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Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Smart meters make water wise
Although the state as a whole needs to reduce its water usage by 25 percent, Long Beach only needs to conserve 20 percent. By Collin James
Assistant News Editor
In an effort to reduce water waste, Long Beach Water District has been offering customers smart water meters to keep track of water consumption. The smart meters are part of a larger effort by Long Beach’s city and main water supplier to reduce water waste during California’s drought. “We have now moved into the enforcement mode,” LBWD’s General Manager Kevin Wattier said. “The smart meters… are much more efficient at doing the water enforcement.” The smart meters, which use cell phone technology to collect data on water usage every five minutes, are being installed in homes and businesses throughout Long Beach in order for LBWD to spot major water offenders and spot where water is being wasted, Wattier said. The LBWD install the meters for
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LAWN OF THE DEAD
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Facilities management began spraying select lawns on campus on Saturday as the first step in a water conservation plan for the university.
Sections of grass at CSULB received an initial round of plant-killing spray for the campus drought-resistant transformation. By Manny Frausto Contributing Writer
CSULB Facilities Management began the process of spraying specific grass plots with chemicals to dry them out on Saturday as the start of a several
month process. CSULB Media Director Michael Uhlenkamp said students should expect to see rapidly dying vegetation soon after being sprayed with a browning agent. “It will take probably three to five
days for the browning to take place so then the grass will actually die off,” Uhlenkamp said. “Then we’ll dig it up and we’ll start to plant the new sustainable kind of drought resistant landscape.” On Tuesday, Facilities Management
will be doing “touchup applications,” Brian McKinnon, the Facilities Management manager of Grounds and Landscape Services, said.
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An emerging zine Long Beach welcomed over 100 artists to trade, sell and celebrate zine culture. By Jesus Ambrosio Radio Producer
A tall bearded man with a wooden cane and a black messenger bag wandered through the Museum of Latin American Art sharing his stories with other storytellers. Hundreds of zinesters filed into the first Long Beach Zine Fest on Sunday, which offered a glimpse of the DIY culture, literature, art, music and everything in between the pages of independently released mementos of modest circulation. Booth-by-booth, RD Armstrong,
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a writer based in Long Beach, whipped out pamphlet-sized published works and an anthology of poetry, and spoke to vendors about the history of his involvement with zines. “The last time I went to a zine fest was in 2005. As I recall, there were about 20 tables and about 20 people [in attendance],” Armstrong said. “That’s when I said, ‘I’m done with these things.’” He said he didn’t feel like it was getting him anywhere and quit his poetry zine, the “Lummox Journal,” in 2005. But his recent trip to the glued-together gala re-awakened his ardor for zines, inspiring him to showcase a series at next year’s gathering. “When I walked through the door, I was astonished by how many people were inside,” Armstrong
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said. “It was mindboggling to me.” Annual festivals in Los Angeles, Inland Empire, Orange County and now Long Beach have been locally popping up and are helping this DIY community thrive. “You are seeing the cutting edge in books and printed material that you won’t be able to find anywhere else,” Geoffrey Golden, an editor for Los Angeles-based humor-centric publisher, The Devastator, said. “These are the kinds of things that major publishing companies are too afraid to publish, and you can get them here from the creators.” The Devastator premiered in 2009. They are responsible for titles like “The Enemies of Twenty-Something Mega Man” and “Cats You Never Learned About in History Class,” and often feature writers and artists from The Daily Show, The Onion and Adult Swim.
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Los Angeles resident Daniel Martinez browses the zine library outside of the Museum of Latin American Art on Sunday. LA Weekly food editor Sarah Bennett has lived in Long Beach eight years and helped organize the event. As part of the marketing team for the festival, the beer and craft connoisseur made sure coffee and food was local. She said that the fest received
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over 300 vendor applications for booths, but there were only 100 spots. “If your center point is self-publishing, think of all the different people that need self publishing
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Reactivating CSULB history Phi Beta Delta, an honor society for international students, is reactivating at California State University, Long Beach.
