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Students to attempt fruit salad world record Young adults By Ciara Norton The Collegian On Thursday, Nov. 3, Fresno State marketing students will attempt to break the world record for making the biggest fruit salad. The attempt will be held at 7 a.m. at P-R Farms, located at the corner of Willow and Shepard Avenues in Clovis. The fruit will be cut up and placed into a 2,500-gallon water tank where it will be weighed and recorded. The abundance of fruits and vegetables grown locally inspired students enrolled in the Marketing 158 course to make the world’s biggest fruit salad as part of their senior project. The current world record fruit salad was made on July 27, 2003 in Peru and contained 8,866 pounds of fruit. So far the Fresno State marketing students have collected 12,000 pounds of fresh fruit, including peaches, plums, nectarines, apples and Asian pears. Most of the fruit was donated by Kingsburg Orchards, Trinity Fruit Sales and other local growers. “This area is completely driven by agriculture,” Nick Morales, a Fresno State marketing student involved with the project, said. “Therefore it just makes sense to hold a record-breaking attempt that shows all that we have to offer.” Proof of the abundant of agricultural production in the San Joaquin Valley can be found in the Fresno County 2010
putting dreams aside By Alana Semuels McClatchy-Tribune
The US Department of Transportation found that more than 19 percent of drivers age 16 to 20 who died in motor vehicle accidents in 2006 were under the influence of alcohol. Thirty-one percent of college students met criteria to be diagnosed as alcohol abusers, according to a selfreport published in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol. Statistics such as these led to the creation of an on-cam-
A Salvadoran flag wrapped around his neck to block out the sun, Geremias Romero hunches low to the ground alongside the other laborers, following the tractor along rows of cantaloupes. He reaches into the leafy green rows of fruit, touches a melon to gauge its ripeness, and then tosses it into a cart, where another laborer boxes it. Walk, pick, toss. The patter n goes on all morning. Harvesting cantaloupes for $8.25 an hour isn’t the job that Romero, 28, dreamed of as a child. Born in Newark, N.J., to immigrant parents from El Salvador, he graduated from high school and has taken classes at the Art Institute of Philadelphia and Merced Community College. He has experience as a special education teacher but, unable to find a teaching job, he’s started working in the fields. “I’d rather keep myself working than get in trouble,” he said, wiping his hands on his ripped jeans, stained with grass. “My dad started from nothing. He worked hard, so I don’t mind working hard too.” Many young Americans are finding themselves worse off than their parents were at their age, without jobs or working below their skill and education levels. The unemployment rate for 16- to 24-year-olds is 17.4 percent, up from 10.6 percent in 2006. The situation is even tougher for children of immigrants, such as Romero. Their parents paved the way by working tough jobs so their children could get an education and secure their place in the middle class. Now, with middleclass jobs disappearing, many children of immigrants are settling for the jobs their parents did, even if they are better educated. “We’ve never had so many Americanborn working in the fields,” said Joe Del Bosque, the Central Valley farmer who hired Romero and other laborers like him to pick melons. “Farm work is usually the big step for some people to push their kids into the American Dream.” They include Raul Lopez, 23, who worked as a contractor for a utility company during the construction boom but is now back in the fields picking cantaloupes. “We’re still struggling, so we have to go where the work is,” said Lopez, whose mother, a Mexican immigrant, just passed her U.S. citizenship exam. Economists worry that this lack of mobility imperils the country’s productivity, especially since about a third of American adults ages 18 to 34 are foreign-born or children of immigrants. “It’s a great waste of talent and motivation,” said Alejandro Portes, a Princeton University sociologist who studies children of immigrants. “Since this is a growing population, the fact that they find so many obstacles to becoming productive citizens represents a significant waste for a knowledge-based economy.” Only 47 percent of Americans think their children will have a higher stan-
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About 12,000 pounds of fresh fruit will be mixed in 2,500-gallon water tank (shown above). The container is eight feet in diameter and eight and-a-half-feet tall.
