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Welty backs bill veto Schwarzenegger’s Sept. 30 decision to veto Senate Bill 330, known as the transparency bill, would have made financial infor mation from community colleges and universities in California available to the public, a decision President John Welty expressed support for. Under SB 330, California State Universities would have to fully disclose public records under the California Public Records Act. Schwarzenegger vetoed a similar bill last year that also would have obligated universities to disclose financial records regarding donations to the public. “I think it was a very good decision,” said Welty.
“The potential of that bill to drive donors away from the universities was very high.” However, many legislators and students supported the bill due to recent scandals sur rounding many colleges and universities, including Fresno State. In 2001, the Califor nia Faculty Association reported that “an employee of the Fresno State Foundation received a no-bid managing Contract for a theater complex in which he held an interest.” In 1995, The Sonoma State University foundation “gave a $1.25 million loan to a board member, who had resigned two days earlier,” as reported by CFA. The board member failed to pay back the loan. The CFA, which supports SB 330, has found that several universities have mixed
t h e i r p u bl i c and private funds. The CFA stated that, “other campuses - including Sonoma and Fresno State universities, as well as City College of San Francisco - also have run into problems with their foundations, sometimes allegedly hiding and illegally using public funds.” An audit done by the Auxiliary Organization in 2008 affirmed many of these allegations. “[Fresno State] generates 20 to 25 million dollars a year from private support,” Welty said. “Not all of that is anonymous, but even if an individual is not anonymous, it has the potential to drive people away from giving.” According to SB 330, a donor’s name can be kept
anonymous, as long as the donor does not receive a thank-you gift g re at e r t h a n $500. Pe t e r S m i t s, vice president for university advancement, said that Fresno State does not give any thank-you gifts to donors greater than $500. “They might get an invitation to a dinner and recognition,” Smits said. “They don’t get gifts.” Since official information regarding these donors is
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Nonprofits push more online ed By Leonard Valerio The Collegian The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation has partnered with four nonprofit educational organizations to develop postsecondary online courses for the nation’s higher education system. The nonprofit organizations will initially be concentrating on integrating more online coursework in the community colleges. With recent budget cuts, Fresno State has begun to offer more online classes. Not all students are embracing the shift. Chris McIntyre, history major at Fresno State, said he doesn’t think the university should offer more online classes. “I think interaction in the classroom is an important aspect of learning,” he said. In an interview with The
New York Times, Bill Gates said innovation in education in response to budget constrained colleges and online courses may be the only hope higher education has during harsh economic downturns. McIntyre said he has taken a few online classes and believes his learning and study habits suffered as a result. “The deadline to submit work was the last day of class, so it hurt study habits,” McIntyre said. “I would wait to do assignments and rush to complete them instead of taking time to do it.” Junior Kourtney Sweeney said online classes were beneficial because it gave her the flexibility she needed in a busy schedule. Sweeney also said that online classes have more busy
work and students can learn a lot if they put the time and effort into them. “I had to spend more time teaching myself the material which made me have to study more,” Sweeney said. “With all that studying I learned a lot more than I expected.” While Sweeney liked the online courses, she still prefers to take regular classes. “I’m more of an auditory learner then visual and I still need to be in a class,” Sweeney said. While sophisticated technolo g y has made its way into courses for years, previous developments strove to enhance learning in the physical classroom. McIntyre said that kind of technology can make him a better learner and he enjoys taking courses in the smart classrooms. “With things
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like smart-boards, it makes me more engaged because I’m curious to try it out and see how it works,” McIntyre said. “I am more willing to volunteer going in front of the class and answer questions.” The center for Scholarly Advancement at Fresno State believes that online classes can improve student skills. On their website they said online writing tools provide feedback with instruction on how to correct and improve and encourages students to revise their papers before submitting them to teachers for a grade. The center for Scholarly Advancement at Fresno State is already ahead of the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation and has formed the Technology Partners in Excellence program. The program is designed to bring teachers from different disciplines together and create partnerships between them. The partnerships will work as a team to share professional growth and development opportunities in the area of using technology to enhance student learning. According to their website, TPIE builds a shared knowledge base, shares successful teaching practices but most importantly aids in transferring training into the classroom. And for some students, as in Mcintyre’s case, interactions with the teacher aided by technology may be significantly beneficial to student learning.
