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Vol. LXVII, Issue 27

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Marathon laps Long Beach Long Beach prepares for Marathon weekend.

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Kinesiology senior Jake Lopez, weighing in at 154 pounds, attempts to lift 270 pounds during a bench press contest in the SRWC on Wednesday.

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CSULB students began competing to see who can lift the most weights.

By Riva Lu Staff Writer

The Student Recreation and Wellness Center hosted the first leg of its annual powerlifting competition Wednesday evening at the Main Gym. “What we tried to create here was a fun competition for people that love the weight room,” Interim Assistant Director Maureen MacRae said. “It’s just a way to promote being healthy in a fun atmosphere and people real-

ly enjoyed it.”

Normal powerlifting competitions hold bench press, deadlift, and squats in a single day, Dimapilis said, but our campus does it over a course of a month and a half.

Senior studio arts major and SRWC fitness staff member Alain Dimapilis said that the goal of the competition is to see who can lift the most weight within a division,

in comparison to other people competing. Each division is determined by weight for both men and women, according to the CSULB Bench Press Contest rule sheet.

“Usually people bench double their body weight, if they’re good at benching,” Dimapilis said.

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Exiting the labyrinth Director Guillermo del Toro revealed his creative process in light of his upcoming film.

By Micayla Vermeeren Assistant News Editor

Renowned director Guillermo del Toro hosted a private event Wednesday, entitled “In the Labyrinth” to discuss his creative process and the unique sense of dark fantasy woven into most of his films.

Throughout his career, del Toro trusted that “[his] interests, which lied in the fantastic, would guide [him]” through the industry and gives him the opportunity to share his own perspective on reality.

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“You can only put on the screen what you are,” del Toro said.

And, by all industry standards, del Toro is a success.

Responsible for inventive films like “Pan’s Labyrinth,” “Hellboy,” “Blade,” and “Pacific Rim,” the Mexican director has solidified his stature as an industry leader for his genre.

Held at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater on Wilshire Blvd. in Beverly Hills, del Toro’s conversation comprised of an interview segmented into three themes: Inventing Worlds, Human Monsters and Monstrous Humans, and Collecting.

Kerry Brougher, the founding director of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, served as the interviewer for del Toro and introduced each of the themes with a film clip that inspired del Toro in some way.

“You cannot just stay visceral,” Brougher said on the creative process.

“At some point you must be able to

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articulate your ideas.”

From “Bride of Frankenstein,” to “Great Expectations,” del Toro’s eclectic personal taste in cinema centers around the sense of transportation away from the real world that is so carefully constructed by his admired directors.

“Nothing can be casual,” del Toro said about the construction of a new universe used for a movie setting.

“Everything must be codified.”

When asked about his desire to create film and draw inspiration from past works, del Toro said, “I’m so in love with the world I want to collect everything beautiful and repurpose it and send it out again.”

His “pathological fascination” with the grotesque, unusual and challenging began as a small child when his grandmother would buy him pulp novels and comics on Tuesday mornings, then attempt to undo any effect the works had by

having him read the Bible.

In his mind, the Bible had “even more lewd stories” than the printed media he was consuming.

The idea of repurposing that del Toro uses as motivation can clearly be seen in all of his works, which toe the lines between reality and illusion and tend to incorporate characters that are something more or less than human.

“I like directing horror films that become something else,” del Toro said. “Turning them into a fairytale of sorts...horror and a fairytale, I think one begat the other.”

Del Toro began his career in 1992 with Spanish-language “Cronos,” and has consistently directed and script-written through the present day.

His newest film “Crimson Peak,” described by del Toro as a gothic romance starring Tom Hiddleston, Jessica Chastain, and Mia Wasikowska, is set to debut in American theaters October 15.

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Downtown Long Beach will be invaded by sweaty people running, cycling or walking through the streets for Saturday’s Aquarium of the Pacific 5k run and for Sunday’s JetBlue Marathon, Half Marathon and Bike Tour.

The Long Beach JetBlue Marathon will be making its way down the streets of Shoreline Village towards the finish line for the 31st year in a row.

With so many attendees, organizers are preparing for heavy traffic and parking by suggesting alternate routes and opening up new locations to park.

“We use city lots and the Pike parking structure which [participants] can reserve in advance plus the Convention Center,” said Gisèle Schaaf, running club and entertainment coordinator for Run Racing.

“We have plenty of parking in Long Beach. [You] just need to get there early.”