annual crop and livestock report. The report shows that in Fresno County the most common crops produced are grapes, almonds, tomatoes, poultry, milk, garlic, pistachios, oranges and cotton. The report also revealed that in 2010 the total gross production value of Fresno County agricultural commodi-
ties was just less than $6 million. Morales said that although the San Joaquin Valley is an agricultural mega-center, many people lack food. When the record-breaking attempt See RECORD, Page 3
FREAKS provide alchohol-free weekend entertainment Florida, where 100 percent of students who sporadically participated in FREAKS gaming graduated from college. In comparison, the general student population at Fresno State has a 51 percent graduation rate, according to KSEE News. The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism found that 1,825 college students ages 18 to 24 died from alcohol-related unintentional injuries in 2009. Approximately 25 percent of college students report a negative impact on their academic work due to drinking, including missing class and receiving lower grades on exams, according to the Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education.
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Professor of public health William Thatcher (middle) enjoys a strategy board game during the FREAKS gaming program, which takes place every Friday night in the University Student Union.
By Johnathan Wilbanks The Collegian The negative effect of alcohol on student safety, health, academics and personal lives has led Dr. William Thatcher, assistant professor at the department of public health, to begin an alcohol-free, on-campus social event for Fresno State faculty and students. Recognizing the need to improve social weekend activities at Fresno State, Thatcher has created the program FREAKS (Finding Responsible a n d E n t e r t a i n i n g A c t iv i t i e s o n
KampuS). The program is intended to provide students a safe place to socialize on campus without the need for healthrisk behavior such as drinking. The program began January of this year. The program has grown from the usual 24 attendees to an average of 34 people every Friday night at the University Student Union. “This semester, more than 150 students, faculty, staff, their children and community members have participated in a weekend event,” Thatcher said. Thatcher started the event in West
t’s a good way to relax. My cognitive abilities didn’t really come into it, but it’s nice to have somewhere to go where drinking isn’t an issue.” — Aaron Sorensen, Fresno State student
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ver the last few weeks, I’ve had the opportunity to get out of Washington and talk with folks across the country about how we can create jobs and get our economy growing faster. This is a tough time for a lot of Americans — especially young people. You’ve come of age at a time of profound change. The world has gotten more connected, but it’s also gotten more competitive. And for decades, too many of our institutions — from Washington to Wall Street — failed to adapt, culminating in the worst financial crisis and recession since the Great Depression. For the last three years, we’ve worked to stabilize the economy, and we’ve made some progress. But we still have a long way to go. And now, as you’re getting ready to head out into the world, many of you are watching your friends and classmates struggle to find work. You’re wondering what’s in store for your future, and I know that can be scary. The truth is, the economic problems we face today didn’t happen overnight, and they won’t be solved overnight. But the fact that you’re investing in your education right now tells me that you believe in the future of America. You want to be a part of it. And you know that there are steps we can take right now to put Americans back to work and give our economy a boost. The problem is, there are some in Washington who just don’t share that sense of urgency. That’s why it’s been so disappointing to see Republicans in Congress block jobs bills from going forward — bills that independent economists say could create millions of jobs though the kinds of proposals supported by Democrats and Republicans in the past. Now, the best way to attack our economic challenges and put hundreds of thousands of people back to work is through bold action in Congress. That’s why I’m going to keep demanding that Members of Congress to vote on common-
sense, paid-for jobs proposals. And I hope you’ll send them a message to do the right thing for your future, and the future of our country. But we can’t wait for Congress to do its job. So where they won’t act, I will. That’s why, I’ve announced a new policy that will help families whose home values have fallen refinance their mortgages and save thousands of dollars. We made it easier for veterans to get jobs putting their skills to work in hospitals and community health centers. And at the University of Colorado at Denver, I announced steps we’re taking to make college more affordable and to make it even easier for students like you to get out of debt faster. Michelle and I know what it feels like to leave school with a mountain of debt. We didn’t come from wealthy families. By the time we both graduated from law school, we had about $120,000 worth of debt between us. And even though we were lucky enough to land good jobs with steady
incomes, it still took us almost 10 years to finally pay it all off. It wasn’t easy. Living with that much debt forces you to make some tough choices. And when a big chunk of every paycheck goes towards student loans, it isn’t just painful for you — it’s painful to our economy and harmful to our recovery. That’s why we’re making changes that will give about 1.6 million students the ability to cap their loan payments at 10 percent of their income starting next year. We’re also going to take steps to help you consolidate your loans so that instead of making multiple payments to multiple lenders every month, you only have to make one payment a month at a better interest rate. And we want to start giving students a simple fact sheet called “Know Before You Owe” so you can have all the information you need to make your own decision about paying for college. That’s something Michelle and I wish we had. These changes will make a real difference for millions of Americans. We’ll help more young people figure out how to afford college. We’ll put more money in your pocket after you graduate. We’ll make it easier to buy a house or save for retirement. And we’ll give our economy a boost at a time when it desperately needs it. That’s not just important for our country right now — it’s important for our future. Michelle and I are where we are today because our college education gave us a chance. Our parents and their generation worked and sacrificed to hand down the dream of opportunity to us. Now it’s our turn. That dream of opportunity is what I want for my daughters, and for all of you. And even in these tough times, we are going to make that dream real once again. In the weeks ahead, I’m going to keep doing everything in my power to make a difference for the American people — including young people like you. Because here in America, when we find a problem, we fix it. When we face a challenge, we meet it. We don’t wait. And I hope you’ll join me. Barack Obama is the 44th President of the United States.
