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Student arrested during lecture
By Micayla Vermeeren Editor in Chief
Around noon Monday, University Police arrested a male student in Lecture Hall 151 after Long Beach Police issued a warrant for the student’s arrest as part of an active investigation. According to Terri Carbaugh, associate vice president of government and media relations at Cal State Long Beach, LBPD directly contacted UPD officials Monday morning to assist in finding and apprehending the student under the terms of the warrant. The nature of the warrant has yet to be confirmed by either police department. Julia Sampson, a sophomore history major, was in the same class – a section of interpersonal communication taught by Jose Rodriguez – as the student at the time of his arrest and was, at first, unaware as to exactly what was happening. “One of the [teaching assistants] in our lecture walked to the front of the hall and whispered something to our professor,” she said. “Our professor then asked if [the student] was here...then told him there was someone waiting for him in the back.” Two UPD officers were waiting for the student, stationed at each of the room’s exits. “It wasn’t until I saw [an officer’s] gun that I realized what was going on,” Sampson said. The student was removed to the LH 151 foyer, where students say he was handcuffed and read his Miranda rights. After retrieving the student’s backpack from the lecture hall, officers escorted him to a police van waiting at the student dropoff zone on West Campus Drive, between Liberal Arts 3 and Liberal Arts 4. All accounts report that the male was cooperative with the officers and Carbaugh confirmed that there was no threat to campus safety at any point during the arrest. “The UPD was very appropriate and managed the situation very elegantly,” Rodriguez said. The investigation surrounding the warrant is ongoing.
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A bloodied body lies outside of the CBEC Building and Koffolt Labs following the attack on Ohio State University’s campus on Nov. 28.
CRIME
11 injured in Ohio State attack Somali immigrant Abdul Razak Ali Artan stabs students before being killed by police. By Michaela Kwoka-Coleman News Editor
Early Monday morning, an Ohio State University student drove his car into a group of students before exiting his vehicle and attacking several of them with a butcher knife.
The attacker was later identified by the Ohio State Department of Public Safety as 20-year-old Abdul Razak Ali Artan. According to CNN, at 9:45 a.m. EST, Artan drove his car into a group of pedestrians on the curb near Watts Hall on the OSU campus. He then got out of the car and started stabbing the pedestrians with a butcher knife. 11 people were injured during the two-minute-long attack. OSU University Police responded immediately to the attack, according to an official statement, with UPD Officer Alan Horujko shooting and killing Artan after he
failed to comply with commands. Artan was born in Somalia, but was living in the United States as a legal permanent resident. He had just transferred to OSU from Columbus State and was a logistics major. In an interview with the OSU newspaper, the Lantern, Artan said he was having a hard time adjusting to his new school and was worried about expressing his Muslim faith. ““I’m new here. This is my first day. This place is huge, and I don’t even know where to pray. I wanted to pray in the open, but I was scared with everything going on
in the media. I’m a Muslim, it’s not what the media portrays me to be.” he said. “If people look at me, a Muslim praying, I don’t know what they’re going to think, what’s going to happen. But, I don’t blame them. It’s the media that put that picture in their heads so they’re just going to have it and it, it’s going to make them feel uncomfortable. I was kind of scared right now. But I just did it. I relied on God. I went over to the corner and just prayed.” Following Monday’s attack, OSU canceled classes for the rest of the day. The campus is expected to be open as usual today.
