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There’s no place like homecoming Beach Pride is putting together an Olympic-themed homecoming event. By Caitlyn Mendoza Staff Writer
Students, alumni and community members can tailgate and cheer on the Long Beach State Men’s basketball team while they play Caltech at this year’s homecoming game Saturday. Starting at 11:30 a.m in front of The Walter Pyramid, homecoming attendees will be able to participate in activities provided by Beach Pride and other departments such as character drawings, photo booths and balloon animals. “It brings everyone together, just to mutually cheer on our team and show off our school pride,” Beach Pride Lead Program Assistant Kaila-Marie Hardaway said. This year there will also be a carnival ride called “The Hurricane” set up in the parking lot for the tailgate. A local band, the Emperor’s, will perform and KBeach Radio will be the DJ. Hardaway said that last year’s theme, Long Beach State of Mind, was not shown as much in the event itself, so this year Hardaway wanted to embrace the theme. The theme for this year’s homecoming is Olympics- Homecoming: Land of the Legend-
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REMEMBRANCE El Día de los Muertos is a day to honor and celebrate life. By Roberto Herrera
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Families and friends around the world will be honoring their departed loved ones with food, candles and ceremonies for Día de los Muertos. The Cal State Long Beach chapter of La Raza will host a celebration that commemorates the dead at the University Student Union ballrooms on Nov. 2 from 5 -10 p.m. The festival dates back to ancient indigenous civilizations of Mesoamerica, such as the Aztecs, Mayans, Totonacas, Purépechas and Nahuas – which were located in central and southern Mexico. These ancient peoples would keep the craniums of the dead and use them during rituals to symbolize death and rebirth. Today in Mexico, Día de los Muertos is typically celebrated on Nov. 1-2, but was previously held in early August to honor the deaths of children and relatives. Traditionally, the ritual would last a whole month. When the Spanish conquistadores arrived on Meso-
american land, the indigenous peoples were converted to Catholicism, which forced then to change their celebration from early August to early November to coincide with the Catholic celebration of Día de los Santos y Todas las Almas (Day of the Saints and all Souls). And while the majority of publicity surrounding Dia de los Muertos falls on Mexican traditions, the concept is readily practiced across South America, as a number of South American cultures have similar traditions ingrained in their own histories. With the development of those traditions and an increased rate of global cultural exchange, countries in Europe and North America adopted and adapted the idea over time to create their own ways of honoring loved ones. In modern day celebration, candles are lit, photos of the dead are propped up and the departed’s favorite foods and drinks are set up in ceremonial displays called altars. “This celebration keeps the memory of someone alive,” said Antonia Garcia-Orozco, associate professor of Chicano and Latino Studies. Garcia-Orozco said she believes that Día de los Muertos gives people a different perspective on death. “It’s acknowledging that death is inevitable,” she said.
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Thinking Outsights the box Students organize outdoor art exhibit. By Jason Enns
Arts & Life Editor
Toward the end of every academic year, the University Art Museum holds Insights, an exhibition dedicated to showcasing Cal State Long Beach students’ artworks, but according to the students who organized their own event, Outsights, Insights isn’t necessarily inclusive. Last semester, the Photo Collective — a club for fine arts photography majors — started the event Outsights, an alternative to the UAM event that some members consider pompous. “A lot of students have to submit to [Insights] and there is a jury and a lot of people get rejected. So, [Outsights] was kind of like a guerrilla art event that we started to sort of fight back against that elitist institution,” said senior fine arts photography major and Photo Collective
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The clusters of yellow flags placed throughout the 49er plaza lawn symbolize the decimation of the American Indian population throughout the centuries.
Revisiting the American Indian Genocide
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“But when a person passes on, their memory doesn’t disappear – the things that they’ve done don’t disappear with them. As long as you carry them in your heart and in your mind and you build an altar, it’s as if a part of them is still alive,” Unlike Halloween, which was originally meant to be a day to scare away spirits, Día De Los Muertos is a day to welcome them. “It’s a dedication to our loved ones,” said la Raza Membership Officer Norberto Lopez. “It’s a day where both the living and the dead come together to celebrate life.” Lopez said that the day is not a time of mourning but rather a day to praise the lives of the dead.
