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CRIME
Long Beach man fatally shot by police The man wanted to commit “suicide by cop,” police say. By Michaela Kwoka-Coleman News Editor
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EQUIPPED Two solar panels will be installed at CSULB as part of the university’s commitment to sustainability. By Monica Gallardo Staff Writer
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al State Long Beach will be undergoing a $20 million solar panel installation process beginning in May 2017, according to a university press release. In addition to the three solar panels currently installed on campus at Brotman Hall, the Vivian Engineering Center and the yard next to the University Print Shop, a new solar power system will be added to Lot 7 – near the Theater Arts building – and Lot 14 – across from the Housing and Residential Life building. The exact date for the groundbreaking is set for May 27, 2017. The solar systems are expected to offset 15 percent of the campus’ energy with clean, renewable power, as well as provide shade and 50 electrical vehicle charging stations.
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An officer-involved shooting left one man dead Sunday night, according to a press release from the Long Beach Police Department. The shooting took place on the 1600 block of Obispo Avenue, between Pacific Coast Highway and Anaheim Street in central Long Beach. Authorities have not yet identified the suspect who was reported to be suicidal. He told police he wanted commit “suicide by cop.” He also told police that he was armed with a handgun; however, no gun was found on his body. LBPD released the following statement about the shooting: “At approximately 10:15 p.m. a team of officers, that included an officer from the Mental Evaluation Team, proceeded to the subject’s location to begin verbal negotiations. The subject was armed with a large knife and was given numerous verbal commands to drop the knife. The subject failed to follow the officer’s orders and subsequently charged at them while still armed with the knife and an officer involved shooting occurred.” According to LBPD, the suspect “appeared agitated” and citizens in the neighborhood were in close proximity to him. Police officers attempted to save the man’s life after the shooting; however, once firefighters arrived, he was pronounced dead at the scene. The Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office, the Los Angeles County District’s Attorney Office and the Long Beach Homicidal Detail are each conducting their own investigation into the the man’s death.
STATEMENT FROM LBPD: “At approximately 10:15 p.m. a team of officers, that included an officer from the Mental Evaluation Team, proceeded to the subject’s location to begin verbal negotiations. The subject was armed with a large knife and was given numerous verbal commands to drop the knife. The subject failed to follow the officer’s orders and subsequently charged at them while still armed with the knife and an officer involved shooting occurred.”
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What do you think of the univesity installing solar panels in the parking lot? Do you think the money could be better spent in other areas?
“I think it is pretty good since we have a lot of sun in this area and I think it is going to help the school a lot for energy use.” — Henry Le, French major, senior
“No, I have not heard. I think it is a good idea. I think it is best because it looks more attractive to the school.” — Leonel Nunez, Accounting major, sophomore
“Well I don’t know if they are already working on, but making more parking lots. That is kind of the obvious one. That is the main thing I think of first. I drive to school or sometimes I get a ride. It kind of varies for me.”
