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UPD DEALS WITH POTENTIAL LAWSUIT PARKING INVESTIGATION

By Megan Morales The Collegian T h e U n ive r s i t y P o l i c e Department at Fresno State is facing a possible lawsuit from Fresno County for unpaid fees owed to them.

Fresno State Chief of Police David Huerta said the de par tment’s legal issues with Fresno County are still unsettled and have been for years.

“There’s a law that says that universities are obligated to pay the county for county construction costs,” Huerta said. “We hadn’t been paying that for a number of years because of some le gal opinions, and we were finally advised we needed to do that. So we’re currently working out negotiations with Fresno County to resolve that matter.”

Huerta said ten dollars of every parking citation issued at Fresno State is required to go to Fresno County. Sometime before Huerta began working for the university, someone

decided to stop paying the fee, and as a result the university is now being asked to make up for the missed payments which Huer ta said could potentially be an excessively large sum.

“We never raised our ticket

prices to accommodate that ten dollars,” Huerta said.

“Here we are today with a fund balance that is just enough to operate and do some things with.”

Huerta said the department and Fresno County are at the

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tail end of coming to some type of understanding regarding the situation to help prevent a lawsuit.

“We could get out of this much cheaper by reaching a mutual agreement,” Huerta said. “We’re going to have to go back a few years and have to catch up on the money that is owed to the county.”

Regardless of the financial issues the department is dealing with, Huerta said they remain focused on correcting the situation and moving forward.

“We’re going to have to settle this amount,” Huerta said. “Then we’re going to have to recover from it.”

The department didn’t give an estimated date of when the issue would be resolved.

In addition, requests directed to the police de par tment re g arding h ow p a rk i n g c i t a t i o n money is actually being used have also not been met.

costs in tuition.

Pedro Ramirez, president of Associated Student, Inc, said it was unfortunate that these fee increases may be implemented.

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Tuition fees to increase

By Andrew Veihmeyer The Collegian

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Natalia Kasianenko (left), signs a student petition to stop tuition increases. Rebecca Asami (right), intern for Students for Quality Education, oversees the table in the Free Speech Area on campus.

There will be 30,000 students added to the CSU’s in the spring and more courses added, he said.

“I support the recommendation that’s being made to the Board of Trustees because if we’re going to enroll addi-

tional students and provide the classes, the fee revenue is necessary,” said Welty.

He also said that a third of the fee increase will go to financial aid, and said it would help financially needy students to avoid the steeper

By Christian Walker & Leonard Valerio The Collegian With resources such as e-mail, Blackboard, Twitter and Facebook, faculty office hours may not be as important to students anymore.

According to Section 338 of the Teacher’s Policy Manual, each full-time professor at Fresno State is required to have at least five office hours each week.

When visiting office hours were the easiest and quickest way of contacting teachers, office hours were strictly enforced. Dr. Robert Maldonado, a professor in the philosophy department, said that teachers used to be checked on to make sure they were in their offices.

“T hey used to actually check more because it used to be the case that if you put ‘by appointment,’ they didn’t like that,” said Maldonado. “They don’t seem to be policing it the way they used too.”

The policy states: “All fulltime faculty shall schedule and maintain at least five office hours per week in their assigned offices. The fivehour requirement shall be a minimum amount of time, specifically posted, when students know that the professor is available for consultation without an appointment.”

In a random sampling of teacher’s office hours, 80 percent of teachers were in their office during posted times.

“I’m actually not so surprised,” Maldonado said of the results. “The majority of faculty want to help and want to be available.”

S t u d e n t s s e e m t o h ave mixed feelings about the minimum amount of office hours.

Senior marketing major, Albert Tello, doesn’t feel his teacher’s office hours fit into his schedule. Tello said it is difficult to make time to meet with teachers while balancing a full load.

“I never use the instructor’s office hours. I feel like their office hours are not set up well. They typically always conflict with the rest of my classes,” said Tello.

