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CITY COUNCIL
Affordable housing study approved Long Beach officials attempt to increase the low-income housing rate.
By Samantha Diaz Staff Writer
Long Beach City Council moved to adopt recommendations brought forward by city staff for the production of affordable housing units. The city faces a housing crisis, with a vacancy rate of 2 percent as compared to the national average of 8 percent, according to the council. A study on
the production of affordable housing is meant to increase this number by looking into various methods to create more affordable units. Affordable housing is defined by the federal government as housing that requires less than 30 percent of a person’s income for rent. Recommendations to implement
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SUSTAINABILITY
Following the trail of CSULB’s e-waste New policies to reflect sustainable goals for old electronics. By Valerie Osier News Editor
culture to the Palestinians and further dehumanize them,” said Aliyah Shaikh, an international studies student and a member of Muslim Student Association. Over 50 people attended the Teach-in and later marched down upper campus and to President
A professor’s computer breaks and is unfixable. Where does it go next? It can’t get tossed in the trash because it’s electronic waste. So, what happens to these electronics when they’re obsolete, broken or just no longer needed? Cal State Long Beach recycles an average of 24,000 to 36,000 pounds annually, according to Christopher Ramirez, Support Services Manager at CSULB. The trail starts with a department’s technology coordinator, who would send a broken piece of equipment to their perspective college’s Technical Services. Each college has a person within the department responsible for processing e-waste. That person would then send the equipment down to Gary Corbin in Property Management in the shipping and receiving area on lower campus with a “survey request.” “It has to be certified by the customer [the technology specialist] that it’s cleaned [and] there’s no info or data on it — it has to be media sanitized,” Corbin said. There, the e-waste is processed and placed into bins for Global eRecyclers to pick up, which happens about every two weeks. The company pays CSULB for the e-waste by the pound. They have been picking up CSULB’s e-waste for 11 years. According to Ramirez, CSULB earned $1,424.80 in 2014, $1,032.40 in 2015 and $542.09 in 2016. He noted the decrease in revenue. “The downward trend could be for people being more sustainability-conscious, but also that computers are purchased every 3-5 years and it could be between purchase times,” he said in an email. According to Corbin, if the item is reuseable, he may hold onto it for awhile to see if anyone can use it. Even if the technology is obsolete, a technical specialist on campus may reach out to him to use parts of it to repair something else. “Everything is sustainable, everything can be recycled,” Corbin said.
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Cal State Long Beach students march through campus as they shout different rally cries Tuesday afternoon in support of ASI and their plan to divest in Israel.
PROTEST
DEMAND TO DIVEST Participants marched down lower campus to rally in front of president’s office. By Hasham Nusrat Staff Writer
Students gathered by the Prospector Pete statue on a hot Tuesday afternoon to debate and discuss the idea of Cal State Long Beach divesting from companies that profit from various forms of oppression in a “CSULB Divest” teach-in. The event was organized by a coalition consisting of the Muslim Student Association, Anakbayan Long Beach and the Chicano/Latino Studies Student Association among other on-campus orgs and was held in order to demand that CSULB divest from companies that profit from the conflict in Israel and Palestine, LGBTQ+ oppression and private prisons. The teach-in was planned in light of the division between Associated Students, Inc. and CSULB President Jane Close Conoley over the divestment issues. Conoley wrote in a letter last week to ASI that she did not agree with the idea of supporting the Boycott, Divest, Sanction movement as a campus, for fear of isolating Jewish students. “Economic divestment is such a powerful strategy, and the resources have been expropriated by
Students began their protest at Prospector Pete and ended the demonstration in front of Brotman Hall Tuesday. the Israelis in the west bank of Palestine,” said Spencer Potiker, one of the leading speakers while talking about the history of the Palestine and Israel conflict. “Israel employs homo nationalism which is a favorable association between national spot and LGBT rights and by doing so they paint themselves as champions of LGBT rights in the middle east. And it’s a way to paint themselves as a superior
