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Nobel Prize laureate to discuss Columbia space tragedy

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X-rays are one of the services provided at the Health Center, but are very costly to perform. If the fee is increased, students will pay $5 starting the fall semester with it gradually increasing to $20 over a four-year period. The current fee is $93 per semester and would increase to $113 by 2016.

Health Center urges students to accept proposed fee increase

By Stephen Keleher The Collegian While it seems like every month brings news of tuition or student loan interest rate increases, the Health Center has not had a substantial increase since 2005. As a result, the Health Center has suffered state budget cutbacks, had to cut its staff from 45 down to 35 and ultimately cut back on services offered to students.

“We’ve lost the ability to be more accessible,” said Health Center director Cathy Felix. “Visibility is another problem, getting students to realize we are here, there’s not enough staff to do the marketing.”

Less than 50 percent of students use the Health Center even though they pay the mandatory fee as part of their tuition. From 2010 to 2011, total visits dropped by 3,500 due to cutbacks and lack of visibility.

“Since we’ve dropped off the number of staff, we don’t have enough open appointments for students,” said Yasmine Mohsin, president of the Student Health Advisory Committee (SHAC). “Students choose to walk because there may be longer waits or they may be asked to come back the next day.”

SHAC is the student organization mandated by the university to work with Felix and the Health Center to find out what students need from the facility and also to inform students of the many free and low-cost services it offers.

Felix, who just took over as director last October, wants to reverse the trend and help all Fresno State students use the services they have to pay for anyway. She has proposed raising the fee by $5 per year for the next four years starting this fall. The University Fee

Advisory Committee has given Felix until Friday, May 4 to make three types of outreach to students in order to get their sentiment on her proposed fee increase.

An email was sent out to all students last Tuesday asking them to go online and complete a brief two-minute survey. The Fee Advisory Committee mandated that Felix get at least 500 responses from her survey, and already more than 500 have filled it out.

While there is still a week to go in the process, about 60 percent of students are in favor of the increase.

However, some students feel the fee increase is unnecessary because not every student wants to use the Health Center.

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addressed the Associated Students, Inc. Senate at Wednesday’s meeting urging them to vote “no confidence” to a Health Center fee increase. Although ASI did not have an action item on the agenda to vote for the approval of a fee increase, O’Brien said the increase is excessive.

“A $5 increase per year [with] over 20,000 students equates to $100,000,” O’Brien said. “For five years, that’s a half of a million dollars — that’s not asking for our help, that’s asking for students to cover the entire ground.”

O’Brien said that people come to a university to get an education, and the Health Center is an added benefit.

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Nobel Prize laureate Douglas Osheroff, a Stanford University physics professor emeritus, will discuss the investigation into the 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia accident at 7 p.m.

Friday, April 27, in the Satellite Student Union at Fresno State.

His presentation has special relevance to Fresno State because the space shuttle Columbia was commanded by alumnus Air Force Col. Rick Husband when it came apart during re-entry in 2003, killing him and his six crew members.

Osheroff’s free, public lecture will be delivered at the Society of Physics Students Zone 18 meeting, hosted by Fresno State’s chapter of the national physics organization. The meeting continues Saturday, April 28, on campus. The society’s meetings are open to registered members who are students in California, Nevada, Hawaii and the Philippines.

Osheroff was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in physics for his work with the superfluid phase of helium-3 while in graduate school at Cornell University, where he earned his doctoral degree in 1973. At Stanford, Osheroff’s research has focused on quantum fluids, solids and gasses at ultra-low temperatures.

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Water Technology Conference sets speakers, technical topics

By University Communications

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Along with services, low-cost pharmaceutical items, immunizations and complex laboratory testing are also covered at the Health Center. The center is the most heavily utilized student service.

Wat e r b a n k i n g a n d e xch a n g e s and nitrates in groundwater will be the subjects of panel discussions May 3 in Clovis at the 2012 Water Technology Conference organized by the International Center for Water Technology (ICWT) at Fresno State.

T h i s 2 0 1 2 c o n f e re n c e p a r t n e r s the International Center for Water Technology (ICWT), California State University, Fresno, American Society of Irrigation Consultants, American G r o u n dw a t e r T r u s t , C a l i f o r n i a Agricultural Irrigation Association and BlueTech Valley.

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OP-ED

A student loan solution

By Phil Fullerton The Collegian

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massive crisis is quietly building with rapidly burgeoning student college loans caused by equally snowballing increases in college costs: the inability of indebted college students to marry and raise children after graduation.

