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For and by the LBC The Daily 49er talked to James Suazo about the issues facing Long Beach this year.

By Grester Celis-Acosta Staff Writer

Over 400 local residents are expected to attend the fifth annual People’s State of the City event. The Daily 49er interviewed James Suazo, one of the speakers and hub coordinator with Building Healthy Communities Long Beach, to discuss issues facing Long Beach right now such as minimum wage and police violence.

What is the People’s State of the City and what is its purpose?

So the purpose of the People’s State of the City is to bring our community of Long Beach together and dial up about the challenges, opportunities and a create solutions for our city from the perspective of residents who are directly impacted.

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What kind of impact does this event have on the city and its council members?

Well this is a really highly anticipated event in our community. Last year, we had over 450 people turn out. That included residents, elected officials and other community leaders from across Long Beach. So this is a good opportunity for us to hear about the different issues from a perspective that hasn’t been told in the media.

And [it’s] really aimed to educate more folk about the different issues such as the economy, poverty, the environment, community safety and what it really takes to address these long standing issues.

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ll but one door was lit at the Cal State Long Beach student art galleries, and upon walking in, the darkness only deepens around you until suddenly: light.

A massive, fantasm sequence hovers above the floor of the student art gallery.

The only light within this gallery emits from the black lights protruding and hanging over a DNA-like strand made of foam and objects gathered from both the artist’s childhood home and his current job, Home Depot. The sculpture takes up the entirety of the gallery, random artifacts such as a bicycle and piping lodged in the mass of colored foam.

CSULB senior Nick Bamford created his piece, “Untitled,” for a simple project for his ceramics senior seminar — what he ended up with was a mammoth-sized chunk of a dream.

“A lot of this stuff was mine from the past. It’s kind of like a story or a dream sequence; it’s not a linear story,” Bamford said.

The student art galleries are open Monday through Thursday and admission is free of charge for students.

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What kind of impact does it have on the city policy?

In the past five years we’ve seen a major shift in terms of creating more sustainable policy that lists of all of Long Beach and not in particular specific communities. So we’re starting to see policies and other campaigns move forward that not only touch on one single issue, but look at the larger picture, like so we’re talking about looking at prevention programs, we’re talking about more recently raising the minimum wage or looking at policies like

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Education for OLLI ages OLLI offers classes to students age 55 and over.

By Jason Enns Staff Writer

“Learn more, age less, join OLLI,” is the motto for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Cal State Long Beach, a program committed to enriching and elongating lives through education for people over 55.

Registration for OLLI’s spring session starts March 5 and is conducted in person at the OLLI classroom in the Human Services and Design Building. General registration will be accepted in person or by mail un-

til the class sessions start on April 11.

Space is limited, and some classes fill up very quickly, OLLI Executive Director Barbara White said. She recommended applicants register on campus Saturday.

“Every time we offer a Shakespeare class it fills up immediately,” White said. “This Spring, OLLI will offer ‘Fear Not, I Speak Shakespeare,’ focusing on the play “King Lear.”

The annual membership fee for OLLI is usually $40, but new students will only have to pay $20 for the spring and summer sessions.

Classes are once a week for eight weeks, except for certain computer classes that are only four weeks long, and cost an additional $20. Eightweek computer classes are $35 in addition to the cost of membership, and lecture classes are only $10.

OLLI classes cover a vast variety interests. There are several technology courses for both Mac and PC softwares, including classes that specify in instruction for iPads, iPhones, various social networks and Google.

Activity classes are offered for those interested in trying their hand in archery or bowling. There is also a course titled “Not Your Daughter’s Yoga,” that claims nobody is too old or too stiff for their all-levels welcome yoga class.

OLLI offers appreciation courses in rock music, chinese arts, there’s even a class about Coen brother’s films. Students can hone skills or find new ones with classes that teach ukulele, guitar, or water colors.

Whether it’s learning Spanish, or making homemade cards, OLLI offers a course for just about anyone.

Fast Facts Membership • Open to adults 50 and older.

