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Student employees affected by Black Friday Thanksgiving

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Jennifer Bass opens the door for a Kohl’s employee on Friday, Nov. 26, 2010. She and her mom were first in line at 1 a.m at the north Raleigh, North Carolina store.

By Ciara Norton The Collegian While many families are preparing for their Thanksgiving feast, some people are looking forward to what happens after the feast: Black Friday. Some people love it and others hate it.

For some shoppers, the day after Thanksgiving, also known as Black Friday, is a day that offers great deals on gifts and merchandise.

For some employees, Black Friday

can be a nightmare.

Adrian Gonzales, a Fresno State biology student and a Fresno Target employee, is scheduled to work from midnight to 5 a.m. on Black Friday. He isn’t happy about it.

“It’s not fair to the employees,” Gonzales said. “People don’t think about it that way but I have to go to bed early on Thanksgiving so I can get up early for work and that’s less time I get to spend with my family.”

Retail stores like Best Buy, Target

and Kohl’s will be opening at midnight on Thanksgiving this year. Other competitors are strategically planning to open on Thanksgiving.

Because many people purchase electronics on Black Friday, Best Buy will pass out tickets starting at 10 p.m. on Thanksgiving to each person in line outside of the store before opening.

Walmart plans to open at 10 p.m. on Thanksgiving while Toys R Us plans to open its doors at 9 p.m.

“I’m happy that stores are opening up earlier this year,” said Rosa Mota, a frequent Black Friday shopper. “I can’t always buy the gifts that I want at regular price so Black Friday allows me to purchase those gifts.”

While Black Friday does allow shoppers to purchase discounted items, violence has become an issue.

Black Friday shoppers are sometimes trampled by the large masses of people and often, fights can develop over sought-after items.

But Black Friday wasn’t always this way. The ter m Black Friday stuck because when retailers looked at accounting balance sheets in the past, black ink represented a profit.

T he market research fir m ShopperTrak found that since 2002, Black Friday has been the biggest shopping day of the year.

ShopperTrak also revealed that more than 200 million shoppers crowded stores last year, spending nearly $11 billion on Black Friday. The following Saturday, more than $6 billion found its way to retailers to close out the Black See THANKSGIVING, Page 3

Fresno State United Student Pride club releases LGBT anthology

By Esteban Cortez The Collegian Fresno State’s United Student Pride club held a reception on Nov. 17 to celebrate the release of their anthology publication titled “Our Stories: Voices of the LGBT+ Community.” The 57-page long anthology features a collection of short stories, essays, poetry and art

anthology] came out,” adult mentor to United Student Pride members Kaylia Metcalfe said. “We’re really pleased with the quality and variety of the submissions.”

Metcalfe, a member of the Gay Central Valley organization, was one of five members of the United Student Pride anthology committee. The committee was responsible for ensuring

funding, collecting submissions and printing the anthology. Metcalfe also assisted in editing the publication and provided writing advice to contributors.

United Student Pride president and Fresno State student Zoyer Zyndel said that the club published similar anthologies in the past. They strived to revive the effort because they feel it is

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— Steven Barcelos, United Student Pride

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By Luke Shaffer The Collegian Every year families across America come together on the fourth Thursday of November to celebrate Thanksgiving Day. However, many don’t realize what lies behind the holiday.

“On Thanksgiving day we always

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y about 1630, the New England colonies had exterminated an entire indian tribe

— Dr. Brad Jones, Fresno State history professor

have the same food like turkey, stuffing, gravy, cranberry sauce and stuff,” Jacob De Oliveira, a freshman engineering student at Fresno State said.

The history of this American and Canadian holiday originates back to the first Pilgrims who came from England and settled at Plymouth Rock.

However, the story of how the Pilgrims and Indians came together has been debated.

“The one that historians refer back to is the original Thanksgiving that hapSee HISTORY, Page 3

Students make impact at health awareness fair

By Johnathan Wilbanks The Collegian

he Central Valley isn’t known for being very open towards homosexuality, so writing this story was important to me.”

that illustrates the LGBT experiences of writers from the Central Valley.

More than 40 people attended the reception Thursday evening at the Ar ne Nixon Center in the Henry Madden Library to celebrate and praise the club’s efforts to bring the community together through the publication.