To the editor: First, I would like to thank all who had a hand in bringing the play, Marx in Soho, to the Fresno State campus. I am a sociology instructor at Reedley College and this was a big thrill for me. If you don’t know why, take a sociology course! However, what is motivating me to write is the extremely poor behavior on display from the students in attendance. I realize that many were there only for extra credit and had no real interest in learning anything. However, that does not excuse bad manners.
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hope someone on the Fresno State staff apologized to the actor for the grade school maturity level of a significant portion of the audience.” — Jeffrey W. Eisinger
I have never seen so many people get up and walk out during a play. This was a one man performance and I am sure it was a distraction to the actor every time someone got up to leave with their clunky backpacks, skateboards, etc. Further, despite the fact that people were asked to turn off their cell phones, all of the students around me continued to play with their electronic amusements throughout the evening. To top it all off, a couple children were allowed to traipse up and down the stairs as often as it pleased them to do so. I hope someone on the Fresno State staff apologized to the actor for the grade school maturity level of a significant portion of the audience. If this is reflective of their academic enthusiasm, it’s no surprise they are in such need of extra credit. Jeffrey W. Eisinger
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RECORD: Fresno State set to attempt world record CONTINUED from page 1 is over, the 12,000 pounds of fresh fruit will be donated to the Poverello House, Fresno Rescue Mission, various local charities and other non-profit organizations. “There’s always been this problem here with the homeless and the less fortunate and it’s hard to deal with because we live in such an agricultural area,” Morales said. Morales said that’s the reason why the marketing students decided to donate the fruit after the record-breaking attempt, so that something could be given back to the community that produces so much. While the record-breaking day is fast approaching, organizing it took quite a bit of time. Students and community members can also get their share of the fruit salad by going to the P-R Farms on Thursday afternoon and Friday morning. Sam Mabanta, a Fresno State marketing major and student involved with the project, said that it has been a long and exciting process. “It takes a couple of weeks for
Guinness and the county to approve it,” Mabanta said. “It’s a good learning experience though. There’s a lot of technical things that go into the planning.” Students involved with the project are excited to attempt to break the world record and have learned many helpful strategies along the way. “The best part has just been getting out there and networking and making those connections that will help in the future,” Morales said. Cynthia Villarreal, a Fresno State political science major, believes that people should try and get involved in activities that demonstrate what the Fresno area has to offer. “It’s really important to support your local businesses and producers and for us here that just happens to be agriculture,” Villarreal said. Morales encouraged students to come to the world record-breaking attempt on Thursday and said that any help would be much appreciated. Anyone interested in helping or looking for more information can email worldrecordfruitsalad@gmail.com.
