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By Andrew Veihmeyer The Collegian

By Andrew Boydston The Collegian This November, Californians will have the opportunity to vote on an historic proposition.

If passed, Proposition 19 would spurn federal law by permitting recreational use of marijuana in California.

Prop 19 has sparked furious debate on both sides, and it has also caught the attention of young voters.

“Prop 19 caught my attention and made me want to vote this year,” said Kevin Chan, a kinesiology major. “I did a term paper my senior year in high

school on how marijuana is less harmful than tobacco and alcohol. You can overdose on alcohol and tobacco. It’s been proven it’s physically impossible to overdose on marijuana.”

According to Chair of the Indiana Civil Liberties Union Drug Task Force, Paul Hager, in order to overdose on marijuana a person would have to smoke 40,000 times the amount of marijuana a normal smoker would to overdose, by which See PROP 19, Page 3

Photo Illustration by Michael Uribes / The Collegian

Support Services receives $1.5 million grant

By Tara Albert The Collegian Like many new college students, Fresno State sophomore Liliana Madrigal was nervous and overwhelmed during her first day of classes as a freshman. But the Student Support Services (SSS) program at Fresno State provided her with the guidance to make a quick, smooth transition into college life, she said.

“This program helped me get familiar with the university,” Madrigal said.

The U.S. Department of Education awarded SSS a $1.5 million five-year grant in early September, allowing the program to continue providing support for low-income, first-generation and disabled students on campus, SSS Director Sandra Fuentes said.

The grant will be used to fund the several federal-mandated support services the program offers to help its 200 students succeed in college.

T hese services include counseling and advising, reading and writing instruction, peer mentors, peer tutors and a free computer lab. Fuentes said the grant has also allowed SSS to create a new program aimed at helping students lear n how to budget their money and limit their dependency on loans.

“We give them a series of workshops that provides them with information on different aspects of financial literacy,” Fuentes said.

The financial aid literacy information workshops discuss how to create a budget, manage credit card purchases and money-saving tips.

Madrigal said the workshops made her realize how important creating a budget is and helped her understand the financial aid application process.

“It gave you an overview of all of the things that you have to consider,” she said.

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De par tment of Education website, SSS is one of eight

nationwide programs in the federally funded TRIO programs, which are “designed to identify and provide services for individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds.” All SSS programs are required to provide academic tutoring, postsecondary course selection advising and financial literacy information, according to the website.

The SSS program at Fresno State was established 18 years ago under the Division of Student Affairs, Fuentes said.

The program provides sup-

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port and the necessary tools to help its students graduate college, she said.

“That is our goal—support and retention for graduation between four and six years,” Fuentes said.

Federal grants are the sole source of funding for the services the program offers to its students, Fuentes said. She said receiving the $1.5 million grant was a relief, because it allows SSS to continue providing services for its students for at least five more years.

“Without our funding, this particular population would not be able to be served,” Fuentes said.

Students in the program have to meet several requirements throughout the year in order to remain in SSS, Fuentes said. All of the requirements are designed to provide students with tools to graduate, including meeting with a counselor, she said.

Joe Guerra, the counselor for students in the program, said he helps students learn how to navigate college and get into the classes they need.

“A lot of the students are first-generation and don’t know the ins-and-outs of college,” Guerra said.

He said he meets with students at least twice a semester to ensure that they are on track for graduation. Guerra said he schedules more than 300 appointments each semester to meet with every student.

It was a relief to receive grant money that would significantly extend service, said Sandra Fuentes, director of Student Support Services.

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Senate Bill 1440, the Student Achievement Transfer Reform (STAR) Act which creates a for mal transfer Associate of Arts degree for students transferring from community colleges to the CSU, was signed into le gislation by Governor Schwarzenegger on Wednesday.

According to the CSU press release, the new legislation “will take effect in the fall of 2011 [and] will allow students a simplified and well defined path for transferring from a California Community College to the CSU.” On Sept. 3, the STAR Act was enrolled to the governor after legislators passed it on, his approval being the final hurdle towards enactment.

“This bill is one of the greatest moves our state has taken in reforming our system of higher education,” said Pedro Ramirez, Associate Students, Inc. president. It also has a wide spectrum of support from faculty, administrators and both political parties, Ramirez said.

“The current transfer process has many holes and problems that keep many students from successful transferring from another system,” he said.

The new transfer Associate of Arts de g ree is not yet named, but its goal is to encourage students to complete community college curriculum more quickly and efficiently, potentially cutting student fees and saving colleges valuable course-related spending.

Vivian Franco, director of admissions, records, and evaluations at Fresno State said that implementation would not likely happen in fall 2011 as the bill states. It will take time to integrate and time must be allowed for students to adapt, she said. It wouldn’t benefit them this early if students were to look at a new transfer pattern and not even know what it was.

“They key is making sure advisers at community colle ges get students in this program immediately,” said Bernard Vinovrski, associate vice president of Enrollment Services.

Although the SB 1440 bill is most associated with the C S U, A s s e m bly B i l l 2 3 0 2 accompanies it, encouraging the University of California to similarly streamline the transfer process.

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THATʼS WHAT THE PEOPLE ARE SAYING... year will be the first time that my [voting] decisions will “T hisbe more about what I’m against than what I’m for.”

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Groupon’s edgy publicity stunt WEB-SPE@K

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h, publicity stunts. Some of the best play on a sense of humor to gain attention from a larger audience, usually to sell more products or create a reputation for a company.

Some of the worst flirt with poor taste and turn off potential customers.

Groupon, the hugely successful coupon company, launched its own spin on a humorous publicity stunt yesterday.

Groupon provides mass coupons to cities in the United States. Each day, the deal changes. Yesterday the deal featured a half-off coupon at Limon Peruvian restaurant on Blackstone, and a few days ago the site offered cheap tickets to San Jose State football games—including their game versus Fresno State. These deals, named after the site, are called “Groupons.”

According to Andrew Mason, the

founder, fans of his site raised one objection: What about the children? He says fans were complaining that the Groupon company took no responsibility for children conceived on a date where a couple used a Groupon deal.