Military told to accept gay applicants By Anne Flaherty & Julie Watson Associated Press The military is accepting openly gay recruits for the first time in the nation’s history, even as it tries in the courts to slow the movement to abolish its “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. At least two service members discharged for being gay began the process to re-enlist after the Pentagon’s Tuesday announcement. A federal judge in California who overturned the 17-year policy last week rejected the gover nment’s latest effort on Tuesday to halt her order telling the military to stop enforcing the law. Before her ruling, government lawyers told Phillips they would appeal if she rejected their request. Wi t h t h e r e c r u i t i n g announcement, the barriers built by an institution long resistant and sometimes hostile to gays had come down. The movement to overturn the 1993 Clinton-era law gained speed when President Barack Obama campaigned on its repeal. The effort stalled in Congress this fall, and found new life last month when U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips declared it unconstitutional. “Gay people have been fighting for equality in the military since the 1960s,” said Aaron Belkin, executive director of the Palm Center, a think tank on gays and the military at the University of California Santa Barbara. “It took a lot to get to this day.” The Defense Department has said it would comply with Phillips’ order and had frozen any discharge cases. Pentagon spokeswoman Cynthia Smith said recruiters had been given top-level guidance to accept applicants who say they are gay. AP interviews found some recruiters following the order and others saying they had not heard of the announcement. Recruiters also have been told to infor m potential recruits that the moratorium on enforcement of the policy could be reversed at any time, if the ruling is appealed or the court grants a stay, she said. Gay rights g roups were continuing to tell service members to avoid revealing that they are gay, fearing they could find themselves in trouble should the law be reinstated. “What people aren’t really See OUT, Page 3
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Horror movies diminish humanity CAMPUSSPEAK
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alloween is right around the corner. And this year, like so many years before, horror movies come out during the scariest season of the year to work Americans up into a good scare. With a slew of new thriller movies released in October, moviegoers can expect plenty of blood, demons and gore. I have just one question: In all the films where the main draw is blood, guts and killing, when exactly did American moviegoers lose their sense of sympathy for their fellow humans? Horror movies like the “Saw” filmseries and the recently released “Chain
Letter” flick, which features high school students dying in morbid and gruesome ways, suggest viewers that enjoy watching this sort of thing have, in some sense, lost their humanity. In a May 5, 2010 article that ran in The New York Times Magazine, Yale University psychology professor Paul Bloom wrote about the rather controversial concept of baby morality. In a study he conducted with a team of scientists at the university, he found that babies had an innate sense of right and wrong. Infants as young as six months old were able to tell the difference between a wrongdoer and a victim in a puppet show designed to distinguish which puppet behaved badly and which puppet was the victim. The babies overwhelmingly showed sympathy for the victimized puppet. In addition to this study, Bloom said, “If you want to cause a rat distress, you can expose it to the screams of other rats. Human babies, notably, cry more to the cries of other babies than to tape recordings of their own crying, suggesting they are responding to their awareness of someone else’s pain.” Considering that babies and rats are distressed by the sounds of another’s pain, the fact that many human adults enjoy the sights and sounds of someone being tortured in the movies they watch speaks to just how much humanity most humans lose by the time they’re old enough to watch horror films.
Primatologist Frans de Waal, as Bloom pointed out, observed that chimpanzees, when they see a fellow chimpanzee attacked, would attempt to comfort the victim by “putting an arm around her and [would] gently pat her back or groom her.” In light of these studies, the notion that movies desensitize people becomes obsolete. People let themselves become desensitized by actively tolerating media that feature blood and guts as the main attraction. In turn, the producers of such media show no respect for the human condition by portraying such pain. The amount of devastation millions of people willingly consume every time a big new horror film is released in theaters is often equal to some of history’s most grisly events. But if monkeys, babies and rats show more distress in response to another’s pain than most adult humans, we are a doomed species indeed.
Which proposition on this year’s ballot is most important? Stephanie Garcia Business Freshman “The proposition legalizing marijuana. It might be good because instead of doing it illegally people could get profits for it, but then it might be bad because it would make it more easily accessible to people. I’m not sure how I feel about it.”
Arturo Villagomez Industrial Technology Freshman “I don’t follow politics.”
Jose Nava Political Science Freshman “Prop 25, the budget one. I think that one’s most important. It’s taken forever for the budget to pass.”