Kinesiology major, Lorenzo Llorente has mixed feelings about office hours. “Some teachers seem to have enough office hours and others seem to never be there when you actually need them,” Llorente said.

Some students prefer avoiding officer hours all together and use other means of con-

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The CSU Committee on Finance and the Board of Trustees will be meeting on Tuesday and Wednesday to approve tuition increases for the next two semesters; 5 percent for spring 2011 and another 10 percent by fall 2011.

The meeting, which will be held at the Chancellor’s Office in Long Beach, Califor nia, will also include a request from the CSU to the legislature to buy out the 10 percent increase for the fall 2011-12 academic year. “[The success of the buyout] is really unknown,” said Fresno State President John D. Welty. “We’ve got a new governor, a number of new legislators, and it is projected the current budget is not really in balance. If there’s a huge deficit, obviously they’ll have difficult decisions to make about what new funding they can offer.”

T he Board of T r ustees acted in June to increase fees for the current year, Welty said, and since the legislature did not buy out all of the planned increase in fees, the board would need to deal with the issue in November.

“And that’s what they’re doing,” said Welty.

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of-the-art library that cost tens of milreceived from the American Recovery alifornia State University lions of dollars, and seven years after and Reinvestment Act. Chancellor Charles B. Reed, a completing the Save Mart Center, a This, more than $365 million in much-maligned fellow in the huge arena which cost tens of millions funding for the CSU system, should be eyes of many students, is proposing a 5 of dollars more. All of these are worplenty for CSU trustees and Chancellor percent tuition increase for students in thy expenditures that are beneficial Reed to work with. the upcoming semester, on top of which both to students and the community, The CSU should concentrate on would be a 10 percent increase starting but the timing of these must be quescutting spending in innovative ways fall 2011. tioned. rather than reflexively raising tuition CSU officials will meet tomorrow to The new state legislature must work or instituting furlough days. begin discussing these two measures, with California’s new governor, Jerry There is much waste in the CSU though it seems that some sort of Brown, who campaigned on improvsystem. A front-page story in The tuition hike will be agreed upon. ing California’s higher education, to Collegian today points out that Fresno If the two proposals are enacted, fund the CSU system with undergraduate students the appropriate amount of would pay $2,220 for the money, whatever that may spring semester and be. $4,884 for the 2011-12 Simply throwing money school year. aising tuition for students yet again is an egreat higher education will According to The gious act by an out-of-touch, arrogant elite.” not solve anything, but Fresno Bee, the CSU sysgiving schools their funds tem has raised tuition with no strings attached four times since 2007. would help them allocate The school system, which the money in the best ways touted itself as “tuitionthey see fit.

State potentially owes a great sum of free” in its 1972 Master Plan, has found Raising tuition for students yet money to Fresno County due to unpaid itself cash-strapped during a worldagain is an egregious act by an outparking citation fees. This is an examwide economic crisis which has led to of-touch, arrogant elite. Students ple of the type of waste that schools decreasing tax revenues for the state already are dealing with overcrowded could cut out of their budgets, thereby of California. classrooms, high tuition and dropped lessening the burden of students and While we understand that it is difclasses. The fact that the CSU system faculty. ficult to continue to provide education overextended itself during an ecoThe CSU system also has a problem at the same price during a recession nomic boom should not mean financial with enrollment. By allowing students that has been characterized as the disaster for the millions of students in en masse, universities short shrift worst economic downturn since the who attend these universities. already-enrolled students, who have Great Depression, there must be a Chancellor Reed, continue hiking to foot the bill for schools’ excess. The better way than potentially raising tuition costs and you will not be able to CSU should raise the standard by tuition six times in a four-year period. depend on an apathetic student body which students enter and force current In the recently approved 2010-11 accepting your decrees much longer. students to maintain that standard.