The marathon program predicts there will be more than 25,000 participants in the actual run, walk and biking events, making this the third largest event in Long Beach, falling right behind the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach and Long Beach Pride.

Participants must attend the Long Beach Health Expo, which starts on Friday from noon to 7 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the Convention Center, to pick up shirts, bibs, goodie bags and programs.

Other non-athletes are welcomed to attend this free convention.

With this being the 31st Long Beach Marathon, it has been increasing in popularity and it is expected that Mayor Robert Garcia and top sponsors will attend.

“We normally have participants from all 50 states and sometimes groups/running clubs from Europe,” Schaaf said.

The marathon route will be starting on East Shoreline Drive and will go down the beach path. Participants will then run through Marine Stadium, Blair Field, loop around California State University, Long Beach and finally finish back in downtown Long Beach at the Finish Line Festival, according to the Marathon’s website.

After the 13.1 or 26.2-mile races, participants can look forward to the Finish Line Festival that will be buzzing with food trucks, live performances, leg massage tents and more.

The Aquarium of the Pacific 5k runners can be expected to be in

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At Wednesday’s bench press competition, there were five women and 27 men competing.

Mechanical engineering freshman Gina Gionta, who weighed into the competition at 118 pounds, won the women’s division by lifting a max 100 pounds before failing to push up 120 pounds.

“I could have done 110 (pounds), but I just didn’t plan it out because I haven’t benched in a while,” Gionta said.

As a first semester student, Gionta said that she was ready to show CSULB what she was made of as she has competed in contests before.

“I have done competitions that involves push-up, sit-ups, pull-ups and running,” Gionta said. “It’s more reps for those types of contests, but we lifted a lot.”

Despite not working out as much as she used to, Gionta said that she wanted to still give her all.

“I figured I wanted to try to see how much I could lift now,” Gionta said.

Business Administration junior Samuel Kim said that many participants inspired him to bench-pressing 175 pounds at the competition.

While that does not seem like a lot of weight to most people, Kim achieved this feat standing just a mere 4-foot-1-inches tall and weighing 89 pounds. “[Working out] pushes me to be the best that I could be,” Kim said.

“It gives me a standard to weigh upon myself.”

Winners gets a trophy for each deadlift, bench and squat competition. The overall pound-for-pound winner across all three gets a big statue trophy at the end of the entire powerlifting competition.

The next leg of the competition is the deadlift on Oct. 23 at the SRWC.

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Trang Le | Daily 49er Associated Students Inc. discussed an electronic counting system that could tell students how many parking spots are available when they try to park on campus to make it easier to park. will be referred to the Curriculum Education and Policy Council and they will discuss it before it comes back to the Academic Senate, where it will write its own resolution.

“We’re going to send it back to the committee so they can come up with the best solution,” President Jose Salazar said in his report. “So nothing’s in the works yet.”

Sen. Marcus Harwell mentioned that he and Sen. Kelsey Kimmes received over 50 emails from students in the last day alone opposing the change in class schedule.

The Academic Senate is meeting Thursday from 2-4 p.m. in the Towner Auditorium in Psychology 150 to discuss the issue more.

ASI Vice President Miriam Hernandez reported good student participation in Monday’s town hall meeting, where she and other ASI executives and senators were available outside of the Student Health and

Recreation Center to field questions and concerns from students.

Hernandez also mentioned that students are also concerned over tuition costs because Governor Brown’s tuition freeze is about to expire at the end of this year.

“The future of our tuition is really at risk at this point because at the end of the day, it’s the CSU Board of Trustees that decides if they want to increase our tuition,” Hernandez said. “I really want to put this back on the senate and as you all do your research, what is it that our senate can do? Do we we take a stance on no more tuition hikes? … We definitely need to protect our education.”

The next ASI town hall meeting will be Nov. 5 from 4-6 p.m. at The Pointe in the Walter Pyramid.

Also during Wednesday’s senate meeting, Senator David Kling mentioned in his report that he wants to look into an electronic counting sys-

the Shoreline area starting at 6 a.m. to pick up packages to the late afternoon when the last one-mile kids run wave begins at noon. After the race, participants can indulge in the Buono’s Carbo Load Dinner Feast

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Hernandez shared that the Parking and Transportation Advisory Committee has hired a consultant to look at different avenues in easing the parking situation on campus. She explained that the committee is discussing raising the price of parking permits because students and ASI senators are asking for improvements, like having better signage in the structures.