Yet there is an answer to this problem.

As noted in a recent Wall Street Journal article, nationally student loans taken out to pay for college costs now exceed one trillion dollars! And, as also noted in the article, these loans are preventing former students from undertaking the costs of marriage and even more, the cost of bearing and rearing children.

A friend’s grandchild has incurred together with her husband, both college graduates, a total of over a quarter of a million dollars of debt. They have monthly payments exceeding $2,000 a month. How can they or those like them finance a family?

Recent demonstrations by students at Fresno State and the University of California at Berkeley speak loudly of the terrible burden that the increases of tuition and fees are placing on the shoulders of our youngsters.

So what is the answer? To partially forgive a student’s loan when a child is born and to do so for each subsequent child. There is precedent for this in the student loan program already: if a student works either for a nonprofit or for a government entity for ten years

their then remaining loan balance will be canceled. So why not extend this to having children?

There is also precedent for favoring children in the US. Every time a child is born, a person gets an additional exemption on his income tax thereby reducing his tax burden. In addition, we have created tax favored educational saving accounts and have shielded children up to age 26 by allowing them to be on their parents’ medical policies.

And such child-friendly policies abound in other nations. France has created a superb system of free or low cost child care centers subsidized by the government to ease the burden of working mothers. Finland gives every mother a full year’s leave of absence (unpaid) with the right to return to her job. Many nations actually give a cash subsidy upon the birth of a child.

Why is this loan forgiveness important? At a minimum, those with college loans should have the ability to rear a family as well as all other members of society. Why should we single out those with loans inhibiting them from starting a family?

And I would argue that such individuals are the ones we want most of all to have families. They have shown the willingness to dream of the future, to strive to improve themselves and by extension their society. Who else would be better chosen to replace our aging population with new gifted and motivated children than this multicultural, multiethnic lower and middle

class group?

How would this work? For each child a woman bore or person adopted he/she would receive a partial per percentage credit on his/her student loan. The same would be true for each subsequent child. Perhaps the fourth child could wipe out the loan entirely.

A reduction per child would partially compensate for the increased cost of the child. I would extend the partial forgiveness to legally married spouses since they are the ones additionally burdened with the legal obligation of support.

Since their legal obligation is less clear, cohabiting spouses would be barred. This would strike a blow for reinforcing traditional marriage which has been losing ground in the US where we are approaching 50% of children born into single parent homes.

We are facing a barren landscape where our most educated young people are heavily burdened with loan payments inhibiting them from starting a family when they are the ones who hold the future of all of us in their hands. It is time to address this problem by giving relief and support to them.

Phil Fullerton is a graduate of Stanford Law School and a long-time resident of Fresno.

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OP-ED

Keep student interest rates low

By Arne Duncan

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ifty years ago college was a luxury. Back then, you could still graduate from high school and get a good-paying job that would guarantee you a place in the middle class. Those days are gone.

A postsecondary education is the ticket to economic success in America.

We know that the jobs of the future will all require some kind of education or training after high school.

And while it’s never been more important to have a degree, a certificate or an industry recognized credential — it’s also never been more expensive.

Since 1995, college costs across the country have risen almost five times faster than median household income.

As a result, students and their families are taking on more and more debt.

Borrowing to pay for college used to be the exception; now it’s the rule.

Next month, millions of America’s newest college graduates will leave school to enter the job market. As they do, a new challenge awaits many of them: how to pay back the student debt they’ve accumulated over the last four

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Two-thirds of students are borrowing to get their degree, and they’re graduating with more than $26,000 in debt. In an economy still recovering from the worst downturn since the Great Depression, paying off a sum that large can be a daunting.

To make matters worse, a policy change is coming that will make getting out of debt more expensive for more than 7 million young Americans: without Congressional action, the interest rate on subsidized Stafford loans is set to double from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent starting July 1, 2012.

Based on the average loan amount, doubling the subsidized Stafford loan interest rate will add more than $1,000 in total costs. For students who borrow heavily to go to college, it could cost even more. Only Congress can keep these interest rates from doubling.

This week, President Obama traveled to universities across the country to call on Congress do its part to keep college affordable by stopping student loan interest rates from doubling this July. With so many students struggling to both make ends meet and afford the skyrocketing price of a college degree,

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now is not the right time to heap more costs on top of them.