The flags symbolize the decimation of American Indian people throughout the centuries in North America, while Prospector Pete’s blindfold indicates a sense of ignorance toward this history of genocide. The art installation is put on by the American Indian Student Council, American Indian Student Services and the American Indian Studies Program. The exhibit will remain in effect through the month.
“My mom actually sets up the los Muertos is a day to remember altars before Nov. 2,” said Latino that they lived good lives and that Student Union representative Joathose who are not alive are most likena Ruezga. “She sets up food, water ly still celebrating with you. and this special “To me, Día bread called pan de los Muertos de muerto which brings that sense is eaten on Nov. 2. of home to our To me, Día de los Muertos [Mexican] culThen on that day, brings that sense of home she stands in front ture,” Lopez said. of the altar, prays “Its an opporto our [Mexican] culture. and hopes that tunity to get in It’s an opportunity to get her dead relatives touch with our in touch with our roots can hear her.” roots and to allow and to allow other people Pan de muerto, other people to to learn about us. also called pan learn about us.” de los muertos, Free food, per-Norberto Lopez, is a type of sweet formances and La Raza Membership Mexican roll travendors will be ditionally baked present at the Officer and eaten during event. AdditionDía de los Muerally, there is an tos. all-day celebration at the Anatol The French and international Center with guest speakers and a studies major explained that Día de Folkloric presentation.
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he start of November signifies the beginning of Native American History Month, a month that will introduce numerous informational and cultural lectures and art exhibits. “Blind to History” is the first official event of the month and is a public art installation featuring a blindfolded Prospector Pete and large clusters of bright, yellow flags sticking out of the lawn in the 49er courtyard.
Prospector Pete blindfolded in the 49er courtyard.
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DIA DE LOS MUERTOS CELEBRATIONS Event 1 Date: Wednesday Time: 5 -10 p.m. Location: University Student Union balrooms About: The Día de los Muertos celebration in the USU is being hosted by La Raza. Event 2 Date: Wednesday Time: 5 -9 p.m. Location: Anatol Center About: The second Día de los Muertos celebration is being hosted by the Spanish Program in the Department of Romance German Languages and Literatures as well as the Department of Anthropology.
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DNC’s Brazile said to have leaked debate question to Clinton By Ben Brody Bloomberg News
WASHINGTON _ Donna Brazile, a top official with the Democratic National Committee who also was a CNN analyst, allegedly notified Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign in March about a question to be asked at a “town hall” debate during the primaries, according to documents posted by WikiLeaks. It marks the second purported email indicating Brazile had tipped off the Clinton campaign to questions that were supposed to be kept secret during the Democratic primaries, when the DNC was ostensibly neutral. The alleged email posted Monday said Clinton would be questioned by a woman from Flint, Mich., about the town’s tainted water. An alleged memo released earlier told the campaign Clinton would be asked about the death penalty at another event that month. Brazile, who didn’t respond Monday to a request for comment, said after WikiLeaks posted the earlier email that she never had access to debate questions and wouldn’t have shared them if she did. She suggested the WikiLeaks documents may have been “misinformation.” The Clinton campaign has said the Russian government hacked the emails of campaign chairman John Podesta and may have altered or concocted some
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U.S. FBI Director James Comey testifies before the House Oversight Committee over investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email system, on Capitol Hill July 7, 2016 in Washington, D.C. The FBI said Friday it is reviewing newly discovered emails. of the thousands it has been posting. A day before the March 6 debate sponsored by CNN in Flint, Brazile allegedly wrote Podesta and Jennifer Palmieri, the Clinton campaign’s communications director, that a woman from the town “has lead poison and she will ask what, if anything, will Hillary do as president to
help the ppl of Flint.” During the town hall, Lee-Anne Walters, who had a son who had stopped growing and a daughter who lost her hair, asked Clinton and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, her primary rival, whether they would “make a personal promise” to make the removal of lead a requirement for
public waters in their first 100 days in office, according to transcripts of the debate provided by CNN. Both did. Brazile resigned from CNN as a contributor on Oct. 14. Her work there had been suspended when she became interim chairman of the Democratic National Committee in July, a CNN spokeswoman said.
