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Upgrade a strike USU board approves software upgrade for bowling center

for bowlers

By Jesse Franz The Collegian

By Ricardo Cano The Collegian Bowling enthusiasts will be able to use new score keeping software at the University Student Union bowling lanes next semester that include a variety of gaming options and features in the bowling center on campus.

The USU board of directors unanimously ap p r o v e d s o f t w a r e

upgrades for the USU Recreational Center’s bowling center on Monday, the board’s first major budgetary decision of the school year.

The QubicaAMF BES X Scoring and Entertainment System, featuring high-definition touch screen interfaces that will replace the center’s current score-keeping stations, is the second part of a two-phase renovation plan for the school’s bowling center.

New TV monitors were installed in the spring. The software upgrade – which the board hopes to tentatively install over winter break for a spring semester launch – will cost about $88,500 from USU’s capital projects fund, said Diana Salcido, the board’s chair for budget and finance.

The USU is supported through a $59 student fee every semester.

The idea behind the recreation center’s upgrades, said board of directors chair John Gonzalez, is to introduce more variety and enhance the bowler’s experience while increasing student traffic at the recreation center.

“Students have wanted it for a couple of years, and we’re here to serve students,” Gonzalez said.

Students originally voiced interest in having an upgraded bowling system in a survey dis-

Alumnus reflects on hall of fame space career

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Aeskie Her goes to the Recreational Center, on the bottom floor of the USU, to relax, hang out and go bowling with friends after a day of school.

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Chris Rosander has gone where no other Fresno State alumnus has gone before: the International Space Hall of Fame.

Born and raised in Fresno, Rosander never dreamed that he’d be designing a cutting-edge spacecraft.

“As a kid I grew up as a fullblown space cadet,” Rosander said. “I remember as a little kid seeing them land on the moon. I was just enamored any time it was on the news about them doing a space walk or landing on the moon.”

His love for space was paired with a passion for building and design.

“I was kind of a mechanical kid. I loved building models as a kid, later go-karts, maybe bikes,” Rosander said. “Anything mechanical I really liked, but I was not a real studious kid. I was more of a project-oriented, hands-on kind of learner.”

In his early years at Hoover High School, being a hands-on learner didn’t transfer into good grades. In one last effort to try to get Rosander back on the right academic path, his father recommended that he transfer to a school better suited for his natural talents and learning style.

For his senior year, Rosander transferred to Edison High School to take vocational auto shop courses.

“After that year, my confidence in learning went from the bottom to as high as you can go,” he said.

As a result, the kid who once thought that he wasn’t smart enough to go to college made the grades and was accepted to Fresno State.

After graduating with a mechanical engineering degree in 1982, Rosander had no problem finding a job. Due to President Ronald Regan’s defense buildup, See SPACE, Page 6

National park proposed to honor Cesar Chavez

By Jacob Rayburn The Collegian

The National Park Service proposed Thursday to Congress to honor farm-labor leader Cesar Chavez with a historic park at four sites in California and another in Arizona.

In 2008, Congress directed the National Park Service to conduct a special resource study to identify sites significant to the farmworker movement that met the historical landmark criteria, said Martha Crusius, Program Chief, Park Planning and Environmental Compliance at National Park Service.

Crusius was the project manag-

er for what became known as the Cesar Chavez Special Resource Study.

A list of more than 100 sites was pared down to five sites that meet the criteria: The Forty Acres National Historic Landmark in Delano; the Filipino Community Hall in Delano; McDonnell Hall in San Jose; Nuestra Señora Reina de la Paz, also known as La Paz in Keene, Calif.; and the Santa Rita Center, a downtown Phoenix church hall.

“The significance of the study was that Cesar’s works occurred in many different places,” said Marc Grossman, Chavez’s longtime spokesman, speech writer and personal aide. “There were

dozens of locations across the country. The special resource study represents the breadth and legacy of his work. That’s why it is significant.”

Crusius said the park service partnered with CSU Fullerton to identify sites of meetings, demonstrations and marches in several states that were important to the farm-laborer movement.

“It was a major undertaking to look at the farm worker movement,” Crusius said. “One thing that was striking to us is that every community we visited said, ‘This story is important to us.’ People have a very personal connection.

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The National Park Service recommended Thursday to Congress that five sites across California and in Arizona be used for a national park to honor the farm-labor leader.

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Rethinking mandatory education

Psychological investment is exactly what it sounds like: the act of investing psychological energy into something, whether it is something you spend money on or put time into (or both).

Studies have shown that psychological investment can seriously alter our perceptions of reality, and we can find examples of this in cult activity, abusive relationships and mental disorders.

Chelsey Crumrine While psychological investment can be dangerous, the real trouble begins when we are blinded from reality because of it.

