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Students wary of scam job opportunities
SERVING CAMPUS SINCE 1922
Five Dollar Fridays boost sales for University Dining Hall
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Many choices available at the University Dining Hall are grown at Fresno State.
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Students question the validity of work opportunity flyers posted and passed out around campus.
By Leonard Valerio The Collegian As semesters come and go, some things always seem to stay the same — long lines in the bookstore, lack of parking, shortage of classes and, more recently, false job postings. On campus billboards and all through the free speech area there are numerous job postings advertising student work, often with high pay and the flexibility of working from home. While not all of these job postings are fake, many of them are, and more often than not they are marketed toward students. Rita Bocchinfuso-Cohen,
director of career services at Fresno State, said that ever since the economy experienced a downturn there has been an increase in job postings that are certainly questionable. “Students may not have a lot of experience as employees, and many have limited exposure to the work world and the rules and regulations regarding pay and the labor laws that exist out there,” she said. “In some ways students can be easier to lure into questionable positions.” Sheryl Williamson, 23, said she was looking for a second job when she came across several of the work for students flyers around campus.
“Some of them sounded too good to be true,” she said, “but as a struggling student I still wanted to check them out because some employers aren’t very flexible with student schedules, especially if they already have a job.” Williamson said that several of the postings asked for start-up fees that would be reimbursed once work was completed. “I had a bad feeling when some of the companies asked me to pay for materials upfront,” she said. “After doing a little more research online, I found out that some of these companies were fake See WORK, Page 3
Fresno State’s University Dining Hall has been serving up $5 Fridays for more than four years now. Despite the apparent value they offer on Fridays, it’s still their slowest day of the week. UDH senior manager Debbie Guill says people weren’t aware of it until this year. “It got more popular when the centennial celebration happened in October and we really promoted it,” she said. “It’s been very successful and we’ve gotten a lot of positive feedback about it.” According to Guill, approximately 300 students and staff visit the dining hall during breakfast, 600 visit during lunch and 700 visit during dinner on weekdays. However, on Friday business slows down. “Unlike the outside world where typically Friday and Saturday in the restaurant business is very busy — here it is the opposite,” she said. “Students are going home or they’re going out to eat because it’s Friday.” Guill said that during the centennial celebration on Homecoming week last fall, she saw a huge spike in sales that Friday with approximately 200 faculty and staff alone coming to dine in the hall. “We were shocked about how many people came,” she said. “What we did is we took the slowest day of the week and made it busier.”
Before homecoming week, a lot of people simply didn’t know about the Friday deal. “I thought everybody knew,” she said, “and I learned that clearly everybody didn’t know.” Guill said that other reasons students and staff don’t want to visit the dining hall is because of location and perception. The dining hall is on one end of campus, and to some students and staff it can be an inconvenience to make the trip down to the dining hall. “I have the challenge of changing the perception of what goes along with dining hall food,” she said. “Every year I have 1,200 new students walking up that ramp going ‘This is going to be g ross because it’s dining hall food.’” But UDH doesn’t serve up mystery meat and flimsy mashed potatoes that many experience with a high school cafeteria. In fact, the dining hall menu changes daily, and they have an executive chef and sous chef, along with many cooks. Entrees and meals are cooked everyday from fresh ingredients. A lot of ingredients they use are grown right on the Fresno State campus. In other words, processed food is not in UDH’s vocabulary. “Any of the processed food that we are using would be the same you would use at your house,” Guill said. “Yes we can See UDH, Page 3
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THAT’S WHAT THE PEOPLE ARE SAYING...
