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The Dirtbags strung together back-to-back wins again after edging the San Diego State Aztecs Tuesday at Blair Field. LBSU got the narrow win after solid pitching efforts by left-hander Jacob Hughey and right-hander Dave Smith. See page 8 for the full recap of Tuesday night’s game.
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The Internet can be overwhelming when it comes to sifting through posts upon posts of content, but Buzzfeed has worked to create an online space where readers can find material that is entertaining, relatable and, sometimes, just too honest. On Tuesday night, Buzzfeed Senior Editor Mackenzie Kruvant, former writer and “Whine About It” star Matt Bellassai and former Senior Producer of Buzzfeed Motion Pic-
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tures Dimitri Simakis gave students According to Kruvant, the key to a real look into how the company curating a story that will be liked, works and what goes into the posts shared and reposted across social we all know – and usually love. media platforms is pairing text readDuring a panel hosted by USU ers can relate to with images that Program Counplay into some cil in the Alamsort of emoitos Bay Balltion, whether room, the three that comes in Good content will always lived up to the the form of a lighthearted and tear-jerking find its audience. millennial vibe wedding shoot Buzzfeed has or a guffaw-in-Mackenzie Kruvant, become known ducing animatBuzzfeed Senior Editor for. They shared ed video. stories of work“There’s not place mishaps, really an editing bumps in the process, for betroad that led ter or for worse,” them each to the company and what Bellassai said about the process of it means to produce media content in sharing content on social media. “It the most digital age journalism has comes to letting the audience decide ever known. whether an idea is good or not.” With multimedia becoming more Kruvant followed by saying, and more prominent in the world of “Good content will always find its entertainment journalism, it’s vital audience.” for online content to have something that will grab readers from the getsee BUZZFEED, page 4 go.
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C a m p u s Voic e ICE deportation on campus
What do you think about the recent incident where a CSULB police officer held José Alvarez in the campus police substation for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to come and pick up, leading to his deportation to Tijuana a few hours later?
“As a campus that is supposed to be all-inclusive of all its students, and undocumented students, I would imagine that this makes people that are part of this community feel very uncomfortable.”
“It’s pretty tough, and I feel that the campus police shouldn’t have anything to do with that type of stuff, especially when it comes to outside organizations like ICE. They need to focus more on the safety of the [students] here on campus.”
—Spencer Potiker, economics and sociology major, senior
“I feel that the action of the police was extreme, and I feel that it’s related to the ongoing racial discrimination against immigrants.”
—Kenneth Compos, pre-nursing major, freshman
—Gerry Rangel, psychology major, junior
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We avoided the largest strike in higher education history. The largest strike that actually didn’t happen. -Jennifer Eagan, California Faculty Association president
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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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“Fight For Five” protestors including members of CFA hold signs outside of a Board of Trustees meeting in the California State University Office of the Chancellor Nov. 17, 2015.
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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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.
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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
Members of the public gather at the Place de la Bourse in Brussels to leave messages and tributes following the terrorist attacks on Tuesday, March 22, 2016.
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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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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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Fraternity hosts MS fundraiser ‘Swim for Multiple Sclerosis’ next week with Delta Sigma Chi. By Wardah Imran Contributing Writer
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The new College of Health & Human Services (CHHS) Academic Advising Center has room to accommodate multiple private offices where students can discuss their advising needs with the staff.
