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LONG BEACH STATE | VOL. LXX, ISSUE 14 | OCTOBER 22, 2018

er Senior foward Ashley Gonzales makes history as she scores her 34th career goal, setting a new school record.

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Senior forward Ashley Gonzales celebrates her 34th career goal against UC Irvine. The 2-1 win puts Long Beach one point behind Irvine in the Big West standings.

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LBSU administration discusses BEACH 2030 plans with ASI Senate The Associated Students Inc. Senate voiced increased student engagement and publicity on the BEACH 2030 initiative, a two-day, online public event Nov. 14 and 15 that aimsmeant to involve the entire Long Beach State community to plan the future of the university.

Led by President Jane Close Conoley and BEACH 2030 Action Teams, the event is meant to gather community feedback, concerns and comments about improvements within the campus.

“This is an opportunity for [students] to engage in a conversation with the entire university community, to share [their] thoughts and to share [their] ideas,” said Manuel Pérez, director of the LBSU Career Development Center.

According to Manuel Pérez, director of the LBSU Career Development Center, BEACH 2030 has been in the works for about nine months. He also said that LBSU is collaborating with the Institute for the Future, a non-

profit organization that helps businesses and universities strategize their goals.

In spring 2019, Conoley and other staff members on the BEACH 2030 Action Teams will analyze the data and discuss what specific issues to work on.

“Ultimately in 2020, the university will then develop the strategic vision or where we’re going to be and develop a map ... on how to get there,” Pérez said. “But for the next 10 years after, we will be building the future of Long Beach State.”

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WASTE

Composting efforts at LBSU no longer include soiled paper products JORGE VILLA | Daily 49er

Composite bins have been removed on the first floor of the Library during a limited time as the Office of Sustainability find a suitable facility to properly composite waste

By Hannah Getahun Staff Writer

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tudents dining at Long Beach State may be surprised to learn that soiled paper waste is no longer composted anywhere on campus, despite signs on many compost bins that claim otherwise.

EDCO Disposal, the company that hauls the school’s waste, is only able to transport food waste because “[soiled] paper is a contaminant,” according to Kierstin Stickney, communications director for the 49er Shops.

Food waste is processed at the Agromin waste facility in Chino.

LBSU was left without a facility to compost soiled paper waste after Athens Services decided to end its partnership with the school. Holli Fajack, sustainability coordinator at the Office of Sustainability and Eric

Bryan, recycling center manager, believe that because Athens Services decided to take on a larger hauling project in Los Angeles, the company could no longer support composting efforts.

Associated Student Inc., the 49er Shops and the Office of Sustainability have maintained an ongoing collaborative effort to keep composting a component of Waste Not, the school’s program to have 90 percent of its waste diverted from landfills by 2030.

Fajack said the campus is in a “transitional moment,” which is why signs have not been updated. She believes keeping the signs up can help students get used to the idea of composting soiled paper until a new paper composting facility is found.

The Office of Sustainability removed compost bins from the University Library earlier this year. There are still bins in the University Student Union and the residential dining halls.

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Sustain U, ASI’s sustainability component, is looking into replacing the compost bins. The most substantial challenge is finding cheap bins.

“Believe it or not, trash cans are exceedingly expensive,” Bryan said. “Because we want to make sure we are getting good quality ones, the bidding process for that … is long.”

ASI began the Compost Happens program in 2013, the university’s first composting program. After that, the program expanded to more areas on campus such as the University Library.

Now, composting is concentrated in smaller places, such as kitchens in restaurants and dining halls. This makes it easier to train staff to properly identify and sort through compost. “[ASI] made it so there has to be trained individuals in the back to be able to say, ‘This isn’t compostable, this is’ and make sure

[compost is] getting where it needs to be,” Bryan said.

Compost from the Agromin facility is turned into mulch that the school purchases to improve soil quality. This creates a “closed-loop” system, where waste comes back to the school in a useful form.

According to Bryan, the campus’ current goal is to change the quality of compost that is being shipped out to the Agromin facility. This means finding less plastic and metal trash within the compost bin by getting students familiar with the idea of sorting their waste. Right now, the school is looking for the best way to do this.

