Daily 49er, April 25, 2018

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LONG BEACH

VOL. LXVIX, ISSUE 73 | APRIL 25, 2018

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Students gather in front of unidentified protestors near the Speaker’s Platform. The protestors called female students insulting names and spoke out against feminism, causing some women, below, to sunbathe in front of them in response to their comments. Campus police stood by to monitor the situation.

TWO ANGRY MEN

By Kat Schuster News Editor

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ore than 100 students gathered on the lawn near the free speech area Tuesday to observe two men from an unidentified organization, who were disparaging women in the crowd by telling them they would always be second-class citizens.

University Police arrived on the scene around 2:30 p.m. after several professors called to make a report that the outspoken duo had disrupted classes in the vicinity. When the Daily 49er asked what organization or religious group they were affiliated with, they refused to answer.

Students of all genders protested the agitators, who were heckling women for being overweight, non-virgins and outspoken. One of the preachers told a woman to “put her tits in her back pocket.”

Photos by Hunter Lee Daily 49er

FORUM

From the prison to the panel Former inmates, including actor Danny Trejo, share experiences of being incarcerated.

By Daniel Green Opinions Editor

If you saw the toughest guy in the prison yard, you probably wouldn’t believe he was convicted for selling a bag of pure sugar

to an undercover federal agent.

However, this is exactly how Danny Trejo found himself serving a five-year drug sentence in 1969.

“He asked me if the stuff was good,” Trejo said. “I told him it was pure, and I wasn’t lying.”

This was one of many stories over 200 students heard Monday afternoon from actor and activist, Danny Trejo; movie producer, Scott Budnick; and former inmate, Gary Tyler.

Attendees gathered in the University Student Union Ballrooms for the event, From Death to Life,

which intended to start a discussion about former prison inmates and how they are portrayed in society. The panel was hosted

by Rising Scholars, Associated Students Inc., School of Criminology, Project Rebound and Metropolitan and Policy Studies Network.

Trejo talked about his movie career, narcotics anonymous groups and how he has managed to stay positive despite his struggles with drug abuse and marital problems. He stressed the importance of attaining a degree and

gave students high praise for continuing their education.

“You’re the people I’m going to vote for in a couple years,” Trejo said.

Gary Tyler, 59, is an African-American man who was released from prison in 2016 after serving 41 years for a wrongful conviction.

Tyler was given the death penalty at the age of 17 after his school bus was attacked by a white mob see TREJO, page 3

He asked me if the stuff was good. I told him it was pure, and I wasn’t lying.”

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Danny Trejo, Actor and activist on his arrest

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PANEL

Islamophobia spotlit at social justice event The Detroit law professor spoke to the university on race-based issues and Muslims in America.

By James Chow

Senior News Assistant

Sept. 11, 2001 saw the hijacking of American planes striking the World Trade Center, killing thousands. Nov. 8, 2016 saw the election of the United States’ 45th President Donald Trump.

Although these were two separate events in the United States, both occasions brought about the same result — the normalization of Islamophobia.

Critical race theorist Khaled A. Beydoun noted the importance of these two dates during the first Social Justice and Equity Committee-sponsored discussion on race Monday in the Beach Auditorium at Cal State Long Beach.

Beydoun described Islamophobia as “the idea that Islam as a religion is alien, foreign, unassimilable, cannot be reconciled with American identity, [and is] violent and tied to the presumption that Muslim identity is terroristic or gives rise to homegrown radicalization.”

The theorist is also a law professor at Detroit Mercy School of Law with works and commentaries featured in the Columbia Law Review, The New York Times and Al-Jazeera.

The two-hour event mostly discussed Islamophobia and its implications in American politics, along with a series of questions from the audience, Yousef Baker, an international studies professor

Samantha Diaz | Daily 49er

Panelists Khaled A. Beydoun, left, Yousef Baker, middle, and Leen Almahdi host a discussion Monday about race and Muslim issues in the Beach Auditorium.

and Leen Almahdi, Associated Students Inc. vice president-elect.

During the talk, the law professor emphasized white supremacists’ strategy in oppressing other racial groups to further the idea that the U.S. is a “white nation.”

