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“Why do I have to label my Sexuality?” said Todd Wallenius, graduate student, as he writes no label on the interactive chalkboard for Coming Out Week.

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

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Qs and As for straights and gays

Campus community unites for National Coming Out Week.

By MiMi Nguyen Staff Writer

In honor of National Coming Out Week a student writes “No Label” on a black chalkboard to represent what he is most proud of.

The chalkboard, located in front of the Multicultural Center, is for students to tell everyone who are. It is one of the many activities for National Coming Out Week.

“If I had to label myself, I would be considered queer,” said Todd

Wallenius, a graduate student from the education department. ”But I feel more comfortable with no label at all.”

In collaboration with the Queers and Allies organization on campus, Wallenius is hosting five of seven events this week in celebration.

National Coming Out Week features educational programs and

events to raise LGBTQ+ visibility. Organizations like Q&A, the LGBT Resource Center, the University Student Union Program Council, Associated Students, Inc. and various staff members at California State University, Long Beach work in conjunction to bring National Coming Out Week to fruition.

“People wrote messages of sup-

port and courage,” said Alejandro Muro, a graduate assistant at the LGBTQ+ Resource Center. “It was really nice to witness strangers supporting a cause that [I] really care about.”

Students discussed LGBTQ+ support topics at an event in the

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5 tips for securing your bike Bicycle thefts are abnormally high for this time of year compared to previous years, according to University Police. Full story on Page 2.

1. Get a U-lock Cable or chain locks no longer provide enough security, according to the National Bike Registry. The U-lock should go through the back wheel, inside the rear triangle of the frame. Even though the frame is not technically locked, it’s nearly impossible to take the bike without cutting a very valuable part of the bike.

2. Get another lock Just because you have secured the frame and back wheel, does not make your bike totally secure. The front wheel, while less valuable than the back one, needs to be secured with a cable lock, or ideally with another U-lock.

3. Don’t buy a lock bigger than you need While a bigger U-lock may allow you to lock up the back wheel and frame simultaneously, a smaller lock provides far less room for thieves to get tools into posi-

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tion and attempt a break. Plus it will be lighter to carry around.

4. Ugly it up a little The more valuable your bike looks, the more likely a thief will attempt to take it. Lifehacker suggests putting duct tape on your bike seat as if it were torn. Biclycing. com recommends penning your name on the top tube and covering it over with clear packing tape. While these two pointers don’t do anything to secure the bike, they might make it not worth the hassle.

5. Park next to other bikes Remember, if you and your friend see a bear in the woods, you don’t have to outrun the bear, just your friend. The same principle applies here. If you select a location with other bicycles, there is a decent chance that someone else’s bike will be less secure than yours.

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Bike thefts on the rise Cable locks and owner negligence are the leading causes for stolen bicycles on campus, say campus police.

By Ross Siev Staff Writer

Cyclists, lock up your bikes.

That’s what the University Police and the Cycling Club are saying after a rise in thefts within the first month and a half on the California State University, Long Beach campus, according to police records.

CSULB’s Cycling Club will have a meeting on Wednesday in which members will have a photo competition of terrible bike locking on CSULB to show the difference between a properly locked and improperly locked bike.

Eight bikes were stolen from campus and its nearby housing area since the beginning of the fall 2015 semester, which is more than the number of bikes stolen in that timeframe last fall. Most of these thefts are typically

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Rainbow Cafe Monday. They also shared personal experiences on sexual and gender diversity inside the Multicultural Center, Monday evening, over free beverages and snacks provided by the Department of Counseling and Psychology Services and the LGBTQ+ Resource Center.

“We want everyone to know that they are not alone and that there’s always a place for them if they are ever in need of some kind of support,” former vice president of Q&A Helen Phan said.

Queer People of Color will host “What’s the TEA” on Tuesday at 3 p.m. It is a closed panel for students of color who identify with the LGBTQ+ community. Follow-

Natasha Viti | Daily 49er The best way to prevent a bike theft is properly using a U-lock, according to University Police. due to owner negligence, according to University Police. Most of these incidents usually involve students using a cable lock rather than a U-lock, Lt. Richard Goodwin of University Police said.

