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Wednesday, September 2, 2015

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PARKING

14,016

total parking spots on campus.

Housing 356

Carpool/Vanpool 260 Metered 211

Other 214

Disabled 309

Staff 2,123 General Student 10,543 spaces

Number of parking spots by type

21,600

Twitter users sound off on CSULB parking Joey B @JBichlmeier - Sep 1 @CSULB I had to leave to refill my gas tank so I could continue to look for parking..

JRod @TheReal_Jrod - Aug 31 Finding parking should be a course taught at @csulb. It takes just as long anyways Colette Killworth @ckillworth - Aug 26 “Ok so my class is at 12:30, so i should get to school by 10:30 to find parking.” Unfortunate truths of a @csulb student.

parking permits have been issued this semester.

Kali @Kali_Shashati - Aug 27 @CSULB @PresConoley I’ve been looking for parking since 10:15, my class is at 11! Help me!! #CSULB2k15 Jane Close Conoley @PresConoley - Aug 27 @Kali_Shashati @CSULB oh no, Kali! Can you take the free bus instead? Parking is a killer.

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Crime Blotter

Pet gets snaked

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News

Student assaulted Bike stolen from at library

By Valerie Osier Staff Writer

Between 10 p.m. on Thursday and 9 a.m. the following day, a woman reported that a snake was stolen from Room 209 in the Molecular and Life Sciences Center.

The container was found locked with no snake inside, Goodwin said. The snake is identified as a corn snake and worth $75.

Corn snakes are not venomous and not usually known to bite humans. There is no suspect information and are no cameras in the building, Goodwin said.

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A male suspect hit a student in the arm in the main Library on Sunday at 1 p.m.

When the student asked, “Why did you hit me?” the suspect asked if he wanted to fight. The suspect is a white male with brown hair in his 40’s wearing a brown shirt and carrying a plastic bag. Goodwin said that the reporting party wanted to prosecute, but the suspect left campus.

A student reported a bicycle stolen at the bike racks near Lot 3 and the University Student Union at 1:15 p.m. on Monday, Goodwin said. The bike, valued at $500, was described as a Fuji Absolute 2.0 Hybrid 9 speed boy’s bike. The bike was not locked, but it was registered with the University Police.

Positive Election Results What your teachers will not tell you Dr. George A. Kuck (galbertk@aol.com) The Republican Party has an ideal for which it strives. President Regan set forth our ideals at the CPAC convention in 1977 much more eloquently than I could. Do we always live up to the ideal?

No. Do we use the ideals to correct our course when we fall short? Yes. Look for the Republican ideals during this election season.

“Our party must be the party of the individual. It must not sell out the individual to cater to the group. No greater challenge faces our society today than ensuring that each one of us can maintain his dignity and his identity in an increasingly complex, centralized society.

Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, galloping inflation, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They are the residue of centralized bureaucracy, of government by a self-anointed elite.

Our party must be based on the kind of leadership that grows and takes its strength from the people. Any organization is in actuality only the lengthened shadow of its members. A political party is a mechanical structure created to further a cause. The cause, not the mechanism, brings and holds the members together. And our cause must be to rediscover, reassert and reapply America’s spiritual heritage to our national affairs.

Then with God’s help we shall indeed be as a city upon a hill with the eyes of all people upon us.”

What are the effects of applying these principles? Will the laws applying these principles lead to a more stable, safe and harmonious society? Find the Democrat principles. Has the effect of applying the Democrat Keynesian tax and spend policies and divisive rhetoric during President Obama’s presidency left most Americans safer and better off?

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in brief

The Beach welcomes the week with club fair

By Riva Lu Staff Writer

Waves of people, clubs and organizations will be flooding the Central Quad this week at The Beach.

Associated Students Inc. will host its biannual “Week of Welcome” at California State University, Long Beach on Wednesday and Thursday.

The event will give the university’s 37,000 students the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the campus and “enhance their experience,” ASI interim programs manager Tay-

lor Buhler-Scott said.

