Daily 49er, September 7, 2017

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LONG BEACH

VOL. LXVIX, ISSUE 4 | SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

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A dragon clears a path for itself through the crowded walkways. The upper campus quad, below, fills with students eager for Week of Welcome.

Photos by Carlos Villicana | Daily 49er

ednesday kicked off Week of Welcome, the bi-annual introduction to CSULB for new and returning students.

Clubs, athletics and Greek life was on display for those looking to get involved in campus.

For more on what featured clubs and organizations are on campus, see page 5.

CAMPUS RESOURCES

University Library opens new Tech Hub Phones and computer accessories and services for students will be available.

By Sarah Duenas Staff Writer

There is a new addition to the University Library for all California State University of Long Beach’s campus electronic needs. The Library Tech Hub, which is located on the first floor of the library, will serve all students, staff and faculty.

The Library Tech Hub, which opened in August, is an extension of the campus bookstore’s Beach Tech. Beach Tech sells phone accessories, computer accessories and services for both PC and Mac users on the second floor of

the bookstore. Now, students can take care of their technology-driven needs by visiting the University Library.

In partnership with the library, Tech Hub is a collaboration with the 49er Shops to help students, staff and faculty with their tech-based needs as well as expand on the resources the University Library already offers.

According to Tech Hub manager Scott Vandygrift, the library’s front desk was getting a lot of questions over the past year whether or not they offered any technology services or accessories. Vandygrift said that- those people would be sent to Beach Tech for their computer services or the Horn Center’s technology help desk.

Now, not only will students be able to take care of their electronic needs, but the Library Tech hub will have note-

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The Library Tech Hub is open four days a week located on the right side of the first floor in the University.

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TEACHER FEATURE

CSULB art professor has piece featured at UCLA Fran Siegel’s exhibit showcases the displaced history of Afro-Brazilians.

By James Chow

Assistant News Editor

Being an outsider in a totally different culture can be daunting. Language barriers and unfamiliar eyes staring back can bring feelings of uneasiness. But sometimes occupying that position can bring a wealth of knowledge.

That’s what Cal State Long Beach art professor Fran Siegel leaned on when she created “Lineage Through Landscape: Tracing Egun in Brazil,” an art installation that portrays the history of the Afro-Brazilian people and their religious traditions, a creation she made all while embodying the outsider post.

The artwork, which took two years to create, is currently being exhibited at the UCLA Fowler Museum until Dec. 10.

Siegel’s 36-foot-long art installation features a predominantly dislocated grid, symbolizing the fractured past of the affected peoples. Her art piece in the artwork include the Portuguese enslavement and transport of the African peoples to Brazil and the religious traditions of the oppressed diaspora.

Cyrus Parker-Jeannette, the dean of the college of the arts, praised Siegel’s work on the Candomblé religion and the Egungun rituals.

“I was struck deeply by how this work serves as a perfect metaphor for the Candomble’ culture and rituals, without imitating them or appropriating them,” Parker-Jeannette said. “The piece is for me, an ultimate and profound expression of what Ms. Siegel apparently learned and experienced during her Fulbright residency in Brazil.”

The idea took root when Siegel met the head of the Fowler Museum. After seeing the artist’s work at University of California, Santa Barbara’s art and architecture museum, Marla C. Berns, the director of UCLA’s Fowler Museum, approached Siegel with interest in her work.

“The director at the Fowler saw that project and she said, ‘I see that your approach is kind of anthropological in your way of dealing with drawing, maybe you’d be interested in looking at our collection,’” Siegel recalled. “The museum was sort of the first point and then that grew.”

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Siegel stands next to her mixed media art installation “Lineage Through Landscape” featured at the UCLA Fowler Museum.

Siegel said she found inspiration for her project when exploring the Fowler’s Egungun ensemble, a fabric with cloth, beads, cowrie shells and mirrors worn during the worship of ancestral spirits within religious ceremonies.

“It’s believed that there’s no figure inside the Egungun,” Siegel said. “It’s a spirit. It’s really all about this idea of enacting or coaxing the spirit through activity.”

While studying in Brazil on a Fulbright scholarship, Siegel found inspiration in Salvador, Bahia, through Portuguese colonial churches and their disjuncture of tiles, which served as the foundation for “Lineage Through Landscape.”

Broken tiles were commonplace in the colonial churches. However, many broken areas were replaced with other unfit pieces. Siegel took advantage of this bizarre pattern and incorporated a similar set in her piece.

The tiles in the colonial churches were broken and replaced with other pieces that did not fit the original image, thus portraying a fractured picture.

