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Student mothers juggle school and family Entrepreneurs By Morgan Dickson The Collegian There are many occasions when Mona Davis, a Fresno State student and single mother, contemplates quitting school. “With the financial issues I face every year and the never-ending homework pile, I start to feel helpless and that the best way to move forward is to just quit,” Davis said. Each time these thoughts creep into her mind, she looks at her 4- year-old daughter Cynthea and remembers why she is pursuing a higher education. “Every time I see her, I remember why I’m here. She’s the most important reason why I’m going to school. I know in my heart I can’t just quit,” she said.
Davis is constantly trying to balance school work and the challenge of being a single mother. At Joyce M. Huggins Early Childhood Center, 36 of the 118 children enrolled in the program are raised by a single parent. The Joyce M. Huggins Childhood Center is one of three child daycare facilities located on the Fresno State campus. Raised by a single mother herself, Davis always felt stigmatized by her
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ometimes it amazes me that I’m able to go to work, write a five-page paper, cook dinner and read my daughter a bedtime story all in one night.” — Dashjuana Hill, Fresno State student
peers as a child. Because of this, she prefers to leave her daughter with her mother. “I’m a little afraid to take Cynthea to daycare because I feel that, like me, she will be treated differently because she only has one parent,” Davis said. “It’s hard enough with her asking me three times a day where her dad is. It will be harder taking her to a place where she will see two parent families dropping off their kids. I don’t want her to feel left out.” Catherine Mathis is the program direct o r o f t h e E a rly Education and Care services on campus. Mathis doesn’t want single mothers like Davis to feel ostracized and has a mission when it Graphic by Brandon Ocegueda / The Collegian
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The dilemma of vending machines By Luke Shaffer The Collegian
Vending machines on campus are known by some students to eat change instead of dispense snacks or drinks at all. This leads to the question of whether or not vending machines are reli-
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like them and they’re convenient when I need them. I usually go for the Gatorade bottles.” — Matthew Ramos, Fresno State student able. “I go to the machines about five times a week but mostly for water,” Fresno State student Jesus Moreno said. “I’ll continue to use them until
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Fresno State student Ryan Rogers purchases a snack from the campus vending machine. Fresno State receives $14,000 for the vending machines on campus.
compete in pitch competition By Ciara Norton The Collegian On Wednesday, Se pt. 28 Fresno State’s Colle giate Entre preneurs Organization club, held an elevator pitch contest in the Lyles Center where Fresno State accounting student Clifton Wahlberg’s idea to facilitate cheaper real estate paperwork won first place. This semester, over a dozen students presented their entrepreneur ideas in about a 90-second contest to a panel of judges as well as about 20 observers. Wahlberg was awarded with an eng raved trophy, one-on-one time to consult with local experts so that he can perfect his pitch and a paid trip to Fort Worth, Texas to compete in the CEO National Elevator Pitch Competition that will take place on Oct. 27 to 29. Daniel Dittus, a business major and exchange student from Germany, won second place for his idea of putting energy supplements into ice cubes. He was awarded with a partially funded trip to the CEO National Elevator Pitch Competition as well as a certificate of
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recognition. Forrest Miller, an entrepreneurship major, won third place for his idea of putting juice bars into gyms and was also awarded with a certificate of recognition. “Our goal for this contest is always to send someone to nationals,” said Sammi Escalera, an entrepreneurship major and vice president of the CEO club. The elevator pitch idea is based on the metaphor of running into someone in an elevator and trying to sell them an idea in a short amount of time. Escalera, a senior, has been a club member of CEO since the fall 2010 semester. She said that last semester there were only about seven students who pitched. Eric Rawn and Matt Cholakian served as judges. Rawn, a Craig School of Business alumnus, is the founder for a network consulting firm called BCT Consulting. He is also a member of Mayor Ashley Swearengin’s Technology Affinity Group. See CEO, Page 3
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An article from yesterday’s The New York Times entitled, “Foreign Aid Set to Take a Hit in U.S. Budget Crisis,” said this: As lawmakers scramble to trim the swelling national debt, both the Republican-controlled House and the Democratcontrolled Senate have proposed slashing financing for the State Department and its related aid agencies at a time of desperate humanitarian crises and uncertain political developments. The proposals have raised the specter of deep cuts in food and medicine for Africa, in relief for disasteraffected places like Pakistan and Japan, in political and economic assistance for the new democracies of the Middle East, and even for the Peace Corps. Foreign aid has played a role in the United States’ foreign policy since the days of the Cold War. The New York Times has a pretty neat graphic on its website showing how much aid America has given to foreign countries every year since 1977. How much the U.S. has given varies, ranging from
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oreign aid is not only ineffectual, it is diplomatic extortion.”
