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Remembering the dark side of history Hannah Jacobsen

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This past month in April, there was a monumental moment for our planet Earth. On April 22, other wise known as Earth Day, over 150 countries attended the United Nations headquarters in New York to sign the Paris Agreement.

The Paris Agreement is a 32-page document that unites all the world nations in a single agreement on tackling climate change for the first time in history. It does not address everything; some critics say it leaves out too much information.

The overall goal is to keep global temperatures well below 2 degrees Celsius, 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit. This would mean to limit the amount of greenhouse gases emitted by human activity. Some countries present at the signing ceremony were major carbon emitters such as the United States, China, and India.

Pledges thus far could see global temperatures rise by as much as 2.7 degrees Celsius, but the agreement

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Managing Editor The Executive Committee Meeting took place in the afternoon of Tuesday, April 26. The action items on the agenda include student body fee indexing

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The Holocaust, which stemmed from the hatred of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime, resulted in the deaths of six million Jews and millions of other victims of perceived racial inferiority that stood in the way of Hitler’s Aryan race.

A selection of these deaths were due to death marches and gassing facilities that were known as the “Final Solution to the Jewish Question”—an attempt to rid the country of all remaining Jewish people in the ghetto populations.

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Members present at the meeting were ASI President Ejmin Hako-

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Eagle-Con 2016 pushing boundaries with new female superhero

with the college and the center.

However, now, “Eagle-Con has become a University level event,” according to Dr. Sharp.

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This year's theme is Pushing Boundaries: Gender, Identity, and Expression. Guest speakers will include, Tananarive Due, Natalie Chaidez and Dr. Sharon Sharp.

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Eagle-Con 2016 is vastly approaching and has included a new character to serve as counterpart to Sky-Wing. Terra-Talon, is a new female superhero with special skills in science and martial arts fighting monstrous enemies.

The idea for a new character has been in the works since spring 2015 in association with Dr. Kate S. Kurtin, Faculty Communications Coordinator, and her advertising class students.

rick B. Sharp, Faculty Director and Department Chair of Liberal Arts, explained the process of bringing the new character to life.

According to Dr. Kurtin, the idea and the rebranding of the school came at together at the perfect time. “Terra takes elements from the new school mascot, including tributes to El Diablo.”

Tera-Talon has a unique back-story created by Abraham Nesheiwat and Ayushi Hingle.

The character was then created and drawn by Graphix in the University-Student Union (U-SU).

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Along with the new character,

Massacres and genocides have been an unfortunate pattern in humankind’s history on earth, resulting in the deaths of many and past events that future generations and nations must shamefully look back on. On Thursday, May 5, people will remember one of these tragic moments in human history through Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Yom Hashoah.

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Sky-Wing also got an updated look. He now also sports a tribute to El Diablo in his hair along with a more muscular build. Terra-Talon also sports a powerful shield with the new Cal State LA crest seen around campus.

Eagle-Con began as a passion project three years ago between Cross Cultural Center and the College of Arts and Letters. When the event first started as an event

Tananarive Due is an accomplished novelist celebrating her latest release, Ghost Summer. She will be receiving the Octavia Butler Memorial Award on Thursday night followed by a lecture and book signing. Dr. Sharp explained, “We’ve been trying to get Tananarive Due to come to Eagle-Con but has been in Atlanta for the past two years.”

Joining Tananarive Due in a strong list of panelists is Natalie Chaidez, an Emmy nominee for Outstanding Drama Series. Chaidez is known for her strong female characters as seen in Heroes and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

Along with the guest speakers there will be an artwork exhibit as seen in previous years.

Although it has not yet been confirmed there is hopes for artwork from Agent Carter, American Horror Story and True Blood.

There will also be a Cosplay competition, performers and a special event aimed at helping students starting their projects. The event, From Concept to Creation on Saturday will have a writing workshop along with a Kickstarter workshop so students know how to fund their projects.

Eagle-Con 2016 begins Thursday, May 12 through May 14 and is free to all students, staff and faculty. Those in the Greater Los Angeles area are also invited to attend the event to help promote the goal Eagle-Con began with three years ago.

Dr. Kurtin explains, “The comic community needs more diversity, we are being pushed out and it is becoming, ‘white and gentrified’.”

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Dr. Fred Moten speaks partial correspondence.

How can music possibly relate to race?

Dr. Fred Moten answered this question at last week’s annual David L. Kubal Memorial Lecture, sponsored by the Cal State LA English Department.

David Kubal was an English professor at Cal State LA who taught from 1968 up until he passed away in 1982. Dr. Peter Brier, emeritus professor of English, contributed to the founding of the David L. Kubal Memorial Lecture series in 1983 as a way to honor his colleague, who was devoted to and well-respected by his students and peers.

At the beginning of the lecture, Dr. Jim Garrett, Chair of the English department, introduced Kubal as someone “who characterized what we do: engage in insightful scholarship, rigorous teaching, and generosity.”

This year’s speaker was poet and theorist, Dr. Fred Moten. Moten is the author of an entire catalogue of works on topics that include poetry, black studies, performance

studies, and critical theory. He was also a recent finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry. A former Berkeley graduate, he continues to write while serving the UC system as a professor at the University of California, Riverside campus.

His lecture, entitled “Partial Correspondence,” identified and explored the ramifications of the black radical tradition in literature, society, aesthetics, performance, pedagogy and politics. Moten read aloud letters he had written to Adam Shatz, a writer on a recently released jazz album.

In a New York Times magazine article, Shatz described saxophonist Kamasi Washington’s 2015 album, “The Epic,” as a remarkable piece of work. Dr. Moten, however, disagreed.

“Everyone one around me is telling me how good this album is and I can’t get myself to like it no matter how hard I try. I was even listening to it just this morning!”

“I want to like what everybody else likes. That just seems important to me.”

“Still, I want him [Washington] to play more and get suspicious when he doesn’t. But he’s not trying to do that it seems. So I’m going to go back and listen for texture.

He grew up in a rich kind of black sociality and it sounds like he wants his music to reflect that.”

The soft-spoken speaker used the letters he sent to Shatz as a medium to discuss his views on various topics. Some of the more prominent topics of the lecture included the influence race and music—specifically jazz and hip-hop—have on one another.

