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Student movie to be screened in NY By Ciara Norton The Collegian Photography major Isaac HaneyOwens will travel to New York City on Thursday, Oct. 27 for the screening of the film “Talking About It” which will be shown at the Media That Matters Festival. Every year, only twelve short films are selected and this year HaneyOwens’ was one of them. Borba said that for this year’s festival over 200 short films were submitted from
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veryone is very excited. The executive director of BAYCAT, Villy Wang, is even flying to New York City for the screening as well.” — Karen Haney-Owens, film makers mother around the world. All short films are required to be less than 12 minutes in length. The festival will hold a world premiere of the short films at the IFC Center, an art house movie theater in New York City. After the premiere, the short filmmakers will be honored at an awards ceremony at HBO where many of them
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Fresno State student Isaac Haney-Owens will be traveling to New York on Oct. 27 where his film “Talking about it” will be shown at the Media That Matters Festivals.
will also win cash awards. “Talking About It” was created by Haney-Owens, 20, and focuses on the lives of people with Asperger’s syndrome, a condition he was diagnosed with. PubMed Health, a largely peerreviewed health research database, describes Asperger’s syndrome as a high-functioning form of autism. Individuals with Asperger’s syndrome repeat behaviors and have difficulty interacting socially.
Haney-Owens is a Fresno State freshman and a student in the Wayfinders program, an educational program for students with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities. Students in the Wayfinders program receive approximately 30 hours per week of study assistance and learning opportunities geared specifically toward their disability. Haney-Owens belongs to the first See NY, Page 3
Protests continue to grow By Toni Tinoco The Collegian Occupy Fresno hit the streets last week demanding change and a halt to corporate greed in over 400 cities across the United States and cities around the world. However, not everyone was thrilled by the protests. The Occupy Wall Street movement continues to grow as protesters from Merced to Visalia join in. Local protesters have now set up camp at the Fresno Courthouse Park for over a week. KMJ radio talk show host Jim Franklin said protesters do not know what they want and it’s obvious in what they are saying. Franklin said they are youth or misguided adults who really
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Kurtis Foster knows the cost of wartime service. “I was wounded a total of five times,” Foster said, “but I only got three Purple Hearts.” Count the causes like a cadence: Grenade. Land mine. Homemade bomb. First, the Oakhurst, Calif., resident took shrapnel to the neck. Then he got tossed from a truck when he and his fellow Marines drove over the land mine. Then, on Foster’s third tour of Iraq, in 2007, an improvised explosive device concussed the bejesus out of him. Foster recalls vomiting a lot. Other than that, his final combat injury is mostly a blur. “I remember little things,” Foster said, “but it’s like little clips.” Two other injuries came and went, unheralded. The Marine Corps added it all up and counted Foster as 60 percent disabled. His knees are bad. Arthritis ages him, all over. He has a hard time getting to sleep, and a hard time waking up. Headaches harangue him. His memory is inconstant, and it’s not always his friend. Foster is 26, and now he’s reporting again for duty. On Friday, the Yosemite High School graduate and medically discharged Marine sergeant for mally started work in Fresno, Calif., as a Wounded Warrior Fellow. The two-year congressional fellowship will support Foster’s work as a veterans’ casework specialist in the Fresno district office of Rep. Jeff Denham, R-Calif. Established in 2008, the fellowship program provides annual salaries of
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making enough money to live off of hope Wall Street and the one percent will hear them. “I’ve lost my retirement because of the stock market, because of Wall Street. I’m going to work until I drop. I have no health insurance because I can’t afford it,” Steele said. Scott Marsh, 31, said he is angry with the banks for not giving him a small loan to help with his two businesses. Marsh had to clean out his retirement
roughly $40,000 to veterans who are at least 30 percent disabled, allowing them to work in House of Representatives members’ district offices across the country. The fellowship also gives them a new start, doing work that hits home. “My thing is, I want to be able to help the veterans, so they don’t get so lost,” Foster said, with the slight twang of his native Oklahoma. “I hope people understand I’m there for them.” Sometimes, Foster acknowledged, he also is better at dealing with fellow veterans than with civilians who have sat on the sidelines the past 10 years. It’s a band-of-brothers sentiment that could help in his new work. “It will provide an advantage to have a wounded warrior to be able to talk to other veterans,” Denham said. Veterans’ casework —chasing down checks, securing care, muscling bureaucrats —keeps a congressional office busy. Census records show that more than 210,000 veterans live in the California stretch from Tulare County in the south to San Joaquin County in
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Occupy Fresno protesters have continued to gather at the Fresno Courthouse Park for over a week. KMJ radio host Jim Franklin criticized the lack of the group’s specific goal.