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Anonymous letter threatens Long Beach mosque The Long Beach Islamic Center, along with other area mosques, receive a threatening letter by an anonymous source on Friday. By Miguel Vargas Staff Writer
On Friday, the Long Beach Islamic Center received a Donald Trump-praising letter that threatened the Muslim community, leading to an increase in police protection for local mosques. The anonymous letter said that Trump is going to make sure that “America is clean again” and that
he was going to start by eliminatwhich bore a fake address, also ing the Muslims. stated that Trump is going to The letter also describes the do the same thing “that Hitler Muslim peodid with the ple as “filthy Jews.” In othand vile.” er words, the “It is author of the alarming letter claims It is alarming to us to see to us to see that Trump this [letter]. It increases this [letwill eradicate the fear. Not only in our ter],” Tarek the MusMohamed, lims from community but for the the chairthe United rest of the communities as man of the States. well. Long Beach S i n c e Islamic CenTrump’s elec-Tarek Mohamed, ter, said. “It tion, there chairman of the Long Beach increases have been a Islamic Center the fear. Not number of only in our hate crimes c om mu n it y against peobut for the rest of the communiple of color, according to the ties as well.” CNN article “‘Make America Mohamed said that the letter, White Again’: Hate Speech and
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Crimes Post-election.” In addition to this letter, there have been racist graffiti writings all over the country showing the swastika with “Make America White Again” next to it. “We started to receive negative comments ever since [Trump] started his campaign,” Mohamed said. “This is what he has started.” The Long Beach Islamic Center has increased its security and wants a serious investigation into the source of the letter to take place. “We want higher authorities to investigate this,” Mohamed said. “Higher authorities like the FBI.” Some students at Cal State Long Beach reacted to the letter
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Campus Vo i c e
What do you think drives people to carry out acts of violence like the knife attack at Ohio State University on Monday?
“We’ve made steps forward in addressing mental health issues but there are a lot of things that go untreated. We, as a society, ignore people that have mental health issues. Even in our families, we realize that someone is “weird” but we don’t do anything about it. We don’t tell anyone and keep it to ourselves and then things like this happen. ” —Deanna Amaya, Masters student, English
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New Cuban flights mark milestone By Mimi Whitefield Miami Herald
MIAMI — In another milestone in improving air service between the United States and Cuba, an American Airlines 737 took off Monday morning on the first regularly scheduled flight between Miami and the Cuban capital in more than half a century. The Havana-bound plane, which took to the air at 7:37 a.m. after a water cannon salute, carried 145 passengers. As they waited at the gate, AA treated the passengers to pastelitos, cupcakes emblazoned with the airline logo and coffee and placed straw hats on their heads as they boarded flight 17. “It’s a monumental day of great historic relevance with Miami being the epicenter of the Cuban American community and American’s hub for the region,” said Ralph Lopez, AA’s vice president for its Miami hub. “We’re excited to live in these exciting times and serve Havana.” Daniel Lewis, of Northborough, Mass., and his wife Beth wanted to be on the first regularly scheduled flight from the United States to the Cuban capital since 1961. “We originally made reservations on the United flight from Newark to Havana, but then American slipped in this earlier flight, so we canceled the United flight and booked this one,” he said. It will be the couple’s first trip to Cuba. They have always been curious about the island. “Growing up in Florida during the missile crisis, we met a lot
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Miriam Turner arrives with her baby Chana, 7 months, in Cienfuegos on her way to visit the Jewish community in Cuba on American Airlines' inaugural flight from Miami to Cuba. of Cubans,” said Beth Lewis. “When we were children, the island was closed.” In contrast, Pedro Gamboa, a maintenance supervisor at a Las Vegas condominium building, didn’t even know about the historic nature of the flight until he arrived at the American gate early Monday morning. He had booked his flight just last Wednesday so he could make a surprise appearance at a family birthday in Havana. Now he finds himself arriving during the mourning period for Castro. But, he said, “That’s the way life is. Some are born and others die.” American and several other airlines began flying regular routes to several Cuban cities outside the capital in late summer, but Monday’s flight was the
first of the new Havana-bound service and the first of four daily flights American plans from Miami International Airport to Havana. The American Airlines launch kicks off a week when there will be a flurry of inaugural flights from U.S. airports to Havana. American begins its four daily Miami-Havana flights and also service from Charlotte to Havana on Wednesday. JetBlue plans to start its twice-daily service from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport to Havana on Wednesday and from Orlando on Tuesday. Southwest will begin offering twice-daily service from Fort Lauderdale to Havana on Dec. 12.
