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DAILY 49ER Overcrowding California State University, Long Beach

Vol. LXVII, Issue 3

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To relive parking lot overcrowding, the campus makes offsite parking available.

By Greg Diaz Editor-in-Chief

Students angrily circling parking lots the first week of classes might find a little relief in an underutilized service the school provides.

Overcrowded parking lots the early in the semester are nothing new, but this year the school has an agreement with the Assumption of Blessed Virgin Greek Orthodox Church to allow students to park.

The school is also providing shuttles that run from the off site lot to campus.

When the general parking lots begin to fill up, university police officers disperse into the lots to inform drivers of the overf low lot.

“Someone handed me a slip [with the address] in the parking lot,” senior film major William Jaskold said. “I was driving around for half a CD, so probably at least 30 minutes.”

Promotion of the extra parking has been kept fairly quiet, according to Brigitte Driller, CSULB’s Sustainable Transportation Coordinator.

Other than the slips of paper handed out at times of peak overcapacity, the only other promotion is a paragraph on the university’s Parking

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Above, students navigate through crowds waiting to check their backpacks outside the university bookstore. Below, on day two of the semester, students fill the bookstore waiting in long lines to purchase their supplies for the semester.

CSULB enrolled a record 37,500 students this semester

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WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL

Piecing it together Pre-season injuries force the 49ers to look towards freshmen to lift the team this season.

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Senior setter Jenelle Hudson, no. 9, will lead many new faces on the women’s volleyball team as LBSU seeks to repeat as Big West champs.

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I think that this campus is really sought after because of the atmosphere, but once you get [to campus] it starts to get really congested.

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By Kayce Contatore Assistant Sports Editor

-Sam Jeter, English credential student

What began as a season the Long Beach State women’s volleyball team planned to repeat as conference champions has morphed into a season where head coach Brian Gimmillaro must teach 14 new players to work together.

The 49ers were Big West champs last season after going 16-0 in the conference. But for two of the teams top hitters, their season ended before it began due to injuries. Redshirt freshman Sherridan Atkinson and sophomore Anete Brinke have been sidelined with an ankle and a shoulder injury, respectively.

“I would say before the season started I think we could have been

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the surprise team in the country and now we’re going to have to surprise ourselves,” Gimmillaro said.

LBSU was chosen to finish second in the league, after Hawaii, in the coaches’ poll released earlier this month. Gimillaro said that Hawaii deserves to be chosen first since they have many returners from last year.

Despite the adversity, Hudson has kept her spirits high for this season and is prepared to lead her team to another Big West championship and the NCAA tournament. The 2014

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“I’ve been driving [to school] for the past three years and my brother is an incoming freshman and I’ve told him that parking on Monday and this whole week is going to be crazy,” said Adam Ramos, a junior majoring in healthcare administration. “So he left [home] two hours early just to get parking. If you get here at 7:30 you’ll find parking but if you get here at 11, you won’t. It’s impossible.”

Motorists parking the lot have to be out once the last shuttle drops them off, according to Driller. The lot is only available for overf low parking between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. with free shuttles to campus roughly every 10 minutes. And the parking lot is only being made available until Thursday of this week.

“It’s been working out well so far this year,” Driller said. “I’m sill

Above, California State University, Long Beach has over 13,000 parking spaces on campus.

Below, Through Thursday, campus police officers will walk around full parking lots and parking structures on campus to reccommend students trying to find parking use the overflow lot at the Greek Orthodox Church on E. Colorado Street.

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worried that someone’s car is going to get trapped when they close the gates.”

The school has roughly 13,000 parking spaces for a campus with about 37,500 students, plus faculty and staff. Despite this, there were very few students parked in the overf low lot, with only one or two getting off the shuttle by the afternoon.

“The lot was busiest earlier in the day,” said Ralph Caldin, the shuttle driver for the overf low lot. “It was not full at any point today.”