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What was your favorite Halloween costume as a child and why?
“I’m a big ‘Star Wars’ fan so my favorite one I did was when I dressed up as Han Solo. It was a lot of fun.” —Ethan Prager, freshman, communications major
“That’s very difficult because I never really dressed up for Halloween as a kid. As of right now, my current favorite costume is this Harry Potter one I’m wearing.”
“I was a Tootsie Roll one year. It was really fun because I didn’t have to get compared to a movie character. It was really funny and not scary.”
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She became head of the party organization after chairman Debbie Wasserman Schultz was forced to resign by the release of emails hacked from the DNC that showed favoritism for Clinton over Sanders during the primaries. U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded those communications were stolen and released by agents of the Russian government in an effort to interfere in the U.S. elections. Left unresolved is how Brazile would have received advanced copies of the debate questions that were supposed to be closely guarded, if the emails are genuine. Lauren Pratapas, a CNN spokeswoman, said Monday that the cable news network “never gave Brazile access to any questions, prep material, attendee list, background information or meetings in advance of a town hall or debate.” “We are completely uncomfortable with what we have learned about her interactions with the Clinton campaign while she was a CNN contributor,” Pratapas said in an email. The question on the death penalty was written by that debate’s co-moderator, Roland Martin of the TV One network. Politico quoted Martin as saying he didn’t “believe” he had shared it with Brazile. Neither TV One nor Martin were involved in the earlier debate, which was the subject of the alleged email leaked Monday.
-ary. Hardaway said the organizers were inspired by the Summer 2016 Olympics. In the past, Hardaway said other departments and student organizations have brought their own tents, food and drinks. “It’s really getting everyone together, just saying we’re celebrating Long Beach State no matter how the game goes, we just want to make sure we have that school pride,” Hardaway said. Every Homecoming, eight to ten students are picked for the Homecoming Court. The Homecoming Court interviews are still in process; however Beach Pride focuses on choosing students that are actively involved on campus. “We’ll have them involved with a lot of actives to get people to vote for them, a lot of those actives are going to be Olympic themes,” Hardaway said. “From there we crown the Homecoming King and Queen. Which that adds to the events and gets people involved with it.” The tailgate event will begin 11:30 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. Shortly after, the Long Beach State’s Men’s Basketball team will be playing Caltech at 4 p.m. in the Walter Pyramid.
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Cash the check, mate Director of Keyboard Studies comes up with a unique fundraiser. By Jason Enns
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Over the weekend, Bob Cole Conservatory of Music Director of Keyboard Studies Shun-Lin Chou was able to raise money for keyboard scholarships with a “chess-a-thon.” Chou wanted to create his own unique way of raising funds to offer keyboard students financial assistance by imitating a marathon pledge system that highlighted his own strengths. On Oct. 29, Chou gathered with a handful of donors and keyboard students in the Gerald R. Daniel Recital Hall and played 20 games of chess simultaneously. Donors could give a flat rate or pledge an award for every game Chou won. He walked from board to board taking his turn in a different game until they were all finished. The result was Chou winning 18 of the 20 games, losing one and drawing one, making it a lucrative day for keyboard scholarships. “It was a pretty good result in terms of getting the pledge money. I’m not going to put a sticker on [the final amount raised], just because there’s still donations coming in,” Chou said. “But it was a good day.”
Director of Keyboard Studies Shun-Lin Chou takes on 20 challengers in chess in the Gerald R. Daniel Recital Hall. Chou got the idea after his colleague, John Barcellona, Professor and Director of Woodwind Studies John Barcellona, got donors to pledge an amount per every mile he finished in a marathon. Many of Chou’s students are familiar with his
chess skills and have been asking to play him, so Chou came up with to make their chess games truly benefit the students. “I thought [running a marathon] was much more admirable than what I did,” Chou said. “I kind of had the
same idea, that I can play chess games.” This was the first time the chess challenge has ever happened, but considering it’s success, Chou says we will host the challenge again. “As a chess player, I’m always thinking ahead,” Chou said. “So,
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there’s already plans for a future addition of this.” The money raised will go toward funding several scholarships for keyboard students, some completely covering tuition and some offering a few hundred dollars.
