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Marissa Lee, Brandon Tagami, Amanda Auge and Redmar Agtarap participate in a pie auction for the Pilipino American Coalition’s Christmas Festival near the Cal State Long Beach Health and Human Services building on Saturday.

CHRISTMAS COMES EARLY The Pilipino American Coalition held a festival Saturday.

By Zachary WeBer Contributing Writer

Celebrating Christmas early is part of Pilipino culture – some celebrations begin in early September. The Pilipino American Club Coalition threw its Christmas festival on Saturday at Cal State Long Beach.

Liezel Lizardo, a 22-year-old kinesiology major, is on the PAC vendor’s community and was in charge of the event.

“They start celebrating from September all the way to December,”

Lizardo said. “We start planning for [the Christmas festival] at least three months in advance.”

The four calendar months that end with the “ber” syllable are considered Christmas months in Pilipino culture.

Stores and households in Pilipino communities begin playing Christmas carols in the beginning of September, according to tagalogland.com.

Lizardo said she thinks Christmas is a really important holiday for the Fili-

pino culture religiously.

“We are family oriented kind of people,” Lizardo said. “It brings us together earlier and a great way to catch up with family members and friends.”

Jackie Liao, a 24-year-old UCI alumnus, hosted the event and is actively involved with the Pilipino community.

She said Christmas is symbolic because most Pilipinos are Catholic.

“They start decorating paroles early,

[which] look like Chinese lanterns and are in the shape of stars,” Laio said.

Paroles and Pilipino Christmas displays, like the nativity scene – called belen in Tagalog – begin to pop up in malls, parks and other open spaces across the country at this time, according to CNN.com.

PAC has been hosting a Christmas festival at CSULB for the past 18 years.

Liao said it started with a few friends wanting to celebrate.

“It blew up…” Liao said. “We are doing it for an audience [of] 200 people, and it started with a group of friends.”

Liao said the event brings the Pilipino community together to celebrate one of the “greatest holidays here.”

Mikey Sarmiento, a 22-year-old graphic design major, said that PAC was founded in 1972 on four pillars: philanthropy, academics, cultural and social. He said the event encompasses all the pillars.

“With philanthropy, all our proceeds are going to the typhoon relief,” Sarmiento said. “With academics, we’re teaching Pilipino Christmas traditions that has to do with culture as well.”

Melissa Bautista, a 19-year-old nursing major, helped plan this event and was in charge of the photo booth and decorations.

“I’m excited just seeing the logistics that has to go with planning the event,” Bautista said.

PAC had a stage set up for people to do various performances, including a Tinikling dance by PAC members Matthew Peralta and Janell Ignacio.

Sarmiento said they had about 40 people performing from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

They also had a face painting and game station.

“Different organizations are coming out,” Sarmiento said. “They have different stations. Some of them are doing games, gift baskets and donations.”

Sarmiento said CSULB PAC’s festival is unique in the Southern California academia realm.

“I don’t know another campus in SoCal that has a Christmas particularly for Pilipino Americans,” Sarmiento said.

49ers fall in second round UCLA swept LBSU in three sets during the second round of the NCAA Tournament, ending the 49ers’ season.

By Kelsey cruZ Contributing Writer

The Beach came into the second round of the NCAA on Saturday with a plan, a 17-match and 22-set win streak and a sweep the night before – but it fell in just three sets to UCLA. “I haven’t seen that before,” head coach Brian Gimmillaro said. “We’ve played poorly before in big NCAA games, but it’s not just that. UCLA, I thought, played the games of their lives.”

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UCLA (22-11) swept the Long Beach State women’s volleyball team (27-5), taking a critical 27-25 first set, then dominating the last two 25-15 and 2514.

“After watching them play [Friday night], they do a lot of things offensively that I knew were going to be a challenge for us,” UCLA head coach Michael Sealy. “I was glad when the match started, we served well enough to keep them out of system a little bit.”

During the first round the night before, LBSU swept San Diego 25-23, 25-23 and 25-22. Mackie led the charge with 14 kills and Reid added 13.

LBSU broke out an early 4-2 lead and came out with a fast offense and strong front-line blocking. But the Bruins’ Karsta Lowe prevented the 49ers from gaining another lead in the set.

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Kicking off in the bookstore I Declare raised money for the student emergency fundat event on Thursday.

By Justin Covington Contributing Writer The I Declare campaign raised $205 million so far, as announced at the kickoff event this past Thursday.

Vice President of Public Relations Andrea Taylor said that around 300 faculty and students were in attendance at the kickoff to raise money through donations for a student emergency fund at the fundraiser kickoff in the bookstore at Cal State Long Beach.

“I was thrilled to see there was so many students here learning about the campaign [and] that we had a good mix of faculty and staff here,” Taylor said.

She said some of the money raised at the kickoff will go into an account to distribute money to students who are in need, known as a student emergency fund.

“If something happens to you, you get into a car accident, you need some help with your medical bills… we would be able to provide a grant to you,” Taylor said.