The use of overf low parking is not new, last year the school used a lot near the marina for students, Driller said. But the use of the lot at the Greek Orthodox Church was established as part of a trade, Driller said. The school traditionally lets the Greek Orthodox Church use its lots for overf low parking during the Greek Festival held during Labor Day Weekend.

The Assumption of Blessed Virgin Greek Orthodox Church is located at 5761 E. Colorado St. and any driver parking there will need a valid CSULB parking permit.

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Professor Sabine Reddy is the program director for a new supply chain management degree at CSULB.

By Nicca Panggat News Editor

A new degree program in supply chain management at California State University, Long Beach offers students an education in some of the business behind the city’s record-breaking ports and how to handle the management of goods and services along the production line.

Sabine Reddy, a longtime business professor at CSULB with knowledge in economics and finance, is the new director of the master’s program.

The Daily 49er spoke with Reddy about the new degree, her role in the program and what students can expect.

What exactly is supply chain management?

Supply chain management is a discipline in business where you’re looking at how goods get to the consumer

all the way from the production and sourcing of the raw materials to making components, shipping, transportation, logistics, and warehousing and distribution. So if you think about Target or some company like that, they buy all sorts of stuff in China… they manage their suppliers in China, tell them what they should make, when they should make it, when they should ship it… They find the best efficient way to get the things here, they monitor that it’s actually being shipped and what it costs and so forth, and then they deal with warehousing and distribution… all the way into their stores.

What inspired you to start this program at CSULB? The program actually has grown out of an earlier program that the economics department was running called the Masters in Global Logistics… And theirs was very logistics focused and they had a small cohort of students, about maybe 12-15, but they wanted to grow. And so they approached us to see if we wanted to maybe revise the program and sort of re-issue it. So we went back and forth – are we going to revise it or are we going to make something new? And we decided we’d make something new and it is a collaboration between economics and the college of business.

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Sabine Reddy, program director of CSULB’s new master of science in supply chain management degree, works in her office on the first Tuesday of the fall semester.

What does your role as the program director encompass?

I have to do with the scheduling of faculty for the classes. I participate in the admission of the students, so I get to review their materials, their statement of purpose, their resume... We do a lot of marketing because it’s a new program so we have to let people know that it’s there. We run information sessions once a month... We are present

with our sponsors, industry sponsors.

We have an advisory board, for example for our undergraduate program…

We represent to them what it is that we want, solicit internships, things like that, work with placement.

How do you think this program will benefits students at Cal State Long Beach?

It is certainly a great preparation

for the job market all around us. Given the fact that, the management of the supplies of the stuff that is being used and sold here, about 40 percent of all containerized goods come through the ports of Long Beach and LA that I used in the US. It’s a huge area for managing the process, and there are lots of different jobs such as logisticians, purchasing managers, supply chain manager.

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Looking beyond Fingerprints Music

By Kevin Flores Arts & Life Editor

I swear it’s true: There really are record stores in Long Beach not called Fingerprints Music. Now don’t get me wrong, I love me some Fingerprints as much as the next person, but sometimes… well sometimes you need something a bit more genre specific, especially when you’ve just got to get your hands on that one-off promotional 7-inch from that super obscure Chilean band. Times like those call for a specialist, so here’s a referral.

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Toxic Toast Records 757 Pine Ave. Long Beach, CA 90813 (562) 999 - 2516

Not even a year old, Toxic Toast Records has cornered a very specific niche in the Long Beach record store landscape. It’s the place to go if you’re looking to score some punk, ska or new wave pressings. They also have a nice selection of imports, especially from Japanese bands.

Bagatelle Records 260 Atlantic Ave. Long Beach, CA 90802 (562) 432 - 7534

Their website proudly boasts: “Vinyl isn’t dead. Not while Bagatelle Records is still around.” And you can see why when you enter the store; there are records from floor to ceiling and occupying cubbyholes all along the walls. Just make sure to stop by an ATM before your visit because this place is strictly cash only.