“Because compost[ing] is a cultural change that requires a lot of people to look at something that’s gross and see that it’s valuable, we need to make sure that we are as best equipped as possible to get that message across and to back it up with accurate action,” Bryan said.

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CRIME

Stalking reports, an on-foot pursuit and a traffic accident

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Injury-related accident

On Oct. 16 police responded to a call that a pedestrian hit by a vehicle at the Pyramid Parking Structure. The pedestrian, identified as a student by Long Beach State Police Lt. Richard Goodwin, sustained injuries, but not any serious enough to warrant an ambulance. The parents were notified and transported the student to a local hospital. While the driver, also a student, wasn’t cited at the scene, the incident is being investigated by detectives to determine whether a citation is justified.

Stalking reports

On Oct. 9, a female student reported a stalking incident to police after seeing her

ex boyfriend park near her vehicle. She said that he followed her around campus, as well has her friends, but he did not threaten them.

According to Goodwin, she had him blocked on social media and described his behavior as “uncomfortable” and a “nuisance.”

The second stalking report came Oct. 16 when a student contacted campus police about an unknown subject following her around campus. Police met with the student at the Beach Hut and made a report, but found no suspects in the area. The situation is currently under investigation.

Harassment

An LBSU student reported to campus police that an unknown employee from California State University Fullerton has been sending her harassing emails, text messages and phone calls for over 10 years. The 25-year-old student told police that the employee has sent messages threatening her and her family, but that no physical contact

or in-person meeting has ever occurred.

Police took a report on the matter and more details will come in later as the investigation progresses.

On-foot pursuit

Campus police pursued a suspect on foot in the late morning of Oct. 11, near the traffic circle off of Pacific Coast Highway, after identifying a suspect with three warrants out for his arrest. When police approached the suspect, Frederick Harvey, they told him to sit on the sidewalk next to his parked van but Harvey sprinted away on foot.

The officers pursued and an officer-in-training fell, receiving some minor scuffles on his arms. An off-duty officer from another district witnessed the chase and tackled Harvey, holding him until campus police arrived and took him into custody.

Harvey was taken to a Long Beach jail and held on the crime of obstructing officers and evading police.

School computer stolen

Campus police received a call from the McIntosh Humanities Building in the afternoon of Oct. 10 about a grand theft. Responding officers learned from a staff member that a state computer from one of the offices had been stolen.

The computer, an Apple iMac, was last seen by the staff member who made the call on Oct. 5 at noon, with the staffer returning from the weekend to discover it missing. A report was taken, but no suspects or leads have currently been found for the theft.

Bike wheel theft

A Parkside dorm resident called police on Oct. 11 to inform them that a wheel from his bike had been stolen. The student filed a report with the responding officers, saying the theft more than likely occurred sometime between the evening of Oct. 10 and when he reported the theft to police.

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FEATURE

Google offers LBSU $35,000 grant for female engineers New Google grant aims to support women in research opportunities and mitigate retention issues of those in the profession.

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rowing up in Venezuela, Society of Women Engineers President Stephanie Avenando received a huge amount of support from her family and peers for enrolling in engineering courses at La Universidad Nacional Expo.

As a junior at Long Beach State, this has not been the case.

This inspired her to raise awareness about her male-dominated field. Avenando said that chemical, industrial and mechanical engineering classes in Venezuela were largely occupied by women. She involved herself with electrical engineering due to the power outages in her home country, making her “one female in a million of men,” according to Avenando.

Over 30 percent of females are switching out of science and engineering fields in higher education, according to SWE, and some groups are making efforts to retain women in the fields and promote inclusivity.

Recently, Google awarded LBSU a $35,000 exploreCSR grant for female students to have research-focused workshops.

In a press release, the company claims this grant will help undergraduate women gain confidence in problem-solving outside of school, and inspire them to motivate themselves toward pursuing a career in research.

One such effort being made to accomplish this is “Computing to Change the World for the Better: A Research-Focused Workshop for Women,” a three-day work-

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Society of Women Engineers members discuss ways to retain women in the engineering field and promote inclusivity.

shop planned to host different computer science skill building workshops and female engineer guest speakers. Shadnaz Asgari, a Google grant recipient and chair of biochemical engineering at LBSU, is planning the workshop for female computer science majors to occur in February 2019.