California state budget, the CSU sysCSU schools should quit expanding. tem received $199 million in restored Fresno State is building a $7.5 million funding and $60.6 million for increased COMMENT: The Collegian is a aquatic center one year after completenrollment. All of this was on top of forum for student expression. ing the Henry Madden Library, a state$106 million in federal monies already http://collegian.csufresno.edu

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Culled each week from discussions in The Collegian’s newsroom.

Thumbs up: Veteran’s day A break from school is great, but let’s not forget who we’re honoring—the men and women who have served in our nation’s armed forces.

Thumbs down: Professional plagiarists Cook’s Source Magazine lifted an enitre column from the Internet and printed it in their publication without permission. When the original author complained and asked for compensation, the magazine requested the author pay them for their editing services.

Thumbs up: Lamebook.com Lamebook.com collects the funniest stuff on Facebook and puts it on one website. A must read for those times when there’s nothing interesting on your Facebook news feed.

Thumbs down: Annoying TV ads BlackBerry’s ad for their new Torch phone is the most annoying commercial on TV right now. You know the one—it has a song that sounds like a cross between a yodel and a tribal yell. It’s not that we don’t like the song, but BlackBerry had to choose the most annoying part of “Fiya,” by Tuneyards, as the crescendo. And it’s on TV—a lot.

Thumbs up: Winning the WAC soccer championship The women’s soccer team’s season couldn’t have been more different from last year.

Congrats, WAC champs!

Thumbs down: Getting tracked down on Twitter and stabbed Thugs tracked British rapper DJ Ironik through his tweets. When they found him, they robbed him and stabbed him in the buttocks. Here’s the irony: DJ Ironik has a vocal campaign against knives.

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FEE HIKE: Students speak out FUNDS: Police keep silent CONTINUED from page 1 According to California Education Code, Section 89701.5, money from parking citations is strictly required to go to alternative transportation. When the traffic operations department at Fresno State was asked to provide statistics that validate how the money is being used, The Collegian was told it would receive the statistics via email within one day. Two weeks and multiple attempts later, the documents have still not been received.

The Collegian was told by a traffic

operations employee that the requested numbers had been passed along to Fresno State Chief of Police David Huerta.

When Huerta was asked for the documentation and statistics, he had nothing to give and said his department is not responsible for providing that information.

However, The Collegian had previously contacted Fresno State’s accounting services, which said the traffic operations department deals with that information and they should be able to provide the requested documents.

HELP: More avenues for faculty, student interaction CONTINUED from page 1 Ana Mendoza / The Collegian

Some student groups are against the fee increases. This display at the Free Speech Area factors in both fee increases proposed for the spring and fall semesters.

CONTINUED from page 1 “After receiving an increase in funds and opening enrollment for the spring, I think it sends mixed signals to the students and the politicians,” said Ramirez. “If the trustees want to hold the politicians accountable and pressure them into increasing funding, they shouldn’t show how easily they can raise fees.”

Members from Students for Quality Education, or SQE, have begun a petition to combat the tuition increases.

Hector Cerda, a graduate student involved with SQE, said students should be able to have evidence that specifically states why these fee increases are necessary and how the added revenue will be used within the university.

A Wednesday protest has also been planned with members traveling down to Long Beach.

Tuesday will be devoted to the Finance Committee adopting a recommendation for the board. Wednesday is when the full Board of Trustees comes together to proceed with the meeting agenda.

tacting professors or getting help with assignments.

English major Daylen Prinz said she prefers not going to a professor’s office

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t’s difficult to know comparatively, but I think I get fewer students than some of my colleagues.”

— Robert Maldonado, Philosophy professor, Fresno State

Ana Mendoza contributed to this report.

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hours and has never had a problem getting help when she needs it.

“I have never used a professors office hours before,” Prinz said. “I think e-mail is proficient enough, or if

it’s really important I just talk to them after class.”

Maldonado believes that, at least in his department, students might be intimidated to meet with teachers.