• Required to take any class.

• $40.00 for a full academic year (Oct. 1 to Sept. 30) • Pro-rated to $20.00 for half of the year (April 1 to Sept. 30) Tuition • Computer class tuition is $35 per class.

• Lecture class tuition is $10 per class.

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C a m p u s Voic e The FBI wants Apple to provide them with the technology necessary to create a backdoor into the iPhones that belonged to Tashfeen Malik and Syed Rizwan Farook in order to further investigate the San Bernardino shooting last December. Apple CEO Tim Cook has refused the FBI’s request.

“A lot can happen with giving access to the government. There seems to be this notion that they want to stop terror before it happens.

They’re thinking about a constant surveillance of the state. They already have the NSA, it’s the same thing—infiltrating calls, emails. It’s just adding onto more.”

—Edgar Muniga, freshman, English major

Should Apple provide the government with the tech necessary to look through people’s phones?

“I think that they probably should just as far as a general safety type of thing. As someone who has nothing to hide I feel like who cares if the government is really looking through my things. I think it would be okay, I wouldn’t feel that my rights would be threatened if Apple gave the ability to the government to look through people’s phones.”

—Mauricio Flores, junior, criminal justice Major

“It is giving the government a lot of power.

Whenever you give power to anyone they’re inclined to abuse it. But honestly, I feel that it’s part of the social contract we have with the government—we give them some power and in turn they protect us. It’s a little scary to think about but it definitely can be used to help.”

—Citlalli Jauregui, senior, kinesiology major

“The government can do almost anything they want anyway. Who are we kidding?

We’re really fooling ourselves if we think the government can’t get into our information. They can get any information they want about us or from us.”

—Elizabeth Hernandez, senior, history major

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language access. So I think one of the big impacts is not only closer community, but also just breaking the profile level on a lot of these issues in the community and transferring that into policy.

What are some of the major issues you will be discussing?

So this year we will be looking a range of different issues, but also looking at the connection between them showing how important it is to really think about the impact on all the issues – not just one single issue. So we’ll be looking at the environment, we will be looking at poverty, police violence and community safety, displacements, developments, and finally access to opportunity for young people – recognizing that all these issues are interconnected or intersectional.

Have any issues from last year carried over onto this year?

Yeah. So a lot of these issues actually are very similar to what we’ve highlighted last year. Some are reiterated in different ways to show a connection between others, but a lot of these stay the same because they’re root-caused issues, meaning that these are what really impact people’s health the most.

So when we talk about improving our commu-

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What is being done to lower the police violence within the city of Long Beach?

When it comes to violence in the community, specifically police violence and creating a safe healthy community, we’re really looking at how Long Beach’s high rate police killings of civilians in 2015 and of the largest police departments in the United States, Long Beach was tied to multiple police killings.

So we’re really talking building trust and positive relationships between the community and police. We need to address these disparities and inequities so we can start getting at the root cause of the problem.

Could you tell me more of the opportunities for young people?

One of the things we also recognize is that at the center of all these challenges in our community our youth and specifically youth of color, so we have a duty to invest in our youth and support them with opportunities. And those opportunities go beyond school and education, they go into jobs making that they have living wages to support now and their families and also looking at higher education. So making sure that tuition is affordable for students and that they can actually achieve their goal and graduate.

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What will the minimum wage be increasing too, and why is it being increased?

The minimum wage will be to $13 an hour and then eventually we’ll get up to $15 an hour in the future as well. So the significance of this is that when you have the price of goods and services constantly go up and wages haven’t kept up with inflation, so when we talk about the poverty issues in Long Beach where we have families and individuals who work multiple jobs or have full time jobs and are still living in poverty that’s a wage issue. So this is a really big step toward lifting almost

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nities, they can’t do that with simple Band-aid solutions or services. What we really need to look at are substandard housing or the increase in violence in the community, or high rates of unemployment in specific areas of Long Beach.

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54 thousand workers in Long Beach that will get a raise.

Final thoughts going into the People’s State of the City 2016?

