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2001: The school’s peak acceptance rate over the last 20 years at 67.4 percent.
1996: CSULB received 23,171 aplications for fall admission, accepting 64.6 percent.
1999: CSULB receives more than 30,000 applications, accepting nearly 60 percent.
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50%
2011: Acceptance rate reaches it’s lowest point in the past 20 years, 31.1 percent.
is at an all-time high with 37,500 students, but applications are rising even faster. The Daily 49er took a look at the acceptance rate of CSULB.
Bakersfield Channel Islands Chico
GRADUATION
Between 2004 and 2014, every CSU has increased enrollement. The number of students at CSULB has gone up by 9.9 percent, or 3,330 students.
Fresno Fullerton Humboldt Long Beach Los Angeles
40%
2013: More than 90,000 applications are submitted for the fall, with CSULB accepting 30,988 students.
EXPANDING SCHOOLS
East Bay*
60%
2004: CSULB passes 50,000 applications for fall admission (51,293).
The new academic year brings many new students to CSULB. Enrollment
Dominguez Hills
70%
9,050 8,448
NUMBER OF STUDENTS PER COLLEGE
Maritime
4,716
Monterey Bay
3,959
Northridge
3,577 2,650
Cal Poly Pomona
2,201
Sacramento
32 graduated in 5 years
Sonoma State Stanislaus 25%
50%
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75%
100%
125% 150% 175% *Formerly CSU Hayward
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Education
Natural Sciences and Math
15 graduated in within 4 years
San Marcos
The Arts
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Business
For every 100 first-time freshmen admitted in the fall of 2008:
San José State
Engineering
San Francisco State
Health and Human Services
San Diego State
Liberal Arts
San Bernardino
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Renowned artists discuss the industry
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GLAFMA held its 11th annual exhibition, featuring several nationally renowned artists who discuss their works and the Art industry in a panel.
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Seven panelists discuss the relationship between curators and artists as part of the opening reception of the Greater Los Angeles Master of Fine Arts exhibit on Sunday. CSULB. “If you’re not present and in the moment, it’s very easy for someone to not be interested in what you have to offer.” The panelists also fielded questions about the art itself, like how to measure its change, effect and influence on those who see an artists’ work. Papillion said that the conversation often starts now with social media, allowing an open, continuous dialogue between artists and their audience. “There was a girl who Googled my birth name and found my ‘Alien She’ piece,” said LJ Roberts, a panelist whose art focuses on gender, queer and trans politics. “And [she] had it saved as her desktop wallpaper for like a year and wrote me her story.” Students have organized and curated GLAMFA for the past 11 years as a response to CSULB being invisible to the arts community, according to the event’s homepage. It now acts as a platform for graduate art students to display their pieces in the art community surrounding Los Angeles.