When playwrights direct their own works By Linda Winer Newsday
The division of labor _ you know, who did what to whom and why? _ can be one of the fuzzier areas of theatergoing. I can’t count the number of times I’ve studied my program on the way home and wondered whether the playwright or the director should be praised, or blamed, for the wonderments, or the disappointments, that just happened onstage. This is especially true with new plays, which can morph around a lot during what theater people like to call the developmental process. Of course, when the playwright is also the director _ which, oddly enough, is happening a lot right now _ we know precisely who is making the decisions. This can result in such a blissfully unified vision as Richard Nelson’s trilogy, “The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family,” which presents its final installment opening at the Public Theater on election night. To separate Nelson’s conversational text from his hyper-intimate presentation would be unthinkable. On the other hand, there are the evenings when we’re reminded of the proverb that apparently has been useful since at least the early 19th
David Mamet on a red carpet in Rome, Italy on Oct. 18.
century: “A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client.” I’m afraid I think here of “Race” _ a Broadway flop written and directed by David Mamet. This may just be coincidence, but in Mamet’s ‘80s golden age _ including “Speed-the-Plow” and the Pulit-
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zer-winning “Glengarry Glen Ross” _ he trusted the outside eye of a director (specifically, Gregory Mosher) in the collaboration. And so I’m delighted _ and, since I dearly miss the good Mamet, relieved _ to hear that his new work, “The Penitent,” will be directed this
winter by Neil Pepe, artistic director of the Atlantic Theater (co-founded more than 30 years ago by Mamet and William H. Macy). Pepe refuses to see this as any kind of turning point in Mamet’s career trajectory. “Over the years, I’d say, ‘Hey, do
you have something you would like to do at the Atlantic?’” Pepe explains to me in a recent phone interview. “When I read this one, I said, ‘I’d love to direct it,’ and he said, ‘Fantastic.’ “ As we speak, however, two major revivals are being directed by their original playwrights. On Broadway, James Lapine has staged the much-anticipated revival of “Falsettos,” the breakthrough musical comedy about, for starters, AIDS, co-authored by composer William Finn. The show was first written as three daring yet endearing one-acts from 1979 to 1990 and combined into one show for Broadway in 1992. Andre Bishop, artistic director of Lincoln Center Theater, which is producing the revival, was head of Playwrights Horizons when the show began there. He says Lapine is the only artist with whom he has ever worked as both playwright and director. “Because this is a musical, it’s a very positive thing,” says Bishop, who was also there when Lapine wrote and directed two Stephen Sondheim masterworks, “Sunday in the Park With George” and “Into the Woods.” In contrast, Bishop believes that plays benefit from a collaboration
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Vice President Tanya Flores. The group questioned whether they should host the outdoor event again, and decided to not only do it at the end of each year, but once during each semester. Fall 2016 Outsights took place yesterday on the Speaker’s Platform outside the bookstore from noon to 4 p.m. The event displayed around 11 students work, from photographs to paintings, drawings and even some sculptures. “You don’t have to go through as many rules and regulations compared to the UAM. This is the free speech area, so all we had to do was pay for our tables and we just sent out a message: ‘If you want to put your art up, just come by,’” said senior studio arts major Dalia Banuelos. “We wanted all the arts [students] to come by and show their work” Students showing their work hung out outside by the display to talk to passersby while projecting music and taking pictures in a Halloween-themed photo booth, though the event itself was not intentionally held to match the holiday. “We’re still all students and we have a bunch of work to do and it just randomly fell on [Halloween] day,” Banuelos said. The Photo Collective will open a group exhibit in the student galleries next week, which was their main motivation for choosing the date. With Outsights happening in such a high-traffic location, students that wouldn’t normally be exposed to art on campus get a chance to see it on their way
