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Katie Eleneke • The Collegian
Melissa Cancino and Diana Carrasco from Lambda Theta Nu at Fresno State
sell Kids Day newspapers March 4 at Gettysburg and Cedar avenues.
A morning of fundraising and competition
for Fresno State organizations
By Jesse Franz
@JesseOfTheNews
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INSTITUTIONAL EFFECTIVENESS
Professors, university officials sound off on
Fresno State’s substantial success gap
By Nadia Pearl
@nadia_pearl_
In a university that embraces the value of
diversity, Fresno State is still working to close
the student achievement gap between various
races and ethnicities that embody the campus.
Dr. Angel Sanchez, director of the Office
of Institutional Effectiveness, said the gap
between graduation rates “has been going up,
but not at the leaps and bounds we want it to
be.”
“It’s still a very persistent gap between nonunderrepresented minorities, in which majority
of that group is white, and underrepresented
minorities, who are Hispanic/Latino, AfricanAmerican and Native American,” Sanchez said.
The current Fresno State statistics show that
while whites graduate at a 4-year rate of 27.1
percent, other races trail significantly. The rate
for Hispanics/Latinos is 11 percent, Asians 8.1
percent and African-Americans 7.4 percent.
Six-year graduation rates also show a similar trend, now being the overall average time it
takes a Fresno State student to graduate at 48.6
percent. Whites graduate at a rate of 57.3 percent, Hispanics/Latinos 46.2 percent, Asians
43.6 percent and African-Americans 30.9 percent.
Yet, as Sanchez emphasizes, these numbers
are just the start of tackling the wider issue and
understanding the distinct diversity of the San
Joaquin Valley’s population.
“In this area of retention rates and graduation rates, the story really begins with who we
are as Fresno State and who we serve,” Sanchez
said.
Sanchez explained that in serving the Valley,
the influx of students coming through the K-12
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DOWNTOWN FRESNO:
FULTON MALL IN PHOTOS
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Photo by Katie Eleneke • The Collegian
Thousands of volunteers got
up before the sun to man street
corners and sling newspapers
around the Valley Tuesday in an
attempt to raise over $500,000
for the Children’s Hospital of
Central California during the
26th annual Kids Day sale.
An estimated 1,500 students
from Fresno State participated
in the sale, which is one of the
biggest campus charity events of
the year.
“This event is really like no
other,” said Renee Delport, who
has coordinated Fresno State’s
participation in the event for
nearly a decade.
Most of those who volunteered did so with one of the 61
clubs and organizations affiliated with the university that participated.
“It’s been going really well,”
said Veronica Franco, a member
of the Student Pre-Occupational
Therapy Association while selling newspapers on the corner
of Woodrow and Shaw Avenues
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INSIDE
NEWS
==> ‘HERSTORY’ MONTH: Mary Castro and others
kick off Women’s “Herstory” Month with opening
ceremony in the Free Speech Area. [PAGE 3]
SPORTS
==> MEN’S HOOPS: Despite losing to San Diego
State in the home finale, the Bulldogs men’s basketball
team ended the season on a high note. [PAGE 8]
A&E
==> AMERASIA WEEK: Asian cultural events on
campus aim to create awareness of diversity. [PAGE 4]
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THE COLLEGIAN • NEWS
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 2014
Photos by Matt Vieira • The Collegian
FRESNO’S LONG GOODBYE TO THE
FULTON MALL AS WE KNOW IT
Katie Eleneke • The Collegian
“La Grand Laveuse” (Washer Woman), a rare sculpture by famous impressionist painter Renoir that is in the
Fulton Mall.
Photo Illustration: On the left is the mall in its current state. On the right is how the City foresees the remodel of the mall to look.
(Right) First Carbon Solution’s visual impact assessment
(Left) Matt Vieira • The Collegian
Remodel of mall to allow traffic
he Fresno City Council voted 5-2 to remodel the
Fulton Mall to allow traffic in a historic decision that
will end it’s half-century run as one of the nation’s
oldest pedestrian malls.
The remodel selected by the Council creates a straight
street and moves all art and mosaic benches to the sidewalk
areas, and establishes nearly 200 parking spots in the mall.