By Madison Moore Contributing Writer
An honor society for international education that began at California State University, Long Beach is finding its way back home. CSULB founded Phi Beta Delta, the first honor society dedicated to recognizing scholarly achievement in international education, in 1986. The Alpha Chapter is reactivating the honor society for students, staff and faculty after being absent for a number of years, according to Colette Redden, the Center for International Education adminis-
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trative coordinator. Although there is no specific reason to explain why Phi Beta Delta left CSULB, Linda Olson Levy, a past chapter coordinator, said she believes the society might have left because of the retirement of Paul Lewis, the former director for the Center for International Students. “I think it’s coming back to our campus because it’s such an honor,” Redden said. “It’s a prestigious society and it has so many different vehicles to support domestic-international engagement.” Rosette Santiago, the executive assistant for Phi Beta Delta, said the honor society aims to serve as a driving force for the development of academic-based international programming. “Phi Beta Delta wants to provide a network for faculty, staff and students involved in international endeavors and shows the attainment of excellence in study abroad,” Santiago said. “More and more employers are taking heed of the qualities of those who travel abroad for some or all of their higher education.” Membership in the society is open to individuals who have demonstrated scholarly achievement in the international area, Santiago said. This includes international students, domestic students in the pursuit of academic studies abroad and faculty and staff who have been involved in recognized international endeavors. Criteria for eligibility of membership are a minimum 3.2 grade point average for undergraduate students, a 3.5 grade point average for graduate students and a demonstrated commitment to international engagement, Redden said. Redden said that since it is in the beginning stages of reactivation, the society is still determining dues and fees.
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FROM SHIPS TO STARTUPS
Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia seeks to turn the city into the next big tech hub.
By Nicca Panggat Assistant News Editor
To push Long Beach’s notability, Mayor Robert Garcia said that he intends to add the city to the list of growing tech hubs in California, according to an L.A. Times article. To change Long Beach into a “startup” city would mean changing its entire composition, Dr. Burkhard Englert, the chair of computer engineering and computer science at California State University, Long Beach, said. “If we can attract businesses to come [to Long Beach], for example, then people who live here, their children can go through education here, they can find jobs here,” Englert said. “The
whole economic outlook will be more focused on technology and that will attract people with different skills.” For now, Long Beach is known for its ocean-based ventures. It’s home to the world’s second-busiest seaport, as well as the five-acre Aquarium of the Pacific and the iconic Queen Mary docked on the harbor. Garcia said in the L.A. Times that he hopes to turn the city from its bluecollar roots into “The Silicon Valley of the south” so that it would compete with its more well-known, denselypopulated neighbors in Los Angeles. Senior graphic design major, Antonio Rodriguez, said he saw the differences between his hometown of Santa Monica and Long Beach almost immediately. “From the ground up, [Santa Monica is] kind of built to bring people to work,” Rodriguez said. “Everything they do - from the way they handle housing, the way they handle the Promenade. [Long Beach] has to build the industry buildings [Santa Monica has] for startups. I think that’s why there’s so many people there.” Like-minded tech developers usually group together in the same cities to keep the competition and innovation
alive. This means the famed Silicon Valley up north, or Santa Monica and Playa Vista in the south. Even Irvine and East Anaheim in Orange Country have dipped into the tech world, according to a study done by CityLab. “It’s an uphill battle, I think [for startups in Long Beach],” Rodriguez said. “If you’re in tech, everything has to be really nice. Long Beach is just grimy. Tech startups and entertainment, it’s just so high end. Long Beach has to build the prestige if they want to do it.” According to a 2013 study for Urban Land by professor Richard Florida, Los Angeles raked in $1.7 billion in venture capital for the state of California in 2012. A few seats ahead sits the San Jose metro area - and by extension, the Silicon Valley - at slightly less than $4 billion. “If [turning Long Beach into a tech hub is] what [Garcia] wants to do, that’s really a worthwhile goal to at least attempt it,” Englert said. “We have a lot of resources here … we have a lot of people who live here and there’s a lot of possibilities for tech companies to find people that work for them and be very successful. There’s no reason that it can only happen in Silicon Valley.”