to class or lunch. “It was originally a response against museums [and] institutions,” Flores said. “But we want to be involved in the arts community and bring everyone together — not just students of the arts, but also CSULB students that might not know that we have galleries or who might not go to the museum all the time. We kind of just wanted to have it out so people can look at art as they walk by.” Outsights serves to both expose students to art by fellow classmates and give exposure to the artists. “If you’re not set up to a high standard than your art just doesn’t get seen except for your peers,” Banuelos said. “So this is an open format for all of us to get together — if you want to get together — and just show off any type of work.” The artists at Outsights were palling around enjoying the fresh air and music dressed in their Halloween costumes, a stark contrast to what one might expect to experience at a museum. “Museums can be quite exclusive to which people actually visit, it’s basically for the elite,” said senior fine arts photography major, and Photo Collective President Daniel Bonilla. “What we’re trying to do with this is basically make a community art space.” And, though the art wasn’t displayed in an exhibit, doesn’t mean it is of lesser quality than art in galleries. “As image makers we have a responsibility to show current stuff and not just fluff,” Bonilla said. “Hopefully we can achieve that with spaces like this.” Outsights is finished for this semester, but it is likely to become an outstanding tradition.
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between writer and director. “If the director is good, the partnership is a fantastic thing,” he says. “But when it comes to musicals, there is more fluidity ... . And James as a writer is very much in sync with the kind of production he intends the show to be.” Meanwhile, Off-Broadway at the Signature Theatre Company, Athol Fugard, the great South African playwright and legendary provocateur, is staging his “’Master Harold’ ... and the boys.” This is his 1982 autobiographical drama about a young white boy and his family’s two middle-aged African servants. Fugard directed its premiere on Broadway, where it ran for almost a year, and Lonny Price, who played the boy _ a stand-in for Fugard himself _ in that production, directed a brief run in 2003. Fugard, 84, laughs when I ask when he first decided to direct his own work. “Right at the onset of my writing career,” says Fugard, part Afrikaner, part Englishman, who began making illegal theater with whites and blacks. “Nobody else wanted to touch the plays I had written. I had to get on with it.” In those days, the apartheid government refused to let “Master Harold” be staged there. But how does he decide when not to direct his work? “Whenever I’ve written a new play, there is only one director,” he answers with absolute certainty. “For the first defining production, that is myself. The first production is like the birth of a child.
I want to know that the play onstage is the one I have written _ what’s going to survive is the text I have put on the stage. It’s the one guaranteed in this very, very uncertain world.” After he has defined the work, “I let the play go. It’s as simple as that.” At the Signature, where he is in semi-permanent residence, he staged the haunting 2015 premiere of “The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek,” which was new, and let Ruben Santiago-Hudson direct a powerhouse revival of Fugard’s most prescient political drama, “My Children! My Africa!” “It was so clean, so honest,” he says about Santiago-Hudson’s production. “That was a wonderful experience for me.” He returned to “Master Harold” and another old play, “Blood Knot,” as the urging of the man he calls “the beautiful and wonderful” James Houghton, the Signature’s founding visionary, who died this past summer of stomach cancer at 57. “I must admit,” he says, “I had a thought in the back of my head that maybe I should look at this play again. At this point of my life, some reconsidering must take place about what I have done and what I have been.” Still, I am surprised to hear that, in Pepe’s experience at the Atlantic, most fine playwrights make equally fine directors. “I have found they have a good sense of the value of the actors in the process and the value of getting out of the way of the play.” Of course, he has heard what we have all heard, about playwrights who, as he gracefully puts it, “may need a little perspective. I’ve heard that things can go wrong when they have too much ownership about their writing.”
