Daily 49er May 19, 2015

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Vol. LIX, Issue 868

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Graduation Issue

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The set-up of the ceremony

It takes roughly one week and countless hours of manpower for the graduation pit to be commencement ready.

By Amy Patton Print Manager

Since the inaugural graduating class, commencement has been held on the central quad. Brian McKinnon, the Facilities Management manager of Grounds and Landscaping Services has been in charge of coordinating setup for commencement for the past four years.

He described California State University, Long Beach’s ceremonies as “intimate” and “garden-like,” making it one of the best ceremonies in the CSU system. The Daily 49er recently sat down with McKinnon to talk about this what exactly goes into planning and coordinating one of campus’ largest annual events.

Is there anything different this year?

We went under formal fire marshal review this year. So we had to show all the exit calculations, as far as crowd

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egress, which we got our permit, we’re all good. We ended up losing maybe 500 seats. We added an additional entrance and exit on the east side…

Did you do anything to augment the seats lost?

If there are ceremonies that exceed capacity, we will have an additional 1,000 seats that will be available inside.

And it’s also good for people if it’s too hot for them, if they don’t want to be out in the sun. They’ll have an indoor airconditioning venue, and it’s a good seat.

What is one of the trickier parts about setting up for commencement?

Coordination of all the staff. We are coordinating services for all of the facilities that support each commencement. With all of the ceremonies I have staff that will be on site for site restoration. When the ceremony’s over, we give the graduates time to exit then all our staff comes in. We are to pick up all the trash, vacuum all the confetti off, dust off all the chairs, reset the entire stage platform and then open it up as quickly as possible for the next ceremony. Getting that venue cleaned up and restored, plus in addition emptying all the exterior trashcans… is a pretty important aspect as well.

What are you most excited about?

Getting the show started. I think, once the first ceremony starts and everything is done, it basically has got a momentum of its own... And we’re always looking at ways to improve services and improve the overall experience of our graduates and our guests.

Anything in particular abut this year?

One of the things they are doing this year is increasing Wi-Fi service to the area. Cellphone services will be optimized this year during the ceremonies. There are some dead spots up in the main quad but they will be putting up Wi-Fi transmitters on the large speaker poles to help boost cellphone reception.

Has graduation always been out in central quad?

Yes… I don’t know why it was started there, but it was back there in the 1950s.

We have grown considerably. It used to be oriented differently. It was set up where the stage faced the FO4 building.

I’d say about six years ago we reached that capacity and that’s when we rotated the entire venue and tripled seating. Over the past three years, we have maximized seating as much as possible.

The only other thing we would do is split some of the bigger ceremonies… but that’s up to the commencement committee.

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California State University, Long Beach has hosted the commencemet ceremonies in the Central Quad since the first grduting class in 1953.

Do you have any advice for those attending the ceremonies?

Please arrive early. If you can get here an hour before the actual ceremony, that would be fantastic...

If you’re here an hour before, and you’re parked, that gives you time to get on the shuttles and up to the site.

The venue will be open for seating.

Once the music starts, they do not al-

low anyone to be [seated]. The focus at that time is getting all the graduates… filling in the seats. Once the graduates are seated, they open up the entrances and exits again and allow people to be seated. But by that time, graduation is starting. You will have keynote speakers talking, music. And that’s when lines form and people begin to panic that they’re not going to se their kid walk.

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Govenor Brown’s budget benefits CSUs

Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposed state budget lends a hand and some money to public higher education in California.

By Nicca Panggat News Editor

California’s undergraduate students

may finally find some tuition-related relief thanks to increases in the higher education budget as proposed by Gov. Jerry Brown in his May Revision of the California budget.

The May Revision reflects a $6.7 billion increase in General Fund revenues in comparison with the January statement. The May Revision will also allot $38 million in ongoing funding for the California State University system as well as freeze in-state undergraduate

tuition within the University of California system.

“The governor’s proposal to invest additional ongoing funding for the CSU is welcome news to the Cal State Long Beach campus community,” said California State University, Long Beach President Jane Close Conoley in a statement. “These additional state resources are essential if we are to keep tuition fees low, reduce student debt, and provide our students the support they need

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Yet despite the increased backing for the CSU system, the overall funding is still less than what is needed, according to a statement by the California Faculty Association.

“The CSU educates nearly 450,000 students,” California State University, Los Angeles history professor and CFA President Lillian Taiz said in a statement. “Why aren’t they prioritized in the

Governor’s budget? Our students are the future leaders who could help create new water conservation systems, protect our families and teach our children.”

In accordance with the increased funding from the governor’s budget, the CSU has announced it will not raise the cost of tuition in the 2015-2016 academic year, according to the May Revision.

The final budget will be implemented July 1, 2015.

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DOJ establishes model for supporting campus rape victims State Attorney General aims to create a template for colleges around the country.

By Greg Diaz Editor-in-Chief

The California Department of Justice, in conjunction with the University of California system, introduced a new model of cooperation on Wednesday between college campuses and local law enforcement when handling sexual assault cases.

Attorney General of California Kamala D. Harris said that the Model Memorandum of Understanding aimed to improve methods used by universities and law enforcement agencies when investigating cases of sexual assault.

Harris said that current data suggests that 80 percent of campus sexual assaults go unreported to law enforcement. Savannah Badalich, a survivor of a sexual assault and the founder of 7000 in Solidarity, a victim’s rights

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California Attorney General Kamala Harris stands before reporters to announce a new model for cooperation between colleges and law enforcement. group at UCLA, said that there are many reasons why other survivors may not report their assault.

