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An event hosting conservative speakers Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens was protested from outside of the venue.

A flier for the protest called Turning Point USA’s message “racist, misogynistic, queerphobic, anti-Muslim and xenophobic.”

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ASI discusses new USU developments and 22 West wins 6 awards New genderless bathroom in progress and discounted faculty gym membership becomes official Maritess Inieto, University Student Union Board of Trustees chair, said that construction was underway on a new genderless, multi-stall bathroom in the USU. At the Associated Students Inc. Senate meeting Wednesday, she said that the stall is set to be finished by Jan. 21.

The Lunch Express Membership, a pilot gym membership that allowed faculty and staff to use the LifeFit Center @ The Beach at a discounted rate from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., has now become a permanent membership, Inieto said.

Explanation provided for delayed escalator repair ASI Executive Director Richard Haller said that the reason the USU escalator wasn’t working was due to wa-

ter damage on a controller. The controller, which is used to change the direction of the escalator’s travel, needs to be replaced, Haller said. He also pointed out that they were two weeks past their initial time frame for repairing the escalator.

22 West Media dominates the CSU Media Arts Festival Haller announced that, out of eight categories, Long Beach State took six first prize awards at the California State University Media Arts Festival. The competition included all 23 CSU campuses. LBSU’s first place awards were in the categories of Best in Show, Audience Choice, Animation, Documentary, Experimental and Television.

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MERCHANDISE

49er Shops Bookstore to limit Prospector Pete items Mainstay products with the old mascot will include a gold and brown pennant.

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Students will soon be seeing a lot less of Prospector Pete in the 49er Shops Bookstore after President Jane Close Conoley announced that the 51-year-old statue is officially retired, Sept. 20.

According to Kierstin Stickney, director of marketing and communications at 49er Shops, the merchandise for the mascot has never been one of the university’s biggest sellers. Stickney said she has not seen any change in sales for Prospector Pete merchandise after the announcement that he was officially ousted. She noted that a sweatshirt with the mascot was on clearance for its poor sales rather than the retirement.

“Our intention for the future is to continue to carry a limited amount of Pete merchandise, along with brown and gold items, for our customers looking for nostalgic Long Beach gear,” Stickney said in an email.

In Conoley’s email blast, she cited the desire to move away from the California Gold Rush era as a reason for the mascot’s retirement. The statue will be moved to an alumni center, which is still in development.

Susie Jones, a fourth year communication studies major and American Indian Cultures minor, facilitated a discussion about the controversy surrounding Prospector Pete in her Social Movements and Protest class.

“I think that the university is making a good decision when shifting away from Prospector Pete merchandise as he is our retired mascot and he no longer represents

who we are as a campus community,” Jones said. “This campus is very progressive and is always finding ways to be more inclusive to the various backgrounds we have on campus.”

The “Forty-Niner Prospector” statue was sculpted in March 1967 by former student Ben Barker, and was later named Prospector Pete after former campus president P. Victor Petersen. It has since been a topic of debate between the alumni and the American Indian community.

Jones credited the impact the American Indian Student Council had on the university’s decision to move away from Pete.

Months before the formal retirement of Prospector pete decision was made, the American Indian Student Council spoke to the Associated Students Inc. Senate in February about how the statue signified a symbol of genocide to the native people. In the succeeding month, ASI passed a resolution calling for Pete’s retirement. Within the year, the university followed suit.

According to a September interview with the Daily 49er, Conoley said the decision to retire Prospector Pete came after a consensus between students, faculty, alumni and staff. In the interview, she stated the university’s plans for moving away from the mascot, which included the sale of merchandise.

“We asked 49er Shops when they run out of their last Prospector Pete shirt not to get that again,” Conoley said.

One Long Beach State alumnus, who wished to remain anonymous, helped create a T-shirt campaign against Prospector Pete’s dismissal. The shirts, sold through Custom Ink, feature a throwback 49ers logo on the

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Brown and gold memorabilia containing Prospector Pete will remain at the 49er Shops Bookstore, despite the limiting of the old mascot merchandise. front chest of the shirt and the old mascot atop the phrase “We Stand with Prospector Pete” on the back.