if you listen to the street, they are not asking for democracy, they are not asking for anything except the removal “I think of Mubarak. He’s become a symbol for everything that they find objectionable...and you’ve got to change the symbol.” – Edward Walker, former U.S. ambassador to Egypt, “State of the Union”
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Roethlisberger deserves same treatment as Bryant A
trend is starting to brew in major American sports, and it’s forcing loyal fans to question how they view athletes that get hit with sexual assault allegations. Year after year, top athletes in the most-watched sports are not only trying to win games, but also win back fans and restore their collective images after being charged with serious criminal offenses. And with arguably the biggest game to be won in American sports less than a week away, Pittsburgh Steelers’ quarterback Ben Roethlisberger has had the tall task of juggling sexual assault allegations as much as blitzing linebackers this season. After allegations of sexual misconduct in 2009 plagued the 28-year-old, the two-time Super Bowl champion had to serve a four-game suspension to start this season, but was never actually was charged with a criminal offense. Still, the severity of the alleged crime was enough for fans and even non-fans across America to turn the cheek on the wild-child quarterback. But Roethlisberger is just one in an increasingly long line of professional athletes who have been in trouble with the law, and the line between which crime is acceptable and unacceptable to forgive continues to blur. Kobe Bryant, arguably the most
prolific NBA player in the history of the game behind Michael Jordan, actually stood trial in an alleged rape case involving an Eagle, Colo., woman in the summer of 2003. No charges were ever executed and everything was filed outside of court, but Bryant stood a taller task than any NBA Finals — restoring his public image. Four NBA titles later, Bryant’s fan base is as large as ever, supporters come from far and wide and very few critics hinge their feelings on the Los Angeles superstar on his moral blemishes. Bryant shook off the temporary setback, and now is booed more for his actions on the court than in any scandal off of it. Roethlisberger, however, still can’t seem to shake off naysayers no matter how much he wins. Bryant was able to escape a public death sentence by how the NBA league officials treated his situation. Bryant was never suspended during that season’s NBA playoffs, in which his Lakers reached the NBA Finals. But because Roethlisberger, and convicted dogfighter Michael Vick, belong to the most nationallyrenowned sport in not only the country, but also perhaps the world, their public image may never be restored the way Bryant’s was. Some choose not to cheer for Vick for moral reasons, and that is
OK. He was convicted of a crime and was sentenced to 23 months in federal prison for murdering and torturing animals that did not meet his standards in a fighting ring. Roethlisberger’s situation is different. It is true, he has been accused of making ill-advised decisions and being immature, indeed he really is, but he has never crossed any line that Bryant did not. The accusations against him are serious, there’s no doubt about that. But if a court of law does not see Roethlisberger as a criminal, then why should we? Active sports viewers have to make decisions on who they support and what jersey apparel they may wear based on an extremely blurred line. Which criminal offense is gentle enough to accept, and what must a convicted athlete do to restore his or her image? Roethlisberger needs no additional supporters to be honest, because he just so happens to belong to the NFL franchise with one of the largest fan bases in history. But to sneer at the quarterback for allegations that were never actually proven isn’t acceptable. So whether Roethlisberger throws three interceptions in a losing effort or three touchdowns in a victorious outing, the Super Bowl audience needs to make a decision of how blurry its criminal offense acceptance line actually is.
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Culled each week from discussions in The Collegian newsroom.
Thumbs up Kevin Olekaibe
The freshman guard has been the best player on the team this season. With our luck, Olekaibe will go to the draft, just like Paul George and Dominic McGuire before him.
Thumbs down
President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt and the current protests. The death toll in Egypt rose to more than 100 by Sat., Jan. 29., 2011, as anti-government protests extended for the fifth day in an attempt to pressure President Mubarak to step down.
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Carrie, Charlotte, Samatha & Miranda Sex and the City is back. E! is airing reruns of our favorite foursome every night of the week at 8 p.m.
Thumbs down University Student Union
No more free plastic forks, spoons or knifes in the University Student Union. The USU now charges 25 cents per utensil. If Taco Bell follows its lead and puts a price on sauce packets all hell will break loose.
Thumbs down
American Idol season 10 American Idol judge Paula Abdul was replaced by Kara DioGuardi. Then DioGuardi was replaced by Ellen DeGeneres. Now Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez will join judge Randy Jackson on the show. Without Simon Cowell’s insults, American Idol stinks.Two huge thumbs down.
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Student Recreation Center Turns Five
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Fresno State’s two-story fitness and education center celebrates five years of being open.