On Wednesday, Mason responded to this objection with a site called Grouspawn. It’s a program that awards two $60,000 college scholarships each year to babies conceived by couples who used a Groupon deal on their first date. Mason claims that the company “wanted to make sure that Groupon babies were the smartest babies out there.”

To aid potential “spawners,” as Grouspawn calls them, in their dating pursuits, they provide a rudimentary dating service to match up Grouspawn users.

In order for a baby to qualify for a scholarship, the parents must prove that on their first date they used a Groupon. Among various stipulations on the site, Grouspawn states “Groupon WILL dispatch our team of hard-nosed paternity investigators to dig up your past. The first requirement is that you and your co-spawner used a Groupon on your first date.”

As you’ve probably guessed, Grouspawn is apparently Mason’s idea of a joke.

I use the word “apparently” because there’s no real indication that Grouspawn isn’t real. But most reports call it a publicity stunt.

Mason is known for his pranks and his vivid sense of humor. Groupon’s e-mail alerts showcase the company’s quirky style, which often use off-the-

wall humor to promote their products.

So far, it seems his stunt has worked.

Bloggers from The Wall Street Journal, BBC, The LA Times, Forbes and Time have jumped on this story, reporting the humorous hoax and furthering Mason’s goal of provocative publicity.

There remains a lingering question, though—with no real indication on the Grouspawn site of the nature of the hoax, could the seemingly innocent joke run afoul?

Even if no spawners are harmed, Grouspawn’s initiative says something about the way our culture views babies.

At the obvious level of humor, we can all get a laugh. But on a deeper, more thoughtful level, what is Grouspawn saying? “Your little accident could make you rich if you play by our Grouspawn rules! Ha ha ha, so funny!”

Is this the subtext Groupon really wants to espouse?

To be fair, the site does provide a disclaimer against having children just to claim the Grouspawn prize and discourages those that win against using the money for purposes other than the child’s education, stating that “it would be wrong.”

No matter the outcome, the bizarre stunt provides a form of commentary on our culture’s values and plenty of fodder for deeper examination.

Hopefully it doesn’t all backfire in Groupon’s face.

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Debate plays politics with students

Fashion doesn’t liberate, it imprisons

There is a gubernatorial debate between Republican candidate Meg Whitman and Democratic candidate Jerry Brown taking place on campus in the Satellite Student Union on Oct. 2. Unfortunately, the event is closed to the public, and much to my disappointment, students cannot attend. ASI has continued to ask the debate committee for more tickets and has received no response.

The Satellite Student Union is our facility—it’s on our campus and our tuition fees fund it. If an event like this is being held there, students should absolutely be able to attend. It’s a shame the university would allow an event that many students are interested in and would benefit from attending, to use our facilities, and then prohibit students from attending. Both Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown’s campaigns were given an equal number of tickets and they are only distributing them to their supporters. They’re playing politics with our facilities, and it’s not acceptable.

Jerry Brown didn’t intend on accepting this debate invitation, but after so much media pressure to accept, he accepted. The best thing we can do now is use that same tactic to get more tickets for students. If the debate committee and the campaigns get enough media pressure to make more tickets available to students, they most likely will. I encourage all of you to write letters to the editor of both The Collegian and The Fresno Bee to make the media and general public more aware of this issue.

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In a situation as extreme as the liberation of the BergenBelsen concentration camp, a request for lipstick is not necessarily “liberation,” but symbolic of “liberation.”

It is possible this gesture was a psychological beckoning toward a period in the woman’s life prior to her dehumanization and forced homogeneity. However, lipstick did not liberate her; British troops liberated her.

As for our current societal condition, fashion is more imprisoning than “liberating.” Women are the spectacle.

We are obliged to cater to our exterior selves to please our spectators. Our choice in fashion may not be a manifestation or expression of our “true selves,” but rather a mirage of how we wish others to perceive us; the “fashion” in which we prefer others to perceive us may not be based on our individual personality, but based on what persona exterior observers claim we should assume. As quoted in an essay by Anwyn Crawford concerning the ban on hijabs in French schools, Alain Badiou writes, “... a girl must show what she’s got to sell... It is vital to hint at undressing at every instant.” By Jove, a women simply must sell herself to the “other” in the precise package they prefer! Of course, such an intricate concept is only one component of an endless array of logic, logic that may or may not be as negative as the aforementioned. You just cannot get away with a statement like “fashion is liberating for women” without provoking questions concerning the statement’s validity.

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Response: ‘We want a real, mature debate’ ‘Cyrus’: “As a student, with an interest in politics, I was excited when I first heard about the upcoming debate. Soon after, I was disappointed to learn students were not allowed. In an effort to still get in, I spoke to a member of ASI. I learned that ASI has been working hard on behalf of students but to no avail. Indeed, these politicians and the organizers of the debate treat us like children.”

‘Ridiculous’: “This is ridiculous! If it wasn’t obvious before that the great State of California doesn’t care about it’s students, here is one more example!”

‘Eric Morana’: “Amazing insight to a very frustrating situation for all Fresno State Students! Students should stand up and start demanding to be included in events when it is held on OUR campus! Fresno State is not just a beautiful piece of land that any group can come and rent it out at their whim. This campus is home to over 22,000 students and when an event is held on campus their needs should be top priority, hence the involvement of the students when major events take place on campus.”

Response: ‘Fashion liberates women’ ‘Junior1781’: “I don’t think there is much choice in the matter...for guys or girls. True, clothing companies no doubt toke consumer opinion in mind when they fashion the latest threads, but those opinions had to be molded over time by simply accepting what was available. A lot of what we think is fashionable must have a lot to do with popularity. You don’t see people rocking the discount wear they find at Ross but if it’s expensive like Gap, it has to be cool and most of the time there’s not a hell of a lot of difference. I tend to think we become what we wear only so far as how we’re treated by the way we dress. But our clothes shouldn’t define us, but then I’m a guy. I usually just throw on whatever’s close at hand in the morning.”