Dyzzy on Vinyl 3004 E. 7th St. Long Beach, CA 90804 (562) 438 - 8928

Got a hankering for some good ole classic rock? Then Dyzzy on Vinyl is where you need to be. Getting elbows-deep in their dusty bins of old records is fun enough, but the store itself is warm and inviting. The quirky décor of odd knickknacks and record covers as wallpaper immerses you in a world all its own.

Third Eye Records 2701 E. 4th St. Long Beach, CA 90814 (714) 415 - 9814

This is a cool little corner shop that has a real old school record store vibe. They pride themselves in stocking rare and import vinyl releases as well as all your other favorites. They occasionally have in-store performances and will even show your record collection some love by cleaning your vinyl for $0.25 a pop.

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Hey, thanks Trevor Trevor Hall’s seventh studio album “Kala” will send you to the hammock.

By Madison D’Ornellas Opinions Editor

Classes and parking and buying books and lines, lines, lines everywhere can make the first week of school the most stressful on the calendar.

If you are among the 37,500 students in need of some relief, look no further.

Your therapeutic music go-to has come in the form of Trevor Hall’s seventh studio album “Kala.”

Written in Hawaii and recorded in Los Angeles, “Kala” includes melodies from the 2014 EP “Chapter of the Forrest” and 2015 EP “Unpack Your Memories.” Hall sticks to his guns on “Kala” and continues to soothe with coarse vocals and acid jazz undertones.

Whether you’re a dedicated Trev-

or Hall fan or just someone passing through his river of healing sounds, this album will get you.

“Kala” is the last installment in Hall’s trilogy of self-discovery. Meaning “time” in Sanskrit, “Kala” is Hall’s way of teaching listeners about the ambiguity and fluidity of time.

Each song on the album sounds like a lesson, a gospel according to Trevor.

You might want to start burning your Target-bought incense now.

“This album mirrors my journey with time…. my journey to surrender more deeply to it. ‘Kala’ is about time the healer, time the teacher, time the friend, and all the lessons within,” Hall wrote on his website. “My hope and prayer is that these songs and stories help inspire us to look at this journey of life in all its vastness rather than its limitation.”

Sounds heavy, eh?

But “Kala” is far from a two-hour power yoga session. It’s a reggae and guitar-leaden sermon that begins with the body-rocker “To Zion.” The album continues its meditation with the sleepy “All in Due Time” and the piano ballad “Forgive” featuring slam poet Luka Lesson.

Even at 16 tracks, the album never

strays into repetitiveness. Each song is its own soothing entity.

Hall detours from a mid-album lull on “Kala” with an ode to all the mommas on “Mother” featuring Xavier Rudd and Tubby Love.

The album’s eighth and highlight track is “You Can’t Rush Your Healing,” which drives home Hall’s true intentions for “Kala.”

“But everybody’s got that chapter of darker, darker days. Saturn seems to be returning and his essence can’t be tamed,” Hall hums. “You can’t rush your healing. Darkness has its teachings.”

“Kala” concludes with the drum-driven “Guidance,” the earthy, groovy “Belo Galo” and the head nodding, Jack Johnson-esque “You Got My Love.”

The point of this album is to get you to close your eyes and sway.

Trevor Hall is an expert at taking it easy, and with “Kala” he permeates the soul and coaxes us into a state of relaxation with softly sung lyrics and melodic guitars.

“Kala” won’t complete your homework or pay your bills, but this album is the music you listen to on the way to class, in transit and whenever you need some solace.

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Emily Ratajkowski making model-turned-actress flip work There are plenty of stars who were music-video vixens before making it big: Alicia Silverstone was Aerosmith’s muse in the ‘90s, and Courteney Cox boogied with Bruce Springsteen pre-”Friends.”

But few have turned as many heads as Emily Ratajkowski, the 24-year-old model who danced topless alongside the clothed Robin Thicke and Pharrell in 2013’s “Blurred Lines.”

