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Break the stigma, take the night Students, faculty, staff and community members walk across campus together for Not Alone @ the Beach’s Take Back the Night event April 20. The demonstrators chanted, “Break the silence, stop the violence,” and hold signs that said, “Make love, not rape.” Read more about the event on page 2.
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Tierra de Oro is an event that creates a space for students to experience Latino culture.
Two elected executive positions will be eliminated and three appointed executive positions will be added.
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As the music filled the room, people danced, ate and walked around to view art or drawings. These are only a couple descriptions that can be used to describe the Tierra de Oro annual art show. Tierra de Oro is an art show that is hosted by La Raza Student Association. The art show began yesterday from 5 - 9 p.m. in the University Student Union ballroom. It featured art from various
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artists on campus and community music, dancing, mariachi bands, Spanish rock bands and folklorico dance groups. Tierra de Oro is an annual cultural event that has been continuing on for more than 30 years. It is open to the public and students. This year, the theme for Tierra de Oro was music and bands. Three bands performed during the event with styles ranging from traditional Mexican music to Spanish rock and roll. The Cal State University Long Beach Grupo Folklorico also performed for the audience. A drawing station was also set up for students as a way for them to de-stress with finals coming soon along with a photo booth for those that wished to have their pictures taken. According to Cindy Garcia, lead
coordinator of Tierra de Oro and treasurer of La Raza says that the event is a great opportunity for underrepresented artists to showcase their artwork as well as sell their art. “This event is also a great opportunity for the artists to get their name out there and further their business and art,” Garcia said. Tierra de Oro was an event that was primarily made for Latino students but has since grown to include everyone from different cultures. Garcia also explained that is an event that helps everyone in the community. “Not only are students invited, the members of the community are also invited to showcase their work,” Garcia said. “Tierra de Oro
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Associated Students, Inc Senate voted Wednesday to reorganize the student government’s executive positions by June 2017. The reorganization will eliminate two positions, add three new positions and redistribute the executives’ workload. The reorganization will eliminate the positions of chief programming officer and chief of staff. The CPO responsibil-
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ities will be reallocated to a new staff position filled by a student who will be paid hourly. The new position will be a supervisory role rather than a coordinating role. Several of the current presidential cabinet positions will be rolled into three new executive positions: vice president of academic affairs, vice president of government affairs and vice president of university affairs. The current vice president position will be called the executive vice president and the treasurer will be the vice president of finance. These positions will be appointed by the president and a panel rather than elected to maintain unity with the “ideals of the president,” according to Vice President Miriam Hernandez. “Having elections for six executives
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Crime Blotter Harassment, stolen bicycle and drunk driving. By Matthew Simon Staff Writer
Harassment reported A 23-year-old female reported that she was verbally harassed by an unknown individual on campus. She reported the incident on Monday at 6:34 p.m to the campus police. The University Police took a report of the incident, but don’t have any description of the alleged assailant.
Suspected bike thief detained Police arrested Darren John Bagely at a Beachside Residential College on Sunday at 1:22 p.m. Bagely was detained for being a suspect in recent bike thefts. He was seen observing the bike area. When he was detained by police he was found with bolt cutters and a hacksaw. Despite having the tools associated with bike theft, there was no evidence that he stole or attempted to steal any bikes. Bagely, who is not a student, was released but was banned from coming onto campus for seven days. If the police catch him on campus any time this week until Sunday, he can be arrested for trespassing.
Bicycle stolen near library A 24-year-old student reported that his bike was stolen on Saturday at 5:06 p.m. The bike is a gray Eastern bike with 24-inch rims. There was no monetary value associated with the bike.
Woman arrested for DUI Officers arrested a 23-year-old female after making a traffic stop on Friday at 11:04 p.m. at the intersection of Atherton Street and Studebaker Road. The female was suspected to be in a hitand-run and had a blown-out tire.
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Junior journalism major and anthropology minor Micayla Vermeeren has been selected to be the next editor-in-chief for the Daily 49er. Outgoing and strong-willed, Vermeeren will lead the student-run newspaper for the 2016-17 academic year. “Just when you think you knew all about red lipstick and Morrissey, Miss Micayla Vermeeren dances into the room exclaiming about another hip band panel she visited,” photo editor Trang Le said. “In truth, I have no knowledge about any of these topics, but when it comes to knowing Micayla, I know quite a bit. At first glance, the only thing you notice is her smile. Miss Vermeeren is always smiling and even when she’s stressed out … It’s what makes her, her though.”
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fine job as the new EIC,” Aldea added. She lists creating stronger relationships with the campus community and building on the in-depth coverage of news events among her goals for next year. “It is an absolute honor and one of the greatest things that could have happened to me,” Vermeeren said. “A lot of great people have gotten me here, and a lot of great people will be coming along for the ride. It is going to be a great year for the paper.” Vermeeren is the current opinions editor for the paper and previously held the position of assistant news editor. She began as a staff writer for the Daily 49er in fall 2015. She has also been a member of the Delta Zeta sorority since her freshman year at Cal State Long Beach. Vermeeren is currently accepting applications for next semester’s Daily 49er staff. Applications can be picked up in the Daily 49er newsroom in Liberal Arts 4 room 201.