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don’t understand the problem. “If you’ve got a large group of people together and they can’t define why they are there and each one has separate things of what they’re angry at, you’ve got a mob,” Franklin said. Catherine Steele, 62, said she is there for the people of America and the 99%. “We found that this is the kind of movement that’s constructive,” Steele
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said. “We can use this energy that has built up because of the anger that we feel toward our own government and corporations, toward the people that basically robbed us. “There are so many issues; there are so many things that have gone wrong,” Steele added. “That’s why you see the diversity in signs, you see the diversity in people, age, race, ethnic background, culture, it doesn’t matter, we’ve all been affected.” People frustrated with unemployment, lack of health insurance and not
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Beware of war with Iran
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t often does not take much to start a war. The assassination of the Austrian archduke by a Serbian national brought all of Europe into the War to End All Wars (that worked out well). The United States was given an excuse to increase military action in Vietnam by the Gulf of Tonkin incident, which historians purport may never have happened. And, of course, we have the example of the Iraq War before us. This brings us to Iran, against which it seems we are teetering on the brink of catastrophe. Last week it was reported the U.S. government uncovered an Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States. This has led members of both parties to put on war paint. “These are acts of war, and they
need to be viewed as such,” said former Republican Congressman Pete Hoekstra. Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein said the United States and Iran are on a “collision course.” And President Obama, in a press conference, vowed to “apply the toughest sanctions and continue to mobilize the international community to make sure that Iran is further and further isolated and pays a price for this kind of behavior.” Without a doubt, if this incident is legitimate, it is a big deal. But, at times, the evidence does not add up. Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, flatly denied the allegations, calling them “meaningless and absurd.” Friends of Manssor “Jack” Arbabsiar, the accused plotter, say he was, according to the Washington Post, “renowned for being almost comically absent-minded, perpetually losing keys, cell phones, briefcases, anything that wasn’t tied down.” “No way was this guy the master of this plot,” said former roommate Tom Hosseini, according to Reuters. “Iran has 75 million people, and they cannot find a better guy to make a plot like this?” Even Sen. John McCain, who is on record advocating for regime change in Iran, said, “it is surprising to me how inept it was.” Nonetheless, let’s assume the allegations are correct, the government is telling the truth and Iran is, as David Ignatius said, “stressed … in ways that are leading them to engage in riskier behavior.” What do we do now? We could, as President Obama pledged, apply tougher sanctions. But
what would that do? Sanctions are notoriously ineffective. If a country really wants to do something, it will do so, sanctions and international opinion be damned. But sanctions are a backdoor to war. Which raises the question: Would the United States go to war over this? According to the New York Times, administration officials have privately said a military response is highly unlikely, so the answer is no for now. But the war drums are beating. Jamie Fly of the neoconservative organization Foreign Policy Initiative opined that diplomacy has failed, and that “it is time to take military action against the Iranian government elements that support terrorism and its nuclear program.” This steady march to war — first through innocuous sanctions, then escalating to military action — has been done many times before. And President Obama, he of the Nobel Peace Prize, has proven, by escalating the Afghanistan War and fighting in Libya and, now, Uganda without congressional authorization, that he is plenty capable of entering into such a conflict. Let it be clear: A war with Iran, no matter how odious the country is, would be unwise. Our troops are stretched thin as it is, and another Middle Eastern quagmire is hardly what the debt-ridden United States needs at present time. And the Just War doctrine principle of reciprocity necessitates a restrained response. But, for the United States, this incident may just be enough for a response of a different kind.