“All the forms of bigotry have a common source,” Beydoun said.

“The common crux is white supremacy.”

Beydoun also criticized neoliberalism, a political ideology which encourages liberal social views and a free-market system.

He specifically criticized neoliberals’ tendencies to define how a Muslim should act and integrate to American society.

“The moderate Muslim construction that Obama and [Hillary] Clinton capitalized on effectively states that if you don’t apologize, you don’t condemn, you don’t waive the American flag, you don’t keep your beard

Fuck the idea that integration is something that we people of color have to align ourselves to, and fuck the idea that integration is something synonymous with whiteness.”

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Khaled A. Beydoun, Law professor short, you don’t wear a thobe on Friday, then you might be the bad Muslim we have to surveil and keep tabs on,” Beydoun said.

He praised ASI student government for its work on a resolution that broadly defines white supremacy and stands against it.

“White supremacy is far more than a racial enterprise and a racist project,” Beydoun said. “By

virtue of defining white supremacy broadly, I think it enables you to see how it’s far more than just race.”

He encouraged audience members to look past the marginal descriptions of white supremacists as neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan.

“If we defeat them, guess what?” Beydoun sarcastically said. “We defeat white supremacy, the same way that electing a black president made this country post racial. To hell with that, we know that ain’t the truth!”

Kativon Makary, a third year psychology major and sociology minor, thought that the discussion was a good first event from the Social Justice and Equity Committee and is excited to take part in the organization’s future events.

“I’m Middle Eastern, so seeing that this event tied into the

racialization of Middle Eastern Americans really interested me,” Makary said. “Seeing myself represented isn’t something that I often see.”

Although the audience gave applause and marks of agreement during Beydoun’s talk, not all members were content with what the Detroit native had to say.

University alumnus James Abed said Beydoun was very one-sided.

“It doesn’t tap into the bigger concerns that I have personally,” Abed said. “It talks about terrorism and extreme mentalities that do not affect us directly.”

Abed argued he doesn’t see Muslims as people who integrate into the customs of nations, which they emigrate to, but instead as people who bring their culture to the new country. He doesn’t believe Muslims should receive both the benefits of their home culture and Western culture.

“Muslims are people who bring their cultures with them to the country and make a culture within the country,” Abed said. “Do not become a part of a closed society within a bigger society to get the best of both worlds.”

Beydoun argued that the idea of integration is problematic to all minority groups.

“Fuck the idea that integration is something that we people of color have to align ourselves to, and fuck the idea that integration is something synonymous with whiteness,” Beydoun said. “Read the Constitution. Read the letter of the law, which says that every individual has the right to freely exercise their faith. That to me is the real marker to American citizenship, not these racist and racialized ideas of assimilation and integration.”

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over the integration of schools in Louisiana. This incident was in response to Brown v. Board of Education, a United States Supreme Court case which ruled that all public schools had to be desegregated. During the attack, someone shot and killed a 13-year-old boy. Tyler was one of the students on the bus and was wrongfully convicted for the boy’s death.

He was later convicted of first-degree murder by an all-white jury and became the youngest person to be on death row at Louisiana State Prison.

Tyler asked the audience to picture his first night in prison — he described the jingle of the guard’s keys, the clink of the cell doors and the long corridor to death row.

“Can you imagine?” he asked. “That’s what I experienced.”

The last speaker was Scott Budnick, a producer who worked on movies such as the first two films in “The Hangover” franchise. Budnick is also the founder and president of the Anti-Recidivism Coalition, which works to help former inmates transition into civilian life.

In his speech Budnick recalled how he started the coalition after he taught a creative writing class at a penitentiary and met a 16-year-old boy who was serving a life sentence.

This motivated Budnick to become an activist and launch ARC, the organization that has helped former inmates find

Hunter Lee | Daily 49er

Actor and activist Danny Trejo speaks to a crowd of students during the From Death to Life forum in the University Student Ballrooms Tuesday. The event invited formerly incarcerated individuals to speak about the portrayal of former inmates.

jobs and shelter.