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Farm subsidy abolition a nonpartisan issue
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ast week, a few friends and I got together to watch “Food Inc.,” the 2008 documentary which, according to its website, exposes “the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government’s regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA.” (In a humorous aside, the guy who brought everyone together to watch the film called our group ”GOLFEN,” an acronym meaning: green, organic, local, fresh, eco-friendly night.) I went into the movie expecting a fairly liberal piece railing against so-called
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“capitalist pigs” and their support of big business and how evil George Bush is. And there certainly was an element of that in the film—this was inevitable, considering the subject matter is one that is championed by many liberals. But it also included a lot of smart commentary on how agri-business works. The most interesting parts of the film were its sections on farm subsidies and “factory farming.” Farm subsidies, started by FDR in the 1930s as a temporary measure to help the farm industry during the Great Depression, reduce the cost of food by legislative fiat, making that food cheaper for the consumer while putting money in farmers’ pockets. The problem is that when a product is subsidized, there is too much of it. Take for example, corn, perhaps the most heavily subsidized food on the market. Corn and corn-based substances are in just about every food that we eat, which is why many of our most unhealthy foods are cheaper than healthier products. So-called “factory farming” involves the mistreatment of animals in order to make mass quantities of food. As one “Food Inc.” interviewee rhetorically asked, “If you can grow a chicken in 49 days, why would you want one you gotta grow in three months?” But when animals are crowded into the same area, forced to eat food that they aren’t naturally disposed to eat in order to be made artificially larger, it isn’t as good for us when we eat them.
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We get sick. We get obese. We become less healthy. These are legitimate problems that don’t require you to be a bleeding-heart liberal to understand. In fact, the movie and its ideas have had an audience with right-wingers in America. Julie Gunlock, reviewing the movie in “National Review,” mainstream conservatism’s favorite magazine, wrote, “To my surprise, I actually liked most of it.” John Schwenkler, writing in “The American Conservative, said that advocating buying local food is “a conservative cause if ever there was one.” Writer Rod Dreher has even written a book titled “Crunchy Cons,” the cause célèbre of which was buying locally-grown organic food. What all of this means is that the issues raised by “Food Inc.” are not the sole property of radical leftists; conservatives can advocate them too. The Right and the Left can come together and advocate for the ending farm subsidies, which, according to a report by the Heritage Foundation, have caused the real price of fruits and vegetables to rise by 40 percent while the price of soft drinks have decreased by 23 percent; they can show support for those who want to buy locally and organically while ending our cultural dependency on fast food; they can advocate the proper treatment of the animals so that when we eat we don’t get sick. Let’s all get out our clubs—it’s time to go “golfen.”
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not available to the public, The Collegian could not affir m this information. “I think [the veto] was a good decision,” said Smits. “The bill was flawed and not in the best interest of the CSU or
were sur prised Gover nor Schwarzenegger rejected the bill again. Fresno State graduate student Hector Cerda was unhappy about the bill not being passed. “Senate Bill 330 should have been passed because it does
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our friends and supporters.” Smits also said the CFA allegations were false. “It’s outrageously false; they have to get their facts before they talk about that.” Because SB 330 was passed by a bipartisan vote, many le gislators and students
allow the state and people to know the truth and see where money is going,” Cerda said. “If I donated $1,000 and I receive box seats from the Save Mart Center that are worth $500, then my name would have to be revealed,” said Cerda.
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Because the bill was not passed, Cerda asked, what would stop him from using the $1000 donation as a tax deduction in IRS tax forms and still receive the box seats? “It was wrong for Governor S c h w a r z e n e g g e r t o ve t o it,” said Cerda. “And it is wrong for anyone to say that it was great what Governor Schwarzenegger did.” “This is a public university and if people do give, they should say, ‘I don’t want something in return,’ and say, ‘I want the young people of this state to become educated, [and] that is more important,’” said Cerda. “There is a wide variety [of donors],” Welty said. “For many, they prefer to give to universities, but they don’t want lots of other people contacting them to make gifts, so it is pretty much an individualized decision.” “Over 80 percent of our support comes from academic programs and scholarships, about 20 percent to athletics,” Welty said about where donated money goes. “Those that advocate for the bill use erroneous information which really arises questions about the credibility of those who are supporting the bill,” Welty said. “I think if there was a more accurate attempt made to understand what is available, what is not available, then there wouldn’t be a problem. In fact, I would be very supportive of a bill that has restrictions as long as it didn’t have restrictions on private donors and other infor mation that could be harmful.”