One of the more interesting takes he had was on the recent Black Lives Matter movement and how he felt it was too individualized.

On the question of whether or not the movement had a soundtrack Moten said, “Black Lives Matter will have a soundtrack once it becomes Black Life Matters. It’s the distinction between the individual life, and this irreducibly communal process of making a living.”

Moten further touched on this theme of individuality versus collectivity by making another important distinction that he believed would help him better appreciate “The Epic”: the soloist vs. the solo.

He defined the solo as the message a music group seeks to impart, rather than the soloist, which he described as “a heretofore repressed individual making a momentary escape.” According to Moten, thinking of the soloist as a formerly repressed individual wraps his/her music in a long, tragic history.

“I want to think of us as constantly escaping that history or

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historiography, which turns out problematically to be the history and historiography of freedom or the history of the struggle for freedom.”

Moten also discussed how jazz and Hip-Hop have influenced him and his poetry. Moten described how he finds himself enjoying today’s popular hip-hop artists much more than the jazz he’s usually used to.

“Earl Sweatshirt seems so much more deeply interesting to me than ‘The Epic.’ Even listening to Kamasi Washington on Kendrick Lamar’s ‘To Pimp A Butterfly’ is so much more pleasing and interesting to me. It’s just so much more kinetic.”

Dr. Moten’s command of the English language made for a lecture that was not only informative but captivating as well. One per-

The exceptional power faculty minority groups have in higher education Marcela Valdivia

for Research and Academic Personnel).

The College of Natural and Social Sciences presented an open discussion about faculty in higher education.

Cal State LA faculty is fifty percent White and twenty-five percent Asian, which make these two groups highly represented over other groups on campus. Nevertheless, higher education academia is being widely dominated nationwide in UC and CSU systems between these two groups. These statistics fail to enhance faculty diversity because minority groups such as Latino, African American, and Native American are being left out.

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The College of Natural and Social Sciences opened the University-Student Union boardroom doors to host “Faculty in Higher Education” for students to have an open discussion with Cal State LA faculty about the underrepresentation of minorities in faculty nationwide on Monday, April 25.

Jannah Mae De La Cuesta, Biochemistry major and College Representative for Natural and Social Sciences, organized the event with the goal to educate students on how to become stronger supporters for faculty and address the topic of having a more diverse faculty.

Among the faculty who participated in the event were Dr. Beth Baker (Professor for Anthropology), Dr. Aminah Bakeer Abdul-Jabbaar (Professor for Pan-African Studies), Dr. Carlos Gutierrez (Professor of Chemistry), and Dr. Philip LaPolt (Associate Vice President

“Looking at our campus among the tenure track faculty there are only fifteen percent Latino, five percent Black, and less than one percent Native American,” Dr. Beth Baker said. “While we are doing a better job than other campuses nationwide I think we need to have a deeper conversation of what we mean about diversity.”

Dr. Gutierrez shared that when he got hired at Cal State LA the line of Latino students to simply checkin with him was long. He was glad that students found comfort in knowing that a Latino professor could be successful.

A student shared how most of his professors throughout his college career have been white females and that he finds it difficult to speak

openly to someone who is not his color. However, when he met someone from the same Caribbean background as him, he felt more comfortable because of that instant background connection.

“Studies illustrate that students of color do better when they have faculty of color because they do better in terms of retention rates and in terms graduation rates, which highlights how there is a lot of empirical evidence that it is very importance for student success,” Baker said.

Another student expressed that when his mom passed away he got an immense support from professors of color at Cal State LA. Professors would send him emails and call him to see how he was doing.

This support killed any feelings of alienation, which kept him motivated to stay in school.

“I do not do this job for the salary because at the end of the day there is a lot of intrinsic value you get from students,” Abdul-Jabbaar said.

Dr. Gutierrez’ advice for minority students who wish to become professors is to be one hundred percent sure of being a committed professor, to think of where to develop a career, and prepare to make an impact on students.

Throughout his career, Dr. Gutierrez was expected to fail due to his ethnicity, however, he had the capability to succeed and outweigh

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son in attendance described the lecture as “beautifully lyrical and entrancing.” Another captured it as “provocative.”

At the end of the lecture, Dr. Lauri Ramey, professor of English, made a surprising announcement: “This is the first time in 24 years that we’ve had an African American Kubalt lecturer. This was simply the speaker who struck us at the right person at this moment.”

Although not everyone agreed with his views, Moten’s lecture certainly made for a compelling and thought-provoking evening of discussion.

If you haven’t already, the English department encourages Cal State LA students of all disciplines to read Moten’s creative work and critical work for some intense brain stimulation.

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With less than half of the quarter to go the soon-to-be graduates prepare themselves for graduation day, with some insightful reflection. They recall their time here at Cal State LA along with the wonderful opportunities it has provided them. It all dawns upon them, as they know their time is quickly winding down.

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Vasty Melendez, Senior, Accounting major “The best part about being at Cal State LA for me was joining a student organization [like] the Association of Latino Professionals for America (ALPFA) and meeting lifelong friends. I was able to meet different students that have encouraged and inspired me to thrive in anything I do.”

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“My time at Cal State LA went by way too fast. My advice to future and current students would be to fully emerge yourself with school. It’s a time in your life that you will never get back.

Invest in good grades, making connections, and enjoying the experience.”

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“One of my regrets was not having enough free time to join things like a fraternity or any organizations, and not socializing enough. My advice to students is to prioritize your responsibilities, time management is very important, and if you’re planning on getting a job while you’re attending school make sure you can handle it. Also make sure you have time for your relationships whether it be romantic or with family members.”

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“As a transfer student from LMU, one of my greatest moments here at Cal State LA was meeting my friend Marcos Solis in engineering, he really helped me get on track with my major. Also getting into the sorority life on campus. It’s been a bit of a struggle but having the right people around me helped me a lot.”

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Emi Lomas, Senior, Biology major “If you are a science major, do not take your general education classes in the first two years, if you take them all first you will be left with regret when you’re left only taking the upper division courses. So plan wisely and mix it up! Also, if you can survive calculus, chemistry, organic chemistry, and physics give yourself some props. You deserve it.”

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the odds in crossing educational borders.

“Unfortunately minority status conveys upon a certain deficit in other peoples’ mind and that is why success is the best revenge because you get a certain credibility,” Gutierrez said.

