film directed by Juan Carlos Melo Guevara focuses on a farmer and his son, who are forced into exile by Colombian rebels who cultivate poppies, or amapolas.

After the film, a discussion will follow with Dr. Patricia Rodriguez, an associate professor of politics at Ithaca College in New York.

For more information, contact Dr. Mary Husain at mhusain@csufresno.edu.

‘Happy Gilmore’ screening At Peeve’s Public House, movie night continues with a showing of Adam Sandler’s 1996 comedy “Happy Gilmore” on

Saturday at 7 p.m. Food is available for purchase until 9 p.m. when the kitchen closes. Live music will follow after the movie.

For more information, visit peevespub. com.

Snowshoe Walk Explore the trails of Kings Canyon National Park with an experienced park guide at no cost. The walk begins at John Muir lodge at 1 p.m. and can take up to two hours.

The walk is also limited to 14 participants. Snowshoes are available on a firstcome, first-served basis.

For more information, visit www.sequoiahistory.org.

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ERTAINMENT

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Contemporary Dance Ensemble takes center stage

By Desiree Herroz @desireeherroz

Fresno State theatre arts students have been testing their dancing skills with recent performances of “Passion, Energy and Imagination,” a contemporary dance concert put on by some of the department’s faculty and students.

A compilation of six dance pieces, “Passion, Energy and Imagination” is composed of five choreographers and student dancers from the Contemporary Dance Ensemble (CDE) course taught by the ensemble’s artistic director Kenneth Balint. The choreographers include Mickey EmanuEl, Gianna McCurry, Anandha Ray and Beth Tritch.

With a simplistic array of backdrop lighting alongside a variety of music selection, Balint said that most of the music was either inspired by the movement of the dances or was chosen in support of each dance theme.

Even with changes being made due to a dancer’s injuries, Beth Tritch, a four year CDE dancer and co-choreographer of “All of Me in a Plastic Bag,” said performers were filled with high levels of energy.

“We spend a good deal of time preparing, and we’ve come far just in the week leading up to performance,” Tritch said.

“So far we’re doing pretty stellar.”

Struggling with an injury before opening night, Gianna McCurry, CDE performer and co-choreographer of “All of Me in a Plastic Bag,” said the performance went well.

“As a group we initially struggled with becoming in sync with each other, we pulled together in the end,” McCurry said.

McCurry said her favorite part of the performance is learning the audience’s interpretation of the dances.

Audience member Jo Fox said the show was “creative and beautiful” in costume, lighting and the dancing.

“I thought the dancing was wonderful,” Fox said. “I wish I could be that alive again.”

A regular attendee, Fox said that each year the CDE delivers a different style of dance, but had high praise for this year’s Tai Chi dances.

The last two performances of “Passion, Energy and Imagination” are tonight and Saturday at 8 p.m. on campus at the John Wright Theatre.

Khlarissa Agee • The Collegian

The “Joy! Shout!” Dance Ensemble performed by students in the dance ensemble from Feb. 15, 2013.

The Garden returns to

Fresno with an energetic set

By Desiree Herroz @desireeherroz

The Garden and tour guest DJ Geniefactory, stirred up Wednesday evening with a mosh pit of excitement at Peeve’s Public House in Downtown Fresno.

The Garden, made up of brothers Wyatt and Fletcher Shears of Orange County, are an exciting “harsh noise” drum and bass band bringing their own spin to rock music with a genre fans call Vada Vada — a term coined from The Garden’s song and dance, “Vada Vada.”

Playing their third West Coast show on their 2015 tour with DJ Geniefactory, The Garden delivered a lively stage presence with continuous dancing and crowd interaction that included crowd diving and moshing.

“They are actors,” said Johnny Quiroz, Love the Captive executive director.

“There’s never a dull moment when The Garden is playing.”

Since June 2014, Quiroz has booked The Garden three times, all of which brought audiences of both young and old.

