Daily 49er Sept 8, 2015

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Vol. LXVII, Issue 9

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A Festive Evening

Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Students ride the Round-Up wheel at Smorgasport, above, while others crowd the front of the stage to see martial artists perform aerial kicks, right.

Left, This year marked the 15th anniversary of Smorgasport.

Below, two students battle with pugel sticks on top of an inflatable platform.

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he idea was simple: bring students together at the year’s beginning to show the smorgasbord of sports, games and non-alcoholic fun the campus has to offer – or, more accurately, a Smorgasport.

Rita Hayes, director of club sports and recreation at California State University, Long Beach, first heard of the idea of an all-night sports festival at campus recreation

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The right to hide arms Under Senate Bill 707, concealed carriers would require prior permission from campus authorities before bringing a weapon onto school grounds.

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By Lynohila Ward Staff Writer

The California State Assembly passed a bill Wednesday prohibiting the legal carry of concealed weapons on school campuses.

Senate Bill-707 would outlaw permitted concealed weapons carriers from bringing firearms onto school campuses without prior permission from campus authorities.

“Many would be surprised, as

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I was, to learn that California law currently allows concealed firearms on any campus, even on an elementary school campus,” said California State Sen. Lois Wolk in a press release.

Wolk, who authored the bill to help control concealed weapons on school and college campuses, said that passing SB-707 would place the control of firearms on school campuses back in the hands of the proper officials.

Honorably retired law enforcement and authorized reserve officers will be exempt from the re-

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strictions of SB-707, according to the bill.

Lieutenant Richard Goodwin of the University Police said that SB-707 will only “further define the limitations” of weapons on the California State University, Long Beach campus.

“Off the top of my head, I would say [concealed weapons carriers are not viewed as potential shooters] merely based upon my observation,” Goodwin said.

Goodwin said that obtaining a concealed carry permit for a firearm takes an immense amount of

time and effort along with really narrow approval requirements.

Carry Concealed Weapon licenses can only be obtained through a resident’s county sheriff’s office with all fees paid by the applicant.

In Long Beach, people hoping to obtain a concealed carry permit are required to schedule an appointment with the office of the chief of police to be reviewed for residency requirements, good moral character, cause and age, ac-

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Senior mechanical engineer major Narisa Pipitharut gets a caricature drawn of her during Smorgasport 2015 at California State University, Long Beach on Friday night.

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conferences about 15 years ago. She brought those ideas back with her and it has since grown into a massive event attended by thousands of CSULB students each year.

“I thought, ‘How fun would that be to do something like that on our campus?’” Hayes said. “The whole idea was to show the kids in the residence halls and to show students that you can do fun activities without partying and having alcohol involved.”

Smorgasport brings together clubs, club sports teams, carnival rides and food into one night at the end of Week of Welcome every fall. Danny Lemos, the KBeach faculty media advisor, said that he saw about 4,000 attendees at Smorgasport three years ago.

About 5,000 students were in attendance last year.

This year was the event’s biggest celebration yet, Lemos said, noting that ASI had an assessment team to take measurements of how many students attended throughout the night.

“It’s grown like crazy,” Lemos said.

“This year topped last year. Just visually, I can see it’s topped. [We expected] almost 6,000 students.”

Smorgasport started small, occupy-

ing the University Student Union and the North Lawn, but has now taken over all of Lot 3, the first floor of the USU, part of the Friendship Walk and the Health and Human Services lawn, said Taylor Buhler-Scott, interim program manager.

Hayes said that despite all the space, the university still has more clubs and students willing to participate.

“The challenges are finding enough activity space for everybody,” Hayes said. “Our hockey team wants to have a contest to shoot pucks, and the archery group has their bales of hay out there and they’re shooting arrows, so definitely you have to find safe spaces for these activities.”

While club sports can’t demonstrate

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very easily in the Quad during Week of Welcome, they take advantage of the space at Smorgasport to show their stuff. The wakeboarding team had students wobbling on an Indo Board balance trainer, the hockey club had a net set up to shoot balls into and the salsa club made room to dance.

Some setups are a little more complicated than others.

The rowing team had a screen and projector connected to dry land exercise machines known as Ergs. The Ergs, through wires and cables, tell a computer program how fast someone is rowing on the machine and shows it visually on the screen, similar to a video game.