The release party featured an interactive program including presentations from the United Student Pride anthology committee and other community members.

“I’m incredibly proud of the way [the

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From left to right: Fresno State students Benji Kahikina, Steven Barcelos and Sean Wenzel greeted guests at the United Student Pride booth in the Arne Nixon Center at the Henry Madden Library. Aside from the anthology publication that was available for sale, brochures and other literature pertaining to the LGBT community were available.

Fresno State public health student hosted a health fair on Tuesday, Nov. 15 that aimed to raise awareness of common health issues among students.

The bi-annual fair featured new booths this year including booths about organ donation, fitness, obesity, debt awareness and grief.

“I think this was a great [event]. I think this really gives us an opportunity to practice what we learn in class before we graduate,” public health student Victoria Partida said.

In the past, people have criticized the repetitiveness of information at the health fair. However, many students felt it was not an issue this year.

“I think everybody did a really great job. You always hear people say it’s the same booths on alcohol and the same booths on prescription drugs, but everybody had their own ideas,” public health student Tina Franco said.

“It wasn’t the same thing they did last See HEALTH, Page 3

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THAT’S WHAT THE PEOPLE ARE SAYING...

about assigning blame, but we are unaware of any Democrat offer that “I t’sdidn’tnotinclude at least $1 trillion tax increase on the American economy.”

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2011

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR To the editor: Here I am in class intensely listening to the lecture, or trying to make some kind of sense of it, and one of the most irritating things, second only to that annoying group behind you that won’t stop yapping about what happened this past weekend, someone decides it’s OK to noisily pack up their things and leave. We’ve all heard the same excuses: “I don’t like this class” or “my class is across campus.” The excuses literally go on and on.

Well the truth is, I really don’t care.

A lot of people probably don’t like the class, but hey at least they have some human decency to stick it out. And for those of you that complain that your class is across campus, maybe you should have planned out your schedule better or get a scooter, bike or skateboard, take your pick.

It is so incredibly irritating to hear people zipping up and shuffling themselves out the door. Seriously people, the professor speaks quite enough as it is, and unlike you at least I have some respect for the guy. Its people who act like they have better things to do that don’t even belong in the class in the first place.

Elisa Garcia Criminology To the editor: Due to the budget cut that is probably going to happen, there will be major changes occurring in the next school year. The change that would occur is the increase of tuition. It is already a given fact that tuition would increase because of the budget cut.

There hasn’t been a time yet that the

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tuition has decreased because if it did then a lot of people would have been happy. With the increase in tuition for the next school year, students would probably not be able to afford it and some would probably have to take out loans to help them. I don’t think it is fair that we have to pay more for education. The price we are paying now is already expensive enough with the expensive books and courses.

Another change that might happen is the merging of the College of Science and Mathematics. Being a science major, more specifically chemistry, I do not wish for this to occur. If this does occur, then the students will not be able to get a good amount of resources for their major. The classes would be cut down and there wouldn’t be enough faculties to help give information to students when needed. If given a chance, then students should take the opportunity and give their opinion about the situation. Let’s make our voices heard.

Sandy Xiong Chemistry To the editor: There is no doubt that everyone is upset over the tuition increase. I am one of many that are very disappointed about this. What I fail to understand is why it is that the tuition must be increased? I have heard that prisons need more funding. That is ridiculous!

If this is to be true, then you’re telling me that keeping criminals behind bars is more important than education. Yes, we want to keep our streets safe, but aren’t there other means by which the state can receive money other than

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taking it from our education? Aside from this dilemma, as I walk around campus I begin to wonder what does the university waste most of its money on? I believe the students have the right to know where their money is going. Let’s hope the majority of it is toward education.

Leonila Ortiz To the editor: When students get robbed on Bulldog Lane, it makes them doubt about if the Fresno State police department is doing its job the correct way. If burglary is common on Bulldog Lane, officers should patrol it more often than other streets. So far in this semester, there have been five robberies, and they have all taken place in Bulldog Lane. Students are frightened to walk early in the morning and before the sun sets because there are more possibilities to get robbed at does time.

If part of the money students pay in their tuition goes to the Fresno State police department, students should not be getting robbed so often. This only shows that the police are not doing their job the correct way. An officer should only be assigned to patrol Bulldog Lane.