“I thought it was a great turnout,” said Quiroz. “It’s important that Fresno has all age access to shows, and you can count on good shows every time you come out to Peeve’s.”

The Garden’s bassist, Wyatt Shears, said playing Fresno is always something to look forward to because of solid fan appreciation and following.

“There’s always a strong crowd presence,” said Shears. “Every time it has gotten crazy and the crowd always give us a lot of love.”

Since their first Fresno appearance at Quiroz’s home, The Garden twins have

been busily working with record producer Rob Schnapf on a new album to be released sometime this year.

“We’ve been recording for the last year,” said Shears. “We put together an album and we’re working on a new label, which will be our second full length LP since ‘The Life & Times of a Paperclip.’ ” Aside from The Garden, the Shears brothers have solo projects including their most recent Halloween EP collaboration with DJ Geniefactory’s Ashley Calhoun.

“I’ve known The Garden for a while and we thought it would be cool to spice things up with fans,” said Calhoun. “I DJ all kinds of stuff, but for this tour I’m doing specifically jungle music that consists mostly of drum and bass — it’s really raw and experimental.”

Calhoun said being on tour with The Garden brings a lot of energy and excitement to each show.

“Each show is special,” said Calhoun.

“The audience response has been pretty good with lots of dancing — they really get into it.”

Jaime Hernandez, a graphic design major, said that the show was very energetic and very intense.

“Lots of people showed up,” said Hernandez. “It was really cool to see the change between The Garden’s first show at Johnny’s to playing here at Peeve’s.”

At the end of the night The Garden were wooed back on stage with the crowd chanting “We be Grindin’ ” a song from The Garden’s EP, “Struggle In Front Of Sector 27.”

“My favorite part of the show was when the crowd started chanting for an encore but it was just the lyrics to one of The Garden’s song,” said Hernandez. “I’m sure the Garden will always make a stop here.”

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FUN & GAMES

SUDOKU: Fill the 9×9 grid with digits so that each column, each row, and each of the nine 3×3 sub-grids that compose the grid contain all of the digits from 1 to 9.

Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Lewis / McClatchy-Tribune

Across 1 He wrote “The Eve of St. Agnes” 6 Avid fan 9 He wrote “Halloween” 14 “That’s it for me!”

15 Kyrgyzstan city 16 “My FBI” author Louis 17 Drew 18 Cohort of Curly 19 Perch, at times 20 Red Guard leader 21 1970s radical gp.

23 Literary assortment 25 The whole shebang 26 Peut-__: maybe, in French 28 Lace place 30 “Small Wonder” state: Abbr.

31 Five-pound Staples package, typically 32 Stellar spectacles 33 Show anxiety, in a way 34 Music publisher sold to Universal in 2007 36 Foreign matter 38 Westminster Abbey attraction, and one of four in this puzzle 40 Blockbuster 42 Backup key 43 Some hosp. scans 44 Pentathlon equipment 46 Sundance Film Festival state 50 Nutritional stat.

51 Battery terminals 52 Maker of the Power Max HD

snow blower 53 Chablis, e.g.

54 Sydney’s state: Abbr.

55 Rocky hellos 57 Old Egypt-Syr. alliance 58 Finishing touch of a sort 60 Swear words 62 West African capital 64 Support aids 65 Tough mutt 66 Designer Mizrahi 67 He wrote “Ash Wednesday” 68 Intro to zoology?

69 He wrote the “Convivio” Down 1 He wrote “Summer of Love”

2 Regard as the same 3 Night light sight 4 No-win situation 5 Mfg. guidelines 6 Deli request 7 Private entertainers, briefly?

8 Texas Revolution battle site 9 A neighbor 10 Script add-on 11 Legendary firefighter 12 Pay no attention to 13 He wrote “The Cloud” 22 Stretches out 24 Coffee-making portmanteau 27 Raise in relief 29 Bounced 33 Like jigsaw puzzles

35 “So what” 37 Young __ 38 19th-century Italian violin virtuoso 39 Franz’ “NYPD Blue” role 40 He wrote “The Shooting of Dan McGrew” 41 Kind of research 45 Pooh pal 47 Froot Loops mascot 48 Ancient docking site 49 He wrote the “Odes” 51 Apprehension 56 Declared 59 Recent: Pref.

