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Rose Lubang dreamed of a life caring for others. By Greg Diaz & Madison D’Ornellas Staff Writers

Rose Chelsea Lubang could not help but take care of others. When her friends told her of their plan to take her to Las Vegas for Rose’s 21st birthday, she told them that she would be the group’s designated driver. The Cal State Long Beach freshman died Wednesday night after being

rushed to the hospital with severe chest pains. Lubang came to CSULB with dreams of becoming a nurse, a decision that her friends said was a natural extension of her desire to care for others. “When you would ask her something she would say, ‘Yes.’ She would never say, ‘No,’” Monica Haro, a CSULB freshman and Rose’s friend since high school, said.

“Even if she was struggling – in high school she struggled to walk [because of leg swelling], and if someone wanted her to go to a class she would say, ‘Yes, I’ll go with you.’” This was the response of Facebook someone who in elementary school answered “nurse” on a name tag that asked “When I grow up I want to be…” Rose was the person that all her

friends turned to for advice, calming nerves with a simple “Oh, you got this.” “She was a really good listener,” CSULB freshman Kathleen Porras said. “She never wanted anyone to worry about her.” Rose’s friends recalled the ease with which she made new friends, seemingly knowing “everything about everyone,” said Kyla Fernando, a freshman business major and friend since middle school. Michelica Balajadia, a first-year pre-nursing student, attributed this connection with others to Rose’s outgoing and inviting personality. “She’s a real, genuine person,” Balajadia said. “She’s also really friendly, she’s easy to talk to, she’s not intimidating at all. You

can approach her on the sidewalk if you see her.” Rose, a graduate of Long Beach Polytechnic High School, and a lover of Sam Smith’s “Money on My Mind,” would have become an excellent nurse. All you need to do is ask the people that she already cared for. “I pretty much miss everything,” Fernando said. “We just had classes together; I’m going to miss seeing her there and especially [her] being two blocks away, now I won’t be able to see her, and I miss that too.” A GoFundMe has been set up for Rose to aid in funeral expenses. To donate, go to https://www.gofundme.com/2mn6qqbs.

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Faculty could strike for 5 days

The CFA expects students to strike along with professors and other labor groups.

By Ariana Sawyer News Editor

California State University faculty will strike for five days at CSU campuses across the system in April if collective bargaining continues to fail, and students are welcome to join, California Faculty Association leaders announced Monday morning. “It is time for faculty and students to stand together and say, ‘No longer,’” Kevin Wehr, CFA vice president, said. The CFA’s 23,000 professors, lecturers, librarians, counselors and coaches will strike Apr. 13-15 and Apr. 18-19 along with other labor groups such as the Los Angeles County AFL-CIO and the Service Employees International Union. The SEIU represents over 700,000 workers in California, and the AFLCIO represents over 300 different unions in Los Angeles County. In addition to these labor groups, the CFA said they have secured strike authorizations from unions in almost every city with a CSU campus. “If a strike occurs, campuses intend to remain open,” the CSU said in a statement. “Many classes will be offered, and students should check with their instructors regarding the status of their classes. The strike should not interfere with students being able to complete their semester and quarter courses

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Students and faculty hold signs and chant at the “Fight for Five” protest outside of a Board of Trustees meeting in the California State University Office of the Chancellor Nov. 17. Students said they were protesting a 2 percent tuition increase. and graduate on time.” The CFA said previously that a strike would only last for one day and that strikes for each CSU campus would be held on different days. The faculty union’s Board of Directors authorized the longer, system-wide five-day strike Friday evening. A strike is still uncertain, as both the CSU management and the CFA wait for the fact-finding committee to publish the report in mid- to late-March. The CFA has said the report will likely look favorably on the faculty’s case.

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“I’m really hopeful we can avert the strike,” CFA President Jennifer Eagan said. Chancellor Timothy P. White and the Board of Trustees are offering faculty a 2 percent salary increase, but the CFA has said the 5 percent raise is the least they will accept, citing the rising cost of living and inflation. “The majority of faculty members can’t afford to live where they teach,” Antonio Gallo, CFA chair of contract development, said. “We have faculty members who have to go to food

banks.” Eagan said professors must set a good example for students and that they will spend time talking in the classroom about why faculty are going on strike. “I think a lot of our students will want to picket along with us,” Eagan said. Kaitlyn Gorbet, a Cal State Long Beach art history transfer student, said that she would stand with her professors in the strike and understood the significance of using class time to articulate why the strike would occur.

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“It sucks that teachers are kind of forced to do it in a way, but I think that it’s effective,” Gorbet said. “If they’re taking up our time, someone higher up is going to notice. Hopefully it’s effective, because I want to be a teacher too one day, and teachers deserve more because what they’re doing is really important.” When the fact-finding report is published, the CFA said it will make a copy available to the public. If wage negotiations do not resume, the strike will be automatic. Taryn Sauer contributed to this story.