$14.55 billion in 1997 to $44.02 billion in 2004, but has never been more than 2 percent of the federal budget. However, the NYT’s colorful language — slashing financing, desperate humanitarian crises, the specter of deep cuts — makes it sound like without U.S aid, the entire world would collapse. That is simply not the case. At best, economic evidence is murky as to whether or not aid actually aids the populations it is sent to. And there is considerable evidence that the bulk of the aid we send to countries goes not toward the ailing populations, but either to fill the tyrant’s coffers or to fund unsavory elements within the country. Take Pakistan, for instance. Pakistan receives considerable funding from the U.S. government (exactly how much is hard to pin down). Even still, the country could not be trusted during our much-balleyhooed mission to kill Osama bin Laden, and Haqqani, a Pakistan-based terrorist group, has been accused of being an arm of the Pakistani intelligence agency by recently retired Adm. Mike Mullen. Needless to say, foreign aid doesn’t always do what it is supposed to do. As British economist Peter Bauer once said, foreign aid is “a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.” But the majority of what foreign aid is used for is so-called “smart power.” We use it to manipulate foreign governments into doing things that are in our best interests, the people of their countries be damned. It is not only ineffectual, it is diplomatic extortion. Admittedly, scrapping foreign aid will not erase the national debt — it will take much more than that.
However, ending foreign aid will not result in widespread calamity for foreign nations. Ronald Reagan said it best when he argued that poor countries need liberty, not aid. *** Yesterday, while being lectured on Plato’s Republic, my ancient political philosophy class had a discussion on the decay of society. The professor put the following question to us: Could the politicians of today have written the U.S. Constitution? Some students argued that they could. They thought that the founding generation was helped immensely by circumstances. If we were faced today with starting a new government from scratch, they said, we could do the same thing. I, humbly, disagree. The Constitution is one of the most brilliant political documents that has ever been written, and the minds that produced it were some of the best that this country has produced. Our founding generation cobbled together 13 separate state interests and many different political philosophies into a coherent, workable governing document that has remained in place for more than 200 years. Today’s politicians can’t agree on anything. Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Hamilton, Adams and Madison are names that will stand the test of time. Obama, Bush, Boehner, Pelosi, Reid and McConnell likely will not.
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SNACKS: Vending machines, are they reliable? CONTINUED from page 1 winter comes when it won’t be so hot and I won’t have to get water from them all the time.” F r e s n o S t a t e Au x i l i a r y Operations said they service the machines on a regular basis and sometimes even weekly depending on the location of the unit. “The snack vending machines throughout campus are filled and serviced by Canteen Scott Browning,” general manager of Canteen Scott Browning said in an email. “I can assure you that we take the quality of the items sold to the students and staff at Fresno State very seriously,” Some students say they are frustrated because of inconsistent and unreliable vending machines. “They take your change and it makes you want to break the machine but you can’t because it would be vandalism,” Moreno said. “You call the number but they don’t do anything about it.” Associate vice president for Auxiliary, Debbie Astone, assures students vending
machines are reliable. Astone said Fresno State recieves $14,000 a year from the vending machines. “If anyone has experienced problems or issues with any of the food items they should contact the number on the
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f a student losses money or receives an item they are not satisfied with, a call to our office is all that is needed. We will ask name and address, amount lost and mail it out that day.” — Scott Browning, general manager Canteen Scott Browning machine and the University Dining Services main office so we can follow up as well.” “As far as the refund policy for the snack machines on campus, each machine has a sticker in the upper right-
hand corner,” Browning said, referring to a sticker where students can call for repairing services. “If a student loses money or receives an item they are not satisfied with, a call to our office is all that is needed. We will ask name and address, amount lost and mail it out that day,” Browning added. “One time the machine ate my change but it was not a big deal. I didn’t bother to call the number though,” Fresno State student Matthew Ramos said. “I like them and they’re convenient when I need them. I usually go for the Gatorade bottles.” “I think they are good. It’s better to go to the vending machines because of the easy access to get snacks when you are sitting in class and need a quick snack to wake you up,” Moreno said. “It’s also faster to go to the machine then to go to the snack shop at the Kennel Bookstore.”