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NOTES & ASIDES

By Tony Petersen The Collegian

Commenter “Arafat” disagreed with my take on Republican foreign policy.

“The leader of America’s foreign policy cannot be someone who will treat Pakistan, a perilously important country in the Middle East, in such a derogatory manner.”

You sound like Neville Chamberlain. He said stuff like, “Hitler is (was) a man we can work with” and other constructive comments pretending Hitler and Nazi Germany were A-OK. Sometimes it’s best to stop pretending a fascist is something other than a fascist.

Maybe you should read up on Chamberlain’s nemisis, William Churchill, who was not afraid to spit in the face of the PC crowd and to call Hitler and Nazi Germany the maniac and fascist state that they really were.

What’s wrong with calling Pakistan a loose cannon that breeds Islamists like they grow on trees? Is the truth really something to hide?

I’m assuming you’re talking about Winston Churchill, since the only William Churchill I could find was a British MP in the early 1700s. But let’s be clear about the history before we make these broad animadversions toward my position.

Neville Chamberlain is notorious for his so-called “appeasement” toward Hitler at Munich in 1938. There, Hitler got part of Czechoslovakia in exchange for not invading the rest of the country.

Chamberlain went back to Britain proclaiming he had just enacted “peace for our time.”

Hitler then proceeded to invade the rest of Czechoslovakia.

You ask, “What’s wrong with calling Pakistan a loose cannon that breeds Islamists like they grow on trees?” There is nothing wrong for a pundit or historian to say that; it is wrong for the president of the United States to say that, for the same reason that it would be wrong for the president to recognize the Armenian genocide. In the case of the latter, it would lead to much more hostile relations with Turkey, a very important country in the region. It is the same with Pakistan.

To alienate these countries even more would likely lead to radical elements taking control, leading to more danger for our soldiers and making terrorism more likely.

The president should instead work for peace, with war or other types of aggression only a last resort.

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THANKSGIVING: Holiday causes conflicts CONTINUED from page 1 Friday weekend.

A Toys R Us employee who wishes to remain anonymous said that she wasn’t scheduled to work this Black Friday.

However, she was scheduled

for shoppers who wait it out.

Many Black Friday sales will still be in effect after the weekend, and retailers, eager to unload remaining merchandise, may further reduce prices to entice the fewer numbers of shoppers to take it home.”

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t’s not fair to the employees. People don’t think about it that way but I have to go to bed early on Thanksgiving so I can get up early for work and that’s less time I get to spend with my family.”

— Adrian Gonzales, Fresno State student and Target employee

last year and remembers the chaotic day.

“People were so crazy,” she said. “There were literally times that I was somewhat afraid that I might get hurt by accident because it was just so crowded.”

ShopperTrak predicts that this Black Friday will bring in less shoppers than in previous years.

ShopperTrak found that many tired shoppers shy away from stores. That means fewer crowds and good deals

The Toys R Us anonymous employee doesn’t know why stores are opening on Thanksgiving now instead of on Black Friday.

“We open at 9 o’clock on Thursday,” she said. “That’s just crazy. It’s not even Black Friday yet. I don’t think stores should be doing this because it’s really unfair. But in the end all they care about is the profit that Black Friday sales bring in.”

HISTORY: Evolution of Thanksgiving Day not well-known among Americans CONTINUED from page 1 pens in 1621, but this story has been mainly mythologized,” Fresno State history professor Brad Jones said.

The well-known story usually consists of pilg rims peacefully dinning with

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t was a period of incredible turmoil and strife.”

— Dr. Brad Jones, Fresno State history professor

Native Americans to celebrate unity and the survival of the New England colony against the harsh wilderness of the American continent.

Like many other historians Jones said the celebration was for political purposes. “ We t e n d t o t h i n k o f Thanksgiving as a time when the pilgrims and Indians came together to break bread, but in actuality it was for a diplomatic purpose,” Jones said. “It was a period of incredible turmoil and strife.”

By 1631, the Pilgrims and Native Americans were fighting heavily and the colonials

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were destroying Indian tribes while invading the continent.

The first meal between the Pilgrims and Indians was a diplomatic peace agreement to help preserve the colonies but in the process became a detriment to the Native Americans.

“By about 1630, the New England colonies had exterminated an entire Indian tribe,” Jones added.