“As of late, there’s been a spike of bike thefts,” Goodwin said. “I can’t really tell you why there’s been a spike other than the possibility existing that the bikes have been stolen and not properly secured.”

Cycling Club president Vince Meija said that students must be

aware about how to properly lock up their bikes. The competition is to teach the club members that the bike locking issue does exist on campus.

Improperly locked bikes could be easy pickings for thieves.

“It’s not that because they didn’t try, but because there’s no technique in how they’re really locking it,” Meija said. “They’re not really locks.

They’re ropes that can be cut.”

Popular hot spots for a bike to be stolen are near the library, campus housing and rec center. These areas

ing the panel, the Speaker’s Bureau will host an open panel on bullying at 5 p.m. by Parents, Friends and Families of Lesbians and Gays, also known as PFLAG, and Q&A. On Wednesday at 6 p.m., the USU Program Council and ASI will host an open mic night in the USU, room 103.

To show support for all the LGBTQ+ who have experienced bullying, Q&A encourages everyone to wear purple on Thursday for Spirit Day. Q&A, which was previously known as Gay Straight Alliance, will be handing out purple ribbons at the Multicultural Center patio for students who want to participate.

The final event for the week is Students Burn the Hate at Bolsa Chica Beach at on Friday at 5 p.m.

Pens and paper will be provided to attendees so LGBTQ+ students can write down all the negative names or phrases they do not want

to be affiliated with and toss the paper into the fire pit.

The staff and faculty on campus can also demonstrate their support by signing up for the CSULB OutList publication.

The OutList publication is a newsletter in which anyone that is LGBTQ+ or affiliated, can send in letters and “come out” in the publication.

“I hope that students from all identities come together and support one another,” said Christian Lozano, the assistant director of Multicultural Affairs and Resource Centers. “It is also my hope that the LGBTQ+ community on campus feel supported and know that we embrace everyone.”

For more information on LGBTQ+ issues, students can visit the LGBTQ+ Resource Center located in the Faculty Office-4, room 165.

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would typically have a lot of bikes parked at the bike rack because the owners would stay indoors in those areas for a longer period of time, Goodwin said.

“It’s just an epidemic, and the main proprietor is the cable lock,” said Sgt. Keith Caires of University Police.

Cable locks can easily be cut with a wire or bolt cutter, Caires said. He also said that in one case, a potential bike thief was caught with bolt cutters wrapped in jeans on campus.

When questioned, the thief said that he was helping a friend to cut his bike lock in Huntington Beach. However, university police checked and his information did not add up, as the thief was previously a convicted felon, Caires said.

“I kind of find it hazardous just because many people spend a lot of money on a bike,” freshman computer engineering major Allan Mantalvo said.

The University Police have provided several means of educating bike owners on how to secure their property. Caires and the crime prevention unit have educated new students in SOAR and on move-in day. Caires also partnered up with the Cycling Club in order to educate members on the importance of protecting personal property.

The string of thefts might not be solely because of thieves targeting cable locks. Meija and Caires said that owners lock their bikes easily for thieves to steal without having to use bolt cutters. Some owners have locked their bikes in areas where a thief can easily screw off the wheel or the handle bar, temporarily remove either one of those parts, and then remove the bike itself.

“I think it’s kind of asking to be stolen,” junior mechanical engineering major Cameron Chapman said.

“I mean, we live in Long Beach... I’ve seen people go up and snip [locks] and [ride] off. Then I see the owner running off and saying ‘Hey! That’s my bike!’”

Students can register their bikes for free with the University Police at the second floor patio area of the University Student Union. There, they can get a license number to put on their bikes, which, according to Caires, can help deter thieves as they see that the bike has been registered with police.

The bike equipment brand ABUS has partnered up with the California State University system to provide a discount on its U-locks at the student bookstore. However, ABUS can only provide 100 U-locks per school year, and is sold out at the bookstore for this year.

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Spirit Day 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Multicultural Center Patio

What’s the Tea? 3-4 p.m.

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Speaker’s Bureau (PFLAG) Panel 4-5 p.m.

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Burn the Hate Bonfire 5:30 p.m.

Bolsa Chica Beach

Wednesday Open Mic Night 6-8 p.m.

