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A routine traffic stop for a broken taillight in late February led to José Alvarez’ deportation, putting him and his family on different sides of
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IJUANA, Mexico — On the outer edge of the city, up a series of pitted dirt roads, José Alvarez waits alone in an unfurnished duplex. The only kitchen appliances are a mini fridge raised off the floor by cinder blocks and a camping stove on the countertop. He sleeps on an air mattress.
Top, dirt roads sprawl in the neighborhood of Las Cumbres in Tijuana, Mexico, April 17 where José Alvarez is staying after being deported in the early hours of Feb. 22. Above right, José Alvarez and his wife, Infa, cry when asked how they are feeling. Infa came to visit him, along with other family, in Tijuana, Mexico, April 17. Right, Infa Ortiz sits by herself in the Alvarez house in Long Beach April 22.
The house is situated between a gaping garbage-filled gulch and the scorched remains of what was once the neighbor’s house. About four hours after what was supposed to have been just a routine traffic stop in late February, José was deported to Tijuana, a city he hadn’t set foot in since 1974. On Feb. 21, I. Sanchez, a CSULB police officer, pulled José over for a broken headlight on Ximeno Avenue and Los Coyotes Diagonal, an intersection that falls within the University Police’s jurisdiction a mile off campus. At the time, José was on the way from his house in Cambodia Town to pick his son Victor up from work at Krispy Kreme Donuts. It was about 10:30 p.m. When Sanchez ran José’s driver’s license for a wants and warrants check, it triggered a hit in the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement data-
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traffic stop sounding confident and sometimes conversational, seemed to become increasingly more confused continued from page 1 over the course of the hour-long stop in which he answered multiple calls from base. Shortly thereafter, dispatch notiICE. fied Sanchez that an ICE agent would He said he didn’t understand how be calling him on his cell phone, acJosé could have attained a license with cording to the police report. an ICE hold. He questioned José mulWhen Victor became concerned tiple times about his other encounters about José’s whereabouts after he failed with the Long Beach Police Departto show up at Krispy Kreme on time, he ment and the California Highway Palooked through the drive-thru window. trol, which had amounted to nothing He saw that José had been pulled over more than traffic citations. by the police and walked over to the “It makes no sense …” Sanchez said scene. to another police officer at the scene. A short while after, Officer Sanchez According to one record from the is heard in the police audio telling the Beverly Hills Courthouse, José paid a father and son that immigration of$90 traffic fine April 1 that he received ficials had cleared José and that they from a CHP officer about four months were free to go, reminding them to get ago. Records also indicate CHP stopped their headlight fixed. José in the city of Bellflower for a trafThe audio recording device, which fic violation Aug. 9, 2015, in a case that CSULB police officers turn on and off was subsequently dismissed. themselves, picked up the sound of “I don’t want you to worry too much, Sanchez opening and closing the police because I don’t know what’s going on eicruiser door, revving the engine and ther,” Sanchez said at one point during driving away. the traffic stop. José and Victor tried starting their Later, seemingly following the dicar but it sputrections of an tered and overICE official, Sanheated. chez handcuffed When the poJosé and took lice audio cuts him to a UniverThat was a clusterf*ck. back in, a police sity Police subsiren is heard. station jail cell. Officer Sanchez There, he said he had once again could tell José is -Officer Sanchez, pulled up behind a good person, speaking to another officer after the two men, who and promised to detaining José for ICE were inspecting make sure he was their engine. He treated well. Santold them to get chez proceeded back in the car. to give driving An ICE official had told the universidirections to the ICE agents, who were ty police officer that José was suspected on their way to pick José up. of having a detainer request on him re“That was a clusterf*ck,” he said to lated to a felony. The crime the official another police officer after hanging up was referring to is a 21-year-old nonthe phone. violent drug charge for which he had After ICE took custody of Jose, his already served prison time. family was not notified of his location Officer Sanchez, who started the until he was out of the country.
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The Alvarez family poses for a photo together outside the duplex in Las Cumbres, Tijuana, Mexico, April 17. José’s family came to visit him from Long Beach after being held for ICE deportation by a Cal State Long Beach police officer Feb. 21.
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A mini fridge raised off the floor by cinder blocks and camping stove on the countertop are the only appliances in the kitchen of the house where José Alvarez is staying in Tijuana, Mexico. José said he doesn’t know whether he’ll ever be allowed to return to his home in Long Beach.
