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BFA drawing and painting student Narsiso Martinez uses recycled materials as the canvas of his art work, displayed at the Sustainability Showcase Oct. 24.

Sustainability: It’s easy being green CSULB raises environmental awareness with Sustainability Showcase.

By Daniela Alvarez Staff Writer

In the first of a series of events for Cal State Long Beach’s Sustainability Month, Monday’s Sustainability Showcase highlighted the efforts of on- and off-campus groups to maintain Long Beach as environmentally friendly.

Held at the Speaker’s Platform in between the University Bookstore and the Hall of Science, the twohour showcase featured a variety of small vendors which students visited to learn more about the efforts of each group.

Student organization such as SustainU and Students for Sustainable Health and off-campus groups such as the Aquarium of the Pacific addressed differ-

ent environmental issues in Long Beach.

“This is meant to showcase groups on campus that bring awareness to certain issues, and our off campus partners like the aquarium do the same,” said Sustainability Coordinator Holli Fajack.

Students crowded around the artwork of sophomore drawing and painting major Narsiso Martinez.

His display of art included detailed portraits of agricultural workers painted on different fruit and vegetable cardboard packaging boxes.

Martinez’s way of conserving, recycling and creating works of art was a visually unique aspect of the showcase.

“I started using cardboard when I found out how difficult it was [for me] to do compositions on canvas,” he said. “This is a way to put a face on the workers.”

Martinez said he works every summer in the fields in Washington picking strawberries, asparagus and other produce. He said he hopes to someday travel

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ASI tests out new pay structure Student government executives will receive scholarships in lieu of monthly grants.

By Carlos Blancas Contributing Writer

Associated Students Inc. is assessing the impact of a new pay structure implemented last spring that allows its undocumented officers to receive compensation for their service, ac-

cording to ASI executives.

The pay structure became an issue during the fall 2015 semester, when then-ASI President Jose Salazar was disqualified from receiving fellowship grants due to his undocumented status. The ASI Board of Control, which has authority over ASI finances, proposed to switch the payment vehicle from fellowship grants to scholarships because all students, regardless of status, qualify for the latter.

Before his tenure as ASI president, Salazar did not file for his Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals,

which defers deportation for up to two years and grants work permits to undocumented people who were brought to the United States as children.

Many undocumented immigrants do not file for DACA out of fear that the status of their relatives may be compromised. Salazar himself petitioned the Board of Control to change the pay structure.

On April 27 of this year, ASI senate approved the Payment By-

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CSULB Sustainability holds an informative event Monday in front of the Speaker’s Platform to better educate students and staff how to practice conservation of materials in everyday life.

CAMPUS DEVELOPMENT

Forum meets to discuss campus expansions

By Elizabeth Campos Staff Writer

Parking, dorms and campus buildings will be discussed today at noon at the University Student Union during the Campus Facilities Strategic Planning Forum.

The forum was organized by the facilities management and campus planning and sustainability staff to engage students in discussion.

Representatives from the USU, the 49er Shops and various departments

on campus, as well as Associated Students Inc. President Marvin Flores, will be at the event.

Michael Gardner, Cal State Long Beach’s manager of campus planning and sustainability, said he wants to get students interested and bring them into the conversation about the future of the campus.

Gardner said that CSULB President Jane Close Conoley asked facil-

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Left: Map of Cal State Long Beach from about 1960, before the USU, the Pyramid and several other well-known buildings went up. Right: Current campus map. Campus planners are holding a campus forum Tuesday at noon to gather ideas on how the campus should grow in the 2010 and 2020s.

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-ities management to strategize a tenyear plan on what the campus should look like in 2026.

One of the topics that Gardner said he wishes to address at the forum is student housing.

CSULB has several housing buildings, both on campus and off campus – Los Cerritos, Los Alamitos, Residential Learning College, Hillside, Parkside, Beachside and International House. These living spaces accommodate more than 2,400 students.

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“There’s a 37,000 headcount on campus and we only have 2,500 beds in dorms,” he said. “So, it’s a very small percentage of housing for a CSU campus.”

Technology is another topic that will be discussed at the forum.

Chris Burnett, a journalism professor and the facilities director of the College of Liberal Arts, has worked on campus for 15 years and said he has seen a rapid increase in technology.

CSULB has advanced technology in classrooms in the College of Liberal Arts buildings as well as in the College of Business Administration.

These buildings have computer

labs and active learning classrooms where up to six people can be accommodated at one table equipped with a television screen.

“The future is represented all around the room,” said Gardner.

Sustainability on campus will also be discussed.

