October 24 2014

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Chukchansi tribe strife threatens language course

By Briana Montemayor @brimonte_carlo

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By Jesse Franz

@JesseOfTheNews The Fresno State community was treated to a stellar experience Thursday as the Central Valley Astronomers held a solar-eclipse viewing event outside the campus’ Downing Planetarium.

Equipping onlookers with telescopes, pinhole cameras and tinted film, which allowed them to view the eclipse, the group used the event to raise public interest and knowledge about astronomy.

“I think the best thing is seeing how

excited people get. I’ve seen a lot of eclipses, but it’s always fun to show the kids all that,” said Dr. Steven White, the director of the planetarium and a Fresno State physics professor.

The partial-solar eclipse, which occurs when the view of the sun from earth is somewhat obscured by the moon, began at 1:58 p.m. and reached peak visibility at 3:22 p.m.

Simon Gonzalez, a Fresno State graduate student studying physics, took the opportunity to take pictures of the eclipse utilizing a computer hooked up

to a telescope.

“Unfortunately here in Fresno, the moon didn’t get to obscure that much of the sun. Only about 38.2 percent of the sun got blocked,” Gonzalez said.

However, he said he looks forward to a full-solar eclipse, an incredibly rare phenomenon, viewable from the continental United States in 2017.

Prior the eclipse, the astronomers also hosted two programs, “Moonbound: 2020” and “Two Small Pieces of Glass,” that educated attendees on the future of space flight and telescopes.

Darlene Wendels • The Collegian

Brooke Dressel and her son Riley Dressel view the solar eclipse through a telescope set up by a member of the Central Valley Astronomers outside the Downing Planetarium on Thursday.

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Since the indefinite closing of Chukchansi Gold Resort & Casino, fears have risen among programs and organizations receiving contributions from the tribe, including Chukchansi Park Downtown and Fresno State.

On Oct. 10 the casino was forced to shut down by the government after tribal infighting led to one faction entering the casino armed. Now, with legal proceedings ongoing, it is unclear when it will re-open or when just under 1,000 of its laid-off employees will be able to go back to work.

Ken Hanson, a professor of political science at Fresno State, said the Chukchansi tribe has donated a good amount of money toward the linguistics program, and that support may be in danger in the future.

The Chukchansi tribe donated $1 million to Fresno State to work on the revitalization of the tribe’s language. This includes putting together an alphabet system, a dictionary, language lessons and the training of tribal language teachers.

A payment system was created that allowed the Chukchansi tribe to give $200,000 annually for five years. So far the tribe has made three such payments.

Charles Ettner, adjunct professor and American Indian studies program coordinator, said the closure could have an impact on the university’s campus.

“If the casino was to stay closed for a long period of time, then next year’s portion of that gift wouldn’t arrive, and we wouldn’t stop the program, because that’s not where we’re at,” he said. “We would just not be able to do as much, and some of the people whose time is being paid for out of that gift would not be able to put as much time in.”

Hanson also said that students who receive financial support from Chukchansi through scholarships may be affected. “[Things that may be affected include] potentially support for individual students from that tribe, and I don’t know how many they have here, but there are a few,” he said.

The possibility that the casino may be closed permanently has also raised financial fears in the Fresno community.

Rally seeks to inform about ‘yes means yes’

By Megan Ginise @SimplyMeg13

Hundreds of students, faculty and community organizations gathered Wednesday evening in the Free Speech Area to share their stories and raise awareness about sexual assault at the Take Back The Night rally.

Take Back the Night, which started on campus in 1979, recognizes victims and survivors globally who have suffered sexual assault or violence. Approximately 1.3 million women have been physically assaulted by an intimate partner this year alone, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey.

Based on the recent groundbreaking California “yes means yes” legislation, this year’s rally focused on sexual consent.

Dr. Loretta Kensinger, women’s studies professor, called on students to know and follow the law requiring affirmative consent from both partners prior to sexual contact.

“Legislators are finally getting engaged in the issues of sexual violence on campus by a courageous group of tenacious survivors who wouldn’t have their rights trampled on,” Kensinger said.

Eighty-two schools across the U.S. are currently being investigated for violations of Title IX, Kensinger said. Title IX requires state-funded schools to prohibit discrimination based on sex and compels institutions to take proactive steps to protect students against sexual violence.