“It’s difficult to know comparatively, but I think I get fewer students than some of my colleagues,” said Maldonado. “I think some students get intimidated by their own text.”

Llorente is one of the students that may get intimidated. “I prefer to contact teachers by e-mail because I don’t like talking to my teachers face to face, one on one,” Llorente said.

Llorente added that he often uses Blackboard to get help from other classmates and finds it to be very effective.

Maldonado said that despite some misconceptions, teachers are willing and are available to help. “It’s just up to the students to benefit from their assistance,” Maldonado said.

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Campus night safety: Standard Time resumes

By Antonio Figueroa The Collegian The old saying “spring forward, fall back” is a reminder of how Daylight Saving Time changes our clocks twice a year. When Daylight Saving Time begins in the spring, clocks are tur ned an hour forward, shifting an hour of sunlight from morning to evening.

The sun will be setting an hour earlier now that Standard Time has resumed and many Fresno State students have night classes. Therefore, there are several important safety tips to remember.

According to Amy Armstrong, public informa-

"We have quite a few people working, but we still want students to be proactive and keep an eye on what's going on around them, letting us know if they see something dangerous or suspicious that we haven't seen and report it to us," Armstrong said.

Business administration major Georgina Perez has a class Wednesday nights this semester and said she's a bit concerned about campus safety once the clock shifts back an hour.

“I do worry about my safety at night because there are some areas on campus with not enough light,” Perez said.

“I think there should be more lighting on the sidewalk by the

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do worry about my safety at night because there are some areas on campus with not enough light.”

— Georgina Perez, Business administration major

tion officer of the Campus Police Department at Fresno State, there are 19 sworn (certified) and 18 non-sworn officers on patrol who work full time with 25 student assistants. Some police officers are in patrol cars while parking officers and safety escorts are in the golf carts.

Kremen Education building, and also between the Music and Joyal Administration buildings.”

Armstrong said if students ever feel unsafe walking to or from class on campus, they can call the Campus Police Department for a safety escort, available 24 hours a day. More

than 30 emergency phones are located near almost every building and parking lot and are checked once every month to make sure they are working properly.

Mass communication and jour nalism major Maria Iñiguez takes night classes as well, and she is afraid that the campus may not be safe.

“I worry about my safety at night because it's harder to see and be able to recognize people,” Iñiguez said. “There are less people around at that time so it's scary to think you're alone in case of an emergency.”

Armstrong hopes that students who have night classes will be aware of anything unsafe or suspicious.

"When you walk from the parking lot to your classroom, you will know if something doesn't seem right because you walk that path everyday,” Armstrong said. “If you see something out of the ordinary, we want you to tell us and we'll go check it out.”

Students can see the safe light paths printed on the campus map. She advises students to let others know of their location if they're alone, to stay in well lit areas after dark, and to report any areas where the lights are off to the Campus Police Department at 278-8400.

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Students use blogs to boost creative interests Creative blogging increasing in popularity

By Melissa Jones The Collegian Pablo Torres, a junior at Fresno State, found his creative outlet when he stumbled upon a blog that inspired him to post his creative ideas online.

“It was a way for me to express my opinions and write t was a way for me to express my opinions and about personal and school projects,” write about personal and school projects.”

Torres said.

A blog is defined as a frequent and — Pablo Torres, chronological publication of personal Fresno State student and blogger thoughts, pictures and website links.

“Surprisingly, I k n ow a l o t o f people who don’t even know what a blog is,” Torres explained.

“Compared to when I started two years ago, blogging is a lot easier to do.”

Blogging among students and the general public is becoming more popular as blogging platforms such as “Blogspot,” “Wordpress” and “Tumblr” let people blog for free. These sites still offer users the option of customizing their blog site to their preferences.

Torres suggested that students who want to get into blogging search for a blog that caters to their interests, views or writing style.

“I didn’t even think about starting my own blog until I came across a colle ge student from UCLA that inspired me to start blogging,” Torres said.