The alumnus said the idea behind the shirt was to gather en masse a group of alumni and have them wear the shirt at the homecoming game, which they expect Conoley and much of the campus community to attend.

“I think whether it’s alumni and a lot of the current student body, the fact that [the administration] made a unilateral decision without advising or discussing this openly outside with the community with the alumni community I think at large, says a lot about the current administration,” the alumnus said. “I think a lot of people are frustrated that people are kind of generating and creating their own narrative around the mascot especially one that has as much history as Prospector Pete and not taking any of that that into account.”

The T-shirts are sold at $17.83 with all of the proceeds covering the costs of the shirts and manufacturing company, Bella + Canvas. At the time of publication, the alumnus has received 15 orders for the item, according to the website.

The alumnus said they sympathize with the American Indian community for the

Prospector Pete’s perceived representation of genocide, but disagrees with their depiction of the mascot.

“We just wanted let people know, ‘Hey, we’re standing up for our mascot, our university’s history,’” the alumnus said. “Nobody here is trying to create a narrative or define Prospector Pete as being one version or the other. I think he’s something that’s much bigger than that. The argument can be made for nearly any mascot on nearly any campus that they might inflame or hurt a certain group of people if you create that narrative. But I think it’s a little childish that we’re allowing one group of people be the loudest voice in the room.”

Amid the flinging narratives, Jones still holds that retiring Pete was the right decision for the campus community “This specific [alumnus] is caught up in preserving the past, which is respectable, but is not looking at what the real meaning behind Prospector Pete is for others,” Jones said. “In my opinion, [the alumnus] shouldn’t advocate those shirts if [they] really understood what the university represented which is diversity and making the students feel like they belong to a positive and supportive institution.”

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CONSTRUCTION

New Student Success Center coming to campus next semester

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n old building is set to receive a breath of fresh air as its renovations will provide a new hub for several organizations on campus.

Peterson Hall 2, located on Long Beach State’s upper campus, will serve a new purpose in spring 2019 as the home of the Student Success Center, after current renovations are complete.

The building had several classrooms replaced so that the center could have the facilities to host multiple campus resources.

The building will offer a learning assistance center and a shared workshop along with Disabled Student Services, according to the university’s first floor plans.

The second floor will feature a writer’s resource lab, a student lounge, the Women’s and Gender Equity Center and the

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The Student Success Center will host multiple campus organizations such as Disabled Student Services, academic labs and several seating areas.

Education Opportunity Program.

According to Mark Zakhour, director of Design and Construction Services, the foundation of the building will remain intact in an effort to reduce waste while the interior will undergo a total renovation. The project, which cost $44.9 million, has posed challenges Zakhour and his team, who have been working on the building since Sept. 23, 2017.

“It has been a tough project,” Zakhour said. “The building was built in 1955, so at every turn there has been a surprise.

Things aren’t built straight. Things are built crooked. You open up a wall, something isn’t the way it was drawn up on the drawing, so we have had a fair share of challenges.”

Zakhour mentioned that some of these challenges pushed the construction back by nearly a month.

“By completely changing the way the building is laid out to be more modern, [the design] caused a lot of issues, and in the central area we basically broke open the entire rift structure and had to redo the entire stairs,” he said. “We had a lot of issues with the shafts and the stairs. At one point we were behind 22 days, but with working with the contractors and working on weekends, we made up for it.”

The renovations need to be complete by the Dec. 22 deadline before the university can move forward with the next step.

“We hope to have everyone moved in by January, so we can be ready at the start of the spring,” said Colleen Ryan, Academic Affairs Facilities specialist.

Zakhour added that some organizations could move in prior to Christmas and finish a majority of the move in process around Jan. 2.

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Jonah Hill’s directorial debut “Mid90s” stars Sunny Suljic as Stevie, a 13-year-old growing up in the ‘90s.

