Daily 49er, August 27, 2018

LONG BEACH STATE

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new school year means a lot of things for a lot of people at Long Beach State.

For the Daily 49er, it was a chance for something new, and that meant changing the way we operate on this campus.Watching newspapers around the nation buckle in response to a world that gets their news online, we knew we had to do something big to remain relevant and to better serve our readers.

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And one more thing — we’ve decided to refer to our campus solely as “Long Beach State” from now on. Our decision to commit to one name is for the sake of simplicity and consistency. If you’re new here, you’ll come to find that a lot of aspects of college are confusing, but we’ll do our best not to be.

We’ll have one issue on stands this week and one next Thursday. Due to Labor Day, we’ll begin our new print schedule of two days a week beginning Sept. 10.

- Kat Schuster, editor in chief NEWS BRIEFS

New bus routes and detours arrive at Long Beach State

Four steps to forwarding school emails to your personal

From Monday to Thursday, all routes serving the university will drop riders at various points off campus instead of traveling through school from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.

The stops closest to campus for buses entering on Seventh Street is in front of the Veterans Affairs Medical Center and near Beach Drive for buses entering Bellflower Boulevard. Long Beach Tran-

Long Beach State announced in May that all communications from the university will be sent through BeachMail starting Aug. 2. According to school officials, this move was designed to protect students from “phishing attacks and cyber scams.” Here’s how to forward all emails to your personal account: To do this, students must sign into their BeachMail ac-

count and select the “Settings” tab.

Select “Mail” from the dropdown menu.

Select “Forwarding” from a list of options on the left side of the menu.

Click on “Start forwarding” and type in the email address you want all messages forward to.

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Part of this revolution is what you’re holding now — a reader friendly and visually focused full color version of our classic print paper. We’ve also cut down our print schedule by one day so we’ll be printing two days a week: Mondays and Thursdays. We’re also bolstering our social media and multimedia presence to become a digital first publication; one that is even more of a resource for the campus. In the coming weeks we will roll out an email newsletter, more digital content and eventually an interactive calendar and website.

sit buses will resume their normal routes beginning Sept. 3.

Jeff Bliss, the university’s executive director of media and digital news, confirmed that campus shuttles will operate per their normal schedules during the first week.

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Editorials: All opinions expressed in the columns, letters and cartoons in this issue are those of the writers or artists. The opinions of the Daily 49er are expressed only in unsigned editorials and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the journalism department or the views of all staff members.

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INITIATIVE

Beach 2030 looks to the community for future of the campus ALEXANDRA APATIGA | Daily 49er

Long Beach State President Jane Close Conoley speaks during the 2018 Student Convocation in the Carpenter Performing Arts Center, as she describes Beach 2030 to the audience.

By James Chow News Editor tabasfat

In 12 years, Genesis Jara envisions Long Beach State as a campus where students who are in the greatest need, receive the most support.

Jara, Associated Students Inc. president, imagines an overnight housing center, affordable textbooks and sustainable funding in order for the campus to not rely on inconsistent state funding. Jara wants a campus where students don’t have to go hungry or homeless.

Last year’s convocation introduced the university’s campaign: ‘No Barriers,’ which addressed the need to create resources for student success. This year, President Jane

Close Conoley and Provost Brian Jersky presented Beach 2030, an initiative meant to provide solutions to those barriers through community input.

University officials behind the project are looking to both the city and campus communities for ideas on how to improve the institution. They announced a campuswide online event taking place Nov. 14-15 to gather community input.

Through a two-day function dubbed Imagine Beach 2030, community members will be able to share their ideas online through any mobile device, laptop, desktop or Twitter account. Comments or ideas are available for

everyone to disseminate and reply to.

“Anyone — our students, faculty, staff, campus community, alumni, business and student leaders can and should participate,” Jersky said. “The more people participate in this building of our future, the better.”

The Beach 2030 plan consists of a partnership with Institute for the Future, a nonprofit organization which offers organizations strategic futures studies. The process will take two years, and is intended to help create a map of what the university should be within the next two decades.

“In order to gain outside interest, our campus will be reaching out to local media, com-

The more people participate in this building of our future, the better.”

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Provost Brian Jersky

munity leaders, external stakeholders and enablers to invite them all to participate,” Jersky said.

To promote Imagine Beach 2030, action teams will be formed on different areas of the campus to help facilitate the event.

After gathering ideas from the program, the plan will move into its next phase, which includes workshops and retreats.

