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Alum inspires blood and marrow drive

By Megan Ginise @SimplyMeg13

Khlarissa Agee • The Collegian

Nebraska running back Ameer Abdullah dashes past the Fresno State defense during the Bulldogs’ 55-19 loss Saturday at Bulldog Stadium.

ANOTHER BLOWOUT

See DRIVE, Page 6

Fresno State drops to 0-3 after 55-19 loss during home opener against Nebraska

Fresno State to host Valadao, Renteria debate

By Daniel Leon @DanLeon25

For the first time since Nov. 26, 2011, and in head coach Tim DeRuyter’s tenure, the Fresno State football team lost a game at Bulldog Stadium Saturday.

The Nebraska Cornhuskers stormed into Fresno and snapped the ‘Dogs’ 13-game home win streak, dropping Fresno State to 0-3 on the year.

The 55-19 defeat marks the third game in a row in which the Bulldogs have given up 50 or more points.

"I didn't think that today we had a lack of competitiveness, I thought we got outclassed today," DeRuyter said. "We have a young football team that is trying to gel, and when you hit adversity it's difficult. Three straight games now, we haven't started very well. Once we got into the flow of the game, I thought we competed much better. But clearly we weren't good enough again today.

You have to give Nebraska credit, they have an excellent football team."

The Huskers pounced on the Bulldogs early and often, scoring two touchdowns in the first two minutes and 57 seconds of play.

Wideout Jordan Westerkamp took advantage of a busted coverage in the secondary by Fresno State and

See BULLDOGS, Page 8

Fresno State will be hosting the largest blood and marrow registry drive in 20 years in an effort to join alumnus and Central High School football coach Justin Garza in raising awareness about the National Marrow Registry Program.

More than 1,000 students are projected to give blood and sign up for the registry when the drive kicks off Tuesday. The drive, which runs through Thursday, will be hosted in four locations across campus.

Garza, a 1997 graduate, was diagnosed in 2010 with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a cancer that affects the body’s ability to fight infection. After undergoing 36 chemotherapy treatments and a stem-cell transplant in 2013, Garza, now in his third year as Central High’s varsity head coach, led the Grizzlies to a Tri-River Athletic Conference championship with a school record of 11 wins in 2012.

When his treatments proved ineffective in late spring, Garza learned that he needed a marrow transplant, but he wasn’t able to find a match among close family and friends.

This inspired him to start the “Stand For More” campaign to raise awareness not only for himself, but for the 12,000 other patients

By Troy Pope @darktroy Darlene Wendels • The Collegian

Two Nebraska players swarm Fresno State safety Charles Washington.

"We have to regroup from here. As bad as we feel right now, our major goal is still ahead of us, and that is to win the Mountain West Conference."

— Tim DeRuyter, Fresno State head coach

On October 4, Fresno State will host the first of four congressional debates in which Congressman David Valadao (R) will face off against challenger Amanda Renteria (D).

The debate will be recorded and aired on Univision at a later date, according to a press release from Renteria’s campaign.

Despite the fact that Fresno isn’t in the 21st Congressional District, the university will be the first debate forum, followed by three that will take place in Bakersfield and aired locally.

Renteria says the goal of these debates is to

See DEBATE, Page 6

New bill legalizes wine tasting courses for students under 21

By Briana Montemayor @brimonte_carlo

Students who are under 21 will now be allowed to taste wine in wine-evaluating courses at Fresno State after California passed the “Sip and Spit” bill over summer.

Signed by Gov. Jerry Brown in July, the bill is intended strictly for educational purposes. Its aim is to allow viticulture and enology major students to graduate at a faster rate by allowing them to take major

courses right when they enter college.

James Kennedy, professor and chair of the department of viticulture and enology, is a supporter of the sip and spit bill.

“We want to make sure that our students are as trained as possible when they move out into the workforce,” Kennedy said. “[Wine tasting] is part of their training. It’s really about preparing our students.”

The wine courses at Fresno State require their students to taste wine.

However, drinking is not a require-

ment or an objective of the classes.

“It’s a sip and spit law,” he said.

“You don’t need to drink wine to evaluate wine. It’s about smell and how it tastes, then you expectorate it. It’s never designed to have any consumption.”

