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GRASS MAN STANDING

Ganja grows from the pot to an enterprise

Mother Earth is thirsty

Grow Beach sprouts up

The growing marijuana industry is a reflection of an increase in pot-friendliness.

Earth Week at CSULB educates students on how to be more sustainable.

With the spring semester drawing to a close, Grow Beach looks toward the future.

By Branden RaulstonContributing Writer

By Riva LuContributing Writer

By Elexis deLeon-BryantContributing Writer

Green herb crackles under his light-er as white smoke swirls through a long, glass tube. With one swift inhale, it’ll elevate him into a state of euphoria that has become the norm for his ev-eryday life.

John, who wishes his last name not be revealed due to employment-related reasons, is a senior at California State University, Long Beach and a marijua-na user.

“Marijuana has little to zero known consequences,” John said, noting the start of his daily regimen with his first toke in his first semester of college. “Let everyone experience it and decide for themselves; if it’s not hurting, then it can only help.”

Along with the industries cashing in on the five-limbed leaf, public opinion in favor of the drug’s legalization is grow-ing.

Research by The ArcView Group, a cannabis industry investment and research firm, surveyed both med-ical and recreational marijuana shops. Their results showed that the United States’ market for legal marijuana de-veloped a 74 percent in-crease from $1.5 billion to $2.7 billion in 2014, making it the fastest growing industry in the country.

Nearly 16,000 people were regis-tered for work in the legal industry in Colorado, which is a 143 percent increase in jobs within the indus-

Greenery is in short supply for this year’s Earth Day in on campus.

In honor of Earth Day, the Asso-ciated Students Inc. is hosting Water You Doing Wednesday on campus to focus on the water issues of the Cali-fornia drought. At the event, Facilities Management will be showcasing some potential drought resistant plants that could be planted around campus.

“We are currently converting 90,000 square feet of lawn to sustainable land-scapes and we will be having sample plants to preview,” Energy and Sustain-ability Manager at CSULB Paul Wingco said.

Wingco said that the campus has made efforts to focus on water issues by adding more hydration stations. He

New life waits buried in soil of the Grow Beach community garden in the form of large purple eggplants, bright bell peppers, sweet red straw-berries, six alarm spicy peppers and bushels of green onions.

The rental period for those who rented a plot in the Grow Beach gar-den spring semester has been extend-ed into the summer due to delay in the initial creation of the plots, said Grow Beach Committee Chair Eliz-

abeth Flores, a senior nutrition and dietetics major.

“Over the summer we have a ro-tation of garden managers who will maintain inspection every week,” Flores said. “The garden will be active and open all summer long.”

Grow Beach originally planned to have rotating plot rentals over spring, summer and fall, but since planting did not start until the middle of April Grow Beach decided to combine spring and summer, extending the plot rental until August 21, said gar-den manager and junior environmen-tal science and policy major Cameron Jones.

“I know it has been a lot of work setting up the raised beds and filling them with dirt,” sophomore cellular and molecular biology and German

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About five plot owners have input plants in Grow Beach so far this semester. The garden will be open to the public after the semester for the entire summer season.

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Source: Pew Research Center, Harvard University economist Jeffrey Miron, ArcView Market Research, the Marijuana Policy Project

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The increase in the growth of the medical and recreational marijuana shop industry, from $1.5 billion to $2.7 billion in 2014

The projected value of the national legal marijuana

market in five years

The estimated annual sales tax revenue generated by

medical marijuana dispensaries in California

The estimated total cost of marijuana prohibition for state and federal governments every year

Workers from Facilities Management ripped up the dead grass in the traffic circle out front of Brotman Hall Tuesday. Turf removal will continue at the East Turnaround on Wednesday, said Brian McKinnon, the Facilities Management manager of Grounds and Landscaping Services. Removal of the grass near the Atherton entrance of the campus and near Seventh Street will follow suite. McKinnon anticipated that Facilities Management will complete turf removal by the end of the week or early next week and that landscaping drawings are still being finalized.