Advocates against sexual assault ‘take back the night’ Students gathered for a rally to speak out against sexual assault and relationship violence. By Erik Öhrström Staff Writer
Students at Cal State Long Beach gathered for a rally Wednesday night in front of the Maxson Plaza fountain to advocate against relationship violence and sexual assault. The rally was part of the Take Back the Night event, which was arranged by the Women’s and Gender Equity Center as part of their “Not Alone @ The Beach” campaign for sexual assault awareness month. It was an opportunity for students to speak out and listen to other individuals that have been affected by relationship violence and sexual assault. Coordinator at the Women’s Gender and Equity Center Pam Rayburn took the lead of the speech and talked about the importance of helping sexual assault survivors on campus. She thinks it is important to change rape culture by making the conversations about sexual assault more open. “In my generation we did not speak out,” Rayburn said. “When things like this happened, you did not talk about it. Tonight we break that stigma and are able to have those conversations.” One of the invited guest speakers to the rally was program manager Mary Case at the Lesbian Gay Bi-sexual Transgender Queer Center of Long Beach. She represents one of
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Pam Rayburn, member of Not Alone At the Beach speaks during “Break the Silence Day” to bring awareness about sexual assault prevention programs on campus. the community partners that work with the campus to prevent sexual assault and encourages students who are victimized to reach out. “We know that sexual assault happens often, even so intimate partner violence,” Case said. “We want you all to know that any of you can reach out, no matter what type, or side of the spectrum where you may feel that you are on.” The night’s special guest speaker for the rally was assistant director Jonathan Higgins from the multicultural affairs department, who also is a lecturer in the Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies department. He talked specifically regarding violence and how it has affected the transgender community, especially trans women of color. He thinks that the change of trans-
gender women’s rights in certain states is a contributing factor to the ongoing transgender genocide. Last year, 25 transgender women of color were murdered and only three of them were given national media attention. “It is time to understand that transgender genocide is happening and certain states have already begun to declare war on the endangered existence of this community.” Higgins said. After the messages of the guest speakers had been brought forward, the students gathered to carry out a march across the campus, which eventually would end up in the Beach Auditorium of the University Student Union building for an open speak-out session.
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Acevedo disqualified, runoff candidates announced with 1,636 votes and Espinosa in third by a large margin or 743 votes. Since none of the candidates had a majority of the votes, a runoff was necessitated. During the original election, Acevedo’s campaign was witnessed coercing students to vote for him. By Ariana Sawyer The meeting minutes from News Editor March 22 state that Bhuta received an email from a student The Associated Students, Inc. who requested her vote for AceBoard of Elections announced vedo not be counted. The email Marvin Flores and Robert Espisaid the voter felt forced to vote nosa will face off in the ASI presifor Acevedo and his running dential runoff election next week. mate. The announceBhuta said ment came after the she had a witASI Judiciary ruled ness who saw in favor of the Board Acevedo and of Elections, officially his campaign disqualifying Oscar workers inAcevedo Tuesday structing people morning. on how to vote Acevedo, who on their phones would have been in and where they second place with could find his 1,066 votes, had apname on the pealed the March 23 ballot. disqualification after The runoff Flores, a current ASI elections will Oscar Acevedo senator-at-large, filed take place from a complaint on March April 25-27. Stu22 against Acevedo dents can vote for his campaigning techniques. by following the link sent to their Flores came out in the lead email by ASI.
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would be really difficult to have, especially right now,” said Sen. and current ASI presidential candidate Marvin Flores at Wednesday’s meeting. “And these positions themselves are very distinct from the treasurer, vice president and president in regards that they deal with student constituents with the university affairs, government affairs and [academic] affairs. “So we have students going into it who don’t really know what they’re going to be doing for that position, it can be very difficult for them to actually transition from doing one
thing to doing something else … When you appoint someone to these positions, they know what they’ll be doing right off the bat instead of having to be trained for months on end.” The new executive positions will receive the same compensation package as the president, vice president and treasurer, which includes tuition reimbursement and a monthly cost of living stipend. The decision to reorganize came in part because of the proposal to change the executive pay policy from a “fellowship” to a “scholarship” to allow any student, regardless of citizenship status to be paid for their jobs in ASI, Hernandez said. “When the conversation started about the payments for executives, we had to go back and see how much of a workload were the executives do-
ing,” Hernandez said. “A lot of people were asking us, ‘Wow, you all get paid so much money. What do you do?’ So we sat down, the executive team, we essentially wrote down all the committees and different things that we do and then we realized that I sit on 18 committees and Jose sits on 23 and Wendy sits on 17. So we’re pulled in different directions.” The idea of the reorganization is to “improve shared governance and student advocacy,” according to Hernandez. In addition to the reorganization proposal, the Senate passed the second reading of the amendment to change the compensation of all ASI student officers from fellowships and stipends to scholarships. The third and final reading is set for the April 27 Senate meeting.
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This weekend saw the Long Beach State men’s basketball, women’s basketball, baseball, softball, men’s volleyball and women’s water polo teams all find success. LBSU played 13 total games from Thursday to Sunday and won nearly all of them. Read about the Dirtbags’ opening series win and the women’s basketball team on page 8 and find out how the softball, women’s water polo and men’s volleyball teams picked up their wins on page 7.