Our message to the community… is to have courage. Both in having high expectations for our city and supporting both solutions for how we change. So we really want our city leaders to walk away with the courage and inspiration to create strong policies and don’t leave anyone in our community behind.

Apple-FBI fight intensifies over San Bernardino gunman’s iPhone should unlock the phone. The other 11 percent were unsure.

Apple posted a statement to its customers on its website Monday, offering the company’s justification for challenging a court order demanding that Apple create a software to open the phone.

Apple said it would set a dangerous legal precedent and expand government surveillance powers.

“Law enforcement agents around the country have already said they have hundreds of iPhones they want Apple to unlock if the FBI wins this case,” the statement said. “In the physical world, it would be the equivalent of a master key, capable of opening hundreds of millions of locks.”

That statement came after FBI Director James Comey, in an unusual online commentary posted just before midnight Sunday, said, “I hope folks will

take a deep breath and stop saying the world is ending.”

“We simply want the chance, with a search warrant, to try to guess the

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terrorist’s passcode without the phone essentially self-destructing and without it taking a decade to guess correctly,” Comey wrote. “That’s it. We don’t want to break anyone’s encryption or set a master key loose on the land.”

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WASHINGTON — The court dispute between Apple and the Justice Department over unlocking the San Bernardino, Calif., gunman’ iPhone became a public relations war Monday, with the FBI and Apple exchanging words on the Internet and Congress preparing to intervene.

For now, the FBI appears to be winning the battle, at least according to new polling from the Pew Research Center. But privacy advocates who support Apple plan rallies across the nation Tuesday, including one in front of the FBI’s headquarters in Washington.

Pew’s poll of more than 1,000 Americans found that just 38 percent support Apple’s refusal to help the FBI unlock the iPhone of Syed Farook, who with his wife killed 14 people in the San Bernardino attack in December.

Fifty-one percent of those surveyed between Feb. 18 and Feb. 21 said Apple

That assertion seemed open to question. Last week, New York District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. said his office has 175 iPhones it wants Apple to unlock in criminal cases.

Others in law enforcement around the country have also spoken of pursuing decryption of phones in criminal cases, signaling that Apple’s defeat in the case would spark a broader effort to get the company to open more phones.

Apple called on the government Monday to drop the court case in favor of a congressional “commission or other panel of experts on intelligence, technology, and civil liberties to discuss the implications for law enforcement, national security, privacy, and personal freedoms.”

“Apple would gladly participate in such an effort,” the company said.

Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., and Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, are expected

to introduce a bill this week to create a commission. Other lawmakers want to go further, though, with Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., , and Richard Burr, R-N.C., working on a bill to force tech companies to assist law enforcement with decryption when there is a court order.

The House Energy and Commerce Committee has invited Apple and the FBI to testify and “share their side of the story with the American people.”

A lawyer representing some of the victims and their families from the San Bernardino shootings said Monday that he will file a legal brief supporting the FBI in the case in hopes of getting more information about the attack and why those killed and wounded were targeted.

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‘Painting With’ spirals into space ALBUM REVIEW

Animal Collective’s new album spins in a new direction.

By Taryn Sauer Staff Writer

Animal Collective’s new album, “Painting With,” straps you in for a rocket trip out to the very edge of the earth’s exosphere, complete with the usual gizmos and vibrating, electronic beats.

While the opening track, “FloriDada,” begins with the same level of high-octane energy as “Centipede Hz” and “Merriweather Post Pavilion,” the album’s progression spins farther into the Milky Way. The sound is much more electronically based—to the ear, almost entirely—and it completely pushes away from the organic instruments of “Feels,” where “Grass” sends you crashing between Avey Tare’s (David Porter) howling voice and Panda Bear’s (Noah

Lennox) hard-hitting cymbals.

But the band lays out their intentions right away, with the chorus asking, “Where’s the bridge that’s gonna take me home/ the bridge that someone’s fighting over/ a bridge that someone’s paying for/ a bridge so old just let it go.”