FREAKS: Gamers more likely to graduate CONTINUED from page 1 pus safe haven where students could find entertainment during weekends. The games played at each event improve critical thinking skills and emotional competence. According to a scientific study done by Royse and Newton in 2007, critical thinking skills help with knowledge retention and also motivate students to learn and increase problem-solving skills. A study published in American Psychologist also shows emotional competence can be developed, unlike IQ. Playing board games can improve social skills, help students listen and communicate effectively, take responsibility for their actions and think creatively. Pearson Education, an established company that specializes in assessment, book publication and training, has published an online article about FREAKS gaming due to the great success of the program. “Students who get involved in activities are more likely to succeed. This is not specific to FREAKS,” Thatcher said. “Fresno State has about 200 organizations, but almost nothing on the weekends.” The FREAKS gaming program has had 153 students in attendance this semester, with as many as 51 active
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his semester, more than 150 students, faculty, staff, their children and community members have participated in a weekend event.” — Dr. William Thatcher, assistant professor department of public health
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Fresno State marketing students will attempt to break a world record by making the world’s biggest fruit salad.
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participants. Due to the success of freaks, the College of Health and Human Services and the department of public health
have provided funds to ensure the continuation of the program. The group is now recognized by Associated Students, Inc. Party, strategy, dexterity, kids, dicebased, card-based, sports, racing and war-based games are always available for ages starting as young as 5 years old. These German-style board games are
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he games are interesting, and it’s a great way to meet new people.” — Jonathan Burnett, Reedley college student
a broad class of tabletop games that generally have simple rules and shortto-medium playing times. The games emphasize strategy, downplay luck and conflict, lean toward economic rather than military themes and usually keep all the players in the game until it ends. German style games are sometimes contrasted with American-style games, which generally involve more luck, conflict and drama. FREAKS participants meet every Friday night at 5 p.m. in the Satellite Student Union and gaming lasts until midnight. “It’s a good way to relax. My cognitive abilities didn’t really come into it, but it’s nice to have somewhere to go where drinking isn’t an issue,” Fresno State student Aaron Sorensen said. “The games are interesting, and it’s a great way to meet new people,” Reedley student Jonathan Burnett added.
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DREAMS: Unemployed youth go back to farm labor CONTINUED from page 1 dard of living as adults than they do, down from 62 percent in 2009, according to a poll done in May on behalf of the Pew Economic Mobility Project. Concerns about the availability of a middle-class lifestyle are likely to be a hot topic this election season. It has already come up in such diverse forums as Occupy Wall Street and the Republican presidential debates.
About half of Americans think the government does more to hurt people trying to move up the economic ladder than it does to help them, according to the Pew poll. About 80 percent said the government was doing an ineffective job of helping poor and middle-class Americans. “There is clearly a demand among voters and working Americans in general for Congress and the president to do something bold to create jobs,” said
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Catherine Singley, senior policy analyst at the National Council of La Raza. In 2008, there were about 32 million people in the U.S. with either one or two foreign-born parents. They include a wide range of educational and cultural backgrounds, but overall, those ages 18 to 34 lag in reaching traditional adult milestones, including leaving home, finishing school and entering the workforce, according to a 2008 study by Ruben G. Rumbaut, a sociology professor at the University of California, Irvine. “If I had to update that study, the situation would be much more dire for children of immigrants,” Rumbaut said. In the study, about 24 percent of young adults bor n in the U.S. to Mexican parents were high school dropouts, compared with 11 percent of whites with native parentage and 7 percent of children born in the U.S. to Indian immigrants. Even education doesn’t always help, as some of the fastest-growing sectors in the economy are those that require few skills. Personal service and care jobs, which paid an average of $25,000 last year, grew 27 percent over the last decade. Food preparation and service jobs grew 11 percent. They pay an average of $21,000 a year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. “A lot of families who felt at one point that they were on the solid rung of the American middle-class ladder are slipping and falling down a rung,” said Sylvia Allegretto, a labor economist at the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics at UC Berkeley.
Decreasing access to the middle class could especially imperil economic recovery in states such as California, Florida, New York and Texas, where nearly 60 percent of young adults are immigrants or children of immigrants. “A key to the future of California —and to that of a nation being transformed by immigration —will be how the rapidly expanding generation of young adults is incorporated” into its economy, politics and society, Rumbaut wrote. “For a sizable proportion of the nation’s immigrant population, that access is now blocked.” Dorian Alcanzar, 24, doesn’t feel as if he’s being incorporated into the economy at all. He has a degree in civil engineering from Cal State Long Beach, but he has started applying for low-wage jobs here because he can’t find work in his field. “We came here for his dreams, for the future, for the opportunity, but we don’t see that here,” said his mother, Aida Hermosillo, 43. Alcanzar is considering returning to his mother’s home in Mexico, where his cousins are working the jobs they want. His current situation reminds him of visits to Mexico while he was growing up, where family friends who had trained as lawyers worked as street vendors. “I’m not very optimistic right now,” he said. “I feel that we’re going to have an economy similar to a Third World country.”
