CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LONG BEACH
VOL. LXVIII, ISSUE 18 | SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
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ud Fine stands in front of one of his art pieces created in collaboration with Barbara McCarren for their exhibition AND/OR on Tuesday. To read about the walkthrough with the University Art Museum artists, see page 4.
STUDENT ACTIVITIES
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Aquarium of the Pacific hosts a night for college students Special extended hours will be offered for students and members. By Laura Manriquez Staff Writer
Cal State Long Beach students can experience marine life up close during the College and Food Truck Night at the Aquarium of the Pacific in downtown Long Beach Thursday at 5 p.m. The event, which takes place during aquarium after hours, was designed in order to accommodate the busy lifestyles and limited finances of college students, according to event coordina-
tor Jason Philpy. Philpy said that the goal of the event is to bring “fun for college students at an affordable price.” Students with a valid college ID can purchase discounted tickets for $12.95. During the night, the aquarium will keep open its interactive exhibits and animal encounters, such as the Shark Lagoon, the sea otter habitat, penguin encounter and the jellyfish exhibit; however, the Lorikeet Forest will be closed. Aquarium attendees will also be able to enjoy live music and food trucks, such as Nestor’s Tacos, Tomski Sausage and Bok Choy on Wheels. This isn’t the aquarium’s first effort to reach out to CSULB.
The aquarium offers college students the chance to work at the aquarium via internship programs for current students and recent graduates. According to the aquarium’s website, those who intern play a direct role in conserving and ensuring the vitality and health of the oceans and ocean life. Philpy said that College and Food Truck Night has been held before and the aquarium plans on continuing the tradition, adding that the next event is being scheduled for spring 2017. College and Food Truck Night will go from 5 - 9 p.m. Thursday. General admission for the event is $14.95 without a college I.D., $12.95 with an I.D. and free for aquarium members.
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COLLEGE AND FOOD TRUCK NIGHT • Where: Aquarium of the Pacific • When: Thursday from 5 - 9 p.m.
• Admission: $14.95 without college I.D., $12.95 with an I.D. and free for aquarium members
Did you know your information is up for sale on the black market? The Deep Web is home to stolen contraband that has affected millions. By Caitlyn Mendoza Staff Writer
Recently, a Russian hacker breached 200 million Yahoo accounts to sell the personal information on the black market — your account information may be included. However, the significance of this hacking isn’t necessarily who is behind it, but rather what they are doing with all of this information. You’ve probably heard about the black market — a place where illegal narcotics, dangerous weapons, stolen information and even illicit pornography are sold. However, the black market is not an actual location — so where exactly does one purchase these kinds of contraband? Surprisingly enough, the black market can be reached through the comfort of one’s home, for it lives on the internet — in a location of the world wide web that cannot be indexed by search
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2 NEWS
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GRAD SCHOOL
Workshop breaks down grad school CSULB resource center offers guidance for students pursuing further degrees.
By Caitlyn Mendoza Staff Writer
Cal State Long Beach’s Graduate Studies Resource Center held the Application to Admission workshop Tuesday afternoon, where students were able to learn about the process of apply-
ing to graduate school. Yesterday’s workshop was part one of a six-part series the resource center is holding, called Beyond the Horizon: Graduate School Aspiration. At the events, undergraduate students learn how to prepare for the upcoming application process and as well as requirements. Jose Miguel Martinez, assistant director of graduate studies resource center, explained that these workshops exist for the students who want to go to grad school, or are even just thinking about it. He said that the purpose of the center is to provide assistance and answers to students during the application pro-
cess. “The reason we exist is to help support students who want to go to grad school. We help them in the process, but part of that is outreach,” Martinez said. “A lot of students don’t know what the process is — we do these workshops to start reaching out to them. If we can plant the seed, they can follow up with us later and try to get more information about it.” Most grad schools require students to take the Graduate Records Examinations, depending on what program they wish to enter. However, Martinez said some universities are trying to work away from GREs, but it won’t happen anytime soon.
According to the Peterson website, an academic site that offers test prep, the GRE is much like the SAT and ACT – a broad assessment of a student’s critical thinking, analytical writing, verbal reasoning and quantitative reasoning skills. “I think students go to grad school for a lot of reasons — mostly to get their certain type of degree they need for their field later on in their life,” said Kurcel Joseph, a senior double majoring in communication and sociology. Senior organism biology major Juilet Linzmiere said that before deciding to take the GRE, she needs to do more research on schools and programs she
wants to apply to. “For grad school, you have to know what you’re researching and have your interest, so I think I’m going to take a year off — [intern] or volunteer,” Linzmeier said. Martinez said some students might overthink the test — but the key to succeeding is to learn how to take the test and break it down. During the workshop, Martinez told attendees to buy GRE preparation books, take practice tests and download vocabulary apps to better articulate themselves. The next grad school workshop will be held Monday from noon - 1:30 p.m. in University Student Union room 304.
