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Tough play by 49ers not enough LBSU erase a double-digit deficit, but lose to a resilient San Diego State inside the Pyramid. By Joshua Caudill Staff Writer

It was an intense battle between two Southern California rivals Tuesday night as San Diego State held on to defeat the Long Beach State men’s basketball team, 76-72, sending the 49ers to their fourth consecutive loss. The 49ers (3-4) made a valiant comeback, erasing a 13-point first-half deficit but ultimately fell short after San Diego State (5-3) found the hot hand in Trey Kell. The sophomore guard led the Aztecs in scoring; gaining all 13 of his points in the second half, which included four three-pointers. “We don’t have time to worry about our spirits. We need to worry about getting better,” LBSU head coach Dan Monson said. “We knew we weren’t going to go undefeated with this schedule but we are panicked about is we have to learn from the losses.” LBSU struggled early, only hitting two of their first 11 shots while the Aztecs hit 13 of their first 27 shots from the field, including five three-pointers. The Aztecs lead was as large as 13 at one point in part due to walk-on freshman Ben Perez. The guard was a perfect 4-of-4 from the field, which included two back-to-back three-pointers and a momentum building dunk that put SDSU in the driver’s seat with a 40-27 lead late in the first half. “It was an incredible feeling,” Perez said. “I had a couple of slow games but it just felt good to get out there and get back to how I know I can shoot and how I know I can play. I got to credit all that to my teammates getting me open. Now we got to get ready to go back to work.” A Nick Faust three-pointer in the closing seconds of the first half made it 40-32 and gave the 49ers some much needed momentum heading into the locker room. It was a tale of two halves as San Diego State was held to only one field goal within the first 10 minutes of the second half and LBSU started to chip away at the Aztecs’ lead. The Walter Pyramid crowd came alive after a Noah Blackwell three-pointer and a Faust dunk cut the

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Aiding students towards safety CSULB’s SHS providing students with free HIV/AIDS testing. By Riva Lu Staff Writer

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‘Bad faith’ bargains upset CFA Representatives have levied complaints against the California State University system. By Micayla Vermeeren Assistant News Editor

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Senior guard Nick Faust (2) throws down a dunk in LBSU’s 76-72 loss to San Diego State inside the Walter Pyramid on Tuesday.

In honor of World AIDS Day, California State University, Long Beach’s Student Health Services offered free HIV and AIDs testing. “We are letting you know all the resources we have through the Student Health Services offices,” said Annika Horvath, freshman women’s gender and sexuality studies major. “You can spin the wheel and win a prize for answering questions about HIV and AIDS.” Horvath said that the purpose of the event is to bring awareness to HIV and AIDS. This event only takes place every Dec. 1 in conjunction with World AIDS Day. “We have Out of The Closet here offering free HIV testing,” senior health science major Zaira Ramirez said. “We also have the Latino community that are also providing free HIV testing through Bienestar.” Ramirez said that there will also be a truck doing free HIV testing tomorrow.

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Out of The Closet is a thrift store on Pacific Coast Highway and Redondo that gives 96 percent of every dollar they make towards AIDS health care and HIV Testing, said Steve Marine, a counselor from Out of The Closet. “I am part of the fix sight division, so I do the testing at the Out of The Closet stores,” Marine said. “We also have mobile testing units that go out and give free HIV testing as well.” Salud a la Vida, a student organization on campus, will be providing health education workshops at CSULB during the spring, public health graduate student Diana Aguirre said. “We are focusing on healthy lifestyle behaviors, like reducing alcohol drinking, substance use and practicing safe sex,” Aguirre said. Aguirre said that Salud a la Vida is hosting free testing today on campus and are here at the World AIDS day to support and show solidarity. “We provide free condoms on campus for students because they are not actually available and given for