“No I did not know. I think it is for good use since a lot of things aren’t really used for that.” — Arely Salazar, undeclared, freshman
— Lesly Garcia, undeclared, Junior
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This new solar panel system, which is being produced by SunPower’s Helix Carport system, will be the largest across all of the California State University campuses. “[They] are the most efficient solar panels available on the market today,” said Nathan Griset, a representative for the solar energy company, “...they convert more of the sun’s rays into electricity than conventional solar panels, minimizing the amount of power from non-renewable sources that the campus needs for its operations.” Griset said that the solar systems can power an estimated 2,200 electric vehicles for 30 years and have a total life expectancy of 40 years. “According to estimates provided by Solar Energy Industries Association, the annual power production of the system will be equivalent to the power required by 1,200 average California homes,” he said. “The advantage of the SunPower Helix Carport system over competitive products is that it is a fully integrated solution that is engineered to be installed quickly, and deliver
more energy and provide greater relibefore the end of 2017. ability over the long-term.” However, students who plan on takDespite the addition of the soing summer classes may need to adjust lar panels to parking lots 7 and 14, their schedules, as both lots will be CSULB’s Director of News and Digclosed during construction. ital Media Michael Uhlenkamp said CSULB President Jane Close Conostudents should not ley and Associworry about inate Vice Presicreased parking fees. dent of Physical “While the panels Planning and According to estimates are being installed Facilities Manin parking lots, this provided by Solar Energy agement David project is a sustainIndustries Association, the Salazar, among ability initiative rathothers, made annual power production er than a parking lot the decision to of the system will be upgrade,” he said. install the new equivalent to the power “No parking fee revsystem. enues are associated The projrequired by 1,200 average with this project.” ect was also California homes. The total cost of reviewed by the project is $20 CSULB’s Sus-Nathan Griset, SunPower million; however, tainability Task representative SunPower will be reForce, a group sponsible for installconsisting of ing the systems. faculty, staff and CSULB will pay a fixed rate of students. $0.1342 per kilowatt-hour for 20 years “CSULB is proud to support Calias part of the power-purchase agreefornia and the nation in our transition ment. to clean and renewable energy sourcUhlenkamp said that construction es,” Salazar said, “[in order] to fight is set to begin the day after the final climate change and its negative effects 2016-17 commencement ceremony to on our students, staff and communiminimize parking disruption to stuty by increasing our reliance on solar dents and is expected to be complete power.”
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NEW SOLAR PANELS AT CSULB The solar panel systems are expected to offset 15 percent of the campus’ energy with clean, renewable power, as well as provide shade and 50 electrical vehicle charging stations. The solar panel systems can power 2,200 electric vehicles for 30 years.
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Mikael Movsisyan, junior and Biomedical Engineering major, uses the solar powered bench station at CSULB. Additional solar panels will be added to to Lot 7 – near the Theater Arts building – and Lot 14 – across from the Housing and Residential Life building, May 27, 2017.
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Obama vows to tighten sanctions on North Korea garner attention from international summits in Beijing and Vientiane. Park told reporters that North Korea’s acts were “fundamentally threatVIENTIANE, Laos— President ening” and that she and Obama had Barack Obama vowed Tuesday to agreed to “respond resolutely” to the toughen international sanctions defiance of international demands against North Korea after its governthat North Korea end its pursuit of ment conducted a test missile launch nuclear weapons. as world leaders gathered for sumIn March, the U.N. Security Counmits in Asia. cil imposed the toughest sanctions Speaking with reporters after a in decades on North Korea after it meeting here began a round with South Koof nuclear and rean President ballistic missile Park Geun-hye, tests. The sancThe entire international Obama said that tions subject all community needs to the two agreed cargo in and out implement these sanctions to work “diliof North Korea gently together” to inspections, fully and hold North on the most reban exports of Korea accountable. cent United Nanatural resourctions sanctions es including -President Barack Obama against North coal and gold, Korea to close tighten a weaploopholes “and ons embargo make them even and end relamore effective.” tionships with “The entire international comoutside banks. munity needs to implement these Obama believes the U.S. and Kosanctions fully and hold North Korea have to be vigilant in sanctions rea accountable,” Obama said on the enforcement, aides said. sidelines of a summit of Southeast “We want to make sure we’re cutAsian leaders in his last presidential ting off all the lifelines that North trip to the continent. Korea tries to grab onto,” said DepOn Monday, North Korea uty National Security Advisor Ben launched three ballistic missiles – a Rhodes. test widely believed to be an effort to Obama also said the U.S. was still
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U.S. President Barack Obama speaks during a joint press conference with President Park Geun-hye of the Republic of Korea in the East Room of the White House on Oct. 16, 2015 in Washington, D.C.