CHHS Advising Center relocates CHHS Advising Center’s new location provides a welcoming and spacious environment for CSULB students. By Abdiel Bustillo Staff Writer
The College of Health and Human Services Advising Center at Cal State Long Beach has moved to the Health Science Department, a spacious location, which they
hope will offer a more welcoming environment for their students and staff. The CHHS Advising Center was previously located in the Engineering Technology building, room 237. CHHS first opened its doors in September 2007, serving all currently matriculated College of Health and Human Services major, minor and certificate students by providing services such as individual appointments, drop-in advising, workshops, social media and quick question assist. “In the future, we hope to be able to provide events to further connect and support students throughout their CSULB journey,” said Kristin Taylor, office coordi-
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nator at the CHHS Advising Center. According to center officials, the biggest deciding factor for the move was a larger space with the potential to accommodate more staff and assist their large student population. As one of the largest CSU’s, CSULB student population stands at about 37,500 students, of which the CHHS Advising Center attends to 17 percent, providing services to approximately 7,099 students. “Our new space consists of 11 staff offices, a conference room and a large student waiting area, which will allow students to work on homework while they wait for their advisor or connect with oth-
er students who are also waiting,” said Katherine Martinez, Assistant Director of the CHHS Advising Center. Center officials said they appreciate all of the students’ continued patience throughout their move and look forward to seeing them in the new office. “We just finished up with the ‘busy season’ of registration, so now is the perfect time for students to come in and meet with their advisor and check out our new office space,” said Rachel Weidemann, Director at the CHHS Advising Center. For further information, visit the College of Health and Human Services Advising Center’s website.
CSULB’s Delta Sigma Chi fraternity will host “Swim for Multiple Sclerosis” on May 2, in partnership with the Multiple Sclerosis Association of America to raise money and awareness for the sometimes fatal disease. “A lot of members in our fraternity have family members with multiple sclerosis, so we wanted to bring attention to this issue because a lot of people don’t know about it,” said Jesse Cruz, member of Delta Sigma Chi. MSAA is an organization that provides support services for people coping with multiple sclerosis and their loved ones. MS occurs when myelin, the protective covering over nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord, becomes damaged. This damage interrupts nerve impulses, or “messages,” between the brain, spinal cord, and other parts of the body. Symptoms include numbness, reduced mobility of arms and legs, muscle pain, bladder difficulties, overwhelming fatigue, blurred vision and memory loss. There is no known cure for the disease. The fraternity’s goal is to get 100 people to come to the event, which will consist of challenges including a competition for who can make the biggest splash. It will take place at the Student Recreation and Wellness Center at 2 p.m. Participants must register for the event by May 1 and pay a fee of $20.
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terial that still resonates and tells a different narrative. continued from page 1 “We try to be inclusive and we try to tell stories that people haven’t heard before,” Kruvant said. She cited different Buzzfeed secShe explained that there’s just tions such as Buzzfeed Health and about nothing considered taboo in Buzzfeed Food as acting as a platthe world of Buzzfeed, which has led form for material that may otherwise to the creation of a platform for both not get any attention. In particular, artistically-experimental and socialKruvant feels that the many artily-moving content. cles discussing reproductive health The panfor women are el responded both necessary to criticisms and helpful for made by mefemale readers If jobs like Buzzfeed exist dia interpreters who don’t oththere’s going to be weirder that Buzzfeed erwise have easy is “clickbait,” access to that insh*t down the road. nonconsequenformation. tial and vapid Simakis said material that that he saw a only aims to be personal pro-Dimitri Simakis, a quick read to gression in his Former Senior Producer of Buzzgarner site trafwork once he feed Motion Pictures fic. stepped away Simakis said from his perthat though spective as a Buzzfeed does get a high volume of white, heterosexual male and made clicks, the intent of the material isn’t active efforts to create videos that to attract attention — it’s to attract would make impacts on people outshares. Using keywords in article side of his social circles. titles is an easy enough way to get The panel shared the different ininitial clicks, but Simakis and Kruspirations behind the daily content vant both noted that there still has they put out on social media platto be substance in what readers find forms such as Facebook, Instagram on the other side of the link to get and Snapchat. them to continue reading and, in the Kruvant said that what she writes best case scenario, share with their and posts under the Buzzfeed name friends. is usually based on her emotional They discussed the ways in which reaction to an event, image or story. they’re able to use social media as a Ballesai said his video podcast, bridge to create silly, relatable ma“Whine About It,” a weekly Facebook
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Alec Velazquez introduces Matt Bellassai, Mackenzie Kruvant and Dimitri Simakis at a press conference held before their panel on Tuesday afternoon. series where Bellassai would drink a bottle of wine at his desk at work and complain about a given topic, was based off of everyday interactions. “I would walk down the street and get annoyed with someone and make them the target for that week’s episode,” he said. At the end of the panel, the three gave advice to students entering the professional world.