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FAMILY: Students juggle their lives CONTINUED from page 1 comes to helping all parents on campus. “The most important thing we want is for parents to continue their education. We understand that families come in all types,” Mathis said. “That’s what we try to emphasize. That’s why we are here.” Along with economic and other issues, some single parents are also victims of stereotypes. Elizabeth Swearingen, a women’s studies professor on campus, gave an explanation as to why there are stereotypes when it comes to single motherhood. “I think that the stigmas of single motherhood are stemmed upon wealth and cl a s s, ” S we a r i n g e n s a i d . “Single mothers aren’t considered to be living the ideal life, which would include a hus-
band and financial stability.” “The day I told my mom I was pregnant was the day that
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verytime I see her, I remember why I’m here. She’s the most important reason why I’m going to school. I know in my heart I can’t just quit.” — Mona Davis, Fresno State student
put an end to our relationship,” Fresno State student Dashjuana Hill said. “It’s been three years since I had my son and I can’t even ask her to
watch him without her scolding me on my bad choices, especially me having a baby.” Juggling society and economic strains have become a regular for many single parents. “Even though I have a job, trying to figure out ways to pay for books, rent, gas, bills and daycare gets really stressful. Right now I’m living paycheck to paycheck because there’s no room for anything in between,” Davis added. “Sometimes it amazes me that I’m able to go to work, write a five-page paper, cook dinner and read my daughter a bedtime story all in one night,” Hill said. “When those days happen I feel like a proud mom.”
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From left to right: Eric Rawn, second place winner Daniel Dittus, first place winner Clifton Wahlberg, third place Forrest Miller and Matt Cholakian.
CEO: Students prepare for the future CONTINUED from page 1 Cholakian is also a Craig School of Business alumnus. He cur rently works as an account manager for Brenntag Pacific, a global chemical and commodity distributor. Compared to previous years, CEO club members said that this semester’s contest had a better turnout. “Normally we have less students than this year,” CEO president Adam Whitney said. “We also had a larger range of majors this time.”
methods. Finance and business law professor Patricia LaRosa attended the contest because she wanted to observe the presentation abilities of the students pitching. “I teach an upper division course that meets the writing requirement,” LaRosa said. “I’m here because I wanted to see how the student did their presentations, the quality and the language skills.” Whitney said that the main purpose of CEO and the competition is to provide students
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he goal is for students to be able to effectively communicate a complex idea in a short amount of time. It’s an effective selling technique that will help later in life in any area.” — Adam Whitney, CEO club president Fresno State student Students presenting a pitch were judged on their ability to capture the audience’s attention, their ability to make the audience interested and their overall idea and presentation
with networking possibilities and practice. “We try to provide a networking club and events for pretty much all majors so it’s more of a network for preprofessionals,” Whitney said. “The goal is for students to be able to effectively communicate a complex idea in a short amount of time. It’s an effective selling technique that will help later in life in any area.”
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Fresno State helps Break Barriers around the world By Sam Yoder The Collegian Break The Barriers is an organization that grew up in a backyard in Fresno but is now known world wide thanks to the big heart of a Fresno State alumna. “ I h a d a p r ay e r, ” D e b y H e r g e n r a d e r, fo u n d e r o f Break The Bar riers, said. “How are we going to show the world that all people belong together?” Break The Barriers is an organization dedicated to including everyone in any kind of activity no matter his or her disability. “We have a partnership with Fresno State,” Hergenrader said. “We work with the professors in special education. We are actually written into the curriculum for the liberal studies special education courses.” Leila Alawad, 21, is a senior at Fresno State who currently has an internship with Break The Barriers. She teaches a reading lab to kids aged anywhere from 6 years old to 18 years old who need speech therapy. “I would like to be a speech therapist and this internship will help me do that,” Alawad said. Alawad works with the kids twice a week along with another student inter n from the speech pathology department at Fresno State. She grew up in Fresno but was not familiar with Break The Barriers until this internship. “I had no idea it existed,” Alawad said. “Deby told me everything about Break The Barriers when I got there.” Hergenrader is a Fresno State alumna who started this organization in her backyard in 1983. It was her sister, Kathy Mullen, who gave her the drive to start an organization based on the principles of including everyone in all activities.
