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By Ben Ingersoll The Collegian New Fresno State head football coach Tim DeRuyter has put together nearly all his coaching staff puzzle pieces that he hopes will form a picture of future Mountain West Conference championships.

The initial hires, which were made public on Jan. 4, focused primarily on the defensive side of the ball, an area the Bulldogs have severely struggled in over recent seasons. Since 2007, Fresno State

hasn’t finished better than third in the Western Athletic Conference in total defense, including sixth during Pat Hill’s final season leading the ‘Dogs. DeRuyter was especially optimistic during the press conference announcement of the potential of his initial understudies.

“You’re going to find out we’ve got great breadth of experience, g reat men of character, guys that I know personally, have known for a long, long time,” DeRuyter said. “Some of them, most of

them, but guys that are going to come really attack this job with passion.”

DeRuyter handpicked his inaugural staff members from various institutions across the college football landscape, and even a local product that has made a name for himself on both the professional and high school levels.

L e a d i n g t h e o f f e n s ive side of the ball will be Dave Schramm, the former running backs, quarterbacks and tight ends coach at Pac-12 competitor Utah. Schramm, who will

double as the Bulldogs’ quarterbacks coach, was described

by DeRuyter as running a fastpaced attack as well as assisting in recruiting duties.

“I didn’t think we could get a Dave Schramm when he’s at a BCS school, but I reached out to him and laid out our vision, and you’re going to see a guy who’s unbelievable on the field, demands from his players, recruits his tail off,” DeRuyter said. “He’s a great one.”

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were more runs to spread everyone out and just get away See SNOW, Page 4

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New head coach Tim DeRuyter announced his first assistants on Jan. 4. Not shown above is defensive backs coach Tim McDonald.

Warm weather slows ski season Local ski resorts feel affects of unusual winter season Although the idea of a warm winter may present students with an early springtime feel, for the snow-sports enthusiasts that have been itching to hit the slopes all year, the spike in dry conditions hasn’t been ideal.

With mountain temperatures in the 50s, snow resorts have been forced to adjust and accommodate to their frustrated guests.

China Peak, which made a return in 2010 after 28 years of being operated under the name Sier ra Summit, and Yosemite’s Badger Pass are

two nearby resorts that have taken creative measures to cater to their season pass holders.

“We’ve been making snow nightly, as long as the weather for the following day permits,” China Peak events manager Lindsey Couto said.

However, even with the manmade snow, only five of China Peak’s 12 lifts are operating as of Tuesday evening, including only three chairs and two main beginner mover carpets.

“When the snow’s not very good it’s depressing because you feel like you can’t go up there or anything because it’s a million people packed into three runs,” electrical engi-

Photo Illustration by Esteban Cortez / The Collegian

Lack of snow at ski resorts such as China Peak and Badger Pass have left Fresno-area snow-sport goers off of the mountains more than normal.

neering major Matt Kleinberg said. “It isn’t all that bad because it’s so close, but it would be a lot nicer if there

By Stephen Keleher The Collegian In front of the Spring Assembly for faculty and staff, Fresno State President John Welty spent nearly an hour last Wednesday outlining the stark realities facing the university in light of yet another round of cuts to the education budget made by the California Legislature and Gov. Jerry Brown.

The university would lose $11 million in the 2012-13 year if Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposed tax-increase ballot measures fail to pass in November.

Welty told the assembly that during the past three-and-ahalf years, state funding to the CSU system declined sharply, forcing austerity measures and tuition and fee increases.

Funding to Fresno State alone is down $47.6 million since 2008. These cuts have forced his administration to reduce faculty and staff by 300 memb e r s w i t h c o r re s p o n d i n g reductions to time devoted to student advising, tutoring and career services. He reminded the assembled faculty and staff that pay rates had been frozen since 2007.

Welty highlighted the drastic increases students and their parents have to overcome, pointing out that when he first came to Fresno State almost 20 years ago, only 4 percent of the college budget was funded by tuition, but now 49 percent of the budget is funded by students.

After warning of possible cuts to Pell Grant funding by the federal government, Welty moved on to the cuts Brown had announced just before the holiday break due to state tax revenue shortfalls, but said that the statewide undergraduate tuition fee increase of $500 million set for fall 2012 should just barely cover the cuts.

When asked to comment on the contrast between the state

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OPINION EDITOR, TONY PETERSEN • COLLEGIAN-OPINION@CSUFRESNO.EDU

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2012

The pain of losing

The Right Tone Tony Petersen

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he funny thing about sports is that losses always pain more than wins gratify.

I was reminded of this thought (or, rather, bludgeoned in the head with it) after my beloved Green Bay Packers were eliminated from the NFL playoffs by the New York Giants this past weekend.

One would think that, after last season, I would have no room to complain about anything concerning the greenand-gold. Last season, the Packers snuck into the playoffs as a 6-seed, and proceeded to defeat the Philadelphia Eagles, Atlanta Falcons and Chicago Bears en route to a Super Bowl victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers. In the meantime, Charles Woodson won the championship that had eluded him in his productive career, Clay Mathews earned the moniker “Claymaker” for his penchant for making fantastic defensive plays and wreaking havoc on opposing quarterbacks and Aaron

Rodgers proved he was one of the elite quarterbacks in the NFL. As the championship game ended, I sat in silence for what seemed like an eternity. I excused myself from the celebrations going on inside my house, went outside and screamed like a giddy ten-year-old who had just received a Wii for Christmas. It was glorious.

And then it ended.

All those weeks spent agonizing over the Packers play, arguing with friends about their playoff chances and collecting every magazine and newspaper article about the team were over. It was as if the world didn’t notice.

On Sunday, however, it was different. As soon as it became apparent that the Packers would likely lose, the texts came flying in from all over.

“Uh oh!”

“G-Men!” “Time to put the Packer gear away for awhile!”

Funny, I don’t remember congratulatory texts when the Packers won the Super Bowl.

And the pain won’t just stop — the season continues. There are games next weekend, which I will have to watch knowing that my team is no longer playing. And then the Super Bowl!

The agony! Am I supposed to wear my Packer jacket commemorating past championship victories to the obligatory Super Bowl party with a straight face?

And then there is a whole offseason reminding me how the Packers fell short. Replays on ESPN of the completed Hail Mary at the end of the first half that put the Pack in a 10-point hole going into halftime will air whenever the subject of the football

team in Green Bay comes up. Analysts will argue about whether or not the Packers can improve. And I will continue to suffer.

Why does sport garner such a reaction? Why do losses bring more pain than wins bring gratification?

There is a funny YouTube clip where two fans of opposing soccer teams are stuck in a room watching a game together. In the video, when one team scores a game-winning goal, the fan of the winning team celebrates by taking the distraught fan’s head and putting it inside his shirt.

It is always worse to be the guy with his head up another guy’s shirt than it is better to be the guy putting someone else’s head inside your shirt. Winning is not lasting.