It represents the first time traffic will be allowed in the mall
since 1964.
“It’s hard to overstate how important this is because a
healthy downtown really makes the entire Central Valley
work again,” said Craig Scharton, owner of Peeve’s Public
House in the Fulton Mall.
Home to historic art pieces and a unique population,
many city leaders see the Fulton Mall and it’s success are a
meter of the Downtown revitalization effort’s success.
Katie Eleneke • The Collegian
Advocates march to City Hall in support of the remodel of the Fulton Mall before Thursday’s City Council meeting.
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Women’s ‘Herstory’ Month begins
By David Lee
@D_Lee64
National Women’s “Herstory”
Month kicked off with an opening
ceremony at the Free Speech Area
Monday with Mary Castro as the
featured speaker.
Castro spoke about the significant roles women have in their
community.
“I think it’s important for us
to recognize women who have an
active role in the success of the
campus,” Castro said. “Events like
this are great for raising awareness about the things women have
done and inspiring for students
going forward.”
Marie Lerma, president of
Women’s Alliance, read the poem
“Masks of Woman” by Mitsuye
Yamada at the ceremony.
Lerma said she read the poem
because it personally spoke to her.
“We put different masks on
each other,” Lerma said. “We can
look at history through that same
analytical lenses like women’s history. We layer different assumptions and presumptions on top of
it, so there is no such thing as the
real history. It’s just different layers of the thought of people at the
time and what we think now.”
Volunteers from the Center for
Women and Culture organized
the event.
Marisol Patino, an intern at the
center, hosted the event.
Patino said the event was to let
people know about future events
for Women’s “Herstory” Month.
There is a Women’s “Herstory”
exhibit in the diversity display on the second floor of the
Henry Madden Library’s North
Wing. The next event will be on
Thursday at the library in Room
3212 from noon to 1:30 p.m.
Dr. Jennifer Randles, assistant
professor of sociology, will give a
presentation titled “Repackaging
the ‘Package Deal’: Promoting
Marriage for Low-Income
Families by Targeting Paternal
Identity.”
The Women Resource Center
and Cineculture will host the
Lunafest 2014 film festival at the
Peters Auditorium on Friday at
5:30 p.m. Nine award-winning
short films by, for and about
women will be played.
Katie Eleneke • The Collegian
Mary Castro and Francine Oputa, director of the Center for Women and Culture
listen to speakers Monday during the opening ceremony of Women’s “Herstory”
Month in the Free Speech Area.
Professors speculate about causes of diversity gap
for student success.
“I think all the way from elementary
school,” Whitley said. “I mean, we teach
students differently based on class and the
type of education.
“Curriculum and skills that are being
taught to low-income students are significantly different than middle-and-upperincome students. That’s going to then affect
the types of skills that they have when they
do go on past high school, or if they go on
past high school.”
However, Sanchez said that serving
this distinct population is the vision and
mission of Fresno State and the other
two California State University colleges
in the Valley, CSU Bakersfield and CSU
Stanislaus.
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public school system into Fresno State are
increasingly challenged with adversity
issues related to financial uncertainty, such
as high poverty or unemployment.
Dr. Sarah Whitley, a professor in sociology of education, said such variables during K-12 translate “into college-level skills
coming into the university.”
“If we look at how education is structured in the United States, we provide different qualities of education,” Whitley said.
“Low-income populations tend to not get a
high quality, or the best quality of education.”
Whitley said the education received
prior to college acts as a crucial “pipeline”
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“The pipeline that we serve is becoming
increasingly diverse, increasingly larger
numbers of first-generation, increasingly
larger numbers that require remediation,”
Sanchez said. “That’s what we’re getting,
and that’s who we serve and that’s what’s in
the San Joaquin Valley.”
But, as Sanchez said, it is Fresno State’s
duty to take in such challenged students.
“If they meet the eligibility requirements, we take that population,” Sanchez
said. “This raw resource that comes in here,
we’re graduating 50 percent of those – that
is doing something; that is doing a lot.”
The reality of the situation is that the
populations requiring remediation heading into college are underrepresented
minorities – Hispanics/Latinos, African
Americans and Native Americans.