The schools being investigated include Swarthmore College, Occidental College, University Of California, Berkeley, Dartmouth and USC. “A new generation of brave survivors

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Darlene Wendels • The Collegian

Men and women march through Fresno State campus during the Take Back the Night rally on Wednesday. The event was designed to raise awareness about sexual consent.

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THE TELEVISION NEWS MEDIA HELPING YOU RACIALLY PROFILE SINCE 1980

By Troy Pope @darktroy

In a crisis, is the news media effective at informing the public of what they need to know, or does it actually misinform and even harm the public?

Sensationalistic television news isn’t a new phenomenon, but if you are paying close attention to what gets broadcasted, you’ll notice an alarming amount of racial or otherwise general profiling going on.

A gunman, Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, went into the Canadian Parliament Wednesday and shot a soldier, Nathan Cirillo, in the back. It’s being called “terrorism.”

The media is already finding Zehaf-Bibeau’s “ties” to Islamic extremism (apparently he liked a page on Facebook), it’s only a matter of time before he’s just called an ISIS terrorist as a resort of the propaganda machine.

Now, the overuse of the word terrorism is not the issue, but rather news organizations that feel the need to profile people, and put them into comfortable little groups in order to put the public’s minds at ease.

While reporting on the situation in Canada, CNN helpfully posted fun facts to help the public generalize the shooter.

The useful facts included: “Had a criminal record, Canadian passport was revoked, visited the U.S. at least four times, charged with drug possession in 2004, charged with robbery and uttering threats in 2011, father is a Quebec businessman, mother works in Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board,

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NDP MP Charlie Angus waits to lay flowers at the National War Memorial in Ottawa on Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014, the day after a soldier was shot and killed there.

parents divorced 15 years ago, an only child.

These helpful tips make it possible for the public to put the Zehaf-Bibeau into a category to set him apart from themselves.

Because, of course, if his parents hadn’t been divorced this never would have happened. It’s really a rallying cry for traditional marriage and an attack on divorce.

Also, despite the fact that CNN, and other TV outlets most likely, bothered to label all of the “important” bullet points about Zehaf-Bibeau they could get their hands

on, they neglected to immortalize the most important piece of information about him.

Zehaf-Bibeau is a Libra, and those guys are shady.

The truth is that these facts aren’t newsworthy at all. But CNN desperately needed to have bullet-point facts about Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, so he could become a bullet point himself.

With a complete lack of an actual reason for the attack in Ottawa, the news media felt obligated to help the viewer profile the

attacker, negatively of course.

Not that there’s any added need to negatively view a killer, or alleged killer, but in a pinch the television news people are there to help you to hate others.

This isn’t the first time CNN has attempted to put suspects into categories, even if it was just as a result of negligence.

During the Boston Bombing in 2013, CNN reported that the suspect the police were looking for was a “dark-skinned” male.

Dark skinned, that’s quite descriptive.

Even if they just jumped the gun with reporting the damning misinformation, it was incredibly harmful to society.

In the post-9/11 world, “dark” generally means Middle Eastern. Not only is the term incredibly prejudicial, implicating people that weren’t remotely responsible, but it wasn’t even accurate information.

The alleged bombers were Eastern European, and weren’t dark at all.

The question remains as to why news organizations do this.

Some argue that it’s out of malicious intent, with the sole purpose of positioning the public for political means. Others would say it’s pure American capitalism, with content driven by the need to make money.

The big problem is: no one calls them on it; they just accept it and file it away into their subconscious.

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Astros front office meets Fresno fans

By Ricardo Cano @Ricardo_Cano1

The Fresno Grizzlies’ transition as the Houston Astros’ Triple-A affiliate got a big push Thursday night when the team unveiled designs for new home uniforms and held a meet-and-greet between fans and the Astros’ front office.

The Grizzlies, who ended their 17-year partnership with the San Francisco Giants in September after their contract was not renewed, signed a two-year player development contract with the Astros, who boast arguably the best farm system in Major League Baseball.

Astros president of business operations Reid Ryan, director of player personnel Quinton McCracken and assistant director of player personnel Allen Rowin assured Grizzlies fans they plan to field a competitive team.

Top prospects Mark Appel, a right-handed pitcher out of Stanford, infielder Carlos Correa and members of a core group that has won championships at the rookie, Low-A and High-A levels are expected to make their way to Fresno as early as next year, Ryan said.