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Mullen, 50, was born with Down syndrome but did not let that stop her from wanting to compete. “My parents would try to get my brother, my sister and I signed up for recreational sports,” Hergenrader said. “When we’d go people would say to my parents that we can take the two older children but we don’t work with those kinds of people and they would point to my sister.” Now, 28 years later, thanks to the support of her husband Steve Hergenrader and many donations from others, Break The Bar riers has a 32,000 square-foot facility teaching everything from gymnastics to taekwondo, and they even have classes for speech therapy. Now the world knows about Break The Barriers. Jared
Schmidt, 30, is a world champion Special Olympics athlete in gymnastics and snow skiing who now works for Break The Barriers. He has traveled all over the world during the years he’s spent with the organization. “We went to Romania twice and after that we went to China,” Schmidt said. “After that we went to South Africa and the last one was the Dominican Republic.” Government officials from these countries and others contact Break The Barriers and ask them to come and perform in their country. “The director from China said to me that you and your husband may have started this program because of your sister, but this performing team is an international influence,” Hergenrader said.
T his type of worldwide recognition has been made possible from countless donations and support from philanthropists such as Linda Smittcamp, a Fresno State alumna and Break The Barriers board member. Smittcamp said her and her family choose non-profits to contribute to and she had friends who had children in the programs at Break The Barriers, which is how she learned about the organization. A benefit dinner is put on every year by board members to raise funds for the organization. “Our goal is to raise funds for scholarships for the kids who cannot afford to pay for it,” Smittcamp said. She also said they try to get an anonymous donation from
suppor ters called “Secret Pocket” which pays for one child to attend classes of their choice for the entire year. Break The Barriers received a grant from the U.S. De par tment of Education for a projector and surround sound speakers to educate the classes from Fresno State who go to Break The Barriers to learn about inclusion. “We are for everybody,” Hergenrader said. “This program is for you and for me and it’s for the ones in a wheelchair, the ones that can see and can’t see. It’s for everybody. “We work with various abilities,” she continued. “We all have abilities and disabilities. We all have our own handicaps.”
'Killer Elite' an exciting, different kind of action movie By Dylan Patton The Collegian When one sees the tagline "Based on a true story" one can't help but wonder if it is in fact true. The latest action thriller, "Killer Elite" is allegedly based on true events. Regardless, we witness excovert operative Danny Bryce (Jason Statham) trying to live a normal life. After a life of executing covert missions, he lost his motivation to kill people. He's retired to Australia, where he enjoys spending time with his cute friend, Anne (Yvonne Strahovski). Danny is brought back into action after lear ning his friend and mentor, Hunter (Robert DeNiro) has been kidnapped. Fo r m i n g a t e a m w i t h the smooth-talking Davies (Dominic Purcell) and the smart Meier (Aden Young), Danny heads to Oman, located in the Arabian Peninsula, to rescue Hunter. There, he is brought before a sheik who wants Danny to exact revenge on the men responsible for the death of his three sons.