GLOBAL
Two year anniversary of the missing 43 By Patrick J. McDonnell and Cecilia Sanchez Los Angeles Times
MEXICO CITY — Two years after 43 Mexican college students vanished in the southwestern city of Iguala, the case remains a grisly mystery and a dark stain on the administration of Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto. The public anger was on display Monday — the anniversary of the presumed mass killing — in Mexico City, where thousands of protesters took to the streets to demand justice. The 43 students, all young men who had been studying at a teachers college in the rural town of Ayotzinapa, had hijacked buses in hopes of reaching a demonstration, only to be intercepted by local police and never seen again. Critics allege a coverup reaching to high levels of the Mexican government. “I can’t believe that we are here, two years later, with the same pain, the same demands,” said protester Patricia Beltran, a 25-year-old student. “The government laughs at people’s pain, but we are here today to tell them that it is not only the parents of the 43, but all of Mexico that insists that this government do its job.” At the head of the march through the heart of the capital were some of the missing students’ parents, many holding photos of their disappeared sons. Mexico’s highest-profile human rights scandal of recent years, the case has cast a harsh glare on the nexus be-
Protesters gather in Mexico City to voice their anger with government officials and cartel affiliations.
tween corrupt officials and paramilitary gangs awash in cash from drug smuggling and other illicit activities. Critics say links between criminal networks and Mexican security services and politicians are embedded nationwide, not just in violence-ridden states like Guerrero, where the 43 were abducted. The case has also become a rallying cry for those who see it as emblematic
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of the official culture of impunity and corruption that continue to undercut justice and accountability. “We demand that the government doesn’t just wash its hands,” said Carlos Ruben Ortiz, 53, a businessman who was among the protesters rallying at the Angel of Independence monument, the start of the nearly four-mile march to the city’s central plaza. “We do not
forget that the authorities are involved.” The scandal has sparked two years of international condemnations and protests, including on the streets of Los Angeles. But authorities seem no closer to answering the central question: What happened to the 43 students? The investigation is bogged down in conflicting theories, contradictory statements, incompatible hypothe-
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ses and reports of forced confessions, planted evidence and debate over what happened to the bodies. Allegations of a government whitewash have battered the image of Pena Nieto, who took office in December 2012 amid broad hopes for judicial, po-
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STATE GOVERNMENT
Rep. Loretta Sanchez holds low voting record By Sean Cockerham
Sanchez, though, has missed more votes since July than any of the other House members who are running for WASHINGTON — California Rep. the Senate. She has missed 96 of 216 Loretta Sanchez has nearly the worst roll call votes in the House since July, attendance record in the U.S. House the GovTrack data shows, a 44 percent of Representatives as she campaigns absentee rate. to replace Barbara Boxer in the Senate Other than Poe — who announced — missing more than 44 percent of the his cancer diagnosis in July — the only votes since July. member of the Sanchez, a DemHouse to miss ocrat, has missed more votes in more votes than all the past three but two of the 431 months is FlorBut...Loretta has other serving memida Democratdelivered for the people bers of the House ic Rep. Alcee of California, including over the past three Hastings, who securing critical months, according missed 138 of funding for California to data from Govthe 216 votes. Track, which tracks Sanchez infrastructure, water and votes of every faces fellow transportation projects member of ConDemocrat Kaworth billions of dollars... gress. One of the mala Harris, two members who California’s at-Luis Vizcaino, missed more, Texas torney general, Loretta Sanchez spokesperson Rep. Ted Poe, has in November leukemia. in the runoff to Sanchez has been replace the respending more time in California and tiring Boxer in the U.S. Senate. less in Congress as she campaigns for The Sanchez campaign said that the Senate. That is typical for lawmakduring her 20 years in Congress Saners who are running for higher office chez has cast important votes such as and it’s not uncommon to miss votes opposing the invasion of Iraq, opposwhile campaigning, particularly when ing the Patriot Act and voting to end a House member is trying to move up the military’s “don’t ask don’t tell” polinto the Senate. icy on gays. McClatchy Washington Bureau
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lice and economic reforms. More than halfway through his sixyear term, the president is facing historically low approval ratings. His ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party recently suffered a series of humiliating defeats in gubernatorial contests across the country. According to the Mexican government’s official account — what a former attorney general called the “historic truth” — local police rounded up the students during a night of street violence and handed them over to members of the Guerreros Unidos drug cartel, who proceeded to
kill them, incinerate their bodies in a remote garbage dump in the town of Cocula and toss their charred remains into a river. Relatives of the students have long derided the official scenario as a “historic lie,” and in April the official account was shattered by a panel of international lawyers convened by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. The panel found that much of the government’s “evidence” had been provided by suspects who were tortured. The lawyers also cited a possible case of evidence tampering by government officials. The findings lent weight to charges that the government was more interested in putting the case to rest than tracking down the guilty.