Asgari hopes this grant will help with creating female role models in the computer science and engineering fields, which impacts female engineers’ feeling of “isolation” when pursuing careers that are male-dominated. According to Asgari, the push to have role models for women in these ca-

reer fields will encourage different STEM departments to carry on this conversation of inclusivity.

She personally witnessed the gender gap when she was studying chemical engineering and medical research at UCLA. In her classes, she only saw one or two female engineers in a class of 20 male students according to Asgari.

When Asgari began working in the medical field, she noted a difference in the culture because there was a larger presence of women. She knew that this was a benefit for college retainment of other female STEM colleagues.

The gender gap in STEM fields

is still relevant today, according to Asgari.

Civil engineering major Xiomara Brito, former co-president of the university’s SWE, shared her perceptions of self discouragement in the field of engineering.

She had initially declared mechanical engineering as a freshman but had a change of heart after noting the disproportionate gender ratio of males to females.

“At that time, I didn’t have many women peers to ask in my class for support. I was scared,” Brito said.

Currently, Brito says she still sees only two to three women in

her classes. Although, this year she has had seven women classmates in an upper division civil engineering class which shocked her.

According to Avenando, women in Venezuela have more support to pursue engineering than in the U.S. because of the nation’s supply of oil. Despite the family culture that is embedded in the developing country in which women are stay-at-home mothers, they were given this opportunity, says Avenando.

“I’ve had people assume that I’ll finish my degree and not pursue the career after college, especially coming from a third world country when it is expected of women to stay at home,” Avenando said.

Avenando and Brito are actively supporting women in the engineering field at LBSU by conducting workshops that include keynote female speakers from different engineering companies and fields.

“For chapter members, we have a continual project called the Rube Goldberg machine,” Avenando said. “It’s a machine that is built by the group in a complex fashion to do a simple task.”

SWE also has a “SwEekly” newsletter which helps members learn about internship and job opportunities. It also encourages guest speakers to let Brito and Avenando know of any opportunities to share with the student body.

Locally, SWE runs an outreach program in the fall for high school girls, and in the spring for middle school girls to encourage women to apply to an engineering program at LSBU. The group has bi-weekly meetings from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.

Wednesdays in room EN2-102.

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HALLOWEEN

Long Beach Zombie Fest brings life to the undead Packed with live performances, hair-raising sideshow acts and haunted mazes, the three-day festival has something for attendees of all ages to enjoy.

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roans filled the air as crowds of rotting zombies shuffled their corpses around Rainbow Lagoon this weekend for the 7th annual Long Beach Zombie Fest.

Organized by Los Angeles based production company O Entertainment, the three-day festival opened Friday and ended on Sunday with an assortment of activities and entertainment such as live performances, interactive mazes, makeup booths, sideshow performers and the Infamous Zombie Walk.

Zombies, ghouls and other ghastly creatures of all ages teemed the festival grounds covered in heavy face paint and fake blood. The essence of the festival lies in the commitment of attendees to dress up and act like zombies, according to event coordinator Tracy Wintori.

“I think that’s the fun part, you can kind of be anything,” Wintori said. “[Being a zombie] is a pretty easy thing to do. Technically the only thing you really need to do is act like one.”

Attendees were welcome to arrive at the festival with or without a costume. The latter were offered professional zombie transformations, a free service provided by Cinema Makeup School special effects artists.

The festival gave attendees a chance to participate in the Infamous

Zombie Walk, one of the biggest events of the night and a Long Beach Zombie Fest tradition. Starting at Rainbow Lagoon, the 45-minute walk took participants through Pine Avenue Pier and the Pike Outlet.

Clad in fake blood and tattered clothing, participants dragged their feet through the course of the walk, earning enthused and puzzled reactions from unsuspecting spectators.

Live performances at the main stage were sprinkled throughout the night to keep the festival’s atmosphere alive. Self proclaimed monster rock n’ roll band, The Rhythm Coffin performed a full set dressed in skeleton and zombie costumes, drawing in the largest crowd of the night.