While the Asian population is not included as a minority, Sanchez said that the large
Hmong population in Fresno, which is the
second largest in the United States, deals
with “many of the same characteristics as
other underrepresented minorities.”
Once these minorities enter college-level
education, what is Fresno State doing to
facilitate their needs?
There are many support programs promoting student success on campus, both
geared toward the entire student body and
others more specific to ethnicities.
“We are all striving to help our students
feel, believe [and] experience belonging,”
Sanchez said. “That makes for success.”
One initiative is First Year Experience,
a program that is aimed toward first-generation students. With 71.6 percent of new
undergraduates being first-generation students, Sanchez said this group faces “enormous implications” in its ability to navigate
through a complex and bureaucratic higher
education system.
He said First Year Experience gives
those students support to “help them connect and become engaged” within the unfamiliar structure.
A major program for the Hispanic/
Latino population is Title V: Commitment
to Latina/o Academic Success & Excellence
(CLASE), a five-year grant distributed in
2010 by the U.S. Department of Education.
Fresno State is a Hispanic-Serving
Institution, meaning that, because of the
school’s high Hispanic population of 40.6
percent, it qualifies for special government funding that addresses the needs of a
diverse student body.
Dr. Adrian Ramirez, the director of
Title V, said CLASE has “transformed the
academic environment and made significant and sustainable contributions toward
Hispanic student success.”
The support program has a joint partnership between Academic Programs and
Student Affairs, the two branches combining to see an increase in retention rates,
graduation rates and training faculty to
support redesigned courses.
In Ramirez’s opinion, recent efforts by
the administration have improved from
past “policies that favored majority groups
over the others.”
“In the past, I don’t think the university
administration wanted to believe students
come from diverse cultural backgrounds,”
he said. “Now, they realize policies and
academic instruction need to include other
perspectives in order to ensure minority
student success.”
Another minority success program is
the African-American Edge Initiative, primarily focused on African-Americans,
the demographic with the lowest graduation rates. Formed in 2010, it also aims to
improve retention and graduation rates.
With a focus on mentoring, advising
and counseling, Edge Initiative helps to
build “resiliency” for African-Americans to
navigate through the system, said Dr. Malik
Raheem of the Kremen School’s counselor
education and rehabilitation department.
Raheem was recruited for the Edge
Initiative to address psychosocial development among African-American students by
helping them feel a “sense of community
and try to build some of their racial identity.”
“That includes working on their sense of
belonging and dealing with different issues
that black students face,” Raheem said.
“Because historically, the institutionalizing
racism makes them feel like outcasts.”
He also said that African-Americans
in college often deal with the “stereotype
threat,” or the pressure of having to represent their entire race through academic
measures.
“It’s almost like a self-fulfilling prophecy,” Raheem said. “They start internalizing
all these negative things they hear throughout their lives.”
While focusing on psychosocial development is the “best avenue” when working
with minority students in college, Raheem
believes long-term schematic approaches
should be geared toward encouraging students in K-12.
“You’ve got to start giving them the
sense that college is really in their future,”
Raheem said.
Yet while there are a number of programs working toward student success,
another issue is whether students know
about such support services. Whitley
believes increasing awareness is crucial to
seeing an increase in graduation rates.
“We have a lot of services on campus,”
Whitley said. “But I think having further
efforts of letting students know what those
services are and when they’re available and
why they’re available could go a long way.”
Sanchez believes graduation success is
not only important to Fresno State, but also
to the entire San Joaquin Valley population. Recognizing that most of the university’s graduates stay in the Valley, he said
there is a wider “economic engine piece” to
the academic achievement.
“We produce graduates and they go back
out there to the community,” Sanchez said.
Ramirez also emphasized that the significance of creating diverse graduates will
“enrich the lives of students and inherently
their families and the communities in the
Central Valley.”
“The future of the health and economic vitality of the Central Valley depends
upon ensuring educational and professional development opportunities for all
residents, including students from diverse
backgrounds,” Ramirez said.
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 2014
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Asian Culture Awareness Begins
Wind Orchestra prepares for tour
Amerasia Week brings diverse Asian cultural events on campus
Student orchestra holds concerts on campus before touring across the state
By Sam Desatoff
Collegian Staff
On Thursday, the Fresno State Wind Orchestra will
perform in the Concert Hall in the Music Building on
campus.