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Like every trail, there’s a beginning, and with almost every purchase the campus makes, the Procurement department plays a big role. CSULB spends, on average, about $7 million per year on electronic products, according to Malia Kinimaka, director of procurement and contractual services. For the last three semesters, Kinimaka has been working on sustainable procurement policies. Kinimaka said the new policies got started when she became part of CSULB Sustainability Taskforce. Other departments such as Transportation and Facilities were working on sustainable policies for their departments. “I thought, ‘How can procurement make an impact on this as well?’ And when I started to research our own procurement policies [on sustainability], I found that we had none,” Kinimaka said. “We had a policy from the [Chancellor’s Office] that encourages sustainability, but doesn’t mandate it, so I found that in order to achieve the results we’re looking for, we do need to put some mandated policies in place to make sure that happens.” The two policies are in draft right now, with one requiring that printer paper be made from 30 percent recyclable material and the other to enforce that any technology products purchased on campus have an EPEAT bronze rating. EPEAT is a “free source of environmental product ratings that makes it easy to select high-performance electronics that support organizations’ IT and sustainability goals” according to its website, and is similar to an EnergyStar rating for appliances. Kinimaka did a survey of 30 campus technology coordinators who are responsible for purchasing technology on campus and found the majority didn’t know if the products they were buying were
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low-income housing were broken up into three categories by city staff, including policies, existing legislature and new initiatives. Among the 30 options provided were micro-units, which are smaller than average housing units, and us-
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E-waste from all around campus is collected in bins at the shipping and receiving area on lower campus to be picked up by Global eRecyclers. According to Gary Corbin keyboards are not among the usual haul. EPEAT qualified. “It would be nice to have a base line and really track what we’re buying and how much of it is [EPEAT] qualified so that we can assess our impact on the environment based on what we’re buying,” she said. Kinimaka said that the majority of the technology brands that the campus already buys, like Dell, HP and Apple, have EPEAT rated products. She also noted that CSU Northridge and CSU
Los Angeles both have environmental policies. “That’s why my whole focus is on creating policy, because if you don’t have the policy in place, people aren’t going to be forced to do it,” Kinimaka said. The policies have been approved by the campus Sustainability Task Force and will be reviewed by the Vice President of Finance for further approval and will eventually make it to President Jane Close Conoley to sign off on.
ing abandoned storage units as affordable housing. Mayor Robert Garcia expressed his approval for micro-units, saying that they can specifically benefit students attending Long Beach City College and Cal State Long Beach. Garcia called for staff to look into the city’s code on the minimum size housing units can be in Long Beach. “I do believe there’s an opportunity to build,
in the appropriate areas, denser units at a lower cost,” said Garcia. “I also support the idea of developing first time home buyer programs for not just city employees, but those across the city to provide them access in buying their first home.” City council is set to study the recommendations presented to them Tuesday night and look into how other cities address affordable housing, then return to the floor with methods to implement over the next few years
Conoley’s office, chanting slogans advocating for divestment. Before the event began, the students were asked to sign their names on the “CSULB Divest” poster that was displayed at the event. Along with leaving signatures, many participants also left their opinions with the crowd. “As of last year, 440 Palestinian children between ages of 12 and 15 were incarcerated in Israeli prisons. People with power here on campus want us to sit down and shut up — including my department chair,” Shaik said. A question and answer session was part of the teach-in and number of students posed questions regarding divestment to Shaik and Senator-at-Large Yasmeen Azam as well as other attending speakers. Students were also given handmade posters, small badges, stickers and chant pamphlets from the organizers. Along with the material, organizers helped explain the current economic climate of Palestine. “It is a very difficult time, [with a lot of] booming goods within Palestinian area. A lot of the land and fertile land has been occupied by Israel,” Potiker said. The organizers of the event gave small saltwater-filled glasses to the participants to drink as solidarity with hundreds of Palestinians who are on a hunger strike in Israeli prisons. The reason attendees were given saltwater to drink is because it has been reported that Palestinians within Israeli prisons are given saltwater instead of freshwater, and organizers called on California State University campuses to participate in this “Saltwater Challenge.” “This movement allowed us to be critical and engaged the global citizens — and it also stands for students,” said Yasmeen Azam, a senator in ASI and supporter of the divestment resolutions. The student organizers vowed to continue holding teach-ins to better educate the campus community on divestment in the university and they will be holding another teach-in event today.