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‘Mid90s’ paints adolescence in an authentic light The film marks the directorial debut of actor Jonah Hill and how he viewed growing up in the hip-hop and skate era.

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ctor and producer Jonah Hill is best known for his comedic roles in movies such as “Superbad,” “21 Jump Street,” “This Is the End” and “Wolf of Wall Street.” Lately, he has strayed away from these types of roles to pursue his directorial debut of “Mid90s” at the Toronto International Film Festival.

I was curious to see how the comedy actor, who made me roll on the floor laughing with his jokes on screen, would capture the nostalgia of the ‘90s and what his message would be — Hill did not disappoint.

The film follows 13-year-old Stevie, who lives in Los Angeles and finds himself hanging out with a group of new friends who escape their troubled home life through skating. Hill mentioned in an interview with The Breakfast Club that he made the film because he felt that hip-hop, much like skating, is misrepresented in today’s movies.

He responds to this trend with an honest and emotional film that shows hip-hop and skating for what it actually is and what it means to him — the emotional backbone of his childhood.

If you’re going into the movie thinking it’s going to be a happy, fun-loving and dramatic movie with a ‘90s nostalgic vibe, you will likely leave the theater dismayed.

Although Hill does place his signature comedic moments through the charac-

ter’s jokes and slang, the story is very raw and real.

The first 10 seconds of the film start off with the dark and emotional scene of Stevie being abused by his brother, Ian (Lucas Hedges). The rest of the film carries on with intense moments that capture what life struggles are like through a 13-year-old boy’s eyes.

“That’s the lens I saw life through skateboarding,” Hill said in the interview.

While the film’s content can be viewed as vulgar — like a cringe-worthy scene where Stevie loses his virginity at a party, it also reveals the authenticity behind Hill’s work.

The film is evocative and moving, shedding light from the skater’s perspective and their experiences.

It is as original and genuine as a movie

can get. Hill basically holds up a mirror to the culture of toxic masculinity that surrounded the ‘90s and how the universal longing of a teenager wanting to fit in relies heavily on acceptance from his peers.

“Mid90s” highlights how young boys in that generation focused on money and approval from their guy friends from things such as sex, drugs and alcohol, which Hill says “is a bad lesson that we are having to unlearn.”

The film is hypnotizing and no matter how savage and brutal it gets, my eyes never tore away from the screen.

Hill’s ability to implement a sense of culture shock with a reality that not a lot of people experience or discuss is praiseworthy. He makes the audience assume the story is going one way, but instead depicts a powerful ride.

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RALLY

Turning Point USA event draws over 200 protesters The event promoted conservative ideas from TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk and communications director Candace Owens.

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rowds of protesters chanted, “Go home fascist” and held signs that read phrases such as, “Unite to fight patriarchy and bigotry,” among other slogans on the bottom steps of the University Student Union Tuesday night.

This protest was in response to Campus Clash, a talk hosted by Turning Point USA featuring conservative speakers Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens. Videos posted on Twitter showed shoving matches between protesters and TPUSA supporters.

According to its website, TPUSA was founded in 2012 by Kirk and is a nonprofit conservative organization whose mission is to “identify, educate, train and organize students to promote the principles of freedom, free markets and limited government.”

The USU Beach Auditorium was filled to max capacity while the 236 attendees who were allowed entry eagerly waited for the event, which started 20 minutes behind schedule due to the speakers flying in from New Jersey that same night.

The event was broken up into two halves, a

panel discussion featuring Kirk and Owens, followed by a Q&A session where audience members with opposing views were invited to share their disagreements; however, no member of the audience challenged their views at the microphone.

Outside the USU, plastic orange barricades and chain-linked fences surrounded the north side of the building’s lawn as an added layer of security, while helicopters hovered above.

Police dressed in riot gear lined the fences to “protect all parties’ rights to peaceful assembly,” according to the University Police Department’s Twitter account.

Despite a few heated confrontations between protestors and bystanders, the event never prompted police involvement.