“We want to improve all these things and they don’t have the budget enough to do that,” Hernandez said. “But I’m glad that [Sen. Kling] brought that up because now [Sen. Marvin Flores] and I can move that idea forward and say, ‘look students are asking for this’ so maybe they can prioritize it without having to increase the parking fee.”

and finally at 7:30 a.m. the half-marathoners will set off. There is a 7.5hour course limit for all participants in the marathon and afterwards they can relax at the Finish Line Festival from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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The discussion of potentially-required Friday classes in the Academic Senate brought student concerns to the Associated Students, Inc Senate meeting on Wednesday.

Music major Kyle Winterboer addressed the senate during public comments and said that the music department would be negatively affected if the policy requiring Monday and Wednesday classes to also be held on Fridays were to be enforced.

Winterboer said that the music department uses their facilities on Fridays for different events and rehearsals and requiring classes to be held on those days would impede on those.

“If we were to be required to have Friday classes, that would really mess with the orchestra and the choir rehearsals that we have going on as well,” Winterboer said.

Last week, Dhushy Sathianathan, Interim Vice President of Academic Planning, brought his proposal to the ASI Senate to change about 100 sections of Monday and Wednesday classes into Monday, Wednesday, Friday classes. The proposal had already been brought to the Academic Senate and is awaiting discussion.

Sathianathan said there is a policy in place that has been ignored for several years that states that classes scheduled for Monday and Wednesday in the hours of 8-11 a.m must also be scheduled for Fridays.

Jeff Jarvis, ASI Senate Faculty Representative, said that the issue

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Apologizing for emissions scandal, VW exec promises to ‘make things right’ WASHINGTON — Volkswagen’s U.S. chief apologized to lawmakers for the automaker’s diesel emissions scandal, saying the company was “determined to make things right” and prepared to accept “the consequences of our acts.”

“These events are deeply troubling,” Michael Horn, chief executive of Volkswagen Group of America Inc., said in three pages of written remarks ahead of a Thursday congressional hearing.

“I did not think that something like this was possible at the Volkswagen Group,” he said. “We have broken the trust of our customers, dealerships and employees, as well as the public and regulators.”

The German automaker has admitted installing so-called defeat devices in about 482,000 U.S. diesel vehicles and 11 million worldwide that tricked emissions tests.

The 2009-15 model year vehicles used software that lowered emissions during testing. On the road, the cars spewed up to 40 times the legally allowed amount of nitrogen oxide.

The world’s largest automaker, VW faces $18 million in fines in the U.S. and possible criminal charges.

German authorities also are investigating. VW Chief Executive Martin Winterkorn resigned last month in the wake of the scandal, which has caused the company’s stock price to plummet.

In addition, more than 230 class-action lawsuits have been filed against the company.

Because of the scandal, Horn said, VW was withdrawing is application for regulators to certify the emissions control devices on its 2016 model year vehicles.

Horn offered “a sincere apology for Volkswagen’s use of a software program that served to defeat the regular emissions testing regime.”

“Let me be clear, we at Volkswagen take full responsibility for our actions and we are working with all relevant authorities in a cooperative way,” Horn said.

He said the vehicles “remain safe and legal to drive.”

Two top Environmental Protection Agency officials also are scheduled to testify at the hearing by the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s oversight and investigations panel.

After California and federal officials discovered that Volkswagen

Innovation team in Long Beach is hosting public events to teach about entrepreneurship and creativity.

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diesel vehicles were spewing excess amounts of pollution, the company revealed that it had installed devices to trick emissions tests, one of the officials said in his prepared remarks.

“These violations are very serious,” said Christopher Grundler, director of the EPA’s Office of Transportation and Air Quality.

“Not only because the illegal defeat device results in excess emissions many times the allowable standard, but also because after the high emissions were discovered, VW concealed the facts from the EPA, the State of California, and from consumers,” he said.

A May 2014 study by researchers at West Virginia University found that two VW diesel vehicles emitted “significantly higher” levels of the pollutant nitrogen oxide in on-road tests than in standard emissions tests, according to a memo summarizing the subcommittee’s investigation.

The emissions results were shown to the EPA, the California Air Resources Board and VW, which all began investigating.

VW at first told regulators that the higher emissions “could be attributed to various technical issues and unexpected in-use conditions,” said

the memo, which is based on regulators’ letters.

VW proposed recalibrating the emissions system of its vehicles. In December 2014, the company started a voluntary recall of about 500,000 diesel vehicles from model years 2009 to 2014.

But testing by California regulators of VW’s proposed changes “showed limited improvement,” prompting an expanded investigation, the memo said.