“This replacement made a very strange narrative,” Siegel said. “The head would be in one place and the arm would be somewhere else. I thought

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continued from page 1 books, scantrons, green books, pens, pencils and USBs for sale.

“We wanted to take Beach Tech’s best-selling products and make them easily accessible for everyone,” said Vandygrift.

The creation and funding for the Library Tech Hub was mutual between the University Library and 49er Shops. According to Vandygrift, dean and director of the library, Roman Kochan, thought of the idea for them to come together so student’s that are there could access what they need conveniently, instead of spending an hour walking all the way down campus.

The library built all the furniture, while 49er Shops provided all supplies.

They also take walk-in appointments and can check computer diagnostics for free. The Library Tech Hub offers “Quick Fix” which helps with things such as troubleshooting, PC and Mac upgrades, PC and Mac optimization and- ram install all for $39.99. For “All Kinds of Broken” devices, they offer hard drive install, operating system install, data recovery- and virus removal for $99.99.

If students in the library need something later in the day that the Library Tech Hub doesn’t have, the Library Tech Hub staff can have it transferred from the bookstore so it can be there for pick up later.

When building the Library Tech Hub, the biggest challenge was figuring out what hours it would be open for the campus. According to Vandygrift, they tried to mirror the library’s Starbucks hours, since that is when there is the most traffic. However this will remain tentative.

“We will always change to what our students needs are,” said Vandygrift.

The Tech Hub is now open Monday through Thursday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and will have extended hours during midterms and finals with the library hours.

this configuration would be an interesting way to tell the story because, the story is so complicated.”

Within the installation, the presence of leaves dominates the art piece. Candomblé, a religious tradition in honor of cultural gods that is heavily practiced in Brazilian countries, requires sacred leaves for ceremonies. Siegel attributes the heavy blue hues throughout the art piece to both the Portuguese church tiles and physical leaves, which she “used as projections in cyanotypes.”

“Leaves are like surrogates for this idea of reconnecting with the homeland because the leaves come from the homeland,” Siegel said.

“Candomblé is like a connection to the religion of the homeland,” Siegel said. “So this idea that each leaf connects with an orixá, a deity that each person has, [makes] the landscape, in a sense, become personified.”

The artist used several different techniques in her drawing installation such as weaving, sewing, collaging and clay-modeling. Siegel uses several materials to show different ways of expressing the same theme as well as building up different densities. Nevertheless, she considers the whole piece to be a drawing installation.

“I think of drawing as a state of mind [or] a

form of investigation and even though the material might be a physical other material, it actually is in a state of drawing,” Siegel said.

The artist has already received praise for her project.

College of the arts senator Kristel Aranas said she was excited to hear the news of Siegel’s exhibit.

“As a senator for the arts, it pleases me that our faculty is contributing in new and innovative ways within the art community,” Aranas said.

Parker-Jeannette expressed similar praise about Siegel’s art installation.

“The College of the Arts at CSULB is proud that Fran is part of our institution and I find her work courageous, gentle and beautiful.” she said.

Even the people from the Egun and Candomble said they found a connection to the piece, according to Siegel.

“When I was in Brazil, I had people from Egun and Candomble come to the studio to see what I was doing, to see if it meant something to them.

And it did and that was very meaningful,” Siegel said. “One of the research assistants at Museu Afro Brasil said it was like a great portrait of this whole thing I was studying.”

CITY COUNCIL

LB City Council discusses budget DACA termination prompts responses from council members.

By Cris Rivera Staff Writer

City workers demanding fair wages filled the Long Beach city council chambers at Tuesday’s city council meeting.

At the start of the meeting, the chambers were at max capacity as people stood along the sides of the room waiting to fill in. The majority of the people there were members of the Association of Long Beach Employees. This group includes jobs like gas and building construction workers, auto mechanics, and harbor maintenance mechanics to name a few.

Since many city workers are only part-time employees, ALBE has been in negotiations with the city seeking fair wages and insurance benefits.

“We purify your water, we haul away your trash, we fix your vehicles, we keep your gas going, we maintain your street lights, we keep your Harbor open,” Wendell Phillips said, a spokesperson for ALBE who according to him represents about 750 Long Beach workers.

Philips stated that he does not feel the city workers have been treated or compensated fairly.

“They deserve your respect and they deserve your acknowledgement,” Phillips said, “We want to negotiate a fair deal, what you offered isn’t going to get it done.”

The city council will be made aware of the workers’ demands and negotiations in the coming weeks.

Before voting on the budget the public had an opportunity to comment on what they wanted to be included in the budget.