Within the Beach Auditorium walls, Kirk and Owens gave their stances on topics such as sexual assault, a free market economy and Owens’ experience as a Black conservative in today’s society.

Both Kirk and Owens criticized leftist movements “rooted in victimhood,” citing #MeToo and Black Lives Matter as examples, and claimed that leftists perpetuate issues of oppression to victimize themselves and assert control.

Owens is known for openly expressing her disapproval of the #MeToo movement and

condemning radical feminism on her Twitter. She criticized the #MeToo movement for becoming a weapon used to target men in the political realm, referencing Brett Kavanaugh’s sexual misconduct allegations in particular.

“There is, without a doubt, a war happening in this country on men,” Owens said. “If we’re saying there’s no due process and you should just believe women, think about how scary that environment is for men that are coming up in a society.”

According to TPUSA campus coordinator Amber Ottosen, the group hopes to host more speakers and hold more events like this in the future.

“I think it’s important [to have events like these on college campuses] because you have to bring marginalized ideas to the forefront,” said Eric Aldana, president of TPUSA’s LBSU chapter.

Some students watching did not approve of the protesters.

“I understand where they’re coming from, but they must understand that this is kind of going against the entire idea of free [speech],” said Chris Stevenson, a second year business management major who was watching the protest. “This really is kind of disgusting in a way.”

Other students in the crowd could be seen

trying to aggravate the protesters by taking pictures in front of them while wearing Make America Great Again hats, and stepping on their chalk-written messages, with one reading, “The school tells us they don’t care about the safety of students fuck these racist fucks!”

“I sort of started trolling because what they’re basically doing is [impeding] free speech,” said business major Enrique Campos.

Jesus Torres, an English major at Cypress College, donned an American flag as a cape and stood with protesters who were holding signs, with one reading “Humans are not disposable, capitalism is.”

“It’s not about my rights, it’s about everyone’s rights,” Torres said.

Earlier in the day, President Jane Close Conoley sent a free speech reminder to the campus community, noting that University Police would be present at the event.

“Peaceful assembly is guaranteed by the Constitution but if violence erupts, individuals’ rights to assemble are negated,” Conoley wrote. “Therefore, University Police will disband any violent assembly on campus posing a danger to people or property.”

The event concluded with participants quietly dispersing and no arrests made, according to an email sent out by Conoley Wednesday.

Clockwise from left to right, Multiple Signs sport logos for Antifa, a leftist political movement dedicated to opposing what it deems as facism. Protesters filled the steps leading up to the USU until 9 p.m., departing from the event attendees exited the Beach Auditoruim. Police in riot gear stood by the event’s entrance untill the protestors marched away. Candace Owens (left) and Charlie Kirk (right) address a question from an attendee during the Q&A segment of the event Tuesday.

Photos by Carlos Villicana, Paula Kiley, Alexandra Apatiga and Jaron Cofield

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CAMPUS EVENT

Heading straight toward horror The Psycholog y Student Association and Psi Chi Honor Society combined to host their 8th annual haunted house.

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A scare-actor dressed as a character from the movie “The Strangers” lurk in the dark for visitors entering the haunted house in the psychology building’s basement hosted by the Psi Chi Honor Society on Wednesday.

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he only sounds heard within the Psychology Building’s basement were shrill screams and nervous bubbles of laughter.

Psychology Student Association and Psi Chi Honor Society hosted their 8th annual haunted house Tuesday and Wednesday night for Long Beach State students to get a taste of the Halloween season.

The iconic “Halloween” theme song played on a loop within the enclosed space as visitors staggered with caution around corners where

masked-beings were waiting. to get a quick-scare from actors hidPSA and Psi Chi’s haunted house den within the Psychology Building. is an a conjoined effort to allow stuCynthia Chavez, third year busidents to get a break from midterms ness admin major and third year Paul and other school stressors as well as Stoner, international business major raise funds for the associations. came to the haunted house because “We throw a they love Halloween psychology banWe have dark, and the sensation of quet and Psych being scared. twisted minds.”