There is a reason perennial winners such as Michael Jordan and Brett Favre have such a hard time letting go of the sports they love: They need the satisfaction that comes from winning, only it doesn’t last, so they need to continue to keep trying to win. Winning is like the ring in Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” — it dominates the will of the person who wears it.

Losing is not quite the same. It does last. The reason revenge is such an attractive pull to humans is because we, as a race, cannot stand losing.

Of course, football is just a game. I will get over the Packers’ loss. Indeed, they will probably contend for a title next season, so my misery may be short-lived.

But the next time they win, I doubt I will be as happy.

Tony Petersen is the opinion editor of The Collegian. Follow him on Twitter @tonypetersen4.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR To the editor: With the 39th anniversary of the Roe vs. Wade decision at hand, many Americans still seem to believe that the central issue in the abortion debate is this: At what point does human life begin? Frankly, nothing could be further from the truth.

When the Supreme Court issued Roe, the members of the court completely and explicitly avoided the question of when human life begins. This is exemplified by the following verbatim quote from the decision itself: “We need not resolve the difficult question of when human life begins.” Of course, the justices knew that if they would have honestly dealt with that “difficult question,” they would have never gotten away with the decision they issued.

The real question undermining the abortion debate is not when human life begins; rather, it is this: How much value do we place on human lives?

This is especially true of the lives of those who are dependent upon others, incapable of defending themselves

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and no longer considered sufficiently productive. These groups are always the first to go when human lives are viewed as dispensable.

When we fight abortion, we are fighting for a kinder society that will respect our own lives as we approach our golden years. We’re fighting for a society that respects the wisdom of those who have accumulated it over their long and instructive lifetimes.

That’s a fight for which none of us can afford to be AWOL. Brad Taylor *** To the editor: More than 200 student assistants that work on this campus expect that we will be paid on the 15th of each month. In the month of December, we did not get paid on time. Furthermore, we were not notified well-ahead of time and couldn’t make arrangements with various bill collectors.

Every other student assistant I have spoken to has been affected negatively

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by this. When I asked other student assistants if they would complain, I got a generally apathetic “no one will listen” response. I sent an email to payroll that did not get a response. I called their office and when I expressed how this is affecting us, I was met with a “what do you want me to do about it?”

My fellow student assistants were right: no one would listen. The uncaring payroll department has shown a blatant disregard for how their “system error” has affected the student assistants. But why should they care?

Their paycheck was not affected, it doesn’t affect their everyday life, it’s not their late fee or cash advance they have to pay back and if someone is actually held accountable (not likely for a “system error”) — it won’t matter to the people who were impacted the most by this: the student assistants themselves.

Who’s the greatest of them all?

By Maddie Shannon The Collegian

L

et me ask you a question, Carrie Bradshaw-style: Is America the greatest country in the world?

If someone were to ask me that question today, I wouldn’t be able to give them a straight answer. I don’t know if it is or not, simply because I haven’t been to every country in the world. A Hugh Grant joke from the movie “Two Weeks Notice” comes to mind: Sandra Bullock yells at Grant, “I can’t believe you! You’re the most selfish person on the planet!” to which he responds, “Well, that’s just silly. Have you met everyone on the planet?”

All jokes aside, I think America is great, and has been greater, from what I’ve read of our nation’s history.

I think we’re a lot greater than other nations, based on the political and economic freedom we have. The First Amendment of our Constitution guarantees me, as a journalist, freedom of the press. As a citizen, it guarantees me freedom of speech, the right to assemble and freedom of religion. But other countries do that, too.

According to usnews.com, Iceland, Luxembourg, Norway, Estonia and Finland rank as the countries with the freest press, in that order. The Heritage Foundation says Hong Kong, Canada and Chile rank higher in economic freedom than the United States. We do rank among the most religiously free countries in the world, second only to Ireland, based on a study conducted by scholar Paul Marshall titled “The Range of Religious Freedom.” Countries that most Americans have forgotten about or think are dangerous surpass us in rights and freedoms that some of us, myself included, take for granted.

However, the United States has some damn smart people living in it.

Our scientists, writers and humanitarians have taken home more Nobel Prizes than any other country, and six of the top ten universities in the world are here. Americans are also the healthiest people in the world — we rank first in high-quality health care.

This isn’t a typical column, because I don’t have an opinion either way about whether or not America is the greatest country in the world — but maybe that’s the point. Maybe instead of automatically assuming that we’re the greatest nation on earth, we should all see what the other choices are before we make that decision. Until that day comes for me, my mind is open.

Maddie Shannon is a former arts & entertainment editor for The Collegian who now writes a fortnightly column for The Collegian.

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By Tony Petersen The Collegian

One is tempted to say that if Californians did not get into the nasty habit of so frequently breaking the law, the cost of prisons need not be so high.

Nevertheless, it is clear that Welty and his acolytes are peddling the line that the school’s financial troubles are no fault of their own, but that the fault lies with the state.

It is not quite so simple, however.

The economy has yet to rebound.

Unemployment remains stubbornly high: 8.5 percent remain unemployed nationwide, while the number is 11.3 percent in California.

Underemployment — unemployment plus those with part-time jobs and those who have stopped looking for work — is at a depressing 18 percent.

Tons of those in the private economy have felt the undiscriminating nature of the invisible hand, including those in the newspaper-making business.

It is reasonable to expect that all sectors of the public economy would take hits, including higher education, especially while California is mired in the middle of a $13 billion deficit.

The real problem with Fresno State is illustrated by this quote from Provost William Covino: “Just meeting payroll exhausts the base budget.”

If a private company announced that simply paying its employees

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f a private company announced that simply paying its employees exhausted its base budget, analysts would surmise that bankruptcy would likely be the best option. When it happens to a public university, the citizens of California are blamed.”

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ne week ago today, Fresno State President John Welty explained to the university community that, unless Californians vote to raise taxes on themselves come November, Fresno State would have to cut $11 million from its budget. From this would come tuition increases, layoffs, class reductions, enrollment limits and more.

“For the last three-and-a-half years,” Welty said to a crowd of nearly 200 at the Satellite Student Union, “our ability to meet the needs of students and our region has been stretching and stretching — nearly to the breaking point — because our elected officials have abandoned the state’s commitment to higher education.”

The proof is in the pudding, as it is said. Fresno State has reached its breaking point: In a scant 10 years, tuition has increased from $1,572 to $5,970, faculty and staff pay rates have been stagnant since 2007 and the school has shed 300 jobs since 2008.

The common complaint is that the state is reneging on its responsibility to provide affordable higher education to the citizens of California. It is deigned a gross mismanagement of state funds — Welty called it a “tragedy” and a “travesty” — that more is spent on the prison system than on public higher education.

exhausted its base budget, analysts would surmise that bankruptcy would likely be the best option. When it happens to a public university, the citizens of California are blamed.

