Daily 49er, February 8, 2017

VOL. LXVIII, ISSUE 60 | FEBRUARY 8, 2017

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CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LONG BEACH

CRIME

Student banned from CSULB following investigation

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Members of the Muslim Student Association gather for noon prayer prior to the “Cal State Against Hate” demonstration at the Speaker’s Platform Tuesday.

Police issue a sex offender advisory to notify campus community.

PROTEST

Muslim student group resists Trump

By Valerie Osier News Editor

In a “day of action,” the Muslim Student Association and attendees demonstrate against Trump’s presidency.

A student at Cal State Long Beach has been barred from campus following an investigation by campus administration.

CSULB police issued a campus-wide “registered sex offender advisory” to faculty, staff and students Monday night, but did not initially indicate that the offender, Juan Lucio Solis, was a student.

“We had sufficient information to believe that he posed a threat to some members of the campus, and for that reason, we moved forward in revoking his access,” CSULB Public Information Officer Terri Carbaugh said.

Solis is registered as a sex offender from a conviction of assault with the intent to commit rape in 2011, according to meganslaw. ca.gov. Carbaugh could not disclose what exactly Solis did recently to pose a threat to the campus because of federal law protecting Solis as a student, but “his behavior did warrant it,” she said.

“He’s been a subject of interest on this campus for a little bit of time. Things just

By Janette Villafana Staff Writer

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Cal State Long Beach’s Muslim Student Association gathered in front of the Speaker’s Platform on Tuesday, along with other CSULB students and faculty, to express their disapproval of President Donald Trump.

The event began with a noon prayer led by Bilal Zaheen, former president of the Muslim Student Association and current lecturer of Islam 101 classes on campus. Following the prayer, speakers from MSA rallied together to provide powerful words of encouragement for all who were standing beside them.

“The association was there to show their rejection against President Donald Trump’s cabinet and his Supreme Court nominations,” Aliyah Shaikh, MSA vice president, said.

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CSULB students hold signs to stand against misogyny and racism Tuesday.

MSA had just gotten word Thursday that chapters from other California State University campuses wanted a day of action. Shortly after, Shaikh created a Facebook event page to bring attention to the event, she said.

“I hope that we can bring about change, I

hope we can inspire that there are more similarities between us than there are differences,” Zaheen said.

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IMMIGRATION

CSULB won’t call itself a legitimate ‘sanctuary campus’ The campus will operate like a “sanctuary,” but will not be called one to avoid losing federal funds.

By Elizabeth Campos Assistant News Editor

Cal State Long Beach President Jane Close Conoley said in an Academic Senate meeting Thursday that the CSULB campus would function as a

sanctuary for undocumented students, but would not be formally called one.

The question of whether CSULB will become a protected space is one that has been discussed amid the rising tension due to the current political environment.

Conoley said that upon speaking to the chancellor’s office, the school was told to operate as a sanctuary campus, but to not use the word “sanctuary” itself because it has different meanings, but no legal definition.

“We are under the same rules as many California cities that actually are called ‘sanctuary cities’ and we do enforce exactly those rules that say we do not collaborate with federal immigra-

tion,” Conoley said. “That means that if you get stopped for a traffic violation and you are undocumented – well, you might get a ticket for a traffic violation, but no report would be made to federal immigration.”

Conoley also said that steps are being taken on campus to help students become aware of already standing Order 55. It states that campus police “shall not stop or detain persons for determining immigration status or arrest persons solely for alleged undocumented entry into the United States,” according to a press release from CSULB’s of-

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FAST FACTS

GENERAL ORDER 55 Under Order 55, “campus police officers may arrest a foreign national with an undocumented status only if there is probable cause to believe he or she has violated a state law, a local ordinance, or a federal law unrelated to immigration laws for which a warrant has been issued by a judge. In other words, officers shall not stop or detain persons for determining immigration status or arrest persons solely for alleged undocumented entry into the United States.”