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4 things to watch for in the first Democratic debate LAS VEGAS — Hillary Clinton takes the debate stage for the first time in this campaign Tuesday night to face four rivals looking for something — anything — to knock down her lead in the race for the Democratic nomination for president.

Clinton must use the debate to explain her rationale for her second candidacy for the White House or risk seeing her chief rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, stealing her front-runner status, which already has eroded in part because of the inquiries into her use of personal email for government business.

The two-hour debate at the Wynn Las Vegas, airing on CNN starting at 9 p.m. EDT, will feature the five Democratic candidates who received at least 1 percent in a trio of national polls within the last six weeks. Vice President Joe Biden, who is considering a run, will not participate.

Here’s what to look for.

1. How does Clinton relate?

The former secretary of state, U.S. senator and first lady has been trying throughout the campaign to show she can relate to working American families after years of being criticized as an out-of-touch Washington insider garnering hefty paychecks for speeches and books.

With recent polls showing an increasing number of voters do not trust her or believe she understands their problems, it’s clear she has more work to do to show them that she’s not forgotten her middle-class, Middle America sensibilities. Just last week, she poked fun at herself on “Saturday Night Live.”

Will Clinton be able to articulate a softer side by speaking about herself, her family or those she has met on the campaign trail, or will she continue to ap-

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pear overly cautious and inaccessible?

2.Does Sanders look like a protester or a president?

Sanders has drawn massive crowds and millions of dollars by being a champion of the underpaid, overworked American worker. The 74-yearold self-described democratic socialist boasts a passionate following — which engages in enthusiastic tweets

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that use the hashtag FeeltheBern — but he isn’t well known for much more than blasting what he calls the “billionaire class.”

For Sanders to be seriously considered, he needs for potential voters outside the early states to get to know him better.

Will he use the debate to speak confidently about a host of other policy issues — foreign and domestic — and explain how he would govern as

3. Who are those other guys?

The three remaining candidates — former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee, former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley and former Virginia Sen. Jim Webb — have one goal: Get noticed.

Each is garnering less than 2 percent in most national polls behind Clinton, Sanders and Biden, who isn’t even a candidate. Some people do not know who they are.

Will any of the trio get attention by attacking Clinton or Sanders, making a joke or delivering a memorable one liner?

Webb and Chafee have struggled to serve as attack dogs in previous joint appearances. O’Malley has not hesitated to criticize his opponents, particularly Clinton, but he has not managed to move the polls.

4. Will the five candidates differ on the issues?

Unlike the Republicans running for president, the Democratic candidates haven’t distinguished themselves from each other on many of the main issues.

They’ve focused on attacking the other party instead of each other.

For the most part, but not in all cases, they want to raise the minimum wage, lower college costs, get rid of unaccountable money in politics and support a deal with Iran that would curb the country’s nuclear program. Their central messages have largely focused on tackling income inequality and lifting the middle class.

Will they try to use the first debate to set themselves apart from one other and contrast the ways they would govern?

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Study abroad fair hits Long Beach campus

By Alex Berman Staff Writer

If you have a sense of wanderlust and incurable case of the traveling bug, clear up your calendar and be ready Wednesday at noon.

The Study Abroad department will host the annual Study Abroad fair on Wednesday, on the south

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campus lawn from noon to 2 p.m. to inform students interested in studying abroad about the different possibilities.

“We think that it’s really important that students have the opportunity to go abroad so they can learn as much about themselves as well as other people and other cultures and have other experiences,” ed-

ucational abroad advisor Lauren White said.

The fair will be featuring about 50 booths offering a variety of different study abroad experiences, including opportunities to travel to a wide range of countries around the world and in a multitude of different ways, from student exchange programs to semesters at sea.

“If we have a fair, then there’s no way that students can miss us,” said Lauren White, educational abroad advisor. “A lot of times people don’t even know about the opportunities that are available.”

White said that although the most popular cities for California State University, Long Beach students to study abroad are London, Pairs

and Rome, the department tries to match students with programs that coordinate with their major.

Every semester, roughly 100 students from CSULB participate in the foreign exchange program, with even more studying abroad through different study abroad programs, according to statistics released by the Study Abroad department.

