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Associated Students, Inc. Senator Jaime Moncayo wrote the resolution for the late political science professor Dr. Rodney Anderson. The resolution was presented to Political Science Department Chair Dr. David Schecter and professor Kimberly Arvanigian at last Wednesday’s Senate meeting.

ASI remembers late political science professor with resolution

By Alexandra Norton The Collegian Today the Fresno State community will gather to remember the late political science professor Dr. Rodney Anderson at the Leon S. Peters Ellipse Gallery on the second floor of the Henry Madden Library at 11 a.m. where a resolution by Associated Students, Inc. will be presented.

The passing of Anderson took many students and professors by surprised, but members of ASI were especially hit hard.

“I think ASI was hit because of his passing mainly because we have a lot of political science students— now and in the past,” said Senator Jamie Moncayo.

“A lot of us knew Dr. Anderson personally.”

M o n c ayo w ro t e t h e re s o l u t i o n and presented it to Political Science Department Chair Dr. David Schecter and Professor Kimberly Arvanigian at last Wednesday’s Senate meeting.

“It’s just a brief biography of Dr. Anderson about what he did here at Fresno State in terms of what classes he taught and how many students he reached,” Moncayo said. “He was an avid sports fan and went to many of the football games. He was also a very big

supporter of the baseball team and was actually there when the team won the 2008 championship.”

Arvanigian, shared an office with Anderson for nearly ten years, spoke of Anderson’s love for Fresno State at the Senate meeting.

“Dr. Anderson loved his work here.

[He] never complained one day in sixteen years,” Arvanigian said. “The office is quite empty without him.”

Copies of the resolution will also be available for attendees.

“We just wanted to do something in memory,” Moncayo said. “We wanted something to send to his family that would show the appreciation students had for him. That originally was the purpose of the resolution.”

The Political Science Department is asking for peoplem, in lieu of flowers, to make a donation for the Dr. Rodney Anderson Memorial Fund.

Fresno State President John Welty ordered flags on campus to be lowered to half-staff until March 23 for not only Anderson’s death, but also university benefactor Pete P. Peters who died at the age of 94 on Friday.

A funeral service is planned for Peters on Tuesday at 11 a.m. at the First Armenian Presbyterian Church.

Memorial Service Leon S. Peters Ellipse Gallery on the second floor of the Henry Madden Library

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t’s just a brief biography of Dr. Anderson about what he did here at Fresno State in terms of what classes he taught and how many students he reached.”

— Jaime Mancayo, Associated Students, Inc. Senator

As the largest library in the CSU system, the Henry Madden Library is a formidable presence on campus. But with the surge of technology, a question remains as to whether or not the need for so many housed books is necessary.

As traffic goes in and out of the campus library, an electronic system counts every single person. The total number of people who entered the library last week was recorded at 35,969.

Dean of the library Dave Tyckoson said, “It stays pretty steady from 35,000 to 40,000 per week throughout the school year.”

Aside from the more than one million books provided, students use the library as a sanctuary for studying and schoolwork. Out of all of the services that are provided at the library, some are more popular than others.

According to Tyckoson, book checkout, research assistance, printing, and the group and individual study rooms are the most common uses.

With all of these resources right on campus, going elsewhere for library services may seem unnecessary. But since it is located on campus, its hours of operation coincide with the school’s time schedule.

For spring break, the Henry Madden Library will only be open from 8 a.m.

– 5 p.m. Although classes may be out for a week, not all students are able to put their studies on hold. The Fresno County Library serves as an alternative for those in need. The FCL consists of multiple branches throughout the Fresno County with 13 in Fresno alone.

Tyckoson is confident that the campus library will not affect the FCL or cause it to become extinct.

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ssociated Students, Inc. elections are right around the corner. Elections will be held online, Tuesday, March 27 through Thursday, March 29.

With just a week before ballots end up in your Fresno State email, campaign Facebook pages have been made, posters are tacked up in the halls and candidates can be found passing out business cards in the Free Speech Area.

Even with all the campaign ASI President efforts of this Selena Farnesi year’s candidates, many students are apathetic about their role in ASI and unconvinced that they should vote in the upcoming election.