White face paint against blackened eye sockets gave each band member a deadly look as they performed a string of Halloween-themed tunes around tombstones scattered throughout the stage. Their set featured original songs such as “Werewolf Walker” and “Scarrie Carrie from the Cemetery” written by lead vocalist Gruesome Gereg.

The band is a staple of the festival, having performed at Long Beach Zombie Fest since the festival’s creation.

“We love the Zombie Walk and all the people that participate in it,” said back-up vocalist, Scarrie Carrie. “It’s one of the most fun events throughout the entire holiday season.”

Revelers looking for a scare had the opportunity to get their adrenaline going at Infected: A Haunted Maze

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Participants of the Long Beach Zombie Walk make the 45 minute trek around Shoreline Village, The Pike and through the harbor dressed as zombies Friday.

Attraction. Produced by Unhallowed Productions, the 3000-square foot maze allowed participants to enter an apocalyptic wasteland ridden with zombies ready to jump out at every turn.

The tables were turned at the Zombie Outbreak Cage, a unique experience where festival-goers were given 15 minutes to scare other attendees at the interactive quarantine scare zone.

Several sideshow acts were also sprinkled throughout the festival for attendees to enjoy as they walked past various food vendors and horror booths.

Between his Ultimate Shock Shows in the Freakshow Tent, shock artist and sideshow performer Darin “Dangerous D” Malfi walked around the festival, urging attendees to staple dollar bills to his bare skin.

Malfi has performed as a shock artist for 10 years and has been a contestant on America’s Got Talent and toured with metal artist Rob Zombie. This year marks Malfi’s fourth year performing at Long Beach Zombie Fest, regarding the local festival as one of his favorite events to perform at, seeing it as an opportunity to reach out and connect with his community doing what he does best.

“It’s really the one event where a community can bring kids, adults, grandmothers and parents together,” Malfi said. “Everybody can come to this event and enjoy themselves and have something to do and make a weekend out of it.”

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Mark Mangiagli an alumani of Long Beach State gets a zombie face painted on at the Zombiefication Zone at the Long Beach Zombie Fest Saturday.

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DISCUSSION

TEDx returns to Long Beach State with ‘Navigating the Truth’

By Brenna Enos

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The third annual TEDx event will return to Long Beach State on Saturday, Oct. 27 with a diverse group of speakers to discuss this year’s theme: “Navigating the Truth.”

Held in the University Student Union Ballrooms, the TEDx club directors anticipate “Navigating the Truth” to start at 10 a.m. with doors opening at 8:30 a.m.

TEDx is a program geared toward self-organized and local events and is an extension of the international TED Talk organization which specializes in short and impactful speeches.

Inspired by President Jane Close Conoley’s no barriers program and the diverse population at LBSU, the TEDxCSULB team

of directors chose the theme because they believe it is a broad enough topic to provide a platform for speakers from multiple backgrounds.

Ten speakers will take the audience on a journey of how they discovered their own truths through sharing their personal experiences, research and knowledge.

According to the TEDx website, the featured speakers come from many different professions and backgrounds in the local community. Speakers from LBSU include mathematics instructor Adam Richardson, undergraduate student Jessica Layne and communication studies professor José I. Rodríguez.

Event curator and senior communication studies major, Vania Arriola said she hopes attendees will keep an open mind to the ideas that will be shared, as she believes it is important to understand where everyone

is coming from.

“You don’t need to agree with everything that is said … but at least acknowledge that everyone has gone through different experiences, different journeys and have different paths,” Arriola said. “As long as we’re all welcoming each other with open arms, I think that’s the biggest thing I want everyone to understand at the event and after.”

Event Director of Finance and Sponsorship and English major, Alysha Robinson, said she believes the broadness of the theme is “a really big thing” for the college due to its inclusivity of different backgrounds.

Robinson also voiced his excitement to have directed the event, saying that he, like many others, grew up watching TED Talk videos.

“It’s something I always watched on YouTube in high school, so being a part of the team is baffling sometimes,” Robinson said.

