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Too many points given up in the firsthalf, not enough plays made by theoffense and a game-tying field goalthat sailed wide of the uprights.

That was the recipe for disaster forSan Diego State Saturday evening atQualcomm Stadium, where theAztecs (4-3, 1-2 Mountain WestConference) dropped a close one, 30-27, to Wyoming.

“We didn’t make enough plays towin the game,”head coachRocky Longsaid. “It wasn’tthe defense’s

terrible performance in the first half. Itwasn’t the offense’s poor performancein the second quarter. It wasn’t us miss-

ing field goals or extra points. Whenyou lose, it’s a total team problem.”

With 1:55 left in the game and SDSUdown by three, senior kicker AbelardoPerez lined up to attempt a game-tying, 27-yard field goal. Perez kicked itwide left, and with that went theAztecs’ chance at forcing overtime.

This came just minutes after Perezmissed a 39-yarder that also wouldhave tied the score.

After the game, there were nowords exchanged, no reassuring patson the back, no “you’ll get ‘em nexttime” for the senior placekicker.

“It’s better not to say anything to akicker after that kind of problem,”Long said.

“We’ll rally around him, and that’swhat we should do,” senior quarter-back Ryan Lindley added, who tossed247 yards, two touchdowns and aninterception. “Like I said, he’s ourteammate, first and foremost, and

regardless of whether he was five-for-five or oh-for-five, he’s an Aztec at theend of the day.”

In the first half, the SDSU defense,which had 16 days off to prepare forthe Cowboys, could not do anythingto stop true freshman quarterbackBrett Smith. Smith piled up 287 pass-ing yards, tossed two touchdowns towide receiver Chris McNeil, andadded a couple of rushing touch-downs as well in a Tim Tebow-esqueperformance, all before halftime.

“It was all just the defense not play-ing as we should have,” senior line-backer Miles Burris said. “It wasn’t anyone person, but we came out in thefirst half and really put ourselves in ahole. We didn’t execute, we weremaking mental errors, that’s not goingto win you football games. That’s allon us; it has nothing to do with them.”

But it was a whole other story in

the second half, when the Aztecdefense held Wyoming scoreless andto only 104 yards of total offense.

“They started executing the cover-age that we had to prevent screens,which we didn’t execute in the firsthalf,” Long said. “Once we had a littlesuccess they started playing at theirregular speed and instead of playinglike they were afraid to make a play,they started making plays.”

Sophomore running back RonnieHillman had 305 total yards and threetouchdowns in the loss.

Where do the Aztecs go from here?“Go play New Mexico (next week),”

Lindley said. “That’s all you can do.You play who’s up next, and we do thesame thing we do every week …everything’s a learning experience.You’ve got to improve. We have to bebetter next week than we were thisweek, that’s for sure.”

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WYO 30

SDSU 27

Aztecs make mistakes in all phases

How about them Cowboys?That’s the question the San Diego

State football team was left askingafter Saturday’s game againstWyoming.

The Cowboys went intoQualcomm Stadium as heavy under-dogs and left as the victors by ascore of 30-27.

Teams never lose because of oneplay or player, but senior kickerAbelardo Perez’s missed field goalsproved costly.

Perez missed an extra point in thefirst quarter and both attempts atthe game-tying field goal in thefourth quarter.

The team dominated the secondhalf but looked as if it lacked focus inthe first half.

OOvveerrllooookkiinngg WWyyoommiinnggWyoming came into the game as adouble-digit underdog, and manypeople expected SDSU to win —except Aztecs head coach RockyLong, who during the week praisedWyoming and said it was a good

football team.His message didn’t make it to the

team, which appeared to have over-looked the Cowboys.

After sophomore running backRonnie Hillman scored on a 71-yardtouchdown pass to give SDSU a 13-7lead in the first quarter, Wyomingoutscored the Aztecs 23-0 for the restof the half and put the Aztecs in ahole that proved too big to overcome.

“For some unknown reason peopledidn’t give Wyoming the credit theydeserve,” Long said. “Wyoming is agood football team. I guess every-body knows it now. Nobody wantedto admit it going into the game.