Source: CSULB Office of Media and Government Relations

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CRIME BLOTTER

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Campus police commit student

By Adam R. Thomas Staff Writer

Suicidal student under observation Police responded to a welfare check call at the Fine Arts building yesterday just before 6 p.m. University Police discovered that a female student was having suicidal thoughts.

The student did not harm herself and has been temporarily committed to medical observation for 72 hours.

Sexual assault on Saturday A student residing in the Beachside dorms reported to UPD that there had been a sexual assault and battery incident early Saturday morning. UPD responded to the incident and opened an investigation about the suspect, working with an

outside agency on the case, according to Lt. Richard Goodwin of the UPD. Goodwin said that the victim is not pressing charges against the suspect in the case.

“Even when a victim/survivor says they don’t want to prosecute, which she does not, we still follow through with an investigation on our end,” Goodwin said. “The elements or the progress of that investigation I’m not at liberty to discuss because it’s ongoing.”

Goodwin said that there was no timely warning issued about this incident as the case did not present a direct threat to the campus community.

Bike thefts - 1 quashed, 1 committed Goodwin said two male suspects were spotted tampering with and

“casing” the bike racks at Hillside College B on Sunday night. The suspicious activity was reported to UPD, who sent officers to investigate the situation after one subject was seen taking the seat off of a bike.

One subject was described as a white male in his 40s or 50s and the second subject was described as an older hispanic male of approximately the same age. By the time the officers arrived on the scene, the suspects had left and no bikes had been stolen.

Another bike was reported stolen from the Pyramid bike racks around noon last Wednesday. The bike had been secured with a cable lock the previous day, which was cut during the robbery.

Fight breaks out over traffic incident

An assault and battery call was received by the UPD early last Thursday morning. After a traffic altercation between a pedestrian and a driver in parking lot 14A, one male subject punched the other during an argument. Neither subject wanted to press charges, though the incident has been submitted to campus judicial affairs for review.

Goodwin said that fights like this are rather rare at CSULB. “In my time on this campus, I can probably count the number of times that we’ve had a battery call like that on maybe two hands at the most.

This doesn’t happen. Not like this,” Goodwin said. “Most people realize that when it comes to making contact, fist to your face, you’re going to be in trouble, you’re going to court now. People realize that.”

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kept going on,” Lieutenant Richard Goodwin of University Police said.

Carbaugh said that this is the first time in recent memory that the administration and UPD have issued a campus-wide sex offender advisory.

Goodwin also confirmed that he has never seen a notice like this in his career at CSULB. “This is the first one that came to light here that we really felt like we needed to push this information out,” Goodwin said. “These decisions aren’t made lightly. When you’re putting someone’s information out there you want to make sure that everything’s lined up as it should be, which it is.”

The Daily 49er has been unable to reach Solis for comment.

Adam R. Thomas contributed to this article.

RALLY

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The “Cal State Against Hate” march, organized by Muslim Student Association at CSULB, has protesters hold hands in solidarity in front of Brotman Hall Tuesday.

MSA believes that, with events like this, people will become more aware and knowledgeable about information that they otherwise would not hear about in their daily lives.

Shaikh said “ We wanted to bring together our allies of the Muslim community, to have everyone who supports Muslims join us and unite as one and to hopefully inspire fellow students.”

The event helped bring awareness to the discrimination against Muslims, women, hispanics, undocumented people, LGBT and any other marginalized people potentially threatened by Trump’s presidency.

Members of MSA were not alone, accompanied by other associations on campus like La Raza.

“As brown folks we are no strangers to discrimination against our people, we are no strangers to the threat of our families being torn apart, but we are strangers to discrimination against our believes and despite our differences we still stand in solidarity with you, as you have stood in solidarity with us,” Asia Gonzalez, a member of La Raza, said.

Gonzalez said that not just the Muslim community, but all attendees that everyone should stand together in solidarity.