Day for all psy“We have dark, chology stutwisted minds,” Stondents that apply Paul Stoner er said. to Psi Chi and Inside the maze, they get a spevisitors were met with cial banquet to commemorate what an almost entirely pitch black stretch they’ve done for the year,” said Melaof space filled with Halloween paranie Guano, president of Psi Chi. phernalia including glowing masks, Every year the clubs open the event cobwebs and jack-o’-lanterns. to all students toward the end of OcPsychology major and President tober and for $3 students were able of Psychology Student Association,

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Noemi Hernandez reiterated that the haunted house is a helpful way for students to get away from school work and have fun.

“We’re one of the only clubs that does it on campus, so it’s a good opportunity for students to spend a little time here [doing] something fun and distract[ing] themselves from school work for a minute or two and bring all of their friends,” Hernandez said.

Second-years Abby Zheng, Maggie Seagraves and Aaron Cho all came to the haunted house to support the school and hangout as friends.

“We wanted to have something to do on campus, we try to go to events just to see what they’re all about,” Seagraves said.

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EXHIBIT

Aspiring prop designer displays a nuclear gallery Artist showcases vintage atomic-inspired items and artwork in “Greetings from America.”

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atching the opening “Star Wars” crawl was not something Matthew Dehnel experienced until he was 10 years old. Unlike many 10-year-olds however, Dehnel was not entranced by the storyline or characters in the sci-fi film, but was instead entranced by what when on behind the scenes.

“All I could notice was that someone had built the sets and props,” the sculpting major said. “I was like, ‘Oh my god I want to build the death star.’”

Now over 10 years later, Dehnel’s dream of creating stage designs and sets has come to fruition in his exhibit “Greetings from America” in the School of Art Galleries at Long Beach State.

The gallery features both vintage and vintage-inspired items and artworks centralized around the idea of the atomic era in America. Some items displayed include brochures, food, water cans and a cartoon video.

The main attraction of the gallery is a

Dehnel’s “Fusion”, top, is a reproduction of a RobCo Stealth cloaking device and six emergency drinking cans.

A trinitite sample, left, is placed at the front of the gallery. Dehnel’s “Wasteland Road Trip 2018”, right, allows gallery visitors to take a 360 degree glance at the piece with a door to the enclosure.

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500-square-foot fallout shelter created entirely out of wood and street signs titled “Wasteland Road Trip 2018.” Dehnel created this set piece after receiving retired street signs that added to his long-time sign collection which he started at 16.

He described the shelter as looking and feeling post-apocalyptic due to the materials he used because he believes it looks comparable to something out of the television show “The Walking Dead.”

Coinciding with the atomic era theme, Dehnel also displayed a trinitite sample, fused sand from the first nuclear bomb in 1945 and cans of purified water from 1953.

Dehnel purchased these items on eBay and wanted to display them because he felt as though they added to the gallery’s theme.

The artist said he hopes attendees of his gallery take in the many elements of his collection and take time not only to ponder its vintage influence, but to reflect on ways it may resonates with them.

“Maybe you’re scared or a bit nervous — I want you to think about the way you feel and what you feel,” Dehnel said.

Freshman physics major Eve Khatami attended Dehnel’s gallery and described her initial reaction to the gallery as “a bit con-

fused” before reading into the theme.

“When you walk in you don’t expect to see all these things in here,” Khatami said. “It looks really cool.”

Dehnel’s detail-oriented and eclectic approach to his exhibit is something that he hopes to take with him after graduating this semester. Following his early dreams of building props and sets as a child, Dehnel’s career goal is to create props, sets, animatronics and “dark rides,” an indoor amusement park ride.

Dehnel also works as a Sculpture Department Tech at LBSU and hopes to get an internship after graduating to learn as much as he can about his desired career.

“Everything I’ve done in the last six years

was entirely focused on that one goal,” Dehnel said. “I want to watch some science fiction movie in ten years and tell my kids, ‘I made that costume’ or, ‘I made that prop.’”

