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Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Using the G.I. money where it counts Veterans at CSULB are encouraged to use their benefit money towards higher education.

By Abilene Carrillo Assistant News Editor

of feeling and motor skills someone might experience after a stroke.

Odalys Gomez, a freshman speech pathology major, participated in blind soccer and the lip sync activity, and she said she enjoyed the event and would recommend it to other people.

“A lot of universities are modeling their recreation programs after ours,

Veterans who have served are encouraged to wait to use their benefits until they get to a 4-year university where the money “really counts.”

According to the United States department of Veterans Affairs those who have served 36 months in active duty and were honorably discharged are able to use the benefits for their education.

California State University, Long Beach has 563 Veterans on campus. Veterans who are using benefits account for 265, and 295 veterans are using the post 9-11 G.I. Bill. The post 9-11 G.I. Bill benefits veterans who have served three years in active duty.

The bill helps students pay for books and housing allowance.

Veterans who are currently using the G.I. Bill receive about $2,400 a month, Marshall Thomas, director of Veterans Service at CSULB, said.

The money they receive helps to cover their living expenses while attending college. Although Thomas acknowledges the money may not be a lot to work with, veterans are able to live off of it if they are working

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On Monday, Junior Ana Vasquez and Freshman Oclalys Gomez, both Speech-Language Pathology Majors, struggle to find the game ball as their eyes are blindfolded to imitate being blind.

CSULB students gained awareness of various disabilities through different activities at the SRWC Monday.

By John Broadway Staff Writer

Able-bodied students experienced what it would be like to live with a disability on campus Monday afternoon.

The Disabled Student Affairs and the Student Recreation and Wellness Center teamed up to host various different activities by the Rec Center in an effort to raise awareness about the needs of disabled people.

Beverly Delarosa, secretary of disabled student affairs, put together the event and helped students as they

participated in the activities.

“It’s important that we do disability awareness, and accept [disabled people] and include them in our everyday lives because we all can be affected by it,” Delarosa said.

The activities at the event were all meant to simulate a different disability that someone might have.

Students were able to participate in blind soccer, lip reading charades, wheelchair navigation and buttoning clothes in order to simulate the loss

VetNet Ally program started from one veteran’s doctoral dissertation Marshall Thomas started the VetNet Ally program, now used at campuses across the nation, at CSULB from his doctoral dissertation.

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He proudly displays all three of his degrees on his office wall- all from California State University, Long Beach. He has a VetNet Ally sticker on his shelf, indicating that he is a advocate and resource to veterans.

Marshall Thomas, director of Veteran’s Services, was 18 in 1986 when he joined the Marines. At the time, the Cold War was barely winding down, but they didn’t know that at the time.

“In many ways, I think it was a patriotic decision, you know, serving the country,” Thomas said. “The

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country was a lot different back then, the world was a lot different back then.”

While there was no question he would go into the military, he was not sure which branch he would join. After talking to each branch, he decided on the Marines, which had a culture that appealed more to him. They also had the “coolest uniforms.”

He never saw combat. Thomas says he had a “very interesting, and

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Marshall Thomas (center) joined the Marine Corps at age 18 after much deliberation on what military branch he would join. He says he found truth in the saying, “the few, the proud, the Marines.”

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Long Beach Transit unveils texting feature Customers are now able to receive next bus times via text.

By Lynohila Ward Staff Writer

The gratification of instant information will now be fulfi lled at bus stops in Long Beach.

The Long Beach Transit unveiled a new texting feature on Sunday that allows riders to receive next bus times via text. The texting feature will deliver real time estimates based on global positioning coordinates.

“I’m proud of Long Beach Transit for its continued modernization of our public transit system,” said Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia in a press release. “Texting for next bus times will improve the transit experience for so many of our residents. I’m looking forward to more tech innovations from LBT.” Long Beach Transit was established over 50 years ago and currently serves over 28 million boarding customers in Long Beach, Lakewood and Signal Hill according to the LBT website. Cal State Long Beach currently has an agreement with Long Beach Transit that guarantees every student a Transit Access Pass card.

