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USU REFERENDUM APPROACHES Depending on the vote results, the USU fee could nearly double. By Manny Frausto and Amy Patton Staff Writers
A giant orange banner that reads, “400 student orgs, 30 cubicles; do the math,” hangs above the University Student Union entrance near Friendship Walk. In order to publicize the upcoming USU Referendum, Associated Students
Inc. spent $20, 000 of the $20,700 available in the advertising budget designated for the USU, ASI communication manager Lindsay San Miguel said via email. San Miguel said the funds covered the cost of creating a website, producing videos and printing fliers, brochures, t-shirts and banners in order to remind students to vote. USU and ASI staff members wear light-blue referendum t-shirts around campus regularly. “I hope [ASI] had other things like forms and talking about it before class or during class,” University President Jane Close-Conoley said with regard to ASI’s promotion of the vote. “At the
end of the day, I don’t care very much which way it goes. I just would love it if there were 30,000 students who voted, then you’d know what students think.” If the referendum does not pass at the end of February, a renovation of the USU could still be expected, said David Pantoja, the facilities maintenance supervisor for the USU and the Student Recreation and Wellness Center. “…[The] funding’s got to come from else where…” Pantoja said. “Which means… it’s got to come from somewhere. So existing fees [and] existing programs would probably end up being hurt because of that.” Replacing HVAC air conditioning, plumbing and electrical and mechan-
ical issues would be priorities of any renovation that would occur if the fee increase does not pass, Pantoja said. Dave Edwards, the ASI associate director and the director of the USU and SRWC, said that the $165 fee increase, if it passes, would last for 30 years in order to entirely fund the renovation. “[The] fee thing is always an issue, and the student leaders have been very conscious of that,” Edwards said. ASI Vice President Nayiri Baghdassarian said that if students vote to increase the USU fee, areas of
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The passing of the USU referendum would approve a five-year, $99 million renovation of the University Student Union, requiring the USU fee to nearly double upon the completion of the project, which is anticipated to occur in 2020.
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n Feb. 25 and 26, the student body will have the chance to vote on a referendum to increase student fees in order to fund renovations to the University Student Union building. ASI has spent a large amount of resources to fund high-tech videos, numerous displays and tables outfitted with “complimentary” cups and stationary sets – all so that you will vote to approve an increase of the USU fee, which would result in a total fee of $344 per semester. They may have told you that since the rise in fees would not go into effect until the project is completed in 2020, none of the current students at California State University, Long Beach would be impacted by the
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increase. This raises an as-of-yet unaddressed question: why are we the ones voting on the fee increase? The core principle of the democratic process is that, before an institution enacts a policy, it must derive its power to act from the consent of those who are affected by it. The Associated Student Inc. should be no different. However, in the case of the present USU referendum the USU Board of Trustees has failed to ensure a voting process that is just. Given that the students who would be most impacted by the vote are currently in grades 8 through 12, ASI’s promise to ensure that students are involved in the USU renovations is utterly meaningless. How can the
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students who would be impacted by the fees participate in the process if they have not even graduated from high school yet? Though I am opposed to additional increases in student fees on top of those that have already been added, if we were to approve an increase, it would only be reasonable for us to make the decision for ourselves. It is unethical to decide for those presently uninformed and voiceless future 49ers. If we decide that these renovations are necessary enough to justify a fee increase, it would make sense to impose the burden on ourselves. This way, we could at least pursue the renovations
Panelists will include: ASI Vice President Nayiri Baghdassarian USU Board of Trustees chair Vanessa Mendoza Two student representatives from SQE ....and more!
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Students will have the opportunity to ask questions regarding the upcoming referendum. The USU referendum vote will take place via email on Feb. 25-26.