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Two bands at opposite ends of the field It was great to have the Fresno State alumni band there and contributing. But the idea to stick the alumni band on the opposite end of the field was a terrible one. Both bands would play the same music, but one would be a second or two behind the other one. It was quite frustrating. How hard could it have been to put the alumni band with the rest of the band?
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American troops to Uganda President Obama has once again flouted the Constitution by sending American troops to Uganda without congressional authorization. Even Sen. John McCain, who is always ready for military intervention, has said “I worry about with the best of intentions we somehow get engaged in a commitment that we can’t get out of, that’s happened before in our history and we need an explanation.” When McCain worries about intervention, you know you’ve gone too far.
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class of Wayfinders students attending Fresno State this semester. The program began when
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e always want to make sure that voices that are typically ignored are heard from.” — Kim Borba, program coordinator Media That Matters Festival
a group of young adults with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities voiced their wish to go to college. Eventually, parents and students got involved and created the Wayfinders program. Before entering the Media
That Matters Festival, HaneyO we n s s p e n t o n e s e m e s ter at the Bayview Hunters Point Center for Arts and Technology, which focuses on teaching arts and technology in San Francisco. “Isaac learned the whole production process at BAYCAT so he is very knowledgeable about technolo g y,” Karen Haney-Owens, Isaac’s mother, said. “He learned how to edit, direct music, basically everything. He had to come up with his own ideas and execute them and BAYCAT was there to help him along the way.” At BAYCAT, students are given free classes in digital media, print, web, music and radio. Haney-Owens worked with the educators at BAYCAT for one semester and sent his video to the Media That Matters Festival. “BAYCAT has never had a film in this festival,” Karen said. “Everyone is very excited. The executive director of BAYCAT, Villy Wang, is even flying to New York City for the
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Photography major Isaac Haney-Owens’ “Talking About It” film focuses on the lives of people with Asperger’s syndrome, a condition he was diagnosed with.
screening as well.” The Media That Matters Festival is an annual showcase for short films that inspire people to take action. “We usually look for films
that have some sort of social impact,” Kim Borba, programs coordinator for the Media That Matters Festival, said. “We always want to make sure that voices that are typi-
cally ignored are heard from.” “I hope to be able to make more movies and tell the world what my films are about,” Haney-Owens said.
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“If they’re really against greed, if that’s really what they’re standing against then that’s what they ought to be talking about. They need a unified voice,” Franklin said. Franklin added that the protesters are making a lot of noise but they’re not getting anything done. He explained that Wall Street is just doing what Wall Street does. They are just businesses that make money and invest that money back. Franklin said in order to solve many of these problems the people should look to leadership with the upcoming presidential election. “What has built America is that American spirit of capitalism,” Franklin said. “Once you have a group of people that begin to say ‘somebody else owes me that,’ that’s socialism.”
the north —part of the region Denham represents. Denham, an Air Force veteran, volunteered his office to participate in the congressional fellowship program. He’s the first House member from California’s San Joaquin Valley to participate. “Our responsibility to our veterans is to make sure they have a job when they come home,” Denham said. The unemployment rate among U.S. veterans who’ve served since Sept. 11, 2001, hit 11.5 percent last year, compared with a 9.4 percent rate among non-veterans, according to a report last May by the congressional Joint Economic Committee. Foster hadn’t wanted to join this roll of postwar job seekers. He wanted to stay in the Marine Corps. He liked his profession as a machinegunner. He trusted his men in Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Re giment. He looked forward to more
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him. His commanding officers offered him administrative work; he said nuts to that. “I didn’t want to be sitting there, filing papers,” Foster said. Married and the father of three children, Foster tried his hand at real estate after his April 2010 discharge from the Marines. It didn’t work out. Looking for a fresh start, Foster and his family moved back to Oakhurst, where in time he found out about the Wounded Warrior Program. It seemed to fit, like a fresh set of dress blues. “Hopefully,” Foster said, “I’ll be able to say I made a difference.”