The discussion will vary in topics, including discussions about dealing with grief and anxiety to personal stories about gender and healing. While each speaker will share their unique experience, all speeches are united under the theme of “Navigating the Truth” and how it shaped their beliefs.

“We’re really excited. There really isn’t anything like it on campus,” said Kyle Neilson, director of marketing and management major.

As of Wednesday, over 200 tickets are available for purchase, but the TEDx event directors strongly encourage those interested in attending to purchase a ticket soon as the event has a strong likelihood of selling out.

Tickets are $30 for students, $40 for faculty and $45 for general admission. To purchase tickets for “Navigating the Truth,” visit the TEDxCSULB website.

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Michael Myers recovers his iconic mask after spending 40 years behind bars.

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MOVIE REVIEW

Michael Myers slashes in early ‘Halloween’ treat David Gordon Green’s “Halloween” is a scary and fast-paced homage to John Carpenter’s original Michael Myers flick.

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Rarely is a movie so nearly perfect that it prompts multiple viewings within its opening weekend. The newest “Halloween” is such a movie.

Rather than restart the franchise, 2018’s “Halloween” adds to the story of the original film from 1978 – ignoring a series of increasingly dull sequels and a reboot that is the cinematic equivalent of slowly inserting needles into your eyes.

Through its return to a simple synth soundtrack and prolonged tension, this film’s prologue makes it clear that director David Gordon Green and his crew wanted to take the story of serial killer Michael Myers and sole survivor Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) back to its roots, an achievement they make both narratively and aesthetically.

This film’s story picks up 40 years later after the original film directed by John Carpenter left off – Curtis returns as an older Strode who has a family and lives in gated seclusion, stockpiling an armory’s worth of weapons in anticipation of the killer’s return. The viewer is reintroduced to Myers behind bars, but it’s quickly revealed he won’t be there for long.

Though the two main characters are the film’s strongest, the rest of the cast bring resonant performances which make the humor click and the rampage tragic. Judy Greer and Andi

Matichak, as Strode’s daughter and granddaughter, are also some standouts which viewers could appreciate. The trauma that Myers’ night of fatal rampage has left is felt in every stare, wince and outburst that each of the women convey.

Myers isn’t connected to Laurie because of convoluted family lineage or supernatural force, but simply because she happened to be Myers’ target and victim.

In following the original film’s lack of explanation, Myers’ encounters with any other human become even more terrifying — you don’t know who he will choose to brutally murder because you haven’t been given a reason for his wrath. Anyone can be a target.

The aforementioned trauma is at the center of the film’s story. Each generation of Strode offers a different approach to dealing with damage Myers left, giving the film a secondary conflict which adds emotional depth that helps you become invested in the characters and rewards multiple viewings.

But this emotional struggle has never been the selling point of “Halloween,” the carnage is, and this film delivers well at satisfying that desire. The kills are both rapid and drawn out, on-screen and off; those where you hear the action but don’t see it are as squirm-inducing as those where everything is on uncensored display.

Although tweaks are made to both the music and drawn out action scenes, Green and company heavily borrow both elements from the original. The classic “Halloween” theme returns throughout this film, its repetitive nature being intentional – the music, like Myers’ iconic deep breathing, is

a precursor to doom.

Rather than a rapid succession of cuts common in modern horror films, Green uses long shots to emphasize fear and let the viewer sit with discomfort. When action finally happens, it’s more sudden — hitting harder. The setting appears as normal as one’s own neighborhood, once again making a viewer feel like this could happen anywhere at anytime.

Any familiarity here is deliberate and used to link this film with Carpenter’s original through look and sound, as well as send cues to the viewer that evil is near and ready to strike.

The only downtime in “Halloween” is a portion of the plot that revolves around two journalists who create a podcast about Myers’ first killings. The duo’s arc initially left me puzzled about their inclusion in the story, but upon a rewatch I found that their involvement fits in with the spirit of the original film – the targets are random and no one is safe.

Although Green’s “Halloween” serves as a direct sequel to Carpenter’s original, one does not need to have seen the 1978 version to understand this movie. Any useful context from the original is given within the 104-minute runtime of Green’s installment. This new film works as a standalone and moves at a brisk pace, keeping the viewer entertained from start to finish.