Jersky reiterated that these reimaginings and ideas will be shared and opened to the collective focus groups. Conoley stressed the importance of community participation in defining the university’s future.

“I am ready to take this journey with you,” Conoley said. “I’m ready because I’m convinced that while some problems are best solved while doing more of the same, the really big threats and opportunities will require new ways of thinking and doing.”

The Daily 49er is scheduled to interview President Jane Close Conoley on Sept. 5.

If you have questions for the president, please email them to cityd49er@gmail.com.

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TECHNOLOGY

Printing dreams come to life Though yet to open, the Gerald M. Kline Innovation Space aims to give students improved and cheaper access to new 3D technolog y.

CARLOS VILLICANA | Daily 49er

A German RepRap X350 printer creates a connecting rod, which can be used to link moving parts within an engine.

By Carlos Villicana City Editor broletariatx

When engineering associate professor Christiane Beyer received numerous requests for 3D printing jobs, she realized that the campus community had a much bigger demand for this technology than she alone could handle. A new space on campus, the Gerald M. Kline Innovation Space, has arrived to help meet that demand.

The center, also known as the I-Space, was unveiled Aug. 23 in the University Library’s lower level.

An opening date has yet to be set. Once open, the I-Space will be available Monday to Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and will grant all students subsidized access to 3D printing technology, which helps create three-dimensional objects for whatever one needs.

“I’m aware that [the engineering] industry is looking for more employees that come with this knowledge, so I immediately saw the opportunity for Cal State Long Beach to play a role in the forefront with establishing such a lab,” Beyer said. “This lab enables us to have hands-on learning

What to expect in the I-Space center

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Lifting the top cover of a Markforged printer shows how small the space above the printing bed truly is. experience and provide unique expertise that increases the employability of the student.”

The center is funded by the Student Excellence Fee and a donation from the Gerald M. Kline Family Foundation, according

STRATASYS J750 PRINTER: According to Robles, the J750 printer can be used for having multiple colors on one print job. A board next to the machine has a table with colors and corresponding numbers which when inputted into a nearby computer will print in the desired color.

“It’s as easy as submitting the file, then the machine does most of the work,” Robles said. “The machine is made to be user-friendly, so all one has to do is maintain the cleanliness of it. If the printer is dirty then the colors smear.”

STRATASYS F170 PRINTER: “This is meant to be fast and inexpensive, depending on the material that you use,” Robles said. “It has different ways of applying support. So you can do very thin fill, like what’s inside of each ridge. You can go ahead and decide to be fully solid or layered with gaps in it.”

GERMAN REPRAP X1000 PRINTER: This machine has a large print bed which allows the creation of industrial sized parts.

However, the printing bed can also be used to make smaller pieces in

to a press release from the University Library. I-Space staff member Monica Robles said a portion of student projects will be subsidized by the I-Space. The exact percentage which the lab will pay for is unknown, but Robles said that a receipt provided when the transaction occurs will tell users how much that amount is.

“So it’s technically a better deal for them because they don’t have to pay for operating costs and stuff like that,” Robles said.

“It’s definitely cheaper to come here than to buy your own material, unless you have your own printer.”

According to I-Space lab technician Cesar Sigala, the lab is working on adding an application called Fabpilot onto the Single Sign-On page, which allows students to access websites such as BeachBoard and myCSULB. This program is where one would create their design and send it to the I-Space for printing.

The equipment introduced to students in this space consists of a Stratasys J750 printer, a Stratasys F170 printer, one German RepRap X1000 printer, one X350 printer, a Trotec Speedy 400 laser-cutting system, Markforged printers and computers to prepare 3D models for printers.

larger quantities.

GERMAN REPRAP X350 PRINTER This is a smaller-scale version of the X1000 printer. The X350 printer has a smaller bed size, which means it can only print modestly-sized items such as connecting rods.

TROTEC SPEEDY 400 LASER ENGRAVER: “We got that in recently so we’re still going to have to learn to work on that but what we can do is put in a slab of material, say you want to write your name into it. We can preprogram it and it’ll write your name on whatever material you want,” Sigala said. “Or, as I assume would happen, we can take a part printed here or there or anywhere, put it in the machine and engrave whatever you want on it. You can write stuff on it or create pictures on it.”

MARKFORGED PRINTERS: These are composite printers which are meant for smaller jobs, such as tools and connecting rods.

Different types of materials can be combined to give objects the attributes of multiple elements.