After the speeches, Shaikh rallied the crowd and began a small march from the Speaker’s Platform to Brotman Hall, where MSA thanked everyone who attended the event. They also encouraged the crowd to not give up and to continue to create events like this.

POLITICS

Pence breaks tie to confirm DeVos to education post Betsy DeVos becomes U.S. secretary of education despite 24-hour senate debate.

By Joy Resmovits Los Angeles Times

Phone calls jammed congressional switchboards. Two Republican senators defected. Democrats held a last-ditch, 24-hour Senate debate in hope of shaking loose one additional vote.

But the effort was not enough

to prevent Betsy DeVos from becoming U.S. secretary of education.

DeVos squeaked through the confirmation process Tuesday with the tie-breaking vote of Vice President Mike Pence and the participation of Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., whose confirmation vote for attorney general was scheduled after DeVos’ so he could vote for her.

It was the first time a vice president’s tie-breaking vote was needed to confirm a presidential Cabinet appointment.

DeVos, a Michigan-based Republican activist, former state party chairwoman and fundraiser, spent her career campaigning for

school vouchers, which send tax money to families to help them pay for private and often religious schools. As the wife of the billionaire heir to the Amway fortune, she contributed millions of dollars to candidates who supported vouchers, including several of the senators who voted to confirm her.

She is the first secretary of education since the department was created in 1979 to have neither attended nor sent her children to public school, the Education Week Research Center found.

Her road to confirmation has been among the bumpiest of any of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees. At her confirma-

tion hearing in January, DeVos seemed unfamiliar with some of the basics of education policy. She was unable to distinguish between proficiency and growth, for example, concepts that are crucial to a major education debate about the fairest way to measure student learning.

Her inability to answer that question became part of a “Saturday Night Live” skit.

DeVos also appeared to not know that the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act is a federal law that puts all states on the hook for teaching special-needs

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CORRECTIONS: On page three of Monday’s issue of the Daily 49er, in the article titled “Brown endangers Middle Class Scholarship,” California is facing a $1.6 billion deficit.

Also, Cal State Long Beach has 3,135 students who will be affected On page one, in the article titled “CSULB police issue sex offender advisory,” the phone number to call the police is 562-985-4101.

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CONOLEY

DEVOS

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-fice of media and government relations.

President Conoley said that that 51 percent of CSULB students get federal Pell grants, but that’s at stake if the school decides to use the word “sanctuary.”

Legally, CSULB cannot refrain Immigration and Customs Enforcement from stopping and talking to anyone, but campus authorities assured that they will function as best they can as a safe place for undocumented students.

“I think the main point is that we all – students, staff, faculty, administrators – have the same common interest: to promote our students’ best interests,” Norbert Schürer, Academic Senate chair, said.

In addition, Schürer said that calling the campus a “sanctuary” can be counterproductive.

“Some undocumented individuals were hesitant to take on [Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals] status because that would make their contact information easily accessible, and indeed we do not want any policies on campus that would endanger our students,” Schürer said.

students – a subject of intense interest to several senators as well as hundreds of thousands of parents with disabled children.

Beyond those fumbles, several other moments from her hearing went viral outside the bubble of government and education experts. In response to a question about whether guns belonged in schools, DeVos said she would leave that decision to “locales and states” and said that perhaps a school in Wapiti, Wyo., which has a grizzly bear fence, would use a gun to ward off the animals. That comment launched internet memes, as well as a segment on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show.”

Historically, nominees for secretary of education have sailed through their confirmation with bipartisan support.

“The custom has been that the president is entitled to his own advisers, so it’s rare that there’s a real fight,” said Jack Jennings, a lawyer who served as an education expert for House Democrats for decades. But following DeVos’ confirmation hearing, teachers, unions, activists and at least one fellow billionaire flooded Congress with opposition – some 1.5 million calls a day to Senate offices.

“I’ve never seen opposition like this,” Jennings said.

