The Recording Industry Association of America has recently stepped up its cam-paign to stop illegal down-loading of music. Its primary targets — college students.

In fact, the RIAA has issued two violation notices to Fres-no State since the recording industry enacted a new pol-icy that more aggressively tracks violators and works more closely with college administrators in doing so.

Information Technology Services director Richard Boes said no Fresno State students have been issued subpoenas or otherwise been held liable for downloading

illegal music files, but that two “courtesy notifications” have been received from the RIAA regarding the down-loading of illegal content on campus computers.

Boes said the notifications asked the university to for-ward them to users of the computers in question. He said information regard-ing the two cases was given to the Chancellor’s office. It responded by advising Fres-no State to pass on any rele-vant information to the RIAA if the users responsible can be positively identified.

“No further actions have been taken,” Boes said of the two cases.

Some students hear the term “domestic violence” and immediately think of older women with children who are trapped in a lifelong cycle of abuse.

But one may be surprised to know that according to the U.S. Department of Justice, women ages 16-24 are the most at risk of becoming victims of domestic violence. College-aged women are commonly the victims of dating violence, which consists of verbal, psy-chological and physical abuse.

According to the California Department of Health Servic-es, 80 percent of women con-tinue to date their abusers even after they have been vic-timized. One socioeconom-ic theory as to why this hap-pens speculates a combination of transferred family abuse in addition to a lack of educa-tion. This cyclical pattern of family abuse builds what is called “relationship program-ming,” into a person, and they start to perceive the chaos as normal.

“Victims tend to deny and minimize what their partners inflict upon them,” said Bob Meade, clinical supervisor at

the Marjaree Mason Center. The center is a community ser-vice center that provides shel-ter and services for victims of domestic violence.

“There are two times that abusers often first exhibit vio-lence towards their partners: the day a woman announces pregnancy, and shortly after the couple marries,” Meade said.

These two events frequent-ly happen while women are in college. The average age of undergraduate students at Fresno State is 22, according to the California State Univer-

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Final Senior Experience event to honor this year’s graduates

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The Senior Experience committee at Fresno State is planning its final cele-bratory event for Tuesday, May 8, and Wednesday May 9. From 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., the committee will be serving free lunch to seniors in front of the Ken-nel Bookstore to congratulate them on their achievement.

Throughout the semester, the group has helped put on events such as the

Dining Success Dinner and Career Expo and Grad Fair.

“The final senior experience event is a culmination of this year’s senior experience program,” Ken Ternate, co-chair of the Senior Experience commit-tee said. “The event is designed to cele-brate the achievements of our graduat-ing seniors.”

The program’s main goals are to pre-pare seniors for graduation and pre-professional experience, encourage a sense of unity among the senior class

and provide a celebratory environment for seniors as they near the big day.

“I think everyone did a great job with the Senior Experience events this year,” Morrow said. “I think next year, with all the booths they have, they should have some counselors out there to answer last-minute questions.”

The Senior Experience committee is working on planning focus groups in the near future to get students ideas on what to plan for the future graduat-ing classes. Surveys will be e-mailed to

seniors who participated in the events this semester.

Seniors preparing to graduate this semester were given a commemorative key chain with the Fresno State logo and graduation year, a Senior BARK Book and portfolio to keep all their important graduation paperwork.

“Seniors, we want to recognize the hard work you’ve put in over the past years,” Ternate said. “Come to your final Senior Experience event and cele-brate with us as we honor you.”

By Jessica Watkins Collegian Staff Writer

By Brent VonCannon News Reporter

College-aged women face high risk of becoming victims of domestic violence

Juan Villa / Photo Editor

A view right above the entrance of Fresno State’s Henry Madden Library shows

students walking Thursday afternoon

into the building. To the right of

them, construction continues where the new library

will be.

By Patricia Moratto Collegian Staff Writer

See MUSIC, Page 2See MARJAREE, Page 3

T he RIAA, which has brought its complaints on illegal downloading of copy-righted material to pub-lic attention by suing viola-tors in the past, is now shift-ing its focus more toward col-lege students, who are widely seen as the biggest problem.

In addition, the RIAA is pursing a new tactic in the form of a “pre-lawsuit,” in which violators can pay a fine and thereby avoid a law-suit. This new policy was explained in more detail in The Collegian’s March 9th issue.

California State Univer-s i ty spokesperson Paul Browning said the CSU sys-tem’s policy is to protect the creators of intellectual property and enforce copy-right laws.

