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Students part of Nobel Prize history

By Rachel Taylor The Collegian Thousands of physicists from around the world, including some Fresno State faculty and students, worked for years at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) to discover the Higgs boson, or the “God particle.”

On Tuesday, it was determined that discovery was worthy of a Nobel Prize.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences jointly awarded Francois Englert of Belgium and Peter Higgs of Britain the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics for their theory, hypothesized in the 1960s, explaining how certain subatomic

particles obtain mass by interacting with the Higgs field.

The field is an invisible sea of energy that permeates the entire universe. The Higgs boson, an elementary particle, is the visible mediator and manifestation of that field.

Fresno State is the only California State University campus to have a program that gives students the opportunity to participate in the research that helped the physicists win the Nobel Prize.

On July 4, 2012—nearly five decades after the physicists envisioned the theory—CERN announced that they had discovered a particle consistent with the Higgs boson using the Large

Hadron Collider (LHC), a $10 billion particle accelerator located beneath the French-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland.

Simon Gonzalez, an astrophysics and astronomy graduate student from Fresno State, was at CERN that summer conducting research for the first time when the announcement was made that the particle had been found.

“I was sleeping outside of an auditorium at 1 a.m. in the morning in order to get a seat to hear the announcement,” he said.

After hours of excitement and little sleep, Gonzalez said he was let inside the auditorium around 7 a.m. and sat in the back where See CERN, Page 3

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From LEFT: CSU students Jimmy Gonzalez, Brandon Ausmus, Cameron Embree, Gradon Faulkner, Simon Gonzalez and Varun Varahamurthy inside the Large Hadron Collider.

ROTC relocates training

By Jess Franz The Collegian

The political gridlock surrounding the government shutdown forced Fresno State’s Army ROTC program to take extraordinary measures to ensure cadet training is not impacted.

People at Fresno State Saturday morning saw the unusual sight of 77 cadets from the Fresno State and Fresno City College Army ROTC programs, dressed in uniform, participating in a training exercise on campus.

A few weeks ago no one in the Army ROTC program anticipated that this exercise would be conducted at Fresno State.

Normally it’s held for two nights each semester at Camp San Luis Obispo.

However, 12 days before the event the government shutdown started, and it became apparent that the facility would not be available.

That’s when senior cadets in the program came up with an idea: hold the event on campus.

In just a week and a half they created a seven-hour course to test the undergraduate cadets’ mental fortitude, physical prowess and training.

“We wanted to try and maximize their training,” said senior cadet Stuart Reed. “Often we don’t get to do a lot during class time. We do labs on Wednesdays for three hours, but that’s not a big time frame to get things done.”

They separated the cadets into four competing groups who would have to use land-navigation techniques and problem-solving methods to overcome obstacles set up and manned by senior cadets.

The obstacles simulated realworld events that they might encounter during their time in the army.

“Our main objective, regardless of the specific events, were esprit

Festivities planned for Homecoming Week

By Matthew Jimenez The Collegian

culture department allowed their orchards to be used for the exercise.

For the rest of the funding needed to facilitate the exercise and the barbecue for the cadets afterwards, the Army ROTC program used funds from its Cadet Fund. The fund gets money through the volunteer work cadets do picking up trash inside and outside Bulldog Stadium after football games.

Perhaps the most difficult part of the exercise was the last hurdle the cadets faced.

After six hours of mentally and

A series of events to celebrate Homecoming Week are set to start today and culminate with the Saturday night Fresno State football game against UNLV. Flyers have been handed out and banners have been placed around campus to promote Homecoming Week, said executive vice president Candice Amico.

Ashleigh Rocker, programs and volunteer coordinator for ASI, said rapper Anthony “Tone Loc” Smith—best known for his single “Wild Thing”—will be the main performer for the pep rally.

Amico said Associated Students, Inc. brought back the T-shirt exchange program, where people donate old or new Fresno State T-shirts to promote school spirit and ensure that everyone has a shirt for the game.

It took a month of weekly meetings and collaboration from different organizations to put this all together, Amico said.

The group 40 Watt Hype will perform at noon Wednesday at The Pit, she said. A free lunch will be provided and the concert is free. The Smittcamp Alumni House will host Hump Day Hangout at 4 p.m. with free food and Buffalo Wild Wings will provide volleyball tickets for Thursday night’s game against New Mexico at the Save Mart Center.

