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VOL. LXVIII, ISSUE 87 | APRIL 10, 2017

ACADEMIC SENATE

Faculty advised on email privacy At hectic meeting, advisory notice given after recent State Supreme Court decision.

By Adam R. Thomas Staff Writer

Members of Cal State University Long Beach’s Academic Senate advised faculty members to take their work-related messages offline during the AS meeting held last Thursday afternoon. The announcement came early on in a meeting that included a deluge of debate over a gender minority fo-

cused committee, news about CSU politicking in the nation’s capitol, and the passage of several new minors and language certificates.

Following the advice would mean that more university-related communications, including discussions about classes, teaching topics and scheduling changes, by faculty

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DOWNTOWN LB

Baja rolls into the Long Beach Grand Prix

TRANSPORTATION

CHARGED UP Long Beach Transit makes eco-friendly changes with additional electric buses that provide a quieter and smoother ride.

By Estela García Staff Writer

Be careful to not miss the bus, because it’ll be harder to hear it coming around the corner.

At the end of March, Long Beach Transit began to release new electrically powered buses as part of their initiative to use alternative fuels to run their buses. Three of these buses are already serving the downtown Passport routes that travel around places such as Shoreline Village, the Pike and the Long Beach Convention Center. Seven more are set to be released later this year, according to a LBT press release.

This is in effort to use a combination of battery electric and compressed natural gas (CNG) powered buses to ultimately have a 100 percent alternatively fueled transit system by 2020, according to a LBT press release.

The new buses are helping to reduce the city’s overall carbon

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ZERO-EMISSIONS BUSES • In the United States alone, the transportation sector represents 27 percent of total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions nationally.

• Every zero emission bus is able to eliminate 1,690 tons of CO2 over its 12 year lifespan.*

= *This is equivalent to taking 27 cars off the road.

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CSULB SAE club participates in display expedition at one of the weekend’s many events for motor enthusiasts.

By Jason Enns

Arts & Life Editor

The Toyota Grand Prix in Long Beach is a big event for professional racers, their fans and motorheads alike, but it is also an exciting opportunity for Cal State Long Beach’s Society of Automotive Engineers.

CSULB’s SEA club participated in a display event in the convention center for the Southern California section of Society of Automotive chapters, alongside schools like UCI and UCLA, showing their Baja car.

“We take the cars we work on and display them in the exhibition hall, and we let people ask us questions about what we do, basically like a car show,” said CSULB SAE president and junior mechanical engineering major Justin Jimenez.

The title of Baja car comes from the famous race, the Baja 1000 in Baja California, which are often dune buggy-style vehicles, “single seater, same engine, off-roading,” as Jimenez refers to them.

The team began working on this car last year to take to SAE Intercollegiate Competitions, and for the display at the Grand Prix, they just needed to make repairs on parts that broke during those contests.

“But generally speaking it takes about a full year to develop the car from the initial stages of planning, designing through to making the basic structure and adding all the smaller components, testing, rebuilding and the going to competition,” Jimenez said.

The exhibition event started Friday, but they have been doing this for years.

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For additional Long Beach Grand Prix coverage, see page 7

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SENATE

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Members of the Academic Senate watch intently Thursday as the board advises faculty members to take their work-related messages offline.

would no longer be discoverable during public records requests.

As employees of the State of California, all faculty communications on CSULB-owned devices and official email accounts had been subject to public scrutiny under the California Public Records Act of 1968. A recent State Supreme Court ruling broadened the scope of such requests to include information held on privately owned devices or private email services so long as it was related to official business. The court had ruled in

favor of Ted Smith, who had sued the City of San Jose for records related to a property development proposal.

The advice was given to the representative body for CSULB faculty

by Min Yao, the Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Information Technology Services at CSULB. Yao distributed a document to the attended crowd entitled “Communication on Personal Email Accounts and Personal Computing Devices,” before summarizing his department’s findings on the recent court ruling and taking questions from AS members attending the meeting.

“The third recommendation we have for you is write an email in the

mindset that they can be reviewed by the public,” Yao said to the AS members. “In other words, if you’re not comfortable with writing something to the public, don’t write it in email or text messages. Instead, make a phone call or have a face to face discussion.”

According to Yao, a major reason given at the meeting for these recommendations was the preservation of faculty privacy.

As the broadened scope of public records requests could now include personal devices and email services, these requests could reveal personal information about faculty members ancillary to the scope of a records request.

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footprint, according to Kevin Lee, LBT’s Public Information Officer.