Fellow BFA sculpture major Joshua Thomen has taken several classes with Dehnel at LBSU and has seen Dehnel’s interest in war-time media and his progression with his art.

“I’ve seen him evolve into a really thoughtful artist and a really strong support here in the [sculpture] program,” Thomen said.

“Greetings from America” among other student galleries can be viewed in the Fine Arts Building at LBSU on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday from noon to 5 p.m. and Wednesday from noon to 7 p.m.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

A response to Kimberli Meyer’s firing from the Students of Color and Allies A Response to the College of the Arts Dean Cyrus Parker-Jeannette, Long Beach State Spokesperson Terri Carbaugh and whom else it may concern:

content to be but the fact is that the content was altered because of this action. The content suffered.

If you still believe the content to be unrelated, you must at least admit that it became collateral damage. Take time to consider how the community and Since the firing of the University Art Musestudents of color feel about how content that reum director Kimberli Meyer on Sept. 11, there flects them and their experiences casually become have been growing concerns among Long collateral damage.

Beach State students regarding the handling To your second point regarding an interest in of race-relations and inclusivity within the investing in counseling staff, we ask this: if the UAM, the College of the Arts and the School university is truly concerned with the emotionof Art. al well-being of students who may be triggered, The following is our response and reaction why not invest in long-term solutions? Why has to the communication from leadership. It is museum staff not received implicit bias training? our hope that all those in positions of leadMore importantly, why is Catherine Scott the ership listen, internalize our questions and only self-identifying person of color on staff at the concerns and act accordingly.

UAM? (Incidentally, Scoti has been the only UAM College of the Arts’ Dean Cyrus Parkstaff member to personally reach out to students, er-Jeannette released a statement September ask about our concerns and attempt to organize 17 saying that “[American MONUMENT] is events to facilitate our healing). designed to provoke open and free discusKimberli’s firing and the consequent pause are a sion” and that “our campus is a place for civil tremendous loss, not just for us but for the univerdiscourse and artistic expression.” sity whose ethnic/racial demographic is primarily made-up of students of color. According to Long Response: Beach State’s Common Data Set for 2016-17, the school is made up of 12,994 Hispanic students, The installation is designed to enable 1,274 Black of African-American students, 7,239 change. Free discussion means nothing to the Asian students, 57 American Indian or Alaska Napeople in the line of fire if there is no direct tive students, 74 Native Hawaiian or other Pacific action taken by people like you in positions Islander students and 5,759 White, non-Hispanic of leadership and power. Are we meant to students. civically (politely) discuss the mass murderPlease understand that we would not engage ing of black people by police and law enforcein dialogue with you if we did not deeply care for ment agencies in the United States and feel this institution. We have invested so much of our LBSU Office of Public Affairs content with only being permitted to speak time, money and energy into this school. We love Kimberli Meyer was fired from her position as the director of the Long Beach but not be heard, affirmed, or helped? What this university, we cherish our community and we State University Art Museum on Sept. 11. is the point of free discussion if you, Dean are supportive of the university’s interest in imParker-Jeanette, are not free to address cerplementing inclusionary practices. However, we tain issues and concerns? Furthermore, what refuse to give up our seat at this table. All exhibigood is discussion if there is no action? Current leadership experience an emotional trigger as a result of the intensity of tions, present or future, that do not involve anti-racist staff and museum staff have been inadequate at handling issues the exhibit.” like Meyer and the initiatives she spearheaded are superfiregarding race. If you will not hire people who look like us or cial in nature regarding their claims of student engagement share our experiences as people of color then at the very least Response: and racial justice. We demand a reworking of institutional administration, faculty and staff must be trained to recognize practices linked not only to American MONUMENT, but all unconscious bias.