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Mentorship program gives students new opportunities By Ashley Alba The Collegian The Craig School of Business’ new Business Mentorship Pro g ram was created to give business students an opportunity to network and meet with professionals. The new program is a separate entity from the Lyles Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship’s Entre preneur Mentorship Program. The new Business Mentorship Pro g ram was established in January of 2011 by director Debbie Young. The program is for business or pre-business majors and is a one-unit course. The program consists of student members and mentors. The mentors are either a business professional or an alumnus. The mentors meet with the students four times throughout the semester. The meetings are two hours long and at the end of the semester each student must have completed eight hours of meeting time. The program also creates connections for the students in the Fresno business community. Students can find job openings or search other industries that are hiring. The new program grew out of the success from the internship program. Students had asked Young for a mentorship program. Young focused on how the university can help the students in preparations for their career planning. The
mentors are to assist students with their career and creating connections for employment. “My dream is that the mentorship program is going to feed into the internship program. So students will do a mentorship their freshman or sophomore year and their junior or senior year they will begin their internship,” Young said. Young is also the director of internships for the business school. “I believe that the mentorship program is what I call a Craig connection because we are the Craig School of Business. It connects you with the local business community,” Young said. Sheryl Yardumian is a mentor for the new pro g ram. Yardumian attended Penn State University and graduated with a B.S. in accounting in May of 1988. Yardumian is an audit partner in a local CPA fir m. Yardumian first heard about the new program when she was on the board for the Fresno State Alumni and Friends for the Craig School of Business. After Yardumian served the board, she joined the new program. “The program is about helping our young students learn more about the workplace and their selected career so they can make an educated decision about what they want to do and where to do it when they graduate,” Yardumian said. Ariana Zamudio is a senior at Fresno State and is major-
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Debbie Young (right) from the Craig School of Business meets with several business students to discuss their internship experiences. Entrepreneurship student Anmmar Alsaggaf (left) discussed his experience with London Properties, where he is an intern for the fall semester.
ing in business administration. Zamudio, 25, enrolled in the new program to gain experience and knowledge of what a CPA does and also to assist her decision in which field of accounting Zamudio wants to pursue. Zamudio received an email from Young about the new program and decided to enroll.
“I wanted to have support and mainly guidance for my long-term career goal in the accounting field. What better advice than coming from a professional CPA Sheryl Yardumian?” Zamudio said. Zamudio has accomplished her goal to gain the experience and the opportunity to be a part of an audit team at her
mentors CPA firm. The new Business Mentorship Program gives students the opportunity to have a mentor to work with on a one-on-one basis and to get advice on the students’ career paths and strategies on finding employment, which many students who graduate are having a difficult time doing.
Smith, 29, is very aware of the skepticism those have towards opening a business downtown saying, “Everybody said downtown’s not going to work. You can only be open 11 to 2 then the crowd dies down.” However, those who have made business marketing their profession know otherwise. “If you’re just like all the other blades of g rass and you’re not a blooming flower people will not pay attention to it,” Fresno State professor William E. Rice said. These words of wisdom may as well be gold to the entrepreneur that tries to open a business in California’s struggling economy. As Rice implies, individuality is key to a successful business anywhere. So what makes Kocky’s the freshest flower in town? It’s not just the name it’s the owners. All together there are three. Two are graduates from Fresno State’s Craig School of Business and the third is a graduate from Morehouse College, a historical college in Atlanta best known for its famous alumnus Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The three owners plan to combine their talents and experience to make Kocky’s a successful business. After graduating from the Craig School of Business in 2006, Smith took some time to take on a few promoting positions specializing in dance clubs around California. It wasn’t until five years later that he would use his skills to take on the challenge of coopening a restaurant.
Smith feels that his experience as a former club promoter is a plus. “My expertise is getting people to know about certain things,” Smith said. With his experience in promoting he also understands that there are certain standards that must be met to cater to the clientele his business will face, such as quick service. “A lot of people have time constraints…they need to get back to their job or whatever they have to do downtown. It’s a hustle bustle down here,” Smith said. Smith knows that there is an average of 30,000 to 40,000 people downtown during business hours. He believes that his expertise in promoting and
the teachings from professor Rice’s marketing classes will help pull them in. It doesn’t just take marketing skills and good happy hour prices to keep a business running, though. It also takes a happy customer. “The food was fantastic…the service wasn’t bad. The servers were nice, but they weren’t on top of it. Those elements would be the ones that would keep it from succeeding downtown,” Veronica Gonzalez, a customer at Kocky’s said. Keeping the customer happy is just one of obstacles restaurant owners must face among the many others that change every day. “It’s not as easy as I thought it was going to be, but I’m up for the challenge,” Smith said.