There are many reasons that every student should vote in the ASI election! The quick argument is, of course, that ASI is your official student representation to the campus, community and the state. Your vote is your voice, and whoever is elected represents that voice.

If that cliché phrase didn’t convince you that your vote is important, here are a few more reasons that all students should vote in the upcoming ASI election.

Fourth Floor Access Whoever is elected to the office of ASI president will ride the library’s

elevator all the way to the fourth floor.

This person is responsible for meeting regularly with administrators whose offices are housed there. Whoever you elect will have the ear of the president, the provost, and the vice president of student affairs. This person will be the student these administrators go to for student opinion on issues of the university, so it’s important you vote for someone who you believe can represent you.

Shared Governance Whoever is elected will be in charge of putting students on University Wide Committees. These committees are made up of faculty and administrators. They make decisions on everything from what food gets served on campus, to general education requirements, to what the campus fee will be.

Members of ASI will be asked to serve on these committees and work with faculty and administrators to make those decisions. The work of these committees is extremely important and affects the academic and extracurricular experience of Fresno State students. It’s important to elect someone who can represent you well, but also someone you trust to choose other well-deserving students to serve on these committees.

You are Paying Them Every student on campus pays a student body fee, and a portion of this fee goes to ASI. ASI uses that money to pay its executive team and staff to work for you. The money also goes to

supporting tons of campus programs that are run by ASI, like club funding, research grants, the laptop loan program housed in the Henry Madden Library and the readership program that provides newspapers to the campus.

Fees, Fees, Fees None of you will be shocked to hear that higher education is getting more and more expensive due to a lack of funding from the state government.

Because of the budget cuts the CSU system has received, the CSU system has raised tuition, and individual campuses are constantly assessing and increasing campus fees. Fresno State is no exception. The instructionally related activities fee was increased by $70, and more fee increases are being discussed this year. Whoever you elect will be responsible for lobbying the administration in regards to fee increases. The student government also acts as the officially student lobbying organization of Fresno State to the capital regarding budget cuts and the importance of supporting higher education.

New Positions This year, ASI changed its bylaws so that there are 15 Senate positions instead of 17, and four executives instead of three. The new executive position is the Vice President of External Affairs. As it is the first time this position is available, whoever is elected to this position will set the precedent for what the work of the

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Vice President of External Affairs looks like moving forward.

The reduction in Senate positions is also an important reason to vote; these changes affect who will serve as the chairs to the ASI Committees and who is eligible to run for Executive Vice President position (Chair of the ASI Senate). Just as with the Vice President of External Affairs, the people who are elected to serve this year will set the precedent in regards to how ASI Committees and the Executive Vice President work given the bylaw reforms. It’s an important election year for ASI and the future of ASI at Fresno State.

Watch your Fresno State email account for the link to the ballot for ASI elections. If you don’t receive the link, a login or a password, please don’t hesitate to let us know so we can make sure to get you the resources you need to participate in the election.

Also, look out for our polling station in the Free Speech Area where members of the League of Women’s Voters will be able to answer any question you have about how to vote.

If you have questions about ASI programs or the work of the ASI Senate, please don’t hesitate to stop by the ASI offices in USU 316 and 317.

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

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It poured in Fresno over the weekend, good news both for Valley farmers and apathetic students who don’t wash their cars. While I don’t agree with everything Luke Bryan sings about in his hit song, I can agree that “rain is a good thing!”

Women’s lacrosse gets first win as program Fresno State lacrosse defeated Long Island University 17-12 for the first victory in the program’s four-year history. Last April Fool’s, The Collegian skewered the lacrosse team, so it’s only fair that we give them their due. May it be the first of many victories for the ‘Dogs.

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Invisible Children co-founder arrested for lewd behavior After the video “Kony 2012” went viral, Invisible Children, an organization that works to “end the use of child soldiers in Joseph Kony’s rebel war,” and its co-founder Jason Russell, endured new scrutiny, for better and for worse. It appears that scrutiny was too much for Russell, who engaged in lewd behavior while apparently being under the influence of some substance.