Gardner explained that CSULB has already began efforts to make the campus greener and sustainable, such as the campus shuttle system.

The campus shuttles run on compressed natural gas that produces 30 percent less emissions than traditional gas fueled vehicles.

CSULB has three off-campus shuttles - Anaheim Street, Los Coyotes

and Beachside. The on-campus shuttles are East Loop, West Loop and All Campus Tripper.

According to CSULB’s website, the university has three operating solar power systems that account for approximately 3 percent of the campus’ peak electrical load.

Solar panels are atop Brotman Hall and more panels will be placed on parking Lots 7 and 14, next year. Lot 7 is located behind the Theater Arts building and Lot 14 is near the dorms.

As far as parking, Gardner said that aside from the recent Lot 7 expansion, there’s no plans for further lot expansions.

The goal, he said, is encourag-

ing more sustainable transportation methods such as campus shuttles, carpooling and biking.

The budget for the campus’ physical development is yet to be determined; however, Gardner said that the university is looking to state funding and donors.

Burnett said that it’s important to get views from everyone from students and faculty members alike for the future of the campus development.

“This is an attempt to bring students and faculty together,” he said, “and talk about what they think is good about the campus and what would they like to see in the future.”

unteer coordinator for the Aquarium of the Pacific, highlighted the aquarium’s conservation efforts with displays of trash found in oceans and in the system’s of sea creatures.

According to Davis, the showcase was an opportunity to recruit volunteers to help out at the aquarium,

spread ways on how to be part of a “climate change-ready” city like Long Beach and take steps to prevent climate change as much as possible.

“Skip the plastic, skip the straws and the sandwich bags,” Davis said.

“These products stay preserved for 200 years.”

The sustainability table handed out checklist cards dubbed “showcase passports” for students. After visiting at least eight tables at the showcase, students could return them in exchange for reusable gift bags with reusable water bottles and utensils inside. Other tables, such as the CSULB

Sustainable Transportation and Parking Services, had games like spin the wheel for students to play and win prizes like pens, pins and bags.

The next Sustainability Month event is today’s Green Careers Panel and is being held in West Wing 205 of the University Student Union.

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Cal State Long Beach changes streaming habits

By Nubia Valdez Staff Writer

Cal State Long Beach is currently undergoing changes in its campus media server due to legal examination over copyright issues, according to an email sent on Oct. 11 to faculty from Francine Vasilomanolakis, the instructional design coordinator for Academic Technology.

Dean of the Library Roman Kochan and Associate Dean Tracey Mayfield discovered that videos from VHS tapes and DVDs were being taken and reformatted by faculty for online streaming on an unsecure server.

Mayfield explained that even if the video stream was put on BeachBoard, the stream that was created on the un-

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law Amendment, which allows pay disbursements to be carried out through these scholarships instead of fellowship grants, otherwise known as stipends.

Elected and appointed executive officers will receive scholarships starting June 2017. The new payment structure has already kicked in for senators.

Under the old payment structure, ASI members received funds from fellowships on a monthly basis. Scholarship funds, however, are paid out in a lump sum at the start of the semester.

The new pay structure does not affect the total amount an ASI member receives. Senators receive $800 a semester while most executives receive $1264.

Some have expressed concern over the

secure server was automatically out in the public for anyone to see. This made the school liable for this copyrighted material.

Under federal law, copyright protects an author or creator’s original work and dictates that permission must be given in order to use it.

“Copyright, in some form or another, is an issue on every campus,” Mayfield said. “Because basically what happens is, unless faculty are creating their own materials from scratch, they’re using somebody else’s materials.”

Some material can be excepted from copyright law, known as “fair use,” if it is serving solely educational purposes and no profit is being made.

However, this is not an excuse to convert any materials needed. Permission from the author or creator of the material may still be needed.

“It’s always frustrating to know there are resources out there and we can’t make them accessible,” said Christopher Lowe, biological sciences professor and director of the CSULB Shark

Lab. “As somebody who produces copyright compliant, which means it things, I like the protection that comes must be secure. with copyright, but on the other hand, In order to secure the material, as an educait can only tor, it’s frusbe posted trating.” for a specifAccording ic amount of to Mayfield, time, students hybrid classcan only have es, instrucaccess through tion given a password online and and students face-to-face, must lose achave made it cess to it at the a little more end of the se-Christopher Lowe, difficult to mester.