“People have watched what we’ve done in Houston,” Ryan said prior to the meetand-greet. “You’ve seen the Sports Illustrated article [that touted the Astros as the best player development organization], you’ve seen the press about how we stripped this thing down to very barebones. We’re building it back and we’re building it to last.”

The Astros, who have accumulated high draft picks and prospects through a slew of losing seasons and a front office that’s gutted its major league roster as part of longterm rebuilding, last made a World Series appearance in 2005. Much of that roster, like the current batch of prospects making their way up the farm system, featured many touted prospects.

“We have a lot of prospects,” Ryan said.

“We’ve had a very ugly teardown process.

When our new ownership came in, we traded away basically anybody that had any val-

Darlene Wendels • The Collegian

(From left) Parker the Bear, ABC30 anchor David Bataller, Astros president of business operations Reid Ryan, assistant director of player personnel Allen Rowin, director of player personnel Quinton McCracken and Grizzlies executive vice president Derek Franks participate in a meet-and-greet Thursday at Chukchansi Park.

ue at the major-league level and we got as many prospects as we could.”

McCracken said, “Our No. 1 objective is to develop talent to the big-league level, but we understand we want to do that in a winning environment.”

Already the changes brewing at Chukchansi Park are bearing Houston’s mark.

Fresno’s newest promotional logo has the traditional slashed orange-colored F insignia with the lone star in the Astros’ logo as the backdrop.

Mockups of the Grizzlies’ new home uniforms were unveiled before more than 400 fans at Chukchansi Park and feature an orange Fresno script.

“We felt this was, now more than ever, the time to wear our city on our jersey,”

Grizzlies executive vice president Derek Franks said. “We want our guys to wear Fresno loud and proud this year.”

Steve DeFrancesco, manager of the Astros’ former Triple-A affiliate in Oklahoma City the past four seasons, has been tapped as the Grizzlies manager, the Astros announced Thursday.

Fresno resident Charles Bartlett attended Thursday night’s meet-and-greet with his son Sean. The two said they make it a goal to try and attend at least 75 percent of Grizzlies home games each season.

“The affiliation has changed, but the Grizzlies are here, and they’re still Fresno’s team. That’s the way I look at it,” Barrett said.

Photo illustration by Darlene Wendels

The Fresno Grizzlies’ new home jersey will feature an orange Fresno script. The mock-ups of the new uniforms were unveiled Thursday.

Take Back the Night ‘breaking the silence’ RALLY from Page 1 are teaching us all that equal access to education means that women must be safe on their campuses,” Kensinger said. “Discussions are finally reaching from the survivors to the President, Congress and state house, from the dorm room to the chancellor, from the sorority to the office of student affairs.”

“Outrage against student violence is finally being heard,” Kensinger said.

Krysten Cherkaski, president of Fresno State’s Women’s Alliance and coordinator for Take Back the Night, also spoke about the importance of consent.

“Consent is important for numerous reasons,” Cherkaski said. “Our culture may begin a critical shift in responsibility from teaching women that it is their job to protect themselves against sexual violence to teaching all people that sexual violence should not be perpetrated.”

Cherkaski spoke about the harsh realities that students face living in what she called a rape culture. She focused on student’s solidarity and their ability to overcome barriers of identity, gender, race, state lines or time zones.

“Everyday acts such as taking the bus to and from campus, walking back to your car after a night class or preparing for a night out with friends can seem like going into battle,” Cherkaski said.

“You may feel unsafe, afraid or alone, and it is of the utmost importance to know that you are supported, that you have a safe

space in the people that surround you tonight.”

Student leaders also read anonymous poetry and described their own personal stories of sexual assault. Cherkaski said that these stories served as personal anecdotes against a litany of statistics that students shouldn’t tune out.

“Nineteen percent of female undergraduate students will become victims of sexual assault before they graduate, which is roughly 4,361 Fresno State students,” Cherkaski said. “We are not statistics; we are people. We are students, friends, colleagues and family, and we can put a stop to this.”

Hosted by the Fresno State Women’s Alliance, People are Organized for Women’s Empowerment and Representation (POWER) and the Women’s Resource Center, peer counselors were available throughout the night as a resource for students.