Response: ‘GOP pledge falls short’ ‘joshua4234’: “‘One cannot speak of balanced budgets unless Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are brought to the table.’ Forgetting a massive portion of our discretionary spending? I hate how it’s somehow better to have the conversation about skimping on taking care of the sick and elderly instead of cutting back on a burden we’ve taken upon ourselves to police the world with our Department of Offense until such a time when we can actually afford it. It’s completely telling of what they value more than the health and well being of the working class.”

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PROP 19: Students views on legalizing cannabis

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CONTINUED from page 1 point a person would have succumbed to asphyxiation. The ratio to overdose with alcohol varies between one to four, and one to ten, by comparison.

For years, the legalization of marijuana has been a topic of great debate.

In 1994, Californians decided to legalize cannabis for medicinal use by passing Proposition 215 .

“I believe that legalization should be allowed,” said a social worker major who wished to remain anonymous.

“As a patient with a medical card and numerous back surgeries, I have experienced the healing effects of marijuana.” “[Since I’d like to] work as a state employee, I now have to take four medications to suppress the pain and deal with side effects as opposed to the natural pain relief I received from marijuana years ago.”

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alcohol, requiring a 21 or older age limit for purchasing.

“With restrictions similar to alcohol like the 21 or older policy, I believe it will keep marijuana out of the hands of minors more so than if we continue prohibition against it,” said Bridget McClain, a business major. “A lesson from history shows us how well prohibition worked out before [with alcohol]. I think it’s better to take regulation from the hands of drug cartels, and help the state deficit.”

Supporters of the bill state that California’s number one cash crop is marijuana. According to drugscience. org, marijuana production and sales generated close to $14 million last year.

“I like the fact that Prop 19 decriminalizes marijuana and frees up police to make arrests for serious and violent crimes,” said Andrew Flores, a double major in biology and business administration.

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ith restrictions similar to alcohol like the 21 or older policy, I believe it will keep marijuana out of the hands of minors more so than if we continue prohibition against it.”

— Bridget McClain, Student

public school superintendent John Snavely, warns that the legalization of marijuana could cost K-12 schools as much as $9.4 billion in federal funding according to the Voter Information Guide.

“Supporters say it would provide money for the state, but it would still require money for regulation, and I don’t believe it is ok to legalize a substance that alters your mind,” said Kirsten Primrose, a liberal studies major.

Another argument against the bill is that the California Highway Patrol would not have the ability to administer a drug test until after an accident has occurred, according to the Voter Information Guide, causing the organization called Moms Against Drunk Driving to oppose the measure.

Prop 19 supporters say billions of dollars in revenue will be generated to help decrease the state deficit.

“It makes sense to help the economy, but I don’t think the sacrifice of human health is worth the risk,” said Alyssa Hudson, a biology major. “It’s an addictive drug and once it’s readily available to the public it will be too widespread.”

Prop 19 also states that the regulation of marijuana will be similar to

Union, 150 random students were surveyed to find voting patterns on marijuana policy. Over this two-day process, 84 students who were polled believed that marijuana should be legalized, making up 56 percent of the vote, while 30 students believed it should stay illegal, making up 20 percent of the voters. The remaining 36 students were either undecided at this time or not voting at all, making up 24 percent.

In an ABC7/Survey USA poll issued on Sept. 2, if the election were held today, 47 percent would be in favor of legalization.

“We’re seeing that Califor nians are ready to embrace some modest, common-sense reforms to our failed marijuana laws,” said Dan Newman, a spokesman for Yes on Prop 19.

“Whether people are for or against this regulation, they should still go out and vote to let their voices be heard,” said Hudson. “I know I will.“

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“We’re always trying to plan ahead so they know what they need to be doing for the next semester,” Guerra said.

The program also requires all freshmen to take supplemental reading and writing classes to learn strategies for studying and crafting high-quality papers. Toni Rudd, the reading and writing coordinator for the program, said she works with each student individually to help them find writing and studying methods that work best for them.

Rudd said the program coordinators all work together to help the students stay in school and perform well.

“I think a lot of times students will walk out the door, because they didn’t have the support we offer,” she said.

The program also has eight peer mentors and eight peer tutors so stu-

dents can turn to each other for help, Fuentes said. Peer mentors help SSS students become acclimated to college life and develop relationships with people on campus. Peer tutors help the students with homework and understanding the material they learn in class.

Fuentes said the all-encompassing goal of the program is to help students graduate and partake in college life.

She said it is important for the students to give back to the university and participate in the university-sponsored events that are part of student life at Fresno State.

She said the students plan to participate in the Jan and Bud Richter Center for Community Eng agement and Service-Learning’s Make a Difference Day on Oct. 23.

“That’s part of the college culture,” Fuentes said, “to get involved in student activities.”

Whitman’s maid controversy

By Juliet Williams & Michael R. Blood Associated Press Meg Whitman’s campaign for governor was thrown into turmoil Thursday as the Republican sought to fend off new evidence that she knowingly had an illegal immigrant housekeeper on her payroll for nearly a decade.

Whitman denounced the allegations as a “baseless smear attack” by Democratic challenger Jerry Brown in what has become a dead-heat race five weeks before the election.

T h e c e n t r a l i s s u e i s wh e t h e r Whitman knew about a letter that the Social Security Administration sent her in 2003 that raised discrepancies about the housekeeper’s documents — a possible tip-off that she could be illegal.

The letter is the foundation for claims by former maid Nicky Diaz Santillan that Whitman and her husband knew for years she was in the U.S. illegally, but kept her on the job regardless.

For two days, Whitman forcefully denied receiving any such letter and said she fired the $23-an-hour housekeeper last year immediately after learning she was illegal. But Whitman’s husband changed course Thursday after a letter surfaced with what appeared to be his handwriting, forcing him to say he may have been aware of the correspondence back in 2003.

The husband’s shift only served to intensify the uproar in a contest that until now been focused on serious issues such as job creation, government spending and education in a state with a $19 billion deficit and 12.4 percent unemployment.

Now, the focus is on whether the billionaire GOP nominee for governor will take a polygraph test to respond to allegations brought by a celebrityseeking attorney and her mysterious housekeeper client.

Revelations about the illegal housekeeper have also thrown Whitman’s carefully managed campaign completely off track and opened the door for Democrats to accuse her of hypocrisy.