Megan Long, an 18-year-old freshman at Fresno State, supports the sip and spit bill.

“I think it’s a good thing if it’s used for educational purposes and used only in the classroom,” she

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Fresno State student Steve Grande checks the clarity of his wine during the wine tasting portion of his enology class on Friday.

Darlene Wendels • The Collegian

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The hazy relevance of social media Answered with a Magic 8-Ball

By Troy Pope @darktroy

As someone who proudly has a MySpace without any idea of what my login information is, I think we should really question the real-world importance of social media.

From Friendster, to MySpace, to Facebook and Twitter, social media has been with us for over a decade. But as the fads of each site come and go, is it really necessary in our lives? Is it good for society, or is it hurting us?

There are people out there who believe that Twitter is forever, but time has shown, with websites’ departure from relevance like MySpace, that kids and adults get bored, and they’ll look for the next new thing.

Is social media relevant? SIGNS POINT TO YES. In 2008, Barack Obama became the first president to have used social media to do fundraising for his campaign. This cemented social media’s arrival, and the idea that it could be here to stay.

Celebrities and politicians have taken to Twitter as their personal soapbox, and mainstream media is watching. Everywhere you turn, news outlets are quoting Twitter posts, and these people enjoy free press simply by posting their political thoughts online in 140 characters or less.

Even terrorist groups like ISIS use social media to shape their message.

Who defines something as relevant? Society does. If the people, en masse, accept social media as a legitimate political pulpit, then it is one.

Is social media good for relation-

ships? MY REPLY IS NO. More drama has been started or exacerbated over social media than anywhere else ever.

It is now less offensive to tell somebody off in person than it is to anger-delete someone from your friends list.

When you’ve been having a dispute with a friend of yours and they delete you from Facebook, the world hears about it. It’s the biggest possible attack someone can hit you with, aside from a physical confrontation, of course.

Even when social media isn’t being wielded as a weapon and is being utilized in a positive way, it still isn’t good for relationships.

We’ve lost something with social media.

When we find all the people we’ve known or been friends with from a young age, what’s the harm in adding them to your friends list or following them on Twitter? On the surface, it looks good.

The real outcome is that when we “like” or “favorite” the things our friends post, what we’re really doing is making it OK to diminish social interaction.

Social media is to social interaction are what text messages are to phone calls. You lose personal connections and everything becomes clinical and distant.

What did we do before social media?

We actually went to see our friends. They weren’t just a picture in our “Top 8,” or one of the hundreds of other “friends” or followers we have.

Why have a conversation with someone about an issue if we can be lazy and just hit the like button?

Facebook Messenger has even added a

The unfamiliar face of MySpace. In an effort to remain relevant, MySpace changed its appearance and strategy. Now, it is a music-focused website.

thumbs-up button so you can simply “like” what your friend is telling you without actually having to do the work of responding.

It’s causing physical distance from the people we know and making us feel less obligated to interact with people in the real world.

Is social media here to stay? CANNOT PREDICT NOW Who knows? Things come and go, and social media is still so new that it hasn’t proven its staying power.

If we do continue to have social media in our lives, you can expect it won’t stay in its current form.

Facebook will fade away; the only current form that might last is Twitter. Twitter

is incredibly mainstream and used by everyone it seems. If it goes away, it will take longer than Facebook and others.

Hopefully we’ll move toward a type of social media like Skype. At least if everyone were doing that, you’d still have to look people in the eyes when you communicate.

It’s healthier that way, and leaves less room for vague misunderstandings that lead to public fights between friends.

In reality, no one can predict what the future holds for social media. We just have to use it wisely and for a purpose. Social media hasn’t been around long enough to gage its success in the long term. It could continue to succeed, or the bubble could unexpectedly burst.

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FROM NORTH KOREA TO THE CLASSROOM Tatarian lecturer Bradley Martin recalls the journalistic journey that brought him to Fresno State

By Conrad Kimball @ConradKimball

Bradley Martin was escaping his escorts in North Korea -- they had kept him under their watch for long enough, and he was ready to explore the area by himself.

Martin, now a Fresno State professor teaching foreign correspondence, was caught and accused of being a spy. He was interviewed for five hours by one of North Korea’s top foreign policy members.