open to the possibility of talks with North Korea if it were to recognize its international obligations and work to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula. “The opportunities for us to dialogue with them are there,” Obama
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Two or More Justice Systems? What Your Teachers Will Not Tell You Dr. George A. Kuck (galbertk@aol.com) Our country ideal is that everyone is the same under the law. This is the reason we have public defenders for all those in court who cannot hire a lawyer. If you are outraged by double standards that have rich and famous given preferential treatment, you need to be concerned by the special treatment given to Hillary Clinton. FBI director James Comey laid out the data. Comey didn’t recommend prosecution because Hillary “didn’t have the requisite intent.” The law (18 U.S.C. 793) doesn’t require intent in classified information release. It only requires “gross negligent in its release.” The level of intent for indictment (18 U.S.C. 1924 and 18 U.S.C. 798) was clearly met by placing classified information on an unapproved, non-classified, separate computer server vulnerable to hackers. This “error” caused the death of American supporters overseas. President Nixon was being impeached for an 8 minute gap of data on a White House tape. How many e-mails did Hillary destroy? She deleted 33,000 e-mails and claimed under oath that she only deleted personal information. When director Comey testified under oath to congress, he showed this was a lie. Comey said the Clinton team “was extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.” Mrs. Clinton had special access, top secret satellite data on her server. She broke the laws which would have had me incarcerated. This is part the progressive Wilsonian legacy of the left, i.e., the leader is unanswerable without regard to equality under the law. Do we want to elect dictators who are unanswerable to us? Tyranny doesn’t start with combat boots. It begins with the notion that a different law applies to the powerful than to the powerless, i.e, one rule for the political elite - a different rule for us mere mortals. Is that what you want? That is what you will have under President Clinton.
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Jimmy Huynh, Brian Mar and Patrick Soriano meet with design professor David Teubner to go over their prototype.
Prize won by student invention CSULB Design students took first place for their droughtfriendly indoor garden. By Jason Enns Art & Life Editor
For many city-dwellers living in cramped apartment buildings, having an at-home garden isn’t a practical — or even physically possible — option. Cal State Long Beach industrial design seniors Jimmy Huynh, Brian Mar, Matthew Ulery and Patrick Soriano sought to create a solution to this common issue. The team started on a project named “Aquacity” for their ID methodology course, which wound up taking first place and $1,500 in the living product category of the Biomimicry Global Design Challenge — an international competition addressing critical sustainability issues with nature-inspired solutions.
This year, the theme of the challenge also required inventions to relate healthy dieting, so the team focused on a practical way to grow vegetation. “We live in cities and we all wanted to start growing a garden,” Huynh said. “But it was hard to do because of the space we had.” Their contest entry, Aquacity, is a wall-mounted system that will allow people to grow a garden inside their home. Each pod has four capsules that allow gardeners to grow a few varieties of plants using aquaponic technology. “[It’s] a very efficient way of watering [and] giving nutrients to plants,” Huynh said. “It uses like 80 percent less water than traditional gardening methods so we decided to use that kind of technology in our design.” Each pod drips water through the capsules and has a reservoir at the bottom that collects the excess water. The reservoir aerates and refuels the water with nutrients before pumping it back to the dripping mechanism, effectively recycling and saving wa-
ter. To be as space efficient as possible, the pods are shaped like honeycombs, allowing Aquacity users to configure pods in whatever design best fits their wall space. According to the team, since the design must be inspired by nature, the pods’ hexagon shape was influenced by beehives. Having multiple small capsules per pod was inspired by the sea toad that raises its offspring in individual cavities on its back. Aquacity works in any space because it outputs high intensity light that stimulates sunlight, with an LED that surrounds each pod. The light system, which was inspired by the lobed comb jellyfish, even changes colors to indicate when nutrient levels are running low. The competition didn’t require the team to make a functioning model of their design, but for the methodology project, they were required to build a “mock-up.” “We did create a rough model prototype,” Huynh said. “But it’s definitely not a refined, nice prototype.” The team has no intention of
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Virtual simulation of an Aquacity garden mounted on an urban apartment wall.
using their invention to create an Aquacity company after graduation in the spring, but that doesn’t mean big things should not be expected from this group. The team will be featured on NBC’s Golf Channel for a show called “Driver vs. Driver” on Oct. 4.
“It’s pretty much just us on a reality TV show competing to design for Wilson staff ’s next innovative driver,” Huynh said. So to see if this CSULB crew can win another competition check the TV to see how they build the best golf club they can.
