CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LONG BEACH
VOL. LXVIII, ISSUE 101 | MAY 3, 2017
CITY COUNCIL
Affordable housing study approved Long Beach officials attempt to increase the low-income housing rate.
By Samantha Diaz Staff Writer
Long Beach City Council moved to adopt recommendations brought forward by city staff for the production of affordable housing units. The city faces a housing crisis, with a vacancy rate of 2 percent as compared to the national average of 8 percent, according to the council. A study on
the production of affordable housing is meant to increase this number by looking into various methods to create more affordable units. Affordable housing is defined by the federal government as housing that requires less than 30 percent of a person’s income for rent. Recommendations to implement
see HOUSING, page 2
SUSTAINABILITY
Following the trail of CSULB’s e-waste New policies to reflect sustainable goals for old electronics. By Valerie Osier News Editor
culture to the Palestinians and further dehumanize them,” said Aliyah Shaikh, an international studies student and a member of Muslim Student Association. Over 50 people attended the Teach-in and later marched down upper campus and to President
A professor’s computer breaks and is unfixable. Where does it go next? It can’t get tossed in the trash because it’s electronic waste. So, what happens to these electronics when they’re obsolete, broken or just no longer needed? Cal State Long Beach recycles an average of 24,000 to 36,000 pounds annually, according to Christopher Ramirez, Support Services Manager at CSULB. The trail starts with a department’s technology coordinator, who would send a broken piece of equipment to their perspective college’s Technical Services. Each college has a person within the department responsible for processing e-waste. That person would then send the equipment down to Gary Corbin in Property Management in the shipping and receiving area on lower campus with a “survey request.” “It has to be certified by the customer [the technology specialist] that it’s cleaned [and] there’s no info or data on it — it has to be media sanitized,” Corbin said. There, the e-waste is processed and placed into bins for Global eRecyclers to pick up, which happens about every two weeks. The company pays CSULB for the e-waste by the pound. They have been picking up CSULB’s e-waste for 11 years. According to Ramirez, CSULB earned $1,424.80 in 2014, $1,032.40 in 2015 and $542.09 in 2016. He noted the decrease in revenue. “The downward trend could be for people being more sustainability-conscious, but also that computers are purchased every 3-5 years and it could be between purchase times,” he said in an email. According to Corbin, if the item is reuseable, he may hold onto it for awhile to see if anyone can use it. Even if the technology is obsolete, a technical specialist on campus may reach out to him to use parts of it to repair something else. “Everything is sustainable, everything can be recycled,” Corbin said.
see MARCH, page 2
see E-WASTE, page 2
Photos by Priscilla Aguilera | Daily 49er
Cal State Long Beach students march through campus as they shout different rally cries Tuesday afternoon in support of ASI and their plan to divest in Israel.
PROTEST
DEMAND TO DIVEST Participants marched down lower campus to rally in front of president’s office. By Hasham Nusrat Staff Writer
Students gathered by the Prospector Pete statue on a hot Tuesday afternoon to debate and discuss the idea of Cal State Long Beach divesting from companies that profit from various forms of oppression in a “CSULB Divest” teach-in. The event was organized by a coalition consisting of the Muslim Student Association, Anakbayan Long Beach and the Chicano/Latino Studies Student Association among other on-campus orgs and was held in order to demand that CSULB divest from companies that profit from the conflict in Israel and Palestine, LGBTQ+ oppression and private prisons. The teach-in was planned in light of the division between Associated Students, Inc. and CSULB President Jane Close Conoley over the divestment issues. Conoley wrote in a letter last week to ASI that she did not agree with the idea of supporting the Boycott, Divest, Sanction movement as a campus, for fear of isolating Jewish students. “Economic divestment is such a powerful strategy, and the resources have been expropriated by
Students began their protest at Prospector Pete and ended the demonstration in front of Brotman Hall Tuesday. the Israelis in the west bank of Palestine,” said Spencer Potiker, one of the leading speakers while talking about the history of the Palestine and Israel conflict. “Israel employs homo nationalism which is a favorable association between national spot and LGBT rights and by doing so they paint themselves as champions of LGBT rights in the middle east. And it’s a way to paint themselves as a superior