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continued from page 1 “I think our society promotes violence. It’s pretty depressing. People are raised to be more aggressive against the community instead of being united. Sooner or later, one of them is going to react badly because they feel like crap.” —Billy McGivern, senior, journalism
“ I think it’s anger issues. I think it’s anger towards himself and the lack of resources and help. To go and attack one student is one thing but to attack a group of random students is a sign that he’s holding onto something within himself. He decided that violence is the only solution.” — Silvia Romero, freshman, social work
with messages of support for the Muslim community. “Stand strong and do not let it scare you,” Ian Leblanc, a junior business and marketing major said. “I do not think [the killing and deportation of Muslims] is going to happen. I think that civil rights activists and just people in general are good these days. [Times are] different from back in preWorld War II Germany.” Leblanc said that he believes that even though Trump told his supporters to stop all the violent hate crimes through the cameras of CBS, he should still do something more to stop all the hate that is happening following his election in presidency. Avery Andrus, a masters student in biology said the letter is inaccurate because “there has not been enough evidence that Trump is going to specifically persecute Muslims. It is horrible for [the authors of the letters] to incite violence like that.” Andrus mentioned that if Trump is going to be our president, people should be working on being united. She also suggested that people should learn more about the Muslim culture rather than fearing something they do not understand.
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A picture of the threatening letter sent to the Islamic Center of Long Beach.
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Trump struggles for proof of vote fraud By Anita Kumar and David Goldstein McClatchy Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON _ President-elect Donald Trump’s team strove Monday to back up his claim of vote fraud, though they produced no evidence and two reports they did cite were from years ago and did not point to fraud even then. Trump set off the brouhaha by charging Sunday that millions of people had voted illegally and deprived him of a popular-vote victory, and also that there was unspecified vote fraud in three states he lost: California, New Hampshire and Virginia. “I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally,” Trump said in one tweet. As independent fact-checkers said there was no evidence of either charge, Trump spokesman Jason Miller referred to two reports in the past. “So all these are studies and examples of where there have been issues of both voter fraud and illegal immigrants voting,” Miller told reporters. One was a Washington Post story from 2014 about whether voting by noncitizens could decide control of the Senate. But those results were subsequently challenged. The other was a Pew Charitable Trust report from 2012 that found that state voter registration lists were not up-to-date, largely because of poor record keeping. It found that 2.75 million people at that time were registered in more than one state, that 1.8 million names on state voter registrations were for dead people and that 1 out of every 8 voter registrations was either invalid or “significantly inaccurate.” But the primary author of the Pew study said fraud was not a factor. “They are misinterpreting” with regard to any finding of fraud, said David Becker, who at the time was the director of Pew’s elections program. “I oversaw the entire report, start to finish. There was not a find-
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Following his meeting with senior staff from the New York Times, President-elect Trump is seen in the lobby of the New York Times’ offices on Eighth Avenue in midtown Manhattan in New York on Nov. 22. ing of fraud whatsoever.” Becker, now the executive director for the Center for Election Innovation and Research, said the report looked into inefficiencies of the voter registration system that led to out-of-date records remaining on the lists. “These were not results from fraud or any intentional act,” he said, but the result of not “keeping up with people as they move and some cases when they die.” Myrna Perez, director of voting rights and elections project at Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of law, said that numbers like 2.75 million people being registered to vote in two states might sound like fraud. But it doesn’t mean people are voting in two states. It just means they
moved between elections and haven’t changed, or been notified to change, their former registrations. “There has been no evidence produced to substantiate a claim like that,” White House press secretary Josh Earnest said Monday before referring reporters to the Trump transition team. Cristobal Alex, the president of Latino Victory Fund, which works to have Latinos reflected at every level of government, said the allegations are “outright false and have been debunked many times.” “The president-elect of the United States should not be casting doubts or spreading lies about the election results, but then again this isn’t the first time that Trump cries wolf on voter fraud,” he said.
Current and former officials in the three states Trump mentioned also disputed his claims. “It appears Mr. Trump is troubled by the fact that a growing majority of Americans did not vote for him,” tweeted Alex Padilla, California’s secretary of state, who is a Democrat. Miller declined to comment about whether the Justice Department will investigate the situation when Trump is president. “But I do think it is an issue of concern,” he said. Meanwhile, a recount of Wisconsin’s ballots initiated by Green Party candidate Jill Stein is underway, though analysts do not expect it to reverse the result. Stein also filed for a recount in more than 100 of Pennsylvania’s 9,100 precincts Monday. She pledged
to do the same in Michigan, a third state where only a small margin of votes separates Trump and Clinton. Stein has argued that some voting machines had deficiencies and ballots need to be recounted by hand. “We must recount the votes so we can build trust in our election system,” Stein said. “We need to verify the vote in this and every election so that Americans of all parties can be sure we have a fair, secure and accurate voting system.” Hillary Clinton’s camp announced over the weekend that it would join Stein in the Wisconsin recount. “We are getting attacked for participating in a recount that we didn’t ask for by the man who won election but thinks there was massive fraud,” Clinton lawyer Marc Elias tweeted Sunday.