By Dana Hull The Collegian F re s n o S t at e ’ s S t u d e n t Recreation Center will celebrate its five-year anniversary this week. The SRC, which not only provides students with workout equipment, basketball
and racquetball courts, also houses the university’s Leon and Pete Peters Educational Center and The Lyles Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Students and faculty are invited to attend their anniversary celebration free of charge on Thursday, Feb. 3 from 5 to 8 p.m.
The celebration will include music, prizes and information tables. Product samples and refreshments will also be provided. The 92,000 square-foot center has had more than one million visits by students and members.
UDH: Gains popularity with $5 Fridays CONTINUED from page 1 make thousand island from scratch, and you could, too. But are you going to take the time to do it? No.” Guill says that they do sometimes use food that was prepared the day before, but only if it’s stored at the right temperature and never if it’s already been served to the students. “You just need to hold it properly and reheat it properly” Guill said. “If the food has
been on the line, it goes in the trash can.” Food prepared the previous day will usually go in UDH’s “features station,” where the cook will be able to get creative with the leftovers and use their own recipes to make something that’s not on the menu. If there is still food left over after that, it goes in the trash as well. “We don’t keep it for multiple days,” she said. “We’re not going to serve something more than once.”
Regular student prices for UDH are $6 for breakfast, $8.25 for lunch and $9.50 for dinner. From soups and salads to onion rings and ice cream, healthy eaters or those wanting to splurge can all leave satisfied. And if one wants Belgian Waffles for dinner, they have that, too. “That’s why $5 Fridays are so huge because you will leave here extremely full and happy,” Guill said.
and had lured people into their scheme all across the country.” Bocchinfuso-Cohen said the career services department does do some screening on job postings, but because they are a small office it is hard to do thorough screenings on all job postings. “Sometimes when students are using the career services system they assume that the job has been thoroughly checked out, and that’s not always the case,” she said. “We encourage students to take the same caution as responding to an ad.” Bocchinfuso-Cohen said that the screening does catch job postings that may not be legitimate. “There are postings that raise red flags and we certainly look into those,” she
said. “We have a list of items that are red flags for us, and those include jobs that are advertised with generic e-mail addresses, jobs that may be commission only, and jobs that ask for a lot of personal information.” Bocchinfuso-Cohen warned that one of the big red flags is when companies ask for money up front. “There are positions where they will say we need this deposit or this money up front, and I would be very cautious with that,” she said. “Students need to do research and many want to check with the Better Business Bureau to see if the company had any recent complaints against it.” Bocchinfuso-Cohen welcomes students to come by career services for more information regarding job postings and tips on what to avoid.
Missing boy not found By Terry Collins Associated Press PATTERSON, Calif. (AP) — Divers on Saturday ended their search in a canal without finding the bodies of a missing 4-year-old boy and his accused kidnapper near the underwater site where the suspect’s car was found. A dive team searched an underwater tunnel for Juliani Cardenas and 27-year-old Jose Esteban Rodriguez without success. Sonars also failed to turn up any sign of bodies. Rodriguez is suspected of
kidnapping Juliani Cardenas, his ex-girlfriend’s son, from the boy’s g randmother in Patterson on Jan. 18. The crews “are satisfied that the siphon is clear,” Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Deputy Royjindar Singh said, referring to the long underwater tunnel connecting two sections of the Delta-Mendota Canal in Central California. “There’s no bodies in there.” Rodriguez’s damaged 2003 silver Toyota Corolla was recovered Friday evening from the canal outside Patterson, but the pair were not inside.
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Slippery when wet
Students, faculty and staff take precautions when commuting to campus
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Early morning showers yesterday caused motorists to drive at a safe and reasonable speed. Shaw Avenue is known for heavy traffic, especially when classes are in session.
By Julie Bounchareune The Collegian With the slippery roads and low visibility caused by the rain and fog, many drivers can argue that driving in the winter weather conditions can increase the likelihood of a car accident. However, California Highway Patrol Officer Kirk Arnold disagrees. “The thing is the fog does not cause traffic collisions, just like the rain does not cause traffic collisions,” Arnold said. “Weather does not and can not cause traffic collisions. What does is human error — that would be primary unsafe speed for the conditions.”