Informational tabling booths provided by the Fresno State Student Health Center, Student Pride and the Marjaree Mason Center were also available for students.

Participants could sign posters and design T-shirts that were hung as a visual representation against violence.

The rally also noted other national campaigns against sexual violence, including the “Know Your Nine” campaign founded in 2013 by Amherst College student Dana Bolger and Yale student Alexandra Brodsky. The campaign, which is based on campus violations of Title IX, promotes equal opportunity and access for students,

Darlene Wendels • The Collegian

Kelly Caplan, the master of ceremonies for the event, welcomes students attending the Take Back the Night rally in the Free Speech Area on Wednesday.

in addition to educating students about their sexual rights.

The program concluded with a candlelit vigil held in memory of victims of sexual assault. A march across campus was also led by members of the Sigma Omega Phi Sorority.

“These stories and advocates against domestic violence are so passionate about making a change, they have encouraged me to do the same,” said Katie Emmons, a

senior political science major. “We are all susceptible to violent situations whether we recognize it or not, and it is encouraging to know that there are people out there who care.”

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‘The Maids’ play set to debut on Halloween Fresno State Theatre’s production of poet Jean Genet’s play features dark, complex characters

By Jodi Parkinson @jodi_parkinson

Fresno State’s newest theater play will debut on Halloween for what director Ruth Griffin calls a “gripping” production of symbolist poet Jean Genet’s “The Maids.”

The play is a highly melodramatic and stylized piece, Griffin said.

“If I can think of one word, it would be of a dream,” Griffin said. “I think of it as a poetic space and even though in the interaction there is a lot of cruelty, I want it to be beautiful. It’s housed in beauty.”

Griffin compared the maids’ personalities to an umbrella stand waiting to be filled by rain-soaked umbrellas.

“They’re empty until Madame fills them from the outside world and she gives them a life,” Griffin said.

Samantha Hyde, a senior acting major plays Madame. Hyde said Madame is an extremely complex character.

“She’s multifaceted and you can never really figure out who she is and you only get the image of her through the maids,” Hyde said.

Hyde said that audiences will dislike Madame at first, but will later understand the vulnerability behind her “brave face.”

Hyde said the elegant, lavish attire the cast gets to wear is an exciting factor alone.

“It’s a teal, emerald, Indian silk dress that goes off the shoulders,” Hyde said. “I have peep-toed heels. If anyone is going to see this show, one reason why is because the costumes are drop-dead gorgeous.”

Kia Vassiliades, a senior acting major, plays one of the maids, Solange.

“Solange is actually such a good, caring, loving person at heart, but she’s been stuck in this world of being beaten down and constantly having to protect the ones she loves,

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Kia Vassiliades plays Solange and Rishma Meister plays Claire in “The Maids” during a rehearsal on Thursday. The production by director Ruth Griffin opens Oct. 31.

and it’s turned her into this kind of violent, angry person,” Vassiliades said.

Vassiliades says her favorite aspect of the play is “the fact that we do get to switch between doing some absurdist style, some surrealist, some melodrama, and then realism” and “it’s very dark, it’s very twisted,

it’s really a wild ride— almost a mystery.”

“The Maids,” based on the famous case of the 1933 Papain sisters’ murders, contains some violence, but that is not its sole purpose.

“With Jean Genet the playwright, in all of his plays, they’re plays about reflection

and so mirrors are very important,” Griffin said. “The self is somehow unstable. The self is one image and then another image.”

“The Maids” premieres Oct. 31st at 8 p.m. and will run through Nov. 8 at the Woods Theatre on campus.

Pieology Pizzeria opens at Fig Garden Village Collegian Staff @TheCollegian

With its recent opening in the Fig Garden Village Shopping Center, the franchise now has 11 locations in Northern and Central California, in cities such as Gilroy, Fairfield, Santa Rosa, Sacramento, among

others.

Guests can create their own personalized pizza pies by choosing from 30 fresh ingredients. Pieology also offers a selection of seven signature pizzas, all for under $8, that can also be customized upon request.

Pieology also plans to open another location at Campus Pointe near Fresno State.

Photos by Darlene Wendels • The Collegian

Customers choose toppings for their personalized pizza pies at Pieology Pizzeria’s new location in Fig Garden Village, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014.

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Pictured with a skeleton on the bottle, this beer is great for Halloween, and simply every day.