The 49ers roll to six wins in a row with their win over the rival Titans. By Will Hernandez Assistant Sports Editor
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CSU faculty won’t see a salary increase until July at the earliest with new labor deal. By Ariana Sawyer News Editor
CSU-CFA labor deal
What the CFA got: w 5 percent general salary increase as of June 31 w 2 percent general salary increase as of July 1 w 3.5 percent general salary increase as of July 1, 2017 w 2.65 percent service salary increase during the 2017-18 academic year for eligible faculty w Minimum raise upon promotion will go from 7.5 percent to 9 percent for tenure-line faculty
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California State University faculty would receive a 10.5 percent salary increase over the next three years in a tentative agreement between California Faculty Association labor leaders and CSU management, but whether the raise will really solve the faculty wage crisis, especially among non-tenuretrack professors, remains uncertain. CSU Chancellor Timothy White and CFA President Jennifer Eagan announced the terms of the agreement in a joint press conference in Sacramento Friday morning, averting the five-day strike that would have begun Wednesday. “What the CSU faculty has done is historic,” Eagan said. “We avoided the largest strike in higher
What the CSU got: w Salary increase will not be retroactive to the 2015-16 academic year w Faculty hired after July 1, 2017 receive full retirement health benefits with 10 years of service, as opposed to the current five.
education history. The largest strike that actually didn’t happen.” White said he was delighted that the CSU and CFA had reached a tentative agreement. “The ratification process is next, and I know that I will be commending this agreement to the Board of Trustees, and I know that the CFA leadership will be doing the same to their members,” White
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said. The CFA and CSU management announced a 48-hour blackout period on strike planning, communication efforts and news last Monday to allow negotiations. In that time, the chancellor stepped in to actively participate in the negotiation process for the first time. President of the Cal State Long Beach CFA
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Senior communications major Eric Kim takes a smoking break in front of the library on Monday.
Tobacco-free transformation CSULB will follow more than 400 American colleges and universities that have already banned all forms of tobacco – including e-cigarettes – from their campuses. By Seth Perlstein
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Junior guard Anson Moye (top) pulls up from behind the arc in front of the 49ers’ bench. Senior guard Nick Faust (bottom) keeps the ball out of Titans’ forward Jamar Akoh’s reach in LBSU’s win over Cal State Fullerton on Saturday inside the Walter Pyramid.
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ingly. “I am addicted.” More than 400 American colleges and universities have already banned all forms of tobacco – including e-cigarettes – from their campuses, according
to the American Lung Association. California State University, Fullerton became the first smoke-free CSU in 2013. Other CSUs such as California State University, Northridge, San Diego
State University and Sonoma State University soon followed suit. CSULB will join its smoke-free Southern California brethren when it rolls out its new tobacco policy in Au-
$118,850 for Breathe campaign The anti-smoking campaign aims to eliminate tobacco and e-cigarette use on campus by the fall semester.
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A new campaign implemented by the Cal State Long Beach Tobacco and Smoke Free Task Force is aiming to give CSULB students a healthier campus environment. The Breathe Campaign will officially launch in the Fall
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2016 semester, but President Jane Close Conoley has already informed the campus and is raising awareness on the CSULB website and Beachboard. Enforcement of the policy will not take place all at once, according to Mike Uhlenkamp, exec-
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gust, which will begin with the removal of all ashtrays and designated smoking areas from campus. But the new program will have a three-year grace period that will allow smokers to continue their on-campus nicotine intake unpunished through 2018. “[Jane Conoley, CSULB president] really wanted it to be a positive experience,” said Scott Apel, CSULB associate vice president of human resources. “She didn’t want to punish smokers. She didn’t want to stigmatize people. She wanted us to help people with education and cessation efforts.” CSULB students voted to ban smoking – which causes more annual deaths than HIV, illegal drug use, alcohol use, motor-vehicle injuries and firearm-related incidents combined, according to the Center for Disease Control and
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The Long Beach State men’s and women’s basketball teams wrapped their seasons up on Saturday with both teams heading into the Big West Tournament riding winning streaks. The women’s team enters the tourney as the No. 3 seed after its second consecutive 20-win season. The men’s team also enters its tournament as the No. 3 seed after winning nine of its last 10 games.
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The Long Beach State men’s basketball team overcame an 11-point, second-half deficit to defeat Hawai’i 74-72 Saturday to finish the regular season 18-3 and 12-4 in the conference. After knocking off Hawai’i for a second straight time, the 49ers finished the season winning nine of their last 10 games. With that type of momentum, LBSU head coach Dan Monson said he likes the team’s chances going into the tourney.
The Long Beach State women’s basketball team finished its regular season 23-7 after defeating UC Davis 74-64 on Thursday and Cal State Northridge 79-69 on Saturday. The 49ers also finished 12-4 in the Big West, winning their last five games heading into their Big West Tournament opener on Wednesday as the No. 3 seed. LBSU and Hawai’i ended the season tied for second place in the con-
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Junior forward Madison Montgomery looks to go up and score in LBSU’s win over UC Davis on Thursday inside the Walter Pyramid.
A student leader-led forum will be held today to further discuss campus safety.
