CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LONG BEACH
VOL. LXVIII, ISSUE 53 | JANUARY 23, 2017
IMMIGRATION
STRENGTH IN NUMBERS Five hundred thousand to 750,000 people came together for The Women’s March L.A. for a day of peace and unity following President Trump’s inauguration Saturday. To read more about it, see page 2. Photo by Ben Hammerton
ASI seeks sanctuary campus status The resolution was created as a result of the election of Donald Trump as President. By Elizabeth Campos and Valerie Osier Staff Writers
Associated Students, Inc. is hoping to help undocumented students feel safer on campus by passing a resolution in support of Cal State Long Beach’s potential to become a sanctuary campus, said Secretary for AB540 & Undocumented Students Kenia Duarte – who is undocumented herself. The term “sanctuary campus” can vary in definition, but it essentially means that a university will put policies in place to protect undocumented students from deportation. While the resolution will not make CSULB a sanctuary campus, Duarte hopes that it will encourage President Jane Conoley to make one. Last spring, a CSULB police officer pulled over a man who was undocumented about a mile off campus for a
see SAFE, page 3
BREAK DOWN
National crime, politics You probably checked out over break, but we can’t, so here’s what you missed. By Michaela Kwoka-Coleman Assistant News Editor
Here are the top four news stories from during winter break that you may have missed or forgotten about. 1. President Obama commutes the sentence of Chelsea Manning In one of his last official acts as president, Obama commuted the sentence of whistleblower Chelsea Manning on Jan. 17. Manning, a former military intelligence analyst convicted in 2010 of leaking classified government documents to WikiLeaks, is set to be freed from prison in March of this year, rather than in 2045. The documents that Manning leaked contained information including the abuse of detainees in Iraq, dossiers on Guantanamo Bay detainees being held without trial, a video of an American
see BREAK, page 5