“Smorgasport is actually our biggest recruiting opportunity of the fall season,” said junior anthropology major and treasurer for the women’s rowing team, Sarah Dresser. “We actually get most of our recruits from this activity. A lot of people are visual learners, so they need to see their boat moving across the screen as opposed to, ‘Hey, come and join us at 5:30 in the morning,’ because that doesn’t work that well.”

To celebrate the anniversary, ASI gave away shirts for Smorgasport designed in the same baseball-tee style as the very first year in 2001. Students stood in a line that wrapped around Brotman Hall for an hour to get their hands on one.

“That’s probably the most important [thing]: Beach Pride,” Lemos said.

“That’s what [Smorgasport] reflects.

Plus, it really galvanizes the student body at the start of the year. I think that’s what’s really important. We feel like such a family after this is over, it’s like the kick off to fall.”

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cording to the application instructions.

Those who meet all requirements must also be fingerprinted and fulfill a required firearms training class.

“I agree with the legislation,” said Brad Thomas, a graduate student for physical therapy at CSULB. “[I’m] not super concerned, mainly because other schools within immediate areas [haven’t] had gun violence.”

Elizabeth Delgado, a junior psychology major, said that despite good intentions, SB-707 is aimed at the wrong demographic.

“If you’re licensed, you have the right to carry considering the Second Amendment,” Delgado said. “I don’t think that passing the bill would prevent anything anyways – people with permits are not the threat for gun violence.”

Brandon Combs, president of lobbyist group Firearms Policy Coalition said in a letter of opposition that SB-707 would not actually prevent crimes like school shootings and only cost taxpayers if passed.

“At best, SB-707 offers nothing more than another ‘add-on’ crime,” Combs said in the statement. “Far more likely, however, is that SB-707 will make criminals out of good, law-abiding Californians who have no intention of breaking a law or causing anyone harm.”

SB-707 was sent to Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk for review last week after state legislators approved the bill in a bi-partisan vote, and it is now awaiting approval.

Long Beach continues to surpass water conservation goals In the wake of the California drought, CSULB is fighting to conserve water on every level.

By Alex Berman Staff Writer

With the ongoing drought straining California for water, cities across the state have been issued specific

water conservation goals to reach.

Despite the strong restrictions, Long Beach has once again surpassed its 16 percent water reduction goal for the third month in a row, according to the city’s water department.

According to the State Water Resources Control Board, Long Beach reduced its total water usage in the month of August by 17.7 percent in relation to levels measured in 2013.

In June and July, water reduction was measured at about 19 percent.

Some of the conservation rules in effect that are contributing to the city’s success include watering lawns

and landscapes only twice a week, not using potable water to clean sidewalks and driveways, only cleaning vehicles and other equipment with water from a bucket or hose with a shut-off system and only allowing potable water to be used in fountains that have a recirculating system, according to the Long Beach Water Department.

“At home, our lawn is completely brown,” said Rose Leidenfrost, a senior electrical engineering major at CSULB. “We just don’t water it at all because it’s really not essential.”

Kevin Wattier, general manager of the Long Beach Water Department,

said that the water conservation goals for each city are based on residential per capita water consumption in 4 percent increments. “[Long Beach’s] consumption is about equally split one-third between single-family homes, multifamily homes and commercial/industrial customers,” Wattier said.

California State University, Long Beach has similarly been taking steps towards reducing its water usage, aiming to cut down its roughly 200 million gallon annual water consumption by 20 percent this year, according to the school’s sustainability page.

As of August, the school completed the first step in a plan targeting specific areas on campus that require large amounts of water and converting them into drought resistant landscapes.

Paul Wingco, CSULB’s energy and sustainability manager, said that the plan would address 13 different areas on campus hopefully within the next three years, depending on available funding.

Wingco said that he thinks these steps could possibly reduce overall water consumption at the university by as much as 40 percent when completed.

Obama orders paid sick leave for workers at federal contractors President Barack Obama used Labor Day to announce a new step toward increased benefits for workers — ordering companies that do business with the government to provide paid sick leave for their employees.

The move, which Obama announced with labor leaders in Boston, adds to a series of executive actions Obama has taken and comes as Congress resists legislation to change labor conditions and pay to cover all private-sector workers.

“Right now, about 40 percent of private-sector workers — 44 million people in America — don’t have access to paid sick leave,” Obama said in announcing the order. “Unfortunately, only Congress has the power to give this security to all Americans,” he added, “but where I can act, I will.”