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Early Friday morning, Cal State Long Beach University Police received a call about an incident at Parking Stucture 1, near the Walter Pyramid. According to the UPD activity log, the call came in at 5:57 a.m. and the Long Beach Fire Department was called to the scene. A Beach Alert was sent to CSULB students, faculty and staff Friday at 7:56 a.m. saying that Parking Structure 1 was closed until further notice. The alert said that there was no threat of danger and that the rest of campus was open as usual. Later, at 8:59 a.m., another Beach Alert was sent out saying that UPD had concluded its investigation and that the structure was now open. At 3:10 p.m., CSULB President Jane Close Conoley sent an email en masse to students, faculty and staff saying that the incident in Parking Structure 1 involved a young man who was dead at the scene. Associate Vice President of Government and Media Relations Terri Carbaugh said that she believes some CSULB staff members were on the scene first and were the ones who alerted UPD.
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Fires, thefts and GTAs By Adam R. Thomas Staff Writer
Professor’s purse purloined A Cal State Long Beach employee reported to the University Police Department that her wallet was stolen from her purse on Saturday. The employee, an executive director in the Human Services and Design building, made the report after learning of an unauthorized financial transaction at McDonald’s made by someone else with her credit cards two days prior, indicating that the theft took place earlier in the week. Other than the wallet, the CSULB employee didn’t report any missing property. Smartphone stolen during study time at library A female student reported to the UPD that her iPhone 6 was stolen in the CSULB library on Thursday evening. She had left her phone next to her backpack on a table while she filled up her water bottle at a drinking fountain. After filling the water bottle, she returned to where she left her belongings only to discover the phone was missing in an “apparent crime of opportunity.” “These things tend to happen very quick,” said Dave Wagner, the evidence controller for the UPD. “You know people are there [at the library] for a specific purpose, they’re busy. And [thieves] are going to take advantage of that brief moment. It takes very little time to walk up, take something and just walk away.” Foundation Building caught smoking A fire was reported to UPD Thursday at 5 p.m. at the Foundation Building. The building had large amounts of smoke coming out of it and firefighters were called to the scene. They found that it was not a fire, but that water had gotten into a diesel generator that started smoking, Lt. Richard Goodwin of the UPD said. Grand theft auto on Palo Verde A 1985 Toyota pickup truck was stolen from a campus-side parking space on Palo Verde Avenue April 25. The report of the grand theft auto came in to the UPD just before 9 p.m. but the owner of the vehicle stated that he had parked the pickup there far earlier in the morning, at around 8 a.m. The large window of time in which the theft occurred would make narrowing down suspects difficult, Wagner said. Bag taken at dining hall A female student reported to the UPD that her bag was stolen from the Parkside dining hall on the morning of April 25. The student placed her bag, which contained clothing and jewelry in the bag storage area of the dining hall, only to return and discover her belongings missing.