Taylor also said the event aimed to promote participation for the larger university campaign known as I Declare, which seeks to raise money for academic initiatives, student support and partnerships in the community. I Declare is a campaign with the purpose of raising money for transforming the learning environment on campus, increasing success of students, and

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One of the CSULB busses donning the image of women’s volleyball player and consumer affairs major Chisom Okpalla, is parked in front of the University Bookstore for the I Declare campaign kick-off event on Thursday. securing funding for partnerships, according to the I Declare website.

The kickoff event included a raffle and food. Attendees of age could have unlimited free beer with the purchase of a $10 I Declare glass.

Taylor, Chair of Academic Senate Dan O’ Conner and Associate Vice President for Student Services Nancy Eckhous spoke at the event.

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ing about the campaign, and what we really want to convey is this is a campaign for them,” Taylor said. “This is a campaign to improve their academic experiences…it’s really all about the students.”

Ruben Peterson, a junior biomedical engineer student, said his major is not accredited because it doesn’t have enough students in it to be accredited and that he hopes I Declare will pro-

vide students with scholarships for the biomedical major.

“My major right now isn’t accredited, and I’m hoping that something like [I Declare] can help that,” Peterson said.

I Declare is a comprehensive campaign, meaning the funds raised can be donated to any area related to CSULB, from the math department to studying abroad.

Executive Director of Annual and Special Giving University Relations and Development Adam Goduto said that when someone donates to I Declare, they can choose where they want the money to go, such as to a certain department, program or college.

President Jane Close Conoley said in an email on Oct. 16 that the goal was to raise $225 million for I Declare by Dec. 31.

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Taste budding Born without a tongue, Kelly Rogers can still speak and identify flavors.

By Michelle SieBert Staff Reporter Despite having congenital aglossia and being born without a tongue, Kelly Rogers, 42, discovered she still has the ability to taste all flavors and speak without difficulty.

“There are other receptors for taste other than on your tongue so we’re not really sure if maybe mine are just stronger because I don’t have the same receptors on a tongue,” Rogers said. “We’re still trying to figure all of this out. It’s such a rare condition, so there haven’t been any studies on this before, and it’s all new territory.”

Rogers participated in a study at Cal State Long Beach this year and found that she could correctly identify flavor at different levels of concentration, according to an article published on “Randomized Testing of Taste Discrimination in a Case of Congenital Aglossia.”

She said the study determined that she was able to taste flavors normally; although she doesn’t have a tongue, which is where her taste receptors would be, there are other receptors for taste other than on a tongue that might be stronger.

“I was wondering if maybe I was using more of my sense of smell, and it was interesting to me,” Rogers said.

Long Wang, an assistant professor of nutrition and dietetics and a faculty member of Family and Consumer Sciences at CSULB, designed the study that Rogers participated in. He said there are unknown receptors inside the mouth that send signals to the nerve to tell the brain to activate the center so that Rogers can taste.

“The person without the tongue and taste buds… could sense everything, so that means her brain can sense and receive the signal of the message of whatever chemical we put in her mouth so she can taste,” Wang said.

Betty McMicken, an associate professor in the Department of Speech-Language Pathology at CSULB, who aided in the study, said the randomized control study experiment was administered in the lab of Family and Consumer Sciences and was an interdisciplinary project with the Department of Speech-Language at CSULB. “There are specific taste receptors in the oral cavity, and these cells transmit the taste of sweet, salty, acidic or bitter,” McMicken said. “There are some places in the normal oral cavity where taste is perceived other than tongue, but we don’t know which specific areas.”

She also said Rogers was blind to what she tasted and that how she tastes or the reason why she is able to taste is unknown.

Cristian Moreiea, a junior majoring in aerospace engineering, said she was amazed after hearing that Rogers can speak and taste without a tongue.

“I think it’s incredible,” he said. “It shows us how amazing the human body and the brain is.”

Mazr Mudasser, a senior majoring in electrical engineering, said he was amazed that someone without a tongue could taste and speak. “[I] didn’t think it was possible,” Mudasser said.

Jesus Santiago, a junior majoring in history, said it was his first time hearing that someone without a tongue is able to talk and detect flavors.

“It’s a very interesting story, and it’s amazing to find out that she was able to talk and taste without a tongue,” he said. “I’ve heard about people being born without a tongue, but I’ve never actually known they would be able to speak and talk and taste.”

Rogers attends Saddleback College. She plans to attend CSULB next fall as a communicative disorder major, according to an Inside CSULB article.

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Betty McMicken, an associate professor in the Department of Speech-Language Pathology and an aid in a study regarding taste bud receptors, poses for a photo in her office on Wednesday.

Long Beach in brief: Seasonal relief A temporary homeless shelter opened to the public during the winter.

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The Long Beach Rescue Mission temporary shelter opened Dec. 1 and housed about 52 people during its first week opening on Atlantic Ave. The winter program has the capacity to assist 140 individuals, Program Director Chaplain Jeff Levine said.