Obama also sharply criticized Republicans in Congress and the GOP presidential candidates for what he

said was a distorted view of how the economy works.

“In their world, the only way to help the country grow and help people get ahead is to cut taxes for millionaires and billionaires and loosen up rules on big banks and polluters, and then you just wait, and then you look up at the sky and prosperity will come raining down on us,” he said. “That’s not how the economy works.”

Obama’s executive actions directed at the labor market, which many Republicans see as excessive use of presidential authority, have been designed to boost worker pay and benefits. White House economists say that will lead to higher productivity in an era of stagnant wages, while nudging private companies and Congress to join in updating work conditions.

This latest order will require companies that have federal contracts to let workers accrue up to seven days of paid

sick leave each year.

The action will provide coverage for as many as 300,000 workers whose jobs do not currently provide paid sick leave and many others with limited paid timeoff benefits. It will begin in 2017.

The U.S. is the only industrialized nation without a federal family-leave law that guarantees workers can receive pay while taking time to care for themselves and loved ones. Some states have paid-leave laws. Current federal law mandates that companies provide leave, but does not require that it be paid.

Over the last year, Obama has used his executive authority to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 for workers in companies that contract with the federal government, expand overtime pay protections for all private-sector workers, and guarantee federal employees up to six weeks of paid leave with the arrival of a new child.

Labor Secretary Tom Perez, preview-

ing the order for reporters on Sunday, said it’s time to shelve notions about America’s working families that were set in the “Leave it to Beaver” era and modernize the workplace to keep the United States competitive with other global powers.

“Other countries have done it, and they see the benefit,” said Perez, who has toured the country collecting stories of workers who suffered hardships, including a bus driver who brought her sick child with her on the bus rather than risk losing pay with time spent at home.

The administration would not provide an estimate of how much the new benefit will cost companies. But officials cited studies showing costs can be outweighed by the benefits of employee retention and worker satisfaction. Business groups tend to contest such estimates.

Obama used his speech to call on

Congress to pass legislation that would require all companies with 15 employees or more to offer up to seven days a year of paid sick leave.

Congress is unlikely to budge. Both the House and Senate are controlled by Republican majorities that resist such workplace interventions in favor of a hands-off approach that allows wages and benefits to be set by the marketplace.

Republicans are critical of Obama’s use of executive actions and have not looked favorably on his efforts to work around the legislative branch on workplace matters and other issues.

Instead, Republicans have passed bills, with support from some Democrats, to do away with regulations that businesses say hamper growth. Those have mostly been panned by the White House.

—Lisa Mascaro, Tribune Washington Bureau

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They’ll leave the light on for you The top 6 late night eateries in Long Beach.

By Madison D’Ornellas Opinions Editor

Night owls, insomniacs and graveyard shifters of Long Beach, it’s no secret that you’re shut out of many popular establishments because of the hours you keep. Now, just because you prefer the moon to the sun, fellow nocturnals, shouldn’t mean you’re not able to grab a tasty cup of coffee or a hot meal. But fear not, night people, for here is a list of places that keep their doors open into the wee hours, if not until the break of dawn.

1. The Library Coffee House: The coolest coffee shop that you’ve never been to. Cavern-like with uber-comfy seats and stacks on stacks of colorful books, The Library is the perfect hideaway for late-night study sessions or bookish insomniacs.

3418 East Broadway Long Beach, CA 90803 Hours: Monday-Friday 6 a.m. to midnight, Saturdays and Sundays 7a.m. to midnight

2. Simone’s Donuts: A classic.

Yes, Simone’s has the run-down, downtown donut shop aesthetic.

And yes, you can hear the freeway from your plastic scoop seat. But the charm from the staff and the perfect selection of donuts will keep you coming back.

6400 E Stearns St. Long Beach, CA 90815 Hours: Open 24 hours 3. Yard House: Just delicious. Yards of beer? Onion fries? Creamy pasta dishes? Fresh fish? Although Yard House is on the pricier side, it’s outside, in-the-harbor seating and quick service make it a great spot to eat a lovely meal then hibernate at the bar.

401 Shoreline Village Dr. Long Beach, CA 90802 Hours: Monday-Thursday and Sundays 11 a.m. to midnight, Fridays and Saturdays 11a.m. -1 a.m.

