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International program office aims to expand its abroad opportunities Fresno State strives to match its CSU counterpart SFSU

By Alexandra Norton The Collegian Fresno State offers a variety of ways to get involved with the university, and with the Study Abroad and International Exchange office, students are able to find programs to experience an education abroad and still acquire credits towards graduation.

Through the CSU

International Program (IP), Fresno State sent out six students for the spring 2012 semester.

But, compared to other schools, Fresno State finishes 19 out of the 23 CSUs for the most students studying abroad using IP. San Francisco State University sent out 130 students to study abroad for the spring 2012 semester, the most among CSUs. “San Fran is a machine,” Dr. Shane Moreman, coordinator of the study abroad and international exchange, said. “First of all, they have more people in their office. Second of all, they have got it down, in fact some of the promotion efforts I am making are based upon San Francisco’s.”

Moreman, who not only recently took over the position as coordinator but is also the only person operating the office, is finding ways to open doors for students with financial need who want to study abroad.

Jesus Medina, an animal science major, is applying for the Boren Award to get financial help to send him to Brazil.

However, the Boren Award requires students to fulfill a one-year service requirement with the National Security Education Program

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UPD warns of scam artists posing as students

By Collegian Staff The reports of on-campus scams that surfaced at the tail end of the fall semester were once again brought to the University Police Department’s attention during the initial days of the spring.

Complaints were filed to UPD on Thursday of individuals attempting to gather money for a “contest,” posing as students. Lt. Lupe Shrum of the UPD warned Fresno State students of the measures scam artists prowling the campus will go to in order to obtain valuable information and even cash.

“They’ll throw something out like communication, contest or whatever they’re trying to sell … They ask for your license, social security number– and the student gives it to them and the next thing you know, they can be receiving information, they can get their identity stolen, their information is sold to someone else and then they realize, What did I do?” Shrum said.

Authorized sale or promotion of products on campus must go through the proper student activities channels in order to obtain a permit, Shrum said. She added that with the permit comes a set of guidelines, neither of which the individuals requested.

Shrum said that she received tips of

the possible scam via professors who were notified by students. Thursday afternoon surveillance cameras in the Free Speech Area showed the individuals attempting to be inconspicuous.

Officers were sent to the scene and also found another group. Unfortunately, Shrum said, halting such practices are easier said than done, and students can fall victim to the trap.

“There’s not a whole lot we can do.

[Individuals] willing [to] give that information to those people and trying to track that is hard — you know identity theft is a huge thing,” Shrum said.

The fall 2011 semester brought light to the situation after students complained of suspicious behavior. Shrum said that there were around five complaints over the fall semester, and one Thursday mor ning. Shrum recommends that, if approached by a suspicious individual or individuals, relay a description via text or call to the UPD tip line at 559-664-3204.

“We want to protect our students,” Shrum said. “We want people to tell us when something suspicious or if something’s not right.”

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Moreman is advising three other students for the Boren Award and says

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an Fran is a machine.”

— Dr. Shane Moreman, Coordinator of Study Abroad and International Exchange office

that Fresno State students have the advantage when it comes to applications because of the unique stories that the region presents.

“Having a diverse set of experiences is key to writing these applications and writing these essays, and our students have it, hands down,” Moreman said.

However, sometimes not every country is a possible location to continue education.

“The challenge with this is forming connections with the study abroad programs that they want to go to, and while we have a lot of study abroad programs, we don’t have a former relationship with one in Brazil,” Moreman See ABROAD, Page 3

Apple sets out to transform textbooks

By Andrea Chang and Wailin Wong McClatchy-Tribune Apple Inc. has already transformed the music, mobile phone and personal computing industries, and now the tech giant says its next chapter will be about reinventing textbooks.

In New York on Thursday, at the c o m p a ny ’ s f i r s t p ro d u c t l a u n ch event since the death of Steve Jobs in October, Apple announced a trio of new or updated products _ the iBooks 2, iBooks Author and iTunes U applications _ that it said would uproot the traditional learning experience.

With the new iBooks 2 app, students can download interactive textbooks to their iPads, usually for $14.99 or less, eliminating the need for a bulging backpack laden with out-of-date, hundred-dollar textbooks. IBooks Author enables publishers and writers to create their own books using Mac computers and publish them to Apple’s iBookstore. And students can use the iTunes U app to receive course curricula, read textbooks, view presentations and lectures, and get assignment lists from their teachers through their mobile devices.