As we work to get the economy back on track, no one is suggesting it would be a good idea to double interest rates on credit cards or home mortgages.

Why then do some believe it’s a good idea to double interest rates for students?

We all have a role to play — the President, Congress, parents, students and schools — in making college affordable and keeping the middle class dream alive. Our administration is continuing to do its part: despite being in one of the most challenging budget environments in history and cutting almost all-domestic spending across the board, President Obama is increasing the investment in higher education.

The Obama Administration is providing billions of dollars a year in aid to needy students through Pell grants and helping students to better manage their debt after graduation with programs like income-based repayment and public service loan forgiveness. The president is also proposing a number of initiatives that would continue to make college more affordable, including doubling the number

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of work-study jobs within five years; making the American Opportunity Tax Credit permanent; and providing new incentives for states and institutions to keep college costs from escalating.

President Obama cannot — and should not — do this work alone.

In 2007, a bipartisan majority in a Democrat-controlled Congress and a Republican president came together to lower interest rates on these loans because it was the right thing to do.

This is not about politics. It’s about doing right for America’s students — and for our nation’s economy.

Now Congress has an important decision to make. Do they double interest rates for Stafford loans, adding more debt to students already struggling to make ends meet? Or do they invest in the future by helping to keep interest rates where they are? For me, the choice is clear. We have to educate our way to a better economy. And as President Obama has stepped up to meet the challenge, I hope leaders in Congress will step up as well.

Arne Duncan is the United States secretary of education.

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HEALTH: Center asks students to give input on proposed increase CONTINUED from page 1 Felix also had to speak with at least six student organizations and get their feelings on the increase and is in the process of holding four open forums around campus.

A forum will be held on M o n d ay i n t h e M a d d e n Library Room. 3212 at 3 p.m. and also Thursday, May 3 at 6 p.m. at the Residence Hall Atrium.

Felix and Mohsin will present their findings mid-May to the Fee Advisory Committee and the committee will then deliberate and make a recommendation to President John

Welty who will make the final decision before the semester.

Felix has a grand vision for the Health Center if it can get the increased funds.

“It will allow us to initiate enhanced services, 24/7 availability of information to students, 24/7 advisers [and] less waiting time,” Felix said.

She also wants to enhance the center’s free psychological services by creating minicounseling centers around campus so students can more easily and anonymously use them.

“It would be a health center without walls, where psych centers would be mixed in

with the rest of the campus,” Felix said. “Where we would have small offices in areas where there are trouble spots.”

“You don’t know how nice it is until you need to use it,” said Mohsin. “I never knew how valuable it really was, since I was never sick, until last semester I was in a car accident and this was my only place to go and now I’m in physical therapy and I’m not paying anything at all.”

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Debris from Space Shuttle Columbia streaks through the sky after the aircraft broke apart while entering the earth’s atmosphere. Douglas Osheroff, a Stanford University physics professor emeritus, will discuss the investigation into the 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia accident.

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e’ve lost the ability to be more accessible.”

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After the Columbia disaster, Osheroff was appointed to the investigating panel. His presentation will describe how investigators determined with near-certainty the physical cause of the Columbia accident and how organizational and cultural causes are rooted deep in the culture of the human spaceflight program.

In previous lectures on the subject, Osherhoff has criticized NASA for continuing to fly the shuttle system “despite the persistent failure of a vital subsystem that it should have known did indeed pose a safety risk on every flight.”

And he will touch on the role humans are likely to play in future space exploration.

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The keynote luncheon speaker for the event at the Clovis Veterans Memorial Building is author Charles Fishman, whose latest book is “The Big Thirst,” at look at water issues from a global perspective.

A panel discussion about water banking and exchanges will be conducted among Gary Serrato of the Fresno Irrigation District, Michael Leonardo, of th e city of Clovis and Martin Querin, of the city of Fresno. Dennis E. Williams of GEOSCIENCES Support Services Inc. will d i s c u s s “ P ro s p e c t i n g fo r Groundwater.”

The panel on nitrates in the water supply and g roundwater will bring together Dr. Thomas Harter of the University of Califor nia, Davis, Pamela Creedon of the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board

and Parry Klassen of the East San Joaquin Water Quality Coalition. Tim Quinn of the Association of Califor nia Water Agencies will speak about “Coequal Goals: Are We getting Closer or Further Away?”

The conference also offers more than 20 concur rent technical sessions focusing on agricultural, urban and groundwater issues, including drip irrigation technology, aquifer recharge and trends in soil moisture technology.