Those calls were among the factors that made Republican Sens. Lisa Mur-

Nadia Villanueva contributed to this article.

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U.S. Vice Presdient Mike Pence swears in Betsy DeVos as the Education Secretary in the Vice President’s Ceremonial Office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building of the White House on Tuesday in Washington, D.C. kowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine decide last week that they would vote against DeVos. Murkowski said she made her decision after hearing from “thousands, truly thousands, of Alaskans.”

DeVos’ nomination, which became a proxy fight over vouchers, also effectively shattered a decade-old bipartisan education bloc.

During the presidencies of George W. Bush and Barack Obama, a group of Republicans and Democrats largely agreed on the expansion of charter schools and school accountability.

That development created a rift in the Democratic Party between advocates for these changes and those who sided with teachers unions. In 2015,

the bipartisan coalition was strong enough for Congress to pass the Every Student Succeeds Act, the successor to the Bush administration’s much-maligned No Child Left Behind Act. DeVos’ nomination seems to have ended that bipartisan moment and split charter supporters. DeVos was involved in the proliferation of charter schools in Michigan, but in that state, even some charter supporters have criticized their lax oversight. (At her hearing, DeVos said she supported a bill that increased accountability for Michigan charters.)

The National Association for Public Charter Schools released a statement supporting DeVos. But Eli Broad, a billionaire philanthropist who has

tried to increase the number of charter schools in Los Angeles and in other cities, last week called DeVos “unprepared and unqualified” for the job.

It is unclear what policies DeVos will push. During the campaign, Trump backed a plan to expand school vouchers dramatically, but throughout the confirmation process, DeVos told senators that she would not impose a voucher plan on states that didn’t want them.

Any proposal to greatly increase vouchers would run up against Republican reluctance to raise federal spending. Paying for a massive voucher expansion by cutting other education programs would run into intense political opposition.

But if early hires are any sign, the Trump administration is intent on rolling back much of what the Obama administration did over the last eight years.

Obama gave the Education Department an activist role by using executive orders and federal competitions to beef up civil rights enforcement and prod states to adopt certain school policies. The department’s Office of Civil Rights also increased investigations into sexual assaults at colleges and issued guidance protecting the rights of transgender students.

Trump has chosen Jerry Falwell Jr., the president of Virginia’s Liberty University, to lead a higher education task force. A Falwell spokesperson has said Falwell thinks sexual assault investigations are best left to courts and police.

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The cast of “She Kills Monsters” rehearses in the studio/university theatre as opening night quickly approaches.

THEATRE ARTS

Escaping the cage on stage Creative director Jeff Janisheski discusses the theatre arts spring production schedule.

By Jason Enns

Arts & Life Editor

After declaring to the Daily 49er in September that his goal for Theatre Arts was to be an “exciting force both on and off campus,” Creative Director Jeff Janisheski thinks he has chosen a season that will connect strongly with audiences.

Janisheski announced the schedule on the CSULB website on Jan. 25 under the headline “Caged Birds.”

“What’s exciting about this upcoming spring season is how unified these plays are,” he said in an interview with the Daily 49er. “They’re all stories about young people essentially, young people in crisis, young people under a certain amount of oppression or struggling with certain confines of their society.”

The first three of the four productions focus around a central female character, but all of them are what Janisheski refers to as “portraits” based on the development of a main character. “I think that our theater-going community can really connect to these plays in a way that maybe might have been difficult in the past,” he said.

The first production to hit the stage will be “She Kills Monsters,” on Feb. 17. Director Amanda McRaven was selected for this project despite being only director of a play this season who is not from the Theatre Arts school.

Janisheski says it’s about picking the best director for the show, whether they’re from the department or not.

“I chose her because she’s a phenomenal director in terms of how she works, physically creating really theatrical worlds and that’s what that play demands,” he said. “I wanted to make sure we had some one who could handle that physical virtuosity and that theatrical language.”