Program aims to help foster students Guardian Scholar Program representatives spread resource awareness at CSULB. By Nubia Valdez Staff Writer
The Guardian Scholars Program strives to give the skills and tools needed for successful careers to current and former foster youth looking
to expand their education. Accepted applicants will receive a support group connecting with different departments on campus that offer counseling and tutoring as well as resources that include a laptop loan and educational and community enrichment activities. “We give graduate school help for the foster youth here on campus because about one to three percent go on to graduate with a bachelor’s degree,” said Lauren-Michelle Hardge, the program’s resource program specialist. “Around 7 to 10 percent don’t make it into college so we want to
make sure that the foster youth that we have here on campus feel supported in any way possible.” Some of the resources the Guardian Scholars Program offers include academic advising and life coaching workshops to increase the student’s success both during and after their education. It also offers book grants, scholarships and facilitation of on-campus housing to help with the high costs of post-secondary schooling. Along with helping them thrive in school, the program also strives to provide students a family-like envi-
ronment by giving them community outings. “We want them to build community amongst each other, seeing that they come from similar backgrounds,” Hardge said. There are requirements that need to be met in order to qualify for the Guardian Scholars Program. Applicants must have been admitted to Cal State Long Beach as a freshman or transfer student and be a current or former foster youth between the ages 17-25. Students must also apply for FAFSA in order to be submitted into the program.
To remain eligible for the Guardian Scholars Program student must enroll in at least six units. They are also required to attend workshops, financial and academic advising appointments and participate in an online financial literacy program. The application for the program can be found on the university’s website. The Guardian Scholars Program is a vital resource because only 10 percent of former foster youth will ever attend college, and of that, only three percent will graduate. With the help of this program CSULB is doing it’s part to improve these statistics.
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‘Atlanta’ moves at a realistic pace By Robert Lloyd Los Angeles Times
Donald Glover, who broke up one of television’s great comedy teams — his Troy to Danny Pudi’s Abed — when he left “Community” in its penultimate season, is back with a series of his own. As naturalistic as “Community” was fantastic, “Atlanta,” premiering Tuesday on FX, is subtle and human, a beautifully played comedy of place and character. Like its fellow FX series “Louie” and “Baskets” — with whom it shares Christian Sprenger, a talented director of photography — and Pamela Adlon’s upcoming “Better Things,” “Atlanta” sets a tone that is a little melancholic but not pessimistic; it’s aspirational in a minor key. It is critical in an interested, even amazed, way about people, while managing not to judge them. Glover plays Earn, a young man back home in Atlanta after an unspecified time away, living “low key” with no clear plans. A sophisticated, intelligent and in many respects helpless sort of person going about with a backpack that might contain all his worldly goods, he is “technically homeless,” though more or less living with Van (Zazie Beetz), the mother of their baby daughter. The ground beneath their inchoate relationship shifts from scene to scene. “I think we just need a chance as humans to fail, to discover what actually works,” Earn tells Van by way of explaining, if not excusing himself. “People don’t think there’s a process to being happy.” To a (possibly imagined) stranger on a bus he will wonder, “Are some people supposed to lose, for balance in the universe?” Things start to change when he discovers that Paper Boi, a local rapper, having some street-level success, is his
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Donald Glover as Earnest Marks in “Atlanta.” cousin Alfred (Brian Tyree Henry); he looks him up to offer himself as a manger. Alfred and his right hand, Darius (Lakeith Stanfield), are, in their way, the Troy and Abed of “Atlanta.” Physically, as well as temperamentally, they’re its Laurel and Hardy: Alfred, big and practical (“I scare people at ATMs, boy, I have to rap — that’s what rap is, making the best out of a bad situation”); Darius, thin and mystical, hapless but in his fashion capable. Darius is a character whose TV ancestors run back to Maynard G. Krebs, but whom Stanfield makes specific and new. (“Can I measure your tree?” he asks Earn’s father.) The pair deal drugs in a small but profitable way. “It’s
easy,” says Darius. “People are addicted to ‘em.” Although they’re at the center of the action, Earn and Albert and Darius also remain unexplained. Glover and his writers (including brother Stephen Glover) have a distaste for exposition or for providing context or motivation more aggressively than life does. Back story is revealed only fleetingly; there is an undeveloped reference to “Princeton” as a place Earn had been, but if you look away for a second you can miss even that. Most of the season’s 10 episodes have been directed by Hiro Murai, previously a director of music videos (including Glover’s, under his nom de hip-hop, Childish Gambino) and com-
mercials; he has a gift for getting to the essence of things without weighing them down with stylishness. Atlanta, with its red-brick buildings and tall trees, its back stairs and landings, is vividly present; you feel the heat and humidity. People live in the sorts of spaces real people live in, apartment-sized apartments, single-family homes with normal-sized rooms, appropriately furnished to budget and character. Earn spends most of the second episode in a police station in a flatly lighted purgatorial holding room; bits of conversation and activity float around him, not to advance a plot but to enlarge the palette; it has the flavor of a travelogue, in a room.