Richard De Leon, senior sociology major and president of the Model United Nations club, said that the club uses Week of Welcome as an opportunity to informally meet people who they wouldn’t meet in any other setting.

“It is a good opportunity for us to recruit people without actively trying to hold an event,” De Leon said.

ASI Chief Programming Officer Sabrina Ware says that the event promotes student involvement by displaying the organizations, clubs, campus departments and resources offered at CSULB.

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Week of Welcome 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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Week of Welcome 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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This year’s week of welcome has almost 300 student clubs and campus departments and resources registered, Ware said.

Each registered club pays a $10 tabling fee to participate in the festivities.

Week of Welcome will be set up into eight different sections in different locations, Ware said. These categories consist of academic, departments, sports, community service, special interest, Greek, religious and cultural.

Students can partake in this week’s activities and events from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Central Quad.

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City to close Labor Day

By Nicca Panggat News Editor

In observance of Labor Day, the city of Long Beach will close several of its offices on Monday, including City Hall, all Long Beach public libraries and nearly all community park facilities.

All fire and lifeguard stations will remain open for the holiday, as well as the main police station front desk and El Dorado regional park.

The city will continue to enforce pay stations and parking meters around the city on Monday, but postpone street sweeping until Tuesday.

Trash and recycling will also be collected on Monday as scheduled.

All city offices and services will reopen as usual on Tuesday.

Closed on Labor Day: • Career Transition Center • Center for Working Families • Citizen Police Complaint Commission • Code Enforcement services • Gas Services • Health Department and Health facilities • Marina offices • Neighborhood Resource Center • Police administration • Water Department

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Bixby Park 130 Cherry Ave.

65th annual Grecian Festival by the Sea Noon - 9 p.m.

5761 E. Colorado St.

W TH F S S Smorgasport 7 - 11 p.m.

USU Games Center and Parking Lot 3

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Farwell to flesh Beach House’s new album is an out-ofbody experience.

By Kevin Flores Arts & Life Editor

The best way to listen to Beach House is at night, darting down the fast lane, with every window open.

After the Baltimore duo released their fifth album on Friday, I knew what I had to do.

I took to California Highway 1 at midnight, heading south from Long Beach. The shining orb of a Sturgeon supermoon above me and the tuft surface of the Pacific beside me, I fixed my finger to the play button.

Come now reader; settle into the passenger seat, as we barrel down the coast listening to “Depression Cherry.”

In through the speakers comes the initial sustained note of the opening track, aptly titled “Levitation,” which holds you in a state of suspension, imparting something similar to the fluttering feeling just before take off.

“After midnight we could feel it all / I go anywhere you want to / You should see there’s a place I want to take you,” sings Victoria Legrand, and underneath it all the sustained root hums, still promising liftoff. The place is not a place in the ordinary sense of the word: it’s a trance, a hallucination, the deep subconscious.

About halfway through “Levitation” the bottom end comes in, opening up the soundscape and catapulting us into the ether.

From here on out, the listener is weightless.

Lord Byron once wrote on the etymology of the word carnival: “This feast is named the Carnival, which being / Interpreted, implies “farewell to flesh.”

And just as Beach House’s sound has always contained the spirit of the steam organs of carnivals past, their music too renders its listeners temporarily bodiless.

Legrand voice is butter soft, ethereal—a pirouetting ribbon through the lush atmosphere created by her keyboard, Alex Scalley’s guitar work and their trademark kitschy drum machine beats.

Never before has Legrand’s voice

more seamlessly laced into the group’s music as it does on “Depression Cherry.”

The dream-pop darlings have lost some of their innocence, and along the way have woken an affinity for more mournful themes. As the wind jets through the car the nostalgic guitar riff of “Space Song” repeats over and over. It’s repetition and circularity conjures the rewinding of a sweet moment on an old home video, now lost to time.