Budnick wrapped up his speech by announcing that he was stepping down as president of ARC to develop a movie studio that will focus on positive movies and roles telling the stories of prisoners and former inmates.

“You don’t see the people [who were] at the bottom of the world and are now at the top,” Budnick said.

To close the event, the audience was invited to ask the panel any questions they might have. Speakers were joined by members of Rising Scholars, President Joe Louis, Vice-President Irene Sotolo and treasurer Adrian Vasquez.

Ellis Sanchez, junior consumer affairs major, said he initially came to see Trejo, but was most impressed by Tyler’s speech. He admitted that the stories

from the event helped change his view of criminals.

“I took away a new mindset toward the criminal justice system,” Sanchez said. “I thought everyone there must be bad, but not everyone there is bad. Some people were incarcerated for something small [and they] shouldn’t be there for life. It made me understand people there and it makes me want to help them now.”

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Third year animation major Trilina Mai has been chosen as one of 12 students for the highly prestigious Pixar Animation Internship. She will be taking part in a 12-week program this summer.

PROFILE

Mai on the path to Pixar Animation student Trilina Mai has been accepted into Pixar’s prestigious animation internship.

By Samantha Diaz Arts & Life Editor

When Trilina Mai began her college career as an animation major, she had to lug around a giant canvas and her full portfolio, trying to prove to her family that art was a respected major while being unsure herself if she would be able to find a career in her field.

“It was a little weird the first few years, because you start carrying all this junk on you,” Mai said. “Like portfolios, canvases and stuff and [my family] was like, ‘Why are you carrying all that?’ I can’t help it, I have to!”

Two years later, the 22-year-old is one of 12 students invited to the Pixar Animation Internship this summer, as announced last week. The program was open to colleges and art schools worldwide and received thousands of applicants.

The internship is a 12-week intensive program that invites students to the studio in Emeryville, California to work side-by-side with animators in order to create a polished reel by the end of their stay.

“It definitely is a self-esteem booster,” Mai said. “If anything, getting into this program means that I definitely do have a chance of being successful in the world of animation.”

This feeling of confidence comes after many years of hard work and proving herself to her professors, her peers and her parents. Coming from a Vietnamese and Chinese family, Mai felt the pressure as a first generation

student and the eldest sibling to show that pursuing a career in the arts was both feasible and realistic.

“Being first generation here, there’s this huge focus on being educated… and picking a career that is a lot safer in terms of financial sustainability,” Mai said. “So there definitely [were] times I’ve had in high school, where I wasn’t so sure about being an art major.

“But whatever I did, even when I went away from it, drawing and art always came back and it’s something that I always connected to, no matter how far I strayed away from it.”

Now Mai is sure where she stands both with her family and as an artist.

After years of lugging around portfolios and canvases and spending hours everyday in the animation lab, she has Mai works on one of her animated clips in the Fine Arts labs, perfecting her line work the recognition of making a name for and paint work. herself in one of the top animation programs in the nation.

More than making a name for herThe culture of belonging to a resue animation, pursue film, pursue self, Mai is also putting Cal State Long spected animation program has crethings that allow you to be creative. It’s Beach on the map as a respected aniated a more supportive and hopeful okay to be an art major, it’s okay to not mation program as the second student environment in the arts department. be a stereotype and fall into the flow to be accepted into Email chains with with everyone else.”

Pixar’s internship cong ratu l at ions Sitting just outside the University in the past two for Mai have been Art Store where Mai’s peers buy sup...drawing and years. spread around plies for their classes, she begins deart always “Trilina came to faculty and the scribing her trip to the Pixar Animacame back and my door last week whiteboard in the tion Studio she took over the summer. it’s something that I always with tears in my animation lab is a She recounts the “Monsters Inc.” and connected to, no matter eyes [and told me] canvas of drawings “Inside Out” statues and various artthat she made it,” and best wishes work she passed by, her future taking how far I strayed away said Aubry Mintz, from peers. shape as her excitement grows. from it.” one of Mai’s aniWhile Mai is “Art is freeing, it’s so freeing,” Mai mation professors. embracing her role said. “To be able to work hard on “It just dawned on something, obviously that you stress Trilina Mai, as an inspiration me that this sofor her peers, she is about, but at the same time, at the end Animation major lidifies we’re doalready looking to of the day you’re just satisfied with ing the right thing the future and toyour existence and doing it. To know here. It lets [other students] know ward a larger, more personal audience. that you’re a part of a bigger picture that it’s possible….it seems like such a “I want to be an inspiration to that can inspire other people, and far away dream for some of them, so those who are minority race, like speak things that may not be easily when two of them make it, this level of Asian-American, just to open up their said face-to-face or with words is so reality sets in.” minds to pursue art,” Mai said. “Purprofound.”