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assault — sometimes for months if you are going through the campus adjudication process, oftentimes for years if you are going through the criminal justice system.”

California State University, Long Beach Title IX Coordinator Larisa Hamada said that one of the effects

of better coordination between campuses and law enforcement will be not having sexual assault victims to repeatedly recount their experience.

She said that the Title IX office meets quarterly with campus police, medical professionals, the Long Beach Police Department and various advocacy groups to look for best practices when dealing with sexual assault.

“Right now we have excellent working relations with the local police,” Hamada said.

UC President Janet Napolitano, members of law enforcement and victim advocates joined Harris to announce the new model at a press conference in the California Attorney General’s Office in Los Angeles.

Harris said they hope that the MOU would serve as a standard for colleges throughout the state and for the nation at large.

Key provisions from the MOU include clarifying the duties between campuses and law enforcement when responding to a case of sexual violence, ensuring the timely access of services for victims and providing training for the campuses and law enforcement.

Napolitano said that the UC system, which helped to create the MOU,

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“CSU plans to use the Model MOU as a resource in evaluating whether to revise local coordination and collaboration agreements with other law enforcement agencies,” CSU Title IX Compliance Officer Pamela Thomason said via email.

The guidelines are also set up to ensure that all California universities and local and state law enforcement agencies comply with Assembly Bill No. 1433, which requires reports of violent crimes, sexual assault and hate crimes to be disclosed to the other parties within a timely manner.

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One of the oldest and strongest traditions that has evolved at CSULB is the recognition of Ac membership into the Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society. This group of more than 490 new me Phi and one of the largest groups of new members FACULTY AND STAFF Dr. Jane Close Conoley, President of the University Dr. Carmen Taylor, Vice President for Student Affairs Valerie Bordeaux, Director, University Outreach and School Relations and President’s Scholar’s Program Cameron B. Ungar, Associate General Manager – Walter Pyramid COLLEGE OF THE ARTS Robert Abreu – Theory and Practice of Cinema Mark Daniel Alpizar – Conducting Instrumental Kimberly Anne Bakovic – Art History Erin Anne Miller Bartosch - Musicology Montana Lynn Bull – Theatre Performance Chelsea Victoria Calma – Film and Electronic Arts Stephanie J .Cheung – Dance Sarah E. Cho – Studio Art HeeWon Joseph Chung – Violin Performance Christine Michele Curley – Art History Jessica Marie Egbert - Dance Leanna Maria Fletcher – Dance Christopher Roger Gaw – Film Anne Collins Geismann Alene – Art History Patrick Luprete Gibson – Music Composition Kathleen Whitney Helm - Dance Sarra Elizabeth Hey – Music Kristi Tristao Jensen – 3-D Media Art/Metals David S. Khair – Film and Electronic Arts/ Narrative Production Kelly Jaclyn Kittinger – Drawing and Painting Mike E. Lewis – Photography Kathryn Patrice Logue – Art History Adam J. Lopez – Music Education Alexandria Christine Macheski – Art History Joseph Frederick Mishica – Screen Writing Theory and Practice of Film Valentina Moeur – 3-D Media Art/Metals Crystal Marie Padilla – Film Jessica M. Padilla-Sanchez – Theory and Practice of Cinema Rosemarie Palacios – Printmaking Coleton Kargi Palmer - Illustration Russell D. Parks – Narrative Production/Film and Electronic Arts Ruth Robinson Perez – Art History Jordan Nicole Phillips - Metals Bryan James Portugal – Film and Electronic Arts Loretta V. Ramirez – Art History Annaliese Ippolito Reed – Viola Performance Andre’ Ritter – Metals Rebecca A. Roth – Technical Theatre/Costuming Taya Raquel Sebring – Graphic Design Annabel Turrado – Theatre Performance Nick H. Venden – Music Composition Barret Paul Wilber – Piano Performance Chelsea Marie Williamson – Studio Art Kyle John Winterboer – Music Performance Alice Zamora – Theatre Arts/Technology Alexander L. Zatolokin – Music Performance COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Brandon K. Beck – Operations/Supply Chain Management Shahde K. Carvalho – Business Administration/Marketing Stephanie Chang – Accounting Jonathan Lawrence Chin - Accounting Nathan Chu – Marketing/Finance Lindsey Michelle Clanton – Finance/Investments Julia Elizabeth Cobb – Accounting Yolanda Cortez – Accounting Michael J. Duncan – Business Administration Evelise Espindola – Business Administration Richard A. Garcia – Business/Finance Jason Han – Management Information Systems Kunal Haritwal – Accounting Anna Jeczmionka – Business Administration/Marketing Ayako Chizaki Kitajima – Finance Bess M. Kussner – Marketing Carlos Marcelo Larios – International Business McKay Carl LaSalle - Business Heleodoro Leyva – Human Resources Management Ian Rollins Livesay – Business Management/Supply Chain Management Cristina Danielle LoBue – Business Administration Vivian Huynh Ly - Accounting Dominique Nguyen - Accounting Anita L. Novelich – Business Management/Supply Chain Management Katherine On - Accounting Erika Otsuka – International Business/Marketing Edvardas Povilauskas – Finance Brandon Shawn Ratner – Finance Luis Romero - Accounting Alonzo Rosales – Marketing

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Reburial uncovers Long Beach land The CSULB archaeology department is conducting a field school to rebury the remains of GabrielinoTongva ancestors on campus.