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est thing to do is just stay put until the fog is dissipated.” — Kirk Arnold, California Highway Patrol Officer
Arnold said these conditions are, when it’s foggy, limited visibility and slippery and wet roadways. To avoid a traffic collision in the foggy conditions, Ar nold said one of the main precautions that drivers need to do is to reduce their speed, and increase the following distance behind another vehicle. “You want to obviously drive with your low beam headlights on,” Arnold said. “If you drive with your high beam headlights in the fog, it’s going to actually reduce your visibility.” Within the past week, the dense fog in the early mornings and the late nights has sometimes caused the visibility level to be extremely low. Arnold said that there are three levels of fog that CHP officers watch for: Level one is a visibility of 500 feet or greater, level two is 200-500 feet and level three, which is considered critical fog, is 200 feet or less.
With visibility levels of less than 200 feet, Fresno State students still witness drivers driving recklessly behind the wheel. Kinesiology major Zack Groothuyzen said he has seen drivers swerve back and forth, because they can’t see the traffic lines in the fog. “You just wonder if they’re going to clip someone or if they’re going to lose control,” Groothuyzen said. “I’ve seen some people ride someone’s tail, you know, tailgate, all the way through the fog.” Groothuyzen recalls driving to school, off of Highway 99, late one night when there was dense fog. “I was going about the speed limit, maybe a little over, and this car came up speeding, swerving in and out of lanes and I could barely see taillights in front of me,” Groothuyzen said. “Pretty scary stuff.” Re g a r d l e s s o f o t h e r d r ive r s , Groothuyzen said he feels comfortable driving in the fog. “As long as you don’t drive 80 mph when you can’t see 10 feet in front of you, it’s not that big a deal,” Groothuyzen said. Linguistics and speech pathology major Pedro Lopez agrees that there are reckless drivers, especially on the freeways. Lopez said he's a very cautious driver. On the freeways, he drives the speed limit and stays in the slow lane. “I’m also really careful at intersections, even if the light is green,” Lopez said. Lopez said he recalls a couple of times when he had to drive when it was really foggy. “I could hardly see 20 yards ahead of me,” Lopez said. “So I had to go really slow and one time I had to turn my emergency lights on just in case.” The most important thing that Arnold and the CHP recommends to the motorists is if it’s foggy, don’t drive if you don’t have to. “Best thing to do is just stay put until the fog is dissipated,” he said.
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A backstage look at Theater Arts
Department set to produce Tennessee William’s famous play, ‘Servant of Two Masters’ By Karlena Franz The Collegian Each year, the theater arts department puts on productions to give students a broad range of theatrical experiences. The department’s next play, “Servant of Two Masters,” is making its debut at Fresno State on March 25. Dozens of people participate in the process, including cast, crew, costume designers, a light and sound crew and set builders. A cast could be as large as 25 for a Shakespeare production or as small as just a few people. “What you don’t see when watching a production is the crew backstage,” Gibson said. “There are always many more people backstage than there are onstage.” It takes months to prepare for a show. Meetings for “Servant Of Two Masters” were held as early as December. “We have several factors that we consider,” Gibson said. “The whole point of our production is to be entertaining for the community and provide plays that people want to see. “But we’re an educational institution, so we are trying to train students,” she added. “One of the key things that we think about when we do our plays is to give our theater students experience. They need a certain variety of experience to go out there and say, ‘Oh, yes, I
have done that.’” Gibson says every other year the department produces classical plays like Shakespeare or Greek dramas, a contemporary piece and a musical to give students experience. Another factor in choosing plays, Gibson said, is how many characters are involved. “You can’t just have two-person plays,” Gibson said. “Most plays hold more roles for men, so it is important to find plays that give equal opportunities for both genders.” Auditions for the semester are as early as the first week of school and productions can lead up into the last weeks of school. Three shows are produced a semester, one of which is a dance recital, all of which are directed by the faculty. Those productions, however, do not include student-directed plays and recitals. Izzy Einsidler, head of lighting and sound, works five days a week on lighting and sound design. “In ‘tech week’ you spend five or six days of writing the actual look, the cues, setting levels, doing all that stuff,” Einsidler said. “That takes up all week before production and then we open.” Students also participate in working
on the lighting and sound used in the production, Einsidler said. He also incorporates these productions in his classes. “There is always research involved in every show in lighting and sound,” Einsidler s a i d . “ Yo u find
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out in a nutshell who wrote the play, what time period it was written in, what the director’s vision is and what the visual elements need to be.” Each play, no matter what genre, takes a lot of time and effort to put on the various productions seen every semester. “We are all crazy by the end of the semester,” Gibson said.