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“It’s important to get everything killed,” McKinnon said. “You don’t want old grass growing back and ruining the new plants.” This is one of the first steps in CSULB’s Water Action Plan, which is a drought-conscious strategy designed with the intentions to “dry” campus landscapes in corresponding with Governor Jerry Brown’s California water reduction proposal. The plan intends to strip approximately two acres of CSULB’s lawns and replace it with new drought-tolerant terrain. The new landscape, projected to save 3.5 million gallons of water and $15,000 in water-related maintenance each year, is being added to six locations including the campus roundabout islands and the Atherton St. entrance and lawn in front of the Hall of Science. To prepare the campus for such drastic changes, CSULB is educating students by launching a campaign to stress the importance of water conservation and raise awareness about the drastic changes in greenery as well, Uhlenkamp said. “Students, faculty and staff are going to notice as the grass goes from robust-green grass to brown grass to people digging these things up,” Uhlenkamp said. Uhlenkamp said the campaign will use minimal inhouse funds, using small signs to let people know what’s happening. “The biggest idea is that we’re going to be saving money in terms of the amount of water we’re going to use,” Uhlenkamp said. McKinnon said he will be discussing a plant palate and a redesign of the irrigation system with the master plan architect. McKinnon said that from there they bid for actual pricing. Uhlenkamp said that CSULB’s conservation plan is directly tied to CSU Interim Vice Chancellor Sally Roush’s issue of a system-wide mandate asking all CSU campuses to reduce water usage and Brown’s announcement two weeks ago to reduce water use by 25 percent.
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free for residents and businesses that want to view how much water they use on a regular basis. Wattier said that out of the 200 meters they had in stock, 180 have already been installed in homes and businesses. “They probably will all be gone by the end of the week,” Wattier said. LBDW has taken action and installed smart water meters on homes and businesses that are excessively water wasteful, Wattier said. The meters also make it easier to enforce water restrictions. The department issued a fine of $800 against a Long Beach McDonald’s for four excessive use violations. The LBDW has also partnered with the Office of Sustainability in the city government to promote the “lawn to garden” incentive program to get homeowners to remove their lawns and install drought resistant and California native plants. Half of all residential water usage is used for landscaping, and lawns are the biggest source of wasted water, Larry Rich of the Office of Sustainability said. “Our office helps with… landscape conversions to California friendly plants,” Rich said. The Office of Sustainability is offering free mulch for Long Beach residents who have replaced their lawns with bushes and shrubs. The mulch reduces water consumption by absorbing water for a long period of time and creates a barrier that slows evaporation of the soil below, Rich said. Rich said that although the two agencies were not cooperating on any projects over the summer, he said he was optimistic that these measures could cut Long Beach’s water usage. “It’s achievable just based on public awareness.” Rich said. Although the state needs to reduce water consumption by 25 percent from the 2013 levels, Long Beach needs to reduce its usage by 20 percent, according to the LBWD’s website. Last year, Long Beach’s water usage dropped by 6 percent. If LBDW does not meet the reduction rates, the state will impose a fine of up to $10,000 per day, Wattier said. “If that happens to us, then we’ll have no choice but to pass it on to our customers,” Wattier said. Wattier said these enforcement measures are necessary, and the water meters alone may not be enough to meet the goal set by the State Water Resources Control Board. “We are going to do everything we can to achieve [20 percent less water consumption], but it is going to be very difficult,” Wattier said.