The apps are available free of charge in Apple app stores.

“It’s a game changer,” said John Bailey, former director of educational

technology at the U.S. Department of Education, who said Apple was smart to tap into students’ preference for and familiarity with technology. “This is for education and publishing what iTunes and the iPod was for music.”

The aggressive foray into the education industry could elevate Apple’s popular iPad tablet into a must-have device for students, and it cranks up the competition between the company and Amazon.com Inc. The online retailing giant is a leader in the physical bookselling market and recently released its first tablet, the Kindle Fire, which was widely considered the iPad’s first real competitor; Apple’s venture into education could be a strategic move to get one step ahead of Amazon before it ramps up its own e-book initiatives.

Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing, said 1.5 million iPads are already in use in education institutions and that the tablet was “rapidly being adopted by schools across the U.S. and around the world.” More than 20,000 educational apps are available in the company’s iOS App Store.

The announcement also brought to fruition Jobs’ longtime dream of revolutionizing the publishing space, a goal he shared with biographer Walter Isaacson in his book “Steve Jobs.”

“Jobs had his sights set on textbooks

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s students are welcomed back to school this week, they are bombarded with several realities: classes have filled up, more students have enrolled, old budget cuts are permanent, new budget cuts are looming and job markets for new graduates are still saturated.

These are some of the realities we all live with as 21st century university students. However, we do not have to accept these circumstances as our fate just because we have become accustomed to them. Associated Students, Inc. certainly will not. We will not accept budget cuts as normal and we will not accept tuition increases as something to be expected.

In order to be an effective student government, we must represent the legislative interests of students not

just on our own campus, but beyond Cedar and Shaw Avenues as well.

Students don’t stop being students at the end of parking lot Q, so advocacy shouldn’t end there either.

We should be lobbying community organizations and nonprofits to help us work against cuts to higher education, talking to our local representatives and City Council members and lobbying the chancellor’s office and our state legislature, pressuring them to write legislation that respects higher education, promotes student success and supports the California State University system and other public education institutions.

ASI’s Legislative Committee and the Senator of Legislative Affairs have done an excellent job to make this happen. They have been present at statewide meetings, passed resolutions and worked to inform both students and legislatures about the benefits of supporting higher education. In an effort to support their work and expand it, ASI has proposed a new elected position, a Vice President of External Affairs.

The Vice President of External Affairs would be responsible for the student government’s lobbying efforts and Legislative Committee. The individual would be elected by students to work with local and state-wide representatives, advocating for students.

The position of External Affairs is not uncommon in CSU student governments. Many other campuses, including Central Valley campuses at Bakersfield and Stanislaus, have an equivalent position. As Fresno State houses the largest body of students,

with more students than both the Bakersfield and Stanislaus campuses combined, it is imperative that we join the conversation about what it means to be a student in the Central Valley.

Additionally, we are one of the most diverse CSUs and represent one of the largest geographical areas of any other CSU. We have many distinguished and unique programs like our winery and Maddy Institute that are foreign to other campuses. It is imperative that we create outlets to lobby on behalf of the unique interests and experiences of Fresno State and Central Valley students.

In order to create the Vice President of External Affairs position we will be asking students to review the position and vote in favor of it in the upcoming week. You will receive an email in your Fresno State email account on Monday, providing you with a link, a username and password. Please use the link to go to the voting website and then enter the unique username and password to log in and vote. You will be able to vote Tuesday and Wednesday of next week. When the position is created, students can run for the position (along with the already existing executive and Senate positions).

If you’d like more information, please feel free to stop by the ASI office and pick up a brochure, or check asi. csufresno.edu for additional information.

Selena Farnesi is the president of Associated Students, Inc. Follow her on Twitter @SMFarnesi.

Culled each week from discussions on The Collegian’s website.

Response:

‘Calif. budget crisis may lead to more cuts’ ‘Earl Richards’: “Brown is blackmailing Californians. Why does Brown always pick on the most vulnerable and the public services? He should close corporate and commercial tax loopholes, introduce an oil extraction tax, an oil corporation, windfallprofits tax and trim the service-debt interest paid to Wall Street. These taxes have to be rolled-back. These budget cuts will prolong the recession.”