One main thing for students to know is that they can get more involved in the hiring process and meet candidates. Students can learn about the process of how candidates are evaluated in an open session in order for candidates to know what students look for in faculty.

“It is very important for our can-

didates to get to meet our students and it is very important for the student because in those cases the department will take feedback and that is a powerful opportunity for students,” LaPolt said.

When asked about the outcome of her event, De La Cuesta said, “Although there was not a huge turnout, the conversations between students and faculty brought great insight on the relationships students want to have with their professors.

Faculty had also provided amazing advice and inspiration for students whose goal is to become an educator.”

De La Cuesta firmly believes that overtime there will be an increase of diversity within minorities and the underrepresentation will definitely be different. Students have taken action to recruit more diverse

professors so they can connect with them on a more cultural level and not simply for educational purposes.

“With the work from the Black Student Union, they had open the doors for students to have their voices heard on increasing diversity among our faculty. And with that, I believe we will start to see an increase in diversity among our faculty,” De La Cuesta said.

The next event is the NSS State of the College, which will be held on Wednesday, May 25, in Annenberg Wing B Lecture Hall Room 132. This event will allow students from the College of Natural and Social Sciences to meet the Dean and Associate Deans of the college and have an open discussion with them.

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Clearing the air with California college smoking ban Nico Triunfante

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AB1594 calls for prohibiting tobacco products on California campuses.

Assemblyman Kevin McCarty received a 41-21 vote from the lower legislative chamber, which proposed a smoking ban on California State University and community college campuses.

Department of Public Health in a California Tobacco Facts and Figures PDF from June 2015, 1998 saw 23.7 percent of adults between the ages of 18-24 smoking.

cease to exist if AB1594 is passed.

Additionally, anyone violating the smoking ban would be charged up to $100, which would go to the education programs from said university.

Although tobacco usage went down to 11.7 percent in 2013, e-cigarette usage spiked from 2.2 percent 2012 to 8.6 percent in 2013.

Other tobacco restrictions proposals include raising the legal age to buy tobacco products from 18 to 21, allow tobacco taxes, establish annual tobacco license fees, encourage charter schools to ban smoking and expand existing tobacco-free workplaces.

Proposed on Monday, April 25, AB1594 will prohibit chewing, dipping, smoking or vaping tobacco products on 136 universities, affecting nearly 2.5 million students and 100,000 staff and faculty members across the Golden State.

Currently, Cal State LA still uses adopted smoking standards that date back to 2003, which prohibits smoking within any building, or within a 15 feet radius from building entrances.

Designated outdoor smoking areas include the Child Care Center, University-Student Union seating areas, and the east patio entrance to the basement of King Hall.

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These smoking areas would

Genocide Continued from cover “In its entirety, the “Final Solution” consisted of gassings, shootings, random acts of terror, disease, and starvation that accounted for the deaths of about six million Jews—two-thirds of European Jewry,” The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum wrote.

There are no events for Holocaust Remembrance Day listed on the Cal State LA’s official events page.

However, the campus community can honor the memory of victims, survivors, and their family by visiting the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust

(LAMOTH), which provides free Holocaust education to the public through an in-person or virtual tour of their exhibits.

“LAMOTH is always free because the founding Survivors insisted that no visitors ever be turned away from learning about the Holocaust for lack of an entry fee,” LAMOTH’s history page writes. “The Museum fulfills its mission to commemorate and educate.”

This museum has the largest archive of primary source materials from the Holocaust period on the west coast held in its permanent exhibits; a temporary exhibit called “Reflections in Light, Paintings by Motke Blum” will begin displaying the artwork of a Romanian Jew, sent to a forced labor camp as a teenager during the Nazi regime’s invasion of his

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lays out a roadmap for speeding up progress. Each country contributes to cutting emissions every five years so they scale up to the challenge after the year 2020. This was a significant event, yet some students were not aware of its existence.

“I do not know about the Paris Agreement, nor have I even heard anything about it,” said Christian Williams, sophomore Kinesiology major. “I know the basics of climate change but that’s about it. To be honest I don’t think I even saw anything on social media about this, which is probably why I had no idea this recently occurred.”

Current smoke-free California State Universities include Fullerton, San Jose and Northridge. By Fall 2016, Cal State Long Beach will become a smoke-free campus. All California State University campuses and California Community Colleges will potentially be smoke-free by 2018.

The participation of the U.S. and China is significant, as the two account for more than 38 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to www.motherboard.vice. com. The agreement goes into force once 55 countries accounting for at least 55 percent of global emissions officially sign. The U.N. climate talks have a long history of disappointment, the high profile failure of a 2009 summit in Copenhagen left people disillusioned with climate in general.

country, on May 1.

Armenian National Committee of America, said to The Armenian Mirror-Spectator.

This day of remembrance arrives soon after the remembrance of the Armenian Genocide. The Armenian genocide, though not recognized officially in the United States, is marked annually on April 24.

The Armenian genocide is described as the massacre of as many as 1.5 million Armenian people by the ottoman government in 1915, and it is still denied today by the Turkish government.

In Los Angeles, the 101st anniversary of the Armenian genocide was marked in by a large protest on Wilshire Boulevard.

“It remains a crime unpunished.

It is a crime against humanity, and there’s no statute of limitation on that,” Nora Hovsepian, chair of the western region of the

While more than forty states in the U.S. have recognized this event as a genocide, President Obama has not referred to the deaths as “genocide” since his term as president began. In Southern California, which holds the largest Armenian community outside of Armenia itself, this is seen as a great disappointment and reason for protest.

“I shouldn’t have to validate my own history, “ Morris Sarafian, a UCLA student, said to The Armenian Mirror-Spectator, “This is a lived experience.”

Whether remembering the atrocities of the Holocaust throughout this week or fighting for the recognition of the Arme-

NEWS President Obama was there and signed the agreement.

“This agreement represents the best chance we have to save the one planet that we’ve got,” said President Obama. “No agreement is perfect, including this one. Even if all the initial targets set in Paris are met, we’ll only be part of the way there when it comes to reducing carbon from the atmosphere.”

Many people have hope for this agreement to go through and make a difference for our planet. Professor Steve LaDochy, teaches Geosciences and Environment at Cal State LA, is one of those hopeful citizens and does his best to contribute to the environment.