As far as the Chancellor’s office is concerned, Brown-ing said, “They make sure each university ensures an acceptable use of informa-tion technology.” But he said the specific methods univer-sities use to identify student violators and enforce the law are largely up to them.

Fresno State Dean of Stu-dent Affairs Paul Oliaro said the university’s goal is to “be cooperative where copyright laws are violated while protecting the rights of individual students.” He said that a computer’s IP address can’t necessarily be linked to a student, and that the university would con-sult with its attorney before

accommodating a subpoena from the RIAA.

“How the university would respond to a subpoena would depend on what informa-tion was requested and what information was available,” Oliaro said.

Oliaro also said the Chan-cellor’s office aims to get users of the notified com-puters to contact the RIAA themselves, in order to set-tle the dispute privately without a protracted legal battle.

In the meantime, univer-sity officials emphasized the importance of comply-ing with the law in order to avoid costly legal conse-quences.

“They’re taking it to anoth-er level,” Oliaro said of the RIAA. “Anyone doing this [illegal downloading] does so at their own risk.”

One of the perks of being a college student is being able to get great deals. With pric-es increasing constantly for everything from movie tickets to amusement parks, getting a discount can be the difference between going or not going.

That’s where the University Student Union comes in.

Fresno State gives students special deals through the USU Information Center. And with summer fast approaching, now may be the best time to take advantage of the perks.

The Information Center provides deals for movie tickets to any Regal Cinemas theater, including Edwards Fresno Stadium Cinemas in River Park. Ticket prices at the Edwards box office are regularly $10 for an evening and $7.50 for a matinee. But at the Information Center, students can purchase tickets for any movie at any time for only $6.75. The tickets do not have an expiration date.

Julie Bounchareune, a Fresno State student who works at the Information Center, said early last week that she had sold nearly 100 tickets

for the “Spiderman 3” debut on May 4 alone.Spring break and summer vacation also

draws a lot of students to amusement park deals, according to Bounchareune.

“We sell a lot of tickets to Magic Mountain before school is over for summer,” she said.

Six Flags Magic Mountain tickets, for exam-ple, cost $44.99 at the park but cost only $28 if students buy them on campus. The tickets expire Dec. 31. The nearest Six Flags location is in Valencia.

“We also sell a lot of passes to Sea World around this time,” Bounchareune said.

Sea World tickets cost $63 at the entrance of the San Diego park, but only $45 for a two-day pass purchased at Fresno State.

Not all students are aware of the deals.Lindsay Kenggott, a third-year student, has

never taken advantage of the Information Cen-ter deals.

“I wish I would have known about those deals before,” she said.

Kenggott said she would definitely buy the discount movie tickets and maybe even a day pass for Magic Mountain.

“It’s cool that you can buy these tickets and use them any day and any time,” Kenggott said.

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Marjaree: Center offers help to victims of abusive relationships

sity data recording Web site, “csumentor.edu.” The average age for the campus, which has many commuters and return students, is older than the average age for many other univer-sities. This leads to older students, and many more students who are married or have chil-dren.

“Too many violent incidents go unreported and it’s important that we educate ourselves by being aware of the sexual assault, inti-mate partner violence and stalking indicators in order to advocate and assist the survivor in their time of need, said Mica Vargas of Fresno State’s Violence Prevention Program, which is located in the Women’s Resource Center on campus.

Fresno State offers the Women’s Resource Center where services, literature and pro-grams are provided for victims of relationship violence. The Women’s Resource Center works hand in hand with the Student Health Center to provide Fresno State students any confi-dential resources needed to prevent or recover from a damaging relationship.

Two major reasons as to why younger women may hesitate to report abuse are reported by the California Department of Health. First, college-aged women may feel a group peer pressure to appear in a normal, healthy rela-tionship. They fear a lack of confidentiali-ty may spill their problem into the public. At that point, they will be exposed and embar-rassed. The second reason younger victims

don’t always report is that they are unsure about laws. Abusers use this ignorance to their advantage.

All services provided at Fresno State are strictly confidential.

With advancing technology, social network-ing sites are leading way to a new breed of problems in the world of domestic violence. Web sites like MySpace and Facebook are the cause of conflict and enable stalkers.

“We see men track down their victims, who have restraining orders against them, by read-ing comments left on the victims MySpace page,” said Jenny Whyte, a volunteer coordina-tor of the Marjaree Mason Center.