Response:

‘Calif. budget crisis may lead to more cuts’ ‘J.J.’: “How about this: Let’s get back to educating students and get rid of the sports programs that give false hope to those who believe they will secure a multimillion dollar career in the sports world. If a sport does not pay for itself COMPLETELY, through ticket sales and donations, then it should not be subsidized with state money or money received from tuition. And let’s see a list of those ‘tenured’ professors who teach more than three or four hours a day. Big waste? You bet.”

Response:

‘Fresno State’s problems go beyond the state’ ‘sharonbednar’: “In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated. Especially with our busy life, who has time? But look for High Speed Universities for faster education at your leisure.”

Response:

‘Fresno State’s problems go beyond the state’ ‘DHosep’: “As hard as it is for many, our tuition cost compared to other major statefunded Universities is very low and needs to be increased at the same time our state legislature to take responsibility and stop raiding funding for education for their own pet projects. Now the governor wants to hold education hostage in an attempt to force the public to raise taxes on themselves. Why hasn’t he renegotiated the state employee pension fund programs for starters?”

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APPLE: Company creates textbook app CONTINUED from page 1 as the next business he wanted to transfor m,” Isaacson wrote. “He believed it was an $8-billion-a-year industry ripe for digital destruction. He was also struck by the fact that many schools, for security reasons, don’t have lockers, so kids have to lug a heavy backpack around.”

“The iPad,” Isaacson quoted the tech visionary as saying, “would solve that.”

T h e c o m p a ny p ro m i s e d that the titles would be “an entirely new kind of textbook

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his is for education and publishing what iTunes and the iPod was for music.”

— John Bailey, U.S Department of Education that’s dynamic, engaging and truly interactive” by featuring interactive animations, diagrams, photos, videos and navigation. Students would be able to highlight portions of the text with their fingers, take notes and instantly transform the sections into digital flashcards, for instance.

“This is really, really different,” said Shaw Wu, senior technology analyst at Sterne Agee. “A standard e-book is basically a regular textbook _ it’s not interactive, it’s just in digital form. Now we’re talking about textbooks that’ll interact like a website.”

Apple’s stock, which hit a r e c o r d i n t r a d ay h i g h Thursday, slipped slightly to close at $427.75.

Apple said it teamed up with three major publishing houses _ Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, M c G r aw - H i l l E d u c a t i o n and Pearson _ that together account for 90 percent of textbook sales to deliver digital textbooks through its iBookstore.

McGraw-Hill initially will focus on offering high school math and science titles, said Vineet Madan, the company’s senior vice president of new ventures and strategic services.

McGraw-Hill already makes its instructional materials available in some type of digital form, including companion websites or additional images for the K-12 market, Madan said. But Apple’s tools and the iPad’s touch screen enabled other kinds of features, such as the ability to manipulate 3-D molecules in virtual space.

The titles being offered on the iPad exist in print form but will now include content such as videos, layered images and animations.

“It’s one thing to see a picture of a cell structure; it’s another to see an animation of the layers of the cell coming together,” Madan said. “It’s easier for students to understand that than seeing one very complex image, which is all that is possible in print.”

Pearson said its “first wave” of books for Apple’s iPad comprises about 7,000 pages of content, more than 100 videos and 1,000 “interactive widgets” that include features such as 3-D animation. The publisher is releasing several of its current high school math and science textbooks for the platform, covering topics such as biology, environmental science and algebra.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt will release “a number of titles” for the iPad but declined to announce specific titles Thursday. They will most likely be for the middle school and high school markets, said Josef Blumenfeld, senior vice president of corporate affairs.

Blumenfeld said a big challenge will be getting more iPads, which start at $499, into the hands of students.

Deployment “is expensive and it’s a high hurdle for a lot of districts to overcome right now,” he said.

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University of California police keep hundreds of student protesters from entering the Highland Union Building where the University of California Regents were meeting to discuss budget issues in Riverside, California, Thursday, January 19, 2012. Students protested tuition rate hikes and were held back from entering the regents meeting after early morning protesters disrupting the meeting.

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University of California police and Riverside County Sheriffs in riot gear subdue a student protester who broke through the police line during a standoff between students and police outside the Highland Union Building where the UC Regents were meeting to discuss budget issues. Students protested tuition rate hikes and were held back from entering the regents meeting after early morning protesters disrupting the meeting.

ABROAD: coordinator finds more opportunities CONTINUED from page 1 said. “So Jesus had to figure out where he was going to go in Brazil, and it had to fit with what his interests in agriculture.”

O t h e r aw a r d s, s u c h a s the Benjamin A. Gilman Inter national Scholarship, give qualified students the

financial ability to broaden their global horizon, both educationally and culturally.