“I think the Paris Agreement is going to be effective, and I think we are already on our way.”

People should know the Paris Agreement won’t solve the problem quickly, or maybe even at all. What it does provide is a realistic hope after constant years of frustration. This is an enormous challenge, and it will not be easy. There is a lot of work to be done, and it starts from local support and effort to live a more sustainable and eco friendly lifestyle.

nian genocide at the end of April, this past few weeks present us all with the opportunity to recognize the worst of mankind’s history and the lessons we must learn from it.

While the genocides of the past profoundly affect our view of history, they may also affect our view of the traumatic world events that are presently occurring under our noses in areas such as Yemen, Syria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burma, South Sudan, and Sudan.

“We believe we must fulfill the promise the world made following the Holocaust: ‘Never Again!’” the organization United To End Genocide wrote, “History doesn’t have to keep repeating itself.”

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Getting to know your presidential candidates: Hillary Clinton 1996.

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“They are often the kinds of kids that are called ‘super-predators,’” Clinton said shortly after her husband’s crime bill had passed. “No conscience, no empathy, we can talk about why they ended up that way, but first we have to bring them to heel.”

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A breakdown of the background of Hillary Clinton.

Hillary Clinton was born in Chicago, Illinois, where her political career began initially as the First Lady of Arkansas in 1979. After her initial attempt to run in in the 2008 Democratic primaries, which she conceded to President Barack Obama, she has once again reached the final showdown in the 2016 Democratic primaries.

Clinton has had a long career in politics. During her time as the United State’s First Lady in the 1990s, she acted as the head of a Task Force on National Health Reform, invested in the controversial Whitewater real estate project with her husband, and became well known in the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal.

In 2001, Clinton became the first presidential wife to be elected to a public office when she won the nomination for the U.S. Senate. As a senator for New York from 2001 to 2009, Clinton focused on a series of programs, which included breast cancer research and investment in medical centers.

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After losing to President Obama in 2008, Clinton accepted the position of U.S. Secretary of State. She served in this position from 2009 to 2013, and according to a review by The Washington Post, she encountered success through political reforms in Burma and the final attack against Osama bin Laden and failures through the efforts to promote democracy after the Arab Spring and crises such as the widely discussed Benghazi attack.

While Hillary Clinton was a Republican in her younger years, she recognizes herself as a staunch liberal Democrat in the present. Clinton’s campaign website features a rather long list of approximately thirty issues that make up her platform; these range from decreasing the cost and increasing substance of education, pioneering advances in

medicine and healthcare, increasing gun control measures, and addressing climate change and wealth inequality. Her campaign largely targets increased focus on the aging population and the children in our educational and criminal justice systems.

The problems residing in our current criminal justice system is one of the major reasons that dissenters from organizations such as Black Lives Matter have protested against Clinton’s run for president.

Many have claimed that President Bill Clinton’s 1994 crime bill was a large part of the era of mass incarceration that Clinton wishes to end as president. In February 2016, a young activist named Ashley Williams crashed one of Clinton’s private fundraising events to protest a comment made by the candidate in

A second argument against Clinton’s nomination states that it is a mistake to bring any member of the Clinton family into the spotlight of American politics once more.

“What do you have to forget or overlook in order to desire that this dysfunctional clan once more occupies the White House and is again in a position to rent the Lincoln Bedroom to campaign donors and to employ the Oval Office as a massage parlor?” Christopher Hitchens wrote in Slate, “One hears a great deal about how this awful joint tenure of the executive mansion was a good thing in that it conferred ‘experience’ on the despised and much-deceived wife. Well, the main ‘experience’ involved the comprehensive fouling-up of the nation’s health-care arrangements.”

Supporters for Hillary Clinton have claimed that many of these dissents are a sexist attack against a female presidential candidate.

“Republicans are working so hard to take her down because they are scared,” leftist blogger Kevin Vecchione wrote for Daily Kos, “Scared and affronted that a proud feminist woman has the audacity to run for President, not once, but twice now. From Benghazi bull***, to email and foreign donation scandals, Hillary just takes the abuse and fights on.”

While Vecchione speaks against Republican voters, a growing number of anti-Trump Republicans have begun to view Clinton as an ‘anyone but Trump’ alternative to his possible Republican nomination.

“The biggest reason to choose Clinton over Trump is character,” Rick Wilson wrote in the New York Daily News, “Unlike Trump, she won’t be a vengeful, juvenile bully with poor impulse control, a short attention span and the codes to 7,700 nuclear weapons. She’ll make a lot of wrong decisions, but they’ll be wrong because of caution, calculation, and philosophy, not because of ignorance and instability.

It makes a difference.”

Keep reading the University Times in the following weeks to get to know Ted Cruz as your presidential candidate before the California Primaries on June 7, 2016.

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When justice just isn't Mimi Li

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Groundbreaking When Justice Isn’t Just documentary focuses on police brutality and racism in the U.S.

The documentary When Justice Isn’t Just was screened at the University-Student Union Theatre on Wednesday, April 27 evening, followed by a panel discussion.

The event was a part of the lecture series Exploring Whiteness and Anti-Blackness hosted by the Cal State LA Cross Cultural Centers.

Panelists included film producers Dawn Kirk-Alexander and David M. Massey, Cal State LA Pan-African Studies Chair and Professor Dr. Melina Abdullah, who was also featured in the film, and Lorenzo Robertson, a guest speaker who was formerly incarcerated.

The film was dedicated to innocent black victims of police shootings, such as Eric Garner, Mike

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Brown, and Tamir Rice, among countless others. Dawn Kirk-Alexander, the film’s writer and producer, mentioned another inspiration: her son.

“When I looked at my son’s face, I realized that at any moment he might just be gone. That made me want to do something, and as a filmmaker, that made me get behind the camera and write something,” Kirk-Alexander said.

“I’ve been a victim of racial profiling,” said Ray Jean-Gilles, a senior Pan-African Studies major at Cal State LA. “I’ve been told that I fit the profile they’re looking for.

I’ve been stopped while driving in a neighborhood that is predominantly white while going to dinner.

We have to deal with police and hopefully we get out alive.” JeanGilles has friends of friends who have been racially profiled.

In the film, black students, activists, and scholars spoke about the racism they faced, specifically racial profiling from law enforcement. One student told of how he was a victim of violence, yet when the police came to the scene, he was perceived as the threat.