She said the Bulldog Pride Zone will begin at 6 p.m. and the game will start at 7 p.m.

On Friday, the Top Dog Alumni award Gala will take place at the

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The Fresno State Army ROTC cadets trained Saturday morning with a 3-mile foot march through the viticulture vineyards.

de corps (pride in one’s organization), skill confidence, and team cohesion,” said Nathan Hoepner, Army ROTC assistant professor of military science. “And those are the objectives we had from the time we were planning for the original exercise. So we just had to find another way of achieving those objectives.”

Some of the simulations included using teamwork to cross a broken bridge, gathering information from informants who would give the groups of cadets clues on where to go for their next objective and carrying casualties to a pre-determined location to radio for a helicopter to evacuate

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them.

One of the biggest challenges in creating the exercise was that none of the federal money ROTC normally relies on to conduct events of this magnitude was available due to the government shutdown.

“We had a lot of support from the campus,” Stuart said.

The Fresno State Police Department lent ROTC some of their electric golf carts to get around campus. The university also worked with Army ROTC to reserve locations on campus despite short warning and other events such as the Wiggle Waggle Walk on the same day. The agri-

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The latest stars in country music are performers, not artists

By Haley Lambert Opinion Editor Last week I flipped through People magazine’s country music edition.

I sat in the waiting room at the Walmart automotive center, hoping to find some interesting bit about this or that country music artist.

Granted, there were plenty of stories, but none seemed interesting. There were many photos but none wrenched my eyes closer to the page.

Each and every photo created a glossy homogeny of perfectly clean, ironed, airbrushed and teased people posing with decidedly cool mannerisms. Yet every pose and outfit was obviously formulated to depict a wholesome, hard-working allAmerican boy or girl.

Each country singer seemed more like a trained performer. They seemed ordinary and similar, much like their music.

Gone are the outlaws and heartbroken honky-tonk angels. In their place are gymrats in designer jeans and V-necks with just enough frayed edges to look laid-back.

Gone are the backwood Barbie dolls, who dreamed of the day they could stop waiting tables or wearing rags; the gals who were thankful to wear the goofy cowgirl skirts and fringed jackets so popular on the Grand Ole Opry, because it symbolized success, new horizons and potential wealth.

In their place are suburban daughters who lucked out. No famed stories of grit and glamor, no legends of sex and sacrifice.

It’s the usual pop-culture marketing scheme. Like all creative operations, music has always been dominated by scheming, clever entrepreneurs.

Country music, however, tended to carry with it the authenticity one would expect from people consistently living below the poverty line, clinging to religious fervor and operating under an unspoken tribalism.

Early country songs dealt with loss in love, in money or in resolve and self-worth.

The people singing had lived these experiences and carried on, eventually strong enough to share their tale and lessons learned.

My father wanted to name me Tammy.

Not a very popular name for a baby in 1991, but that mattered not. He wanted to bestow upon me the name of a woman he though smart, talented and beautiful.

That woman was famed country balladeer Tammy Wynette.

Known for hits like, “Stand by Your Man” and “Your Good Girl’s Gonna Go Bad,” Wynette lived these songs. Her first husband thought her dreams of stardom were ridiculous, so she left him. She was married five times and addicted to pain killers. Her heartache and anger fueled her work.

There are myriad examples of the outlaw country star. Young men who rebelled, ultimately finding temporary solace in whiskey, marijuana and pain-killers. Those are some of the most memorable stars.

Men like Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Hank Williams.

Undeniably, their music overflows with authenticity in terms of heartache, melancholy, dissatisfaction and unrequited love.

Of course, there have always been the very formulaic and orchestrated country acts. Artists like Buck Owens and his hit television show “Hee-Haw.” Owens played to the audience and the camera, yet he never denied it. To be caught wearing anything other than ironed slacks and dress shirt with polished boots would have been abhorrent to Owens and his like: other up-town country musicians like Porter Wagoner, George Jones and Ray Price.

But who could blame them? These gentleman grew up in poverty, surrounded by alcoholism, violence and ignorance.

They worked menial jobs, owned tattered clothes and broken shoes.

For them, the image they portrayed gave away their credentials. They dressed well and cared how they and their compatriots looked because they wanted to show the world their success.

In the People magazine last week, I saw musicians who most definitely care about their image, yet they really have no reason to. They grew up cared for and well-fed, with pick-up trucks, football games and plenty of spare change.