The concert will begin at 8 p.m.
Joshua Locher, the principal alto saxophonist for the
orchestra, said the goal for the group is to spread attention to a genre of music of which the Central Valley may
not be too aware.
“The wind orchestra offers an experience which cannot
be found anywhere else in the Central Valley,” Locher
said. “We hope to expose audience members to exciting
new works, as well as perform the ones they may already
know.”
The wind orchestra is primarily a touring band,
performing at festivals and conventions across the state.
However, each semester, the orchestra likes to hold at
least two concerts on campus to give family and friends a
chance to attend.
“It’s refreshing to play in a more-relaxed environment
before we prepare to tour and host a wind festival this
spring,” said Locher. “Although I think it is wonderful
to play for those that never heard our band before, it is
the friends and family members who come to each of our
home concerts that really inspire us.”
As principal alto saxophonist, Locher plays an important role in the orchestra.
“You’ll probably hear at least a little bit of me on all the
pieces,” he said.
Locher also serves as one of the publicity managers for
the band.
Photos by Matt Vieira• The Collegian
Magkaisa’s booth on campus, located in front of the free speech area, hopes to inform others about the different Asian cultures in the Central Valley through Amerasia Week.
“T
he music department and Fresno State features some of the most gifted
and passionate educators in the country. It is astonishing how well the music students are guided and encouraged by their professors.”
—Joshua Locher
Fresno State Music Student
“It is also my job to ensure that we fill as many seats
as possible,” Locher said, “because concerts are the most
memorable to us when we play to a full house.”
Locher said he hopes any middle and high school
students attending the Thursday night concert might be
inspired to pursue music as a major.
“A big part of the wind orchestra is reaching out to high
school students in the area,” he said, “to expose them to
our programs as well as give them an idea of what it is like
to perform at a collegiate level.”
This semester, the wind orchestra has performed at
a number of venues. Among them chiefly is the William
Saroyan Theatre. On Feb. 20, the orchestra was the headline performance at California All-State Music Education
Conference.
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required a lot of individual and group preparation,” Lo-
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The 43rd annual Amerasia Week
at Fresno State will teach and inform
people about the diverse Asian cultures
on campus through dances, songs and
performances from March 6-10.
In 1970, Professor Izumi Taniguchi
established Asian American Studies
classes at Fresno State. Taniguchi was
prompted to form classes in that discipline because of political instability and
student activism at the time.
From this, two students of Taniguchi decided to form an organization
for Asian American students to help
promote cultural diversity and cultural
awareness, said Aly Moua, a senior at
Fresno State and the Culture Chair for
the Amerasia organization.
“Amerasia Week is very important
because the purpose is to educate and
inform others about the diverse Asian
cultures,” said Moua. “Hopefully students who are not of the Asian descent
will be able to understand and differentiate upon the different groups of Asian
cultures and embrace...them.”
Amerasia week started off Monday
night with open mic night.
On Tuesday night, Magkaisa, a
cultural group on campus, held Filipino
Night. During Filipino Night Magkaisa
performed various songs and dances.
The group also handed out pamphlets
that informed people about Filipino
culture.
Tonight from 7 to 9 p.m., the Family
Fun Project, an acting club in the Asian
community, will present a skit and then
Asian community boy band “Broken
Keys” will perform.
On Thursday, the Japanese Student
Association will present a variety of
Japanese cultural performances, which
will include Kendo, a Bon Odori Dance,
Kabuki, Soran Bushi and a presentation
on Japanese holidays.
Friday, the Hmong Student Association at Fresno State will present a
two-hour skit called “The True Story of
Ntxhais Hmoob.” The skit is a recreation of a folktale about a tiger and a
girl named Yer.
On Saturday, Festival Night will
present a variety of cultural shows—
both traditional and modern. The
performance will include a dance
performance by “Forgotten Girls” and
Hmong rapper and influential speaker
Ninikiko.
Moua said that even after 43 years,
Amerasia Week still strives to stay true
to its roots in promoting and educating
people about cultural diversity within
the Asian community.