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Holla for Paula
Comedian Paula Poundstone to come to the Carpenter Center. By Jason Enns
Arts & Life Editor
The Richard and Karen Carpenter Performing Arts Center is inviting another well known personality to take the stage this Saturday as part of its Wit and Wisdom series. Comedian Paula Poundstone will be bring her signature, quick-think, unscripted style of joke telling to Long Beach as part of her 2016 tour. The Paula Poundstone website describes her as one of our country’s foremost comics. She is known for her ability to create humor on the spot as a frequent panelist on National Public Radio’s number one weekly news quiz show, “Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me.” She holds the record for game losses on the quirky talk show. “The others cheat,” Poundstone said. “You wouldn’t think NPR would put up with that.” Nick Zaino of the Boston Globe writes: “You know she’s a great comic the way you know any fine performer when you see one — there’s a disarm-
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Known for usually being armed with nothing but a stool, a microphone and a can of Diet Pepsi, Poundstone can find the hilarious angle of almost any subject. ing ease in her craft, an immediate sense that she’s so quick on her feet you need never worry about the possibility of something going wrong.” She got her start in the late 1980s with a series of one-hour comedy specials on HBO like “Cats, Cops and Stuff,” and “Paula Poundstone Goes
to Harvard.” Her career progressed when she provided commentary during the 1992 presidential election on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.” In 1992, her commentary opened a door for her to become the first woman to share the stage with the
President as a host for the White House Correspondents dinner. Poundstone was the first woman to win a Cable ACE Award for Best Standup Comedy Special. She’s won an American Comedy Award for Best Female Standup Comic and is a part of the Comedy Central list of 100
Greatest Standups of All Time. Her standup stylings will start at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Carpenter Center. As per usual with the known improvisor, it will be a unique performance for both first time audience members and loyal fans. Tickets are still available at carpenterarts.org.
Pros and Cons: quitting social media By Cassandra Jaramillo The Dallas Morning News
A digital detox can be healthy for everybody. Within the last few years, social media platforms have become a bigger part of our everyday lives. In fact, researchers are finding that we are increasingly devoting more time to social media apps. Social media platforms take up nearly two hours of our time every day, according to research firm GlobalWebIndex. Cal Newport, an associate professor of computer science at Georgetown University, admits he doesn’t have social media. But his op-ed in The New York Times recommends that it’s time we break up with our social networks. “There are many issues with social media, from its corrosion of civic life to its cultural shallowness, but the argument I want to make here is more pragmatic: You should quit social media because it can hurt your career.” But not so fast. That’s a bit extreme in a world where relatives or friends who live hundreds of miles away are easily reached on social media. Or when you’ve had success finding your next job through social media. Also, there’s plenty of folks whose jobs require them to use social media. Sure, it’s a harmful habit when it takes over our lives, but here’s what’s
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Social media platforms take up nearly two hours of our time every day, according to research firm GlobalWebIndex. right and wrong about quitting social media. First: Yes, you should consider quitting. But as you wish. Remove yourself for a day, a week or a year. Maybe remove certain apps from your social media diet? Take time off from Instagram or
Twitter, but if you want, keep Facebook to know how your sister’s kids are doing. Anne Miller Morris, a clinical psychologist in Dallas, said she recommends finding the right balance. “People can get stuck up on the social comparison, and there’s all
sorts of research that shows it may be linked to depression and anxiety,” Morris said. “Scaling back [on social media] is about finding balance.” According to the Pew Research Center, a study about social media and the workplace reveals that 78 percent of workers who use social
media platforms for work-related purposes say social media is useful for networking or finding new job opportunities. But Newport challenges users to do otherwise. “My research on successful professionals underscores that this experience is common: As you become more valuable to the marketplace, good things will find you,” Newport said. “To be clear, I’m not arguing that new opportunities and connections are unimportant. I’m instead arguing that you don’t need social media’s help to attract them.” He believes that job seekers should focus on honing their skills and being so good you can’t be ignored. From my experience, making time to scour social networks for a job doesn’t sound like a waste of time. Sometimes, those very circles lead us to the next gig. How would Newport know how useful it could be if he’s never been on social media? Miller does point out that our apps fill little time voids during our days, taking away time from, say, setting goals. “If you’re at a stoplight, you check Facebook, or if you’re in bed, you look at Instagram. There’s no time for in-depth thoughts about careers and business,” Miller said. Bottom line: As long as your online habits aren’t taking away from your personal or professional well-being, then keep scrolling on wisely.