4. Roscoe’s House of Chicken and Waffles: Because it’s Roscoe’s.

If you’ve never been to Roscoe’s Chicken and Waffles, drop the paper, skip your next class and drive there immediately. A home-cooked plate, quenching sweet tea and more awaits. You’ll just have to see for yourself.

730 East Broadway Long Beach, CA 90802 Hours: Monday-Wednesday and Sundays 8 a.m. to 11 p.m., Thursdays 8am to midnight, Fridays and Saturdays 8 a.m. - 2:30 a.m.

5. Auld Dubliner: A place to meet your future spouse. The Auld Dubliner is able to be a take a pub-chain and create an authentic vibe that makes you sit at the wooden, Guinness-stained bar until closing. Humans walk into the ol’ AD and become nicer people. You’re bound to meet someone, a lifelong friend or partner. So you know, that’s nice.

71 South Pine Ave. Long Beach, CA 90802 Hours: Monday-Friday 11 a.m. – 2 a.m., Saturdays and Sundays 8 a.m. – 2 a.m.

6. Hiccups Tea House: An appetizer mecca. Need a fancy, late night snack and don’t want to pay eight bucks for it? Hiccups provides the appetizer list that you dream about.

Drag some friends out of their apartments or dorm rooms and order some garlic fries, crispy tofu bites and calamari for the whole table. And don’t forget the tea.

1946 North Lakewood Blvd.

Long Beach, CA 90815 Hours: 11 a.m. to midnight

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Foot-stopping barnbuner returns to Long Beach Raise a glass and a banjo for the Folk Revival Festival.

By Kevin Flores Arts & Life Editor

The Folk Revival Festival is bringing the jangle and twang to Long Beach for a third straight year.

Showcasing folk, roots and bluegrass acts, the festival has grown exponentially since 2013, according to event organizer Shea Newkirk. Last year about 3,500 people showed up and this year they’re expecting a crowd of around 5,000.

The downhome hootenanny will bring together an eclectic mix of contemporary musicians who are spreading the gospel of Americana.

Acts range from buzzy, psychobilly-ish The Legendary Shack Shakers, who’ve internalized the rhythm of a chugging train and the high lonesome sound of the hobo harp to the hard-fiddling, hard-picking one-man folk firebrand Possessed by Paul James.

Headlining this year is ruckus Rhode Island folk rock band Dear Tick. Not letting the out-of-towners steal the show, Long Beach’s own indie folk duo Bearcoon will be among the regional acts billed to perform at the jamboree.

Asked which of the lesser known acts

he recommended, Newkirk said he was impressed with the vocal harmonies of Yellow Red Sparks, who hail from Orange County.

The festival will also feature a banjo battle and a beard and mustache face-off, as well as a pie eating contest and a square dance tent.

Newkirk said that the power of folk music is that it shrinks generational gaps.

In that same spirit, children 12 and under and seniors 75 and older can attend for free. For the rest of you inbetweeners, general admission is $20 in advance and $30 at the door.

The event takes place on Sept. 19 from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. at Rainbow Lagoon Park.

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Getting drunk on history The cocktail you should be drinking is 400 years in the making.

By Kevin Flores Arts & Life Editor

The cocktail has quite the tale to tell. And what better way to hear it than over drink?

Bartenders and amateur cocktail historians Damien Montanile and Chris Dion led a boozy prohibition mixology class as part of the Art Deco Festival, which was held at the Queen Mary on Friday through Sunday.

The duo delved into the storied history of the cocktail, an American invention.

However, the origins of cocktails lie in punches.

Inspired by how eastern cultures drank alcohol, 17th century traders and sailors began concocting these alcoholic mixtures.

The word punch is borrowed from Sanskrit and means “five.” Five because there are five ingredients that went into a punch: the spirit, the sugar, the water, the bitters, and a base such as wine or milk.

Punches found their way into the taverns of the Colonies. By this point, the first and most primitive variations in recipes began to emerge, such as Planter’s Punch and Philadelphia Fish House Punch.

The first mention of the word cocktail was

in the early 1800’s in a New Hampshire newspaper called “The Farmer’s Cabinet,” according to Dion.

The book that first codified cocktail recipes was “The Bon Vivant’s Companion” published in 1862 by the godfather of the modern cocktail, Jerry Thomas.

It was during this time that cocktails as we drink them today begin to come into existence.

Bartenders were considered artisans and were hobnobbing with politicians.

“In some cases, especially in Orange County, the mayor was the bartender,” said Montanile.