Multiple people spoke up on behalf of skateparks. Patrick Goddard asked the council to fund the Michael K. Green park, located at 14th street and Pacific

Avenue, for skate park improvements.

Amber Sullivan, a resident of Long Beach and a single mom whose son frequents skate parks also supported the request for additional funding for skateparks across the city of Long Beach.

“As a single mom, having somewhere for him to go is priceless,” Sullivan continued, “Through skateboarding he’s had opportunities to travel to Minnesota to [skate competitively].”

Steffie Hands, a mother who understands the importance of skateparks, said, “I see skateparks as something that brings together the community and the kids.”

Though there are currently no funds allocated for the skate parks in Long Beach, council members are open to finding a way to renovate and create more skateparks.

On Monday, President Donald Trump

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Florida in crosshairs of Hurricane Irma

By Les Neuhaus and Laura King Los Angeles Times

FORT MYERS, Fla. — Floridians hit the highways, scrambled for scarce supplies and hammered plywood over windows as a monster hurricane made landfall in the Caribbean, where it was blamed for at least four deaths.

Hurricane Irma, one of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes, set a wild, wind-churned course toward Puerto Rico, with the U.S. mainland in its sights, probably over the weekend.

Amid an overnight assault of battering waves and 185-mph winds, two deaths were reported in French island territories, a third in Anguilla, a British territory, and a fourth in Barbuda, part of a tiny independent nation.

In Florida, Gov. Rick Scott implored constituents to obey calls to flee the storm’s path when the time came.

“I cannot stress this enough — do not ignore evacuation orders,” Scott said at a news briefing as the storm began lashing Puerto Rico with rain, still on track for the U.S. mainland. “If you’re told to evacuate, don’t wait _ get out quickly.”

In warning of the dangers, the governor invoked Hurricane Andrew, which devastated Florida a quarter of a century ago, causing massive destruction and killing nearly 50 people in the state.

“I want everybody to understand the importance of this — this is bigger than Andrew,” Scott told ABC News.

President Donald Trump declared states of emergency in Florida, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Florida began activating its National Guard,

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ended the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, a program which aimed to give legal residency to those who immigrated to the United States without documentation as children, and are law abiding members of the United States.

Protests and demonstrations in support of deferred action recipients and undocumented people were held many cities across the nation, including Cal State Long Beach.

Councilmembers Roberto Uranga, Lena Gonzalez and Jeannine Pearce were among those who vocalized their support for students and employees under DACA in

with 7,000 members told to report for duty Friday.

In Fort Myers, in coastal southwestern Florida, Stephanie Matteson waited in line at a gas station, where she said she had been for 25 minutes.

“I swear, it’s like everyone is in a hurry to get this thing over with — like, ‘Just come on, Irma, and then leave us alone,’ “ said Matteson, 47. She experienced Hurricane Wilma in 2005, “but Irma’s got more punch, from what they’re saying.”

There was a run on supplies, including bananas and batteries. Anthony Bonner, a bread company distributor, predicted that the 28 racks of bread he was delivering to a picked-over Walmart in Coral Cove, outside Fort Myers, would go fast.

“It’s kind of like I’m the candy man wherever I show up,” he said. “Bread and water are always the first to go.

Stand here for 15 minutes — all of this will be gone.”

A state of emergency was declared earlier for all 67 Florida counties; on Wednesday, South Carolina followed suit, with Gov. Henry McMaster urging the public to not leave storm preparations to the last moment.

As he did while Hurricane Harvey pounded Texas late last month, Trump unleashed tweets about the storm’s strength. “Hurricane looks like the largest ever recorded in the Atlantic!” he wrote Wednesday morning on Twitter.

The president also said his “team” was ready in Florida, adding: “No rest for the weary!” Later, heading into a meeting with congressional leaders, he described the storm as “something that could be not good — believe me, not

Long Beach and throughout the nation.

“President Trump has rescinded DACA today, and it’s a dark day for DACA students everywhere,” Seventh District Representative Roberto Uranga said. “I have a student employee who was a DACA participant in my office, so it hits home for me.”

District one representative Lena Gonzalez said, “It was a sad day for many of our students locally. My support and gratitude goes out to them.”

Jeannine Pearce district two representative advised those affected to not give up.

“Do not go back into the shadows, because we need you guys to be able to secure our communities for you,” Pearce said.

The next city council meeting will be on Tuesday Sept. 12.

Joe Burbank | Orlando Sentinel

Shoppers at Costco in Altamonte Springs, Fla., wait in line for the arrival of a shipment of water during preparations for the impending arrival of Hurricane Irma on Wednesday Sept. 6. These residents waited in line starting at 7 a.m. for an 11 a.m. water delivery. good.”