After authorizing a potential strike and hosting a rally at the California State University Chancellor’s Office, the California Faculty Association has brought labor complaint charges against CSU for wrongdoing during the bargaining process. The complaints were levied against the CSU on Nov. 19 through California’s Public Employment Relations Board. “The Chancellor decided what he thought was fair compensation for faculty before the bargaining process even began, and that is not bargaining in good faith,” CFA’s allegations state, as per CFA Bargaining Team chair Kevin Wehr. The foundation for the charges comes from the Higher Education Employer-Employee Relations Act, Section 3572b of which “requires the CSU management and CFA to reach an agreement on salary before the university sends a budget request to the legislature and governor” as well as hosting bargaining in good faith. “The CSU remains committed to

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Health Care Administration major Kathleen Nguyen, 19, and Women Studies major Annika Horvath, 18, educate Social Work major Maria Garcia, 18, and Nursing major Stefany Aguilar about the risks of HIV and AIDS through a trivia game on World AIDS Day at the Maxson Plaza on Tuesday. free,” Aguirre said. Students who would like to get

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tested for HIV can do so at Lot 17 today from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

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Stolen credit card used near Beachside

Police make arrest for assault and robbery

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Lt. Richard Goodwin of University Police said that a female student was punched in the face for her cell phone at Beachside on Nov. 19 around 1 p.m. The suspect broke the student’s cell phone by dropping it on the ground. The student described the suspect as a black male wearing a black shirt with a white shirt underneath and wearing bright green pants. Police arrested the suspect, 24-year old Quassim Rashid Watson at nearby apartments on Ximeno Ave., and charged him for a felony involving robbery and vandalism. The suspect isn’t affi liated with the university, according to Goodwin.

Another victim of bicycle tire theft reported witnessing a thief riding off

on a bike with his tires at Liberal Arts 5 on Nov. 17 at 5:45 p.m. According to Goodwin, the suspect is described as a white male in his 40s to 50s, wearing a dark baggy clothes and wearing a red beanie. Another student reported a bike theft on Nov. 18 around 4:45 p.m. at the Child Development Center, Goodwin said. The victim described the bike as a $50 red and orange Thruster Freestyle BMX that was locked with a cable lock. The victim provided University Police his bike’s serial number after the incident, but he had not registered it with them beforehand. Goodwin recommends that bike owners register their bicycle serial numbers with University Police for easier tracking. Goodwin said that another student reported her bike missing at the College of Business and Administration on Nov. 30 at 7:12 a.m. The stolen property is described as a $400-500 all-white bicycle with a basket and a large pink bottle. The victim said

nearing the end of the fact-finding stage of the bargaining process, with a final fact-finding meeting scheduled for Dec. 7. CFA and CSU have been locked in the bargaining process over a discrepancy between CFA’s request for a 5 percent general faculty salary increase and the CSU’s offer of a 2 percent overall raise for the majority of the year. Neither side has wavered on their stance, leading to tension that sparked the creation of CFA’s “Fight

for Five” campaign movement, which has been building momentum in the last few months. At the end of October, CFA members from all 23 state campuses closed a 10 day vote to authorize concerted action to persuade the CSU to accept the 5 percent increase, including faculty strikes. A few weeks later, on Nov. 17, CFA representatives congregated outside the Chancellor’s office in Downtown Long Beach alongside labor allies, performers and supporters to make

their argument more visible to the Chancellor. When the Chancellor’s office did not respond to the rally with a concession for the offer, the standard bargaining process resumed. After the presentation of facts on Dec. 7, the CSU will have an opportunity to present a final offer to CFA representatives. If accepted, the offer will be implemented for the upcoming 2016-17 school year. If the offer is denied, the salary contract will default to the current pay rate, but CFA

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A male student reported that his wallet had gone missing and someone was using his credit card across the street from Beachside on Nov. 18 at 6:15 p.m., Goodwin said. The student accidentally left his wallet on a Beachside shuttle. Police believe that the suspect was captured on video at the business where the stolen credit card was used. Detectives are currently investigating the matter.

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the collective bargaining process and to reaching a negotiated agreement with the California Faculty Association,” CSU spokeswoman and Director of Public Affairs Toni Molle said, despite the new claims. As of now, the two parties are

Stealing at the gym A female student reported her belongings stolen from her locker in the Student Recreation and Wellness Center on Nov. 17 at 3 p.m. Goodwin described the stolen belongings as a black leather purse with an iPad and a wallet inside.