In the early 20th century, excessive drunkenness and a religious revival led to Prohibition in the United States, and as a result, many bartenders fled to other countries in order to continue practicing their craft.

This led to foreign flavors being assimilated into their cocktail recipes.

Montanile mixed up one such cocktail called the Champs-Élysées, a 1930’s recipe created by influential bartender Harry Craddock who fled to Europe during Prohibition and which was published in his book “The Savory Cocktail Book.”

The yellowish drink is a Parisian-inspired take on the Sidecar and has a sweet lemon and herbal taste.

After Prohibition, the cocktail pretty much disappeared from the bar counter.

It wasn’t until the early 2000s that Prohibition-style cocktail culture was revived, beginning in the Rainbow Room in New York.

These days, you can grab a Gin Rickey or a Whiskey Sour at speakeasy-inspired bars such as the Red Room or The Federal Bar in Long Beach.

Champs-Élysées

2 oz. cognac ¾ oz. fresh lemon juice ½ oz. yellow chartreuse ½ oz. simple syrup (1 part sugar to 1 part water) 1 dash of Angostura bitters Combine ingredients and shake well with ice, double strain into a cocktail glass and garnish with a lemon peel.

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Top, bartenders Damien Montanile and Chris Dion stand ready at their makeshift bar aboard the Queen Mary during the Art Deco Festival on Friday. Bottom, the Champs-Élysées is a cognac-based mixed drink.

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When parking impedes education Meghin Hewitt Assistant Opinions Editor

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he parking situation (or lack there of) on campus is ruining my life.

Okay, maybe not my whole life, but a significant chunk of it.

Every Monday through Thursday I pull into lot 14 off of Atherton and Palo Verde Ave. (next to the Walter Pyramid at California State University, Long Beach) with the hollow hopes that maybe, just maybe, I will find a spot that is not in the boonies.

But considering my earliest class starts at 9:30 a.m., those hopes are quickly dashed. My strategy this year has been to head away from campus, and resign myself to walking nearly a mile to my classes.

Before 10 a.m. I can usually find something, even if it’s in the back row of the lot.

When I finally find a home

for my car, I then pop in my headphones, sport my comfiest shoes and begin the journey to campus, which is as treacherous as the Oregon Trail.

Then comes the climb up Mount West Campus Drive. I usually stick to the sidewalk as opposed to the more gradual incline provided by cutting through campus in order to avoid over-caffeinated hoards of slow-walking students.

At this point I reach my destination, sweaty, disheveled and ready for a nap. If I wanted a workout I would go to the Student Recreation and Wellness Center. And for the record, I don’t even mess with the shuttles. When I’m headed to class there are masses of people waiting near the stops for a ride up the hill, and I know I’m better off power walking.

I am willing to forgive all of these things, but recently CSULB parking did me dirty, in a way I’m not sure I can forgive.

On Monday at approxi-

mately 10:20 a.m., my creative writing short story professor arrived on campus, 40 minutes before our class began.

In an email he sent out to his students that afternoon he described circling two different faculty lots like a shark, but with no success. He was

CSULB parking makes students late, sweaty and frustrated and it’s getting in the way of education.

forced to cancel class when he failed to find parking nearly one hour later.

I love to joke about the inconvenient parking situation as much as the next 49er, but this crossed the line. The

whole reason we are here is to get an education. If students and faculty are stuck driving around parking lots during class time, the system has failed. I’m sure that at any given time there is at least one parking spot somewhere on campus, but your likelihood of finding it is very low.

How is it that students and faculty pay to drive around a lot for an infinite amount of time without the guarantee of a spot?

According to CSULB’s website there were 36,822 students on campus in fall of 2014.

Only 2,729 students lived on campus. Lets do some math.

That’s 34,093 students commuting to campus.

According to CSULB’s Executive Director of Media and Digital News Mike Ulenkamp, there are 14,016 parking spots available. Only 10,543 of those spaces are general student spaces. That leaves 23,550 students without a spot. Granted, not everyone is taking classes at the same time and not all

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of those students commute by car. But think of that number the next time your cruising around the parking lot desperately searching for a spot.

During the first week of classes I had another professor come into class 10 minutes late. The only reason she made it at all was because she parked illegally in a carpool spot near the theatre.

“I’ll probably return to a $40 ticket,” she announced to our class. She did not get a ticket, but I wouldn’t test my luck with the parking gods.