The TAP card can only be used while students are enrolled and grants unlimited access to all Long Beach Transit buses. Buses that run through the Cal State Long Beach

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Fifth years Angela Cho, Nutrition major and Cassandra Khlat, Education major, on their phones as they wait for their bus to come by on Tuesday. campus include Passport D, 81, 91, 92, 93, 94, 96, 171 and 173.

LBT officials have described the texting feature as “easy to use.” To use, customers can text “LBT” followed by their bus stop ID number to 27299. LBT’s bus stop ID numbers are located on the bottom right of the system’s bus route signs. If a customer is at a bus stop with multiple routes and wants results for only one route they can text the above information with only the specific route number they want.

For example, if a student is waiting for the 171 at the library and wants the next bus time they can text “LBT1025 171” to 27299. Or if a student is waiting for the 93 at the library they can text “LBT1025 93.”

Kevin Lee, the public information officer for Long Beach Transit, said the texting feature is one of the many things the agency is doing to modernize its system.

“Everyone wants an app and the app is on its way, but the texting feature opens the possibility for everyone to

save time and headaches even if they don’t have a smartphone,” Lee said.

Diana Rosas, a first year biology major, catches the bus everyday and while she currently uses the regular LBT website for bus times, plans to use the texting feature in the future.

“It seems like a better idea than running and panicking all the time that you might miss the bus,” Rosas said.

Angie Templeton, a junior human development major, shared Rosas sentiments, and added that the tex-

ting feature may simplify the complicated LBT website she currently uses.

“I have to click on five different things just to get schedule times for the bus I need,” Templeton said.

Although the texting feature is fairly new and the agency has not heard much customer feedback yet, the responses they did garner were generally of excitement, according to Lee. The agency plans to rollout new features in the next year, including an updated website and a mobile phone application.

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which sparked the idea to create a training program similar to Safezone, but for veterans. continued from page 1 “I gave [the former director] a call and said: ‘I need a project for my dissertation, you need educaoddly boring Marine Corps cation, I think maybe we could do reer.” Because of the timing of his something,’” Thomas said. “So military career, the U.S. was not inwe met and invited a psychologist volved in a lot of war at the time. from CAPS and talked about what Even when the Gulf War hit, Thoma program like that would look like. as was in Recruiter’s school.

I said, this is going to be my dis“They had what was called an sertation, here’s my timeline, here’s ‘all-hands meeting,’ meaning evthe kind of content I want to put in erybody in the whole unit and the it, and I took their content and my whole school was brought into the content, we put a program together room at the same time, and the comand that’s what I wrote my dissermanding officer said: ‘Don’t ask, tation on.” you’re not going.”

His dissertation was creating He retired from the military at the program, doing the initial pre24 with the desire to go to college, sentations: a pilot and a study, and something he did not have prior evaluating the effectiveness of the to enlisting. He program. earned his Bach“My initial elor’s degree in goal was: I’m Asian Studies, going to create For a very long time, his Master’s a program, I’m in ESL and his I was the only person going to give it Doctoral in Eduto the Veteran’s connected to vets on cational Leaderoffice here and campus... and he put ship at CSULB. they can do with together this training it whatever they Thomas origprogram that taught inally pursued want,” Thomas his doctorate me so much about said. “Little did with the idea to I know, I would the population that become the next be the one overI had been working director of the seeing it in the with for years Learning Assisveterans office a tance Center, couple years lat-Lynisha McDuel, where he started er. It’s become a Veteran’s center adviser as a one-hour-agreat way for me week volunteer to connect with and eventually became the associour campus community, but also ate director. with other communities as well.”

VetNet Ally started as his disNow, other schools use VetNet sertation project. He had gone to Ally and implement it in different LGBTQ Safezone training and had ways all over California and the discussions with the former director United States. San Diego State Uniof Veteran’s Services, still a fairly versity is using it as a model for new program on campus at the time, their new “Military Ally” program.

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part-time, which many of them are.

“The Post 9-11 G.I. Bill is a tremendous resource,” Thomas said.