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José had become caught in a quagmire of contradictory immigration laws. Federal laws, often criticized for being overly broad and inflexible, can conflict with state laws and local law enforcement policy seeking to curtail police officers’ cooperation with ICE. University officials have repeatedly called the University Police’s cooperation with ICE to deport José an “anomaly,” saying that the Cal State Long Beach police do not otherwise cooperate with ICE. CSULB spokesperson Terri Carbaugh said it’s fair to say the officer was confused when he “inadvertently became immersed in immigration law.” “ … [Officer Sanchez] endeavored to do his job in the best way he knew how,” Carbaugh said. “He was somewhat in the crosshairs of confusing and sometimes conflicting laws.”
She said the university and CSULB PD were proud of Sanchez’ ability to remain professional throughout the incident. “We know the federal government [has] failed to take action [regarding immigration law], and the university has taken action where they can … “ Carbaugh said. But for a peace officer on the ground, things can get messy. Under normal circumstances, ICE would only be notified of a person eligible for deportation by a local police agency after that person had been arrested for criminal activity and fingerprinted. Those prints automatically result in that biometric data being bounced off ICE databases, according to ICE spokesperson Virginia Kice. “If those prints result in a match in [the Department of Homeland Security’s] databases, the system notifies us that someone who has had a prior encounter with DHS has come into local custody,” Kice said. “It basically prompts our personnel to drill down and see if it’s someone we want to — a
case we want to — pursue.” But José had not committed a crime, only an infraction worthy of a fix-it ticket. He would not otherwise have been arrested. ICE was notified of José’s run-in with the CSULB police officer with a name match, which Kice said is not typical since name matches can be problematic; a lot of people can have the same name. Still, Kice said that as a “convicted drug trafficker who has been previously deported,” José was a priority for ICE. According to a report from Human Rights Watch, “drug trafficking,” even a low-level sales offense involving small amounts of drugs — such as selling ten dollars worth of cocaine — can lead to deportation and a permanent bar from entering the country. “It is really problematic that [CSULB police] went ahead and arrested [José] on that because they don’t have any au-
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social justice issues. “It’s just a broken criminal justice system, just a broken system in general,” Donado said. “It’s a whole system that’s meant to criminalize minorities and those who have less.”
leave. Violent crime in Michoacán is on the rise, according to a 2015 report by the U.S. Overseas Security Advisory Council. “Beheadings, lynching, torture, and other gruesome displays of violence, La Familia Michoacana, as well as high numa gang first formed in New bers of forced disYork City, was a Mexican appearances have drug cartel and organized become routine occrime syndicate. currences in various After the cartel disIn Tijuana, José parts of the country banded in 2011, many of sat on a park bench …” OSAC warns its members formed the pulled into the livthat the southern new cartel, Los Caballeing room from outstate has one of the ros Templarios Guardia side and cried into highest kidnapMichoacana or Knights the bottom of his ping rates and that Templar –Guard of MiT-shirt, gathered crimes in general ofchoacán. and held up to his ten go unpunished face by calloused there. Source: DEA hands. The stocky, Even so, José is mustachioed man not eligible for asyof 53 was trying to talk about what had lum in the United States. happened just over two months ago. The crime ICE cites as the reason for The house in the Tijuana neighborJosé’s deportation is from 1995, when hood of Las Cumbres belongs to his José was convicted of the possession brother-in-law, the one who wasn’t and transportation of a controlled subkilled by La Familia in Michoacán stance — crystal meth — for which he where José and his wife, Infa, are origserved three and half years in prison. A inally from. crime José denies committing, claiming “Innocent people get killed over he was framed. there all the time,” said Susana, José The charges imposed on José are and Infa’s daughter. “Back then, they considered an “aggravated felony” unkilled [my mom’s] dad and her brothder immigration law, an umbrella term ers.” They also disappeared one of Infa’s originally created by the Anti-Drug cousins. Abuse Act of 1988, and which has José tried to return to Apatzingan, grown to include crimes as minor as Michoacán, after being deported besubway turnstile jumping and various cause he doesn’t know anyone in Tijuaother nonviolent drug offenses. na, according to Donado. The violence People convicted of an aggravated was too much, though, and he had to felony are denied an individualized de-
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Victor Alvarez stands in front of his parent’s wedding portrait April 22. His father, José, was deported by ICE Feb. 21 after a stop for a broken taillight.