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Featured artist Jenalee Harmon from University of California, Santa Barbara looks at the art pieces on display at the GLAMFA exhibit. The annual exhibition, which will run from Aug. 24 to Sep. 3, will feature submissions from master’s students from as far as Santa Barbara
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From a table at the front of the University Theater, seven artists stared out into a crowd of California State University, Long Beach students on Sunday as they discussed the aims and realities of becoming a professional artist. The panel, part of the Greater Los Angeles Master of Fine Arts exhibition, focused on how artists get their art in galleries, what goes into presenting art to curators and collectors and how the artist community interacts with each other. Panelist and artist Kendell Carter said that with opportunities like studio visits, “sometimes expectations generate disappointment.” “You have to keep in mind that most studio visits are just studio visits,” said Michelle Joan Papillion, one of the panelists and owner of PAPILLION, a contemporary art gallery in Los Angeles. “It does not mean you will get picked up by a curator or that someone will want to sell your pieces.” Jamaal Tolbert, another panelist whose art focuses on social, political and cultural issues, said that the most important thing for artists looking to be noticed by curators is to be present and clean within their own art spaces. “Sometimes, it doesn’t matter if you’re the smartest or best artist,” said Diedrick Brackens, a panelist and Assistant Professor of Fiber at
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People clad in dresses and suits dating back to the Civil War gathered around a towering statue of Abraham Lincoln, while men in military color guard uniforms stood stoically in front, facing the audience with flags raised and rifles at rest. On Saturday, the Sons of Union Veterans led the rededication of Lincoln’s statue in Downtown Long Beach to mark its centennial anniversary. The ceremony, which took place at Lincoln Park, celebrated the original dedication of the statue on July 3, 1915. “The legacy of what Lincoln did for our country and what the Sons of Union Veterans did to put this statue here is something that is, in my opinion, worth much more recognition,” said Rhiannon Leigh, an attendee of the rededication. Thomas Chumley, the leader of the Long Beach division of the Sons of Union Veterans, said that fundraising to build the statue took five years. It was the first replica of the famous “Standing Lincoln” statue in Chicago’s Lincoln Park, he said. The ceremony lasted about half an hour and consisted of a flag ceremony and a speech on Lincoln’s achievements and virtues by Long Beach City Prosecutor Doug Haubert. Haubert’s speech focused heavily on Lincoln’s fairness and incorrigible character as a lawyer. Haubert noted that it was at this time that Lincoln earned the nickname “Honest Abe,” even once giving a client back half of his money in one case because he had felt like they were overpaying him. The statue stands at the Pacific Avenue entrance of Lincoln Park, which is located southwest of the intersection of Pacific Avenue and West Broadway in Downtown Long Beach near the Downtown Long Beach Public Library.
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Sharks in the water
A joint network project features Chris Lowe and a team of students as they study shark migration in California waters.
The Daily 49er spoke with Lowe about the documentary, his role and where his research has led in his study of shark behavior.
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A three-day special between BBC and PBS titled “Big Blue Live” will dive right into the choppy waters of shark research with Chris Lowe, director of California State University, Long Beach’s Shark Lab. Lowe, a professor of biological sciences at CSULB who took up the mantle of director in 1998, studies trends and patterns in shark migrations, feedings and ecology using advanced technology to help answer the question, “Why do sharks do what they do?” This summer, as a part of an ongoing project with other marine biologists in Monterey Bay, Lowe took nine students with him up to Northern California to study shark behavior during feeding and study them as they begin their migration to Southern California waters.
The focus is on Monterey Bay and its ecosystem… My part is focusing on white sharks because they’re an important part of that ecosystem. Where we come into play is that white sharks feed in the Northern California coast, but they come to Southern California to give birth to their very own, so it’s really Southern California that is the nursery for white sharks. That’s how we got involved in the show. Why do the sharks come south for nursing?
Many of the sharks come to the south… because of the high productivity. Our beaches, especially along our coastline, are very productive typically in the summer. The water is warm [and] it’s usually shallow. It’s our hypothesis that they come to our coast for nursing, and Baja as well because it reflects the type of waters we have in Southern California…
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We’ve noticed that in the past two years, our waters have been unusually warm and the sharks are behaving different... So we think that the change in behaviors is attributed to the El Niñolike conditions we have in our waters.
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Can you tell us about the documentary and the role you serve in it?
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How do the conditions affect the Sharks behavior?
These young sharks are looking for warm waters because it helps them grow fast and there is usually more food, typically in those areas. Now in the past we’ve found, from tagging these sharks, is that in the winter when the water temperatures drop, typically below 60 degrees, they get cold and they migrate south to Baja. Where they end up in Baja is typically the same temperature of water than we have in the summer. The sharks will spend the whole winter there, and in the spring or summer, many of the sharks will migrate back up north. But for the last two years, pretty much none of the sharks have [migrated south]. And that’s because the waters haven’t reached below 60 degrees. But that may not be a bad thing, it just means that they’re not getting cold and they’re not migrating to warmer waters. “Big Blue Live” will air at 8 p.m. PDT on PBS starting Aug. 31.