“These batterers establish where the victim will be at what time and go there,” Whyte said. “Comparable problems have been a result of text messaging and e-mail,” Whyte said. Although the causes of violence are much deeper than these issues, stalking victims in these ways is a means abusers exercise con-trol.

According to the Marjaree Mason Center, 61 percent of the victims who utilized the cen-ter’s services were under the age of 34, indicat-ing the reality that domestic violence affects many college-aged people.

For students in need of help or advice, the Women’s Resource Center, located in the Uni-versity Business Center, is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. The center’s number is 278-4435.

The Marjaree Mason Center is located at 1600 M Street in Fresno. Its emergency hotline is 1-800-640-0333.

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Ten years later, affirmative action changes, may banish

A fit of spring-cleaning led Eric Brooks to a box of old newspaper clips. Inside were stories from 1997 when he was the lone black student to enroll in the incoming law school class at the University of California, Berkeley, fol-lowing the end of affirmative action admissions.

He didn’t read them. That box doesn’t hold pleasant memories.

“I felt bad for myself at the time because of my situa-tion, but worse for the people who were denied admission,” said Brooks. “That ate at me for my entire time there.”

Ten years later, a lot has changed. The numbers of black and other underrepre-sented minorities at the Uni-versity of California have rebounded at the undergrad-uate level, although they haven’t kept pace with high school graduation growth for those groups. At the same time, there’s been a redistri-bution within the system, with more blacks and His-panics going to lesser-known branches of the 10-campus system and fewer to the flag-ships of Berkeley and UCLA, a trend that troubles some.

Meanwhile, Florida, Texas and Michigan have rewrit-ten admissions rules and col-leges nationwide are bracing for more change with Ward Connerly, the UC regent who started it all, taking his cam-paign for race-blind admis-sions to more states next year.

“The legacy of California’s

consideration of this issue ... has been a national front on the issue of equity in Amer-ican society,” said David Hawkins, public policy direc-tor for the National Associa-tion for College Admission Counseling. “This debate just will not go away.”

Connerly agrees.“If things unfold the way

I am predicting they will unfold, I think we are wit-nessing the end of an era,” he said.

Boalt has made chang-es since 1997, stepping up recruitment, asking stu-dents to write longer person-al statements and looking at students’ socio-economic background.

Last fall, 13 black students enrolled in the incoming class, a big increase from 1997 but still below the mid-90s totals of 20 or more.

UC administrators have responded to the tumbling numbers by revising admis-sions policies to take a more comprehensive view of can-didates by considering their economic background and whether they overcame hard-ship.

Brooks says affirmative action may change, but he doesn’t think it’s time to ban-ish the concept. “I think that it’s useful in that it reme-dies past discrimination,” he said.

But Connerly thinks “most Americans are with me. They realize that this thing has probably outlived its useful-ness and it’s just a question of how it’s going to end and when it’s going to end, not whether it’s going to end.”

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amount of apathy in our community. Like most things, there are probably numerous reasons that interact with each other to create this. We should all be asking ourselves what we can do about this.

What are we doing in college if we don’t concern ourselves with how we can become better citizens?

We should be ambitious. We should strive forward. The habits we get into now stay with us for years. The apathy we tolerate now will follow us for the rest of our lives.

Don’t let yourself become unaware of the world around you. It’s not too late.

For the soon to graduate: keep in mind that it is your duty to contrib-ute to this world in a positive way. Continue to educate yourselves.

For the undergraduates: get involved in activities around campus or around town. Find out where you can make a difference.

We’re not trying to fight each other and place blame. We’re supposed to be working together.

We may be stuck in a rut, but don’t count yourself out altogether.

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Our OpiniOns

Two weeks ago, the Associated Students Inc. elections were held. Not that most of us

seemed to care. There were some posi-tions for office that nobody ran for which relied on write-in candidates to be filled.

Worse yet, only about two percent of the Fresno State stu-dent population both-ered to vote.

I would find this laughable if it weren’t so disturbing.

Some blame this on the lack of advertising on the part of ASI. I have to admit, I don’t really know what ASI does. From the people I have spoken to from a variety of majors and class levels, this is the general con-sensus.

ASI and the entire student body could benefit from better advertising. Maybe they should get some mass com-munication and journalism majors on that.

But whose responsibility is it any-way? What has happened to student involvement? Aren’t there any aspiring politicians on cam-pus?