The former eBay chief executive has called for tougher sanctions against employers who hire illegal workers, and the fact that she employed an illegal immigrant maid from Mexico for nine years could undermine her credibility. She has also spent millions courting Latino voters, who could play a key role in determining the outcome of the race.

The housekeeper and lawyer Gloria Allred later produced a copy of the letter Thursday that they say shows Whitman’s husband, Dr. Griffith Harsh III, partially filled it out and told the

housekeeper to “check on this.”

Allred said the housekeeper recognized the writing as belonging to Whitman’s husband, and a handwriting specialist may be brought in to analyze her husband’s penmanship. She claims it could prove that Whitman and her husband knew years earlier that Diaz Santillan might be illegal while working at their Silicon Valley mansion.

In a statement released by the campaign, Harsh said he did not recall receiving the letter, although it’s possible he scratched out a note asking Diaz Santillan to follow up. He noted, however, that the letter does not say Diaz Santillan is illegal, it merely asks for more information.

“The essential fact remains the same, neither Meg nor I believed there was a problem with Nicky’s legal status,” the husband said. “The facts of this matter are very clear: Ms. Diaz broke the law and lied to us and to the employment agency.”

Campaign adviser Rob Stutzman said “it’s reasonable” the letter could be authentic, but added the campaign has questions about its whereabouts for seven years and if it is legitimate.

At one point Thursday, the campaign said that Diaz Santillan may have intercepted the letter since she was in charge of the mail at the house.

The story has consumed two full days of news cycles just as Whitman a n d B row n a re p re p a r i n g fo r a Saturday Spanish-language debate that will include questions of importance to the Hispanic community.

One of the state’s largest public employee unions immediately released a Spanish-language attack ad accusing Whitman of a double standard on illegal immigration.

Whitman, who has revealed few details about her personal life since announcing her first run for office last year, was forced to spend 45 minutes answering questions from reporters about what she knew and when she knew it, her husband standing awkwardly by throughout.

“You know, I’ve only been in politics for two years. I’m just getting used to the smear politics, I’m just getting used to the politics of personal destruction,” she told dozens of reporters hastily gathered at a hotel in Santa Monica.

Whitman has spent a record $119 million of her own money on the race, and her campaign has been marked by its uncanny ability to stay on message.

That marks a notable contrast with Brown, the state’s attorney general and a former governor known for talking off-the-cuff, sometimes too much.

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Hearing loss: Highest in 20 years

By Eric Morana The Collegian

While blasting music on a personal listening device, grooving to your favorite song, or bumping the sound in your car or on your personal stereo at home, is the potential risk of hearing loss the first thing on your mind?

Personal listening devices have become a common part of our society. On a college campus it's not uncommon to see students walking from one part of campus to the other completely oblivious to the rest of the world, while they have both ear-buds in to block out any noise around them.

Students are at a high risk of suffering from noise-induced hearing loss when they listen to music at a high volume, and can be completely unaware of it.

Noise-induced hearing loss is damage to the hair cells in the inner ear that allow sound energy to be converted to electric energy that our brain reads as a sound. Without the hair cells our brain is unable to recognize sound waves. Thus, we lose our ability to hear. There's nothing we can do to bring our hearing back once it's damaged.

Decibels, dB, are the unit in measuring how loud a sound is.

Any sound below 85 dB is considered safe to be around. Normal conversation between two people is around 65 dB, while a lawn mower or a construction vehicle puts out 85 dB of noise.

Fresno State audiology professor Dr. Cynthia Cavazos is a local expert on the dangers of loud sound and the direct impact it can have on hearing loss. She is also a consulting audiologist for the California Department

of Education, at the Diagnostic Center of Central California.

“Your generation has shown a tremendous increase in hearing loss as compared to 20 years ago, and it can in part be attributed to the use of personal listening devices,” Cavazos said.

The most dangerous aspect to listening to music is listening at too high of a volume, but it is not the only factor involved in damaging the ability to hear. The amount of time spent around a specific intensity of sound can also impact the amount of damage caused to the hair cells in the ear.

According to the public health campaign Dangerous Decibels, if you're

Aguirre, 24, feels that she has suffered from hearing loss because of listening to music at too high of a volume.

“I noticed in my car when I don’t have my iPod connected to the radio, I would turn it up super high,” Aguirre said. “Before I would connect my iPod and I would put it in the middle range, now I need to blast it.”

Other students feel that their hearing has not been impacted because of their listening habits with personal listening devices.

Business major Juan Scoggins, 19, doesn’t think he has suffered from any hearing loss. When listening to music Scoggins realizes that some songs are

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oise-induced hearing loss is 100 percent preventable and the best step to take is to turn your music down.”

— Dr. Cynthia Cavazos, Fresno State audiology professor

around an area that is 85 dB for eight hours or longer you will suffer from nose-induced hearing loss.

It's apparent that listening to music anywhere from 20 minutes to a couple of hours in a single session is the normal thing to do for most students on campus or at the gym.

When listening to music with headphones for an excessive amount of time, there's still a risk that someone can suffer from hearing damage even if the volume dB isn’t at a level that can cause immediate damage.

Every three dB is double the sound intensity, and cuts the amount of time in half before permanent hearing damage starts to occur. For example, if eight hours of 85 dB will cause hearing damage, 88 dB will start to cause hearing damage in four hours.

Health science major Jessica

louder than others so he will adjust accordingly to prevent the music from being too loud.

According to the sales records from the Kennel Book Store, the most popular music player sold on campus is the Apple iPod. Apple included a volume maximum cap built into the iPod settings. This volume cap can be set to reduce the amount of sound intensity that comes out when listening to music.

A password is used to keep children from changing the volume cap if a parent were to set it before giving it to the child.

Unfortunately, just because this feature is provided to anyone who uses an iPod, doesn’t mean that they will use it.

Scoggins knew about his volume cap setting, but he didn't use it. Other students said they just kept the volume cap setting at 100 percent; in effect there is no reduction in amount of noise output when listening to music.

Cavazos explained that anyone at any age is at risk to noise-induced hearing loss.