Though the exalting peaks of “Teen Dream” are mostly absent on this more subdued album, on the standout song “PPP” Scalley’s guitar pushes through the thick chrysalis of sound spooled throughout the song and breaks into a crescendo hurls you to the summit of the album.

On the closing song “Days of Candy” Legrand’s voice submerges and emerges from a choir of voices as it melts back into the infinite. The berceuse-like melody provides a soft landing, an angelic chaperone lowering us back to Earth.

As the album fades to a close, we find ourselves at a red light on a desolate highway, engine rumbling and reality regaining its hold.

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CSULB alumni talks about his newly published poetry collection.

By Kevin Flores Arts & Life Editor

Since Dominic “Nerd” McDonald graduated from the California State University, Long Beach in 2013, he’s been hitting up Long Beach and Los Angeles open mics, performing his poetry. He’s just published his debut collection “The Love Song of D. Nerd McDonald.”

The Daily 49er caught up with the Long Beachbased poet to talk about life and poetry.

How did your parents react when you told them you want to be a poet?

They thought it was just a hobby like most parents would. It’s not something that people see as lucrative.

However, thanks to advances in social media and things like that, people have been using their art form as a means to create a business and to create revenue.

Hence I was able to created a book.

Who are your main inspirations?

My main inspirations are a lot of hip-hop artists like Common, Biggie, Tupac, Ice Cube, KRS-One, Millie Mill and DJ Kool Herc. I’m also inspired by a lot of pop culture because I grew up watching a lot of television, so different shows from the 90s like “Fresh Prince of Bel Air” and “Family Matters.”

What are the major themes that your book touches on?

Well the book is titled “The Love Song of D. Nerd McDonald” and it’s inspiration from a poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot, which I read in one of my creative writing classes. And the poem is about someone who is aging but still has these emotions about love. Mixed in are insecurities and self-doubt. As someone who calls himself Nerd, there were some challenging times in my life when I dealt with insecurities.

So the theme is a perspective of love and relationships from someone who is going through that.

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Do you have any readings coming up in Long Beach?

I have a few performances coming up; one will be this Thursday at Public Beer and Wine on 4th Street in Downtown Long Beach and then I will be performing the next day at the Cog and Crank Bike Shop for First Fridays in Bixby Knolls.

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Graduation Day Will you still remember me after you get your walking papers?

What started as an ideal vacation became education imprisonment and you just made bail.

Will the outside world still be the same as you left it?

Your friends and family there like they have always been ready to welcome you back home with open arms and opportunity?

Will you back a proud alumni or never return like a bitter pupil? As if to do so would hyperize your blood with caffeine and burn your eyes like so many sleepless hours and tire your feet from so many miles walked around campus Would a thought of me at least make you smile?

If even we’ve only shared a few experiences or the smallest of conversations.

It is time for us to part ways, now that our circles don’t connect in rotation and maybe I was just a small character in a closing chapter to the book of your life.

I shall never truly know the answer to these questions but they fill my mind as I watch you walk away, and wave goodbye.

—Dominic “Nerd” McDonald

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Opinions Not down with the runner’s high

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rack and field news has changed from announcing who won a meet, to announcing who was doped up at

the meet.

At the end of August, two Kenyan runners, hurdler Koki Manunga and 400-meter runner Joyce Zakary tested positive for doping at the sport’s world championships in Bejing.

There is no justifying the use of illegal drugs under any situation for any sport. No matter how badly an athlete wants to win or how much money they could earn, all virtue is lost once drugs come into play. It is sad that so many athletes are being disqualified or suspended for abusing drugs. Whatever happened to integri-

The use of drugs has called into question the integrity of track and field.

ty in sports?

It is difficult to fathom why someone would risk his or her entire career to get an extra boost of energy for one, 20-second race that in the end will not end up counting.

This is far from the first doping

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incident that has taken place in the track and field industry. Many other sports have had drug issues, most notably baseball, but what makes track athletes get on the doping train?