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thority under state law to make an arrest for civil immigration purposes,” said ACLU of Southern California Director of Immigrants’ Rights Jennie Pasquarella. She says that often law enforcement get confused when they see a warrant in the system from ICE, believing that it’s the same as a criminal warrant. “It’s not,” Pasquarella said. “It’s just a form that an immigration official fills out that doesn’t get signed off on by a judge, which is a big difference from a criminal warrant, obviously.” According to ICE spokesperson Vir-
ginia Kice in an email, ICE continues to seek to collaborate with law enforcement agencies throughout California and nationwide under the Priority Enforcement Program, an initiative aimed at ensuring that individuals who ICE says pose a threat to public safety are not released from prisons or jails onto the street. PEP relies on local police officers’ voluntary cooperation. Andrea Donado, a member of the Greater Long Beach Interfaith Community Organization, said that if people commit crimes, the U.S. criminal justice system should be able to handle offenders without deporting them and adding to larger problems in developing countries. ICO is a congregation-based community organization that fights for local
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Aggravating laws The Immigration Act of 1990 expanded the government’s power to deport and bar non-citizens with criminal convictions. It eliminated the “Judicial Recommendations Against Deportation,” a provision that had previously allowed sentencing judges to make discretionary recommendations against
deportation for non-citizens. The definition of what constitutes an “aggravated felony” was subsequently expanded by the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act in 1996 to include more minor offenses, including convictions that have been expunged, such as those following diversion programs offered by drug courts. It’s important to note that
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portation hearing before an immigration judge, are subject to an expedited removal, are ineligible from petitioning for asylum and are barred from re-entry into the U.S. In such cases, little, if any, recourse is available for noncitizens. According to data obtained by Human Rights Watch, between 2007 and 2012, DHS deported 266,000 noncitizens whose most serious crime was a nonviolent drug offense. In a report published by the organization on the intersection of drug and immigration law, HRW states that current U.S. immigration policies toward drug offenders violate international law including that punishment be proportional to the offense, the right to present defenses to deportation and the right to family unity. While noncitizens with convictions for fraud and assault can apply for a “waiver” of the bar if they can show a U.S. citizen or permanent resident family member would suffer extreme hardship, no such waiver exists for drug offenses. José’s family members have said they do not understand why José would be deported for a conviction he has already served time for. “If he was a criminal, I’d say sure, they have the right to deport him, but he’s not doing bad things,” Infa said.
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an “aggravated felony” under immigration law is not necessarily equivalent to a felony under federal or state criminal law. The same offense considered an “aggravated felony,” such as shoplifting, may otherwise be punishable only as a misdemeanor. Source: Human Rights Watch and Immigration Act of 1990
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According to Carbaugh, the Dream continued from page 3 Success Center, a place on campus for undocumented students to find support, has served over 200 students this However, right before Officer Sanyear alone. chez arrested José, he told the family, “The Dream Center was opened un“It’s out of my hands.” der the auspice of President Conoley,” The California Trust Act prohibits Carbaugh said. “So, we embrace the law enforcement from enforcing ICE immigrant community here in Long detainers unless the person in question Beach, we embrace the immigrant has been convicted of one of a defined community here on campus.” range of crimes — which José was — in But Donado said undocumented which case, law enforcement can still people in the community are afraid to exercise discretion as to whether to dego anywhere near CSULB. tain a person for immigration officials if President Jane Close Conoley said they believe the person is not a threat to after the student-led forum March 23 the community. ICE detainers are not that those undocumented students and criminal warrants but non-mandatory students with undocumented families requests. should not feel afraid to come to CSULB. A spokesperson for the Long Beach Carbaugh said the campus supports Police Department said that ICE often lawful activity, and that the primary fails to purge their system of old warrole of the university is to put degrees rants. For that reason, the LBPD doesn’t in students’ hands. She said that the K aren Sawyer | Daily 49er cooperate with ICE unless the undocuniversity wants to offer students the Trash fills an enormous gulch in the middle of the neighborhood of Las Cumbres in Tijuana, Mexico, April 17 umented person has committed an agopportunity to get a degree equally, and where José Alvarez is staying after being deported in the