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ASI discusses desk size, chicken ASI Executive Director Richard Haller endorsed a resolution to increase the number of left-handed desks in classrooms. By Mindy Lockhart Contributing Writer
Associated Students Inc. approved for a second reading a resolution that addresses the issue of desks that are too small for students who are obese, pregnant or have mobility issues. ASI Sen. Joanna Yan developed the resolution after watching a student in class who was having a difficult time trying to use the small desks. “I remember seeing this student,” Yan said. “He was a little larger, and he never identified himself as morbidly obese, but he wouldn’t fit into one of those grey chairs.” Yan discussed this with Disabled Student Services and drew up the resolution in order to tackle the issue. DSS suggested that a table and two chairs be added to classrooms that have small seats in order to accommodate students who are
Above, CSULB students receive a cross of ashes on their foreheads for Ash Wednesday in the USU ballrooms. Ash Wednesday is the first day of the Catholic season of Lent, a time for remembering when Jesus Christ spent 40 days of fasting in the desert, enduring temptation from Satan. Right, Father Samuel Ward delivers a sermon. P hotos by Michael A res Daily 49er
“morbidly obese, pregnant or experience mobility issues,” Yan said to the senate. Not only would the resolution address individuals who cannot fit into the desks, but it would also address the limited amount of lefthanded desks. Yan said that 10 percent of the desks in each classroom on campus should be left-handed. ASI Executive Director Richard Haller thanked Yan at the senate meeting for addressing the issue of left-handed desks. Since he is lefthanded, using a right-handed desk has created some back pain. The Senate also approved a third reading of a resolution that seeks to limit the university’s affiliation with an organization that discriminates against the LGBTQ community. Senators continued to debate the California State University, Long Beach’s association with Chickfil-A, and discussed whether the university should stop accepting the fast food company’s sponsorship inside the Mike and Arlene Walter Pyramid. ASI Sen. Mona Moucharrafie said that if the university disassociates itself from Chick-fil-A, then it shouldn’t associate with organizations that practice animal cruelty when preparing their foods. “Why don’t we get rid of El Pollo Loco?” Moucharrafie said. “I am sure they don’t produce their food animal cruelty free.”
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Mr. President, deal with the radical Islamic threat Efforts to be politically correct have skewed our view of religious extremism.
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hen President Obama spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast last week, he decided once more to deny any relation between terrorism and radical Islam. “Unless we get on our high horse and think that this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ,” Obama said. “In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ. So it is not unique to one group or one religion.” The president and many in our country hold this narrow view of radical Islam. In an attempt to equalize religions, crimes of medieval and historical Christianity are compared to radical Islam. There are a number of things wrong with the President’s blunder. Firstly, the crimes listed by the president in his speech aren’t the best examples. The Crusades, although brutal, were in response to severe Islamic conquest. The Inquisition was an attempt to legally punish the
anti-Christian “heretics,” rather than leaving justice to the mob. Furthermore, Christians made up the majority of the abolitionists. Although Jim Crow supporters often used scripture as a basis for their actions, Quakers, Northern Baptists, Methodists and many more found themselves on the forefront of the abolition movement. Chief leaders of the civil rights movement, like Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., were Christian. Even if we were to put historical ignorance aside and forget that any of this was true, do any of the president’s examples provide a reasonable explanation for Islamic terrorism? Today, Christians and Buddhists are not hijacking planes and blowing themselves up, hanging gays and beheading journalists or raping and oppressing women. At best, one could identify Christian radicalism as extreme anti-abortion violence, which is uncommon. The National Abortion Federation, an organization of abortion providers, reported 11 murders to date and hun-
dreds of cases of arson and property damage among other acts of crime. And this pales in both quantity and brutality to the horrors of radical Islam around the world. Iraq’s government noted nearly 2,000 deaths by ISIS only in last June. The statistics are many and massive in number. Furthermore, mainstream Christians condemn anti-abortion violence while terrorism against infidels is often celebrated in the Muslim world. Polls taken by nonpartisan American think tank Pew Research display immense approval rates in Islamic countries for violence. For example, 86 percent of Jordanian Muslims supported sentencing people to death for leaving Islam. Another 89 percent of Pakistani Muslims support stoning adulterous women. These high approval rates continue in the Middle East for the support of honor killings, terrorist groups, Sharia law, etc. This isn’t to say that all Muslims are represented by terrorist groups and the like — quite the opposite. As Pew Research suggests in 2014, nearly a quarter of the human race is Muslim. Many
Muslims publicly condemn attacks against non-Muslims and Muslims alike. But while ISIS, Hamas and Boko Haram do not represent the views of all Muslims, they still find their beliefs in scripture. The differing actions of other Muslims do not take away from the beliefs of these groups. If we criticized eastern religions half as much as we do western religions, our views on religion would become far more learned and consistent. In wanting to be “nice” and “politically correct,” we dishonor the victims of terrorism and religious oppression everywhere. All we have to do is ask the right questions; instead of looking for the most loosely liberal interpretation of the Qur’an, we must understand how it is being read, understood and applied by its followers across the world. Attorney and writer Matthew Hausman, J.D. sums it up well: “If the president were serious about confronting global terrorism, he would acknowledge the ideology motivating much of it and the historical antecedents that make it possible. This can
certainly be done without impugning all Muslims, particularly those who wish to eliminate extremism in their own communities.” In an interview with Vox last week, President Obama referred to the shooting at a kosher supermarket in Paris as “random.” After the shootings on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo two weeks ago, Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean said on MSNBC that the killers weren’t Muslim. After the beheadings of Westerners in Syria, the president, in his prime-time speech on the eve of the 13th anniversary of 9/11, lectured the nation that ISIS was not Islamic. All this effort taken to ignore the connection between these violent incidents and Islam needs to stop. We are dancing around the issue. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal probably has the best response: “The Medieval Christian threat is under control, Mr. President. Please deal with the Radical Islamic threat today.”