“Whether you think the stuff thatour players hear or see matters ornot, it does. They hear the samethings that I hear and they read thesame things I read and they see thesame things on the Internet andeverything else. We have to be amore mature football team so noneof that bothers us.”

PPeerreezz mmiisssseess ooppppoorrttuunniittiieessAfter Hillman caught his 71-yardtouchdown in the first quarter, Perezmissed the extra point.

With 11:37 left in the fourth quarterPerez missed a 39-yard field goal wide

left that would have tied the score at 30.Still down 30-27 with 1:55 left in

the game, Perez missed wide leftagain from 27 yards out.

Add all those together and itsseven points left on the field forSDSU. If Perez would have hit one ofthose field goals, the game wouldhave gone to overtime.

It would be easy to blame Perez forthe loss, but senior quarterback RyanLindley knows it’s time to pick up histeammate.

“He’s our teammate, we have tobring him up,” Lindley said. “It’s notabout a guy missing a field goal atthe end of the game. It’s a teameffort. We just have to play better.We’ll rally around him and that’s whatwe should do.”

TTaallee ooff ttwwoo hhaallvveessThe Aztec defense was atrocious inthe first half. Long said so himself.

“That’s as bad as a defensive per-formance in the first half that I’ve everbeen associated with,” Long said.

SDSU gave up 396 yards and 30points in the first half. That’s enoughyards and points for a whole game.

In the second half, the defenseshut out the Cowboys, surrenderingonly five first downs and 106 yards.

It looked like a completely differentAztec defense in the second half.Cowboy freshman quarterback BrettSmith, who dominated the first half,was constantly pressured and wasn’tmaking the same plays he was in thefirst half.

The defense executed better inthe second half, adjusted to thespeed of the game and gave theoffense enough time to make thegame close.

EExxttrraa ppooiinnttssWhat more can be said aboutHillman?

The sophomore ran for 224 yardsand two touchdowns, while catch-ing two passes for 81 yards andanother touchdown.

His electrifying 99-yard touch-down run in the third quarter was thelongest play in school history.

Hillman also eclipsed the 1,000yard rushing mark during the game;he has now rushed for 1,057 yardsthis season.

In addition, Gavin Escobar had acareer day with 95 yards receiving.He also scored a touchdown, hisfifth of the season, which is also acareer high.

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“I am not a runner. But Ichanneled myinner ForrestGump andbooked it, likeit was my job.”

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The KCR College Radio re-launch isnow two months in, and despitesome challenges it is making a name

for itself on the San Diego Statecampus.

The original KCR began morethan four decades ago . Now, it hasbeen revamped with three comput-ers, a soundboard, new micro-phones and speakers.

With a $6,000 budget, the station

was able to switch from analog todigital format, in addition to utilizingmore data.

Besides the studio makeover, thestation itself has changed.

Forty years ago, KCR focused pri-marily on promoting undergroundmusic. Nowadays, although there are

still artists featured on the stream, theradio station also offers news, enter-tainment and sports shows hostedand produced by SDSU students.

Journalism senior and radio sta-tion general manager Josh Hoffmansaid the station is unique because itis completely student-run, provid-ing college students with valuableexperience.

Because the station is only broad-casted online, there are fewer contentrestrictions than there otherwisewould be if KCR had its own AM or FMradio channel.

“You say what you want to say,you play what you want to play,”Hoffman said.

Talk show topics range from“Between the Sheets,” a weekly sextalk show, to “Sports Zone,” a programabout university athletics.

“I don’t want one person to likeevery show. I want every person tolike one show,” Hoffman said.

In addition to catering to currentuniversity students, the station is alsoof interest to alumni. “Today at State,”broadcasting on Wednesdays from 6to 6:30 p.m., focuses on campus hap-penings. Alumni can get involved andfeel they are still part of the campuscommunity.

Hoffman said his goal for KCR isto bring the campus communitytogether.

The station allows organizationssuch as Associated Students to makeon-air announcements at no cost.New musicians are also featured on

the radio station. According to media studies stu-

dent and music director JaronDegen, the station receives morethan 100 requests each week fromartists who hope to have theirmusic played on-air.