If Danny kills the men, Hunter goes free. This isn't an easy task considering Danny's targets are former members of Britain's elite Special Forces team, the Special Air Service (SAS). Danny begins eliminating his targets one by one, making each look like an accident. These actions bring about the attention of a secret society, the "Feathermen" who are also ex-SAS operatives. The Feather men tur n to Spike Logan, (Clive Owen), another ex-SAS operative to stop Danny. It's only a matter of time before Danny and Spike confront each other. Fa n s o f S t atha m mig ht not be too pleased with this movie. Statham doesn't have as many gun battles or hand to hand battles as he does in his previous movies. Writer Matt Sherring and director Gary McKendry chose to take "Killer Elite" in a different direction. There is more suspense than blood and bullets. There is action in this movie and the scenes are just spaced apart. The story is interesting
enough to wait until the action starts again. Logan wants to kill Danny to avenge his friends. But at the same time, he knows that there's a chance his government is hiding secrets from him. It seems most of the characters have secrets. And these people are willing to kill or at least try to kill to keep them. Even though it's not as action packed as most action films, it's worth checking out. "Killer Elite" is the type of movie that if you enjoy it for what it's worth, then you will have fun. The film tries to take a different approach to the action genre, and I for one thought it worked. The movie is loosely based on a book 'The Feathermen,' written by author Ranuplh Fiennes. Regardless if the book and movie are true or not, there is often an interest in government conspiracies, secret societies and secret agents. If this story did happen, it's one heck of a story.
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Flaming Lips to release song with running time of six hours By Randy Lewis McClatchy-Tribune LOS ANGELES — Want to hear the new song from the Flaming Lips? Better put in for a day off from work or school to check it out. “Found a Star on the Ground” runs six hours — yes, that’s hours, not minutes — and it’s being released as a philanthropic move to benefit two
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groups in the band’s hometown of Oklahoma City: the Central Oklahoma Humane Society and the Academy of Contemporary Music at the University of Central Oklahoma.
Rather than simply generating proceeds for the causes through music sales, the group solicited donations from fans with the promise of incorporating the names of all those who contributed $100 or more into the “song” itself. Sean Lennon was recruited to read the names of those who took the band up on the offer. The track was recorded over four weeks, growing from what was originally conceived as a 25-minute experiment into what became more than a dozen times that long. To date, the band has raised more than $20,000 with the project, an amount to be split equally between the two beneficiaries. The trick is how to listen to it, as it would require an five-CD set to accommodate the full length. So the band has made it available with what’s called the “Strobo Trip,” a multi-sensory device that’s being alternately described as “A Light and Audio Phase Illusions Toy.” It will include “Found a Star on the Ground” as well as two other new tracks, “Butterfly, How Long It Takes to See SONG, Page 6
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ment is the first one in history where a composition could be three seconds long or three months long,” Gabriel told the Los Angeles Times recently. “In a way, people aren’t really being radical enough with the freedom that the digital environment could provide.” The kicker? “At this time, we can confirm the rumors of a single 24-hour-
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wouldn’t be surprised to hear about some people taking LSD or something while listening to ‘Found a Star on the Ground.’” — Wayne Coyne, Flaming Lips frontman
is fascinating,” Lips frontman Wayne Coyne said in the same statement. “I wouldn’t be a surprised to hear about some people taking LSD or something while listening to ‘Found a Star on the Ground,’ and playing with the Strobo Trip for hours and hours. We hope you’ll enjoy them anyway you like.” The group seems to be taking fellow musical innovator Peter Gabriel at his word regarding the challenge to other musicians he has expressed periodically. “The digital environ-
long song are indeed insane and absolutely true,” the Flaming Lips’ press release notes. “The Lips are recording the track this month. While lots of rumors, speculations and ‘facts’ have been circulating, suffice to say official details will be announced once we really know how, when, etc. Stay tuned to www.flaminglips.com for details.” Obviously, there’s no word yet on whether four Strobo Trips will be required to play it.