H o w e v e r, t h e a c t u a l Thanksgiving holiday didn’t come around until two centuries later. “ D u r i n g t h e C iv i l Wa r, President Lincoln introduces a day of observance or of mourning for the people who had died in the awful war. And that day was adopted as the official day for Thanksgiving,” Jones explained. “Lincoln did not mean to make a day for Thanksgiving but it evolved into the official observance day 20 to 30 years later.”

Many people feel that Thanksgiving Day has become associated with the American cultural phenomenon of holiday shopping. Some believe that our society has fallen away from the traditional ideas of being thankful for what we have, which was what President Lincoln had originally intended when he first introduced the day of observance. “ I h at e i t wh e n p e o p l e miss the point of what Thanksgiving is really about,” De Oliveira said. “Holidays are great and I’m happy that I get to see my family and that’s what it should be about.”

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HEALTH: Wellness fair addresses student health

CONTINUED from page 1 year. These groups were very creative.”

“There was a good integration of topics that were unusual,” public health professor Kara Zografos said. “Bath salts, financial planning and organ donation were all covered.”

Many students felt that this year’s fair was an apparent success.

“It was the first time that anyone has done an organ donation group and a lot of people were impressed by it,” Franco said. “What we were trying to do is promote organ donation.”

Grief management was also a popular topic.

“Two of our group members had someone who passed

away last semester, so we were wondering how other students who were in similar situations were doing,” added Partida.

“Attendance was good this year. This class gives students

the Student Health Center.

Graphic design students created the posters and the top two will be featured around campus in the coming weeks. “[There are] different per-

“I

think everybody did a really great job. You always hear people say it’s the same booths on alcohol and the same booths on prescription drugs, but everbody had their own ideas.”

— Tina Franco, Fresno State student a chance to integrate all they have learned in other classes.

It really is a culminating experience,” Zografos added.

The wellness fair also held a vote for the best and most i n f o r m a t ive p o s t e r f r o m

spectives and different views, so it’s always good to check in and see and see [what’s new] in the health fair,” Partida said.

LGBT: USP releases anthology

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important to make such publications available to the public, especially young people.

“Some young people may see no representation of who they are [in the media], sending the message that they are not normal,” Zyndel said during a speech at the event. “This is the reason why we created an anthology like this.”

Zyndel hopes that the anthology will also counteract gay stereotypes portrayed in the media.

The anthology committee said that 23 submissions were published and cover topics like soul-searching, rejection and resiliency. Metcalfe said that the anthology committee requested submissions on Facebook, Twitter and other media outlets.

Metcalfe added that submissions from Stockton to Bakersfield were received and featured a myriad of voices from the LGBT community, including straight allies.

“These stories are all genuine to the LGBT experience,” Zyndel said.

Steven Barcelos, a United Student Pride member and contributor to the anthology, was extremely happy with the turnout of the release party and the publication.

Barcelos, who identifies himself as gay, wrote a creative non-fiction story for the anthology titled “Eggs.” In the short story, he tells readers about a dinner conversation he had with his father.

In his story he discusses his father’s initial and current reaction towards his sexuality.

He admits that it was a really awkward situation, but he wanted to share it with readers.

“The Central Valley isn’t known for being very open towards homosexuality, so writing this story was impor-

tant to me,” Barcelos said.

“Maybe someone else will read my story and feel less lonely.”

Barcelos and several other United Student Pride club members sat behind a booth throughout the night selling copies of the anthology for $10. Over 30 copies were sold

the anthology will be available for purchase at the LGBT Community Center located on Van Ness Avenue in Fresno.

The club is also working on setting up an online store for the anthology. Jennifer Crowe of the Ar ne Nixon Center mentioned at the event that

“S

ome young people may see no representation of who they are [in the media], sending the message that they are not normal. This is the reason why we created an anthology like this.”

— Zoyer Zyndel, United Student Pride president during the release party.

An initial run of 125 copies of the antholo g y was printed and was made possible by a grant from The U n d e r g r a d u a t e Re s e a r c h Grant Pro g ram. The club plans to use funds collected from sales of the anthology to produce issues in the future.

Since the publication of “Our Stories,” the goal of the club has shifted towards making the anthology available to the public through schools and libraries.

“We still have a long way to go,” Metcalfe said.