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By Erica Hernandez The Collegian How do owners set their restaurant apar t from all the rest? A good first place to start would be the name. Two for mer Fresno State business graduates have decided that naming their restaurant Kocky’s Bar & Grill will do just the trick. Kocky’s Bar & Grill, which opened in August, is one of the newest restaurants to open downtown. At Kocky’s you can order meals from the burger-andfry style menu, or try the hot wings seasoned with buffalo
sauce made from the owners’ personal recipe. Kocky’s offers happy hour prices on drinks and appetizers and provides a comfortable atmosphere that owners hope will make the restaurant difficult for customers to pass up. “We want to say they have a house here to come eat and drink when they get off work,” part owner Michael Smith said. Those that are not familiar with business marketing might be convinced that location, location, location is key and opening a restaurant in an unlikely place like downtown seems like a risk.
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A ‘little Bill romance’ at Hollywood Bowl By August Brown McClatchy-Tribune LOS ANGELES — Saturday was likely the first time in pop music history that a performer made a pass at a former president and his secretary of State spouse at a live concert. “I just love you and your hot wife,” Lady Gaga said, writhing like a breathy, smitten Marilyn Monroe on the Hollywood Bowl stage mere feet from Bill Clinton, his Secretary of State wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and their daughter, Chelsea. Gaga described her life as a screwy embodiment of the American dream in eyebrow-raising language, and she praised the Clintons by promising that “tonight, I thought we’d all get caught up in a little Bill romance.” And with that she bucked into a Clinton-specific take on “Bad Romance” that left the full house at the Bowl wonder-
ing whether this concert celebrating 10 years of the Clinton Foundation’s work to fight disease, poverty and violence had just been scandalized. The concert, “A Decade of Difference,” doubled as Bill Clinton’s 65th birthday party and brought out a group of activism-inclined singers to fete the initiative and a former president currently on an unexpected tide of nostalgia, based largely on the foundation’s work abroad on a variety of issues. S t e v i e Wo n d e r, K e n n y Chesney, the Somali singer K’Naan, Colombian rocker Juanes, Usher and U2’s Bono and the Edge joined Gaga for a four-hour show that felt a bit like a pop music Davos — a reminder that the big players of geopolitics still look to musicians for a certain vitality and influence. The ever-luminous Wonder See CLINTON, Page 6
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Former President Bill Clinton takes the stage during a benefit concert celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Clinton Global Initiative, October 15, 2011, at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, California.
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CLINTON: Benefit concert features big-name performers CONTINUED from page 5 started the night with such soul-funk staples as “Superstition” and “Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I’m Yours),” t h e l a t t e r o f wh i c h w a s embraced as President Barack Obama’s ad hoc theme song in the 2008 campaign. Laura Ling, one of two Current TV reporters that Clinton rescued from a North Korean jail in 2009, gave an introductory speech before Chesney’s easygoing acoustic set. Chesney, one the most lowkey guys in country, felt like the exotic one on a stage full of Somalis, Colombians, Irish and globe-hopping politicians (though Clinton did thank him later for not making him the only guy onstage with a Southern accent). K’Naan, a likable singersongwriter who pulls from reggae, East African jazz and rock balladry, had a rough time onstage, with sound problems that led to a couple of false starts and a clear discomfort in performing (even when Bono came out to duet on a new tune). But his story of turning from child soldier in a war-ravaged country to international pop star still carried the night _ his redemptive single “Wavin’ Flag” won over a Bowl crowd already inclined to uplift. Juanes had an easier go of it, with the bluesy, dub-infused rock of “La Camisa Negra” lending a bit of muscle to a night full of earnest global pop. Colombia is a success story of post-Clinton-era economic revival, and Juanes _ a major star in the Americas _ is an excellent ambassador for it. There are few pleasures in concert-going like watching a
sitting secretary of State get low to Usher’s tag-team crunk s m a s h “ Ye a h . ” T h e R & B star’s quick set fulfilled one reviewer’s private hope that Hillary Clinton listened to Lil Jon before planning sanctions on Iran. (And a goofy short film about the Clinton Fo u n d a t i o n ’ s “ C e l e b r i t y Division” with Ben Stiller, Ted Danson and others planning failed ventures got widespread chuckles). Bono and the Edge closed out the night with a congenial acoustic set of hits they described as _ “you (shelling) out a million quid for a couple Irish buskers.” As a member of a group known for multimillion-dollar stage rigs, the Edge got laughs for cuing up a few wrong drum loops on his onstage laptop, but a new song about “the mysterious space between a man and a woman” had an enticing promise for a full-band treatment. U2 is perhaps the most activismoriented band going today, and it acknowledged the particular Irish affection for the Clintons’ help in resolving the north-south Troubles, leading to a more peaceable Ireland. But the night was Gaga’s, even if her kittenish and bawdy set might have made for an interesting ride home from the Bowl in the Clinton caravan. Playing atop what looked like a Nordic tree fort, she dedicated “You & I” to Hillary with some eyebrowcocking overtones. Even Bill had to admit in a later speech, “I thought I was going to have a heart attack from Gaga on my birthday.” Where does that lie in the color-coded chart of homeland security threats?