It took Torres two years to get enough content in his blog to attract a lot of readers. Those readers can comment on his content, along with being able to repost his posts on their own blogs.

Torres said that blogging is a great way to build a professional or school portfolio.

Along with building a portfolio, it is a way to network and find people with similar interests and views.

Whenever a certain blog catches his interest, Torres subscribes to it and receives weekly newsfeeds through his email.

He cautioned to not include too much personal

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information within the blog and to keep it relatively general.

“You can blog anonymously, but if you want to take credit for the content of the blog in the future, try to keep out your personal life as much as possible,” Torres said. “This should go for almost anything you post online, blog or not.”

Torres explained that a friend who also blogs makes about $100 a week just from blogging.

“It is possible to make money off of this, but it takes a lot of time and commitment, which can be difficult for full-time college students,” Torres said.

Along with the possible income that blogs can bring in, many scholarships are offered to student bloggers.

“If you’re passionate about a subject, then blog,” said John Walker, who blogs through his literary magazine, Trachodon.

Walker cautioned to avoid blogs as sources for any research paper.

“A blog can contain anything from creative writing to public librarianship, and usually contain a single perspective,” Walker said.

Kalis Kim, a recent Fresno State graduate and blogger, recommends that students start their own blogs.

“It gives students practice with writing, a fresh perspective and analysis, [and provides] a creative outlet,” Kim said. “The ability to read and analyze a non-objective piece of writing allows people to become better students. It lets them read about a subject that interests them, while also leaving the door open to gaining exposure to new topics.”

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The Fresno State College marching band performs at a football game at Ratcliffe Stadium during the 1956 season. The picture ran in the Nov. 7, 1956 issue of The Collegian.

PALM DESERT, Calif. (AP) — The Riverside County coroner has determined that the one-time contestant on “The Bachelorette” reality TV show whose body was found off a highway in Southern California died of a selfinflicted gunshot wound.

A family spokeswoman, Audrey Doherty, said Friday that Julien Hug left his parents a letter explaining he was suffering from depression and felt suicide was the only way out. Hug’s body was found Wednesday in the remote Pinyon Pines area off Highway 74 in Riverside County, about 90 miles east of Los Angeles.

Hug was a contestant on the ABC show, a spinoff of the network’s competitive dating show “The Bachelor,” in May 2009. Jillian Harris passed him over for Ed Swiderski in an early episode of the show.

MIAMI (AP) — The attorney for Marion “Suge” Knight says the rap mogul plans to appeal a judge’s decision that dismissed his lawsuit against Kanye West.

Knight was shot in the leg in 2005 at a Miami Beach party hosted by West, and Knight blames West for lax security. His lawsuit is seeking more than $1 million in damages from West.

Knight’s attorney, Mark Brumer, said Friday his client was disappointed in the judge’s decision.

The shooter has never been identified.

In Thursday’s order, the judge concluded there’s no evidence that a shooting at the party was foreseeable.

West’s attorney, Adam Josephs, said the lawsuit was ill-conceived from the beginning.

SAN MARCOS, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say gun-toting police stormed a classroom at California State University San Marcos after a drama class skit on school violence sparked real panic.

University Police Chief Ronald Hackenberg says students saw a seemingly wounded woman fall out of a doorway shortly before 4 p.m. Thursday at the San Diego-area school and thought she’d been shot.

Students fled and called 911. The campus activated its emergency system, which warned students by speaker and text message to barricade their doors.

Hackenberg tells the North County Times that campus police and county sheriff’s deputies finally stormed the drama classroom and held about 15 students at gunpoint. They were told students were performing a skit with cap guns and didn’t realize they’d caused the panic.

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The Sports Desk Saturday’s Standouts

Saturday’s Standouts

Game-changing moment: Punt block leads to huge fourth quarter Austin Raphael’s blocked punt set up the Fresno State offense deep inside Louisiana Tech territory. The seven-play drive started late in the third quarter and was finished off early in the fourth with Ryan Colburn’s one-yard touchdown plunge. The score gave Fresno State a lead it would never relinquish, ripping off 23 points in the fourth quarter as the ‘Dogs improved to 6-2 on the season.