“She Kills Monsters” is the story of one woman who is searching to unearth the history of her deceased sister. In a journey of self-discovery, she

finally finds solace in the game Dungeons and Dragons.

“So, it’s about sisters and where can you find your place in the world and as someone who feels marginalized – ‘Where do I have to go to find my community?’” Janisheski said.

Next on the schedule will be “Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin,” opening March 10. The production is being directed by CSULB performance professor Jaye Williams. “[She] is doing a stellar job with the ensemble about their connection, their inroad to that feeling of, ‘How do you find your own identity? ‘How do you connect?’” Janisheski said.

The not-often-performed musical focuses on Viveca as she sings and dances her way through the confusing worlds of racism, sexism and Broadway showbiz spanning the ‘60s through the ‘90s. The story falls right into the theme of identity and self-discovery.

“Nora,” directed by CSULB performance professor Christopher Shaw, will open April 14. It is the adaptation of Henry Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House,” in which Nora makes drastic changes in

her life to escape the oppression of the male-dominated society. “[She] make that radical choice of trying to save herself and her soul,” Janisheski said.

The last is a contemporary play called “Good Boys and True.” The production, directed by CSULB acting professor Hugh O’Gorman, will open on April 28.

“It’s really about a sex scandal and, again, about this young man that can not face his own sexuality and can not face himself and all the lies and buried secrets in his life and in his family,” Janisheski said.

In his opinion, each of these shows has a high potential to resonate with the young audience on campus. And though they follow a central theme, he says another common thread to this season is it’s eclectic and diverse nature.

“You have everything from the hyper theatrical world of ‘She Kills Monsters’ to the gritty realism of ‘Good Boys and True,’” Janisheski said. “You have this really colorful kind of effervescent musical ‘Bubbly Black Girl’ compared to the stark realism of ‘Nora.’”

FAST FACTS

THEATRE ARTS SPRING SEASON SCHEDULE She Kills Monsters • Feb. 17 - 26 • Directed by Amanda McRaven The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin • March 10 - 25 • Directed by Dr. Jaye Austin Williams Ingmar Bergman’s Nora • April 14 - 23 • Directed by Christopher Shaw Good Boys and True • April 28 - May 13 • Directed by Hugh O’Gorman

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Super Frank. Bros super show

A jaunt through the UAM exhibit, as told by a CSULB student.

By Adam R. Thomas Staff Writer

Retired school teacher Ruth Schwartz gazes over Evelyn Ackerman’s “Garden” during the Frank Bros. curator-led tour Tuesday.

and Volland conducted a tour of the exhibit. “This is about a store and its longevity and its history.”

Mullio isn’t kidding – the main focus of the exhibit is chronicling the details of history that are all too often forgotten.

The mailers and invitations to sales that were sent out to customers in the ‘60s. The print advertising used to pitch the designs of modern designers like Charles Eames, Edward Killingsworth and Stacy Dukes (the latter two are CSULB legends — Killingsworth designed the CSULB campus in the ‘60s, Dukes taught design here for many years).

The ephemera and art pieces that couldn’t easily be seen, even when Frank Bros. was still in business.

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Wait, what?

Why is the exhibit about the Frank Bros. furniture emporium over at the University Art Museum getting so much attention?

Why is Brian Trimble, curator of education at UAM saying that the opening reception two weeks ago was massively successful, with over 650 people showing up on the first day alone?

Why should Cal State Long Beach students care about an exhibit chronicling the history of a store they can’t go to, buy anything from and hasn’t existed for years?

Well, let’s talk about what the exhibit is like from the perspective of someone who literally couldn’t care less, because until I went down there yesterday, I didn’t.

But I went in to catch a walk ‘n’ talk of the exhibit at noon Tuesday. It was hosted by curators Cara Mullio and Jennifer Volland, who literally wrote the book — “Frank Bros.: The store that modernized modern,” to be published next month — on the history of the world famous Frank Bros. furniture store that’s been located in downtown Long Beach for 44 years.