Fresno State cannot continue stretching its budget to nearly the breaking point with quick fixes. It cannot continue to trot out the same old solutions, from tuition increases, layoffs, to class reductions. They obviously have not worked.

Fresno State needs to completely rethink how it does education. It needs some bold ideas. It needs to restructure the university.

But based on Welty’s reaction to the news of possible cuts, color us skeptical.

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We think she might finish the basket tonight.

What’s with the crowd?

he race for the Republican nomination is now Mitt Romney’s to lose. He has always been the frontrunner, but now, after winning the Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary, it would take a gaffe of Cainian proportions to knock Romney off, and that just is not going to happen.

During the entire campaign, a variety of candidates have jockeyed for the chance to secure the anti-Romney vote: Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum have each taken turns challenging Romney from the right, at least strategically if not ideologically.

Each, however, proved to be flawed candidates. Bachmann could not capitalize on her momentum from winning the Ames straw poll, and was forced to drop out after a dreadful performance in the Iowa caucus.

Perry’s debate performances singlehandedly destroyed his candidacy.

Cain’s numerous gaffes and controversies drove him from the race.

Gingrich was felled after attack ads criticized his record as the Speaker of the House, and has since dedicated his candidacy to damaging Romney.

Santorum was the last conservative standing in Iowa, but may have made a strategic mistake by campaigning hard in New Hampshire instead of simply moving on to South Carolina.

With former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman dropping out of the race, the only candidate that has not been anointed as the conservative alternative to Romney is Ron Paul. And, the way things stand right now, Ron Paul looks to be the most likely anti-Romney candidate.

He finished a close third place in Iowa and finished second place in New Hampshire by a decent margin.

He is the only candidate of the notRomneys who has the funds to compete until the Republican convention.

And his support continues to rise.

What is interesting, however, is what looks to be Paul’s strategy. Throughout the whole process, Paul has, through attack ads and speeches, heavily attacked all of the candidates who challenged Romney, whether it be Cain, Perry, Gingrich or Santorum. He has, however, been very polite to Romney, defending his record at Bain Capital and even suggesting he’d consider supporting his nomination should he win. (This is the same man who held a shadow convention in 2008 and endorsed all third-party candidates.)

It isn’t likely that Dr. Paul is attempting to secure a place in a Romney administration — his views are still quite different from the former Massachusetts governor. But there seems to be a mutual respect between the two, Paul for his ideological consistency and Romney for his experience in the private sector. Paul, who has been piling up delegates, seems to be playing for a prime speaking slot at the convention and a hand in writing the Republican platform.

Romney will be the nominee. But it seems like Paul has emerged as the last anti-Romney candidate.

This column was originally published on The Collegian’s website on January 11, 2012. It has since been edited to reflect changes in the Republican race.

Tony Petersen is the opinion editor at The Collegian. Follow him on Twitter @tonypetersen4.

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CUTS: $11 million cut possible for 2012-13 CONTINUED from page 1 education budget versus what is budgeted for prisons, Welty said: “...it is a travesty that the amount of reduction that occurred this year in the prison system [budget] was actually in the neighborhood of, I believe, $30 million compared to $100 million for the California University system [budget].

Give me a break.

“I think that it is a tragedy, when the amount our state invests in prisons exceeds the amount it invests in public Esteban Cortez / The Collegian

President Welty addressed faculty and staff last Wednesday about the current budget crises and how it will pan out in the coming fiscal year.

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e will have to be creative, the more creative we can be, the better we can serve our students.”

— John Welty, Fresno State President higher education,” he added.

Brown’s 2012-13 budget allots the lowest amount to CSUs in 15 years, yet CSUs enroll 95,000 more students today than in 1997.

However, even this lowered budget could be lowered further causing

a shortfall of $11 million if the tax increase on the ballot in November is not approved by California voters. Not knowing how much funding the state will provide leaves school officials with a dilemma, Welty explained.

The university’s base budget has to be set months earlier, before the fall semester that starts the 2012-13 school year begins.

“We will have to be creative, the more creative we can be, the better we can serve our students,” Welty replied, when asked how the university would manage this contingency.

In concluding comments, Welty made

SNOW: Resort employees forced to cut back hours CONTINUED from page 1 from all the crowds.”

Kleinberg bought a pass to China Peak during the $99 student special and has used it just four times during the ski season.

“It’s pretty much paid for,” Kleinberg said. “But this time last season I had gone six or eight times.”

Kleinberg added that winter break usually lends the largest amount of time during the season to take advantage of friends’ flexible schedules while getting the most use of the pass.

A representative for China Peak

working on a credit system for those weeks lost so far, which can be applied to the purchase of next year’s season pass.”

This season hasn’t only been a trying one for the snow-sport goers, but also for the resorts employees.

China Peak put up a help “wanted” sign for seasonal work back in late October, but with the current weather conditions, the 400 employees are seeing changes in their hours.

“We haven’t been able to reach our maximum employment at this time,” Couto said. “We haven’t been laying people off, but we’ve been cutting

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hen the snow’s not very good it’s depressing because you feel like you can’t go up there or anything because it’s a million people packed into three runs.”

— Matt Kleinberg, electrical engineering student

withheld information on how many passes were sold this season, but the resort has offered many discounted deals and events in an attempt to make up for the inclement weather.

Badger Pass on the other hand has left callers with an apology and is also giving other recreational options to do in the National Park, even without the snow.

An automated telephone message for Badger Pass gives callers its regrets for the closure, but that it has every intention to open the summit as soon as the weather permits.

The message also states that the resort hasn’t forgot about its valued season pass holders and “[is] currently

hours.”

With the forecast showing snowfall on Thursday through the weekend, Couto remains hopeful that there will be enough snow to turn the season around.

Despite the lack of original snow during the 2011-12 season, some snow sports-enthusiasts like Kleinberg admit that some snow is better than none at all.

“I’d rather be up there on man-made snow than sitting around in Fresno,” Kleinberg said.

a plea to the assembled to vote for the upcoming ballot initiatives that will “directly impact our future,” a plea he repeated afterward during a news conference when asked what students can do to combat higher costs.

“Vote. It’s time for us to stand up for higher education,” Welty said.

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COACHES: only three spots remain Tenured UC Riverside CONTINUED from page 1 Joining Schramm on offense as an assistant is Phil Earley, who is expected to head up most of the recruiting coordination, but three assistants remain to be filled on that side of the ball. Reports have surfaced that the positions are filled, but official notification has yet to come from the athletics department.

DeRuyter, who has an extensive defensive background including 16 years as a coordinator, two of which were at Texas A&M, moved quickly to fill out the vacancies to lead the struggling unit.

The most familiar name of the four defensive assistants is local football legend Tim McDonald. A for mer NCAA All-American safety and 13-year NFL veteran, McDonald is taking over the defensive secondary, a unit that ranked second-tolast in the Western Athletic Conference this past season. Although reluctant at first, McDonald decided to jump ship from coaching Edison High School and join DeRuyter in Fresno State’s first season with a new head coach since 1996.