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Salary dispute could end ‘The Simpsons’ By Joe Flint McClatchy-Tribune
LOS ANGELES — A salary dispute is threatening to end one of television’s most beloved comedies. The actors who provide the voices for the long-running cartoon hit “The Simpsons” are at odds over a new contract with 20th Century Fox Television, the production c o m p a ny t h at m a ke s t h e series for its sister broadcast network. The studio is seeking to dramatically cut the mid-six-figure salaries of the key actors who voice the show including Dan Castellaneta (Homer), Julie Kavner (Marge), Nancy Cartwright (Bart), Yeardley Smith (Lisa), Hank Azaria (Moe the bartender, Chief Wiggum and Apu) and Harry Shearer (Mr. Burns and Ned Flanders). In a statement, 20th Century Fox Television said it “cannot produce future seasons under its current financial model.” A staple of the Fox lineup for more than two decades, “The Simpsons” has been a cash cow for Fox parent News Cor p., generating billions of dollars in rerun and DVD sales, as well as merchandise, video games and a feature film. But its ratings have tumbled over the last few years. This season, “The Simpsons” has averaged 7.1 million viewers. That is a drop of nearly 19 percent from five years ago, when the show averaged 8.7 million viewers. In the coveted category of viewers ages 18 to
49, ratings for “The Simpsons” have fallen 17 percent. Most shows experience ratings declines as they age. The conundrum is that production costs rise at the same time because producers and actors typically get big raises the longer a program stays on the air. The per-episode license fee that Fox pays its sister studio for “The Simpsons” is north of $5 million a show, according to people with knowledge of the terms who declined to speak publicly because of the sensitivity of the situation. At that price, the series is no longer profitable for the network, these people said. Further more, there have been long-running discussions inside News Corp. over whether the company could actually make more money off “The Simpsons” if it stopped producing new episodes. The show is in its 23rd season. The deals for repeats of the show were done years ago and now heavily favor the stations carrying it. Usually, TV stations pay cash plus a portion of commercial inventory (known as barter advertising) in return for getting to air reruns of popular shows. In the case of “The Simpsons,” the barter advertising portion of the agreement with the stations that carry the show is long expired and is strictly a cash deal. Until the show stops producing new episodes, News Corp.’s hands are tied with regard to finding new buyers that will pay more for the repeats. Once the show is fin-
ished on Fox, the contracts that News Corp.’s syndication unit 20th Television struck will start to expire and new rerun deals can be struck with local stations and cable networks. “There’s only upside opportunity given the fact that the syndicator would be able to sell another cycle of the prog ram to broadcast, which would definitely include barter and also allow for a sale to cable,” said Bill Carroll, a vice president at industry consulting firm Katz Television Group. Given the strength of the show’s performance in reruns, there will be no shortage of buyers. News Corp. Deputy Chairman Chase Carey even talked recently at an investor conference about starting a cable network devoted to reruns of “The Simpsons.” A l t h o u g h t h e re m ay b e financial motivations driving News Corp. to play hardball with the cast, the show still provides Fox with a valuable promotional platform and the characters are woven into the network’s identity in a way that transcends dollars and cents. “We are hopeful that we can reach an agreement with the voice cast that allows ‘The Simpsons’ to go on entertaining audiences with original episodes for many years to come,” the studio said. News of the impasse was first reported by the Daily Beast.
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Fresno State-versus-Boise State series has gone the Broncos way the past decade The ‘Dogs haven’t come out of their matchup with Boise State on the winning end since the 2005 season when they won 27-7 at Bulldog Stadium.
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No. 5 Boise State will be the highest ranked school to ever come to Fresno State when it visits on Firiday. The Broncos also are the highest ranked school since Oregon State came to Bulldog Stadium in 2001.
Above is an analysis of the last ten years of the match up between Fresno State and Boise State. The Broncos have been better in all the main areas when Boise State was in the WAC. berth last season. The Broncos are currently 4-0 this season and have not scored less than When the No. 5 Boise State Broncos 30 points in any of their games. They step into Bulldog Stadium on Friday have also averaged 446.8 yards per night’s national stage, they will be the game of total offense. The defense has highest-ranked team to ever step foot been as stout as usual, allowing an on Jim Sweeney Field. average of 16.8 points per game and is The Broncos currently hold a 9-4 the 19th-ranked defense in the country. all-time record over the Bulldogs, but The Broncos have also forced an averthe rivalry between Fresno State and age of more than two turnovers per Boise State has been lopsided in recent game. memory. When the Broncos were in In the last three games between the the Western