Interesting stat of the game: Time of possession difference In every contest except the openingseason victory over Cincinnati, Fresno State has controlled the time of possession, but by no more than 11 minutes.

In Saturday’s win over Louisiana Tech, Fresno State held the ball for 41:02, more than 22 minutes better than the opposition. The ‘Dogs haven’t had that big of possession difference since losing to Cincinnati last year on Sept. 26.

Unsung hero: Jamel Hamler, receiver Although overshadowed by Robbie Rouse’s record-setting day, Hamler proved that he is indeed the team’s No. 1 receiver. Playing healthy for the first time since the Ole Miss game, Hamler dominated opposing defensive backs for eight receptions for 118 yards and a career-high three touchdowns.

Fresno State sealed the deal when... ...Robbie Rouse capped off his career day with a 51-yard touchdown romp with 2:20 remaining in the game. The oneplay drive put a dagger into Louisiana Tech’s comeback hopes and gave Fresno State a 40-28 lead. Louisiana Tech would tack on another touchdown late, but Rouse’s huge run provided the ‘Dogs with just enough margin to wrap up another conference victory.

What we learned: from the Louisiana Ben Ingersoll and Vongni Yang T h e i m a g e o f Rya n Tech defense. Ryan The Collegian Mathews in Bulldo g Colbur n and Jamel red shredding opposing Hamler are stretchdefenses has become ing secondaries as the a little bit more vague with a seem- two hooked up for three scores and 118 ingly new-and-improved Robbie Rouse. yards. Center Joe Bernardi was insertMathews never carried the ball 43 times ed back into the starting lineup after like Rouse did Saturday, but the tiny missing the previous game at San Jose back from San Diego put the offense on State with an ankle injury. With another his back in the Bulldogs’ third straight week of rest under him, guard Andrew conference win. The defense, however, Jackson may see the field again when is going to need to tighten some things Fresno State takes on its first ranked up if it has any hope to slow down a opponent of the season in Nevada this Nevada squad this weekend that posted Saturday. an astonishing 844 total yards on Idaho.

The unit had its moments, and surren- Defensive breakdown: dered just 308 yards, but looked sloppy Despite putting the Fresno State offense early on in Rustin. The defense is start- in a quick 14-0 hole, the defense stepped ing to create some turnovers, a prom- up when it counted. After allowing the ising sign for a team that ranks in the second touchdown of the day on a trick bottom-half of the WAC in turnovers. play to Lousiana Tech, the defense shut the Tech offense out of the end zone Offensive breakdown: until the 7:11 mark in the third quarter.

The perennial run game that Fresno Desia Dunn’s fourth-quarter intercepState football is so well known for is tion all but sealed the game for Fresno starting to emerge, and it could not State. Although the defense allowed come at a better time. The ‘Dogs never four touchdowns through the air, the strayed away from putting the ball in run defense proved it was more than Robbie Rouse’s hands, despite falling capable of stopping the talented Lennon behind 14-0 early on. Rouse finished the Creer, holding him to 56 yards. As a night with career-highs in carries (43) team, the ‘Dogs allowed just 89 yards and yards (283), and showed his tough- rushing and 3.7 yards a carry. Defensive ness after taking a handful of big hits tackle Logan Harrell also added a sack.

Soccer wins WAC

By Ben Ingersoll The Collegian The Fresno State soccer team revived a tulmultuous regular season by taking home the Wester n Athletic Conference tournament championship.

On Sunday in Ruston, La., head coach Bryan Zwaschka’s squad took down top-seeded San Jose State in a doubleovertime, penalthy-kick 0-0 thriller to claim the school’s second title in three seasons.

In the opening round, Fresno State took down Idaho 3-0 to keep its season alive.