Thieves aimed to strike at some bikes

that she locked the bike with a cable lock at the bike racks at 3:15 p.m. on Nov. 29, and she later returned to the racks at 7 p.m. when she discovered it missing.

Robber takes large number of rubbers A person reported that 100 condoms and posters were taken from the Social Sciences/Public Administration building on Nov. 16 between 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. The reporting party said that the posters were ripped down from the walls and the condoms were free, so University Police listed this down as “no crime,” Goodwin said.

will maintain the “Fight for Five” campaign under the concerted action authorization and potentially strike at the beginning of the spring 2016 semester. The CSU Chancellor’s office staff met with colleagues from the University of California system and California Community College system on Nov. 19 to discuss ways to cut costs and optimize budgeting effectiveness for students receiving their education at any of the three college systems.

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If you’re having trouble quitting smoking, maybe you can blame your DNA

Smokers who have tried and failed to kick their deadly habit might be able to blame their DNA. A new study finds that people with a particular version of a gene involved in the brain’s reward system are more likely to succeed in quitting smoking. Compared with people who have other versions of this gene, those with the lucky DNA were more likely to abstain from cigarettes. The benefits of this genetic variant could be confirmed only for people of Caucasian descent, researchers reported Tuesday in the journal Translational Psychiatry. Smokers with East Asian ancestry were just as likely to quit, or not, with any of the three versions of the gene. The study authors didn’t have enough data on black or Latino smokers to say whether the gene variant had any effect on their ability to quit smoking. The gene in question is known as ANKK1. It happens to be right next to the DRD2 gene, which helps the brain recognize dopamine, the chemical that’s produced in the brain to reinforce useful behaviors like eat-

ing and having sex. Addictive drugs, including nicotine, also cause dopamine levels to spike. One small piece of the ANKK1 gene called Taq1A seems to influence the function of DRD2. People inherit either an A1 or A2 version of this gene fragment from each of their parents. That means there are three possible genotypes: two A1s, two A2s or one of each. The researchers, from Zhejiang University School of Medicine in China, analyzed the merits of these three genotypes by combing through data in 23 studies published between 1994 and 2014. These studies looked at 11,151 current and former smokers, who were surveyed once or tracked over time. All of them allowed researchers to test their DNA to see which version of Taq1A they had. When it comes to quitting smoking, the helpful type is A2/A2. Compared with Caucasians with one or two A1s, those with two A2s had better odds of kicking the habit. Exactly how much better their odds were is not clear.

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Robert Steed poses for a portrait at Vape Place Inc. on July 17, 2015 in Gardena, Calif. The vaping community fears that FDA regulations will inadvertently favor the big tobacco companies disposable cigarettes, essentially bringing the independent e-cig industry to an abrupt halt. As it happens, A2/A2 was the most common genotype among Caucasians who were included in the analysis — 62.5 percent of them had it. Among Asians, that figure was only 39.1 percent. The researchers didn’t say how many blacks or Latinos had the A2/A2 version of the gene.

The findings could help researchers develop smoking cessation drugs that could be tailored to people based on their genetic profile, the researchers wrote. Smoking is the No. 1 cause of deaths that could have been prevented. Globally, tobacco use is responsible for nearly 6 million deaths per

year, the World Health Organization says. In the United States, smoking kills 480,000 people each year, including 42,000 who are exposed to secondhand smoke, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. —Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, TNS

US to send more special operations troops to Iraq to fight Islamic State WASHINGTON — The Pentagon plans to deploy about 200 more special operations troops to Iraq and has stepped up airstrikes in an effort to break a military stalemate with Islamic State, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter told Congress on Tuesday. “Specialized expeditionary targeting force” members will serve as advisers to the Iraqi military and Kurdish militias, and will help facilitate the U.S.-led coalition’s air campaign, Carter told the House Armed Services Committee. “These special operators will over time be able to conduct raids, free hostages, gather intelligence and capture” Islamic State leaders in Iraq, he said. “That creates a virtuous cycle of better intelligence, which generates more targets, more raids and more momentum.” The new force ultimately will be able to launch raids and other operations against Islamic State targets in Syria, he added.