The National Hurricane Center said the storm was one of the five most powerful Atlantic hurricanes in the last 80 years and the strongest Atlantic storm on record outside the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. Satellite imagery of the enormous storm inspired fear and awe. The hurricane center in Miami described a vast swirling mass, with hurricane-force winds extending 50 miles from the storm’s center.

The hurricane’s force was such that it was detected by earthquake-measuring

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equipment on islands it passed, said Stephen Hicks, a seismologist at Britain’s University of Southampton.

Before dawn Wednesday, the tiny Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda was pummeled by wind and rain as the Category 5 storm passed almost directly above the islands, tearing off roofs, uprooting trees and triggering floods. Many people sought safety in government shelters as the winds turned storm-borne debris into missiles.

After overflying Barbuda, a grimfaced Prime Minister Gaston Browne

reported late Wednesday that the island was “barely habitable” with about 95 percent of the properties damaged or destroyed.

“What I saw was heart-wrenching.

I mean, absolutely devastating. In fact, I believe that on a per-capita basis, the extent of the destruction on Barbuda is unprecedented,” he told ABS TV in Antigua.

“Hurricane Irma would have been easily the most powerful hurricane to have stormed through the Caribbean, and unfortunately Barbuda was in its path,” he said.

CAMPUS ALERT

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DOMINATION

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ith an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament on the line, the Long Beach State women’s soccer team dominated UC Irvine 3-0 Sunday at George Allen Field to take the Big West Tournament title. Senior Mimi Rangel was awarded Big West Tournament MVP. To read more about the game, see page 12.

Early Friday morning, Cal State Long Beach University Police received a call about an incident at Parking Stucture 1, near the Walter Pyramid.

According to the UPD activity log, the call came in at 5:57 a.m. and the Long Beach Fire Department was called to the scene.

A Beach Alert was sent to CSULB students, faculty and staff Friday at 7:56 a.m. saying that Parking Structure 1 was closed until further notice.

The alert said that there was no threat of danger and that the rest of campus was open as usual. Later, at 8:59 a.m., another Beach Alert was sent out saying that UPD had concluded its investigation and that the structure was now open.

At 3:10 p.m., CSULB President Jane Close Conoley sent an email en masse to students, faculty and staff saying that the incident in Parking Structure 1 involved a young man who was dead at the scene.

Associate Vice President of Government and Media Relations Terri Carbaugh said that she believes some CSULB staff members were on the scene first and were the ones who alerted UPD. Additionally, she said that while the man is not currently thought to be a CSULB student, it is believed that he had been previously enrolled in the university.

In her email, Conoley said that an investigation has been launched to determine who he is and what connection he has with the university.

The man’s age has not yet been confirmed, though he has been identified as “young,” Carbaugh said “This is a tragic event. It may cause distress among some members of the Beach community,” Conoley said in the email. “To assist, the university has a number of resources available

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Students will find rides such as the tilt-a-whirl and more at Friday night’s Smorgasport.

Photo Courtesy of Associated Students Incorporated

CAMPUS EVENTS

Smorgasport returns to the CSULB campus

Beach Pride Events hosts its annual “allyou-can-play buffet” this Friday.

By Lilly Nguyen Staff Writer

With Week of Welcome coming to a close, Smorgasport makes its return to wrap up the fall semester’s second week of classes this Friday from 7 p.m.-11 p.m.

Admission is free for Cal State Long Beach students and those attending must be over the age of 18 to participate in the festivities. Attractions can be

found at both the USU Games Center as well as Parking Lot 3, which is tucked between the University Student Union and the Kinesiology building on lower campus. The first thousand people to arrive can expect a free Smorgasport T-shirt.

The Smorgasport tradition began in 2000 when Associated Students, Inc., Club Sports and Recreation, Student Life and Development, Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs and the athletics department put their heads together to create an event that celebrated the beginning of the school term.

“Back to school parties have a reputation being associated with alcohol, so in response ASI, club sports and our other campus partners started Smor-

gasport as an alternative, alcohol-free kick-off event for the school term,” ASI Senior Communications Manager James Ahumada said.

ASI has only seen interest grow in Smorgasport since then, and the Beach Pride Events coordinators do not expect that to change after 16 years of success.

Attendance for Smorgasport the past two years has averaged about 4,500 students, but ASI projected an increase in attendees to about 5,000 participants this year due to increased interest in their social media posts advertising the event.