This is in some respects a show about music — Earn introducing himself into Alfred’s career is what gets the story started, and the (so far small) changes brought about by Paper Boi’s rising profile are what move it along. But, apart from a glimpse of homemade video and Alfred breaking out a few lines, in the first four episodes we never see music being written or recorded or performed. This isn’t “The Get Down” or “Empire.” Music is part of the fabric but not the point of the story, and though greater success may await our heroes down the road, in a way I hope it doesn’t. Success stories are a dime a dozen on TV; life is less cooperative.
Stephen Colbert’s complicated first year By Verne Gay Newsday
This late-night TV business is a tough racket. As host, you can be the toast of New York one night, and toast the next. Larry Wilmore, for example, had the audacity to talk about something as vitally important as race every night on his “Nightly Show.” Viewers yawned, now he’s gone. Stephen Colbert had the audacity to follow David Letterman, and talk about Donald Trump every night. Where, now, does Colbert stand on his anniversary? This is a business, so first, the business: “Late Show’s” ratings are fine, if not spectacular. “Late Show,” which launched last Sept. 8, averages about 2.8 million viewers, about a million behind leader “Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” and a half a million ahead of “Jimmy Kimmel Live.” While numbers don’t lie, they don’t tell the entire truth either: Colbert had a complicated first year. It was complicated by the fact that he’s not Letterman — one of the greats, after all — and not the old Stephen Colbert. He became the
first host in late show history to assume an entirely new persona that happened to be his own. The new Stephen turned out to be an inversion of the Old Stephen. He was still smart, funny and inventive, but a real host as opposed to a parody of one. Meanwhile, some viewers weren’t so certain they liked the new Stephen, who could also be eccentric, obtuse, erudite or just plain odd. A post-Super Bowl shot was squandered. CBS alarm bells rang. A new executive producer was installed in April, and a turnaround of sorts began and continues. While the lingua franca of late night continues to elude “Late Show” (consistent viral content, like “Late Late Show’s” “Carpool Karaoke”), his live telecasts during the conventions were late-night standouts. Another live telecast is planned after the Sept. 26 presidential debate. Success — viral and otherwise — seems reasonably assured. But along with ratings and viral content, late night is also a whathave-you-done-for-me-lately business, and here’s what Colbert does most nights: Trump. His opening monologue is all Trump, who also consumes the host chat segment.
Trump as both fodder and punching bag sometimes even consumes up to half a “Late Show.” Is Colbert a good late-night host? Without question. His show is always interesting, just never relaxing — yet another reversal of late-night broadcast tradition — and best watched over a cup of coffee in the morning. He and rival Jimmy Fallon are almost late-night antonyms. One’s verbal (Colbert has dusted off his classic “The Word,” changed to the legally palatable “Werd”), while the other is musical. One tells stemwinders about Trump. The other mimics Trump. One’s cerebral, the other’s the opposite of cerebral, whatever that is. One eschews pop culture. The other basks in it. One’s mounting a radically different late-night TV show. The other is mounting a fairly traditional one. Will audiences learn to love and embrace both in the years to come? Or will Colbert’s politically stoked irony burn out after the elections? Big questions, and only viewers — and CBS — will determine the answers. As noted, this late-night racket is tough, and there are no guarantees. Just ask Larry Wilmore.