Track is not as high profile of a sport as baseball or football, but athletes want to have that competitive edge when it comes to meets. Instead of staying on the straight and narrow path, it seems more and more track athletes have opted to take the easy way out to get ahead in their sport.

Doping is defined by the UK Anti-Doping Agency as an illegal substance taken to enhance ones performance. A substance or doping method has to meet two of the three criteria set forth from the agency: if the substance enhances performance, poses a threat to the athlete’s health or it violates the spirit of the sport.

The newest trend in doping is blood doping; the process of injecting new blood into the body before a race to increase the number of red blood cells to strengthen an athlete’s aerobic activity and endurance.

Even the most famous track and field Olympians like Justin Gatlin, Ben Johnson and Carl Lewis have tested positive for doping, and some have even had their medals taken from them.

Johnson was the first high-profile track athlete to have been caught doping and was stripped of his gold medal for the 100-meter race from the 1988 Seoul Olympics. But in that gold-medal race, six of the eight athletes, including Lewis, were found to have tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs by the United States Anti-Doping Agency.

In the case of Johnson, it turns out he wasn’t made of rocket fuel, just a track load of dope.

National law needed to address campus sexual assaults Mike Mendoza Assistant Opinions Editor

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t never seems to end.

The amount of sexual assault on college campuses should show clearly to lawmakers the extreme importance for updated, clear laws that fight against these inexcusable crimes.

In the midst of an epidemic of sexual assaults on college campuses across the country, Owen Labrie, a 19-year-old student from St. Paul’s School in Concord, New Hampshire, was in the throws of a controversial acquittal of three felony counts of sexual assault.

This prompts the need to bring clarity within the grey area of sexual

consent.

Labrie’s felony acquittal has struck a chord with many sexual assault advocates, and it comes with warrant due to the indecisiveness of the jury within the trial. According to CNN’s legal analyst Sunny Hostin, during litigations, the jury appeared to not believe Labrie’s statement of not having intercourse but also dismissed the accuser’s claim that sexual intercourse did take place.

If this trial took place in the state of California, Labrie, with no question, would have been convicted of felony sexual assault.

In 2014, California set the standard of what sexual consent really means after passing the “yes means yes” law, providing the guidelines for what is known as an “affirmative consent.” The law, which only applies to colleges and universities, clearly states that “a lack of protest or resistance does not mean consent,” so

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Labrie’s scape goat line of “I thought she was having a great time,” would not hold any water in a California

California must set the standard with sexual consent.

courthouse.

Although all the details of the trial have not been disclosed, if Labrie and the accuser engaged in consumption of alcohol or drugs, the verdict would certainly be a no-brainer. California law states that sexual consent cannot be given if an individual is “asleep or incapacitated by drugs or alcohol,”

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which is usually a significant factor in cases involving sexual assaults on college campuses.

Aside from setting the standard for the general public, the law also puts college campuses across the state on notice. It is quite comforting knowing California State University, Long Beach has taken leaps and bounds to assure its students that this is a safe place where they can go to class, as well as enjoy the off-campus activities that the university offers.

The Beach has taken heed to this law by utilizing its Gender, Equity and Diversity center to educate and give awareness to women who could potentially be at risk of sexual assault, especially incoming freshman.

Outside of California, colleges are giving a lack luster effort towards resolving issues of sexual assault.

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colleges and universities that have displayed negligence toward sexual assaults that have taken place within these institutions. What is most notable about these investigations is that many of these institutions include some of the top schools in the country like Harvard, Harvard’s school of Law, Princeton and Darthmouth.

Unfortunately, prestige and money go a long way in the court of law, which was a significant factor in swaying the jury into believing that Labrie had sexual consent from his accuser.

If New Hampshire, and the rest of the United States, should learn anything form this trial, it should be that judgements based on he said/she said arguments do no justice for the victims and their families.

It is unacceptable that these schools neglect victims, who are usually young women, for the sake of maintaining their image.

