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Baseball season opens at home against ButlerCancer research pertinent to Valley’s Hispanic population

SupportNet helping newcomers in more ways than one

Recent assaults spark Violence Awareness Week activities

Wins roll in: ‘Dogs take down Idaho for 10th consecutive victory

Saturday night, kinesiology major Carson Souza and classmate Zac Vanasen decided to walk home but had no idea they were about to become the latest statistic in off-campus violence.

Souza said he and Vanasen were walking along Bulldog Lane toward Cedar Avenue when a white Chevy Malibu started to follow them. The pas-sengers in the vehicle started to yell out the window, but Souza and Vanasen ignored them. The car then pulled in front of Souza and Vanasen and five passengers got out.

“Zac and I began to back up trying to explain that we weren’t saying any-thing to them and that we didn’t want any problems,” Souza said. “I was hit from the side and knocked uncon-scious.”

Souza regained consciousness, minus his wallet and phone. He went to the hospital and discovered his jaw was fractured in two places and he had

a head concussion. This week, the University Police

Department posted crime alert notices on buildings all over campus because of the incident.

Violent incidents like this, along with the off-campus shooting death of Fresno State freshman Justin Hesketh over the winter break, provoked Associated Students, Inc. to take action and organize a Violence Awareness Week.

Starting Tuesday, the organizers will have a range of activities planned to inform students and also to give them a chance to express their concerns and provide an outlet for their grief.

“Justin was my best friend’s little brother,” said Violence Awareness Week organizer and ASI Senator Brandi Jacobs. “Students tend to think that it could never happen to them. But the truth is that it could happen at any time, anywhere. That’s the reason that Violence Awareness Week is being put on.”

On Tuesday, informational tables

from several organizations will be set up in the Free Speech Area. Brochures and pamphlets will be handed out to provide information about different types of violence.

The following day, students will hand out black ribbons on the Free Speech platform. “The black ribbons symbol-ize violence,” Jacobs said.

“We’re also going to be tying black ribbons to trees all throughout cam-pus,” said Jacobs.

T-shirts with a “Stop the Violence” message will be available for $10.

On Thursday, speakers from the Non-Violent Center of Fresno, the University police and Jacobs are sched-uled to speak starting at 6:30 p.m. at the Satellite Student Union.

Violence Awareness week will be capped off, Friday, with “A Day of Remembrance” in the Free Speech Area.

“It will be a time for students to remember those lost to violence or also who were affected by violence,” added ASI Community Organizer Lauren

Smoot. Fresno State students led by ASI

and the Interfraternity Council have worked hard to help contain incidents of violence on and around campus.

“Since the initial drive-by shooting this past summer on my Fraternity house on Shaw Ave., we have real-ly come a long way,” said Michael Eberhard, Pi Kappa Alpha member and President of the Interfraternity Council. “But it is discouraging some-times.

Just last night, a friend had her car broken into,” added Eberhard. “Vandalism and tagging also happens often.”

ASI senators Jacobs and Breannah Evans encourage all students to par-ticipate in next week’s activities.

“We’re trying to reach out to students just to be aware of their surroundings everywhere that they are,” Jacobs said.

Eberhard added, “I don’t know the solution to these problems. But as stu-dents, we are doing what we can to help and create change.”

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WEB-SPE@KCulled each week from discussions on The Collegian’s website.

Response:‘The Valley is not the culture club’

‘Eduardo Cisneros’: “Do not knock the Valley. To make a judgment of the fine art and culture in Fresno based by what the nation chooses in popular media is a poor comparison. It is like comparing a bicycle to car.

When you refer to the Valley, I automati-cally think of Fresno, seeing as we are the biggest city in the Valley and are an agricul-tural powerhouse. And, how Fresno express-es itself is an accumulation of the life experi-ences of those living in the surrounding cities and rural communities. The Valley is young and techno savvy. Point being, to knock the Valley is to knock Fresno, and vice versa.”

Response:‘Notes & Asides, 2/13/12’

‘Samantha’: “Why do I get the suspicion this Tony Petersen guy responds to his own pathetic opinion posts in the comment section? It’s as if he responds to his initial post, pretending to be a non-GOP affiliate (insinuating a Dem), then he follows up with responses to his own false posts. What a loser…”

Response:‘Letter to the Editor, 2/15/12’

‘Jasmine Marshall Armstrong, MFA 2010’: “I am saddened by the war that the Republican Party seems to have declared on people who are Muslim, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender or Bisexual, women who are feminists, the poor, the working class and Mexican Americans. Not to mention power-ful, smart and forthright black women like Michelle Obama. I’ve read the rhetoric and seen the cartoons.