Tour nament MVP Katie Lee’s first career goal came in a 1-0 semifinal round win over Utah State, allowing the ‘Dogs to take on San Jose State in Sunday’s championship round.

Fresno State, which finished the regular season 7-8-4, will find out today at 1:30 p.m. who and where it will play in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

Call of the game: Rouse’s 51-yard run After running power play after power play to the strong side of the formation, the Fresno State coaching staff finally dialed up a run play to the weak side. Results? It paid off as Robbie Rouse sprinted downfield untouched for the sophomore’s first touchdown of the game.

Dog bone giveaway: Robbie Rouse, running back Three weeks ago fans all wondered how Fresno State would trek through the November schedule with no proven feature back behind Ryan Colburn. Robbie Rouse has answered the call with three straight huge games, including toting the rock for 283 yards on a school-record 43 carries

‘DOGS: Fourth-quarter surge too much for Tech CONTINUED from page 8 After penalties stalled Fresno State’s next offensive drive, punter Andrew Shapiro shanked his fourth punt of the game 24 yards out of bounds.

Then Fresno State’s special teams prowess peaked after the defense forced its sixth three-and-out of the game. On 4th-and-5 from the Louisiana Tech 30-yard line, fullback Austin Raphael bulldozed his way past blockers to record the first blocked punt of his career.

After the momentumchanging special teams play, t h e F re s n o S t at e o f f e n s e would reel of f 17-straight unanswered points, led by Colburn’s two scores: a 1-yard plunge into the end zone and

a 33-yard touchdown lob to Hamler. Goessling would tack on a field goal in between to extend the ‘Dogs lead to 33-21.

But Phillip Livas would keep the game interesting for Louisiana Tech with a 95-yard kickoff return for a touchdown to narrow the Fresno State lead to 33-28.

Wi t h m o m e n t u m o n Louisiana Tech’s side, the Tech defense forced another Fresno State punt with 3:06 left to play in the final quarter.

Louisiana Tech would get the chance to go for the goahead score, but on second d ow n , c o r n e r b a c k D e s i a Dunn intercepted a deep overthrown pass by Jenkins that all but ended Louisiana Tech’s chance of a comeback.

On the very next play, Rouse

would add onto his record-setting day with a 51-yard sprint for a touchdown, cushioning Fresno State’s lead, 40-28.

Rouse was nine yards shy of Fresno State’s all-time 295yard single-g ame rushing record set by Wright in 2006 against Louisiana Tech.

“We have a lot of work to do, but we’re looking forward to getting home and going to work but its better to have a win under your belt instead of anything else,” Hill said. “We just have to win in November.”

Fresno State will retur n home Saturday after back-toback road games to host No. 21 Nevada (8-1, 3-1) at Bulldog Stadium at 7:30 p.m.

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Fresno State 40, Louisiana Tech 34

‘Dogs, Rouse grind out road win

By Vongni Yang The Collegian Ryan Mathews never ran for as many yards, and Dwayne Wright never car ried the football as often as running back Robbie Ro u s e d i d for an entire game on Saturday.

A g a i n s t Louisiana Tech, Rouse d e l iv e r e d h i s m o s t impressive performance to date after carrying the ball for a schoolrecord 43 times for 286 yards and a touchdown as Fresno State (6-2, 4-1)

won its third-straight game with a 40-34 victory over Louisiana Tech (3-6, 2-3) at Joe Aillet Stadium in Ruston, La. “ I ’ m ve r y h ap py we got a win on the road,” head coach Pat Hill said in a press release. “This is a tough place to play, but we’re going to have to improve a lot before Nevada.”

Behind Rouse’s 28 carry, 245-yard second-half explosion, and quarterback Ryan Colburn’s 229 yards passing and three touchdown tosses to receiver Jamel Hamler, the Bulldogs were able to overcome a 14-0 deficit early in the first quarter to outscore Louisiana Tech 40-20 in the final threeand-a-half quarters.