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Kenny Chesney (top) and Stevie Wonder were on hand to help former President Bill Clinton celebrate his 65th birthday during a charity benefit concert.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2011
THE COLLEGIAN • SPORTS SPORTS EDITOR, JERRY HUERTA • COLLEGIAN-SPORTS@CSUFRESNO.EDU
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Watney provides stability in 34 seasons at Fresno State
Fresno State will try to come up with the victory against No. 25 San Jose State. The ‘Dogs have struggled against the Spartans this season By Angel Moreno The Collegian In his 34th season as the Fresno State men’s golf coach, Mike Watney’s goal remains the same as it has been every season since his first in 1979: finish atop the conference and earn a trip to the NCAA Tournament. Golf is different than most sports because there aren’t many opportunities for the ‘Dogs to play other Western Athletic Conference teams, so Fresno State must wait until the end-of-the-year tournament if it’s to qualify to play. For Watney, a new season brings about some new expectations and he gave some thoughts on his. “I think we’re going to win the conference every year,” Watney said. “It’s not like other sports where you play every team twice every year. In golf there’s just one tournament at the end of the season
so you better be playing really well.” And for the ‘Dogs, the time until May is on their side, as Watney said his ‘Dogs are not off to the fastest start. The ‘Dogs have welcomed six new faces to this year’s squad. Among those is junior Rufie Fessler, who transferred from Bakersfield College where he earned all-conference honors in back-to-back years with the Rene g ades. Freshmen Macg re gor Hoobery, Troy Sweeney, Anibal Kim and junior college transfers Jack Mulroy and Johnny Partridge round out the rest of the newcomers. Although there are many new faces, there are still some veterans back for this season. One is senior Brian Sunker, who is enjoying the mix of veterans and rookies on the team. “At the beginning of the year we didn’t know many people,” Sunker said. “But we all get along really well now.
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Fresno State has a lot of new faces, but head coach Mike Watney still has some veterans that know the Bulldog way.
The team chemistry is really good and that transforms into the golf game. Although golf isn’t a team sport, it helps to have that support and the teammates that care about your golf game too.” Sunker has already made his presence felt this season. He dominated the field in the Outlaw Cup, winning by 15 strokes. He shot 68’s on the first two days and carded a 67
on the final day. Watney has reason to be confident with his returning players, but he knows that the new players are going to need
“W
e want to win the WAC and go to the NCAA Tournament.”
— Mike Watney, head golf coach
to step up their play as the season picks up. “I feel that once a player gets into eight-to-10 tournaments he gets pretty comfortable,” Watney said. “I feel like we’re going through that a little bit and I think we’re going to be better this year than last year.” But that won’t come easy for
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the ‘Dogs as their WAC opponents are off to good starts. Among those is nationally ranked No. 25 San Jose State, who has won its past three consecutive tournaments. One of the tournaments was the Wolf Pack Classic where the ‘Dogs finished in 11th place. Now, Fresno State heads into tomorrow ’ s A l i s t e r M a c Ke n z i e Invitational in Fairfax, Calif. with the opportunity to beat the Spartans. Competition will be fierce for the ‘Dogs and Watney is confident his team will be right there with San Jose State when the squads clash again on the course. “ We w a n t t o w i n t h e WAC and go to the NCAA Tournament, but with a very slow start we definitely have work to do” Watney said.