They dress to look like the rebels that were Waylon Jennings or Willie Nelson, yet they keep clean and shiny like Wagoner or Price.

However, the modern country artist’s tattered jeans and frayed collars are not the mark of counterculture, and their expen-

sive boots and designer watches are not the winnings of a survivor.

These new country singers’ lyrics discuss depression and adultery, love and lust, yet they’re formulaic and standardized.

Carrie Unerwood, as talented and pretty as she is, hasn’t the history and memories of someone like Tammy Wynette or Dolly Parton.

I understand we shouldn’t want people to indulge in pills and alcohol for the sake of our entertainment, not do we want to enable poverty in the hopes of one day finding a Loretta Lynn. I shouldn’t want to listen to someone sing about finding their husband in bed with her best friend, nor should I wish for lyrics about murder and prison.

What I can wish for is authenticity. I can hope for more George Straits and Reba McEntires. That is, people who see themselves as artists and not copies of classic country musicians. They don’t try to be an outlaw or a gentleman, rather they just play their music.

They don’t pander to the redneck fallacy pervading Country Music Television, they simply sing songs.

They understand that country music is about love and heartache and what could have been. Artists like Strait, McEntire, Alan Jackson and LeeAnn Womack understand what it means to feel a song, to understand a song.

They sound like country music because they simply sing. They do not perform.

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CERN: Opportunity to work with physicists from around the world CONTINUED from page 1 he listened to Rolf-Dieter Heuer, CERN’s director general, introduce the discovery with 99 percent certainty. Higgs and Englert, he said, attended the announcement.

Although the particle was officially confirmed on March 14 at Les Rencontres de Moriond, a conference held in Italy for the

worldwide particle physics community, scientists at CERN will continue researching the Higgs boson.

Last summer, three Fresno State physics students, including Gonzalez again, traveled to Geneva to conduct research at CERN for 10 weeks and continue the search for “new physics.”

The trip was part of the Fresno State ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC

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ApparatuS) ematics and program, which philosophy— is named after also conducted ou get immersed in so one of seven research at many different cultures. particle detecCERN over the While I was there, I befriended s u m m e r a n d tors located at the LHC. They said working so many people.” were led by with distinDr. Yongsheng guished physi— Simon Gonzalez, cists was “absoGao, an associFresno State CERN researcher lutely amazing.” ate professor of physics at “You’re actuFresno State. ally speaking The students with people discussed their research projects who understand you when you’re conducted at CERN regarding the talking about physics,” he said ATLAS experiment during a collo- with a laugh. quium Friday in McLane Hall.

Gao said the program gives Gonzalez said it was an honor students the opportunity to work to work at CERN for a second at one of the most respected centime. ters for scientific research in the “I felt very privileged that they world. He said the center is the chose me to go,” he said. birthplace of Nobel Prize laureGonzalez said the experience ates and the World Wide Web. gave him the chance to continue The ATLAS collaboration, his research from 2012, which Gao said, consists of about 3,000 involved updating some of the physicists from 38 countries.

ATLAS hardware alongside physi- Of those 3,000, only about 500 cists from around the world. researchers are from U.S. univer“That’s the best part about it,” sities and national laboratories. he said. “You get immersed in so Included among the unimany different cultures. While I versities that participate in the was there, I befriended so many ATLAS experiment are Harvard, people from different parts of Yale, Massachusetts Institute of Europe and other parts of the Technology and University of world. I had a friend from Greece, California, Berkley. from Italy, France, a girl from The Fresno State program Malta. I had never heard of the consists of Gao, postdoctoral place until she told me, ‘There it is researcher Dr. Harinder Singh on the map!’”

Bawa and about 12 graduate and Jimmy Gonzalez—an under- undergraduate students. graduate student at Fresno State Because the group is small, triple majoring in physics, math- Bawa said obtaining National

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Science Foundation grants to fund the program hasn’t always been an easy task.

“We have our challenges, because we are a very small group, and we have to compete with leading U.S. universities for the grants,” he said. “This is the biggest challenge. We joined in 2007, and we are surviving up to now.”

Since 2009, Gao said, Fresno State has received three National Science Foundation research grants totaling about $1.6 million.

Regardless of its size, Gao said everyone who is a part of the Fresno State ATLAS program is able to enjoy the same privileges as researchers from any other university.

“The university is off the name tag, so you are recognized by your contribution to the experiment,” Gao said. “They don’t care whether you are from Harvard, as long as you are doing good work.”