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getting is that the discretion and caution that gay troops are showing now is exactly the same standard of conduct that they will adhere to when the ban is lifted permanently,” Belkin said. “Yes, a few will try to become celebrities.” An Air Force officer and co-founder of a gay service member support group called OutServe said financial considerations are playing a big role in gay service members staying quiet.
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’m really hoping they can accept me.” — Will Rodriguez, Former Marine
“The military has financially trapped us,” he said, noting that he could owe the military about $200,000 if he were to be dismissed. The officer, who asked not to be identified for fear of being discharged, said he’s hearing increasingly about heterosexual service members approaching gay colleagues and telling them they can come out now. He also said more gay service members are coming out to their peers who are friends, while keeping it secret from leadership. He said he has come out to two peers in the last few days. An opponent of the judge’s ruling said confusion that has come up is exactly what
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Penta gon of ficials feared and shows the need for her to immediately freeze her order while the government appeals. “It’s only logical that a stay should be granted to avoid the confusion that is already occurring with reports that the Pentagon is telling recruiters to begin accepting homosexual applicants,” said Tony Perkins, the president of the Family Research Council, a conservative advocacy group based in Washington that supports the policy. The uncertain status of the law has caused much confusion within an institution that has historically discriminated against gays. Before the 1993 law, the military banned gays entirely and declared them incompatible with military service. There have been instances in which gays have served, with the knowledge of their colleagues. Twenty-nine nations, including Israel, Canada, Germany and Sweden, allow openly gay troops, according to the Log Cabin Republicans, a gay rights group and plaintif f in the lawsuit before Phillips. The Pentagon guidance to recruiters comes after Dan Woods, the group’s attorney, sent a letter last week warning the Justice Department that Army recruiters who turned away Omar Lopez in Austin, Te x a s m ay h av e c a u s e d the gover nment to violate Phillips’ injunction. Woods wrote that the gover nment could be subject to a citation for contempt. The White House has insisted its actions in court do not diminish Obama’s efforts to repeal the ban. I n S a n D i e g o, Wi l l Rodriguez, a former Marine who was discharged under the policy in 2008, gave his contact information to recruiters. He said they told him there were currently no slots for Marines who had served and want to re-enlist. He said they told him they would call him in January when more slots could open. “I’m really hoping they can accept me,” he said.
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2010
Students push themselves to the E.D.G.E By Dusty Gaebel The Collegian While most students were preparing for the Centennial Homecoming football game last Saturday, one class had students jumping off wooden logs and swinging on ropes more than thirty feet above the ground. T h e A dv e n t u r e Ro p e s Experience class, also called REC 75, provides students with an opportunity to work on their leadership and teamwork skills, while pushing their personal thresholds to the limits. The Experientially Designed Group Effort (E.D.G.E) is the name of the ropes course located on the west side of the Fresno State campus near the Resident’s Dining Hall. T h e d ay b e g a n w i t h a short debriefing delivered by the course’s lead instructor, Professor L. Jay Fine. Fine gave a short overview on safety, teamwork and personal goal setting. “The more I do it, the more I realize it’s a team working thing,” Fine said. Fine said the course consists of about 80 percent team building and 20 percent personal challenges. Although students had team members for most activities, they were eventually challenged with tasks high up in the air that they could only accomplish alone.