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Vice President of Student Affairs Carmen Taylor invited Cal State Long Beach students in an email Friday to an open forum Thursday to discuss campus safety concerns after a student brandished a knife in class. The forum will be the first in a series, Taylor said. The administration’s effort to reach out came after students took to social media over the last several days to criticize the university’s lack of communication regarding the Feb. 25 incident in which a 20-year-old male student “displayed” a knife to a female student in a sociology class on race, class and gender. Much of the criticism stemmed from the fact that the altercation was not disclosed to the campus community in a timely warning email, and that the incident was perceived to have been racially motivated. “A careful assessment of [perceptions of race in] the reported event bears further scrutiny,” CSULB President Jane Close Conoley said Sunday in an email. The student was asked to leave, and the rest of the class was cancelled, according to Terri Carbaugh, a university spokesperson with the Office of Public Affairs. Whether the student is still on campus remains unclear. According to Conoley, who addressed the incident at last Thursday’s Academic Senate meeting, a timely warning was not issued, but she acknowledged that there should be a system to present the information to students. She refuted claims on social media that there was another incident with the same person last week. “The timely warning was not issued because according to the protocol of the threat assessment, there was no clear and present danger to this campus,” Conoley said at the meeting. “This is based on a protocol we use in every single incident on campus.” Conoley said University Police cleared the student to carry the knife on campus. “That doesn’t take away from the perception the people in the class had,” Conoley said. “This student did go and ask: ‘May I carry this?’ And he was told ‘Yes,’ so, in his experience — that’s what I’ve been told; this will be investigated.” Campus standards of conduct section 41301: b, 13, state that students may not bring knives to campus unless they are approved by the campus president. However, the president said she has delegated this task to CSULB Chief of Police Fernando Solarzano. “I’ve done this so the police can investigate the situation that might be causing a student to feel unsafe,” Conoley said in an email. “I’m not able to do that with any expertise, but our University PD can accomplish this with great skill. When the police chief works with a student about a unique situation, he can better assess whether the student should be allowed to have a weapon. He can also offer advice, protection, and prevention efforts to keep the student safe.” Conoley said she regretted not sending an email out right away and called it a “lesson learned.” “I would say to any student, you don’t need to bring anything that looks like a knife, acts like a knife to a class, alright?” Conoley said at the Academic Senate meeting.
Megan Stevens, a Psychology major at Cal State Long Beach, yells at organizers of the anti-abortion demonstration,the Genocide Awareness Project, Tuesday on the Free Speech Lawn.
The Cal State Long Beach Free Speech Lawn drew hundreds of students Tuesday. The latest iteration of the antiabortion demonstration, the Genocide Awareness Project, was set up on one side of the lawn, drawing dozens of student protestors. [More on page 4] Across the sidewalk, Safe Space CSU encouraged students to make their own signs countering the message of the demonstration. [More about Safe Space CSU on page 6] On the other end of the lawn, more students gathered, some to watch, some to voice dissent with several street preachers that had set up on campus. In between both groups. the American Indian Student Council played drums and encouraged students to ignore both religious demonstrations.
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he unmistakable smell of e-cigarette vapor wafted from around the corner of the Vivian Engineering Center at California State University, Long Beach. The invisible, nanoparticle- and carcinogen-infused exhalation flowed freely down the narrow corridor, past the glass-encased Mars rover exhibit, and into the semi-enclosed quad along Deukmejian Way. At the inception point of the gaseous trail sat Hernan Lozada, a CSULB civil engineering major, who prepared his digital nicotine-delivery device for another hit. But Lozada, and other 49ers who smoke, won’t be able to indulge his habit on campus for much longer. This fall, The Beach will transform itself into a tobacco-free university during a three-year process. “I don’t like it, because it takes away my smoking,” Lozada said disapprov-
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With point guard Justin Bibbins back in the starting lineup, the Long Beach State men’s basketball team beat Cal State Fullerton 70-57 Saturday inside the Walter Pyramid. The 49ers (15-12, 9-3) led 42-39 with 12:52 remaining in the game, when Bibbins nailed his first three pointer of the game and ignited a 21-9 second-half run for the 49ers. “First half, [Bibbins] was trying to feel his way back,” LBSU head coach Dan Monson said. “But in the second half I thought he took control of that game.” Bibbins agreed with his coach and said he was fighting off nerves in his first start since Jan. 30 against Hawai’i. “First half I was jittery and excited to be back out there but in the second I calmed down,” Bibbins said. “I saw the floor better, lanes opened up and I was able to play my game again.” Bibbins entered the game against Cal State Northridge on Feb. 6 just to shoot free throws after junior guard Bradford Jones went down with an ankle injury. But after missing three of the last four games, Bibbins was the sparkplug for LBSU’s second half run. The 5-foot-8inch guard scored 10 of his 12 points in the second half and dished out three assists. Bibbins also pushed the tempo on a couple fastbreak plays after the 49ers forced several Titan turnovers. LBSU scored 20 points off of seven CSUF miscues. With 7:56 remaining in the game, freshman guard Noah Blackwell’s
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Student leaders from cultural and political organizations are organizing an open forum between students, faculty and administration regarding campus safety concerns. The forum will take place today at 5 p.m. in the USU ballrooms and will go on until 6:30 p.m.
This forum will be the second attempt at creating an open dialogue between the campus community and Cal State Long Beach administration — but this time around, student leaders will orchestrate the conversation. Black Student Union President Justin Bradley organized the second forum alongside President Jane Close Conoley and Vice President Carmen Taylor as well as several other student organizations such as La Raza Student Association, Students for Justice in Palestine and the Muslim Student Association. Those groups will also speak at the forum.
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Cal State Long Beach students remain a captive audience for soft drink advertisement and limited beverage options. By Kevin Flores Special Issues Editor
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The ‘90s tagline “Always Coca-Cola” takes on a new meaning at Cal State Long Beach, which has been branded a Coke campus through at least 2021 after recent contract negotiations. This designation as a Coke campus means that the university, under the terms of what is colloquially referred to as a “pouring rights agreement,” must exclusively sell Coca-Cola beverages campuswide, notwithstanding some strict and limited exemptions. In return for their commitment to Coca-Cola, Forty Niner Shops receives a yearly sponsorship fee of $195,000 (or about $5.21 per student per year) for the extent of the contract, commissions on all vending machine sales and “incentive funding” for every case of product purchased from the bottler past a certain threshold. The Forty Niner Shops made $76,638 in vending machine commissions last year but did not meet the volume threshold required to receive incentive funding. Proceeds from Coca-Cola are split between the Forty Niner Shops and the Athletics Department and the nonprofit uses its share for operating costs such as utility bills and building maintenance as well as donations to the university, according to Kierstin Stickney, the director of marketing and communications for the Forty Niner Shops. The current contract signed in 2006 was set to expire in August, but was extended this month for an additional five years through an amendment added earlier this year, a move which went mostly unannounced to the student body. The 2006 contract included a clause that would have extended exclusive selling rights to Coca-Cola for
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With yet another international terrorist attack hitting way too close to home, what are we to do? By Micayla Vermeeren Opinions Editor
How many mornings will there be where I wake up, look at my phone’s notifications, check my email, read a headline and think, “Oh, my loving God?”