“It puts everyone on notice in Syria: You don’t know at night who’s coming through the window,” Carter said. The shift marks a deepening involvement for the U.S. military, which has deployed about 3,500 troops at six sites in Iraq over the last 16 months to help train and advise Iraqi security forces. The Pentagon also recently deployed fewer than 50 U.S. special operators to Kurdish-controlled areas in northeastern Syria to advise vetted Syrian and Kurdish rebel groups. Carter did not say how many new troops would be sent to Iraq, but a U.S. defense official, who was not authorized to speak publicly on the mission, said the force would consist of about 200 special operators, search and rescue personnel and other related forces. The increase comes as coalition aircraft on ships and in regional bases launched a record number of

airstrikes against Islamic State in November. “We’re at war,” Carter said. “Tens of thousands of U.S. personnel are operating in the broader Middle East region, and more are on the way.” That blunt characterization appeared to surprise lawmakers, who peppered Carter with questions about Obama administration strategy. “It’s not war in a technical sense, but this is serious business,” he responded. “It feels that way to our people.” Marine Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the new force would accelerate the gathering of useful intelligence and “will make our operations much more effective.” “In the days ahead, we’ll be aggressive in looking for ways to reinforce success,” Dunford said. “And we’ll seize every opportunity to increase the tempo and effectiveness of our operations.”

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The White House has come under growing criticism for the continued impasse since the Nov. 13 terrorist attacks in Paris, with critics in both parties calling for a stronger U.S. effort. Islamic State has retreated from some areas, but still holds major cities in Sunni-dominated parts of Syria and Iraq. But Carter’s plan raises fresh questions about the expanding American role in Iraq and Syria, and President Barack Obama’s vow to not put U.S. “boots on the ground” to fight the extremist group. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee and a harsh critic of the administration policy, called the latest escalation a “belated step forward.” “However, today’s announcement is yet another reactive and incremental step, specifically responding to the Paris attacks, in a policy that has allowed the ISIL threat to metastasize

to Libya, Afghanistan and elsewhere across the globe,” McCain said in a statement, using one of the acronyms for Islamic State. “A comprehensive strategy to defeat ISIL is totally absent, urgently needed, and long overdue.” In his testimony Tuesday, Carter said Turkey “must do more” to control its often-porous border with Syria to prevent Islamic State from smuggling goods and fighters to and from the battlefield. He also acknowledged that only a handful of the 65 countries in the U.S.-led coalition are conducting airstrikes or otherwise participating in military operations. U.S. warplanes have carried out the vast majority of more than 8,200 airstrikes so far. “Saudi Arabia and the gulf states joined the air campaign in the early days but have since been preoccupied by the conflict in Yemen,” he said. —W.J. Hennigan, Tribune Washington Bureau, TNS

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Tom Hanks uses a typewriter and you should, too I’m typing these words on a computer, and you’re reading them from one. The ideas begin in my head, flow down my arms into the keyboard, and then they’re digitized and blasted through the great, endless expanse of the Internet. Your computer snags them and turns them into letters on a screen, which pour through your eyes and re-form as ideas in your brains. At no point, though, are the ideas or the words that represented them rendered in anything physical. You can’t touch them or hold them, and if I don’t like the way they come out, I can’t snatch them up, crumple them into a ball and toss them into the wastebasket. In the days of yore, I would be crafting this article on a typewriter, generating the clackity-clack sound that indicated some serious writing was going on. Maybe I’d be doing it in

the solitude of my home. Or maybe it would be taking place in an office, where the click-click-dinging of an orchestra of typewriters created a symphony of creativity, productivity and resourcefulness. Since the arrival of the word processor and the personal computer, most typewriters have been consigned to closets, storage rooms or basements. Today, though, “the typewriter has crawled back from its near-death experience, thanks to people who use and love this machine,” types Richard Polt, author of “The Typewriter Revolution: A Typist’s Companion for the 21st Century” (The Countryman Press; Nov. 12, 2015). Polt is one of countless enthusiasts who are bringing about a typewriter renaissance. Today’s typing rebels “come from all ages and groups; they speak