along with an increase in the “student excellency fee” that was passed Spring 2014, ASI knows that current CSULB students don’t want to see any more fees for a building they are already satisfied with. So instead, ASI is distracting you with the proposed renovations and spending your money on videos, displays and goodies to keep you from thinking about the greater implications of nearly doubling the USU fee for future students. In fact, the entire “It Starts with YOU” campaign individualizes what should be a community issue. It claims that we are giving future generations a gift when what we are really giving
them is a bill. Our student government thinks your mindset is so short-term and that you are so easily persuaded that you would fall for distractions and make a decision for future students that ethically should be theirs to make. So yes, I will stop by the ASI tables, pick up the “free” cups and stationary, if only because they were ultimately funded by our student fees. But if ASI thinks it can buy my vote with ad campaigns and “gifts” that we have all already paid for, it has another thing coming. Show our ASI that it is underestimating the CSULB student body. Vote no on the USU Referendum.
Daniel Sunkari is a first-year journalism major.
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CORRECTIONS In Wednesday’s issue, “And the Academy Award goes to. . . some white guy” should have indicated that “Selma” received Oscar nominations for best picture and original song. Also in Wednesday’s issue, “CSULB’s shark lab continues pioneering “ was written by Blake Pinto, contributing writer.
without running the risk of closing off the opportunity of a CSULB education to future students who may struggle to pay for it. But why aren’t we being presented with this option? Why are we being asked to defer the consequences of our decision to the future? Because ASI has done the math, and it doesn’t add up in its favor. According to ASI’s Spring 2014 primary surveys, 80 percent of students are satisfied with the USU as it stands, and only 6 percent of respondents reported dissatisfaction. Considering that CSU student fees have risen 318 percent since 2002, according to official CSU website,
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The Daily 49er recently took a media tour of the University Student Union to learn about what would be fixed in a future renovation, should the USU Referendum pass. The tour was given by: David Pantoja, the facilities maintenance supervisor of the USU and Student Recreation and Wellness Center; Scott Christopherson-Schron, the associate director of facilities operations for the USU and SRWC; and Dave Edwards, the Associated Student Inc. associate director and the director of the USU and SRWC. Here is a breakdown of some of the concerns in the USU.
Long Beach Ballrooms
The ballrooms lack adequate A/V systems and are too small in ratio to the number of students attending CSULB.
Room 100 Beach Auditorium
A redesign of the Beach Auditorium would address ADA requirements and increase seating.
Room 100 has poor drainage to South Plaza and has an aging pipe system that suffers from root intrusion.
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The deteriorating ventilation system and old plumbing is the biggest contributor to the foul smell.
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The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf cannot handle the amount of heat produced by the equipment due to the fact that the space was originally designed as office spaces.
HVAC valves for the meeting rooms are leaking so that air temperatures are hard to control.
Maxson Center
The Maxson center has a central air conditioning unit and poor drainage into the hallway, causing leakage to the second floor.
Passenger elevators The upgrade to a digital system from an outdated relay system cost $260,000.
Planters on terrace
The planters around the third floor have poor drainage systems. Newly cultivated drought resistant plants combat this, along with a waterbox irrigation system that is used to prevent sprinklers from over-watering the plants.