Beach Pride Events Program Assistant Jonathan Ibarra encourages students to attend the annual carnival.

“It adds that kind of fun environment and that kind of stress-free level before school actually starts hitting [students] with all the assignments,” Ibarra said.

“With so much stress, we need a moment to just kind of relax and chill.”

Beach Pride Events has been planning this year’s Smorgasport since the beginning of the summer and with all the elements involved in the planning, it has been stressful on the organizers.

Despite the stress, Ibarra says the work invested is worth it.

“When I see all the students enjoying [Smorgasport] or cheering when they get free shirts and stuff, I feel a sense of relief that I did my job well,” Ibarra said.

Ahumada says more popular attractions like laser tag will make a return

this year, but students can also look forward to the introduction of new interactives like a roller rink and a tilt-awhirl.Booths for campus departments will also be set up. Unlike Week of Welcome, which hosts over 200 clubs, Smorgasport will highlight a smaller number of clubs and provide another opportunity for student organizations to exhibit their talents and attract prospective new members.

Beach Pride Events has also introduced a new feature in the Tapingo app, a mobile app that allows users to order food for pick-up from venues on campus. Instead of food, however, the app includes a list of the activities and venues that will be available this Friday at Smorgasport.

FINE ARTS

Student galleries showcase diverse mediums The rows of studio lights are on once again inside the campus student art galleries.

By Cheantay Jensen Staff Writer

Showcasing the works of Cal State Long Beach’s Fall 2017 artists, the student art galleries neighboring the university art store have reopened to the public.

This week the first five of the 52 students scheduled to exhibit their work this semester have mounted, hung and meticulously placed each of their works against the stark white walls of four different art spaces on campus.

With a new rotation of students beginning every Friday, each participating artist is handed the keys to their assigned gallery.

There, they spend the weekend ironing out the details that bring their show to fruition. “[The exhibitions are] a good opportunity to test out a space. It’s nice having

the keys and having full control. And you don’t have to pay for it. It’s free, you just have to apply,” said senior fine arts major Natalie Cruz.

Her installation crafted of glossy chiffon and painted plastics drapes from the ceiling of the Merlino exhibition room.

For many students, this will be their first time revealing their art in a professional setting. For fine arts major Taylor Austin, whose exhibition in the Dutzi gallery features a number of macabre, rock ‘n’ roll-esque illustrations, this opportunity meant she could create something that wasn’t a course requirement.

“When you’re doing stuff for other classes you don’t always have a lot of time for your own personal work,” said Austin. “I think it’s fun to be able to showcase what you do outside of class.”

With her art exhibition looming overhead, Austin could take no comfort in the whittled down routine of skimming syllabi and awkward class introductions that students count on as they adjust to onset depression induced from summer’s end.

“Oh yeah,” Austin said, standing outside the tinted double glass doors to her

space. “I was terrified [of going first],” she admits.

Snagging a slot into the galleries isn’t difficult as much as it is time consuming.

In addition to finding a tenured faculty member in their art department, eager artists must apply a semester in advance, then fill out and turn in their application for the following semester all at once.

Then they spend the rest of their summer honing in on their craft.

Soon to graduate with her fine arts bachelor’s degree in ceramics, senior Teresa Womack really digs the student art exhibitions, so much in fact that she’s participated in them for three consecutive years.

“It’s a system that’s set up really nicely to try something new or get an idea out in the world,” Womack said. “And that is CSULB.” You can view student galleries throughout the semester in the fine arts department near the University Art Store.

The galleries are open Monday through Thursday from noon to 5 p.m., with extended hours Wednesdays until 7 p.m.

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Fourth year student Nicole Gomez stands mesmerized by the complexity of the oil paintings of Lainey Atwood shown at the Gatov West gallery.

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Faculty reaches new heights with research grant

Liberal arts faculty member Emily Berquist Soule receives coveted research grant.

By Kat Schuster Staff Writer

Tracing history’s long forgotten footprints would be a monotonous task to some, for Emily Berquist Soule, it’s a thrilling adventure. Berquist, an author and historian of colonial Latin America and an associate professor of History at Cal State Long Beach, is the first in the College of Liberal Arts to receive the Research and Sponsored Programs Internal Research Award at CSULB. The $10,000 award will fund the continuation of research for her book in progress, “The Atlantic Slave Trade in the Rise and Fall of the Spanish Empire;” a book she has been working on since 2007.

Berquist has always had an interest in Latin America and the slave trade during colonial times in particular.