It wasn’t until a series of meetings beginning in July that VW disclosed to regulators that the emissions systems in the vehicles “had a second calibration intended to run only during … testing,” the memo said.

On Sept. 3, VW admitted to the EPA and California regulators that it had designed and installed the defeat devices.

Grundler said the EPA continues to investigate and is working closely with the Justice Department, which has opened its own probe.

The EPA investigation is trying to determine “whether there are additional vehicles with defeat devices” beyond those already identified, he said.

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File picture dated 2010 of Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn (L) and Porsche CEO Matthias Mueller (R) during the 2010 annual Porsche press conference in Stuttgart, Germany. On September 25, 2015, Matthias Mueller has been named new Volkswagen CEO, replacing Martin Winterkorn, who resigned amid the company’s admission that their diesel engines cheated emissions regulations on 11 million cars worldwide. Mueller has been CEO of Porsche since 2010.

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Developing times calls for new ideas, and the City of Long Beach have turned out to play a critical role in society’s creativity at this year’s “Innovation weeks.”

A relatively new event known as the “Innovation weeks,” lead by the Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation is happening now through Oct. 22. It was started up last year as a small event to celebrate the diversity of creativity throughout the Los Angeles County.

This year the event has managed to draw a lot more attention from the community, which is surprising to the Long Beach “Innovation team” behind it.

“This year Long Beach made up over ten percent of all the innovation week events in the country,” Alma Castro, the project manager said. “We have really become the superstars of the events.”

Chris Reco, the new innovations director at LAEDC who initially contacted the team, had a big commitment to highlight entrepreneurship and economic development in the region. According to the team’s director John Keisler, they did not host any entrepreneurial events in the city last year. But with the marketing help from Reco, they were able to schedule 20 events this year, out of 130 events across the county.

“We have so many great local partners, entrepreneurs and innovative creative people in long beach across all sectors,” Keisler said. “We wanted to get people involved, and there is so much good stuff going on right now that we think there could easily be 20 or 30 more events next year.”

Keisler said that he believes that the fast-developing technology helped spreading the team’s spirit of innovation, and will be an opportunity for future entrepreneurs in all different sectors. It has contributed to decreased costs of manufacturing prototypes because of new opportunities to publish worldwide.

“Because of technology a lot more people are able to be self-employed, like creatives in the arts are able to publish on a smaller scale,” Keisler said. “The technology has popularized the market in a lot of our different sectors. Now entrepreneurs do not need to be part of a big organization to get a small business

going. Small businesses are now able to do a lot more across the different sectors than ever before.”

The innovation team wants to encourage people of all ages in the community of Long Beach to share their ideas, Castro said . On Monday, they will be hosting an event called “Happathon” in the Main Library of the city where middle-school students will be introduced to basic high technological training. They believe that economic opportunity should be for everyone, Castro said.

“What is great about entrepreneurship is that it really doesn’t have an age,” Castro said. “Anywhere from the young entrepreneur, to someone in their 50’s or 60’s, there are people starting up something new.”

The innovations team also wants to reach out and assist the students of California State University, Long Beach to get their ideas to the market. On October 22, they are going to host an openhouse event in the Immerse Design Research Lab on campus, Keisler said.

“We want graduates to stay here, because we want them to know that there are centers for innovation, small businesses, and entrepreneurs,” Keisler said.

“We want them to know about the tools that we are building, and to make available for them. If they have an idea or see an opportunity, we can help them bring their idea to the market in Long Beach.” as advice for incoming students on what to do in situations that could result in a sexual assault or rape. The panel will further the discussion and provide additional advice through questions and roleplaying actual situations.

“The reason we’re having the panel is to get the perspective from law enforcement official Corporal Chris Brown of University Police Department, and get the perspective from the campus on what consent means and sexual misconduct for being a student here on campus.

That’s why the panel is there, to vent these questions,” Rayburn said.

According to the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, one out of four women is a victim of sexual assault.

Through the open dialogue and panel, the WGEC hopes that the ‘Let’s Talk Consent’ event will help minimize that statistic through education on sexual assault prevention.

The WGEC hopes that students will take away what healthy relationships are as well as become aware of what the resources are on campus, said Rayburn.

There is a Sexual Assault Victims Advocate as well as a Crisis Counselor on campus for survivors and friends of survivors of sexual assault.

For more information on the panel, it is advised to attend the event on Thursday 6-8 p.m in the USU Ballrooms as a portion of it will be for questions.

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The quest for the best taqueria in Long Beach continues.