What I discovered was that, despite Frank Bros. emporium being a furniture store that sold furniture and helped revolutionize the designs of modern American furniture, the gallery really isn’t about chairs (even though yes, there are a handful of chairs there — several hang in the air like wind chimes).

“This isn’t a furniture show. This isn’t about furniture,” said Mullio after she

This isn’t a furniture show.

This isn’t about furniture.

This is about a store and its longevity and its history.

-Cara Mullio Frank Bros. co-curator

er picture of modern design, you don’t really think about Long Beach as being a center of that,” said Trimble. “[Long Beach] had Killingsworth and other architects and Frank Bros. This really was

a center for modernism. This [exhibit] reestablishes the role that Long Beach played in that.”

Walking through the gallery, Trimble’s words ring true. There are pieces like a series of lamps by designer Neal Small on loan from the Getty Center that demonstrate the modernist’s take on mixing form with function – smooth singular curves creating poetic artifacts of practicality. Early examples of furniture made out of plastic in the post-war age where that started to become common practice.

But the core of it all is, as Mullio says, history, not just art and design. There’s an excellent timeline chronicling everything on the west wall. An exploration of Case Study House #25, the residential architecture experiment run by Arts & Architecture magazine from

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1945 to 1966.

History is always important to take note of and explore if you don’t want to end up repeating what’s already done.

This is something every CSULB student of history – and all our design students – should check out if they want some niche inspiration for their next project or paper before the show closes in April.

And while the exhibit is getting a fair amount of notice among extant fans of the Frank Bros., for the general student body, there’s a much simpler problem: no one else knows it exists!

“We tell people where we’re curating the show and they say ‘where is it?

There’s a museum on campus?’ said Mullio. “So I think you’ve got to get that out first. It’s an important museum, there’s a lot of history.”

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IMMIGRATION BAN

The American dream devolves into a nightmare A visa student empathizes with immigrants affected by recent travel ban.

no and Orlando have left us in a heartbroken and panicked state.

Still people must question the immigration ban’s legitimacy and consequences.

In an amicus brief filed against this order, former secretaries of state John Kerry and Madeleine Albright, former director of the CIA Leon Panetta

By Huy Le Contributing Writer and other national security officials argues that this ban is superficial: “This order cannot be justified on national securesident Donald Trump signed his rity or foreign policy grounds. . . . To the contrary, controversial travel ban order last the order disrupts thousands of lives, including weekend while I was celebrating Luthose of refugees and visa holders all previously nar New Year with my family in Palm vetted by standing procedures that the administraSprings. tion has not shown to be inadequate.”

I tried to put aside thoughts on it because I Furthermore, renowned universities in Masshould be happy during the first days of a new year; sachusetts, such as Harvard and MIT, submitted otherwise, bad luck will come to me. It’s part of our a different amicus brief saying that this order retradition and beliefs in Vietnam. stricts their targeted international students and Now, with the festive atmosphere gone, I am faculty members from traveling to America and pulled back to the harsh reality this country faces. that International scholars plan to boycott the conA convoluted shift of its political climate is running ferences hosted by these institutions. at full, drastic speed.

Although President Trump aims to improve The travel ban affected people traveling to national security with this order, it is, xenophobic America from seven Muslim-majority countries. and one dimensional. Its ramifications devastate According to an article in America.

USA Today by Alan Gomez We must continue to file and Richard Wolf, a federal lawsuits, protest and march appeals court held a hearing against it so that the Ameron Tuesday evening to furican dream continues to be Families of immigrants ther scrutinize the ban after available to all of us – not endure great pain when the order was blocked by Seonly to some. they arrive at airports only attle Judge James Robert last My relatives immigrated to find out their expected week. to this country after the Vietguests are taken into The case is suspected to go nam War, when their wealth to the Supreme Court, and it became a vestige of the decustody and waiting to be must be struck down. feated capitalist government. deported.