“These battery electric buses are doing much more than just helping people get from point A to point B. They are creating an influence for other cities to get on the same initiative and look for other forms of fuel to power their public transportation,” said Lee. Earlier this year, the Los Angeles Department of Transportation released four electric buses called DASH that run in and around LA’s Arts District and downtown LA Foothill Transit, which serves east LA county. LADOT was one of the first transportation agencies to debut electric buses and is continuing to become fully electric dependent by 2030, according to its official website.

The new electric LBT buses come with new features that distinguish them from their old ones. On the outside of the new buses, the design is similar to any other LBT red bus with large dark windows. But one detail that is different are white and yellow flowers on the sides. The electric bus is almost silent compared to gas fueled buses. On a regular LBT bus, the rattling sound of the engine or the push of air from the air conditioner can be heard. Only the sound of the new bus approaching a stop could be specified. The usual roar of a departing bus was nonexistent as it made a subtle exit to the street.

People board a LBT bus 26 million times throughout the year, according to its website. Serving Long Beach and surrounding areas like Lakewood, Signal Hill and others, those tall red buses are recognizable anywhere.

Cal State Long Beach students are also welcome to take a ride, free of charge, with their TAP cards. Emily Zarava, a first year psychology student, commutes to campus every day on the bus. She says it’s a convenience to be able to ride the bus for free and not have to pay the $1.25 fee. When asked about the new electric buses, Zarava said she hopes they are able to go through the CSULB campus routes in the future.

“It’s a really good idea and I’m proud that Long Beach is doing it. A lot of people ride the bus and [the new buses] will help the environment at the same time,” Zarava said.

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Wellness Week makes a comeback After a three-year interim, the health and wellness event returns to inspire and educate.

By Ammi Ruiz Staff Writer

Yoga, trained therapy dogs, free HIV testing and popsicles have one thing in common: they’ll all be offered at Wellness Week at Cal State Long Beach.

The three-day event returns to campus today and will continue through Wednesday featuring a variety of activities hosted by the College of Health and Human Services and over 40 other health organizations.

Designed to encourage faculty, students and the Long Beach community at large to participate in health and wellness activities, the “Exercise is Medicine” themed event officially be-

gins at 12:15 p.m. today at the Friendship Walk on lower campus with the “Great Beach Walk-On.” The route starts at the base of the University Student Union stairs and will continue through upper campus; refreshments and snacks will be provided along the way.

A talk called the “Lauda Lecture,” named after a previous dean of the CHHS, will be also be held today at The Pointe inside the Walter Pyramid. “[The discussion is] set to draw a large crowd because it will focus on connecting the campus and the Long Beach community; it also has a panel of esteemed speakers,” according to Emily Sopo, assistant director at CSULB’s LifeFit Center.

The panelists scheduled to attend include CHHS Dean Dr. Monica Lounsbery, chair of the EIM advisory board Dr. Robert Sallis, and CSULB kinesiology major Devon Stone.

This free event begins with a social mixer from 5-5:30 p.m. followed by a 5:30-7 p.m. panel discussion about

the new EIM initiative that the LifeFit Center has endorsed.

Tuesday’s event, the seventh annual Live Your Life Day, hosted by Project OCEAN, will take place from 11-2:30 p.m. at the Speaker’s Lawn in front of of the CSULB Bookstore.

In an effort to re-energize students and other attendees, organizers will provide emotional support animals to cuddle with, free massages, hammocks to rest in, a photo booth, a DJ, live musical performances, dance and cultural pieces performed by student groups, games and a free lunch.

Live Your Life Day is intended to promote overall emotional, physical, social and spiritual wellness.

On Wednesday, the series of events will resume at Friendship Walk with the CHHS Wellness Fair.

Running from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., the activities include a mind-body workshop, a nutrition booth with giveaways and wellness screenings led by the numerous health organizations that will be in attendance.

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TEACHER FEATURE

From the classroom to Cambodia

Alex Morales takes students and faculty on humanitarian tours to Cambodia.

By Jordan Py Staff Writer

He is an educator, activist and humanitarian devoted to improving living conditions in Cambodia; his name is Alex Morales, the Director for the School Improvement Initiative at the Center for Language Minority Educations and Research at Cal State Long Beach.

He might have been seen downtown this weekend during Grand Prix selling items made by the women in Cambodia to raise funds for rice noodles for the elderly, dental and educational items, and funds to buy the water filters.

Morales is very adamant about the importance of Cambodian history and the genocide they went through in the ‘70s, which was carried out by the Khmer Rouge and killed over 3 million Cambodian people.

“My best friend, who was 12 years old during the genocide, told me: ‘you should go visit Cambodia; my cousin is still there and never got out,’ so I went and that changed my life.”