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Play to provide funds and toys for the Toys for Tots program By Cameron Woolsey The Collegian As Joe W. Ozier walked along the streets of Madera, he came across a dog tied up in a yard. Feeling pity for it, he convinced the owner to let him take the dog home. Ozier soon began writing music and backstory for the dog, and how he ended up where he was today. Over time what he wrote became “Shep’s Christmas Wish,” a musical comedy that will be performed at the Warnors Theatre on Nov. 5 for one night only. The goal of the play is to raise money
for the Marine Corps Toys for Tots program. All ticket sales will be donated to the program, and patrons are asked to bring along one toy to donate. “The play is very funny,” Sue SmilieJanecek, stage manager for the play, said. “It’s a musical comedy about a young man and his dog and their search for love and a family.” The play is for all ages and features singing and dancing by both human characters and the dogs as well. Both Smilie-Janecek and Ozier hope for a sold-out show, and to fill out the theatre's 2,100 seats. "We would like people to buy tick-
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On Nov. 5 Joe W. Ozier's "Shep's Christmas Wish" will be performed at The Warnor Center for the Performing Arts. All ticket sales will be given to the Marine Corps' Toys for Tots.
ets so that all the money that we raise goes to buying toys in a bulk fashion," Ozier said. "It's a good thing for people to come and buy tickets and come and see. It's a funny show, it's a heart-warming show and the message of the show is kind of synonymous with the United Way in terms of its message of hope and love and those sort of things." Their goal is to raise $30,000 in one evening. They have less than half the seats sold, but Smilie-Janecek remains optimistic about Fresno's theatre-going crowd. "People from Fresno are notoriously late purchasing tickets,” she said. “They like to wait to the last minute.” Smilie-Janecek plans on using the theatre’s attractive qualities to draw in a large crowd. Executive Director Jim Pacini, Jr., who oversees Warnors, said the theatre is a historical landmark and one of the most beautiful theatres in Fresno. Warnors is enormous, with an interior boasting Spanish and Italian Renaissance elements. To make sure not a dime is wasted, Smilie-Janecek is counting on the economic talent of the Marines. "The Marines have this awesome buying power. They can take a dollar and stretch it—maybe get $5 for the toys out of it. They can buy toys directly from the manufacturer and from distributors like Toys R Us and people like that. We can get a lot more toys for our money." At the theatre there will be a large red and white collection box guarded by Marines in full uniform. Patrons with toys for donation need only to drop the toys off before enjoying the show.
Pap exam services available without co-payment starting August 2012 By Elizabeth Borg The Collegian Starting August of 2012, Fresno State students will be able to receive Pap exams without having to pay a co-payment. Currently, this service is offered for free only to those who meet the requirements of the PACT (Planning, Access, Care, Treatment) program. According to the American College of obstetricians and gynecologists, “Women should get one at the age of 21 unless the woman had a previous abnormal screening. Women in their 20s should have an exam every two years if their previous ones were normal.” A Pap exam, or sometimes called a Pap smear, examines cells collected from the cervix for cancerous cells or abnormal cells that may lead to cancer. A Pap exam also checks for infections and is the best way to prevent cervical cancer. For young college women, sexual health becomes an important issue when students become sexually active and the Health Center on campus offers sexual health services. Young women can also find sexual health services by visiting the local Planned Parenthood health center. Services such as contraceptives and STD testing can be available to those who qualify. One way is through the Family PACT program. This program is offered at both locations, and offers free general and sexual health services to lowincome men and women and to people who are uninsured. Fresno State’s Student Health Center has been a part of the PACT program since the spring of 2009 and offers family planning services as well as information and awareness about sexual health. Students seeking information on sexual health and services can come
into the health center and, depending if they’re eligible, can enroll in the PACT program. A young college woman may fall under this category since the program looks solely at her insurance and income individually and doesn’t include her parents. Unless the individual has a spouse or children, she may be eligible. Once enrolled, students have access to the Family PACT Peer Health Education Program (PHE). PHE program selects and trains students on every aspect of sexual health. Students who want to help their peers and become part of the program can be of any major and train throughout the school year. The health center finds that students feel more comfortable when they talk to other students. Kathy Yarmo, the coordinator for Health Promotion and Wellness Services, promotes the importance of sexual health and lets students know about what is offered to them at the health center. She comments that all conversations are confidential. “It’s someone’s prerogative to have their confidentiality met,” Yarmo said. At Planned Parenthood, the same services are offered to young women and men including birth control, STD testing and annual exams such as breast exams and cervical cancer screenings like Pap exams and pelvic exams. “We work to promote and improve reproductive health and to ensure patients get quality health care,” Pedro Elias, the director of public affairs for Planned Parenthood for the Madera and Kern Counties said.