“It really encouraged a lot of people to come get an education that might not have otherwise.”

The main problem with the G.I. Bill is that many veterans end up using the benefits while attending community college instead of using the money when they enter a university, Thomas said.

“The reality is you get 36 months worth of education benefit,” Thomas said. “The idea being that we are a 4-year degree program, you go to school nine months a year, 36 months will cover your education.”

According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs website, veterans receive 36 months worth

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we modeled ours after Portland State, and now we are pretty much the second largest inclusive recreation program on the [West Coast],” Gomez said.

Gomez said that although the

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Marshall Thomas (left) served as a electronics technician handling “tactical data” throughout California for part of his military career. Later, he served as a recruiter for the Marines.

“It’s interesting and kinda cool to get calls from people, even on the East Coast, saying, ‘Hey, was just looking at your stuff,’ or ‘I just read your dissertation,’ and I’m like: nobody reads dissertations, you get em, you print them and they go on a bookshelf somewhere and they’re never touched again,” Thomas said.

“But I use mine all the time, because VetNet Ally is that dissertation. “... And what makes it even better, is it’s all homegrown right here at Cal State Long Beach. So as cool as it might be as a program, it’s actually a student project, because I did it as a student.”

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of benefits, but need to utilize those benefits within 15 years.

“We do find that a lot of people will run out of their benefits before they graduate,” Thomas said. “For that reason the Veterans Service office tries to encourage people to not use their benefits while they are attending community college. In theory the 36 months worth of benefits is awesome, but in reality who really graduates in four years?”

Thomas said.

The Post 9-11 G.I. Bill pays tuition and fees at the in-state rate for veterans.

“We do have an increasing number of students that are using something called vocational rehabilitation,” Thomas said. “It is technically a vocational program, not an education program.

The vocational rehabilitation program is designed to help students who have a service-connected disability. Whether the disability is physical, emotional or mental.

It provides similar benefits like the Post 9-11 G.I. Bill as well as additional benefits. Veterans who are using the vocational program are given a little bit more flexibility adding time to the benefits as opposed the veterans who are using the Post 9-11 G.I. Bill, Thomas said.

Another benefit students are able to use while at CSULB is the Cal Vet Fee Waiver. The waiver is a benefit provided by the state of California and is for the children of veterans who have a disability rating from the VA, allowing them to have their tuition fee waived, Thomas said.

Students who are dependents of veterans are able to use the G.I. Bill benefits if the parent that served gives them the 36 months of benefits.

“With the post 9-11 G.I. Bill everything in higher education changed,” Thomas said. “We have had an influx of students using a much better program.

games were fun, living her life that way would be an everyday struggle.

“I would definitely recommend other people take part in this event because it is very eye-opening,” Gomez said. “It will make people more cautious and also willing to go out of their way to help disabled persons.”

Representatives from the SRWC were there as well to help out with the event.

Michael Freeman, the aquatics and

inclusive recreation coordinator, noted that events like this and other inclusion programs that he runs have led the SRWC to become a model university recreation program for providing services to disabled persons.

“For students with disabilities or maybe even able bodied, we have a lot of programs that we put on to make those with disabilities feel more comfortable, and to give abled bodied people a different perspective” Freeman said.

veteran’s center, had been working with veterans at CSULB for four years before she attended the pilot VetNet Ally seminar. At the time, she said she felt she had a good understanding of veteran needs.

“For a very long time, I was the only person connected to vets on campus and I learned so much sitting through the VetNet Ally seminar,” McDuel said. “I thought it was really interesting how he hadn’t been working with vets on campus … and he put together this training program that taught me so much about the population that I had been working with for years.”

Thomas says that there are a growing number of “ally programs”

on the CSULB campus. He hopes that one day, there will no longer be a need for these types of programs, but for now, they’re necessary and do good things for students.

“I’m in awe of what our students today have done,” Thomas said.

“You would never know this by seeing the vets walk around … We have some people who have done some really really amazing things.

And they’re walking around campus right now, wearing shorts and flip flops, just like everyone else is and you would never know it.