Morales now takes his study abroad class twice a year to villages and schools in Cambodia in order to bring supplies and give the students a first-hand look at the lives and culture of the Cambodian people.

“The amount of people we can take is around 10 to 15 volunteers,” Morales said. “The class is a 400-level education class, dealing with the genocide, history and culture of Cambodia that provides students with the understanding of Cambodian and Cambodian-American culture.”

Morales is also on the board of directors with a non-profit organization, Hearts Without Boundaries, a group

Alex Morales (top row second from the left), students and teachers from the L.A. Unified School District donate rice noodles. that provides help to those in need in Southeast Asia. Their work is done primarily in Cambodia, with volunteer medical teams, medical supplies and clinics.

“For the older folks we are delivering rice and noodles, for the younger folks we are doing dental supplies, for the villages we are doing water filters and on a grander scale we have brought four kids to the U.S. for open heart surgeries,” Morales said.

He recently has been working with another organization called Rescue Task Force to help filter the drinking water in Cambodia.

“The last two years I’ve been with Rescue Task Force, who make natural earth clay water filters and deliver them out to the huts in villages and

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“We’ve been doing this kind of event for a long time, we do it almost every year, so I do feel at home being there,” Jimenez said. “It’s very familiar to me, it’s really cool to talk to people [about our work].”

Those who stop to talk to them vary from in expertise from clueless to brilliant, but to everyone, Jimenez is sure to mention that it’s an engineering student project.

“I think that’s a really important detail, to know that it’s students collaborating to put this together,” he said.

He also explains how its purpose is to compete against other schools, and goes into how the car gets created.

“Our process [is] starting with a simple design on a computer, taking that into a machine shop, building the basic structure and putting all the little components together,” Jimenez said.

This type of experience is valuable for a student like freshman mechanical engineering major Quinn Bogenreif, who’s taken the initiative to get involved in this project according to Jimenez.

“I think I’d like to go into automotive engineering, this has kind have been a gateway into the field,” Bogenreif said. “I specifically like off roading vehicles instead of on-street.”

Jimenez said SAE is strictly an extracurricular club, with a small team of about 10 primary members including students like Bogenreif, all of who range in experience.

“Then we have new students that filter through and come and go who we teach stuff too,” Jimenez said.

Though there was no judging for them at the Grand Prix this weekend, those competitions are just around the corner. They will participate for the second year in a row at the Baja SAE California —

show them how to use the water system,” Morales said.

These water systems completely filter the villagers’ drinking water and eliminates the process of having to the boil the water to kill the bacteria, which saves them time and energy.

“There is another aspect to the class and that is to appreciate what we have in this country,” Morales said. “Here materials are provided for you, and over there they need to buy their own materials.”

Long Beach has the highest Cambodian population in the world, other than Cambodia, and Morales says that is one of the most important aspects of his class, “to understand your clients when students enter the workforce.”

Morales says that Cambodians tend to only mention the genocide to the younger generations but don’t go into details about the horrifying events that occurred.

“We take the students to the site of the killing fields and we spend about half a day there,” Morales said. “That night we go back to the city and we talk about it because to watch and read about it is one thing but to go there and be there with it gives a different perspective.”

Through his class, students will learn the importance of understanding another culture and being able to relate with them on a first-hand basis.

Morales’ next trip will be in mid-June and he still needs more applicants for those that are interested in making a difference.

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The CSULB SAE club took its Baja car to the display expedition at the Toyota Grand Prix.

which just started last year — in Gorman, CA April 27-30. Then they will head to Baja SAE Illinois in Peoria, IL June 7-10.

“At the competitions we’re actually using the car and they’re evaluating our design,” Jimenez said.

“We did pretty well in [Gorman] last year, we got third place in hillclimb.”

Jimenez said there are static events that strictly judge the design, and how much it cost to build the car, as well as dynamic events.

“Those are more like standard races,” Jimenez said. “So they have events like endurance race which

is just four hours of driving around a loop track, and there’s hill climb events where we have to go over obstacles, suspension tests, so a variety of different tests and races.”

Competitions are fun, but the real value comes from working alongside fellow students in the shop.

“I can’t imagine going into the industry without having done this,” Jimenez said. “I’ve seen a lot of the course work that’s ahead for me in the junior and senior years and it’s a lot of theory and not a whole lot of hands-on experience, but in this club you learn all the technical aspects of manufacturing.”

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Kendall Jenner’s good intentions gone wrong Companies are cashing in on the social justice movement.

By Lola Olvera Staff Writer

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As the ad’s protesters distract Jenner’s character from her photo shoot, and viewers are left wondering what the model its likely thinking. Perhaps, “Ah! This cushy supermodel life grows dull. What do you call this edgy, plebeian movement? I want in!”