“As an undergraduate, I did my junior year abroad in Spain,” Berquist said. “After that I decided I wanted to travel, I didn’t want to be stuck in the United States for my work so I decided to do a Ph.D. in Latin American History so I could get out and around the

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History professor Dr. Berquist is in the works of a new book called “The Atlantic Slave Trade in the Rise and Fall of the Spanish Empire.” world.”

Since her initial venture through Spain while in college, Berquist has returned several times to pour over old archives, attempting to connect the pieces to a lost puzzle.

“The main archive where colonial Spanish Americans sent their documents back is in Seville,” Berquist said. “It is every document they got

for the slave trade for over 400 years and it’s only been looked at in bits and pieces.”

Berquist says she will use a part of this research grant to travel to Spain next summer so she can work closely with these documents. Findings from this trip will be her most important work yet.

She has already written one book

focused around Spanish interactions with indigenous people, “The Bishop’s Utopia: Envisioning Improvement in Colonial Peru,” and now she will continue the correlation in her second book.

In her research, Berquist aims to shed light on unanswered questions regarding how modern empires were built using slave trade and subjugating people of color.

“After writing my first book, which was about how the Spanish treated or viewed indigenous people, I started to wonder what the corollary was with people of African descent,” Berquist said. “What did they do to try to help them or hurt them?”

This will be the second research grant Berquist has received for her work, but the very first to be issued to a faculty member of the College of Liberal Arts.

“Previously, this grant was only open to people in the sciences and business where they get bigger grants and expend more money for labs and research assistants,” Berquist said. “I requested for faculty in the humanities to be able to apply as well, because our research affects students’ class experiences, and it’s equally important to the mission of the university.”

Eventually CSULB did allow berquist to enter for the research grant and after being denied the first year, she was finally awarded the grant after entering the competition for the second time.

“I hope that CSULB continues to recognize that research in the humanities is just as important to a university as research in the sciences,” Berquist said.

Along with a funded research trip to Spain next summer, the grant has also provided funding for two graduate students of CSULB to work as assistants.

Grad students Eric Cohen and Carlos Mayerstein are currently working to help Berquist sift through countless boxes of Spanish documents.

“We’re sort of doing detective work,” Mayerstein said. “We create a brief summary of each document and if there is something that Dr. Berquist finds interesting we will do a full transcript.”

Both grad students have taken this opportunity to work with Berquist to enhance both their Spanish and research skills.

“When you do come across an interesting exchange between two people, it’s exciting,” Cohen said. “It feels like you’re unraveling a mystery or you have the backstage pass to what was really going on back then.”

Berquist says she hopes to have the book completed by 2020, and will continue to teach classes at CSULB alongside her ongoing research.

“She’s a fairly young professor and she’s really impressive with the amount of research and writing she’s already done,” Cohen said. “It’s going to be a very interesting project onces it’s done.”

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The ultimate frisbee team meets has practices Mondys and Wednesdays at the Rugby Field.

CLUB FEATURE

Week of Welcome offers students extra-curriculars

By Carlos Villicana

Assistant Arts and Life Editor

Ultimate frisbee

The ultimate frisbee teams of Cal State Long Beach hope to have more members catching discs on their field as they fly through this semester.

A men’s team and women’s team both call CSULB home, practicing on different fields. The men’s team, known as the CSULB Stalkers, practice on Monday and Wednesday at the Rugby Field from 7 p.m.-9 p.m.

Meanwhile the women’s team, CSULB No Regrets, practices on the same days at the Soccer Field from 5 p.m.8 p.m.

“Even if you don’t play it’s just a fun game to get involved with and really get you in shape,” recruiting officer Daniel Garcia said.

The teams want to promote ultimate frisbee in Long Beach through

college-level competitive play, while still maintaining a fun atmosphere.

The Society of Women Engineers

The Society of Women Engineers hopes to draw the number of female engineers and male engineers closer together.

“We’re really looking to get more freshmen girls to join this year so they can start early,” club officer Abby Ramirez said.

The organization seeks to promote engineering through outreach programs in which they attempt to teach

all things engineering to pre-college students.

A back-to-school bonfire, pageant for engineering skills and monthly themed potlucks are a few of the social mixers hosted by the Society of Women Engineers.

You can join the Society of Women Engineers in finding out how to apply engineering to your career when they meet on Wednesdays from 12:30 p.m.

- 1:30 p.m. in Room 009 of the Engineering Department. They will be meeting during the fall 2017 semester on Sept. 13 and 27, Oct. 11 and 25, and Nov. 15 and 29.

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Even if you don’t play [Ultimate Frisbee is] just a fun game to get involved with and really get you in shape.