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imminent financial burden would soon be apparent. “For that eighth-grader [potential CSULB student] in the future, maybe we’ll have some way to save [them] money,” Baghdassarian said. “If it doesn’t pass, we would have to cut out of other programs.” The passing of the USU referendum would approve a five-year, $99 million renovation of the University Student Union, requiring the USU fee
to nearly double upon the completion of the project, which is anticipated to occur in 2020. After the completion of the renovation students would pay the new USU fee, which would leap from $179 to $344 per semester and from $258 from $134 for summer session. “About 60 percent of that [fee increase] goes to debt service…” Edwards said. “The Union pays the ‘mortgage’ back to the investors who helped build the building for up front. The remaining 50 dollars or so [from each
student] is what we use to operate – to pay utilities, to do programs and cervices, buy supplies, etc.” San Miguel said that students will have more opportunities to ask their ASI and USU representatives direct questions about the upcoming referendum in the days leading up to the vote. Students will be able to vote via email on this issue on Feb. 25-26. * Editor’s note: The Daily 49er will host a USU Referendum panel discussion Thursday at 3:30 p.m. in Lecture Hall 150. The event is free.
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Local non-profit We Love Long Beach recognizes that nothing brings people together the same way food does, which is why it’s inviting hungry neighbors from 9 to 11 a.m. on Saturday to any one of 30 breakfasts that will be served around the city. Residents are encouraged to sign up via Facebook to open their doors and host breakfast. Those who don’t wish to host can still take part in the event by bringing any dish of their choosing—like a giant potluck. “My hope is that people feel more connected and less alone and isolated from each other,” Scott Jones, executive director of We Love Long Beach, said. “This is just a stepping stone to more conversations, more trust, and stronger, healthier relationships with neighbors.” Through the temptation of breakfast classics like pancakes, eggs and orange juice, neighbors can transform
the dynamic of their blocks by laughing and sharing stories, Jones said. “Part of being human is to be in relationships with people,” Jones said. “In the past neighborhoods have been a place of isolation, rather than connectivity.” The breakfasts will take place all over town, from north Long Beach, to El Dorado Park, and from downtown to a couple spots next to California State University, Long Beach. The citywide breakfast is only one of four events We Love Long Beach promotes throughout the year, including a summer ice-cream social and chili cookouts in the fall. Getting to know your neighbors can be particularly difficult for some people, but Jones doesn’t see any barriers, only excuses. “We’re trying to create positive excuses for people to get to know each other,” said Jones. “It’s like trickery.” We Love Long Beach specializes in creating events that bring individuals from every corner of the city together, according to their site. The official locations are posted on their Facebook page.
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The popular social media platform added a new feature that allows users to choose who will manage their memory after they die. By Branden Raulston Contributing Writer
From the same people who made it easier to poke your friends comes a new feature to interact with the dead. According to a blog post on the social media site last Thursday, Facebook is offering users the option to appoint another user to manage their profile after they die, turning the page into a virtual memorial. Maria Claver, an associate professor of gerontology at CSULB, said that she believes technology is increasingly being used for the purpose of remembering those that have died. “I think more and more people are using technology to memorialize loved ones who have died,” Claver said. “There are websites for creating online memorials where people can post photos and blogs. Of course, we are seeing more on Facebook, where people set up a special page after a person’s death.” The individual chosen to handle a Facebook page of someone who has died is referred to as a legacy contact. Once a user dies, his or her legacy con-
tact has the ability to write a pinned post on their profile, update profile and cover pictures and accept new friend requests. For appointees of more private users, that is all a legacy contact would be allowed to do. The legacy contact would not be permitted to look through old conversations, alter the timeline or delete friends. “I think it’s great! I think when someone—especially at a young age— passes away [their friends and family] would like to remain in contact,” Kelsey Ansbro, a sophomore business management major at California State University, Long Beach, said. “It’s nice to know that you can write on their Facebook wall and leave an ‘I miss you” message.” Ansbro’s excitement comes with concern. “It might get a little weird if the new owner begins posting random photos,” Ansbro said. “But if they’re in memory of whoever passed, then I see it as something nice to remember them by.” Ansbro may only have a single concern about the feature, but sophomore biology major Rebekah Spaargaren is put off by the idea. “[It] makes me uncomfortable,”
Spaargaren said. “That’s not what I would want if a person is dead, their networking websites should not be tampered with because it’s not them. I don’t understand why there would be a need to take over someone’s social media after their death.” As the 11-year-old Facebook ages into its preteens, the demographic of its users is aging as well. According to a report published by iStrategyLabs, the number of users with ages ranging between18 to 24 dropped 7.5 percent and users 35 to 54 years of age increased 41.4 percent from 2011 to 2014. Additionally, what-if.xkcd.com, a website that creates “what if” reports, predict that in the next century or two dead Facebook accounts will outnumber those of the living. Technology is not utilized only for the purpose of memorials and grieving, but also for the process of dying, Claver said. “Some people going through the dying process set up blogs to share their journeys,” Claver said. “I would imagine that it is healing to be able to say what you want to say in writing before dying.”