At 6.5 percent alcohol by volume, this golden beer is easy to drink, but if you aren’t into IPAs it still might be rough on you. However, it’s a good place to start with hoppy beers if you aren’t used to them.

Dead Guy is hoppy enough for IPA enthusiasts and smooth enough for people only casually into beer.

Another non-IPA that Stone has to offer, Arrogant Bastard, is probably one of Stone’s most popular brews, perhaps because of its name. Arrogant Bastard is heavy at 7.2 percent ABV. It’s hard to classify what type of beer it is. Not quite an ale and not quite an IPA, it’s really its own genre.

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It’s funny, and also quite tasty. Part of the “Bastard� family, other beers available include “Lucky Bastard� and “Double Bastard.�

This beer isn’t for everyone, but it’s a must-try, at the very least.

Enjoy By is an elusive beer that doesn’t distribute locally every time a new version comes out. Having a limited release, this brew rarely disappoints.

With the slogan, “Brewed not to last,� the whole point of this beer is that it’s super fresh. These beers are brewed intentionally with a 30-day shelf life, so they’ll always deliver a positive IPA experience.

Every batch of this beer is different, and each has a different name. It’s named literally by the date that denotes its expiration.

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2014

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IN BRIEF Poll shows Renteria closing gap in 21st Congressional District race A new SurveyUSA Poll puts Democrat Amanda Renteria only 5 points behind Republican incumbent David Valadao in the race for the 21st Congressional District seat.

The results show Valadao with 47 percent of the vote and Renteria with 42 percent. Of those polled, 11 percent were still undecided.

The results show a vast improvement for Renteria from a SurveyUSA Poll conducted in early September. Renteria was then trailing by 19 points, only earning 37 percent, while Valadao recorded 56 percent.

Traffic alert Saturday Roads around campus will be closed Saturday from 6 a.m. to 12 p.m. due to the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure event.

Barstow Avenue will be converted to a one-way westbound street between Cedar and Woodrow avenues. Woodrow Avenue will be closed between Barstow Avenue and Matoian Way. Students and employees coming to campus are advised to enter via Shaw, Maple or Barton avenues.

Portions of Maple, San Ramon and Jackson avenues and Campus Drive will also be closed near Lots P6 and P17.

Darlene Wendels • The Collegian

University High School students gather in the Satellite Student Union to celebrate the school’s 15th anniversary and National Blue Ribbon School designation on Thursday.

University High School will be honored with the 2014 National Blue Ribbon School designation at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. come November.

The independent charter school is one of three California high schools to be honored by the U.S. Department of Education.

A total of 337 schools nationwide will be recognized with the designation that is based on overall academic excellence and progress in closing achievement gaps among student subgroups.

Through the school, which was first chartered in 2000, students have access to Fresno State facilities and are able to

attend college courses for credit.

The school held a rally Thursday in the Satellite Student Union to celebrate the designation and as well as its 15th anniversary. The entire student body and alumni from previous classes attended the celebration.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2014

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Halfway through conference play, The Collegian’s Daniel Leon reviews the Mountain West and each team’s status this year.

San Jose State

Wins in two of their three conference games have placed the Spartans in second place in the West Division, one up on the Bulldogs. This is reflective of the end of last season, when San Jose State ended Fresno State’s win streak. Junior quarterback Joe Gray is adjusting to his position, with a 69.5 completion percentage and three touchdowns.

San Diego State

Starting quarterback Quinn Kaehler returning from injury is good news for the Aztecs. Kaehler’s return came at the right time, as San Diego State stands atop the West Division and is currently tied with Boise State for the best conference record with 3-1.

Hawaii

The Warriors have already won more games halfway through the 2014 season than they did in all of 2013. Despite a 2-5 record, 1-1 in the conference, head coach Norm Chow’s squad looks much improved from last year.

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But other than that, it lacks consistency and the firepower from last year. The unit has still failed to generate a first-quarter touchdown in all but one game.

The passing game provides big plays at times especially with Josh Harper on the receiving end. But other than Harper, the Bulldogs have failed to find another consistent receiving threat. Harper’s 51 catches for 694 receiving yards and four touchdowns are good enough to rank him No. 1 on the team. The next wideout in line has merely a third of Harper’s statistics (214).