Kruvant advised students to keep writing and to step out of their comfort zone. She also advised students to not be afraid to leave a job and move on to something else. “When you’re at a job and you’re no longer learning, then it’s time to leave,” Kruvant said. Simakis continued by encouraging those in the audience to try new things and “work as a Swiss army
knife”– in other words, have as many skills as possible. All three agreed that it’s hard to predict what the future of the industry will look like, simply because there are so many avenues to explore and updates to current technology that just haven’t caught on yet. “If jobs like Buzzfeed exist,” Simakis said, “there’s going to be weirder sh*t down the road.”
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Prince as role model for nonconforming freedom When Prince ascended the stage at the 1985 Plainly put, Prince embodied complexity, contraAcademy Awards to accept the original score Oscar diction and complication. At once fearless and soft, for “Purple Rain,” his body appeared to be draped craggy and emotional, man and woman, his style in purple glitter. Atop a black pant suit, he wore a was unmatched. Though the likes of Little Richard shining purple shawl that covered his head, shouland David Bowie might have paved the way, he took ders and arms — and pulled the attention from the their lead and irreverently fashioned a path uniquely high heels on his feet. His hands were tucked into a his own. In purple, no less. pair of black lace gloves, while at his side stood the His stage silhouettes ran the gamut and are the Revolution’s Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman. most obvious examples of how he blurred gender This image of a secure and assured black man lines. A “Dirty Mind”-era Prince arrived at Los embracing both the masculine and the feminine is Angeles’ Flipper’s Roller Disco Boogie Lounge in what I will remember most of the musician who 1981 wearing a tank top, bandanna, thigh-highs and died Thursday. Though I black underwear. wasn’t alive, the YouTube vidIn 1984, he donned a eo of the moment became a high-collared, ruffled white reference point for this genshirt, pearl-studded jacket der-nonconforming man who and a pink feather shoulder needed permission to be himpiece during the “Purple Rain” For black men, gender is self. Prince taught me how to days. Following the release of transgress gender roles, and “Lovesexy” in 1988, he wore a straitjacket, and day by his daring difference in gena black-and-white polka-dot day we find ways to live der-bending style and fashion blouse with an oversize colwith our hands bound. liberated generations more. lar and matching white-andWhat we know to be gender black polka-dot high-waisted dates back hundreds of years, pants. rooted in ideas of white purity And, of course, there were and black savagery. Black men super-skin-tight cropped tops, were seen as the brute — unintelligent, with insatiathe occasional pair of cheeky trousers with open-air ble, aggressive sexual desires most certainly directderriere, baggy double-breasted suits and volumied at society’s paragons of beauty and virtue, white nous turtleneck sweaters. women — a la 1915’s “The Birth of a Nation.” By any He often performed in heels, perhaps more means necessary, white people were to be protected gracefully than most female acts. His eyewear from us. — which consisted of asymmetrical ‘80s shades, And while gender can be a trap for a person of granny glasses and third-eye sunnies and bested any race, even now black people more often find any performer this side of Elton John — perfectly themselves born into this suffocating box that hews highlighted his waxed eyebrows and makeup-clad too closely to an identity that doesn’t fully encapsuface. And his hair had a number of iterations: long late our complexities and nuance. For black men, and flowy curls, a natural Afro, a doobie wrapped gender is a straitjacket, and day by day we find ways up-do. to live with our hands bound. Prince was more than a style icon, more than a Prince, however, found a way to break free. He rebel for rebel’s sake. He saw femininity as the close shrugged off the confines of gender, giving way to friend of masculinity, and when he clothed his body a persona that was masculine and feminine, and in paradoxical fashions he simultaneously shed the the world had to deal. Looking at how he moved expectations automatically placed on us by being through the world, seemingly without a care, I saw a born black and male. Prince gave us all permission way that I too could somehow balance these seemto be free. And for that I am grateful. ingly opposite identities. —Tre’vell Anderson, Los Angeles Times, TNS