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In 2007, Walter Mosley published his book “This Year You Write Your Novel,” which the Goodreads website praised as “an essential book of tips, practical advice, and wisdom” for aspiring authors. Mosley knows of what he writes. Since 1990, he has produced more than four dozen books, including his well-known mystery series centering on the fictional detective Ezekiel Porterhouse “Easy” Rawlins. In 1999, the New York Times described Mosley’s prose as being “as plain and gritty as asphalt.” Mosley, a 63-year-old New York resident, answered some questions in an email exchange with the Daily Press. DP: You advise others on how to write novels. How did you get your own start? Mosley: I was 34, working as a programmer/consultant at Mobil Oil on 42nd Street in Manhattan. One Saturday when there was no one else around I got tired of coding in the report program language RPG and instead wrote a sentence —“On hot sticky days
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and want to get their voice out there,” Bennett said. “You have artists, cartoonists, photographers, political activists, musicians, poets, fiction [writers], non-fiction [writers], people of color, people who hate the police state and, I don’t know, female holistic ways to take care of your body– everything.”
in Southern Louisiana the fire ants swarmed.” I thought, hey, this could be a novel. I’ve been writing ever since. DP: This is a cliche question, but people always want to know where writers get their ideas. Where have you gotten yours? Mosley: All important ideas in all forms of art come from the unconscious. I just keep on writing and sooner or later these ideas make themselves evident. DP: There are now 13 books in your Easy Rawlins series. How do you keep the story line fresh after so many books? Mosley: My Easy novels are time travelers; they pass from era to era. That way Easy is always older and the world is always new to him. DP: At the end of “Blonde Faith” in 2007, it seemed that Easy Rawlins might be dead but he came back six years later in “Little Green.” Do you ever get tired of writing about this character? Mosley: I’m tired of the series after
Because these types of works are independently produced and distributed, there are no restrictions on the content that comes to life on the pages. Sabrina Dropkick showcased her series titled “The Little Fat Girl from Philly” which dealt with body image and drug use. “I went to Los Angeles Zine Fest two years ago. I saw it and I knew, ‘F-ck, this is for me.’” she said. “The community is amazing; everyone encourages each other. The trading element and that it doesn’t always have to be about money
each book. But then I write a different book, or two, and I’m ready to come back to Easy again. DP: What prompted you to write “This Year You Write Your Novel?” Mosley: I wrote “This Year You Write Your Novel” because people are always asking me about them and their novels, or the novels they want to write. I know that if I had 90 minutes I could answer that question completely, but it is rare that I have the time. I wrote the book so my answer is always somewhere within reach. DP: Do you give writing workshops or classes or otherwise work with writing groups? Mosley: Twice a year I teach at the Sundance screenwriters lab _ but that’s all.
vice aspiring writers need: Write each and every day of your life. Write on a book, not in a journal, and work on one project until it is finished. DP: Explain your writing process. How is a typical writing day structured? Mosley: I write as I described above, and I write three hours a day. DP: What’s the one thing you know now that you wish you’d known when you started out? Mosley: This question has no foothold in my experience. It was all necessary and therefore I cannot regret anything. DP: What are you working on now? Mosley: Right now I’m finishing the next Easy Rawlins novel _ “Charcoal Joe.” After that, I have some TV work to do.
DP: Can you pick several pieces of advice from the book, or from your experience, to give aspiring writers? Mosley: There’s only one piece of ad-
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[are some of the things that stand out to me representing community].” Dropkick does workshops on making zines at her job at Book Show, a bookstore, in Highland Park. From “Nine Ways To Know You Are Around a Unicorn” and “The Mustache That Plays Roller Derby,” sharing her work with like-minded attendees brought her a sense of communal appreciation. Along with zinesters and booth vendors, the Long Beach Zine Fest also hosted workshops like Cartooning and
Character Design, Yogurt Making and How To Zine, and panels on crafting and screen-printing. Bennett and many of the vendors agreed that having a physical form of media to express oneself is very satisfying. “I’m someone who writes for a living. For me, it’s this other-side catharsis,” Bennett said. “It’s another creative outlet that I don’t have to worry about pitching a story, getting it approved, dealing with an editor … it’s really for you.”