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U.S. Senate candidate Loretta Sanchez talks to the media after casting her vote on the morning of the California Primary on June 7. Trailing state Attorney General Kamala Harris, a fellow Democrat, she is taking her case to conservative voters ahead of the general election. “While campaigning for the U.S. Senate, Loretta Sanchez has spent more time in California, but ... Loretta has delivered for the people of California, including securing critical funding for California infrastructure, water and transportation projects worth billions
of dollars that have created countless jobs,” said Sanchez spokesman Luis Vizcaino. Sanchez is trailing in the polls and Vizcaino said “news organizations that write Loretta is not campaigning enough, now write she is campaigning
More than 130 people have been arrested, including the ex-mayor of Iguala, his wife, various local police officials and drug cartel members. One popular theory holds that the mayor ordered the students’ abduction because he feared their presence might disrupt a formal event organized by his wife. The international investigators offered another potential motive: Unbeknownst to the students, one of the buses they commandeered may have been ferrying a clandestine load of heroin. Guerrero state is a key producer of the opium poppy used in production of heroin. In addition, the international panel found that members of the federal police and military in the Iguala area knew what was happening as the inci-
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too much.” Sanchez has missed nearly 8 percent of House votes over her entire congressional career, GovTrack figures show, compared with a median 2.4 percent of missed votes for her congressional colleagues.
fire sufficient to incinerate the remains of the 43 men had ever occurred at the garbage dump. The Mexican attorney general’s office, which is officially in charge of the inquiry, has pulled back from its “historic truth” hypothesis. The former chief investigator in the case resigned this month. Authorities said that the inquiry remains open, with police reportedly planning a new round of searches for the students’ remains. “I want a better country for my kids, that’s why I’m here with them,” said Raquel Cisneros, 40, who marched in Monday’s protest along with her two children, ages 7 and 12. “I want them to live in a country without fear that someone will kill or disappear them.”
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4 ARTS & LIFE
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Onlookers observe a compilation of photos around the world curated by Jud Fine and Barbara McCarren Monday in the UAM.
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UAM artists lead walkthrough of artwork Visitors and students received an intimate viewing of AND/ OR with artists McCarren and Fine. By Natalee Coloman Staff Writer
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nvision waves crashing along the shore, a lighthouse’s flashing signals to oncoming boats, the smell of seaweed and the salty taste of ocean water. Artists Jud Fine and Barbara McCarren embodied these senses through their exhibit, AND/OR. The artists gave visitors a walkthrough of their exhibit, currently showcased in the University Art Museum, at noon on Sept. 27. The event was open to the public and gave attendees in-depth descriptions of the pieces. McCarren and Fine showcase projects from their long-running endeavor, Continental Edge Dwellers, as well as work from their show in New York, Currency. The gallery has a nautical theme that Fine and McCarren use to tell a story about their Continental Edge Dwellers projects. Fine and McCarren said that there is a common theme of transparency within our lives throughout their exhibit. The artist description states: “The sea is at once a line, an edge, a space, and a condition. For both, the impenetrability of the sea versus the intimacy and comfort of land speaks metaphorically to human constraint and provides the two with an infinite field for imaginative expanse.” The biggest project centered in the main room of the gallery focuses on two ships. One is made from wood and wire and looks as if it is almost flipping over. The other is made of steel and wire, with the nose of the boat diving toward the ground. The piece stands over 14 feet tall. In the room off to the left of the gallery, there is a clear file cabinet with an explosion of the artists’ brain-
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[Above] Shells with ears are displayed in the AND/OR exhibit in the UAM Monday. [Below] A mandala made of money symbolizes the cost of offshore drilling in the AND/OR exhibit in the UAM.
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“The Magnificent Seven” doesn’t live up to the originals, but it’s oh so good.