Her provocative appearance helped make the video one of the most talked-about of the past decade — it’s been viewed more than 400 million times on YouTube — and jump-started her career. Within months, she landed her first film role, in David Fincher’s “Gone Girl,” playing opposite Ben Affleck as an enamored mistress.

This month, the onetime Encinitas, Calif., resident — who now lives in a loft in downtown L.A.’s Arts district — stars in “We Are Your Friends” as a 20-something who ends up dating the famous DJ who’s also her boss.

Q: OK, be real: You weren’t at all bothered by the fact that in “Blurred Lines,” all the women were nude while the men were not?

A: We took something that on paper sounded really sexist and misogynistic and made it more interesting, which is why women love that video and why it became a viral success.

There’s an attitude and energy there that goes beyond girls shaking their ass around suited men — a confidence that I think is refreshing.

We don’t have any images of nude women other than in really beautiful magazines shot by great photographers that aren’t overly sexualized.

And I think that “Blurred Lines”

wasn’t overly sexualized, and that’s what made it interesting.

Q: When you say you made it more interesting — did you have a say in the creative direction?

A: I said no to it originally, and then I met with the director (Diane Martel), who ended up doing the tour for Miley Cyrus.

I laid it out to her up front: “I’m not gonna be naked and running around.” Then we had a really great conversation and hit it off as women and creative people and I think that’s how the video happened. … I definitely think that no one expected me to have any ideas about it. When people asked me about it initially, I think they thought I’d be like, “It was just really fun and exciting.”

I was like, “No, actually, here’s what I think about sexuality and empowerment and the way we look at nudity in our country and this is what bothers me and here’s a great opportunity, thanks for asking.”

Q: Do you mind that you’re so still closely associated with the music video?

A: It’s a weird thing. Rick Springfield wrote “Jessie’s Girl,” and he probably gets sick of talking about “Jessie’s Girl.”

The thing is, I didn’t write “Blurred Lines.” I didn’t direct the music video. I’m really happy for the success, but it is kind of a funny thing to follow me around.

Q: How did you start modeling?

A: When I was 14, I had an acting teacher who was like, “She should think about modeling.”

And my mom was like, ‘No, absolutely not. She’s too young, and I’m not going to put my daughter into an industry like that.’

At first, when someone ap-

proached me to say I should get head shots I started crying in the car because I thought they meant a needle to the head.

I definitely didn’t understand it. I was too young.

Q: Was it hard to be judged physically while you were going through puberty?

A: I’ve always been full-figured in a not-boyish way. So I remember them measuring my hips and being like, “What? I’ve never even thought about this part of my body before.” … I developed very young, so I was more conscious of sexuality and being a pretty girl-woman.

Having men look at you and really having no idea what sex is a very strange experience.

Q: How did studio executives treat you when they learned you wanted to transition from modeling to acting?

A: Hollywood is a boys club, and that’s something I thought was a stereotype — and it’s not. That really shocked me.

Still shocks me. Everyone’s helping their buddies out and pressing their buddies and playing tennis with their buddies and making movies with their buddies, and that grosses me out.

I know that sometimes, I get in a room because someone has said, “I have this model — she was in the ‘Blurred Lines’ video? Oh, and ‘Gone Girl’! So she’s also a good actress.” I’m sure that’s there.

Q: Your character in the film is a Stanford dropout, and you left UCLA after four quarters. Why did you decide to quit school?

A: I went in for the art department, which was really small, and I thought it’d be a school within a big

school. But I didn’t really find that.

I also find fine art education really arbitrary.

Some of the conceptual stuff they were pushing I didn’t really agree with. When people are like — “College! Oh my God! Ultimate freedom!” — I didn’t feel that way.

My roommates were loving hitting the town, but I wasn’t as psyched about going to the frats.

Q: I heard you’re going to be a contributor to Lenny, Lena Dunham’s upcoming newsletter for young women. What will you be writing?

A: It’s a little overwhelming, especially because it hasn’t been launched yet, so I don’t have any examples.

It’s an amazing platform and I want to take it seriously and whatever I write to be fun and interesting but also really cover a lot.