different languages and practice many professions,” Polt writes. “But something ties them together: the love of typewriters and the will to swim against the tide.” One of those swimmers is actor, producer and writer Tom Hanks, who wrote in a New York Times essay that he is “well versed in the focus-stealing racket one can make with a vintage manual typewriter. “The tactile pleasure of typing old school is incomparable to what you get from a de rigueur laptop,” according to Hanks. “Everything you type on a typewriter sounds grand, the words forming in mini-explosions of SHOOK SHOOK SHOOK. A thankyou note resonates with the same heft as a literary masterpiece.” (On a laptop, Hanks argues, the opening line of Moby Dick simply sounds like “callmesihmael.” The same line on a

1950s Olympia typewriter becomes “CALL! ME! ISHMAEL!”) Both Hanks and Polt admit that computers are far more efficient than typewriters. But Polt writes that efficiency may not be all that it’s cracked up to be. “All our efficient devices have freed up a lot of time _ supposedly,” he writes. “But we use up that free time doing more of the same ... We process so efficiently that we don’t dwell upon thoughts and words anymore _ we flit incoherently from one set of distractions to the next.” Need proof? Take away the cellphones from a group of people, and see how long they last before they go into “Candy Crush” withdrawal. “It’s not efficient to cook a meal from scratch,” writes Polt. “It’s not efficient to ride a bike down a country path. It’s not efficient to learn an

instrument instead of downloading a song, or to sketch a landscape instead of pointing your smartphone at it.” “(But) sometimes we don’t want life to be seamless,” Polt writes. “We want to feel resistance, we want to take our time, we want to savor the experience ... For the typewriter revolution, writing is one of those intrinsically valuable experiences.” The typewriter revolution _ and the human urge to do something just for its own sake, and not for efficiency _ guarantees that even in the digital age, we’ll live in “a world where the devices help, enable and invite, but aren’t mistaken for our equals or our masters,” Polt writes. “A world where each of us feels free to set any device aside and take up his or her own favorite tools _ or no tools at all.” — Michael Ruscoe, BookTrib, TNS

How a movie’s food makes it to the screen In some movies _ a lot of movies, actually _ if you see a character eating ice cream, the actor is really licking mashed potatoes. And that great-looking cake? It may be frosting spread over Styrofoam. But in “Love the Coopers,” which opens this week, the food is actually food. The turkey is real turkey. The biscuits are biscuits. The green-bean casserole is a green-bean casserole, though a little more gourmet than most. In movies (and television and advertising), the job of preparing the food seen onscreen falls to the food stylist. It is the food stylist’s job to make sure all the food looks like it is supposed to, that the items that are going to be eaten are safe and edible and that they can stand up to the time-consuming rigors of shooting a movie. “Love the Coopers” is a holiday film that builds to a big scene at a family Christmas dinner. Because the food plays such a major role in the

scene, and the actors would actually be eating it, the filmmakers insisted on total verisimilitude. Everything would not just be edible, it would be exactly what it was supposed to be. The task for creating the movie’s food fell to food stylist Melissa McSorley. In a recent phone interview, she said that director Jessie Nelson “wanted it to be a beautiful family dinner, but she wanted it to be attainable, one that the average person could make. She didn’t want it to look like it was made by a caterer.” So there is turkey, glazed ham, mashed potatoes, a “dump salad” (Cool Whip, Jell-O, fruit and maybe some coconut all mixed together) and that green-bean casserole. But in deference to the actors who would be eating it, McSorley gave the casserole some upscale touches. She hand-fried the onion strings on top, for instance, which were such a hit with the actors that she ended up frying 40 to 50 onions. The dinner scene was shot over

seven or eight days scattered throughout a period of about three weeks, and that meant making large amounts of food that the actors enjoyed eating over and over again. Because they were actually eating it, their plates had to be frequently refreshed. On any given day, they went through about 15 fully cooked, fully seasoned turkeys, she said. And then there was the challenge of meeting the cast’s dietary restrictions. “Some were dairy-free, some booze-free, some of them love protein. Some people picked and chose what they would eat off of their plates. ... Within the cast there were vegetarians, vegans, those who prefer gluten-free. A couple of people asked, especially because there were little kids, there would not be as much sugar,” she said. Star Diane Keaton, for instance, is a vegetarian, “but she absolutely loves cheese.” So the cheese plate was kept toward her end of the table.

