DAILY 49ER California State University, Long Beach
Monday, March 23, 2015
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Vol. LIX, Issue 836
ASI ELECTION RESULTS ARE IN
11.9%
4,196 of 35,361 students submitted
their online ballot for the ASI Elections.
Miriam Hernandez was elected as Vice President with
Wendy Lewis was elected as Treasurer with
of student votes
of student votes
56.2%
ASI Presidential
candidate
Jose Salazar
ASI Presidential
candidate
Todd Schurr
RUN-OFF
Associated Students Inc. announced the results of the election on Thursday afternoon. The student body elected Miriam Hernandez as vice president with 56.21 percent of the votes. Wendy Lewis won treasurer with 51.3 percent of the votes. ASI presidential candidates Jose Salazar
OPINIONS
Hate speech is not free speech Blake Pinto
and Todd Schurr will face each other in a run-off election from March 23-25. Overall voter turnout was 4,196. This comprises of 11.9 percent of the student body. Because none of the ASI presidential candidates were able to obtain over 50 percent of the vote, there will be a run-off election between Jose Salazar
L
See HATE SPEECH, page 6
News 2
For ASI President, Jose Salazar received
Todd Schurr received
of student votes
of student votes
45%
32%
Both presidential candidates will enter into a run-off election. Polls will be open March 23-25 online, and results will be announced Thursday.
Long Beach innovates education Gov. Brown granted $5 million to Long Beach education institutions for “innovative leadership.”
Contributing Writer
ong have college campuses nurtured progressive thought and acted as stages for demonstrations. University grounds are a place where young adults, each with their own opinions, begin to express themselves, realizing how empowering free speech can truly be. On Wednesday, as I came across one such illuminating event, I saw dozens of students standing with makeshift posters in a demonstration against confrontational evangelists Bob Engel and Jed Smock, who publicly condemned members of the LGBT community, among others. Engel ruined the moment when he decided to go beyond the limits of his First Amendment rights and into the territory of hate speech. “Move, you fat, dike bitch,” Engel said to a protester holding a pro-
who secured about 45 percent of the vote and Todd Schurr who received about 32 percent of the vote. “The turn out for votes could always be better,” ASI Chief of Staff Jay Jenkins said. Dale Lendrum came in third place, with about 23 percent of the vote, and he is out of the running.
51.3%
By Amy Patton News Editor
The Long Beach College Promise could “create a sea of change” in the California Education system, University President Jane Close Conoley said in a press release Friday. “I want to thank Governor Brown for his vision in creating the Innovation Award,” Conoley said. Out of 14 finalists and 58 applicants in total, the Long Beach College Promise received $5 million and the highest score in Gov. Jerry Brown’s $50 million Awards for Innovation in Higher Education.
In conjunction with Long Beach City College and the Long Beach Unified School District, California State University, Long Beach formed the Long Beach College Promise in 2008 to help expedite graduation rates in Long Beach colleges. Long Beach City joined the program about one year ago. The program intends to align itself with Brown’s initiative to increase timeliness of California graduation rates from six to four years, Carbaugh said. The Long Beach College Promise
intends to get LBUSD students interested in college from an early age. The program requires fourth and fifth graders to visit the LBCC and CSULB campuses. Since the program’s creation, over 26,000 elementary school children have visited both campuses, according to data released by the Long Beach College Promise. Eligible students also receive a free semester at LBCC and guaranteed admission to
See EDUCATION, page 2
DIVERSIONS
Head over
heels
The high heel historically began with men and is making a comeback at CSULB. Diversions 4
By Kevin Flores Asst. Video Producer
About a year ago, Ethan Alvis had to rush to a meeting across Long Beach. He planned to skate there. He was also dead set on wearing a pair of black leather caged stilettos. So he strapped on his heels and hopped on his board, surprising himself with how he was able to hack it. “It’s definitely a challenge,” the undeclared freshmen at California State University, Long Beach said, suggesting it’s something of a circus trick. He’s mastered the technique and often skates to class in high-heels, receiving looks of
awe and at times envy. Standing at 6-foot-1 and flat-footed, lithe and long-limbed, Alvis conveys a sort of grace similar to that of a stilt walker when he slips on an altitudinous pair of spikes. Alvis is one of a number of men bending norms of gendered fashion by wearing high-heels, a shoe style associated with femininity in many societies. “I enjoy how they challenge gender norms,” he said. “I feel wearing heels detracts from my male privilege,” he said. Looking back before modern trends, the origins of high-heels have little to do with butt-bolstering or pin-parading. The sole of their history is buried in masculine power. Elizabeth Semmelhack, the senior
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curator at the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto, Canada told the BBC that heels originated in 16th century Persia—what is now known as modern-day Iran— where combat was mainly carried out on horseback. Heels allowed a rider to securely latch onto the stirrups, enabling them to stand up in order to fire arrows. Semmelhack said that Europe eventually caught on and high-heels became a symbol of aristocracy. The trend spread to the masses, and by the 17th century high-heels were common among both sexes, only to disappear from feet altogether because of their im-
See HEELS, page 5
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