I extend an olive branch to you, and members of the Republican Party. I would like you to know that I value your party’s part in American history. I would like to see more young Republicans evolve, as Barry Goldwater, the great senator (and presi-dential candidate) from Arizona did before his death. He, a westerner who believed in privacy rights, spoke out in support of the gay community. I wish he were alive today. He was the real deal as far as a Western Republican goes. Ronald Reagan was just a bad actor, who was good at delivering the right lines.”

Response:‘Program offers nursing school alternative’

‘Tim’: “Well written article, easy to follow and kept my interest – great program and a well done presentation.”

Response:‘Conference-USA and Mountain West to form new conference’

‘Dan’: “Where have we seen this before? Oh yes, the original version of the WAC. The MWC split off from the WAC a couple of years after the WAC went to 16 teams, cre-ating two bottom-feeding conferences.

So, here we are, 15 years later, right back where we started. We left a bottom-feeder to join a marginally better conference, and now we’re being morphed into a gigantic bottom-feeder of a conference.

As someone posted on the Bee website: ‘We paid $5 million for this?’”

Thumbs upThe race for the Republican nomination

Whether or not you agree or disagree with any of the candidates, any political junkie must admit that this has been one of the more entertaining elections in memory. According to the website RealClearPolitics.com, five different candidates have been atop the polls at one point or another. Can Mitt Romney hang on? Is Rick Santorum the true anti-Romney candidate, and can he win the nomination? Will Newt Gingrich rise from the political dead for a third time? Will Ron Paul’s strategy of amassing delegates work? When will this string of questions finally end?

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Thumbs downASI senators

For violating the Senator Expectations Policy they passed minutes earlier. One can be forgiven for forget-ting such rules as “no texting during ASI meetings” during a hectic school year; however, doing so just after passing a policy that explicitly bans such behavior is simply unacceptable.

Thumbs up#Linsanity

How about New York Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin? Since insert-ing the Taiwanese-American, Harvard graduate, outspoken Christian, undrafted basketball player into the starting lineup — there are so many storylines with this guy — the Knickerbockers have won seven straight games and have fought their way back into contention for the playoffs. And this is why we love sports.

Response:‘Business student takes ‘Illogic’-al route’

‘Elizabeth Torres’: “I love this story about Fresno State students starting businesses. I think it’s great that The Collegian showcases this great talent. However, you forgot to add a link, number, anything that makes it easier to FIND and support the business!”

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Associated Students, Inc. sena-tors violated an updated Senator Expectations Policy they had passed just minutes prior at Wednesday’s Senate meeting.

Noting several senators with cell phones visible, Executive Vice President Craig Parks had to remind senators that devices that allow out-side communication are prohibited during Senate meetings.

“You guys literally just passed a

Senator Expectations Policy that states you will not have devices out during meetings,” Parks said. “So please put your phones away while in meeting.”

A 13-1 vote had updated the policy, with Jose Luis Nava being the only vote against an update.

A representative for Nava wouldn’t comment on what was wrong with the update that caused Nava to vote against it. Senators William Daly, Parmita Choudhury and Breannah Evans were not present at Wednesday’s meeting.

Referring to the three senators absent at Wednesday’s meeting, Farnesi

said an updated bylaw and policy that passed at the Feb. 1 Senate meeting allows senators to miss two meetings.

“Once you miss two, your spot is con-sidered vacant,” said Farnesi.

Farnesi also said that if a spot becomes vacant, she would replace the senator.

“Each of them will have one absence now, some of them might already have had one previously,” said Farnesi. “So we’ll have to check the attendance and see who is now in violation and who is not.”

Senators Oscar Perez, Victoria

Partida and Jose Luis Nava were also asked by Parks to be quite during the meeting after they disrupted a presen-tation by Senator Kevin Boles and stu-dent activist Neil O’Brien regarding parking tickets.

“Senator Perez, Partida and Nava, please be more respectful to our pre-senters in the future — chattering and laughing amongst yourself isn’t pro-fessional,” Parks said.

The next regularly scheduled Senate meeting is Feb. 29 at 4 p.m. in the University Student Union Room 312-314.