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COLLEGE FOOTBALL

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Playoffs, you kidding me!?!

Whether it is by a computer or a committee, the college football championship race continues to hold room for biases.

By Kayce Contatore Assistant Sports Editor

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he inaugural College Football Playoff created history by drawing in the largest audience in cable history, and seeing a sophomore quarterback lead an underdog team to become the National Champions.

But, what those viewers didn’t see was an appropriate structure in the selection process.

Many college football fans embraced the long-awaited playoff system, saying that it finally brought fairness to college football. Many argue that the bowl game selection relied too heavily on computers and that the higher-ranking conferences dominated the selection for who would go to the championship match.

With the playoff system, human beings chose the teams that

go to the playoff bowl games.

But, those humans come with their own biases?

Sure, the committee will deny any form of favoritism with the selection process, but there is always some sort of prejudice.

The first playoff selection was essentially the same selection process used by the BCS to pick the teams that would compete for the National Championship.

Just like the BCS bowl game system, the playoff committee relied too heavily on the teams from the powerhouse conferences such as the SEC, ACC and PAC 12. The big three conferences have dominated the BCS and are on the verge of dominating the playoff system.

In the last 15 years of the BCS national championship matches, 21 of the 32 teams who competed for the title were from the bigthree conferences. Just as three of the four teams chosen for the playoff were from those conferences.

The playoff committee protocol calls for teams to be chosen based on championships won, the strength of schedule, competition and outcomes of common opponents, but a few of the teams, such as Florida St. and Alabama, did not measure up to those standards.

What doesn’t make sense is that past championships are a contributing factor in which teams are chosen for the playoff matches. The team that is

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playing on the field the season after a championship could be a completely different team.

Last season, there were six teams fighting to make it to the first-ever college playoff: Ohio State, University of Alabama, University of Oregon, Florida State, Texas Christian University and Baylor University. Ultimately, TCU and Baylor did not make the cut, even though they should have with each teams strong per-

formances on the season.

Ohio State and Oregon proved their dominance in their respective conferences. Oregon was 12-1 going into the first playoff game against Florida St. for the Rose Bowl before losing to Ohio St. in the Championship Game. Ohio St. went 14-1 with quarterback Cardale Jones taking the reins after Braxton Miller and J.T. Barrett got injured.

I myself had to swallow an ex-

tremely large piece of humble pie and admit that Alabama did not deserve to make it to the playoffs, even though I wanted them to take home another championship.

Despite the Crimson Tide going 12-1 into the Sugar Bowl against Ohio St., Alabama had a poor season overall that should have been factored into the playoff committees decision on who should be the top four teams. Of course, Alabama has the previous National Championship titles to lean on, but the Tide showcased a completely different team than their championship squad.

Florida St., the 2013 National Champions, narrowly won the Atlantic Coast Conference game against Georgia Tech and had too many close call games with lower caliber teams.

The Seminoles may have produced the first round draft pick, but they did not have as strong of a season as their national championship year in 2013.

Both TCU and Baylor put up impressive wins last season and fought to be considered for the playoff, but ultimately Alabama and Florida St. made the final cut.

Die-hard football fans are crossing their fingers for a playoff system that will give teams who actually deserve a spot in the playoffs a chance.

The 2015 college football season kicks off Sept. 3 and the national championship match set for Jan. 11, 2016.

C a m p u s Vo i c e

LBSU’s football team has been undefeated since 1991.

What are your thoughts on thier chances this year?

“I wish we did have a football team…I think it’s something the university should think about expanding on.”

— Kyle Bourne, master’s student teaching credential

“You mean the one [football team] that doesn’t exist?”

“Why is it not here? Why do we not have it anymore?”

—Tyler Lampe, senior graphic design major

—Jesse Jaramillo, junior illustration major

“I did not know that. It just makes it awesome. I went from knowing next to nothing to knowing that.”

— Aaron Lloyd Connell, junior electrical engineering major