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Sophomore and aerospace engineering major Corey Sugino-Sue throws a bowling ball down the lane, in the hopes of getting a strike, during the Healthy Living Learning Community Bowling Night in the University Student Union on Tuesday. Housing Faculty and resident Grant Hill said that it was a good way to gather the housing students and their friends together to unwind and have fun before the spring semester is over.


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High profile police shootings across the country have motivated Califor-nia’s lawmakers to pass laws increas-ing public oversight and accountabil-ity in police departments.

The California Senate passed Sen-ate Bill 411, proposed by State Sena-tor Ricardo Lara, on April 13. The bill prohibits police from arresting people who film or photograph their activi-ties in a public space.

“We are seeing the increasingly important role that recordings are playing in ensuring transparency, ac-countability and justice,” Senator Lara said in a press release.

Lara, whose district represents part of Southern Los Angeles Coun-ty including parts of Long Beach, said in a press release that the bill is meant to clarify and modernize ex-isting law.

“Right now, with our society, there is a certain amount of… questioning of actions by law enforcement,” Lt.

Richard Goodwin of the University Police at California State University, Long Beach said. “It is great to have the incidents recorded.”

Goodwin said University Police make no effort to prevent the public from videotaping their activities.

The bill clarifies existing statutes by explicitly stating that recording police is not reasonable cause for arrest, nor can it be considered obstruction of justice. It protects the First Amend-ment rights of citizens and makes police accountable to accusations of excessive force.

The bill passed by a 31-3 vote, and is expected to go to a vote in the Califor-nia Assembly later this year.

Kamala Harris, the attorney gen-eral of the state of California, is going a step further by beginning a pilot pro-gram to equip officers with body cam-eras statewide, Harris said in a press conference.

“We know as leaders of law en-forcement that it is critical that we, as leaders, articulate our commitment to strengthening the trust between law enforcement and the communities we serve,” Harris said during a press conference.

The pilot program was announced during the California Department of

Justice’s 90-Day Review of police training, which in-vestigated alleged racial biases and use of excessive force.

The reforms are intended “to in-crease transparency and foster trust among Division special agents and the community,” according to the office of the Attorney General.

Police agencies across California are testing body cameras, including California State University, Fullerton, according to CSU Fullerton’s student newspaper, the Daily Titan.

Goodwin also said that he sup-ported the installation of dashboard cameras in police vehicles in the past, which has made it easier to document encounters.

Goodwin said that he would sup-port both the right to record as well as body cameras. However, he said that the people recording should not be al-lowed to directly interfere with police activities.

“It could be dangerous for people recording,” Goodwin said. “But if you are going to get in the way… then you are interfering with a police officer in performing his duty.”

SB 411 would go into effect Jan. 1 2016 if passed, a representative from Lara’s office said.

In line with recent Federal Avia-tion Administration regulations governing the use of commercial and personal drones, the College of En-gineering will be hosting an expert panel as part of its ongoing Distin-guished Lecture Series.

Speakers at the event will discuss the future of technology and what impacts it may have on the daily lives of civilians.

“The Age of Drones and New Soci-etal Concerns” will take place at The Pointe Event and Conference Center at the Walter Pyramid on Thursday.

Michael Uhlenkamp, the Cali-fornia State University, Long Beach media director, said that the series provides an informational service to the campus.

“With more and more applica-tions of drones, other than just military uses, there are a lot of ques-tions from the public concerning this technology,” Uhlenkamp said. “Hopefully the panel will be able to shed some light on their use and clear up some misconceptions.”

Jay Hall, a senior environmental studies and geography major, said he was recently on a fishing trip when an unidentified drone flew next to his boat.

“It was an uneasy feeling,” Hall said.

He said he thinks drones generally have a negative connotation and that the public should be well informed about them because they bring up ethical questions.

Dean for the College of Engineer-ing Forouzan Golshani said that, from an engineer’s point-of-view, drones are a useful technology that will provide solutions to countless societal problems such as search and rescue operations.