Those are the people who impress me. So I guess, I’m more proud to be able to serve them than of anything I ever did.”

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‘Spectre:’ stirred, not shaken MOVIE REVIEW

The 24th film in the franchise creates an exciting but average end for Daniel Craig.

By Ross Siev Staff Writer

Director: Sam Mendes Starring: Daniel Craig, Monica Bellucci, Christoph Waltz Rating: PG-13

In his final performance as James Bond, Daniel Craig ends the story with finding the organization responsible for the events within “Casino Royale,” “Quantum of Solace” and “Skyfall.”

If “Casino Royale” was considered a reboot of the Bond franchise, then Spectre” is a total fall back into the popular Bond tropes: womanizing, gadget-powered super cars, a villainous secret lair (white fluffy cat in-

cluded), a huge persistent henchman and the villainous expositional monologue. Despite these reintroductions of spy movie clichés, the film remains grounded with the same tone as previous installments.

Bond finds himself seeking a mysterious criminal organization and the mastermind behind it all, Franz Oberhauser, played by Christoph Waltz. The story treads the same old grounds, but shows that it still works. If there was a change into these pieces, then its momentum can break loose.

In “Spectre,” Bond’s origin story is further developed with the villain having a personal issue with Bond. Bond is the type of character whose past is shrouded in mystery, and that he should stick to being an agent focused more on the mission rather than his past struggles.

Even though the plot was directly focused on Bond and his backstory, his past wasn’t delved into an extent suitable for his personal tale. The villain only makes brief appearances in several scenes rather than being the ever-continuing threat, and as charming and amazing Christoph Waltz is at portraying villainous roles, he is criminally underused. Most of that screen time was given to the villainous Mr. Hinx, played

by Dave Bautista, whose only existence is to have amazing action scenes against Bond.

According to Forbes, Spectre is one of the most expensive films ever made; with a $300 million budget, it’s just $78.5 million away from Disney’s “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.” The massive budget is apparent in the movies globetrotting plot.

Each location has its own major action scenes with a different color of

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variety. From fighting in a helicopter in Mexico City to skiing in an airplane in the Austrian Alps, it shows the fidelity of both high-octane action and suspense as Bond constantly finds himself in trouble. Despite the introduction film’s strong start, it gradually peters out to relatively short gunfights.

While Bond is busy seeking the organization, the MI6 agents must contend with an uptight bureaucrat seeking to establish a global surveillance system – a plot device that not-so subtly sends out a message: government surveillance

is evil. However, this subplot is briefly mentioned throughout so it ends up as a weak build-up into the final act.

A common theme in every 007 film is the appropriately named “Bond Girl.”

This time, Bond meets two women, one of whom Bond develops a relationship with throughout the film (Lea Seydoux), and the other is a grieving widow Bond uses to get information out of her through love-making (Monica Belluci). Although Bond finally finds himself into another romantic relationship, there was no actual chemistry between

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the two characters until the film openly tells that these two are indeed in love.

While the action was certainly larger than previous installments, the gunfights are placed into an afterthought.

It’s a slightly thrilling return to the campiness and entertainment that made James Bond films into the powerhouse of spy-action. While the plot and characters are underdeveloped, Spectre still holds ground for a grand finale into Daniel Craig’s final performance as the legendary 007 agent, James Bond.

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Student artist Juliet Johnson’s “PINKEYE” is on display at one of the student art galleries between Fine Arts buildings 2-4 from noon to 5 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday.

By Shawnkira Sanchez Staff Writer

Walking into the student exhibit “PINKEYE,” the visitor is first captivated by the upside-down cutout letters arranged on the floor. The instinct is to read what they spell-to derive meaning-- yet in order to even attempt this, one must walk to the back wall of the gallery.

Once there, the letters spell out:

“PINKEYE / IF I SAID / YOU HAD A / BEAUTIFUL / BODY WOULD /YOU LET / ME OUT / OF THIS / LABYRINTH.” “Being inside of the space you read ‘WOULD YOU LET ME OUT OF THIS LABYRINTH,’ but by then you’re in it because you’re trapped by the text and the monitors — it’s another labyrinth,” said BFA sculpture major Juliet Johnson, the artist responsible for the exhibit.