These are the kinds of adventures Martin has had over the course of his career as a foreign correspondent.

Martin, 71, spent most of his career as an Asia correspondent for news organizations including Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News. His reporting has earned him a Pulitzer Prize nomination. He received the 2007 Asia Pacific Special Book Prize for “Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty.”

Since starting out with the Peace Corps in Thailand during the ‘60s, Martin moved his way up to being one of the few journalists who entered North Korea during the late Kim Il-Sung’s reign in the late ‘80s to early ‘90s.

Despite Martin’s success, he didn’t realize his passion for foreign correspondence until he dropped out of high school, got married and joined the Peace Corps with his then-wife.

Once in Thailand, Martin quickly “realized I had been hoodwinked.”

“This was a bad war, we weren’t going to win it. Newsweek reports were wrong, I

realized I’d been fooled,” Martin said about the Vietnam War. “It’s like when a child realizes that Santa Claus wasn’t real. I knew I could do better than that, and when I became a foreign correspondent, I would make sure to get it right.”

After returning from the Peace Corps, Martin found a job as reporter for the Charlotte Observer in North Carolina. Unfortunately, the Observer did not have any foreign correspondents on staff, so he left for another regional paper: the Baltimore Sun, which employed several. After another couple of years at the Sun -- and 10 years after leaving the Peace Corps -- Martin finally got a foreign correspondent beat in Japan.

Japan was pretty much an economic beat back then, Martin said, but most reporters preferred to go over to Korea, where there were protests. Reporters had to wear gas masks and helmets to shield themselves from police wielding tear gas and students throwing pieces of pavement.

Despite its tumult and unrest, covering North Korea was the real prize during those days because of the lack of reporters allowed into the country.

“As soon as I got into Japan I realized I had to find a way to get into North Korea,” Martin said. “I visited influential North Koreans living in Japan to ask them to help me. Working for the Baltimore Sun at the time, I had to do a sales job to convince them to let me in. After being put on the list to get in the country, I spent three weeks there, and the place just blew me away. The political system seemed to be a religion in the country, and they worshipped their leader, Kim Il-Sung.

Tim Johnson • McClatchy-Tribune

A group of tourists lay flowers at the foot of a huge statue to Kim Il Sung in Pyongyang, North Korea, Thursday, August 30, 2007. North Koreans are taught to revere as a god-like father figure. Kim Il Sung died in 1994, and his son now rules the country.

“I wasn’t allowed to go anywhere by myself. I was totally under the control of my guides and handlers,” he said. “However, I did escape once, and afterward they accused me of being a spy. And because they thought I was a spy, it led to me sitting down and having a five-hour interview with the top foreign policy member at that time.”

Following the interview, Martin left the country but was enamored with North Korea and knew he wanted to return. However, he had been put on a blacklist; his articles about Kim Il-Sung’s movie-making ability were non-complimentary of the leader.

He was “no Alfred Hitchcock,” Martin said.

Yet being blacklisted was not to stop him, Martin finding alternative ways into

the country in the future.

While foreign correspondent gigs are fewer now than they were in Martin’s heyday, the dangers are still very much real.

James Foley, a freelance journalist embedded in Syria, and Steven Sotloff, a foreign correspondent for Time magazine were both imprisoned and executed by the Islamic State, a jihadist militant group.

Yet opportunities abroad still exist for daring journalists, Martin said.

“Although it’s true that journalism jobs domestically are disappearing, it is still true that if you want to report from abroad, and you prepare yourself, you can do it,” he said. “Nowadays, the method is just to go there having knowledge of the language, or at least go abroad somewhere you can function and start there.”

Students, faculty awarded entrepreneurship grants

By Antonio Henriques @TheCollegian

As part of a mini grant program administered by the Lyles Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, two students, four faculty members and one staff member were awarded funds for their individual projects this past spring semester.

Dr. Timothy M. Stearns, executive director and Coleman Foundation chair in entrepreneurial studies, said the grants provide an auxiliary that gives “opportunities for people to make a business out of their product or idea.”

“The impact has been tremendous,” Stearns said. “It allows [applicants] to take a big step forward with a product that’s all about making progress and compelling enough that people will provide resources.”