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“To study abroad I would go to Thailand because my father went there and he told me a lot about it. Ever since then I have been fascinated by the culture.”

— Brenda Coronado, senior Psychology major

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“ I would go to Prague because I really like the city and it reminds me of a fairytale Disneyland. And I would want to know more about the people there and the culture.”

— Casey Goldberg, Masters in marriage and family therapy

“If I could study abroad anywhere I would go to Chile because I love working with people from South America and I would like to improve my Spanish.

I believe that Chile has a beautiful culture as well as a beautiful natural diversity.”

— Charlotte Haigh, Graduate Student Masters in Science

“If I could study abroad anywhere I would go to Greece, especially because that’s a program that’s offered this year for our program. But also because I think it would be very interesting to see the mental health systems in their country.”

— Sarah Frontiera, Masters in Counseling

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Things get bloody — again — on FX’s ‘Fargo’ “Fargo,” perhaps the first television series to take not its premise and characters but rather the look, sound and approach to storytelling from the movie whose name it shares, starts a second season Monday on FX. Set, like the 1996 Coen brothers film, among the towns and cities of the Plains where Minnesota bumps into the Dakotas (it’s filmed even farther north, in Alberta, Canada), the TV series presents bloody happenstance as black comedy and finds pockets of warmth in the unending cold.

You would never know from any “Fargo” that it was ever close to warm in these parts, but snow is, after all, a helpmate to drama: It slows movement, brings quiet, sets off the sanguinary red.

Given that its two seasons are linked — the new year is a prequel — “Fargo” isn’t an anthology in the sense of “American Horror Story” or “True Detective,” though, like those shows, it changes its cast from season to season while maintaining its aesthetic and, I guess you could call it, mission. As before, there are good cops, talkative killers and ordinary folks who find themselves over their heads in trouble and getting in deeper with every step they take to get out.

Like the film and the series’ first season, which was set in 2006, the present “Fargo” is represented as being a “true story” — all episodes open with the same “Dragnet” joke that the names have been changed at the request of the survivors but that the details are exact out of respect for the

dead. But even were this were the case, it’s beside the point. And it is clearly not the case.

Now we are back in 1979, when Lou Solverson (Patrick Wilson here, Keith Carradine in Season 1), then a state trooper, was involved in an incident his older self will recall as something “I ain’t ever seen before or ever since — I’d call it animal except animals only kill for food.” The shadow of war hangs over several characters; Richard Nixon is referenced with odd frequency; changing roles for women drive more than one story.

One strand concerns the Gerhardts, a local crime family in flux. Mother Floyd (Jean Smart) and her sons in three flavors (Jeffrey Donovan, Angus Sampson, Kieran Culkin) have their territory threatened by “another outfit” from Kansas City, and if that has the tang of a film western, you could shift this story back 100 years without much alteration.

Another story follows butcher’s assistant Ed (Jesse Plemons) and his restless beautician wife, Peggy (Kirsten Dunst), the season’s appointed bad decision makers.

The season begins strangely, with what look to be outtakes from an MGM western called “Massacre at Sioux Falls,” in which we watch an assistant director and an actor dressed as an Indian wait for the props department to finish sticking arrows in an off-camera Ronald Reagan. (Reagan, who will be elected president the next year, will enter the series itself in the person of Bruce Campbell — which is to say, the season will

continue strangely.)

There is also a kind of “Close Encounters” encounter early on, echoed in a later scene set against the screening of an old (again, invented) sci-fi film, also starring Reagan, and more obliquely

by Richard Burton reading the opening lines of “The War of the Worlds” on the soundtrack. I don’t know what it means.

The camera work (Dana Gonzales and Craig Wrobleski split the episodes) nods toward the era’s movies in terms of palette and focus, and it also recalls the art photography of the time. It doesn’t prettify the setting so much as make it palpable. You can almost feel the air. There are old-timey zooms and dissolves and not exactly period split-screen effects, which at first feel overly, overtly referential but eventually become the language of the series.