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Clockwise from the right, ASI hosted the 18th annual Smorgasport Friday night, which featured rides, games and food trucks for incoming and returning students. After the men and women’s basketball team showcase their new roster, Madalyn Flores, Freshman, communications major and the Long Beach State cheerleaders chant “Go Beach,” encouraging a equally charged response from the audience. An attendee reaches out to help Samanta Corte after completing the inflatable obstacle course.

Food trucks like Fries “N” More gather, offering people all types of food and drink.

SMORGASPORT

ASI presents a fair fit for the fall The “All You Can Play Buffett” comes a week early, focusing on bringing in more freshman than ever before.

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howered in radiant pink lights, surrounded by food trucks and carnival splendor, students arrived in streams from on-campus dormitories and parking lots, arm in arm, to Associated Student Inc.’s most well-attended event of the year: Smorgasport.

Lot E2 and the University Student Union were taken over by organization-run tables and carnival rides at the “All You Can Play Buffett” for ASI’s 18th annual semester kickoff.

Organized in 2000, the free event was organized in part-

nership between ASI, the Recreational Leisure Department, club sports and athletics. Attendance to the event has been climbing in recent years, with last year’s Smorgasport reaching an attendance of about 6,000 students.

“Anecdotally, it looks like the biggest one yet,” Ahumada said.

In the past, Smorgasport has been the closing event for the Week of Welcome, occurring on the Friday of the first week of school.

This year, ASI and Beach Pride decided to move the event to the Friday before the first day, to avoid competition from other events, as well as to secure its place as the biggest ASI event of the summer.

ASI also teamed up with the Housing Department this year, which had its own week of orientation events, with Smorgasport acting as the finale.

“We haven’t had as many incoming freshman coming in,

surprisingly, so I think this year we were able to get them to come,” Kysha Bloem, program assistant for Beach Pride events, said. “It’s really for them to feel at home. They just got here and they’re away from their families, they’re trying to start this whole new life with their new dorm and their new roommates. I think it’s a great opportunity to mingle and have fun.”

The “All You Can Play Buffett” offered free recreation in the USU, including unlimited billiards, bowling and virtual reality gaming. Outside in Lot E2, larger carnival rides like Round Up and Tornado gave the event a true festival feel, lighting up the entire lot with a multicolored LED glow.

After waiting in a block-circling line to get an event access wristband, students were also able to compete in inflatable obstacle courses and play carnival games to win prizes.

Victorious students were marked by umbrella or plush

chicken hats throughout the night, wired on Monster energy drinks and mocktails.

“There are all these parties that happen when the semester starts, so one of the things we wanted to do as a department was to have an alcohol-free alternative,” Ahumada said.

Alcohol Tobacco and Other Drugs’ “mocktail” bar served drinks such as “Safe Sex at the Beach” and “Long Beach Ice Coolers.”

Collaborating with the Housing Department was an attempt to streamline the transition for incoming students and give them the opportunity to create new relationships with their peers.

“It makes us feel welcomed. They don’t just care about returning students, it’s about the new ones too,” Samanta Corte, first year liberal studies major, said. “Everyone is welcome.”

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Student ID saving you money Campus members can use their ID to access numerous discounts on

By Carlos Villicana City Editor broletariatx Photo illustration by RYAN GUITARE | Daily 49er

To check textbooks out from the library for free, students need to show their ID card to the clerk at the library desk.

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ith tuition taking over $3,000 from every student’s bank account, finding spare change for textbooks, transportation or even a fun night out with friends can be difficult, if not impossible. Luckily your student ID with that awkward, sweaty photo you took at orientation is also a pass to many discounts. For those listed below, you won’t even have to travel off campus.

Books and movies Through the University Library, students have access to many books, movies and more for free. Students can buy textbooks from the University Bookstore or on Amazon, but occasionally students can find what they need on library shelves.

Books checked out from the school library are loaned out for a maximum of 16 weeks — one week shy from the length of a semester. Similarly to public libraries, students and faculty can submit requests for purchases to the University Library through a form on their website.