By Ross Siev
Contributing Writer
The wild west wasn’t a land of fairy tales; corrupt industrialists, rampant racism and lawless murder all plagued the setting. “The Magnificent Seven” is a remake of the 60s film of the same name, which in turn was a remake of the 1956 Japanese movie “Seven Samurai.” When compared to any of the past masterpieces that older generations will get nostalgic over, it’s suffice to say that there isn’t anything worthy to remember in this shoot-up of a remake. But, that doesn’t mean that this modern take of the film is terrible compared to the classics — far from it. For all of its silly little quips, well-choreographed fights and a straightforward story, the film is magnificent for nothing but a popcorn snack on a dull afternoon. Like the previous two films, an old Western town is threatened by a seemingly lawless individual who values personal gain more than innocent lives. But, rather than a group of hungry bandits wanting to steal some crops, it instead uses a more typical western villain: Bartholomew
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McCarren and Fine sat down with the Daily 49er to discuss some of their projects. What was the hardest piece in the exhibit for you to complete? Fine: “When you’re in the middle of it, you don’t know if it is going to come out okay. We’ve been doing it long enough where it most likely will. The most difficult were the boats. They weren’t done and time kept going by. The curator was asking when it would be done and we didn’t know. We didn’t know they were going to go together,
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Denzel Washington as Chisolm in the movie “The Magnificent Seven” directed by Antoine Fuqua. Bogue (Peter Sarsgaard) who seeks to take over the land and make a profit through mining. Recent widower Emma Cullen (Haley Bennet) must take matters into her own hands by hiring famed bounty hunter Sam Chisolm (Denzel Washington) to take back the town. To prepare against Bogue’s army of hired guns, director Antoine Fuqua hired a cast of A-listers and some unknown actors for his own version of a “Magnificent Seven.”
Chris Pratt is gambling man and quip machine Josh Faraday. Ethan Hawke plays weirdly-named sharpshooter Goodnight Robicheux. His budding, knives-wielding partner goes by Billy Rocks (Byung-hun Lee) — most likely not his given name. Vincent D’Onofrio is high-pitched mountain man Jack Horne, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo is the happy-go-lucky criminal Vasquez and Martin Sensmiere plays a relatively quiet, but all around badass, Native American Red Harvest.
Because of some of the mainstream stars within the group, we get to see more character development and screen-time dedicated to them while Billy Rocks, Red Harvest and Vasquez are there for the humorous remarks and the action scenes. Pratt’s performance as Faraday was a let down. His motivation wasn’t clearly defined, other than wanting his horse back — which felt silly in its own right. Most of the chuckle-worthy scenes derive from Pratt’s usual quick responses,
but at the same time each boat was a thing of beauty in itself. We knew if nothing else, we could just put the two boats in the show. The answer was there, but what we wanted wasn’t until we had gotten both of the boats.” McCarren: “In the end, it is hard because you bring people in and you’re like, ‘What do you think?’ and they say ‘Ehh, you can do a little more with it.’ It is always good to have exterior input instead of just supporting each other. Sometimes the solution is just a visual one.”
ture, so the text is on the top of the file tabs. When I came to UCLA in 1978, I made all my work out of office supplies. I felt like, ‘Here I am 40 years later, back to office supplies.’ It was kind of a full circle. It wasn’t deliberate, it just was the solution. You are a composite of all your history. It is kind of fascinating we are as human beings, you bring your past with you and it shows.”
being the most active port in the world. We really were thinking there are a lot of things here that have to do with this space. We always think of it specific to its location.”
How did you come up with the idea of the transparent file cabinet? McCarren: “It was such a beautiful thing. Finally, at one point, it occurred to me to put a line drawing that you can see through it. It is an office furni-
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Is this a portion of a bigger exhibit you will be showcasing in the future? McCarren: “This is all of it in its entirety for right now. When we show it in our gallery in New York, there will be bits and parts of this, like the Offshore might be there and the Bop Boy figures. Because this is very site-specific, we thought a lot about Long Beach
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How long did the entire exhibition take to complete? McCarren: “That’s almost impossible to say, because the portal on the other side of the wall is from 1990, and the money work was from 2004. Most of the other work was from 2016, but we have been thinking about this show for three years. The mad rush of writing about it to give to the essayists and working on it every day from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. took about a year. Everything we do is leading up to the next exhibition, whenever that is.”