Criminology major Charlie Naurath said he was surprised how much of the class was ultimately about team building. Though originally seeking thrills through individual trials, Naurath came to appreciate all the activities that he could not have otherwise accomplished without his team members. “When I first signed up for this class I was more interested in participating in the ropes course than the actual team bonding part of the class, but in essence that was what the class was about: team building,” Naurath said. The entire class was held outside and the mor ning mostly consisted of problem solving, competition and trust building through team activities. “It lets your mind work in a different environment,” said Kristal Mora, a physical therapy major. Mora enjoyed having an entire day that didn’t feel like work, school or study time. Ropes, beams, swings and altitude were introduced to the class after lunch. The teamwork aspect continued in the ropes course, but this is where individual objectives began as well. “A lot of this class was about trust, problem solving, social mingling and stepping over your comfort zone with the support from the people around you,” Mora said. When individual challenges
began, the team that students had come to rely on and trust were now standing thirty feet below them on the ground. The only support given at this time was encouraging words. This is where many comfort zones can reach their limits. One individual exercise consisted of climbing up a 30-foot pole and jumping off the top of it to grab a rubber chicken off a wire. The idea of “challenge by choice” has been implemented in all scenarios. This means that all participants have the opportunity to challenge themselves, but only if they chose to do so. Everyone participating in these off-the-ground physical and mental challenges was wearing a harness and a helmet. Safety is a major priority in this class, and it showed when team members and instructors double-clicked and double-checked everything before anyone started climbing or jumping. REC 75 is offered about 100 times per year, but it’s only offered as a class to students twice per year. The first class was Oct. 2 and the last class was Oct. 16. This course is open to businesses and other large groups, and students are welcome to sign up during these times as well. Janessa Tyler / The Collegian
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Fresno State art grad kicks off career Artist draws inspiration from experiences with ex By Angel Moreno The Collegian Beneath a hand crafted eight-inch beaked mask is local artist Kyle Hailey. Hailey paints and sketches beneath this mask because he feels it expresses his persona when creating art. Hailey held his second art show at Chance James Studios as a part of Fresno’s monthly Art Hop event earlier this month. Displayed were seven paintings at
Hailey’s sister, who was at her brother’s first Art Hop show, provides Hailey with much-needed support. “My sister is my biggest supporter because she can understand where I’m coming from,” said Hailey, “She has even been the reason I’ve gotten some [art related] jobs. Hailey said there are some that think his work is controversial because the underlying theme of his artwork has to do with his past experiences with an exgirlfriend, who worked as a stripper. “It made me physically ill when I
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Fresno state grad Kyle Hailey displayed his work at Art Hop earlier this month, making it his second art show where he displayed his work.
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Art Hop, three of which included chocolate, black or white swirls surrounding females. Two of the paintings were of partially nude females, and the last one was of a little girl with pigtails sitting on a curb. As a teen, Hailey sketched at all hours of the day and was consumed by his art. Hailey, 24, now spends 60 to 80 hours a week doing some type of art, mainly sketching. Hailey, a recent graduate of Fresno
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saw her perform,” Hailey said. “I just couldn’t handle it and what it was doing to me.” The situation was hard to swallow for Hailey, but he was able to express himself through his artwork. What began as a free painting assignment in an advanced painting class at Fresno State, ended with Hailey incorporating his personal struggles into his art, and he received some warm reception about the work. “I hadn’t yet tapped into my feelings
o some it will seem different or controversial, but it’s how he feels and expresses himself.” — Fallon Hailey Kyle Hailey’s sister
State with a bachelor’s degree in liberal studies and a minor in art, is hoping to continue his education in the master’s program at UCLA. A run-in with Chance James, owner of Chance James studio in downtown Fresno resulted in Hailey’s first Art Hop show on Oct. 7. Upon learning that Hailey was pursuing a career in art, James offered him space at his studio during Art Hop. “Chance offered me his studio because he had some open space for the show,” Hailey said. “It was a bit short notice, but the coverage from Art Hop and the appeal to the crowds that aren’t really in the art industry is really cool.” Although Hailey spent most of his years growing up painting and sketching, the show provided some professional experience. “Kyle paints all the time,” said Fallon Hailey, Hailey’s sister. “To some, it will seem different or controversial, but it’s how he feels and expresses himself.”
about the situation,” Hailey said. “It had taken me two years to get over the whole ordeal.” Hailey has since produced multiple paintings, including two paintings titled “Ali’s Desire” and “John’s Hands.” “Working with a subject that matters helps me better illustrate my point as an artist,” Hailey said.