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Who wants a mustache ride (again)?

“Super Troopers 2” is a hilarious return from the comedy team.

By Grant Hermanns Staff Writer

“Do you really not remember this guy or are you just fucking with me?”

“Yeah, I have no idea who he is.”

“You know I heard everything you said?”

“Son of a bitch, we’ve been doing that for years.”

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n a film full of revisiting past jokes, this exchange in “Super Troopers 2” was hands-down one of the most nostalgic and comedic moments for fans of the original film.

While disguised as Canadian Mounties to mess with the locals, Troopers Jeff Foster (Paul Soter) and MacIntyre “Mac” Womack (Steve Lemme) find themselves at a loss when the driver turns out to be Larry Johnson (Jim Gaffigan), whom they played a prank on in the first film.

Not only is Johnson’s return a warm welcome for fans, but a great spin on the original film, as they learn their method of speaking to each other over the car is pointless, as the driver can hear everything.

It’s been 17 years since its predecessor’s, and writing/starring group

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Kevin Heffernan, Jay Chandrasekhar, Erik Stolhanske, Paul Soter and Steve Lemme reprise their roles for the “Super Troopers” sequel.

original film, but also carried plenty of Broken Lizard’s, theatrical debut. Fans outrageous fresh humor for new audihave been clamoring for a sequel since. ences as well.

It has amassed a large cult following, One highlight of the film was the reearning over $60 million in rentals turn of many jokes from the original alone. fi lm, including the “meow” prank, the After a successful crowdfunding combination of Ramathorn and Rod campaign garnering $2 million in for “Car Ram Rod” and “littering and, just 24 hours and $4.7 million in one littering and, littering and.” month, the group reunited to bring the Whether the Troopers were testVermont Highway Patrol officers back ing out drugs for their next adthey confi scated venture.

From start to finor pulling pranks Set 17 years afon each other, ter its predecessor, ish, the film was the jokes were a the group has been not only a great laugh-a-minute, fired from their outing for fans of the original outrageous and jobs as Spurbury fi lm, but also carried plenty landed well — for Police officers, but of outrageous fresh humor for are recruited by the most part.

Governor Jessman There were a few new audiences as well. jokes that fell flat, (Lynda Carter) to namely the entireopen a new Highty of Rob Lowe’s way Patrol station performance as the mayor of the town, in a small Canadian town.

Guy Le Franc. His attempt at a CanadiWhile opening the station, they must an accent worked at first, even poking also replace the local Mountie station fun at Americans with his real accent, and solve a case of a local drugs and but it quickly falls off and transitions weapons smuggling operation. back and forth between the fake accent From start to finish, the film was and his natural accent. not only a great outing for fans of the

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The other major flaw of the film is the ending, which not only leaves questions unanswered in regards to the little bit of plotting there was, but is also too abrupt. Audiences are treated to what feels like another gag that would lead to more story but instead rolls right into the credits.

The cast also does a wonderful job of re-immersing themselves in their roles, bringing the irresponsible jokesters back to life in hilarious fashion with more bombastic pranks and fresh takes on the personalities of the fan-favorite group.

Although there are moments in which the film shows struggles every delayed sequel goes through, there are still plenty of guffaw-inducing gags and jokes that bring plenty of nostalgia for fans of the original, almost reaching the comic heights of the first.

RATING

Correction: In the article published April 23 titled, “Guess who’s hacked, hacked again,” the organization that helped host the event is Major League Hacking and the founder of the event is Michael Botsko.