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Do you have any words of wisdom or inspirations to pass along to the art students on campus? McCarren: “[The viewers] decide whether or not the art speaks to them. We are old and we’ve been doing this for 30-40 years. Just don’t stop. Every five years, the number of artists working is cut in half, even with new people coming out of school. There’s something to be said for those who have a long standing career. This is our first major museum show as McCarren/Fine. You just keep going. A lot of people quit and it is disheartening, but understandable. Art is a form of communication, and if nobody’s listening, sometimes you stop talking.” The exhibit is open Saturday through Thursday to the public until Dec. 11 from noon to 5 p.m. and closed on Fridays.
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which feels like he was typecasted to be the charasmatic smartass. We also don’t see the extent of Billy Rocks’ and Red Harvest’s acting talents, whereby they stay nearly silent as compared to their other companions. They do, however, provide a nice change of pace when they use nearly-primitive weapons like knives and arrows when everyone else is using guns. Director Antoine Fuqua rides again with Washington and Hawke from “Training Day” to reimagine the movie as a bustling action film that tests the extent of the PG-13 rating. By that, the gratuitous violence reaches its limit. While there is no distinct blood spurt whenever someone is shot, there are noticeable bullet holes in the gunshot victims, and Billy Rocks provides a good amount of stabbing sprees. The basic plot, if compared to the originals, lacks any sort of substance, as most of the development was primarily upon building up to the battle before Bartholomew’s retaliation. Once the climactic battle begins, it goes on for 10 to 20 minutes with the typical “good guys are losing and now they’re winning back” trope, except it’s more padded out. The action scenes are indefinitely intense, the usage of practical effects was engaging, and the set-pieces get much larger than the original. “The Magnificent Seven” is another Hollywood-remake that doesn’t lasso onto what made the original so great, but at least you may have something entertaining to watch while eating a good bucket of popcorn.
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social security cards. The Silk Road operated from 2011 continued from page 1 to 2013 and its goal was to create an online criminal marketplace outside the reach of government regulation. engines. The online black market has Although the site was shut down by been deemed the “deep web” — and authorities, the online black market its existence is affecting millions. generated more than 1 billion dollars When I think “deep web,” I like to while it was in operation. correlate the unindexed part of the Although the Silk Road is now internet to the ocean and its vastshut down, there are thousands of ness. The surface of the ocean is sites on the deep web mirroring the where you’ll find sites you may use efforts of the once successful Silk often, like Amazon, Wikipedia and Road. Google. Yahoo’s announcement of its data Now, the deep part of the ocean, being breached is a scary reminder a place where researchers have not that the deep web is home to webbeen able to visit as a result of its sites both selling and using this kind depth and difficulty to reach, would of breached information for malibe where the deep web resides. cious economic gain. Many world wide web users may It’s a terrifying reality — one that be completely unaware of the deep makes me uneasy and wary of sharweb’s existence. ing any sort of important informaAfter all, the majority of people tion, such as my credit card number, only visit web-sites on the “surface” online. However, I’m convinced that of the internet. However, it is importthe same way the FBI and CIA were ant to realize the organized criminal able to join forces and shut down the network that lies underneath. thriving Silk Road, other deep web Hackers are using the deep web sites offering similar illegal goods for their own personal gain while could be blocked by authorities as completely disregarding the fact that well. they are ruining the lives of millions Let me make my optimism a of innocent bit more clear global citizens though — I bethrough actions lieve the authorlike identity ities will be able fraud and inforto crack down a mation-hacking. certain number The stolen conYahoo’s announcement of of these sites tent on the deep its data being breached is but will never web makes this be able to shut a scary reminder that the them all down. part of the interdeep web is home to web- The reason as to net a dangeroussites both selling and using why is because ly unstoppable force. this kind of stolen infor- there are trilIt doesn’t take mation for mailicious eco- lions of websites a tech-savvy on the deep web. nomic gain. hacker to access According to the deep web, an article titled, though — all “The dark side one has to do of the internet,” is download an by Andy Beckett online router like Tor (short for the for The Guardian, the average interonion router) — which describes net user can only access 0.03 percent itself as a non-profit organization of the internet through search enaimed at helping people browse sites gines like Google — the rest of the anonymously while avoiding netinternet is the deep web. work surveillance. This means the deep web is filled According to the article, “What with an endless amount of uninis Tor and should I use it?” posted dexed websites. on website LifeHacker, contributing Therefore, to try and shut them writer Thorin Klosowski describes all down would be an ambitious but the different reasons as to why the impossible task. Tor network is downloaded by usPatrick O’Neill, who writes for ers: “Tor’s technology isn’t just about online magazine, The Kernel, effecbrowsing anonymously. It can also tively describes the deep web in his host web sites through its hidden article, “The unstoppable rise of the services that are only accessible by Deep Web:” “It’s a hydra. Cutting off other Tor users. It’s on one of these one head only means two more will hidden service sites that something grow in its place.” like The Silk Road exists to traffic The Deep Web has helped facildrugs. Tor’s hosting capabilities tend itate the flow of narcotics, deadly to pop up in police reports for things weapons and child pornography like child pornography and arms throughout the world. This dark trading, too.” and obscure side of the world wide Wait, did Klosowski just mention web has affected millions of lives The Silk Road? Let me tell you, he’s negatively. It is vital that informanot talking about the ancient trade tion about this online black market route that created cultural interacreaches mainstream media. tion through regions of the Asian The more global citizens know continent. about it, the more careful they will be The writer is referring to a website online. At least that’s what I hope. A that once existed on the deep web worst case scenario is that the more notorious for selling all things illepeople find out about it — the more gal — from illicit firearms to stolen illegal transactions will thrive.