Facing a stifling Louisiana Tech defense, the Fresno State offense was able to muster only 10 points in the first half with a 6-yard touch-

down pass from Colburn to Hamler in the first quar ter, and a 49-yard Kevin Goessling field goal in the second quarter to cut Louisiana Tech’s firsthalf lead to 14-10.

After consecutive threeand-outs by both offenses to begin the third quarter, Rouse took over and stole the show. On the ‘Dogs second of fensive series of the second half, Rouse took a handoff and darted 60 yards to the Louisiana Tech 10-yard line to set up a Fresno State touchdown just one play later. Colburn would connect with Hamler on a slant pattern for a 10-yard touchdown strike to give the ‘Dogs its first lead of the afternoon, 17-14.

B u t L o u i s i a n a Te c h would answer three possessions later with a five-play, 56-yard march, capped off by quarterback Ross Jenkins’ touchdown pass to a streaking and wide open Taulib Ikharo in the end zone to regain the lead, 21-17.

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Basketball tips off against Fresno Pacific

By Luke Shaffer The Collegian

Sophomore Greg Smith scored a game-high 16 points in the exhibition game against Fresno Pacific. Smith is a pre-season first-team All-WAC selection.

Photos by Matt Weir / The Collegian

Taylor Thompson impressed with 11 points, five rebounds and two assists.

O n S at u rd ay n i g h t , t h e Fresno State men and women’s 2010 basketball campaign kicked off with exhibition g ames ag ainst cross-town NAIA foe Fresno Pacific.

In the first game of the doubleheader, women’s head coach Adrian Wiggins’ squad pummeled the Sunbirds with a final score of 94-44. The second game of the night pitted the men’s teams and Fresno State won again by a score of 71-50.

Wiggins was quite pleased with his team’s overall play.

“I’m happy with it,” he said.

“I thought they came out and played hard. We tried to do a lot of things and had success. The good news is we could cover better defensively.

I thought we could shoot the ball better from the perimeter.

Our returnees did a great job executing and being confident in themselves. Our newcomers were very aggressive.”

Right from the start of the first game, Wiggins’ squad showed a lot of energy and aggressiveness defending as the team came away with 18 total steals. By constantly

pressuring the ball handler for Fresno Pacific, the ‘Dogs flew all over the court and seemed to surround the Sunbirds and suffocate their offense. Senior forward Hayley Munro led Fresno State in scoring with 20 points and went to the free throw line five times, making 8-of-9 attempts.

Redshirt freshman Taylor Thompson was strong on the night, showing composure as the point guard.

“It was pretty obvious she does a great job,” Wiggins said.

“She was effective tonight.

The biggest compliment is she did what Emma (Andrews) and LaShay (Fears) have been doing. It doesn’t look like we have any deficiencies there.”

Tipping off the second game of the night in which the men’s basketball team of Fresno State took on Fresno Pacific, the flow of the match was sluggish at first. Yet, as the game wore on, the scoring picked up and was a back-andforth battle throughout the first half.

At the end of the first period, the score stood 28-19 in favor of the ‘Dogs. However, the Sunbirds continued to keep it close after the teams resumed play in the second half. A little

past the halfway point of the second half, sophomore center Greg Smith began to take over and had a stretch of scoring multiple baskets en route to acquiring a game-high 16 points.

Head coach Steve Cleveland was pleased with his team’s efforts, and cited that they played tough and maintained a defensive posture. “ We l l , w e ’ r e , g o i n g t o talk about the positives,” Cleveland said. “And the positives are that we defended, got in the lanes and played very competitive defensively. I’m very pleased about that. In the second half we committed to throwing the ball into the post and attacking them by getting into the paint.”

Cleveland’s squad starts regular season play against BYU on Nov. 12 in Provo, Utah, while Wiggins’ quest for an NCAA tournament bid begins against Santa Clara on the same day.

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