“Nobody is safe from noise,” Cavazos said.

Student can get a free hearing test at the Speech & Hearing Clinic, located on the second floor of the Psychology and Human Services Building in room 205.

Students can call to set up an appointment at 559-278-2422.

Cavazos said getting a test is a great way to see if you have suffered from hearing loss. Students can also get a hearing test now, then get retested in a few years to see if they have more hearing damage than the last time they took the test.

“Noise-induced hearing loss is 100 percent preventable and the best step to take is to turn your music down,” Cavazos said. “Use speakers instead of headphones for longer listening sessions and take breaks to give your ears a rest when using a personal listening device.”

Photo Illustration by Matt Weir / The Collegian

Yoga classes on campus help students relax

By Lucerito Salgado The Collegian One kinesiology course doesn’t offer typical exercise: It has you twisting your body in postures like the Cobra, Butterfly, Fallen Leaf and Rocking Chair. The yoga class on campus has students relieving stress through breathing techniques, stretching and meditation.

“It helps physically, mentally, spiritually and emotionally,” said Fresno State Yoga instructor Nicole Flores.

F l o r e s s a i d yo g a h e l p s b u i l d strength, stamina, flexibility and endurance as it tones and sculpt the body.

There are several different styles of yoga, but there is one in particular that Flores prefers and teaches: Yoga of the Old Masters.

“It’s the most relaxing style of yoga,” Flores said.

Flores said a person could gain the most benefits of yoga during relaxation.

Flores’ 50-minute class meets twice a week. Students stretch one day and then the next day they meditate. In her hour and 50-minute class, students stretch and meditate in one sitting for

even greater benefits.

English major Laura Carroll said yoga was something new to her, and wanted to explore it after taking the kickboxing class last semester. She is already experiencing the benefits of yoga, especially with her health and

fidence in the way I make decisions,” Inphay said.

Inphay said that yoga not only helps a person physically and mentally, but it also helps for body shape. She considers yoga a kind of exercise, but that you do it mentally without a machine.

“I

'm more calm and I have more confidence in the way I make decisions.”

— Khouahesiva Inphay, Accounting major

peace of mind.

“The breathing techniques that are taught in the class really help you calm yourself down in everyday life,” Carroll said. “I have asthma, so the breathing techniques even help me with getting a good amount of air in my lungs.

Accounting major Khouahesiva Inphay believes yoga has made a difference in her life since she started taking the class on campus.

“I'm more calm and I have more con-

“It helps a lot,” Inphay said. “That’s why I decided to take yoga again.”

Flores said she has seen multiple students lose weight during her 14 years of teaching at Fresno State and studying at the Yoga Center of Fresno.

“I had a student who dropped 40 pounds in a semester, but it all depends on how devoted they are,” Flores said.

Although the majority of students are women, men take the class to receive the same benefits.

Animal science public health major

Christopher Edwards thinks yoga is a very good stress reliever, a way to become more flexible and a way to gain more endurance.

“I thought it was really nice to have a challenge and at the same time be stress free from school,” Edwards said.

Edwards said yoga is helping him stay focused on his readings for his literature class and the class is allowing him to meditate easier.

“It gives you a time period to think and come back to yourself and think about your whole day,” Edwards said.

Flores said the number of men enrolling in yoga is growing because of the popularity that yoga has acquired over the years. She also said that a great deal of the men who are in her yoga classes are football players.

Flores recommends her students to practice yoga two or three times a week at home with the six-session yoga set they're required to have for the class.

Each session is 45 to 60 minutes of stretching and meditation.

“It’s a really good class and I would definitely recommend taking it,” Carroll said. “I think everyone can benefit from taking a yoga class.”

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In His Own Words opens tonight in Library

By Maddie Shannon The Collegian

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Cesar Chavez is the subject of In His Own Words, an exhibit that kicks off the College of Arts and Humanities monthlong centennial celebration.

In an effort to celebrate the College of Arts and Humanities centennial month, the department of communications is displaying an exhibit that features the life and accomplishments of MexicanAmerican labor hero Cesar Chavez.

In His Own Words: The Life and Work of Cesar Chavez will feature a timeline paired with pictures taken of his life, starting from his childhood. The exhibit highlights Chavez’s efforts to make farmworker’s rights a reality.

“The exhibit includes 38 photos that go alongside autobiographical reflections Cesar Chavez wrote himself,” said John Hammerback, the exhibit’s chief scholar. “The whole communications department has been extremely supportive of the exhibit.”

The communications department chair, Kathy Adams, was instrumental in getting the exhibit to come to Fresno State.

“I was just coming into my cur rent position with the department and Kathy came to me to tell me we have this great exhibit coming, and I thought that was just fantastic,” said Doug Fraleigh, who is acting as the department chair while Adams is on sabbatical.

“There’s a lot to be learned from an exhibit like this.”

Fraleigh expects a large turnout for the opening night of the exhibit.

“We’ve invited faculty and graduate students as well as underg raduate students to

come,” said Fraleigh. “It’s an incredible opportunity to have the exhibit here.”

Humanities Texas, the Texasbased historical organization that put the collection together, features exhibits like In His Own Words as traveling exhibits.

“The exhibit was shown at San Francisco State University and University o f Wa s h i n g t o n , ” s a i d Hammerback. “It’s usually on display in one location for six weeks in places like cultural centers, universities and high schools.”

Hammerback, who travels to about half of the locations where the exhibit is shown, claims Chavez’s lifelong dedication to his Catholic faith played a central role in the exhibit.

“The religious element is as important and interesting as anything else in the exhibit,” said Hammerback.

In addition to the exhibit, Fresno State hosted Hammerback as a keynote speaker to a Chicano and Latin American studies class.

“I try to chronicle and demonstrate his work when I talk about the accomplishments of Cesar Chavez,” said Hammerback. “He formed the first permanent union of farmworkers. He had no political power.”

In His Own Words opens tonight in the Ellipse room in the Henry Madden Library at 7 p.m. and runs through Nov. 23.

The exhibit is free to the public.