Those featured in the film have differing views on law enforcement. Some believed in police reform and hoped for a day when police officers will also ‘protect and serve’ them. Others joined law enforcement themselves to try to create change from the inside.

In contrast, Dr. Abdullah spoke against police reform during the panel discussion, stating that justice will occur only if the institution is “defunded and abolished,” pointing to the origin of police as slave catchers and the rising number of lives lost this year alone from police violence.

The film also touched on the subject of ‘black on black crime,’ highlighting community groups such as the Women of Watts, who lead marches in their neighborhood calling for an end to gang violence. Alejandra Rodriguez, a junior Communications major, says that the film debunked common arguments against the Black Lives Matter movement.

“Saying that Black Lives Matter should focus on that is disrespecting all the other movements like the Women of Watts who are working on that. It’s just that Black Lives Matter is working on this specific movement,” Rodriguez said.

The film states that heavy sentences for drugs contributed to the mass incarceration of blacks in the U.S. While 50 percent of the nation’s prison population is black, 90 percent of convictions are for drug-related crimes. It declared the prison industrial system an extension of slavery for its use of Black labor, with little to no com-

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During the panel discussion, Robertson recalled that during his days in prison, the guards would psychologically torture him. In one incident, a guard called out his name while holding a gun. He urges audience members to refrain from judging inmates because they do not know what they go through.

A recurring call to action was to redirect funds for policing and incarceration into resources for the community. Robertson pushed for a reinvestment of funds from prisons to food. Dr. Abdullah encouraged the audience to attend Los Angeles City Council meetings to oppose a four-year labor contract, which will raise the salaries of Los Angeles police officers over the years, totaling the city $120.9 million.

The discussion ended with a question from Dr. Abdullah’s 8-year-old daughter Amara to the panelists: “What made you want to fight for Black lives?” For the audience, Kirk-Alexander hopes the film will.

To learn more about the documentary, visit www.whenjusticeisntjust.com. For more information on Black Lives Matter Los Angeles, follow @BLMLA on Twitter.

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Cal State LA graduate serves poetic justice He continues to create many forms of art through music.

Matthew Mejia is a recent Cal State LA graduate in English and has been invited to many classrooms as a guest speaker. He currently works with children and is continuing his education with hopes of becoming an English professor.

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Matthew Mejia highlights Poetry Under The Sky event.

Poetry Under The Sky was held on the 4th floor balcony of the library, organized by the University Library’s Special Collections & Archives department, the English Department, and Double Bridge Publishing on Wednesday, April 27.

Guest speaker Dr. Scott C. Wells, Chair of the History department, opened up the event by reading his Medieval poems to set the imaginative and expressive mood. This set the tone for recent Cal State LA graduate Matthew Mejia, who

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Sanchez, Secretary/Treasurer Joselyn Diaz, Chair of the Cabinet of College Representatives Sean Weerasinghe, University Designee from the Office of the Dean of Students Dr. Jennifer Miller, ASI Staff Dena Florez, Marcus Rodriguez, and Intef W. Weser.

Also with the presence of College of Natural and Social Sciences Representative Jannah Mae De La Cuesta, College of Business and Economics Representative Cynthia Alvarez.

The student body fee-indexing proposal was approved by the Executive Committee, which will increase the student fee based on inflation. Vice President for Finance, Antonio Canzona, hasn’t made any comments so far.

The Executive Committee approved the press release of President Covino’s vote of no confidence very swiftly with no discussion or objection. The draft press release mainly noted President Covino’s long-term conflict of interest regarding funds to the Anna Bing Children’s Center that spiked heated disagreements with ASI, campus parking issues, and his lack of leadership on the controversial Ben Shapiro event.

The press release has not yet been finalized; it is scheduled to be released on Thursday, May 5 on their website.

Although there was no discussion at the meeting, University Designee Dr. Jennifer Miller expressed her objection in a later interview through email with the University Times, saying that ASI President Ejmin Hakobian put the press release on the agenda on his own without consulting with the ASI Executive Committee. Dr. Miller stated, “The draft press release is rife with false and inaccu-

His book “theFEEL” is a required text by the English Department at East Los Angeles College. His book of poetry is also available at Half Off Books located in Whittier, Amazon, and Double Bridge Publishing. | Photo by Joseph Delgado

took the stand to read his poetry to the audience.

His poems have been described as a wonderful blend between visual imagery and striking words that will inspire the reader.

Mejia captured the audience rate comments.”

She also criticized Hakobian himself. “I am also very concerned that the individual action of ASI President Hakobian have overshadowed the good work of other ASI students who have worked collaboratively with President Covino to achieve great things for our students such as the increased number of news bins on campus, additional parking options and messaging,” said Dr. Miller. “It’s a disservice to our students for ASI President Hakobian to let his personal feelings get in the way of our work together towards these important initiatives.”

ASI President Hakobian, who started the petition to get more parking spaces, commented regarding the press release that it “will be on our next Board meeting agenda for approval and will be available to public as an official statement from ASI.” In regards to the meetings and administration staff, he also stated “I requested the assistance of the Human Resources office to help me address the interruptions caused by the President’s designee during our board meetings since it is becoming more frequent and disruptive as we are discussing issues that pertains to the University Administration and President Covino.”

The Executive Committee meeting spent most of the time debating on business etiquettes.

The two action items were disciplinary actions on board member Cynthia Alvarez for repeatedly breaking the Roberts Rules of Order—raise your card vertically before you speak—and the removal of board member Roger Buena for not fulfilling his position duties.

A majority of the board mem-

the moment he started reading from his book of poems based on his experiences that is uniquely titled “theFEEL”. His inspirations originate from his early life when he could not read or write. A poet, who in turn enticed him to read and write creatively, motivated him to write poetry. Nowadays,

most of his writing surrounds the theme of self-love.

bers agreed on removing Roger Buena as Charter College of Education Representative due to his lack of effort to fulfill his duty.

Buena declined to comment.

me out.”

On the contrary, reaching a decision regarding Cynthia Alvarez’s administrative policy violation drew a sharp divide among executive members.

Cynthia Alvarez, College of Business and Economics Representative and assistant of the Office of Public Affairs, was determined that it was President Hakobian’s way of silencing her.