early hours of Feb. 22. gravated felony. Even then, ICE must that the police are instructed not to deprovide a signed judicial order to hold tain undocumented students. the inmate. cise prosecutorial discretion when decommitting an error. Look at his hands. tion proceedings. According to Kice, he Victor, who said he had been plan“If such an order is received, a notermining whether a prior aggravated You know he’s a worker, he is the breadappealed his case to the Board of Immining on transferring to CSULB, said bail hold will be placed on the inmate, felony should be considered a priority winner. He’s not a criminal.” gration Appeals, but the BIA denied the that if his father doesn’t return, he will and ICE will be notified when the enforcement case. Factors to be conJosé is a father of six. Four of his chilappeal and José was deported to Mexico likely have to put off college and instead prisoner is ready sidered included dren either attend or have graduated via Nogales, Arizona, in May 1999. work more to bring money into the for pick-up,” Ser“extended length from college. Victor currently studies “I had to come back,” José said of household. geant Brad Johnof time since the business at Long Beach City College. his re-entry to the U.S. “My kids were Six months before he was deported, son said in an offense of convicAnother served in the United States young.” So he crossed the U.S.–Mexico José had begun working for himself as Go to d49erspecial.com to email. “If a signed tion,” “length of Marine Corps for four years. All of border again with the help of a coyote. a pool plasterer after he purchased his hear audio from the CSULB judicial order is time in the UnitJosé’s children are U.S. citizens and his own equipment. He’d been doing it for not received, the ed States” and wife is a lawful permanent resident. the last eight years. Now, he fixes the police stop of José Alvarez inmate’s release “family or com“Why would you separate a family empty house in Tijuana in exchange for and to see more from the will take place as munity ties in the that depends on [José’s] work and his Donado met the family after José’s free rent and wonders if Victor will “do Daily 49er’s interview with any other normal United States.” income because of something he did sister-in-law got involved with ICO to the pools” sometimes to supplement release.” In the 21 years or did not do [21] years ago?” Donado support the passage of the Deferred Acthe family income. Alvarez and his family. But accordsince the charges asked. “They are trying to paint him tion for Childhood Arrivals legislation. Pasquarella said, “The more that ing to Carbaugh, that prompted like if he was a very dangerous criminal DACA, which the Secretary of Homepolice agencies are doing this and reCSULB PD don’t Jose’s deportato society, when he was just working land Security announced in 2012, alsponding to those warrants, the more need to see a warrant; they just need to tion, he has not been charged with a here.” lows people they’re drivbe aware that there is one. crime. In fact according to the ICE José had been previously deported who came to ing a wedge A CSULB police officer was not spokesperson, José’s criminal case was twice. Once in 1974 in San Francisco the United b et we en made available for comment. so old that it was difficult for ICE to lowhen he was detained by police officers States before themselves A professor sent an email to Carbaugh explained that because of cate his records beyond the basic facts. and found to be in the country illegally their 16th and the comfaculty going over the Academic the person’s record, José was deemed a and again after serving time in prison. birthday demunity beSenate meeting Thursday which threat to public safety, and that is why Kice said that ICE identifies potenferred deporcause people said, “CSULB President Jane he was removed from the community. tially deportable people who are servtation and is are not going Conoley spoke and emphasized Johnson, the LBPD spokesperson, Last week, José’s wife, sons and ing sentences in prison and put in a rerenewable evto want to that she would be pushing to get said that any police officer who runs a daughters and grandchildren went to quest for the prison to hand that person ery two years. have anyour campus, and CSU campuses wants and warrants check for someone visit him in Tijuana. over to ICE upon their release. They can also thing to do in general, officially designated and finds an ICE warrant for a priority There, Infa recounted the night of “That happens all the time,” Kice receive work with police if safe spaces for undocumented 1 felony — a potentially violent felony José’s deportation. Both Infa and Susasaid. “We have people coming into our authorization. they fear that students.” — would cooperate with ICE. na had come to the scene of José’s arrest custody from jails and prisons on a daiIt is under any conduct On the federal side, a 2014 Departafter Victor called them. ly basis.” this legislation — even if it’s ment of Homeland Security enforceInfa said of Officer Sanchez, “You’re The Soledad State Prison — which that CSULB just to report ments priorities memorandum stated not from immigration. Your job is to means “solitude” in Spanish — handed has been able to enroll over 900 undoca crime — could lead them to deporthat immigration officials would exerprotect the city and give tickets. You are José over to ICE, putting him in deportaumented students, offering them intation.”