Biological sciences professor make sure the “To avoid resources givcopyright isen are copyright compliant. Copyright sues with the videos I use online, I alcan change when someone is dealing ways link to external sources instead with a face-to-face class rather than of embedding the videos within the an online class. In an in-person class, a BeachBoard framework,” said Jennifer professor can easily show a video to his Fleming, journalism history professor. or her class because it is only presented “For videos that are not available for to the students physically in the room. free on an external source, I usually put Professors are responsible for maka DVD copy of the video on reserve in ing sure that material placed online is the library or sometimes I might ask

students to rent the video from Amazon, iTunes or Google Play.”

Every semester, Mayfield will be training faculty for hybrid courses to make sure they are trained properly on how to comply with copyright.

In addition, in the last year and a half, Mayfield and Academic Technology Service have purchased licenses for 18 different streaming packages and have placed them on a website where faculty can easily search for legally-streaming videos and import them onto BeachBoard.

On these subscription services, faculty can search through thousands of videos on university databases.

The most popular are Films on Demand and Kanopy, which allow faculty to create playlist or clip lists.

“Probably one of the biggest issues [is that] faculty are used to what they’re use to and sometimes they want a particular film and in certain cases, they can’t be helped. It’s just not available,” Mayfield said. “It’s a matter of [having] to use these materials legally.”

new pay structure because it pays out to ASI members who have yet to start their term of service.

Former Treasury Secretary Wendy Lewis and former Executive Director Richard Haller both voiced doubt about the ethical integrity of the amendment when it was under consideration in the senate.

Jeffrey Acance, a Cal State Long Beach alumnus and volunteer with K-Beach Radio, said he wonders if paying ASI members at the beginning of the semester will affect their quality of work.

“If you reward someone immediately, how can you depend on their work rate being up to par thereafter?” he said.

ASI President Martin Flores said he is withholding judgement until the evidence is in on whether senators will slack off.

“Honestly, I don’t know how it’ll affect accountability,” Flores said. “We’re definitely looking into it right now with

the executive team to see how we can hold members accountable this year with scholarships.”

Flores said that several additions to the Senate Working Rules & Procedures, which govern how members conduct themselves, are pending.

One addition might include a requirement for senators to attend every meeting.

The current Senate Working Rules state that “Any Senator who is absent from more than three Senate meetings during one semester” will face a reprimand and possibly be forced to resign.

A senator who doesn’t attend meetings can also be subject to removal through a process that requires the approval of a senate majority, according to the Senate Working Rules.

Although new rules requiring 100 percent attendance have not been enacted officially, the conduct of senators has so far been satisfactory, Flores said. “For the

incentive to withdraw less on a loan. According to Smith, withdrawing less on a loan would keep a student’s income level from exceeding the threshold dollar amount they can have before being disqualified for aid.

The threshold amount varies from student to student depending on their assets and income.

Smith said that the scholarship could infringe on how much an ASI officer ultimately takes out on a loan.

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It’s always frustrating to know there are resources out there and we can’t make them accessible...

most part, it’s working out pretty well.”

ASI Treasury Secretary Giovanni Smith said the new pay structure is still in its test phase.

“It’s not set in stone,” he said. “We are still, as executive officers and students... looking at this and evaluating it.”

“It’s just like laws,” Smith continued.

“Laws change to reflect the time.”

Because scholarship funds are directed through the financial aid office, these funds are subject to financial aid oversight. And since FAFSA counts scholarship money towards income, this could disqualify some ASI members from receiving federal aid.

Another consequence of the new structure is that some senators may have to withdraw less than they normally would on a loan. If a student’s maximum allowable budget as determined by FAFSA is capped at $20,000, for example, a scholarship could tip a student over that amount. They would therefore have an

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Current pay structure ASI officials will be awarded a “scholarship fund” at the beginning of the semester starting June 2017.

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Don’t Go Back: New Cruise film a reach “Jack Reacher: Never Go Back” should never have left the writer’s room.

By Ross Siev

Contributing Writer

Tom Cruise returns in yet another Cruise-esque action film where he solves an American-related problem with a woman 20-years younger than him. Except other than the creativity of his other films, his latest film, “Jack Reacher: Never Go Back,” is cruising for a bruisin for the audience’s expectations.

For those who haven’t seen the first film in the Jack Reacher series, Tom Cruise once again portrays the titular protagonist, a former Army major who hangs up his rank and instead drifts around the country solving problems – typically by using his fists or his lack of charisma to do the talking.

Director Edward Zwick partners up with Cruise for the first time since their last outing in “The Last Samurai,” but as that film was intelligently written and designed, “Jack Reacher: Never Go Back” doesn’t deliver the punches that the first film brought.