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Brief news for the brief attention span SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco’s Exploratorium science museum is holding a groundbreaking ceremony at what will be its new home along the city’s waterfront. The ceremony is scheduled for 10 a.m. Tuesday at Pier 15. The first stage of the $300 million project is expected to be completed within three years. The museum also plans to occupy Pier 17 as part of its expansion plan. Museum officials say the new site will provide much more space for exhibits, classrooms and teacher-training facilities than the current location at the Palace of Fine Arts in the Marina neighborhood. They tell the San Francisco Chronicle oceanographic vessels will also be able
to dock at Pier 15, providing visitors with the latest data from their research. The museum has raised $209 million from private donors and is seeking $91 million more. NEW YORK (AP) — Television veteran Ed Asner is coming back to series TV with the first scripted sitcom for CMT. On the new show, “Working Class,” Asner will co-star as the crusty but lovable neighbor to the blue-collar single mom played by series star Melissa Peterman. The network announced Monday that the 12-episode multi-camera comedy will premiere in January on CMT. Asner, who turns 81 next month, is
beloved for his signature role as cranky journalist Lou Grant. His return to TV follows recent successes for two fellow cast-mates from the legendary “Mary Tyler Moore Show”: Betty White on TV Land’s “Hot in Cleveland” and Cloris Leachman on Fox’s “Raising Hope.” Peterman previously appeared on the sitcom “Reba” and hosts CMT’s “The Singing Bee.” COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling has won the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Prize. She is the first recipient of the 500,000 kroner ($93,352) award, which was handed out Tuesday at a ceremony in Odense, Andersen’s hometown.
The prize is given to a person who can be compared with Andersen, the Danish writer who was born in 1805 and wrote some 160 fairy tales and poems before his death in 1875. Rowling said the author of such classics as “The Little Mermaid” and the “The Ugly Duckling” had “created indestructible, eternal characters.” Rowling’s seven books about the boy wizard have sold more than 400 million copies worldwide and have been translated into many languages.
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Although the all-time series between Fresno State and San Jose State has been close, during Pat Hill’s tenure the ‘Dogs have been dominant, holding a 12-1 advantage over the Spartans.
‘Dogs face Spartans for 75th time By Luke Shaffer The Collegian When the phrase “every game is big” is thrown around, most people hear it and think it is just cliché to elaborate, but to coach Pat Hill and the Bulldogs, this saying couldn’t be more true. After rebounding from their devastating loss to Hawaii two weeks ago by defeating New Mexico State over the weekend, Fresno State will square off against long-time rival San Jose State. Coach Hill has stressed numerous times that as a team competing for a Wester n Athletic Conference Championship, the Bulldogs need to take a one game at time approach. The concentration should always be on the upcoming match and their focus should never go pass that Saturday’s game. With the season through the halfway point, Hill stresses that every game left on the schedule becomes increasingly more important, and that every win the Bulldogs collect is big. And not just big, but monumental as Hill and the Dogs’ look to win out the rest of their schedule. Yet for Fresno State, this upcoming game on the road against WAC rival
San Jose State stands in their way for a quest at the WAC Title. The rivalry not only has a heavy impact on the current participants, but also past Fresno State faithful that remember the long-standing fued between in-state rivals. “This has been a good rivalry over the years from when I was an assistant coach here in the ‘80s,” Hill said. “It’s a great game for a lot of our fans to go to. Sometimes we have as many as eightto-10,000 fans over there. It should be a nice migration through the Pacheco pass.” Coach Hill insists his players are up for the task and are determined to help the Bulldogs gut out a huge win over the Spartans. The rivalry dates back to 1921 when the first football game was played between the two schools. Counting from the first game until San Jose State moved from the Big West Conference to the WAC in 1996, the two teams have played a total of 74 games. Currently, Fresno State leads the alltime series 38-33-3, and will look to beat the Spartans for the fourth consecutive year. “It’s the oldest standing football game played at this university,” Hill said. “More games have been played
against San Jose than anybody else. A lot of the teams that Fresno State had for rivalry games over the years, a lot of them have dropped football or no longer play. In addition to the fact that both teams play in the WAC, the influence of both schools being such close proximity has led to immense division and hatred. Although San Jose State has struggled through a treacherous schedule and multiple injuries, Hill noted his players cannot take the week off, especially with the rivalry on the line. Hill also stressed that if his team underestimates San Jose State’s offensive capabilities, it could be a long game. “They’ve played a very, very tough schedule, no doubt about it,” Hill said. “We need to go in there and play a very good game. They’ll be very, very hungry for this one. That’s a tough schedule. I can understand what they’re going through there. But, you know what, they’ve played very hard every week, they keep battling, they’ve got great character and this is going to be a tough football game. If we go over there thinking this is going to be not a physical football game we’re wrong.”