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LB loves LGBT Human Rights Campaign awards the city of Long Beach a perfect score in the Municipal Equality Index for 2015. By Micayla Vermeeren Opinions Editor

We all know Long Beach takes pride in its LGBT community, but the Human Rights Campaign has acknowledged the efforts of the city to also protect that community via the 2015 Municipal Equality Index.

The MEI exists as a way to quantify nationwide municipal law as it affects lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender residents of given cities across America. “The MEI’s emphasis on policies that are so critical to our fight to extend full equality to all Americans — including non-discrimination ordinances, city services, employment policies and benefits, and law enforcement practices — continue to be at the core of this report,” HRC President Chad Griffin said in the report introduction. After being reviewed in five categories that total up to 100 points, Long Beach earned a perfect score. Seven additional points were awarded to the city as means of recognizing city efforts to create outreach programs for LGBT youth and HIV/AIDS pos-

itive residents, as well as having an openly LGBT elected municipal official in Mayor Robert Garcia. The structure of the review does not allow for final recorded scores higher than 100, though, so special mentions are made on a case-by-case basis at the bottom of the report to recognize the additional qualifications. Long Beach is one of 47 cities to receive 100 points in the MEI, earning a spot in the top 11 percent of cities and municipalities that were reviewed. Aside from Long Beach, Cathedral City, Los Angeles, Palm Springs, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose and West Hollywood earned perfect marks across the survey. Brisbane received the lowest score for California, totaling just 42 points.

In total, 408 American cities and municipalities were surveyed for 2015, encompassing over 89 million Americans with an average point total of 56. This is the highest number of surveys conducted for the Index, increasing from the roughly 350 regions included in the 2014 MEI. HRC targeted a combination of small, midsize and large cities, as well as the five largest cities in each state, each state capital, cities holding each state’s two largest universities and the 200 largest cities overall. And while the HRC said that the MEI cannot always be used as a way to gauge the true quality of life or personal atmosphere of a given city in relation to its LGBT population, the legal standing of a city or municipality in regards to

equal rights and protection can influence those factors. Rebecca Isaacs, executive director for the Equality Federation Institute, said in the report that a main reason for publishing the scorecards is to educate the general population on the legal discrimination still faced by LGBT Americans in over half of the states. The scorecards were filled using statistics gathered by HRC researchers, but the cities were able to participate in the final review to strengthen connections between the communities and researchers and share information that might have been missed in the original surveys. State Equality Federation representatives were also allowed to proctor a review of the scorecards before publishing.

These are the categories that the HRC rated cities across America on.

This category evaluates whether

I. Non-Discrimination Laws

discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity

equivalent benefits and protections to LGBT employees,

is prohibited by the city, county, or state in areas of employment, housing, and public accommodations.

II. Municipality as Employer

By offering

and by awarding contracts to fair-minded businesses, municipalities commit themselves to treating LGBT employees equally.

III. Municiple Services

Fair enforcement of the law includes responsible reporting of hate crimes and

engaging with the LGBT community in a thoughtful and respectful way.

V. Relationship with LGBT Community

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This section assesses the efforts of the city to

ensure LGBT constituents are included in city services and programs.

IV. Law Enforcement This category measures the city leadershipʼs commitment to

fully include the LGBT community

and to advocate for full equality.

The City of Long Beach received a perfect score in every category on the HRCʼs 2015 Municipal Equality Index Scorecard.

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Return of Kings cancels tribal meetup Roosh Valizadeh canceled the meetup due to press and social media backlash. By Brandon Flickinger Staff Writer

Return of Kings, a blog for an organization of self-described “neo-mas-

culinists,” cancelled its first in-person meetings scheduled for Feb. 6, including the planned Long Beach meetup in the parking lot of Glory Days Sports Grill in Lakewood. The meetups were intended to be the first of many with the purpose of establishing individual neo-masculinist communities called “tribes” around the world. Roosh Valizadeh, blogger and frequent group spokesman, wrote an article for the site that advocates the legalization of rape on private property.

Valizadeh later claimed the article was satire. The Return of Kings blog includes articles titled “Women Should Not Be Allowed to Vote” and “Women Must Have Their Behavior and Decisions Controlled by Men.” The comments on these articles indicate they are not considered satire by their authors or the community. Valizadeh cancelled the meetup because he said he could no longer “guarantee the safety or privacy of the men

who want to attend” due to the press and social media backlash. Valizadeh previously wrote regarding the planned meetup, “Our views are becoming known enough that we can ‘come out’ of the shadows and not have to hide behind a computer screen for fear of retaliation.” Sheriffs from Long Beach and Lakewood were present in case a meeting still took place. “We’re here to be a presence and keep the peace,” said Sergeant Sean O’Dona-

ghue of the Lakewood Police Department, who emphasized they were there to keep both Return of Kings’ members and potential protesters safe. Glory Days Sports Grill knew of the planned meetup for a week and a half in advance and had contacted the local police, according to manager Chris Coakley. “We take care of our home,” Coakley said. In the wake of the cancellation, Return of Kings called for donations and purchases of Valizadeh’s “Bang Guides” to build up its organization.