A new problem, or problems in this case, he has to solve involves a mystery surrounding the imprisonment of half-flirtatious Major Susan

Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher, surrendering to law enforcement in a diner.

Turner who has been helping him solve several cases for some time. Cobie Smulders, who portrays the major – and has more charisma than the character Cruise is not particularly fit to play – breaks out of jail along with Reacher in an attempt to piece a conspiracy involve a corrupt mercenary group.

Another striking relationship that pops up for Reacher is a fifteen-yearold rebellious girl who may or may not

be his daughter. With a nearly non-social and stoic character like Reacher, introducing a potential daughter into the mix pushes from an action thriller to a dramatic exaggeration in an attempt to play at the audience’s emotions. Due to the bad guys also targeting Reacher’s supposed daughter, he has no choice but to bring her along.

There’s a larger and more significant focus on Reacher being the one-manarmy action hero who can easily take

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down a group of four henchmen with ease, while the smug and egotistical hitman antagonist (Patrick Heusinger) can nearly bring Reacher down.

If you haven’t seen a single action movie throughout your entire life, then you might not notice the terrible clichés that plague “Jack Reacher: Never Go Back.” From Smulders attempting to wear a hat as a disguise, to Cruise slowly putting his gun on the floor as the bad guy has the advantage,

the film is filled with typical action movie cliches that predictably ends up to a logical conclusion.

In the first film, a particular fight scene stood itself out from the rest.

It involved Reacher correctly predicting the outcome while his opponents attempted to act smug about their chances. Unluckily for them, they were facing the legendary Jack Reacher. The scene is on Youtube with five million views at the time of this writing. “Never Go Back” attempts to recreate Reacher predicting his opponents’ outcome, but it devolves into being reductive as he uses it several times before a fight.

The fight scenes are also a testament to the not-so special stunt work, where there are more cuts of people being punched and parts of Cruise’s face not being shown, which made me think if that’s really Cruise or his stuntman. What also helps to perpetuate the over-usage of such action films are the settings that take place in three fight scene areas: a warehouse, a kitchen and a shipping dock.

There’s a striking loss of the coolness that the first film brought which “Never Go Back” seemed to lose by attempting to copy the first film and several action flicks of the past few decades. But, if there is one positive aspect I have to note – and my editor will get upset if I don’t – it’s that the film’s title, “Never Go Back” is a stern warning to the audience once they leave the theater.

5 thoughts recapping ‘The Walking Dead’ premiere

By Steve Johnson Chicago Tribune

So now we know the answer to what was the question of the summer for followers of “The Walking Dead”: Who was going to die?

When last we left Rick and his ragtag posse of post-apocalyptic, post-traumatic-stress-disordered zombie bludgeoners with hearts of gold, they were on their knees, finally captured, bowing before the will of the strongman Negan, who delivered one mighty blow to the head of one of the Rick crew.

The camera didn’t specify his victim, and then the episode and the season ended, which was either a recipe for months of delicious suspense or the least subtle episodic drama conclusion since the very first time a writer decided to fade out on a man hanging, literally, from the face of a cliff.

And now that the first episode of the show’s seventh season has aired, we know what Negan did and to whom and how much of a shock it was. We know what happened with this cliffhanger. It wasn’t pretty, because his weapon of preference is a barbed-wire-wrapped baseball bat.

And it was probably hard for the series’ most devoted fans to take because this was no peripheral sacrifice.

Here is the obligatory pause to

mention the phrase “spoiler alert,” but, really, if you’re reading a “Walking Dead” recap, you already knew that. Onward.

Here are five thoughts, including the names of the dearly departed, on “The Walking Dead” Season 7 Episode 1, the One in Which Rick Relinquished the Reins: 1. The first death was a relief but also kind of a cop-out. Negan turned Lucille _ that’s what he calls his bat because (pantomime crazy gesture) _ on Abraham, the big red-headed military type muscleman known for his driving and his borderline Lennie-and-George relationship with the savant Eugene.

But this ain’t “Of Mice and Men” and killing Abraham was an easy out for the show’s makers. He came into the group late and was always a bit of an outsider. Plus, much of last season was spent with him saying noble things and, if memory serves, staring off into a distance perhaps meant to signify heaven’s bright shore. He seemed ready to go, and, after the Season 6 cliffhanger, folks were ready to let Abraham go.

And go he did, down in a barrage of terrible baseball swings but highly effective murder blows. After the first one, Abraham got off one last burst of defiance, telling Negan to _ well, to do things to his body parts I can’t even paraphrase in a wide-audience publication. If you were expecting a line

Jeffrey Dean Morgan wields a bat as Negan in episode 1 season 7 of “The Walking Dead”

of wisdom cribbed from Shakespeare, perhaps, a musing on the fragility of man and his inability to escape the animal state, you were disappointed.