Following the reception,

the publication will be available to the public at the Center.

She commended the club’s efforts to bring the community together through their stories.

Club and committee members considered the event a huge success. Zyndel said it was really touching to see so many people at the release party.

“I hope it’s one of many anthologies we see in the future,” Zyndel said during his closing remarks at the reception. “It’s printed and this anthology will be here forever.

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The anthology was sold for $10 at the reception and will be available for purchase online and at the LGBT Community Center in Fresno following the reception. More than 30 copies of the anthology were sold at the reception.

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‘Breaking Dawn’ is weekend’s breakaway winner

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By Andrew Cooper McClatchy-Tribune LOS ANGELES — The latest installment in the “Twilight” series didn’t break franchise records this past weekend, but the film still had the fifth-best domestic opening of all time at the box office.

“The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1” r a ke d i n $ 1 3 9 . 5 m i l l i o n , according to an estimate from distributor Summit Entertainment. While that was an impressive opening, “Breaking Dawn” still fell just short of the $142.8 million opening weekend record held by the second movie in the series, 2009’s “New Moon.”

Meanwhile, “Happy Feet Two,” the weekend’s only

other new release from a major studio, did not have much to smile about. The 3-D animated sequel star ring dancing penguins collected a disappointing $22 million.

“Breaking Dawn,” the fourth movie in the series based on Stephenie Meyer’s popular vampire romance novels, was only the second film this year to open to more than $100 million, behind the final installment in the long-running “Har ry Potter” franchise, which Warner Bros. released in July. In 2010, four movies debuted with more than $100 million.

Heading into the weekend, Summit said it was not expecting “Breaking Dawn” to gross more than $125 million this weekend, though prerelease

audience surveys had forecasted an opening of as much as $150 million.

Richie Fay, Summit’s domestic distribution president, surmised that “Breaking Dawn” may have opened to a slightly lower figure than “New Moon” because the “Twilight” audience is “aging up.”

“As we all know, as folks get older, the impulse to get out and be the first one to see the movie isn’t there,” Fay said. He said he still expects the film to ultimately gross around $700 million worldwide, about the sum the last two “Twilight” films ended up collecting globally.

“Breaking Dawn,” starring Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner, features a highly anticipat-

ed wedding and a dramatic, high-risk pregnancy. The Bill Condon-directed film — which has received the worst critical reviews of any movie in the series — cost Summit about $110 million to produce after tax rebates.

Those who saw the film this weekend — an 80 percent female crowd — assigned it an average grade of B-plus, according to market research firm CinemaScore. (“Happy Feet Two” received the same grade.) In the U.S., the movie did the most business at two theaters in Salt Lake City. The top-grossing theater was the Megaplex Theaters at Jordan Commons, which also sold more tickets to the last “Harry Potter” film than any other multiplex in the country last summer.

Overseas, where Summit has presold the film to local distributors, “Breaking Dawn” grossed $144 million in 54 foreign markets. The film perfor med best in the United Kingdom, where its star Pattinson hails from. The fourth picture brought in $22 million there and had the highest debut of any “Twilight” movie in the region.

The movie also did exceptionally well in Russia, where it grossed $15 million, and in France, where it collected $14.5 million.

“Happy Feet Two” had a far softer debut than its predecessor. The first movie, which won the Oscar for animated feature, debuted with $41.5 million in November 2006 and ended up grossing $384.3 million worldwide without the

benefit of 3-D ticket surcharges. Roughly 50 percent of this weekend’s “Happy Feet Two” ticket sales came from 3-D receipts.

After its lackluster start, it remains to be seen if the second “Happy Feet” will collect as much in ticket sales as the original. Warner Bros. and cofinancier Village Roadshow Pictures spent about $135 million to produce “Happy Feet Two.” About 57 percent of audience members who turned up for the animated sequel this weekend were female. But Dan Fellman, Warner Bros.’ president of domestic distribution, said the film lost much of that key demographic to “Breaking Dawn” this weekend. “ We w e r e f i g h t i n g f o r females from ‘Twilight,’ and we were expecting to have a little issue with them, but our weekend figure certainly came in a little under our expectations,” Fellman said.