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An undivided look into apartheid Guest Speakers share their experiences living in a post-apartheid South Africa. By Jorge Paniagua Staff Writer

From 1948 to 1994, South Africa was under apartheid — a system of racial segregation enforced by the National Party. Two South African guest speakers, law student at the University of Witwatersrand, Jaimie Mithi and another South African guest speaker who asked not to be named, were invited from their country to share their experiences living in a post-apartheid nation while also voicing their opinions on what an apartheid truly is. They spoke at the “Let’s Talk About Apartheid” event which took place Monday and was hosted by 49ers for Israel, a campus organization dedicated to student activism and Israeli culture. The event commemorated Black History Month and aimed to inform students of the prevalent racial dis-

crimination which was once the norm in South Africa, its origins and the effects it left on the country to this day. During the South African apartheid, contact between whites and nonwhites was uncommon. Nonwhite South Africans were forced to live in separate areas from white people and use separate facilities. If a black person was found in an area designated for whites only by the police, he or she would have been criminally charged. “South Africa ended up with two colonial settlers,” Mithi said. “You had the British community and the Dutch community. The idea of colonization is you come into the place, you take over the place, you impose your system, your laws, your culture and then you create exclusive access to decision making.” The white minority in South Africa during this time of colonization enforced strict racial segregation in the country, dividing the white minority and black majority. The speakers also shared their experiences in Israel and the Palestinian territories. Due to the widespread allegations of Israel being under apartheid both speakers decided to visit the region, and in their opinion found there was no systematic racial segregation backed by the government in Israel.

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Jaimie Mithi, author of “Your Student Secrets,” speaks about the history of apartheid in South Africa Monday.

The way the National Party did in South Africa. “Let’s Talk About Apartheid” pro-

vided an informative look into the racial discrimination which divided a country while the speakers also

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Spike Lee really shakes it down The title of Spike Lee’s “Michael Jackson’s Journey From Motown to Off the Wall,” an exhilarating new documentary on Showtime, could not be any plainer or more accurate. It’s the story of how a child prodigy and pre-teen idol became a world-conquering solo artist, from the Jackson 5, to the Jacksons, to the man who was Michael. Every artist is at least two people, intertwined yet also separate — the person who makes the art and the person who does everything else. It’s impossible not to confuse them, and we like to read the life in the art, just as we tend to let the art glorify the life; but sometimes the art is made in spite of the life, or made without regard to it. Michael Jackson may have been a mixed-up kid who became a mixedup adult, but he was also an artist who knew his stuff, who thought a lot about craft, asked questions, made plans. Lee has made a documentary about that Michael Jackson, the artist, a person driven, for reasons not worried over here, not only to make music but also to conquer the world. “I want a whole new character,” he wrote in 1979, while on tour with his brothers, just before his solo career properly began. “I should be a totally different person. People should never think of

me as the kid who sang, ‘ABC,’ ‘I Want You Back.’ … . I should be a new incredible actor, singer, dancer that will shock the world; I will do no interviews; I will be magic.” That kid who sang “I Want You Back” — still my candidate for greatest single of all time, and notwithstanding the fact that the singer was 11 and that it was a grown-up song, not a bubble-gum novelty — is here too, of course. We follow him (and his overshadowed brothers) from Gary, Ind., to Detroit — Motown, Hitsville U.S.A. — where he hung around the factory floor, “just sitting in the wings and learning — I ate that up.” And from Motown to Epic Records, where the Jackson 5, now the Jacksons, went in search of creative self-determination. It wasn’t a perfectly upward trajectory; there were peaks and valleys — the rocky transition into adulthood, uncertainty about their signing at their new record company, the difficulty of, as Michael says here, “people not believing in your work, saying, ‘Are you sure? Are you sure?’” Lee has assembled his film out of interviews now and archival, well-chosen photos and rare footage, musical clips from “Soul Train” and “American Bandstand,” and a wealth of onstage performances.