On the other hand, it was one of the few spirited moments for the good guys in this gruesome, unrelenting hour of blood and subjugation.

2. Death two, however, was a gutsy move by the producers. Backwoods genius but societal naif Daryl decided he needed to be a hero and took a swing at Negan, and Negan had to teach another lesson. And so Casey

swung his might bat again _ right onto the skull of Glenn, a core cast member and the father of Maggie’s impending baby.

That one really hurt. Even though the show had already once pulled Glenn back, improbably, even absurdly, from certain death by zombies with the world’s most life-changing dumpster dive, seeing him departing was still a shock and highly sadmaking. As he went, Glenn tried to say something about love or the baby, I presume, to Maggie, but he couldn’t

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really make words anymore. RIP, Glenn Rhee. You deserved at least another few years of the desperate daily struggle you guys call life. On the positive side, you don’t have to witness your kid coming to the realization of the kind of world into which you brought him.

3. Raise your hand if you, too, are already a little bored by Negan. He’s supposed to be this great character

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Candy, costumes and candles in pumpkins

The Halloween Spooktacular celebrates the holiday spirit.

By Jason Enns

Arts & Life Editor

Students who don’t have class on Friday might just find incentive to grab lunch at the Nugget and catch glimpse of or take part in the Staff Halloween Spooktacular.

On Oct. 28, the Staff Council will host its annual Halloween Spooktacular, a series of friendly competitions in the spirit of the holiday. The Staff Council is made up of several committees that serve to foster healthy relationships and lines of communication between the university and community at large.

The council holds decorating contests for large and small departments, as well as costume parades and contests in the Nugget Bar & Grill and patio area from noon to 1 p.m..

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from the show’s source comic books, I know. His arrival on the scene is clearly a turning point for Rick and crew, who at Episode 1’s end are essentially drone workers bringing pollen back to the hive of queen bee Negan; this season looks to be some long, slow crawl toward payback.

But this dude, seriously, is tedious. “Eeny, meeny, miney, mo” before a killing? “Even the dead guys on the ground, hell, they get the spirit award, for sure”? This is a despot who loves to hear himself talk but who, unfortunately, is not his own best critic as to the quality of that monologue. I get that he had to break Rick, especially, and the rest of them by extension. I get that it had to be profound _ i.e., episode-long _ in order for us to buy a broken Rick.

I get that we are supposed to hate him.

But by the end of Sunday’s hour, it was not the good kind of hate. It was the shut-up-already-andget-on-with-it kind of hate. I’m hoping to be proven wrong, but right now, for me, the most interesting thing about Negan, besides wondering how and when he will get his, is that he only has one name.

Sadistic killers usually get referred to by three.

4. Hey, “Game of Thrones” fans, it’s a sort of thematic crossover! As Negan tried to change Rick from the fellow who vowed to commit future murder, as he almost forced him to cut off his own son’s left forelimb in a truly horrifying scene, it started to seem like he is turning Rick into Reek. Reek, in “GoT,” is the name given to a nobleman turned into a sadist’s groveling servant.

Just before Rick amputated son Carl’s forearm,

Those who plan to bring their A-game this Halloween can get some extra use out of their costume by showing off their threads in the costume contest. The event will host an individual costume competition, followed by a group contest for those collaborating with their friends.

Registration for the contests begins at 11:45 a.m. Friday at the Nugget, and the parade of costumes begins at 12:15 p.m. for those just wanting to come see the imaginative outfits.

The ambiance will be set by scary music and spooky-themed treats. It won’t cost anything to attend – except, perhaps, the price of a pumpkin.

Attendees will have a chance to enter jack-o-lantern into the pumpkin carving competition following the costume contest. Competitors must be carve their pumpkins ahead of time and leave the mess at home.

Awards and gift basket prizes will be given to the best individual costume, group costume and jack-o-lantern.

So get your pumpkins and carvers, your fabrics and sewing needles and start getting ready for the annual bash.

Negan stopped him, saying, “You answer to me.

You provide for me. You belong to me.” And then I think he said, “Right?”, but it might have been, “Reek.” Perhaps Rick was already owned, however, because earlier, when the two men were alone in an RV, there was a moment when Rick had an ax and Negan’s back was turned and the opportunity was there and Rick _ meekly handed over the hatchet.

This season will be about Rick, in essence, getting back that ax.