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The Ultimate Frisbee team and The Society of Women Engineers club recruit students.

-Daniel Garcia, Ultimate Frisbee recruiting officer

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CSULB students and faculty alike protest President Trump’s recent ruling of DACA on Tuesday near the Central Plant building.

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DACA decision isn’t about money; it’s about hate The President has put the ball in Congress’ court, an uncomfortable feeling for most Americans these days.

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ithout so much as the stroke of a pen, President Donald Trump has put the lives of 800,000 in limbo.

The Sept. 5 deadline for a decision had left many waiting and hoping. After promising to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program his first day in office, Trump had to face the political reality of his situation. Attacking a group of what the Department of Homeland Security estimates to be 11 million people, isn’t a great idea when you’re already one of the least popular presidents in recent history.

Instead of repealing it altogether, he has shifted the responsibility to Congress, giving members six months to act before those with deferred status start losing their protections in March 2018.

During the 2016 election, Trump said that he wanted to throw out every last undocumented person in the country; he also told many there was no need to worry if he took office.

“I do not favor punishing children, most of whom are now adults, for the actions of their parents,” he said. “I want to move them out, and we’re going to move them back in and let them be legal, but they have to be in here legally.”

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The irony in all of this? The decision probably wasn’t extreme enough for the base he continually tries to keep happy. Steve Bannon only stayed around as long as he did because of what he meant to that base.

Breitbart News seems conflicted. While the publication in general seems happy Trump took a step toward dealing with the undocumented, that step doesn’t seem to be far enough. Not so far away on the extreme-right side of the political aisle, Ann Coulter went off on a Twitter tantrum, ranting about Sarah Huckabee Sanders calling for Congress to create comprehensive immigration reform, “exactly what [Trump] used to denounce.” She went on to say Trump had betrayed his voters on the proposed border wall as well.

House Speaker Paul Ryan praised the president Monday for his decision, just a few days after publicly saying he was against the idea.

“I actually don’t think he should do that,” Ryan said of Trump’s pending DACA decision on Friday. “I believe that this is something that Congress has to fix.”

The reality is, DACA was never the perfect solution.

It was simply a necessity for an understaffed and underfunded Department of Homeland Security that didn’t have the time or resources to deport the 11 million undocumented people living in the U.S. According to a CNN Money article, the cost to

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deport each undocumented immigrant would hover around $10,000. This includes everything from feeding and housing them, as well as detaining and returning them back to their “home.”

But many of these people have already built a life and a home for themselves here. Over 90 percent of those 800,000 are employed, many of them living in America on average since they were six years old.

They’ve each paid $500 registration fees just to be considered for the DACA program.

The fact that the GOP as a whole seems to be at a loss on dealing with Trump is a problem in itself. The party seems content to let Trump soak up headlines and destroy the progress previous administrations have made until he stops being useful, or his inevitable removal from office.

The callous decision comes just after Trump’s poor handling of the violence in Charlottesville, where he made sure to denounce “both sides” of an overwhelmingly one-sided debate. Trump’s decision to repeal Obama’s 2012 executive order is not about fiscal responsibility, but about appeasing his alarmingly racist base, a base that will vote for him no matter what.

As Trump famously put it, “I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters.”

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MEN’S WATER POLO

LBSU hoping to splash at Inland Empire Classic The 49ers have early season success, posting a 3-1 record so far.

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Last weekend, the Long Beach State men’s water polo team started off their season 3-1, taking down quality opponents in UC Santa Barbara, Air Force

and UC Davis at the 2017 Triton Invitational.

“Last weekend went really well, we got to play one of our conference rivals in UCSB and took them down with one of our goalies (Marwan Darwish) playing in his first NCAA game,” senior Duncan Lynde said. “He did a great job and it was a good fight, we all came out and played well. I think we’re ready to go, we’re all just grinding right now and conditioning is heavy but we’re looking forward to the future.”

The lone loss for the 49ers last weekend was to Cal Berkeley, the 2016 NCAA National Champions.

The final score came out to 14-7, but head coach Gavin Arroyo was pleased with his team’s effort and outcome.

“Cal is obviously a good team, that was a pretty tough game,” Arroyo said.

“We hung in there for about three quarters and then they pulled away so it was a little bit closer than the score, I would say. I think the experience is helping us get better.”

The 49ers have come out of the gates strong and are looking to improve on their record this weekend after being predicted to finish in second place in the Golden Coast Conference this year behind Pacific. They will head to the Inland Empire Classic on Saturday to take on Redlands and Pomona-Pitzer.

Both opponents compete at the NCAA Division III level and LBSU will look to capitalize on that.