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Volleyball will travel to Bakersfield to face the Roadrunners in the last game of its current three-game road trip SPORTS EDITOR, JERRY HUERTA • COLLEGIAN-SPORTS@CSUFRESNO.EDU
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Fresno State overcomes 4th quarter deficit for the win
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The ‘Dogs picked up their second win of the season in Western Athletic Conference play and it might have been the biggest win of the year as Fresno State had dropped consecutive games.
By Tim Salazar The Collegian Fresno State celebrated its homecoming celebration with a 31-21 victory over Utah State in a battle between Western Athletic Conference members. The game was close throughout before the ‘Dogs scored 17 unanswered second-half points to steal the conference victory. The Bulldogs used a balanced attack, resulting in 454 total offensive yards to take control of the game after trailing 21-14 at halftime. Once again, the Bulldog defense was hurt by big plays of 20 yards or more as the Aggies’ quick-strike offense got started fast on its opening drive. F re s h m a n q u a r t e r b a ck C h u ck i e Keeton hit running back Michael Smith on a screen pass and the senior did the rest, taking the ball 47 yards for a touchdown to give Utah State the 7-0 lead. The Fresno State offense shot itself in the foot early on with a pivotal error in the quarterback-center exchange that gave the Aggies the ball after going 68 yards on 12 plays during their first possession. Utah State capitalized on the Bulldog miscue, turning the fumble into another score when junior running back Robert Turbin bullied the Fresno State defense and scampered 59 yards for a touchdown, extending the Aggies’ lead to 14 in the first quarter. The Bulldogs showed a composed state that seemed to have escaped them in recent weeks, utilizing a balanced offensive attack, which allowed them to get right back in the game. Sophomore quarterback Derek Carr led the offense all night and answered the call with a five-play, 84-yard drive capped off with a 23-yard scoring strike to sophomore wide receiver Isaiah Burse. In the second quarter, Carr provided the ‘Dogs with a leap of faith as he jumped over his offensive line for his third rushing touchdown of the season to tie the score at 14 all. Carr finished the game going 23-of-39 for 248 yards and two touchdowns. But Smith would shred the Fresno State defense again with a 46-yard
touchdown run as he outran the secondary for his second scoring scamper of the evening. In the second half, the Bulldog defense stepped it’s game up and shut out Utah State for the rest of the game. The Aggies were able to get into scoring position two more times, but Utah State’s kicking game proved to be ineffective. Senior kicker Kevin Goessling added a 47-yard field goal to get the Bulldogs within four points late in the third quarter. The field goal attempt was his first since missing three against Mississippi a couple weeks ago. In the fourth quarter, the Fresno State defense truly bended but didn’t break as it got a big stop on third down to force a Utah State field goal attempt. The ‘Dogs would come up with another field goal block to halt the Aggies’ momentum and keep the score a 21-17 defecit. Later in the fourth quarter, with the ‘Dogs down by four points, Carr put the team on his back and drove them down the field. He put Fresno State in scoring position and sophomore wide receiver Jalen Saunders did the rest. Saunders caught a screen pass from Carr and ran nearly 60 yards en route to a 23-yard touchdown to give Fresno State its first lead of the game, 24-21. On the following drive, the Fresno State defense continued its improved second-half play with a key tur nover on Keeton to set up the Bulldogs’ offense in scoring position. With a short field, Carr gave a delayed handoff to junior running back Robbie Rouse on third down and seven, which gave Fresno State the 31-21 lead late in the fourth quarter. This would prove to be enough as the ‘Dogs took the 10-point win. Rouse finished the game with 24 carries for 143 yards rushing and one touchdown. The pivotal WAC victory celebration should be short lived as Fresno State hits the road this Saturday to take on Nevada in a showdown between the last remaining undefeated conference schools.
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