Q: You have almost 3 million followers on Instagram. How conscious are you of the pictures you post?

A: You get people who are like, “If you want to be taken seriously as an actress, don’t post any sexy photos.” And that’s … . You can do whatever you want — that’s what being a woman is. That being said, I definitely think there’s a performance side of it. It’s not me. I’m not posting my meal when I think it’s a great, delicious meal. I do factor in the audience and cater to them. You put on an act a little bit. I want to keep it going because I think it’s an important platform and a lucky thing you can have as an actress. Before, everything that was being put out in the world was being dictated by other people.

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Cheating is bad, but leaking is worse for Avid Life Media, the company that owns Ashley Madison, it is evident by the leak that data from customers who paid to be removed had been retained. The service has since been made free to users.

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Last week a hacker group going by the moniker “Impact Team” breached the servers of Ashley Madison, a hookup site mainly marketed to people looking to engage in extramarital affairs.

The subsequent online data dump that outed the site’s users has started a heated debate: Is what the hackers did ethically sound?

The quick answer is no.

The don’t-cheat-and-nothing-badwill-happen-to-you self-righteous camp has applauded the hackers. They see the hack as a moral triumph—adulterous spouses getting what was coming to them. After all, breaking a vow of monogamy is hurtful and destructive.

In this light, the hackers are merely whistleblowers, doing public good by revealing deception.

In a manifesto published alongside the stolen data, the hackers pointed at Ashley Madison’s unscrupulous business practices as their justification.

They claimed that the Canadian-based company duped users, citing a $19 full delete option the website offered that would ostensibly wipe any trace of a user ever signing up.

Although this service made millions

Revealing personal information always has unintended consequences.

But how does punishing the same users you claim are being gouged by Ashley Madison make any sense?

The revelation of sensitive and private data is also troubling. Infidelity, as reprehensible as it is, is a personal matter that should be kept in the marital sphere. The schadenfreudes relishing the shaming of cheaters fail to realize that exposing information about a cheater also carries the very real potential of publicly humiliating the cheaters’ spouses.

Moreover, in an article on The Intercept, journalist Glenn Greenwald points out there are many people who may have used the site for things other than out-and-out cheating such as those in polyamorous relationships, those who had signed up but never actually went

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Launched in 2001, Ashley Madison is an online dating service originating in Canada. Last week, a hacker group released all users personal information, including names and addresses. through with any sexual acts or even researchers or journalists observing the site’s activity.

Real world consequences of the hacks have already begun: extortion, spamming and even suicides have been blamed on the data dump of personal information, which includes users’ names, zip codes, email addresses and sexual proclivities.

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It’s also important to remember that people around the world, some who live in countries that make it a capital offence to be gay and who use the site to facilitate discreet sexual liaisons use Ashley Madison. The information that has been leaked could even put their lives at risk.

This particular situation perfectly demonstrates the importance of being able to think critically about current

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events and consider a myriad of nuances.

Nothing is ever black and white and are always more complex than sensationalist headlines make them out to be.

You can still feel that cheating and lying to your partner is immoral and yet disagree with what the hackers did. The ethical quandary posed here is not so much a question of who is right, but who is less wrong.

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President Jane Close Conoley announced on Friday during her second CSULB convocation that the campus would be a smoke-free campus by August 2016. In addition to the ban, the school will launch an anti-smoking campaign called “Breathe.” We asked 49ers about their view on the upcoming ban. Below are some of their responses.

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are your thoughts on the smoking ban?

“I believe it should be designed for designated areas.

I cam from a junior college and there was sections that allowed for smoking and others that don’t so I believe that would be a better way to help both sides.”

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LBSU soccer’s architect speaks

By Josh Barajas Sports Editor

When the final whistle blew Friday night and LBSU’s win against No. 4 UCLA was cemented, it was only the latest piece of evidence that Mauricio Ingrassia has transformed the women’s soccer program.