“Tim and I had some discussions, but it was a tough decision for him,” DeRuyter said.

“He loves what he’s doing. I had to do a lot of arm-twisting to get him to come here, but laid out a vision of how important he’d be to our staff and I think he loves this commu-

nity and wants to be a part of Fresno State.”

Joining McDonald on defense will be Nick Toth, DeRuyter’s linebackers coach during his tenure at Texas A&M, as well as Pete Germano from Ohio University and Jordan Peterson, a defensive back for the Aggies from 2006 to 2009.

Although DeRuyter assembled the crew in what he described as “a crazy couple of weeks,” the final pieces fell into place just minutes before the first-year coach took the podium for official announcements.

“We’re still going to hire three more offensive assistants but these guys are fired up, ready to go,” DeRuyter said. “They totally believe in the philosophy of where we’re going and our going to do great by our kids.”

Recruiting update With the coaching staff hires nearly complete, DeRuyter has been using a good chunk of his first month at the helm nailing down recruiting as National Signing Day looms on Feb. 1.

With the recruiting experience from Schramm and Earley, DeRuyter stressed bringing in the right players, not necessarily honoring all 21 available scholarships immediately.

“We may not sign all 21 scholarships, which is what I think we have available right now on Feb. 1,” DeRuyter said.

“I would much rather make a one-year mistake and face that guy four years than make a five-year mistake with a guy who’s not the right fit.”

DeRuyter said he was in the process of reviewing film in an effort to see what areas should be addressed immediately. While not offering specifics on targeted players, he said that he is looking for players that “attack with speed.”

Fresno State has seen some of the premier high school athletes from the Central Section commit to schools other than Fresno State, sometimes intraconference rivals. With an added emphasis to keep Valley recruits near home, DeRuyter plans to lean heavily on his newly assembled staff.

“When you get guys on our staff, with their connections, in the Valley, Dave’s recruited up and down the coast, Tim being right here, we’re really hoping to capitalize on their experience and their connections,” DeRuyter said.

Assistants Hired Dave Schramm offensive coord.

Nick Toth defensive coord.

Tim McDonald secondary coord.

Pete Germano special teams coord.

Phil Earley recruiting coord.

Jordan Peterson defensive backs

professor faces rare firing discussions

By Larry Gordon McClatchy-Tribune LOS ANGELES — The U n ive r s i t y o f C a l i fo r n i a Board of Regents is scheduled this week to discuss a highly unusual proposal to fire a veteran tenured professor and deny him the perks of emeritus retirement.

T he case involves a UC R iv e r s i d e i n t e r n a t i o n a l finance professor who has been in lengthy court disputes over UC allegations that he improperly received outside income during sabbaticals.

Because of confidentiality rules covering personnel actions, the regents’ agenda item mentions only an unnamed UC Riverside professor; it does not give a reason for the possible discipline.

University officials refuse to release those details, saying that would violate privacy rules.

However, Sarkis Jose ph Khoury and one of his attorneys confirm that he is the professor in question and contend that the regents’ discussion is the result of his longterm disagreements over his sabbaticals; his Republican political views and Lebanese

heritage; and his advocacy for hiring minority professors, among other matters.

Khoury, who has been sued

by UC and has taken the university to court as well over the last 15 years, said he has not violated any UC rules and is the victim of a witch hunt and efforts to squelch dissent on the Riverside campus.

Khoury, who is 65 and joined UC in 1984, said he informed the university this month of his intention to retire from the A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management because of a neck injury suffered in a recent car accident. He also said he does not want the emeritus status that allows retired faculty to attend departmental meetings and in some cases keep offices and labs. But he said he does not think it is fair for the university to strip him of such status, even if UC rules say he would still be able to receive his pension.

“Of course it bothers me,” Khoury, an expert on international banking and transnational mergers, said in a recent phone interview. “It’s a matter of honor. It would allow them See PROFESSOR, Page 6

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Silicon Valley flexing muscle in push against Web piracy bills

By Jim Puzzanghera and Richard Verrier McClatchy-Tribune WASHINGTON — Until this week, entertainment industry executives thought they had the votes for new federal legislation cracking down on foreign websites that traffic in pirated movies and music and cost them billions.

They lined up support from the powerful pharmaceutical industry and labor unions, and organized an impressive bipartisan coalition in Congress.

Then Silicon Valley struck back and appears to have outflanked Hollywood.

The result was on full display Tuesday night as Wikipedia, Reddit and about 10,000 other sites shut down for a threatened 12- to 24-hour strike, said to be the Internet’s first such stoppage.

Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia’s founder, said the strike was meant to protest the legislation’s “frightening precedent of Internet censorship for the world.” Visitors to Wikipedia’s English-language site and others participating in the strike were met with a page urging them to write to Congress to oppose two proposed bills.

The swelling online opposition persuaded the White House to call over the weekend for lawmakers to remove the legislation’s most controversial provision, which would have required U.S. search engines and payment networks to block access to websites focused on pirated materials. Supporters of the legis-

lation say it would target foreign websites trading in stolen intellectual property, including movies and music. Critics say it would unfairly penalize legitimate websites, too, such as the online classified ad service Craigslist or the photo sharing service Flickr.

Congressional sponsors are expected to remove the siteblocking provision, and to try to forge a compromise that focuses largely on cutting off the money to foreign piracy websites.

While Hollywood and other backers focused their firepower inside the Beltway, tech giants such as Google Inc. and Amazon.com Inc., along with websites and online activists, made a broader case and took it mainstream.

They successfully shifted the debate from piracy to Internet freedom, calling the legislation a threat to free speech that could stifle the massive Web economy. And they waged an unprecedented online campaign to slow the momentum of the fast-moving bills and endanger their passage.

“It was assumed by everyone that the content owners were going to get what they asked for,” said Eric Goldman, director of the High Tech Law Institute at Santa Clara University School of Law. “What’s happened is that the opposition campaign has gone viral. It’s not just Silicon Valley speaking up, it’s the public at large.”

U n ive r s i t y o f Souther n C a l i fo r n i a m e d i a p ro f e s sor Marty Kaplan said the Motion Picture Association

of America is partly at a disadvantage because tech companies have a higher “brand appeal” in the general public.

“In the fight between a message that says, ‘The sites you love will be shut down’ and ‘The expensive content you love won’t be available,’ I think Silicon Valley wins that argument,” Kaplan said.

While all sides agreed foreign piracy sites are a problem and preached the need to find consensus, that could be difficult given the inflamed rhetoric.

“It’s time to move forward on a narrowly crafted bill,” said David Hirschmann, president of the Global Intellectual Property Center at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a major backer of the legislation. “Whether the politics in an election year will allow for that, I still don’t know yet.”