Whatever feels discordant is eventually lost in the grace of the performances (which this year include Nick Offerman’s conspiracy-theorist town lawyer, Cristin Milioti as Lou’s self-possessed ailing wife, Brad Garrett as a criminal corporate raider and Bokeem Woodbine as his philosophical enforcer), the elegance of the production and the liberally distributed suspense. Like most of the Coen brothers’ films, it is half a twist removed from nature, film-obsessed and exaggerated at times to the point of grotesquerie, but it is also warmhearted at its core.

As is common enough nowadays, the bad guys come in better and worse flavors. Some are only

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accidentally bad — victims of fate, not its agents. What distinguishes “Fargo” from most other contemporary cable crime series — and much of the modern literature of heroes and villains — is that its good guys are so fundamentally good. That isn’t

to say they’re uncomplicated, but they are not compromised either.

If they’re haunted, it’s by what they’ve seen, not by what they’ve done, and they carry on with grace. You know whom to root for.

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With Uber or Lyft doing the driving, restaurateurs say more customers opt for that extra drink How often have you changed your mind about ordering a second glass — or a second bottle — of wine, worried about driving home?

(As often as necessary, hopefully.) I was contemplating the same question recently, sipping a glass of wine at a downtown LA restaurant and eavesdropping on other patrons perusing the wine list.

Responsible people, of course, act responsibly, but the range of what might be defined as “adult behavior” has expanded in the last couple of years. You don’t really need a designated driver, because, well, you already have one: Uber. Or Lyft. Or some other ride-hailing app.

Does that mean fewer people are drinking and driving and causing accidents? Restaurateurs are enthusiastic; law-enforcement agencies share data that might be interpreted as hopeful. State officials are, well, cautious. At least some of them are.

Ride hailing is a “game changer,” said Francois Renaud, managing partner at Terrine, which opened in Los Angeles’ Mid-City neighborhood in late 2014. “The idea of the designated driver never really worked because nobody ever wanted to do it.”

Before moving to Terrine, Renaud worked for four years as general manager at the Tasting Kitchen in Venice, where, he said, it was easy to track ride-hailing use.

“The difference is in the second bottle of wine ordered,” he said.

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Uber driver Joseph Youssef drives through downtown Los Angeles on June 17.

“You could also stand outside and observe how many people were ordering a ride from Uber or Lyft on their phones.”

Donato Poto, co-owner of the West Hollywood seafood bistro Connie and Ted’s, said that in the last year there’s been a noticeable drop in the number of customers who drive themselves. Before ride-sharing, his valets parked 110 to 120 cars a night, he said, but “now they’re parking, at most, 70.

The other 40 or 50 are all Uber drop-offs.”

Michael Kolden, director of operations for several popular Yard House bars in Southern California, said all

of his millennial customers have a ride-sharing app on their phones.

“They don’t need to make a phone call in a noisy bar where they can’t hear. They simply hit a button and a ride appears,” Kolden said. “And they can know exactly where the driver is. Six minutes away? They’ll finish their drinks and go outside just before the car arrives.”

In the past, Claudio Blotta said, when he would ask customers at his restaurants (Barbrix, Cooks County and All’Aqua) if they’d like a second glass of wine, he’d often hear, “I’d love to, but I have to drive.” Not anymore. “Uber

makes everybody safer.”

But does it?

According to figures supplied by the California Highway Patrol, drunk driving citations in Los Angeles County dropped by 5.6 percent in 2014 compared with the prior year (14,874 citations in 2014 versus 15,765 in 2013).

The Los Angeles Police Department, on the other hand, provided data on “DUI-related traffic collisions.” If you compare figures from 2014 and 2013 from the Central, South, West and Valley traffic divisions, there’s no dramatic change. The Central Division actually reported more DUI-related collisions — 337 in 2014, up from 285 in 2013. The Valley Division also reported an increase — 707 in 2014, up from 654 in 2013. But the South and West divisions reported a small decrease in DUI-related collisions.

Some officials caution against linking any changes in DUI-related data with any one factor, such as the growth in ride hailing.

“DUI is a complex subject with many causes,” said Chris Cochran of the California Office of Traffic Safety. “To be able to postulate whether the advent of Uber or other ride-share services had any significant effect would be difficult if not impossible.”