Comedian Charlie BRIEFS: Brief news for the brief Callas dead in Las Vegas attention span at 83 CONTINUED from page 6
By Ken Ritter Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Charlie Callas, a versatile comedian whose zany faces and antics made him a regular for more than four decades on television, in films and on casino stages, has died in Las Vegas. He was 83. Callas died Thursday at a hospice, according to his sons Mark Callas and Larry Callas. Callas was a rubber-faced, wiry framed comic whose rapid-fire delivery drew laughs and made him a frequent guest on variety and comedy shows. “Everybody that met him, he left them with a smile,” Mark Callas said. For years, Charlie Callas made Johnny Carson laugh on the “Tonight Show.” But C a r s o n b a n n e d h i m f ro m returning after Callas shoved Carson off his chair in a bid for laughs in 1982. Mark Callas said his father knew every member of the Rat Pack, a group of actors that included Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bishop and Peter Lawford. Callas toured with Sinatra and Tom Jones, had a role with Jerry Lewis in the movie “The Big Mouth” in 1967, and was a guest on TV variety shows hosted by Jackie Gleason, Ed Sullivan, Merv Griffin, Andy Williams and F lip Wilson. Callas guest-hosted on the “Joey Bishop Show.”
He also played restaurant owner Malcolm Argos in the 1970s TV series “Switch” with Rober t Wagner and Eddie Albert, and had roles in Mel Brooks’ films “High Anxiety” and “History of the World: Part I.” Callas grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., and served in the U.S. Ar my in Ger many during World War II before beginning a career as a drummer with big bands starring Tommy Dorsey and Buddy Rich. He was a natural comic, and it wasn’t long before he gave up drumming for standup routines. He dropped a vowel from his legal name, Callias, when he took to the stage. “He was just messing around with the guys and it worked, I guess,” Mark Callas said. He was Charlie Callas when he made his first television appearance in 1963 on the “Hollywood Palace” variety show. Mark Callas, who produces the “American Superstars” celebrity impersonators show in Las Vegas, said he encouraged his parents to move to Las Vegas from New York in 2002. Larry Callas said the death of his mother, Evelyn Callas in July at age 80, broke his father’s heart. Funeral arrangments were being made at Palm Mortuary in Las Vegas.
PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — A film about young lovers in a long-distance relationship called “Like Crazy” was awarded the grand jury prize for a U.S. drama at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. Its star, Felicity Jones, also received a special jury prize for acting in the movie. America Ferrera presented the acting award to Jones, who was not in attendance at the Saturday night ceremony, saying “the 2011 Sundance Film Festival will go down as the year of the actress.” Peter D. Richardson’s film “How to die in Oregon” won the grand jury U.S. documentary prize. It follows terminally ill patients living in Oregon, the first state to legalize physician-assisted suicide. Also recognized were Mike Cahill and Brit Marling’s sci-fi film “Another Earth,” which won a dramatic special jury prize and the Alfred P. Sloan award. Cahill, who directed and cowrote the movie, said “this is the greatest week of our lives.” The film is about two strangers brought together the night before the discovery of a duplicate planet Earth. The Festival’s Awards C e re m o ny w a s h o s t e d by actor Tim Blake Nelson, who appears in the comedic bank heist film “Flypaper,” which premiered at Sundance. Nelson told the audience, “If you win a prize today, that’s fantastic.