The funding for these grants was provided by New California Ventures, a for-profit business owned as a subsidiary of the Fresno State Foundation. The grants look to support the development of student- or faculty-made products and ideas with as much as $5,000 per project.

Stearns said the selection process leans on “demonstration to the bigger market.”

“Is the funding going to actually move forward?” Stearns said. “They also need dedication, in that if you get this grant, I expect to be moved by it in a way.”

One of the applicants, Dr. Qiao-Hong Chen, an assistant professor for the College of Science and Mathematics, received her grant through her work in cancer research.

Qiao-Hong Chen and a group of chemists examined the use of an ingredient found in curry to inhibit the growth of can-

cerous cells in the prostate.

“Around 30,000 people die from prostate cancer each year; that’s why we really need to develop new drugs, preferably natural products to provide more solutions,” Chen said.

During the experiment, Chen used curcumin (the ingredient in curry) as a compound for improved bioavailability, or the degree and rate in which a substance is absorbed into the system. Through bioavailability, the substance can be used to cheat prostate cancer cells and lessen cell growth.

“We hope to continue in our research; it’s really just a matter of budget and doing what we can with what we have,” Chen said.

Other grant winners include students Ivy Rivera and Nico De Young, both business majors who developed Web-based initiatives called Check2Rent and Tripsidize, respectively.

Engineering faculty Dr. The Nguyen was awarded for creating an upper limb tremor suppression device that uses electroactive polymers to aid people who suffer from Parkinson’s disease symptoms. Meanwhile, Dr. Ram Nunna and professor Walter Mizuno were selected for their product Dec-ACap, a photo design for mortarboards.

Staff member Donna DeRoo, assistant director of Central California for Health and Human Services, was also chosen for her work with San Joaquin Valley Performance Management Dashboard, a product that would provide public health dashboard metrics for agencies.

With hopes for more entrepreneurial projects in the future, Stearns said he expects more applicants for the next round of grants, which will be available October through March.

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Local theater company delivers on ‘The Normal Heart’ StageWorks Fresno partners with Fresno State students to bring award winning play to Fresno

By Megan Ginise @simplymeg13

Opening weekend of StageWorks Fresno’s rendition of “The Normal Heart” debuted this past Friday in Downtown Fresno at the Fresno Art Museum.

“The Normal Heart,” which depicts the genesis of the AIDS crisis between 1981 and 1984, follows the life of activist and writer Ned Weeks as he and a group of colleagues come together to form the Gay Men’s Health Crisis, an activist hotline and organization that spread advocacy and disseminated information throughout New York City. It eventually gained traction across the United States, facing immense opposition from both the political and social spheres alike.

Playwright Larry Kramer first published the play in 1985, but it wasn’t until 2011 that the Broadway revival brought Kramer a Tony award. With the recent HBO film adaptation directed by Ryan Murphy and produced by Brad Pitt, more attention has been putting the spotlight back on AIDS—attention that outgoing, often outspoken Weeks himself would have championed.

“At the time he wrote it, no one paid attention to it,” said director and Fresno State theater professor J. Daniel Herring. “There are going to be people in this audience now who are going to come out and say thank you for telling my story, or my friend Joe’s story or Sam’s story, and there are going to be other people who walk out of this audience and say I had no idea, I had no idea that this happened, that this was the way it was.”

Complete with a wide-ranging cast from actor Terry Lewis’ Ned Weeks to Fresno State students Dillon Morgan as Weeks’ closeted lover Felix Turner, Ryan Torres as Mickey Marcus, and Nicholas Rodriguez as David and an examining doctor, Fresno State is deeply embedded within the production.

StageWorks Fresno, founded in 2010, strives to “entertain, educate and enrich the community by providing professional theatrical experiences to performers and au-

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From left: Terry Lewis (as Ned Weeks), Ryan Torres (Mickey Marcus), Bob Creasy (Bruce Niles), Diane Fidalgo (Dr. Emma Brookner), and Auggie Hernandez (Craig Donner) in “The Normal Heart” on Thursday at the Fresno Art Museum.

dience alike,” and felt that choosing “The Normal Heart” in today’s world was a perfect topical example.