On opposing walls of the gallery, two video screens face each other.

One, a female “character,” as Johnson describes it, wears purple attire and a blue headpiece. She blinks periodically and unexpectedly. On the other screen a pink pattern that resembles inflamed flesh seems to be in continuous flux.

“I was really surprised by the

[woman],” said gallery visitor Brian Gonzalez, a design major. “Looking at it after a while and then seeing it move... I wasn’t expecting that.”

In her artist statement, Johnson writes about the infinite space between stillness and movement. Her exhibit incites a sense suspension and a suspicion of movement’s existence: bringing to mind Zeno’s paradox.

However, Johnson warns that looking for a direct translation is not the right approach to take.

“There is no moral to this story,” said Johnson. “It’s not to say there weren’t things that were intentional that I did do but there’s not one, there is no one right way and there shouldn’t be with good art.”

Freshman kinesiology major Teresa Silvestre agreed with this sen-

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“I liked being able to look at the

There is no moral to this story. It’s not to say there weren’t things that were intentional that I did do but there’s not one, there is no one right way and there shouldn’t be with good art.

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gallery and not know exactly what I was looking at in first glance,” said

Silvestre. “I don’t enjoy cookie-cutter art that practically tells you what to think. I like abstract thinking.”

Johnson said that she strongly relies on her intuition when making artistic decisions. For her, the creative process comes to an end when the piece triggers a certain “reaction” in her.

“Just any reaction is not enough, it has to be the right one,” Johnson said. “It has to be in terms of the work. If you’re looking at something and you’re laughing and it’s clearly supposed to be serious then it’s not right.”

The CSULB School of Art displays student galleries in Fine Arts building 2-4, with new exhibits each week. Johnson’s “PINKEYE” can be experienced from noon to 5 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday.

From here to Ware: a tale of a veteran Martiz Ware transitioned from a decorated military career to mentoring at The Beach.

By Micayla Vermeeren Assistant News Editor

Clad in a pink bow tie, laughing as he waved an imaginary flag through the air, Martiz Ware looked as if he could be leading the Disneyland Band down Main Street, USA. With motivational posters and gold record plaques decorating the walls of the office surrounding him, no outsider could ever guess he was recounting the days of his eight-yearlong military career with such geniality.

Though his experience in the military took him everywhere from the hospital base of the 18th Airborne Corps in Kuwait during Desert Storm to marching the Kentucky flag during the 1990 Super Bowl, Ware wouldn’t

trade the good and bad for any impact the experience left on him.

Ware enrolled in the military fresh out of high school, inspired by an academically unsuccessful classmate that steered away from the traditional university plan in favor of enlistment.

Upon hearing about a buddy program that partnered incoming enrollees together for basic training, Ware jumped into the world of boot camp, operation technician training, and active duty without a second glance.

“Joining the military was a great decision,” said Ware. “I immediately loved it.”

And it’s fair to say the military loved him.

Even when his original partner failed out, Ware’s love for his new career kept him rooted exactly where he was. As those roots took hold, he weaved his way up the ranks and was soon making strides in remarkable time for a man as young as he was.

By the age of 22, Ware had not only been deployed, reenlisted, promoted to a Sergeant, but was appointed to work at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Washington, D.C.—not to mention mastering his craft in the medical field.

He dreamt of being a doctor in high school and was able to actualize that dream after completing his training and working directly with those injured in the line of duty or as collateral damage during war time.

But as much as he loved the world of medicine, another love pulled him away from the field—music.

As his time at Walter Reed came to an end, he reevaluated his priorities and made the decision to pursue a professional music career as part of 4pm (4 positive music). He and his band mates saw a decent amount of success in 1994, when their single “Sukiyaki” hit #8 on the Top 100 radio charts.

But lasting success in the music industry wasn’t in the cards for Ware; so another career change came in the wake of 4pm and landed him on the shores of The Beach.