Perhaps this album represents a departure from the more earthy feels of primordial experimentation flourishing within their previous work. The lens definitely scopes out to capture more social commentary in their lyrics.

“Vertical,” remarks upon the metaphors in parking lots, using classic Animal Collective logic to say that they are “way too vertical.” This track poses a question on the bridge: “Sometimes you feel the pressure dropping on you/ crashing from the vertical/ I start to think does this system matter?”

This sort of uneasy skepticism is repeated again in “The Burglars.” The lines, “What you think you own, you don’t/ watch out/ the burglars” accompany a swirling merry-go-round of fuzzy synthesizer and both Avey Tare and Panda Bear’s alternating voices make this space trip full of anxiety.

Eventually, though, the album spits us out of the zero-gravity space ship

and sends us on a softer parachute ride back through the atmosphere.

The last two tracks close with tamer vibrations. “Golden Gal” even slips a 50s dialogue clip into the beginning of the song, like The Avalanches or Wax Tailor employ in much of their tracks—something Animal Collective has yet to include so far.

“Recycling” sounds like something you could close your eyes to, lightly tapping your fingers in a hammock, aware of the sound of trees and, perhaps, a distant satellite constantly orbiting above you.

Although the album leans heavily on a drum box and synthesizer and lacks the sort of organic improvisation of older releases, “Painting With” is still jumbled with kaleidoscopic colors immersed in classic Animal Collective beats, keeping the ride fun and experimental.

“Painting With” was released on Feb. 19.

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Same love, different discussion The coming out experience in the black community is discussed at a panel.

By Lisa Williston Staff Writer

An open conversation utilizing a panel of well-versed black LGBTQ individuals discussed the difficulties they faced coming out in the black community whether it was through their family, workplace or peers.

The office of Multicultural Affairs, hosted “Same Love? Same Meaning” on Monday in the Beach Auditorium.

The panel included Jasmyne Culpepper, CSULB alumna and a past president of Black Student Union, Troy X Leonard, school psychologist with 25 years of experience and Paris Tate, current CSULB psychology major and communication minor who also serves on the board of BSU. The presentation started with a PowerPoint that focused on historical black figures who are considered LGBTQ and their life accomplishments.

Each member of the panel elaborated on how they came out to their families and their communities, stating the

differences between distinctive generations of people.

“Every generation of black folk that I’ve talked to are different, so regardless of if I’m saying the exact same sentence about coming out or relationships or being part of the LGBTQ community, each one of those individuals are going to take it differently,” Culpepper said.

The panelists gave advice to audience members on how to navigate the world at large, diverse in race and in sexuality.

Culpepper honed in specifically on being aware of the environment a LGBTQ individual may encounter.

“I learned that different people have different perspectives and I said ‘OK, I am going to take everyone’s view at face value for what it is,’ and that ultimately allowed me to be able to dissect and navigate who I am going to talk to and who I am not,” Culpepper said.

All three panelists had experience dealing with the Christian faith and different approaches to the church.

“Some people come in with welcoming arms, some people come with welcoming stones, you just have to take it as you get it,” Tate said.

Tate felt that a person’s sexual orientation is none of the church’s business, whereas Leonard expressed his understanding of Jesus’s message of love.

“If you look at the Bible and you

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Leonard said.

The discussion ended with questions from the audience, giving the panelists an opportunity to wrap up their closing statements. Despite having contrasting opinions on approach-

es to social obstacles, the panel aimed to provide students with a deeper understanding of the complexities of living as a black member of the LGBTQ community.

Women fill 29 percent of Hollywood’s speaking roles An extensive new study of diversity in Hollywood paints a damning portrait of the film and television industry behind and in front of the camera, describing the media landscape as “whitewashed” and calling the lack of inclusion an “epidemic.”

The report released Monday by USC’s Media, Diversity, & Social Change Initiative shows a lack of representation for women, ethnic minorities, and gay, lesbian and transgendered people.

The study examined 414 feature films and TV shows from major studios including the Walt Disney Co. and 20th Century Fox, and analyzed the prevalence of different groups on-screen.