Struggles in the passing game have made Fresno State turn to its run game for offensive stability. The Bulldogs have found a consistent run game this year behind running back Marteze Waller.

Despite splitting carries with senior Josh Quezada, Waller leads the team in rushing with 825 yards and seven touchdowns. The junior has already surpassed his 2013 rushing statistics of 661 yards in eight games this season. His average of 103.1 rushing yards per game also ranks him fourth in the Mountain West Conference.

Waller’s breakout performance last week against Boise State has the Bulldogs feeling good moving forward.

“Waller is a warrior,” Fresno State head coach Tim DeRuyter said. “He runs his tail off and he is not going to go down with the first guy tackling him. That guy is a different maker for us.”

Defense After struggling early in the season and giving up over 50 points to each of the Power Five opponents, the defense settled down for the next three matchups and allowed just 17.6 points per game which all resulted in wins. The defense forced turnovers in each of those games at critical points of the game to help to either come from behind or seal the wins.

Those explosive plays by the defense, however, have been rare in the last two matchups.

Special teams The Bulldogs kicking game has received a spark lately from freshman walk-on Kody Kroening. After struggling to find identity early in the year, the firstyear special teamer found some consistency last week against Boise State, as he nailed both of his field goal attempts -including a season-long 44-yarder.

“I was extremely proud of our kicker Kody,” DeRuyter said. “After being down against UNLV he gutted it out against Boise State [last week].”

Four games remain in the Bulldogs’ (3-5, 2-2 MW) regular season schedule with them hosting three of the next four beginning with Wyoming (3-4, 1-2 MW) next Saturday at Bulldog Stadium.

With the Bulldogs standing in third the West Division standings behind San Diego State and San Jose State their best hope is to start and keep a winning streak.

“We’re still not out of this thing,” DeRuyter said. “We just have to worry about going 1-0 this next coming game.”

UNLV

The Rebels’ win two weeks ago over the Bulldogs is just what they needed. It kept their season alive, as it prevented them from falling to 0-3 in conference play. Now, UNLV has some sort of momentum going for it, as it gets ready to embrace the rest of its conference schedule coming off a bye week.

Nevada

The Wolf Pack hasn’t had much success so far in conference play, dropping two of three. However, they have had impressive wins over two of three Power Five opponents: Washington State in Week 2 and BYU last week. Its loss to Arizona was by a single digit. Nevada stands in a tie for fifth place in the conference with in-state rival UNLV. The Wolf Pack’s matchup in two weeks against SDSU will determine the landscape of the West Division.

Boise State

Even under a first-year head coach, the Broncos have been able to continue their winning ways most recently a 10-point win over Fresno State at home on their blue turf. Boise State has the conference’s second-best overall record at 5-1, only behind the Colorado State Rams’ 6-1 mark, whom they beat in Week 2.

Colorado State

It looks like the Mountain Division race will come down to the Rams and Boise State. CSU poses the best overall record in the conference with six wins and just one loss. Quarterback Garrett Grayson is making waves in the Mountain West this year, as he leads the league with a 154.3 rating.

Air Force

The Falcons pulled off one of the major surprises of the year, when they forced the Broncos to turn over the ball seven times. Wins in Air Force’s four of its last five have positioned it just behind Boise State and Colorado State in the Mountain Division standings.

Utah State

Injuries to starting quarterback Chuckie Keeton have limited the Aggies offensively, but sophomore backup Darell Garretson has stepped in nicely. The injury, however, puts Utah State in a tough spot considering the fact that it is in the same division as Boise State and Colorado State, to who they suffered a three-point loss last week.

Wyoming

Similar to Hawaii, the Cowboys also look much improved from last season. Wyoming stands at 3-4, with two of those losses coming to Power Five powerhouses Oregon and Michigan State. The ‘Boys will look to get back to .500 this week, when they square off against the second-place Rams.

New Mexico

The Lobos are in the worst situation for all teams in the Mountain West as they have yet to win a game in conference play. Things don’t seem to improve anytime soon for New Mexico as three of its next four are against Boise State, Colorado State and Utah State who all hold winning records.

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“The weather here is great,” he said.

“It’s hot – we’re used to being hot. You’re not going to get a lot of rainouts here.

“So, when you look at where we’re going to be at in the country – now being in the AL West, whether it is Seattle, Oakland or Anaheim – we feel like we’ll be able to get somebody there to help us out.”