Though highly encouraged, bringing a toy isn't mandatory to watch the show. Smilie-Janecek said she would be happy simply with a ticket purchase, which also goes toward the cause.
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e want to raise as much as we can. It all goes to toys —100 percent of our ticket sales goes to toys.” — Sue Smilie-Janacek stage manager for play
"We want to raise as much as we can," she said. "It all goes to toys—100 percent of our ticket sales goes to toys." Located in the Tower District, the famous Warnors Center for the Performing Arts has offered performances since 1928. United Way has been allowed to rent out the theatre at a low cost, insuring that most of the money made goes to the kids. “We try and work with different groups in the community, so that they have a decent place to come at a reasonable price,” Pacini said.
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Amy Winehouse outtakes album coming Dec. 5 By Randy Lewis McClatchy-Tribune LOS ANGELES — Amy Winehouse’s record company will release a collection of previously unreleased tracks, including several new songs and alternate takes of earlier releases the singer made before her death from an alcohol overdose in July. “Lioness: Hidden Treasures” consists of a dozen tracks spanning some of the five-time Grammy-winning singer’s earliest recording sessions in 2002 through her final studio session earlier this year with Tony Bennett, when the singers dueted on the pop classic “Body and Soul.” Among the other songs scheduled for release Dec. 5 are the bossa nova classic “The Girl from Ipanema,” which she recorded in Miami when she was
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18 and started working with producer Salaam Remi, a demo version of the “Back to Black” song “Wake Up Alone,” a slower alternative take on “Valerie” and her rendition of Leon Russell’s “A Song for You.” It will also feature “Between the Cheats,” a new song she recorded in 2008 with Remi for possible inclusion on what would have been her third album. During the same sessions she recorded a duet with rapper Nas, “Like Smoke,” that will be on the new collection. The tracks on “Hidden Treasures” are produced by Remi and the producer of her “Back to Black” breakthrough album and hit single “Rehab,” Mark Ronson. She died on July 23 at age 27 in what a British coroner ruled as “death by misadventure” from an accidental alcohol overdose. Dalton Runberg / The Collegian
The Fresno State Bulldog Marching band will team up with numerous area high schools for the annual Band Day this Saturday.
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A typical Bulldog Marching Band h a l f t i m e s h ow i s c o m p r i s e d o f approximately 300 members, but imagine almost 2,000 people on the field at Bulldog Stadium performing in unison. This will be the reality on Saturday when 1,500 high school students join the Fresno State Bulldog Marching Band for its annual Band Day when the host Bulldogs take on Louisiana Tech. “We rehearse in the morning putting together a halftime show that, between our band and the high school bands, will have nearly 2,000 people on the field,” interim associate director of bands Adam Wilke said. Band Day was established in 1996 by current director of bands Dr. Gary P. Gilory. Gilroy saw the potential to integrate the Fresno-area youth with his understudies and ran with it. “I wanted to reach out to high school bands who might otherwise never see a Fresno State football game or the Fresno State marching band,” Gilroy said. Through the years, Gilroy said the department has found that it recruits future Bulldog band members from this event as well as its Sierra Cup Classic where it hosts a competition for some of the finest bands in the nation. High school students from all over the Central Valley rehearse with the band, eat lunch provided by the band and then join together for the football game entertainment. The event gives the high school students a chance to see what it is like to be part of the Fresno State Bulldog Marching Band and get a taste of a major college football halftime experience. This year’s Band Day will feature music inspired by the popular film series James Bond. “Band Day is always the longest day of the year for the Bulldog Marching Band, but also the most rewarding,”
senior drum major Shannon Weber said. “Imagine if our football team held a ‘football day’ where all the local high schools could come meet all-stars like Derek Carr, Robbie Rouse or Kevin Goessling and get to run plays with them, get tips on how to be a better athlete and to see what type of environment college ball is like. It’d be a pretty cool event for all those high school football players. That’s basically what band day is, but for ‘bandos.’”