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The film includes a running gag about the family dog eating the humans’ food, so McSorley had to keep the dog’s dietary restrictions in mind, too. She made sure the items he was going to eat did not include onions, and they kept him away from foods containing raisins, cranberries and grapes. And most of the sweets he was to eat were made without sugar. No doggy treats were buried in the food; the well-trained dog chowed down on whatever was placed in front of him. “He was one of my biggest fans. He probably ate more food than anyone,” said McSorley, who herself has three dogs. Though she was the food stylist on the food-centered film “Chef,” most of her credits have been on television. Her work on “Mad Men” gave her the opportunity to cook the food of the 1960s, and, in flashback, the 1930s and ‘40s. The makers of “Mad Men” were fanatical about getting all the period

details correct, she said. One pivotal scene took place at a Howard Johnson’s restaurant, and in order to get the look just right they actually found old Howard Johnson’s ice cream scoops, which had a distinctive point on them. But because the ones they found were old, they had them replated to look new. On the vampire show “True Blood,” she received what she called her “on-the-job” training on how to make edible fake blood that looked real. Yet it still had to fit within the dietary restrictions of the cast. That means no sugar products including corn syrup, which is often used to make fake blood. One scene in “True Blood” called for fruit to be infested with maggots. That was McSorley’s job, too. She used tweezers to place the maggots. “I found you can actually buy them online. They ship them out to you,” she said. — Daniel Neman, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, TNS

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The invisible Iraq talks back Tuesday’s event “Iraq Talks Back: Popular Movements in Iraq” removed the curtain from social unrest in Iraq.

er needs that inspiration is who the book is for.” Juan Pintor, who came from East Los Angeles just to meet Issa, said that the book “shows what is not shown.” “The book provides hope that there’s an alternative,” Pintor said. The two-hour event was an effective history lesson on aspects of past and present Middle East that we might not have known and are not aware of. A Q&A with the panelists followed the

conversational discussion. “The fundamental thing about the event is to say that Iraqis on the ground are actually doing things; that they actually have dreams and aspirations and move to achieve those dreams and aspirations,” Dr. Baker said. “That is the thing that we don’t hear about because when we think about Iraq we’re asking either ‘what does the Iraq government say?’ or ‘what does the Defense Department in the United States say?’ or ‘what does the White House say.’” Conversations of sectarianism in Iraq, the origins of the present dysfunction in the Middle East, and the importance of “non-movement movements” around the world, eclipsed a brief dialogue about Issa’s book. Issa explained that “non-movement movements”, like taco trucks across the States, the Arab Spring, and the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq, are social movements that lack a single purpose; they are formed from social unrest and need for social mobilization. “Just like we have a voice as Americans, so do the Iraqis,” Dr. Baker said. “And so this event was to highlight and look at this complexity of people and organizations that are happening in Iraq that we don’t hear about other than ISIS, war and sectarianism.” Issa, Dr. Baker and Al-Najjar stressed that the event and Issa’s book are starters to an important conversation.

exhibition “Lost in Time.” “The prints chosen for ‘Lost in Time’ explore man’s experience in the urban and natural landscape through the eyes of multiple photographers,” said to Christina Alegria, the interim Curator of Education at the UAM. “The sublime can range in meaning from immense beauty and power—especially in terms of nature and man’s insignificance within that—to religious themes and themes of horror,” said Alegria. “It functions as an important illustration of man’s inner conflicts and feeling insignificant in the world as well as a means to ex-

press concepts that inspire and elevator our spirits.” Art is able to evoke the same type of sublimity as the natural world because the mind, from which art springs, is part of the natural world, says Webb. “The human brain, to humans at least, is sublime” “Potential attendees shouldn’t expect my poems to be about grand and glorious things,” said Webb. “My poems are, I think, very down to earth, emotional, and often funny.” “The Quotidian Sublime” takes place this Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the University Art Museum and is free and open to the public.