“It was a title that really challenged our audience,” said Joel Abels, artistic director for StageWorks Fresno. “Because of the prominence of social media—everything is so right there in our face—we are really desensitized to the

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From left:Ryan Torres (Mickey Marcus), Bob Creasy (Bob Niles), Terry Lewis (Ned Weeks) and Auggie Hernandez (Craig Donner) in a performance of “The Normal Heart.”

plight of everything that’s going on in the world, and it’s important to be reminded of this.”

Touching on the generational gap between some of the actors, Abels noted the lack of historical background that many had not heard of or learned about in their lives.

“We have cast members who really didn’t know the history,” Abels said, “until they delved into this play, and really have come away looking at it from a completely different perspective.”

The Fresno Art Museum, in conjunction with StageWorks production of “The Normal Heart,” will also be displaying four sections from the internationally celebrated AIDS Memorial Quilt – a 54-ton, handmade tapestry that stands as a memorial to more than 94,000 individuals lost to AIDS. “They really felt how powerful a double art experience dealing with the same topic could be,” said Herring of the quilt’s prominence, adding a physical, permanent visual to the production.

Listed amongst the panels is Brad Davis, who acted in the original Broadway production in 1985 and was diagnosed with the disease himself later that year.

“There’s a generation of people who just don’t have the idea that this many people died before there was ever any kind of drug therapy that could keep people alive for many, many years,” Herring said. “That’s the generation that’s at Fresno State that needs to see and hear this story.”

StageWorks’ “The Normal Heart” will run Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. at the Bonner Auditorium of the Fresno Art Museum, with the last performance on Sept. 28. A special benefit performance for Fresno State’s Bulldog Pride scholarship fund will also take place on Thursday, Sept. 25, including a post show champagne reception with cast members.

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From the makers of the best-selling video game franchise “Halo,” Washington-based developers Bungie have created an expansive new universe for gamers to explore. Five years in the making, “Destiny” is ambitious, creative, and downright fun, but it also falls short on some of its promises.

Published by Activision, the same company responsible for the ubiquitous “Call of Duty” Franchise, “Destiny” is a first-person shooter that takes place in what the developers call a “Shared World Shooter.”

Meaning that, although they are taking strong cues from massive multiplayer online role-playing games such as “World of Warcraft,” it still is a first-person shooter.

Bungie is classically known for first-person shooter gaming, but also incorporating things such as public events, player-versus-player arenas and connecting in shared spaces with gamers from around the world.

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For someone who loves a strong narrative in games, it leaves a lot to be desired, with having to head to exterior sources, such as Reddit, to get basic information on plot elements. While I do appreciate the length at which Bungie has created this world, it didn’t do a very good job at conveyance.

For a game that, in derivative terms, is just shooting aliens and running around, players need more to keep them going in terms of exposition. It simply isn’t there.

The core gameplay is what you expect from Bungie, with strong execution, solid shooting, great enemies with artificial intelligence and incredible, sprawling environments. In addition, the progressive role-playing elements found in most conventional shooters is intact, so you will be leveling up, getting loot and gaining new skills.

Nothing new in terms of mechanics, but how Bungie incorporates it into its “Shared World Shooter” feels different enough to be worth experiencing, but comes up short on what fans and gamers were expecting.

Once you’ve reached the level cap and completed the short and rather vapid story missions, “Destiny” reveals its “End Game”--complete with new gameplay variations and missions that entice you with more exotic gear, emblems and titles for your guardian. Unless you are a sci-fi nut or Bungie fanatic, I don’t see this game keeping you satisfied into the coming months.

There simply aren’t enough gameplay “hooks” to keep gamers around, and it all feels rather superfluous.

Bungie has stated it has a “10-year plan” with “Destiny,” with downloadable content already planned and dated and weekly updates to keep players entertained. If executed as stated, it could change the way we view console gaming, games that are platforms that continually serve content instead of gamers seeing the credits roll.

But we will have to wait and see, starside Guardians.

Played on Xbox One with review copy courtesy of Activision Publishing. The game is now in stores and is available for PS3, PS4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One.

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Groups from across nation join Garza in campaign DRIVE from Page 1

Fresno State student Diana Miranda sets her glass down after tasting wine during her enology class on Friday.

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‘Sip and Spit’ to change courses’ drinking rules WINE from Page 1 said.

Ryan Atendido, a senior at Fresno State, is 28 years old and said the bill will be good for Fresno State students.