Allisen Casares, a mass communication and journ a l i s m m a j o r, e a r n e d a Gilman Scholarship and used University Studies Abroad Consortium (USAC) to continue her education in Luneburg, Germany this spring.

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“Studying abroad allows me to have a lot of different experiences since I’m away from my typical surroundings and am forced to develop a new routine,” Casares said. “One great thing about studying in Europe compared to being at Fresno State, or any American university, is that I’m near so many countries I’ve been reading about in history books since I was a child.”

Along with Casares, four other Fresno State students used USAC to study abroad this semester in China, Czech Republic, England and Ghana.

Moreman is continuing to find other programs, including government agencies to aid the costs for students.

Associated Students, Inc. g ranted the study abroad office $100,000 this semester to help students who want to study abroad, but do not have the financial capabilities to participate in such programs.

Moreman is finishing the guidelines for what determines who will get the financial aid for summer study abroad applicants.

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Dietetics students hope to improve athletes’ eating habits

By Johnathan Wilbanks The Collegian A collaboration between senior dietetics students and athletes has guided and expanded the nutritional intake of athletes for three years.

“Bulldogs in the Kitchen” is improving the cooking skills and nutritional habits of athletes on the Fresno State campus.

“We pitched a bunch of ideas, we did some assessments on them, and it evolved out of us assessing some of the needs these athletes had, some of the skills they were lacking,” program director Lisa Herzig said.

The program provides benefit to both parties, as the dietetics students get a chance at real-world experience in the area of their future professions, and the athletes learn basic cooking and nutritional skills. The objective of Bulldogs in the Kitchen is to teach athletes basic cooking skills they can utilize at home, on campus and on the road between sporting events.

“They are very proud of the work they have done,” added Herzig.

Participants had various levels of nutritional and cooking experience

at the start of the program. A single athlete was a “natural” in the kitchen. The majority of the athletes were reportedly hesitant and timid initially, but were ultimately very confident and proud of what they had learned.

Former lead student and tennis player Alyssa Sahakian was present for the genesis of the program.

“The first year we started, there were three of us and I was an underclassman,” Shakian I was working with two seniors presenting the information for the first time. It really opened up a lot of their eyes. Many of the athletes did not know they had to eat before and after an event.”

When Sahakian became a dietetics student she had recently transitioned from being a kinesiology student and a former athlete.

Sahakian asked Lisa Herzig if there was any collaboration between the dietetics and athletics departments.

“We contacted Andy Bennett and he is the one that initially came back to Dr. Herzig and said, I think we need to collaborate with you guys and get this thing rolling.”

The following year, cooking classes were held for the athletes three times

a week. The goal was to give the participants an easy meal they could make with basic ingredients.

The sessions give a tour of a grocery store, and give instructions on which kinds of fruits and vegetables to look for, healthy bread choices and proper dairy choices.

“The program just got bigger, and it just continues to get better with the nightly PowerPoint sessions we held,” Sahakian said.

Dietetics students guide Fresno State athletes in menu planning, shopping for food products, and budget development. Many Fresno State students require assistance in this type of meal planning.

The recipes used in the instructional portion of the course change with each new class of graduating seniors, but the basic skills covered in the curriculum remain constant. There is a five course meal prepared during the two hour long program which is presented at the end as a buffet for athletes to sample.

The program allows the dietetics students to visually see the athletes using their newfound cooking techniques.

More in-depth and statistical data

interpretation is currently in progress, as a master’s degree student is examining the effects of the program in terms of athletic performance.

“The assumption is that there is improvement, just their skill level has improved by being exposed to this type of education,” Herzig said. “You could see by the end of the skills course that their confidence level improved.”

A booklet is available that provides menus, recipes and a step-by-step guide for budgeting and shopping. Special dietary needs such as food allergies and vegetarian dining are included.

The booklet is only available to those in the program, but a PDF version is being considered for release to all students.

“It’s amazing to be able to see how the senior students can take all the knowledge they learned and turn around and teach those who don’t have that skill yet.”

“It’s a win win situatio,” Herzig said.

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Barre workouts creating a buzz

By Aimee Tjader McClatchy-Tribune

MINNEAPOLIS — A ballet-inspired “barre” workout has been sweeping the nation.

Its popularity is driven by women wanting to achieve a dancer’s physique and strength — with or without tutus and ballet slippers.