Golshani said that drones will become ubiquitous “as soon as the safety and privacy issues associated with drones can be worked out.”

Panelists will include Kevin Hull, manager at the Federal Aviation Ad-ministration’s L.A. Aircraft Certifi-cation Office; Chris Hernandez, vice president of Advanced Systems and Business and Advanced Systems De-velopment at Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems; and Michael E. Drobac, executive director at Small UAV Coalition and senior policy ad-visor at Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer and Feld LLP.

Matt Petrime, the group vice president at Applied Medical, will be moderating the panel.

Registration for the event will take place from 5:00-5:15 p.m. The panel-ists will speak and take questions from 5:15-7:00 p.m.

The right to keep filming

Experts to discuss drones at CSULB

If passed, SB 411 would protect the right to document police activities under the First Amendment.

Panel looks to increase public awareness of the challenges this technology may pose.

By Collin JamesAssistant News Editor

By Kevin FloresVideo Producer

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said that there are almost 70 as of this semester, whereas there were only about seven in 2009.

Water You Doing Wednesday is one of four Earth Week events on campus, celebrating sustainability in commemo-ration of Earth Day.

“All of them are geared toward help-ing us here at CSULB meet our goal of a zero carbon footprint but also what peo-ple could do at home and in their com-munities so it reaches all areas of life,” Susan Ransom, the supervisor for sup-port services and member of the Green Team, said.

Ransom said that Water You Doing Wednesday features a challenge for stu-dents to find and use the various hydra-tion stations around campus. She said that a lot of people are misinformed about the harmful effects of throwaway water bottles and encouraged students to use reusable bottles.

“[Throwaway bottles] end up in land-fills and takes thousands of years for those to break down,” Ransom said. “I cringe when I see someone coming out of Costco with cases and cases of those water bottle because they are not sus-tainable. About 80 percent of those don’t get recycled.”

According to carbonfootprint.com, recycling uses less energy and produces less pollution than making things from scratch and reduces carbon footprint. Since these plastic bottles are not be-ing recycled properly, it is affecting the count on the planet’s carbon footprint.

Melissa Romero, the University Stu-dent Union Sustainability assistant, said that USU Sustainability members will be hosting a water taste-test challenge where students can try to see if they could tell the difference between tap wa-ter and two different brands of bottled waters.

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Crime Blotter

Students report stolen hubcaps

A 24-year-old male student re-ported his hubcaps stolen from his vehicle in Parking Structure 1 on April 15 at 12:15 p.m. The victim said that he parked his car on the fourth floor of the parking struc-ture. When he returned, someone had removed the two hubcaps on his passenger side.

Police reported vandalism at the Microbiology building on Sat-urday at 10 a.m., Goodwin said. The graffitists spray-painted the words, “smoke gas, smoke gas” in green and black paint on a con-crete wall and tampered with a water hose. Facilities management painted over the graffiti. Goodwin said that no suspects have been identified.

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A second student, a 24-year-old female, reported a hubcap theft in Parking Structure 2 at 5:11 p.m. on Friday, Goodwin said. The victim reported the three hubcaps stolen between 1:30 p.m. and 5 p.m., while her car was unattended in the struc-ture. Goodwin said that police have not identified any suspects for ei-ther theft and that there is no known connection between this theft and the earlier reported hubcap theft.

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major Trevor Teafatiller said. “I was there with the rest of the volun-teers tackling pile after pile. It took several days, but it was worth it once I saw the whole garden coming along.

Before plot owners and Grow Beach members could start plant-ing, they had to attend an orientation workshop, Jones said. The plots were plant ready two weeks ago, after two build days were held in February and March.

“If you paid your dues and you at-tended a workshop you got the green light,” Jones said. Of the plots rented, 12 out of about 50 are paid for leaving almost 40 plots open for use.

About five plot owners have actu-ally planted and over two dozen intend to start planting before the end of the semester, Flores said.