“I think [students under 21] will take it seriously and not abuse it, because this is the career path they chose,” he said. “If

these wine programs were available for any student as a class, not within the student’s major, then I wouldn’t support it.”

Fresno State conducted a risk-assessment meeting last week to discuss how the syllabuses of wine-tasting courses would be affected by the law, and how the law was going to be implemented at the university, according to Kennedy.

University officials also discussed the

safety of faculty members and the students. However, everything is on track to be implemented smoothly, Kennedy said.

“When you’re in the wine region and you’re doing wine tasting, it’s always about making sure that people drink responsibly, and it starts with you as a winemaker,” he said.

21st District debate planned for October PRIMARY RESULTS

DAVID VALADAO (R) – 63.0% AMANDA RENTERIA (D) – 25.6% JOHN HERNANDEZ (D) – 11.5%

California’s 21st congressional district

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DEBATE from Page 1 discuss issues important to California like water and agriculture, education, immigration, seniors, veterans and small business.

“I’m focused on inspiring our kids, protecting our seniors and building for our future. Congressman Valadao has cut education, Medicare and job training,” Renteria said in the press release. “Voters will be able to see that there is a stark contrast between my opponent and I.” Despite the fact the the district is largely Democrat, with President Barack Obama winning big in the district against Mitt Romney in 2012, Valadao managed to be elected as a Republican.

The June 3 primary election had Valadao and Renteria in the top two, with Valadao garnering 63 percent of the vote and Renteria getting 25.6 percent.

Election Day is November 4, and this is considered one of the most competitive districts.

Before getting her master’s degree from the Harvard School of Business, Renteria got bachelor’s degrees in economics and political science from Stanford.

Valadao attended College of the Sequoias in Visalia and is currently the managing partner for Valadao Dairy.

Both candidates are native to Central California.

Renteria was born in Woodlake, California, while Valadao was born in Hanford.

diagnosed yearly in the United States with life-threatening diseases that could be slowed or cured by a marrow transplant.

Tosha Giuffrida, interim director of the Learning Center at Fresno State, grew up attending school with Garza. Describing Garza as a normally private person, Giuffrida said by going public “[Garza] knew he could make a difference in the lives of others just by coming out, because there was a need for people in the marrow registry.”

Part of the problem for people looking for donors is that 67 percent of the current National Marrow Donor Program is composed of white participants. Hispanics make up 10 percent of the registry and African-Americans and Asians comprise less than 7 percent, making it much more difficult for people of these ethnicities to find a match within the donor program.

“Fresno State is a university that greatly believes in diversity and diverse causes,” said Renee Delport, special events and projects coordinator of the university’s Jan and Bud Richter Center for Community Engagement and Service-Learning. “We felt like this was a cause we could really embrace, an opportunity to embrace our commitment to diversity, and doing something really good for people of all ethnicities.”

Garza, who has been named coach of the year at three separate schools throughout the Valley, earned his degree in natural science and Chicano studies at Fresno State in 1997.

Completing his teaching credential from the Kremen School of Education in 1998, he was later recognized by the Kremen chapter of the Fresno State Alumni Association for outstanding academic performance and contributions and passion for education in 2014.

“Every year, he has a motto for his football team,” Giuffrida said, “and this year his motto was ‘stand for more.’ He grows these boys into men. He teaches them not just about coaching and support, but having a purpose, serving with a purpose and being leaders on their campuses.”

When Garza started his campaign back in June, his initial goal was to have 1,000 people sign up for the registry -- a goal that has already been exceeded by 1,100 signatures.

Drives have sprung up throughout not only the Central Valley, but up and down California and in other states like New Mexico and Connecticut.

For example, Liberty High School in Bakersfield, Central High’s opponent last week, hosted a blood and marrow registry drive Friday in honor of Garza.

Delport is working with the Fresno State Student Health Center to have a permanent location for students to sign up for the registry beyond the three-day drive.

“Most of us would never know about this unless there was someone that we love that was involved, or close friend or family member that was directly impacted,” Delport said.

“The fact of the matter, though, is that any of us could be impacted by it any day, and so for us to know that and be able to do that and be proactive, that’s just so exciting.”