And of course, the moment that launched a million memes: when a white girl handing a police officer a can of Pepsi magically breaks down centuries of struggle between law enforcement and the black community. She struts back to an appreciative crowd, protesters rejoicing and pumping their fists in the air. Who would have known that all it took to secure social justice was a carbonated drink?

The scene, conveniently captured by a photographer in token hijab, clearly evokes the image of Ieshia L. Evans, a black woman who stood defiantly but peacefully in front of several armored police officers at a police brutality protest in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in July 2016.

If Jenner were halfway-educated in the Black Lives Matter movement, she would be familiar with this iconic image by now – it’s been shared thousands of times online has become a symbol of pride and resilience for BLM. Considering the Jenners’ scope on social media and online visibility, she should also have realized how offensive it is for a highly privileged white woman to come so close

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Kendall Jenner gets ready to hand a cold one to a police officer in Pepsi’s latest ad. The commercial has since been pulled due to major backlash, but is still available to view online.

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ome say it’s the thought that counts.

Others say the road to hell is paved with good intentions. But well intended or not, everyone – literally, almost everyone – is condemning Kendall Jenner’s recent tone-deaf, social justice-themed video ad for Pepsi.

The two-minute ad, which encouraged viewers to “Join the Conversation” among images of a street protest and stern-faced police officers, was so thoroughly mocked across the Internet that Pepsi retracted it the day after its launch.

The public’s dismissal of the ad’s trite take on the civil unrest of today proves how corporations like Pepsi are only interested in representing activists if it helps reel in revenue. However, Pepsi’s pseudo-aware ad did not fool the masses of consumers this time.

“Clearly, we missed the mark and apologize,” Pespi said in a statement. “We did not intend to make light of any serious issue.” It has also, interestingly enough, apologized “for putting Kendall Jenner in this position.”

Pepsi’s apology sanitizes Jenner’s role in the ad, making the fiasco out to be a case of “when bad ads happen to good people.” If Jenner truly believed she was contributing to something well-intentioned, it only serves to demonstrate her lack of knowledge on the cruelties of police brutality and racial profiling.

Even by the crowd of protesters — carefully selected for maximum diversity — you can tell Pepsi is trying to reel in millennials by homogenizing the myriad issues that make up today’s social justice movement. If not for the line of police figures positioned against the marchers in the ad — who allude to the increase in public resistance to police brutality and shootings since Michael Brown — you wouldn’t be able to tell what the protestors are so concerned about; they’re all carrying signs with vague phrases and symbols such as “Join the Conversation,” “Love,” and, of course, the good ol’ peace sign.

It does not take a Herculean effort to see the gross generalizations in the ad. Clearly, Jenner’s privilege fronts any form of awareness and she is able to play the part as activist, which diminishes the feats of real life activists who organize their lives around social justice movements. The thrill of being Pepsi’s new girl seems to have drowned out any critical thinking she might have engaged in.

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to appropriating a viral image of a black woman resisting police brutality.

She’s a princess playing pauper for a day. When protesters go home to grieve for lost family members, she returns to film another episode of the Kardashians.

The ad comes down to marketing, of course.

Soda has a history with banking on youth movements; Coca-Cola did it in 1971 with its “I’d like to buy the world a Coke” ad. Companies today are relying on a socially and politically conscious millennial consumer base to buy their products — but in bringing these issues into the mainstream, are they educating people or simply dumbing the movements down?

Companies hope to target a wide audience when trying to sell a product or service. It’s the nature of the advertising beast. But when something complex and controversial is trending, like most social justice movements, it needs to be watered-down,

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simplified and exploited to make it palatable to most people.

Third-wave feminism, for example, has been thoroughly simplified to give companies and websites readers, viewers and quick cash. Popular fast-fashion brands like Forever 21 churn out crop tops and t-shirts with phrases like “Feminist,” “Girl Boss,” and “Girl Power” stamped on them. Rather than educating girls about abortion or female genital mutilation, we sell them catchphrase items so they feel like they’re part of the movement. Meanwhile, the actual movement is undermined. Its values and goals have not been adopted into the mainstream — only its imagery has.

So many innocuous trends are open for advertisers to use as they please: fashion, beauty, popular media. What thought process is behind the choice to make the struggles of one of the most systematically oppressed peoples in our country into a lighthearted affair? To have a white supermodel stand in as a symbolic leader of their fight? To feed millennials the idea that social justice problems can be solved with two minutes and a can of soda?

Pepsi and Jenner might both have had good intentions. But when companies and wealthy influencers make half-baked attempts to get people to “join the conversation” — without providing specific information — they make it clear that their concerns are in money-making, not the movement.