My country, Vietnam, is They felt oppressed by the not on the list— but I feel the new political system and need to express my sympathy thus ran away in pursuit of a for those affected because better life. this ban is discriminatory Since arriving in America, and only scratches the surface. they have been working hard to make their livings.

I can relate to the people affected by this order They strove to learn a new language, adapt to a forbecause my relatives in America are immigrants. eign environment and assimilate into a different This allows me to empathize with my Muslim culture.

American friends and colleagues who have emSome of my relatives chose their humble careers igrated from their home countries to the United because they wanted to secure financial stability as States. well as their lives.

The agony is that this executive order suddenly Others reached their full potentials by graduattears immigrant families apart. Families of immiing from and teaching at prestigious universities. grants endure great pain when they arrive at airHard work is a key factor in their success. The ports only to find out their expected guests are takAmerican dream is in their veins. It propels them en into custody and waiting to be deported. to success.

To explain the need for this order, President Like my relatives, Muslim immigrants pursue Trump cites his concerns about national security. the American dream, and they strive to make it The president has an obligation to protect come true.

American lives after several recent terrorist attacks They are in pursuit of a better life and want to in Europe and America. The bombing at Boston contribute to the prosperity of this country. ThereMarathon and the mass shootings in San Bernadifore, we should welcome them.

By the Numbers Immigrants in the U.S.

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Employment

82%

Rate of employed immigrant men compared to the 73 percent of U.S.-born men

57%

Rate of employed immigrant women compared to the 66 percent of U.S.-born women

10.9 million

Students from immigrant households enrolled in public schools or 23 percent of all students in public school

47%

Percentage of California public school students from immigrant households

Socioeconomic status

1 in 3

Children under 18 in poverty who have immigrant fathers

21

Years that the average immigrant has lived in the U.S. (as of 2014)

Source: Center of Immigration Studies (2016), Images: stock.adobe.com Infographic by Jade Inglada

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The Long Beach State women’s basketball team practices Tuesday before its game against Cal State Fullerton Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Walter Pyramid.

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WOMENS BASKETBALL

It’s all about the competition

Long Beach State women’s basketball team competes on the practice floor in a unique way.

By Zulema Suarez Staff Writer

If you stroll into Walter Pyramid during the women’s basketball practice, you’ll hear the screeching of sneakers and the voices of the women calling out plays and shifting into defensive positions.

What may stand out most, though, is who is practicing against the Long Beach State women’s basketball team – five men who have signed up to help the team practice.

While the practice team may provide the group with unique challenges, they were selected in most part, to allow the women to rotate multiple players while also adding speed — and in some cases, height that the team may not face throughout the season.

“They’re faster than us and they have a higher athleticism, but they push us to become above average until it becomes natural and it forms into a habit,” senior forward Madison Montgomery said. “Every time they’re here, they have a good attitude all the time and they do whatever the coaches ask without hesitation.”

Although it may seem like an uneven match between the teams, it’s no walk in the park for the men who show up.

“They definitely get a bit challenged, too, because there’s only five of them and they don’t get to switch out between players the way we do,”

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After an outstanding first year, sophomore guard Chanterria Jackson is looking to continue her perform in a high level. Jackson is also one of the players that’s gotten extra competition during practice.

Montgomery said. “There’s like 13 of us and we switch off with other players and they can’t do that. They have to stick it out the whole time.”

Junior guard Jessica Gertz also had nothing but positive things to say about the male practice players.

“It’s hard sometimes, but we know they help us a lot with our fast-break layups and transition drills,” Gertz said. “They make us more competitive and more fundamental.”

Jody Wynn, head coach of the women’s basketball team, stated many

benefits to practicing with the guys.

“They’re stronger, faster, taller, more athletic, and with that, they challenge us to be better,” Wynn said. “Practicing with them allows us to not have to bang up against each other day in and day out, keeping the

girls in better health.