By the end of December, the program is estimated to be at full capacity.

As of Jan. 2013, Long Beach city had 4,387 homeless people, 12 percent of whom were children, according to the City of Long Beach website. Emergency Shelter & Transitional Housing throughout the city lodges 1,654 of them.

The Rescue Mission temporary shelter is open from Dec. 1 to March 1 as a seasonal program.

This is the eighth year Los Angeles County has hosted the rescue mission. However, the county also provides long-term, year-round shelters.

The winter programs are designed specifically to provide shelter during the cold and rainy weather, Levine said.

“We look at a way to engage clients we usually don’t see in the normal shelter season and to try to have them access long-term resources and get off the streets,” Levine said.

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One of the program’s goals is to provide clients with emotional, practical and spiritual support for lodgers. Long Beach Rescue Mission leverages partnerships with other local agencies to provide a framework for rebuilding their lives, according to the website Although the L.A. County funds the program, Levine said he believes there should be more funding for programs like this because they are “actually helping people whose life really matter.”

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Taylor Trujillo, an 8th-grade girl in Fresno, California wears her “Boobies” bracelet to school in support for cancer patients.

Some men may write breast cancer off as a female issue, with potentially disastrous consequences down the line.

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or most people, consciousness of breast cancer awareness and prevention only lasts for a month. Although October has ended, breast cancer isn’t going anywhere. Fortunately, there are organizations solely dedicated to this issue that do a phenomenal job raising awareness yearround, educating the masses about prevention techniques. Breast cancer in particular enjoys widespread awareness; yet, a large component is still missing: men. What? Yes, men can get cancer too, which is a fact that is notably absent from breast cancer campaigns.

Over 10 years ago, my grandmother was diagnosed with breast cancer. It was a gloomy era for my family, since my father had just lost his stepfather to prostate cancer and his mother to a rare lung disease within a span of three years. It became very obvious to me at a young age that cancer is a real and imminent threat to the people I love. One in every eight women born today will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime, according to the National Cancer Institute. This is about my mother, my aunt, my grandma.

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a female issue — with potentially disastrous consequences down the line.

Men also have breast tissue, and therefore have the potential to get breast cancer; yet, according to a recent study by the National Center for Biotechnology Information, nearly 80 percent of the sample size weren’t even aware that men could get breast cancer. For men, the lifetime risk of getting breast cancer is about one in 1,000, according to the American Cancer Society.

Thus, although men are significantly less likely to suffer from breast cancer, the threat still exists, especially if breast cancer runs in the family. Other risk factors such as obesity, exposure to radiation, high levels of estrogen and heavy drinking can also increase the likelihood of getting breast cancer.

Genetics may also play a role; one in five men with breast cancer have a female relative with the disease, according to the American Cancer

Society. If you’re a health-conscious male, then you might already be doing regular testicular examinations to prevent testicular cancer. Why not add a couple of seconds to your routine and check your chest too?

I’m sure most people remember the “I Love Boobies” bracelets that many people strutted around high school with as a badge of honor.

This campaign by the Keep A Breast Foundation has been instrumental in raising awareness for breast cancer; for example, breast cancer receives the most funding compared to all of the other forms of cancer, according to the National Cancer Institute.

This campaign used a sexual gimmick to create more participation by men in the breast cancer cause; yet, by sexualizing this campaign, it may have actually inflicted a toll on awareness and reinforced the perception that only women can get breast cancer.

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and the movement as a whole have evolved into a symbol for femininity and female empowerment; indeed, even the pink ribbon that flies proudly at breast cancer programs has served to uniquely brand breast cancer as a disease that only women can get. Meanwhile, awareness, research and funding for breast cancer among males have been sacrificed in the process. For example, a 2006 study published in the Lancet found that males tend to wait far too long to seek medical treatment: over 40 percent of male patients with breast cancer are only diagnosed when the cancer has grown to stage three or four.

Since so few men are even aware that it’s possible to get breast cancer, it is all too common for them to wait until it’s too late. By using pink as a flag for breast cancer in addition to the “I Love Boobies” campaign, breast cancer activists have positioned this illness as a uniquely feminine issue, all while sacrificing awareness that men can get breast cancer too.

Justin Sander is a senior majoring in public relations.

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The Syrian Crisis is Obama’s Rwanda By learning from Clinton’s indecisiveness and subsequent regrets, Obama can ensure that the blood from his inaction doesn’t stain his legacy any more than it already has.

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wenty years after hundreds of thousands of people were mercilessly slaughtered in the Rwandan genocide, world leaders are still lamenting over the fact that so little was done to intervene and stop the ethnic bloodletting. In just 100 days, over 800,000 people died as Hutu extremists used machetes to murder members of the Tutsi minority; and despite the gravity of this situation, outside intervention was unforgivably non-existent.