Spike Lee in “Michael Jackson’s Journey from Motown to Off the Wall.” By loading his film with musicians and producers and songwriters who can take a song down to its components — some of whom were behind the scenes, some of whom were then just kids buying the records — Lee keeps his celebration smart and not soppy. He gets you excited, makes you feel the moment, see what was new in it, why it mattered. Though Michael

himself spoke of his father’s abusiveness, it’s not gone into here; Lee is less concerned with the psychology than the artistry, with what caused the scars than the patterns they made. Lee’s film might be the foundation for an alternative history, a life in which things could have turned out differently. It leaves you with a Michael as yet

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free from cosmetic alterations, tabloid accusations, chemical addictions. There are no flash-forwards to that other, future person, a person all but unrecognizable except in his singing and dancing; there is not even “Thriller.” Those years, those complications and triumphs are not for this piece. It just wants to rock with you. — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, TNS

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Album ‘Dissonants’ lacks the discord ALBUM REVIEW

Australian band Hands Like Houses’ new release leaves much to be desired.

By Miranda Andrade-Ceja Arts & Life Editor

Nothing is worse than misleading album titles. And unfortunately, Australian band Hands Like Houses’ sophomore album “Dissonants” may leave listeners incredibly underwhelmed. Hands Like Houses harp on a sound that may remind listeners of their music taste circa 2005. Though personally, Panic! At the Disco’s 2005 album “A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out” still has a disturbingly high number of plays on my iTunes. However, when it comes to Hands

Like Houses’ “Dissonants,” some sounds just need to stay in 2005, along with shaggy scene hair and that My Chemical Romance poster, pre-“Welcome to the Black Parade.” Not to say I don’t appreciate the sentiment. Sometimes it’s nice hearing pale guys yell into microphones, but in the case of Hands Like Houses, their second album was too uniform. Some tracks were able to stand out among the loud shouting and chugging guitar. The first track on the album “I Am” offers a vaguely nostalgic, almost 90s Britpop sound that will make you want to drive down the 101 at 2 a.m. with the windows down and your throat raw from screaming along. But what once was promising ends up leaving much to be desired. The progression of tracks bleed into one another, and despite some interesting synthesizer work, as heard in songs such as: “Grey Havens” and “Glasshouse,” the album feels like an overall reach by Hands Like Houses to bring something new to the rock scene. Their sound is hard, sharp guitar riffs and thumping bass lines that are reminiscent of Fall Out Boy’s “From Under the Cork Tree,” especially in

terms of the lead singer’s voice. Lead singer Trenton Woodley has a voice that just grates.Through a technical lens, Hands Like Houses have a solid sound. If there’s one good thing to be said about “Dissonants,” it’s that Hands Like Houses has achieved a cohesive sound that normally may take bands multiple albums to produce. They got it down on their second try. But for an album called “Dissonants,” a play-on-words for the actual English word, dissonance, meaning lack of musical harmony, there isn’t any lack of harmony. The album is too groomed, too contained. Though Woodley displays an impressive vocal range — hitting screeching high notes without skipping a beat — it doesn’t change the fact that the album is simply bland. However, it’s hard to say that it’s a lost cause. Hands Like Houses’ cohesion as a band promises more collaboration in the future, and maybe next time around it won’t feel so boring. Unfortunately they failed to spark my attention, even if “Dissonants” gave me a brief flashback into emo nostalgia.

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Arts Council for Long Beach appoints new executive Cal State Long Beach professor selected as the new executive director for Arts Council

By Matt Simon Staff Writer

The Arts Council for Long Beach announced Tuesday that Long Beach State Professor Griselda Suárez will be taking over as new executive director.

According to a press release from the Arts Council, Suárez will be the new executive director after being appointed by the board of directors starting March 1. Suárez has been heavily involved in the Long Beach Community which includes Latinos in Action, Teatro Jornalero, LB Fresh and many

more. Her most recent activities include lecturing at the Museum for Latin American Art, and this April she will be participating in the Long Beach Zine Fest. The Arts Council President Marco Schindelmann says that Suárez’s appointment comes at a very exciting

time for the Arts Council, according to the press release. Her background as an artist, advocate, activist, teacher and leader positions her perfectly to help us move forward toward our future vision in which arts and culture play a vital role throughout our dynamic and innovative city.

For Mick Jagger, ‘Vinyl’ is a familiar world NEW YORK — Sometime in the mid-‘90s, after grunge and before the boy band era, Mick Jagger approached Martin Scorsese with an idea for a movie about the music business. The project would span several decades of rock history and focus not on decadent musicians, as one might expect, but on the executives who ran the record labels. “Everyone was very familiar with all the musicians’ excesses of the period — throwing televisions out the window, excessive sex and drugs and all this sort of thing,” said the Rolling Stones frontman, lounging in his capacious (and very much intact) hotel suite last month. “My observation was that the business people were really crazy.” Twenty years and numerous incarnations later, Jagger’s vision has finally been realized in “Vinyl,” which premieres Feb. 14 on HBO with a two-hour pilot directed by Scorsese. Set primarily in 1973 New York City, the drama stars Bobby Cannavale as Richie Finestra, the coke-snorting president of an embattled record label called American Century. The drama also includes “Boardwalk Empire’s” Terence Winter as a show runner, and co-stars Olivia Wilde as Richie’s wife, a sobered-up Factory Girl now living in the Connecticut ‘burbs, and Ray Romano as the sleazy head of promotions at American Century. With painstaking detail, right down to digitally re-created graffiti on the subway, the series vividly captures an era when New York was financially strapped but creative-