During the early stages, Grow Beach planned to use hoses for wa-tering plants, but as plans changed Grow Beach kept the drought in mind. The organization decided to switch to using mostly watering cans, Jones said.

“We found that when given a hose students will tend to over water,” Jones said.

One of Grow Beach’s biggest con-

cerns is water loss due to evaporation and the water seeping down. Jones said that watering cans save water and nutrients.

“The soil we have is very rich and full or organic materials,” Jones said. “Things that plants need to grow, but when you flood soil it pushes those [nutrients] deeper into the ground and out of reach of the plants roots.”

Grow Beach addresses hand wa-tering in the workshops so students know how to water and how much to water.

On the application, there is a list of plants that are not allowed in the garden on the application. Flores said this is because the plants use too much water and or not right for this area.

“We encourage everyone to be very attentive with their watering and to do root hand watering so that you are not oversaturating your box,” Flores said

For the future Grow Beach is look-ing to move to a larger and more per-manent location near parking lot 20, Flores said, where a community gar-den existed in the 1970s.

“Just getting here was impressive enough, but as for the future we first want to get all these plots rented out,” Jones said.

Students can still rent plots through beach sync and the next Grow Beach meeting is on April 22 in the Univer-sity Student Union room 304.


Two students reported that their hubcaps were stolen on campus on April 15 and 17.

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The time is 1952. Ministry of State Se-curity officers roam the murky streets of a Joseph Stalin-controlled Soviet Union seeking and killing traitors. Meanwhile, innocent families live in gripping fear that

they, too, might be accused of treason. Here begins the on-screen adaptation

of Tom Rob Smith’s best selling book, Child 44. Director Daniel Espinosa’s (Safe House) politically charged thriller gets a little sludgy in the plotting department, but has strong performances.

According to the Los Angeles Times, the film is so controversial that Moscow has blocked the release. The Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation calls its depictions of Russians as “physically and morally defective subhumans.”

Tom Hardy stars as Leo Demidov, a secret police agent, who finds himself at a stalemate when he refuses to incriminate his own wife, Raisa (Noomi Rapace), as a traitor. They’re forced into exile from their life of luxury and power in Moscow to a gloomy provincial outpost.

While in exile, Leo and his counterpart, General Mikhail Nesterov (Gary Old-man), unite to track down a serial killer who targets young boys. Because police are too ideologically uptight to admit that a serial killer could be a product of Soviet society, the killer is able to roam around without being persecuted.

Although the drama is welcomed, the society’s Stalin-paranoia has officers say-ing things like “murder is a capitalist dis-ease,” “there is no crime in paradise” and “Joseph Stalin, the father of us all.” The over-dramatized, brainwashed worship-ping by MGB officers steals a bit of the film’s authenticity.

Things take a turn for the worse when Leo’s quest for the unsuspected serial killer leads the audience into bewilderment. At this point in the film, the plot breaks out into several different subplots.

Keeping up with Leo’s mistrust for Rai-sa, the frequent misdeeds of MGB officer Vasili (Joel Kinnamen) and the constant schoolteacher denunciations prove diffi-cult for an audience still focused on track-ing down a serial killer.

For those who are unfamiliar with the book, the film starts feeling like a puzzle with too many pieces. Although they would have been interesting individu-ally, Espinosa’s conglomerate effort fails to

form a sleek immersion. The jumbled mess has audiences guess-

ing: is the story about a child killer, a man desperate for truth or a society crippled by fear?

As the film closes in on its first hour, scenes start to drag and blur. Finally, with-in its second hour, Leo manages to kill sev-eral people using his bare hands. It appears his character is so self-righteous and invin-cible that he dare not use a gun.

Still, Hardy offers a brilliant perfor-mance, from accent to demeanor. His sheer fear, anxiety and despair are palatable.

The unconventional love story between Leo and Raisa tugs at heartstrings when

she reveals that the feelings aren’t mutual. His heartbreak is so intense; it’s almost too awkward to watch.