Have you ever heard of musical dissonance? It is when two notes in a chord come closer together, and even those with untrained ears can feel the musical discord dancing between those notes. We mentally experience something similar when information challenging our reality is presented to us, and this cognitive dissonance can cause us to literally look over sentences we don’t agree with to avoid discomfort.

Now, I want you to think about the psychological investment you have in school. If you are reading this as a Fresno State freshman, then school has been a part of your life for about 14 years, and it is even longer for the majority of the student population.

This makes it difficult for us to imagine a world without public education, but it isn’t impossible to consider.

Imagine if we lived in a world that encouraged us to teach ourselves, a world that believed in the value of self-instruction. In this world, you would only have to put effort into learning the things you want to learn.

If you only want to learn how to live minimally, then you can spend a minimal

amount of effort into your life’s cause; if what you want to learn requires you to be literate and educated, you will have to work harder than the person who wants to live minimally. You could find help in areas where you are weak through a mentor, book or peers who have similar motives.

In this environment, you would not be tested on information that you are likely to forget once the test is over. You would learn information that you are genuinely interested in studying, which, as research shows, is essential to learning something well.

You could study at your own pace and with your own curriculum, and you would not stress about information in a field separate from your own. You would work with peers in your field to make sure you have the latest and most correct knowledge in your line of work because it is your job.

The world would not regress into some new-wave dark age. Instead, the minds of the world would be free for enlightenment.

A child’s brain isn’t suited for heavy academia. For example, the frontal lobe, which is the part of the brain responsible for logical processing and critical thinking, isn’t completely developed in most people until they are about 25 years old. In fact, increased activity in the frontal lobe doesn’t usually begin until adolescence, and yet there is a huge societal pressure for children and teenagers to academically perform ahead of their time.

The idea that a child’s brain is like an adult’s, but with less experience, is an irresponsible assumption; a child’s brain has a long way to go before it reaches adulthood, and some factors of public education, such as stress, can inhibit that growth.

There is an epidemic in Japan called Karoshi, which means death by overwork.

Employees drop dead at their desk or in the street because they cannot handle

stress any longer. This means that, to some degree, stress can kill.

The damaging effects of stress are partly due to a release of cortisol, the hormone correlated with stress, which has been known to fry hippocampi (the part of the brain responsible for configuring shortterm memories into long-term memories), reduce the production of immunoglobulin (which are B cell antibodies) and increase the risk of heart disease. It is also known to decrease overall cognitive function.

Now think about the amount of stress school has caused you. Do you believe your quality of life was improved by mandatory public education, or do you think that life would have been better without it?

Our experience with mandatory education has been a series of homework and tests on subject matters that lack real-life functionality. We were forced to sit in classrooms like it was a full-time job, and if we ever did poorly, our character and merit were usually to blame.

Some of us were bullied. Some of us knew we were put in the track that performs the poorest. Some of us flew through school without a problem at all. However, most of us have felt discouraged to go to school at some point in our lives.

I will admit that a world without public education could seem strange or even cruel, but that is only because it is all we have ever known. In a world without mandatory education, children would be free to explore the world at their own pace.

They would not be held down by chains of nationwide curriculums and could encourage their own growth in any direction they choose.

If a child wants to become an architect, he or she could spend time learning the theoretical aspects of architecture before tackling the mathematical.

You might think this farfetched, but

consider this: most children struggle with math because they are not taught it properly. They are given multiplication tables and expected to memorize a series of equations.

To truly learn something, it must be understood explicitly.

This means that the abstraction of math, even simple addition, must be broken down into simple, unambiguous pieces to children who can barely keep their numbers straight. Instead, maybe if they were allowed to explore the theoretical perspective first, the numbers would come easier to them when their brains are biologically ready.

Sure, most children will want play all day, but this isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

Play is how children expand their imagination and interact with peers, which is all they really need up to a certain age.

Caring parents would not let their children fall behind and fail in life, either.

Parents naturally teach their children things they value without external pressures, and so it goes without question that parents who value their child’s future will teach their child everything they can to preserve it, whether it be math, English or a skill relative to that child’s life.

The quality of life for average children could skyrocket if they were allowed to simply be children, and that elevated quality would likely persevere through their adult lives.

If more of us were able to handle our life’s progression, we could ultimately be more fulfilled than we are with boundaries placed by mandatory education.

Chelsey Crumrine works at Behavioral Intervention for Autism. She is a tutor for children with autism. She is majoring is psychology.

The simply confusing factors of the Affordable Care Act

By Haley Lambert Opinion Editor On Monday, ABC News online reported that Tennessee state Senator Brian Kelsey handed a humorously titled book to Kathleen Sebelius, the U.S. secretary of health and human services.