“Today, Amerasia is a vastly diverse
multi-cultural organization, said Moua.
“We still strongly promote cultural diversity and cultural awareness. Amerasia continues to educate the community
of the various Asian cultures here in
the Central Valley through our annual
Amerasia Week.”
Moua said Amerasia also supports
higher education and hopes to raise
enough money to fund a scholarship for
students pursuing higher education in
the near future.
All events will take place at the Student Satellite Union from 7 to 9 p.m.
Amerasia week events are open to the
public. For more information, contact
Fong Vang at (559) 213-2418.
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oday, Amerasia is a vastly diverse multi-cultural
organization. We still strongly promote cultural
diversity and cultural awareness.”
— Aly Moua,
Amerasia Culture Chair
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cher said. “But it was an amazing experience for the entire
band.”
The audience at the conference included middle and
high school students from across the state, as well as
some of the best music educators from the West Coast
and beyond.
Locher’s enthusiasm for music stretches beyond just
the wind orchestra to the department of music as a whole.
“The music department and Fresno State features some
of the most gifted and passionate educators in the country,” Locher said. “It is astonishing how well the music
students are guided and encouraged by their professors.”
Upcoming events for the wind orchestra include the
35th annual Lawrence R. Sutherland Wind Festival from
March 21 to 23. The orchestra will also tour Northern
California later this spring.
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 2014
FUN & GAMES
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Rivalries pair competition with fundraising
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near the Save Mart Center.
“We’ve had a lot of support
from the community,” she said.
Although fundraising is the
goal, the competition between
some groups to outdo one another
is fierce but friendly, Delport said.
Some organizations’ members
went so far as reportedly camping
out overnight on street corners to
claim the spot for their group.
“Outside of bragging rights,
really there’s no tangible prize for
them, but it really is just a pride
thing. It’s exciting, and they love
knowing, ‘Hey we’ve raised the
most,’” Delport said.
From 2004 to 2012, Sigma Nu
dominated the informal competition, beating out every other organization for eight straight years.
However, last year Sigma Phi
Epsilon pulled an upset, ending
Sigma Nu’s streak by a margin
nearly too close to call. The difference between the two was just
$10.70.
Although the sale does bring
out the competitive nature of
some groups, the beneficiary is
always Children’s Hospital.
“Last year, the amount of
money that they individually
raised was more than what some
small towns raised,” Delport
said. “We’ll get a small town like
Kerman, and we’ll have fraternities go out and be able to raise
more than what a whole town is
doing.”
With the exception of one year
in the depths of the recession,
Fresno State annually breaks its
own record in Kids Day fundraising.
Last year, the university raised
$37,404, and although the final
numbers of this year’s sale are
not yet in, Delport feels optimistic that a record will be set once
again.
“I guess our Fresno State stu-
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THE COLLEGIAN • SPORTS
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The Bulldog Bulletin
Briefs and blurbs on the Fresno State Bulldogs
Bulldogs
find their
rhythm
late in
season
NUMBERS from Page 8
Katie Eleneke • The Collegian
Fresno State’s Taylor Ward swings at a pitch during Game 1 of a two-game doubleheader Saturday afternoon. Ward was one of two Bulldogs who were awarded
Mountain West Player of the Week honors.
Bulldogs earn national rankings and
weekly honors
After its sweep of the Texas A&M Aggies, the
Fresno State baseball team received top-25 votes
in three different national polls.
The Bulldogs were voted No. 24 in the
Baseball America and Perfect Game polls and
No. 25 in the Collegiate Baseball Newspaper
poll.
It is the first time that Fresno State has been
ranked in a poll since 2011, when it started at
10-1.
For the second straight week, Fresno State
sophomore catcher Taylor Ward was named the
Mountain West Baseball Player of the Week.
During the weekend sweep, Ward hit .417
with five hits, one run scored and two RBIs.
Defensively, he played catcher in Game 2 of
Saturday’s doubleheader and made five putouts.
Tim Borst, the sophomore right-hander from
Moreno Valley, Calif., was named the Mountain
West Pitcher of the Week. On Sunday, he led the
Bulldogs to a 1-0 shutout of the Aggies, threw a
career-high eight innings, allowed only three
hits and struck out 11.
