DAILY 49ER California State University, Long Beach
Vol. LIX, Issue 821
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Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Just for kicks Kayce Contatore Contributing Writer
Soccer is one of the world’s most widely played sport. It is often the first sport that kids are introduced to. At the age of five, many future soccer players sign up for a team with the American Youth Soccer Organization where his or her parent can volunteer to be a coach. For some, that first sport becomes their only sport. They dedicate time away from school to play for a club team, jump for joy when they make the high school varsity team as a freshman and hope to sign a letter of intent to play college soccer. For men at California State University, Long Beach, the hopes of playing their beloved sport for an NCAA Division 1 school will never come to fruition. Over 20 years ago, CSULB cut men’s soccer while keeping women’s soccer due to funding issues stemming from the NCAA 1972 federal law known as Title IX, according to Roger Kirk, CSULB’s assistant athletic director for media relations.
It has been more than 20 years since men’s soccer has kicked it across George Allen Field.
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Bike riders wear helmets and use the green lane on Covina Avenue and Second Street in Long Beach on Tuesday.
New bill seeks to handle helmets SB 192 would make helmets a requirement for all cyclists, even those over the age of 18. By Nicca Panggat
Title IX states that federal money for LBSU scholarships offered to student athletes must reflect the female to male ratio of students on campus, which is about 6-to-4. Due to the higher female population at CSULB, women’s sports must receive more money for scholarships in order to comply with the law. Usually, laws to protect gender equality do just that, but at CSULB, men are being treated unfairly so long as women are the only sex allowed to play NCAA soccer. In the ‘90s, there was not enough funding available to continue supporting men’s soccer, football and lacrosse, Kirk said. “The athletic director at the time put together a plan to sponsor a core seven sports...and put the department’s focus on being competitive in those seven sports,” Kirk said. The lucky seven fully funded sports were men’s and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s volleyball, men’s baseball, women’s softball and women’s soccer. Today, all of CSULB’s sports are fully funded with the maximum amount of scholarships, but no
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Casual beach cyclists, people who ride to the grocery store and alternative commuters who bike long distances could soon be charged with a criminal offense for biking without a helmet. Should Senate Bill 192 pass, all California cyclists would be required to
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Any passengers riding on a bicycle or in an attached trailer would be held accountable under the same law and would be similarly required to wear helmets. The bill also says that cyclists must wear reflective clothing if they are out past dark. California State University, Long Beach Cycling Vice President Emil Anastacio said he wears both a helmet and reflective gear when he rides. Despite his efforts, he said he has been hit before; Anastacio said that last week, a car clipped his wheel. “[Biking is] my thing,” Anastacio said. “Why won’t you wear [a helmet]? Chances are I’ll get hit one time. I still don’t really think they should regulate it at all.”
Anastacio said he rides for both leisure and work as a bicycle courier around Long Beach. He said having mandatory helmets for cyclists is not as important as having better infrastructure for people who bike. “Most of the time, yeah it’s our fault,” Anastacio said. “There’s a lot of reckless cyclists out there. But I think if you just put them in their own place, it’ll definitely get a lot more safe.” Riding out on Broadway Ave. with the dedicated left lane for cyclists is one of the places he said he feels safest. He said on Seventh Street, cars tend to respect his space a lot less.
See HELMETS, page 2
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Extreme makeover: art edition The Getty Conservation Institute is repainting CSULB campus art in preparation for a conference in October. By Branden Raulston
See SOCCER, page 6
wear helmets for their safety regardless of their age, according to the bill put forth by Sen. Carol Liu. The proposed legislation cites that cyclists found in violation of the new requirement would be punishable by a fine of $25, which is the same fine that is charged to the guardians of young cyclists riding without helmets. California’s bicycle helmet law has been in place since 1994. It states that helmets are only mandatory for cyclists who are under the legal age of 18. “Any responsible bicycle rider should wear a helmet,” Liu said in a press release for SB 192. “This law will help protect more people and make sure all riders benefit from the head protection that a helmet provides.”
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The lucky sculpture on CSULB’s upper campus that has been isolated by chain-linked fencing for the past few weeks is getting a makeover from the Getty Conservation Institute. The institute is restoring the sculpture known as “Duet” by Robert Murray, which was originally crafted in 1965 as part of the Long Beach Sculpture Symposium. It has since been repainted numerous times, changing from its original yellow coat to most recently a dark red. The restoration is happening in preparation for a conference in October, according to their website.
The conference, FAR-SITED: Creating and Conserving Art in Public Places, will use the 50th anniversary of the Long Beach Sculpture Symposium as a launch pad for three days of curated panels and presentations on new art techniques, as well as creating and maintaining outdoor art in the 21st century. “The plan with the Getty really isn’t just about the one Murray piece,” Brian Trimble, the Interim Director of the University Art Museum, said. “The idea is that this the starting point to go through and first conserve all of the original nine sculptures from the
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sculpture symposium and then move into the other works on campus.” The Getty Conservation Institute started with “Duet” because the piece was painted in the mid-20th century, something in which the institute has particular interest. It will be the most complicated of all the restorations but should be finished in the next one to two weeks, according to Trimble. “Research and scientific analysis has been happening for at least the last year,” Trimble said. “We actually started the conversation in 2013.” The Getty Conservation Institute is funding the entire restoration. In order to return “Duet” to its original color,
See MAKEOVER, page 5
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