There comes a point when we have to take it upon our-selves to find out this information. We can’t just expect it to come to us. We have to search it out. Just like in the real world, things aren’t handed to us.

Students say they don’t have time to spend on something like this, but that’s ridiculous. You know we don’t spend every waking moment studying. Not all of us have kids to take care of. Not all of us have jobs.

So what are you so busy doing? Text messaging your pick to “American Idol?” Sanjaya’s gone. You don’t have a reason to watch that show anymore.

We just don’t want to spend our time on more academic pursuits. This is reflected in voter turnout, among other things.

One way nominees for U.S. presi-dential elections are reaching out to younger voters now is by advertising on MySpace. Each nominee has his or her own page. This is pretty ingenious. A lot of us are more likely to check MySpace everyday than we are to pick

up a newspaper or go to CNN.com.

Although, if I remember correctly, a while back one can-didate running for an ASI position was disqualified when he started campaigning on Myspace before the official campaign sea-son began. So I guess we can’t do that.

This apathy spreads to other parts of our lives, as well. As a writing tutor on campus, I am a part of a union that includes all teaching asso-ciates, graduate assistants and under-graduate tutors from all the California State universities.

Among other things, the union has been negotiating with the university for fee waivers. If the university continues to deny us fee waivers, we will prepare to go on strike.

Two weeks ago, there was a statewide meeting held in Long Beach to discuss this possibility. Only about 25 students from the 23 total campuses were in attendance.

Again, this may be because the meet-ing wasn’t advertised well enough, but more likely, it’s because no one seems to care. This union is comprised of the students, by the students and for the

students. Whatever it accomplishes, all the

academic student employees will ben-efit from, even if they are not active members of the union.

The UAW was also holding elections. Again, there were offices nobody was running for, and some people were re-elected merely because no one chal-lenged them.

I think this speaks to a larger issue. I cannot explain why there is a growing

Time is now for students to take responsibility of increasing awareness into their own hands

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The One-Finger Salute

Thumbs down to Hilary Duff. Why? We just don’t like her. And on that note, we also don’t like Martha Stewart, Carrot Top, both Rosie O’Donnell and Donald Trump, The Pussycat Dolls, Katie Couric, Barbaro, NASCAR, Vladimir Putin, any of the “CSI” series, “My Super Ex-Girlfriend,” P. Diddy or Diddy or Puff Daddy or whatever his name is and Karl Rove.

Thumbs up to Dead Days and the much-needed time off. Furthermore, thumbs up to the First Annual Dodgeball Tournament, scheduled for the Thursday of Dead Days, which just goes to prove that it is indeed time off, not study time, that we prize.

Thumbs down to the pending unemployment of all the editors here at The Collegian. Nobody here is looking forward to being any poorer.

Thumbs up to former Collegian photo editors Andrew Riggs and Joseph Hollak for receiving first place in “Breaking News Photography” at the regional level of the Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Awards. The two will advance to the national round of judging, set to take place later this month.

Thumbs up to professors who give finals early, even when they aren’t supposed to. Even if the administration doesn’t approve, we certainly do, and we all appreciate the lessened pressure dur-ing finals week.

Headline CorrectionThe April 25 issue of The Collegian included the opinion article by Sarah

Marie Pittman “Remembering the life of a ‘corporate sellout.’” Upon reflec-tion, the headline may have been construed to have been in direct conflict with the actual meaning of the article. A more appropriate headline should have read “Remembering the life of an indie hipster.”

The Collegian apologizes for the mistake.

(in)explicableSharn Dhah

“We should be ambi-tious. We should

strive forward. The habits we get into now stay with us for years. The apathy we tolerate now will follow us for the rest of our lives.”

Sharn Dhah is a senior at Fresno State majoring in English.

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Singing to a community tune

The Fresno Community Chorus has been singing its way ‘round town for more than 50 years.

Dr. Anna Hamre, who has directed the choir since August of 1999, is responsible for the organization of the choir program and also directs the concert choir and chamber singers.

Hamre has continued to help the community enjoy music with concerts like “This Central Garden,” named

after a piece written for the 50th anniversary of the choir.

Before members of the choir are able to perform in concerts, all singers must arrange a short audition with Hamre before regular rehearsals begin.

All singers wishing to audition are studied for their particular style, Hamre said.

All singers that are returning are also re-auditioned by section every couple of years to find out what their strong points and weaknesses are.