Along with facing tougher competition, it also gives the team an advantage when LBSU faces other schools with players who may not be as athletic.

“Having the team execute against guys and their shot blocking ability, we can definitely execute better against our opponents,” Wynn said.

“The practice players are a tremendous addition to the team.”

Among practice players, Caleb Schultz and Jahmal Forte, said playing with the girls is a fun, exciting environment.

Schultz said, “I’m big and that forces the girls to be more competitive and aggressive when it comes to me, and when it comes time to be against their opponents.”

The practice players do get benefits, such as priority registration for classes, and just like the girls, they receive a package with jumpsuits and some equipment needed; however, they also have to sign up and fill out paperwork just like any other athlete.

Forte revealed that the practice players have to get a physical and comply with all NCAA rules the same way the team has to.

Forte also commented how he enjoys being involved in the practices because he is improving with the team “I played in high school,” Forte said. “And being a part of this team has only helped me better my skills, and I know I’m helping them get better at the same time.”

It’s a group consensus that there are benefits from the practice players being involved.

The next women’s basketball game is inside the Walter Pyramid at Cal State Long Beach on Thursday against Cal State Fullerton at 7 p.m.

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Long Beach State baseball players work together to roll up a tarp before practice Tuesday afternoon. The team kick off its season against Oklahoma on Feb. 19.

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BASEBALL

Raining on Dirtbags’ parade Inclement weather has forced the Long Beach State baseball team off the field for practices and team activities.

By Luke Ramirez Staff Writer

With the 2017 season quickly approaching for the Long Beach State Dirtbags, the past few weeks of bad weather in Southern California have been detrimental to Blair Field, forcing the team to make adjustments.

“It’s been hard to build up routines not being consistently out here,” head coach Troy Buckley said. “You can’t do anything about it. We just try to control what we can control and deal with it.”

The slew of rain-soaked days in the last month has hampered the team’s ability to work on things like baserunning and taking batting practice on the field. While these fundamentals are crucial to the success of any team, the Dirtbags claim to be making up for the lost time on the field.

“It really hasn’t affected us at all,” senior infielder Jeff Nellis said. “We have this brand new ‘cathedral’ they built for us and were able to get in there and get any work that we need done.”

Nellis and the rest of his team jokingly refer to the six new covered batting cages as the “cathedral” due to its sheer size. The cages are covered, lit, and have the ability to become one open space that is close to a regulation sized infield.

“We haven’t really missed any days thanks to the new cages,” Buckley

said. “They’ve been getting after it pretty good in there.”

The “cathedral” isn’t only there to benefit position players and hitters.

Pitchers have also been able to utilize the space to take care of their business.

“We’ve been able to do our throwing program in there, work on [pitcher’s fielding practice], pickoffs; it’s beneficial for everyone,” sophomore right hander Chris Rivera said.

While the Dirtbags take advantage of the new facilities, head groundskeeper Rene Garcia and his crew get to work as well.

“It’s been tough. We have an old tarp that is leaking, and with the season a week away we’re just trying to keep the infield as dry as we can,” Garcia said.

Garcia also works for the Los Angeles Dodgers and claims the grounds crew’s similar maintenance techniques used at major league parks has helped manage the inclement conditions.

“Even though it’s an old field, we’re trying to change that by changing our maintenance techniques,” Garcia said.

With a professional-style grounds crew and top-of-the-line facilities, the Dirtbags will do everything they can in the next week to prepare for its opening series against Oklahoma Feb. 17-19.

“We still have some work to do,” Buckley said. “There’s some extra things we need to go over and we need to execute everything we have already worked on better.”

Nellis says there is one positive that has come out of the rainy days: “Today was like our 20th time pulling the tarp since coming back from break, so we’re getting really good at it.”

Above: The Long Beach State Baseball team has put its new batting facility to good use after recent rain has affecred its practicies. Below: The Dirtbags have gotten used to setting up its tarp during this rain season.