While it is easy to make light of such a bizarre situation, Russell, a father, deserves only kindness.

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Fresno State student Leesha Melson utilizes the Henry Madden Library’s book check-out services for a history paper.

Melson, a senior, has only used the library twice during her time at Fresno State.

groups, children’s programs, etc., that are vital to the Fresno community,” Tychoson said. “As budgets get tighter they might close some lesser used branches, but the county library is a service for everyone and one that would be greatly missed if it was not available.”

More and more technological progressions are made in order to access books aside from their print form. Instead of checking a book out or purchasing one, readers can simply access it from their computers or various electronic devices, such as the iPad. Because of these technology advancements, fewer people

Penn State trustees receive death threats Alumni call for trustees to resign and say dismissal of Paterno by phone was cowardly

By Andrew McGill McClatchy-Tribune The call came late. And unlike much of the scandal that’s enveloped Penn State, it was crystal clear.

“The coach died,” the unknown man told Keith Eckel, a Lackawanna County farmer and Penn State trustee.

“You will die also.”

As his collea gues voted Friday to form new committees giving them more oversight in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky scandal, Eckel said multiple Penn State board members have received death threats for their votes to fire former head coach Joe Paterno, who died in January.

It’s the dark side of the outcry against the board, which has borne the brunt of alumni anger following Sandusky’s arrest on child sexual abuse charges. Many alumni have called for trustees to resign, saying their dismissal of Pater no by telephone was cowardly. One storefront in

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downtown State College briefly hung a banner saying the trustees have earned “an eternal place in hell.”

But death threats are a new low for a university that prides itself on a reputation for honor and civility. The latest threatening letter came just a few days ago, Eckel said.

He brushed off concerns for his safety.

“I’ve lived in the same house for 63 years,” he said. “I’m pretty secure.”

Instead, he focused on the five new committees the board debated at its public meeting Friday. The committees’ confirmation by unanimous vote will expand trustee oversight into compliance, public relations and legal affairs.

By consolidating three committees into two and adding three more, trustees will now supervise audits of both ledgers and leaders, verifying the university is following the letter of state and federal laws.

They’ll also have more of a role in pitching the university to the public, taking respon-

he alumni are angry. The alumni are not going to get away.”

— Nan Spyker, Penn State alumna

sibility for developing public relations plans.

Trustees first debuted the new committees Tuesday to faculty. In the same address, board Chairwoman Karen Peetz stirred up speculation after saying she’s met with officials from Cornell to discuss their university’s mostly private, partially public structure. The university denies any talk of taking Penn State private.

With refor ms come new restrictions. None of the new committees will reserve seats for student or faculty representatives. Trustees say they will consult with others when appropriate. Before, three students and three faculty members sat on every committee, though they had no vote.

In his remarks to the board, Penn State President Rodney Erickson praised the administration’s efforts to release more information, noting that more than 10,000 people have visited the university’s “openness” website, which hosts subpoenas, administrator contracts and other Penn State documents.

Chief among Erickson’s refor ms is the hiring of a director of university compliance, the point person for university reform. That position, whose job description is to be advertised in the next 10 days, would answer to the new trustee audit committee.

The university has also added a Clery Act compliance officer to its security force and is developing procedures to take back keys and access cards from people not formally associated with Penn State.

Administrators plan to take a second look at university policies on minors and will run more background checks on staffers who work with children.

Friday’s meeting was almost a return to normalcy for trustees. Reports on building projects and the university’s hospital took up the majority of the meeting’s 2{ hours. The media pool was noticeably slimmer than for recent meetings.

But alumni anger followed trustees into the board room.

In the back row sat six protesters from Penn Staters for Responsible Stewardship, a group calling for the board’s ouster. They brought cheat s h e e t s o n t r u s t e e s, c o m plete with names and photographs. Their T-shirts spelled “RESIGN.” “The alumni are angry. The alumni are not going to go away,” said Nan Spyker, of York. She wore black Nikes and carefully rolled-up khakis, an homage to Paterno. “If it takes 10 years, that’s how long we’re going to work on it.”

are using the print version.