5. What happened to the science fiction? This is my standing complaint about “The Walking Dead.”

It shows us how society breaks down under stress, yes, and how the danger isn’t really flesh-eating zombies or the germs that create them but our fellow man.

But it keeps on showing us that, in slightly different ways, while continuing to mow down zombies in all the familiar fashions. In well-meaning new societies (Alexandria) or ones run by dictators (the Governor), the undead are just kind of a snarling white noise to us humans. What we do is get in our own way and revert to being tribes at war.

What I still want to see, what I think could start to elevate this material from being a series of clan battles amid ground strewn with head-stabbed walkers, is a more concerted search to find the cause of the zombie plague and the cure for it. Season 1, still my favorite, seemed to be heading there.

There was a feint toward it later on, with the ultimately abandoned drive toward Washington, D.C. But now the notion is gone again, and in Season 7 we are watching, essentially, a long-playing survivalist journal. “The Walking Dead” is beautifully filmed, well acted and packed with powerful human moments, but put a bigger purpose into play and it becomes a richer, more meaningful entertainment.

Music legend Bobby Vee dies after Alzheimer’s battle Star Tribune (Minneapolis)

MINNEAPOLIS — Bobby Vee’s storied career involved a who’s who of rock ‘n’ roll heroes, including Buddy Holly, Bob Dylan and the Beatles. Even after those ties and his own Billboard chart success, though, he famously remained a humble, hard-working Midwesterner who settled into a quiet life in St. Joseph, Minn., with his wife of more than 50 years, Karen.

Vee, 73, died early Monday morning of complications from Alzheimer’s disease. He had been in hospice care at a facility in Rogers, Minn., according to the St. Cloud Times.

Born Robert Thomas Velline on April 30, 1943, and raised in Fargo, Vee famously got his big break under tragic circumstances at the age of 15 in 1959. He and his band, the Shadows, were recruited to fill in for Buddy Holly at the Moorhead stop of the Winter Dance Party Tour the night after Holly died in a plane crash outside Clear Lake, Iowa.

Vee’s career soon rocketed after that as he earned teen idol fame and landed 38 singles in the Billboard Hot 100 between 1959-1970, including “Suzie Baby,” “Devil Or Angel,” “Rubber Ball,” “Take Good Care of My Baby,” “Run To Him” and “The Night Has a Thousand Eyes.”

A knock-off on Holly’s Peggy Sue” that he originally recorded for Minneapolis’s Soma Records,

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Culture clash of cinematic proportions China’s advancement into Hollywood causes overreaction.

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video from a mysterious organization decrying a “communist” nation. Footage of the Tiananmen Square massacre, digitally altered to remove the famous “tank man.” A booming voice declares: “China Owns Us.” If this sounds like something out of a geopolitical disaster movie — it isn’t. The video is real, and so is the rhetoric involved. Yet in our current globalized landscape, the fears come off as overzealous and anachronistic.

As American media becomes more consolidated — think to this weekend’s $85 billion proposed AT&TTime Warner merger, giving the telecom operator control of the media conglomerate — it’s no surprise that foreign countries are looking to get in on a uniquely American tradition: the big-budget Hollywood blockbuster, which touches everything from Hollywood studios to the local multiplex. It’s a unique business model that provides remarkable revenue internationally.

And so came the purchase by China’s largest cinema operator, Dailan Wanda Group, of the AMC theatre chain in 2012 and Legendary Entertainment, the production-finance company behind big-budget epics “Godzilla” and “Pacific Rim,” in 2016.

For some in Hollywood, this consolidation of power hits too close to home, and “China Owns Us,” the aforementioned shrouded-in-mystery organization targeted toward Wanda’s purchases, is born. For an industry so open to allowing Chinese acquisitions, it’s inevitable that the situation would have its detractors, but the extreme xenophobia expressed by China Owns Us is unfathomable in 2016.

It’s the mysterious group that could use some investigating. According to a New York Times article by Eric Lipton entitled “Hard-nosed Advice From Veteran Lobbyist: ‘Win Ugly or Lose Pretty,’” China Owns Us’ backer,

China’s largest cinema operator, Dailan Wanda Group, recently purchased the AMC theatre chain and Legendary Entertainment.

the Enterprise Freedom Action Committee, is owned by campaigner Richard Berman, who bragged about the “total anonymity” his many nonprofit groups receive, such as his anti-union interest group Center for Union Facts.

The main problem with China Owns Us’ arguments is that they’re too speculative to be taken seriously.