DeRuyter hires new secondary coach
Drink Responsibly
Fresno State head football coach Tim
DeRuyter announced Monday that he hired
Charleston Southern secondary coach Marcus
Woodson.
Last season, Woodson helped Charleston
Southern to a 10-3 record and No. 22 ranking
in the FCS Coaches Poll. His secondary only
allowed 211.2 passing yards per game and tallied
11 interceptions.
In his collegiate career, Woodson was a twoyear starter for Ole Miss and graduated with
a bachelor’s degree in political science with
an emphasis in criminal justice and a minor in
English.
“We’re really excited about having coach
Woodson as our new secondary coach,”
DeRuyter said. “He has an outstanding record as
both a player in the SEC and as a coach. We’re
really excited to have him as part of our staff.”
Woodson has also been an effective recruiter
for Charleston Southern. He coached current
New York Giants cornerback Charles James,
who set a school record with 12 career picks and
was named to the All-Big South first-team three
years in a row.
Prior to Charleston Southern, Woodson
coached Millsaps College, where he was in
charge of recruiting in the states of Mississippi,
Florida, Alabama and Louisiana in addition to
running the secondary.
In two consecutive games – at
Wyoming and Utah State – the
Bulldogs fell short one rebound
to their opponents (35 to 34). The
first matchup was a loss (again,
foul trouble), while the second
was a 3-point victory.
On Feb. 26 against Boise State,
the ‘Dogs tallied fewer than 30
rebounds for the first time since
Jan. 11’s 76-57 loss at Colorado
State. Fresno State
nded the game
FRIDAY ewith
28 boards but
scored aggressively
(sophomore guard
Marvelle Harris was
9 for 11 in shooting)
(15-15, 8-9) to compensate. That
is an anomaly.
AT
Then against
San Diego State,
Fresno State faced
a team that is 23rd
in the nation in
(7-21, 1-15) r e b o u n d m a r g i n
(5.6). In their first
matchup last Jan.
15, the Bulldogs out-rebounded
the Aztecs 38 to 37. Last Saturday,
they fell short – 34 to 21.
Although the total rebound
margin in the nine-game stretch
for the Bulldogs is negative (-1.7),
it is actually higher than it was on
Jan. 25 (-3.1).
3. Turnovers
Fresno State’s national ranking
in turnover ratio skyrocketed over
the nine-game stretch.
On Jan. 25, the Bulldogs were
52nd in the nation in turnovers,
with 10.9 committed per game.
Since then, they have been able
to shave a turnover off the average (9.8) and now rank 11th in the
nation.
Their best performance was at
Utah State, when they turned over
the ball three times.
The last time the Bulldogs
ended the season in the top 25 in
that category was after the 201112 season, when they finished
14th (10.7 per game).
4. Don’t forget the
offense
While the Bulldogs have radically changed their numbers on
defense, the offensive numbers
have remained the same.
On both Jan. 25 and today, the
Bulldogs are averaging nearly 74
points per game. Field-goal percentage has also remained in the
same neighborhood, from 43.1 to
43.9.
That shows that the cruxes of
Fresno State’s first 70 percent of
the season were its defense and
presence in the paint. Once it was
able to get those under control, it
began a win streak big enough to
turn around the year.
And it’s not over yet. The season’s final game is on Saturday,
and the Bulldogs have a chance
to finish over .500 overall for the
first time in seven years.
Compare that with last year,
and the Bulldogs are having a very
productive season.
SPORTS
LACROSSE
Levatino
wins Rosa
Parks Award
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 2014
MEN’S HOOPS
Matt Vieira • The Collegian
Fresno State junior attacker Marcy Levatino carries
the ball past Denver defenders during the Bulldogs’
home opener Feb. 23. Levatino won the Rosa Parks
Athletic “Just Do It” Award last Friday.
Collegian staff report
Fresno State junior attacker Marcy Levatino
of the lacrosse team was awarded the Rosa
Parks Athletic “Just Do It” Award at the
Satellite Student Union last Friday.