The proposed legislation aims to cripple foreign-based websites that trade in pirated or counterfeit material by cutting off money from U.S. credit card companies and ad networks as well as removing the sites from search engine results and in some cases blocking access.

Opponents said the legislation risks entangling legitimate websites and adding onerous legal costs to Internet start-ups.

“The definitions and language and provisions are extremely broad and extremely vague,” said Erik Martin, general manager at Reddit. “It would seem to be written without anybody who knew the technology.”

But supporters of the legislation said opponents are mischaracterizing it and criticized the planned protests.

Former Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, now chief executive of the MPAA, called the strike a “gimmick” and “PR stunt.”

House Judiciary Committee Chair man Lamar Smith, R-Texas, said Wikipedia and other sites participating in the blackout were “promoting fear instead of facts.”

“Perhaps during the blackout, Internet users can look elsewhere for an accurate definition of online piracy,” Smith said.

T he Hollywood movie studios and labor unions launched a group this summer called Creative America that has focused largely on lawmakers, sending more than 200,000 email petitions to Congress. The group also produced TV commercials highlighting their anti-piracy message _ that foreign websites are stealing jobs in the U.S. “We started this battle with strong le gislative support and we still have that,” said Mike Nugent, executive director of Creative America. He called the planned blackout

by Wikipedia and others an abuse of the process. “What they’re trying to do is extort cooperation from legislators and voters through blackout techniques.”

The Senate plans to go ahead with a key procedural vote Tuesday on the PROTECTIP Act in an effort to revise the bill and pass it within a week or two. The bill, which stands for Preventing Real

Online Threats to Economic C r e a t iv i t y a n d T h e f t o f Intellectual Property Act, has 40 co-sponsors.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick J. Leahy, D-Vt., the lead sponsor of the bill, is working on a package of amendments to address opponents’ concerns. He now says the site-blocking provision should be studied before being implemented, but it’s unclear whether he will propose removing it from his bill.

Smith said his committee would resume deliberations next month on its version of the legislation, the Stop Online Piracy Act. Last week, he committed to removing the site-blocking provision.

Capitol Hill opponents of the legislation called for more hearings. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., who has led Senate opposition to the pieces of legislation in the Senate and the House, said he plans to filibuster the vote to allow for more time to craft a compromise.

He has been working with Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., on a narrower bill that targets the flow of money to foreign piracy sites through trade laws.

Wyden said the Inter net strike and other actions by online activists would help narrow the bill further.”My goal has been ... to keep our side in the ring, recognizing we were going to have to fight above our weight class, because we’re up against such powerful lobbyists,” Wyden said. “Now we go into the final rounds with a lot more strength.”

PROFESSOR: not fair of university to strip him of status CONTINUED from page 5 to say they have succeeded in destroying Khoury and be a lesson to others for being outspoken.”

In roughly the last two decades, regents have dismissed half a dozen tenured faculty members for various reasons, UC system spokesm a n S t eve M o n t i e l s a i d .

According to UC faculty policy, conduct violations include plagiarism, sexual harassment of a student, racial discrimination, failure to carry out teaching duties and using UC facilities for personal gain.

The possible penalties include a written censure, demotion, suspension and dismissal.

Only the regents can fire a tenured professor after review by a campus faculty committee, the campus chancellor and the system president, officials said.

“It is extremely unusual,” Robert Anderson, a UC B e rke l e y e c o n o m i s t a n d chairman of the UC system’s Academic Senate, said of such firings. But he and several other faculty leaders and UC officials said they could not publicly discuss any specific case.

A re g ents committee is s ch e d u l e d t o d i s c u s s t h e matter in private session

Wednesday, and the full board is supposed to vote on it, again in a closed meeting, on Thursday. Khoury said he will not attend the meetings, which coincidentally will be held at UC Riverside.

The disputes began so long ago that some UC administrators involved have since died.

In 1995, UC Riverside demoted Khoury over allegations that he improperly received $30,000 for teaching at the University of British Columbia while on a UC sabbatical in 1988.

Khoury, who denied that charge and said he was given only expense money, sued UC, and a Superior Court ruled

that the university system had waited too long to pursue any discipline and ordered him reinstated to his full professorship.

Among other related cases, UC sued him again in 2007 for financial damages and penalties for that alleged sabbatical violation and two others later at universities in Sweden and Lebanon. A state appeals court ruled nine months ago that UC had to first complete an in-house investigation and review, and the state Supreme Court in July declined to hear an appeal. Khoury, who unsuccessfully ran for Congress in the past, is countersuing UC.

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James Link, the Pasadena, Calif., attor ney who represented Khoury in the recent appeals court case, said UC has spent so much on lawyers in cases against his client

that the total must dwarf any sabbatical fees in question.

“That’s money that should have been in the school system, not going after professor Khoury,” Link said.

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Debate team has successful first semester in return to campus

By Thomas Pearson The Collegian Upon returning to campus after an eight-year hiatus, the Barking Bulldog Debate team began its new era by excelling at the novice and junior varsity levels as well as winning its first national varsity debate round.

The team did this despite this semester being the first time many members of the team had ever debated.

"We did better than most expected considering the fact that most of us didn't have any experience debating prior to this semester," novice debater Candis Tate said. "I thought the semster went well. We really bonded as a team and fed off each other. We helped each other and that's why we were able to have success."

One of the team's biggest accomplishments this season was winning its first national varsity debate round.

The round was won by Tom Boroujeni and Valentine Kovtun. Boroujeni and Kovtun defeated a team from San Francisco State.

The team also reached the finals in a regional varsity tournament against a team from Chico State. Junior varsity debators Erica Barton and Carla Caffrey-Casiano debated varsity after the varsity and junior varsity levels were combined, and then advanced to the finals.

At the junior varsity level, Candis Tate and Andre Mitchell reached the quarterfinals of the USC tournament.

The team had its most success, perhaps, at the novice level where debaters Tate and Mitchell won a tournament at CSU Fullerton and Boroujeni and Kovtun won the Diablo Valley College tournament.

T h e te am al so won in dividu al awards. At each tournament debaters are ranked and given an individual award based on where they ranked as a speaker.

Bar ton won sixth and Caf freyCasiano won seventh-best varsity speaker at the Diablo Valley College tour nament. At the UNLV tour nament Barton won eighth and CaffreyCasiano won ninth junior varsity speaker. Boroujeni won tenth at Diablo Valley in novice and sixth at UNLV novice. Kovtun won fourth in novice at Diablo Valley and second at UNLV. Kovtun also got first at the San Francisco tournament.

At the Fullerton tournament numerous debators won awards as well.

Pritpal Randhawa won second, Sierra Holley won third and Tate won fifth best novice speaker.

The team attributes much of its success last semester to Kuswa.

"He was really great for us. Most teams have eight coaches. We only had one," Holley said.