As CSULB’s ASI Director of Administrative Services, he dedicates himself to mentoring students across campus, but has said he feels students he has encountered across the various campuses he’s worked on have mentored him just as much.

He attributes his educational drive to qualities he learned in his time as

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an operating room technician for the military.

“The two go so closely hand in hand,” said Ware. “The integrity, the

courage is needed here as well as in the military. I want these students to know there’s a brighter future no matter where you decide to go.”

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“Yes” means what?

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et’s be honest: consent is not sexy. If it really was such a turn-on, we wouldn’t need a law to tell us, because men would have long ago discovered this Rosetta Stone of getting into girls’ pants.

Recently the phenomenon of affirmative consent, commonly stylized as “yes means yes,” has taken college campuses by storm.

Last year, California became the first state to make it law. Interestingly enough, when the idea of “yes means yes” was first introduced

by Antioch College in the 90’s, the school became a laughingstock, even scoring a parody on “Saturday Night Live”.

But apparently politicians could not resist pandering to 50 percent of the voting population, and thus the “yes means yes” law was born.

The truth is, affirmative consent as a legal standard is ludicrously impractical, to say the least. According to the dominant interpretation on both sides of the political spectrum, all sexual activity now requires ongoing, verbal consent. The new law does not allow for any of the nonverbal language that we use on a daily basis.

We do not ask people for permission when we shake their hands.

We do not ask permission before we touch one of our close friends; body language, relationship history, the context of the specific situation, all of these things matter when determining consent.

However, there are grey areas when it comes to sexual consent.

Take, for example, intoxication. The new standard states that somebody who is “incapacitated” cannot give consent, and does not limit this to mean unconscious people. Essentially, sex while drunk may be illegal in certain situations, but such situations are open to interpretation.

This raises many questions. At what point is being drunk considered incapacitated in the eyes of the law?

How do we know if someone has had too much to drink? Can we really expect a drunk person to accurately perceive whether someone else is

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Graduate student Blake Bullock speaks to a First Year Campus Acquaintance Rape Education class about effective ways of confronting racist, sexist and homophobic behavior at the University of Illinois on Oct. 15, 2015 in Urbana-Champaign, Ill. The FYCARE workshop, which is mandatory for all first-year students, aims to educate students about on campus sexual assault, promote discussion and encourage students to look out for the safety and well-being of their fellow students.

drunk or not? What if both people are so drunk that they are both incapacitated? They can’t both be raping each other.

Can they?

But what’s most shocking about the new law in regards to drunken sex is that it clearly states that intoxication is not an excuse for the accused, but it is an excuse for the victim, even if they gave affirmative consent.

This means that even consensual sex can become rape after the fact, if one person claims they were “too drunk” and that when they said yes they didn’t really mean yes, freeing them of all responsibility for their own actions.

The fact is, consent must be possible while drunk, or else “I was

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drunk” would be a valid excuse for is consent, and that even blatantly drunk drivers, and, for that matter, non-consensual acts like pushing drunken rapists. or crying do not count as a “no.”

Another big Context matters. impracticality of Both “yes means “yes means yes” is yes” and no means the “ongoing” part. no standards are far There are This makes it so too broad. important grey that every sexual We need to focus act, from holding on clearing up the areas in the hands to a mid-ingaps and clarifying “yes means yes” tercourse change the grey areas, in sex position not try to remove consent law. requires a verbal them. The last “yes,” or else it is thing we should do considered sexual is pretending that assault. affirmative consent Let’s be clear: no actually stops means no is not the rapists from raping best standard either. people.

It implies that unconsciousness Meanwhile, the best thing

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that we can do as a society is to continue to enable and encourage victims to come forward. By all accounts, rape is far underreported. This makes it doubly important not only that women come forward, but that they come forward to the proper authorities, and not pseudo-courts that can result only in expulsion, when rapists should be imprisoned.

At the end of the day, this law shows contempt for common sense.

As college students, it insults our intelligence, and our ability to determine consent. The problem is not with normal people not understanding what consent is. The problem is gaps in the law that allow judges to let rapists off based on what the victim was wearing.