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Rory Gilmore’s long road to nowhere your creator, Amy Sherman-Palladino, was no longer with the show.) The point is, she forged her own path and didn’t take any guff. So what happened to you, Rory? Listen, kid, not everybody can write for The New York Times or Vanity Fair. That doesn’t mean you give up your dream. Newspaper and magazine staffs are shrinking, and college grads and journalism veterans are competing for fewer and fewer jobs. Finish that piece for Jim at Conde Nast, and stick with The Stars Hollow Gazette while writing your book. Launch an online edition with your trust fund and build a local empire that can crush that ol’ media mogul Mitchum Huntzberger. You cannot let him win, Rory! Christ, you went to Yale. Are you seriously telling me that none of your college contacts could help you out, i.e., Dr. Paris Geller, M.D., J.D.? Surely someone other than Mitchum can put in a good word for you! Maybe Jess needs an editor at Truncheon Books, or Taylor would pay you to write a book about the screwed-up history of Stars Hollow. At the very least, Doyle might be able to get you a writing gig in Hollywood. Don’t just have Logan’s love child (or is it the Wookie’s?) and raise the baby by yourself. We’ve already seen that series. We loved it and we’re ready to move on. Aren’t you?
By Carmel Carillo Chicago Tribune
Dear Rory, What happened? You were going to be the next Christiane Amanpour and spar with Norman Mailer and have Madeleine Albright as your mentor. Hopes were high for you, Rory, especially after you graduated from Yale and set off on the Obama campaign trail to be a political reporter. Nine years later, we find you couch-surfing and freelancing, and girl, there’s no shame in that. (Well, at 32 years old, maybe there’s a little shame. But you’re trying at least!) Your relationships with Paul and Logan, though? Unforgiveable! Didn’t you learn anything from breaking up Dean and Lindsay’s marriage? Such as: Don’t keep sleeping with someone you know you can’t have. You deserve better than a rich, two-timing daddy’s boy who lives on the other side of the ocean and will never put a ring on it — not on your finger, anyway. Not to mention those Life-and-Death-Brigade bros of Logan’s, the one-percenters who think nothing of drunk-buying a nightclub or a bed and breakfast. While they are obnoxious over-30 Lost Boys, you are not Wendy. And Paul, as utterly forgettable as he is, never merited being strung along by
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Alexis Bledel and Lauren Graham in a scene from the television series “Gilmore Girls a Year in the Life” on Netflix. you for two-plus years. Lorelai raised you better than this! You never treated anyone this carelessly. Emily, yes, but not you. Speaking of your grandmother, the politically incorrect treatment of her staff isn’t funny. Such behavior may have been more easily dismissed a decade ago, but not any more. She seems to genuinely care for Berta and her
extended family but continually treats them (and their language and cuisine) as beings from another planet. Emily’s astounding insensitivity is one of the reasons Lorelai left your grandparents’ home at 16 when she was pregnant with you. She raised you by herself while she worked full time, went to college part time and, with her best friend, even-
tually opened her own successful inn. Your mom was the model of independence and female empowerment. Except for that time when she asked your grandparents to help pay for your education. Even then, she did it on her own terms. Oh, and that time she married your father. (We can write that one off, though, to the subpar Season 7, when
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White people feel marginalized and it’s a dangerous phenomenon. By Jorge Paniagua Opinions Editor
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fter President-elect Donald Trump’s win on election night, there was a great deal of conversation through media outlets on what exactly Trump meant by putting “America First” and how it would affect the nation. Trump exalted nationalist ideology throughout his campaign. For instance, back in April, he told an audience in Washington, “‘America First’ will be the major and overriding theme of my administration.” When you put his two most predominant mottos, “Make America Great Again” and “America First,” together, it can easily create a frightening feeling of uncertainty in marginalized people around the country. Although Trump told a crowd of mostly ecstatic white people during his victory speech he would be a president for “all Americans,” the widespread protests across the country following his win clearly indicate a racial and religious polarization in the country. Multiculturalism in the United States, the coexistence of diverse racial and religious cultures, is threatened by monoculturalism — white people who feel their racial existence is threatened by diversification. Trump was able to give a voice to the nation’s white population that deem themselves racially marginalized — although whiteness continues to be privileged in both the country’s economic and political order. But don’t take my word for it: according to a poll conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute titled, “‘Americans’ Racial Disconnect on Fairness and Discrimination,” 52 percent of white people agreed with the statement: “Today discrimination against whites has become as big a problem as discrimination against blacks and other minorities.” One should realize that a margin-