Rapace’s performance also proves why she’s leading lady material. Her petite frame and meek appearance undermine her true fighter persona. She headbutts the villain who was tasked with killing her husband and pierces the eyes of the serial killer with her own finger nails.

Despite tanking at the box office and being a tad long and disorienting, Child 44 is a captivating film that is worth seeing. The cast’s portrayal of Stalin’s unnerving political system will definitely keep audi-ences entertained.

Child 44 plays out of boundsThe screen-adaptation of Tom Rob Smith’s serial killer thriller is both convoluted with storylines and intriguing with great dramatic tension.

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try from 2013. Colorado and Washing-ton were the first to legalize recreational use with Oregon, Alaska and the Dis-trict of Columbia following suit.

California may soon be going green as well with plans of adding the legal-ization issue to its 2016 ballot.

“I don’t think legalizing marijuana changes anything—it’s not hard to get weed,” Shane Osaki, a senior civil engi-neering major at CSULB, said. “If any problems arise because of the legaliza-tion it is the fault of the user, not the product.”

As for America’s up-front opinion, research released last month by the Pew Research Center found 53 percent of Americans in favor of legalization with 44 percent opposing and the final 3 percent not holding an opinion on the matter.

Sergeant Steve Owen of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is part of the 44 percent, and said that he believes the controversial drug to be harmful.

“With what I see, it’s a gateway drug that leads to the use of other danger-ous drugs like cocaine, meth, heroin,” Owen said. “When you talk to these people it seems like everybody has the same answer—they all started smoking

weed and it progressed from there.”Owen said that although he un-

derstands users with medical needs, nearly all of the dispensaries he has investigated have violated state law, including one that was selling to any-one regardless of a written recommen-dation.

“[We need] to [have] a real doc-tor and a real hospital [involved], not these quacks that are making money off of filling out prescriptions,” Owen said. “If weed is a medicine, do it that way.”

Roberto Henderson, an alcohol and drug abuse counselor in Long Beach, holds that marijuana use is connected to that of harder drugs, but is in favor of its legalization and educating the public.

“The educational system is letting kids down,” Henderson said. “In order to do the job when it comes to issues of anger, domestic violence, drug addic-tion, we have to have a more intelligent dialogue with our youth.”

His main argument is the removal of the illegal market.

If a user—who will use regardless—can safely go to a store in the middle of the night instead of to the dangerous part of town to deal with criminals, then that is a positive in Henderson’s opin-ion.

Joe, a pseudonym for one of CSULB’s seniors unwilling to provide his name or major from fear of potential

law enforcement ramifications, agreed that there are dangers associated with the illegal-market as a former marijua-na grower and dealer himself.

He stopped selling on April 20 of last year after the business became too much for him. He found himself working with gang members and other “shady types.” Along with the constant requests from clients, selling proved to not be worth the estimated $5,000 he was making every two to three months from his business.

Despite the drug’s widespread popu-larity, there are still a number of people who have yet to try it and are indifferent on its legal status, like Christian Whit-tington, a senior computer science ma-jor at CSULB.

“I don’t feel strongly enough about legalizing marijuana to vote for or

against it,” Whittington said, noting that his interest in the drug is deterred by its dank stench and eyewitness accounts of people losing their self-motivation. “I don’t think it causes immediate harm to anyone using; the fact that smoking weed is illegal doesn’t stop most people from doing it.”

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[We need] to [have] a real doctor and a real hospi-tal [involved], not these quacks that are making money off of filling out prescriptions.

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53%of Americans are in favor of legaliza-tion with 44 percent opposing and the final 3 percent not holding an opinion on the matter, according to research released last month by the Pew Research Center.

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editor From 1941 to 1945, around six mil-lion Jewish people were systemati-cally wiped out in one of the greatest tragedies ever to mar the history of human existence. This is genocide.

Earlier, in 1915, the Ottoman and then Turk-ish governments and their supporters sought to eradicate the Armenian people, managing to destroy some two million innocent lives. This, too, is genocide.