Meyer was Woods’ main collaborator in this project, this is future artistic presentations at the UAM. a known fact. Her removal from her position as director had You can begin by responding to our concerns with an arLBSU spokesperson Terri Carbaugh said in a statement rea significant impact to the work and there is no conceivable ticulation of actions that will be taken to address the issues leased on Sept. 19 saying “It is important to understand that way that that fact would have been unknown to UAM staff we have raised. the departure of Kimberli Meyer is unrelated to the exhibor anyone handling whatever personnel dramatics were in We stand in full support of Raybon, Woods and Meyer. it’s content. Campus officials sought [exhibition] transcripts place. Removing a major collaborator from the project was not to curtail free speech or artistic expression, but to gain a direct affront to the work and the content. This was an act Signed, a clearer understanding if the campus would need to invest of utter disrespect and institutional violence. It may be unreLBSU School of Art Concerned Students of Color and Allies in counseling staff who could assist any student who might lated to the content of the monument as you understand the csulb.soa.soc@gmail.com

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Long Beach State men’s basketball players pose with the team’s new uniforms in the unveiling video Oct. 16.

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‘The LBC’ jerseys bring excitement ahead of basketball season LBSU men’s and women’s basketball teams pay homage to the city.

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colors on all four jerseys with the only difference being the stripes and design on the shorts.

“I love the new jerseys, getting to put them on for our media day just made me even more excited for the season coming up,” senior forward Mason Riggins said. ith the restructuring of Dan Mon“The LBC jersey is by far everyone’s favorite.” son’s contract, the hiring of BobOn the “LB Fee Show” podcast with Athletics Director

by Braswell and new faces filling Andy Fee and The 562.org, Monson shed some light on the roster, only one thing was how he feels about the new uniforms. missing — a fresh new look.

“I think we’re staying with the times and we’re brandLong Beach State men’s and women’s basketball ing this university and that’s the most important thing,” teams will be decked out in jerseys with the upMonson said. “We’re out there to be the window of this dated “BE/\CH” logo beginning this season. The university and represent it and I think we’re sending teams officially unveiled the new look uniforms on that message through one brand.” social media and at their respective media days.

The LBC jersey made a splash and immediately gained LBSU Athletics | Twitter Head coaches Dan Monson and Jeff Cammon of attention from fans and media outlets such as Uniswag.

A close up look at the white home uniforms for the women’s basketball team. the men’s and women’s teams will have four differStudents and alumni filled the comment sections on ent sets to choose from: a white uniform with black LBSU Athletics social media pages. lettering, black with white lettering, charcoal with gold letI would not be surprised if both programs saw more interest Similar to NBA teams city edition uniforms, the new gold tering and a gold uniform with “The LBC” front and center. from people around the city just by wearing the uniforms for set pays respect to the city of Long Beach along with the rich I am not the biggest fan of the updated Beach logo, but all certain games. music history with artists such as Snoop Dogg and the band of these uniforms are very sharp and presentable. The addiGoing hand in hand with the school’s new logos and the Sublime. Snoop Dogg put “The LBC” on the map with his hit tion of the Big West conference logo on the opposite shoulder darker, grittier Walter Pyramid floor, these new uniforms are song “Gin and Juice” in 1993 and Sublime followed with LBC of the Nike swoosh also makes Long Beach look more profesa part of an ongoing effort to create a deeper connection bereferences in songs like “Doin’ Time” in 1996. sional, similar to powerhouse schools in the Pac-12 confertween the city and Long Beach State.

With a lot of added attention and anticipation for the seaence or the ACC. “Having the LBC on the front of our jerseys reminds us son, hopefully the men’s and women’s teams use this as extra It may not seem like a big deal, but small details like new that we’re not just representing the university but also the motivation to put on a show for everyone who embodies the uniforms and a city edition jersey help with recruiting. It city of Long Beach,” Riggins said.

LBC. Who knows, maybe one day Snoop Dogg will make an goes along with the saying ,“Look good, feel good, play good.”

The men’s and women’s teams have the same logos and appearance in the pyramid.