alized white America is, of course, nonexistent – but a privileged white America that feels marginalized does exist and it’s a rather dangerous phenomenon. The way many white people, particularly Trump supporters, speak of their alleged racial marginalization is by denouncing multiculturalism, which many believe has left the country — their country — in shambles. Whether they blame the nation’s “failure” on trade agreements like NAFTA — which allow the U.S. to trade freely with Mexico, relocation of American jobs overseas to countries like China or business reliance on cheap immigrant labor — multiculturalism is the biggest problem many nationalist white people face. Is this racist scapegoating? Definitely. This monocultural nationalist ideology among white people is especially dangerous now that the far-right is openly gathering and recruiting members to join in on their extremist creed. On Nov. 19, members of the altright movement, a movement which emphasizes preserving the white race
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Protesters gather at a massive anti-Donald Trump rally at Trump Tower in Manhattan on Saturday, Nov. 12. in the U.S., gathered in the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade center — which are only three blocks from the White House in Washington D.C.. Members of the racist movement not only celebrated Trump’s surprise win but also “the unexpected march of their white nationalist ideas toward the mainstream, portraying Mr. Trump’s win as validation that the tide had turned in their fight to preserve white culture,” as reported by writers Alan Rappeport and Noah Weiland for the New York Times. Richard B. Spencer, one of the movement’s father figures not only quoted Nazi propaganda at the conference and deemed black and Latinx people as inferior, but also called white people a race of conquerors and creators who have become — there’s that word again — “marginalized.” Spencer went on to exclaim, “Hail Trump, hail our people, hail victory!” while encouraging the crowd to take part in doing the Nazi salute with him. So what should marginalized people alongside our “pro-multiculturalism” white peers do? Create toler-
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According to an analysis titled, “Explaining Nationalist Political Views: The Case of Donald Trump” by Gallup, based on 87,000 interviews, those who viewed Trump favorably — including his anti-immigrant and subliminally pro-white rhetoric — have not been affected by foreign trade or immigration. This means that, on average, his supporters didn’t necessarily have lower incomes than other Americans nor were most unemployed. Unfortunately, there is a want by white nationalists to place an end to the diversification of the United States — they essentially want to keep the country historically white for many years to come. All I can say is white people are not peripheral to communities such as the black and Latinx groups — it’s time to embrace multiculturalism. Exchanging experiences, sharing communities and being exposed to people of diverse backgrounds and cultures isn’t unfortunate, it’s beautiful and empowering. A diverse country can easily broaden the minds of citizens and improve the capability the country has to succeed.
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Long Beach State women’s volleyball team finishes 2016 season in second place in Big West play behind Hawai’i.
WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL
49ers finish in second place, again Long Beach State women’s volleyball finishes season on fivegame win streak. By Matthew Simon Sports Editor
With its final game of the 20162017 campaign, the women’s volleyball team finished the season with a
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25-20, 25-19, 21-25, 25-16 win against Denver University Saturday at Walter Pyramid. The 49ers finished with a 21-10 record while finishing 13-3 in Big West play to take second in the conference. 2016 was up and down for team, as they were 7-8 on Sept. 30 with conference play just starting. From there, LBSU went 14-2 to finish off the year on a high note. One highlight for the team was its five-set win against Hawai’i at Walter Pyramid Oct. 8 in front of 3,212 fans.