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Displaced and rejected: the refugee crisis French and British leaders make it difficult for refugees fleeing war to start a new life. By Jorge Paniagua Opinions Editor
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he French authorities are attempting to get rid of them and the British government is attempting to keep them out — I’m not referring to an infestation of some sort, I’m referring to displaced lives being rejected by remorseless politicians. Because of their nationality and refugee status, the thousands of refugees from Middle Eastern countries like Afghanistan, Eritrea and Syria have been evacuated from a pop-up refugee camp last week in Calais, France. Furthermore, the camp has degradingly been coined the Calais ‘Jungle’ by French authorities. These displaced people are no longer seen as human through the eyes of French and British politicians. Instead, they’re viewed as an issue, nothing more than a liability. Conditions in the Calais camp were said to be dilapidated in an article titled, “Calais refugee camp conditions diabolical, says report” by writer Alexandra Topping for The Guardian. Topping went on to describe the camp as a place, “cramped [with] makeshift tents plagued by rats, water sources contaminated by faeces and inhabitants suffering from tuberculosis, scabies and post-traumatic stress.” The camp is said to be one of Europe’s largest shanty towns. There were approximately 3,000 residents living in the camp, including roughly 1,500 children, before the mass evacuations last week. This was reported by Calais Action, one of several volunteer organizations that was operating on the site. France’s intolerance of refugees is more than disappointing, it’s alarming. Recently, French President Francois Hollande declared how he feels about the thousands of refugees: “We could tolerate the camps no longer, and we will not tolerate them.” He also declared he would not allow any more camps to crop up across the nation.
Hollande’s words accurately portray how some European politicians have come to view the refugee crisis — not an influx of people in need, but rather as a calamity. It’s time for French politicians, along with other European governments, to find a way to help these displaced people instead of trying to rid themselves of what I presume they consider a “headache.” It’s time to establish regulations that will aid refugees, rather than prohibit their entry into European nations. In fact, there should be coordination amongst the international community allowing for safer passage into European countries for displaced people. Furthermore, these countries should be focused on family reunification and better supporting refugees, instead of looking for a way to send them elsewhere. European nations along with the United States should be committed to saving refugee lives and helping those vulnerable to harm and exploitation because of the fleeing refugee crisis they regrettably find themselves apart of. Germany accepted a plethora of refugees in 2015, which was widely praised by the international community yet con-
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demned by its German citizens. According to an article titled, “ Germany welcomed more than 1 million refugees in 2015. Now, the country is searching for its soul,” by Rick Noack for The Washington Post, “Politicians were outraged when thousands of Germans started to protest against their government’s pro-refugee policy.” Although, the German government did receive some backlash from the public for allowing refugees to find a home in the country — German politicians did nothing wrong. It seems as though in this rare turn of events, the government was actually less-evil than the public. French president, Francois Hollande should aspire to be as helpful and compassionate as German chancellor Angela Merkel chose to be toward the refugee community in 2015. Many of these displaced people have lost family members, friends and their homes. Afghan refugees are escaping the destructive war in their country, as are the Syrian refugees. Iraqi people are fleeing from Islamic State controlled areas while Eritrean refugees are trying to find a better life outside of the police state of
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Eritrea. They all share a common goal: to succeed in a thriving (and reachable) country like the United Kingdom or France and leave a life of destitute behind. However, with the cruel treatment of refugees by French politicians living in the Calais camp, it’s seems as though that may be unlikely. The plan for many of the refugees who resided in the French camp was to cross from the port city of Calais into Great Britain by boat, in hopes of finding an improved way of living. However, Britain has come to label these refugees as “clandestine migrants” and has been accused by aid agencies of not doing enough to help the influx of people. According to an article titled, “UK not doing enough for refugees, say charities and aid agencies” by Amelia Gentlemen for The Guardian, Kate Allen, the director of Amnesty International told the writer in an interview, “History will judge us for our failure to deal with the global refugee crisis. Instead of focusing on putting up more barriers to keep people out, the UK must urgently provide the safe and legal routes refugees fleeing violence and per-
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Kyle Schwarber is the Cubs’ X-factor in game 6 By Paul Sullivan Chicago Tribune