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A television special on BBC will take an in-depth look at CSULB’s Dr. Chris Lowe’s shark research on migratory patterns to Southern California.
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Leather Tramp needs your help
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A local band looks for a little help from its frineds.
Long Beach students Lawrence Pi and Jake Abernathie to talk turkey.
Why did you decide to go down the crowdfunding route?
Jake Abernathie: The lack of money. Everything about the band is homegrown. We’re a huge band and the resources we’d need to get to a studio would be astronomical. We recorded and engineered the album ourselves. We’ve put in at least 100 hours of time into recording the album since October.
By Kevin Flores Arts & Life Editor
When will the EP come out?
Leather Tramp, the 12-piece folkestra out of Long Beach has recorded their first EP, but without the cabbage to master it, they’ve turned to crowdfunding to raise the necessary money. The Daily 49er sat down with the band members and California State University,
enough, you can convince us to cover any song and record a video of it.
How would you describe your music?
JA: Indie rock with Americana elements in it. If you had to choose a band we most sound like, I’d say Arcade Fire or Mumford and Sons—without so much banjo. How many of the band members are associated with CSULB? LP: Nine of us are either CSULB students or alumnus.
Lawrence Pi: Whether we reach the goal or not, it will come out on Sept. 18.
Will you be playing an album release show?
Do contributors get anything in return for donation?
JA: Our album release show is Sept. 18 on the 12th floor of the Pacific Towers, an office building in downtown Long Beach. It’s all gutted with exposed bricks. Doors open at 6 p.m. and it’s free.
JA: Posters, limited edition T-shirts and signed drumheads. If you donate
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A Long Beach BBQ festival organizer has a good time puting on a good time.
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Top and Bottom: Porky-N-Beans BBQ had a long line for its awardwinning food during the Long Beach BBQ Festival on Saturday.
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Point, aim, drop camera Micayla Vermeeren Staff Writer
Nothing seems to attract audience attention more than watching people die on TV. And now, the act of broadcasting death has become a full-blown media sensation. For the last few days, water cooler conversation has centered on the onair murders of Virginia news reporter Alison Parker and her cameraman Adam Ward. While conducting an interview about community business growth on WDBJ in Roanoke, Virginia, the two were shot Wednesday morning as coworkers, producers and fiancés watched from behind live-feed monitors in the station’s control room. Taking two lives that morning apparently wasn’t enough for the shooter—he had to make sure the gore was broadcast far and wide, in real time, to let his audience bask in the violence. Shooter Lester Lee Flanagan II,
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known to his former WDBJ coworkers as Bryce Williams, went as far as to record the murders from his own perspective and post them across his social media platforms. “I filmed the shooting see Facebook (sic),” he tweeted soon after the shooting.
Blatant murders should stay off the airwaves.
This type of journalism is heartbreaking and vulgar. It’s fundamentally wrong and wholly unsettling to see people losing their lives on our handhelds. But it’s also nothing new. Last summer, international media exploded with the stories of two journalists, James Foley and Steven Sotloff, who were beheaded on camera by members of ISIS. The videos circulated at terrifying
speed, despite a number of attempts to keep them away from easily accessible online sources. Again in June, an ISIS death was splashed on screen. This time, the scene came from an ISIS soldier’s body cam. The two-minute clip shows the moment the soldier was shot during an assault in Ramadi. We watched as he glanced towards the attack, was shot by a sniper and fell to the ground. Whether part of news broadcast packages or the result of individual Google searches, the videos were kept at the forefront of the public consciousness for months. It’s understandable with shows like “Game of Thrones” and “The Walking Dead” dominating television ratings, but the real-life victims don’t get up and head back to their trailers when the cameras are turn off. The media tries to maintain its humanity throughout coverage and has remained conscious of the value of the lives that were so publically ended. Alison and Adam were killed
Opinions For every child that watches 25 hours of TV a day, by the time that child turns 18, he or she will have watched over 40,000 broadcasted murders.