“What if there were script messages … developed into film?” one of the group’s videos, entitled “China Owns Us,” asks, referring to hidden pro-China propaganda that could be embedded into American films as a result of the purchase. Not only does this harken back to harmful xenophobic stereotypes of an ultra-dominant China, the accusation is baseless and overzealous since there’s no proof that such an agreement would come to light.

The group couldn’t be further from the truth. In an Oct. 18 address in Los Angeles, Wanda’s CEO Wang Jianlin unveiled a “movie metropolis” and studio headquarters in China’s Qingdao region to film upcoming movies, an agreement that many American

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studios (including Lionsgate, where — full disclosure — this writer interned) have already cosigned.

China Owns Us seems to be coming too late to the globalization party.

Already, several other major American studios have seen an influx of Chinese funds for financing or production, with STX Entertainment’s (“The Gift,” “Bad Moms”) agreement with Chinese financier Hyuai Bros. one of the more notable agreements.

These agreements merely represent the increasing influence of a globalized world, and as China becomes an important source of Hollywood revenue — almost half of a film’s gross comes internationally — they aren’t surprising.

Berman also tipped his hand in a recent press release announcing a protest in front of Times Square’s AMC location against the Chinese merger and his fears of communist takeover.

“Berman acknowledged that he has no examples of such [Chinese] influence since Wanda Group’s purchase of AMC in 2012,” according to the

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The fact that this acknowledgement exists in a press release promoting fears of such influence should be enough to discredit it.

Other non-Berman accusations continue to sprout, especially those concerning China’s use of “soft power” in cultural or foreign policy influence as opposed to forceful and coercive “hard power”. “Expanding China’s cultural influence and cultural soft power around the world is a goal of the party,” journalist Michael Forsythe is quoted as saying in a Guardian article entitled “Wang Jianlin: Does China’s richest man have a plan to take over Hollywood?” by Nigel M. Smith.

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Trends come and go, and China’s acquisition spree is a new trend that’s just beginning to make waves. It’s too soon to jump to conclusions.

However, know that if you head down to Long Beach’s local AMC chain at the Marina Pacifica and indulge in a Legendary film, you’ll be participating in a fully Chinese experience due to the nation’s ownership of both companies.

If that thought sends chills down your spine, you may have seen too many movies.

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49ers extend streak to 9-0 in Big West The Long Beach State women’s volleyball team goes 2-0 on road trip.

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It wasn’t easy, but the Long Beach State women’s volleyball team remained unbeaten in Big West play after wins against UC Santa Barbara Friday and Cal Poly Saturday.

On Saturday, the 49ers faced their toughest test as they dropped the first two sets to the Gauchos (13-9, 4-5).

LBSU battled back to tie the match at 2-2 after 25-15, 25-21 wins in the second and third set.

In the match’s final set, the 49ers beat the Gauchos 15-13 to win and complete the comeback. The win marked the first time LBSU has won after trailing 2-0 to start a match.

The 49ers are now 6-1 in matches that go to five sets and 1-6 after falling behind 2-0.

Senior outside hitter Nele Barber had a season-high 22 kills and 11 digs for her second double-double this season against UCSB. LBSU completed its 2-game road trip with a 25-20, 22-25, 25-18, 25-22 win against Cal Poly Saturday.

Senior outside hitter Nele Barber spikes a ball past a Hawai’i defender Oct. 8 during the 49ers 3-2 win at Walter Pyramid.

In the match, Barber led the team with 20 kills while freshman middle blocker YiZhi Xue posted a career-high 13 kills.

Sophomore outside hitter Megan Kruidhof was also impressive after completing her second consecutive double-double with 11 kills and a ca-

reer-best 16 digs.

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Strong second half pushes LBSU past UC Davis Junior forward Ashley Gonzales scores gamewinner in the 78th minute.

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Long Beach State women’s soccer team line up before the start of its game against UC Irvine Sept. 30.

Thanks to a timely goal by junior forward Ashley Gonzales in the 78th minute, Long Beach State women’s soccer team beat UC Davis 2-1 Saturday at Aggie Soccer Field.

To start the game, both teams took their shots and LBSU (7-6-2, 3-1-1)

had a chance to take an early lead when freshman defender Chloe Froment found Gonzales on a corner kick for a goal – but it was called off due to an offsides penalty.

Senior midfielder Mimi Rangel gave the 49ers another chance to take the lead, but her shot was saved by the Aggies’ (6-8-3, 2-3-1) sophomore goalkeeper Alexis Smith in the 23rd minute.

In the second half, both teams came out firing with a total of 12 shots taken, compared to only seven in the first half.