In order to provide more CSU students the opportunity to work on the ATLAS experiment, Gao and Dr. Doug Singleton, a professor of physics at Fresno State, built the CSU Nuclear and Particle Physics Consortium (NUPAC).

Gao said NUPAC now consists of 14 CSU campuses with Fresno State’s ATLAS program as its centerpiece.

Since 2008, he said, 24 students from five NUPAC campuses have worked on ATLAS research projects at CERN for at least one summer through the Fresno State program.

ROTC: Cadets adapt to shutdown CONTINUED from page 1 physically-challenging obstacles they were required to perform the exercises modeled after the ones that anyone entering the army must complete prior to enlistment.

The cadets were required to do a significant number of sit-ups, push-ups, pull-ups, and run a mile as a group.

After these exercises were completed, one of the cadets, smiling with his arms wrapped around two of his other teammates, perhaps put it best.

“I’ve got nothing left,” he said.

Stuart said in some ways the shutdown worked in the senior cadets’ favor when they set up the course to challenge the younger cadets.

“It almost worked out for the better because we were able to focus more on them, and keep it more central,” Stuart said.

“Instead of sending them to somewhere they’d never been—they don’t know what’s there, there’s a lot of unknowns—and it kind of made them more comfortable so then they could focus on the training.”

Although the Army ROTC considered this exercise a success,

more hurdles are ahead for the cadets the longer the government shutdown continues.

Some ROTC students receive scholarships and those scholarships provide cadets with a monthly stipend. However, because of the government shutdown, those scholarships cannot be awarded and the stipends will not be dispersed.

“The cadets are just driving on,” Hoepner said. “We are reasonably confident it will work out.

The cadets are in ROTC to become leaders. They are not in it for the stipend.”

Cadet Michael Kalinin is the recipient of one of these scholarships.

“Our payments have been put on hold, just like most of the rest of the military, just trying to get through it. I got a job working nights now.

“I had my budget planned out through Nov. 1, because that’s usually about the time we get our big payment. And that’s usually when I have my car insurance and all that coming up. So at that point we might get it or we might not. As a precaution I went out, got a job. So I’m working 30 hours a week to make sure that money is there.”

According to Hoepner, it’s unclear whether scholarship stipend payments that go unpaid during the shutdown will be refunded.

Despite the challenges posed to the program by the shutdown on Saturday, many were impressed by how well the event came together.

Kalinin said the exercise was, “Just great planning, though, from our cadre, our upper leadership there, to put something amazing together like this.

“It was tough but it provided an opportunity for not only myself, but all the cadets to prove stuff to themselves and the other cadets around them—that they got the mettle, they belong here. It wasn’t easy, not everybody could have done it, but they did.”

The event also impressed Hoepner.

“I am really proud of the way the cadets have responded,” he said. “The way they have come up with creative ways to keep going.

You see when something goes wrong, when you end up with an obstacle you didn’t expect, they are taking it as an opportunity and not a downer. We are really happy with that.”

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Save Mart Center, starting at 5 p.m. The pep rally will begin at 7 p.m. in the red lot, Amico said.

She said on Saturday Bulldog Pride Zone will be held at the dorms by the volleyball courts at 5 p.m. It is only open to Fresno State students.

The football game against UNLV will start at 7 p.m.

Rocker said the week’s theme is “throwback” and the football team will be wearing a uniform style it used in the 90s.

“We are looking at the history of Fresno State and that is why the football team is going to wear the old uniforms,” Rocker said. “We are looking at where Fresno State is and where Fresno State was then. We are celebrating football and our university.

Amico said she is excited for the week’s festivities and the football game.

“I’m an ex-cheerleader and [President] Moses [Menchaca] is an ex-football player,” she said.

“I’ve seen a lot of changes recently. Things are happening and people are getting excited. This excitement is making us push even more.”

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CREATURE FEATURE: ‘Haunted Fresno’

Haunted house attraction in Downtown Fresno gets tricky; talks special plans and scaring students

By Angela Sasaki Special to The Collegian Halloween is approaching fast, and local haunted house general manager Dexter Morgan said Haunted Fresno is a choice spot for college students looking for a fun, yet terrifying, night they will never forget.

Haunted Fresno runs through October on Friday and Saturday nights from 7 p.m. to midnight, and Sundays and Halloween from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.