Members of Coro Piccolo are also selected using the same process. The Coro Piccolo is an organized audi-

tioned small group that come from the position of the Fresno Community Chorus. This small group is used when members are needed, and also perform as an inde-pendent group. It is preferred that members of the Coro Piccolo have great music-reading skills, so that they can learn their music on their own.

The fees vary from $50 a year for community members to a waived membership fee for all Fresno State students, with enrollment of the course. There is also an estimated cost of $15 for all members that will cover music costs.

To set up an appointment contact Hamre at (559) 278-2539.

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Intramurals are his game

If you find yourself walking through the South Gym at 11 a.m. on a Friday, Bart Ballard’s class may make you

take a detour.The sounds of basketballs bouncing,

shoes screeching and players trash-talk-ing echo throughout the halls. Curious students peek their heads into the gym to check out the commotion. The basketball class in progress doesn’t notice a growing group of bystanders.

Victor King drives the lane for an easy layup. “You’re too old to guard me,” the 6-foot-4-inch senior advertising major barks at his opponent.

Oohs and aahs fill the gym. King is trash-talking his teacher.

Ballard’s apparel lets him fit in perfect-ly with the students. The navy and white Nike shorts go below his knees. His Fres-no State T-shirt is a faded red. His white Adidas socks complement his white Adi-das sneakers.

Ballard often gets confused for a stu-

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Juan Villa/ Photo EditorSee BALLARD, Page 6

By Roxana Samano Collegian Staff Writer

The Fresno Community Chorus prepares for performances Saturday and Sunday of Bruckner’s “Te Deum.” The choir is made up of community members and Fresno State students.

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dent. He’s also the director of intramurals at Fresno State.

While Ballard’s age might sometimes be mistaken, the way the intramurals program has blossomed under his guid-ance is unmistakable. In his six-year tenure as director, the program has gained in popu-larity and the list of available sports continues to grow.

EJ Edmerson is one of Bal-lard’s students and friends. Edmerson said Ballard is like one of the guys.

“Except he’s more of a men-tor. You respect him because he knows what he’s talking about and is always willing to give advice,” said Edmerson, 23, a senior communications major. “Plus, he can be funny and witty.”

Edmerson met Ballard when he enrolled in Ballard’s kine-siology class in fall 2002. They soon were — and continue to be — teammates for a travel-ing slow-pitch softball team.

Ballard is the shortstop. He’s the oldest and he’s the leader of the team.

The 36-year-old husband and father of three is far from a college student. You won’t find him anywhere near the local hot hangout or the next frater-nity party. You can find him riding his dirt bike or land-scaping yards.

He has, however, been con-fused many times as one of the kids.

“First time I saw him, I thought he was a student,” said Kristy Brooks, 22. “He definitely doesn’t look 36.”

Students aren’t the only ones that share this observation.

“He looks around 28,” said Lerin Mundell, the assistant intramural director and Fres-no State graduate. “But he acts like he’s 23.”

Age jokes aside, Ballard has basically built the intramural program from scratch.

“When I arrived, we offered four sports,” said Ballard, who earned his bachelor’s degree in recreation administration and sports management in 1997 from Brigham Young Uni-versity. “Currently, we offer 10 different sports all with men, women and co-ed divisions.”

The sports are flag football, soccer, volleyball, basketball, kickball, raquetball, softball, inner-tube water polo, team tennis and dodgeball.

According to Ballard, in the 1999-2000 academic year, there were 257 intramural partici-pants. In the 2005-2006 academ-ic year, the number stood at 2,335 participants.

Ballard claims his success is partly due to imagination. He says as a kid, he used to invent games to play with his broth-er.

His skill at inventing games is evident with inner-tube water polo, which he intro-duced two years ago. The game is similar to water polo, but instead the person sits pre-cariously inside an inner tube during the game.

Ballard cites difficulties with funding as an obstacle in attaining his dream pro-gram here at Fresno State, where he earned his master’s degree in kinesiology in 2000. More funky offerings will like-ly have to wait.

Back on the court with his class, Ballard says the rela-tionship he has built with stu-dents is a big factor why the program is so successful.

“In the end, you have to give students what they want,” says Ballard, as he sinks a 3-point-

Ballard: Program for studentsCONTINUED from page 5 er. “This is their program.”

Ballard says he often contin-ues his relationships with stu-dents even after they graduate. Many students see Ballard as a long-term mentor.