Athletic Conference, they two teams, the Broncos have scored perennially dominated the head-to163 points with Heisman Trophy hopehead matchup, recording a 9-1 record ful Kellen Moore throwing nine touchover the last decade. downs against only one interception. With the large task looming ahead, Last year’s game against Boise State Fresno State has at least developed was one of the poorest Fresno State some offensive chemgames in recent memoistry in 2011. T he ry with the ‘Dogs losing Bulldogs have built 51-0 in Idaho. e need to play a balanced attack This will be the first fast, just go out this year with quarnon-conference meeting and do our assignments.” between the teams since terback Derek Carr passing for nearly 260 1996, which was also the yards per game and — Derek Carr, year the Broncos moved running back Robbie On keys to victory up to Division 1A, forRouse rushing for mally known as the over 100 yards in the Football Bowl last four weeks. S u b d iv i s i o n , wh e n Rouse leads the country in carries they were a part of the Big West with a total of 133, rushing for 625 Conference. yards over that span. Carr simply said During head coach Pat Hill’s 14-year his unit needs to continue what it’s career at Fresno State, the Bulldogs doing and execute when Boise State have beaten a top-10 opponent just once comes to town. at home – a 44-24 win over Oregon State “We need to play fast, just go out and in 2001. The Bulldogs have amassed a do our assignments,” Carr said before record of 63-19 at Bulldog Stadium in Monday’s practice. Hill’s tenure. Boise State is now a member of In 2005 Fresno State defeated the the Mountain West Conference and Broncos, ending Boise State’s 31-game the change of scenery has done little winning streak in WAC play. Seven of to sway it from continually trying Boise State’s wins in the series have to break into a Bowl Championship been by two touchdowns or more. Hill Series bowl game. The Broncos have talked about playing in front of nationalready defeated then-No. 19 Georgia ally televised audience and playing one on the road this season, 35-21 in the of the best teams in the country. Georgia Dome. They have outscored “Anytime you get that type of expotheir other three opponents 111- 46, sure it’s great [and] we get it again including defeating former WAC rival Friday night,” Hill said. “Hopefully, we Nevada 30-10 last Saturday, who ended can end it on the side of a win.” Boise State’s chances at a BCS bowl By Tim Salazar The Collegian
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Fresno State’s small receivers playing big offensive role
The Bulldogs’ trio of receivers will face a tall order this Friday with the 19th-ranked defense coming to Bulldog Stadium By Angel Moreno The Collegian Height has been a reoccuring factor for the Fresno State receivers, but it has never discouraged them from putting up conference and nationleading numbers. Sophomore wide receiver Jalen Saunders may stand at a mere 5-foot-9, but stands near the top of the charts with some nation’s best receivers in statistics. Saunders has become quarterback Derek Carr’s primary target this season, becoming one of the nation’s leading big-play threats, averaging 27.2 yards per catch on 17 receptions for a total of 462 yards and four touchdowns. With the offense under Carr’s control, Fresno State has put an added importance on the deep ball to its offense this season and Saunders has been the main benefactor. Despite being only 5-foot-9, Saunders, senior Devon Wylie and junior Rashad Evans have proven themselves to be defensive nightmares with their speed and athleticism. The trio is currently the three leading receivers on the team. “I think, because we are short, a lot of teams underestimate us,” Saunders said before Monday’s practice. “They don’t think we can just
jump up or we’re fast enough so we surprise teams with our athleticism and speed on the field.” S a u n d e r s , Wy l i e a n d Evans have had little trouble bringing a “wow factor” on Saturday afternoons. Last Saturday, Saunders scored on a 26-yard run in Fresno State’s 37-27 loss to Mississippi. He also eclipsed 100-yards receiving for the third straight game. Saunders became the first Bulldo g to have three straight 100yard receiving games since Bernard Berrian did it in 2001 with Carr’s brother, David, leading the charge at quarterback.
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e’re going to have to play fast and be on our ‘A’ game.” — Jalen Saunders, on upcoming game
Evans has also been one of Carr’s favorite targets with his team-leading 23 receptions for a total of 193 yards and two touchdowns. Wylie has caught 16 passes for 214 yards as the Bulldogs’ primary slot receiver. Since the start of the season, Carr has delivered the
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Fresno State’s top wide receivers aren’t the tallest in the nation, but they have still produced on the field.
ball at least 13 times each to five different players. “The ball is just there, and once I see the ball I’m just going to go for it,” Saunders said of Carr delivering the ball where it needs to be for him to make the play. “We all go to the ball.” Saunders has a 34-inch vertical leap that allows him to get up with the taller cornerbacks to help make up for his height. Carr talked about the chemistry that he and his receivers have developed. “We’re all on the same page right now,” Carr said in a previous interview. “I trust where they’re going to be.”