Only 29 percent of all speaking roles were filled by women, the report found. Its analysis also showed that 28 percent of all speaking characters were non-white, compared with 38 percent of the general U.S. population. Only 2 percent of roles were gay, lesbian or bisexual.

Behind the camera, the USC study also found a lack of inclusion. Nearly 85 percent of directors were male; 71 percent of screenwriters were male.

“The film industry still functions as a straight, white, boy’s club,” the study’s authors wrote. “The hashtag #OscarsSoWhite should be changed to #HollywoodSoWhite, as our findings show that an epidemic of invisibility runs throughout popular sto-

rytelling.”

Studios and TV networks have come under increasing pressure to deal with the lack of diversity in the entertainment industry. The issue reached an apex when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominated all-white acting Oscar nominees for the second year in a row.

Following the outcry over the nominations, the academy announced major changes to its rules for voting members. But some activists, like famed director Spike Lee, said the problem stems from the executive ranks of the Hollywood studios, which are largely white and male.

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None of the major media companies fared well in the USC study, which scored each based on the diversity of the characters in their shows and movies, along with the number of women writers and directors.

The studios’ movies scored especially poorly. Of the films included in the study, all from 2014, Sony, Disney and Warner Bros. had no female directors. Fox had a score of 4 percent, while Universal and Paramount had 9 percent.

Sony and Paramount did better with including minorities, with relatively high percentage of speaking roles going to non-whites. Sony benefited from movies like “About Last

Night” and “Think Like a Man Too,” while Paramount had “Selma” and “Top Five.”

Time Warner’s studio Warner Bros. scored lowest among the major studios, with 9 percent representation of minorities.

The companies generally scored better on the TV side, which the report portrayed as being more diverse.

The CW, Disney, Viacom, Amazon and Hulu all scored 40 percent or higher for inclusion of female TV characters. For minorities, five out of 10 major media companies were considered “largely inclusive” or better.

Disney and the CW ranked highest for inclusion in television. — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, TNS

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Game developers selling incomplete games are becoming the reality of the video game industry.

By Katherine Lemus Staff Writer

Imagine paying full price for a pizza only to be given the crust and having the delivery driver expect you to pay more for the rest. That’s what it’s like buying an incomplete video game and being expected to buy add-ons for more content, characters and resources.

When I first purchased Capcom’s newest addition to the “Street Fighter” series, “Super Street Fighter 5,” I was very excited to to begin playing because I am a fan of the series but was shockingly disgusted with the video game I was met with.

Though the game was very appealing to look at and included new characters, it lacked story and the server problems and glitches were too distracting to make this a good game.

On top of all of this, players are given only 16 unlocked characters out of 30-plus characters in the series. Only six characters are scheduled to be released this year; through in-game currency or pay for each new character.

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players can spend 100,000 FM [fight money],” according to Capcom.

So you’re saying I paid full price for a game that was incomplete.

In order to have a complete gaming experience, one must pay almost an exorbitant amount of money, either for a game that comes with everything a player expects or for add-ons to fill in the gaps.

Mobile games make their money off of microtransactions, and these same microtransactions are now just

as common in full retail-priced video games.

Well, they are starting to become more common, and it’s not looking pretty.

Microtransactions are used in mobile games to provide a revenue source for developers. They are the options these cell phone games give you to buy resources to advance further in the game. Popular by the mobile game industry, games like “Angry Birds” force players to wait a certain amount of

hours to play or speed up the process by spending actual money.

It’s annoying, but the thing is that many people do pay money in order to get more gems, wood or soldiers to continue playing the game. Since this formula works very well, game developers will continue to implement this business model in order to make more money.

As a gamer, I like knowing I paid for a complete game but it angers me if I’m paying full price for early access game

only to be told I need to pay more in order to enjoy it to its fullest.

Much like mobile games and microtransactions, Capcom and other gaming developers have been implementing the same formula.