Information & Ticket Center The Information & Ticket Center is a desk located on the second floor of the University Student Union which offers

Back to Beach Week USU Southwest Terrace 12 - 1pm daily

tickets to multiple amusement parks and movie theaters at discounted prices. To purchase anything from this center, one must present their student ID card. At the center, tickets to Harkins Theatres are $8 or $9, AMC Theatres are $11 and Regal Theatres are offered at $9.25. Amusement parks included at the center for a discounted price are the Aquarium of the Pacific, Knott’s Berry Farm, LEGOLAND California, San Diego Safari Park, San Diego Zoo, Six Flags Magic Mountain, Universal Studios, Speed Zone and Raging Waters. Prices can be found on the center’s website and may change without notice. The center is open Monday to Saturday from 8 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Student Health Services

Public transportation

The Student Recreation and Wellness Center is an on-campus gym that offers free memberships to all undergraduate students. The center is located between George H. Allen Field and Palo Verde Avenue. To register, students have to go to the front desk and enter their nine-digit ID number into a machine. After this, they will simply have to place their hand on a scanner to enter.

The SRWC offers fitness classes, a pool, gym equipment, a rock climbing wall and more. It is open from 6 a.m. to 12 a.m.

Monday to Thursday, 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday and 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. on weekends.

The Long Beach Transit buses which travel throughout the campus and city can be accessed for free via purchase of a TAP sticker. Students, staff and faculty can buy TAP stickers for $5 at the Cashiers Office on the first floor of Brotman Hall.

Instead of paying $1.25 for individual bus rides, those with the TAP pass will only have to pay once for their initial purchase of the sticker. The TAP card allows students unlimited access to any Long Beach Transit bus. The card works as long as one is a student or employee of the university.

Found on Beach Drive across the street from Los Cerritos Hall and the Nursing building, Student Health Services offers counseling, immunization clinics, medication and more at reduced prices which are subject to change. A full list of services and costs can be found on the service’s tab on their website.

Prices for medicine from the pharmacy range from $1.50 to $29.50, with the majority being under $10. Short-term psychiatric services are offered at no charge for current students.

Student Recreation and Wellness Center

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DIY tie-dye bandana bar and karaoke

Mini-Canvas painting and mocktails

Stay cool and sparkle

DIY buttons and beach treats

Message in a bottle

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EDITORIAL

Surviving The Beach Advice from the Daily 49er to help you through another school year.

By Daily 49er Editorial Ready or not, here we are — the start of a new school year. For freshman and new transfers at Long Beach State, the first week can be a little jarring. You may struggle to find a parking spot, afford textbooks or get lost the first day of classes.

The Daily 49er Editorial Board has come up with some tips to help jumpstart your academic journey.

Keep an open mind Long Beach State is a large and diverse campus with 32,246 enrolled undergraduates, according to U.S. News, so before you pass judgement, try to keep an open mind. That girl sitting next to you in algebra could your next best friend, future coworker or even your boss someday.

You don’t want to miss opportunities like these just because you didn’t want to give someone the time of day.

Don’t procrastinate It’s easy to start off strong and stay on top of school work the first couple weeks of the semester, but as time drags on, that steady pace inevitably turns into procrastination. Start at a reasonable and realistic pace that works for you and turn it into a habit that will last throughout the semester.

A great way to tackle your course load is to spread out your classes. Although many people prefer getting their general education requirements out of the way as soon as possible, they make for a good mental break from back-toback major courses down the line. Yes, we know these are the classes that may interest you the

most, but even major classes get tiring.

Be sure to visit your academic adviser often There’s a reason why you either have heard or will hear this piece of advice from many different people. There’s nothing worse than feeling like you’re stuck and not knowing what classes to take next.

This is where your adviser steps in.

Don’t be afraid to approach them with questions about your major, studying abroad or your pathway to graduation. Remember, there are no stupid questions.

Hitting the books

Photo illustration by EMMA DiMAGGIO | Daily 49er Don’t get lost on your first day of school or stuck with the wrong class schedule, take these tips to get through the day.

When it comes to textbooks, never, ever, go straight to the bookstore. Most times you will find the same exact textbooks for cheaper, sometimes free, somewhere else.

Amazon and Chegg usually have textbooks to rent for half the price of what they are at the bookstore. The library is also another great resource since you can request that they order a particular book for you.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away Make your mental and physical health a priority. It’s easy to lose yourself in the stress of school work but you can’t give your best if you don’t feel your best. Don’t skip breakfast, take an exercise class at the student recreation center, get enough sleep and make time for your social life too.

If you feel like you need to vent to someone or you’ve caught the latest bug going around cam-

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pus, the Student Health Services offer students primary care, a pharmacy, women’s health and psychiatric services.

Join a club Get involved. The next few years of college will go by more quickly than you think; make those years memorable. Join a club, a sport, and if you’re in need of some extra cash, try and get an on-campus job.

For transfer students and incoming freshman, attending a new school can be intimidating.