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Uprooted like the date palm, Zene Alijawad feels closer to her far-flung birthplace when she remembers the transplanted trees that thrive across California. “We are from the same seed,” she says of herself and fellow Iraqis who feel deracinated from the Middle East. Alijawad, a 2013 graduate from California State University, Fullerton, opened the event “Iraq Talks Back: Popular Movements in Iraq” on Tuesday evening with a self-written essay entitled “Transparative,” which explains her sense of displacement in the United States. Alijawad compared her disconnect to Iraq, her homeland that she has yet to visit, to the palm tree. She explained that the origin of date palms and other palm trees are from the Middle East, not from the historical, stereotypical image of Southern California. “When will the sweetness come

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Assistant Professor of International Studies Yousef K. Baker, author of Against All Odds: Voices of Popular Struggle in Iraq Ali Issa, and co-editor of We Are Iraqis Deborah Al-Najjar hold a panel addressing the state of Irqai’s social movements and responses to the current crisis. back?” Following Alijawad’s moving reading, Dr. Yousef Baker, an assistant professor of international studies at California State University, Long Beach, moderated a panel with guests Ali Issa, the author of his recently released book “Against All Odds: Voices of Popular Struggle in Iraq,” and Deborah Al-Najjar, co-editor of “We Are Iraqis.” Over the course of four years, Issa intentionally chose not to interview

government officials, and gave the Iraqi the metaphorical megaphone by compiling several interviews with leaders and members of underground resistance organizations. “What comes to mind is people who are experiencing injustice around the world and how they can take lessons or inspiration from Iraqis and build solidarity with them,” Issa said. “Even in the conditions like Iraq there’s the abilities to organize and even have victories and whoev-

The little things count, too CSULB professors will read poetry prasing the commonplace at UAM. By Kevin Flores Arts & Life Editor

Author Edmund Burke called it the “strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling.” Philosopher Immanuel Kant wrote that it was the

mind trying and failing to imagine the infinite. It’s the feeling that overcomes people when they stare at a car crash or stand in the eye of a storm. It is the sublime. “It is [a feeling] that transports the viewer, at least momentarily, to a higher appreciation for and understanding of some aspect of life. It’s a form of defamiliarization, making the world glorious and new again. Mt. Everest is sublime,” said English professor Charles Harper Webb, who teaches in the MFA creative writing program. But the sublime can also be experienced in the mundane, according

to Webb. He says the sublime can be found in “a funny joke or a really good hamburger.” Webb and fellow English professor Patty Seyburn will be reading selections of recent work that draws on the ability to feel awe and astonishment in the everyday. They titled the event, which takes place at the University Art Museum on Wednesday. “The Quotidian Sublime.” Both Seyburn and Webb are award winning poets. Webb’s latest poetry collection is titled “Brain Camp,” Seyburn’s is titled “Perfecta.” The idea for the reading was inspired by the UAM’s photography

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An unidentified victim is transported from the Colorado Springs tactical vehicle to an ambulance after a gunman opened fire at a Planned Parenthood facility on Centennial Boulevard in Colorado Springs, Colo., on Friday, Nov. 27. The gunman was captured alive.