Located at 665 Fulton St. in Downtown Fresno, the haunted house has six attractions including the Fortress

of Fear, House of Zombies, The Séance, Hellevator, Last Ride and the Museum of Oddities.

Morgan said Haunted Fresno is one of the scarier haunted houses around.

“I’ve been to all the other haunted houses in the area, and some of them are very good,” he said. “We try to go the extra mile in our detailing and our theming, and we’ve got some stuff in there that nobody else has.”

Actor department manager Xandra Hobe agrees that Haunted Fresno is an excellent venue for people looking for fun and entertainment this time of year.

“You can go to a Halloween party, but you could also

go to an attraction, and you don’t have to clean up the mess,” Hobe said. “You can just get all your friends in a car and go out.”

In addition to a terrifying experience, Morgan said Haunted Fresno is also great for students because it is reasonably priced, and students can save money and have fun at the same time.

“Combo tickets start as low as $18,” he said. “But a full combo ticket for every attraction in the entire haunted house is $26.”

Tickets can also be purchased individually, Morgan said.

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Saturday’s ‘Wiggle Waggle Walk and Furry 5K Run’ brought around 500 dogs to Fresno State to help raise money for Fresno’s largest no-kill animal shelter.

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More than pumpkins: The Collegian highlights some of the Valley’s premiere patches

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cars all available for $1 rides. Some evenings, the patch has karaoke or live music.

Admission is free, and the patch is open from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. including weekends. Check the Planet Pumpkin Facebook page or call 559-347-7500 for details.

Pumpkin King Pumpkin Patch Located on the northwest corner of Blackstone and Shaw avenues in Fresno at 100 W. Shaw Ave., the Pumpkin King Pumpkin Patch has been bringing pumpkins to Fresno since 1985. With more than 12 pumpkin varieties and different types of squash and corn, the patch is not only rich in fall produce. It has pony rides, a maze, bounce houses and hosts a blood drive every Sunday from noon to 5 p.m.

Admission is free, but for pumpkins and other activities, cash, credit cards and checks are accepted. The patch is open every day from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.

For more information, visit http://www.pumpkinsfresno.com/, call 559-240-5516 or find Pumpkin King on Facebook by searching “Pumpkin King Pumpkin Patch.”

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Planet Pumpkin doesn’t just have pumpkins. 3-year-old Oliver went on the patch’s bumper cars and had his face painted like a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.

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Planet Pumpkin’s Ferris wheel, slide and bumper cars are $1 a ride.

Located in the empty lot between Walgreens and teppan-yaki restaurant Sakura Chaya at 640 E. Nees Ave. in Fresno, Planet Pumpkin has a little bit of everything. The patch features two tents full of pumpkins, a few vendors, face painting for little ones, a food stand and cotton candy. The lot also has a Ferris wheel, “super slide” and bumper

‘The Pumpkin Grove’ at Hobb’s Grove Hobb’s Grove is famous with teenagers for its haunted hayride and forest, but the grove also features fun for younger kids or those who prefer not to be scared. “The Pumpkin Grove” at Hobb’s Grove, located at 14265 E. Goodfellow Ave. in Sanger, has hayrides, a corn maze and a pumpkin patch.

The patch is open Oct. 19-20 and 26-27 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information or to schedule a tour, visit the grove’s website at http://thepumpkingrove.com/, call 559-3563962 or find the patch on Facebook by searching “Pumpkin Grove pumpkin patch.”

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The Pumpkin Grove is open for weekday tours by appointment.

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Hillcrest Tree Farm in Reedley is open to all from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the weekends.

Hillcrest Tree Farm

Complete with $3 steam train rides and hayrides, corndogs, tri tip, hiking and pumpkins, Hillcrest Tree farm in Reedley is waiting for you this autumn. The self-proclaimed oldest tree farm in the San Joaquin Valley, located at 6943 S. Reed in Reedley, Hillcrest is open to the public from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the weekends and is open for school tours throughout the week.

For more information or to schedule a tour, visit Hillcrest’s website, http://hillcrestreedley. com/, call 559-638-2762 or email hillcrestshops@aol.com.

Single Palm Pumpkins Just five miles west of Hwy 99 at 10635 W. Barstow Ave., Single Palm Pumpkins has more than 10,000 pumpkins ready and waiting on the vine. Pumpkins are $5 each. Free mazes, hayrides and animals are also available.

The patch is open everyday until 6 p.m.