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‘Taste of Downtown’ returns The triannual foodie celebration that offers multiple local prix fi xe menus hits Pine. By Zulema Suarez
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For some people, food is more than just essential for living. Food is a form of cultural expression, personal identity and self expression. If you have a passion for cuisine, you won’t want to miss the Taste of Downtown event taking place tonight and tomorrow. Taste of Downtown is an annual event where several different restaurants from downtown Long Beach come together in one place to offer sample-sized portions of their most popular dishes. The event is three times a year, and tonight’s event will be between First and Third Street on Pine Avenue. The participating restaurants for this event include Beer Belly, who is offering their LBC crab corn, Beer Belly wings with their deep fried oreos; Pier 76 Fish Grill, serving mini lobster rolls and clam chowder; and PF Changs, who will be doling out chicken lettuce wraps and spring rolls. The list goes on and on. Festivities begin at 6 p.m. and last until 10 p.m. The event itself is free of admission, however, if you want to try any of the samples, tasting tickets are $1, and each sample will cost between two and 5 tasting tickets. In addition to the food and restaurants present, the event also features
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the standard crosswalk to make them safer while adding a beautiful, creative element to street crossings. All of this will take place tonight at 6, and if tasting tickets are purchased online in advance, you’ll be entered in a drawing to win a four pack of Aquarium of the Pacific tickets.
When thinking of an ensemble, most would think of a group of musicians in a semicircle of chairs getting ready to perform. Well, the Cal State Long Beach Laptop Ensemble is going to change that thought. The ensemble strictly uses laptops and various softwares to make music. The group is currently made up of seven CSULB music students who work together to explore and perform interesting, synthesized sounds. It is a combination of computer music, contemporary sound art and interactive technologies that the group uses to put on a new-age musical. “We operate more like an alternative-rock band than we do a traditional chamber music ensemble, because we develop the pieces together and we experiment and change them,” Director Martin Herman said. “It’s very collaborative, but it is still chamber music. We make chamber music with each other.” The ensemble creates more classically-sounding music rather than electronic dance music, which many would think of when hearing that music is being made from computers. They try to find ways to make laptops into expressive instruments with their live, interactive music. “I would characterize it as new, unusual, more experimental music. It is sound-art based, with a lot of avant-garde type of sounds. There are a lot of synthesized sounds and processing of instrumental colors,” Herman said. The Laptop Ensemble will be performing in the Gerald Daniel Recital Hall on May 3 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $7 for CSULB students with ID and $10 for non-students. More information can be found on the Bob Cole Conservatory of Music website.
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CLUB FEATURE
Model United Nations wins again CSULB has outstanding Model UN delegates. By James Conley Staff Writer
Cal State Long Beach’s Model United Nations team returned from San Francisco this week after another successful venture, this time at the Model United Nations of the Far West conference. The MUN team earned five out of a possible five Slanczka Diplomacy Awards for their representations as Congo, Guatemala, Greece, Switzerland and Jordan. This is another victory on the club’s long list of accomplishments. They started 2017 by winning several awards at both the National MUN Singapore conference Feb. 17-19 and National MUN New York March 19-23, where six CSULB representatives competed with 3,000 other students from schools all around the world “Unfortunately we didn’t have as many students from other countries because of the travel ban,” said senior cultural anthropology major and president of LBSUMUN, Sarah Cobos. When asked about what makes them a winning team, Cobos said: “[It is] the training, preparation and the tools that
CSULB Model United Nations Executive Board gather in front of the swan fountain near th Macintosh Building. we give our delegates and the passion we bring to every conference. We pride ourselves in keeping our focus and representing our school well.” Cobos said that not only does their preparation help them win awards at competitions but sometimes they are awarded specifically for their research conducted prior to contests. MUN is a competitive and educational simulation of the real life United Nations. Each team is assigned a country that they must represent as an international delegate. Students are encouraged to research topics and debate and negotiate that country’s political position in order to
find solutions for current real-life global scenarios, like nuclear disarmament or climate change adaptation. They have to put themselves in the shoes of another country instead of speaking from their own perspective – for example, how North Korea would represent themselves in a conversation about nuclear warfare. “It makes you a better global citizen,” Cobos said. The teams are composed of members called delegates that are placed into specific committees that try solving problems collaboratively. Sophomore political science major and Secretary of LBSUMUN, Matthew
Taylor, explained, “When you go into voting, your proposal is presented in front of a body. Every proposal is voted for, against, or abstained from. For example, when the United States has a bill on the floor, Israel may not necessarily like what the U.S. is doing – but, their policy is to be aligned with the U.S., so the [delegate] would abstain.” At the end of the competition, the delegates with the best performances are awarded. Participants are judged on diplomacy, decorum, speech quality and the ability to follow procedure. Cobos said the club accepts students from all majors and are always seeking more members.
