DAILY 49ER California State University, Long Beach
Vol. LIX, Issue 837
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Tuesday, March 24, 2015
7.2%
As of 9:20 p.m. on Monday,
2,537 of 35361 students submitted their online ballot for the run-off elections for ASI President.
OPINIONS
But first, take 'selfies' Madison D’Ornellas Assistant News Editor
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e see them everywhere. They freckle Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, especially. They are #hashtagged, dolled up and taken opposite a mirror, with a “selfie stick” or by a friend or relative. The Palace of Versailles in Paris, the National Gallery in London and the Coliseum in Rome have banned them. They are “selfies” and they are a necessary evil in contemporary society. A “selfie” is “a photograph that one takes of oneself with a digital camera or a front-facing smartphone, tablet, or webcam, especially for posting on a social networking or photo-sharing website,” according to Dictionary.com, which also dates the noun’s origin in 2005. Urban Dictionary defines a “selfie” as “a picture taken of yourself that is planned to be uploaded to Facebook, MySpace or any other sort of social networking website.” Oxford dictio-
Posting photos of ourselves is a force for good, not evil.
Michael Ares | Daily 49er
Graduate Studies Director Mary Anne Rose speaks at the Preventing Sexual Violence in Education forum in the Karl Anatol Conference Center for Education Week on Monday. The College of Education is hosting a variety of events throughout the week.
TO TEACH, OR NOT TO TEACH The College of Education will focus on outreach based on a need for educators in California. By Elexis DeLeon-Bryant
nary named “selfie” the word of the year in 2013. Last May, The New Yorker framed the “selfie” as an enabler for narcissism, but what about when the selfie is used to show off friends or a cool location? In the 1987 critically acclaimed post-war novel, “The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations,” Christopher Lasch argued that post-war America “had become addicted to instant gratification.” Well, we aren’t post-war anymore, and the instant gratification of posting a picture of oneself online is not a bad thing. Whether they are planned, taken with a tablet or smartphone or posted on social media, “selfies” have been a controversial phenomenon, but they really aren’t hurting anything or anyone. Jerry Sultz of Vulture magazine wrote in January 2014 that selfies have become a “new visual genre.” Yes, clogging your friends’ feeds with extended-arm shots of yourself post-gym is annoying and a bit overbearing. But if they aren’t having it, they can simply unfollow you.
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Cynthia Grutzik, the CED associate dean and coordinator of the week-long event, said via email. The California Public Education System is ranked last in the United States based on student to teacher ratios. An additional 100,000 teachers need to be hired in order to reach the national average, according to the California Teacher’s Association. California has the highest ratio of students enrolled per teacher in public elementary and secondary schools, with an average of 24 students per
teacher in fall 2012, according to reports from the National Education Association. “We’ve had a slump in hiring teachers the last five years because of the economy but it’s really turning a corner,” Grutzik said in the article. Mary Ann Rose, the director of graduate studies for the CED, said that undergraduate students often major in what their parents want. She said that
See TEACH, page 2
DIVERSIONS
Gender levels the playing field Collegiate level coaches discuss gender’s role in athletics in and beyond four-year universities.
By Michelle Vazquez Contributing Writer
Although men are predominant in commanding from the sideline, women are advancing in the coaching world as well. According to a national 2012 study by Vivian Acosta and Linda Carpenter, two former physical ed-
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ucation professors at Brooklyn College, men coach 57 percent of female teams while 43 percent are coached by women. Female coaches head only 2 to 3 percent of male teams. It raises the question: is there a difference in coaching styles? “When we are preparing for a competition, we go through the same mental, physical preparation.” LaTanya Sheffield, assistant coach for sprints, hurdles and relays of the track and field team at California State University, Long Beach, said. Sheffield said that she has no strategy for either gender as far as coaching methods because she does not think they should be approached differently. “They want to compete at a high level,” Sheffield said. “The intensity is just as equal.” Sheffield said the first thing she noticed in her male and female ath-
letes is that they love to compete. Jeff Joyner, associate head coach of the women’s soccer team at CSULB has worked with men’s soccer as well. His career has revolved around women’s soccer for nearly 15 years. “A male can take the comment, find the information and make the correction,” Joyner said. “Girls take the comment and find the information, but also tie something to it emotionally.” Based on his observations, his style has not changed completely, but has made him sensitive to situations when a female player may take critiques more personal. Dustin Thoman, a psychology professor at CSULB, said that the best way to combat any possible misunderstandings between a coach and an athlete is to have two-way communication. “It is possible that the female ath-
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letes interpret feedback differently,” Thoman said. “But also for the coach to let them know what he does and what he doesn’t mean.” Thoman said that from an early stage, children are talked to differently and engage in various styles of play that bleed into their overall social growth. “Growing up with different communication styles might lead [boys and girls] to interpret the same message differently,” Thoman said. Communication is crucial as may not only lead to mixed messages, but also a break or build the athlete’s confidence. The book “Self-Efficacy in Sport” by Deborah L. Feltz, a kinesiology professor at Michigan State t, fo-
See COACHES, page 5 :)
See SELFIES, page 6
Contributing Writer
Tucked away in the north end of campus and in the back of most students’ minds is the College of Education. The College of Education is hosting Education Week at California State University, Long Beach all week to highlight the services and programs it offers students. “[The CED] feels this is a good way to showcase all of the programs in the college, and to make sure all CSULB students know that the College of Education is here, ready with information,”
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