“On the field, he’s in charge,” said Fresno State gradu-ate and one of Ballard’s for-mer students, Mark Gutier-rez. “Off the field, the whole team knows to ask Bart ques-tions about anything, because he’s always here for everyone. He’s basically the father of the team.”

Ballard’s employees are also aware of his demeanor.

Wo o d l a ke n a t ive N i c k Carrasco has been an employ-ee of Ballard’s for five years. Carrasco has had his time on the court with Ballard, like the students of today. But Carras-co says his relationship with Ballard is nothing like any other student-teacher relation-ship he’s ever had.

Carrasco considers Ballard a friend.

“He’s real competitive,” said Carrasco, a kinesiology major. “At the same time, he’s always teaching and coaching us.”

Student turns online games into business

A Fresno State student has made his greatest dream a reality with the opening his own business, Cyber Alley.

Cyber Alley, which opened this spring in Fresno, is a computer gaming compa-ny, which is thriving off the growing interest in “new age arcades.”

Josh Castorena, owner and manager of Cyber Alley, is a senior business student in the Information Systems and Decision Sciences depart-ment at Fresno State. Grow-ing up in Ventura, Castorena saw many computer gaming arcades around town and was intrigued.

“I’m from Southern Cali-fornia and they’re pretty big down there and gaming is get-ting pretty popular now,” Cas-

torena said. “It’s been under-ground for the most part but now you can play anyone all around the world.”

Cyber Alley will give play-ers the chance to partake in gaming tournaments. Fea-turing custom computers that are made specifically for gaming, players can partici-pate in online tournaments with other gamers inside Cyber Alley as well as anyone around the world.

“I came to Fresno and I real-ized there’s not much for peo-ple to do around here, espe-cially those who are under 21,” said Castorena. “I’ve seen how well these have done in other areas and I thought it would be a great source of entertainment here as well.”

Castorena, who previous-

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Games: Security is a concern

ly attended Foothill Tech-nology High School in Ven-tura, which integrates state-of-the-art technology into all aspects of the curriculum, has a strong computer back-ground. After settling on the idea he marketed it to a few people and was able to find a financial backer.

“It’s been about a year in the making,” Castorena said. “I’ve been through a lot of tough times with permits and licenses.”

After getting approved for the business Castorena began to set up shop in the Monteci-to Plaza at the corner Willow and Nees avenues. Safety and security were of great con-cern do to the problems that can arise from any online business, which is why he sought out the help of Chris Johnson, a senior networker for eBay.

Johnson came in and set up all the security systems, which allowed Castorena to control all of the computers from inside the arcade as well as when he’s away.

“We have total control. We have cameras and high-tech equipment. I can get online anywhere and see what’s going on in the store,” Cas-torena said.

Jesus Toledo, a friend of Castorena’s, descries Cas-torena as hard-working and dedicated.

“I’m super proud of the lit-tle guy. I think Cyber Alley is just going to be a stepping stone for Josh. If he had this

much drive to accomplish this at his age then the sky is the limit for this man in the future,” Toledo said.

Neil Christiansen, a fre-quent gamer at Cyber Alley, expressed his gratitude to the presence of such a business here in Fresno.

“I’ve been into video games for about 10 years,” Chris-tiansen said. “It offers things I wouldn’t necessarily do for myself. I would buy all these games but now I have access to them.”

Christiansen also expressed the importance that gaming not consume too much time. For customers, it’s great to have the separation for game time by going to Cyber Alley.

“It’s a benefit to have all these things here are not at home where they easily become a distraction from school and things,” Chris-tiansen said.

Castorena does hope that this accomplishment is one of many. He has worked around the clock to start up his own business and he shows no sign of stopping now. With Cyber Alley opening just weeks ago, Castorena already has his sights set on future projects.

“I’ve already got letters of intent from a few locations to open up at Campus Pointe and Granite Park,” he said. “I’m hoping to have two more in the next three years.”

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to the first team as well.“Josh and Matt are two guys

that I have a lot of respect for. They are both naturally talented at bowling and still find time to work hard on their game,” Haggerty said. “I have had a lot of good times with both of them and consid-er them to be great friends of mine.”

And to top it off, coach Chris Preble was named men’s coach of the year.

“Preble is one of the best coaches I have ever had. He knows a lot about the game and teaches us to the best of his ability,” Robinson said. “Fresno State had three first-team All-Americans; that shows you how good of a coach he is.”