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KOREA COMES TO TOWN
Looking for redemption in Palm Springs The Long Beach State softball team will begin the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic on Thursday with a tricky doubleheader.
The Dirtbags used their exhibition game to get a better look at their young pitching staff. By Eddie Rivera
By Josh Barajas Contributing Writer
Bobby Yagake | Daily 49er
Contributing Writer
As of Tuesday, the Dirtbags have scored 19 runs total against opposing teams.
A smorgasbord of pitchers fueled the Long Beach State baseball team to a 3-0 shutout victory Wednesday night over NC Dinos of the Korean Professional Baseball League at Blair Field. Freshman right-hander Chris Mathewson made his debut for the Dirtbags (3-1). He was perfect through his first two innings, and he gave up his first hit in the third. Mathewson pitched three innings and gave up no runs. “For the most part, I think I did pretty well,” Mathewson said. NC Dinos right-hander MyungHwan Park started strong as well, sitting down the first nine hitters he faced. He struck out four. At the top of the fourth, junior
right-hander Trey Ferketic replaced Mathewson at the mound. Ferketic continued the trend of the game and went 1-2-3 in his only inning played. At the bottom of the fourth, the Dinos made a substitution on the mound. Right-hander Chang-Sung Ko replaced Park, and the Dirtbags’ offense took off. A fourth inning error by Dinos’ right fielder Sung-Bum Na helped freshman outfielder Chris McCready land on third after McCready doubled. Junior third basemen Alex DeGoti bunted and brought in McCready for the first run of the game. Junior first basemen Jonathon Serven’s double split the gap left-center field, which brought in DeGoti for the second run of the inning.
Sophomore second basemen Nico Maida continued the fourth inning offense by getting a base hit and bringing in Serven for the run. The Dirtbags scored three runs on four hits in the fourth inning to take the lead 3-0. Head Coach Troy Buckley said there were a lot of positive things across the board to take from this game, but the Dirtbags still have a lot to improve on. “The least positive thing is the amount of strikeouts,” said Buckley. “[We were] facing a lot of different arms so that’s not easy.” Left-handed pitcher Sung-Ki Min came into the game for the Dinos in the fifth inning and proceeded to hit two batters: freshman catcher David
Banuelos and freshman first baseman Luke Rasmussen. The Dirtbags used a different pitcher in every inning for the remainder of the game. Sophomore right-hander Austin McGeorge, sophomore righty Vaughn Berberet, freshman lefty Keola Paragas, freshman righty Sean Trimble and junior Logan Lombana all got action on the mound. Buckley said it was a good opportunity to give them each some experience. “Ultimately, everyone is going to have to help us at some point down the road,” Buckley said. The Dirtbags host Utah Valley in a three-game weekend series starting Friday at 6 p.m. at Blair Field.
By Kayce Contatore
said that the team has to be in the right state of mind for the game and focus on not getting too hyped up. “The mindset is just going in knowing that if we can execute and handle the situation that we can come out with a win,” Stallings said. The 49ers are coming off of their sixth sweep of the season on Feb. 13 when they defeated No. 14 Cal State Northridge in a dominant performance. Windisch led the defensive effort for The Beach with a career high of 18 digs, his seventh doublefigure dig performance this season. Stallings directed the offense with 33 assists helping junior opposite hitter John La Rusch and junior outside hitter Cody Martin end the night with 13 kills a piece. BYU is coming off a strong road win of its own, defeating No. 2 USC on Feb. 13. Sophomore outside hitter Jake Langlois led the Cougars with 15 kills, six blocks and six digs against the Trojans. Junior opposite hitter Matt Underwood added a season high 14 kills in the four-set win over the Trojans. The Cougars have an impressive .290 attack percentage compared to their opponents’ .197 percentage. Windisch said that if everyone does their job on the court, the team would be able to come home with a win. “They’re a big team,” Windisch said. “If we’re able to take care of them at the net, the back court can keep digging the ball.” The 49ers start their two-game road series against BYU Friday in Provo, Utah at 6 p.m.