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Archaeologists disturbed at least 20 individuals aged 800 years old during a dig in 1952, but within the next year they will be laid back to rest.

Dr. Carl Lipo, an archaeology professor at California State University, Long Beach, recruited students for his spring 2015 Anthropology 450 class to excavate an area in which the remains will be reburied.

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The remains will be reburied in the area surrounded by a black fence by the entrance of Beach Drive, on the land known as “Puvungna.”

“I proposed we have to do this [reburial] as a big field school [for Anthropology 450],” Lipo said. “So we can learn about the deposit and collect the material as it gets reburied, so were not losing the archaeological record entirely. It’s kind of a win-win in that sense.”

The individuals and other burial remains were found at the intersection of the 405 and Bellflower Blvd. in Long Beach, where brittle fragments of white shell scatter the ground, though water has not run there for a century.

At this site known as California Los Angeles site 270, an archaeologist named Ethel Ewing along with other colleagues and a team of students excavated the remains of 21 individuals.

Construction workers found the first body while working on a housing tract in what is today the Los Altos neighborhood, according to the National Park Service release of inventory completion.

A 1972 report by California State College, Long Beach professor Eleanor H. Bates identified site 270 as a burial site that can be associated with the Southern Californian GabrielinoTongva people. Archaeologists used radiocarbon dating to date the individuals to the late period, about 1250 A.D. Though not all skeletons were whole, Bates identified that the individuals were buried in flexed positions, oriented from the east to west and surrounded by ornamental beads, tools and pottery shards. “[Participating in the Anthropology 450 field school is] the beginning of really good things to come academically and culturally,” Candice Bren-

nan, an anthropology graduate student in Lipo’s class, said. “Academically, it gives us more insight into prehistoric subsistence patterns, as well as teaches us the best practices for conducting an archaeological site.”

The remains were brought to the campus and deposited into the thenCSCLB archaeology lab. Today, the remains are still stored in a few boxes in the Liberal Arts 5 building.

Under the Native American Grave Protection and Repatriation Act, the university consulted with the tribe and the remains were repatriated back to the native population in 2000. According to Lipo, repatriation is a consultation process in which remains are returned back to a group of rightful ownership or ancestry.

NAGPRA was established by the National Park Service in 1990 as an act that required any agency, institution or museum that held within their possession human remains, burial associated goods sacred objects or objects of cultural patrimony to first to create an inventory of these items, to disclose and to supply those inventories to the tribes of rightful ownership.

“People were caught off guard [when the law passed],” Cindi Alvitre, American Indian Studies professor and member of CSULB’s NAGPRA committee, said. “You had a lot of anthropologists, archaeologists [and] physical anthropologists who have felt that these human remains, all these collections, were their professional property.”

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“It’s an underwater robot that will be able to maneuver through various obstacles,” said Nicole Van Derhoof, senior mechanical engineering major. “Eventually it will be able to maneuver small objects with a claw and fire torpedoes.”

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The end-of-the-year exhibition also allows students to continue their work from the course and expand on the knowledge they gained throughout the year.

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“We started a company and are getting everything patented,” Wagner said. “I think [the convention is] focusing on bio printing because the FDA is soon to release their restrictions on 3D printing for bio parts and we believe that bones are going to be one of the first ones that they release.”

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“It’s a collaboration between local Native American communities and the university,” Brennan said.

The Gabrielino-Tonga group and university agreed to have the remains of the 21 individuals buried on the site to the south of Beach Drive, which is called California Los Angeles site 234.

Site 234 and the large expanse of undeveloped land across the street, site 235, are better known as “Puvungna.”

The land is recognized in the National Register of Historic Places as historically significant to the Gabrielino-Tongva as the birthplace of their lawgiver and god, Chinigchinich.

“Puvunga [was] explained to me by elders and others that this was a spiritual center…a place of emergence of a spiritual philosophy that impacted and was associated with many, many California Indian tribes,” Alvitre said.

The field school cannot proceed with the investigation because remains are already buried on their site of choice. A partial body, dated to a similar time period as the site 270 remains, was found on the lower portion of Puvungna, site 235, in 1972 during a dig for a sprinkler line. Those remains were reburied on the upper portion in 1979.

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Wooden stakes mark site 270, though no digging has started yet.

“We are waiting to hear from the state historic preservation office to proceed to make sure that the space that we want to physically do the reburial is clear,” Alvitre said. “[We want to make sure we are] not disturbing anything of significance, that there’s not any other archeological material or cultural resources.”

As of April, the class was cleared to only 10 centimeters of their threemeter depth goal, Lipo said. The site is still untouched save for wooden markers.

Lipo is working on recruiting students for a summer field school to continue the reburial process.

“If we ever actually get to do anything with the site, [this is a great opportunity],” Elizabeth Bay, a senior anthropology major in Lipo’s class said.

While they wait for federal approval, the class has been learning about Cultural Resource Management, scanning with different types of equipment to make sure no archaeo-

logical material—which includes human remains, artifacts and objects of historical significance—in the subsurface will be disturbed.

According to the website of former CSULB Anthropology professor Gene Ruyle, there are over a dozen archaeological sites within the 500 acres of land surrounding campus. To Alvitre, these are pieces of the “cultural layers” of Long Beach that tell a story about the transformation of the landscape.