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Provost Covino accepts budget proposal

Provost William Covino announced Thursday he would accept the recommendations presented by the Task Force regarding closing the $8.6 million gap in budget.

Fresno State Provost William Covino said Thursday he accepts the recom-mendations from a campus advisory task force to close a significant budget shortfall in the Academic Affairs divi-sion and he will continue consultation as he moves to implement them.

The Academic Af fairs Budget Advisory Task Force, with represen-tatives from every school/college at Fresno State, began last April to research the budget gap and consult with faculty, administrators and stu-dents.

Based upon mid-year projections, there is an $8.6 million gap between the allocation of state dollars and tuition fees and the actual costs of operating programs in Academic Affairs. Some of the gap is addressed through fund-ed research, gifts and donations, con-

tinuing education revenue and other means. However, even when all funds are tapped, a gap of more than $1 mil-lion remains.

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Adapting to the collegiate lifestyle is often a far cry from high school, and Fresno State offers a program to ensure its students make a smooth transition – especially the freshmen.

The program SupportNet emphasiz-es time management, class preparation and any other study-related barriers that hinder academic success. Students can refer themselves or be referred by a professor if they feel a student is not meeting course expectations.

Under the direction of coordinator Tosha Giuffrida, SupportNet expe-rienced a high turnout in referrals, exceeding 400 percent more than last year, according to its annual report.

“What we do in a nutshell is teach students how to be students,” Giuffrida said.

SupportNet advisors hone in on areas students need to improve in by leading workshops and utilizing the LASSI (Learning and Study Strategies Inventory). LASSI is a diagnosis tool developed at the University of Texas that assesses a student’s aspects of learning, such as anxiety, motivation and time management skills.

“It’s not that students don’t have the intelligence to pass courses,” Giuffrida said. “Most of the time, students are overscheduled. They have problems with time management and they need assistance in prioritizing in general.”

Beyond the LASSI and learning style assessments, SupportNet advi-sor Janene Avedisian said that the program’s holistic approach is toward fulfilling a student’s individual needs. Sometimes those needs steer the pro-gram outside of academics issues.

“A lot of students just come in for per-sonal counseling as well,” Avedisian said. “They just want to talk. It’s not all academic. Sometimes students just need a support system. Sure we start with the LASSI when they come in. But if a student says, ‘Look, I’m really depressed right now,’ we kind of set the whole academics aside and focus on the personal issue that they have.”

Aside from its website and Facebook

Andrew Boydston has loved com-edy since he was a child, and has had a passion for making people laugh for as long as he can remember. The cur-rent Fresno State student is in his sixth year at the university and has been per-forming stand-up comedy for the last two years.

Since beginning his journey as a stand-up comic, Boydston has per-formed in 20 different shows at various venues across Fresno.

The broadcast journalism major had always thought of doing stand-up com-edy after arriving in Fresno from Taft, a small town southwest of Bakersfield. But Boydston didn’t start until after his cousin Shaye Fields, whom he was very close to, passed away in a car acci-dent.

“I was depressed and had no direc-tion,” Boydston said. “But then one night I had a dream that my cousin told me, ‘Do what you love to do and what I love to see you do.’ She loved that I saw

nothing as offensive and could make light of any situation.”

Not long after having the dream, he began writing jokes and preparing for Amateur Comedy Night at The Bucket, the campus' pub.

“Before I started doing stand-up I had nothing to fall back on, and then the opportunity presented itself,” Boydston said. “Stand-up was always something that I had wanted to do. It’s a big part of my life now.”

Boydston’s comedy covers a wide variety of topics, such as relation-ships, drugs, alcohol, self-deprecation, scenarios that are made up in his head, past experiences, friends, sports, video

games, NASA and jokes involving nos-talgia.

“My biggest influence is George Carlin. Without him, I would be noth-ing,” Boydston said. “ I feel my humor has a wide range. It ranges from things like Daniel Tosh to story element jokes like Patton Oswalt and even one liners like Mitch Hedberg.”

Despite his comedic nature, Boydston is very meticulous with the creation of his jokes. Often times he can be seen pulling out his cell phone to write down something he thought of that he thinks has the potential to become a joke at one of his shows. The major-ity of his jokes he still considers works

in progress and works constantly to improve them.

“It’s just a matter of making things better," Boydston said. "[It] takes two performances and an hour total of working on a joke over that span to get one to be pretty good,” Boydston said. “If it doesn’t hit that night, I try to rework it and perform it at a later date.”