In a faux pas of epic proportions, the so-called “Genocide Awareness Project” has co-opted the word genocide, conveniently disregarding its etymology, in an effort to shame, horrify and embarrass young people at California State University, Long Beach into some alignment with their repressed Catholic agenda. Abortion is not genocide.

The word in question comes from the Greek word “genos,“ which means race, kind, tribe or clan and the suffix,“-cide,” which means killer or killing. People of all ethnic and racial back-grounds practice abortion throughout the world. Through the word’s most essential meaning, abortion is not an example of killing based on race.

A Jewish legal scholar from Poland, Raphael Lemkin, coined the word genocide in 1943 to describe what happened to the Armenians, As-syrians and Jews. He fled Poland and the Nazis in 1941 and continued to lobby for the global recognition, prevention and punishment of acts of genocide.

Lemkin is responsible for the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide that the United Nations later ratified.

The official UN definition of genocide is: “ . . . Any of the following acts committed with

intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or

mental harm to members of the group; deliber-ately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; [and] forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.”

Again, since the practice of abortion does not target a particular ethnic group, it is not an act of genocide.

The anti-abortion group posted photos of emaciated Jewish people – actual genocide vic-tims – next to photos of gory aborted fetuses and asked the viewers to connect the dots. They were asking young people who believe that women

have a choice to equate themselves with Nazis. In this twisted logic, rape victims and pregnant teens become WWII criminals intent on shooting and burning every Jew in sight. And what about the ethnically Jewish women who maybe had or are planning to have an abortion? Surely the GAP demonstrators don’t want them to believe they are any better than Nazis.

Since when does free speech equate to the

shaming and harassment of mostly innocent students? What CSULB administrator saw this campaign and agreed that that would be a good display to put in the middle of campus?

That administrator is the only person who ought to be ashamed, for the demonstrators clearly have none.

A university is a place for learning, so there is simply no excuse for the ignorance that was on display two weeks ago.

A University is a place for learning, so there is simply no excuse for the ignorance that was on display two weeks ago.

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I am writing in response to the opinion article in Monday’s copy of the Daily 49er called, “Ban the abortion fort.” I have just one question:

If the pictures are scarring and viewers are uncomfortable, wouldn’t your next thought be “why?” Why the negative reactions?

There must be something disturbing about

what is being photographed. A picture is nothing but a neutral, unbiased portrayal of what is on the other side of the lens.

If it is disturbing, why do we allow it?ProLife on Campus published the following: Just a few months ago, during our Genocide

Awareness Project display of abortion photos on the campus of U.C. Berkeley, a professor ap-proached me and I braced myself for the usual blast of profanity. Instead, he said thoughtfully, “These pictures are more compelling than I thought they would be.” He then repeated several times as he glanced from photo to photo, “I didn’t

know that this is what they looked like.”He was deeply moved by the pictures and I

was deeply moved by his humility. He was in his mid-50s. He has a Ph.D. He teaches at one of this country’s top-tier academic institutions. He didn’t know. If he didn’t know, what chance do his students have of knowing

Almost no one knows. And almost nothing we are trying to achieve can be accomplished until they do know. And if we don’t show them, no one else will.

African Americans were mistreated horribly as slaves and were not considered fully “human.”

Once photos started circulating of a runaway slave named Gordon, the tide changed, accord-ing to a blog called US Slave (see http://usslave.blogspot.com/2011/10/whipping-scars-on-back-of-fugitive.html).

Americans won’t be repulsed by abortion until they see what abortion actually is … a view inside the womb, as it were.

Abortions are legal in some states up to nine months.

Instead of “Ban the abortion fort” – we should “ban abortion” as we ban murder, human dis-memberment and ending someone else’s life.

Last week, the Daily 49er printed an article about the Genocide Awareness Project. Contrary to what some believe, the pictures GAP uses are authentic and depict the reality of abortion.