In a matter of a few days, all the clamor over the recent Bowl Championship Series poll and scandalous agent-player relationships took a frightening back seat to a handful of violent collisions that left players concussed, unconscious and in one case, paralyzed. Covering a kickoff late in a tight contest between Rutgers and Army, Rutgers defender Eric LeGrand made what seemed to be a routine tackle. Unfortunately, LeGrand’s big hit was made almost entirely with his helmet and neck, and the aftermath of the Rugters defensive tackle laying motionless on the turf was chilling. Since the scary scene, doctors have announced LeGrand is paralyzed from the neck down, and the long road to an uncertain recovery for the junior doesn’t look promising. Just 24 hours later and an hour drive away, Atlanta Falcons cornerback Dunta Robinson delivered a hammer to star Eagles receiver DeSean Jackson. While hauling in the catch, Robinson led his hit with the crown of his helmet, and as a result both players collapsed on the field and didn’t immediately get up. These incidents have woken up viewers across the country and both the NFL and NCAA have seen enough, as have I. I am drawn to football for the same reasons as everyone else: I live for the flashy plays, the raucous crowds, the pageantry. But, above all else, I watch for the huge hits, the quarterback sacks, the blindside pancake blocks. There comes a point, however, when a big hit becomes a dangerous hit, and the NFL and NCAA are taking the proper measures to ensure players are both protected and protect themselves. If an NFL player is determined to be delivering a blatant and dangerous hit, with or without helmet-to-helmet contact, he will immediately serve a suspension. Don’t be surprised if soon the NCAA follows suit, as it has a tradition in taking note of serious NFL policies. Will rules ever erase or eliminate players from sustaining these horrific injuries? Absolutely not. Football is a game centered around violence. The more violent a player is, more often than not, the better he plays. The rule modifications are more or less a wakeup call to players to “hit what you see and see what you hit,” meaning never use a helmet as a means to tackle, block or hit. I argued six months ago in my column that the rule change on wedge blocks during kick returns was ludicrous and would steal the excitement from the game, not protect players. But now I can’t help but argue that as much as we enjoy those huge hits and helmet-cracking pops, officials from both levels are doing the right thing in protecting players from both suffering such horrific injuries and sparing viewers from the disturbing images such as LeGrand’s on Saturday.
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OFFENSE:
Outside of quarterback Ryan Colburnʼs electric start to the season, the offense has been average at best. The once-proud run game that Fresno State is well known for has been nearly non existent against quality opponents. After averaging 228 yards per game on the ground last season, the ʻDogs have been held to 104 or fewer rushing yards in three games, two resulting in losses.
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Compared to seasons past, the defense has played well above average after racking up 20 sacks, good for fourth-best in the nation. Defensive tackle Logan Harrell leads both the WAC and the team with 7.5 sacks. Last season, the ʻDogs collected a total of just 11 sacks. But like most teams under Pat Hill, the defense has yet again struggled against the run, giving up an average of 214 yards per game.
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first-year special teams coordinator Pete Alamar, the special teams unit has been consistent, but SPECIAL Under not overly flashy. Kicker Kevin Goessling has been solid, booting in seven of nine field goal attempts. With ace Devon Wylie likely out of the year, Rashad Evans and freshman Jalen Saunders have stepped up TEAMS: return in the return game. The ʻDogs have also kept the tradition of blocking kicks alive with three this season.
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Despite the team suffering injuries to multiple positions, the coaching staff has been able to overcome the unpredictable by guiding the team to a reasonable 4-2 record. The game plan for each contest has been effective, but due to the lack of execution by the players, the season hasnʼt all gone accordingly to plan. If the players can continue to play on a consistent basis, expect a strong finish to end the season. When a slew of early-season injuries gutted the receiving corps, some freshman were called on to produce, and they did not disappoint. Wide receiver Jalen Saunders has shined in his role as return specialist and filling in for injuries to Jamel Hamler, Evans and Wylie. Alongside Saunders, freshman Isaiah Burse has filled in nicely as well. Hill praised Derron Smith in his first start in last weekʼs win over New Mexico State in replacement of potential All-WAC safety Phillip Thomas.
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lmost exactly six months ago I wrote an opinion column about the ever-changing rulebook in college and professional football. In this column, which you may or may not have read, I threw my own pity party about college football adopting the same helmet-to-helmet Ben there, done that contact rules that the NFL BEN INGERSOLL implemented some years ago in an effort to protect player safety. I’m writing this column, after being glued to a footballfilled TV set this past weekend, to eat my words. See RULES, Page 7