To Boydston, every show is a chance for improvement. Going into every show his goal is to give 100 percent effort.

“What’s the point of showing up if you’re not going to bring your ‘A’ game?” Boydston said.

The goal for many of his jokes is to expose ignorance — not to spread it. He goes into every show wanting to make a point to the audience, but at the same time keep it light and find humor in every topic.

“I truly believe that I can be a stand-up comic,” Boydston said. “I don’t want this to just be a hobby. I want this to be my career.”

SupportNet aims to help struggling studentsThe jump to college can sometimes need

assistance

group, SupportNet attracts students through faculty referrals and a pres-ence at Dog Days orientation. The orientation period helps clarify to stu-dents what Giuffrida considers to be one of the toughest transitions from high school to college: study expecta-tions.

“When we do Dog Days presenta-tions and you ask those incoming freshmen, ‘How many hours outside of class do you study,’ most of the time they’ll laugh at you if you even say five hours,” Giuffrida said. “Most incom-ing freshmen are very used to getting decent, if not good, grades with very minimal time outside of class.”

Dr. Dennis Driggers, a political sci-ence professor at Fresno State, empa-thizes with Giuffrida’s views. The fail-ure rate for his American Government and Institutions

general education course is around 40 percent. He predominantly attri-

butes this towards a lack of study prep-aration.

“There used to be a standard where students would study two hours a week for every unit they take,” Driggers said. “Students don’t use that standard anymore.”

Driggers is a three-year advocate of SupportNet and said that while he doesn’t send out referrals until after students take their first test, the chal-lenge is getting students to accept help upon referral.

“Most of the students [who are] referred decline and it’s dumb because it’s free help … Bu,t as a professor, I have a right to help and they have a right to decline,” Driggers said.

And although SupportNet’s servic-es are available to every student on campus at any point throughout the semester, the program targets classes with high freshmen enrollment and high failure rates. Only 57 percent of

referred students established contact with the program last year, however.

Avedisian said that the program is looking into more efficient ways to connect with referred students besides phone calls and emails.

“It is a struggle,” Avedisian said. “Text messaging would be wonderful, and we’re almost there.”

Giuffrida remains optimistic toward the increased faculty participation that has led to more and more referrals.

“The good news is that each semester we see more and more students,” she said.

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SupportNet academic advisor Janene Avedisian said that while the program helps address student needs such as study habits and time manage-ment, it also can serve as a forum for personal counseling. ''Sometimes students just need a support system,'' she said.

Student-comedian looks to turn a hobby into careerBy Thomas Pearson

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“I truly believe that I can be a stand-up comic. I don't want this to just be a hobby. I want this to be my career.”

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Fresno State cancer researchers seek deeper understanding of cancer issues

Although Hispanic women are not diagnosed with breast cancer as often as Caucasian women, the disease tends to be diagnosed late in Hispanic Women. Biology professor Dr. Jason Bush, who has a Ph.D. in experimental medicine, is examining the link between breast cancer and pesticides. He is also researching predis-posing factors for pancreatic cancer.

“Anything we can do to eng a g e the underserved minority populations, princi-pally the Hispanic population in Fresno and Hispanic farm workers, is something we’re actively involved with,” added Bush.

Bush is trying to reach out to Latina farmworkers because cancer health disparities are present in the local Hispanic population. Fresno County is now over 50 percent Hispanic. Ovarian, breast and prostate

cancer are common cancers that are being studied for drug resistance. Many people who have been diagnosed with one of these three relatively com-mon cancers are still living five years from the date of diagnosis.

However, pancreatic can-cer requires further study because it often is diagnosed late and has only a five-year survival rate of about 5 per-cent. This especially deadly cancer is what took the life of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.

Bush is examining prelimi-nary biomarkers, a technique which could inform an indi-vidual who is predisposed to pancreatic cancer.

“One of the things that hap-pens when people get treated with chemotherapy is that if for whatever reason, all the cancer has not been killed. Those cancer cells that have survived tend to be resistant.,” Bush said. “If you treat that person down the road the same way, that cancer is not going to

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Undergraduate student Cynthia Contreras prepares to amplify cancer cell DNA using Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) while Dr. Bush supervises.