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POLITICS

Liberal professors pushing conservative students toward Trump

By Bradley Schober The Baltimore Sun

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or the past four years at Loyola University Maryland I have come to find lifelong friendships; amazing professors, who were instrumental in my being able to go to law school next year; and, by the grace of God, I was even able to find a date. I was also able to discover the reason why Donald Trump is the president of the United States.

While some professors have clear political views, many are able to hide their personal opinions and — even if they disagree — allow students to speak their minds, then support and defend various viewpoints to promote critical thinking. A small minority, however, are your stereotypical “so far left they make Karl Marx look like Ted Cruz,” my-way-or-the-highway kind of professor.

The purpose of college is to create a free market of ideas where we teach students the established theories of a major field of study and encourage them to think for themselves.

However, schools have been getting so “open-minded” that their actions mirror that of someone who is extremely closed-minded. Conservative, and even moderate, positions can be attacked regardless of the class’ subject.

I do not want this to be seen as a conservative student lambasting his professors, nor do I want this to be taken as a denouncement of the American education system. However, as a graduating senior, president of Loyola University Maryland’s College Republican chapter and vice chair of the Maryland Federation of College Republicans, I feel it would be inappropriate if I did not make my voice heard.

I have witnessed professors go out of their way to attack Donald Trump or even conservatives as a whole. I am sure these professors will justify their actions as “educating students on the issues,” however these attacks, which are often very illogical or hypocritical, take students, even

Olivier Douliery | Abaca Press

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a state arrival ceremony at the White House April 24 in Washington, D.C.

those who dislike President Trump, the former General Secretary of the and push them to the political right.

Soviet Union and to give the 2018 I have witnessed the college Recommencement speaker spot to a publicans go from a club of diverse man who said he would have killed thought to one where even the most Donald Trump had he been in the ardent of Trump haters among the room when he was born, yet have not members are now to my knowledge supporters because brought in a conI have witof the anger they servative speaker in nessed the feel toward certain my four years here. college Reprofessors constantThey provide one publicans go from a club ly going after the side of the political president. spectrum to their of diverse thought to one Sadly, the strong where even the most ardent students, and Loyola bias against confinds itself in a fiof Trump haters among the nancial crunch with servative beliefs on members are now support- alumni not giving campus is not just ers because of the anger in the classroom. back. Maybe if they Loyola clearly supdid not anger us as they feel toward certain ports illegal immiprofessors constantly going students, we would grants more than its be more willing to after the president. own students. The give back. There is a school has confinancial benefit for sistently taken political stands and you to stop harassing us. encouraged students to get involved Beyond simply words in class and with the political stances the adminoptional speaking events, even the istration holds, but will not permit Community Standards are enforced students to bring opposition views in a biased way. Many of you already to campus. The school is more than know that after Donald Trump’s willing to invite speakers who have election, there was a huge backlash been given leadership awards by on campus to a proposed senior cele-

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bration theme of “Party in the USA,” which school administrators strangely called “very alienating, harmful and divisive” and against our school’s core values. But most have not heard about is this year’s issues: For the same annual party, students hung USA flags outside of their rooms, and an administrator ordered me to tell students to take them down, then an R.A. informed me they perpetrators would be fined and written up if the flags were not removed.

To my knowledge, the school has not even threatened this to people who throw beer bottles in our courtyards creating hazardous walking conditions, and administrators have said nothing about the foreign flags that are hung in the same dorm violating the same rule as the American flags.

They ignore student safety, yet scream at the sight of American pride?

The school’s actions contradict their purpose. The result of this is radical conservatives entering the student body. Liberal professors and administrators, you are part of why Donald Trump is president of the United States. If you want that to change, it’s on you to change.

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Dirtbags rally late against Trojans

Long Beach ends three-game losing streak and will host UC Davis over the weekend.

By Christian Gonzales

Sports Editor

Long Beach State junior second baseman Jarren Duran’s high-bouncing single in the ninth inning with one out gave the Dirtbags hope. After head coach Troy Buckley was ejected earlier in the game for arguing balls and strikes with home plate umpire Jeff Macias, the Dirtbags were ready to leave Dedeaux Field just as Duran got the green light to steal second base.