For more information, visit the patch’s website http://pumpkins. singlepalm.com/, or call 559-4928723.

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HAUNT: Haunted house in Downtown Fresno talks tricks CONTINUED from page 4 “Two of the houses run together, so a ticket just for that is $20,” Morgan said.

“A ticket just for The Séance is $10, a ticket just for the Hellevator is $5 and the Last Ride is also $5, so it ends up being a $40 value.

“And you get it for $26.”

Fresno State student Briana Valencia, 19, said she enjoys going to haunted houses because she loves the thrill of it.

“I see somebody standing, but it’s not

really a statue. It’s a real person, and they scream when you are passing by,” she said laughing. “I like being scared.”

Unlike Valencia, Fresno State student Shetaye Ermias, 27, said she purposely avoids haunted houses because she finds them terrifying.

“I don’t like not knowing,” Ermias said.

“You think something is going to pop out at the right, but someone else attacks you at the left or grabs your leg, and all I want to do is just faint or not be there.”

Hobe said that Haunted Fresno is defi-

nitely not for the faint at heart.

“After years of having to escort people out because they can’t go through the whole way, I would definitely say it is scary,” she said.

Along with the spooky attractions, Morgan said there are also going to be a few special events.

Morgan said that the Sanger Paranormal Society is also going to be there one night.

“They are coming out on the 27th to do a live webcast from here, and we’ve got a couple other things that are in the works,”

he said.

Hobe said that she, Morgan and the whole cast work hard to create a fun environment for everyone.

“We want to entertain people,” she said.

“We have a midway with a DJ, music and food, so it’s an event; it’s a night.

“We wanted to bring some fun nightlife to Fresno, and we love the theme of Halloween, and we love haunted houses.”

For more information on Haunted Fresno, visit www.hauntedfresno.com or call 559-498-0960.

Engineering club promotes female empowerment

By Careen Wong The Collegian A study done by the Congressional Joint Economic Committee in April 2012 said men and women do not share the job market equally in engineering.

Women comprise only 14 percent of engineers in the U.S., and few are Hispanic or African American.

Fresno State’s Office of Institutional Effectiveness report for 2012 showed 164 men earned engineering bachelor’s degrees in the 2011-2012 academic year compared to 23 women. The national organization Society of Women Engineers (SWE) has a club on campus which aims to close the gap.

“Our goal is to promote female empowerment,” said SWE president Elain Moua. “We want to promote women in the technical field. We try to encourage younger girls to go into the technical field because it’s so dominated by

men.”

National workshops are held every year to bring women engineers together and encourage younger women to enter the field, Moua said.

Coming from a family of engineers, Moua was already exposed to the field from a young age.

“What really turned me into engineering was my English teacher from high school,” Moua said. “Our final project was to do this ‘dream project.’ So you make a video about what you want your dream to be and mine was to build a skyscraper.”

At she began the major, it took Moua time “to get used to the manliness of the whole thing.”

It was intimidating at first, but Moua realized it was important for every woman in the field to speak up for themselves.

“You’re a girl,” she said. “You’re in this male-dominated field so you just have to learn to stick up for yourself. You just have to really get in there.”

Eventually, Moua said her female peers found themselves easing into the engineering community. She said the men started treating the women as equals.

“You forget she’s a girl sometimes,” said mechanical engineering student Anthony Kupina.

“You’re studying, and you make these weird jokes or say certain things. You forget that she’s a girl and you’re like, ‘Wait a second, I didn’t mean to say that!’”

This semester, Moua saw an increase in the number of women who were freshmen in the department. With the growing number of women in the field, Moua said it’s pleasant to bump into other girls.

“It’s very nice to see other girls in the building because you’re like, ‘They do exist!’” she said.

Moua feels many women have misconceptions about engineering. Women automatically discourage themselves from venturing into the industry because they think it does not suit them, she

said.

“There are a lot of things you can do with engineering,” Moua said. “I don’t think [women] see everything that you could do with engineering until they look into it.

A lot has to do with asking questions like, ‘What is engineering?’”

Moua said that in order to survive the engineering field, female students have to be committed and self-motivated.

“You have to ignore the fact that there are so many guys,” she said. “You can’t let that stop you.

Don’t let that scare you. Don’t let the workload scare you. You just have to really, really want it.”

Because of Kupina’s time interacting with his female peers, he feels that female engineers should be given more credit. They strive to prove themselves and their worth in a field men take for granted, he said.