Drawing this parallel allowed the Astros’ affiliation with the Grizzlies more sensible; why wouldn’t a team want to stick around the same climate?

Then, the next drawback was brought up: the lack of a direct flight from Fresno to Houston. Again, no harm, no foul.

“We flew in last night through L.A.,” Ryan said. “I think, going back, we’ll go through Denver and give that a try.

Logistics is the business our owners are in, so we’ll know we’ll be able to get people where we need them.”

Either way, Ryan pointed out similarities between Houston and Fresno.

Although, on the surface, there seemed to not be any. For begrudged Giants fans, it looked too perfect: California, the fanbase, the color orange -- how could a team in the central United States top that?

And to answer that question, numbers are brought into the conversation.

New affiliation brings improvement See, there’s a generalization in baseball: the worst teams in the league have a solid foundation in minor league baseball. The best ones, well, it depends on how management controls the squad.

At the major-league level since moving to the American League in 2013, the Astros have finished 121-203, a .373 win percentage. Both seasons ended with the club in the bottom two of the standings (it was spared another last-place finish thanks to its neighbor to the north, the Texas Rangers).

The Oklahoma City RedHawks, the former AAA afiliate of the Astros, finished

the last two years 156-132. The Grizzlies are nearly the inverse: 136-151. And let’s not forget that the RedHawks finished first in their division in 2013 (82-62).

Statistically speaking, Oklahoma City finished higher than Fresno in batting (fourth place to eleventh), pitching (fourth to seventh), and fielding (thirdplace tie to 12th-place tie). The only stat that favors the former Grizzlies club is home runs (139-114); but with the RedHawks batting 13 points higher, it shows a more conservative game play.

With the major leagues now in the World Series, it’s a good time to talk postseason: the RedHawks have made the playoffs once in their affiliation with the Astros (dating back to 2011). Since 1998, a club connected with the Astros (New Orleans Zephyrs from 1997-2004, Round Rock Express from 2005-2010) made the playoffs two times.

So, three playoff appearances in 17 seasons? It doesn’t sound like a lot, but it is still more than the Grizzlies in that span: a big zero.

And let’s talk about the leadership: since 2011, RedHawks manager Tony DiFrancesco has won 52 percent of his games (263-245). Bob Mariano, Fresno’s man at the helm, is three points lower (210-221 or 49 percent).

If one wants to bring winning baseball to Fresno, then the Grizzlies are going in the right direction. Besides, with such mediocre attendance during the Giantsaffiliated days, it should bring more hype to the club, right?

It’s time for a new era in Fresno baseball. The new philosophy for the Grizzlies: create a winning environment.

“If you just look at the track record, it speaks for itself,” said Allen Rowin, Astros assistant director of player development. “The [Lancaster JetHawks, Astros’ Single-A club] who won the championship are the same group of guys who were winning in the Quad Cities. And before that, there were guys who were winning in the Tri-Cities.

“Creating a winning environment in the minor leagues is going to be conducive to development and the future of winning.”

SPORTS

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2014

VOLLEYBALL

COLUMN

‘Dogs lose in return home

Fear not, baseball fans; there’s a new sheriff in town

Logan Downing • The Collegian

Fresno State senior outside hitter Jamiee-Lee Morrow (9) attempts a kill during Fresno State’s 3-1 loss to the San Diego State Aztecs Thursday at the Save Mart Center.

By Jackson Moore @JacksonMoore_BB

The Fresno State Bulldogs were defeated 3-1 by the San Diego State Aztecs on Thursday evening. They grabbed their first set win in five games, but the Aztecs rallied to take the final two sets of the match. Senior outside hitter Jamie-Lee Morrow led the Bulldogs with 15 kills on .237 hitting.

“Well it’s never fun to lose,” said Fresno State head coach Lauren Netherby-Sewell. “We’ve been losing too much. But I will say we competed tonight. We got back into what looks a little more like Bulldog volleyball, and that’s hard to do, after our confidence has been so low lately.”

The Bulldogs took their home court hoping to end a stretch of 12 straight dropped sets from their previous four road contests. The Bulldogs and Aztecs traded points back-and-forth until a 7-7 tie, but that’s when San DIego State took control of the set. SDSU won 11 of the next 14 points to take a commanding 18-10 lead. The Aztecs went on to close the set with by a 25-18 margin.