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Tori Bowie, Tianna Bartoletta, Allyson Felix and English Gardner pose after winning gold in the 4x100 meters at the Rio Olympics this summer.
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Representing LBSU and the USA in Rio
LBSU track coach represents USA at Rio Olympics after being nominated by peers. By Joshua Liang Staff Writer
The ultimate honor for an athlete is to represent their country at the Olympics. For Long Beach State track coach LaTanya Sheffield, she’s had the opportunity to go to the Olympics both as a competitor and a coach. At the Olympics this summer in Rio, Sheffield had the opportunity to coach some of the best athletes in the world in the women’s sprints and hurdles team. She got first-hand experience of a high-pressure situation when the women’s relay team faced adversity as it was disqualified after illegal hand-off during the qualification round. The USA successfully appealed the disqualification, giving the team another opportunity to run again with a chance to advance to the finals. The women’s team qualified with the second fastest time in history – a record the USA currently holds – and then won gold in the finals. “The team was ready,” Sheffield said. “They were up for the task, they ran for four years straight looking to come to the Olympics games and compete in [an] event that only happens every four years. So, the team was not going to let anything get in our way and that’s the attitude we had.” Sheffield wasn’t surprised when the team took the gold. “They were unified,” Sheffield said.
LaTanya Sheffield poses with 3-time medalist Tori Bowie at the Rio Olympics. “They were confident they could get the job done; they looked at it as a means to take advantage of an opportunity.” Sheffield won bronze in the women’s 400-meter hurdles at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. “[After] I went in 1988 to Seoul, Korea, [I knew] the [Rio] experience [was] going to be different,” Sheffield said. “I had to
make sure all of the trainers [were] managing the athletes and assist the athletes if they [were] nervous of the excitement of competition.” Sheffield was able to be a part of the coaching staff for the women’s sprints and hurdles team in Rio after her being nominated by her peers. “I had to meet certain requirements
Photo courtesy of LaTanya Sheffield
in order to be qualified,” Sheffield said. “Some of those requirements are my people-management skills and my track and field skills. I also built good relationships with the previous USA team.” Sheffield was also part of the coaching staff for the U.S. women’s team in the 2013 World Championship, the World Indoor Championship in 2006 and 2008,
as well as the Pan America Games in 2007 and 2011. After her time at the Olympics, Sheffield had a great learning experience learning new things, while enforcing the bond athletes from when competing for their country. “I learned that there are different levels of sport science, and different components of sports medicine,” Sheffield said. “With the team, I learned the success of an athlete, and the will of an athlete, and what [stayed with] me [the most was the] human spirit [and] the will to win — to show how America is.” Along with her tedious preparation as an athlete, Sheffield said the time it took to get ready to coach was a new process entirely. “The work was different,” Sheffield said. “It was more of working on relationships I had with the athletes and how I would lead them – and to be recognized by my peers to be a coach was a great honor for me.” While her Olympic coaching career is just getting started, Sheffield is the current Sprints, Hurdles and Relay coach at Long Beach State and has the opportunity to help student-athletes succeed. Sheffield is willing to help athletes fight for victory if they are ready to do the work. “They can use me and the experiences I have had and the things that I’ve seen through my eyes to help them get there,” Sheffield said. “It’s going to take hard work, it’s going to take focus, dedication, their commitment. It’s going to take courage, stamina, perseverance. It’s going to take tenacity. If an athlete truly aspires to represent their country in such a momentous manner like the Olympic games, then let’s go to work.”
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