Getting involved can help relieve that stress and allow for a sense of belonging.

Deals and steals As college students, we have access to a wide range of resources on and off campus. Amazon

offers students a six month free trial of Amazon Prime. After the six months, the membership is only $6.49 a month. Spotify also offers students Spotify Premium with Hulu for just $4.99 a month.

LBSU specific resources include unlimited bus rides across Long Beach with the Tap sticker, campus shuttles with proof of a student ID, a food pantry in the University Student Union that anyone is welcome to and can visit up to three times a week and discounted movie and amusement park tickets.

There’s no way to sugar coat the fact that college is hard and you will be busy, but there are ways to make your experience less excruciating. Sometimes you’ll wonder if it’s worth the struggle. Stick it out and you’ll graduate with experiences and memories you couldn’t have gotten anywhere else.

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PROFILE

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Ashley Gonzales dribbles against San Diego State Sunday at George Allen field. Gonzales suffered an ACL injury last year that caused her to miss the season.

Gonzales goes for it all

The senior forward makes her return to the field after a season ending injury.

By Kevin Colindres Sports Editor sportswriterkev

It was a bittersweet reunion for Ashley Gonzales in the first women’s soccer game of the year against No. 2 UCLA. Almost a year ago, she suffered a season-ending injury against the same team and limped off the field in excruciating pain, with a torn ACL and an uncertainty about the rest of her athletic career.

Today, the senior forward’s signature pink bow can be seen darting across the field again, a tradition she has donned since high school.

“The same week I found out it was my ACL, it was really tough,” Gonzales said.

“There were a lot of emotions going through my head.”

The Ontario native was hopeful that she would be diagnosed with only an MCL injury, a four week recovery, but reality set in quickly when she was diagnosed with a much more serious injury that would last months.

To this day, tears brim her eyes every time she relives the memory of limping off the field.

“Mentally it was tough to get over this, I didn’t know if I was going to bounce back,” Gonzales said.

Soccer came into Gonzales’ life accidently.

“I was actually supposed to be a cheerleader,” Gonzales said. “In order to cheerlead I had to be five, but I was only four and a half.”

The age mishap worked out well for Gonzales, who has seen much success in her collegiate soccer career thus far, and plans to enter the draft for the National Women’s Soccer League after this year.

She has earned accolades including the 2016 Big West Conference Offensive Player of the Year in addition to a First Team All-Big West selection. Gonzales was also named to the 2016 NSCAA All-West Region First Team and 2017 MAC Hermann Trophy

Watch List. Her accolades are endless, but recovery from a massive injury was a new challenge for her.

“There was nothing I can really do but just cheer them on, and that’s when I learned I had to be there for my team on the sideline,” Gonzales said. “At first I didn’t think I can do anything for the team, but I knew at that point that was my role on the field.”

The injury may have been a blessing in disguise for the senior forward after realizing how much she needed to be a leader both on and off the field.

She made it her mission to develop into a better leader before trying to improve her game.

“I want to make sure I have a relationship with all my teammates on and off the field so we can trust each other,” Gonzales said. “I had blinders on before and only focused on trying to win.”

Gonzales admitted that she too expected a lot from herself even when recovering from

Mentally it was tough to get over this, I didn’t know if I was going to bounce back.”

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Ashley Gonzales

a debilitating injury.

“It’s a process and I make sure not to mentally check out when something isn’t going the way I want it to,” Gonzales said.

Battling through this injury has also brought her get closer to head coach Mauricio Ingrassia as she spent months watching him on the sideline.

“It was hard to see her go down early, but she stayed patient and remained a big part of the team,” Ingrassia said. “Our biggest improvement this year is just having her on the field with us.”

While Gonzales has only scored one goal this season, she is looking healthy and has been playing big minutes.

Gonzales is hungry for another tournament run and determined to end her final year at Long Beach State holding the NCAA trophy in December. When thinking about what comes after, Gonzales just hopes that soccer continues to be a big part of her life.

“Wherever I go I’ll be happy with because I just really want to play and experience being a professional,” Gonzales said. “Once I cross that line nothing matters anymore except playing soccer.”

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SOCCER

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New year, new logo, same problems

By Alex Manfredi

Assistant Sports Editor alexmanfr3di

Forward Dana Fujikuni attempts a goal against San Diego State Sunday night.

JOSEPH KLING | Daily 49er

Seymour shuts out Aztecs to end home game stand The 49ers aggresive play resulted in 21 shot attempts against the Aztecs to secure its third win.