Men’s Volleyball
Contributing Writer
Bobby Yagake | Daily 49er
LBSU players Cody Martin (far left) and Bryce Yould (left center) attempt to attack the ball against UCSB on Feb. 6 in the Walter Pyramid. After winning the following game against Cal State University, Northridge, LBSU will travel to Utah to face Brigham Young University on Friday.
The Beach faces fierce Cougars in road test The 49ers look for another road win as they travel to No. 5 BYU.
The No. 9 Long Beach State men’s volleyball team will look to senior libero Ryan Windisch to have another career night as it heads to No. 5 Brigham Young for two matchups. The 49ers (8-4, 5-4 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation) will travel to Utah without their head coach Alan Knipe, who is out with personal health issues. Although it has been difficult for the team missing its leader, assistant coach Tyler Hildebrand said everyone is handling it well and the team is looking forward to welcoming back coach Knipe in a few weeks. “Coach Knipe is Long Beach State volleyball,” Hildebrand said. “Alan has been great with communication...and it has been seamless other than missing the big guy.” The 49ers split the overall series last season with each team winning on its home court. The Cougars (9-3, 8-2) will have the advantage of playing at home as they are 6-0 at Smith Fieldhouse. Hildebrand said BYU is always a tough team at home and has some of the best crowd attendance in the nation. “[BYU] plays with a lot of emotion,” Hildebrand said. “They are hard to stop when [they are] playing good volleyball.” In the overall series between the 49ers and the Cougars, BYU holds the edge with a 27-21 record and a 15-7 record at home against LBSU. Sophomore setter Curtis Stallings
The Long Beach State softball team will try to bounce back from the Easton Desert Classic as it gets set for five games in three days in the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic in Palm Springs. The 49ers’ (6-4) schedule is about to ramp up significantly with a doubleheader against No. 11 Kentucky (6-2) and No. 18 Missouri (4-1) on Thursday. LBSU lost its previous game against Northwestern on Feb. 15, but head coach Kim Sowder is not too concerned. “I was actually happy with the way our team made adjustments towards the end of the [Northwestern game],” Sowder said. “We put ourselves in position, but we didn’t get that key punch.” The 49ers are clicking offensively, averaging 5.7 runs per game through 10 games. A lot of their productivity is coming from new players. Freshman infielder Julia Lombardi, along with several other newcomers, is off to a terrific start with a .391 batting average. She said she felt the team has been playing a “see ball, hit ball” style of softball. “I feel like I’m not over thinking,” Lombardi said. “And I’m just letting myself play as I know I can.” Tennessee transfer Haley Tobler and freshman infielder LT Torres are also making huge contributions. Tobler is tied for second on the team in hits, while Torres leads the team in on base percentage. “I expected [the new players] to come out strong and work really well as a team,” Torres said. “And I think throughout the season we will excel and fulfill our potential.” Kentucky is coming off its best season in school history after making it to the College World Series. They own a solid pitching duo in junior right-hander Kelsey Nunley and sophomore left-hander Meagan Prince. The Wildcats have not allowed more than three runs in six of their first eight games. “I think we’ll do fine if we take it pitch by pitch,” Lombardi said. “Not like, ‘Oh my gosh, we’re playing a top ranked team.’ If we go in thinking like that then we probably won’t do well.” Missouri is also off to a statistically impressive start to the season. The Tigers have outscored their opponents 28-5. Their pitching staff has allowed more than one run in only one out of their first five games. “We have some pretty big games this weekend, some tough schools,” Torres said. “But, I think we can hang. We should be able to compete and I think it’s going to be fun.” The 49ers will travel to Palm Springs for the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic starting Thursday against Kentucky at 3:30 p.m. They will face Oklahoma State (2-5) on Friday, and then wrap up the tournament with a doubleheader against Syracuse (4-6) and Maryland (6-4).