In early July, Cubs president Theo Epstein first began squelching trade rumors out of New York involving Kyle Schwarber, telling reporters he was looking forward to watching the slugger return next spring in Mesa, Ariz. Schwarber was grateful for the support, but declined to go along with the narrative he wouldn’t be back until spring training. “I’m going to work my butt off to get back as soon as I can, whatever the timetable is,” he said. “I want to do more. I think that’s only a good mindset to have, and whatever happens, happens.” What happened is now part of World Series’ lore. Schwarber returned from over a six-month absence last week in Game 1 of the 2016 World Series, and went 3-for-7 with a pair of walks and two RBI while DHing in the first two games at Progressive Field. After being out of the starting lineup in the three games at Wrigley, due to doctor’s orders, Schwarber returns on Tuesday in Game 6 with a chance to help force a seventh game. With the Cubs’ trailing 3-2 and the
offense still struggling, Schwarber could be the X-Factor they desperately need. “He’s back, and I’m sure he’s champing at the bit to get in the lineup,” Anthony Rizzo said. “He’s going to have big at-bats Tuesday, and he’s going to be ready for it. And he’s got all of our confidence behind him.” Schwarber had only one pinch-hit opportunity in the games at Wrigley, hitting a soft pop-up off Bryan Shaw to shortstop Francisco Lindor, who was playing on the other side of second on a shift, during the eighth inning of Game 3. On Tuesday he’ll face right-hander Josh Tomlin, who pitched 4 2/3 shutout innings in the Indians’ 1-0 win in that same game. “We might have expanded (the strike) zone here and there, but that’s an adjustment that can easily be made,” Schwarber said of Tomlin. “And that was a bunch of guys first time facing him, too. I’m sure (Tuesday) it’ll be a completely different situation and approach.” Getting to Tomlin early figures to be a key, since he probably won’t pitch long. The Indians bullpen has been lights-out in the World Series, and manager Terry Francona has been using them like a plumber uses a snake. The Cubs are hitting .210 in the
Series with 10 runs in the five games, and relievers Andrew Miller, Cody Allen and Bryan Shaw have allowed one earned-run over 13 combined innings with 24 strikeouts and five walks. If the Cubs are trailing before “Miller Time” in Game 6, or Game 7, it’s probably curtains. The problem is no one knows when uber-reliever Miller will come into a game because of Francona’s unpredictability. Former Indians slugger Jim Thome compared Cleveland’s bullpen depth to the Royals’ lockdown pen of 2014 and ‘15, which tended to enter games in the fifth or sixth innings. Kelvin Herrera, Wade Davis and Greg Holland nailed down the final three, making manager Ned Yost’s job relatively easy. “To be honest, Ned was kind of similar with ‘Tito,’ “ Thome said, using Francona’s nickname. “They’re being consistent with what they have.” It takes someone like Miller, who has absolutely no ego, to make it work. Miller doesn’t care when he pitches, and since he’s the best of the Indians relievers, no one else can really complain about their role. “You have to have the right guys to do it, personality-wise,” said Indians bullpen coach Jason Bere, a former Cubs starter. “If you’re talking about
doing something like that in the regular season ... you have to have guys that are willing because of how things are broken down for arbitration, free agency and things like that.” In other words, the relievers need those holds and saves stats to get their money, and pitching in the fifth or sixth isn’t conducive to piling up stats. “Fortunately we have a guy like Andrew who doesn’t care,” Bere said. Miller already got closer money from the Yankees, and didn’t make a peep when they brought in Aroldis Chapman last offseason and made him the closer, moving Miller to a setup role. Bere said the money is not the issue for Miller. “That helps, certainly,” Bere said. “But he just wants to pitch when the game is on the line, in high leverage situations. He wouldn’t be able to do what he does if we didn’t have the other guys we have. Right now it’s working, and I’m glad that it is.” According to fangraphs.com, Indians pitchers have thrown breaking balls on 34 percent of their pitches through Game 5, after the Cubs saw 25 percent breaking balls (curveballs and sliders) during the regular season. The Cubs had the eight-worst average on curves in 2016. This has resulted in some poor swings at pitches outside the zone by
Javier Baez, Willson Contreras and others, either putting them behind in the count or resulting in weak contact. “I know we’ve got some guys to expand (their zone) during this series,” Bere said. “But I think it’s how we got there too, with some quality pitches early. Look at Corey Kluber in Game 1. His sinkers broke so late, and then they were chasing other pitches _ and how can’t you chase when he’s throwing 94, 95 (mph), two-seamers that are catching the plate. “You can’t sit around and wait. I’m sure some people are saying ‘What are they swinging at? Well, did you see the other two pitches before?” Schwarber’s return should help alleviate some of those issues since his batting eye and approach have been remarkable, especially considering he’s missed over six months after the knee surgery. The Cubs season is not on Schwarber’s big shoulders, but he does carry a big stick. It’s funny to think that when the trade rumors began in July, Schwarber actually had to consider the possibility he could leave the organization he came up with and loved. “I’m going to worry about being a Cub and worry about my rehab and worry about this team and them going to the World Series,” he said that day.