At Align Pilates in Minneapolis, noses drip with sweat, muscles quiver with exhaustion, and Beyonce blares from the speakers as class instructor Adrienne Fitzmaurice affirms what everyone is thinking: “Yes, this is hard!” she hollers, encouraging the women to pulse — or make tiny movements — and hold each pose for just three, five or 10 more seconds. “Especially if this is your first class ... you probably think this is crazy!”

Crazy hard, anyway. That’s the verdict reached in the dressing room following the 60-minute class where a combination of Pilates, yoga and ballet movements, along with bursts of cardio and the use of a ballet barre for support and resistance provides a high-energy, full-body workout.

“Everyone’s been talking about getting their butts kicked in barre class,” said Sarah Pepin, 35, Minneapolis.

“I’ve never worked every muscle that way before. I could hardly walk the next day.”

Barre is abuzz in the U.S., but the idea originated in London 50 years ago with famous German dancer Lotte Berk.

The method was refined in the United States in the 1970s, and since then, fitness enthusiasts on the East and West Coasts, as well as celebrities like

Madonna have caught on.

In the last year alone, at least a halfdozen barre programs have launched in the Twin Cities, mostly by women who experienced the workout elsewhere. Rachel Warford wanted to move back to the Midwest, but was unable to find the barre classes she had loved in New York. So in November, she and sister-in-law Paula Warford opened the Barre in downtown Wayzata, Minn.

T he same month, Tina Dunlap opened Balanced Barre and Pilates just a block away.

“I always said it would be a matter of time before barre came to Minnesota,” said Dunlap. “It just so happens it hit at the same time and now it’s really booming.”

Dunlap, an avid marathoner and triathlete, had her first barre experience last January in California and became “addicted.”

“It was the most challenging exercise I’ve ever done in my life,” she said. “I’d planned on running home from class and had to have my husband pick me up because I was so exhausted.”

Several national franchises have formulated barre workouts, but independent studios often follow the original Lotte Berk Method or create their own.

Some are more cardio-based, while others focus more on dance elements, but the principles are the same.

Barre class typically starts with stretching and a warm-up on a yoga mat to get the heart rate up, then incorporates a combination of Pilates, yoga and ballet movements to sculpt and tone every muscle in the body. It’s basically a series of tiny isometric moveSee BUZZ, Page 6

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Late last month, Lego introduced a new line called “Lego Friends,” a set of kits aimed at girls. But critics say the company has played into stereotypes with kits that are too “girlie.”

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Model Brooklyn Decker makes it hard for just about everyone else on the planet to shop for a swimsuit, let alone actually wear one in public. She’s got killer curves, almost as if her body were made for wearing those tiny triangles of Lycra.

So it comes as no surprise that the blond beauty from Ohio was chosen as the cover girl for Sports Illustrated’s 2012 swimsuit calendar. She’s already been featured in numerous spreads for the magazine’s swimsuit editions and last year made headlines when she graced the cover in a bright yellow bikini.

Along with conquering the swimsuit modeling world, Decker has started acting. She had a starring role in this year’s “Just Go With It,” and she will make her action blockbuster debut in the film “Battleship,” slated for a May 2012 release.

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She looked elegant and flirty with her pretty metallic gold panels and frilly hem _ perfect for the holiday season.

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We know finding new outfits to wear for a busy social calendar can be especially daunting and expensive, but not to fret. These versatile frocks and accessories are perfect for holiday wear and beyond.

ments that cause the muscles to shake to the point of exhaustion.

Oh, yeah, and close attention must be paid to your posture and alignment, which the instructor often checks during class.

At Align Pilates, cardio is added to the barre workout, making it the most rigorous class offered, and the most popular. The classes are heavily populated with women in their 20s and 30s, but the men who show up are usually surprised by how challenging the workout is.

“I was a sweaty mess by the end,” said Ryan Brown, 32, Minneapolis.

“Pro athletes use ballet to work on their strength, balance and core, so I thought I’d give it a try.”

For people who are less fit, it’s easy to make modifications while keeping up with the class. Participants are encouraged to work at their own pace.

Yoga attire is suggested for barre

class, or other form-fitting clothes so that the class instructor can check for correct body position. Class participants wear socks or go barefoot, but serious dancers prefer to wear ballet slippers and leotards in some classes.