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EDUCATION

The CSU takes a step in the right direction by axing remedial courses Photo Illustration by JORGE VILLA | Daily 49er

Dropping remedial courses will benefit the school by graduating students faster, thus creating more spots available for new students.

By Zaina Cummins Staff Writer

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hile taking placement exams, I was always afraid of being placed in remedial classes, because for once in my life, I was worried about how the exam would affect my college career.

Assembly Bill 705, signed by Governor Jerry Brown Oct. 13, 2017, attempts to eliminate remedial classes that may delay students’ education. It went into effect on Jan. 1 of this year.

Typically, remedial courses are required by those who receive low scores on placement exams and are meant to help the student catch up. Unfortunately, at the college level, the units accrued in these courses do not count towards degrees.

According to Education Dive, the CSU system is cancelling remedial classes and replacing them with “credit-bearing courses,” which are designed to help students at all 23 campuses graduate faster.

Some students are placed in remedial classes for many years despite their aca-

demic standing in high school. Before this bill, students coming out of high school with a 4.0 GPA would still have to take a test and be placed in remedial courses if they did not have a good score. This change will give students who have been placed in these courses over the years a chance to take regular college courses.

The new method of taking a combination of high school GPA, grades, and high school coursework and applying them to placement is a fair path for all students entering college.

Replacing remedial courses at Long Beach State is going to have a significant and positive impact on incoming students, faculty and those currently enrolled in those courses.

A study by the Public Policy Institute of California shows that 27 percent of college students placed in remedial courses eventually pass a transfer-level course with a C or higher. The downside is that these remedial classes can take multiple semesters to complete.

Remedial courses have long been a roadblock for students from elementary school to college. School is a never ending competitive battle to see who’s smarter than the

other and the education system further solidifies the mindset that a test score will set you apart from others.

These types of tests have placed an unnecessary amount of stress and pressure on students and have made otherwise good students seem as though they are less intelligent.

But replacing remedial classes comes with a whole new approach. The default placement rules offer a scheme for placing students into courses based on their performance in high school.

This approach makes it easier when deciding where to place students.

Because colleges can now use high school records to determine the placement of each student, taking away remedial classes will also take away placement exams. Perhaps not all placement exams, but some, which will eliminate fees and save students money on tuition.

Dropping remedial courses and graduating students faster means the university will have more spots available for new students. It saves time and the new approach makes it easier for administration, faculty and students and is a weight lifted off of many shoulders.

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WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL

Hailey Harward reaches milestone 1,000 career digs

By Samantha Diaz Managing Editor samanthadiaz98

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efore Friday’s match had even begun, all eyes were on Hailey Harward. She opened up the night by singing the National Anthem in front of the crowd of 901, which was met with thunderous applause. The spotlight would stay on her throughout Long Beach’s (13-10, 5-5 Big West) thrilling five set comeback over Santa Barbara (13-9, 5-5 Big West) 2025, 18-25, 25-20, 26-24, 19-17.

Going into the match, the junior outside hitter was three digs away from hitting a milestone of 1,000 for LBSU. She reached the number at the tail end of the first set and went on to reach a season-high of 24.

“It’s just exciting, I’m excited,” Harward said about the milestone. “It’s been interesting learning defense from two different coaching staffs, and I feel like I’ve been able to take what I’ve learned from Bryan [Gimmillaro] and Erica [Dillard] and when Mike [Campbell] was with us and kind of combining it now, along with our really good game plan.”

The accomplishment is the most recent in a long list of achievements Harward has collected at LBSU. Since joining the team as a freshman under Bryan Gimmillaro, she led the team with 3.65 digs per set and 30 service aces last year, and has been named Big West Defensive Player of the Week three times in the span of two seasons.

She also made the Big West All-Freshman team her first year, and the All-Big West First Team last season.

At first, it seemed the celebration would be short lived, as Long Beach dropped the first two sets to Santa Barbara behind stagnant defense and inconsistent offense.