61 __ process 63 Gray side: Abbr.

Workshop aims to stem, understand plagiarism Speakers talk of ‘normalizing’ going to college

PLAGIARISM from Page 1

law and ethics class, were cheating. Because you don’t have to go to graduate school; it doesn’t make sense to cheat.”

Scott and Jones decided to start a plagiarism and cheating workshop in 2006 for students and faculty. The workshop aims to help prevent plagiarism on campus, as well as to find more data about why students were cheating.

The Fresno State Honor Code, which students sign during the Dog Days new student orientation, reads that students must “understand or seek clarification about expectations for academic integrity (including no cheating, plagiarism and inappropriate collaboration) as noted by faculty and on class syllabi, university catalogue, university web sites and other referenced sources.”

Scott said that although students are required to sign the honor code at Dog Days, many students don’t pay proper attention to what the document says.

“I think they just sign it and move on,” Scott said. “They have a copy and can always access it on the web, but I don’t know that they do.”

Since the workshops started, Scott said the plagiarism rate in her classes has dropped from 50 percent to about 8 percent. However, that hasn’t stopped some students from trying.

“Some students have taken on the challenge to see if they could get this through, see if she catches it, but for the most part I’m pretty diligent,” Scott said. “Because they all fail. Students know what this is. This isn’t a shock

anymore. It has trickled down to the high schools.”

Besides the lack of education during orientation or high school, Jones said there are other causes of students who cheat.

“A lot of it is if you don’t get it in high school, and nobody recognizes it and doesn’t say anything, you just keep doing it,” Jones said.

Last fall, Jones said she saw the number of plagiarism incidents increase in her graduate class again. One student who was caught, she said, was able to graduate from Fresno State.

“She made it all the way through, got her degree, made it through the classes she had taken so far in the graduate program and then was clear – it the worst case of plagiarism I had ever seen,” Jones said. “She had made it through all those years of school, and no one ever called her on it.”

Jones said faculty response may be skewing the number of plagiarism cases at Fresno State. Many cases go unreported or are dealt with internally because of the extensive paperwork involved in reporting an act of plagiarism.

“I think students have been doing it and have been getting away with it,” Jones said. “We did a study a number of years ago, just asking faculty what percentage of students they thought plagiarize, and the faculty said something like 20 percent, and the students said around 80 percent. So, obviously, there’s a gap in how the faculty are reading it, or that they aren’t reporting it but just letting it slide.”

Scott agreed with Jones, but said

the increasing numbers of plagiarism workshops –which reach more than a thousand students each year –along with support from faculty, reported cases of plagiarism have increased.

“It took them [faculty] a while to understand what we were doing and how big of a problem it really was, and once they saw it, we have at least tripled, if not more, the charges on campus,” Scott said.

Quentin Sanford, a finance student, said stress and time-management skills play a role for students who plagiarize.

“We are trained to pass a test, to achieve a certain grade percentage and to move forward to the next step,” Sanford said. “Because of this, many students fall into plagiarism because of the demand to perform, and lack of engagement. I believe fewer students would violate the honor code if their pursuit was closer aligned to learning rather than passing.”

Another consequence for students who plagiarize, Scott added, is the depreciation of a college degree.

“I would like to stop that. I think it’s really important,” Scott said. “I have a degree from this university... and I think it’s important that the value stays attached to mine.”

Scott said that the workshops so far have been a success on campus. Data shows that students who take the pretest and posttest having a higher accuracy rate, with percentages Scott calls “unbelievable.”

“So even though a student may say they already know this,” Scott said, “there was still something in there that they learned.”

TALKS from Page 1 that I carry, not just for my family, but for my community,” Susana Hernández said.