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However, they are having elections and an end of the year banquet in the next week, but will be eager to start up again in the fall, recruiting at Week of Welcome. “We want to have fun but the big thing is really learning and representing, embodying the mission of the United Nations. Every time you work with a big group of people you are going to come into conflict, but we pride ourselves in being diplomatic and trying to overcome those situations so that everyone can have a rewarding positive educational experience,” Cobos said. Jason Enns contributed to this article.
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Play your part, set your bounds InterACT provides a safe space to learn about social interactions for students. By Brittney Whittington Contributing Writer
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s college students, we constantly feel the pressure to be productive, to go beyond the boiling point in order to continue to move up. But juggling work, school and relationships weakens our social boundaries — we seem to have no limitations. Sometimes, high intensity situations like having a huge workload, group projects and building and maintaining personal connections cause students to lose sight of their limits. We persist in these high pressure situations because that is what is expected of us. In an individualistic society, we are told to stand our ground and obtain success by our own ambition and perseverance. There is nothing we can’t handle. Although this may be true, we are never really taught how to handle ten papers, six exams, two part-time jobs, relationships and a social life all at once. With such hectic schedules, it is time students stop and smell the discomfort — focusing on our physical and mental health requires us to take a step back and question whether we are setting up proactive boundaries for ourselves. We sometimes find ourselves not being able to say no to our friends when they want us to go out for taco Tuesday, even if we have a six-page paper due Wednesday morning, or your crush inviting you out for drinks on Second Street, but you have work at 6:30 a.m. the next day. Regardless of the situation, when and how we set those boundaries become a lot harder than we initially expect. We take into account that we don’t want to hurt our friend’s feelings, we don’t want to be that friend that never goes out to the point of alienation and many other minor consequences we might face by setting those boundaries. Setting personal barriers is something we all face in different contexts and can differentiate depending on the situation. But what about in relationships? Interactions? First encounters? Do the differing contexts of these relationships carry over the same struggles when setting boundaries? These situations can be more difficult than most because you can never be as prepared for them like you can be prepared for an exam. You learn from them when the situation actually happens and hope for the best. This may be the case for most students, but there
is a troupe on campus called InterACT that specifically focuses on situations like these and more importantly, social issues, where you can test out strategies in certain contexts that students may struggle with in relationships, first encounters and interactions. One social issue InterACT focuses on is specifically focused on is the life of women. Women are socially conditioned to be passive and submissive to a point where they may struggle with setting boundaries in relationships or first encounters. We see these traits portrayed in media, films and books. Reproductions of our lives make this overwhelmingly clear. We see this happening at a very young age. We’re told that if Johnny is picking on you in the second grade, it’s probably because he likes you — this translates as we mature; your college boyfriend is only calling you 500 times and finding your location is because he “loves” you. These are the circumstances that happen every day and have become normalized behavior. These instances can happen to both women and men, but men aren’t taught to be passive or accepting of such behavior. Societal norms have outlined the different behaviors between men and women and have displayed how different the two are supposed to be. Men are supposed to be strong, aggressive and non-emotional figures, whereas
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efore the Long Beach State men’s volleyball team faces BYU on Thursday in the semifinals of the NCAA Tournament, it will be awarded for a memorable regular season where the team finished as the No. 1 seed. Along with winning its first-ever MPSF championship, LBSU continued to make 2017 a stellar year as six 49ers were named American Volleyball Coaches Association All-Americans on Monday. LBSU had four players named to the AVCA First Team, one to the second team and one honorable mention. Coach Alan Knipe also earned national recognition, as he was named the 2017 USMC/AVCA Division I-II Men’s National Coach of the Year. Knipe’s associate head coach Tyler Hildebrand, who will be heading to Nebraska after the season, was named the National Assistant Coach of the Year.