There’s not a lot of research on the topic, but in January, Mothers Against Drunk Driving published a report that suggested ride-hailing

services may be lowering instances of drunk driving. The report focused on some of Uber’s earliest markets, including California, and compared alcohol-related crash data from state highway patrols for the years 2011 to 2013 (the years before and after UberX, the service’s lower-priced option, was introduced). In California, the report said, drunk-driving crashes fell 6.5 percent among drivers in cities after UberX was launched.

In July, Temple University’s Fox School of Business released a study that concluded that low-cost, on-demand transportation could reduce the rate of drunk-driving-related deaths by 3.6 percent.

The introduction of UberX, researchers found, made a noticeable difference. The study, according to Temple researcher Brad Greenwood, is only a starting point, but “valid conclusions could be drawn from the data.”

Randy Clement, co-owner of ERB, a new bar and restaurant in the downtown arts district, has also witnessed the ride-hailing revolution firsthand: “Instead of seeing the California license plates coming down the street, you see the big U’s on the dashboard coming.

“I think the idea of responsibility has been morphed a little bit, and people can be little bit less responsible, responsibly because of Uber.”

—S. Irene Virbila, Los Angeles Times, TNS

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The moral track record is already rocky, and the last thing Assistant News Editor women need is the first female president sauntering into the White House and keeping that tradition.

Looking at Hillary, she really ew things make has nothing in her career to be me happier than proud of. the prospect of a Once she started making a name female Commandfor herself and separating herself er-in-Chief, but I from good old Bill, Benghazi rolled would rather give around. She has yet to formally up tacos for the next two decades testify about the debacle, with a than live in a world where Hillary court date scheduled for a week Clinton is that commander. after the Democratic debates, but And before the entire pseuwhatever she has to say come then do-feminist population lunges at isn’t likely to sway me for going against opinion back in her one of our own and favor. She’s already supporting a male The second wave supported herself candidate over this of Clinton politics and her decisions monumental trailAnd then the blazer, let me clarify is nothing short of emails came. Or just a few points—I underwhelming. didn’t, rather. have no issue with Then the political Hillary as a person. flip-flopping.

I think sitting You know you’re down and chatting really not doing well with her over a mug with professional consistency when of tea and some warm biscuits the standing President, who aligns would be fantastic, and I have no himself with the same political doubts about her capability of party as you, asks you when you’ll holding such a weighty position stop “changing positions whenever because of her gender. it’s politically convenient”.

I’m sure that her granddaughter I have no doubt that if Hillary sees her as superwoman and that were Harold, political pundits her supporters want nothing more would be watching her every move than the best for female politiand calling her out for her constant cians, but in no way, shape, or hypocrisy. But, for some reason, form is Hillary a good choice for being a woman seems to trump all our nation. of her actual qualifications.

You can’t trust her father than I would love a woman to head you can throw her, and I sure don’t this nation. I would love to see the want our young women looking at gender bias in politics begin to her like she’s someone to emulate. level out and bring more women Our past presidents have done into positions they deserve. their fair share of airing dirty But more than anything, I would laundry on a global stage, whether love for candidates to be judged it was Nixon based on the merit of their stances condoning domestic espionage and their actual qualifications for during the Watergate scandal or the job. the actual President Clinton exHillary, you’re just not it. ploiting a young, enamored intern.

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Men’s Water Polo LBSU vs. Occidental College at 3 p.m. at the Ken Lindgren Aquatics Center LBSU vs. No. 15 UC San Diego at 7 p.m. at the Ken Lindgren Aquatics Center Friday, Oct. 16 Women’s Soccer LBSU vs. UC Riverside at 7 p.m. at George Allen Field Saturday, Oct. 17 Women’s Volleyball LBSU vs. Cal State Northridge at 7 p.m. at the Walter Pyramid Men’s Water Polo LBSU vs. No. 6 UC Santa Barbara at noon at the Ken Lindgren Aquatics Center LBSU vs. LBSU alumni at 3 p.m. at the Ken Lindgren Aquatics Cross Country LBSU men’s 6K at the Highlander Invitational at 8:00 a.m. at UC Riverside LBSU women’s 5K at the Highlander Invitational at 8:30 a.m. at UC Riverside