“It’s really important that I create meaningful change for other first-generation students, because I know the impact that it’s had for me and my family.”

Their narratives, the couple said, are ones that prevail at Fresno State, where Latinos and Hispanics make up about 43 percent of the student population, according to 2013-14 data from the school’s Office of Institutional Effectiveness.

The professors, who were individually nominated by two of their graduate students to speak at the lecture series, are currently researching ways the university can engage and promote inclusivity for first-generation students and their families.

Susana Hernández, whose parents and brothers were in attendance, shared pictures of her father wearing the caps and gowns of his three children during their college graduations because “we wanted to make sure that he was a part of his kids’ success.”

“For me, [these photos] represent that we’ve normalized going to college in my family.”

Ignacio Hernández said his parents’ encouragement to attend college fueled his passion for studying and researching higher education.

“My parents would retell their stories about how educational opportunities had eluded them, how college seemed out of reach for them and how they aspired for my brothers and I to do our best,” he said.

“And now my job has become to tell others to go to school and do your best.”

THE COLLEGIAN • SPORTS

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2015

LACROSSE

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Fresno State falls to Stanford

By Collegian Staff @TheCollegian

Darlene Wendels • The Collegian

Fresno State freshman midfielder Logan Eisinger goes after a loose ball during the ‘Dogs’ Jan. 31 home opener against Occidental College.

The Fresno State lacrosse team dropped its second game of the season Wednesday night, when it fell to the Stanford Cardinal in Palo Alto, 22-7.

Fresno State sophomore Caroline Dineen-Carlson had a team-high three goals against the Cardinal. In her first career hat trick, Dineen-Carlson also added two groundballs and a sole draw control for the 'Dogs.

"Caroline had some strong takes on offense, and I look forward to seeing more production from her," said Fresno State head coach Jessica Giglio.

Freshman Nicole Ortlieb added two

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goals off of three shots for Fresno State in her debut. Marcy Levatino and Chelsea Hall also added one goal each for the 'Dogs.

Sophomore Kyleigh Westgarth had a game-high five draw controls, as the Bulldogs went 13-15 in that category against the Cardinal.

"We are going to fine-tune and clean up our turnovers and look forward to our next conference game at USC," added Giglio.

Fresno State continues its season-opening four-game road trip with a conference matchup at USC Tuesday at McAlister Field in Los Angeles. The 'Dogs then travel east to face Gardner-Webb on Feb. 27 and Furman on March 1.

The Fresno State home opener at the new Soccer/Lacrosse field is March 4, against Campbell at 7 p.m.

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SPORTS MEN’S TENNIS

‘Dogs pull off close victory

By Trentyn Pues

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Perfect tennis weather drew a large crowd to Spalding G. Wathen Center Thursday afternoon, and those in the stands witnessed a nail-biting spectacle as the Bulldogs powered through to a 4-3 victory over visiting Loyola Marymount.

Both teams were reeling from tight losses to their previous opponents heading into the matchup.

Fresno State head coach Evan Austin said the close nature of the contest Thursday was all too familiar.

“We’ve got a young team,” Austin said. “You know, we’ve been in a lot of these close matches, and we just have to keep putting ourselves in those situations to where we feel a little more comfortable and play a little more aggressive. We played a little bit better under pressure, and we just have to continue to get more and more guys that want to be in that role, and step up instead of shying away from it.”

Junior Nikolas Papic certainly didn’t shy away from that role, weathering a furious rally by Luke Bohuslav, who forced a third set, to take the deciding point for Fresno State’s victory.

Austin said the strategy at the end was to keep the points short.

“Their guy was cramping a little bit,” Austin said.

“One thing we wanted to try to do was try to take control of the points, get him running and kind of make him make explosive moves. You know, not get into slower and longer points where he can just settle in and take a crack. We were trying to make him move quick.”

Papic said he enjoys being in those game-deciding situations, a place where he feels he can really thrive.