The book, titled “Websites for Dummies,” was a obviously meant as a jab at the recent system failures on the exchange websites set up to initiate the Affordable Care Act. Kelsey told news reporters that his little gift was meant to remind Sebelius that, “Tennessee does not want Medicaid expansion.”

Kelsey’s snarky sentiments in giving the book are somewhat humorous.

Unfortunately, politics are not an episode of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” so snark and sarcasm are not really all that effective.

Kelsey was correct in calling the Affordable Care Act “Medicaid expansion”

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and he was not making a misnomer comparison. Its very makers have described the Affordable Care Act as “Medicaid expansion.”

With Medicaid, the federal government gives each state waivers to create Medicaid managed programs. Within these programs, citizens of a state are enrolled in a private health plan that receives monthly premiums from the state’s managing office.

Each state determines the eligibility standards, the types of care covered and the rate of payment.

Under the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare), this will be expanded to include new categories. Basically these categories are just expansions on age and the definition of low-income.

Interestingly, some state legislatures have opted out of expanding Medicare.

What does this mean in conjunction to the Affordable Care Act? It means the citizens of that state are eligible for Obamacare but are not eligible for Medicaid.

This is where Obamacare becomes a

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conundrum to many Americans. The health care plan is neither socialized medicine nor is it a completely free-market platform.

People who do not have health insurance through their employer can now buy health insurance without it costing the proverbial arm and leg, supposedly.

After all, cost is relative to income. For those people in Medicaid expansion states they can receive relatively cost-less insurance because their premiums will be subsidized. For those, who do not live in expansion states, they may not have employer insurance, nor can they afford the premiums that are still required to be paid by the insured under Obamacare.

There are myriad issues with Oabamacare, but a glaring and easily explainable one is the fact that there is still a divide between the privately insured, those insured by Medicaid and those who can afford neither.

Unfortunately, many people were under the impression that this would be some kind of socialized medicine program.

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I’ve heard people who despised being on Medicare talk as though the fruition of Obamacare would allow them to have the same treatment given to those with the most all-inclusive health insurance.

Granted, Obamacare does allow some people to acquire some very inclusive insurance. Generally, these people previously did not qualify for health insurance but could afford it. They simply had a preexisting condition. Another, possibly acceptable facet of the program is it’s allowing unmarried children up to the age of 26 to stay on their parents' health insurance.

So in some cases, the pillars of Obamacare allow for some much-needed benefits. However, the confusion caused by the program and the confusing state of the online exchanges show us that, per usual, the fumbling decision making caused by government largess has wasted money, caused an upset in the health care service and still has some people left out in the cold.

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Mock trial team wins Arizona tournament

By Crystal Deniz The Collegian Over the weekend, a team of Fresno State students brought home first and third-place awards from the Grand Sonoran Showdown Mock Trial in Arizona, as well as individual recognition for several members.

The weekend-long tournament, hosted by University of Arizona, was home to two teams from Fresno State’s mock trial team and 26 other west coast collegiate teams from Nov. 2 to 3.

Fresno State’s mock trial team, overseen by Gordon Park, consists of nearly 40 students. The students are broken down into smaller teams - the Blue, Silver, Red and Gold teams - and the teams are sent across the nation to compete in tournaments, regionals and championships each year.

Each team creates a prosecution and defense side for a case, teams are matched up according to schools, such as Fresno State against University of Arizona, as sophomore economics major Kaitlyn Sims explained it.

Each round has two judges

who each fill out a ballot scoring each part of competition, said Sims, who is the team’s recruitment chair and also the opening defense attorney for the Blue Team. Each tournament has four rounds, so there are a total of eight ballots to be filled and whoever has the most ballots is the winner, she said.

The Blue Team took first place with a 7-1 score in the tournament, as well as had two individual victories when Sims was recognized as an outstanding attorney and Jenna Mersereau, an outstanding witness. The Red team took third place with a 6-2 score and also earned the same awards for Denise Barnes and Alyssa Malinoski, respectively.

“I couldn’t be prouder of the performance we had and the way we finished,” Sims said, crediting the team’s chemistry to the weekend’s success.

The team went in and had fun, but made sure to maintain their competitive nature to do their best, she said.

Grant Mason, the Blue Team’s co-captain and treasurer, said the team had put in a major effort that

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definitely paid off. The team went up against schools from across the nation, including University of California’s Santa Barbara and Berkeley, Pomona College and University of Arizona.

“As a team, we can always improve and we have all kinds of things we want to work on to be even better, such as witness roles, handling objections better,” said Mason, a double major in political science and philosophy who has been on the team for five years.