The few UN and Belgian forces stationed in Rwanda quickly extricated themselves from the conf lict after a few of their own perished. What was the U.S. response? Absolutely nothing. Bill Clinton has even admitted that American inaction during the Rwandan genocide remains as one of the foremost regrets of his presidency.

“We did not act quickly enough after the killing began,” Clinton stated all the way back in 1998 during a speech to genocide survivors in Kigali, Rwanda. “We should not have allowed the refugee camps to become a safe haven for the killers. We did not immediately call these crimes by their rightful name: genocide.”

In the 20 years after the Rwandan genocide, ethnic conf lict, and even ethnic slaughter, has by no means been relegated into the annals of history: Although members of Obama’s administration (many of whom are alumni of Clinton’s) have expressed regret for not preventing the genocide then, this regret still hasn’t translated into action in the bloodstained conf licts of the present.

The resemblance between the genocide in Rwanda and the current humanitarian catastrophe in Syria is striking: A president paralyzed by failures in previous U.S. military excursions (in Clinton’s case, Somalia; and in Obama’s case, Iraq and Afghanistan) adopted an overly restrained approach that allowed hundreds of thousands of people to perish in a subsequent conf lict.

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Although the death toll from the Rwandan genocide was significantly higher than the Syrian crisis at 800,000, Amnesty International reported that at least 190,000 people have been killed since the fighting in Syria began in 2011; furthermore, more than 10 million Syrians, 45 percent of the country’s population, have been displaced.

Obama’s dithering during the humanitarian catastrophe in Syria is in many ways even more egregious than Clinton’s inaction in Rwanda.

For one, Obama had significantly more time to develop and execute a response. While Clinton only had about 100 days to cauterize the bloodletting in Rwanda (a relatively brief window of opportunity), Obama has had about three years to do the same.

Additionally, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime posed a much greater threat to American strategic interests than the Hutu rebel groups.

For example, Assad possessed a massive stockpile of chemical weapons, most of which have been destroyed under UN coercion; his regime is Iran’s principal ally in the region, and Assad funded terrorism against Israel — our principal ally in the region.

Under President Obama’s tenure, our miniscule levels of diplomatic and military efforts have done nothing to stop the ethnic powder keg in Syria from erupting into f lames with enormous costs in terms of human life. Obama sat there twiddling his thumbs in the White House as Assad continued to murder his own civilians with barrel bombs, chemical weapons, artillery strikes and tanks.

When members of the Obama administration sit down to write their inevitable memoirs and

speeches after they leave office, their collective inaction during the Syrian crisis will likely emerge as one their biggest regrets; just as Clinton’s cowardly nonintervention weighed heavily upon his conscience after leaving office, Obama’s indecisiveness on Syria will likely do the same.

However, there’s one major difference between the Rwandan genocide and the Syrian crisis: We still have the opportunity to do something. So, why not do something now to stem the bloodbath in Syria? The administration certainly has the capabilities; what it lacks is the will.

Imposing a no-f ly zone would provide relief to thousands of Syrian civilians who suffer daily from relentless barrel bomb attacks. According to Human Rights Watch, Assad’s forces use attack helicopters to drop an average of five barrel bombs per day, which are unguided bombs constructed from oil drums and filled with high explosive and scrap metal to increase fragmentation.

Although Syrian air defense systems at the start of the war were “ranked among the most capable and dense in the world, perhaps second only to North Korea’s and Russia’s,” according to a 2013 assessment by the U.S. Air Force, their defenses have since been decimated after years of fighting.

According to an anonymous Pentagon official speaking to Bloomberg View, the assessment now of Syrian capabilities is dramatically different: “The regime’s integrated air defense system is hollowed out and does not represent a threat to U.S. assets,” the Pentagon official said.

Thus, Obama should immediately impose a nof ly zone to prevent Assad from butchering more civilians; by learning from Clinton’s indecisiveness and subsequent regrets, Obama can ensure that the blood from his inaction doesn’t stain his legacy any more than it already has.

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From New York and Hollywood to The Beach Roma Maffia is a professional actor and an adjunct professor in CSULB’s theatre department.

By Jonathan Murrietta Contributing Writer

In her first year as an adjunct theatre professor at Cal State Long Beach, actor Roma Maffia has a lot to balance when she isn’t teaching.

She has a recurring role on ABC Family’s “Pretty Little Liars” as the character Lieutenant Linda Tanner.

Maffia has acted for 30 years, she started out as a stage actress in New York, and acted in many regional theatre productions. Maffia was soon cast in a television show called “The Equalizer” that aired in the mid ‘80s.

Her film credits include, “Eraser,” “Double Jeopardy,” “Holes” and most recently, “The Call,” starring Halle Berry. She has worked with such actors as: Ashley Judd, Johnny Depp and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

She has appeared on numerous television shows including a series regular role in “Nip/Tuck,” and smaller roles on “Grey’s Anatomy,” “NCIS,” “Boston Legal” and “Law and Order,” among others.