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ly thriving. It’s a milieu that Jagger, who lived in New York for some of the decade and partied at Studio 54, certainly knows well. But as a co-creator and executive producer on “Vinyl,” the rock ‘n’ roll icon has done more than play the part of ‘70s eyewitness. “People think that’s the only thing I do,” said Jagger, trim as ever at 72,

of the executives, and what it felt like to be in those offices, in those recording booths, in those clubs. The texture of it all, the life … that’s what Mick brought to it.” The filmmaker, who also directed the Rolling Stones concert film “Shine a Light,” was excited by the idea of putting the suits at the center of the story. Drawing inspiration

velop the script with Scorsese and journalist Rich Cohen. Jagger has been involved in the movie business since the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, when he starred in films like “Performance” and “Ned Kelly.” More recently, he’s produced several well-received movies with his Jagged Films partner Victoria Pearman, including the James

James Jagger and Juno Temple in “Vinyl,” a new HBO series where drugs, sex and rock ‘n’ roll reign. “but that’s like number 20.” “Mick is a great artist, period, but he’s also a great creative partner,” Scorsese said in an email. “It’s not just a matter of knowing this or that story but of getting the feel of it: what it felt like to be a promotional assistant at a record company, or a platinum-selling band at the mercy

from a variety of nonfiction books about the industry, including “Howling at the Moon: The Odyssey of a Monstrous Music Mogul in an Age of Excess,” by former CBS Records President Walter Yetnikoff, and Fredric Dannen’s “Hit Men: Power Brokers and Fast Money Inside the Music Business,” Jagger began to de-

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Brown biopic “Get on Up,” the World War II code-breaking drama “Enigma” and the Rolling Stones documentary “Crossfire Hurricane.” Still, the pace and scale of television took some getting used to. “It’s easier doing movies,” he said wearily. Though he was a hands-on cre-

ative producer, it was sometimes difficult for his collaborators to forget that he was also, well, Mick Jagger. Winter admits being star struck for at least a few months. Lombardo — who says he used to lie in his bed listening to “Angie” on repeat — was provided with a potent reminder of Jagger’s fame one night over dinner with Plepler when, during an intense conversation about the challenges of the series, a young female server came to the table. “All of a sudden, the vibration changes,” he said. “There’s something about a huge rock star that’s very different than being with a famous actor or director.” While there are no plans to write the Rolling Stones into the series (you know you were wondering), “Vinyl” references real artists from the era — the New York Dolls, Led Zeppelin and the Velvet Underground all show up in early episodes. “Vinyl” is the first of several television projects that will transport viewers back to New York in the “Taxi Driver” era, a time that now seems unimaginably distant despite its relative proximity. “It was very different to now, but what’s the difference? I was on the dance floor last night dancing, so what? The music was different, but I’m still probably dancing the same steps. D’you know what I mean?” he said with a dismissive laugh. “The same girls with not much on. So what?” When you’re Mick Jagger, some things never change.— Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, TNS

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Dress codes and uniforms don’t measure up to their proposed intention. By Taryn Sauer Staff Writer

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ank top straps must be oneinch thick; skirts must be past the fingertips; no revealing the navel and no lowcut blouses” — that’s how my high school dress code sounded. I remember taking two fingers to my straps, tugging at skirts that were almost just right and thinking I’d never wear a blouse until I was old and employed, so it didn’t matter anyway. Random girls -– and it was almost always girls -- walked around in P.E. uniforms when they got busted for breaking the rules. And they stood out, rather than blended in with the mix of styles trotting around the school grounds. Now, at Cal State Long Beach, where diversity is celebrated instead of censored, students are free to wear rainbow hair, the shortest shorts they can find, nail polish on any finger in any design and basically compose themselves in any fashion with-

out concern to strenuous stipulations of modesty and self-expression. Instead of zooming in on uniforms and strict dress codes to conduct cohesion, our campus’ pride stems from our choice to trek through the halls every day not because we all look the same. Our mark of identity comes from the frantic look of finals during the last half of the semester and the not-so-occasional penny board drifting across the sidewalks. And the differences in how we choose to dress ourselves are really not of our greatest concern. Sure, it’s noted. You may pass by wearing the flyest ensemble I’ve ever seen — shades, quaffed hair and all — but it’s not my main focus. I’ll keep your look in my eye for as long as it takes to pass you by. That’s because there are no stipulations regarding dress in our school code; it’s not a center focus on the day-to-day happenings on our campus, unlike many K-12 schools across the country. School uniforms were first introduced to public school systems through the Long Beach Unified School district in 1994 following a trend of hyper-controlled public safety. Among the many reasons for the regulation were student safety and, according to the National Association of Elementary School Principals, creating a “level playing field” in academic focus. But these rules haven’t been entirely fool-proof.