Congratulations. But if you don’t, persevere because if you have made it this far, trust me, your film will find a home.” This is the 30th Anniversary of the Sundance Film Festival, which was founded by actor Robert Redford to promote independent filmmaking.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Chris Brown has completed a domestic violence counseling program required as part of the singer’s guilty plea to assaulting then-girlfriend Rihanna nearly two years ago. On Friday, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patricia Schnegg congratulated the 21-year-old R&B perfor mer for finishing the yearlong program. As a result of completing the required counseling, Brown will no longer have to appear in court every three months for progress report hearings. Brown is serving five years of probation after pleading guilty last year to assaulting pop star Rihanna in a rented sports car after a pre-Grammy Awards party. City News Service reports the judge said she would consider lifting the protective order against Brown at a later date. The order requires Brown to stay at least 100 yards away from Rihanna. LONDON (AP) — Opera star Dame Margaret Price, considered one of the world’s leading sopranos, has died at her home
in Wales. She was 69. Funeral director Paul Jenkins told The Associated P r e s s S a t u r d ay t h a t h e r funeral is expected to be held next week but had no further details. The famed soprano, known for her exquisite renditions of Mozart’s complicated music, died of heart failure Friday, British press reports said. Price, who rose to promin e n c e a f t e r h e r d e bu t a s Cherubino in Mozart’s Mar riage of Figaro at the Welsh National Opera in 1962, had performed in most of the world’s great opera houses by the time she retired in 1999. She was known for the striking purity and beauty of her voice. After her debut in Wales, Price went on to play Cherubino at the Royal Opera House at Convent Garden, London’s glittering showcase for world-class talent. An early triumph in the United States was in Mozart’s The Magic Flute in San Francisco, which she followed with stunning perfor mances of other Mozart works in Germany. Over the course of her career, Price was honored in many countries, received honorary degrees from top universities and was made a Dame Commander of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II in 1993.
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Fresno State President John Welty gives blood during a school blood drive in honor of Chad Hathaway, a Fresno State student who was diagnosed with leukemia in November of 1998. This picture ran in the Friday, Feb. 19, 1999, issue of The Collegian.
News Briefs
Brief news for the brief attention span WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — “Lord of the Rings” director Sir Peter Jackson is in stable condition in the intensive care unit of Wellington Hospital after surgery for a perforated ulcer. Publicist Melissa Booth said Monday that Jackson was “doing well” but would be in the hospital for at least a few more days. She said doctors expect Jackson to make a full recovery. Jackson was admitted to Wellington Hospital last Wednesday after complaining of acute stomach pains. His illness has delayed the start of filming of “The Hobbit,” the two-part prequel to his Academy Award-winning Lord of the Rings trilogy. Production of “The Hobbit” had previously been troubled by financial issues and the
departure of its initial director Guillermo del Toro. NEW YORK (AP) — British actor Henry Cavill is going up, up and away. Cavill will star as Superman (and, obviously, Clark Kent) in the next installment of the movie franchise. Warner Bros. Pictures announced the casting Sunday. The film is to be directed by “300” director Zack Snyder, who says in a statement Cavill is “the perfect choice to don the cape and ‘S’ shield.” No title has been announced for the film, which is intended to reboot the franchise after its latest incarnation fizzled. The 2006 movie “Super man Retur ns” was directed by Bryan Singer and star red Brandon Routh as the Man of Steel.
Cavill is relatively unknown. He had been considered for the blockbuster roles of Batman, James Bond and even the pre-
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Men, women on different paths Recent road games have the women soaring into more conference play, and the men struggling down the stretch By Ben Ingersoll The Collegian Head women’s basketball coach Adrian Wiggins didn’t see this past weekend’s road contest as a telling point on how this season will ultimately play out. Men’s coach Steve Cleveland thought otherwise. One coach’s outlook worked while the other’s fell painfully short.