“It’s just ‘whatever’ to the guys because it’s a guy thing, and everybody’s doing it,” Kupina said. “But when you see a girl surpassing

you, kicking your butt in a subject or calculation, you feel like, ‘We need to get better at this.’”

John Singyee, a mechanical engineering major, said having more women creates a diverse environment, which is important in this field.

“Yeah, I get excited,” he said.

“Because, ‘Wow, another girl.’ It’s a privilege that we have women in our engineering classes. I’m not sure why it’s like that, why engineering is so male dominated.”

Singyee said he also felt that engineering is about problem solving, so having more women gives another perspective.

“It gives us different perspectives because men and women will think differently,” Singyee said. “We’re biologically different so psychologically we must be a little different. It just gives more ideas, more creativity in our field.

It’s something you need sometimes as an engineer.”

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The Fresno State soccer team takes a bow in front of the Bulldog Stadium crowd after its 2-1 victory over the Boise State Broncos on Sunday.

SOCCER: ‘Dogs improve win streak CONTINUED from page 8 In the 46th minute, senior Megan Mossman came off the bench and scored the game-leading goal off a Castain assist.

“Our bench might as well be starters

because they have been getting significant minutes,” Zwaschka said “We aren’t surprised that [Mossman] came off and got a goal.”

The Bulldogs will hit the road this weekend to face Wyoming and Air Force.

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Fresno State dominated Set 1 25-18 as Marissa Brand tallied five kills. She finished the night with her sixth double-double of her career with 13 kills and 12 digs.

“We were able to play our game most of the way and stay focused,” Brand said.

Fresno State prevented San Jose State from gaining a lead in the second set as well. The closest the Spartans got to the Bulldogs was a two-point deficit after a Hanah Blume kill made the score 22-20.

Then, the Bulldogs went on a 3-1 run to win the frame and go into halftime with a 2-0 lead.

After the half, San Jose State led 10-5, but Fresno State rebounded and outscored the Spartans 10-3, forcing them to use both timeouts in the process.

The Bulldogs continued their tear, and Holly Franks had the last kill to give her team the win.

Fresno State was able to commit fewer errors in this sweep. The team only committed 11 attack errors and two service errors (13 total), while San Jose State had 23 total.

“We’re doing a better job offensively, eliminating errors that we don’t need to make,” Netherby-Sewell said.

Fresno State def. Nevada 25-17, 25-22, 25-19 The Saturday evening matchup saw the Bulldogs get their best hitting mark of the season (.376).

In Set 1, Fresno State took advantage of nine errors by the Wolf Pack, including one to end the frame. Brand led the Bulldogs with four kills.

Senior outside hitter Korrin Wild scored the Bulldogs’ first four points of Set 2 after two kills and two service aces in a row. She finished the frame with a total of seven kills. Franks and junior setter Christina Lee added a service ace each in the set victory.

“Korrin’s pretty amazing. She can do it all,” Netherby-Sewell said. “For four years, I’ve wanted to put her in the middle and create some offense for her there. I’m just trying to get her as many touches as possible, and she’s doing a great job with them.”

Defense played a role in the Bulldogs’ Set 3 win.

Fresno State had a total of four team blocks, while the Wolf Pack had none.

The Bulldogs are now 10-8 (4-2 in the conference) and will host New Mexico and Air Force this weekend.

The Bulldog Bulletin Bulldogs move up to No. 17 The Fresno State football team had a bye week, but that didn’t prevent it from moving up in the rankings.

After top-25 ranked Stanford, Michigan, Washington, Oklahoma, Florida and Northwestern lost their games, Fresno State moved up four spots to No. 17 in the Associated Press poll.

The Bulldogs moved up three spots to No. 19 in the Coaches’ Poll.

Women’s golf finishes in top 10 at Cowgirl Desert Intercollegiate At the weekend Cowgirl Desert Intercollegiate, two Fresno State players finished in the top 10.

Sophomore Hannah Sodersten finished 8-over-par 224 for a seventh-place tie.

Madchen Ly trailed Sodersten by two strokes to finish in 10th place at 9-over-par 225.

“We had a strong finish that we’ve been looking for today,” said Fresno State coach Emily Milberger. “I’m proud of the way the ladies finished the event.”

Women’s tennis end St. Mary’s invite with three wins The Bulldogs women’s tennis team concluded the St. Mary’s Invitational with three victories.