But talent isn’t the only thing needed for a successful season.

“The key to our success

is practice and team bond-ing. Our team spends a lot of time together, which makes us stronger and closer than other teams we are compet-ing against,” Haggerty said. “Also, we have very talent-ed and hard working players that give us an advantage over other teams across the coun-try.”

Robinson agreed.“Our key to success is that

we are a family,” he said. “We all know little things about the game and we share them with each other. We never get mad at each other and always have each other’s back during our tournaments. No team in the country is as close as we are.”

The bowling team’s season extends over five months.

“Our season starts with try-outs at the beginning of Sep-tember and we bowl at least one or two tournaments a month until nationals in the

middle of April,” Robinson said.

The tournaments it attends range from eight teams to as many as 50 teams.

The smaller tournaments consist mostly of teams in California, such as San Jose State and University of Cali-fornia, Davis.

Bigger tournaments include teams like Wichita State, Sag-inaw Valley State and Pikev-ille, Robinson said.

“Due to recent budget cuts, our trips have been limited. This year we went to Vegas three times, Indianapolis in February and Wichita, Ka. for nationals,” he said. “All the other tournaments were in California.”

Fresno State bowling is known for having a great pro-gram so the past success-es attract people who want to play instead of having to recruit them, Robinson said.

“Most people from the team

come from either northern California or southern Cali-fornia,” he said. “We’ve had three members who were from Hawaii but that’s the furthest away we have had.”

Haggerty said his decision to play for Fresno State was based on staying close to home and joining a good program.

“I had friends who bowled for Fresno State before I decid-ed to go here and that is why I came,” he said.

Almost everyone is shocked to hear there is a bowling team at Fresno State, Hagger-ty said.

Although not critical to their successes, having more support would be something the team would like.

“I really wish people fol-lowed us more because we have had a lot of success the last four years,” he said. “All I can hope now is that people are aware we have a team and follow them in the future.”

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POLO: Bulldogs improve on 3rd place finish in ’06

2:43 remaining in the third quarter.

Goalies Jacque Ritchie and Sarah Behlen each recorded a save in 14 minutes of play for Fresno State.

To advance to the nation-als, Fresno State had to play catch-up against UC-Davis last month.

The Bulldogs rallied in the fourth quarter against UC-Davis when Teri Bartel scored a goal to send the game into overtime.

Me gan Eldredge scored in overtime as Fresno State defeated UC-Davis 5-4 at Clo-vis West on April 14-15 to advance to the nationals.

“We came out really strong in the first quarter,” said club president and co-captain Beth Bartlett. “We had goals in the first two minutes of the game and the other coach called a timeout and that brought down our adrenaline rush after that.”

Fresno State jumped out to a 3-0 first quarter lead before UC-Davis answered with two goals in the second quarter.

“ W e s t a r t e d p r e t t y good,” Guyett said. “They m a d e a g o o d c o m e b a c k and they took it to us.” The Bulldogs beat UC-Davis three times this season. Both teams compete in the North-ern California division.

Fresno State's winning goal came on a quick-quick man-up goal.

“One of their girls got eject-ed and usually it takes time to set the play up, and right away we tied it up.”

Guyett was confident that his team would do fine at the nationals.

“They’re dedicated to win,” Guyett said. “Not afraid to get physical which is a good thing.”

Fresno State opened up at nationals against Notre Dame on Friday.

Last season, Fresno State placed third at the nationals.

“We kind of have an under-standing the type of the com-petition will be out there,” Eldredge said. “You don’t want to underestimate your competition.”

Before the tour nament, Bartlett looked forward to competiting at nationals.

“Very good tournament,” Bartlett said. “All of the teams we’re playing are ranked below us in the polls. It’s really difficult to judge if we never played against them and we don’t have a com-mon opponent. But we have a very good shot at winning the championship”

Despite the lack of prac-tices, Eldredge felt the team could perfor m well at the nationals.

“It’s difficult because we have to work around our schedule,” she said. “We understand that and we’re not as fortunate as other teams. It gave us more of an edge.”

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After sweeping the San Jose State Spartans in three games over the weekend, the Fresno State softball team won’t have to wait long for a rematch.

F r e s n o State wil l o p e n t h e 2007 West-ern Athletic Conference Tournament at Bulldog Diamond at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday against the fifth-seeded Spartans.

Fresno State’s 42-16 record and 15-3 mark in conference play earned the Bulldogs the No. 2 seed in the tourna-ment.