Mason joined the team because he wants to be a lawyer and believed it would be a good experience. “Of course it is and I love it,” he said.

He has participated in numerous competitions throughout California in San Diego, Los Angeles and Sacramento, as well as Las Vegas, Tennessee and Arizona. He also was the student tournament director for the second annual fall invitational held at Fresno State, known as the Dog Pound Challenge.

During Sims’ first year in competitions with the team, she traveled to Seattle, Phoenix and Irvine, Calif.

She competed in mock trial all throughout high school and is in her second year with the Fresno State team. She said that the experience is more than just trial advocacy techniques and benefits everyone who gets involved, whether they are pre-law students or not. It also improves public speaking skills, teamwork and one’s ability to think on the spot.

She used her own experience at the Arizona tournament as an example because she competed with a bye team and as a fill-in witness for a school that had a team member suddenly fall ill and miss the tournament.

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The team brought home first and third-place awards from the Grand Sonoran Showdown Mock Trial in Arizona.

A lot of the tournaments have a “bye team” that is made up of random students from different teams, Sims said. The team is used as a fill-in for tournaments that have an odd number of competing teams. The experience teaches an individual how to work with new groups of people one has most likely never met before to assemble a case in fifteen minutes while the opposing team has likely been working together on their argument for months.

“You pick up so much,” she said. “It’s hard to find a similar experience anywhere else.”

Sims said the overall experience of competing and this past weekend’s victory just adds to the adrenaline rush for the team’s upcoming competitions.

The Blue team will ride their victory to Tennessee on Thursday, where they will compete in a

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Sims said she is “ridiculously excited” and added that after the teams’ victory in Arizona, members are feeling confident but want to hone their skills further to be more competitive when they get to Tennessee.

Mason agreed and said he is looking forward to the tournament because of how well the team did last year, taking fifth place.

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People would say, ‘I was involved in marches.’”

Fresno State professor emeritus Dr. Sudarshan Kapoor joined Chavez on many of those marches and demonstrations. But Kapoor wasn’t aware of Chavez or the movement for better pay and working conditions for farmworkers when he arrived as a professor at Fresno State in 1967.

Kapoor said what caught his attention and what he found inspiring about Chavez was his fast in 1968 against farmworkers resorting to violence.

“After that, he became a national hero,” Kapoor said. “He was fighting for human rights. I found out he was very much influenced by his own faith, which was Catholicism, but he had also studied Gandhi. During his fast he had Gandhi’s picture near his bed.”

Kapoor said he would often call Chavez the “Gandhi of the grapes.”

“He represented the plight and condition of the farm workers,” Kapoor said. “His movement is a testimony for the justice and for the human rights of the people who put the food on our tables.”

It wouldn’t be a typical national park, Crusius said, because of the disconnected sites. But there are other parks that are not geographically connected, too.

However, she said the sites are thematically connected.

On Oct. 8, 2012, President Barack Obama visited La Paz and declared it a national monument. La Paz encompasses about 187 acres but the federal government donated only 3 acres, which

makes it the only area Obama was allowed to declare a national monument without Congress’ approval.

The site served as the national headquarters of the United Farm Workers (UFW) as well as the home and workplace of Cesar Chavez and his family from the early 1970s until Chavez’s death in 1993. The area includes his grave site, which will also be part of the monument.

The historic landmark in Delano is home to the union hall where grape growers signed their first union contracts. It was also where Chavez fasted in protest of pesticide use.

The Filipino Community Hall was a symbol of multi-ethnic unity in the 1960s where Filipino organizer Larry Itliong worked with Chavez. The hall in San Jose is considered where Chavez started his work as a community organizer.

The church was where it is believed the saying: “Si se puede,” or “Yes, we can,” originated during a meeting in 1972. UFW co-founder Dolores Huerta and Chavez, who was fasting, were in Arizona to resist a state law that restricted the rights of farmworkers to strike or boycott crops when Huerta uttered the famous slogan.

The far-reaching nature of the movement, Crusius said, added a degree of difficulty to the process and also the fact that for many people it was still living history.

“These sites deserve recognition and preservation,” Grossman said. “It [national park status] protects the property and helps preserve it to varying degrees for future generations.”

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CHARITIES BRING HOPE Community organizations share ways to volunteer and how students can help distribute food, and much more, to those in need

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GAMERS GEAR UP While PlayStation 4 and Xbox One both hit retailer’s shelves this month, video game aficionados weigh in on the systems they’re buying and why

By Megan Rupe The Collegian For PlayStation fans in the United States, Nov. 15 is a big day. The first big Sony release since PlayStation 3 crashed onto the scene in 2006, the 15th marks the day the updated PlayStation 4 console will hit shelves and fly into the hands of devoted gamers: who, most likely, had the new system preordered.