This is out of control. You know there’s an issue on campus when it’s impacting the students, faculty and staffs’ everyday lives. We shouldn’t have to add an hour to our commute to search for parking. We shouldn’t have to waste gas driving in circles.

And we definitely shouldn’t have cancelled classes because there aren’t enough parking spots for professors.

Something has to be changed.

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WoW: over the top, yet necessary Yasmin Cortez Staff Writer

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ively pulsating music filled the air, ASI members ran around frantically, a brigade of food trucks were surrounding the main entrance and free shirts, pens and f lyers were being passed out left to right.

Clubs go out of their way only to receive less than half of the members to actually show up to the first meeting, not to mention the second meeting.

This could only mean one thing: Week of Welcome.

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A bi-annual event at California State University, Long Beach, Week of Welcome is a two-day event for campus clubs to showcase their organizations and recruit new members.

WoW is a huge necessity and a great first impression for incoming freshmen and transfers to find out what the CSULB campus has to offer.

Sure, out of the hundreds of students who signed up for clubs and organizations on campus, less than half will probably attend the first club meeting, not to mention even less for the second meeting.

But the first step to getting students involved is to at least reach out to them, who on their own may not have taken the first step.

At first, the Wednesday and Thursday Student Organization Fair did look like a hot mess with booths too close to one another and the heavily trafficked walk-ways, but it was worth it when clubs, sports teams, fraternities, sororities and

organizations on campus began performing dance routines while their booths handed out free things.

As a new transfer student with no idea what to expect, I assumed it would be a couple of booths and hardly anyone signing up for clubs.

Yet with almost 300 clubs and organizations represented it was a little easier for a student to find something suitable for their taste

and schedule. It was exciting to see so many groups partake in the event because without joining something, we would just go to classes and head straight back home with no real attachment to the campus.

Although, WoW was a fun and important event, it did have some f laws.

WoW was more like ‘TDOW’ (Two Days of Welcome). It would have been nice if other clubs had an actual week as well to promote themselves, since the 11 a.m.- 2 p.m. time slot on Wednesday and Thursday simply didn’t seem like enough time.

And what about the students who had night classes?

There are various students on campus who have jobs or families and simply cannot attend daytime events. There should have been an event in the evening to show students they are not forgotten. Smorgasport was as close as it came to a nighttime event but only less than half of the organizations showed up, plus it’s only held during the fall semester.

Overall, Week of Welcome ended with a bang and truly left me with a wow impression and I can definitely say I’m looking forward to being WoWed next semester.

American workers deserve — must demand — better Monday marks the 122nd federal “Labor’s Holiday,” which Congress enacted to celebrate working people. This Labor Day, though, working people have little to celebrate and much to fear.

The good news is that July marked a record 65 consecutive months of private-sector job growth. The country has added 13 million jobs since early 2010 and the job market is poised to continue growing.

The rest of the news for workers is mostly bad, as it has been for the last 35 years. Wages have fallen, once plentiful jobs have become hard to find, job security has vanished, bouts of joblessness average 28 weeks, up from less than 10 in 1970, and Congress lets Wall Street plunder traditional pensions, while the costs of health care consumed an ever larger share of the total compensation workers earn, reducing cash wages.

Here are just a few telling details from my 20 years of documenting how little-known government policies create inequality, largely through stealth mechanisms that take from the many to benefit the already rich few, whom I long ago dubbed the donor class: —Half of workers make less than $520 a week, a figure that, adjusted for inflation, has been unchanged since 1998, Social Security data show.

—Average pay in 2013 was lower

than in 2012 for 59 of the 60 levels of pay tracked by Social Security, with only the 110 jobs paying $50 million or more increasing in pay.

—The average income for 90 percent of Americans has fallen back to the level of 1966, according to IRS data.

—Just 1,361 households received 8 percent of all the real increased income Americans reported in 2012 compared with 2003, while the bottom half of Americans’ income fell by 18 percent, a new IRS report shows.

Millions of workers will be working on Labor Day or not earning any money because in America 1 in 4 workers do not get any paid holidays, 1 in 3 do not get paid sick leave, and almost 60 percent do not get any personal days off with pay for events like the death of a spouse or child, according to data from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.

No other modern country treats its workers this way. Every other modern country has mandated vacations and holidays (35 days per year in Austria) and paid sick leave, especially for restaurant workers. America is also the only modern nation that does not have government-mandated and taxpayer-financed leave for parents of newborns.