Still, he added, the studio felt it was worth it to open against “Breaking Dawn” to get out ahead of three new family films opening over the Thanksgiving holiday, “The Muppets,” “Hugo” and “Arthur Christmas.”

Fellman said he was not worried about the competition those three PG-rated films could present for “Happy Feet Two.” “The tracking on the movies that are opening is not great,” he said, referring to information gathered from early audience polling.

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The Fresno State defense finally came up with an effort that has been lacking in its recent three-game losing streak. The ‘Dogs held one of the best offenses in the WAC to 305 yards.

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While the Hawaii offense started off slow, the Fresno State offense was able to put some points on the board before the end of the first quarter with Carr leading Fresno State on a 12-play, 82-yard drive that ended with a senior Kevin Goessling 32-yard field goal to give the ‘Dogs a 10-0 lead.

The second quarter started out the same way the first quarter did with Carr and company using up the clock to keep the ball away from

the Hawaii offense. Carr led the ‘Dogs on another 12-play drive, but this time it was of 69 yards. Fresno State ended the drive with junior running back Robbie Rouse plowing it in from one yard out to give the ‘Dogs the 17-0 lead. Rouse finished the game with 37 carries for 177 yards and one touchdown.

Before the half, Hawaii finally got on the board as the Warriors made a switch at quar terback to Graves and proved to be a necessary spark. Graves drove the Warriors down the field the way Austin wasn’t able to.

Graves called his own number to end the drive as he ran it in from six yards out to cut the Fresno State lead to 17-7.

The third quarter was won by the Warriors with Graves leading the way during the first couple minutes of the period. Graves lead the Warriors on a nine-play, 78-yard drive, ending with Graves finding senior wide receiver Royce Pollard for a 24-yard touchdown to cut into the Fresno State, 17-14. Graves finished the game completing 13-of-27 passes for 199 yards and two touchdowns.

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couldn’t get into the end zone in the third quarter when Hawaii had the momentum and were mounting a comeback. Graves brought the quick-strike ability to the War rior of fense as he hit sophomore wide receiver Billy Ray Stutzmann with a 69-yard touchdown to take its first lead of the game, 21-17.

T he four th quar ter was when Fresno State’s offense finally put it all together.

Carr led the ‘Dogs on a fourplay, 85-yard drive that ended with Carr finding freshman wide receiver Josh Harper for a 43-yard touchdown to give

Fresno State the 24-21 lead.

Carr finished the game going 19 of 29 for 271 yards and two touchdowns.

The Skipper-led defense held the Hawaii offense off the scoreboard for the rest of the quarter as it allowed 306 yards of total offense. The ‘Dogs held on to win 24-21 helping Fresno State improve to 4-7 on the season.

Now the ‘Dogs will return home for their final home game of the season against WAC rival San Jose State to try continue to build momentum as the season nears an end.

USC makes a statement with huge win at Oregon

By Michael Lev The McClatchy Tribune EUGENE, Ore. --USC quieted Autzen Stadium and made a bold statement to the nation.

Trojans cornerback Nickell Robey summed it up in two words: “’SC’s back.”

After two down years, and in the midst of NCAA sanctions, the Trojans re-established themselves as a college football power Saturday. On a cold night in Eugene, No. 18 USC upset No. 4 Oregon, 38-35, in front of 59,993 stunned fans.

The Trojans (9-2, 6-2 Pac12) ended the Ducks’ 21-game home winning streak, which had been the longest in the nation. They also broke their own five-game losing streak in the state of Oregon. In none of those games, at Oregon and Oregon State, was USC a 14{point underdog.

“We knew we were going to shock everyone else, but not ourselves,” said quarterback Matt Barkley, who passed for 323 yards and four touchdowns.

“People didn’t believe in us.

But we believed in each other the whole time.”

Oregon, which had won nine in a row after losing its season opener to current No. 1 LSU, tested that resolve. But the Trojans forced the Ducks to try a tying field goal in the final seconds. Alejandro Maldonado’s 37-yard attempt hooked wide left. USC players danced deliriously onto the field as the loudest stadium on the West Coast fell silent.

The Trojans’ celebration spilled into their locker room.

Special-teams coordinator John Baxter described the scene as follows: “There’s nothing like it. You can’t replicate it. The things you remember are the things you do together. They fought together, and they celebrated together.”