The new system will retail for $399.99 in both the U.S. and Canada and will come with a 500GB hard drive, a DUALSHOCK 4 controller, the controller’s charger, a headset and component cables.

Michael Massoudi, store manager of BRE Software in Fresno, a store that trades new and used videogames major retail stores may no longer carry, said along with the fact gamers won’t be able to use games from previous PlayStation models on PlayStation 4, he doesn’t think the new system is that special.

“Well, outside of the standard updated graphics, processor, power, essentially better graphics, better power, outside of that, there really isn’t a ith technology, everyone wants the whole lot of difference new and better stuff...” from PlayStation 3 to PlayStation 4,” Massoudi said.

— Michael Massoudi, Although the NovemBRE Software, store manager ber release will mark the longest wait for the release of a new console, Massoudi said, since the last “major” console was released in 2006, the buzz for the new PlayStation 4 could be a byproduct of the general hype surrounding the best and newest technology.

“With technology, everyone wants the new and better stuff,” Massoudi said. “With the PS 3 technology, it’s kind of updated just because it was 2005 and 2006.

“Nothing really new as far as functionality-wise.”

The Play Station 4 will not be released unchallenged, however.

Microsoft will debut its newest console, the Xbox One, on Nov. 22, one week after Sony releases its PlayStation 4.

Although Massoudi said there are “those fan boys that swear by their system,” he has already picked his console of choice, the Xbox One, but did not pick it because of technology or deals.

In fact, in a list of reasons pro PlayStation 4, Forbes.com reports the Xbox One is selling

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Convoy of Hope will take over the Fresno Fairgrounds Nov. 23 to provide free medical services, groceries, meals and even family portraits to people in the community.

By Esra Hashem The Collegian

Convoy of Hope Thousands of guests from across the community will receive free groceries, health services, haircuts and family portraits on Saturday, Nov. 23 at the Fresno Fairgrounds as a part of the Convoy of Hope community outreach in Fresno.

From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., the faith-based nonprofit will provide live entertainment, lunch, prayer, games and activities for guests.

No identification is required at the event, and all supplies are provided on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Many well-known churches, businesses and community groups are sponsoring and participating in the event. Some include NorthPointe Community Church, Peoples Church, Cornerstone Church, Eye Connect Dots, Community Food Bank and Fresno Building Healthy Communities.

Pastor Rudy Reyna of Cornerstone Church said that his church is getting involved because he said it is important to volunteer with organizations that aim to help people.

“We’ll do anything to help people,” Reyna said. “I don’t care what organization is doing it. As long as we can help people, love people, feed people, take care of them, we want to be a part of it.”

He added that it is also a way to get into the spirit of Thanksgiving.

“We know there’s a greater need during Thanksgiving,” Reyna said. “The average person, the average family, acknowledges that as a time when they come together with family.

“There’s a lot of people who can’t do that, or if they do come together, they don’t have a traditional meal.

“We want to help them come together and get that traditional meal.”

Augie Blancas is the media relations contact for the event. She said she encourages Fresno State students to get involved with the Convoy of Hope.

“We’re looking for good volunteers to stay the entire day, until the last grocery bag is given away,” Blancas said. “We’re trying to bring hope to this area.”

Those who wish to get involved with the Convoy of Hope must attend a mandatory volunteer rally on Nov. 22 at 6 p.m. at the Fresno Fairgrounds. For more information, visit fresno.convoyofhope.org.

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Community Food Bank

The Community Food Bank is gearing up for the holidays by preparing 10,000 meal boxes to stave off hunger this season.

Sarah Pedelty, the food bank’s volunteer coordinator, said that volunteers prepare the meal boxes over two weekends, this past weekend and this upcoming weekend.

“We do it because of the high need,” Pedelty said.

“We do it every year, and we distribute to a lot of places; places like the Poverello House, Bulldog Pantry, faith-based organizations, community centers and group homes.”

Pedelty said these places are just a few of Community Food Bank’s 180 partner agencies in Fresno, Kings, Kern and Madera counties. As a distribution center, the food bank delivers food to these agencies, which then serve the meals for the holidays.

“They send requests, and we allocate depending on the number of clients that they serve,” she said.

“We try to do it as evenly as possible.”

Pedelty said that the distribution center aims to end hunger in the Valley for longer than the holiday season.

“We help people all year round, but during the holidays, it’s a lot more noticeable and public,” she said. “And we have a lot more people that are involved in giving back because they realize it is the holiday season.

“Whether it’s for the holidays or for the regular distribution, we can use volunteers.”

For volunteers looking to put together the holiday meal boxes, the Community Food Bank is at capacity for this coming weekend.