Freshman first baseman Leonard Jones hit a line drive to left field that brought Duran home as Long Beach sealed the game.

Long Beach (17-24) rallied late and defeated USC 8-4 to end a three-game losing streak Tuesday. Jones as the clean-up batter was 3-for-4 with one RBI. “I was just thinking of getting him over to get the next man up to try to score,” Jones told the LBDirtbags on Twitter. “I honestly came up with a clutch hit any-

thing to put on the team.”

USC (18-19) managed to get a run in the bottom of the ninth but it was not enough to complete a comeback.

It took four innings to get the first run in the game after an error by USC triggered a two-run rally for the Dirtbags. In the bottom of the fourth inning, redshirt sophomore pitcher Jacob Hughey allowed a hit and two walks to the Trojans, leaving the bases loaded with no outs. Instead of Buckley making a visit to the mound, it was pitching coach Dan Ricabal.

Senior Sebastian Sanchez replaced Hughey and the Trojans scored three runs in the fourth.

With the bases loaded in the fifth inning and one out, Duran made a sliding effort to only allow one run in the jam.

The Dirtbags rallied in the top of the eighth after two hits and an error that cut the Trojan’s lead to one. Redshirt senior Tristan Mercadel tied the game at 4-4 with an RBI groundout.

“I feel like [the win] will boost us up and I hope we can build off of this and keep going and get better and stronger and we will do good,” Jones said.

Long Beach will host UC Davis in a weekend series April 27-29 with game one starting at 6 p.m. at Blair Field.

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Long Beach State starting pitcher Jacob Hughey throws a pitch in Tuesday’s game against USC.

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Palmer moves to the Mountain West The former associate coach has taken an assistant coach position at San Diego State.

By Kevin Colindres Assistant Sports Editor

After three Big West regular season titles, multiple Pac-12 assistant coach job offers, and 11 years of coaching at Long Beach State, associate head coach Rod Palmer will be taking his talents to San Diego State.

The announcement came through the SDSU Athletics page Monday afternoon. It was a difficult decision for Palmer to make because of his gratitude toward head coach Dan Monson.

“It was one of the toughest things I ever had to do,” Palmer told the Daily 49er. “Coach Monson gave me my start in college coaching.”

Monson took a chance by recruiting Palmer in 2007 from Centennial High School in Compton.

His risk paid dividends as Palmer proved to be an excellent coach.

Palmer served as an assistant coach under Monson for seven years and was promoted to as-

Rod Palmer served as an assistant and associate coach at Long Beach State for 11 years.

sociate for his final four seasons.

In his tenure he helped lead Long Beach to three Big West titles, and recruit NBA-caliber players, James Ennis and Casper Ware.

“I was a little bit sad, but I owe it to my assistants to get better opportunities,” Monson said. “[Palmer has] done so much for me and the program, so I owed it

to him.”

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the Big West tournament the previous year.

“We had some players on the team that coach Monson had to let go even though we had just won a championship and I didn’t feel right leaving at that time,” Palmer said. “Instead of me looking into that opportunity, I decided to stay and try to get our pro-

gram back where it needed to be.

[Monson] was the one that came to me with that opportunity because he is very good friends with Steve Alford.”

This time around, Palmer had Monson’s blessing which made it a lot easier to move onto a better opportunity.

“My goal as a coach is to be a head coach and I just think it’s a little easier to be a head coach in a higher conference [Mountain West],” Palmer said.

Long Beach will be losing an associate coach well-known for West Coast recruiting and being an excellent on-floor coach, which can be be problematic in the upcoming season.

While San Diego State and Long Beach State do not share the same conference, Long Beach will suffer if Palmer is able to move local recruits right down the 5 freeway.

It is unsure if current assistant Myke Scholl will be promoted to the associate position, but Long Beach will have to move fast before recruiting season comes to an end.

“I have some guys in mind to add to our staff, but I think we’re in good shape,” Monson said. “I want to find someone that matches our personnel so we have a well-rounded staff.”

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