Though “Puvungna” is widely considered confined to the land by Bellflower Blvd, Alvitre said that it could have stretched as far as Bolsa Chica and inland to Bellflower.

“You have to erase all these boundaries,” Alvitre said. “As we go back in time you have to deconstruct this whole colonial process, we have to deconstruct the university, we have to deconstruct the agricultural processes that were here. Then we have to deconstruct the rancho period … and go back to earlier times when the village sites existed.”

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Letter from the couch Jaclyn Baiz 2014 CSULB Alumna

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’ve taken approximately 120 units of classes during my time in community college and at California State University, Long Beach. In that time I don’t remember being told to prepare for what was coming after.

As I am writing this I am fully aware that the life of a post-grad sounds unappealing. As of now it is more anticlimactic.

I found more of an adrenaline rush in planning out semesters, coming up

with Plans A, B and C just in case one fell through and the worst was to happen, like being waitlisted.

I actually miss the all nighters, which included coffee and the rest of an eight-page paper, which I hadn’t fancied to start until the day before it was due.

For the engineers who had a job straight out of college, I tip my hat off to you.

But what happens to the California State University, Long Beach alumni who graduated under the college of liberal arts but no concrete plan afterwards?

LinkedIn, employment sites and headhunters start becoming your preferred choice of social media sites instead of Instagram.

Okay, I’m lying. I’m still 100 percent

addicted to following celebrities I don’t know.

The reality is that a post-graduate, pre-full-time work force life includes

for 6-year students, it feels as if the rest of the graduates did everything right in college and I was the only one just trying to finish school.

Why wasn’t I paying attention to my future? Why didn’t I think ahead?

If I could go back in time to my first semester at CSULB, I would become more involved in the planning for my post-grad life.

I don’t mean that you should do everything that you think would look great on a resume, but do the things you enjoy doing while staying involved.

Join clubs on things you’ve wanted to do before, because being involved with other students will keep you motivated to do well in school and to stay focused.

Speak more with your professors,

Post-grad life is not as “flawless” as you think.

boredom, eye straining from computer screen and Netflix accompanied with countless hours of resume building and filling out of applications.

With a graduation rate of 13 percent for four-year students and 57 percent

not only for the sake of maybe improving a grade, but as a connection for a potential referral for a future job.

And most importantly, stop and ask yourself, “am I happy?” Whatever the answer may be, take action before you enter post-grad life.

There is a saying my mother says that has annoyingly stuck into my post-grad subconscious: “Quien busca, encuentre,” which means, “The person who looks for something, finds it.”

It’s phrases like these that encourage me to keep my head up. When looking at the big picture, it’s just the beginning of a life outside the college bubble.

And, even from the post-grad throne of my living room couch, I can feel what great potential my postcollege life has.

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ould you wear a poppy flower in honor of our fallen veterans? Donations are not required but certainly welcomed/greatly appreciated,” was the phrase that I had to say with a smile in front of my local grocery store.

What are these little red things that I was passing out in the first place?

Wearing of the pins on Memorial Day pushes the idea that the red from the poppy represents the blood spilled on the same battlefields and that to those who fell did not die in vain.

I came to learn that the poppy flowers were spearheaded by Moina Michaels, who was inspired by Lt. Col. McCrae’s ‘In Flanders Field’ poem as representation of the veteran’s sacrifice.

These donations of buying and wearing poppy flower pins not only help veterans who are disabled and hospitalized directly, but raise awareness and respect by educating the public about the sacrifices of our local veterans and the help that they continue to need.

Last year 3.5 million poppies were distributed and helped to raise over $2 million, according to alaforveteran.org.

I understand that our generation is now in a very strange sandwich generation; not only caring about the issues of our elderly, like grandma and grandpa, but also about the kind of legacy we would leave behind for our younger generations, such as lack of clean water, pollution and extinction of our diversity.

I knew that what I learned in class about the physical decaying of the elderly didn’t stop the group of volunteers from the American Auxiliary Legion who stood by me, standing by the men on the battlefield. I really respect that.

The American Auxiliary Legion is the world’s largest women’s patriotic service organization with more than

800,000 in more than 9,000 communities nationwide.

I never realized that it was so easy

Students should support our local Southern California veterans by wearing a red poppy flower pin during Memorial Day weekend.

million towards $3 million veterans and military families and more than $2 million to children and youth, according to alaforveteran.org “The Legion gives out poppy flowers to the general pub-

to help and that all you needed to do was to show people your open hands.

I believe that any volunteer is relevant and that it is the collective efforts of the few that can make such a difference to the many.

The global impact of the 9.3 million volunteer hours helps to contribute $36

lic as a required activity for the national organization and that each poppy that is handmade by our local veterans earns them only 10 cents each,” Sandy Esslinger, an AAL volunteer, said. “These poppies are a way for them to earn a living, but if each Auxiliary unit buys from them at 16 cents each, it gives more importance to the donations that are received from the public.”

Take your time this Memorial Day Weekend to stop by your local grocery store and offer to help spread awareness for our local military families by simply wearing a handmade poppy f lower in honor of our fallen veterans, from the women that have stood by their vets since day one. 100 percent of the donations go directly to helping out our local military and their families, here and overseas.

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49er in Focus About an hour ferry ride from Long Beach, growing up on Catalina Island was isolating, entrapping. He jokes about a lack of stoplights on the 76-squaremile landmass and its general quaintness. But for Christopher Padilla, education was his only lifeboat away from a life of monotony and the familiar.