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A following flourishes behind portly pups
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The stub-legged swarm of Welsch hounds waddled into Huntington Dog Beach, dragging their bellies in the sand for SoCal’s Corgi Nation’s ninth event on Saturday. Founded by a Long Beach-based married couple in October 2012, the community organization coordinates four meet-ups per year that include meet and greets with the “Insta-famous” corgis and corgi limbo contests. “Our dog, Mr. Pickles, was on Facebook and we decided that we wanted to have a beach day with our friends,” Kelly McLemore, the cofounder of SoCal Corgi Nation and owner of an 8-year-old corgi, said.
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“At the first [get-together], there were 12 to 15 corgis. It was so much fun, we said ‘let’s do it again!’” With over 634 corgis registered and 1,300 human attendees, the beachbound hound organization is one of the largest southern California corgi meetups so far, celebrating the heavy-set affection for the stout-set breed and their expanding following. According to the SoCal Corgi Beach Day Facebook page, corgi lovers from all over the state travel to make the meet so that their corgis can interact with their doggy brothers and sisters. Two corgi siblings were reunited at the event, both born on the same day
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SoCal Corgi Beach Day hosts corgi dog lovers from all over California. The community coordinates this special dog event four times a year. and from the same breeder from Santa Clara. “Corgis are just so lovely and have really big butts,” April Tasai, an attendee from Irvine, said as she cradled her 3-month-old corgi. “She’s really energetic and obedient. She fell down the stairs once, but she didn’t cry. It was actually me who cried.” Amongst Saturday’s 500 or so floppy-eared fur balls, McLemore said that
since the first meet-up, the number of attendees doubled, then quadrupled and “has taken on a life of it’s own now.” Since the SoCal Corgi Nation meetups have been such a great success, McLemore and her co-founder and husband, Dan McLemore, added merchandise that include stickers, flags and T-shirts to sell at the event. “The proceeds go towards Queen’s Best Stumpy Dog Rescue; they’re the
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hile it seems like the whole world is obsessed with the Netflix series, “Orange Is the New Black,” Ashley Diamond is living it. Diamond is a transgender woman from the conservative town of Rome, Georgia, who has been deliberately defeminized since her arrival at the Georgia intake center since 2012, according to the New York Times. The state of Georgia must take immediate action to prevent unjust treatment to transgendered people or else Diamond, along with other transgender inmates, will continue to suffer the same fate, including degrading abusive treatment, the denial of necessary hormone therapy and sexual harassment and assault.
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According to the New York Times last week, transgender women in male prisons are 13 times more likely to be sexually assaulted than the general population, with 59 percent reporting sexual assaults. A first-time inmate at 33 who committed a nonviolent offense, Diamond underwent a series of high-security lockups for violent male prisoners. She has undergone drastic physical changes without hormones, and has been raped at least seven times by inmates, according to the New York Times. She has also been mocked by prison officials as a “he-she thing” and thrown into solitary confinement for “pretending to be a woman.” In a desperate attempt to escape this torture, she has even tried to castrate and kill herself. The Prison Rape Elimination Act program regulations state that correctional agencies should consider each case individually in deciding where to house a transgender inmate in order to ensure a safe, secure environment.
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However, almost all have continued the practice of assigning transgender women to men’s prisons and jails, according to Just Detention Internation-
LGBT prisoners suffer from degrading treatment, sexual assault and harassment, and the denial of necessary hormone therapy.