But Pedelty said that volunteers can still help out every business day from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The food bank also has Saturday volunteer events on the first Saturday of every month from 7 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. The next volunteer event is on Dec. 7.

To get involved with the food bank, students can contact Pedelty at 559-237-3663 ext. 106.

surprised at how thankful they are that we’re open.”

Munoz said that Fresno State students are welcome and encouraged to volunteer at the Poverello House.

“We understand that there are a lot of people who want to volunteer during the holiday season,” Munoz said. “We welcome everyone.”

Those who want to get involved with the Poverello House must attend a mandatory orientation held Fridays at 3:30 p.m. or Saturdays at 10 a.m. at 412 F St. in Fresno.

Munoz said that once volunteers have completed an orientation session, they are free to volunteer whenever they like.

“It’s so nice to see so many people here getting what they need,” Munoz said. “To be a part of that is special.”

for $100 more than its Sony counterpart.

“Personally, I prefer it [Xbox One] mainly for the controller,” Massoudi said. “That’s my biggest selling point, but not necessarily that one’s better than the other.”

Fresno State student Marc Saucedo proves it just comes down to preference.

Like Massoudi, he also made his system choice based on the system’s controller, but decided to go with the PlayStation 4.

“I want the touch pad; it looks interesting,” Saucedo said. “I have what’s called a PlayStation Vida, and it’s a touch screen.

“It’s actually a little PlayStation, but it’s a touch screen.”

Unlike Massoudi, Saucedo said he’s going to wait awhile before purchasing a new console.

“That’s how I am, when new games come out, I don’t really buy them right away,” Saucedo said. “I just kind of wait, let the price drop, maybe watch some reviews first and then buy it.”

Saucedo said he experienced saying goodbye to old, favorite games when he purchased his PlayStation 3 and couldn’t play any of his PlayStation 2 games and will be taking that into consideration this time around.

“I didn’t like that about the [PlayStation] 3, because I had a PlayStation 2 for the longest time, and I couldn’t run any of my games on it,” Saucedo said. “So I don’t know; I was kind of bummed out about that.”

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tributed by the USU in 2011. More than 800 students participated, Gonzalez said.

“We used some of that data to justify this,” he said. “Even though it was a while back, it’s still valuable information and students did express interest in a new upgraded system.”

The software will feature customization options for scoring grids, backgrounds and animations. The touch screen is equipped with a camera and users

will be able to play non-bowling related video games using the touch screens and TV monitors.

The software will be linked to social media, such as Facebook.

A different element of bowling is also introduced through the software: students can play different, non-tradititional, challengedbased games with the technology.

“Not everybody is a bowler,” said Patricia Thomason, manager of the USU Recreational Center, during Monday’s board meeting.

“Not everybody is going to bowl 10 frames. They developed non-

traditional games that everyone can enjoy. It puts another element in there for the student.”

There was skepticism among the board, at first, toward the software upgrade.

The board had to decide whether the investment was worth it.

Would the software be too complex to navigate? What version would they purchase? And would students use it?

Representatives from QubicaAMF presented their product to the board.

But, Salcido said, the final

reassurance was provided by the University of Washington, one of the schools that installed the software in its student union’s bowling center.

Salcido and Thomason called the university, which installed the software over the summer, two weeks ago to ask about its experience with the software.

“We took it upon ourselves to call them,” Salcido said. “We didn’t want to jump into it. We were pretty confident, but there were still some questions we had.

We were talking [on the phone]

for about an hour. We had a meeting to see how we felt about it, if that would work for our school the way it worked for them.

“Everybody liked the idea, but was nervous about it. When we talked to Jason, the manager over there in Washington, he was really happy with it. He was really satisfied.”

The bowling center’s last upgrade took place more than eight years ago, Thomason said, when automatic bumpers were installed.

“There were thousands of engineers there,” he said. “There were a number of what they called business development marketing people that went and talked to the customers— NASA, Air Force, Navy—trying to get new contracts to develop space defense systems.

“They were starting to retire so they decided to take four young engineers and train them in business development and marketing, and they chose me. So I took that, and that was a big promotion,” Rosander said.

He went through six months of training before moving to Washington, D.C., to work for the company.

“I can remember being over at the White House at a reception for President Reagan and [General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail] Gorbachev during his first visit in the U.S. and his farewell,” Rosander said. “I’m sitting there in the room with Gorbachev, Reagan and their wives and going,

‘Oh my gosh, five years ago I was at Fresno State.’”

In another six months, his company garnered a work package to develop NASA’s International Space Station.

Since Rosander did some of the preliminary design work as an engineer, he became a full-time lobbyist to try and get funding for the project.

The success was one of Rosander’s crowning achievements.

Another project, however, would be the one that cemented his claim to a spot in the hall of fame.