Fresno State opened the second set with a huge run on six SDSU attack errors and a service ace to take an 8-0 lead.

“That was a huge momentum builder,” Morrow said.

“Volleyball is a huge game of momentum so that helped a lot. We were aggressive throughout the set.”

The Aztecs fought back to make the score 18-14 and appeared to have cut the lead to three. But an originally called attack error on Morrow was reversed and the point was awarded to the ‘Dogs. Now leading by five instead of three, the momentum was back in the ‘Dogs favor, and

they cashed in with three more unanswered points to take a 22-14 lead. After a rally by the Aztecs, a kill by Zana Bowens and an SDSU attack error closed the ‘Dogs’ 25-18 set win.

After four ties in the third set led to a 7-7 score, the balance of the game was close to swinging either way. San Diego State was the team that was able to make a push and grab control of the match. The Aztecs scored 12 of the next 14 points to take 19-10 lead. SDSU closed out the set with a 25-14 win, the largest margin of the night.

“It was a game of errors and swings,” Netherby-Sewell said. “And we had a swing and they’d have a swing and it just kind of went back and forth. But they had more of them than we did.”

San Diego State kept rolling through into the fourth set.

The Aztecs used strong serving to put the pressure on the Bulldogs and take a 21-14 advantage. The ‘Dogs made a late push, but SDSU junior outside hitter Halle Aiken put the exclamation point on her 17-kill night by winning the match point and a 25-22 set win.

The Aztecs held advantages in hitting (.262-.152), digs (65-58), and blocks (9-2). The ‘Dogs fell 3-1, but it was their best showing in weeks.

“It’s a huge positive for us with obviously been struggling the past few weeks,” Morrow said. “And this is a huge momentum builder for us. It gives us a lot of confidence.

Our defense is working harder and that’s what we’ve been working on in practice.”

The loss drops Fresno State to a record of 6-17 on the season and 1-8 in conference play. The Bulldogs stay at home to host UNLV (18-5, 7-2) on Saturday at 4 p.m.

The Rebels come to the Save Mart Center red hot, sweeping their last four Mountain West opponents.

FOOTBALL

Darlene Wendels • The Collegian

Fresno Grizzlies mascot Parker the Bear holds up a board featuring the team’s new uniform and logo designs during the meet-andgreet at Chukchansi Park Thursday.

By Christopher Livingston @senorlivingston

If there’s one thing the Houston Astros want the city of Fresno to know, it’s that they mean business.

And for fans of a team that lost affiliation with a club that has reached the World Series three times in five years, it should be a consolation.

When the Giants signed a deal with Sacramento – a move that was expected despite being against the wishes of the Fresno faithful – the question was whether or not the next team would add relevance.

Remember, the Astros haven’t been exactly Giantsesque the past few years. And they’re 1,579 more miles away.

Why Fresno?

The city of Fresno is known for its hot, dry summers, when temperatures would hover in the triple digits.

For Reid Ryan, Astros president of baseball opera-

See GRIZZLIES, Page 7

A must-win situation ‘Dogs need to tighten up as second-half looms

By Daniel Leon @DanLeon25

With just four games remaining in the regular season, the Fresno State football team must win out if it wishes to have a shot at a third consecutive Mountain West crown.

Two recent conference losses to UNLV and Boise State have placed the Bulldogs in survival mode going into the month of November. In order to accomplish this, the Bulldogs will need help from all their units.

Offense Darlene Wendels • The Collegian

San Diego State linebacker Calvin Munson (54) grabs onto Fresno State quarterback Brian Burrell’s ankle during the ‘Dogs’ 24-13 victory Oct. 3 at Bulldog Stadium.

The holes in the offense are still evident through eight games. Quarterback play from Brian Burrell has been enough to win at times

See BULLDOGS, Page 7

At this time last year, the Bulldogs had significantly better numbers than in 2014.

Below is a comparison of both years on Oct. 24.

2013

2014

Record: 6-0 (4-0 MW) Passing Yards: 2,305 Rushing Yards: 1,026 Touchdowns: 33 AP Ranking: 17

Record: 3-5 (2-2 MW) Passing Yards: 1,876 Rushing Yards: 1,513 Touchdowns: 31 AP Ranking: NR