And I’m an atheist. I really don’t know what there is left to say at this point. Between living in the Netherlands this past summer, having my sorority sister lose her roommate Nohemi in the Paris terrorist attacks this fall and hearing my best friend tell me he’s scared to walk into work at Disneyland today, this sort of headline is familiar, but still painful. I don’t know how I’m supposed to absorb it. And I know I’m not the only one.
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continued from page 1 was created to serve the community and students.” Most of the art that was showcased reflect the Latino identity and culture such as paintings of Frida, Che Guevara and the Virgin Mary. Artist Karla Camacho has been showcasing her work at the Tierra de Oro event for 3 years. Her art reflects her Latina identity through a variety of mediums of art such as paintings, sketches and pottery. “I’ve done my own version of Dia de Los Muertos catrinas, images of a female skeleton dressed in ,” Camacho said. “I’ve also created new images for the loteria game, specifically images that show people with darker skin and curvier since most of the images in the game are white and skinny.”
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Fundraiser officer of La Raza and senior sociology student Norberto Lopez says that not only is the event great for local community artists but for the student body on campus as well. “The event allows the students to join in and experience Latino culture, learn about the Latino culture through our music and art,” Lopez said. Tierra de Oro is also a way for La Raza to fundraise for future events as well. “The most important thing about this event that I want students to know is to come and enjoy the art and experience the culture,” Lopez said. La Raza Student Association hosts a variety of events throughout the year. They will be hosting another event on April 26 at 6 p.m. at the University Student Union Auditorium. They will be screening “Mendez V. Westminster: Para Todos Los Niños” along with an Q&A with the director of the film, Sandra Robbie.
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Bottom left, La Raza Student Association pose for a photo at their Tierra De Oro event Wednesday. Center, Artwork by Ninoska Art is displayed at the Tierra De Oro event hosted by the La Raza Student Association. Top right, Melissa Tercero serves rice at the Tierra De Oro art event hosted by the La Raza Student Association.
High school students share their ‘Artful Healing’ MOLAA hosts a gallery curated entirely by high school students as an interactive project with the community. By Taryn Sauer Staff Writer
The Museum of Latin American Art just launched an exhibition entitled “Artful Healing,” composed of community artwork curated by high school students. Located in the Port of Learning Gallery, the exhibit hosts work from a wide range of artists with various backgrounds, ages and abilities. Alongside MOLAA’s Education Programs Coordinator, Nalini Elias, and Curator of Education, Gabriela Martinez, high school students Keila Rivera, Valerie Duarte, Stephanie Hernandez, Sebastian Castle and Crispin Jay Salapare hand selected each piece from over one hundred submissions. Upon their first draft of the setup, the students said they realized they had thought too broadly. “We had to literally go back to the drawing board,” said Rivera, an 18-year-old Wilson High School senior. “We drew out a tree map of what healing meant to us and focused on how the piece related back to the artist.” The exhibition is composed of paintings, sculptures, photography and multimedia that touch upon different as-
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Soy Quién Soy is a mixed media sculpture by Silvya E. Luna Manquero prominently featured in the Artful Healing exhibit in downtown Long Beach, California. The piece consists of a self-portrait, portraits she drew to cope with her mother’s death and a life-sized effigy of her current self. pects of the healing process. Some serve as a snapshot of a striking moment that caused the artist pain; others portray the process of coping through the creative process. The curators also created several interactive spaces, including a “healing tree” that allows the viewer to write
how they heal on a leaf and tape it onto a branch alongside other leaves with healing inscriptions. Stephanie Hernandez, an 18-yearold Lincoln High School senior and fellow curator, said healing from the artist’s’ perspective was important. “But [it is] also how the viewer can
heal from these pieces in either the aesthetic or the artist’s story, and just knowing you’re not alone,” she said. They each said how important the community was in their efforts to create this interactive space. They said they wanted to highlight voices that would not otherwise be given space to
be seen. Keila said her favorite piece was by Dennis Lauterwasser, an artist with the Arts Association for the Disabled of Long Beach. His painting, entitled, “Today is a circle, All the days Are,” is filled with tufts of rainbow colors. Keila said his story and painting amaze her. “Art for him is a form of therapy, including physical therapy,” she said. “He has limited mobility and he paints every day. He’s very spirited.” The young curators said they all had ties to the artwork in different ways and that participating in the development of the exhibition has given them a new perspective on the creative process. They collaborated on the curation as a group, learning from each other and sometimes coming into MOLAA at eight o’clock in the morning and not leaving until six o’clock at night. “There is so much more to consider than just your own opinion,” Valerie Duarte, 17, from Harbor Teacher Prep Academy, said. “Working with others, it makes a big difference.” The young interns worked on the exhibition while juggling high school classes and other community projects. Stephanie said that a lot of people have been astonished when they realize high school students organized such an event. “It’s kind of like they’re questioning our abilities,” she said, “but then again, what we are doing is extraordinary and revolutionary.” The exhibition encompasses the themes of understanding, process, connections and growth. It will be on view through May 29.