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Taco fanatics: Worry not. Though your local taquistador has been bogged down with midterms this week, alas he has not forgot about you, faithful readers. Check in next week for an interview with a surprise taco scholar. For now, enjoy this week’s batch of reviews.

This friendly joint in the Wrigley District is filled with Mexican kitsch: horse saddles, photos of mustachioed revolutionaries and plastic tricolor garlands. It’s a festive atmosphere to say the least.

Off the bat let me say this place serves up tacos fit for baby hands— what I like to call gone-in-sixtyseconds tacos. While some might be into these tapa-sized appetizers, they’re not my thing, especially

Tacos Guadalajara 2086 Pacific Ave.

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at a $1.50 a pop. To El Toro’s benefit, they nearly fill out the double stack of mini tortillas with meat.

The asada was char-less and rubbery—all and all, pretty bland stuff.

The star of this taqueria’s show is the salsa. They have a mean, smoky salsa roja and a fresh, tangy salsa verde.

It’s a good thing they serve chips.

Overall, middle-of-the-road tacos that are overpriced for their size, but hey, it looks like they have great tortas.

Walking by the corner of Pacific and 21st Street, one notices a conspicuous little window under a red awning from which the rich smell of cooking meat emanates. One then becomes befuddled because this little window seems to be on the side of an auto body shop.

But yes, here amidst the sounds of hammering and pneumatic wrenches, resides a place of tacos. If you order tacos at Tacos Guadalajara, you order con todo—with everything. That means you’ll get the house salsa roja that’s not spicy until after you stop eating.

By Kevin Flores Arts & Life Editor

Tacos El Toro De Long Beach 2081 Pacific Ave.

Tacos: $1.50 I can’t say enough about the carnitas tacos here. They were tender, they were juicy, they were full of flavor. In a world where good carnitas are getting harder and harder to find, I salute you Tacos Guadalajara.

So you can imagine how disheartened I was biting into the carne asada taco. No char, no bueno. Sadly, it seems taqueros and taqueras across Long Beach have mostly forsaken the asada—which means grilled, ideally over charcoal.

All said, this place is worth a visit just for the tasty carnitas.

live music calendar

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The weekend is nigh, good people. And you know what that means: Time to close the books and burn a rug. I know you’ve all been waiting for this calendar all week, so without further ado:

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Live after Five: The Nightmare Before Christmas on Elm Street RIOTstage DJ Polyester Stars at Night Broadway and Elm Avenue Long Beach, CA, 90831 6 p.m.

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Mr. Moonshine Solar bear Cold Shoulders Rebel Bite 649 E Broadway, Long Beach, CA, 90802 7p.m.

All ages Free

Queen Bees and the Wannabees Shenanigans Irish Pub and Grille 432 Shoreline Village Drive, Long Beach, CA, 90802 2 p.m.

21+ Free

Sunday CJ Ramone Alex’s Bar 2913 E. Anaheim Street Long Beach, CA, 90804 9 p.m.

21+ $12-15

Monday Beck Fionna Apple Jakob Dylan Cat Power Regina Spektor Jade Castrinos Orpheum Theatre 842 S Broadway Los Angeles, CA, 90014 7:15 p.m.

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Guess who’s back? suspended from NBC. Yes, Williams has lost credibility to most of Contributing Writer his viewers, but he has been in the broadcasting field for over 30 years and 20 of those years have been with NBC. ack in February of this year, Aside from lying for a good story, he is a Brian Williams, a journalist of 10 good news anchor. years at NBC, got himself into a After seven months off camera, Williams sticky situation after NBC Nightmade his debut in a new position as breaking ly News posted a Facebook clip news anchor at MSNBC on Tuesday Septemof Williams reminiscing on an experience he ber 22, 2015 with two-hour news coverage of had while in Iraq in 2003.

Pope Francis’ visit to the US, according to the Lance Reynolds, a passenger in the heliNew York Times. copter that went down, wrote in a Facebook Andrew Lack, head of NBC News and comment responding to the Williams segMSNBC told the New York Times “The news ment, writing “Sorry dude, I don’t remember is the star, we are building a network that has you being on my aircraft. I as its core value delivering do remember you walking breaking news better than up about an hour after we anyone else. It is not about Brian Williams had landed to ask me what the anchor who happens to had happened.” be delivering the news.” rightfully returns to There were also other ocBrian Williams did MSNBC. casions when Williams fabrieverything right by publicly cated the experience he had apologizing, although people while in Iraq; in an interview claimed it was unsentiwith David Letterman back mental, resigning from his in 2013 and also during an position and not doing any interview with Alec Baldwin on WNYC’s interviews and keeping a low profile.