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Schmidt Peterson Motorsports driver James Hinchcliffe captured his second career victory on Sunday at the 43rd annual Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach. Hinchcliffe became the second Canadian to win the grand prix.

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Long Beach hosted the 43rd Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach Sunday. The race saw drivers exceed over 170 mph as they flew through the 1.968 mile street course. Canadian driver James Hinchcliffe took the checkered fl ag.

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Defending race winner Team Penske driver Simon Pagenaud failed to repeat as he finished fifth on the streets of Long Beach.

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Chip Ganassi Racing driver Scott Dixon leads the field down as Mickey Mouse waved the green flag for the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach.

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Chip Ganassi Racing driver Tony Kanaan accelerates off from the dolphin water fountain portion of the track Sunday.

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Junior Daniel Jackson is greeted with high-fives from David Bauelos (6) and Lucas Tancas (19) after socring a run during the Dirtbags 8-0 win against UC Riverside Friday night at Blair Field.

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By Luke Ramirez

Assistant Sports Editor

The No. 19 Long Beach State Dirtbags combined outstanding starting pitching from its rotation and a powerful display of offense to win 3-0 in game three on Sunday and sweep UC Riverside in a Big West Conference series over the weekend.

LBSU (20-11, 5-1) starters defended their home turf and only allowed one run in 24 2/3 innings against UCR (12-15, 1-5) while the Dirtbags offense hit three home runs and scored 21 runs in all three games.

“The team is competing and is in a really good position right now mentally and physically,” head coach Troy Buckley said.

“Everything is working for us at this particular juncture.”

LBSU completed its third series sweep in three home series this season thanks to senior starting pitcher Dave Smith, who threw 7 2/3 scoreless innings against UCR. Efficiency was the name of the game for Smith, as he threw 77 pitches, 54 for strikes and induced 12 ground ball outs.

“We knew that [Riverside] is aggressive and the plan was to pound the zone early and swing at ‘our pitches’”, Smith said.

Smith went into game three having to follow junior starting pitchers Darren McCaughan (8 IP, 3 H, 13 Ks) and John Sheaks’ (7 IP, 2 H, 1 ER, 5 Ks) performances in games one and two, respectively. The senior did not disappoint.

“He was unbelievable,” Buckley said.

BIG WEST STANDINGS OVERALL W-L

SCHOOL

CONFERENCE W-L

1 Cal State Fullerton 2 Long Beach State

21-10 20-11

5-1 5-1

3 Cal Poly 4 Cal State Northridge

12-18 13-16

4-2 3-3

5 UC Santa Barbara 6 UC Davis

12-17 9-16

2-4 2-4

FAST FACTS

7 Hawai’i 8 UC Irvine 9 UC Riverside

19-11 12-16

1-2 1-2

12-15

1-5

• Home field advantage: LBSU is 12-1 at Blair Field and have won nine consecutive contests in front of the home crowd.

• Big West domination: Counting their nonconference series against CSUF the Dirtbags have started the season 8-1 against conference opponents.

“UCR continued to go after pitches aggressively, efficiency with us as far as quality pitches for us was going to mean easy outs, and that’s what Smith got.”

On offense, junior Lucas Tancas continued the tear he’s been on at the plate with a 3 for 4 day, adding another solo home run that came in the bottom of the fourth to give LBSU a 2-0 lead. Tancas finished the weekend 8 for 12 with five RBIs and two home runs and will be prime candidate for Big West hitter of the week.

LBSU set the table with an 8-0 win on

Friday night and a series-clinching 11-4 win on Saturday.

McCaughan (3-2, 3.02 ERA) treated Dirtbags’ fans to his most dominant performance of the season that was complemented by a monster day for the offense against UCR’s senior ace Alex Fagalde.

In game two, LBSU exploded for 11 runs, most of which came in the bottom of the second against Hazahel Quijada, who started for UCR. Sheaks turned in his third straight solid performance that improved the junior to 4-1 on the season.

Coach Buckley spoke on how the Dirt-

bags can continue their winning ways.

“I think you just take care of what your preparation is as far as a daily basis,” Buckley said. “You compete and continue to give yourself chances, and look for that continuity and consistency.”

LBSU has no midweek game this week, which will allow the Dirtbags to recover from their stretch of seven games in 10 days. Big West Conference play resumes on April 13 when the Dirtbags, who have won nine straight at Blair Field, open another home series against Cal State Northridge (16-17, 3-3).

LUCAS TANCAS

8-for-12, five RBIS, two home runs

DIRTBAGS CRUISING