Who’s to blame for Planned Parenthood murders? Jim Pouillon was murdered in 2009 by a man who objected to the anti-abortion pamphlet he was distributing. Press coverage was scant, but some pro-choice groups, to their credit, denounced the murder. The New York Times didn’t run articles suggesting that over-the-top pro-choice rhetoric likening pro-lifers to the Taliban, accusing them of seeking to oppress women, urging a crackdown on their ability to protest abortion had set the stage for the murder. Pro-lifers refrained from suggesting that pro-choice groups bore responsibility for the murder. (I’m not aware of any exceptions to this generalization.) That was to their credit: The suggestion would have been obscene. Pro-choicers have been less restrained in the wake of the recent murder of three people at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado. They intend to turn the killings “into a

political moment they say will put abortion opponents on the defensive.” The Washington Post, which didn’t cover Pouillon’s murder, is reporting sympathetically on claims that the rhetoric of mainstream pro-lifers is to blame for the killings. Reporters are challenging pro-life politicians about the murders, which also didn’t happen in the Pouillon case. The governor of Colorado says that “inflammatory rhetoric” from pro-lifers played a role. Why might these cases have inspired such different reactions? It can’t be that anti-abortion violence is a frequent occurrence, and thus fits into a larger story: It is only slightly more common than pro-abortion violence against adults, which is to say not very common at all. I suspect the press is crediting the pro-choice spin on these killings because most journalists are

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Big West honors 49ers Five 49ers were chosen as part of the All-Big West team.

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The season may be over for the Long Beach State women’s volleyball team, but the Big West All-Conference honors keep coming in for the 49ers. The Big West recognized five 49ers as part of the All-Conference team on Monday when the honors were released. Leading LBSU was two-time first-team pick, senior setter Jenelle Hudson who took home Big West Player of the Year after the 2014 season. Hudson topped the conference in assists per set averaging 10.74 on the season and led the 49ers with 22 aces. Junior outside hitter Nele Barber and senior middle blocker Hayley Benson accompanied Hudson as part of the Big West first team. Barber led the conference with 23 double-doubles in her first season as a 49er. Barber finished the season third overall in the conference with 3.98 kills per set and took home Big West Player of the Week award four times this season making her way into the 49er record book. Fellow newcomer Benson led the 49ers as the top blocker, averaging 1.09 blockers per set, and effective

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Junior hitter Nele Barber spikes the ball past Denver’s outside hitter Kayla Principato (14) and middle blocker Ruth Okoye (13) in LBSU’s 3-0 win on Nov. 28 inside the Walter Pyramid. hitter, ending the season with a .322 hitting percentage. Rounding out the awards for the 49ers earning Big West honorable mention was sophomore middle

blocker Ashley Murray and freshman opposite hitter Peyton Grahovac. Last year’s Big West Freshman of the Year Murray hit .319 on the

season despite missing a majority of the season with an injury. Murray ended on a high note, finishing second on the team in kills with 270. Grahovac hit .314 in confer-

ence matches and had a six-match streak of double-digit kills. Big West champs, University of Hawaii took home Player of the Year and Coach of the Year.

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deficit to 46-45 with a little over 13 minutes left in the game. Faust began to show why he was a member of the All-ACC freshmen team by leading the team in scoring, and he finished with a season high of 20 points on the night. Sophomore guard Justin Bibbins’ three-pointer gave LBSU its first lead of the game 50-48 with 9:16 left in the game but the excitement was short lived. The momentum began to shift back toward SDSU after Faust received a technical foul in a critical moment where the game was tied. After the two teams traded three-pointers, the Aztecs started to pull away again when Kell and Dakari Allen scored back-to-back three-pointers to push the Aztec lead to 8 with a little over 4 minutes to go in the game. The 49ers would never get over the hump. After a series of missed shots

and turnovers, San Diego State made sure there would be no comeback victory in the cards for LBSU. “I think we have to come out way stronger in the beginning of the game,” 49ers forward Gabe Levin said. “We can’t be down that much and have to fight all the way back to take the lead. It takes a lot of energy out of you.” Monson was visibly frustrated with Tuesday night’s outcome as his team has now dropped three consecutive close games, where LBSU was a couple of mistakes away from being on the other side of the win-loss column. “We got to trust each other and do our jobs and stay together,” Monson said. “And I think we showed in stretches that we can have a good basketball team.” LBSU travels to Fort Collins, Colorado to take on Colorado State on Thursday, Dec. 3 at 6:00 p.m. local time.

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Junior guard Branford Jones shoots from the free throw line in LBSU’s 76-72 loss against San Diego State on Tuesday inside the Walter Pyramid.