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Stephen Colbert attends the ‘Manus x Machina: Fashion In An Age Of Technology’ Costume Institute Gala at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 2 in New York City.
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Venezuelans rise against corruption Citizens of the South American country protest against its leader. By Elizabeth Campos Staff Writer
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e are g o ing to bring down Maduro,” chanted thousands of protesters in Venezuela last Thursday as they marched down the country’s highways in a display of protest against the presidency of Nicolas Maduro. Opposition supporters are calling for Maduro’s removal and are blaming the Venezuelan president for the country’s economic crisis. Moreover, protesters are accusing the electoral commission of not allowing a referendum which would possibly shorten his term. Although opponents need to win more votes for his removal than the total number of votes he received during the April 2013 election, I’m certain that the opposition supporters will make this necessary removal a reality. Many lower class Venezuelan citizens are suffering from a lack of jobs, health care services and food. The nation is confronted with an economic divide — one with either elite citizens enjoying a luxurious lifestyle and another where lower class citizens face hunger. I’m with the opposition supporters and those who suffer from unfair treatment for having a low socioeconomic background. Corrupt politicians have done enough damage to the region, and it’s time that the wealth be distributed throughout Venezuela. All should have the opportunity to make a decent living, but with lower class citizens being unable to achieve economic success, it is an impossibility. Under Hugo Chavez’s authority, Venezuelans seemed to be stable. Middle- and lower-class people lived a comfortable life in which they didn’t have to line up for hours to get basic food staples. What seems to me is that the ugly side of his legacy was simply hiding beneath the social welfare he provided.
In a New York Times article titled “Oposición en Venezuela adopta estrategias del manual político de Chávez,” written in Spanish by Nicholas Casey and Patricia Torres in February 2016, the authors explained how houses designed and constructed to benefit the people were located in areas that were supposed to be centric to grocery stores and schools. Franco Micucci, an architect that worked on this housing project, compared this zone with Brazil’s “City of God,” referring to Brazil’s less developed areas – known as favelas – which have an unfortunate history of drug trafficking and high crime-rates. Chavez’s government left havoc that now haunts the current president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro. Although the latter is a supporter of Chavez’s practices, Venezuela’s economy has gone downhill under his watch. The havoc that Maduro is facing now is due to him wanting the support of those who followed Chavez. What he might not count on though, is the fact that Venezuelans are tired of empty promises and are finally standing up for themselves. The International Monetary Fund, an organization that promotes international financial stability and monetary cooperation, published a transcript in October 2015. The report stated that Venezuela has not met with the organization neither to negotiate nor conduct consultation in about 10 years. I blame both the president and the organization, as they’re both supposed to work as a team to further lead the country to financial success. The fact that Venezuela doesn’t check in with an authority so vital for economic matters makes me uneasy. Be it corrupted or not, there has to be record of the economic actions taken by Venezuela’s leaders. If there’s a lack of evidence, this makes it much easier for corrupt politicians to screw their country over by manipulating the economy. Moreover, the decrease of oil prices has affected Venezuela greatly as it has depended on its revenue for years. According to an article posted on BBC’s website, “What has gone wrong in Venezuela?” as oil prices go down so does the money necessary for produce. Producers refuse to cooperate with government-run stores or refuse to continue to sell at all and there’s
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Chris Ware caricature of Nicolas Maduro, Venezuelan president. shortages on food staples such as milk, corn oil and flour. Venezuelan parents often eat just once a day to be able to provide at least a spoonful or two of rice to their kids. As reported in CBS news’ “Venezuela crisis forces life to wait in line,” the masses of Venezuelan people waiting in line outside convenience stores for hours in order to buy food are no joke. The situation has gotten to a point where Venezuelans cross the border to Colombia in order to get food and
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7 p.m.
10/02
Cal State Northridge
George Allen Field
7 p.m.
09/16
San Jose State
San Diego
Noon
10/06
Cal Poly
George Allen Field
6 p.m.
09/16
UC San Diego
San Diego
7 p.m.