Joining ICWT as conference planners are the cities of Fresno and Clovis and the Kings River Conservation District.

A complete list of sessions and registration information are available at www.icwt.net/ wtc. Conference registration is $125 before April 30, which includes breakfast, luncheon, exhibits and all sessions.

CORRECTION On Wednesday, April 25 The Collegian ran a brief pulled from the University Communication’s website regarding Summer Arts. The program no longer is at Fresno State and has been moved to CSU Monterey Bay.

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SAACHE club helps healthcare students get experience

By Thomas Pearson The Collegian T he Student Associates of the American Colle ge of Healthcare Executives (SAACHE), Fresno State's newest club, offers students hands-on experience in healthcare, as well as national networking with healthcare executives.

"The club gives students the tools, and then they build the house," public relations officer Ugochi Egbuziem said. "The club really helps you figure out what you want to do."

The club's goal is to provide enhanced educational opportunities and networking.

It is in the process of being recognized as an official Fresno State club, but is already recognized by the ACHE national organization as a local chapter.

"One thing our club does is it offers students the ability to shadow the executive they want to be," club president Jeremy Plumb said. "I recently came off of a CEO shadow at Ridgecrest Regional Hospital. I got to sit in on meetings, network with him and do what he does for a day, while also setting up a possible job opportunity. I was offered to do business development at the hospital as result of that day."

SAACHE helps members figure out what they want to do and then puts them in contact with a person in that job.

"Essentially what we want to do is enable somebody to come into the club, learn what they want to do in healthcare and put them in touch with the right kind of people to network and then really foster that relationship," vice-president Michael Pacheco said.

"What we want to do is help them go get a job, get an internship, find volunteer hours, or even get into grad school."

The club requires its members to put in at least 10 hours of community service per academic year, as well as pay a club fee which can be waived if members join the ACHE national as a student associate.

"To really reap the most of our club and gain most benefit from it, they need to be a member of the national ACHE because that will enable them to utilize all the benefits that the national database offers," Plumb said.

The club also competed in "The College Bowl." The College Bowl is a competition put on by the California Association of Healthcare Leaders and the ACHE, during which teams are asked a series of questions about healthcare issues and are judged on the speed and accuracy of their answers.

The competition is formated similar to "Who Wants to be a Millionare?"

At this past year's College Bowl, six teams competed, including three teams that had graduate students. The Fresno State team finished third in the competition, beating the three graduate-student teams.

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Members of the Fresno State SAACHE club compete in the organization's College Bowl. Fresno State was one of six teams to compete and finished third in the competition.

"The questions asked are questions that healthcare professionals know," Pacheco said. "In the competition we were judged by a panel of three judges.

It's really a way for the ACHE to see the talent coming out of the Valley and the Northern California chapter of the ACHE." SAACHE invites all of the public health options, which include community health, health occupation and health administration as well as those

involved in business administration, pre-medical and pre-nursing. Anybody with an interest in healthcare is also invited to join.

The club has 60-plus people on its email listserv, but hopes to expand when it is recognized as an official club next fall.

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Fresno State to host history graduate student symposium

By Bianca Lopez The Collegian The history graduate program at Fresno State will host the 14th-annual History Graduate Student Association Symposium on April 28, inviting universities from across the nation to attend.

Separating this symposium from others put on by Fresno State graduate programs is that it attracts other universites to attend.

“It attracts graduate students not just from Fresno State, but from Berkeley, Davis and Emory in Atlanta. We draw outside our own community,” graduate coordinator Brad Jones said.

History is a profession built upon writing and research.

“Giving papers in our profession is absolutely critical,” Jones said. “It’s the best opportunity to get good feedback and present new ideas and refine your research.”

Another major difference is the totality of the thesis being completed by graduate students rather than a team attached with a Ph. D. affiliate, William Mask, senior editor of Hindsight

Graduate History Journal, said.

“You have a writing committee, your advisor and your mentors that you can get constant feedback from but in the end it’s your work,” Mask said. “You want your curriculum to be airtight.

You want it to be the best you can possibly get it to be so that you get serious consideration for dissertation programs.”

Keynote speakers have included a Pulitzer Prize winner in the past.

This year includes Lorena Oropeza,

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t attracts graduate students not just from Fresno State, but from Berkeley, Davis and Emory in Atlanta. We draw from outside our own community.”