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From Mindanao to CSULB with Love By Jorge Paniagua Staff Writer
An indigenous people under attack in Mindanao, Philippines – the Lumad face displacement and death as their community is ravaged by government forces and anti-communist paramilitary groups. On Saturday, Lumad leaders, along with various cultural groups, will join the Long Beach community in a presentation titled “To Mindanao with Love,” which will take place on the Cal State Long Beach campus at Lecture Hall 150. Indigenous people from Mindanao will gather for a night of performances aimed to raise awareness of the Lumad people and the dangers
they face living in the southern Philippines. The event will open with a Lumad ritual leading into cultural presentations followed by performances from Long Beach-based band, “Bootleg Orchestra” and a hip-hop performance from Long Beach community members. The program, hosted by the International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines and the CSULB Department of Asian and Asian American Studies, will also screen clips from “Pangandoy: The Manobo Fight for Land, Education, and Their Future,” a film about schools built by the Lumad themselves. “These indigenous schools teach the Lumad children about their history, culture, and their ancestral land,” said Hiyasmin Saturay, the director of “Pangandoy.” “The government hasn’t provided education to these remote communities and it is rare to find schools that genuinely serve the community’s needs, and yet they are being attacked by the government’s
military.” news network Rappler. Government military groups conALCADEV is a privately opersistently ravaged ated learning Lumad commuinstitution that nities in 2015 by provides basic killing members education to of the Lumad Lumad children The Lumad are constantly community in communities in danger of being and terrorizing rarely reached by their homes and government serdisplaced by military schools. vices. The school forces and we know the On Sept. 1, was threatened to it is our tax dollars that 2015, at least be burned down help push out indigenous 2,000 residents by paramilitary communities from their from the village groups in 2015, of Diatagon in as reported by ancestral land. Lianga, Surigao Rappler. del Sur, were “The Lumad displaced after are constantly - Johnny Rodriguez, a group of parain danger of besecretary general of the political military killed ing displaced by organization Anakbayan Long Emerico Samarmilitary forces Beach ca. and we know Samarca was the it is our tax the executive dollars that help director of the Alternative Learning push out indigenous communities Center for Agricultural and Livefrom their ancestral land.” secretary lihood Development, according to general of the political organization
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Anakbayan Long Beach Johnny Rodriguez, said. “We hope that students will hear the stories of the Lumad and be moved to support the struggle for land and culture.” “To Mindanao with Love” will highlight opportunities for students to get involved and even join an international delegation to the Philippines, according to Rodriguez. Among the various leaders at the event is secretary general of the Coalition of Indigenous Peoples in the Philippines, Argee “Pya” Macliing Malayo. Malayo advocates to fulfill the aspirations of the indigenous people. Francis Laminero is the executive director of the organization “Initiatives for Peace in Mindanao” and plans on speaking at the program. Laminero’s organization serves as a voice for peace based on human rights across the Philippine archipelago, according to their website. “To Mindanao with Love” will be held Saturday from 5-7 p.m. in Lecture Hall 150.
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Writer brings Pan-American style to Zine Fest Yago S. Cura tells his experiences through zines and stories. By Lauren Torres Staff Writer
In a city brimming with trendy art scenes, the Museum of Latin American Art’s Long Beach Zine Fest 2016 was the place to be on Sunday for artists, writers and regular weekend strollers. One table, occupied by Yago S. Cura, stood out in its simplicity against the other brightly-colored and pin-decorated tables. Cura, 40, an adult public services librarian by day, instead impresses potential readers with his haphazard fonts and literature based on places he’s been and the experiences he had growing up with immigrant parents. Though it was his first time at Zine Fest, Cura is no newbie to writing. What started as a hobby in college grew into a lifelong passion for writing. After learning HTML through the course of his librarian science studies, Cura began writing and publishing for the journal “Hinchas De Poesia,” which describes itself as a “digital codex for Pan-American writing” with like-minded friends. They are currently about to release their eighteenth issue. Their first printed book, “Ghazals for Foley,” came about after a successful Kickstarter campaign, featured written works inspired by journalist James Foley and was released last year.