Teenagers who watch one hour of TV a day are four times more likely to commit aggressive acts in adulthood, according to a 17 year-long study from Columbia University and Mount Sinai Medical Center. Between 1998 and 2002, scenes depicting the use of guns during the second hour of primetime increased by 200 percent. Source: parentstv.org Illustration by: Emilio Aldea just two days before the American Society of Journalists was set to hold a ceremony honoring James and Steven with the Conscience in Media Award for the “notable cost or sacrifice” they gave in the name of pursuing journalism. But people like Williams and
members of ISIS play directly into our fascination with violence, but we are the ones that give them the playground to create frenzy. But all of this doesn’t negate the morbid fascination with being able to access images and videos of lives ending.
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should media cover violent shootings on television?
Last Wednesday two journalists’ deaths were broadcasted live. The shooter, ex-WDBJ reporter Lester Flanagan II, held his phone and filmed as he shot and killed his former colleagues Alison Parker and Adam Ward.
“I’m not sure, media make it more important that it actually is … because it is a tragedy or drama.”
“I feel like we should censor it. They should record and censor so the violence is still portrayed but the most violent parts are excluded.”
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WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL
49ers suffer first loss of season LBSU fails to improve to 3-0 with loss to Saint Mary’s.
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Saint Mary’s knocked off the Long Beach State women’s volleyball team 3-1 on Sunday at the Walter Pyramid. Head coach Brian Gimmillaro said fatigue was the main reason his team fell. The 49ers (2-1) were fresh off beating Alabama 3-1 on Friday and then picking up a 3-2 win against Duke that Saturday. “We had more nets in one set than in the past two games combined,” Gimmillaro said. “That’s how you know you’re just tired.” LBSU started off each set strong, but recurring mistakes and holes in the block had the team stumbling midway through. Saint Mary’s (2-1) capitalized in the first two sets, taking the first 25-21 and the second 25-19. LBSU managed to win the third set 25-22, maintaining a little life. The Gaels and 49ers traded points in the beginning of the fourth set until Saint Mary’s pulled away, winning 25-20. “We were just tired, too many people were out, and we asked the people we already used so much to play more.” Gimmillaro said. “[Losing games] is going to happen, we just wish it didn’t.” Due to the amount of pressure being put on the more experienced players this season, Gimmillaro said
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Sophomore middle blocker Ashley Murray and junior outside hitter Nele Barber attempt to block against Saint Mary’s. players that don’t normally get as much playing time will train heavily, “to take some of the burden off of the players we use more.” He said it is his intention to rotate players on and off the court more often so the new faces could get acclimated to his style of play. The 49ers’ focus at the moment is on continued and consistent training. Sophomore middle blocker Ashley Murray supplied a team high 16 kills, however it was not enough earn LBSU the win. Murray said that the team simply dug itself into a hole that they couldn’t easily recover from.
“Our focus for the next game is getting techniques even better,” Murray said. “We had lots of plays we couldn’t use because the technique wasn’t there.” 49er freshman outside hitter Carly Beddingfield took the defeat to heart, holding herself accountable for the loss. “I think I personally let the team down, I dug us into these holes,” Beddingfield said. “I need to work on defense and consistency.” Beddingfield played well in the previous two games, totaling 18 kills against Alabama and Duke. The 49ers dominated Alabama
on Friday despite being hindered by mounting injuries. Senior setter Jenelle Hudson and junior outside hitter Nele Barber fronted LBSU’s victory against the Crimson Tide. The 49ers then beat Duke on Saturday. The Blue Devils went up 2-1 before LBSU stormed back to take the next two sets and win the game. Hudson provided 41 assists and Barber added 19 kills. LBSU will return to the court next weekend for the Harvard International in Boston. The 49ers will take on Illinois State on Friday before playing Rutgers and Harvard on Saturday.