Tate echoed what Holley said and added, "We definitely couldn't have done it without him. He's willing to help with anything and keeps us motivated."

The team's goal for the coming semester is to improve.

"We just expect everybody to get better and continue to learn. If we do that then the wins will come," Holley said.

After a successful first semester the team hopes to take what it learned and apply it to this semester.

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The legacy of MLK lives on

By Johnathan Wilbanks The Collegian The phrase “I have a dream” is just a small expression spoken by one man on Aug. 26, 1963. These four simple words woke a nation, and the echo of them can still be heard today.

In remembrance of the civil rights advocate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the Fresno State campus was closed Monday.

The celebration of King’s birthday, which has historically been observed the third Monday in January, is more than just a day off from work or school.

Monday served as a day to remember the individual who increased racial equality by leaps and bounds in the United States.

It was a day to promote equal rights for all Americans, regardless of their individual backgrounds.

Legislation to create the federal holiday was signed in 1983 after a drawn-out struggle. The year 2012 marks the 26th anniversary of the federal holiday. The holiday was first observed in 1986, and celebrates the birth of King.

King was born on Jan. 15, 1929. He was the first son and second child of the Rev. Martin Luther King Sr. and Alberta Williams King.

King was originally named Michael, but was renamed Martin, after his father, when he was about six years old.

King enrolled in Morehouse College in 1944. He graduated and received his B.A. degree in sociology in 1948. He thenstudied theology for three years at Cozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania.

He was awarded a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Cozer in 1951. King’s “I have a dream” speech is something he is commonly remembered for “I have a dream,” arguably

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Hundreds of people honor MLK Jr. during the annual Martin Luther King Memorial March in Raleigh, NC, Monday, Jan. 16, 2012.

King’s most famous speech, was delivered in Washington, D.C. on Aug. 28, 1963.

The 17-minute speech called for racial equality and the end of discrimination and se g re gation. It saw more than 200,000 civil rights activists in attendance, according to Martin Luther King Jr. Online. King’s speech was ranked as the top American speech of the 20th century by a poll of scholars of public address in 1999.

Oddly, the speech was originally entitled, “Nor malcy, Never Again.” This original version did not contain the words “I have a dream” and according to Martin Luther King Jr. Online, the end of the speech was improvised.

This deviation was most likely prompted by Mahalia Jackson shouting, “Tell them about the dream, Martin.”

King reportedly stopped the delivery of his pre-written speech at this point and began “preaching” to the crowd. He highlighted each one of his points with the phrase with “I have a dream.”

The speech was a huge success, with publishers such as the Los Angeles Times commenting that King displayed a “matchless eloquence,” and put se g re gation advocates to shame by “inspiring the conscience of America with the justice of the civil rights cause.”

The New York Times wrote that King’s speech “was better covered by television and the press than any event here [the steps of the Lincoln Memorial] since President Kennedy’s inauguration.”

Copyright laws pertaining to the video are convoluted. A lawsuit determined the video

will remain under copyright until 70 years after King’s death, the year 2038.

As such, it has been taken down from some websites in an apparent attempt to generate profit. However, with a few keystrokes one can now find it on YouTube.

King was an advocate for non-violent social change. His deep respect for fellow mankind was shown in much of his public speaking, according to the Martin Luther King Jr. Center established in 1968 by his wife, Coretta Scott King.

“Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity.

Hate destroys a man’s sense of values and his objectivity,” said King.

“It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and

the false with the true.”

“Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is l ove cor re ctin g eve rything that stands ag ainst love,” said King at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Ala. in 1957.

James Earl Ray, a fugitive from the Missouri State Penitentiary, assassinated King in the early evening of April 4, 1964. Ray was apprehended in Heathrow airport after police had matched his fingerprints to those on the rifle used to shoot King.

Despite King’s death, his legacy lives on. “Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty, we are free at last,” were the closing words of his famous speech. He is remembered to this day for his tremendous contribution to the civil rights movement.

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Smoking policies becoming more stringent on college campuses

By Johnathan Wilbanks The Collegian Numerous controversies have surrounded smoking policies on the Fresno State campus. A group known as Project IMPACT has attempted to make the Fresno State campus smoke-free in the past, as well as attempting to pass legislation to require retailers obtain licensure for tobacco products, similar to the licensing requirements to sell alcohol.

At the end of last semester, a smoke-free campus policy was presented and accepted by Associated Students, Inc. There are currently no new postings dealing with the policy on the ASI website, but an effort was made to repeal the decision shortly after it was made, according to Collegian news feeds from Selena Farnesi. Whether or not the policy will be enforced this semester remains to be seen.

Current smoking policies are not enforced on the Fresno State campus. Although there are designated smoking areas, m a ny i n d iv i d u a l s s m o ke outside of these areas and cigarette smoke can enter the buildings.

Despite the negative health consequences of tobacco use, such as cancer and heart disease, 46.6 million adults in the United States smoke.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports 21.8 percent of adults aged 18 to 24 years old are smokers. There is a direct correlation between education level and smoking prevalence.

The more highly educated individuals are, the less likely they are to smoke. Income is also linked to smoking status.

Those with higher annual incomes tend to be non-smokers, according to the CDC. Tobacco use is the single most-preventable cause of death, disease and disability in the United States. A total of 443,000 people die prematurely each year from smoking or prolonged exposure to secondhand smoke, CDC reports. An additional 8.6 million people must cope with a serious or deadly illness caused by smoking.

A Harvard College study on college-age tobacco use sur-

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Melanie Ruvalcaba (right), a graduate student in the public health program at Fresno State, participated in a campuswide movement last semester to ban smoking at the school. Ruvalcaba and several other students collected signatures to show support for the smoking-ban resolution.

veyed 119 four-year colleges found that 45.7 percent of respondents had used tobacco products in the past year and 32.9 percent of college students were current tobacco users.

Many college campuses have gone smoke-free; U.C. President Mark Yudof requested on Jan. 11 that t h e e n t i re U n ive r s i t y o f Califor nia system become smoke-free over the period of the next two years.

A bill was brought to lawmakers in Carson City, Nev. that would have “banned smoking on all university and community college cam-

puses in Nevada,” which ultimately did not pass. Officials in support of the bill testified there were 466 smoke-free university campuses in the United States. The Assembly Judiciary committee took no action.

Some college campuses have gone as far as to ban smoking in automobiles. The University of F lorida has replaced many of its tobacco restrictions with outright bans. About 75 percent of those who responded to a survey about the new policy supported it, according to Scott Travis of the McClatchyTribune.

Another popular fad developing among the college-age population in the United States is hookah. It is a form of sweet, often flavored tobacco that is smoked through a water pipe.

Many young people are under the misconception that hookah smoke is less dangerous than cigarette smoke, but “smoke from a hookah contains many of the same harmful and carcinogenic components as cigarette smoke,” the Americans for Nonsmokers Rights (ANR) website reports.