Photo courtesy of Dr. Jason Bush

Above is a cancer cell on the move. It’s an electron image of a breast cancer cell migrating — a characteristic of aggressive cancers.

die. It is going to require some other kind of treatment. We call that a multi-drug resistant phenotype.”

People are not treated for cancer in Bush’s lab. Instead, a deeper understanding of the basic mechanisms is being sought. This understanding would be of what is going on at levels which can only be seen under a microscope.

“Cancer research is about what is going on at the cellu-lar level, because that’s what cancer is. It’s a disease of your genes, your DNA and thus the cell that DNA is in. So you have to understand the basic mechanisms, what is going on within that cancer cell,” Bush said.

Malika Sahni is working on a part of the project involv-ing metabolites and examin-ing the different functions of genes.

“We have different projects going on…everything centers around tissue culture,” Sahni said.

Biology master’s degree student Kathryn Patterson is treating cultures with pes-ticides and exposing them to low-oxygen environments. She is also doing extractions of DNA and RNA to examine functional changes that occur when the genetic material is exposed to certain chemicals.

“Most of what we are doing is about pesticides that are causing cancer. We’re look-ing at a lot of interactions,” Patterson said.

Metastasis (spreading of cancer cells) is also being examined in Bush’s lab. Bone and breast cancer cells are being exposed to a drug known as Zometa, which is used to treat bone cancer pain in order to study its effects.

“We have looked at pro-teomics and are seeing what cells cause breast cancer cells

to metastasize to the bone,” biology master’s degree stu-dent Cynthia Contreras said.

Funded by the National Cancer Institute, Susan G. Komen and the Keep A Breast Foundation, Bush is also investigating cancer and stem cells. An effort is being made

to understand the effects of low-dose radiation on these cells.

It’s L.A.’s time to shine on the runwaysNEW YORK — In New York,

Los Angeles fashion has come of age.

New York Fashion Week, which kicked off Feb. 8 with more than 300 fashion shows and presentations scheduled, is not just a platform for New York designers to gain media

attention and retail orders. It’s a showcase for designers from all over the world — and, notably this year, Los Angeles, which now has a breadth of talent to rival any major fash-ion city.

Twenty years ago, Los Angeles had a reputation for producing clothing that was casual, comfortable and wearable, but not necessarily

innovative or runway-worthy. Jeans, T-shirts and swimwear were the main exports, and “sunny,” “surf” and “street” the catch-word cliches used to describe them.

Then, in the early 2000s, Los Angeles started nurtur-ing a more avant-garde set of designers, who traveled to New York Fashion Week to show their work. Designers Magda Berliner, Jared Gold and Alicia Lawhon made waves as artsy deconstruction-ists, repurposing vintage gar-ments to create one-of-a-kind pieces that challenged L.A.’s identity as a capital of mass-produced sportswear, but their efforts were ultimately more artistic expression than work-able business model.

Today, the hometown talent showing at New York Fashion Week is more polished. In

the pantheon of American fashion, Los Angeles design-ers are no longer a curiosity or lumped together into one sun-and-surf soaked category. They’re celebrated and appre-ciated for their own distinctive points of view in the pages of Vogue magazine, on the red carpet and beyond.

There’s Barbara Tfank, whose ladylike designs and exquisite textiles have made fans of First Lady Michelle Obama and singer Adele, and Rodarte’s Kate and Laura Mulleavy, whose artisanal clothing has been exhibited in museums around the world and wor n by the likes of Taylor Swift, Kirsten Dunst and the first lady.

Also showing here is Scott Sternberg, who is breath-ing new life into the preppy aesthetic with his men’s line

Band of Outsiders and his women’s line Boy by Band of Outsiders. (Sternberg, a for-mer agent with the Creative Artists Agency, has Hollywood and art world connections that run so deep he was able to per-suade Oscar nominee Michelle Williams and artist Ed Ruscha to model for his spring-sum-mer 2012 lookbooks.)

There’s also Juan Carlos Obando, whose romantic red carpet dresses, like the flut-tery fuchsia silk halter dress Viola Davis wore to the recent Oscar nominees luncheon in L.A., have found favor with Hollywood.

Even Pamela Skaist-Levy and Gela Nash-Taylor, who brought the world one pow-erful image of L.A. fashion with the Juicy Couture velour

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tracksuit, have upped the fashion ante. After departing Juicy, which never showed at New York Fashion Week, they’re debuting a new col-lection here called Skaist-Taylor, which they describe as “California eccentric.”