Maffia’s latest venture is teaching an audition techniques class in the theatre department at CSULB. “I’ve had huge moments of discovery in Roma’s class,” junior theatre major Stephanie Lehane said. “She’s someone who actually believes I am capable of more than what I thought I [was] capable of, which has given me more confidence moving forward—I owe that to Roma.”

The Daily 49er sat down with Roma Maffia to talk about the CSULB professor’s journey as an actor and her journey from New York to The Beach.

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How did you get your foot in the door in the acting business growing up in New York?

Roma Maffia: My friends and I used to pretend we were management companies, and we would call casting directors for each other to try to get auditions. We’d do pretty well, actually.

We called ourselves “Outlaw Casting.”

It was very inventive. It kept us moving forward in the business. I was very persistent. I remember one time I went to this casting director, and as soon as I turned around, I could feel her put my picture and resume in the garbage, so I turned around and asked her if I could have it back. People set rules, and I don’t think we always have to adhere to those rules. If you have the goods, you have to figure out how to get seen in order to be successful in the acting business.

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What brought you to Los Angeles, and how did you begin a career in television and film acting?

happy with my New York agent, so I called up Ron and I asked him if he could introduce me to an agent he liked while out here in L.A. for the film’s premiere. Soon, I got an audition for the movie “Disclosure.” At the same time, I got an audition for the television series “Chicago Hope.” I got them both, and that’s what kept me here. I’ve been here since [1994]. I had really no desire to come out here. I really wanted to continue pursuing theatre, but I realized theatre producers often want a big name that comes from film and television, so I continued with screen acting.

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Describe an average day on set.

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What is going through your head right before the director shouts, “Action!”

RM: You’re up at three in the morning if they want you to be on set at 4:30 or 5 in the morning. With union work, you work with 12 hours of rest and sleep in between shoot days…Anyway, you get to the makeup trailer, you check in with the second assistant director, park your car, you’re offered breakfast if you want it, you get your sides, which is a truncated version of the day’s work—or dialogue of what you’re working on for that day—you go into hair and makeup and then you go into rehearsals with the director, once everybody from the production crew has clocked in. Then you go back to your trailer, and depending on how much time it takes the crew to light and set up, you go back and shoot.

Generally, it takes about four hours to shoot a scene, and that’s not a very large scene.

RM: Most of the time, I start off nervous at various levels; it’s that anticipation. Especially when I was younger, I would worry about messing up on camera, but the more relaxed you are and the more relaxed the setting is, it becomes like playing.

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RM: She’s incredibly kind and sweet and beautiful. It was an interesting movie because we shot it in 21 days, which is very quick for film.

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RM: I was doing a film called “The Paper,” directed by Ron Howard. I wasn’t

Talk about your experiences working on “The Call” starring Halle Berry. What was it like to work with her?

Talk about your current recurring role on ABC Family’s “Pretty Little Liars.”

RM: I thought I was a good character, but it has been reported to me that the young people don’t like my character because she’s a cop trying to find out

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who’s killing people in Rosewood. I thought people would appreciate that, but obviously they don’t. I’m still going to keep Rosewood safe.

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What are some things you like to do when you’re not acting or teaching?

RM: I like to shop for anything. I like to play table tennis. I write, and I am currently writing a novel. I also like to travel and like to sometimes just stay at home and do nothing. I like to be with my family as well.

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You have a very interesting tattoo on your wrist—it looks like a purple and red band with two dots next to it. What does this represent?

RM: That lavender line is for my dog Lulu, who passed away at age 18. This

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What actor do you really admire?

RM: Meryl Streep. I mean, to see her growth as an actor has been inspiring, and I get a sense from her that acting isn’t her whole life—she has a life outside of acting—which I think is very important. I met her when I was an usher at the Delacorte Theatre in New York, and she was acting in “The Taming of the Shrew.” I also waited tables at a restaurant in New York that she would come in all the time.

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What other jobs have you had while pursuing acting?

RM: I also worked as a bartender and cook in New York. The first time I cooked for people I was very nervous because I thought people could die from my cooking.

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What gives you the greatest joy as an acting teacher, and what is your teaching philosophy?

RM: When I see that students are being courageous and are opening up and expressing themselves freely, that is really rewarding for me. You have to stand up for what you believe in, and you have to give voice to what you believe in. It’s about growing and being the best human being you can; it’s about being true to your word, growing and being brave.

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Skaters ASKed to help

Baja Sonora 3 p.m. to 9 p.m.

2940 Clark Ave. Everything offered on their Happy Hour menu falls just under $3, including domestic and imported beer, hard and soft tacos with quality meat choices of carnitas, carne asada, fish or shrimp. Readers of the Press Telegram voted this quaint and casual café title-champion of the Best Happy Hour of 2014.

A local skate contest rolled towards community improvement.

By Alex BermAn Contributing Writer

Taco Surf 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.

5316 ½ E. Second St. The Baja fish tacos topped with their world famous Baja sauce were once a well-kept secret amongst locals in Belmont Shore, but that’s not so much the case for this newly remodeled cantina anymore. At $1.50, breaded white fish comes on a corn tortilla with cabbage, pico, lime and the signature sauce to make your mouth water. Go for two or three ... or eight.