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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.
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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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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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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-
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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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-
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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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.
A LAWN DIVIDED 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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chapter Douglas Domingo-Forasté said the chancellor took a mostly hands-off approach to the bargaining process during the last 11 months, but that he called Eagan to restart negotiations as the result of the fact finder’s report, subsequent pressure from various other sources and the realization that faculty were serious about striking next week. “He called Jennifer Eagan, who had tried to call him [and] get him involved many times before, she said,” Domingo-Forasté said. “So, that’s when things got done — when he decided to be personally involved.” The terms of the agreement include a 5 percent general salary increase June 30, a 2 percent general salary increase one day later on July 1 and a 3.5 percent general salary increase on July 1, 2017. The June and July increases will take place at the end of this fiscal year and the beginning of the next, respectively. Cal State Long Beach Department of Interna-
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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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.
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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.
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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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.
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To Brussels, with love 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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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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wedish resident Andreas Thörn has suffered from a spinal cord injury for 22 years and was able to self-medicate his neuropathic pain with cannabis. Until the police came knocking on his door in May 2015. His medical use of cannabis was brought up in the district court of Västerås in August 2015, where he was acquitted by the jury. This became the first time in Swedish history for someone to become acquitted for self-medicating with cannabis. By the time Thörn decided to try cannabis, he felt that the Swedish healthcare system had offered everything it was capable of and therefore started researching the medical properties of cannabis. By creating a cannabis-based coconut oil that he consumed in small amounts every morning and evening, he slowly gained back a quality of life that he never thought was possible. Both his physical and mental health improved, which made him able to start working full time and spend more time with his family. “It may sound a little over-exaggerated and sensational, like marijuana would
be some kind of miracle medicine,” “It is true that Andreas is able to live a Thörn said. “But for me it was.” quiet normal life during his good days,” However, his ability to live a normal, Thörn’s loyer Victor Regnér said in court. functioning life was denied when the “During his worst days, he has to be esdecision was appealed and brought up corted to the hospital in an ambulance. in Stockholm’s court of appeal on March During his bad days, he is in so much 22, where he was sentenced to pay a fine pain that he is not even able to get out of of 11.700 Swedish crowns, about $1,400, his bed. Andreas have tried all available and to cease his cannabis consumption. options that the healthcare system can Sweden currentoffer him. Did he ly has one of the then really have most restrictive any other alternadrug policies in tives?” Individuals like Thorn, Europe, which has Thörn chose to been criticized by treat his pain with though, who are in a highthe United Nations cannabis because pressure situation about for violating human it turned out to their health and well-being rights of addicts. be much more efwill do whatever it takes Since cannabis is fective than other to cure it regardless of the a Schedule 1 conavailable phartrolled substance in maceuticals on law. Sweden, which the the market that law states has no he had tried. potential medicinal Expert witness value, doctors are not able to prescribe it Claes Hultling appeared in the court of to patients. If Thörn lived in neighboring appeals to confirm that 80 percent of Finland, this would have been possible. patients who suffer from neuropathic Because of bureaucratic decisions in pain, which targets the nerves throughSweden, the possibility for medicinal out the human body, cannot be treated research on cannabis is prohibited. This with available medication. Hultling is means that patients like Thörn, who see a former professor of Stanford Univerno other way out but to self-medicate sity and has 35 years of experience as with cannabis, will be looked upon as a doctor. In one of the many fields that criminals in a court of law. he has worked in, he has been treating When the legal system starts to punhundreds of patients suffering from neuish disabled individuals, who already ropathic pain. have suffered enough and not are able “A vast amount of different medito find any better alternative treatment, cations have been prescribed for the something has clearly gone wrong. If purpose of relieving neuropathic pain,” a patient finds an effective treatment Hultling said in the court of appeal. “But method that lies outside of the legal evidence-based scientific studies have boundaries, the legal system should not shown that not even 20 percent of the have the authority to prevent them from patients can be treated with the pharmapursuing such treatment. ceuticals that are available today.”