“Back in the day, Rick Owens was our high-end, and Alicia Lawhon was doing recycled and rough and homespun. It was very raw,” says Kim Friday, senior fashion editor at Women’s Wear Daily, who has been covering fashion for the trade publication for 11 years (three in Los Angeles and eight in New York). “That was a moment, but now every-thing is much more tailored.

Rachel Zoe has had a big influ-ence on getting everyone to dress up and be glamorous.”

Zoe, the celebrity stylist who parlayed her fashion sense into a career as a reality show star, would-be media mogul and now designer, is showing her collection here too. Other L.A. names and brands on the docket include Libertine, Jenni Kayne and Jeremy Scott, who designed some of the Adidas Originals track suits and winged sneakers worn by the backup dancers during Madonna’s Super Bowl halftime show.

Retailers are tur ning to L.A. talent to help them raise their fashion cachet. Gregory Parkinson, who showed his flair for mixing prints and

textiles in New York, has been tapped by Anthropologie to design a special collection that will debut at the chain in April. And QVC, the home shopping channel, is collabo-rating with Karen Zambos, Cynthia Vincent and Geren Ford on several pieces fea-tured in the first QVC fash-ion show during New York

Fashion Week.All this success is becoming

a proven path.“Now that L.A. designers are

feeling more recognized and accepted, it’s more comfort-able to show here,” says Corey Lynn Calter. The designer pre-sented her collection in New York for the first time Feb. 8, after showing it on and off for years during various incar-nations of L.A.’s own belea-guered fashion week, which has never managed to attract as much media or retail atten-tion as the fashion weeks in New York, London, Milan and Paris.

Still, Calter, like others working in fashion who make their homes on the West Coast, is sensitive to being defined by

geography.“It’s true my vibe is more

mellow, but I’m not a laid-back L.A. line,” says the designer, whose fall collection included tailored jackets and pants, tie-front silk blouses, sequin stripe mini-dresses and print-ed palazzo pants.

“It is real ly American designers on the runway, and void of knowing where a designer is from, I don’t think it would matter to most people,” says Steven Kolb, chief executive of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, an industry trade group.

So they’re not Los Angeles designers, they’re designers from Los Angeles. And they have arrived.

In states that don’t have driver education require-ments, more than one in three students got a license without any formal driver ed training, a study finds.

A representative sample of 1,770 ninth through 11th grad-ers from across the country

was asked about their par-ticipation in driver education programs. Among them, 78.8 percent had taken part in a formal driver ed course. A typical class, according to the study, consists of 30 hours of classroom training and six hours of behind the wheel instruction with a certified instructor.

Among students who were in a formal driver ed program,

86.7 percent of them had behind the wheel training. But in states where driver ed was not required, more than half had no behind the wheel instruction.

In states with no driver education requirements, the authors said, there may be dis-crepancies in training among racial and ethnic groups, between genders and among socioeconomic groups: 71 per-

cent of Hispanic students in these states got a license with no formal driver ed training. Male students, black students and those with lower academ-ic scores also took part less frequently in driver ed pro-grams compared with their peers who lived in states that did require them.

The study was published re c e n t ly i n t h e j o u r n a l Pediatrics.

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BASEBALL

FORT WORTH, Texas — TCU football players told undercover officers that drug use was widespread among the team, according to affidavits released Wednesday after the arrest of 18 peo-ple, including four players, on drug charges.

The details disclosed in their arrest warrant affidavits are a blow to one of the most respected programs in college football and one expected to contend for the Big 12 title in its first season in the league. Spring practice begins Feb. 25.

Police say that four players — line-backer Tanner Brock, defensive line-man D.J. Yendrey, offensive tackle Ty Horn and cornerback Devin Johnson — sold marijuana to students and foot-ball players. They have been kicked off the team.

The 18 people arrested, 15 of them students, were caught making “hand-to-hand” sales of marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy and prescription drugs to undercover officers, police said.

Brock was being held on $10,000 bond at the Mansfield Jail. Johnson and Horn were being transferred to the jail on Wednesday afternoon and Yendrey had not been arraigned.

Police said they had yet to determine

if other football players were involved or would be charged.

The documents say that coach Gary Patterson sprung a surprise drug test on the football team on Feb. 1, National Signing Day, and that Brock later told an undercover officer that there “would be about 60 people being screwed” as a result of the test. Sources said Patterson ordered the drug test after a prize recruit told him that he would not attend TCU because of drug use by players.