Anne Susdorf and Anneka Watts won their doubles match over Pacific’s Cristina Saenz de Buruaga and Regina Suarez 8-4.

In singles play, Fresno State went 2-1. Junior Aishwarya Agrawal won her match over Stanford’s Amelia Herring.

Watts defeated Cal Poly’s Bryn Bacharach 6-3,6-1.

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SOCCER

‘Dogs continue streak with weekend wins Collegian Staff

The Bulldogs women’s soccer team battled their way to a .500 record last weekend, with two big victories over the Utah State Aggies and Boise State Broncos.

“We have been playing with more and more discipline in every match,” said Fresno State coach Brian Zwaschka.

Last Friday night’s match against the Aggies went the distance -- regulation ended in a 0-0 tie.

In the 94th minute, Fresno State senior Shonice Myers scored off a header from a ball thrown in by Ariana Holmes.

It was the Bulldogs’ second straight overtime victory at Bulldog Stadium.

“We knew it was going to be a challenging game,” Zwaschka said. “We were looking for a killer finish at some point.”

Goalkeeper Katie DeVault had four saves during the game and is now second all-time in saves for the Bulldogs. “[DeVault] was razor sharp tonight and we needed that,” Zwaschka said.

On Sunday, the Bulldogs beat the Broncos 2-1 after trailing 1-0.

Boise State sophomore forward KT Clayton socred the first goal of the game in the 10th minute.

In the 43rd minute, senior Morgan Castain scored her ninth goal of the season, leading the Mountain West Conference.

See SOCCER, Page 7

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Morgan Castain controls the ball while fighting off Boise State defenders during the Bulldogs’ 2-1 victory Sunday. Castain scored a goal in the match and assisted another. She currently leads the Mountain West Conference with nine goals this year.

VOLLEYBALL

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We’re doing a better job offensively, eliminating errors that we don’t need to make.

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-Fresno State coach Lauren Netherby-Sewell

‘Dogs cruise to two straight sweeps

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Christina Lee, Maci Murdock and Katie Pearson celebrate after scoring a point during the Bulldogs’ three-set victory over Boise State. Fresno State has not lost a set since their 3-1 loss at San Diego State.

By Christopher Livingston The Collegian The Fresno State women’s volleyball team has not lost a set since its 3-1 loss at San Diego State on Oct. 3.

This weekend’s victims were the San

Jose State Spartans and Nevada Wolf Pack.

“I like how we’re taking care of business with the other teams,” said Fresno State coach Lauren Netherby-Sewell. “We were a little shaky out of the gates in the Mountain West, but I think we’re finding our stride right now.”

Fresno State def. San Jose State 25-18, 25-21, 25-19 Last Friday, the Bulldogs honored their alumni with an easy victory.

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SWIM AND DIVE

Fresno State finishes second in home invite Collegian Staff The Fresno State swim and dive team finished second in the Bulldog Invitational – the two-day meet that concluded Saturday at the Aquatics Center – led by its underclassmen who left a lasting first impression.

Freshman Hailee Baldwin won the 200yard breaststroke with a time of 2:20.95 – her first collegiate meet – beating San Jose State senior Darcie Anderson by less than a second. It was the difference maker for the Bulldogs, whose 765.5 points gave them a second-place finish, 14.5 points more than the Spartans.

“We knew that she [Baldwin] could get up there and race,” Fresno State coach Jeanne Fleck said. “For her to do this at a big meet like this, stepping it up in her first meet, was awesome.”

Sophomore Kelly Simmons set a personal record in the 500 freestyle with a time of 5:05.91 and a fifth-place finish. Freshman Esme Gullick, like Baldwin, also swam in her first collegiate meet, placing sixth in the 200 intermediate medley with a score of 2:09.30.

Senior Hannah Prigge placed second in the 1-meter dive with a score of 292.95, a new career-best. She also finished second in the 3-meter dive with a time of 287.925.

Prigge, who was named an NCAA Honorable Mention All-American after her performance in the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships last season, broke the Fresno State record for the 3-meter with a score of 324.60 last January.

“It’s my last year. I just want to go out and be really aggressive this year,” Prigge said. “I’m hoping to make NCAAs again.

And now that I know what to expect at the bigger meets, I can kind of relax more and just go in and get after it and be confident.”

Fresno State returns to action Nov. 2 at Nevada in its first Conference meet of the season.