The marrow registry process takes approximately 10 minutes of filling out paperwork and taking a self-administered cheek swab. The likelihood of being selected as a donor is small, with one in 500 people selected as a match.

If selected as a match, there are two possible methods for donation: donating blood platelets, which occurs 75 percent of the time, or a small outpatient procedure in which marrow is extracted from the hip. Both can be done at no cost to donors if they are between the ages of 18 and 44.

“It’s not just a two-day drive or a three-day drive in honor of one of our alumni,” Delport said, “but it’s something that we can institutionalize in educating our students throughout the campus community.”

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

VOLLEYBALL

Fresno State finishes second at Jack Kaiser Classic, improve to 5-6 on the season

By Jackson Moore @JacksonMoore_BB

The Fresno State volleyball team won three of four games at the Jack Kaiser Volleyball Classic over the weekend in Queens, New York. The Bulldogs finished as the runners-up in the fiveteam tournament hosted by St. John’s University.

“I thought we finally kind of found a group that really wanted to work hard and play. When we had some highs, it was pretty impressive beating teams 25-6, 25-8, scores like that,” Fresno State head coach Lauren Netherby-Sewell said. “It was a really good trip for learning some lessons and kind of finding our groove a little bit.”

The Bulldogs opened the tournament on Friday with sweeps over St. Francis and Dartmouth.

Fresno State defeated the St. Francis Terriers in three sets, winning each by at least eight points. The Bulldogs’ hitting total against the Terriers was .468, overwhelmingly better than their previous season high of .286 heading into the tournament. Junior outside hitter Zana Bowens led the team with a double-double – 13 kills and 13 digs – and also had three of the Bulldogs’ nine aces in the game.

The Bulldogs won even more convincingly in Game 2 of the tournament over the Dartmouth Big Green. Fresno State opened with a 25-6 win in the first set, the largest margin of victory in a set in Netherby-Sewell’s seven seasons as head coach. The Bulldogs closed out the sweep with 25-10 and 25-14 victories. Dartmouth entered the tournament with a record of 4-0 and defeated the eventual tournament champion St. John’s Red Storm earlier on Friday.

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games versus New Hampshire and St. John’s on Saturday.

The ‘Dogs opened Day 2 of the tournament by narrowly dropping their first set of the weekend to the New Hampshire Wildcats by a score of 25-23.

Fresno State got right back into its rhythm in Set 2 with another impressive margin of victory, taking the second set 25-8 and tying the match 1-1. The ‘Dogs kept the momentum rolling by taking the next two sets 25-16 and 25-17 for their third-straight victory. Junior setter Jelena Jovanovic led the Bulldogs with 46 assists and 17 digs.

The Bulldogs finished the tournament against the Red Storm with the Jack Kaiser Volleyball Classic title on the line.

St. John’s took control early, topping the ‘Dogs 25-19 and 2518. Fresno State answered and avoided getting swept with a 2523 win in the third set, but the Red Storm clinched the tournament title with a 25-19 win in the fourth set to defeat the Bulldogs 3-1.

Two Bulldogs were named to the eight-player all-tournament team: sophomore Maggie Eppright and redshirt freshman Haylee Roberts. Eppright currently leads the team in digs with 3.58 per set. While not named to the all-tournament team, Bowens continued her strong start to the season, as she continues to lead the team in kills, aces and points.

Fresno State improves to 5-6 on the season after the 3-1 showing at this weekend’s tournament. The team next heads to the Roadrunner Classic in Bakersfield which will include Cal State Bakersfield, Oregon State and Long Beach State. It will be the Bulldogs’ fourth-straight road trip this season before returning to the Save Mart Center for an exhibition matchup versus Fresno Pacific on Sept. 23.

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FOOTBALL

Huskers spoil Bulldogs’ home opener

Fresno State defensive lineman Tyeler Davison stares down Nebraska offensive lineman Mark Pelini during the Bulldogs’ 55-19 loss to the Cornhuskers at Bulldog Stadium Saturday.

BULLDOGS from Page 1 hauled in a 70-yard touchdown reception from quarterback Tommy Armstrong Jr. for Nebraska’s first score of the game.

On the Huskers’ ensuing drive, running back Ameer Abdullah broke free for a 57yard touchdown run to give his team the 14-0 advantage. He finished the evening with 110 rushing yards on 19 carries.