By Sierra Martinez Contributor

Attempt after attempt, the Long Beach State women’s soccer team just couldn’t find the net. At the 64-minute mark everything fell into place and Dana Fujikuni was able to float in a perfectly timed shot. The goal gave the 49ers a safety cushion as their offense continued to attack..

The crowd of 832 erupted in cheers, and the players celebrated their third straight win of the season.

“Usually I am the player that lays off, but I saw that the keeper was a little bit out so I took it,” Fujikuni said.

Long Beach State (3-1) donned its gritty black uniforms as it defeated San Diego State 1-0 Sunday night at George Allen Field.

A noticeable change was made in the 49ers starting lineup, but the switch did not affect the chemistry within the team. Senior goalkeeper Imani McDonald was replaced by freshman goalkeeper Ashley Seymour due to an ankle injury from Friday’s game

against Northeastern. McDonald cheered on her team from the sidelines as she sported a large brace on the injured foot.

“We had full trust in Ashley [Seymour], the chemistry was still there,” Fujikuni said.

The few opportunities the Aztecs got were stopped by Seymour, who stayed confident throughout the 90 minutes.

“I knew this game was going to be important,” Seymour said. “I went in with the mentality that this was my game.”

Seymour felt confident subbing in for McDonald, someone she looks up to and idolizes on the field. She was able to battle the pressure of starting her first game, and came out with the first shutout win of her career.

Once again the 49er offense put pressure early on with 12 shots on goal taken in the first half compared to the Aztecs, who only had two.

The match ended with Long Beach attempting 21 shots while SDSU had six. The ball remained on San Diego’s side of the field for the majority of the time, but even so, the 49ers could not find the net. Shots

taken by Katie Pingel and senior forward Ashley Gonzales were deflected by the SDSU Junior goalkeeper Gabby English in the first 10 minutes.

In the second half, a header by sophomore forward Nadiyah Siqueiros caused the tension to grow higher as she missed the goal by a hair and hit the crossbar.

A foul on San Diego right outside of the goalbox gave the 49ers a free kick. The kick was taken by Kaylee Ramirez, who placed it perfectly for her teammates, but they could not get a good touch on the ball.

Although the game was full of many unsuccessful attempts, one goal was enough to earn the win.

Head coach Mauricio Ingrassia is still unsure of the status of Imani McDonald, creating an uncertain lineup for Thursday’s game.

“Imani is going to get an X-ray tomorrow, but she is already progressing and she’s day to day,” Ingrassia said.

Long Beach State travels to Austin at 5 p.m. Thursday to take on Texas.

The 2018-2019 school year kicks off with yet another appearance of the GO BEΛCH logo at Long Beach State.

Slowly unveiled beginning last school year, the athletics department has gone full “BEΛCH” mode.

For something that was meant to bring more national recognition to the Walter Pyramid, it looks like it was designed in about about 10 seconds.

A Division-I university with over 30,000 students deserves a better looking logo. A large amount of the student body would probably not even understand the meaning of the “Λ,” especially if they don’t keep up with the sports teams on campus.

Some might see the new logo and say, “Did they forget to attach the A? Is that a wedge symbol or a caret symbol?”

This years’ incoming class of freshman will have no idea that the school’s alternate logo used to be, “The Beach” in a classic, jagged, script-type font. The script logo was well known for several reasons, one being that the Long Beach State men’s basketball team advanced to the NCAA tournament in 2012 with that logo.

Advancing to the tournament gave the school more national exposure and recognition, and the team also had two players who now play professionally: James Ennis and Casper Ware.

With “The Beach” splattered across the bright gold jerseys, news and media outlets such as Yahoo! Sports and SB Nation praised Long Beach’s uniforms and logo, calling them “the coolest uniforms of any NCAA tournament team.”

Going from the “Beach” script logo to the quickly thought up “BEΛCH,” is a lot more noticeable and different.

I get the appeal to be different and modernize the brand, but the logo doesn’t fit Long Beach culture.

Logos nowadays play a much more important role in attracting student-athletes, especially for a mid-major school.

Little things like this alternate school logo matter to prospective recruits and students. In today’s social media-driven world, brands have the ability to communicate a specific message to a large audience. I’m not sure what message we’re trying to send with the new logo. That we can’t spell?

While the “BEΛCH” logo seems different and unique, it doesn’t fit the mold of a more modern, bold logo that can become a staple for the school’s identity.

Don’t be surprised if we see another logo change within the next five years.

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MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 2018

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