Ballet Royale in Lakeville, Minn., has added barre fitness classes to cross-train ballet students and adults _ mostly moms of students _ who want to learn the basics of ballet. The classes incorporate core Pilates exercises, but the focus is on proper ballet techniques. Classical music plays and everyone wears ballet slippers.

The YWCA-Uptown also offers a dance-centric barre class. Participants range from 18 to 70 years old and many are former dancers.

“I used to dance as a kid and I get to relive those days in barre class,” said Tivi Radder, 35, Minneapolis. “It makes me nostalgic for my childhood. It’s a really great workout, too. That’s the icing on the cake.”

Air quality report Today’s forecast for air quality Fresno County: 85, Moderate Madera County: 80, Moderate Tulare County: 80, Moderate Merced County: 52, Moderate Stanislaus County: 76, Moderate Kings County: 82, Moderate San Joaquin County: 62, Moderate Source: San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District

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Run for the Dream opens today

17 Points scored by Jerry Brown III. It was a careerhigh for the sophomore.

T he Run for the Dream Indoor Track and Field Invitational will return to the Save Mart Center today with university and world-class athletes competing on the state’s only indoor track.

For mer longtime Fresno State track and field coach Bob Fraley created the meet with a vision to bring premier athletes to the Central Valley as a showcase of what hard work and fulfilling your dreams can be like.

“It allows people to know what hard work for your dreams does pay off, regardless of what that dream is,” Fraley said.

“You can’t grab a hold of your dreams standing around.

T hese athletes show that through hard work and dedication, anything is attainable.”

T h e F re s n o S t at e wo m en’s indoor track and field team will take part in the event, with senior Shanelle Stephens leading the sprinters. Stephens finished third in the 55-meter dash at Run for the Dream in 2010. Sophomore Meagan McKee will represent the ‘Dogs in field events, competing in both shot put and discus.

The two-day event begins today at noon with university and world class events. The youth and high school division will compete on Saturday at 8 a.m. Field events will be held in the Livestock Pavilion, located on Barstow Ave.

33 Number of rebounds for the Bulldogs. They outrebounded the Cougars 33-25 in the game.

15 Number of offensive boards for the ‘Dogs. More than double the Cougars’ seven.

.708

Free-throw percentage for the ‘Dogs who made 17 of 24 their shots from the line.

3 Number of players who scored in double-figures for the ‘Dogs.

40-29 Second half score for Fresno State, who was tied 26-26 at halftime.

Men’s tennis to return to action The Bulldog men’s tennis team opens the 2011-12 season on Sunday against No. 12 Pepperdine at the Wathen Tennis Center at 1 p.m.

The tennis team, which was supposed to play Saturday but had to reschedule its match against San Francisco due to expected poor weather conditions, were ranked No. 35 in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association’s preseason poll.

Senior Remi Boutillier was ranked No. 14 in ITA singles, along with sophomore Francis Alcantara at No. 44. The match is free admission to all fans.

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Redshirt sophomore Jerry Brown III (right), drives to the basket against Cal State San Marcos’ Aaron Chamberlain Jr., Wednesday night. Brown scored a career-high 17 points and grabbed seven rebounds in Fresno State’s 66-55 win over the Cougars.

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‘The Governor’ lays down the law in second half

By Thomas Pearson The Collegian

After going into halftime tied at 26, Fresno State outscored nonconference opponent Cal State San Marcos 40 to 29 to cap a 66-55 victory Wednesday night.

“We had a good contest tonight. We were playing an older, more experienced team,” Bulldogs coach Rodney Terry said. “We knew their guys were going to come in here and compete, and our team knew that we were going to have to be ready to match them in terms of their energy level.”

The second-half rout was led by sophomore forward Jerry Brown, who scored 11 of his career-high 17 points.

“Jerry has really competed and bought into his role with our team. As we’ve gone along, his role has expanded,“ Terry said. “He’s scoring more for

us offensively. He’s the guy that gives a defensive presence down there. He’s the guy that takes the charges. He’s a guy that brings a lot of energy to the full force.”

The Bulldogs’ leading scorer, sophomore guard Kevin Olekaibe, is averaging 18.4 points this season and added 14 points against San Marcos.

Senior guard Jonathan Wills contributed 12 and Tyler Johnson scored 10, giving the Bulldogs four players with double-digit scoring.

D a n i e l Re d m o n l e d t h e Cougars with 13 points. Jacob Ranger scored 12. For mer Bulldog Tim Steed contributed 10 for San Marcos.