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Transferring from Catalina to college A business economics student looks forward to the opportunity a diploma offers.

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His mom made him take professional graduation photos, and she’s throwing him a large graduation party. He purses his lips as he thinks about a mother’s pride.

“Just do what you want to do, mom” Business economics graduate

Christopher Padilla recalled telling his mother. “I just want to go to work.”

Padilla is the first to graduate from California State University, Long Beach under the Long Beach College Promise, a program designed to help local students attend and graduate universities.

Education has always been instilled in Padilla as a priority. “Anything to get of the island,” he joked.

His parents worked at the K-12 school Padilla and his twin brother, Christian, attended on Catalina Island. He said they were always wanted him and his brother to go to college.

“It’s a good thing I wanted to go to college just as badly as they wanted

me to,” Padilla said fondly. “Otherwise, I’m sure there would have been more friction.”

Padilla said that his original plan was to go to San Jose State University.

“The further, the better.” But when he was denied acceptance there and at his second choice school, CSULB, his heart sank. His only way mainland now was through Long Beach City College.

“I was so discouraged,” Padilla said quietly. “I didn’t know what to do.”

Padilla’s parents got him a meeting with the K-12 principle.

“You have no choice now, so set your mind as determined,” Padilla recalled Principle Carlson saying.

From there on out, Padilla went

forward with a new perspective. He and his brother both attended LBCC from 2009 to 2012 before transferring to the business program at CSULB. They bounced from relatives’ houses to month-to-month rentals, just to stay mainland during the school year.

“It’s a strange feeling referring to school as a break from work,” Padilla said with a crooked half-smile lighting his face. “By he end of summer me and my brother would be itching to go back to school.”

Completing the last of his courses in December last year, Padilla has been working as a snuba diving instructor since. He said he worked as a diving instructor on Catalina Island for the past several summers.

Now that he is graduating, he hopes to get a jump on the job market, in search of new opportunities.

Growing up on the island, Padilla came to the realization that living his adult life there was out of the question. The economic opportunities were not what he was looking for.

“I look around and think, ‘you can’t afford me,” Padilla jokes.

After receiving his diploma, Padilla intends to go into the public sector of economics, specifically macroeconomics, before working his way to the private sector.

“Ultimately though, I want to get my MBA,” he said. “I don’t know where and I don’t know when but that’s the goal.”

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The million-dollar idea may be an abstract concept, but for some young entrepreneurs at California State University, Long Beach, it’s a reality that hinges on diligence and dedication.

“The reason I’m here at my age is probably because I’ve made more mistakes than anybody that you know or that’s currently in school,” 32-year-old senior marketing student Alexander Gallasso said.

After parting from his nine-to-five job working retail for Sprint in 2011, Gallasso went all in on his first business venture, Battery Recycler, which started out as an idea his dad had for a 6th grade science fair project to help people collect and recycle their used batteries.

“I wasn’t going to school,” Gallasso said. “I was that a--hole that said, ‘I don’t need school, school is for suckers.’”

In the course of a year or two,

he learned that he had made many mistakes, which cost him a lot of money.

“I had stocks and earnings and everything from Sprint, and I still went through with it. I probably invested $55,000 into the business,” Gallasso said.

Like many before him, Gallasso learned that starting a small business leads down a path fraught with sacrifice and uncertainty.

“I realized there was so much to running a business. I wished there had been some way to have known this before going into it,” Gallasso said.

Gallasso enrolled at CSULB after working with Michael Solt, the Dean of the College of Business Administration and Professor of Finance, on a marketing presentation.

Freshman marketing student Yavuz Yilmaz can relate to Gallasso’s feeling of uncertainty after starting an Amazon-based business. He sells products such as cables and electrical wiring online that he buys from wholesalers.

It wasn’t easy finding the right product, one that could be bought at low enough prices to be sold for an exponential return, Yilmaz said. At the moment, that magic product is an iPhone 6 case.

“Taking the risk of putting in the money was the biggest thing,”

Yilmaz said. “Sometimes you put in money for a $5,000 order and you don’t know what you’re going get out of it. You just try to sell and sell and sell.”

Rather than having to learn everything the hard way, entrepreneurs

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Typically people don’t have a success story on their first venture.

They will start something and it won’t work, start something and it won’t work and finally, eventually it’ll work.

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Business courses teach would-be tycoons that success is often made up of failure.

-Larry Pate, CSULB professor of business administration

can take university courses that help prepare them for the challenges that come with opening a business.

There is now legitimacy in entrepreneurial studies whereas before there wasn’t, professor of business

administration at CSULB Larry Pate said.

Before 1988 only the University of Sothern California and Harvard were offering programs in entrepreneurship. Since then, virtually every school, including CSULB, offers entrepreneurship courses.

“Business schools are no longer about just helping people rise to top of corporate America,” Pate said. “It’s also about helping people with different kinds of dreams.”

These courses help students who want to venture out in creating their own business, Pate said. By knowing how to form a marketing plan and by understanding the importance of finance, students are improving their probability of success.

“Typically people don’t have a success story on their first venture,” Pate said. “They will start something and it won’t work, start something and it won’t work and finally, eventually it’ll work.”

On top of learning about marketing plans and how to start a business, entrepreneurial courses at CSULB also focus on tapping into the passion that is necessary to become a successful entrepreneur.