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States, a lot of people who feel their only option is to treat t he ms elve s with cannabis choose to move to another state where medicinal cannabis is legal because it is their best chance to live a healthier, painfree life. One of the most recent known examples concerns the Schmidt family, who moved from Kansas to Colorado in the beginning of March in order to be able to legally treat their 3-year-old daughter, who suffers from a serious form of epilepsy with cannabis. Similar to Thörn’s case, no pharmaceuticals available on the market helped to treat the symptoms. The court’s original decision did not only shed a light of hope for Andreas, but also for other people in Sweden who are in a similar situation. Thörn thinks that the people there who self-medicate with cannabis are too afraid to speak openly about it because of the potential legal consequences. Individuals like Thorn, though, who are in a high-pressure situation about their health and well-being will do whatever it takes to cure it regardless of the law.
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O n e such drug is methadone, a very strong opiate that normally is prescribed as a substitute for heroin. Compared to cannabis, it has a staggering history of overdoses that has taken the lives of many users, according to statistics from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Instead of acting specifically on the neuropathic pain, methadone is a synthetic form of morphine that numbs the user’s body, resulting in being unable to feel anything. Even if methadone is a drug that can be legally prescribed, I do not think that it is the solution to Thörn’s problem. There must be some kind of limit to how far the law can argue about the medicinal value of different substances, even if they are illegal. Starting a treatment with methadone could potentially make his life worse than what it already is. “Methadone relieves neuropathic pain to a certain extent, without really acting specifically on the pain itself,” Thörn said. “What it really does is that it numbs the entire organism and that would not make me able to live a normal life. It does not solve the problem.” Thörn was in a distressed situation with no other available alternatives but cannabis to choose from. In the United
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Sportsd49er@gmail.com SOFTBALL Series Leaders Leftfielder Haley Tobler
6 - 11 7 RBIs Home Run
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After suffering a sweep against Cal Poly at home last season, the Long Beach State softball team bounced back to take the series at UC Santa Barbara on Saturday and Sunday. The 49ers dropped game one 3-2 on Saturday before scoring a combined 23 runs to win their next two games. After scoring just three runs over the previous four games, the LBSU bats woke up in game two in a 14-6 win to even the series. On Sunday, junior pitcher Christina Clermont picked up her 16th win of the season as she shut out UCSB in a 9-0 win for the 49ers.
BASEBALL After a pair of walk-off wins on Friday and Saturday, UC Riverside took the series 2-1 from the Long Beach State baseball team at the Riverside Sports Complex. The Dirtbags salvaged a 10-7 win in the series finale Sunday to avoid their first sweep of the season. On Friday, with the score tied 3-3 in the ninth inning, junior Vince Fernandez hit a two-out RBI single to bring in the winning run. Game two of the series saw a similar situation with the score tied 1313 in the ninth. Freshman Yeager Taylor was the hero then, hitting a 1-out RBI single with the bases loaded to give his team the 14-13 win.
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Standings SOFTBALL Big West
OVR
1. Cal State Fullerton
12 - 0
38 - 10
2. UC Riverside
7-5
31 - 14
3. Cal State Northridge
7-5
27 - 20
4. Long Beach State
6-6
26 - 17
5. UC Santa Barbara
5-7
22 - 25
6. Cal Poly
4-8
20 - 19
7. Hawai'i
4-8
20 - 25
8. UC Davis
3-9
14 - 25
Home Run First baseman Aaron Cisneros
5 - 10
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1. Cal Poly
7-2
25 - 13
2. Cal State Fullerton
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24 - 14
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7-5
18 - 19
4. UC Santa Barbara
5-4
25 - 10
5. UC Riverside
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17 - 20
6. UC Irvine
6-6
22 - 14
7. Long Beach State
6-6
22 - 16
8. Cal State Northridge
3-9
24 - 14
9. UC Davis
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How the Big West was won Garczynski and Butler lead LBSU to its first regular season title in school history with win over UCSB. By Will Hernandez Assistant Sports Editor
The Long Beach State women’s water polo team claimed its first Big West title on sophomore center Emily Garczynski’s last-second shot, giving the 49ers a 7-6 win over UC Santa Barbara on Saturday at the Ken Lindgren Aquatics Center. Although the 49ers stumbled at the beginning of the season when they faced tough non-conference opponents, they ended the season on a high note, going 4-1 against conference foes and finishing 17-10 overall. LBSU’s record against the Big West is its best since the team joined the conference in 2009 and will be the top seed in this week’s conference tournament. “Now there is pressure because we have never gone in as a first seed,” LBSU head coach Gavin Arroyo said. “It’s unchartered territory for us and now we’ve got to see if we can deal with expectations.” While the pressure might be on the 49ers to go deep, senior goalkeeper Alexis Butler thinks the team is where it needs to be mentally. “That’s the difference with our team this year, we are strong mentally,” Butler said. “The focus for us next week is playing our game.”