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policy, transgender inmates could not start or expand treatment in prison but could be maintained on medication they were using when they entered the system. This, the Justice Department said Thursday, surpassed prison officials’ obligation to assess and treat gender dysphoria, the name for the condition that people have when they are born into the wrong body, as they would any other condition. Transgender women such as Diamond should feel safe and secure, and have the human right to express their individual identities through grooming, pronoun use – the person should be referred to in a way that makes them comfortable – and dress. Prison officials should also supply them with safer housing and hormone therapy while they are incarcerated. Georgia, as well as other states, should treat gender dysphoria like any other health condition and provide individual assessment and care in order to ensure a safe and secure environ-
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ment for transgender inmates. Courts across the nation continue to wrestle with the question of what treatment prisons must provide to transgender inmates. However, according to Fox News, a federal judge ruled yesterday that California must provide sex reassignment surgery to a transgender inmate. Sex reassignment surgery is the surgical procedure by which a transgender person’s physical appearance and function of his or her existing sexual characteristics are altered to resemble that of his or her identified sex. This is indeed a step in the right direction toward justice for transgender inmates, and hopefully California will serve as an example for Georgia and any other states that still the institutional abuse of trans people. Abuse is abuse, regardless of whether it is taking place behind bars or behind a white picket fence. Morgan Maitoza is a junior journalism major.
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The top teams in basketball are set, with only a few capable of challenging them. By Oscar Terrones Sports Editor
With the NBA playoffs just four days away, a handful of teams have emerged to form a top tier that separates itself from the rest of the pack. Every year there are legitimate contenders and hopeful pretenders, and this year is no different. Tier one: Golden State Warriors, San Antonio Spurs, Cleveland Cavaliers and Houston Rockets These are the teams with the best chances to win the NBA Finals, but not all will take the same road there. The Golden State Warriors, under first-year head coach Steve Kerr and MVP candidate Stephen Curry, exploded out of the gate to earn the number one overall seed and gain home-field advantage throughout the playoffs. The reigning NBA champion Spurs’ injuries and lackluster performance in the first half of the season led some to question whether their days as contenders were over. All that changed when NBA Finals MVP Kawhi Leonard recovered from a ligament tear that kept him out several weeks. He’s averaging a
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career-high 16.6 points per game, and his defense gives San Antonio the best chance of any team to knock off the Warriors. Houston and Cleveland each have an MVP candidate (James Harden and LeBron James, respectively), which gives them a chance against anybody. But how far the Rockets and Cavs advance will depend on their performance in their respective supporting casts: Kevin Love and Kyrie Irving for Cleveland and Dwight Howard for Houston.
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Tier two: Los Angeles Clippers, Atlanta Hawks and Memphis Grizzlies If there is going to be an upset, it will likely come from one of these teams. The Hawks should make it to the Eastern Conference Finals without much resistance. Other than Cleveland, there is no legitimate threat in the East. Atlanta’s ultraefficient offense, which relies on precise ball movement and deadly shooting, will be difficult to beat in a seven-game series. The Clippers, as f lawed as they are, still have two off the top 10 players in the game: Chris Paul and Blake Griffin. Their lack of depth will eventually be their downfall, but they have enough star power and talent to be a dangerous matchup for anyone.
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The Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry (30) drives to the hoop against the Miami Heat in the first half at Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif., on Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2015. The Grizzlies’ size and skill in the paint for the most part make up for their lack of outside shooting. Marc Gasol and Zach Randolph are nearly impossible to stop when they are on their game. However, the lack of spacing is troubling, and it won’t take smart teams long to expose Memphis’ fatal f law. Tier three: everybody else There are a few teams in the west,
such as the Dallas Mavericks, New Orleans Pelicans and Portland Trailblazers, capable of winning a series and even pushing another to seven games. But their lack of talent, playoff experience and injury concerns will hold them back from making a serious playoff run. The rest of the east is a barren wasteland with below average organizations masquerading as playoff teams. BAN THE EASTERN CONFERENCE!!!
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“They are going to lose in second round because the way they are playing is not as good as last year.” —Jay Worak, 23, senior, chemistry major
“They’re going to win the whole thing.” —Pete Boutros, 24, graduated in 2014, biology major
“There is going to be a lot of nice dunks, but CP3 always messes up in the clutch.” —Denis Nakelchik, 19, sophomore, fitness major
“I see them barely getting out of the first round and falling to San Antonio or Golden State.” —James Castillo, 22, senior, sociology major
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