“We try to get people to realize that, in essence, there’s opportunity in everything,” Tate said. “The whole notion of if one door closes another will open.”

Instructors want to steel students against all the doors slammed shut on the way to success.

“We talk about failure in entrepreneur classes,” Tate said. “The question is what is failure? Michael Jordan said the reason he made so many baskets is because he missed so many baskets.”

Now that Gallasso’s business has grown, the freedom of being in control of his own life and being able to create a positive difference in the world through recycling batteries has given meaning to all the sacrifices he’s made.

“I wanted to do something that makes a difference so that when I’m old I can look back and say I helped change something in a positive way,” Gallasso said.

He credits an education that he never thought he needed for the turnaround of his business.

“I go to school because I learned that education is important,” Gallasso said. “You can learn it on your own without school, but you are going spend a sh-t ton of money.”

Gallasso says entrepreneurship requires sacrifice and dedication.

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Music venues hidden in plain sight Music is strongly associated with memory—you tend to remember the places and faces around you when you first heard a favorite song. Now that finals are over and summer is wide open, there’s no better time to advantage of Long Beach’s wide-array of quirky music venues to make these types of long-lasting memories.

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Fingerprints 420 E. 4th St, Long Beach, CA 90802 Good ol’ Fingerprints has been a go-to for audiophiles and vinyl-heads for over two decades.

Apart from curating and selling music, they periodically host intimate in-store performances by an eclectic range of acts. The shows are all ages and typically free, but RSVP’ing won’t hurt—especially for bigger acts.

The Federal Underground 102 Pine Ave, Long Beach, CA 90802 This Underground can be found in the basement of the old Security Pacific Bank building in downtown Long Beach. Accessed from a staircase inside The Federal Bar, its red-curtained stage is adjacent to a giant 19th century bank vault.

Complete with steampunk décor and a conjoined speakeasy, this spacement provides a sophisticated and intimate setting to watch a performance.

Que Sera 1923 E 7th St, Long Beach, CA 90813 Although its name is scrawled out front in a sinister font, this is another spot that’s easy to miss if you don’t know what you’re looking for.

Once inside the cavernous venue, you’ll find a long bar that leads to the dance floor. The stage and its backdrop of gold-colored, space-age foil hosts a different style of music every night of the week. Visitors should expect a good dose of bodybumping and thumping underground sounds.

4th street Vine 2142 E 4th St Long Beach, CA 90814 Literally a brick-and-mortar, this wine bar on Retro Row doubles as a performance space. Musicians playing against its exposed brick walls are so close to patrons that it wouldn’t be surprising to see a busker’s hat at their feet.

Alex’s Bar 2913 E Anaheim St, Long Beach, CA 90804 This punky dive is notorious for guttural, hellraising shows that leave you in a buzzy, sweatsoaked daze. Inconspicuously located, the bar is accessed through the rear—as is the parking lot.

The interior is soaked in blood red and filled with Transylvanian kitsch.

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Haskell’s Prospector 2400 E 7th St, Long Beach, CA 90804 The Prospector isn’t the type of joint that usually comes to mind when you hear band names like Teenage Exorcist or Future Graves. But don’t be fooled by its middle-of-the-desert-steakhouse feel. Walk past the dinner tables, through a glass-and-wood door and eureka!—a whiskey-soaked haunt that somehow manages to reconcile its trove of Gold Rush accoutrements with its appetite for local rock n’ roll.

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Escape Long Beach by going camping above the clouds A sight to behold awaits the daring.

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The view from Prewitt Ridge provides a chance to take in the meandering California coastline from a new vantage.

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The Prewitt Ridge campground is one of the most secluded campsites in California. About a five-hour drive from Long Beach and nestled high atop the Los Padres National Forest, it offers unparalleled views of the state’s magnificent coastal beauty.

Campers are surrounded by the glinting Pacific Ocean on one side and rugged hilly hinterlands on the other.

Throughout the day, the fog unfurls over the water like a duvet and then suddenly dissipates, only to creep back the next hour. At dusk, the sun slips into the water in a glory of color, leaving a glow over the horizon that is not so much light but a gentleness. This soon gives way to a big, starry sky that wraps the world in a celestial dream.

None of this is hyperbole but a severe understatement.

If you’re already dusting off the old tent and sleeping bag, here’s what you should know before heading out into the wide blue yonder.

There is no running water or bathroom facilities of any kind at these campsites, so make sure to bring sufficient water and then some. There is also no reservation system. Campsites are claimed on a first-come, first-serve basis.

While not the most popular campsite in the Big Sur area, it is still recommended that you get there early on the day of your arrival to make sure you snag a spot. Getting to the campground is a bit of a challenge, and it would be a shame to brave the daunting roads only to have to turn around.

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Tank full, take Mission Road through Fort Hunter Ligget for four miles. You’ll come across a junction with Nacimiento-Ferguson Rd., which you’ll want to take for 17 miles. Soon after you enter the Los Padres National Forest, this road begins to rapidly gain elevation.

After you reach the summit you’ll see a park ranger station. If the fire danger isn’t high, and those who want to operate a gas-powered stove or setup a campfire can get the required permit here.

Not too far past the ranger station you’ll find a sign for South Coast Ridge Road. Turn left onto this road.

Now here’s where the fun really begins. For the next 4.3 miles you’ll be navigating a single-lane dirt road with sharp switchbacks and no guardrails up the mountain. This sounds a little troubling but if you drive carefully it shouldn’t be a problem.

