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VOL. LXVIII, ISSUE 40 | NOVEMBER 14, 2016
OBITUARY
Aloha, David Dowell Former CSULB provost remembered with Hawaiian-inspired memorial at Earl Burns Miller Japanese Garden. By Ross Siev
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apartments and houses. Alondra Mims, 53, was outside her house on Ocean Blvd. waving a LGBT flag and chanting “Not my president.” “I am happy to see the young people out here because they get it,” Mims said. “This is the way we make change. Demonstrations like this [are] bringing us together and down the same path towards a common goal.” The organizers of the protests urged demonstrators to keep the peace and stay on the sidewalks, as the march was not permitted to occupy roads. As more people gathered, volunteers in neon vests kept the group together as they made their way down Ocean Boulevard towards Pacific Avenue, then making a right on Broadway and ultimately ending the march where they started back in Bixby Park. People spilled into the street, which caused gridlock at intersections like that of Ocean Boulevard and Pine Avenue, but organizers
Paternal, friend, loving husband: These were some of the words used to describe former Cal State Long Beach provost David Dowell, who died suddenly on a heart attack Oct. 25 at age 65. Dowell’s memorial was held Saturday at the Earl Burns Miller Japanese Garden with many of his family, friends and former coworkers in attendance. Before retiring in June, Dowell served as a senior academic administrator beginning in July 2013. Before that, Dowell had several roles on campus, including psychology professor and College of Liberal Arts dean. As an administrator, Dowell was well-spoken and got along with his fellow staff. He would regularly play tennis with his friend, retired CSULB psychology professor Tom Stevens, for the past 35 years. “I would say he’s one of the two best administrators I’ve ever seen at the university, and I was here for 39 years,” Stevens said. “He was maybe the most effective on his effects on students. We got other good ones too, but Dave was exceptional.” Former graduate student Tony Ostos was 25-years-old when he had then 27-year-old Dowell as a professor. According to Ostos, when Dowell was teaching psychology, he would always provide insight and help his students succeed in their career. “What I learned from him was excellent. I used it in my professional career,” Ostos said. “After I finished here at Cal State Long Beach, I developed a successful gang prevention program and I used what Dr. Dowell had taught me about formative evaluation and summative evaluation to continually evaluate the work that I was doing.”
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A protester stands on the corner of Cherry Avenue and Ocean Boulevard with the sign “build love not walls” while other protesters walk past with their own signs in Long Beach Saturday.
Long Beach protests Trump’s administration By Chrystina Schwartz Staff Writer
Close to a thousand people showed up in Bixby Park in Long Beach Saturday night to protest President-elect Donald Trump’s plans and initiatives for his first 100 days in office. Some of those policies include the deportation of undocumented immigrants, the banning of Muslims entering the country and the reinvestment in coal mining. Trump is proposing to federally defund sanctuary cities, which serve as a safe place for undocumented people to live without fear of being deported. He vowed to immediately begin deporting millions of undocumented immigrants on the Nov. 13 episode of CBS’s 60 Minutes. Protesters held signs saying
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Protesters gather at Bixby Park to march against the presidentelect and his policies.