Results Men’s Water Polo Won vs. No. 14 Air Force, 9-8 Lost vs. No. 3 Stanford, 12-7 Lost vs. No. 6 UC Santa Barbara, 12-6 Lost vs. No. 7 UC Irvine, 9-8 (2OT) Women’s Volleyball Lost at No. 8 Hawaii, 3-2

Women’s Soccer Won at Cal Poly, 2-0 Won at UC Santa Barbara, 1-0 Women’s Golf Senior Kassidy Teare took home the Ron Moore Intercollegiate title on Sunday at the Highlands Ranch in Colorado with a score of 3-under-par 69.

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PROFESSIONAL SOCCER

Time’s up, Klinsy U.S. soccer is in need of a makeover after Saturday’s loss to Mexico at the Rosebowl.

By Josh Barajas Sports Editor

Stephen M. Dowell | Orlando Sentinel | MCT

Jurgen Klinsmann is 1-4 in his last five games in charge of the U.S. national soccer team. That includes an upset by Jamaica in the 2015 Gold Cup semifinal and the CONCACAF Cup loss to Mexico.

It’s perfectly clear now that the United States men’s national soccer team is in complete shambles and it’s about time that the man that put them there, head coach Jurgen Klinsmann, stepped away.

USA’s loss on Saturday at the hands of hated rivals Mexico should be the tipping point for the disastrous Klinsmann era, filled with contradictions and blatant mistakes.

Klinsmann’s record against Mexico was one of the few positive marks in his tenure as coach.

Before Saturday, the German coach had never lost to a Mexican side and it kept fans and the bosses happy.

The problem is that Klinsmann didn’t take any of that experience into arguably the biggest game against the region’s rival.

Klinsmann traditionally favors youth and keeping only a few veterans at one time; usually to help the rookies develop into regulars. However, Klinsmann ignored his own school of thought and started six players aged 30 or older, and subbed in one more, against Mexico.

As a result, Mexico ran all over

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the U.S. They dominated possession (63 percent) and looked more alive in overtime. Klinsmann looked foolish when he finally decided to substitute in 22-year-olds Bobby Wood and DeAndre Yedlin and both combined to score USA’s equalizer in extra time.

It could be argued that the Mexican defenders were tired by the time Wood and Yedlin came on, but it could not have hurt to give them a shot earlier in the game. Especially after Wood’s performances against the Netherlands and Germany in June; the Hawaiian striker netted two game-winners against the European powerhouses.

Instead, Jozy Altidore got the start at the forward position.

Altidore admitted before the game on Saturday that the past two years had been some of the worst of his life on and off the pitch. He’s a striker that can’t consistently score goals anymore, but there he was in the starting 11 in Pasadena.

Another reason Klinsmann should go is his proclivity to throw his players under the bus after big losses, and he didn’t disappoint this weekend. The head coach told reporters after the game that his team was in serious need of younger players; when it was his decision to go with the veteran lineup in the first place.

A coach’s success depends solely on his relationship with his players, but Klinsmann doesn’t seem to take that into account.

Klinsmann got off to a shoddy start with his coaching tenure by alienating Major League Soccer,

his local pool of talent. He looked down at the league and decided to outsource his national team call-ups to European-Americans and U.S.-born players playing abroad.

When several of those European-based players, like Michael Bradley, Altidore, Clint Dempsey and Mix Diskerud, decided to take their talents to The States, it was a point of contention between Klinsmann, those players and the media.

Then Klinsmann committed the most egregious mistake in his era by shunning Landon Donovan. Klinsmann left the national team’s all-time leading scorer off the 23-man roster for the 2014 World Cup. Donovan voiced his frustration with the decision by saying he “deserved to be [on the roster].”

Three months later, Donovan announced his retirement from soccer; meaning that for the first time since 2000, Donovan wouldn’t be available for an official matchup against Mexico for the United States. Unfortunately for Klinsmann, the U.S. sure needed him commanding the midfield at the Rose Bowl.

Klinsmann should be out as head coach of the American national team. But, if history has taught us anything it’s that Sunil Gulati, president of the U.S. Soccer Federation, will give the German the benefit of the doubt every time.