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and the lobotomy of a sports leader With the loss of sportscaster Bill Simmons and the closing of Grantland, ESPN takes a turn for the worse.

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he self-proclaimed “Worldwide leader in sports,” ESPN, looks to be falling from fans good graces.

As the long time go-to mecca of any and all sports information, ESPN has had more blunders than blessings as of late.

With the closing of Grantland, laying off 300 employees due to loss of subscribers and the “mutual departure” of sportscaster Bill Simmons, ESPN is slowly losing its grip as the leading sports network.

One of the first in a long line of mistakes that have plagued ESPN the past few months was the departure of Simmons, who was not so coincidently the co-founder of Grantland. The relationship between Simmons and ESPN president John Skipper has been rocky at best for the past seven years. In a statement released by Skipper, he states that the company decided not to renew Simmons’ contract and claimed that ESPN would remain “committed to

Grantland.”

That clearly did not happen.

Just five months after Simmons was no longer with ESPN, the network closed down the Grantland offices; just nine days after it was announced that the company would lay off 300 workers.

ESPN does not have their priorities in check. Instead of supporting the 8,000 worker staff, they decided that airing one football game a week on their network was more important.

The company spends $1.9 billion alone just for Monday Night Football. Fox sits in second spending $1.1 billion for an entire slate of Sunday football game rights.

ESPN stated that it decided to end the four-year-old website to focus on future projects that “will have a broader and more significant impact across our enterprise.”

By future projects do they mean producing the same, typical content that everyone is used to seeing from ESPN? Sure, ESPN was the first network to broadcast all sports, all the time, and we thank them for that. But at some point, it is time for a change.

And that change shouldn’t have involved the loss of one of their most recognizable names in sports casting and someone who helped boost ESPN to the top of the sports world.

Who are sports fans supposed to watch now for all of their sports information? Stephen A. Smith? Skip Bayless? Does ESPN expect us to get anything out of watching shows like “Around the Horn” or “First Take?”

And with the loss of cable subscribers, other networks, such as NBC Sports and Fox Sports 1, are on the come up to grab a bigger share of the audience in sports broadcasting.

In only it’s second year of being a 24/7 sports network, Fox Sports 1 has made progressive changes to the programming, including a higher total number of sports as well as a wider variety compared to that of ESPN. Fox Sports 1 broadcasts events such as UFC, NASCAR Trucks, Pac-12 and Big-12 football, Gold Cup soccer, Women’s World Cup soccer and the US Open for soccer.

While Fox Sports 1 has grown in total viewership on a daily basis by 40 percent, ESPN has dropped 9 percent according to Forbes.

According to National Public Radio, ESPN is one of the most profitable markets owned by Disney. Out of all the sports networks in the industry, ESPN’s prices are the highest due to carrying events such as NBA, NFL Monday night games, MLB, World Cup soccer, U.S. Open Tennis and the Master’s Tournament.

ESPN costs on average $6.04 a month for nine channels that are

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all part of a cable bundle. Michael Nathanson of MoffettNathanson Research projected the un-bundled cost of ESPN to be about $36.30. If something were to ever happen to

ESPN and they lose the bundled package with the cable networks, it seems unlikely that fans would continue to pay such an outrageous price for a faltering network.

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After an emotional loss to Fullerton in the Big West Tournament final, the Long Beach State women’s soccer team earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament on Monday.

Head coach Mauricio Ingrassia said the 49ers were “very tense” while awaiting the announcement that didn’t come until around 1:30 p.m. – almost 24 hours after their

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“A lot of the players were hoping to get another day to play the sport they love,” Ingrassia said.

The 49ers will head up to Northern California for a matchup with the fourth-seeded Santa Clara Broncos in the first round.

Santa Clara has been the bane of LBSU’s existence in recent NCAA

Tournaments. In 2012, the last time the 49ers were in the tournament, Santa Clara eliminated them in the first round. The Broncos also eliminated LBSU in the first round in 2010.