The women’s squad opened the weekend with a road dismantling of Western Athletic Conference foe Nevada on Saturday to open a nine-game win streak over the Wolf Pack. Fresno State made quick work of Nevada, darting out to a 41-27 halftime advantage en route to a 72-51 victory. The women now are just one road win at New Mexico State away from setting up a Feb. 5
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Hayley Munro had 19 points and eight rebounds against Nevada. She is averaging 13 points per game, second on the team.
showdown at Louisiana Tech that should decide the regularseason WAC champion. The men’s story is different— a whole lot different. Cleveland and company got back on the winning track with an out-of-conference victory over newly Division I upgrade Seattle University a week ago, but dug themselves back in a deep hole with consecutive losses. The first loss came via a heartbreaking three-point loss at Nevada, in which Fresno State got 26 points from Tim Steed, 19 points from Kevin Olekaibe and a double-double from center Greg Smith. Still, the Bulldo gs’ second-half surge proved not to be enough and Fresno State lost its sixth straight conference game. Consecutive WAC loss number seven came two days later when the ‘Dogs dropped to 8-12 overall, 3-6 in the WAC after losing 78-66 to lowly San Jose State (10-10, 2-7 WAC). Olekaibe once again had a career night, scoring 29 points off the bench. But Fresno State’s starters mustered just 23 points on 8-of-25 shooting. With 10 games still remaining on the re gular-season schedule, Cleveland’s team needs a drastic turnaround to come quick or it will face firstround elimination in the WAC Tour nament for the fourth time in five years. Fresno State’s men’s team plays just one more WAC contest against a team lower than it in the conference standings and still has a home game against New Mexico State and a road showdown with Utah State. The women, however, are on a four-game win streak and are setting up much more meaningful future contests. Wiggins’ team travels to Las Cruces, N.M., Thursday to take on New Mexico State in the Bulldogs’ final tune up before the crucial game at
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Junior college transfer Tim Steed averaged 19 points per game in the Bulldogs’ recent back-to-back losses, including a game-high 26 points at Nevada.
Louisiana Tech. Unlike the men, the women close out the season with a l l i n - c o n f e re n c e g a m e s. The men still have a homeand-away series with Cal State Bakersfield and will participate in the ESPN BracketBusters on Feb. 19. But the final stretch of a season has been Cleveland’s M.O. since taking the program’s reins in the 2005-06 season. Over the last five years, Cleveland’s squads have posted a mediocre 5-5 average record over the last 10 games, including only having a winning record in that stretch in 2007. Wiggins’ first full season as
the women’s head coach was the same year Cleveland took over. But the final stretch of games has boded much better for the women through the years. The women have nine games remaining before the WAC Tournament, and have averaged around an 8-1 record, including all winning records.
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GOLF: Arizona fea- TENNIS: Ranked opponents on tures stiff competition the horizon for Fresno State CONTINUED from page 8 with the Bulldogs. Sunker who had a career best fifth place finish in his last tournament is a junior, while Jessup is a freshman. “We got good players,” Patel said. Being the first tour nament of the spring season the team is looking to get off to a start that they can build on quickly. The momentum gained through this tournament could be enough of a springboard that carries the Bulldogs for the next few months. The team comes into the t o u r n a m e n t a f t e r h av i n g
CONTINUED from page 8 Patel and Sunker both finish in the top five the last time they played in a tournament together. The remaining teams in the tournament are made up of two squads from Arizona, Brigham Young, Hartford, New Mexico, Pacific, Texas El Paso, UC Riverside, UC Irvine, UNLV, Utah and UTSA. The two-day event will take place at Arizona National located in Tuscon, Ariz. The 6,785 yard course was designed by Robert Trent Jones, Jr. in 1995. The Arizona course is a par-71.
said. “We try to do more quality, less quantity and really be sharp at each practice,” Thibodeau said. The Bulldogs will have a difficult schedule to begin the year. Saint Mary’s is currently ranked 40th while Arizona has begun the season with a 2-0 record. The team is not looking too far ahead in the schedule, taking a match-by-match approach to the season. The team has consistently been improving and working hard. Fresno State’s young team does have advantages over other teams. The fact that
the team is young means that they are able to still improve their developing skills. With the amount of time that the team has put in during practice, it should show on the court when the season gets underway. Having an early home schedule can also help gain fan support at an early stage in the season. Having the support of the fans is a major advantage in any sport, and if the Bulldogs are able to capitalize on their early home schedule, it would have a big impact throughout the rest of the year.
The team will kickoff with a five-game home stand against Saint Mary’s on Thursday. The four remaining games consist of Arizona on Friday, Nevada on Sunday and a double-header against Sacramento and Pacific on Saturday, Feb. 19. After the home stand, nine of the next 12 games are on the road.