While a 4×4 vehicle probably makes this road easier to tread, it’s not necessary. Word to the wise: You will come across some large potholes – fight the urge to slow down or else you might find yourself stuck. If you do get stuck, the best thing to do is to slowly reverse out of the ditch. Accelerating will only entrench you further.

Signs guide you to the campground all along the road. Once you make it up, you’ll find your perseverance will be well rewarded with a breath-taking view.

The campsites are car camping, so you just pull up to a spot and that’s where you set-up. No need to haul equipment through the wilderness.

Another great thing about the place is that the sites are well spread out so it will seem like you are up above the clouds all by yourself.

The weather can get chilly at night near the coast at this elevation so bring a jacket and a good sleeping bag.

It’s well worth it to let the din of the city fade away this summer because as naturalist John Muir once wrote, “In every walk with nature one receives far more than he [or she] seeks.”

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Back to back to back The LBSU men’s track and field team clinched the Big West Championship title for the third year in a row.

Senior Jahmani Lockett pushed through college life, thanks to uplifting support he received from teammates.

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Senior sprinter Jahmani Lockett’s days as a member of Long Beach State’s track and field team often started before sunrise and ended long after sunset, but he calls them “all worth it.”

“Nobody else goes through the things that we go through,” Lockett said. “Even if you join a frat, you don’t get that bond that we have on the track team. Like when you’re out there and about to pass out and throwing up, what we do during the offseason to train.”

For Lockett, the team is his second family. The La Mesa native said that the relationships built solely through athletics are what he’ll take away from his career when it is over; one particular relationship more than the others.

In 2012 Lockett, who had played multiple sports in high school, walked on to the LBSU track and field program, which is when he met his girlfriend, DaShane’ Lars.

A teammate of his from the women’s squad and a close friend, Lars paid for Lockett’s meals when he was broke freshman year.

Since it was Lockett’s freshman season, he was not eligible for an athletic scholarship; therefore he had to pay his way through school and necessities.

Locket recalled having no money in his meal plan account and as a result, was locked out of the resident dining hall.

“When I walked onto the program, everything was being paid through financial aid and loans,” Lockett said. “And basically she took me and fed me everyday and night. Then a relationship fostered out of that.”

With emotional and financial support coming from Lars, Lockett made a quick impact on the track. In his first season, Lockett was named Co-Big West Freshman of the Year, while helping the

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Jahmani Lockett is a three-time Big West champion since joining men’s track in 2012.

49ers win a conference title.

For Lockett, he said that his college career has gone by quicker than his fastest 4x400 finish of 47.75.

“It’s going to be crazy, when it’s all over,” Lockett said. “Just on that four by four squad, two of us are seniors and it’s probably going to be very emotional not running with this group again.”

S T A R G N CO GRADS!

The Long Beach State men’s track and field team claimed its ninth Big West Championship title and its third in a row at the UC Riverside Track Facility Saturday.

The three-peat for the men’s team was the first in LBSU history and the first in the conference since former member Utah State did it in 1996.

At the end Friday night’s event, the 49ers men’s team was in second place behind UC Santa Barbara. LBSU took the event on Saturday afternoon by scoring big performances from sophomore Michael Montgomery in the pole vault and by senior Jacob Fraser in the discus throw.

The men took the lead from the Gauchos after a win in the triple jump with senior Ryan Sanders taking first and junior Willie Alexander finishing second.

Montgomery had a career-best performance in the pole vault clearing 17 feet 9 inches. Montgomery jumped himself into sixth overall in school history with his mark.

The 49er women’s team finished seventh overall after they ended the first day of the meet tied for sixth with UC Irvine.

Freshman Jasmine Bass earned the second overall spot in 49er history with a third place finish of 40 feet 11.5 inches in the triple jump Saturday afternoon.

The women’s 4x100m relay recorded a time of 45.44 seconds; the time is good for the third best in school history. The team consisted of twin sisters senior Kayla and junior Kristina Goosby and freshmen Ashleigh Chambers and Madison Carney.

The 49ers will look to add on to their Big West win at the NCAA West Preliminary Championships on May 28 in Austin, Texas.

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The historical, unfair Blair Blair Field is a difficult park to play in, but a beautiful one to sit in.

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Senior left fielder Nolan Meadows takes a swing during Long Beach State’s 4-2 win on Saturday.

Dirtbags sweep in final homestand The Dirtbags wrap up their last season series at Blair Field with a sweep of the Aggies.

By Eddie Rivera Contributing Writer

The Long Beach State baseball survived a late rally by UC Davis on Sunday to complete the series sweep at Blair Field.

The Dirtbags (28-23, 11-10 Big West) exploded for 12 hits in Sunday’s 9-8 victory over the Aggies (28-25, 7-14 Big West). LBSU put up seven runs in the first inning, but the Aggies slowly chipped away at the lead. Head coach Troy Buckley said it was not a pretty game.

“That was an old school, 10-yearsago, old bat type of game,” Buckley said. “I’m glad we were on the winning end.”

The Dirtbags entered the ninth inning with a 9-4 lead before the Aggies rallied. UC Davis put up four runs to cut the lead to one run. The comeback fell short after junior righty Ty Provencher got UC Davis’ Kevin Barker to groundout.

Left-fielder Alex Bishop and junior catcher Eric Hutting were both crucial for LBSU. Hutting went 1-3 with 3 RBI and Bishop put together an impressive game in his last appearance at Blair Field, going 2-4 with 2 RBI and one run scored.