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Seeing triple Seeing triple Seeing triple MEN’S WATER POLO

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Triplets Chandler, Garrett and Troy Kaltenbach are playing in their first season at Long Beach State after all three redshirted in 2014.

The Kaltenbach triplets made their debut at LBSU this season after representing Ecuador in the Pan American Games this summer.

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hidorah, the Three-Headed Monster” is a title from a popular Japanese science fiction film in the ‘60s. In the story, the monster is considered Godzilla’s greatest threat in a long list of formidable opponents and comes to Earth to unleash its fury.

Although they’re not as elaborate and ridiculous as Ghidorah, Long Beach State water polo has its own three-headed monster – the Kaltenbach triplets.

“They are incredibly competitive in water polo and with each other. They hold each other to high standards,” LBSU head coach Gavin Arroyo said.

“It’s a tough yet healthy dynamic.

They are a joy to coach and we expect great things from them.”

Chandler, Troy and Garrett are the trio of brothers on the 49ers men’s water polo team. The Kaltenbachs, who have been playing water polo since they were 12-years old, are redshirt freshmen out of Santa Margarita Catholic High School where Troy

and Chandler, both fielders, made first team All-League in the Trinity League and Garrett, a goalie, won Defensive Player of the Year his senior year. [break into two sentences] They also have duel citizenship with Ecuador, which they gained through their mother’s side and played for the Ecuador Senior National Team since 2012, including participating in the Pan American Games in Canada last summer.

The college recruiting process was a peculiar affair due to speculation of where the brothers would attend college. Many wondered if they were a package deal for a lucky program or if they would go their separate ways, which they quickly nipped in the butt [whoa] on their signing day nearly two years ago.

“We wanted to stick together in college because if we didn’t, it just would not feel right, and we are glad we did,” Chandler said. “There wasn’t one thing we didn’t like about the school or the water polo program when deciding our school of choice.

LBSU was the best school that wanted all 3 of us. Long Beach is the best fit for us across the board and I have learned so much in so little time both in and out of the pool.”

The decision to stick together [rewhich is a full load when they’re Dipetitive phrasing] and extend their vision 1 athletes They’re just your careers at the same program shownormal 20-something college stucased their closeness that one would dents except they look like celebrities expect triplets to have. It was to be and play college water polo and there expected considering their past. are three of them. Other than that, According to Chandler, when they’re totally normal. both Garrett and Troy were sick and The youngest brother, Chandler, away from him has exploded this at school, it felt season with 23 weird for him goals for LBSU, going alone bewhich has been a They are incredibly cause it gave him primary [I don’t competitive in water a sense of what it’s like this word] like for everyone bright spot in a polo and with each else that doesn’t season where the other. They hold share his uniqueyouthful roster each other to high ness by having has been heavily standards. siblings by their relied upon. Troy side all the time. has been key in -Gavin Arroyo, “I’ll tell you. the rotation as LBSU water polo coach I love being a well and Garrett triplet. I’m never is expected to alone because we have very similar be the successor to Pavo Ljepopio at class schedules and we have the same goalie next season. practice schedule so we go everyLjepopio, star goalie and a senior where together,” Chandler said. “We leader, expressed his admiration for know everything about each other the Kaltenbachs and even laughed and are such a close-knit group of about the experience of triplets as people.” teammates.

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would mix their names trying to tell them something. Sometimes it would get confusing, especially during the game. Good thing Garrett looks somewhat different than two of them because it would get too complicated to have three almost identical people on your team,” Ljepopio said. “But our triplets are great athletes and even better people and we’re all happy to have them on our team.”

The sky is the limit for the Kaltenbach brothers. They epitomize the term “student athlete” and with a fiery competitive streak, they hope to knock down doors and make their mark at LBSU in the pool and in the classroom.

“We want to be successful during our collegiate years in water polo but more importantly also graduate within four years with a great GPA,” Chandler said. “We’re going to make the most of every opportunity that is given to us” Ljepopio summed it up best with the impact the triplets have already made on the program and their teammates.

“In our water polo program, we wish for talented, responsible and hard-working people. In this case, our wish came true - three times.”