If abortion is designed to terminate that life by vacuuming or tearing up the child, what does it look like? GAP encourages students to see the evidence in these pictures and to challenge them to do their own research. Just by seeing the image of prenatal development, like the one featured in GAP, is enough to see that life is not just a clump of tissue—it is a human life. What abortion does to that human life is saddening and horrifying.

People need to ask themselves exactly why they feel these images make them uncomfortable. The images are uncomfortable and graphic because abortion is uncomfortable and graphic. I re-

member having the hardest time looking at those images, and what made me uncomfortable was that it was really happening. The event displays graphic images of a graphic realty.

GAP came to share peaceful conversation with students—to show the humanity of the unborn. The media has become a powerful and effective means for communication and that is what GAP does with these images. They were there to in-form, spread an awareness of abortion, and back up their claims with scientific arguments—that science teaches that human life begins at concep-tion, that the heart beat begins at 3 weeks, brain waves can be detected at 6 weeks, and once con-ceived, the child’s DNA is separate and unique to that of its mother. It was two days of trying to break the silence and have a conversation our country needs. What was disappointing was the protesters’ discouragement of any discussion with signs saying, “Do not engage” or “Want to help? Just walk away. Do not engage.” Were they attempting to silence GAP because the prolife

side was actually making sense and was more compelling than theirs? Amazing conversations occurred on GAP’s side but what did protesters really gain? High-fives and “support” without any real dialog. As the dozens of students who talked to GAP know, they were peaceful, respectful, and stated their case with reason and logic.

In the United States, there are approximately 1.21 million abortions that take place each year, and since Roe v. Wade in 1973, there have been more than 57 million abortions in our coun-try. That is one third of our generation lost to abortion. GAP seeks to bring awareness to the genocide of the modern day. The word “genocide” by definition, according to the United Nations is, “a denial of the right of existence of entire human groups, as homicide is the denial of the right to live of individual human being.” Genocides, also according to the UN, can be “Many instances crimes of genocide have occurred when racial, religious, political, and other groups have been destroyed or in part.” There are many ways

genocide happens, and genocides throughout history are all very horrific tragedies, different and particular in their own way. What these genocides have in common is that a human group is denied the right to exist on the grounds mentioned by the UN. So the question is, who is the group being targeted and on what grounds? By this definition, GAP brings awareness that the human group being attacked is the unborn, and the grounds for which their existence is denied, is their unwantedness.

Dear students, challenge yourselves to see the truth of abortion: research human develop-ment to see when life in the womb begins, and ENGAGE and inform yourselves with what is happening today. It may be hard to look at; it may make you sick; it may make you sad, heartbroken, or angry, but channel those feelings towards end-ing this injustice, towards a future that recognizes the humanity of those in the womb and for a future willing to support struggling mothers.

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The DirTbags are 21-14. how Do you Think They’ll Do The resT of The season?

“Awesome! I mean, look how many major leaguers we

have already.”

—Cynnamon BakerSenior communication

studies major

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as far as possible.”

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fifths of the time, so they should have no problem keep-ing up the rest of the season.”

—Luis Fuentesjunior biomedical engineering major

Senior right-hander Kyle Friedrichs is having the best year of his career at Long Beach State. The San Diego native is 5-2 on the season with a 2.30 earned run av-erage in ten starts after being a reliever all of last year. He discussed leadership, his pitching arsenal and expectations.

How did you get into baseball?

Friedrichs: Wow, you’re going way back. I wanted to play because one of my best friends was on a baseball team in little league when I was three years old. My dad was like ‘hey you want to play?’ That’s how it happened.

Have you always been a pitcher?

Friedrichs: No. I’ve always pitched be-cause every kid pitches growing up. I was normally a third baseman through-out high school. I pitched [one game] then played third base in another.

Why did you stick to pitching?

Friedrichs: Because I was better. I couldn’t hit. That’s for damn sure.

How did you get to LBSU?