American workers have someone to blame for this sad state of affairs: themselves.

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We elected politicians of both parties who measure the value of people not by the content of their character, but by the thickness of their wallets. Indeed, the leading candidate for the Republican presidential nomination cites his riches as his primary qualification.

By deciding whom to vote for — or by choosing not to vote — we ended up with leaders in city halls, state capitals and Washington whose positions are far from what poll after poll shows are widely shared values and policy positions. For example, numerous polls show that most conservatives favor increasing Social Security benefits, yet the talk in Washington is about how to cut benefits.

In lectures across America when I say these things many people respond that nothing can be done, that the rich have rigged the game from how campaigns are financed to how legislative and congressional districts are drawn.

The tone is of defeat, despair and surrender.

It need not be this way.

We live in the Second American Republic under a Constitution created for the express purpose of giving our Congress the power to tax and to regulate commerce.

The preamble cites six noble purposes for the United States: to form a more

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perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty.

Notice that you will not find a word there about getting rich, which is a condition to be enjoyed, not a value on which to found a nation. You will find the term “general Welfare (with a capital W in the original).

The reality is that we can change America so that working people get a fair shake with better pay, universal health care, and secure incomes in old age. The Australians, the British, the Canadians, the Germans, the Japanese, and every other modern country have managed to do this. Even Portugal, with less than half the economic resources per person of America, does it. If they can afford it, how can we not?

Americans are living longer, but in these other countries people are enjoying even more longevity than we are and with better health, especially in old age, because the rules of their societies mean less stress, time to prepare nutritious meals instead of gobbling down fast food, and the soothing benefits of time with family and friends.

Another fact to consider: If America had the universal health care systems of France or Germany it would have saved

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so much money that in 2010 we could have eliminated the income tax.

We can solve any problem we have.

That is the core idea of our Constitution. Solving problems requires work, determination and time to persuade people of a better way.

Our Constitution, as originally drafted, sustained slavery in more than a dozen subtle ways, but we got rid of slavery.

Women got the right to vote because Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (a mother of eight), and others devoted their lives to the cause.

Congress enacted child-labor laws despite ferocious opposition from industrialists and some religious leaders.

The whole idea of the United States of America is that we chose our destiny. For more than three decades we have chosen poorly. We all suffer for it, even the rich, who would be even better off if we had widespread prosperity.

This 122d Labor Day, think about what you can do to make America better, to both promote the general welfare and to make our liberties endure. Then get to work making it better.

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49ers drop 6 on Vikings WOMEN’S SOCCER

A Melanie Fox hat trick helped the 23rd-ranked LBSU women’s soccer team match its highest margin of victory ever on Sunday.

By John Broadway Staff Writer

No. 23 LBSU is off to its best start to a season since 2010 after routing the Portland State Vikings 6-0 on a sunny Sunday afternoon at George Allen Field.

The 49ers (4-1-1) successfully rebounded from their scoreless tie with the University of San Diego (1-4-1) on Friday. The Toreros have not lost to LBSU since 2012, and the 49ers have failed to score a single goal in each of their matchups since then.

Junior goalkeeper Ashton McKeown reached a milestone this weekend by recording her 12th career shutout against USD, tying Kaitlyn Gustaves for second place in the school’s all-time career shutout list.

Thanks to an aggressive offense that scored six goals, McKeown’s job was made easy on Sunday against Portland State (1-4-0). The game was highlighted by a hat trick from senior center back Melanie Fox. Fox headed her first goal in off a corner kick in the 52nd minute and then headed in another off of a free kick in the 60th. Although the 49ers were comfortably ahead, they continued pressing for more goals, something that head coach Mauricio Ingrassia wanted to make sure would happen.

“Sometimes we get into this lull and we’re not pressing the issue, so that’s what today was really all about,” Ingrassia said. “Pressing the issue, keeping the up tempo going and killing off an opponent when you have the chance.”

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Portland State’s Dallin Esmond gives chase to Elizabeth Lyons (9) during sunday’s 6-0 victory for the 49ers.

That message seemed to really resonate with Fox, who recorded her third goal of the game with only 34 seconds left, while the team enjoyed a 5-0 lead. Fox said she wasn’t worried about running up the score on the Vikings.