Senior Leesha Melson prefers to use online sources but said sometimes professors require students to use the library.

“It’s difficult because they’re [the books] not completely in order and it’s not really up to date,” Melson said.

But will libraries as a whole eventually die out? The number of books checked out at the campus’s library itself proves this to be unlikely.

“We checked out 160,000 plus books last year, so people still use print books.” Tyckoson said. “They do like to get lots of infor mation online, but books are not going to go away – and they still will be used regularly.”

BRIEF Memorial Court Fountain facelift begins Renovation of the signature Memorial Court Fountain at Fresno State has begun with demolition of the concrete surrounding the fountain. The makeover will include seating around the rim and is scheduled to be complete in late April. Associated Students I n c. a n d t h e U n ive r s i t y Student Union Board of Directors donated $40,000 to the project with funds provided by the Class of 2011’s gift to the university. The fountain, designed by the late professor Ronald Blanton, was dedicated in 1962 as part of the Memorial Court honoring Fresno State war veterans.

Spring Break Extravaganza focuses on health Wednesday “Get Your Game On” is the theme for the Spring Break Extravaganza 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

Wednesday, on the University Student Union balcony. The focus of this event is staying active and healthy over spring break, April 2-6.

CORRECTION A photo caption that appeared on page 4 of the March 16 Collegian referred to a woman as Jasamin Rostam-Kolayi.

Her actual name is Maya Yazigi.

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17 students honored at first ¡Motívate! conference

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Seven speakers shared their stories of success at Saturday's ¡Motívate! conference. Pictured from left to right: Daniel Castro, Graciela Moreno, Lisa Casarez, Martin Mares and Pedro Ramirez.

By Collegian Staff Seventeen students were honored at the first ¡Motívate! conference Saturday. More than 500 people attended the conference and heard messages from prominent members of the Latino community.

Students honored, who were nominated by their respective departments, were as follows: E m m a nu e l M o o n , E d u c at i o n a l Opportunity Prog ram; Mónica Blancas, Construction Management; José Mag allanes, Ag ricultural

Business; Isabel Barraza, Art and Design; Guadalupe García-Díaz, Civil and Geomatics Engineering; Arturo Gasga, Department of Chemistry; Yesenia Rodriguez, Communication; Antonio Vergara, Criminology; Yoly Segura, History; Miguel Castañeda, Literacy and Early Education; Jennifer Rios, Linguistics; Esteban Cortez, Mass Communication and Journalism; María Zepeda, Modern and Classical Languages; Michael Gutiér re z, Music; Andrea Vega, Nursing; Raúl Domínguez, Plant Science; Karina Madera, Political Science.

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Majority of students now prefer e-books

By Stephen Keleher The Collegian Walking through the Henry Madden Library spectators often see students at study tables using their laptops

and tablets, iPads, Nooks, even Kindles. It’s a digital revolution. A recent Pearson Foundation survey found the majority of students now favor digital books over print

and believe tablets will replace textbooks within the next five years.

Last month, CSU took the initiative and signed an agreement with top textbook publishers Follett, Cengage and CourseSmart to provide the 400,000plus students with 5,000 eTextbook titles.

Students will be able to rent the eBooks at a substantial cost savings over a new, physical book.

“The Cengage Learning will be providing eTextbooks for all academic disciplines and departments,” said Esteban Cortez / The Collegian Lindsay Brown, media director of Cengage The CSU system signed an agreement with top textbook publishers to provide students with more eTextbook titles. Mikey Underdown (pictured) says he often helps students Learning. “ T h e e T e x t b o o k s at the Kennel Bookstore who want to buy electronic devices to read their textbooks. can be purchased by Follett Learning Group.

CSU students through The cloud means file storage on anonymous Internet servers, their campus bookstore and which can be accessed from any browser-enabled device. Google, CengageBrain.com,” she said Amazon, Boxnet, Dropbox, Apple and Microsoft are among the The eTextbooks are devicemany that offer free or low-cost file storage that can be accessed agnostic, meaning they can be by a tablet or smartphone. accessed by any smart device.