“Those were two most exciting things I ever did: lobbying for the space station, and the last rocket project I worked on, which was the DC-X [Delta Chipper Experimental],” Rosander said.

It was one of the first attempts at a reusable space shuttle and arose from the need to develop a shuttle that could reduce relaunch times in ways that a single-

use rocket could not. It was also developed out of a need to cut costs.

At the time, rebuilding a space shuttle for re-launch could cost up to $500 million.

“Can you imagine if you’re flying to New York, and they manufacture an airplane when you get there, and then they build a new airplane to fly back. Your ticket would be expensive, right?”

Rosander explained.

His team acquired the funds to build a one-third scale functional model. For a relatively low price, it was built and could fly again within 24 hours.

But when it came to getting the bid to build the two-thirds model, which would be the last step before building the full-size shuttle, another company—Lockheed Martin—outbid McDonnell Douglas and gained control of the program.

After spending $1 billion, the rocket never flew again, and the program was abandoned.

At first the program may seem like it failed, but Rosander said he sees its enduring impact on the aerospace industry.

“That program spurred the imagination of the government and industry in a way it hadn’t been in a long time,” Rosander said. “A whole bunch of people on that program went on to create a new commercial space race that’s still going on.

“It’s kind of like the Sputnik of commercial space.”

The International Space Hall of Fame at the New Mexico Museum of Space History seems to agree, as Rosander and his colleagues were inducted on Aug. 17. They joined the company of esteemed aerospace pioneers such as Neil Armstrong, Yuri Gargarin and John Glenn.

Rosander now works at the Raisin Administration Committee in Downtown Fresno, marketing California raisins overseas.

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engineers were in high demand to meet government contracts.

Rosander took a job as a rocket scientist with the aerospace firm McDonnell Douglas in Huntington Beach, where he said he tackled the most exciting projects of his life.

It wasn’t until he was there, though, that he realized the quality of education he had received from Fresno State.

“They had hired 500 engineers from all over the country from places like Caltech, Stanford, Georgia Tech,” Rosander said.

“During that first year, I had a kid from Georgia Tech ask me how to do a basic calculus problem.

It was no problem, and I showed him how to do it. I had a kid from Harvard ask me how to do a thermodynamics problem, and I was able to show him how to do it.”

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STANDINGS VOLLEYBALL TEAM

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21-0 12-0

11-6-2

9-1-0

15-9 9-3

10-7-2

7-2-1

18-5 8-4

11-6-3

6-3-1

15-8 8-4

8-10-2

6-3-1

13-9 8-4

10-6-4

5-3-2

12-10

7-5

10-8-3

5-5-0

11-12

5-8

7-10-4

4-4-2

14-12

4-8

5-11-4

3-6-1

6-17 3-9

3-13-2

2-7-1

5-18 2-9

3-14-1

2-7-1

2-22 0-12

2-13-3

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Now, they’re playing Division I college basketball, and they are having to learn it at a pretty good level.”

Another freshman, guard Emmanuel Owootoah, had six rebounds and two steals.

“Tonight, he got a little fatigued at times,” Terry said. “I wanted him to be more crisp. But he’s been pretty solid in terms of taking care of the basketball.”

Senior guard Tyler Johnson was one of two Bulldogs who led the team with three steals. He also performed well offensively with 17 points.

“Tyler’s the guy who just motivates me,” Edo said. “He played in the Mountain West Conference already, so he’s just trying to pass his skills down to me.”

The Bulldogs used their fastpaced game play to gain a 50-30 lead at halftime. Dominican scored more in the second half (37 points), but Fresno State held them off to secure the win.

“We really try to emphasize to the guys that we want to get out and get up and down the floor and move a little faster this year,” Terry said. “Competing at the level we want to compete is often hard at times.

“We just want to play at a very hard level, and we try to see the big picture in terms of who we’re competing against.”

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5-0

5-3

4-1

HAWAII

4-4

3-1

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5-4

3-2

3-6

2-4

SAN JOSE STATE

0-8

0-6

UNLV

PASSING LEADERS (YDS/GAME) 1. Derek Carr 382.6 ypg

BOISE STATE COLORADO STATE

2. David Fales 321.9 ypg

NEW MEXICO 3. Brett Smith 295.9 ypg

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Karachi Edo shoots the ball over Dominican center Connor Haysbert during the Bulldogs’ 91-67 victory Monday evening at the Save Mart Center.