Gulati needs to change course before a collapse at the 2018 World Cup in Russia forces him to do so.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Steve Sarkisian is fired as USC’s football coach LOS ANGELES — Faced with mounting reports of erratic behavior by its football coach, USC fired the troubled Steve Sarkisian on Monday afternoon.

The announcement capped a string of incidents that included Sarkisian appearing intoxicated at a football booster even in August and seeming not himself during a recent game.

The final straw came Sunday when he acted strangely at a team meeting, then left campus before practice began. Athletic Director Pat Haden immediately put him on indefinite leave before following up with Monday’s decision.

“After careful consideration of what is in the best interest of the university and our student-athletes, I have made the decision to terminate Steve Sarkisian, effective immediately,” Haden said in a statement.

News circulated from player to player by way of texts and phone calls, further jolting a highly touted team that had already stumbled to a 3-2 record, slipping out of the national rankings. Offensive lineman

Damien Mama said: “It’s definitely just a shock.”

In recent weeks, Haden has faced criticism for not acting more swiftly, especially after Sarkisian acknowledged mixing alcohol with medication before the “Salute to Troy” pep rally in August.

Todd Marinovich, a former USC quarterback who has publicly battled heroin addiction, attended that gathering and said he warned university officials Sarkisian needed help.

“I knew he was intoxicated and I wanted to protect him,” Marinovich told HuffPost Live. “And I went to the people in charge and I said, ‘We’ve got to stop this.’ ” Former USC coach Pete Carroll, who first brought Sarkisian to the team’s coaching staff as a young assistant in 2001, said his protege now understands the gravity of the situation.

“He’s going to do something about it, so this is the day the turn occurs,” Carroll, now with the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks, told an ESPN radio station in Seattle. “This is going to take a long time. This is

a big battle.”

Clay Helton, USC’s offensive coordinator, has been named interim head coach. He will lead the Trojans against Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind., on Saturday in the resumption of one of college football’s great, traditional rivalry games.

“I want to thank Clay Helton for stepping into the interim head coach role,” Haden said in his statement announcing Sarkisian’s dismissal, “and I want to add how proud I am of our coaching staff and players and the way they are responding to this difficult situation.

“Through all of this we remain concerned for Steve and hope that it will give him the opportunity to focus on his personal well being.”

The announcement came quickly after the decision was made, according to an athletic department official who, when he was asked about it by a reporter shortly after 1:30 p.m., expressed surprise the news was already out.

USC did not practice on Monday, so players were scattered and being informed via text messages by the coaches of their position groups.

Kenny Bigelow, a defensive lineman, said he was saddened by the news.

“Coach Sark is a great guy despite what anyone might think,” Bigelow said. “He really cared about us and the program. Whatever he’s going through, I pray he finds peace.”

Other players spoke anonymously because they had been told not to comment publicly.

“He should handle what he’s got to handle,” one said.

Said another: “We wish him the best. He has serious issues to handle. We have to focus on the season.”

Sarkisian, 41, was placed on indefinite leave by Haden on Sunday after the coach failed to show up at the team practice.

At a meeting with his team Sunday morning, Sarkisian “did not seem right,” according to a USC player. When he didn’t show up for the midday practice, Haden was alerted to the situation.

Haden said he called Sarkisian and it was clear to him the coach was “not healthy.” At that point, Sarkisian was told he was being put

on leave.

Sarkisian had been under scrutiny since August when, two weeks before USC’s season opener, he slurred his words, insulted opponents and shouted an expletive during the football program’s annual “Salute to Troy” pep rally.

The event was closed to media, but witnesses said Sarkisian appeared to be intoxicated.

A day later, Sarkisian apologized in a statement on USC’s athletic website. “Pat Haden talked to me after the event about my actions and I assured him this will not happen again,” the coach said.

Haden, in his own statement at the time, said he was confident Sarkisian had received his message “loud and clear.”

The following day, Sarkisian held a news conference on campus and explained the incident was the result of his mixing alcohol — “not much” — with medication he did not specify. He also said he would seek counseling to see if he had a drinking problem.

— By Gary Klein and David ­ Wharton, Los Angeles Times, TNS