— Brad Jones, graduate coordinator

speaking on the current and relevant issues of the illegal immigrant issue in Arizona.

“I wanted to reach out and get somebody that would enhance our program and at the same time enhance our whole community,” Mask said. “Not just a historian that’s speaking on history’s sake, but Dr. Oropeza who happens to be coming to share gender issues, cultural issues, immigration issues.”

Hindsight Jour nal, a scholarly publication will be presented at the symposium, senior editor Whitney Thompson said.

“We have submissions from all over the world and it has become an acknowledgement to get in this magazine because we had 42 submissions this year and we had to chose six or seven,” Thompson said. “We had submissions from African, Hungary, Afghanistan, Italy, Spain and a Marine over serving his country,” Thompson said.

Submissions are chosen by a collaborative decision on the strength and depth of their argument, the relevance

of the topics and validity Mask and Thompson said.

“These symposiums help graduate students to hone their skills or to have questions posed to them that they wouldn’t normally get through their daily research,” Mask said.

The symposium will begin at 8:30 a.m. and end at 3:15 p.m. in the Peters Business Building. Five Fresno State students will be presenting this year.

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Correction A story that appeared on in the Features section of the April 25 publication of The Collegian incorrectly referred to Segun Ogunjemiyo as a geology professor.

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Visit our website to view a photo gallery and video of Trashique, the “recyclable” fashion show held at the Fresno Art Museum last weekend

Above: Trashique models stand on the runway at the end of the show to give attendees the opportunity to examine the garments at closer range.

Below: Designer Kei Kagami used magnifying glasses, leather remnants, mirrors and flexible metal tubing in his collection. The collection was courtesy of Anthony Mascolo, a hairdresser from London.

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Fresno State student Adam Mena (left) created an outfit for his model Skylar Devoogd (right) made of balloon fragments and other unconventional materials. His piece used an overall inspiration of pop art and food patterns. It was one of many outfits featured in Trashique last weekend.

Water returns to Shaver Lake after dry spell

By Lauren Ruh The Collegian It’s almost time to dust off the waterskis and fishing poles — Shaver Lake is back in business.

This past winter the empty hole in the ground where Shaver Lake was formally located was quite the sight.

Re pair crews from Camp Edison worked all season long to make muchneeded repairs to the lake’s long-standing dam.

This project took a lot of time and effort from both the Shaver Lake community and repair crews. The lake was completely drained in order to conduct the project. Thousands of gallons of water later, and around-the-clock work still did not give workers enough time to finish the job.

But summertime is nearing, and since the Shaver Lake businesses and economy depend on people coming up to the lake, leaving it empty was not an option. The lake is officially back and ready for full use, with water pumping in daily and fish being planted regularly.

The work on the dam will continue in the off-season next winter.

Kami Benedict, a longtime employee of Sierra Marina, is excited about the lake’s reopening. Benedict said she still expects there to be plenty of visitors at the lake this summer despite the recent construction.

“The work that has been done on the dam won’t change how busy we get in the summer, unless people are unaware that the lake has been filled up,” Benedict said. “People have already launched their boats, and last weekend

while the weather was really warm, we got really crowded up here.”

Sier ra Marina employees esti mate the lake to be fully pumped by Memorial Day weekend. This is typically one of the biggest weekends up at Shaver, given that many want to kick off summer at the lake.

The Fish and Game Commission has planted a large number of fish into the lake already this year in order to reestablish Shaver Lake as a fish habitat, and to reinstate the lake’s reputation for plentiful fishing.

“There are a lot of fish right now, and they are planning on planting more before summer begins, but people have already been limiting out so far this year,” Benedict said.

Jordan Sarabian, a Fresno State senior and avid fisherman, is ecstatic to hear the news about the number of fish that will be in the lake this summer.

“We are heading up there this weekend to see if the fishing is really what they said it is,” Sarabian said. “I grew up going to Shaver Lake. I’m really excited to spend a lot of time up there this summer.”

Water sports enthusiasts are also excited for the lake’s reopening. Duffy Dodson, a Fresno State senior and wakeboard fanatic, frequents the lake as much as possible during the summer to get as much time on the boat as he can.

“It’s been too long since I’ve been on my wakeboard,” Dodson said. “I’m psyched to get the boat back out on the lake. I’ve got to see if I’m any good at it anymore.”

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Shaver Lake, pictured here with a lowered water level, will once again be full this summer after being emptied for repairs its dam. The lake is at approximately 80-percent capacity now.