Gonzales made a nice pass to junior forward Jessica Vincent, but her shot was blocked once again by Smith.

LBSU finally found the back of the net after Gonzales sent a cross to the

far post, where freshman forward Kailee Prescott scored her first career goal to give the 49ers a 1-0 lead in the 66th minute.

The 49ers didn’t have the lead long, as UC Davis’ senior defender Nicole Bouvia scored the equalizer in the 74th minute to tie the game at one.

Gonzales scored the game-winner, her 11th career goal, in the 78th minute to ice the game and give LBSU its first win during its 4-game road trip.

The win pushed LBSU into second place in the Big West, as the team finishes its road trip at UC Riverside Thursday before wrapping up the regular season Oct. 30 at George Allen Field against UC Santa Barbara.

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Four years after joining Long Beach State’s team, senior goalkeeper Ashton McKeown knows she made the best decision to come to LBSU to pursue her soccer career.

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Ashton McKeown is a keeper Senior goalkeeper is first to credit team play for continued success on the field.

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Although Ashton Mckeown is making her mark as one of the top goalkeepers in Long Beach State’s history, she always mentions her team’s effort first.

While McKeown has had a successful career, she says the only reason that she’s successful is because her team works as hard as she does. Her goal isn’t just to be keeping teams scoreless, but to be a good team leader and giving her all for them.

“I have to remember this that isn’t just the reason why I’m here, I’m not here for myself, to break records, to experience life with my team [as well as] help my team be as successful as possible. As a goal keeper my success inherently means their success, if I have an X amount of shut outs that means our team wasn’t losing—which is great. My rewards are a huge reflection of how my team is doing,” she said.

McKeown started playing soccer at the age of five. She went from dribbling a soccer ball on an indoor grass field with her younger brother and father as coaches to an AYSO soccer team and then, at the age of 13, trying out to be the goalkeeper for the So Cal Blues club team.

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Although senior goalkeeper Ashton McKeown has had a few injuries, that hasn’t stopped her from being in the Top Three in shutouts, goals against average and saves. coach constantly rotated everyone into different positions — but when McKeown was in goal, she felt the most comfortable.

“Every time I went in I always had a knack for it — it just came super easy for me,” McKeown said. “It’s just the kind of person I am, I’m not afraid to get rough and tumble — so they just kind of stuck me with it and I ended up loving it and I still do.”

During her senior year at Calva-

ry Chapel High School in Santa Ana, McKeown had many suitors when the soccer recruiting process began.

LBSU head Coach Mauricio Ingrassia said that knew he had to be patient with McKeown during the recruiting process and hoped she would choose LBSU. While McKeown said while she had offers from major colleges such as UCLA, she ultimately chose LBSU after experiencing the team atmosphere.

Going into her final season with LBSU, McKeown has been recognized multiple times for her achievements.

She’s won All-Big West Second Team, NSCAA All-West Region First Team, Big West Goalkeepers of the Year and All-Big West first time.

Throughout her soccer career, McKeown has had minor knee injuries and two shoulder surgeries.

She also had a slight “hiccup” with her shoulder this year, which caused

her to miss three games, but after some time off she was back and ready to play.

Even though the senior loves playing soccer, she also has interests off the field. She said that school comes before playing and that she must make sure she balances soccer with her education, as her position on the team comes with a scholarship.

“School is more important, my life needs balance —I [am] thankful for this, to play soccer and get a free education,” McKeown said.

Outside of campus, McKeown loves to surf, draw and visit local coffee shops. As a communications major with a minor in marketing, she’s still deciding what to do after she graduates in the spring.

“It’s still up in the air — I know when I’m done playing soccer, I want to get into marketing for a surfing company — putting my creativity [to] work.

Eventually [I want] to become a mom, it’s one of the most important jobs in the world,” she said.

Even when off the field, McKeown still does a lot for the athletic department for Long Beach State. McKeown is a member of Student Athlete Advisory and a Big West Conference representative.

As she looks back at her career and all the obstacles she’s faced, she knows those experiences will take her far in the future. “[What I’ll remember the most about my career as a 49er is that] the value of hard work and dedication are the keys to being successful and putting your heart into something and just going all in for it. If you believe you make a difference, you can make a difference,” McKeown said.

SENIOR GOALKEEPER ASHTON MCKEOWN

— Total shutouts, which is second in LBSU history

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— Career goals against average, which is second in 49er history

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— Total saves in career to rank third in school history

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— All-Big West second team, NSCAA AllWest Region first team and Big West goalkeeper of the year

•2015 second team

—All-Big West