In the match, both teams traded games as LBSU won the first, third and fifth sets while Hawai’i won the second and fourth sets. The 49ers had four players reach double-digits in kills. Senior outside Nele Barber led the way with 20 kills and 21 digs. Along with its win over Hawai’i, the 49ers won 20 or more games for the 27th time under head coach Brian Gimmillaro. Along with the team’s impressive season, four players earned All-Big
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West honors. Freshman libero Hailey Harward was named to the All-freshman team. Harward averaged 4.09 digs per set in Big West play. She also had a career-best 27 digs against Hawai’i Oct. 8. Junior middle blocker Ashley Murray was named to the All-Big West first team. Murray ranked eighth in the Big West with a .310 hitting percentage. Murray also received the award after getting an honorable mention last season. The big winner for LBSU was fresh-
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man middle block YiZhi Xue who was named to the Big West First Team and the All-freshman team with Harward. Xue made an immediate impact for the 49ers and led the Big West in hitting percentage during conference play. Throughout her first year, Xue was named the Big West Defensive Player of the Week once and Big West Freshman of the Week twice. Along with her accolades, Xue is the sixth player in LBSU history to be named First Team All-Big West as a freshman.
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Men’s basketball road map
1. Wichita State - Wichita, Kansas 2. North Carolina - Chapel Hill, North Carolina 3. Louisville - Louisville, Kentucky 4. UCLA Los Angeles, California 5. Washington - Seattle, Washington 6. Battle4Atlantis Mainland (Binghamton, Florida Gulf Coast) - Fort Myers, Florida 7. Kansas - Lawrence, Kansas 8. New Mexico State - Las Cruces, New Mexico
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ROCKY ROAD AHEAD Long Beach State men’s basketball team will continue to have trouble on road trip. By Matthew Simon Sports Editor
With Thanksgiving break over, the Long Beach State men’s basketball team doesn’t have much to be thankful for. The team was unable to take care of business when the team traveled to Fort Myer, Florida to take on Binghamton Thursday and Florida Gulf Coast Friday, two of its weaker road trip opponents, during the Battle4Atlantis Tournament. On Thursday, the 49ers took a 24-17 lead against Binghamton heading into halftime but weren’t able to keep up, allowing the Bearcats to score 55 points on their way to a 72-64 win. Against Florida Gulf Coast University, LBSU battled in a back-and-forth game, but ultimately couldn’t hold onto its 65-60 lead with 2:47 remaining. The 49ers went on to lose 68-67 in overtime. LBSU hasn’t played much on Thanksgiving or the day after the holiday, but since 2010 the 49ers are 1-5. The 49ers’ lone win came against Western Michigan Nov. 27, 2014. It’s safe to say that, though LBSU coach
Dan Monson has said he expects his team to get better during this road trip, they haven’t. It’s still early in the season, but the 49ers aren’t getting enough from their guards. Junior guard Justin Bibbins is shooting .279 percent from the field and .226 percent from the three-point line. That isn’t going to cut it from a player; LBSU needs to perform at a high level if it expects to win the Big West and earn a NCAA Tournament berth. But until then, and with the way the 49ers have been playing, they won’t win a game until they host The Master’s at Walter Pyramid Dec. 19 at 7 p.m. That should put LBSU at 1-12 heading into its third home game of the regular season. As the team prepares for its eighth game on the road against No. 5 Kansas tonight, the 49ers are huge underdog once again. Kansas (5-1) is on five-game winning streak after knocking off then-No.1 Duke University Nov. 15. The Jayhawks will have a size advantage from the start with senior guard Frank Mason III, whose 21.5 point per game leads the team early on in the season. Along with Mason, freshman guard Josh Jackson will cause problems for the 49ers’ guards. Jackson is averaging 14.3 points per game. In the end, LBSU will once again be unable to keep up with a top-ranked opponent and will lose to Kansas, 97-53.
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MEN’S BASKETBALL DECEMBER SCHEDULE
Kansas Today, 5 p.m. Lawrence
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New Mexico St. Las Cruces
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Pepperdine
Walter Pyramid
7:30
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Texas
Austin
3 p.m.
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Oregon State
Portland
8 p.m.
12/19
The Master’s
Walter Pyramid
7 p.m.
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