Players said USC coach Lane Kiffin didn’t single out any individuals in his postgame address, as he usually does, instead saying it was a team victory. It took all three phases to hold off Oregon (9-2, 7-1).

The Barkley-led offense put up 38 points in the first three quarters, including two touchdowns by receiver Robert

Woods, who took a painkilling injection in his shoulder so he could play. The defense held the high-scoring Ducks to seven points at halftime. The special teams blocked a punt and, in the players’ minds, willed Maldonado’s field goal to miss.

All hands were needed, because Oregon’s onslaught was inevitable, and it came hard and fast.

B arkley’s four th touch down pass, a 5-yarder to tight end Randall Telfer, put USC up, 38-14, with 3:28 left in the third quarter. But Oregon’s De’Anthony Thomas, the onetime USC commit, returned the ensuing kickoff 96 yards for a touchdown.

After USC punted, Oregon put together a touchdown drive covering 75 yards in 2 minutes, 16 seconds. After Barkley threw an interception, Ore gon needed just 1:27 to go 60 yards and make it 38-35. With 7:05 left in the game, Kiffin couldn’t help but feel uneasy.

“I never felt comfortable,” Kiffin said. “You can’t. They’ll literally score in one minute.”

USC’s best defense at the point was its offense, and the Trojans drove from their 28-yard line to the Ducks’ 11. But Barkley and Marc Tyler botched a handoff, and Ore gon’s Brandon Hanna recovered the ball at the 14.

The Ducks advanced to the Trojans’ 18, where, on second-and-10, safety Jawanza Starling tackled receiver Lavasier Tuinei for a 2-yard loss. After Oregon quarterback Dar ron Thomas centered the ball, five seconds remained.

USC had blocked six placement kicks before Saturday.

T he T rojans didn’t g et a hand on this one, but they were certain that stat was on Maldonado’s mind.

“It’s definitely in the head of the opposing kicker,” Starling said.

Oregon coach Chip Kelly’s mindset was to score a touchdown. But USC’s defenders kept everything in front of them.

“I thought we had a shot up until the last tick of that clock,” Kelly said. “But that’s what that team does, they

don’t get down, and I will give them a ton of credit. They feel like if they just keep playing, something is going to happen.”

Kif fin ’s me ssa g e to th e defense before it took the field, according to Robey, was: “We need you right here, right now.

Let’s go.”

And Robey’s message in the huddle was: “This is what we live for. This is why we came to USC.” The Trojans had become accustomed to winning championships under Pete Carroll.

Because of the sanctions, they aren’t eligible for the first Pac-12 Championship Game, which probably will take place at likely Nor th champion Oregon.

But USC can win the South regular-season title outright by defeating UCLA next week.

“We’re going to enjoy this, no doubt about that,” Barkley said. “But at the same time, we do have to finish this race we’ve been running for one more week.”

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Fresno State gets much-needed victory

By Jerry Huerta The Collegian A win was what the doctor ordered for Fresno State as the ‘Dogs ended their current three-game losing streak.

Fresno State picked up a much-needed victory against Western Athletic Conference rival Hawaii, who will be making the jump with the ‘Dogs to the Mountain West Conference next season.

The last couple weeks have been tough sledding for Fresno State as head coach Pat Hill suspended three players for undisclosed reasons and then defensive coordinator Randy Stewart resigned, leaving the ‘Dogs to prepare for Hawaii with an interim defensive coordinator and looming questions about the future.

L i n e b a cke r s c o a ch T i m Skipper stepped into Stewart’s vacated position on Saturday to try and slow down the top passing team in the WAC. In the game, the Fresno State offense would be the one to

strike first with sophomore quarterback Derek Carr leading the ‘Dogs down the field with a three-play, 69-yard scoring drive. Carr ended the drive with a 44-yard scoring strike to his top target sophomore wide receiver Jalen Saunders.

Saunders finished with three catches for 67 yards and one touchdown.

The Fresno State defense has struggled to stop opposing offenses all season long, but it was able to slow down the Hawaii attack that was without one of the nation’s leading passers in Bryant Moniz.

The for mer Fresno City College quarterback injured his leg in the previous-week loss to Nevada and didn’t line up against Fresno State on Saturday.

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The Fresno State offense had its second consecutive dominant game, as piling up 488 yards in the win.