“Café Scribe, our digital solution at Follett, weaves social netThey can also be integrated work sharing practices in,” Distola said. “Like the ability for into Blackboard and include Student A to subscribe to Student B’s notes.” interactive capabilities, which But for the individual student, the best benefit of the eTextat this point in time, means books offered by all publishers is the ability to highlight the text, note-taking and highlighting. organize the highlights by color, to add notes and then to sum“It’s about taking it up to the marize and print out all those highlights and notes into a study cloud, so anything that has a summary to get ready for tests. web browser can access conThese features are offered by all three of the publishers that tent,” said Elio Distola of the signed the initiative with CSU, but they are also offered by a fourth publisher, Pearson, whose eTextbooks are required in some math classes at Fresno State.

“We adopted a textbook made by Pearson,” said math professor Tamas Forgacs. “Specifically the Calculus textbooks.”

“This way if they have any kind of smart device they can access the textbooks electronically or do their homework in the park if they want to.

It works much better with their personal scheduling,” she said.

A key part of the Forgac’s calculus course is the online homework system.

“The textbook has features that can only be fully exploited on a computer,” Frogac said. “We require them to have access to the online homework system. It is cheaper than buying the physical book.”

While it’s clear that CSU administration, students and even some professors believe that eTextbooks are the wave of the future, Part II of this series will address the degree of current usage by students and faculty at Fresno State.

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‘Brontë’ performance draws a large crowd

By Stephen Keleher The Collegian T hree sisters who lived more than 150 years ago in a remote parsonage in the United Kingdom remain to this day the most prolific siblings in English literature and they endure as an inspiration to countless authors, playwrights and filmmakers.

Last Friday, Fresno State’s University Theatre be gan p er for m i n g Pol ly Te a le ’ s “Brontë,” originally produced in 2005 by Teale’s Shared Experience group in the U.K. Saturday night’s perform a n c e, t o a n a l m o s t - f u l l house at the Dennis & Cheryl Woods Theatre in the Speech Arts building, began at 8p.m. with the three Brontë sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne, describing the tough living conditions of 1840’s England, where few could read, let alone write.

Most people led impoverished and short lives. Women were expected to tend to the house and raise children.

Teale’s play uses expressionist lighting, dance, sound and acting to intermix characters and scenes from the Brontë sisters’ books — “Jane Eyre”

by Charlotte; “Wuthering Heights” by Emily; “Agnes Grey” by Anne — with the real-life events of the Brontë f a m i l y, i n c l u d i n g f a t h e r Patrick and brother Branwell.

A theme running throughout the play is symbolized by

a hawk puppet, which visits and guides Emily. The Hawk Puppeteer is played by graduate student Alyssa Joy Garvin, who also appears as Cathy from “Wuthering Heights” and Bertha from “Jane Eyre.”

As the women struggle to write their novels, get them published and be accepted in the male world of literature, they also must struggle to support their brother, Branwell, as he descends from failure to alcoholism. The production is directed and choreographed by Ruth Griffin, with very effective use of music and lighting throughout.

The effects help shape the mood and guide the audience through the expressionistic intricacies of the play’s use of scenes from the novels, flashbacks and the real and current lives of the sisters.

This is a play that depends upon the acting ensemble for it to be effective and moving.

There are many entrances, exits and several multiple roles, which were deftly performed by all.

Matthew Schlitz played a notable role of father Patrick Brontë, Mr. Brocklehurst and Rochester (both from “Jane Eyre”), Mr. Heger (Charlotte’s French tutor), and Arthur Bell Nicholls, with a variety of accents and costume changes that was truly masterful.

Also of note were Aaron McGee, in the roles of failed brother Branwell, Heathcliff (from “Wuthering Heights”)

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and Arthur Huntington (from Anne’s “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall”).

H u n t i n g t o n s p a rke d i n every scene he was in, and Kia Vassiliades as middle sister Emily, whose spirited performance as well as striking make-up change in the last scenes were captivating.

Both Mr. McGee and Ms. Vassiliades are Theatre Arts Scholarship recipients.