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How to read Trump-Clinton matchup polls now In the Democratic and Republican presidential races right now, we’re hearing a lot of claims about electability in general-election matchups. Ted Cruz says he’s the only Republican who can beat Hillary Clinton in November, while John Kasich is staying in the race because, he maintains, he’s the one GOP candidate who can appeal to swing voters in November. And Bernie Sanders’s campaign argues that he, not Clinton, would be the strongest general-election candidate. We’re finally getting to the point where, with seven months left to go, general-election polls begin to be meaningful. Yet they can be misleading. How should we read the early numbers? Political scientists have found that, historically, polls on potential general-election matchups don’t become more reliable in a steady, gradual arc
as the months and weeks go by. Instead, after starting off as essentially meaningless, they ratchet up sharply in two steps. We are just nearing the end of the first stage, when primary and caucus voters first learned about the candidates and formed opinions about them that can be reflected in the November matchups. The second phase occurs at roughly 100 days before the election, corresponding to the parties’ conventions. Once the nominees are known and the general-election campaigns begin, polls do a good job of predicting the outcome. The polls this year could be somewhat less predictive than usual, because both nominations remain contested. Some partisans who will eventually support their party’s nominee are working hard against that candidate right now, and are focused on all the reasons to oppose him or
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Paul, Griffin out for rest of series against Blazers PORTLAND — The Portland Trail Blazers are in uncharted territory and mapping their way through it probably can’t get started until tip-off Wednesday. But they at least know what they won’t have to guard against: Clippers superstars Chris Paul and Blake Griffin will both be out for the duration of the postseason. Paul underwent surgery Tuesday on his broken hand and will be re-evaluated in four-to-six weeks, which is likely long after the Clippers postseason run will be over. Griffin has been ruled out for the postseason due to the same left quad injury that kept him out for most of the regular season. With the series tied, the long-shooting long shots from Portland now find themselves in position to advance to the conference semifinals heading into Game 5 of their best-of-seven series against the Clippers at Staples Center Wednesday. The absence of Paul and Griffin have
made the Blazers the favorites (-1) for Game 5 according to the Westgate Superbook in Las Vegas. Through the first four games of the series, the Clippers were +13.2 points per 100 possessions with Paul on the floor. In the 67 minutes that Paul has sat on the bench, the Clippers have been outscored by an average of 10.4 points per 100 possessions. The Blazers definitely have the talent advantage. What they don’t have is any idea about the team that they will be see on Wednesday. “They played a couple of games recently against Oklahoma City and Utah when they rested a lot of players, I don’t know if that’s a good barometer of what they do,” Blazers coach Terry Stotts said of trying to prepare for the Clippers without Paul. “Whether it was in our series or in other games to get a little bit better gauge of how they play without him in the game.” Now without Griffin and Paul, the offensive attack for the Clippers will
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The Los Angeles Clippers’ Chris Paul collides with the Portland Trail Blazers’ Damain Lillard during Game 2 of the Western Conference quarterfinals at Staples Center in Los Angeles on Wednesday, April 20, 2016. certainly be much different and much more reliant on JJ Redick, Jamal Crawford, Austin Rivers and perhaps even DeAndre Jordan. Lillard repeated a familiar refrain after Game 4, guarding against any notion the series is already won. “Once again, who are we to be over-confident about anything?,” Lillard said. “We’ve had to scratch and claw and fight. Just to get to where we
are now, we have to continue doing those things.” The Blazers have prided themselves all year on nobody believing in them. Now with almost everything on their side, the Blazers know that in a playoff series that has already seen sea changes from game-to-game, the stakes are too high for them to feel too good. “I don’t know about complacency as
much as it is respecting the players that they have,” Stotts said. “Knowing that it’s 2-2 and it’s a best of 3 series, I don’t think complacency or lack of respect will ever come into the equation. The most important thing is that we continue to realize why we won these two games with how hard we played and how well we defended.” —Erik Gundersen, Los Angeles Times, TNS