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DOGS: Still searching for second WAC road win CONTINUED from page 8 ting above .290. Pat Hutcheson and Aaron Judge also lead the team in stolen bases with 10 and eight, respectively.

The Bulldogs’ bullpen has done a steady job throughout the season, holding a 3.69 ERA. Starter Thomas Harlan and reliever Taylor Garrison both hold sub-3.00 ERA’s.

Nevada thrives whenever it hits a home run, going 12-4 anytime it gets at least one and is 10-14 when it doesn’t. Most of that is by Brooks Klein, who has eight on the season.

He also won last week’s WAC Hitter of the Week. They also have five players batting over .300 with a minimum of 50 atbats.

The Wolf Pack is also 20-5 wh e n h o l d i n g o p p o n e n t s to five runs or fewer. Wolf Pack starting pitchers Tom Jameson and Braden Shipley hold a 2.12 and 2.24 ERA, respectively.

The Bulldogs will try to climb back in the WAC standi n g s i n t h e i r t h re e - g a m e series. Fresno State leads the all-time series, 78-46, including 34-22 in WAC play. Today’s first pitch is slotted for 6 p.m. with the Saturday and Sunday games scheduled for 1 p.m.

Giants’ lack of offense hurts Zito on the mound in another loss

By Alex Pavlovic McClatchy-Tribune

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On the mound Sophomore Tyler Linehan is 3-4 in 10 starts this season.

The lefthander has struck out 64 batters in 62.1 innings and holds a 3.32 ERA.

C I N C I N N AT I — S a n Francisco Giants leadoff hitter Angel Pagan and No. 3 hitter Pablo Sandoval each have hitting streaks that have reached double-digits. Melky Cabrera, the No. 2 hitter, has reached base in 17 of 18 games, and cleanup hitting Buster Posey is hitting .382.

That ordinarily would be a recipe for a very high-scoring team. The Giants are no such team.

In a 4-2 loss Wednesday to the Cincinnati Reds, the Giants left nine runners on base, continuing a trend that has buried them in losses this season. The Giants entered the night with a .195 average with runners in scoring position, the thirdlowest mark in the majors. In their last 10 games, that number is down to .155.

The wasted opportunities wasted another gem from Barry Zito.

It’s worth remembering that exactly three weeks before Zito faced the Reds, he was facing minor leaguers on a small field at the Giants’ facility in Scottsdale, Ariz. Zito’s mechanics were in such disarray during the spring that

Hurdles still remain for college football playoff

By Teddy Greenstein McClatchy-Tribune HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — Bowl Championship Series officials trimmed the fat Thursday.

Off the table are playoff proposals that were absurd (the Rose Bowl as part of three semifinal games), would have harmed the regular season (eight- and 16-teamers) or would have invited even more controversy (a plus-one pitting the top two teams after the bowl games).

Also spiked is the distinction between automatic qualifiers and non-AQs. That’s not significant because most of the compelling non-AQs (Utah, Boise State, TCU) are now in major conferences anyway.

What the BCS did not do

Thursday was eliminate any legitimate four-team playoff models. The only important sentence in its news release stated, “We will present to our conferences a very small number of four-team options.”

So even that was vague.

Still, BCS Executive Director Bill Hancock called it “an exciting day for all of us . . . if this happens, it will be a seismic change for college football.”

In what counts as progress, Hancock and the commissioners are scrapping the “fourteam event” lingo in favor of calling it what it is, a playoff.

“I’ve always refused to use the dreaded P-word,” SEC Commissioner Mike Slive said with a grin.

But for the playoff to become reality for the 2014 season, major compromises need to be reached on these issues — and in this order: Where the semifinals would be played. Most likely and most logical is to have bowls

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host the games, giving the players and fans a traditional bowl experience. Then bid out the championship game to a host city, as the Super Bowl does.

All parties insist the Big Ten “home game” plan remains on the table, and it would strengthen the regular season by rewarding the top two seeds. But the arguments are strong about some stadiums and cities being ill-equipped to host the games.

Who gets in? The Pac-12 and perhaps the ACC and Big Ten favor allowing only conference champions. But considering LSU and Alabama were the nation’s best two teams last season, the champs-only rule would invite more controversy. And the way Ohio State and Michigan are recruiting, it’s conceivable the Big Ten will have two top-four teams before long.