During a drug buy, an undercover officer asked Johnson about the sur-prise drug test.

“What can they do? Eighty-two peo-ple failed it,” Johnson said.

Patterson and athletic director Chris Del Conte declined numerous requests for interviews.

TCU spokeswoman Lisa Albert said TCU tests its student-athletes for drug use on a regular basis. Any student found in violation of TCU’s drug abuse policy is subject to university disci-plinary action, she wrote in an e-mail.

“Also, I know you were wondering if the university is refuting the facts regarding the statements made in the affidavit,” she wrote. “The university is refuting these comments because these comments were made in the con-text of a drug buy.”

The affidavits do not indicate that Patterson knew about the six-month

investigation that led to the arrests early Wednesday, including three on campus. In a statement, the coach indi-cated that he did not.

“As I heard the news this morning, I was first shocked, then hurt, and now I am mad,” Patterson said. “Under my watch, drugs and drug use by TCU’s student-athletes will not be tolerated by me or any member of my coaching staff. Our program is respected nation-ally for its strong ethics and for that reason the players arrested today were separated from TCU by the University. I believe strongly that young people’s lives are more important than wins or losses.”

Brock, a junior from Copperas Cove who led the team in tackles during the Frogs’ 13-0 Rose Bowl season in 2010, was sidelined after the season opener at Baylor with an ankle injury. He was poised to take TCU’s defensive leader mantle from Tank Carder in 2012.

Yendrey, a defensive tackle from Edna High School, started 18 games the last two seasons, including the Poinsettia Bowl on Dec. 21. Johnson, from Moore High School in Oklahoma, had eight career starts, including the bowl game. Yendrey and Johnson would have been seniors next season.

Horn, from McGregor, would have been a junior. He started against SMU in 2011 and had played in 11 games, including the Poinsettia Bowl.

TCU has received almost universal positive media coverage for years as Patterson built the program into a perennial power. The Frogs are 47-5 over the last four seasons, including 11-2 in 2011.

In December, TCU ranked third in the “Academic BCS,” a list by research-ers at the New America Foundation’s Higher Ed Watch blog that ranks foot-ball teams based on their graduation rates and how well players are working toward their degrees.

Its Academic Progress Rate score of 972 was fourth among the Top 25 schools in the final 2010 BCS standings. APR is a measure of eligibility and retention used by the NCAA to see how successful teams are in the classroom.

The American Football Coaches Association has recognized TCU for its high graduation rates for four con-secutive years. All but one of TCU’s 19 seniors on the 2011 roster have already earned his degree or is on track to graduate by May.

Last year, TCU was highlighted in a “Sports Illustrated” article as the only Top 25 football team in 2010 with no players on its roster with crimi-nal records. The article stated that TCU and Oklahoma were the only two schools in the Top 25 that perform criminal background checks on their recruits.

By Stefan StevensonMcClatchy-Tribune

The 2012 Fresno State base-ball season will open tonight at 6 p.m. when the Bulldogs host Butler. The Diamond ‘Dogs will look to start the sea-son with a win as they go for their sixth consecutive WAC title in seven years, as well as their sixth tournament title in the same span.

Fresno State’s first series of the season will continue with a Saturday doubleheader with the first game at 2 p.m. The series will wrap up on Sunday at 1:05 p.m.

Fresno State will need to replace tremendous talent this season, losing eight play-ers to the MLB draft. Of the 10 Bulldogs drafted, twin broth-ers Taylor and Trent Garrison decided to return to Beiden Field. This will be Taylor’s senior season while Trent is a redshirt junior, after sitting out last season due to injury.

The ‘Dogs, they will have the majority of last year’s bull-pen carry over to this season. Seniors Cody Kendall and Taylor Garrison, who pitched much of the Bulldogs’ late innings, are both back this season.

While Fresno State lost some of its mainstays from last season in Danny Muno, Jordan Ribera, Garrett Weber, Brennan Gowens and Dusty Robinson, who left early for the minor leagues, it still pos-sesses offensive weapons this season.

Sophomore Aaron Judge is the projected three-hole hit-ter after a breakout freshman campaign. Judge collected numerous awards while start-ing in 49 games at center field.

He was named a Louisville S l u g g e r F r e s h m a n A l l -American, WAC Freshman of the Year and was named to the Alaska Baseball League’s top prospect list for his play with the Glacier Pilots this past summer.