The Hawaii Rainbows earned the No. 1 seed in the tournament and an open-ing round bye. Hawaii will face the winner of the sixth-seeded Utah State and sev-enth-seeded Louisiana Tech game.

Action will continue with five games on Thursday, three games on Friday and the championship game on Saturday at 2 p.m. — a 5 p.m. game is also scheduled if necessary.

The winner of the double-elimination tournament will earn an automatic berth in the NCAA Tournament.

Most valuable player. Player of the year. Coach of the year. Six consecutive champion-ships. 212.99 average.

These are the honors the Fresno State bowling team received this season.

The team consists of about eight players, six of which travel to compete.

Criminology major PJ Hag-gerty has been bowling for 18 years and said his life is all about it.

“PJ is one the best bowlers I have ever seen,” teammate Matt Robinson said. “Grow-ing up, I would always bowl and watch him in tourna-ments.”

This season, Haggerty was named Bowling Writer ’s Association of America’s col-legiate men’s Player of the Year and for the third straight season, National Collegiate Bowling Coaches Association men’s Most Valuable Player.

“I have worked hard for four years and it’s nice to see the hard work has paid off,” Hag-gerty said. “It feels good to set records but I would trade all of them in for a team nation-al title.”

Teammates Robinson and Josh Blanchard were named

Bulldogs recognized as some of the nation’s best

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Fresno State bowler Josh Blanchard was one of three Bulldogs All-Americans.

Softball

On Sunday alone, the Bull-dogs had 19 hits in 44 at bats. In their three-game series against San Jose State, the Bulldogs racked up 56 hits. Fresno State won the final

game 12-9 to swee p the w e e k e n d match-up.

I t ’ s t h e e i g h t h -s t r a i g h t WAC win for Fresno State, which places them first in the confer-

ence with a 14-4 record. In the final game, pitch-

er Tanner Scheppers threw eight strikeouts in six innings. The Bulldogs had a dominating offense with two runs coming off a single and two doubles courtesy of Ozzie Lewis and Steve Sus-dorf.

Early in the third inning, Tommy Mendonca brought in two runs with the bases loaded after his single to right field, putting the ‘Dogs up, 4-0.

Despite an attempt to rally, the Spartans were out-com-peted on offense with Alan Ahmady hitting his sixth homer of the season.

Fresno State will host its final home series against Louisiana Tech this Friday.

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We love you so much

and are so proud of you!

Entering the Wom-e n ’ s N a t i o n a l Collegiate Club

Championship, Fres-no State women’s club water polo coach Pat-rick Guyett had one goal in mind.

“To win nationals,” Guy-ett said.

That they did.Laura Imai scored twice

as the Bulldogs, ranked No. 2 in the nation by Women’s Collegiate Club, defeat-ed No. 1 Cal Poly 4-3 in the championship game at Wil-liams College in William-stown, Mass. on Sunday.

Preparing for the nation-als was difficult for the Bulldogs due to the lack of swimming pools to prac-tice in, but that didn’t mat-ter.

“We practice twice a week,” said Guyett, who was named coach of the year. “Between school and work it’s difficult, but I got

a lot of smart girls that know how to play. We want-ed to show the nation what we could do.”

Imai, the tournament’s most valuable p layer, scored on a penalty shot at 2:28 of the second quarter to give Fresno State a 3-1 lead. Imai capped the scor-ing for the Bulldogs with a backhanded goal in the fourth quarter.

Fresno State trailed 1-0 in the first quarter when Cal Poly’s Colleen Scheitrum scored on an assist from Elisa Hopper. The Bulldogs rallied in the final min-ute of the quarter when Erika Tasier scored on a direct shot with 50 seconds remaining.

In the second quarter, Katie Cosgrove scored on an unassisted goal with 6:36 remaining in the sec-ond quarter, to give Fresno State a 3-1 lead at the half.

The Mustangs trimmed the lead to 3-2 when Scheitrum scored her second goal with

Club ’Dogs crowned champs

The Fresno State women’s club water polo team improved on last year’s third-place national finish by defeating top-ranked Cal Poly in the national title game this season. The Bulldogs defeated the Mustangs 4-3 to become champions.

File photo by Andrew Riggs / Collegian Staff Photographer

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WOMEN ’S CLUB WATER POLONational Final: No. 2 Fresno State 4, No. 1 Cal Poly 3