This is a potential health threat to many college students as hookah bars are

Diabetes among Hispanics reaching alarming proportions

targeting young people and hookah can serve as a “gateway” to tobacco products for those who otherwise do not smoke. Many of these hookah bars allow smoking indoors because they license themselves as retail tobacco shops.

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By Bastien Inzaurralde McClatchy-Tribune SAN LUIS, Ariz. — Several dozen residents of this southwestern Arizona community crowd a seminar room to hear Dr. Bonifacio Gonzalez Castro, vice-director of the general hospital just across the border, talk about how to manage diabetes.

A s h e s t a r t s, G o n z a l e z removes his glasses and asks in Spanish: “Are a few of you diabetic?”

Many laugh. Nearly everyone in the audience, comprised mostly of older Hispanics, raises a hand.

“Well, then you bet we have a problem,” Gonzalez says.

Diabetes is a growing problem among all ethnic, age

and socio-economic groups, but exper ts, of ficials and advocates say it has reached alarming proportions among Hispanics living near the U.S.Mexico border, driven by factors including obesity, poverty, a lack of health coverage and poor diet.

Gonzalez urges his audience of nearly 50 to seek medical advice on the

disease, start taking care of themselves and control their weight.

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DIABETES: Nonprofit educates around 500 people per year CONTINUED from page 12 Campesinos Sin Fronteras, a nonprofit that educates lowincome Hispanic families in Yuma County, Ariz.’s border communities about diabetes and other chronic diseases.

Campesinos Sin Fronteras workers have the audience stand and do stretches. The crowd starts moving their ar ms in circles, then raise their arms and shake their wrists under the supervision

of the staff.

T h e n o n p ro f i t e d u c at e s around 500 people each year about diabetes management, and its staff visits those who cannot come to its offices. It also provides free blood glucose and blood pressure tests and organizes exercise challenges between residents of Somerton, Ariz., and San Luis.

Emma Torres, the organization’s executive director and co-founder, said educating

Hispanics about diabetes is the key to helping them fight it.

“Every Latino family that we know, there is somebody in their family with diabetes,” she said.

Although there are no statistics on the prevalence of the disease among Hispanics along the border, data from the Arizona Department of Health Services shows that 13.5 percent of Yuma County’s residents had diabetes as of 2010, the highest rate in Arizona.

Hispanics represent nearly 60 percent of the county’s total population, according to 2010 Census data.

Diabetes has developed into a pandemic on both sides of the border from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean d u r i n g t h e p a s t d e c a d e, according to Maria Teresa Cerqueira, the chief of the U.S.-Mexico Border Of fice of the Pan American Health Organization, part of the World Health Organization.

She said the disease advances through poor eating habits and sedentary lifestyles that border residents inherit from their families and those around them.

“It’s a socially contagious disease,” Cerqueira said.

Leandra Rosales, a Mexican immigrant residing in Somerton, said her diabetic father committed suicide in Mexico because he couldn’t stand the complications from the disease. Her mother died from diabetes complications.

So did her mother’s mother.

Rosales, who was diagnosed with diabetes more than two decades ago, said for a long

time she thought she was next in line to die. She said she didn’t know diabetes could be managed until she started taking classes with Campesinos Sin Fronteras in 2000.

“It helped me a lot because I learned that you can control the disease, that you have to take care of yourself and you can live like a normal person,” Rosales said in Spanish.

Campesinos Sin Fronteras created a diabetes program in 1999 because there were

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very Latino family that we know, there is somebody in their family with diabetes.”

— Emma Torres, nonprofit co-founder no resources available for Hispanics with the disease in Yuma County’s border communities, Torres said.

“It was not something that was addressed for our population, and the services that were offered were only in English and were in Yuma,” she said. “And nothing was done here in this community.”

Many of those who sought assistance from Campesinos Sin Fronteras in the late 1990s didn’t know what diabetes was and believed they needed to stop eating completely when they were diagnosed with it, said Floribella Redondo, programs director for the nonprofit. Others would stop eating anything except lettuce

and vegetables.

“A lot of them said, ‘Well, I went to a doctor and they told me I had diabetes but they didn’t tell me what diabetes was, so can you tell me what I have?’” Redondo said.

Hispanics on the border are twice as likely to get diabetes as whites, according to Cecilia Rosales, an associate professor of public health and director of Phoenix programs for the University of Arizona’s Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health.

“If you compare the border area to the rest of the state of Arizona, the problem definitely is much bigger along the border,” said Rosales, who has worked on border health issues for about two decades.

Although Hispanics are at higher risk for diabetes, Rosales said the influence of genes in the development of the disease is “very small,” adding that not everything about diabetes is known yet.

Leandra Rosales’ son, Juan, was diagnosed with diabetes four years ago at age 15. For Juan, who was born in the U.S. and lives in Somerton, being diabetic means having to eat smaller portions and more vegetables, exercising regularly to control his weight and going to the doctor every three or four months to check the level of glucose in his blood.

However, he said it had been nine months since his last doctor’s appointment.

“I was just lazy,” Juan said.

“I am like, ‘I’ll make the appointment next week,’ and that week will pass and (I’ll say) ‘I’ll do it next week,’ and not do it.”

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Wiggins prepares ‘Dogs for Aggies

MEN’S BASKETBALL

By Angel Moreno The Collegian

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Tim Steed’s departure opened the doors for junior Garrett Johnson (above), who has averaged 3.2 points per game off the bench.

Familiar face turns foe

Fresno State battles ex-Bulldog Tim Steed in a non-conference game Wednesday at the Save Mart Center

By Angel Moreno The Collegian A familiar face to the Bulldogs’ men’s basketball team will take the court, but this time on the opposite end in Wednesday night’s nonconference game against Cal State San Marcos at the Save Mart Center.

For mer Bulldog Tim Steed, who transferred to San Marcos after former Fresno State head coach Steve Cleveland was fired at the end of last season, is now the leading scorer for the Cougars, averaging 16.1 points per game. Steed was the third-leading scorer on last season’s squad, averaging 10.7 points per game for the ‘Dogs. He started in 21 of the season’s 26 games.

“I’m very excited to come back to

season. Wills has become a staple for the ‘Dogs at the foul line, making 88.9 percent of his free throws.

“It’s always good to play another game, no matter who the opponent is. You just get excited about another chance to get on the court and get better as a team,” Wills said.

“From knowing Tim personally, he’s a good friend still. But when you’re on the court, you don’t look at anything like that. You look at it as the opponent that will line up across from you that you have to go out and play against,” Wills added.

And Wills’ mentality matches that of head coach Rodney Terry, who said the game will be approached like a conference game, even though San Marcos is not a Division I school.

“I

’ve talked with them and there’s been some trash talking back and forth, but it’ll be a serious game, just like any other one on the schedule.”

— Tim Steed, Former Bulldog Fresno and play against my former teammates. It feels great to know that I’ll be playing against my friends,” Steed said.