Music from Holocaust captures culture of camps

By Dorie Turner Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Some songs are slow, emotional, almost weepy symphonies. Others are driving and angry pub songs. A few are sarcastic jazz numbers.

Others are shockingly upbeat — happy almost — as if the music lifted the composers out of the Nazi prison camps where they lived, saved them for just a moment from their horrific, torturous existence.

A handful of the countless songs written by victims of the Holocaust and other World War II prisoners made their world premiere at Emory University in Atlanta on Tuesday during “Testaments of the Heart,” a program to help raise money to collect and preserve more of the music produced by captives of Germany and other countries, including Japan, from 1933 to 1945.

Already thousands of the songs have been collected by Italian pianist and conductor

Francesco Lotoro — who was in Atlanta to play in the concert — in a 20-year effort to ensure the music is preserved for generations to come. And he plans to house that collection at Emory once he raises the money to transfer it to the private university’s library.

“We as the world are the ones who have all been denied this wealth,” Lotoro said through a translator. “There is a gaping hole in the musical history and culture of the world. This work has to continue to fill that hole and be the foundation for current and future musical culture.”

With musicians from the Atlanta area, Lotoro presented — some for the first time — pieces that were scribbled in diaries, carved into wood and even written on toilet paper.

The music ranges from short songs to full operas and symphonies.

The group played the last piece ever written by Austrian musician and conductor

Viktor Ullmann, who studied under Arnold Schoenberg and who died at Auschwitz in 1944.

The haunting piano melody is set to a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke about a warrior from the 17th century.

Another piece was by British pianist William Hilsley, who was prolific during his time in various German camps for British nationals and wrote sarcastically about his prison life. Before he died in 2003, he published his diary from his time in captivity as a book.

“Numbers, that’s what we are now,” goes one song by Hilsley. “Not for thieving, nor deceiving, not for cheating nor wife beating are we locked in here.”

Another piece called “Banner in the Sky” was written by Gordon Sage, an American prisoner of war in the Mukden prison camp in Manchuria and a survivor of the Bataan Death March. It featured a full band and chorus and has strains of the National Anthem running

through it.

Another song is by Emile Goue, a French composer who died in 1946 from health problems developed while he was in a German POW camp. His dark string quartet piece was accompanied by a slideshow of f amily photo g raphs of Holocaust victims before they were imprisoned, images found by photographer Ann Weiss at Auschwitz in the 1980s.

Weiss’ photos are on exhibit at Emory until Nov. 12 with dozens of the images scattered in buildings across the campus.

The music of the prisoners was preserved in many ways: passed on from person to person in camps until it was smuggled out, given to family members who were safe from the Nazis or simply found after the camps were liberated.

Many of the songs were written in Theresienstadt, a Czech town used as a Nazi propaganda tool where prisoners could stage operas, concerts

and cabaret shows. The camp saw many Jewish leaders and prominent artists from all over Europe. But some songs are from prisoners who had never before written music but felt the urge to create something beautiful among their horrific surroundings.

Lotoro has slowly been recording all the music on a set of 24 albums whenever he can cobble together the money and the musicians. Ultimately, he hopes to record all the 4,000 pieces he’s found so far and estimates there are likely only another 1,500 in existence — which he says pales in comparison to the music lost during the war. Lotoro began collecting the music in 1991 during a trip to Prague, where he went with one bag where he could store the music but had to buy a bigger one because he had found hundreds of manuscripts and photocopies.

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18 Tightly packed 19 Income’s antithesis 20 Truly drawn-out period 23 Like a dirty rotten scoundrel 24 Removes with clippers 27 Crystal ball gazer 28 Stinging response to an insult 31 Coffeemaker style 32 ___ Lanka 35 Certain quality about a person 37 “Don we now our ___ apparel” 38 “That doesn’t seem right” 41 “Chances ___” (Johnny Mathis hit) 43 “___ Grit” (John Wayne film) 44 Despite that, informally 45 Dumptruckful 47 Shrek, for one 49 Cold War news agency 53 Bygone Spanish coin 55 Emmy winner Fabray 58 Not easily accepted

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News Briefs Brief news for the brief attention span NEW YORK (AP) — Whoopi Goldberg says she channels her grief from her mother’s death last month by staying busy.

The co-host of “The View” attended the New York launch party Wednesday for purewow. com, a website with daily tips for women 35 and over. She is an investor.

Asked how she’s handling her mother’s death, Goldberg said, “I’m here, but it’s not easy.”

Her mother, Emma Johnson, died from complications following a stroke.

Goldberg had been doing a limited stint as Mother Superior in the London version of “Sister Act” and immediately returned to the U.S. “Sister Act” moves to Broadway this season with an opening planned for Spring 2011. Goldberg is also one of the show’s producers but says she has no plans to reprise her role.

NEW YORK (AP) — Oscarnominated actor Joe Mantell, who co-starred in “Marty” and delivered one of movies’ most famous lines in “Chinatown,” has died, his family said. He was 94.

Mantell died Wednesday at the Providence Tarzana Medical Center in Tarzana, Calif., according to a statement from his son, Dr. Robert Mantell. The statement said the death followed a long ill-

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ness, but it did not elaborate.

Mantell was a character actor with more than 70 film and TV credits who received an Academy Award nomination in 1956 for his performance as Angie, the best friend of Ernest Borgnine in “Marty.”

His oft-repeated line to his sadsack friend — “Well, what do you feel like doin’ tonight?” — was one of the beloved film’s most memorable lines.

He again became a part of movie lore in 1974’s “Chinatown,” in which he played the partner of Jack Nicholson’s detective character, Jack Gittes. Mantell spoke the film’s famous last line: “Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.”

Mantell’s other notable credits include “The Birds,” ‘’Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room” and several episodes of “The Twilight Zone.”

Mantell, who had lived in Encino, Calif., since 1961, is survived by his wife Mary, daughters Jeannie and Cathy, son Robert, daughter-in-law Glei and two grandchildren.

A private funeral service is planned for Sunday.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An autopsy has been completed for a longtime Quentin Tarantino film editor who died while hiking in the Hollywood Hills during a record hot spell.

However, Los Angeles County coroner’s Lt. Fred Corral said

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21 Trunk with a chest?