The Bruins became the highest ranked opponent the 49ers had ever beaten. The win also made it a lucky 13 ranked opponents defeated

by LBSU since Ingrassia took the head-coaching job.

The recent successes heavily contrasts LBSU’s early years under Ingrassia. In 2004, Ingrassia’s first season in charge, all that was asked of him was to take the 49ers to the Big West Tournament.

Now, the expectations for the soccer team are at the highest they’ve ever been. Ingrassia took some time to talk to the Daily 49er about some of this season’s objectives.

What’s your main focus this season? Is it always the next game or do you have an eye on the Big West Tournament?

Our program now has a history. When I first started [the focus] was just to get to the Big West Tournament, but now we’ve been to the [NCAA] Tournament, we’ve made a run, so the big picture for us is to go further than that and that’s to get to the Final Four. So, that’s what we’re working towards in the big picture. But, obviously

you break that down and before we do that we’ve got to make the tournament, and before we make the tournament we’ve got to focus on one game at a time. We have the small picture, but yes we have the big picture overall; tradition is the best motivator.

You mentioned the objective in your first season, as head coach of LBSU, was to just make the Big West Tournament. Are there more differences than similarities now in your 12th year?

[That first year] is the whole world away; everything has changed, the expectations are much higher. The Players know that, we know that, the alumni know that and we work very hard to fulfill those expectations every year.

Aside from tradition, was this summer’s Women’s World Cup also great motivator for your team and you as well, being a women’s soccer coach?

Absolutely, I think it motivated the country.

And I think some people felt the excitement of the game and I do feel that it’s translating to the college teams. I’m seeing crowds that are increasing and I’m seeing more interest and people asking questions. I was able to speak in front of the century club and they were so jazzed about the [U.S. Women’s National Team] winning and I went and said a few words about the final and everybody was just 100 percent glued in. I think that [final against Japan], because it was so exciting with so many goals so early, I think it just captivated everybody. So yeah, I do feel like that definitely helped soccer in this country.

How would you describe your style of coaching? Is there a style or formation that you go to every time?

Our style of play is positional play. We are

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Athletic Director Vic Cegles (left) talks with Mauricio Ingrassia (right) before the 49ers’ matchup with UCLA last Friday. The 49ers won 1-0 against the then no. 4 team in the nation. looking to find superiorities all over the field, whether it’s in numbers or in position, and that’s what you saw on Friday night [against UCLA].

We move the ball to try to find the superiorities and the players have really taken that as their identity, which is really fun. It has taken us a couple years to really have it be engrained and Friday night was a great example of what we’re capable of doing.

Do you have any favorite coaches or teams that you like to watch and model your style of off?

We watch Barcelona, a lot. We watch teams that try to play the way we play. But I pay attention to all the games as well, I watch a lot of English Premier League games and I’m from Ar-

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Big West Player of the Year averaged 10.2 assists per set and ranked second on the team in digs with 316 last season.

Hudson said that the team has great potential and talent, but it’s all about putting everything together and working towards the goals they set for themselves.

“I wouldn’t compare the teams because they’re different a lot of different roles and different sets of players,” Hudson said. “We have a lot of new players, some are fresh onto college and some are new to the program. [This season will] be more about us than worrying about the other team.”

The 49ers are looking for a group of freshmen, transfer athletes and only three seasoned players to lead the team to a second consecutive Big West title. LBSU welcomes junior hitter Nele Barber from Marquette and senior middle blocker Hayley Benson from Ball State to help the team rebuild this season.

“We are good, but we are asking some people to go beyond what you would ask a freshman to do,” Gimillaro said. “They didn’t see themselves being on the court this year and now they are.”

The 2014 Big West Freshman of the Year Ashley Murray led the 49ers in blocking averaging with 1.21 blocks per set and hit .342 percent on the season. Murray kept up the positivity saying that the new faces are capable of lifting the team to a great season.

“I think we so far have a lot to do to get where we were last year and it’s looking like we can do better,” Murray said. “We have a lot of people that are looking like they can potentially be some surprises.”