10/09
Cal State Fullerton
Fullerton, Calif.
5 p.m.
09/17
San Diego State
San Diego
7:30 p.m.
10/14
Hawaiʼi
Waipahu, Hawaiʼi
10 p.m.
09/22
UC Davis
Davis, Calif.
7 p.m.
8 SPORTS
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2016 DAILY49ER.COM | SPORTSD49ER@GMAIL.COM
Junior middle blocker Ashley Murray is ready to lead by example for the Long Beach State women’s volleyball team.
Trang Le | Daily 49er
Murray, always killin’ it Long Beach State outside hitter Ashley Murray makes impact on court. By Miranda Andrade-Ceja Managing Editor
William Odis Martin | Daily 49er
LBSU attacker Ashley Murray’s presence was felt at the net with four blocks including 14 kills as the women’s volleyball team won its home opener on Sept. 2 against Cal.
Junior Ashley Murray is all niceties at first conversation — it isn’t until she walks on the court that one realizes the middle blocker is an absolute assassin with a volleyball. Hailing from Bishop Montgomery High School in Torrance, California, the middle blocker’s volleyball roots began in seventh grade. “I actually started off playing basketball, and our mom was really big on us trying every sport there was,” Murray said. An immediate connection was made after Murray played at a few volleyball camps in her youth, shortly thereafter moving on to club volleyball. Though Murray’s father encouraged her to stick with basketball, her competitive nature had already created perfect chemistry with volleyball. Now, Murray’s entering her third year with the LBSU women’s volleyball team. Considered one of the team’s veterans, she isn’t a stranger to working with incoming freshmen and transfer students. Despite this, Murray said that getting in tune with her teammates is always a balancing act. “We get a lot of new players every year, so that’s a huge challenge for our team,” Murray said. “Getting used to playing
with each other when we only have so much time before season actually starts.” Murray said that many of the new players have a difficult time adjusting to the way LBSU volleyball operates. “The technique we teach here is a lot different than a lot of other schools…” Murray said. “[Brian] has a lot of very specific techniques, the way you pass and the way you hit — so you have to learn that.” Despite not being the tallest volleyball player, this aggressive style of playing is affirmed by Murray, who said that her presence on the court is often enough to intimidate her opponents. “And I really feel it, sometimes, when I mess up or if the other team makes a good play against me, they’ll cheer like 20 times harder than they have all game,” Murray said. “I think especially when we get through our warm-ups and they see how athletic I am... they come to the game like: ‘what is she going to do come game time?’” Murray’s high-intensity doesn’t only factor into the volleyball court, but also in her old flame, basketball. Though she doesn’t have room in her schedule to dedicate herself full-time to the sport itself, Murray prefers to watch the action from behind a camera lens. Murray has taken sports photos for the Long Beach State men’s basketball team and said that there have been numerous occasions in which an LBSU player will comment on a photo of hers and say that they remember the moment it was taken. “When I first did [sports photography], I was very timid about it. So I
would basically take pictures of everything,” Murray said. “But when I started to get used to it, I realized that it was something I was more passionate about. Because I play sports, so I understand what they’re doing on the court and understand the emotions behind it.” Though the 2014 Big West freshman of the year’s transition from high school to college didn’t present much difficulty, Murray said last season posed the greatest challenge to her. “I would get really down on myself, and then I’d start trying to change too much and it would take away from what I can do.” Murray said. Senior outside hitter Nele Barber and Murray have been sharing the court since Murray started at LBSU in 2014. Barber said that Murray is a strong defender and a key component to the team for both her skill and honesty. “Personally, I feel like when we have a team meeting, she’ll say what’s going on,” Barber said. “She just doesn’t hold back her words, she says her opinion and she takes responsibility [for her plays].” Murray fully intends on sticking with her team for the remainder of her college career, but until then, she hopes to encourage all of her new teammates to take their games one step at a time, and not get bogged down when things don’t go their way. “We try to tell each other that we can’t stay in ourselves and that we need to get out of it and focus on the next play, the game is still going,” Murray said. “One play is not gonna define how we play for the rest of this game.”