El Torazo All Day—8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

2801 E. 10th St. As far as bargains, this cantina takes the carne. The five main options—Mexican-style, al pastor, carne asada, Americanstyle, guisado-style chicken or beef—ring up just under a buck. For one more dollar, the gourmet menu offers vegetarian options like mushroom tacos, grilled or fried shrimp and fish tacos served up Ensenada-style. Pitchers of Coors are priced $7.

Grinding, sliding and 360-flipping their way to the top, skaters shredded on half pipes and rails, while helping support a local non-profit organization.

Participants converged at McBride Skate Plaza in Long Beach for the LBCity Skate Competition on Saturday, and all proceeds went to the Action Sports Kids Foundation.

“It’s always been ASK’s mission to help support the local kids through sports and activities – anything to help them stay away from gangs and crime,” ASK founder and Executive Director Mike Donelon said. “We’ve got a skateboard team that, right now, consists of about 60 kids … and all the proceeds will go to helping the community.”

The contest hosted three different age divisions for skaters to compete in ranging from 15 and under, 16 and up and an expert division for the most experienced skaters.

No matter the division, the competitors all came out with a bag of their best tricks and a display of strong skating ability, as even the youngest of skaters were hitting the handrails, flying over gaps and performed difficult maneuvers.

“I want to win, but the contest isn’t all about winning,” said Ruben Bermundez, competitor and winner of the

15 and under category. “The real reason is to just have fun.”

For a full six hours, music boomed from the speakers as the skate park transitioned between ten-minute competitive rounds to intervals of rambunctious free skating.

The judges sometimes were competitors themselves, and would swap out with other skaters from ASK in order to participate.

Competitors signed up for the event in the parking lot of the McBride Skate Plaza. The cost to compete was a $10 donation.

After five hours of intense skating

by the participants, three competitors were left in each division.

Out of the three, only one would be presented with a prize in the form of a sponsorship from ASK and free gear.

With only three competitors at the end, pressure and tension increased among the participants.

“Yeah I got a little nervous, I’ll admit it,” said Luis James, first place winner of the expert division. “When it’s just you three, you have to just focus on yourself and not focus on what the other guys are doing, but if you do that, then you’re going to lose for sure.”

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WATER POLO

Change in Arroyo changes season Arroyo earned the 2014 MPSF Coach of the Year award after he guided the 49ers to their highest conference win total in program history.

By William Hernandez Contributing Writer

After years of below-average results and finishing dead last in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation, the LBSU men’s water polo team transcended to new heights in 2014, finishing second in the conference and in the MPSF Tournament.

For Long Beach State head coach Gavin Arroyo, 2014 was by far the most memorable season of his coaching career.

“For me, [those were] the best coaching moments,” Arroyo said. “The MPSF weekend definitely had some indescribable moments. Anytime you can beat a Pac-12 team it’s pretty extraordinary.

But in the 2010 and 2011 seasons, the team endured a major communication breakdown between the coaches and players, causing a lack in chemistry that was reflected in their results. They went winless (7-15, 0-8 MPSF) in the conference in 2010 and finished 1-7 in 2011.

“There were times when I loved and hated water polo,” senior attacker Milos Vrzic said. “[Arroyo] was responsible for both.”

According to senior Nick Rascon, who started his college-playing career at LBSU in 2010, players on the team felt tension with Arroyo.

“Before, the players weren’t comfortable,” Rascon said. “Maybe they were scared or afraid of him. They didn’t need to be; it was just a lack of communication, where both sides weren’t able to get their points across.”

Rascon said that early in his 49er career, he was also one of those players who had minimal interaction with Arroyo.

“I came in and didn’t really approach [Arroyo], and he didn’t approach me,” Rascon said. “I kind of just put my head down, and did what I was told to do.”

Arroyo’s lack of communication with the players stirred up frustrations.

“There’s probably a reason for that,” Arroyo said. “It takes a couple years before I give them a voice. I’ll give a voice to the older players once I see that they are committed. If they bled for me for four years, they’re going to get a voice.”

Arroyo said he distanced himself from younger players in order to allow room for them to develop.

“I have to earn their respect, and they have to earn mine,” Arroyo said.

The 49ers started to mesh together after Arroyo opened up to the players who had proved their

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Men’s water polo head coach Gavin Arroyo coached his team to a second place finish in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation. dedication to the team. season, including reaching as high as No. 3 in the “As the years went on, his communication skills NCAA rankings, gave the team a taste of the sucwould improve,” Rascon said. “Everybody could cess that Arroyo experienced as a player. talk to him, and he would [be responsive]. This last During his playing career, Arroyo was a twoseason, everyone felt more comfortable practicing time All-American and water polo standout at and playing, and being around him.”