Brontë runs through March 24. Ticket discounts are available for students and seniors.

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BASEBALL: ‘Dogs take series from Roadrunners CONTINUED from page 8 been trying to be perfect and it’s been working out for us,” Wise said.

Mother Nature would interfere with Saturday’s game as rains prevented the contest to go on as scheduled. The game will be made up on April 21.

Sunday’s 5-0 shutout gave Fresno State its first series win since the season’s opening weekend series against Butler.

The shutout was the Bulldogs’ third of the year and also gave them a winning record at 10-9.

“We played great defense again. We didn’t walk anybody in nine innings and we got some timely hits,” coach Mike Batesole said.

The ‘Dogs scored an early run in the second inning when Austin Wynns hit a would-be sacrifice fly to center Garrett Pierce, who caused an error allowing Wise to score from third after his first triple of the season.

The fourth brought better fortune when Aaron Judge tacked on an RBI double to bring home Jordan Luplow who singled to lead off the inning. Luplow advanced to third on a grounder by Wise before scoring on a Wynns’ double.

With the bases loaded with one out in the fifth, and Justin Haley pitched out of a jam forcing the Roadrunners’ Kevin Younger to line out and Oscar Sanay to fly out to right to escape the inning. It would be the last time that the Roadrunners would threaten as Haley went on to win his second game of the season.

Haley finished after throwing six innings and recorded six strikeouts.

The ‘Dogs would add their last two runs in the sixth on an RBI single by Wise and an RBI ground out by Taylor Tempel.

The Dogs home stand continues with a two-game series with Kent State on Tuesday and Wednesday.

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SPORTS BRIEFS Bulldogs fall to Hoyas in first round of NCAA Tournament After claiming both the Western Athletic Conference regular season and tournament titles, the Fresno State women’s basketball team’s season came to a close Sunday in its 61-56 loss to Georgetown in Chapel Hill, N.C. The Bulldogs, who made their fifth consecutive trip to the NCAA Tournament, are still looking for their first national tour nament win under head coach Adrian Wiggins.

Trailing 33-23 at halftime and by 17 points in the second half, the ‘Dogs rallied back and pulled within three points with just 4:48 remaining in the game.

The late comeback was too little too late for Fresno State as Georgetown squeaked by for the win in the final minutes.

WAC Player of the Year Ki-Ki Moore led the ‘Dogs with 22 points and grabbed eight rebounds in the loss. Junior Rosie Moult had a double-double effort scoring 12 points and pulling down 10 boards.

Freshman Madison Parrish was a perfect 10-of-10 from the free-throw line where she scored all of her 10 points.

The Bulldogs capped a record-setting season with 28 wins and six losses as the exit the WAC as uncontested champions. The team will lose seniors Blakely Goldberg and Veronica Wilson for next season.

Track and field has strong showing at Hornet Invitational D e s p i t e t h e c o l d , r a i ny weather, the Fresno State track and field team was able to get several place finishes at the Hor net Invitational, Saturday at Sacramento State.

“The team competed well for the most part, but we still have some things to iron out,” head coach Scott Winsor said. “We need to get the whole team on the same page on the same day and we will be good.”

Senior Christina Cabias finished in first place in the collegiate division with a throw of 104.7 feet.

Sophomore Meagan McKee continued her success in the field events, taking the shot put crown with a throw of 49 feet, 10 inches. Freshman AnaManu Folau placed third in shot put with a throw of 44-06.75 feet. J’Quyra MoncurBlue rounded out the Bulldogs with a seventh-place finish with a distance of 43-07.25 feet.

Freshman Devin Harrison had the top mark in the colle giate division for men’s long jump with a distance of 23-05.50 feet.

Fellow freshman Je’Nia Sears remained consistent in long jump as she finished first with a mark of 19-0.75 feet.

Emmanuel Jackson took fifth in the men’s long jump w i t h a m a rk o f 2 1 - 0 7 . 2 5 .

Roderick Dash finished third in the men’s hammer throw with a 184-11 foot mark, which was just shy of his personal record.

On the track, junior Cameron Parker and freshman Christopher Brusenback finshed first and third in the 200-meter dash with times of 21.76 seconds and 22.11 seconds, respectively.