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Argyle High School seniors Laura Carr (left) Alyssa Creager (center) and Meghan Donnelly pose in dresses which didn’t meet the dress code for a recent homecoming dance. Gang violence was at its highest leading up to 1990, and color-affiliation was pinpointed as a marker of street status among youths, but greater restrictions made to color choices had little to no effect on the decrease in crime. Uniforms proclaimed to lower the economic cost for parents and diminish differences across wealth exemplified through clothing, but the uniform mar-

ket is booming and such dress codes are an indication of impacted schools from lower economic means. And while these restrictions were meant to deter focus away from un-academic avenues, it has mainstreamed the importance of exterior presentation in a way that renders it drone-central, with conformity to disciplined order at its core. It assesses the diagnosis instead of the

symptoms. Instead of gearing energy toward innovative academic techniques, it strays into a territory that is outdated and ineffective, and more focused on outside sources rather than the student. Measuring where their hemline starts and ends has nothing to do with it. Students should be taught to celebrate differences instead of obliterate them.

podcasts based around quick, soothing scripts that don’t try and do much damage to listeners. But there is an entire world of podcasts I refused to acknowledge that reach into some of the most captivating corners of media. I didn’t realize that removing the visual aspect of storytelling would enhance, not deteriorate, the message being shared. And I surely didn’t anticipate the level of production quality that came from podcasts. The integration of sound effects, clear vocals and riveting content broke my conception that podcasts were, for lack of any better word, dull. I began to appreciate the softer podcasts my mom recommended for the anxiety quellers they were and soon turned to them as a way to end my busiest days. I loved the social dialogue prompted by “Serial” and associated

series and turned to them when I wanted to have something other than “The Office” on in the background as I went about doing chores. Podcasts walk the line between enriching and being non-intrusive perfectly, allowing everyone from multitaskers to the visually impaired to consume high quality media without needing to carve out a specific period of time to do so. They’re incredibly accessible, with outlets from NPR to our very own KBeach providing podcasts to stream for free. Some podcast series, like “Serial,” have websites dedicated to their audio archives or make their episodes available through iTunes. Regardless of where they come from or how often you consume them, podcasts are undeniably solidifying their status as a media culture staple.

Open ears, not eyes Podcasts are quickly becoming the hot new way of consuming media, and not without reason. By Micayla Vermeeren Opinions Editor

henever I walk by someone wearing headphones, my automatic instinct is to figure out what song they’re listening to based on the few personality cues I can pick up in a glance. More and more, though, I’ve come to

realize I need to expand my guesses to include not just songs, but audiobooks and podcasts, too. Over the last few years, I heard the buzz around podcasts steadily increasing but never really did anything to check it all out for myself — and apparently, I had been severely missing out. Up until last year, I had only ever heard of podcasts being used to lull my baby brother to sleep when he got sick of lullaby CDs or to help my mom combat early morning insomnia. In my mind, they were the equivalent to lifestyle blogs, something you don’t really need to invest in but can check in on when you’re bored and tired and don’t want to put a lot of energy into entertaining yourself. And, according to the people in my life, podcasts quite literally put you to sleep. Then, “Serial” happened.

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I felt like everyone I knew, classmates, family and professors alike, were plugging in to listen to the podcast dedicated to investigating the 1993 murder of Hae Min Lee, allegedly at the hands of her then-boyfriend Adnan Syed. And I really didn’t get why. I’m an avid lover of all the cheesy crime television shows like NCIS, Law & Order and CSI, but a huge part of the appeal for me is the visual impact of pseudo-realistic depictions of crimes and the people impacted by them. How could someone just talking about a case really be all that gripping? So, stubbornly, I decided to see what all the hype was about. I plugged in my headphones, questioned whether or not I should prepare myself for an accidental nap, and hit play. Then, I got it. Yes, there are dozens upon dozens of

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The anti-smoking “Breathe” campaign shows lack of empathy for student smokers. by Miranda Andrade-Ceja Arts & Life Editor

long way. CSULB’s anti-smoking initiative only tells me one thing: they don’t care why you’re killing yourself with cigarettes, you just can’t do it here. It’s an unfortunate fact of life, some might say. The “real world” doesn’t care if anxiety rubs you raw during your seminar, so why should your college? It’s not that simple.