Friedrichs: I didn’t play baseball my sophomore and junior year [of high school]. I played freshman year and was pretty good. I quit sophomore year and didn’t play junior year. Senior year came around, and I talked to the coach and was like ‘hey I’m back. I want to play,’ and he said ok. I had no offers [to play college baseball] my senior year. I was pitching and doing pretty well. The first school that contacted me was Cal Poly Pomona, a D-2 school. I went there; I was all ex-citing and ready to commit and then my dad told me to wait it out, relax. After that, a lot of D-1 schools started contact-ing me. That was pretty cool. Then [head coach Troy Buckley] contacted me and it was over from that point on. I’ve al-ways wanted to be a Dirtbag. [I grew up] watching them on TV. [I always thought to myself] ‘that’s baseball.’

Why did you quit baseball after your freshman year?

Friedrichs: I had a lot of issues growing up. I had to [quit].

What kind of issues?

Friedrichs: Personal issues.

What did coach Buckley say to convince you to come to LBSU?

Friedrichs: Nothing. I knew where I wanted to be right when he said ‘hey I’m Troy Buckley, LBSU.’ [From there] I was in.

You were a reliever last year, and now you’re a starter. What’s been the biggest challenge going from reliever to starter?

Friedrichs: Staying consistent with what you’re trying to do. So as a reliever you have to be ready every single game. As a starter you have to be ready for that one game. But then to stay [focused], to stay [engaged] in the game for the other

starters, for the other pitchers and the other guys that are hitting, that’s the hardest part because you just want to check out. You’ve already put in your work, but you can’t do that. You’ve got to stay consistent.

How much of your pitching arsenal did you have to adjust in order to become a starter?

Friedrichs: Zero. Nothing. I mean, it’s the same thing. You’re throwing a base-ball across the plate. You just have to do it more times as a starter.

What’s helped you most in terms of en-durance?

Friedrichs: Probably nothing really spectacular. Conditioning is the same. Working out is the same. I think it’s just getting my body used to throwing more bullets.

How would you describe your pitches?

Friedrichs: I mean I’m not a prospect. I’m not a guy who’s going throw 95-98

[miles per hour]. But I’m going to do my job and get guys out. What pitches do you throw? How would you describe them?

Friedrichs: I throw a sinker. I can throw it at any time. My goal is to get a ground-ball with it, so if it’s bases loaded or a guy on first, I can get out of any situa-tion. I have a changeup. It’s pretty much my equalizer pitch. It keeps everyone off my fastball and sinker. And then the slider is a pitch I can throw in any count.

What’s been your main strikeout pitch?

Friedrichs: All of them. Guys are strik-ing out on fastballs, changeups and slid-ers. Considering I can throw them all for strikes, it really opens up [the pos-sibilities] when you have a 0-2 count and they have no idea what’s coming.

How much did you guys read in the pre-season about where the Dirtbags were picked to finish in the Big West?

Friedrichs: I read it a lot. It’s kind of used as motivation for me. [I] was just telling everyone ‘hey, they’re [not giv-ing us a shot]. It’s a rebuilding year for us.’ That’s what they said, but we kind of used it as motivation.

How do you see your role as a leader for the young guys?

Friedrichs: At the beginning of the year you try to show them how it’s done. You don’t really say anything because they have nothing to go to. Now you can say ‘hey you’re not doing this right.’ Early on in the year you try to show them how to do a throwing program, how to work every day on conditioning and weights and stuff like that. I think, for me, that’s how I do it. Ty [Provencher], he does it a little bit differently. Even Browny [Tan-ner Brown] has become a little bit of a leader, and he’s more of a jokester. He motivates people in his own way. I think all the different personalities from the beginning of the year; we kind of just meshed together. Every single step of the way we’ve gotten a little better be-cause of that.

LBSU’s No.1 starter made the successful transition from the bullpen to the rotation.

Dirtbags ace talks baseball By Oscar TerrOnesSports Editor

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Long Beach State pitcher Kyle Friedrichs delivers a pitch against UC Riverside on Friday in Blair Field. After the Dirtbag’s 3-2 loss, Friedrich now holds a 5-2 pitching record this season.

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