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Cura also wrote booklets exclusively for Zine Fest based on four metro lines and six-fold zines containing poems about soccer and the “homicidal soccer fanatics in South America,” as he put it. “My parents are from Argentina, so, culturally I don’t really have a choice,” Cura said about his choice of soccer as a topic. “I have to dialogue [about] soccer, and I’ve never been able to do that, so it’s a way of getting close to my dad and understanding how beautiful the game really is.” Cura’s table also included six-fold zines written using the poetic form of shadorma, a style of writing that struck a perturbed chord in Cura, who thought it was so silly he chose to poke fun at it by using it to write poems about Los Angeles. Originally from Brooklyn and raised in Miami, these zines cover experiences from areas such as Watts and Highland Park and paint a picture of Cura’s perspective as an outsider making his way through L.A. Like many startup zines, Cura publishes what he can, when he can and mostly on his own dime. “This makes me absolutely no money,” he said. “Maybe I lose five hundred dollars a year doing what I really love, but it’s something that [is] well worth it because I’m a writer. That part of it is not really a hobby, I would do that whether I could sell myself or not.” Cura resides in the Vernon-Central part of L.A. with his wife and son, a 5-year-old who Cura says ignites creativity in him. “He says what he wants, he does what he wants, it’s a real challenge to try and mitigate that passion
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CSULB student body: care to recycle Too many students carelessly throw away cans and bottles despite available recycling bins. By Emily Senninger Contributing Writer
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al State Long Beach is made up of a diverse and intelligent student body, with many driven young people who will surely go on to make incredible impacts in the world. Notable alumni consist of professional athletes, influential actors and the mayor of Long Beach. It comes as a surprise, then, when so many students fail to make use of the many recycle bins available to them on campus. Is the general population at CSULB lacking in environmental knowledge,
or do they simply not care? Bottle and can receptacles are located all around the 324-acre campus and inside most buildings. Within the quad between Liberal Arts 4 and LA-3 alone, there are four recycling bins. No matter the direction a student is walking, one bin will be in their general direction. Disappointingly, many students and faculty still practice complete disregard and their bottles and cans are carelessly thrown into traditional waste bins, especially in the classroom. CSULB focuses extensively on sustainability efforts, with a larger goal of becoming a zero waste campus. There are programs in place for recycling cans and bottles, cardboard, batteries, paper, electronics, office supplies, furniture, food waste, metal, wood and more. Associated Students Inc. has a recycling center conveniently located on campus for community members to donate recyclable materials for California Redemption Value. Not that recycling doesn’t always come from carelessness; it often comes
from lack of education on the issue. However, with the number of available recycling outlets on campus, too many CSULB attendees are practicing carelessness. Given the accessibility ASI and CSULB provide, there is no excuse to not move the extra five feet to put your bottle in the recycling bin. Simple changes in a single person’s lifestyle can make an incredible impact on the health of the environment and provide a positive place for future generations to prosper and succeed. Landfills are filling up. The average person generates 4.3 pounds of waste each day, according to the Center for Sustainability & Commerce at Duke University. There are approximately 7.4 billion people on earth and 37,430 students at CSULB, meaning our student body has the potential to create over 800,000 pounds of waste in a given week. Recycling helps reduce the amount of waste put into landfills and limits the number of landfills needed. Care about the footprint you leave behind and care to recycle, CSULB.
Reasons to recycle -Recycling helps to reduce the harmful chemicals produced by waste. -It reduces the need for raw materials, such as paper, and therefore preserves the rainforests and wildlife habitats. -Recycling reduces the amount of energy used by decreasing the production of raw materials. Natural resources are preserved for future generations. -It saves room! Eventually, landfills do fill up. There is not unlimited space for mass amounts of waste. -Plastic bottles, one of the most wasted products at Cal State Long Beach, can be used to produce clothing, grocery bags, containers, carpet and much more.
Testing won’t fix crumbling schools Imagine working in a place where rats whiter, wealthier students and nonskitter across the floor. Where mold white, poorer ones. climbs the walls like ivy, and floors But we don’t need standardized tests buckle, soaked and to know that kids rotted from frein school shouldn’t quent exposure to be sitting next to rain and snow. rats. We need a full If you’re like In privileged conversation on how most adults, such communities, stuglaring inequalities in things are probdents attend beauschool conditions violate tiful schools with ably difficult students’ rights, regardless diverse curricular to imagine. Yet schools in poor arofferings, up-toof whether those eas often must deal materials conditions are reflected in date with problems like and technology, their test scores. these. nurses, counselProponents of ors, librarians and high-stakes testing support staff to have increasingly bolster the work leaned on one particular argument to of classroom teachers. In low-income shut down opposition. They say testing communities and many communities is needed to achieve equality between of color, few of these amenities exist.
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49ers swimming after history The women’s water polo team could set a new school record in conference play by winning out the season. By Josh Barajas Sports Editor
The Long Beach State women’s water polo team could go undefeated in conference play for the first time in school history with a pair of wins this weekend. The 49ers (16-9, 3-0) face UC Irvine (17-10, 2-2) on the road Thursday and UC Santa Barbara (15-11, 3-1) at home to close out the regular season on Saturday. Two wins will put LBSU at 5-0 and give it the No. 1 seed going into the Big West Tournament on April 29 in Santa Barbara. “Our whole team is pretty stoked on the idea [of going undefeated],” senior goalie Alexis Butler said. “Right now being 3-0 is already a big deal, so the next two games are really important for us.” LBSU can get to five wins for the first time since 2005 when the 49ers went 8-4 in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation. Since making the move to the Big West in 2009, LBSU has recorded a winning season in the conference just once, going 4-3 in 2013.
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Senior attack Jessica Brooks pulls back to take a shot in LBSU’s 18-4 win over Pomona-Pitzer on April 9 at the Ken Lindgren Aquatics Center. However, since the 49ers started competing in 1998 they’ve failed to go undefeated a single season. They’re best performance came in 2003, when they went 8-2 in the MPSF. Sophomore utility Virginia Smith, LBSU’s leading scorer with 41 goals, said she will keep the pressure off the next two matches by letting go of the fact that they can be perfect in conference play. “[Our biggest concern] is just
playing like we’ve been playing all season,” Smith said. “Just maintaining the momentum.” Butler, LBSU’s leading goalie with 552 minutes played and 126 saves, echoed her teammates’ idea of staying grounded and maintaining the same style of play the 49ers have kept all season. “I really hope we just stick to our game and don’t try and rush or change it to keep the score close or shut them out,” Butler said. “I’m hop-
ing that we stay together and keep each other calm to get what we want in the end.” The 49ers’ first opponents are the preseason favorite Anteaters, who own a 19-12 all-time record and a six-game winning streak against LBSU. Sophomore utility Mary Brooks leads UCI with 47 goals and goalies Annika Nelson and Jenna Phreaner have their team allowing an average of 6.07 goals per game. LBSU will then host the Gauchos
in the last home game of the year. UCSB is sitting in second place, one game behind the 49ers with a 3-1 record in the conference. Senior center Lauren Martin, junior utility Taylor Shore and senior attacker Bryn Hudson lead the Gaucho attack to an average of 9.65 goals per game with 43, 41 and 37 goals, respectively. However, UCSB’s defense averages 8.12 goals against. After starting the season 2-6, the 49ers rebounded by dropping just three games in the next 17 games. LBSU is averaging 9.84 goals per game while allowing an average of just 6.80. “[Our performance has been] a bit of a surprise,” Smith said. “We had a slow start, but I also expected this from this team. [My teammates] were amazing when we played together [in the offseason], [they’re] an awesome team.” The resurrection came as a shock to some, but Butler said she knew from the start the 49ers would be at this level. “I thought this team had a lot of potential coming in,” Butler said. “It’s the first year we’re actually set on trying to go all out. So, no, I’m not surprised at all. I’m kind of excited to see what we can pull off in the next two games.” LBSU heads to Irvine for a match against the Anteaters Thursday at 7 p.m. before closing the regular season at the Ken Lindgren Aquatics Center on Saturday against UC Santa Barbara at noon.