“I was open and you have to finish [every opportunity] you know,” Fox said. “Ultimately every game is preparation for the next game so if we don’t finish those chances in this game who is to say we won’t finish them in the next?”

Junior midfielder Mimi Rangel knows a little something about needing to finish opportuni-

ties. After winning Big West Midfielder of the Year in 2014, Rangel started the first five games of this season without a goal or an assist.

However, only two minutes into the game, the Chino native assisted senior forward Vania Robles for the first goal of the game. Then in the 28th minute she scored her first goal of the season to put the 49ers up 2-0, with the assist coming from freshman midfielder Rocio Rodriguez.

Rangel found the back of the net again in the 38th minute, but officials waved off the goal because of an offside call.

Overall, the 49ers finished with 21 shots, 14 of them on target, as opposed to Portland State’s four shots with three on frame.

After Sunday’s game, the 49ers won’t have another home game until Sept. 26.

They begin a four-game road trip on Friday Sept. 11 against Loyola Marymount in Los Angeles at 7 p.m.

SPORTS BRIEFS

And they’re off Water polo Several 49ers finished in top spots at the UCI Invitational.

By Josh Barajas Sports Editor

The Long Beach State men’s and women’s cross-country teams officially started off the 2015 season as part of the UC Irvine Invitational at the Anteater Recreation Center on Saturday.

Senior Tim Bergstrom and junior Kathleen Dunne led their respective teams in Irvine.

The men’s team finished in second place behind hosts UC Irvine with 35 points in the 8K. Three 49ers finished among the top 10 out of 140 runners.

Bergstrom was second overall with a time of 25 minutes and 22.45 seconds. Juniors Kevin Ramirez (25:29.27) and Sam Bautista (25:37.75) finished fifth and ninth.

The women’s team finished in eighth place with 194 points. Dunne finished eighth overall in the 5K, clocking in at 18 minutes and 28.50 seconds. Junior Pauline Mandel (19:28.36) had the second best time on the women’s team, but only managed to finish 41st overall.

The 49ers will continue the 2015 season on Saturday at UC Riverside’s Agricultural Ops Course as part of the UCR Invitational.

breaks even The 49ers show some grit but are still looking to improve.

By Joshua Caudill Staff Writer

The No. 6 LBSU men’s water polo team left the Triton Invitational with a 2-2 record to start the season.

After a victory over Redlands (1-3) on Saturday morning, the 49ers squared off against No. 7 UC Santa Barbara (3-1) that afternoon.

LBSU lost a close one to the Gauchos, 7-6, in a game where six different 49ers scored.

Sunday provided a similar script with an early victory followed by a loss. The 49ers delivered an 11-8 win over Loyola Marymount (0-4). Dimitrios Lappas, Austin Stevenson and Keegan Wicken all produced three goals for the 49ers in the win over the Lions.

No. 5 Pacific (3-1) then overmatched LBSU, due in large part to All-American Ben Stevenson throwing in a hat trick. The Tigers seized control early and cruised to an 11-6 victory over the 49ers.

Lappas ended up as LBSU’s leading scorer for the tournament with seven goals in four matches.

The 49ers next face UCLA in Los Angeles on Saturday at 8:30 a.m.

Murray magic A strong performance by Ashley Murray lifted the 49ers to crush Rutgers and Harvard over the weekend.

By Kayce Contatore Assistant Sports Editor

The Long Beach State women’s volleyball team, led by sophomore middle blocker Ashley Murray, ended the Harvard Invitational tournament on a high note.

The 49ers dropped the first match of the tournament, falling to Illinois St. on Friday, before defeating Rutgers and sweeping Harvard on Saturday.

LBSU fought against Illinois St., staying close during the last two sets of the match, but was unable to finish on top. The 49ers kept the score close in all three sets, but were unable to put down a set point, leaving the door open for the Redbirds to take the match.

The 49ers came back Saturday to take down

Rutgers in four sets, with senior setter Jenelle Hudson recording 48 assists to give her hitters a .322 average for the match. Murray recorded 12 kills on 19 attempts with only one error to take down the Scarlet Knights.

Murray brought the same intensity in the final match against Harvard, slamming down 14 kills with no errors for a .737 hitting percentage. Murray and Hudson were honored with All-Tournament Honors for their performances over the weekend.

The 49ers return to action as co-hosts with Loyola Marymount for the Mizuno Invitational, with the two teams facing off on Thursday at LMU.

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