“Sixty to 70 percent are really bad,but there are some really talentedpeople,” Degen said.

The best way for a student to gethis or her music featured is to drop offa playlist at the studio, he said.

KCR has succeeded in gettingexposure within the college commu-nity, but obtaining loyal listeners isanother story. According to Hoffman,every day approximately 100 listenerstune in.

The team hopes to keep listenershooked by having a wide variety oftalk shows and music.

Another challenge is not havinglive producers in the studio 24 hours aday. During the late night hours, deadspace is filled by an ongoing playlist.Hoffman said he would prefer to havelive talk shows instead.

Hoffman and Degen say they arehappy with the success of the KCR re-launch. Every week, the station hasconcert ticket giveaways or free admis-sion to events throughout San Diego.

Listeners can access the station inthree ways: visit kcrlive.com, down-load the smartphone applicationcalled TuneIn Radio, or check outiTunes radio and find the KCR collegeuniversity tab.

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There’s nothing scary about students gaining valuable media experience while working at KCR College Radio. | ANTONIO ZARAGOZA, PHOTO EDITOR

Storm Hall has long been a topic ofinterest among San Diego State stu-dents: Not because of its beautifularchitecture or quiet classrooms, butbecause of the maintenance problemsaffecting student learning for years.

The problems consist of water leaksand lights flickering on-and-off in themiddle of class.

The flickering lights disrupt class lec-tures and affect student concentration.Lights go off in stairwells and in hall-ways, turning Storm Hall into alabyrinth of long and dark passages.

SDSU Manager of Electrical ServicesAl Martin said fixing the lighting prob-lems in Storm Hall has been in theworks for a couple of weeks.

He attributes the electrical problemsto the old motion sensors installed inthe building in the late 1980s. Lightsrely on the outdated sensors to auto-

matically turn on or off. Professor of political science Edward

Heck said he has noticed the lightingproblems in Storm Hall, but it has notinterfered with his class.

Beginning last year, the university’sWork Control Center compiled a list ofregistered complaints and recentlyissued a report to the electrical servicesoffice. There were 27 lighting problemsdetected, Martin said.

The Work Control Center is the pointof contact between the campus com-munity and Physical Plant. Accordingto the university’s website, the PhysicalPlant oversees more than 2.7 millionsquare feet of floor space across theuniversity. The campus uses approxi-mately 54 million kilowatt-hours ofelectricity.

Martin said problems are usuallyfixed the same day they are reported,but the lighting issues in Storm Hallwere not immediately addressedbecause of plans to renovate bothStorm and Nasatir Halls.

The renovations will be financed by

the sale of bonds scheduled to be soldlater this year.

Storm Hall is not the only buildingwith problems on campus. TheProfessional Studies and Fine Artsbuilding has recently experiencedwater leaks.

About a month ago, the breakdownof a water cooler caused a water leak inthe west end of the building. Floodingwater reached the PSFA dean’s office,and was cleaned up a week ago.

Leaks have reached the upper levelsof the building as well.

Theatre, television and film professorMartha Lauzen teaches a class on thefourth floor of PSFA. She recently com-plained to the building’s office staff thather class had a leak that was close tothe podium where she instructs.

Building maintenance issues haveaffected students such as politicalscience junior Jorge Gomez, whosaid there may be more going onthan just electrical problems.

“I’ve heard Storm Hall is haunted,”he said. Lights flicker on-and-off in Storm Hall, disrupting classes. | ANTONIO ZARAGOZA, PHOTO EDITOR

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SPOOKY TUNE

LOOKING THROUGH OUR LENS

HUMOR

Too scared to functiont’s 3 a.m. and I’m wide awake.Every light in my apartment ison and my hands are shaking.The only thing keeping mesane is a rerun of “Family Guy”

playing on my television, which Ihave turned up to a truly alarmingrate, and I can’t stop checking overmy shoulder. You’d think I’d just beenterrorized by a real-life situation.Perhaps I was just mugged on thestreet. Maybe I was just the victim ofa home invasion. It is also very possi-ble that I just watched the pilot of“American Horror Story” on FX. Whatelse could make a perfectly saneindividual this scared?