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5-4

4-1

4-4

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4-5

2-2

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0-4

2-7

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RUSHING LEADERS (YDS/GAME) 1. Kasey Carrier 116.2 ypg 2. Jay Ajayi 112.0 ypg 3. Shaun Wick 97.0 ypg

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‘Dogs win big in preseason match

Huddleston comes off the bench, scores 21 to lead Bulldogs in rout

By Christopher Livingston The Collegian

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The Fresno State men’s basketball team ended the preseason undefeated with a 91-67 win over the Dominican University Penguins on Monday.

Now, the Bulldogs are ready for Friday’s season opener at UC Irvine.

“I told my guys that we’re out of the preseason now,” said Fresno State coach Rodney Terry. “We worked June, July and August to get to this point.”

Fresno State started slowly, as Dominican posted a 6-4 lead before Terry called his first timeout. After regrouping, the Bulldogs tied the game, took their first lead and kept it for the rest of the match.

Senior Allen Huddleston led the team with 21 points. Freshman forward Karachi Edo played 32 minutes, scored 20 points and grabbed eight rebounds in the contest.

“We got some extra work with [Edo] on Saturday in terms of urgency,” Terry said. “Our older players are really doing a good job to help bring [the freshmen] up to speed. Each and every day, in every possession, they are learning.

“We’re spending a lot of time helping them understand the urgency of every position on offense and defense. A year ago, they were playing high school basketball.

Allen Huddleston makes a run toward the basket during Fresno State’s exhibition match against Dominican University. He finished the game with 21 points and six rebounds.

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Bulldogs wary of Wyoming’s spread offense

By Ricardo Cano The Collegian On Saturday across the sidelines, in some ways, will be a reflection of Fresno State’s uptempo, no-huddle, no-nonsense spread offense.

Wyoming (4-4, 2-2 Mountain West Conference) operates under it with junior Brett Smith behind shotgun. The Cowboys, under head coach Dave Christiansen, rank 21st in the Football Bowl Subdivision in passing yards (297.4 per game) and rushing yards (218.9).

That, Fresno State coach Tim DeRuyter said, is where the Bulldogs’ spread differs with the Cowboys’ version.

Smith anchors Wyoming’s balanced attack. This season, he has passed for 2,367 yards and 19 touchdowns and has rushed for 431 yards (second-best on the team) on 78 attempts, averaging 5.5 yards per carry.

“It’s similar,” DeRuyter said.

“A lot of their spread concepts are similar, but every spread team has its nuances. You go down to Arizona with Coach [Rich] Rodriguez, they’re more of an option run like Oregon is. Dave is more of a 50-50.

“They’re running for 200 yards.

They’re going to spread you out to run, and they’re going to spread you out for their play-action pass

and throw it. They use a lot more run game with their quarterback than what we do. They move the ball on everybody … it’s going to be a challenge.

“The nice thing for our defense is going against our offense, I think we kind of understand the tempo part of it and the spread concepts. Hopefully we’ll get a chance to be able to create some stops. These kinds of games, you don’t worry so much about the statistics.

The Cowboys have an advantage – time is on their side.

Wyoming enters the contest on a two-game losing streak (they dropped contests against Colorado State and at San Jose State), but fresh off a bye week.

Fresno State played at San Diego State, which also had an extra week to rejuvenate and prepare for the Bulldogs, with the Aztecs presenting a few wrinkles the Bulldogs had not accounted for.

The Aztecs went with a different game plan from what the film indicated.

They played their defensive front standing up during periods of the game and used a stacked interior rush, rattling the Bulldogs into a slower-than-usual first half performance.

DeRuyter is aware of the challenge.

“I think any time you give

The Fresno State sideline adjusts to the cold temperatures during the Bulldogs’ win at Nevada last year.

someone two weeks to prepare for you, it gives them a slight advantage,” DeRuyter said. “I know we appreciate having that extra week to study that opponent.”

Bulldogs not worried about cold weather It’s going to be cold in Laramie.

Early forecasts show Saturday’s low at 30 degrees at the 7,200-feet-above-elevation War Memorial Stadium.

The Bulldogs are no strang-

ers to playing under extreme cold weather – they played at Colorado State and at Nevada last year, where temperatures dipped to the low 20s in Reno – but they aren’t acclimated with them either.

Fresno State, used to playing at home beneath the hot Valley sun, will have heaters on the sideline, DeRuyter said.

At Nevada last season, Bulldogs were equipped with hand warmers, as well.

The Bulldogs won both of those games by comfortable margins.

Roe Borunda / Collegian file photo

“I reminded our guys after the game, during the game, I didn’t know what the temperature was during kickoff, but both those games I think it dipped down into the teens or the 20s and we went 2-0,” DeRuyter said. “Our guys apparently like that weather.

I know some of the guys in my coaching staff don’t. That’s fine.

We’ll be ready.” “… You need to stay warm. You don’t want to go from being hot and sweaty to being cold and your muscles tighten up.”