DAILY 49ER California State University, Long Beach
Vol. LXVII, Issue 35
CSULB president aims for campus to Breathe easier The university launches new website as part of campaign to eliminate tobacco. By Greg Diaz Editor-in-Chief
President Jane Close Conoley officially launched the Breathe campaign at California State University, Long Beach with a new website on Friday. The Breathe campaign was initially announced as part of Conoley’s convocation address in August, along with an announcement that CSULB would be banning the use of tobacco products on campus. “I received a final report from the Tobacco and Smoke Free Task Force this summer,” Conoley said in a statement to CSULB students. “After careful research and consultation with many, many members of our community I have decided to follow the Task Force’s recommendation to become a tobacco and smoke free campus by fall 2016.” Conoley initiated the smoking task force at the beginning of 2015 to make a recommendation about what the school’s smoking policy
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Monday, October 26, 2015
Smoking ban task force survey results President Jane Close Conoley established the smoking ban task force to develop a campus tobacco and smoke free policy by fall 2016. Co-Chairs Claire Garrido-Ortega and Natalie Whitehouse-Capuano issued a tobacco survey in spring 2015, asking students, faculty and staff about their smoking habits. Here are some of the results.
Demographics of those who support, don’t support, or who are neutral:
Do you use tobacco products?
15% yes 85% no
Administrators 80% support 5% no support 15% neutral
If you use tobacco products, do you use them on campus?
56% yes 44% no
Faculty 80% support 9% no support 11% neutral
Have you ever purchased a tobacco product on campus?
Staff
29% yes 71% no Would you say second hand smoke on campus typically bothers you a lot, a little, or not at all?
52% a lot 29% a little
Smokes
82% support 7% no support 11% neutral
Students 73% support 15% no support 12% neutral 25% of respondents who use a tobacco product support a tobacco or smoke-free policy.
Would you support CSULB becoming a smoke/tobacco-free campus?
75% support 12% neutral 13% no support
Illustration by Emilio Aldea Source: Tobacco and Smoke Free Policy Proposal
See SMOKE, page 2
Spying into the mind of Steven Spielberg The Daily 49er discusses historical drama-thriller “Bridge of Spies” with the acclaimed director, producer and former 49er. By Brooke Becher Contributing Writer
Like many of us speed-walking up a sweat, a young, shaggy-haired
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Steven Spielberg found himself victim to parking woes, 10 minutes too late during his first go-around pursuing a bachelor’s degree in English at California State University, Long Beach. “I remember I was late for my very first class on my very first day because, you know, the only parking spaces available was in the most distant parking lot,” the Arizona transplant said. “The campus has changed a lot since I went through it in the ‘60s, but I hope the parking situation has improved.” …Maybe in another 50 years, Spielberg. In a conference call with 21 other college-media journalists, Spiel-
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berg shared director’s cut decisions that led to his most recent historical drama-thriller “Bridge of Spies” and personal reflections on his professional life with the Daily 49er. The Oct. 16 release recounts real-life happenings that transpired in a court case trial based in Brooklyn, New York, that was catapulted onto an international stage; the story of such a sensationalized case occupied by war tensions channels precedents set by ‘60s-era film interpretations such as Stanley Kramer’s “Inherit the Wind” and Robert Mulligan’s “To Kill a Mockingbird.” In the midst of the Cold War, the
tension thickens as insurance lawyer James B. Donovan (Tom Hanks) falls victim to moral obligation in defending convicted Soviet spy Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance). With the American Constitution in his breast pocket, Donovan challenges institutionalized bias embedded in the justice system during the Red Scare. In the film, the nationwide nuclear anxiety manifests as bullet holes in Donovan’s home. Before he can settle Abel’s fate, Donovan finds himself leading transatlantic negotiations after an American U-2 spy pilot is captured by the Soviet Union and an American economics graduate student is caught on the
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wrong side of the Iron Curtain as its erection divides Germany. “Bridge of Spies” marks Spielberg’s 15th collaboration with cinematographer Janusz Kamiński and his fourth collaboration with actor Tom Hanks. Thomas Newman stepped in to write the score, making this the first work by Spielberg in the last 30 years absent of John Williams’ music direction. The Daily 49er and other college-media agencies phoned in to collaborate on an interview with the accomplished alumnus.
See FILM, page 4
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