California. He helped the Golden Bears win three In the quarterfinals of the MPSF Tournament, consecutive NCAA titles, from 1990 to 1992. He The Beach defeated also played seven seaArroyo’s alma mater, sons of professional California, 9-6, and water polo in Greece then stunned topand Spain.

There were times when I loved ranked UCLA in the While Arroyo semifinals, 5-3. Its bid and hated water polo. [Arroyo] worked as an assistant for an NCAA Tourcoach at his alma mawas responsible for both. nament appearance ter, he found his path escaped them after to LBSU as the head — Senior attacker Milos Vrzic Stanford knocked coach. With all the off LBSU 9-8, in the experience he gathchampionship game. ered as a player, he “To be able to beat two [Pac-12 opponents] and felt inclined and motivated to share the water polo almost beat a third in three days,” Arroyo said. knowledge with young and inspired athletes.

“That breaks down a lot of barriers and limitations “I found that the information I acquired was as a coach.” something pretty special as far as what people The accomplishments that LBSU garnered this were doing. I felt like that was something I needed

to give back,” Arroyo said.

In hindsight, Arroyo said he is fortunate for being able to keep his head coach position despite the difficult seasons and bad records. He credited the athletic department and athletic director Vic Cegles for sticking with him through the tough times.

“They stuck by me and believed in me when it wasn’t looking good, and we had a couple bad years,” Arroyo said. “They stood by me, and that said a lot because I knew what I could do, and for whatever reason, we weren’t getting it done.”

This season, The Beach accumulated the most conference wins (22-7, 7-3 MPSF) in Arroyo’s nine-year tenure at LBSU. As a result, he led the team to the deepest MPSF Tournament run in the program’s history, and was rewarded with the MPSF coach of the year award.

Though six seniors from this season’s team are graduating, the 49ers look to build off of the momentous run they put together during the MPSF Tournament.

“One thing we have proven is that it’s doable,” Arroyo said. “This feels too good to be a one-time thing.”

MEN’S BASKETBALL

49ers blown out in first of six-game road stretch Sophomore Branford Jones led LBSU with 15 points in a 29-point loss to Stephen F. Austin.

By Oscar TerrOnes Assistant Sports Editor

The Long Beach State men’s basketball team stumbled in its first game of a major six-game road trip with a 74-45 loss at Stephen F. Austin Friday night.

Following a 68-57 win against Ne-

vada last Wednesday night at the Walter Pyramid, LBSU head coach Dan Monson said he felt his team was starting to gain a defensive identity.

“If your offense is there, that’s great.

If it’s not, then you still have a way to win a basketball game,” Monson said after a 68-57 win against Nevada.

The 49ers’ offense lacked from the start against Stephen F. Austin (5-3), as it shot just 36 percent from the field in the first half, and committed 19 turnovers.

Senior forward David Samuels, who isn’t exactly known for his ball-handling ability, committed a team-high seven turnovers. He also played a teamleading 29 minutes, after only playing

12 in LBSU’s last matchup.

The 49ers’ three-point shooting, a strength for much of the season, was neutralized when the Lumberjacks pressured LBSU (5-5) ball-handlers past the three-point line. LBSU failed to hit a three for the first time all season, finishing 0-8 for the game.

Stephen F. Austin had no trouble getting whatever it wanted against the 49ers, especially in the second half.

Leading 29-21 at the break, the Lumberjacks shot nearly 60 percent from the floor in the second period, including 44 percent from three.

Junior guards Jared Johnson and Thomas Walkup led the Lumberjacks in scoring with 16 apiece. Johnson shot

50 percent from beyond the arc, while Walkup fell one rebound short of a double-double.

The usual impact players for LBSU had quiet nights. Senior point guard Mike Caffey had his lowest scoring game of the season with just eight points. Caffey shot 3-7, and finished with zero assists. Unable to get his teammates involved, the team went 1637.

Freshman forward Temidayo Yussuf, fresh off a double-double against Nevada, was barely a factor in the game, collecting just three rebounds to go with a single point scored. The lone bright spot for the 49ers was sophomore guard Branford Jones, who led the team

in scoring 15 points.

One of the things Monson said he has to figure out is how he’s going split playing time among his guards – seniors Tyler Lamb and McKay LaSalle, sophomore Jones and freshman Deontae North.

“When you have four wings that are really good players, there’s going to be games where guys [get] only eight minutes,” Monson said. “Good [players] sit there and accept that. Other guys don’t.

We’ll see how this team responds to it.

So far they’ve been great.”

The 49ers travel south to play San Diego State Wednesday night in San Diego, continuing on their six-game road trip.

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Defeat

Continued from Page 1 “We couldn’t stay in system to play defense against her or block her,” Gimmillaro said. “We don’t know why we were doing what we were doing.”

Lowe finished with a match-high 24 kills, nine of them coming in the first set, and hit .352 in the match.

After a 3-2 run for the 49ers who were down 14-17, Gimmillaro took a timeout after another Lowe kill.

The Beach came out with two straight points, but UCLA answered right back with two of their own, which forced another quick timeout from The Beach.