“I’ve talked with them and there’s been some trash talking back and forth, but it’ll be a serious game, just like any other one on the schedule.”

The Bulldogs are treating this game like any other and are confident in holding of f Steed and the Cougars in their brief break from conference play.

Senior Jonathan Wills hopes to keep Steed off the glass as Fresno State looks for its second win in a row and ninth overall this

“We’re treating this game just like a conference game and to be honest with you, they’re going to be the same type of team we’ll see with Nevada,” said Terry.

It’ll be a contest for the ‘Dogs, who look to close out their three-game homestand on a winning note against a San Marcos team that ranks 24th

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nationally in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA).

“We’re going to have to do a great job in getting back, and really protecting the paint, being physical with our blockers. We’re going to have to match their intensity and their energy level when they come in this building,” Terry said.

It’s also a homecoming for Cougars head coach Jim Saia, who was an assistant at Fresno State from 1990-94. Saia went on to be an assistant at UCLA and USC, where he was interim head coach before being named head coach at Fresno Pacific University. Saia was hired as the men’s basketball coach at San Marcos in May of 2011.

“Fresno is a good place to me and it’s always good to come back and play Fresno State, because Fresno State is a special place to me,” Saia said.

But no matter how special Fresno may be to Steed and Saia, Terry reassured the ‘Dogs’ focus remains on the court.

“We’re not getting caught up in all that. Right now we’re treating like it was a conference game with conference folk,” Terry said.

“Our guys know that we have to work the game for 40 minutes. You can’t control how well you’re going to shoot the basketball any given night, but you can control your defense and your effort.”

Fresno State vs.

Cal State San Marcos Date: Wednesday, January 18 Where: Save Mart Center Tip-off: 7 p.m.

Radio: KMJ 580 AM

CONFERENCE RECORD

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TV: None

In a duel between arguably the two best women’s basketball teams in the Western Athletic Conference, Fresno State will attempt to snap Utah State’s six-game winning streak Thursday night in Logan, Utah.

The Lady ‘Dogs (13-4, 1-0 WAC) had a six-game win streak of their own earlier this season before falling to UNLV, 73-71, on Jan. 6.

“For us, we have been able to prepare,” Wiggins said of their six-game win streak. “Sometimes you learn a lot when you have some timely losses.

It’s always tough to play a team when they’re at their most confident. This is the best team [Utah State] has had.

They know that, and they’re going to play a good basketball game.”

The Aggies are led by returning starter Ashlee Brown, who leads the team in both points and rebounds per game at 15.3 and 8.8 respectively.

Fresno State, which was spurred by senior Veronica Wilson’s career-high 18 points in Saturday’s 85-67 victory over Nevada, is on the hunt for its second conference win and 14th overall this season.

“Coach always said to take it one day at a time, and we really don’t look at other scores around us,” Wilson said of Utah State’s recent rise in the WAC. “We’re just excited to just get on the road and get playing. It’s so hard when you have so many days off and you don’t play for another week.”

Finding that groove against Utah State shouldn’t be tough for the Bulldogs, who lead the series 12-2. The Lady ‘Do gs last lost to the Aggies in 2008.

“We have to play really well and bring our own energy to this game,” said Wig gins, w h o t r av els to Utah State and Idaho before r e t u r n i n g Esteban Cortez / Collegian File Photo to campus. Head coach Adrian Wiggins “These are trips where the weather is cold, it gets dark earlier and you have to be prepared for that.”

Re g ardless of the forecast, the Bulldogs will look to score from both the inside and outside come game time.

“They run a lot of zone and they change up the defense a lot,” Wiggins said.

“We’re going to have to share the ball. If we can play inside-out and get the ball into the middle, maybe we can open up some shots on the perimeter.”

Junior Rosie Moult is the biggest threat for Fresno State behind the arc, where she has made 46-of-116 3-pointers on the season. Fresno State leads the WAC with 3-pointers made on the season with 172.

“You have to bring your own energy.

Hopefully, our players will understand that and come off with a win,” Wiggins said. “We understand that this weekend isn’t going to make or break us, but it’s a big weekend, and we still have a lot of work to do.”

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THIS COMING WEEK...

The track and field team hosts its annual Run for the Dream meet at the Save Mart Center on Friday.

SPORTS EDITOR, ANGEL MORENO • COLLEGIAN-SPORTS@CSUFRESNO.EDU

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2012

SWIMMING AND DIVING

‘Dogs swim back into season

By Angel Moreno The Collegian The Fresno State swimming and diving team exploded off the blocks with a 2-1 record in its lone triple-dual meet of the semester. The ‘Dogs downed Cal State East Bay 233-47 and Cal State Bakersfield 206-87, but couldn’t pull off the sweep, falling to undefeated San Diego State 174.5-114.5.

“I’m really happy with how the team did [Saturday]. I

couldn’t ask for a better meet out of the Christmas training,” said fourth-year head coach Jeanne Fleck.

During the Christmas training, which began on Dec. 28, the team practiced four days per week for the past three weeks, often practicing and wo rk i n g o u t s i x - t o - s eve n hours per day.

“It’s brutal, and it’s really pushing them to their limit,” Fleck said.

Junior swimmer Dani Yoho

said that the winter training put the team in prime condition for its meet, both mentally and physically.

“We had a good attitude going in, and had a rough few weeks of training so it was nice to put all that behind us and swim fast,” said Yoho.

And Yoho did swim fast, finishing first in the 50-yard freestyle with a time of 23.62 seconds, just 0.6 seconds shy of her top time this season.

The training paid off for the rest of the Bulldog swimmers as well, who took first in the 400-yard freestyle relay with a time of 3:35.02. Yoho, sophomore Brooke Fuller and freshmen Courtney Sheehan and Lucy Titchin edged out Cal State Bakersfield by two seconds for the first-place finish.

Sheehan also medaled in her second-place finish in the 500yard freestyle.

“I thought it was a really good meet, because San Diego State was really good competition for us,” said Sheehan, who has already made headlines for the ‘Dogs as a freshman.

“It was a pretty good stepping stone for conference.”

“I did what I needed to do and did what [Coach Fleck] asked

Brad Soo / The Collegian

Junior Dani Yoho swam in the 50-yard freestyle on Saturday. Yoho took first with a time of 23.62 seconds.

me to do. I swam my races how she wanted me to, and I think it puts me at a good place for this season,” Sheehan added.

In the 200-yard individu a l m e d l e y, s o p h o m o r e s Brittany Buna and Michelle Dockendorf finished 1-2 for the ‘Dogs. The duo posted times of 2:12.35 and 2:13.28, respectively.

Fleck and her crew continue

to train hard in preparation for The Beach Invite in San Diego this weekend before their next home meet against long-time rival San Jose State.

“We’re at full strength again and I really think it’s going to pay off,” said Fleck.