SPORTS PREVIEWS After getting swept at home by Cal Poly this weekend, the LBSU softball team looks to bounce back with a series win at UC Santa Barbara.
Softball Who: UC Santa Barbara (21-23, 4-5) When: Saturday at 1 and 3 p.m., Sunday at 1 p.m. Where: Campus Diamond, Santa Barbara Need to know: Since Long Beach State softball head coach Kim Sowder took over in 2007, the 49ers have taken 16 of their 24 games against the Gauchos. After the Gauchos pitching held Cal Poly to one run in a three game series to start conference play, UCSB has a 5.86 ERA in the last seven games. Overall, UCSB has dropped six out of its last seven games. At the plate, junior outfielder Kristen Clark leads the Gauchos with a .430 batting average, the third-best in the Big West. The 49ers will most likely face the Gauchos senior pitcher Ashley Ludlow, who has a team best 2.81 ERA.
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Baseball Who: UC Riverside (15-19, 3-3) When: Friday and Saturday at 6 p.m., Sunday at 1 p.m. Where: Riverside Sports Complex, Riverside Need to know: Long Beach State (21-14, 5-4) continues its fourgame road swing against UC Riverside. The Dirtbags lead the all-time series 57-32-1 and last season LBSU won the series 2-1 at Blair Field on April 17-19, 2015. UCR has won two straight after beating Utah and UC San Diego. Junior outfielder Vince Fernandez leads the team in batting with a .351 average. Junior Austin Sodders is Riverside’s top pitcher, boasting a 3-3 record with a 2.89 ERA in eight starts. UCR is 7-9 at home and the Dirtbags will look to improve their 7-6 record on the road.
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Bearing the Bruins, again The 49ers face UCLA for a third time this season as they take on the Bruins in the MPSF tournament semifinals. By Kayce Contatore Staff Writer
The No. 3 seeded Long Beach State men’s volleyball team looks for its first win against No. 2 UCLA this season when they face off in the semifinal round of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Tournament Thursday in Provo, Utah. The 49ers have fallen to UCLA in both matches this season, suffering their only straight set loss of the year to the Bruins on March 26 inside the Walter Pyramid. In the last meeting between the two teams, the Bruins held the 49ers to .250 hitting percentage. “We feel like there are some things we’ve left on the table the last couple of times we played them,” LBSU head coach Alan Knipe said. Knipe called UCLA a consistent team that has played well all year long and that the 49ers need to play a stronger and more consistent round
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LBSU head coach Alan Knipe talks to his team during a timeout in the 49ers’ 3-0 win over UC Santa Barbara on March 23 inside the Walter Pyramid. of volleyball for a longer period of time to advance to the championship game. The Bruins defeated the seventh seeded Hawaii in the quarterfinal match 3-1 at Pauley Pavilion to earn the trip to Utah for the semifinals. This is the first trip for UCLA to the
semifinals since 2012, where they ultimately lost to BYU. Over the length of the season, UCLA setters Micah Ma’a and Hagen Smith led the Bruin offense to a .311 hitting percentage. Smith averages 5.87 assists per set while Ma’a averages 5.99, totalling 56 service aces
with at least one ace in the last 12 of 13 matches played. Freshman setter Josh Tuaniga said that UCLA runs a great tempo when on offense and that it is a challenge on defense to match up with how well they play. “[We need to] stay mentally into
the game,” Tuaniga said. “[And] know that we can do some pretty good things as well and we just have to use our weapons.” Tuaniga tops the MPSF in assists per set with 11.13 and has directed the 49er offense to fourth in the country with a .329 hitting percentage. Freshman outside hitter T.J. DeFalco has been the kill leader for the 49ers, totaling 426 kills and averaging 4.28 kills per set. DeFalco, who earned MPSF freshman of the year last week, said that although UCLA is a strong team it is always fun getting to play against the Bruins. “I’m excited to play them, I’m always excited to play them,” DeFalco said. “We’re on the smaller end of the height chart in the teams so we just need to play more defense.” Heading into the final four for the tournament, Knipe said that one of the themes at practice this season is to stay focused on their side of the court rather than their opponents. “This team does a really good job of not just physically preparing for a match but preparing for a match as far as their volleyball IQ,” Knipe said. “They do a really good job of coming in eager to get after it and learn the game plan.” The 49ers will matchup against UCLA for the third time this season in the MPSF semifinal match Thursday at 4 p.m.
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