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Dirtbags survive 9th inning scare San Diego State strikes twice in the ninth, but LBSU ultimately edges the Aztecs. By Matthew Simon Staff Writer
With three outs left, leading 4-0, the Long Beach State baseball team had cruised through eight innings. With limited options in the bullpen, the Dirtbags (23-16, 6-6) ran into a roadblock in the ninth as San Diego State (12-26, 5-10) scored two runs with one out and loaded the bases to cut into the lead. Still, LBSU managed to escape, defeating the Aztecs 4-2 Tuesday night at Blair Field. With relievers Chris Rivera and Joshua Advocate unavailable due to undisclosed injuries, LBSU head coach Troy Buckley had fewer options to finish the game. Buckley sent junior right-hander Dave Smith back out after he retired 10 straight and tallied seven strikeouts through five innings of relief. “We knew we were thin,” Buckley said. “Especially coming off a long weekend, so it was huge.” In the ninth, Smith walked freshman catcher Dean Nevarez and allowed back-to-back singles by SDSU’s senior designated hitter Spencer Thornton and sophomore right fielder Tyler Adkison that loaded the bases with no outs. “Arguably he could’ve been tired,” Buckley said. “But I let him go out there for the ninth because he deserved it and he wanted it.” Looking to reduce the damage, junior Kyle Brown replaced Smith. Brown walked the first batter he faced, freshman Jordan Verdon, which cut the Dirtbags lead to 4-1. The Dirtbags would make another pitching change as junior Austin McGeorge replaced Brown. Facing a 3-0 count to junior third baseman Andrew Brown, McGeorge fought his way back to strike him out. The Aztecs’ next batter, centerfielder David Hensley, hit a RBI single allowing Thornton to score and cutting the Long Beach State’s lead to 4-2, but
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Junior rightfielder Alex Muzzi returns to the dugout after scoring on a wild pitch by SDSU pitcher Brett Seeburger in the third inning. LBSU won the game, 4-2, Tuesday night at Blair Field. McGeorge closed the the deal to tally his second save of the year, forcing sophomore left fielder Chase Calabuig fly out. LBSU got off to a quick start in the first inning after senior third baseman Zack Domingues walked and stole second. Junior shortstop Garrett Hampson then drilled a hit down the third baseline, allowing Domingues to score and give the Dirtbags a 1-0 lead. The Dirtbags scored two more runs after freshman designated hitter Luke Rasmussen hit a 2-RBI single that allowed junior first baseman Daniel Jackson and Hampson to score to take a 3-0 lead after the first inning. “My coaches and teammates have faith in me and have entrusted me [in these situations],” Rasmussen said. “We’ve been working on things so
I don’t think it’s more pressure, but when guys get on in front of you, it’s fun to hit them in.” Freshman Jacob Hughey, who was making his first collegiate start at Blair Field, struggled early but pitched three shutout innings, allowing only one hit, five walks while striking out two batters. Smith entered the game in the fourth inning for the Dirtbags and shutout SDSU for five innings. “I think that was huge for [Smith],” Buckley said. “He’s been grinding through and hasn’t had a lot of success, numbers wise. That was huge for us, then again we needed to use the whole village to make it happen.” The Dirtbags will now set their sights on first-place Cal Poly Pomona for a three game series starting on Friday at 6 p.m.
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Senior Darian Tautalafua hit her 13th home run of the season on Sunday, tying her single-season high; Tautalafua hit 13 home runs in both for freshman and sophomore seasons.
Need to know: Long Beach State (26-17, 6-6) renews its rivalry against Cal State Fullerton with a doubleheader on Wednesday. The Titans lead the all-time series 74-59, but the 49ers have four straight wins against Fullerton dating back to 2014. The 49ers swept the Titans at home last season, outscoring them 18-8 across three games on April 18 and 22, 2015.
However, sweeping CSUF this season will be a feat. The Titans are undefeated in conference play, tearing through their first four series for a 12-0 record and holding a five game lead at the top of the Big West. With only nine games remaining in the season, CSUF can clinch at least a share of the regular season title as early as Sunday. CSUF senior infielder Missy Taukeiaho missed the series against LBSU last season, but will be present on Wednesday. Taukeiaho leads the Titans with a .380 batting average, eight home runs and 20 doubles and ranks second with 34 RBIs.
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