With 14 seconds remaining and the score tied at six, the 49ers drew an ejection on UCSB (15-12, 3-2) which gave LBSU a six on five advantage. After swinging the ball around, Garczynski got it and fired in her third goal of the game as the final horn blew. “We wanted to draw the ejection and when we got it, it’s anything goes,” Garczynski said. “When I got [the ball], I just went for it.” Garczynski’s game-winner capped off LBSU’s come-from-behind effort, which saw the 49ers down 4-1 early. A pair of goals in the second period sliced UCSB’s lead down to one with 1:33 left in the half, but UCSB’s senior utility Lauren Martin’s late goal put the Gauchos up 5-3 going into halftime. “The first half was looking kind of scary at first when they went up by three goals,” Butler said. “But in the second half we just had to give it everything.” After giving up five goals in the first half, Butler held the Gauchos to one goal in the second. The senior made 17 saves in her last game at the Ken Lindgren Aquatics Center. Butler’s biggest save came after a UCSB outlet a pass to senior center Sarah Kreisser left the Gaucho leading scorer on a one-on-one opportunity against Butler. Kreisser’s shot had no chance against Butler who quickly corralled it. The 49ers were able to capitalize on Butler’s sharp defense and tied the game at five with a minute to go. Garcznski netted LBSU’s third unanswered goal with 2:45 left, her second goal of the half, giving the 49ers their first lead of the game.
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The LBSU women’s water polo team celebrates its first ever Big West regular season championship at the end of the 49ers’ 7-6 win over UC Santa Barbara on Saturday at the Ken Lindgren Aquatics Center. “The girls just hung in there and executed well,” Arroyo said. “I won’t complain about the officiating, but we got our chance at the end and we were able to score and that is the important part; taking advantage of opportunities.” The 49ers have an opportunity to make the NCAA tournament for the first time in school history if they can run the table at the Big West Tournament in Santa Barbara. LBSU advanced directly into the semifinals and will face the lowest remaining seed from the first round on Saturday at noon at the UC Santa Barbara campus pool.
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1. Long Beach State
4-1
17 - 10
2. UC Irvine
3-2
18 - 10
3. UC Santa Barbara
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15 - 12
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18 - 12
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17 - 11
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One more chance Daily 49er The 49ers’ earn atlarge bid to the NCAA Tournament. By Kayce Contatore Contributing Writer
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After suffering elimination from the MPSF Tournament during the semifinals, the LBSU men’s volleyball team earned its place in the NCAA Tourney on Sunday.
Hopes for a National Championship are still alive for the Long Beach State men’s volleyball team as the 49ers took the No. 4 seed and earned an at-large bid for the play-in round on May 3 against fifth seeded Erskine College. This is the 49ers’ eighth trip to the NCAA tournament and first since 2008 when the 49ers lost to Pepperdine in the semifinals. After getting swept by UCLA in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation semifinals on Thursday, the
49ers still had a chance to earn a trip to the big dance. LBSU held a slight edge over Stanford in the rating percentage index and earned an at-large bid to the tourney on Sunday. The 49ers didn’t go down without a fight in the semifinal match against the Bruins, keeping the first two sets close. LBSU held the set point twice, but were unable to put away the final point on both occasions. In set three, the 49ers were never able to recover from the Bruins 11-2 lead before they eventually took the set and match 25-19. The Bruins were able to hold the 49ers to a .250 hitting percentage for the night, with LBSU never hitting above .300 in all three sets. LBSU will travel to Penn State in University Park, Pennsylvania for the play-in against Erskine on May 3 set to start at 5 p.m. Pacific Standard Time. The winner takes on No. 1 BYU on May 5.
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