How they’re picked. There is no consensus on whether to create a selection committee or stick with the current combination of polls (Harris and coaches) and computer rankings. Everyone with a pulse believes that the coaches, flooded with conference bias, have no business determining who should play for a national title and that all the computer rankings should unmask their formulas.

A selection committee would have to answer the dicey question of “Who’s No. 4?” Last year’s decision would have

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been brutal: 11-1 Stanford, which had one decent nonconference win, or 11-2 Oregon, which drubbed Stanford on the road and lost only to USC and LSU. Committee members might want to go into witness protection after they vote.

T he other thor ny ques tion relates to the Rose Bowl, which sources say does want to host semifinal playof f games, albeit reluctantly. Can the BCS devise a system in which a top-four Big Ten or Pac-12 team automatically gets sent to the Rose instead of the Sugar, Fiesta or Orange?

In the big picture, Hancock said, college football officials are “listening to the fans” and determined to create a playoff.

Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany, who did not meet with reporters Thursday, will discuss the playoff options with presidents, chancellors, athletic directors, coaches and football players. Presidents and chancellors will meet at Big Ten headquarters in Park Ridge on June 3.

Conference commissioners will meet in Chicago on June 20 in hopes of agreeing to a playoff model. Then the Presidential Oversight Committee would decide on the plan, likely before July 4.

Agreeing to a four-team playoff would create, as Hancock put it, a seismic change in college football.

That’s where we’re headed, assuming the spirit of compromise continues.

CORRECTION In the Wednesday, April 25 edition of The Collegian, photos appeared on page 12 crediting staff photographer Esteban Cortez. The photos were courtesy of Fresno State Athletics.

manager Bruce Bochy and pitching coach Dave Righetti had him make that emergency appearance just two days before the season opener.

Without big league lights behind him, the light went on for Zito.

He has a 1.67 ERA through four starts and gave up five hits and one earned run while pitching into the seventh Wednesday. Scott Rolen hit a leadoff homer in the seventh, and that was all for Zito.

It turned out to be all for his chances at a second win, too.

Clay Hensley loaded the bases on a hit, error and walk before giving up a game-tying sacrifice fly to right.

Jeremy Affeldt allowed the go-ahead run on a wild pitch and then served up a run-scoring double by Joey Votto.

After falling behind, the Giants left two runners on base in the eighth and went down on nine pitches in the ninth.

The Giants placed Aubrey Huff on the 15-day disabled list after the veteran had an episode of anxiety. Huff left the team Monday mor ning and has been getting treatment.

Bochy said he expected Huff to rejoin the team Friday in San Francisco. To avoid playing short-handed for further games, the club purchased the contract of Triple-A infielder Joaquin Arias and placed Huff on the DL. Bochy spoke with Huff on Wednesday after noon after days of exchanging text messages. Asked if Huff’s anxiety was related to personal or baseball problems, Bochy said: “I don’t know if he even knows. It could be both.”

“We are always going to do all we can to help the player,” Bochy said. “That’s the case with Aubrey.”

Huff has struggled at the plate and in the field all season, and on Saturday he made a crucial mental mistake when inserted at second base for the first time in his career.

Huff also has been dealing with off-field issues. As first reported by CSN Bay Area and confirmed via court records, Huff’s wife Barbara filed for divorce on Jan. 31 in Hillsborough County, Fla. A n x i e t y i s s u e s a re n o t uncommon in baseball, especially recently. Joey Votto left the Reds in 2009, saying he was “totally overwhelmed” with grief and anxiety after the death of his father. Brewers right-hander Zack Greinke also has dealt with social anxiety disorder and nearly quit the game.

Bochy said it is easier to admit these kinds of problems than it was when he played.

“I’m sure it was there when we played but we probably weren’t as likely to talk about it openly,” he said. “These players deal with different pressures of life, whether it’s home, personal or on the ball field.”

When Huf f rejoins the Giants, Bochy expects him to remain with the club throughout his stint on the disabled list.

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Fresno State’s three-game series at Hawaii will determine WAC’s top spot

Bulldogs set for dogfight in Reno

By Tim Salazar The Collegian

By Tim Salazar The Collegian Fresno State will kick off a three-game series at No. 14 Hawaii today to deter mine who will take control of the Western Athletic Conference standings.

The Bulldogs (31-17- 11-2 WAC) took over first place last weekend with a three-game sweep over New Mexico State combined with the Rainbow Wahine dropping one game of their three-game series with Nevada.