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t’s an absolute blast to be a part of a college marching band, and thats what we want to show all these high school kids.” — Shannon Weber, drum major This is Weber’s fourth year participating in Band Day; an event she agrees is an “awesome recruiting tool.” The goal of Band Day is not only to generate interest in attending Fresno State and being a part of the marching band, but also to participate in band for the duration of high school and collegiately. “It’s an absolute blast to be a part of a college marching band, and that’s what we really want to show all these high school kids through Band Day, and also just to get them pumped about band in general,” Weber said. Although the Bulldog Marching Band isn’t a competing one, Wilke said, “We just try to put out the best show we can possibly do to entertain the crowd while having a good time ourselves. “I am loving every minute of this year’s band,” Wilke added. “It is a great group of students that love to have fun and love to support our Bulldog football team.”
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Consistency is on the mind of the Fresno State offense
Fresno State needs to win four out of its next five games to give head coach Pat Hill his 12th bowl game appearance in 15 seasons By Angel Moreno The Collegian With a sub par 3-5 overall record, and a 2-1 Wester n Athletic Conference record, Bulldog football has proven to be about as inconsistent as autumn weather in the Central Valley so far this season. Head coach Pat Hill has been the face of the Fresno State football program for 15 years and has seen that inconsistency has hindered the 2011 version of the Bulldogs’ offense. “We’ve been very inconsistent,� Hill said. “Inconsistency is what gets you beat. There are some good teams that have had lapses and we’ve had some lapses that have gotten us beat. We’ve got to just learn to be more consistent.� Last week’s bye allowed Fresno State get its legs back and get back on the same page. It may have helped the offense, which will need to provide some consistency with the ‘ D o g s h av i n g f ive g a m e s remaining on their regularseason schedule. The Bulldogs had gone without a full two days of rest for 14 straight weeks this season, until last week when Hill gave his players and coaches three consecutive days off. Junior running back Robbie Rouse was grateful that he and his
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teammates were able to catch their breath and recover from the first half of the season. “It felt good and it was good for a lot of our bodies,� Rouse, who is just 16 yards short from breaking the 1,000-yard mark on the season, said. “To get that bye was great. I think everybody is refreshed and ready to get back for this fivegame stretch.� Every player will need to be refreshed as they welcome Louisiana Tech (4-4, 3-1 WAC) to Bulldog Stadium for their 13th meeting on Saturday. Fresno State leads the all-time series 9-3. Rouse has been a staple for the Bulldogs’ offense this season and has proved to be a workhorse for a young offense. This is his second year as a starter and is closing in on his second 1,000-yard season of his career. He is currently the ninthleading rusher in the nation with his 984 yards on 192 carries and seven touchdowns. Rouse is also averaging 123.0 yards per g ame, which is ranked eighth in the country. Although Rouse has found success in the running game, he knows the ‘Dogs will need to improve their consistency in order to win. “They’re still some things we have to learn on offense and got to execute,� said the 5-foot-7, 185-pound running back. “Sometimes when we
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Junior running back Robbie Rouse is eighth in the country in average yards per game and will need another solid performance to help the ‘Dogs get the win against Louisiana Tech this weekend.