The Long Beach State women’s volleyball team added to their injury list during its opening weekend matches. Middle blocker Sherridan Atkinson and outside hitter Anete Brinke sustained season-ending injuries before their season started. Atkinson was sidelined with a dislocated ankle, while Brinke suffered a torn labrum in her shoulder. Three more 49ers were stuck on the benches for this past weekend’s tournament with new injuries. Senior libero Lindsey Lawmaster sustained a scratched cornea during practice, sophomore defensive specialist Sammee Thomas sat out of the tournament with a blister on her foot and freshman middle blocker Peyton Grahovac sprained an ankle during Friday nights match against Alabama. “I have astigmatism, so I put some of this solution in my eyes and it ended up scratching up the surface of my cornea—it hurt really bad,” Lawmaster said. “My doctor ended up prescribing me a lot of steroids so I could heal.” Lawmaster sat out for much of the tournament, seeing the court for only a few plays against Duke and St. Mary’s. “[Coach Gimillaro] is definitely not playing me as much,” Lawmaster said. “I don’t know if it’s because they’re afraid of bad juju or what.” For Thomas and Grahovac, it’s a day-to-day process to determine when they will be ready to return to the court.
WOMEN’S SOCCER
49ers claim dramatic overtime victory 49er freshman Fatmata Kamara comes up big in the victory over Bucknell. By Joshua Caudill Staff Writer
In a game the 49ers were expected to win, nothing came easy for the LBSU women’s soccer team in its 1-0 overtime victory on Sunday at George Allen Field. Coming off a victory against Iowa State on Friday, the 49ers (3-1-0) dominated the ball throughout the match. The 49ers outshot Bucknell 18-3 leaving their goalkeeper Ashton McKeown with little to do but watch as her teammates desperately tried to find a way to score. “It’s one of those things. You go through adversity and you just have to find a way to get it done,” head
coach Mauricio Ingrassia said. “I’m happy for the kids because they found a way.” LBSU was unable to capitalize on their opportunities for 90 minutes, forcing the overtime. But the 95th minute, freshman Fatmata Kamara finally broke the tie, scoring on a free kick. Her teammates immediately stormed the field in celebration, dashing Bucknell’s hopes of escaping with an unexpected tie. “During halftime, J.J. [assistant coach Jeff Joyner] said any time you get a free kick I know you have a good foot, get on it,” Kamara said. “I had watched Real Madrid play and James Rodríguez took the same shot, just opposite foot, so I was like here’s my chance.” Ingrassia’s growing confidence in Kamara has been apparent; The San Jose native saw her playing time increase from 43 total minutes in LBSU’s first three games to 50 minutes on Sunday alone. He was rewarded with Kamara’s first career goal at Long Beach State.
“I started crying,” Kamara said. “I’m very happy, I’m very excited. I’m working my way up with more goals to come.” Bucknell (1-2-1) was proficient on the defensive side of the field. Their defensive efforts offset junior midfielder Mimi Rangel’s five shots, which included a miraculous save in the 31st minute by Bison goalkeeper Jessica Ratner. In the 33rd minute LBSU had another opportunity to break through and score. Freshman midfielder Rocio Rodriguez perfectly executed a header off of a corner kick, however Ratner was there yet again, and made a second diving save. Ratner totaled 7 saves on the day. For all its endurance on defense and heroics in goal, Bucknell was practically nonexistent on offense, leading to a majority of the game played in its own half. The Bison had zero shots on target and one corner kick in 95 minutes. The Bison were also down to just 10 players by the 75th minute after
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Junior Mimi Rangel dribbles the ball past a Bison defender. Rangel totaled five shots in the game; four were on target. junior defender Kelsey Witt received her second yellow card of the game. The win gives the 49ers some momentum as they prepare to face San Diego, Portland State, and Loyola Marymount over the next two weeks
before a much-anticipated, televised match-up against USC in mid-September. LBSU will travel to the University San Diego for its next game against the Toreros on Friday at 7:30 p.m.