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Both the men’s and women’s basketball teams face last year’s WAC Tournament champions. The men host New Mexico State on Thursday and the women travel to Louisiana Tech on Saturday SPORTS EDITOR, BEN INGERSOLL • COLLEGIAN-SPORTS@CSUFRESNO.EDU
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Men’s golf springs back into action at Arizona Intercollegiate With the Arizona Intercollegiate opening the spring season, plenty of success is on the horizon for Fresno State golf By Tim Salazar The Collegian The Fresno State men’s golf team is set to open the season in Arizona. The Bulldogs are one of 16 teams who will participate in the Arizona Intercollegiate, which starts today. The ‘Dogs will field a fiveman team consisting of Bhavik Patel, Brian Sunker, Bryan Hogan, Nate Jessup and Michael Gideon. The squad will also include Adam Barkow who will compete individually. Teams that contain more than five players will be allowed to have its remaining players compete individually. This is the first tour nament for Fresno State in the 2011 spring season. The team faces stiff competition with No. 13 Califor nia and No. 14 San Diego State accord-
ing to Golfweek’s rankings. Pepperdine is ranked No. 37 as of Nov. 24. Individually, Alex Kang of San Diego State is the highest ranked player at No. 19. Colin Featherstone of San Diego State No. 35 and Ben An from California at 47 are the highest-rated players that are set to compete against Fresno State. The Bulldogs’ Patel is ranked No. 81 in the nation by Golfweek. Patel had his most recent success with a top-20 finish in the Australian Master of the Amateurs golf tournament. The Australian tournament is one of the highest regarded amateur tournaments in the world. With Patel currently at the top of his game, he won’t be refining his techniques for the season. “No new changes,” Patel
said regarding his swing. The junior has had much success in his Fresno State career. Not since Nick Watney has a Fresno State golfer garnered as much attention as Patel for the Bulldogs. The team is showing signs of confidence and maturity that has come with their recent success. With the continued improvement of the team, the Bulldogs may have a chance to claim many accolades in the coming months with the Western Athletic Conference Championship a possibility. The site of this year’s WAC Championship is Rio Secco Golf Club in Las Vegas. Of the six Bulldogs who will participate in this week’s tournament, half are seniors. Hogan, Gideon and Barkow are all in their final seasons
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Sophomore Brian Sunker already has two top-10 finishes this season, and will be on the traveling squad in today’s Arizona Intercollegiate.
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Injuries, tough schedule headline the start of women’s tennis spring season Head coach Simon Thibodeau’s squad will host 12 home matches By Tim Salazar The Collegian
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Anna Mikhaylova and compnay will try to avenge last season’s WAC Championships loss to Boise State.
The start of the 2011 season brings new life to the women’s tennis team. The Bulldogs do have youth on their side with six underclassmen on the seven-women team. Coming off a tournament in Berkeley, the ‘Dogs will start the season at home. “It was nice for me to evaluate where all the players are injury-wise as well as what kind of lineups we can do for singles and doubles,” head coach Simon Thibodeau said. The team has been working toward seeing which team members mesh the best with each other. By continually working on their team dynamic, the Bulldogs will try to improve in this area. “We have been working a lot of doubles, testing out different partners,” freshman Abby Hayley said.
The team has matured since last year and the consistent growth of the team will begin to shine once the season gets underway. “We have all been trying to stay positive, motivated
for us,” Hayley said. “But it all starts with practice and if we practice hard now it will pay off during the season.” Currently there are not any serious injuries on the team. Being a squad of only seven,
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e have all been trying to stay positive, motivated and have intense practices every day.” — Bianca Modoc, sophomore
and have intense practices every day,” sophomore Bianca Modoc said. Hayley believes that all the offseason workouts will pay dividends as the season wears on. “We have a hard schedule and we have our work cut out
keeping everyone as healthy and fresh as possible is a necessity. “For the most part, we’re healthy we have a couple people struggling with injuries, but overall the trainers are really helping out,” Hayley See TENNIS, Page 7