have to score, we do, but there are other times we don’t. We need to learn to do that from start to finish.� That inconsistency to produce offensively has plagued the ‘Dogs and could cost them a chance at a bowl game. Fresno State must win at least four of its next five games in order to become bowl eligible this season. Fortunately for the ‘Dogs, history is on their side as they have won at least four of their last five games of the regular season eight times during Hill’s tenure. Hill has led the Bulldogs to 11 bowl games in a 14-year span and knows the offense, but stresses a more consistent
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e just got to win Saturday. That’s what we have to do.� — Pat Hill, head football coach
Hill said at the team’s first practice since the bye week on Sunday. It’s all got to go together. You can have a great offense, but you have got to win the games. Every time we have the ball we need to put
ourselves in scoring position.� For the Bulldogs, getting the ball into scoring position has been anything but easy. They have only reached the red zone 24 times this season, while allowing their opponents within scoring position 29 times. With Rouse on the ground and sophomore quarterback Derek Carr attacking through the air, the ‘Dogs will need to be consistent in order to get into scoring position and generate touchdown opportunities. As for Hill, he just has one goal for the week: “ We j u s t g o t t o w i n Saturday,� Hill said. “That’s what we have to do.�
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Saunders becomes go-to target in sophomore season
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Sophomore wide receiver Jalen Saunders has shown his speed so far this season with the deep ball and all the big plays in the open field that have helped the offense have an explosive aspect.
By Tim Salazar The Collegian From out running defenders to snagging breathtaking catches, sophomore wide receiver Jalen Saunders has matured into an even bigger playmaker in his second season in the program. Standing at a mere 5-foot9, Saunders is not built like today’s prototypical wide receivers, but that has not stopped him from electrifying the crowd with his speed in the open field. Saunders’ body type and play on the field can draw similarities to the Carolina Panthers’ Steve Smith. Both are listed at the same height and use their speed to break routine short passes into big plays. With Saunders’ production this season, there is a possibility he could be named among the finalists for the Fred Biletnikoff award, which is given annually to the best wide receiver in college football. Saunders has brought back the deep ball to the Fresno State offense that had been missing for a couple seasons. The Elk Grove, Calif. native is currently tied for second place in the nation with 23.1 yards per reception among players
with over 15 catches, behind only Georgia Tech’s Stephen Hill (30.4). Saunders’ 86-yard touchdown ag ainst Nor th Dakota is currently the ninth longest reception this year in Football Bowl Subdivision play. In just his second year, S a u n d e r s h a s s h ow n t h e potential to be considered one of the best receivers in college football. A couple weeks ago, the ‘Dogs faced Utah State and Saunders showed that he can turn minimal gains into gamechanging plays. On a simple screen pass to the right side of the field, Saunders may have made the biggest play of homecoming night as he was able to use his elusiveness to escape the reach of four defenders by cutting back across the field then diving into the left corner of the end zone to cap off the 23-yard score. The Pleasant Grove High School graduate has made plays all year and talked about his knack for his game breaking ability. “It’s just what I react to,” Saunders said. “It is not something I can really practice.” On the season, Saunders has amassed 600 yards on only 26 catches with six touchdown
receptions. With Saunders having a breakout season, he has gar-
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n e re d m o re at t e n t i o n by opposing defenses, which has led to Fresno State getting him involved in the run game. Saunders has added 67 yards and a touchdown on the ground, while averaging 13.2 yards a carry. A m o n g o t h e r We s t e r n Athletic Conference wide receivers, Saunders is fifth in receiving yards per game and fourth in receiving touchdowns. With a new quarterback under center this year in sophomore Derek Carr, Saunders has done the most damage to opposing defenses, scoring twice as many touchdowns and averaging close to 30 more yards a game than any other receiver on the team. This has happened with Carr spreading the wealth
evenly with five players catching between 24 to 32 catches The Carr-and-Saunders tandem has two seasons of eligibility left to help it continue to grow. This could be a quarterback-receiver combination that will keep many opposing defensive coordinators awake at night. “Our chemistry has grown,” Saunders said. “It was a little off at the beginning of the year but we’ve worked on it.” Although Saunders was named to the Biletnikof f
watch list, that has not changed his routine or allowed his ego to grow. With Carr at quarterback, Saunders may find himself h o l d i n g a c o u p l e aw a rd s instead of just being on watch lists. When asked if he will become a prolific receiver during his collegiate career, Saunders chose to give a modest answer. “I have a chance to be, but I’m not saying I will be,” Saunders said.
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