Electronic Arts did the same thing with “Star Wars Battlefront” when the game was released last year. Sure, you can buy the game without the season pass, but you won’t be able to play as many characters, no multiplayer or play most of the maps unless you paid more money to access the full game.

That was the nail in the coffin.

More and more game developers are incorporating microtransactions and add-ons and it’s just not right to sell an incomplete product only to sell the full game later.

Last Tuesday, “Super Street Fighter 5” was released. Unfortunately the game only consisted of a partially finished story mode that at most is one to two hours in length.

The full story mode is said to be released in June of this year and now features a season pass of $29.99 to add more fighters and other downloadable content.

Is it worth the price? No. Next time I plan to wait and buy the game when all the issues are fixed and players have access to the full story mode instead. If more gamers did the same, then these companies might have to stop selling a box of crust, and start making the whole pie.

Kalamazoo shooting raises concerns about safety in ‘shared economy’ services Gun violence over the weekend in Kalamazoo, Mich., sent another chill through the United States when six people were slain in a nearly seven-hour random killing ordeal.

What made it worse is the 45-yearold gunman who was arrested was an Uber driver. Jason Dalton faces charges in the homicides and the wounding of two other persons. Authorities were reporting that the shootings appeared to be random.

The shootings began about 5:30 p.m.

Saturday with a woman being wounded outside an apartment building.

About 10 p.m. a father and son were slain outside a car dealership. About 15 minutes afterward, four women were gunned down outside a restaurant.

Dalton, a former insurance adjuster, was arrested without incident about 12:40 a.m. Sunday. Authorities didn’t have a motive for the mass shooting.

Kalamazoo has a population of about 74,200. The median age is 25.3 and estimated median household income of $33,766. The population is 68 percent white, 22 percent African-American, 6 percent Latino and 1 percent Asian.

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The violence will add to concern in the U.S. over the need for more effective gun control. It has been an election issue, however, with little agreement on what should be done.

The killings also raise concerns for Uber and other ride-hailing services.

News reports have shown drivers being assaulted by riders.

This is the first widely publicized instance of an Uber driver being involved in gun violence. It comes at a time when companies like Uber are negotiating with cities and states to enable them to operate in a safe and effective

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Who: No. 15 UCLA (1-2) When: Tuesday at 6 p.m.

Where: Jackie Robinson Stadium, Los Angeles Need to know: Long Beach State (2-1) renews its non-conference rivalry with UCLA on Tuesday night. The Dirtbags won their first ever meeting with the Bruins, 5-2, in 1960, however UCLA lead the all-time series 62-43. Sitting at No. 15 in the nation, UCLA is LBSU’s highest ranking opponent in 2016.

The Dirtbags and Bruins split their series last season, scoring a total of 4 runs and playing 22 innings across two games.

UCLA took game one at home, 1-0, on Feb. 24, 2015 and LBSU answered with the 2-1 win on April 28, 2015 after a walk-off single by then-freshman Brock Lundquist in the 13th inning.

The Bruins are coming off of a 14-5 loss in the rubber match against North Carolina on Sunday. UCLA allowed 23 runs in its first three games this season and scored 11.

UCLA’s senior outfielder Eric Filia leads his team with a .286 batting average. Filia went 2-7 and walked six times across three games against the Tar Heels. Junior right-hander Hunter Virant will get the start against the DIrtbags, opposite LBSU’s junior right-hander Dave Smith. Virant pitched two-thirds of an inning over the weekend, walking one batter.

Junior shortstop Garrett Hampson takes a swing in LBSU’s 3-2 loss against Holy Cross on Sunday at Blair Field.