Sophomore Alyson DeLaRosa also placed for the Bulldogs, taking second in the 800-meter with a time of 2:15.00.

The men’s 4x100-meter relay team also took first with a time of 41.48 seconds.

Fresno State will retur n to the track this weekend when it travels to the Cal Poly Invitational.

Softball doubleheader canceled due to weather The Fresno State softball team had another game affected by Mother Nature as today’s doubleheader against Cal Poly has been canceled due to less-than-favorable field conditions.

The games will be rescheduled for a day in April, but the exact date has yet to be determined.

On Saturday, the Bulldogs’ game against Penn State at the Judi Garman Classic in Fullerton was canceled due to poor weather.

Fresno State will start conference play this weekend when it travels to Reno for a three-game series.

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Nor th Carolina head coach Roy Williams tells one of his players to think during the second half. North Carolina beat Creighton, 87-73.

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North Carolina’s Tyler Zeller (44) shoots a second-half shot over Creighton’s Gregory Echenique. Zeller finished with 11 points and six rebounds.

Tar Heels dispatch Creighton, 87-73

By Andrew Carter McClatchy-Tribune G R E E N S B O RO, N. C . — North Carolina has been on a season-long quest to find its edge _ to play with the kind of consistent intensity of a champion. The Tar Heels have found it at times, and did again here at the Greensboro Coliseum on Sunday during a 87-73 victory against Creighton.

Now North Carolina will hope to carry the momentum — and its impassioned play —into the NCAA tournament Midwest regional later this week in St. Louis. The Tar Heels, the No. 1 seed in the Midwest, used a 9-0 run early in the first half to take control against the eighth-seeded Bluejays, who couldn’t slow down the Heels’ fast-paced offense.

North Carolina (30-5) advanced to the NCAA tournament regional semifinals for the 31st time in school history.

The Tar Heels will play either 12th-seeded South Florida or No. 13 Ohio.

The Heels will be heavy favorites against either of those teams, and they were against Creighton (29-6), too.

UNC showed why during a decisive first-half stretch that was among the Tar Heels’ best of the season.

That 9-0 run began after UNC junior forward John Henson, who had sat out the Heels’ past three games with an injured left wrist, was called for a technical foul. Henson received the technical after exchanging words with a Creighton player who appeared to swipe at Henson’s injured wrist, which he wore wrapped in thick white tape.

Creighton’s Doug McDermott, who starred at Ames High in Iowa alongside UNC’s Harrison Barnes, made one of the two technical foul free throws to give the

Bluejays a 12-11 lead. It was their final lead of the game.

The Tar Heels’ 9-0 run gave them a 20-12 lead, and UNC eventually led by as many as 15 points during the first half — once after a Barnes 3-pointer and again, later in the half, after a lay-up from James Michael McAdoo.

The Tar Heels made 14 of their first 19 shots and shot 54.5 percent during the first half. Creighton, meanwhile, had difficulty living up to its reputation as a team of shooters.

T h e B l u e j ay s e n t e re d Sunday third in the country in 3-point field goal percentage, but they made 2 of their 8 3-point attempts during first half and shot 37.5 percent overall before halftime. UNC led 43-35 at halftime.

In his return, Henson finished with 13 points and 10 rebounds for the Heels, who were led by Kendall Marshall’s 18 points. Henson appeared to be in obvious pain at times, but he played 28 minutes and was a difference both offensively and defensively. The ACC’s Defensive Player of the Year, Henson finished with four blocks.

The much-publicized re u n i o n b e t we e n B a r n e s and McDermott, meanwhile, struggled to meet its considerable hype. The two players were not matched up against one another, and the Heels successfully limited McDermott, who finished with 20 points — three shy of his average.

Bar nes finished with 17 points, most of them coming late in the game. He made a 3 with about 4 minutes and 45 minutes to play after Creighton had cut UNC’s lead to 12. Bar nes shot put the Heels back up by 15, and then he made another three on the Heels’ next possession to put them ahead 81-63.