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Snieor outside hitter Nele Barber and freshman Hailey Harward celebrate after a point during the 49ers’ Cal State Northridge Oct. 15.
Keeping the top spot
The Long Beach State women’s volleyball looks to continue winning ways. By Matthew Simon Sports Editor
After a 9-0 start to Big West conference play, the 49ers’ nine-game winning streak came to an abrupt end after the Long Beach State women’s volleyball team lost to UC Irvine in five sets Friday. The 49ers (15-8, 9-1) got back to business as they beat the UC Davis 3-0 Saturday night. Now heading into the final stretch of conference games, LBSU welcomes Cal State Fullerton (6-17, 1-8) to Walter Pyramid tonight at 7. This will be the first of two matches between the teams over a two-week period. In 2015, the 49ers swept the Titans
in both meetings Nov. 4 and Nov. 20. The Titans are led by sophomore outside hitters Shimen Fayad and Madeline Schneider, who lead the team with 283 and 258 kills, respectively. LBSU will be led by senior outside hitter Nele Barber, who leads the team with 359 kills. Barber was also named the Big West Player of the week for a third time on Monday. The senior knocked in a combined 49 kills and 29 digs over the weekend during the team’s loss to UC Irvine and win against UC Davis. Against UCI, Barber had a 20/20 game with 23 kills and 21 digs. It was the first time any 49er has accomplished the feat since the senior did it Oct. 24 last year. Barber also leads the team with 16 double-doubles this season. The match against CSUF will be the last game at Walter Pyramid before LBSU goes on a three-game road trip starting in Hawai’i Friday.
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49ers hope home is sweet By Matthew Simon Sports Editor
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Sophomore center Max Cusator goes up for a shot during the Long Beach State’s gamer against Pepperdine Oct. 14.
October has been tough for the Long Beach State men’s water polo team. After three wins against Occidental, Long Beach City College and Golden West College on Oct.1, the 49ers have lost five of their last seven games in October. During that span, LBSU has faced seven of the top 20 teams in the nation. Against No. 2 UC Berkeley, the 49ers couldn’t stop the Bears’ offense as they lost 17-7 on Oct. 6. The 49ers suffered a tough 10-9 loss to No. 6 Stanford Oct. 8 before beating No. 15 UC San Diego 10-6 in San Diego Oct. 12. LBSU won its second straight game
against No. 8 Pepperdine, defeating the Waves 7-4 Oct. 14. Since then, the 49ers have lost three consecutive contests to No. 5 UC Santa Barbara Oct. 20, No. 3 USC Oct. 22 and No. 4 Pacific on Friday. LBSU will look to get back in the win column as they have a three-game homestand when they host San Jose State Friday, Loyola Marymount Nov. 11 and UC Irvine Nov. 11. Against the Tigers, the 49ers put together a great offensive performance, but fell short as Pacific scored two goals in the last three minutes to put the team up 12-10. The 49ers scored one more goal, but it wasn’t enough as they lost to Pacific 12-11. Freshman attacker Nemanja Bakic and sophomore attacker Austin Stewart led LBSU with three goals each.