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I’m a smoker, and I realize it’s disgusting. Early exposure to anti-drug campaigns taught that kissing me would be like kissing an ashtray if I dare let a Marlboro past my lips—but as I grew into adulthood, my general hatred toward cigarettes wore thin. I succumbed. I smoked my pseudo-boyfriend’s American Spirits and was, unfortunately, hooked. I know smoking is a filthy habit, but I can’t stand Cal State Long Beach’s anti-smoking campaign and consequential promise of a smokefree campus. There are a few issues I have with this particular campaign. Not only is the anti-smoking policy implementation going to cost a ludicrous amount of money ($118,850, to be precise)—but CSULB fails to ask students why they are smoking in the first place. A little bit of empathy can go a

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attacks and sudden fluctuations and descents of my mood. Smoking helps me. Smoking breaks allow me to step back from these vulnerable moments and attempt to recalibrate. We’re people. And smokers. Smokers are not mindless drones offing themselves in the name of looking like James Dean. Smokers have reasons for smoking. It’s hard to pretend that the “mindless drone”

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theory is applicable when nearly 45.7 million adults in the United States have some form of mental illness, and 36 percent of those adults smoke cigarettes, according to a 2014 study done by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The lack of empathy displayed by CSULB is, in so many words, discouraging. The “Breathe” campaign tells me, a mentally ill student who smokes, that my five minutes of relief during a smoke break isn’t worth giving up a good publicity opportunity and a fun blurb for the school pamphlet. And neither are the countless smoke breaks other students take. Though CSULB offers a number of free counseling sessions to students, how can our school actively say it supports their mentally ill population when they push for campaigns that lack intersectional sensitivity? The smoking ban is probably going to happen, unfortunately. And though my Managing Editor, Madison, says I can’t write that I’ll still smoke on campus despite the ban (though I’d like to see campus security try to stop me)—the fact of the matter is, the ban will happen and I will continue smoking. Sadly, if we continue approaching complex issues like smoking with a one-dimensional lens, we’re doomed to perpetuate the same harmful ideas in the same harmful ways.

Should women be required to register for the draft? Not everyone embraces the idea of women serving in military combat roles, particularly some Republican lawmakers as well as commanders of the nation’s most elite special operations units. The skeptics continue to question whether women are up to the task. They seem determined to squelch recognition of women’s battlefield participation any way they can. Republican Reps. Duncan Hunter of California and Ryan Zinke of Montana introduced a bill last week to require all American women between ages 18 and 26 to register for the Selective Service — the draft — exactly as their male counterparts

already are required to do. Yes, the draft still exists, even though we’ve had an all-volunteer force since the 1970s. This bill clearly was a cynical move designed for shock value. Hunter and Zinke are both veterans. Both appear to believe the Obama administration has gone too far with its advocacy for women who want to pursue combat eligibility. They echo the concerns of various military commanders who contend that women’s presence in front-line combat jobs would destroy unit cohesion and erode performance. President Barack Obama and Defense Secretary Ash Carter over-

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ruled these objections, with Obama noting in December that 90 percent of military positions have opened to women during recent decades, and that they already serve — and some have died — while performing combat duties. More than 280,000 women were deployed in the Iraq and Afghanistan combat zones, and at least 150 were killed. But because they haven’t been officially eligible for combat, they haven’t always received recognition in the same ways their male counterparts have. In 2012, four service women, including an Air National Guard helicopter pilot shot down in Afghani-

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stan, had to sue to get their combat service recognized. The pilot, a major, had been deemed ineligible for promotion at the time because the Pentagon couldn’t officially recognize her combat service. That’s the background driving the effort to make their combat service official and establish a training regimen that adequately prepares them for battlefield challenges. The difficult question is the one raised by Hunter and Zinke: If women want equality, are they prepared to accept the awesome responsibility that accompanies it? The short answer is that not all

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Standings

MEN'S BASKETBALL

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL Big West

OVR

Big West

OVR

1. Hawaii

7-1

18 - 3

1. UC Riverside

8-0

15 - 7

2. UC Irvine

7-1

18 - 6

2. Long Beach State

6-2

17 - 5

3. Long Beach State

5-3

12 - 12

3. Hawaii

7-3

14 - 9

4. UC Davis

4-3

10 - 12

4. UC Davis

6-3

13 - 9

5. UC Santa Barbara

4-5

10 - 12

5. UC Santa Barbara

5-4

8 - 15

6. UC Riverside

3-4

13 - 13

6. Cal Poly

4-5

11 - 11

7. CSUN

3-5

8 - 15

7. CSUN

3-6

5 - 18

8. Cal State Fullerton

2-6

9 - 13

8. UC Irvine

1-8

4 - 19

9. Cal Poly

1-6

8 - 14

9. Cal State Fullerton

0-9

2 - 21

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Dirtbags projected to finish third The preseason coaches’ poll picked an improved LBSU baseball team to move up the standings this season. By Matt Simon Staff Writer