“It was a little bit of a weird feeling with my last game here at Blair,” Bishop said. “I was trying to focus on finishing the season strong.”

On Saturday the Dirtbags won 4-2 behind freshman right-hander Chris

Mathewson’s second complete game of the season. Mathewson (6-5) struck out eight batters while giving up six hits and three walks.

The Dirtbags jumped to an early 3-0 lead in the first inning when senior left-fielder Nolan Meadows hit a two-run triple to the right-field corner.

The Aggies answered back in the top of the second inning with two doubles and two runs to cut the lead down 3-2.

However, the rally fell short and the Dirtbags put up the final run of the game in the sixth inning to clinch the win.

Senior right-hander Kyle Friedrichs made his last career start at Blair Field on Friday. He threw for seven innings and had six strikeouts while only allowing one earned run. The Aggies built an early 3-1 lead by the fourth inning, but Friedrichs was able to settle down after that and shutout the Aggies between the fifth and seventh

innings.

“I kind of went out of my book in the first [few] innings but after that I wasn’t having it,” Friedrichs said. “I feel like I left everything out there and I got no regrets.”

The Dirtbags rallied in the eighth inning to win the game 4-3. Freshman designated hitter Brock Lundquist capped the comeback by singling past the shortstop to bring in the gamewinning run. Lundquist, who went 2-4 with 2 RBI and double, also had the game winning hit two weeks ago against UCLA. “I was just trying to hit the ball into the gap like last time,” Lundquist said.

“The guy was throwing pretty hard so I wasn’t trying to do anything overpowering.”

Long Beach State will travel to Fullerton to play the rival Titans in a three-game series starting Thursday at 8 p.m.

Sandwiched in between Woodrow Wilson High School and Recreation Park is the storied Blair Field, the 3,283-seat, brutal home of the Long Beach State Dirtbags.

It’s also home to the local high schools and “virtually every baseball player to lace up their cleats in Southern California during the past 50 years,” according to CSULB’s website.

The ballpark serves as hub for past, present and future students of California State University, Long Beach. This is why Blair Field was chosen as a centerpiece for the I Declare campaign.

President Jane Close Conoley spoke to a crowd about the purpose of the campaign before the Sunday’s Dirtbags game vs. UC Davis. Among the stadium improvements the I Declare campaign will offer are new batting cages, better locker rooms, offices and a hall of fame room.

Blair Field already does a great job reminding its visitors of its rich baseball history; the hall of fame room will add to this. Everywhere you look you can spot a banner, billboard or jersey bearing the name or face of a former Dirtbag.

There’s the image of Colorado Rockies shortstop, and four-time MLB allstar, Troy Tulowitzki swinging his bat in centerfield. There’s also the banner in left field with Los Angeles Angels pitcher, and three-time all-star, Jered Weaver’s face.

The walls of the left field seating entrance are decorated with mag-

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Continued from page 6b azine covers featuring former major leaguer and American League MVP Jason Giambi. Tampa Bay Rays third baseman Evan Longoria is right there beside Giambi, along with more of Weaver and Tulowitzki.

Over a dozen banners hang outside Blair, each one containing an image of an all-time Dirtbag great along with the years they attended. There’s Brad Davis, Danny Espinosa, Bobby Crosby and a

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Sports current World Series champion, San Francisco Giants infielder Matt Duffy.

Over 1,000 people fill up Blair Field on average on game days, each one hoping that they’re looking at the next major league all-star. The air around the stadium is drenched in the smell of hot dogs, beer and the sound of children laughing.

“That’s fairly recent, I gotta say,” former LBSU Athletic Advisor Don Peters said. “I think the people they’ve got doing their marketing really know what they’re doing.”

Peters worked with the school and its athletes from 1997 to 2005. Because he holds baseball close to his heart, he’s

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become one of the Dirtbags’ biggest fans and attends several games year in and year out. He even sings the national anthem a few times every season.

“I have probably close to a .758 winning percentage when I sing,” Peters joked. “So the coaches, they see me coming [and they ask], ‘You singing, Don? You singing today?’”

If anyone knows the ins and outs and the atmosphere at Blair, it’s Peters.

He loves the park, but admits it isn’t too friendly to the game of baseball.

“Blair Field is not an easy field to play baseball in,” Peters said. “It’s what they call a pitcher’s park. Hitters don’t come

Sportsd49er@gmail.com here, so they have to learn how to play small ball.”

Peters calls the enormous amount of foul territory at Blair Field the pitcher’s best friend. He points out that the center field wall, that seems to be miles away from the plate, is farther out than some of the walls at major league parks.

Blair Field can be cruel to hitters, but Peters believes it better prepares them for the major leagues. He recalls a story he heard about Duffy and Giants’ manager Bruce Bochy.

Apparently, Bochy needed Duffy to lay down a bunt in the middle of the Giants’ championship run. Bochy asked the for-

mer Dirtbag if he could come through for the team to which Duffy replied along the lines of “you know where I went to school, right?”

Peter’s story about Duffy isn’t the only evidence that Blair Field produces MLBready players. 44 former Dirtbags have made it to the major leagues, 12 of them are currently active; that’s good for the most active players in the majors from any college in the country.

The I Declare campaign will help improve the stadium along with the school.

The Campaign for Blair Field website makes the case that a program with so much history deserves something back.

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