“The issue is not the failure of members to raise their cards at one meeting or another, but the frustration level that has been reached within the Board due to President Ejmin Hakobian’s uncivil and autocratic leadership this entire year,” said Alvarez.

Alvarez thought that it’s normal for people to speak out of turn in politics, it is a non-ASI issue, and her objection to President Hakobian’s comments on USU Board landed her in this position. “Many ASI members have spoken out of turn during a meeting, but since [Hakobian] has a personal issue with me, he has chosen to single

“It’s about me finally getting to a place and looking at a mirror and smile and not cover it up,” Mejia said. “Not being angry about my reflection.”

President Hakobian presented at the meeting that Alvarez had been warned numerous times before for her multiply interruptions, but she replied in email “I only have five weeks left of school and I’m going to say and do whatever I want.”

He later explained the issue, “the first time [Alvarez] interrupted our board meeting, she was advised to conduct herself in a professional manner. However, she continued interrupting the meeting for five times while another board member was speaking and others were waiting to speak.

This is disrespectful to the board members and the students who we are representing. She has interrupted other public meetings in numerous occasions. The notion that a student can conduct herself in that manner and get a special treatment due to their working relationship with the administration is false.”

Some members sympathized with Alvarez. Samuel Garza, Vice President for Administration, expressed at the meeting that Alvarez’s behavior might result from “holding in.”

Described as “a touching memoir on family, love, heartache, healing, and selfdiscovery.” Followed by a wonderfully peculiar way “[to] bring to life each and every poem by capturing human emotion in the purest form.”

“Robert’s Rules of Order establishes that all members of the committee are entitled to the floor. I believe it’s important that all comments of business be spoken whether they be of concern or of a constructive nature.” When asked how he thinks the efficiency can improve in ASI meetings, Garza said that he would still prefer the rules of raising cards before speaking. “It is my perspective that if policies are utilized in conjunction with Robert’s Rules of Order, an organization can operate at maximum efficiency internally.”

Some addressed the importance of keeping meetings business-oriented and waiting for your turn to speak, but suggested it was not necessary to make an example of Alvarez since she wasn’t the only one breaking the rules.

The discussion resulted in no action taken.

As the school year subtlely approaching the end, the conflicts among ASI executive members and administration staff have clearly taken shape. More meeting coverage will follow in the next weeks, stay informed.

Connect to success Janice Peregrina Contributor

Career Center hosts LinkedIn study session.

Cal State LA is a university built to provide students with the most up-to-date and innovative information on how to succeed after school. The Career Center’s most recent workshop, “Get Linked in with LinkedIn,” emphasized the importance of being connected to social media in order to more likely secure a lifelong career.

Lynne Osborne, a career counselor at the Center, hosted the workshop on Thursday, April 28. Several students attended the seminar, where she presented an informative slideshow on the basics and benefits of having a LinkedIn account.

“LinkedIn is similar to Facebook but specifically geared for professionals,” Osborne said. In this day and age, one’s image is

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Recruiters will then have real proof of that skill according to how many people confirmed it.

People who have connected with users can also write them recommendations visible on the LinkedIn profile. Future employees will be able to see reviews of your performance and overall personality through this recommendation feature.

Osborne expanded on some other benefits between having both LinkedIn and an résumé.

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no longer limited to what is seen face-to-face.

Seventy-eight percent of job recruiters have hired through a social network, and 92 percent of those recruiters look specifically at LinkedIn, according to a 2013 Social Times statistic.

For those unfamiliar with the interface of the site and how it works, users create a personal profile where they enter in detailed work experience and skill sets. Users also are strongly encouraged to put up a polished photo of themselves.

After those first steps, users can make connections with companies and organizations they are interested in working for, as well as with peer groups who share similar interests and work experience.

One big incentive to adding connections with people is users know personally that they can “endorse” the skill sets of the user. For example, if someone inserts “marketing” into their list of skills, people connected with them can endorse, or substantiate, that skill.

“One difference is that the résumé is short and sweet. On the LinkedIn, we wanna be more conversational,” Osborne said.

“You can show more of your personality if you’d like to do that.”

However, she stated that limiting the usage of “buzzwords” typical of résumés on LinkedIn. There’s also something to be said about the quality versus the quantity of connections one should make.

Compared to Facebook, LinkedIn profiles are more realistic when the connections made are

job-relevant rather than exclusively personal.

“If [you’re] looking for a job, try to have at least 200 and try to build, because [you’re] in a state where [you] need those connections,” Osborne said.

Osborne also stressed the importance of keeping LinkedIn profiles updated. She brought up profiles on LinkedIn that had no picture or had not been updated in years, explaining that a lack of attention will cost page views, especially if users have interviewed with an employer beforehand.

Osborne advised that updating a profile after each quarter or semester will keep it vibrant, alive, and organic, all characteristic that are appealing to future employers.

If you have a LinkedIn, the Career Center is available to analyze it and offer tips with an appointment. The slideshow presented and many other helpful and related ones are available on the Career Center website. The next LinkedIn workshop will be hosted in the Career Center on Tuesday, May 10 at 3:30 P.M.

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EVENTOS Función de ópera en Cal State LA Un toque de modernidad en la música clásica Por Erla Peláez

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DACA y DAPA divide a los jueces de la Corte Suprema Falta poco tiempo para que tomen una decisión definitiva

Por Lissette Flores La Corte Suprema escuchó los argumentos sobre la Acción Ejecutiva para decidir el futuro de DACA y DAPA. El máximo tribunal de justicia decidirá sobre los beneficios migratorios de más de 4 millones de indocumentados. La resolución a favor de DACA y DAPA ayudaría a parar las deportaciones y les otorgaría permisos temporales a los beneficiados para trabajar legalmente en el país.

Texas y otros 25 estados insisten que las leyes sólo pueden ser cambiadas por el Congreso. Se cree que el presidente Obama abusó de su poder ejecutivo al modificar las leyes de inmigración sin el consentimiento del Congreso.

Durante la audiencia, se disputó el hecho de que estos estados tendrán que exceder su presupuesto estatal para prestar nuevos servicios a inmigrantes indocumentados, como la expedición de licencias de conducir.