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If things would have played out differently With the power of social media, word during the scandal, he may not have been spread quickly about the incident forcing offered the breaking news anchor position.

Williams to come clean about what really Because Williams followed the necessary happened. requirements for a crisis, according to public According to the Washington Post, while relations crisis management, I believe this is on the air, Williams said, “I want to apolthe right decision to give him another chance ogize. I said I was traveling in an aircraft and put him back on the air. that was hit by RPG fire. I was instead in a With this new fresh start as the breaking following aircraft.” news anchor, we could expect him to remain After Williams’s public apology and loss quite about the scandal and for him to do of credibility, he decided to take himself his job in the upmost professional manner to of the broadcast for a few days while they rebuild his reputation as a journalist. further investigate the situation. He was then At least let’s hope.

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Wish it wasn’t him would be affected; I’m sorry I did this; I don’t know how I could conflate so many Design Editor things into my own consciousness and it was a mistake to keep this up for so long…

Brian Williams was one of the most rian Williams is a liar. trusted news people in America.

Brian Williams violated an There’s a short list of journalists that are ideally sacred trust. The relauniversally revered across the consumer tionship between newsperson spectrum. Katie Couric of Yahoo! News and and consumer has proven to be Anderson Cooper of CNN are two who ima tenuous one at worst, but a wholly symbimediately come to mind. You used to be able otic one in our now increasingly connected to lump Brian Williams in with that group, social media culture. but again, he violated that Brian Williams is a sacred trust, remember? fraud.

NBC probably hopes that Brian Williams pretendwe don’t. Brian Williams Brian William violated made his (not so) triumed to be something that he wasn’t: a war hero. He lied. the trust of millions, can phant return to MSNBC He fabricated. He invented in late September in light we ever forgive him? situations in his own mind Pope Francis’ first visit to that never existed, made the United States during his decisions in his head that young papacy. never had to be made.

NBC made a mistake.

Brian Williams violated us and the trust There are a lot of things that make a that we have in news media. journalist good at their jobs: tenacity, Brian Williams forgot the one edict that intelligence, relatability, qualities that really makes the entire profession of journalism anyone should have in any job. However, a viable one: tell the truth. Comfort the the one quality that matters more than any afflicted, afflict the comfortable. Brian Wilother? Honesty. Brian Williams is not an liams felt compelled to be the hero. As time honest man. His only job is to report news. went on, the story became more harrowing He tells the stories, he does not make them. and he more heroic.

He does not affect them. He takes in a sum There are enough heroics in shining a total of the facts and regurgitates it in a way light in the dark. There are enough heroics that pleases people. Unfortunately he left his in telling a story. There are enough heroics bile all over the helicopter fiasco, and that’s in being the voice of and to millions. We can a shame. ask Brian Williams: why? Why did you lie, He has the face of a newsman. He’s got Bry Bry? the voice. He’s got the hair. He’s got the In all truthfulness, his response can only tenacity and grit and intelligence and news be what so many liars before him and every sense, but he does not have the honesty. He one after him will say: in my own mind left out the only thing that really mattered. it was true; I didn’t know so many people Brian Williams should be fired.

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Not only is it cruel to deprive someone of the right to die but also philosophically disconnected from Contributing Writer the ideals of a free society. Complete self-ownership is inherent of the highest liberties that are afforded by a free alifornia Gov. Jerry society, and stopping someone from Brown recently signed taking their life is implying that they California’s own rightare not the sole owner of their person. to-die law, the “End of There are many arguments against Life Option Act,” but the right to die, namely that any perthat is only a step in the right direcson considering death is mentally ill. tion. The right to die should be for all, Well then the government better build not just the terminally ill. a lot of psychiatric hospitals because The right to end one’s life is every single person has contemplated irrevocable and ending their life at universal to all some point or another. humans whether it It is natural to be someone ending Death has been left out ponder or consider their suffering, such means to ending of a list of rights that going on to be with a situation and simply a loved one or even because an individual include life, liberty, as a form of art or has begun to seriously speech and property. protest. consider that means or There is not a attempted it does not single human that make them mentally ill. has ever existed that Some drink away their chose to exist nor will there ever be. pain and sorrows, others have sex or By the very nature of reproduction, drugs as an escape and some choose the human created has no choice in death. the matter. Existence is a club with Another argument against the right unsolicited membership, but society to die is that the act is selfish as it has also made it interminable. leaves friends and family heartbroken “There is a certain right by which and grieving. we may deprive a man of life, but Does a police officer stop someone none by which we may deprive him from packing up their bags and leavof death; this is mere cruelty,” wrote ing friends and family behind forever? the famous philosopher Friedrich No, because, despite the detriment of Nietzsche. that action, no one has the right to tell

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California Assembly Member Susan Talamantes Eggman, right, holds a news conference to announce the approval of the aid-in-dying legislation in the state senate, in Sacramento, Calif., on September 11, 2015. that person they cannot up and leave just because it will cause heartbreak.