The 2016 Big West Baseball preseason coaches’ poll picked the Long Beach State Dirtbags to finish third. The position would place the team three spots higher than last year, when the Dirtbags finished sixth with a 28-26 record and an 11-13 record in the conference. A big part of that predicted jump in standings is due to the return of Louisville Slugger Preseason All-Americans Garrett Hampson and Chris Mathewson. Mathewson, who finished fourth in the Big West in earned run average last year, said he believes that the poll is wrong and the team has a chance to finish first in conference after the team scrimmage last Thursday. “I think that this team is great,” Mathewson said. “Just playing today I know we’re going to destroy some teams.” Mathewson said there’s only one

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Sophomore right-hander Chris Mathewson (27) earned All-American honors this preseason, along with teammate Garrett Hampson. thing the team is capable of becoming. “Big West champions,” Mathewson said. The high ranking also shows that the conference coaches believe the Dirt-

bags are an improved team from last year. However, head coach Troy Buckley is skeptical. “It’s early on,” Buckley said. “The polls are based on last year’s results, but

also what the coaches know about the teams. It is also based on what coaches know about their own team.” The team finished just six points behind defending Big West champions

Cal State Fullerton and three behind University of Irvine. When it came down to first-place votes, the Dirtbags finished with three; only one behind CSUF. Catcher Eric Hutting said the 49ers will look to show how much they have improved since last season. Being a senior, Hutting has been around to see the progress over the years. “This team is [a] good team,” Hutting said. “We’re getting better every day and working hard.” Along with the preseason poll, Buckley said the team won’t have an idea of what they really have until later in the season. “We’re six weeks away from when we start conference play,” Buckley said. “There’s going to be a lot that we learn about our team in that time so we will see.” Along with the return of Hampson and Mathewson, the team also has several returners that are expected to make an impact right away. Sophomore Luke Rasmussen is one of those players after finishing fourth in the Big West in batting average last year. Buckley said he is impressed with his team so far and knows they have a shot if the team can play to its potential. “The Dirtbags are better than last year,” Buckley said. “The Dirtbags have better leadership this year.” LBSU’s season starts with a home series against Holy Cross on Feb. 19.

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49ers favorites in Big West The conference’s yearly preseason coaches’ poll picks LBSU’s softball team to win it all this season. By Josh Barajas Sports Editor

For the second year in a row, the Big West preseason coaches’ poll selected the Long Beach State softball team to finish at the top of the conference. And for the second year in a row, head coach Kim Sowder said the poll won’t affect her team for better or worse. “It’s nice to have the respect for the program and the players that are [here],” Sowder said. “But it kind of finishes right there. It’s all about the finish and we’re just trying to stay focused on what we’re doing every day at practice.” After winning the Big West conference championships in 2014, the 2015 preseason poll picked the 49ers to repeat as conference champions with a total of four first-place votes. LBSU finished one game behind Cal State Northridge last season after the Matadors finished with a school-record 16 conference wins and 41 overall. In the 2016 poll, LBSU earned six out of eight firstplace votes for a total of 62 points. A main reason why the 49ers are once again in contention for the title is the return of six letterwinners from last season. One of those players returning is LB-

SU’s all-time leader in home runs and runs batted in, senior third baseman Darian Tautalafua. Entering her last year as a 49er, Tautalafua said she isn’t approaching the season any differently and that means she knows the preseason poll won’t dictate how the season goes. “We all think it’s really cool that we got picked first,” Tautalafua said. “But at the end of the day it doesn’t really mean anything. We still have to go out and play.” Despite the return of several starters, the 49ers will need to fill a two-time Big West Defensive Player of the Year sized hole at shortstop. With the departure of the school’s all-time leader in runs and career batting average, Shayna Kimbrough, Sowder is looking at freshman Nichole Fry to step in from the very first pitch of the season. Fry said the coaches are letting her play her own game and not expecting results out of Kimbrough just yet. “They’ve been letting me do my thing for the most part,” Fry said. “I look up to Shayna a lot. She’s just an awesome player and I hope to be like her.” It’s only Fry’s first year, but like Tautalafua and Sowder, she does not give the preseason poll too much credence. “I just respect that they respect us like that,” Fry said. Cal State Fullerton follows LBSU in the 2016 preseason poll with one first place vote and 52 points. Hawai’i rounds out the top three with the last remaining firstplace vote and 46 points. The 49ers start their season on the road Friday as part of the Sportco Kickoff Classic against South Dakota in Las Vegas at 11:15 p.m.

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Senior outfielder Haley Tobler is one of six returning letterwinners on the LBSU softball team.