Standings

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Standings

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Big West

OVR

1. Hawaii

11 - 1

22 - 3

1. UC Riverside

12 - 0

19 - 7

2. UC Irvine

9-3

20 - 8

2. Hawaii

9-3

16 - 9

3. Long Beach State

9-3

15 - 12

3. Long Beach State

8-4

19 - 7

4. UC Santa Barbara

7-5

13 - 12

4. UC Davis

8-5

15 - 11

5. UC Davis

5-8

10 - 16

5. UC Santa Barbara

7-6

10 - 17

6. CSUN

5-8

10 - 17

6. Cal Poly

6-7

13 - 13

7. UC Riverside

4-8

13 - 15

7. CSUN

4-8

6 - 20

8. Cal Poly

4-9

10 - 16

8. UC Irvine

1 - 11

4 - 22

9. Cal State Fullerton

2 - 11

9 - 17

9. Cal State Fullerton

1 - 12

3 - 24

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Born in Canada, sophomore Virginia Smith joined Long Beach State in 2014 to play for the 49ers’ women’s water polo team.

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he’s from Vancouver, she was on the Canadian water polo youth national team, she’s currently Long Beach State’s leading scorer and her dad is a Canadian mountie.

She is sophomore utility player Virginia Smith.

For someone who claims to have struggled with introversion upon her move to California, one would not get that sense of Smith by her relaxed and well-mannered tone of voice.

Her smile even gives one the feeling that she might be an easy-going individual. However, come game time she understands the value of intensity.

“When we start a game, we need to be able to come out with more fire, more desire to win,” Smith said. “We always have a really slow start and then we finish big, we usually have to play catch up.”

With 15 points so far on the season, Smith is an important offensive weapon for the 49ers, though she is currently fighting a battle against bicep tendinitis. In a sport that requires constant conditioning, an injured shoulder needs to be closely monitored.

“Before and after every practice I go into the training room,” Smith said.

“I get physio[therapy] done, stem, ultrasound, ice, heat. I’m in there a lot; they’re getting to know me very well.”

If it’s slowing her down any, Smith tries not to let it show. There’s work to be done.

“I would really enjoy it if we moved up in rankings quite a bit,” Smith said.

LBSU is currently ranked 21, and with a little more experience under her belt, Smith is better equipped to help the 49ers shrink that number.

Smith earned 25 points during her freshman year. This season she’s already only 10 goals shy of that number after just nine games.

“Last year when I came in I was definitely a lot more shy than I am now,” Smith said. “I kind of found my place on the team last year; I felt more accepted after I found my place.“ Her father got her started in water polo and swimming when she was just 7 years old, but that’s not all he did to help her progress in her water polo career.

Looking for the right university for her, Smith wrote to LBSU’s head coach Gavin Arroyo and assistant coach Liz Grimes. In the letter, Smith included a biography that didn’t just feature an “outstanding student,” and “excellent water polo player,” as Grimes calls her.

Smith wrote about her family, including her father’s occupation as a Canadian mountie. Grimes said that within 24 hours Smith’s father’s occupation became a topic of discussion between her and Arroyo.

“We already knew that water polo

Tied for the lead with15 goals in 2016

and academics was all there,” Grimes said. “But [that was] the one thing that got us chit-chatting more.”

So the weekend before Canada’s youth national team left for the Pan-American games, Grimes went to their training camp in Montreal to watch Smith play. leading scorer “It’s one thing to watch some vidin 2015 (25 goals) eo, but it’s another to watch someone during the flow of a game,” Grimes said.

“Seeing how “I by far enjoyed the people reenvironment the most act to teamhere, the team was very mates, how they react to supportive and friendly bad stuff as and welcoming.” well as good -Virginia Smith stuff.”

A f t e r talking with Grimes, Smith decided to come see Long Beach for herself. She was choosing between LBSU and her sister’s alma mater, San Jose State University.

“I by far enjoyed the environment the most here,” Smith said. “The team was very supportive and friendly and welcoming.”

Scored a Smith clicked with her teammates, and quickly became a pivotal player. career-high She was the third leading scorer her freshman year, and is currently LBSU’s top scorer along with freshman Annaagainst bel Harman, both with 15 goals after Claremontso far.

Mudd“She’s a wonderful part of our team,” Scripps Grimes said. “[She] fits right in like a duck to a flock.” on Feb. 7

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Canadian player Virginia Smith fits in at LBSU ‘like a duck to a flock.’

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