We cannot apply a certain reasoning to one issue and not another.

The point here is not to advocate for a society where everyone stops his or her cars and considerately waits for someone to jump off the overpass.

Rather it is that so long as someone is not encroaching on the rights of another, is a competent adult and acts responsibly that they should be able to do with their body as they please.

When you cut it down to its core that

is exactly what it is, someone doing what they please with their body.

For those left unsettled by thinking about a world where people were free to take their life, imagine a different reality where adult humans could look at what life on this planet was like and then decide if they wished to be born or not. Does that sound that bad? Not at all. One might even call it fair. So considering that humans have no choice before they are born, then is it not fair to grant that choice to them when they come of a certain

maturity?

It is obvious that a considerable amount of legal framework would need to be established to allow people to end their lives in a safe and responsible manner, and there are many “slippery slope” arguments that say it will lead to more of this or less of that. These are not valid excuses or concerns, just laziness and fear.

There is no place for complacency or emotion when dealing with issues of human rights, only logic and reason.

Everyone dies. Everyone.

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Who: Air Force (4-9)

When: Thursday at 5 p.m.

Where: Alex G. Spanos Stadium, San Luis Obispo

When: Saturday at 9:20 a.m.

Where: Burns Aquatics Center, Los Angeles

Need to know: The 49ers need to find a way around goalkeeper Alyssa Giannetti, while also keeping an eye on striker Elsie Krieghoff. Giannetti boasts a league-leading .874 save percentage and Krieghoff scored her 50th and 51st career goals with Cal Poly on Sunday. The forward ranks fifth in the nation in goals among active Division I players.

Need to know: The 49ers must watch out for junior attacker Robby Stiefel if they want to snap a three-game losing streak. Stiefel leads the Falcons with 26 assists, 31 steals and ranks second on the team with 19 goals. He also leads the Air Force Academy with 45 total points.

Who: UC Santa Barbara When: Saturday at noon.

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SAILING

CSULB bluejacket navigating the way Two years ago, sailing was an afterthought for Tatiana Misares, but today she’s racing with world’s best.

By Will Hernandez Contributing Writer

W

hen Tatiana Misares, an engineering major at California State University, Long Beach, registered for the beginner sailing class two years ago, she thought it would be a cake walk of a class.

But, this introduction course was more than just a breeze. It was the beginning of a new journey.

“I took that [class] honestly because I thought it was going to be an easy ‘A,’” Misares said. “But when you take the class you’re automatically enrolled in the [sailing] club. And then I just started sailing with them on the weekends.”

After her first semester of sailing with the CSULB Sailing Association, Misares’ hobby quickly began to develop into a passion. Misares now sails against world-class sailors who have been navigating through the water their entire lives.

Over the summer, Misares made the transition from recreational sailing to competitive sailing. She said the difference between recreational and competitive sailing is like night and day.

“When we go out sailing recreationally, half the time we didn’t even care [about] our point of sail, or not doing the things we’re not supposed to do,” Misares said. “But sailing competitively, even over the summer were pretty chill races. But you have to make sure you do everything to your best.”

Being part of a sailing crew is very similar to the crews you see in NA-

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Tatiana Misares sailing as part of the Temptress’ crew at the Farr 40 World Championships in September at the Long Beach Harbor.

SCAR. Everyone has their roles and must perform quickly and accurately.

After sailing with a privately owned yacht named Paranoia over the summer, Misares joined another ship, the Temptress.

As a floater on the Temptress, Misares got the chance to compete in the 2015 Farr 40 Worlds; one of the biggest regattas sailing has to offer. A floater is much like the utility infielder in baseball. Misares had help wherever help was needed.

“It was beyond competitive,” Misares said. “We’ve done races with the Long Beach Yacht club, but this was beyond competitive. Everyone there is there to win.”

Even though the Temptress finished fifth out of nine boats in the final cumulative results, Misares left

feeling like a winner.