The Bulldogs got on the board with a safety after a Husker made contact with a pooch punt and the ball rolled out of the back of the end-zone, resulting in two points.

Freshman kicker Kody Kroening nailed the first field goal of his career from 27 yards out after missing a 30-yard attempt the quarter prior, but by then the Huskers had already built a 27-5 lead.

Quarterback Brian Burrell scored the first touchdown of the game for the Bulldogs on a 66-yard touchdown read-option run, and midway through the fourth quarter, he tossed a 9-yard touchdown pass to Delvon Hardaway for the freshman’s first touchdown as a Bulldog.

“They’re just good and you have to give them credit,” Burrell said. “They have a good pass rush, they cover guys down the field and they made me hold the ball too long. They were a well-rounded defense.”

For the first time this season, Burrell played the entire game. The junior signal caller completed 30 of 59 attempts for 241 yards and accounted for two scores.

The Huskers were able to pose problems all night, consistently racking up big plays, an area where the Bulldogs have struggled in each contest, so far.

Senior safety Derron Smith had six tackles – five solo and one assisted – and Shannon Edwards led the team with seven.

“As a defense, you have to limit those big plays, and we haven’t done a good job of that obviously,” Smith said. “Busted coverages, missed gap fits, missed tackles, all those things continued to hurt us from Week 1 to Week 3, so we have to get back to practice and fix it.”

Smith stressed the importance of “sticking together” despite the loss. “[In] times like this,” he said, “teams can either start their season getting going the next week, or they can keep going in the wrong direction and start pointing fingers.

So as a captain, I and some of the upperclassmen definitely need to do a good job of leading and make sure everybody sticks together, lock arms, get back to practice and

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move on to the next week.”

With the Bulldogs’ three-game stretch of opponents from power conferences now over, they can now focus on Mountain West play. The team will seek to win its first game of the season Saturday night when it hosts Big Sky Conference-member Southern Utah. The week after, Fresno State travels to Albuquerque, New Mexico, for its first conference matchup of the season.

“We have to regroup from here,” DeRuyter said. “As bad as we feel right now, our major goal is still ahead of us, and that is to win the Mountain West Conference.

“We have to make Bulldog Stadium our stadium and protect it, and those things are still ahead of us. We’re going to figure out what we have to do and come back Monday with a renewed spirit and get this thing back on track.”

SOCCER

‘Dogs lose Friday night showdown Fresno State drops sixth straight game

By Conrad Kimball @ConradKimball

The Fresno State women’s soccer team lost 3-0 Friday night to the Cal State Fullerton Titans at Bulldog Stadium, the first game at home after two consecutive weekend away games.

The Bulldogs now have a 1-6 overall record as they prepare for their next week’s matchup with Cal Poly (2-4).

“Obviously, we’re really disappointed,” head coach Brian Zwashcka said. “We felt like the lessons that we’ve been learning up to now were meant to continue to build off each other and improve. Today, we absolutely took a step backwards. Everyone is disappointed, but we have no one to blame but ourselves, so it’s only us that can pick up the pieces.”

Both teams failed to score in the first half. However, the Titans scored two quick goals in the second stanza: one in the 67th

minute, followed by another in the 69th.

Junior defender Morgan Batchellor scored the first off a corner kick. Sophomore midfielder Ali White scored the second. The last goal scored was off a penalty kick in the last seven minutes of the game, leaving the score at 3-0 at the end.

“The exact things that happened in those quick two goals were things we talked about in our pregame meeting,” Zwaschka said.

“Somebody lost their concentration on the person whom we knew was the target, and credit to her for burying it.”

Fresno State recorded six shots during the match, compared with Cal State Fullerton’s 13. Six of the shots were on goal.

The Bulldogs face off against the Cal Poly Mustangs (2-4) this Friday at Alex G. Spanos Stadium in San Luis Obispo, California, at 5 p.m.

The ‘Dogs have a total of two matches left until conference play starts on Friday, Sept. 26, when the Bulldogs’ will host the New Mexico Lobos.

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Fresno State midfielder Fanny Johansson controls the ball during the Bulldogs’ 2-0 loss to the Cal State Fullerton Titans Friday night at Bulldog Stadium.