And Car r’s tr ust in his receivers is clearly growing everyday with the amount of difficult passes he has been called on to deliver. Through roughly the first quarter of the season, Carr has had a knack for throwing back-shoulder passes to his talented players on the edges. Carr has passed for 1,291 yards and 10 touchdowns for a passing efficiency rating of 142.09 in the first five games of the season. His yards and efficiency rating are second in the Western Athletic C o n f e re n c e, o n ly b e h i n d Hawaii’s Bryant Moniz, who is sixth in the country in passing yards.
The Bulldogs hope the numbers continue to climb with fifth-ranked Boise State coming to Bulldog Stadium this Friday. The Broncos will roll into Friday night sporting the 19th-ranked defense in the country. Although a daunting task awaits the ‘Dogs, Saunders acknowledged that the team will need to play its best game of the season on a national stage. “It’s not going to be much of a surprise anymore, but we’re going to come out and show them up,” Saunders said. “We’re just going to have to play fast and be on our ‘A’ game.”
The French connection makes a difference By Jerry Huerta The Collegian The Fresno State men’s tennis team opened its first home tournament of the young season this past weekend during the Bulldog Classic. The Bulldog Classic marked the second tournament of the fall season and started the squad’s journey back to the NCAA Tournament – where the Bulldo gs’ 2010-11 run ended against the then-No. 15 California Golden Bears. Head coach Jay Udwadia is in his seventh season and has a couple seniors returning for their final seasons in a Bulldog unifor m. The Bulldogs’ senior trio consists of Remi Boutillier, David Ayoun and Jean-Charles Diame. All three are from foreign countries. “Three seniors and they’re all from France,” Udwadia
said. “So we’re losing the F re n ch c o n n e c t i o n h e re. Leading the pack is Remi Boutillier, who has been really solid for us the last four years. He’s currently ranked 47th in the country. Then, we have David Ayoun who has been instrumental in making Sweet 16’s for us and winning WAC championships. And then we have Jean-Charles Diame, who was a transfer student last year and he helped us win the WAC.” The seniors have already made a dif ference on the court with Ayoun having a strong showing in the Bulldog Classic. Ayoun advanced to the final slot before losing to the top-ranked player in tour nament. In the Baylor Invitational, Fresno State’s season-opening tournament, Boutillier got the first Fresno State win of 2011-12. Boutillier
also advanced in doubles play, teaming up with sophomore Nick Papac to win their first match against a familiar Western Athletic Conference opponent in New Mexico State. Boutillier advanced to the round of 16 at the Baylor Invitational to play against Oklahoma, but lost in a close match, 6-4, 7-6. The France native already started of f strong after being named first team All-WAC in singles and doubles last year. He also earned an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. Boutillier recognized his early Bulldog days as a resource for improving the newcomers. “I’m just trying to help the team a little more than I would do if was just a freshman or sophomore,” Boutillier said. “We got four new guys coming in this year so I’m just trying
to help them out.” Although the seniors are making their presences felt, the ‘Dogs have some newcomers to carry the torch after they graduate. The newcomers include freshman Sai Kar tik Nakireddi, junior Zachary Leslie, freshman Reid deLaubenfels and sophomore Jeremy Quiroz. Nakireddi is from India and earned a ranking as high as No. 67 in the 2011 ITF World Junior Rankings. Leslie is a transfer from Wake Forest, playing for the Demon Decons for the first two seasons of his collegiate career. The transfer was ranked in the top 10 as a United States Junior. Nakireddi and Leslie shared the court as doubles partners. The pair made it to the finals, but lost to a doubles team from Oregon. deLaubenfels is a top-ranked
freshman on the team and was the No. 105-rated tennis prospect in high school. Quiroz is a transfer from Niagara University, but he is familiar with the San Joaquin Valley being from Bakersfield, Calif. For Leslie, this was his first match as a Bulldog and he talked about what it means to be at Fresno State. “I went to college in North Carolina and it was a culture shock because I’m from San Diego,” Leslie said after last Tuesday’s practice. “I didn’t necessarily improve the way I wanted to. The coach was gone after last year so I felt like I needed a change. It feels good to be back in California. I think the program is very well run. Jay is strict, but I like that because I like to work hard.”