22 ___ de corps 25 Increasingly shallow inlet 26 Undercover agent 29 DVD player component 30 “___ Wiedersehen” (German good-bye) 33 Dirt road depression 34 Serious encroachment 36 Volcanic matter 38 Beach 39 Burrowed 40 Where to stay when away 41 Yodeling peak 42 Lobster coral 46 More precious 48 Preserve, as fodder 50 After all this time 51 Humidor cheapie 52 Alaska Purchase arranger 54 Hairdresser’s handful 56 Lie in store for 57 F.D.R. VP, John ___ Garner 59 Where Scarlett married Rhett 60 “Roger, ___ and out!”

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Wednesday that the cause of death has been deferred pending toxicological tests on the body of 56-year-old Sally JoAnne Menke. Corral wouldn’t say when those tests would be completed.

Menke’s body was discovered Tuesday in Griffith Park.

Her black Labrador retriever was standing near the body.

Investigators suspect she d i e d o f hy p e r t h e r m i a o n Monday, when downtown Los Angeles was on its way to a record high of 113.

Menke edited every Quentin Tarantino film from “Reservoir Dogs” in 1992 to last year’s “Inglourious Basterds,” which earned her an Academy Award nomination.

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A Palin family attorney is defending as legal Bristol Palin’s appearance at an Anchorage e s t a b l i s h m e n t wh e r e h e r “Dancing with the Stars” partner Mark Ballas performed.

The Alaska Dispatch newspaper had reported that a state Alcohol and Control Board investigator visited its office, asking for copies of raw video shot during the performance at Rumrunners Old Towne Bar and Grill last week.

Palin is 19 and could only legally be in the establishment if accompanied by a parent, spouse or legal guardian over 21. State law also would allow her to be there if it’s been designated as a bona fide restaurant, and she was there only to eat.

Attorney Thomas Van Flein says Palin was with two people over 21, ate food and did not consume any alcohol. She told him she left by about 10 p.m.

N E W YO R K ( A P ) - J O h n Guare’s new play will go on at Manhattan’s Lincoln Center

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but it will not include Rosie Perez.

The Oscar-nominated actress is recovering from a bone marrow procedure and neck surgery. She says she had to drop out of the historical play “A Free Man of Color,” which premieres at Lincoln Center on Nov. 18.

Perez says her doctor was afraid the workload would land her back in the hospital.

Pere z, who appeared in “Do The Right Thing” and

“Fearless” hurt her neck while filming an episode of “Law & Order: SVU” in 2009.

Says the actress: “I’m on the mend.”

Guare’s other plays include “Six Degrees of Separation” and “The House of Blue Leaves.”

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MUSIC: Holocaust survivors wrote in camps CONTINUED from page 5 Alfred Schneider, a Holocaust survivor at Tuesday’s concert, said it’s “moving” that Lotoro would spend decades collecting these songs to be preserved.

“I find it electrifying,” said Schneider, 83, a retired Georgia Tech professor who was spared from the German death camps by the mayor of his Austrian hometown, Czernowitz, which is now part of Ukraine.

Lotoro’s ultimate goal has been to present the music the way the composers originally intended, which can be an odd combination of sounds. Many of the writers had few instruments available to them, so some music is written for a guitar, two flutes and a clarinet or a trombone, an alto sax and a clarinet.

“What you really want as a person and as an artist — even when you are gone — is that your dreams, your essence, your purpose, your meaning does live on. A lot of these people, their lives were taken but we have this part of them,” said Honora Foah, an Atlanta artist who, along with her husband Dahlan Robert Foah, helped Lotoro put together the concert. “To have the opportunity to connect with what was essential in these people, the most beautiful part of them, and to be able to bring that back out into the world is an extraordinary privilege.”

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The Collegian’s Heisman Watch The co-sports editors and editor in chief adjust their Heisman frontrunners for week five

Vongni Yang CO-SPORTS EDITOR 1. Kellen Moore, QB, Boise State, Jr. With the rest of the nation watching, Moore was outstanding in the spotlight against Oregon State. Moore completed 70 percent of his passes for 288 yards and three touchdowns. Moore cemented himself as the top candidate in the month of September.

2. Denard Robinson, QB, Michigan, So. Despite leaving the game

early in the first quarter, Robinson still managed to rush for 129 yards and two touchdowns. Imagine if Robinson would have played the entire game.

3. Andrew Luck, QB, Stanford, Jr. The national spotlight is on Luck and Stanford this week.

Luck leads a Cardinal squad that is 4-0 for the first time in 24 years. If Luck shines against No. 4 Oregon, he’ll skyrocket up many Heisman lists.

4 . M a rk I n g r a m , R B , Alabama, Jr. Ing ram reminded many Heisman voters that he’s still the best player in the nation after rushing for 157 yards and two touchdowns against Arkansas. With Florida next on the schedule, Ingram will shine and generate the buzz that he deserves.

Dark Horse: Greg McElroy, QB, Sr. McElroy quarterbacks the top team in the nation. After a so-so performance against Arkansas, McElroy will get his opportunity to shine against a Florida defense that plans to key in on Ingram.

Tony Petersen EDITOR IN CHIEF 1. Kellen Moore, QB, Boise State, Jr. It’s looking more and more

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likely that Moore will lead the Broncos to yet another undefeated season. And you know what? Our hated WAC opponents (I can’t say rivalry) are as deserving of playing in the national championship as any other team in the nation. I, for one, would like to see that.

2. Denard Robinson, QB, Michigan, So. Last week, Robinson did not even play a whole half, and he still ran for 129 yards and two touchdowns. Goodness gracious. Words cannot be spoken.

3 . M a rk I n g r a m , R B , Alabama, Jr. Ingram’s only played two games, but in those games he’s ran for at least 151 yards and two touchdowns. Not bad for the reigning Heisman champ, though he does have quite a ways to go before topping the

top two.

4. Terrelle Pryor, QB, Ohio State, Jr. Pryor had quite a weekend—he threw for four touchdowns, ran for one and even caught one. If he navigates the Buckeyes through the Big Ten unscathed, he may be the Heisman winner by virtue of playing for a big name team.