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WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL

49ers face two on the road

By Samantha Diaz Managing Editor samanthadiaz98

After a three-game homestand, the women’s volleyball team will take to the road with hopes of clinching a win record. Long Beach (13-10, 5-5 Big West) finished last week 2-1 after sweeping Fullerton 3-0 and completing a comeback against UC Santa Barbara 3-2. Its lone loss came at the hands of No. 11 Cal Poly who has gone undefeated in conference so far.

The 49ers have found a groove in their defensive game and are leading the conference in blocks per set at 2.40 and 60th in the nation. The team is focusing on limiting its un-

forced errors late in sets, and have been working on closing out tough matches.

At the front of the defensive pack is senior outside hitter Emma Kirst, who leads the conference at 1.11 blocks per set, and junior middle blocker YiZhi Xue with 1.03 blocks per set.

Long Beach will travel north to UC Davis (12-9, 4-5 Big West) for a 7 p.m. Thursday matchup to kick off the road trip. The 49ers will try to limit the Aggies kills and mute outside hitter Amily Allen who is fourth in the conference with 304 kills. The 49ers have been exhibiting a dominant game at the net, and will rely on its defense against the Aggies, who is ranked one below the 49ers in con-

ference.

Davis has momentum on its side as it has won its last three matches against UC Riverside, Cal State Fullerton, and UC Irvine.

Long Beach will travel back down to Southern California in a 7 p.m.

Saturday game against UC Irvine (128, 6-2 Big West), a rematch for the 49ers after losing 3-1 to the Anteaters earlier in the season. It will be a battle at the net, as the Anteaters boast junior middle blocker Idara Akpakpa, who trails right behind Kirst in blocks per set with 1.07.

If Long Beach is able to pull off an upset against Irvine and complete its second win against Davis, it will secure a winning record before heading back home and facing Hawai’i.

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Outside hitter Tyler Spriggs digs a ball against Fullerton.

The 49ers will play UC Davis and UC Irvine this week.

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Women’s soccer fights for first place, one point behind Irvine

By Sierra Martinez Assistant Sports Editor MistJournalist

After defeating the top team in the Big West, Long Beach State has two more games left to bump UC Irvine out of the number one spot.

Thursday’s 4 p.m. road matchup at UC Davis and Sunday’s 2 p.m. home game against Northridge can help Long Beach (9-5-2, 4-1-1 Big West) get the points they need to become conference champions. The 49ers hold second place and trail one point behind UC Irvine.

“I think our team is in a very good spot,” head coach Mauricio Ingrassia said. “We are taking one game at a time … they are all championship games.”

The 49ers have shown consistency throughout conference play, outshooting

their opponents in passionate attempts to put the ball in the back of the net.

Senior forward Ashley Gonzales leads the team with 5 goals scored, with only one occurring during conference. Although she has only found the net once during Big West play, the goal secured a win the team needed to have a chance to take the first place title.

Another key player in the 49ers conference play is senior defender Sarah Maher, who contributed a goal in the 3-2 win against Hawaii and scored the winning goal in the 1-0 UCSB defeat.

While the attacking end has one-upped each team they have beaten in the Big West, the defensive end continues to hold down the fort. The defense includes junior Chloe Froment, senior Alyssa Alvarez, sophomore Sarah Pilster, and sophomore Kaylee Ramirez, who have stopped multiple breakaways and shot attempts. Senior goalkeeper

Imani McDonald has had a successful conference with two shutouts at home against Cal Poly and UCSB. The 49ers next opponent, UC Davis, (67-3, 3-2-1 Big West) currently holds fourth place in the Big West and had a key win against Fullerton, a team that Long Beach tied in double overtime. Northridge is far behind in 8th place, but saw a win against UC Riverside, who is the single team the 49ers fell against.

“UC Riverside was kind of a shot in the foot,” Gonzales said. “But the way we bounce back is amazing and I love my team for that.”

The Big West is full of competitive teams, all of which have the talent to take a win on any given day. The rankings are not set in stone, but the final conference games will determine who has guaranteed a spot in the Big West tournament and NCAA tournament.

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Senior forward Ashley Gonzales dribbles a ball past a Cal Poly defender.