“Anytime the whistle blows, anything can happen so we’re training

pretty hard this week,” Arroyo said.

“Pomona especially, we’ve always kind of struggled with them and they have a great coach in Alex Rodriguez.”

Long Beach State will have to prepare for this weekend like no other, even if the competition is not as high as last weekend with seven out of 11 teams ranked in the Top 25 last year.

“We’d be a fool to take anyone lightly, so we have to be prepared to do what we have to do. We’re just trying to focus on ourselves,” Arroyo said.

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Sophomore Mary Jo McBride serves the ball in Aug. 26 match against Iowa.

The Long Beach State women’s volleyball team are on the road again on Thursday against Loyola Marymount, and will then travel to San Diego for the Aztec Challenge on Friday and Saturday.

LBSU (1-5) is on a four-game losing streak, its last win was on Aug. 25 against Wright State.

The 49ers are facing a similar situation as last year: not being able to find their footing at the beginning of the season.

After a disappointing road trip to the Wolverine Invitational, the 49ers look to refine their game plan before going into Thursday’s match.

Even with the losses, the members of the women’s volleyball team believe that this road trip saw a positive change in their play.

“Montana was a turning point for us,” senior setter Alexis Patterson said. “And while the record might not reflect it, we felt a new fighting attitude in the locker room.”

Patterson believes the team lacks tenacity, which is crucial

to success.

“Every day I see teammates, who were not tough at the beginning of the season, getting tougher throughout each game and practice,” Patterson said. “It’s a matter of getting that grit and learning how to empower each other.”

LBSU has its first game against LMU (3-3) going into the matchup Thursday.

Last year, the 49ers convincingly swept the Lions 25-17, 2725, 25-13, but with the recent struggles the team is focused on being consistent.

“We’ve really prepared for LMU, learning what they like to run offensively and how they play defensively,” Patterson said.

“We are going into the game with the confidence of beating them on their home court.”

After LMU, the 49ers will travel down to San Diego to face Pacific.

LBSU will prepare for Pacific (3-4) by watching film and creating a game plan for Friday’s game in the Aztec Challenge.

On Saturday, the women’s volleyball team finishes its road trip against San Diego State (2-4).

While the team has not prepared for San Diego State specifically, the 49ers are confident that they are headed in the right direction.

“As a team, we’ve grown even through the losses,” Patterson said. “While the record may not show it, we have made strides to getting where we want to go.

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Tyler Galgas had nine goals and 16 assists last season for the 49ers. LBSU hockey will play its first game on Sept. 30 against Cal State Fullerton at Staples Center.

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LBSU announces 2017 schedule The 49ers will play at Staples Center for their first game of the season

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Long Beach State hockey president Adam Stanovich released the club’s 2017 season schedule this week. Last season, the 49ers went 9-16 in the Division II American Collegiate Hockey Association.

The team is led by head coach Frank Mitrano, who is entering his fifth season at the club. Joining him on the sidelines will be assistant coach Sean Hoang, both alumni of the LBSU hockey team.

LBSU will start the 2017 campaign against Cal State Fullerton at Staples Center after the Anaheim Ducks and Los Angeles Kings game on Sept. 30.

The 49ers will then host their first game against Loyola Marymount on (Oct. 6) at Lakewood Ice. LBSU will play a total of 23 games in the 2017 season, 10 home games at Lakewood Ice and 13 on the road.

After the first home game, the team will go on a five-game road trip.

The 49ers will face Chapman University (Oct. 7), Santa Rosa (Oct. 13), San Jose State (Oct. 14 & 15) and Cal State Northridge (Oct. 21).

The team will have a five-game homestand at Lakewood Ice. The 49ers will host Chapman University (Oct. 26), Grand Canyon (Nov. 3 &

Francis Lemay and Long Beach State hockey returns for the 2017-18 season on Oct. 6 with its home opener against Loyola Marymount.

4), Arizona State (Nov. 11) and Cal State Northridge (Nov. 17).

LBSU will then travel down south to play San Diego State (Nov. 18).

The 49ers will play a back-to-back vs

Loyola Marymount (Nov. 30) and at LMU (Dec. 1).

With a month away from the ice, the 49ers will return for a two-game homestand against Texas A&M (Jan.

10) and USC (Jan. 11).

The club will go on a five-game road trip facing USC (Jan. 12), Northern Colorado (Jan. 19), Colorado University (Jan. 20), Metro State

(Jan. 21) and Cal State Fullerton (Jan. 26).

LBSU will close out the regular season at home against San Diego State (Jan. 27).