The Bulldo gs forced the Cougars to turn the ball over 18 times, while the Fresno State only committed 12. The game was the 16th time in 20 games that the Bulldogs turned the ball over less than their opponent.

The Bulldogs also outrebounded the Cougars 33 to 25, helping them improve to 4-0 when they outrebound opponents.

Brown and junior forward Kevin Foster led the secondhalf surge by combining for 17 points and 10 rebounds as the Bulldogs extended the lead to 18 with 5:44 remaining in the game.

“In the second half, we came out hard. I think our guys did a much better job in terms of attention to detail. We had a better game of fensively.

Defensively, we got after it a little better. I was pleased with our sharing the basketball. We had four guys with double figures,” Terry said.

The Bulldogs improved to 9-11 and will play the Nevada Wolf Pack, the preseason favorite to win the Western Athletic Conference.

“We feel confident. We’ve been playing hard all year

long. We know that we’re up against Nevada next, who is supposed to be favored for our league,” Brown said. “We’re going to go up there and try to get a win. We’re going to work hard and do everything that coach tells us to do and if we do that I think we’ll get a win.”

Wi t h We d n e s d ay ’ s w i n the ‘Dogs will try to carry the momentum in to a threegame WAC roadtrip starting Saturday in Reno, Nev. “We feel we need to win every game. Our next game is Nevada, and we take it one game at a time” Wills said, “Obviously you need to win the road to win the conference, but we are confident that if we play our game the way we know how we are going to win night in and night out.”

The Bulldogs will return to Fresno Feb. 2 for a conference showdown against Idaho.

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The Fresno State equestrian team will jump back on the saddle Jan. 28 for its spring team scrimmage.

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

ABOVE: Fresno State’s Bree Farley (5) and Rosie Moult (25) try to block Utah State’s Brooke Jackson shot under the basket on Thursday.

BOTTOM RIGHT: Ki-Ki Moore (24) shoots a 3-pointer over an Aggie defender. Moore finished with 17 points and 11 rebounds.

‘Dogs snap Aggies’ six-game win streak

By Angel Moreno The Collegian

The ‘Dogs proved their dominance in the Western Athletic Conference by taking down Utah State 90-67 Thursday night and putting an end to the Aggies’ six-game winning streak in Logan, Utah.

Fresno State (14-4, 2-0) came out early, surging to a 10-point lead midway through the first half. Sophomore Taylor Thompson led the ‘Dogs in the first half with eight points and five rebounds. Thompson finished with a team-high 17 points, seven rebounds and a game-high five steals.

“Our coaches prepared us well for this game,” Thompson said after the game. “We knew

this was the team to beat and coming in they were No. 1 in the WAC. We knew we needed to prove people wrong and prove that we are No. 1, which is what we did.”

But the lead didn’t last long as the Aggies’ Devyn Christensen responded with 11 points, bringing the Aggies to within one point going into the half. Christensen finished with a game-high 22 points.

Despite the close halftime score, the ‘Dogs had a secondhalf surge stronger than their male counterparts’ game on Wednesday, outscoring the Aggies 56 to 34 in the second half. The victory marked the third-straight win for the ‘Dogs, who had a six-game winning streak earlier this

season snapped by UNLV on Jan. 6.

The shots were falling for Fresno State on Thursday, which made 51 percent of its field goals and had five players score in double figures. Junior Rosie Moult scored 12 points and recorded her second double-double of the season, grabbing a team-high 10 rebounds.

Seniors Blakely Goldberg and Veronica Wilson added 11 points apiece.

The ‘Dogs also showed off their versatility on the court, outscoring the Aggies 58 to 36 in the paint and knocking down eight 3-pointers in their second conference win.

Senior Ki-Ki Moore was 2-for5 behind the 3-point line, and 6-for-16 from the field, tying

Thompson for a team-high 17 points. Moore added eight rebounds and four assists in 32 minutes on the floor.

With the victory Fresno State is now tied for first in the WAC at 2-0 with long-time rival San Jose State, who also advanced to 2-0 with their 67-62 defeat of New Mexico State Thursday.

The 23-point victory for the ‘Dogs also marked career win No. 201 for head coach Adrian Wiggins. Fresno State hits the road again, travelling to Moscow, Idaho. The ‘Dogs take on the Vandals Saturday in another conference matchup in hopes of extending their win streak to four g ames before returning to campus Jan. 26 against San Jose State.

Photos by Kimberly Shorts / The Utah Statesman