The award honors student-athletes who
show extraordinary leadership qualities, are
active in the community and show passion for
team improvement.
Levatino leads the Bulldogs with seven
points scored this season after finishing second
last year with 24. She also broke three singlegame school records in 2013: most points and
goals (seven each) and draw controls (eight).
An active member in the community,
Levatino achieved more than 700 hours of community service and is secretary of the Fresno
State Student-Athlete Advisory Committee.
She is also a member of the Little Heroes
Program, a project that develops relationships between student-athletes and patients of
Children’s Hospital Central California.
“Marcy is an exceptional young woman who
every day exemplifies the criteria set in place to
be deserving of this award,” said Fresno State
coach Jessica Pausewang.
‘Dogs to host Stanford and Colorado
The No. 19 Stanford Cardinal (2-1) will come
to Fresno tonight at 5 p.m. as part of a twogame conference matchup.
The Cardinal advanced to the second round
of the NCAA Tournament last season and
return 11 starters in 2014. It averages 13.33
goals per game, led by sophomore Meg Lentz
and senior Rachel Ozer (seven each).
On Saturday at noon, Fresno State will host
Colorado. The Buffaloes are playing their inaugural lacrosse season and are 2-2 (0-1 in the
conference).
ON DECK
VS
TONIGHT
Bulldog Stadium, Fresno
5 p.m.
TV: MWN
Matt Vieira • Collegian file photo
high
Ending on a
note
Fresno State center Tanner Giddings jumps up to block a shot attempt by San Diego State’s Xavier Thames during the Bulldogs’ 82-67 loss last
Saturday at the Save Mart Center.
By the Numbers
Despite the fact
that the Fresno State
men’s basketball
team lost its home
finale to San Diego
State, it has a lot to be
proud of.
Especially compared with how
things were on Jan.
Christopher
25.
Livingston
On that date, the
Bulldogs had finished
a grueling overtime contest against
UNLV. They had lost their fifthstraight game and second in a row that
went beyond regulation.
At 8-13 (1-7 in the Mountain West),
it seemed like Fresno State’s 2013-14
season was coming to an ugly end. The
first-place San Diego State Aztecs were
undefeated in conference play, and the
Bulldogs were second to last and about
to host the fourth-place Wyoming
Cowboys.
And that’s when the turning point
came.
The Cowboys visited Fresno Jan.
29, and the Bulldogs found themselves
with a seven-point lead after the first
half. Although Wyoming outscored
Fresno State in the second stanza (by
two points), the home team found itself
breaking a losing streak.
From there, Fresno State’s fortunes
flourished.
Eight games later, the Bulldogs have
gone 7-2 and moved three spots up the
Mountain West standings. They are
down to their final game of the season
– at San Jose – and will try to break
even in conference play.
Going from 1-7 to 8-9, is a vast
improvement. So what caused the 180
in Fresno State’s season?
1. Fouls were minimized
Through the UNLV contest, the
Bulldogs had committed an average of
19.7 personal fouls per game. Over the
nine-game stretch afterward, Fresno
State improved that number to 18.8.
The important number, however,
is how many points opponents scored
from those fouls through free throws.
That is 15.2 per game.
And those numbers have been different in wins and losses. In the two
losses Fresno State had since Jan. 25,
it allowed more points off fouls than it
did in the seven victories.
In Feb. 18’s loss at Wyoming, the
‘Dogs committed their highest number of fouls over the nine-game stretch
(31). Those were costly, as 31 points
were scored from the free-throw line –
and the Bulldogs only lost by six.
Last Saturday, the ‘Dogs were
closer to their average foul count (17)
and allowed 19 points from the line.
Whether or not it was costly is a matter
of debate: the ‘Dogs lost to the Aztecs
by 15 points, and San Diego State shot
20 percent above its season average in
the game from the lane.
Either way, the fact that Fresno
State fouled the most in losses shows
that keeping the number of penalties
low helps it win games. It prevents
opponents from getting free points and
helps the ‘Dogs focus on other aspects
of defense, such as:
2. Rebounds
In the first four wins after the UNLV
match, the Bulldogs outrebounded
their opponents 140-127. Since then,
they have fallen short in boards, but
the disparity is not much.
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