“I always enjoy playing the last match,” Papic said. “I’ve had that opportunity many times and in those situations I try to do my best, and I really like it actually. I feel like I kept it up, the intensity, while the other guy just couldn’t handle it. I was just intense, intense, intense.”

The Bulldogs started the afternoon by picking up the doubles point. The team of Euan McIntosh and Adam Glynn didn’t even have to finish their set.

Impressive 6-foot-6-inch Loyola Marymount freshman Errol Smith knotted things up with a twoset sweep of McIntosh. Fresno State countered with similarly dominant efforts from freshman Youssef Hassan, who had full command and support of the crowd and senior Sai Kartik Nakireddi, who picked up a 6-2 6-0 victory.

“It was a bit windy,” Kartik said. “So I think [the opponent] was struggling a bit, and it’s our home court, so I had the advantage of playing here. And I was playing a bit better than I was the other day, my game was being consistent.”

Eric Komati was swept in a tightly contested twoset effort, and Adam Glynn couldn’t finish a threeset match in which he took the first set. Frustration visibly set in on the freshman as he slammed his tennis racket on his bag following the second-set loss.

With the win, the Bulldogs improve to 4-2 on the year while remaining perfect at home. After a couple of days off, the men will have to travel to Irvine to take on the Anteaters on Sunday.

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Fresno State forward Alex Davis battles Colorado State’s Daniel Bejarano in the paint during Wednesday’s Mountain West matchup at Save Mart Center.

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Fresno State got down from the beginning, giving up shot after shot and not able to keep up with the Rams’. It came within reach at times but the Rams kept delivering blow after blow to crush the Bulldogs hopes of climbing up in the conference standings.

As a result, the Bulldogs (12-14, 7-6 Mountain West) suffered their first sweep of the season with an 81-73 loss Wednesday night at the hands of the fourth-place Colorado State Rams.

“We expected to face a team that was going to be physical on the glass,” Bulldogs head coach Rodney Terry said. “They were going to come in here and rebound the basketball and really challenge us to block them out at all five sport. They got off to a great start shooting the basketball and we picked up the intensity midway through the first half and really started playing, but this was a game that in order to win we would have had to play well on the defensive end.”

The Rams (22-5, 9-5 MW) got off to a hot start on both ends but particularly on offense where they converted 14-of-29 field goal attempts for a 48.3 percentage in the first half.

Five minutes into the game, Colorado State built

a double digit lead and pushed it up to as much as 14 before Fresno State answered back.

The Bulldogs eventually settled down and gained their composure after a crucial three-point basket from Paul Watson cut Colorado State’s lead to single digits, which helped shift some momentum in the ‘Dogs’ favor.

The ‘Dogs would go on a 10-6 run, capped by a Cezar Guerrero 3-pointer, to close out the half and trail 37-32.

The second period proved to be not much different as the Rams again built several healthy leads behind proficient shooting and didn’t run into serious trouble until the final minutes when Guerrero received the and-1 call on a drive to the basket, and executing the free throw to pull the ‘Dogs within five.

The five point difference however, was as deep as the Bulldogs managed to cut into the lead as the Rams converted the crucial free throws to close out the game.

Fueling the Rams were seniors Daniel Bejarano and J.J. Avila with 20 and 16 points, respectively.

Bejarano also shot 4-of-7 from behind the arc.

Guerrero scored a season-high 20 points for the Bulldogs off of 8-of-13 shooting.

Juniors Julien Lewis and Marvelle Harris each put up 14.

WRESTLING The Fresno State wrestling club finished first in the National Collegiate Wrestling Association state championships, held at the South Gym. The Bulldogs finished with 158.5 points, UCLA with 101, USC at 88, UC Santa Barbara 54 and UC Merced 33. Davit Gevorgyan’s 22.5 points were the most for the Bulldogs, and USC’s Nick Cegelski won the Most Outstanding Wrestler award.

Fresno State’s next matchup will be on Feb. 28 at the West Coast Conference championship tournament at Grand Canyon University.

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