In addition to his 18 points, Marshall finished with 11 assists for UNC.

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LACROSSE

THE WAIT IS OVER After three winless seasons, Fresno State’s 17-12 win over Long Island is the first in program history

By Angel Moreno The Collegian The Fresno State lacrosse team finally has a win under its belt, beating Long Island 17-12 for the team’s first victory after the program’s 45th game in history.

I n j u s t h e r t h i rd g a m e as head coach, Jessica Pausewang coached the ‘Dogs to their first win Saturday at Bulldog Stadium.

“The team has been working so hard and they wanted to come out and show everyone how hard they have been working,” Pausewang said in a release by the university.

“I’m so excited. The support has been great and I’m just so happy for everyone. They were focused from early on and it all paid off today.”

The lacrosse team, which had its inaugural season in 2009, went winless for three seasons before recording its first win Saturday, ending its 44-game losing streak.

Senior Callie Seidman, who has been with the team since its ince ption, was finally repaid for three years of hard work.

“It’s an amazing feeling,” Seidman said. “This was a long-time coming and we have worked so hard to get to this point. We can’t wait to build on this win.”

The Bulldogs came out early,

scoring in the first minute on a Taylor Fiehler goal.

Long Island’s Shakoya Smith responded just three minutes later to tie, but Fresno State’s Briana Hetherington scored an unassisted goal to give the Bulldogs a lead they would never relinquish.

After an 8-6 halftime score, Fresno State went on a 5-1 scoring run to cap the start of the second half. Freshman Holly Cisneros started the run, scoring two of her three goals in the first four minutes.

Hetherington, a senior, had a career day for the ‘Dogs, scoring four goals while assisting three more. Her goals and assists were both game highs.

Long Island’s Ashley Delaney netted four goals and Shakoya Smith added three more but the Fresno State defense prevented the two from inflicting anymore damage.

Goalkeeper Katie Wilbur kept Long Island from reaching the net with 13 saves, 10 of which came in the second half.

The Bulldogs outshot the Blackbirds 41-31 for the game, and drew more draw controls for the win.

F r e s n o S t a t e i m p r ove d to 1-2 this season and will travel to San Diego State on Tuesday before heading home on Thursday to play Central Connecticut.

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Freshman Holly Cisneros sheds tears of joy and hugs junior Vanessa Swalwell after the team’s 17-12 win over Long Island. The win was the first in program history for Fresno State.

BASEBALL

‘Dogs down Bakersfield despite wet weather

By Tim Salazar The Collegian

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Freshman Chris Mariscal steps up to the plate in the fifth inning as rain and hail begins to fall. Mother Nature didn’t prevent Sunday’s game but postponed Saturday’s game to April 21.

Rain was the only thing that stopped the Bulldog pitching staff, as it allowed one run in two games to win the weekend series against Cal State Bakersfield. Fresno State climbed back climbed back to one game above .500 with the wins.

T he ‘ D o g s eve n e d th e ir record to 9-9 with a 2-1 victory on Friday evening. They remain a perfect 4-0 on Friday night g ames this season.

Sophomore Tyler Linehan is responsible for two wins and a no decision versus Stanford during that span.

Linehan pitched another gem, going seven innings and allowing only a single run, lowering his ERA to 1.51. He also collected 11 strikeouts to boost his season total to 44. “[Pitching] has been carrying us right now,” outfielder Kenny Wise said. “They are definitely our strength. Once

our bats start waking up we will be a dangerous team.”

The ‘Dogs had their hands full with the Roadrunners’ p i t c h i n g s t a f f a l l g a m e.

Starting pitcher Jeff McKenzie held the Bulldogs scoreless until the fifth inning when Pat Hutcheson hit a sacrifice fly to center to bring home Jordan Brink. Later in the inning, Chris Mariscal would send in another run thanks in part to an error by center fielder Andrew Letourneau.

Cal State Bakersfield would score its only run of game in the sixth when DC Legg doubled to left to score Cael Brockmeyer.

B u l l d o g cl o s e r Tay l o r Garrison pitched the last two innings of the game, not allowing a hit for his fourth save of the year.

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