El magistrado, Samuel Alito salió en defensa de Texas y afirmó que uno de los argumentos más sólidos de la demanda fue el tema de los beneficios que recibirían los indocumentados ya que este afectaría el presupuesto de los estados.

Por otro lado, el juez Anthony M. Kennedy cuestionó el poder del presidente para detener las deportaciones. “Es como si el presidente estuviera estableciendo la ley y el Congreso ejecutándola”, dijo Kennedy.

Sin embargo, Donald Verrilli, representante del Gobierno de Estados Unidos, fue claro en decir que no se puede desafiar la acción ejecutiva en base a los problemas que representa el dar o no licencias de conducir a inmigrantes indocumentados.

Aparentemente el presidente de la Corte Suprema, John Roberts, es en este caso la esperanza para el gobierno federal de aprobar DACA y DAPA, ya que el juez parecía hacer preguntas que indicaban estar a favor de los programas.

A pesar de que las opiniones de los jueces están divididas, Anna Luisa Padilla, vice presidenta de la Asociación Nacional de Abogados de Inmigración, organización que apoya la postura del gobierno, salió optimista de la audiencia.

“Yo creo que fue claro que pasaron la mayor parte del tiempo discutiendo si el estado de Texas tenía o no el derecho de estar demandando al gobierno para impedir estos programas”, dijo Padilla.

En todo caso, DACA y DAPA se encuentran en manos de la Corte Suprema de Justicia y este tribunal tiene hasta finales de junio para deliberar a favor o en contra de los programas.

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Adolescentes conscientes de su futuro

Grupo de estudiantes que informan a sus compañeros acerca de los candidatos presidenciales.

Fotografía | Crédito: Eduardo Ramos

Una visión vanguardista Por Eduardo Ramos El impacto de las elecciones primarias para nominar a los candidatos oficiales de los partidos republicano y demócrata se ha

extendido hasta la conciencia juvenil. Los alumnos de Young Oak Kim Academy Jeffrey Guzmán, Nicole Carbajal, Stephanie Martínez, Yulissa Marroquín, Chelsea Díaz y Génesis Escobar, tomaron la iniciativa de concientizar a los demás estudiantes de su escuela acerca de su futuro en este país.

Los estudiantes de canto de Cal State LA están muy emocionados por la ópera de este año. La ópera que fue escogida es Hydrogen Jukebox compuesta por Philip Glass con la poesía de Allen Ginsberg. Cada año el departamento de voz escoge una ópera en diferentes lenguajes, esta vez tocó inglés.

Hydrogen Jukebox no es una ópera clásica dado que el compositor es moderno; la música no es aburrida, sino todo lo contrario. Hydrogen Jukebox será dirigida por el pianista, maestro y director Kristof Van Grysperre.

Van Grysperre, originario de Bélgica, es también

Estudiantes de canto de Cal State LA. Fotografía | Crédito: ErlaPeláez

director de la Ópera de Long Beach (LBO). El director de escena Dylan F. Thomas, es además un tenor graduado de Cal State Northridge.

Las funciones serán del 5 al 7 de mayo a las 7:30pm y el 8 de mayo a las 2:30pm. Los boletos cuestan $10 para las personas mayores y

para estudiantes con identificación y $15 la entrada general. Si conocen a algún estudiante de música o una persona que trabaje en el departamento de Music, Theatre and Dance, les pueden preguntar si tienen boletos para poder asistir gratis al evento.

Orange County celebra los libros Por Richard Molina Este 7 de mayo, Fullerton College presenta la segunda feria de libros anarquista. El evento es gratis y abierto al público de 10 am a 8 pm. Se han invitado a activistas, autores y vendedores de libros de comunidades locales para preparar un gran festival que ofrece oradores, paneles de discusión, presentaciones de taller, comida, música, poesía, libros, libros ¡y más libros!

Editores revolucionarios como Resistencia Books, Little Black Cart, AK Press, PM Press y varios vendedores locales ofrecen una gran variedad de libros que todos podrán disfrutar.

Entre los oradores invitados están Michelle Cruz Gonzales, autora de “The Spitboy Rule: Tales of a Xicana in a Female Punk Band”, y Andrej Grubacic, autor de “Wobblies & Zapatistas” y “Living at the Edges of Capitalism”.

Los paneles de discusión presentan conversaciones profundas como “Revolutionary Motherhood: Love on the Frontlines” y “Local Community Control of Police”.

En una pequeña entrevista, el grupo de estudiantes explicó que lo que el objetivo de su campaña es asegurarse de que todos los estudiantes tengan claro cuáles son las propuestas de los candidatos para que ayuden a los votantes de su familia a elegir mejor.

Uno de los temas más sobresalientes de la campaña fue el hecho de que a Donald Trump le gustaría deportar a todos los inmigrantes de este país. Muchos estudiantes murmuraban con desapruebo mientras el grupo estudiantil hablaba al respecto.

Hubo algunos jóvenes que gritaban con enojo: “racista”. Jeffrey también mencionó que en su opinión, Hillary Clinton es una buena opción, aunque no está de acuerdo que a Clinton no

Logo de la feria del libro anarquista de Orange County.

Fotografía | Crédito: www.facebook.com/ocanarquistbookfair

Los talleres exploran diversos temas como “Disabled by Society: An Outlook on Intersections of Disability, Class, Race, and Gender”, “Parias: Decolonizing and Reclaiming ‘American’ Literature”, “Decolonize Your Diet” y más.

El evento también ofrece acceso para los discapacitados y servicios de guardería. Para más información, pueden encontrar la “Second Annual OC Anarchist Bookfair” en Facebook.

le importaría iniciar una guerra.

de origen hispanoamericana. No es de extrañarse que les preocupe una posible deportación de un familiar.

Sin embargo, este grupo de estudiantes piensa que Bernie Sanders es el mejor candidato. Esto es porque a él le interesa apoyar la educación y extender la ayuda financiera para que más jóvenes puedan alcanzar sus metas. El grupo también informó que Ted Cruz tiene una visión muy similar a la de Donald Trump. Su propuesta considera la deportación de inmigrantes.

Asimismo, está considerando dejar el salario mínimo tal y como está actualmente.