The 49ers went on a 6-3 run ignited by Reid’s kill and ace to tie the set at 22, forcing UCLA’s last timeout.

LBSU transfer Sophie Bukovec subbed in for Murray and teamed with Reid to get the block assist that tied the match at 25, but Lowe got the kill to lead the set. UCLA Claire Felix gave her team the win with a kill on a bad pass from the 49ers.

“I thought, near the end of the first game, we had them in a position where they didn’t have their strength,” Gimmillaro said. “You’ve got to be able to take advantage of situations, and normal situations that we’re usually successful with; we just kept falling all over ourselves.”

The second set started off tight, with the score tied at six, but the 49ers couldn’t make good passes off UCLA’s much bigger front line of Lowe and Felix. LBSU finished with three team blocks in the match compared to the Bruin’s nine.

“I think we just did a really good job of playing on our side and doing what we do,” UCLA setter Julie Consani said. “Just relaxing into our system. We knew it was going to work, we did it and we had fun.”

But whenever the Bruins went on a run and the 49ers offense wasn’t working, setter Jenelle Hudson would

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dump for kills. Hudson finished nearing a triple-double with 25 assists, 10 digs and seven kills.

Lowe took a step back in the third to give way for Felix, who made six blocks in the set. After a 1-1 tie, Felix had four straight blocks – three block assists and a solo block to force a Beach timeout.

Gimmillaro said he tried to regain the focus of his players in all six of his timeouts, but to no success.

“Nothing before mattered, this play matters,” Gimmillaro told his players. “But it didn’t work, and it’s a pretty mature team, but we couldn’t get our maturity.

We couldn’t get our focus. Frustration was so high and when you want to do so well, nothing seems to go right.”

The Bruins continued to run away with the set, making seven team blocks and finished with a 9-to-3 advantage.

Okpala led the 49ers with nine kills, Reid followed with eight and Mackie added five. Reid and senior cocaptains Tyler Jackson and Chelsea Cabrajac finished with eight digs each.

“You never know as a coach how much of it was that they played well and how much is it that we just played poorly,” Gimmillaro said. “How much did they make us play poorly, [and] how much did we make them play well?

All I know is that’s the worst match we’ve played all year.”

The 49ers’ success in the season was one thing not to be lost. As only the fifth undefeated Big West Conference champions in program history, the Beach ended the season with a 27-5 overall record.

“Obviously tonight wasn’t enough,” Mackie said. “We wanted to go as far as we possibly could. I don’t feel satisfied, but I’m happy that we’re together. I think we’re still really hungry for a lot, and I hope that stays in the program.”

UCLA will continue to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament against defending NCAA champions Penn State on Friday at 7 p.m. in Louisville, Kentucky.

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Freshman middle blocker Ashley Murray jumps to hit the ball, matched up against a UCLA blocker during the second round game in the NCAA tournament on Saturday.

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Defense leads the way for 49ers LBSU outscored San Francisco 41-31 in the second half of Sunday’s win.

By Zachary WeBer Contributing Writer

The Long Beach State women’s basketball team used a strong defensive second half to defeat San Francisco 70-58 on Sunday in the Walter Pyramid. The Beach shot a 46.9 field-goal percentage compared to the Dons’ 37.5 percent.

LBSU outscored the Dons 41-31 in the second half. Head coach Jodi Wynn credited the team’s defense.

“We played solid team defense and were pretty positional,” Wynn said.

“Offensively, we just wanted to work

for the best shot.”

LBSU defeated USF by over 20 points, improving the 49ers’ record to 7-1, while the Dons fell to 6-2.

“It’s the best feeling in the world,” junior center Devin Hudson said. “I don’t think you understand how great it is to start off 7-1 and play like a team.”

Hudson led the way for the 49ers with 12 points and 10 rebounds.

Sophomore guard Anna Kim chipped in 13 points, three rebounds and one assist.

Senior guard Taj Winston led the way for the Dons with 16 points – 11 of them coming in the second half – and seven rebounds. USF junior Zhane Dikes contributed 10 points, five rebounds and three steals.

Both teams got off to a slow start, combining for 36 turnovers in the first half.

Wynn said they had good looks of-

fensively, but credited the Dons’ ball pressure.

“Their pressure caused us to be a little more rattled, and we had a lot of turnovers in the first half,” Wynn said.

Wynn is really proud of how the team has matured; she said that the trust the players have with each other eliminates any panic or uncertainty.

“That’s probably how we are 7-1,” Wynn said. “We haven’t played our best, but we are able to win some ugly games. In the past, we might have lost some games.”

Wynn said the team has matured because it isn’t worried about who is starting.

“In the past, some immaturity during some points could have caused them to worry about some things that really don’t matter,” Wynn said.

The 49ers will host California on Saturday in the Walter Pyramid at 4 p.m.

Junior center Devin Hudson posts up against San Francisco during Sunday’s game in the Walter Pyramid.

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