The Bulldogs are led by a strong pitching rotation with Michelle Moses, who holds a 20-11 record with 11 shutouts and a 1.83 ERA this season.

She was named this week’s WAC Pitcher of the Week after allowing only one run in two games against New Mexico State. She allowed only four hits in the two games along with 12 strikeouts and pitched her 25th complete game. It was her second WAC Pitcher of the Week award this season and the fifth of her career. Moses needs two more strikeouts to be the seventh pitcher in Fresno State history to reach 600 in a career.

The Bulldogs currently have three players hitting over the .300 mark with Brooke Ortiz leading the team at .328 while Stesha Brazil and Courtney Moore are batting .319 and .314, respectively.

“All we can do is give them as much run support as we can,” Moore said.

T he ‘Do gs also produce power in their lineup with Moses hitting 16 home runs and Courtney Moore adding another eight. The pair’s last home runs came on back-toback shots in the first game of the April 21 doubleheader.

The Bulldogs are made up of a young roster with three freshmen starting 35 games or more this season. Brenna Moss, Maria Sio and Michelle Solomon have each demonstrated that despite their

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Slappin’ sophomore Brooke Ortiz leads the Bulldogs offensively, batting .328 on the season. Ortiz has 45 hits in 137 at-bats including six doubles, three triples and 15 RBIs.

young age, their skills are deserving of being everyday players. Moss and Sio have started every game for the Bulldogs this season.

“We get better everyday,” Griffin said. “Even though we’re a young team, it doesn’t really matter. You still have to play the game.”

Hawaii enters the series as the No. 2 team in the nation in

team ERA at 1.02. The staff is led by WAC Pitcher of the Year contender Stephanie Ricketts who has the No. 2-ranked ERA among qualified pitchers with a 0.97 ERA. She holds a 23-3 overall record this season and has tied Hawaii’s record for career shutouts with 32.

Last season Fresno State swept then-No. 20 Hawaii at Bulldog Diamond. The ‘Dogs

also took a 2-1 victory from the Rainbow Wahine in the WAC Tournament. This will be the third straight regular-season series in which Hawaii has been ranked in the top 25.

The games will be at 9 p.m.

Friday with Saturday’s doubleheader beginning at 5 p.m.

The game will be available at www.ocsports.tv for live streaming.

The Diamond ‘Dogs will look for their second Western Athletic Conference win in a three-game series at Nevada that starts today and ends Sunday.

Fresno State (17-20, 1-5 WAC) comes into the series winning two of its previous three games, including one game on the road — a 5-3 win at Hawaii for its only conference victory.

The Bulldogs are 4-6 in away games and are one of two teams that have amassed only one win in conference play at this point in the season.

Louisiana Tech was the other.

Nevada is 14-9 at home, including a perfect 3-0 in conference home games.

The ‘Dogs have lived through an up-and-down-season as their young players try to get acclimated to play at the collegiate level. There have been some high points, such as beating top-seeded Stanford, 7-4, and a five-game winning strea. But there have been low points, the lowest being two weeks ago when they were swept by San Jose State for the first time in 10 years.

Nevada has also had its struggles with a 17-17 record after starting off the season 5-1. The Wolf Pack has recently started to right its season, winning five of its last seven games. The Wolf Pack has proven to be a streaky team this season, assembling winning streaks of three-games or more on three separate occasions. It also had losing streaks of three or more on three separate occasions.

The Bulldogs are not enjoying the same amount of power in their lineups that they have had in previous seasons.

There currently is a three-way tie for most home runs on the team with two. They do possess players with good batting averages and speed in their offense with three players hitSee DOGS, Page 7

WOMEN’S GOLF

Fresno State takes third at WAC Championship Collegian Staff The Bulldogs finished in third place out of six teams with a 38-over-par score of 902 at the Western Athletic Conference Championship in Mesa,

Ariz. at Longbow Golf Club.

Fresno State climbed back from Monday’s fifth-place finish to third on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Three Bulldogs ear ned All-WAC honors for the tournament. Freshman Madchen Ly was named to the first

team while senior Louisa Lies and sophomore Christine Uhalde were named to the second team.

Ly also became the first Bulldog to be named WAC Freshman of the Year since Laura Luethke earned the award in 2005. She finished with a 13-over 229

at the tournament.

Lies finished in a tie for fifth, shooting a 4-over for the tournament. Lies recorded 12 birdies throughout the tournament, the second-most of any competitor.