Instead of looking ahead to the end of the season, Gimillaro is keeping his teams focused on the present in order to improve their development.

He said they have come a long way over the summer in terms of getting used to being on the court together.

“Right now just trying to teach them how to focus and make them more skilled everyday and better teamwork everyday,” Gimillaro said. “Because of the youth and because of people being in positions they weren’t planned I’m trying to create small focuses.”

The new look 49ers face their first obstacle, Alabama, on Friday at the Walter Pyramid at 7 p.m.

Some quick facts about women’s volleyball aLBSU leads the all-

time series against nine of its 15 nonconference rivals, including a combined 19-0 all-time record against Duke, Saint Mary’s, Illinois State, Rutgers, Harvard and Denver.

aHawaii is the only conference rival to lead the all-time series against The Beach. The Rainbow Warriors lead with a 28-17-1 record.

aDespite going 16-0 in

the conference, the 49ers only led in one statistical category in the Big West in 2014; LBSU led in solo blocks with 42 in conference play and 84 overall.

WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL 2015 SCHEDULE

The 49er women’s soccer head coach Mauricio Ingrassia talks about this his first year in charge.

gentina so I watch the Argentinian League, my hometown team [Rosario Central].

Do you feel any pressure to win something, or make the NCAA Tournament since you haven’t been to the tourney in two years and haven’t hung a championship banner at George Allen Field in three?

We definitely want to get [a banner] this year and go to the tournament this year. Really it’s just a cycle, our main focus is to get to the NCAA Tournament and that’s why we load up with the types of games that we play, so we can give ourselves two opportunities: one with the RPI and significant wins and the other with winning out conference tournament… Definitely this year would be a good year to get back in.

Date Opponent Location Time (PT) LBSU/CSUF Baden Invitational Aug. 28 Alabama HOME 7 p.m.

Aug. 29 Duke HOME 5 p.m.

Aug. 30 St. Mary’s HOME 1 p.m.

Aug. 31 Bayi (exhibition) HOME 7 p.m.

Harvard Invitational Sep. 4 vs. Illinois State Boston, MA 1 p.m.

Sep. 5 vs. Rutgers Boston, MA 7 a.m.

Sep. 5 at Harvard Boston, MA 4 p.m.

LBSU/LMU Mizuno Invitational Sep. 10 at LMU Los Angeles, CA 7 p.m.

Sep. 11 Oakland HOME 5 p.m.

Sep. 12 Stony Brook HOME 11 a.m.

Sep. 12 Central Arkansas HOME 8 p.m.

LBSU Mizuno Invitational Sep. 18 San Diego HOME 11:30 a.m.

Sep. 18 UCLA HOME 7:30 p.m.

Sep. 19 Oregon State HOME 7 p.m.

Sep. 25 UC Davis* HOME 7 p.m.

Sep. 26 UC Irvine* HOME 7 p.m.

Oct. 2 at Cal Poly* San Luis Obispo 7 p.m.

Oct. 3 at UC Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 7 p.m.

Oct. 6 UC Riverside* HOME 7 p.m.

Oct. 11 at Hawai’i* Honolulu, HI TBA Oct. 17 CSUN* HOME 7 p.m.

Oct. 23 UC Santa Barbara* HOME 7 p.m.

Oct. 24 Cal Poly* HOME 7 p.m.

Oct. 29 at UC Irvine* Irvine, CA 7 p.m.

Oct. 31 at UC Davis* Davis, CA 7 p.m.

Nov. 4 at Cal State Fullerton* Fullerton, CA 7 p.m.

Nov. 6 Hawai’i* HOME 7 p.m.

Nov. 13 at CSUN* Northridge, CA 7 p.m.

Nov. 20 Cal State Fullerton* HOME 7 p.m.

Nov. 21 at UC Riverside* Riverside, CA 7 p.m.

Nov. 27 Pacific HOME 7 p.m.

Nov. 28 Denver HOME 1 p.m.