“If there’s a glimpse of hope from one person at least, then it’s kind of conta-

gious on the floor,” senior outside hitter Tyler Spriggs said.

That person was freshman outside hitter Allison Martinez, who came out with two quick kills and reignited the team to push them past Santa Barbara in the third set. Long Beach never looked back, and stepped up its defensive efforts while gaining control of the ball.

“It’s so fun to get those defensive plays from our team, we get a lot of energy from that and when we trust each other there’s just a different feeling out there,” Harward said. “We’re kind of a younger team so if we can all just work together and trust each other it’s a different feeling on the court.”

The teams battled through extra points in the fifth set, when Harward slammed the ball down past two Gauchos to end her historic night.

“For us to be able to pull out a win like that and show that fire that we’ve had since the beginning of the season … we just haven’t really found a way to show it until tonight so that was really exciting,” Spriggs said. “There’s not anybody on the other side of the net that we’re going to back down to, that we’re going to curl up to I don’t care if you have 31 kills or not, we’re going out there and we’re competing, we’re playing Long Beach volleyball.

After a game like that, that’s a team I would go to war with any day out of the week.”

The 49ers dropped their Saturday match to Cal Poly 3-1. They were able to chip one set off the Mustangs, but dropped the next two in a row, resulting in a 19-25, 25-20, 16-25, 16-25 loss. The loss evened out Long Beach’s conference record.

Long Beach has a chance to get back in the win column in a 7 p.m. match Thursday against UC Davis.

Junior outside hitter Hailey Harward digs the ball against Cal State Fullerton Oct. 16. Harward recorded her 1000th career dig Friday against UCSB. AUSTIN BRUMBLAY | Daily 49er

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Senior forwad Ashley Gonzales celebrates her 34th career goal in a 2-1 win over UC Irvine in the Black and Blue rivalry game.

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Gonzales gets her glory The senior foward breaks the school record with her 34th career goal.

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reaking past the Anteater’s defense and enduring a one-onone battle against Irvine goalkeeper Maddie Newsom, Ashley Gonzales maneuvered around her, leaving the net wide open. She stumbled her way into scoring position and quickly tapped the ball into the net, setting the record for Long Beach State’s career goals.

Gonzales scored the 34th goal of her collegiate career in a battle against the top team in the Big West. The senior forward achieved a milestone while insuring the team’s biggest win of the season.

“Playing good for my team and scoring today were two of my goals and I accom-

plished both of them,” Gonzales said. “I am West) 2-0 Sunday night in front of a rowdy really happy to crowd of 1002. get this win for “After the last game my team.” coming down 1-0 this is Long Beach really good for us,” Casfound itself in tles said.

GOALS the lead earlier Stakes were high for Ashley Gonzales (2014-present) 34 than they usualboth teams at George ly do with a goal Allen Field, but the Janet Fettig (1984-86) 33 by freshman cheers from Long Beach forward SierState fans greatly overNadia Link (2009-12) 32 ra Castles, who powered those rooting Kim Silos (2005-08) 32 capitalized on a for UC Irvine. defensive slip-up The 49ers out-shot Annette Fernandes (1983-86) 29 and earned the their opponents once first goal of her again, as they fought to collegiate career be the first team in the in the 35th minute. The two goals helped Big West to defeat UC Irvine. Freshman forLong Beach State (9-5-2, 4-1-1 Big West) ward Elysia Laramie led the offensive attack defeat first place UC Irvine (8-6-3, 4-1-2 Big for the 49ers with five shot attempts, and

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senior midfielder Lili Andino led UC Irvine with two.

The Anteaters retaliated in the last 15 seconds when junior goalkeeper Maddie Newsom came out of the box to score on a free kick, but the goal was incomparable to the one by Gonzales that broke the record.

The win put the 49ers just one point behind UC Irvine, who still holds the first place title on the Big West leaderboard. Long Beach has two games left to secure the first place spot and earn an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.

“Irvine is a great squad and I think our team understood that tonight,” head coach Mauricio Ingrassia said. “They put forth the right type of performance for this time of year.”

Long Beach will travel up north for a 4 p.m. Thursday match against UC Davis.

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