Fresno State finished last season with a 40-16 overall record while going 26-5 at home.

Butler enters the season having gone 23-28-1 in the 2011 season. Starting third-baseman Patrick Guinane is a player to look out for having claimed his starting spot as a freshman last season. He was named Newcomer of the Year, an award voted on by his team-mates, while also named to the Horizon League’s all-newcom-er squad.

Butler will have 10 return-i n g p i t c h e r s f r o m l a s t year’s squad. Senior Mike Her nande z will take the mound for Butler tonight with Kevin Lenkman and Billy Laing expected to start during Saturday’s double-header.

By Tim SalazarThe Collegian

Fresno State gears up for ‘Dog fight

Fresno State vs. ButlerThe Diamond ‘Dogs open the 2012 season with a four-game series against the Butler Bulldogs at Beiden Field.

• Today, 2:05 p.m.

• Saturday (DH), First game will begin at 2 p.m.

• Sunday, 1:05 p.m.

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Sophomore pitcher Tyler Linehan finished 5-2 with a 4.27 ERA in his eight starts during his freshman season.

TCU players caught in bust describe widespreaddrug use on team, affidavits says

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‘Dogs win 10th straight in 76-68 win over Idaho

The women’s basketball team lucked out Thursday night despite not playing at the tempo it wanted to, prevailing 76-68 over Idaho for its 10th-straight win.

“Idaho gave a good effort tonight,” said head coach Adrian Wiggins. “They con-trolled the tempo for most of the game and that was a prob-lem for us.”

The ‘Dogs started off slow, trailing the Vandals 4-0, before four straight layups spawned a 20-4 Bulldog scoring run in what appeared to be another routine victory for Fresno State.

But the 16-point lead quickly diminished as the ‘Dogs fell vic-tim to the whistle, committing 10 team fouls in the first half alone.

“The clock stopped a lot. The whistle blew a lot and I feel that impacted the pace of our game,” Wiggins said.

Senior Blakely Goldberg fell into foul trouble early, commit-ting three first-half fouls by the eight-minute mark, forcing Wiggins to bench the defender the rest of the half. Goldberg fouled out in the second half, finishing with four points in just 13 minutes on the floor, well below her per-game averages for both categories.

“There were a lot of times tonight here the whistle blew, the clocked stopped and the ball wasn’t moving,” Wiggins reiter-ated. “And it’s hard to play bas-ketball that way at the pace we want to.”

Despite not playing at the reg-ular tempo, Fresno State forced 27 turnovers, 13 of which were steals.

The Idaho defense forced the ‘Dogs on their paws as Fresno State shot a dismal 20 percent from 3-point range, an area the team is usually solid from.

“We just didn’t have a good pace time,” Wiggins said of the team’s poor shooting per-centage. “It wasn’t the shot of choice, so we were forcing it a little bit.”

Sophomore Ki -Ki Moore stepped up for the ‘Dogs in the second half, scoring 15 of her 23 points after the break. Moore netted 23 points, 11 rebounds and five steals, all game highs in her sixth double-double per-formance of the season.

Junior Rosie Moult and soph-omore Taylor Thompson both scored in double-digits with 13 and 15 points, respectively.

Fresno State is now 21-4 overall and 9-0 in the Western Athletic Conference and Hawaii fell to 8-18 and 3-7 in the WAC.

The ‘Dogs will put their 10-game win streak on the line Saturday as they host second-place Utah State at 7 p.m.

27Turnovers forced by the ‘Dogs, 13 of which were steals.

BY THE NUMBERS

By Angel MorenoThe Collegian

52Fresno State’s total points in the paint.

3Players who scored in double figures for both teams.

.200The ‘Dogs shot a dismal 4-of-20 from behind the arc.

76Total points scored by Fresno State, just .5 above their season average.

27Turnovers forced by the ‘Dogs, 13 of which were steals.

16Largest lead for the ‘Dogs was with 5:15 remaining in the first half.

6Number of sec-ond-chance points Idaho was held to the entire game.

Ki-Ki Moore’s double-double performance leads ‘Dogs past Vandals

Photos by Dalton Runberg / The Collegian

Ki-Ki Moore (left) recorded her sixth double-double of the season, while teammate Rosie Moult scored 13 points in the Bulldogs’ 76-68 defeat over Idaho.