I went and saw “ParanormalActivity 3” tonight and it was theworst mistake I’ve made in recentmonths. I knew it would scare me.As I sat in the packed theater beforeit started I was already psychingmyself out, just reminding myselfhow scared I was after the first one,but for some reason I stayed. I sat inthat theater for all 86 minutes of themost realistic scare I’ve ever experi-enced and now I am sitting here, stilltoo afraid to get up to do anything.I’m almost too afraid to breathe.That’s how scared I am.

As Halloween is here, I think aboutall the things we do this time of yearjust to scare ourselves. One year, Iwatched “Saw” in my friend’s garagewith all the lights off. What part ofthat sounds like a good idea? “Heyguys, let’s sit in a really cold, totallycreepy room that is poorly insulatedand huddle around a small televisionand watch a scary movie!” Why didwe all agree to it?

Of course, one of my friendsslipped out unnoticed in the middleof the movie, went outside andthrew a basketball against the garagedoor and completely scared all of usout of our minds, but at that point,by putting ourselves in that situation,we were totally asking for it.

Another year, I walked to a haunt-ed house someone from my highschool put together. We heard it wasthe scariest one in town and whenwe turned the corner onto his street,the line spanned the entire block. Ithad to be good to warrant a showingthis big. Luckily, the friends I waswith knew the guy who put it on andwe skipped the line and walkedthrough the horrifying maze withhim. He led us through his houseand made it so we missed everythingthat jumped out, but he couldn’tsave us from the last part. Rightwhen we thought we were homefree, and the sidewalk full of peoplewas right in front of us, the door of arefrigerator that I didn’t notice out ofthe corner of my eye opened slowlyand a man dressed in all black with afake knife started charging at us.

I am not a runner. But I channeledmy inner Forrest Gump and bookedit like it was my job, all the way tothe sidewalk.

Obviously I scare easily. When Iwas little, my older brother used tohide behind objects and jump out,scaring me to tears. Constant fear ofthe unknown behind my bathroomdoor was instilled in me from a veryyoung age, so you can’t really blameme for being such a chicken.

But that never stopped me fromwanting to be scared. Any time atruly scary movie comes out, Ialways end up watching it. My bestfriend and I went and saw “TheStrangers” when it was in theaters.He and I have been friends ourentire lives and the only time he hasever been mad at me was while wewere sitting in that theater and Iwas clutching his hand and whim-pering like a baby because I was soterrified. Twenty-one years of

friendship and that is the mostannoyed he has ever been with me.

When I was 13, my dad took me tosee a French horror movie called“High Tension.” That movie hatchedthe most brutal, relentless and never-ending chainsaw sequence I haveever witnessed in my entire life. Islept with the lights on for a week.

I must be some sort of masochist.Last year I even found a countdownon bloodydisgusting.com of the 25best horror movies of the decadeand watched them all, from 25 toone, just for fun. Clearly I am bur-dened beyond reasonable explana-tion by stupid made-up movies peo-ple such as Eli Roth and crazy Frenchdirectors put together. But apparentlyI will never learn my lesson becausehere I am watching happy late-nightprogramming to keep myself fromgoing to sleep. What is it going totake for me to finally realize that see-ing these movies causes me nothingbut stress, sleepless nights andcountless years taken off my life frompure and torturous anxiety?

Despite being too afraid to benddown over my sink and wash themakeup off my face before I go tosleep, (obviously for fear that when Icome back up and look in the mirror,the girl from “The Ring” will be rightnext to me), I will always be readyand willing to get the pants scaredoff of me, or, more poignantly, theshoes scared off of me. That actuallyhappened during “ParanormalActivity 3.” I got so scared at one partduring the movie I lost my shoe intothe aisle next to me.

Maybe I need a real-life horrifyingsituation to put this all into perspec-tive and make me realize that real life(midterms, taxes, in-laws) is wayscarier than some stupid movieabout ghosts. But for now, “FamilyGuy” … lots and lots of “Family Guy.”

-Hayley Rafner is a journalism junior.

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