“I think the biggest thing about doing the world [race] was we subtlety increased every day,” Misares said.

“When we had practice races, it didn’t go so well. We messed up and really steepened the stakes. But at least we got all of that out before the actual race.”

With the experience of sailing competitively and at the highest level, Misares’ love for sailing sharply increased.

“I really lucked out being on that boat,” Misares admitted.

Captain Charlie Abbott, the sailing and keelboat instructor for the CSULB Sailing Association, doesn’t credit luck. Instead, he chalks Misares’ accomplishments up to the 24-year-old’s grit.

Once her first semester of sailing

with the club was over, Misares was hooked and continued going out to the water at least once a week. The following semester she became the club commodore. Abbot said that Misares showed a lot of guts becoming the commodore because she was responsible for any damages to the boat.

“A typical collision can cost $10,000 and here you have a student who signed for her life,” Abbott said.

“And she understood [that] and she was afraid but it didn’t stop her.”

Abbot said that at first, Misares was similar to a toddler riding a tricycle. But, she quickly made the jump to a Harley Davidson in a matter of months.

“In the beginning everyone is going to be a bit timid,” Abbot said. “She went from timid to assertive and confident.”

In accordance with her aerospace-engineering major, Misares has an internship with the Boeing factory in Long Beach. Abbott credits Misares’ engineering background for making her tenacious and a problem solver.

“Nothing gets by her, she doesn’t give up,” Abbott said. “She doesn’t accept failure. [Any] failure she does have, she uses every bit of that info from that failure to help her for the next time.”

Although she is an engineering major, Misares has an open-minded personality. She credits the water for making her that way.

“It totally gets you away from everything else,” Misares said. “Like I don’t think about anything else when I’m sailing. Other than being out there in the water.”

WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL

49ers ready for big kahuna LBSU heads to the Aloha State for a matchup with conference powerhouse Hawai’i.

By Kayce Contatore Assistant Sports Editor

The rematch of last season’s Big West title is here as the No. 24 Long Beach State women’s volleyball team takes

on No. 10 Hawai’i at the Stan Sherriff Center in Hawai’i on Sunday at 8 p.m.

The top two teams in the conference prepare for the first meeting of the season since the 49ers stunned the Rainbow Warriors in Hawai’i last season with a 3-2 win to secure the conference championship.

Hawai’i has risen every week in the NCAA polls with dominating performances in both conference and non-conference play. LBSU head coach Brian Gimmillaro still believes that the Rainbow Warriors should have a better position in the polls after they trounced then No. 2 Florida in four sets early in the season.

“My feeling is they’re one of the top three or four teams in the country,” Gimmillaro said. “They’re good in every position. Everybody is returning, except one middle [blocker], and the middle they have is better than the middle they had. It gives us an opportunity to relax a little bit and play hard.”

Hawai’i’s sophomore middle blocker Olivia Magill took over the top blocking spot for the Rainbow Warriors. She is leading in the conference

with an average of 1.51 blocks per set and holds a .402 hitting percentage.

The Rainbow Warriors are trying to go undefeated in conference as the 49ers did last season with junior opposite hitter Nikki Taylor averaging 4.58 kills per set and 2.25 digs per set.

Taylor has registered double digit kill numbers in 14 of 15 matches this season, totaling 14 kills with just one error as Hawai’i topped UC Riverside on Oct. 3.

Hawai’i is ranked first in the NCAA in blocks, averaging 3.27 blocks per set and is ninth in kills with a .292 hitting percentage.

“We know [the Rainbow Warriors] are a strong team offensively and defensively, so we expect them to be really good and the best,” freshman middle blocker Peyton Grahovac said. “We want to play our best and beat them.”

Hawai’i consistently supplies a packed house for the volleyball matches, and the Rainbow Warrior crowd can certainly come into play as the seventh man on the court. LBSU senior libero Lindsey Lawmaster said that the atmosphere in the Stan Sheriff Center would be as intense as always.

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Nele Barber and the women’s volleyball team will fly over to Honolulu for their toughest road game yet.

“It’s going to be a challenge, a fight,” Lawmaster said. “I expect a dog fight. I think it will be a good opportunity for us, especially since we’re slow on the road, to actually get up to the challenge and play a good team.”

Lawmaster said that Hawai’i is the one match that she is always excited for because of the rivalry between the top two teams in the conference.

Hawai’i hosts the 49ers on Sunday at 8 p.m. PST at the Stan Sheriff Center.