Es admirable como un grupo de jóvenes a tan temprana edad se preocupan por el futuro de los inmigrantes, el de sus compañeros y el de este país en general. Esta escuela cuenta en su mayoría con estudiantes

Si esto sucediera, muchos de ellos estarían enfrentándose solos a su primer obstáculo para alcanzar sus metas. Otro obstáculo sería si la educación de estos jóvenes se viera truncada debido a la situación económica de sus familias. Es por ello que para el grupo es de suma importancia que el siguiente presidente de Estados Unidos les despeje el camino hacia un mejor futuro.

Llevaron a cabo un sondeo después de la información presentada por Jeffrey y sus compañeras. Este dio como resultado a Bernie Sanders como el presidente ideal para los estudiantes.

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Golden Eagles land Garrett Carter out of Etiwanda High School Daniel Esparza Contributor

Etiwanda High School prospect set to boost moral.

The men’s basketball team received a big boost, after Garrett Carter out of Etiwanda High School signed his letter of intent for the Golden Eagles.

Carter posted on Twitter, “It’s Official #GoEagles #CSULA. ”Over the past few months, Division I schools have been trying to court Carter and had previously committed to play for Coach Greg Clink at Chico State.

Ultimately, Cal State LA’s Coach Tony Miller swayed Carter’s decision. “[Cal State LA] was always there for me,” Carter said. “I just felt all love there and Coach Tony Miller and I you know, I went to a couple of his workouts during the summer last year and we just chopped it up. A couple of months ago you know, he was

Carter (on right) attempts a contested layup | Photo Courtesy Will Lester/Inland Valley Daily Bulletin

telling me how it was going to be and it sounded all good to me and I felt like the love was there so I went with that decision.”

Carter has been playing basketball for as long as he can remember, and spoke of a moment when he was three where he was first introduced to the game.

“I had a little court in my house and my dad gave that to me when I was three years-old on Christmas.

And I just fell in love with

Carter signs his letter of intent to become a Golden Eagle | Photo Courtesy Garrett Carter

playing basketball. I just played every day on that little court and I grew up playing basketball and he put me in football and all that but basketball was always my favorite sport.”

“You can always improve on defense. Some people can master ball handling, some people can master a jump shot; but I feel like you can learn something and improve defensively.”

Carter is a big addition to the Golden Eagles backcourt, supplying offensive skills as well as a studious attitude to the defensive side of the ball.

Carter averaged roughly nine points a game during his senior year, according to Max Preps, and had multiple instances where he came away with double digit steals. Carter’s ability on both sides of the ball is a major plus for the Golden Eagles. This is

“Everyone is a student of the game defensively,” Carter said.

especially true following the departures of graduating seniors Joshua Munzon and Duce Zaid, who were first and second in steals, respectively.

Carter will make a great addition to the Golden Eagles, and will undoubtedly step up to continue and be a sharpshooter and lockdown defender for Cal State LA.

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Cinco de Mayo Exhibit: The Battle of Puebla and Why It’s Important 2 p.m. - 5 p.m.

U-SU Plaza & Cross Cultural Centers

A.S.I. Farmers Market and Women’s Heart Health Screening 8 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Main Walkway

DIY T-Shirt Tote Bags 2 p.m. - 4 p.m.

U-SU Alhambra Room

A.S.I. “Golden Road to Wellness” Festival 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Main Walkway

Introduction to Time-Management Presentation 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

JFK Memorial Library

American Communities Program Symposium Relation – Human/ Nonhuman Attachments 3:15 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.

U-SU Alhambra Room

Greek Week 3 p.m. - 7 p.m.

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Judicial Candidates Forum 5 p.m. - 9 p.m.

U-SU Theatre

WEDNESDAY 4th Pet Adoption Fair 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Main Walkway May the Fourth Be With You 6:30 p.m. - 9 p.m.

U-SU Plaza Election Candidate Meet and Greet 3 p.m. - 5 p.m.

U-Su Plaza Visualizing Social Media with Dr. Marc Smith 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

U-SU Theatre

FRIDAY 6th

A.S.I Board of Directors Meeting 3:30 p.m. - 6 p.m.

U-SU Board Room 303AB Hydrogen Jukebox: Poetry by Alan Ginsbereg & Music by Philip Glass 7:30 p.m.

State Playhouse

2016 Conference on Americo Paredes All day Music Hall Day of the Educator 5 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

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Golden Eagles split home-stand with Broncos Daniel Esparza Contributor

Baseball team going halves against Pomona.

The Golden Eagles men’s baseball team were initially left stranded, following their two-game home stand against the Cal Poly Pomona.

In Thursday night’s game, Cal State LA was able to get 17 hits off of Bronco pitchers, but left a staggering 12 runners on base left with nothing more than dirt on their jersey and a 13-7 loss. Peter Beattie picked up the win for the Broncos while Jesus Farias was charged with the loss.

“I don’t think we did a real good job of using the middle of the field,” Manager Vince Beringhele said following Thursday’s loss. “When we got runners in scoring position we kept hitting ground balls at the corners and flying out to the corners and then we got some strikeouts as well. I think we have to have a better middle approach in those situations.”

Cal Poly Pomona got out to an early 4-0 lead and took off from there, compiling 19 hits. Beringhele didn’t lose faith in his team though, telling his team to “Keep fighting and clawing to try and get back into the game.”

The Golden Eagles had some good shots of their own, specifically Ryan Welker and Paul Martinez. Welker went 4-5 at the plate including three doubles and an RBI.

Photo Courtesy| Darryl Dennis

Martinez had four hits of his own in five at-bats and also brought in a run.

Cal State LA came off of a short rest, following their series against Cal State Monterey Bay. Manager Beringhele and other members of his coaching staff indicated that the team needed to resort to using their “sixth or seventh starter,” identifying the lack of rest their rotation starters would normally have.

Going into Friday’s matchup, Cal State L.A. looked for a better outcome and they got it with a 6-4 victory. Daniel Diaz picked up the win for the Golden Eagles and Gabriel Gentner picked up the save while Matthew Grier was charged with the loss. Cal Poly Pomona got out to yet another early 3-0 lead, but smack dab in the middle of the game, the Golden Eagles scored six unanswered runs in the fifth,

sixth, and seventh innings. The Broncos attempted to get back into it but were limited to only one run the rest of the game.

Next up the Golden Eagles travel to Cal Poly Pomona for a double header followed by a four game series against Cal State Dominguez Hills that starts at Reeder Field on Thursday night.