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Thriller ends in a tie Long Beach State Dirtbags have unusual finish to midweek game against the University of San Diego. By Luke Ramirez
Assistant Sports Editor
SAN DIEGO — In an unusual finish the Long Beach State Dirtbags ended in a a 9-9 tie against University of San Diego Tuesday night after a city agreement forced the game to end after the 10th inning at Fowler Park due to the lights needing to be off by 11 p.m. “It’s a city ordinance stating that the field lights have to be off by 11,” USD head coach Rich Hill said. “This was the first game that was ended because of the rule since it was implemented a few years ago.” After taking a commanding 8-2 lead past the sixth inning, LBSU (28-14-1, 13-2 Big West) gave up seven runs in the last three innings to USD (28-14-1, 14-7 West Coast). It was junior Chris Rivera and senior Josh Advocate that failed to seal the win for the Dirtbags late in the game on Tuesday night. “We left a lot of runners out on the bases and couldn’t put good at bats together late,” LBSU hitting coach Greg Bergeron said. “We had the right two guys on the mound in the end of the game but for both of them to give up three runs, it can’t happen.” LBSU struck first in the game after senior first baseman Daniel Jackson reached base on a single and advanced to third on an error by the pitcher. Junior third baseman Ramsey Romano hit a single to drive in Jackson with two outs
RAMSEY ROMANO 4 FOR 6, ONE RBI
Junior left fielder Lucas Tancas gets his lone hit against the University of San Diego Thursday night. The Dirtbags game against USD ended in a 9-9 tie after the 10th inning. in the inning, giving the Dirtbags a 1-0 lead. Freshman starting pitcher John Castro held USD scoreless until the bottom of the third inning, when USD’s Jay Schuyler hit a 2-run homerun to deep left field. It was the sixth home run Castro has allowed this season and it put the Toreros in front 2-1. Head coach Troy Buckley was ejected from the game after arguing with the umpires on a play involving junior shortstop Laine Huffman being hit on the hand with a pitch while check-swinging. The
umpires ruled it a foul ball instead of a hit by pitch and Buckley was not pleased. Huffman returned to the plate and singled up the middle on the very next pitch. That hit put runners on first and second base for junior left fielder Brock Lundquist, who crushed a fly ball to left field. The drive did not have enough on it to clear the glove of the leaping USD left fielder Chris McCready, who robbed Lundquist of a home run. USD’s highlight reel play seemed to shift the momentum of the game into the home
team’s favor. However, McCready and company could not keep LBSU from scoring three runs in both the fifth and sixth innings, resulting in an 8-2 lead. Sophomore center fielder Brooks Stotler hit a ground rule double that scored two in the top of the fifth. Senior catcher Joey Notch picked up two RBIs on a single in the top of the sixth that put the Dirtbags up by six. Notch finished the day 2 for 4 with a team high three RBIs. The senior has seen limited playing time but was a big
part of the road win for LBSU. “I just wanted to play like Banuelos is back there,” Notch said. “I don’t want the team to lose a step when I’m in the lineup, so I just try to give my best.” USD’s sophomore third baseman Brett Bewley made things interesting in the bottom of the eighth after he hit a 3-run homerun to put USD within two. LBSU added one more run in the top of the ninth, after sophomore center fielder Brooks Stotler lead off the inning with a triple and came in to score. Senior Josh Advocate came into the game in the ninth to go for the save but could not get the job done, allowing four hits and three runs. Romano had a monster day at the plate going 4 for 6 with two RBIs in front of several friends and family from his hometown of San Diego. “It was really rewarding,” Romano said. “I had family and a lot of old friends come out and support me and even though we didn’t get the result we wanted, I had fun playing in front of them.” LBSU will try to bounce back when they host Cal Poly (20-23, 8-4 Big West) this weekend in Big West Conference play.