Regardless, Ohio State’s Nov. 27 game against Michigan may have more combined speed at quarterback than any other matchup in the history of the game.

Dark Horse: Andrew Luck, QB, Stanford, Jr. If Luck leads the Cardinal to a victory over No. 4 Oregon tomorrow, I guarantee that he will be “lucky” enough to make it into my top four.

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1. Kellen Moore, QB, Boise State, Jr. Boise State’s remaining schedule will be a problem keeping Moore at the top of this list, but the Bronco leader’s numbers speak for themselves. Moore holds a 29-1 record as the Boise State starter. Mr. Efficient has thrown eight touchdowns to just one interception this season.

2. Denard Robinson, QB, Michigan, So. Robinson posted his lowest numbers this season against Bowling Green, rushing for 129 yards on five carries. The problem is, he only played the first quarter due to injury.

“Shoelace’s” insane numbers

continue to climb, as he still leads the nation in rushing.

3. Terrell Pryor, QB, Ohio State, Jr. Pryor threw four touchdowns, ran for another and even caught a score in Ohio State’s 73-20 blowout of Easter n Michig an last Saturday. Like Robinson, Pryor has a lot to prove in the coming weeks, especially the Buckeyes’ road date at No. 11 Wisconsin on Oct. 16.

4. LaMichael James, RB, Oregon, So. The Oregon speedster has the chance to jump a few spots in the Heisman race against No. 9 Stanford’s stingy defense this weekend. James is second in the country with 158.3 rushing yards per game on arguably the nation’s most prolific offense.

Dark Horse: Andrew Luck, QB, Stanford, Jr. This is a big, big week for Luck. He already has NFL scouts drooling at his potential, but has yet to play a defense like Oregon’s. Luck was exposed for the first time last week against Notre Dame, but a big game in Autzen Stadium will catch voters’ eyes, if he hasn’t already.

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WEEK 4 PREVIEW SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, AT 7:00 P.M., BULLDOG STADIUM

Bulldog Game Day Fresno State Bulldogs (2-1, 1-0 WAC)

vs.

Cal Poly Mustangs (3-1, 0-0 Great West)

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Keys to Victory 1. Forget about last week After suffering its first loss to Ole Miss 55-38, the ‘Dogs will have to play on a short memory this week to bounce back after the bad loss.

2. Find an identity in the run game With leading rusher A.J. Ellis out for six weeks, former starter Robbie Rouse will get his chance to shine as the feature back. Outside of the Utah State game, the ‘Dogs have failed to rush for more 50 yards.

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3. Sticking to individual assignments If the defense does not play assignment football, it just might get shredded again like it did against Ole Miss. The defensive players must stick to their own assignments this week to stop the triple option.

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Breakdown: Bulldogs After coming off a tough 55-38 loss to the Mississippi Rebels last week, coach Pat Hill and his squad will return home humbled by their recent loss on their 1-1 road trip.

On Saturday, the Dogs’ will look to regain their swagger and confidence that they had after starting the season 2-0.

Primarily, the ‘Dogs must work on improving their ability to run as it has lacked in two of the first three games of the season. Running back Robbie Rouse only turned in 22 rushing yards against the Rebels last week.

On the positive side, quarterback Ryan Colburn paced the offense by throwing for 390 yards and four touchdowns.

Thus, his part in the upcoming game will be critical once

again. Defense last week was no where to be seen and the coaching staff will have to slow down the Cal Poly rushing attack that averages 258 yards on the ground per game.

Giving up 578 total yards of offense to Ole Miss, the ‘Dogs defense will have to hold firm against another mobile quarterback this week in Andre Broadous.

Breakdown: Mustangs Coming off of an impressive victory by blowing out McNeese State 40-14 last week, Cal Poly comes into Saturday’s game looking like a well-oiled machine.

Coach Pat Hill knows that this team will be no easy victory and will game plan accordingly. Cal Poly boasts multiple threats in a majority of the skill positions.

Sophomore Andre Broadous anchors the offense and brings with him his mobile style of play. Cal Poly, which employs the triple option threat, will look to bust huge running plays if the scheme is executed properly. Broadous will be accompanied by slot backs Mark Rodgers and Jordan Yocum.

This dangerous and potent

o f f e n s ive s c h e m e, wh i c h gained a total of 310 rushing yards and four touchdowns last week, will look to run wild against Fresno State’s defense.

The Mustang’s defensive unit was impressive last week giving up only 14 points.

The unit is led by senior linebacker Marty Mohamed and has amassed a total of 29 tackles and three interceptions in the early season.

Editor’s Prediction Fresno State 38, Cal Poly 13

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Player to watch: Jordan Yocum, fullback

Wins against: Humboldt State, Montana. McNeese State Losses to: Texas State Head coach: Tim Walsh (second year, 7-8) Offense: Spread Triple Option Defense: Multiple 4-3

Key players: QB Andre Broadous, FB Jordan Yocum, LB Marty Mohamed Series record: Fresno State leads 30-10-2 Last meeting: 59-10 (1985) Point Spread: None

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When Fresno State runs: Advantage - Fresno State Although the Bulldogs’ run game has been slow coming this season, an experienced offensive line and depleted receiving corps should spell plenty of carries for the Fresno State backfield.

When Cal Poly runs: Advantage - Cal Poly Fresno State’s run defense last week looked lifeless, giving up huge plays and 425 yards on the ground. Cal Poly lives or dies by the run, and if it can catch the ‘Dogs’ defense napping, it could break some big runs.

When Fresno State passes: Advantage - Fresno State Ryan Colburn is one of the hottest passers in the country right now and is off to the best start for a Bulldog quarterback in the history of the program.

When Cal Poly passes: Advantage - Fresno State The Mustangs only throw the ball 16 times per game on average, and Fresno State’s secondary is healthy, led by safeties Phillip Thomas and Lorne Bell.

Special teams: Advantage - Fresno State The Bulldogs’ return game has been superb this season, averaging 14 yards per punt return. Kevin Goessling struggled on the road last week, but still booted in a field goal from 50 yards out last week.