President Jane Close Conoley of-ficially launched the Breathe cam-paign at California State University, Long Beach with a new website on Friday.

The Breathe campaign was ini-tially announced as part of Cono-ley’s convocation address in August, along with an announcement that CSULB would be banning the use of tobacco products on campus.

“I received a final report from the Tobacco and Smoke Free Task Force this summer,” Conoley said in a statement to CSULB students. “Af-ter careful research and consultation with many, many members of our community I have decided to follow the Task Force’s recommendation to become a tobacco and smoke free campus by fall 2016.”

Conoley initiated the smoking task force at the beginning of 2015 to make a recommendation about what the school’s smoking policy

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The university launches new website as part of campaign to eliminate tobacco.

CSULB president aims for campus to Breathe easier

By GreG DiazEditor-in-Chief

Smokes

Smoking ban task force survey results President Jane Close Conoley established the smoking ban task force to develop a campus tobacco and smoke free policy by fall 2016. Co-Chairs Claire Garrido-Orte-ga and Natalie Whitehouse-Capuano issued a tobacco survey in spring 2015, asking students, faculty and staff about their smoking habits. Here are some of the results.

Do you use tobacco products?

15% yes85% no

If you use tobacco products, do you use them on campus?

56% yes44% no

Have you ever purchased a tobacco product on campus?

29% yes71% no

Would you say second hand smoke on campus typically

bothers you a lot, a little, or not at all?

52% a lot 29% a little

Demographics of those who support, don’t support, or who are neutral:

Administrators 80% support 5% no support 15% neutral

Faculty 80% support 9% no support 11% neutral

Staff 82% support 7% no support 11% neutral

Students 73% support 15% no support 12% neutral

25% of respondents who use a tobacco product support a tobacco

or smoke-free policy.

Would you support CSULB becoming a smoke/tobacco-free campus?75% support12% neutral

13% no support

Illustration by Emilio AldeaSource: Tobacco and Smoke Free Policy Proposal

Like many of us speed-walking up a sweat, a young, shaggy-haired

Steven Spielberg found himself victim to parking woes, 10 minutes too late during his first go-around pursuing a bachelor’s degree in English at Califor-nia State University, Long Beach.

“I remember I was late for my very first class on my very first day because, you know, the only parking spaces available was in the most distant park-ing lot,” the Arizona transplant said. “The campus has changed a lot since I went through it in the ‘60s, but I hope the parking situation has improved.”

…Maybe in another 50 years, Spielberg.

In a conference call with 21 oth-er college-media journalists, Spiel-

berg shared director’s cut decisions that led to his most recent historical drama-thriller “Bridge of Spies” and personal reflections on his profes-sional life with the Daily 49er.

The Oct. 16 release recounts re-al-life happenings that transpired in a court case trial based in Brooklyn, New York, that was catapulted onto an international stage; the story of such a sensationalized case occupied by war tensions channels precedents set by ‘60s-era film interpretations such as Stanley Kramer’s “Inherit the Wind” and Robert Mulligan’s “To Kill a Mockingbird.”

In the midst of the Cold War, the

tension thickens as insurance lawyer James B. Donovan (Tom Hanks) falls victim to moral obligation in defend-ing convicted Soviet spy Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance). With the American Constitution in his breast pocket, Don-ovan challenges institutionalized bias embedded in the justice system during the Red Scare. In the film, the nation-wide nuclear anxiety manifests as bul-let holes in Donovan’s home.

Before he can settle Abel’s fate, Donovan finds himself leading trans-atlantic negotiations after an American U-2 spy pilot is captured by the Sovi-et Union and an American econom-ics graduate student is caught on the

wrong side of the Iron Curtain as its erection divides Germany.

“Bridge of Spies” marks Spielberg’s 15th collaboration with cinematogra-pher Janusz Kamiński and his fourth collaboration with actor Tom Hanks. Thomas Newman stepped in to write the score, making this the first work by Spielberg in the last 30 years absent of John Williams’ music direction.

The Daily 49er and other col-lege-media agencies phoned in to collaborate on an interview with the accomplished alumnus.

The Daily 49er discusses historical drama-thriller “Bridge of Spies” with the acclaimed director, producer and former 49er.

Spying into the mind of Steven Spielberg

By Brooke BecherContributing Writer

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The creators of a new, free app called ParkFindr may have found a possible solution for the parking prob-lem at California State University, Long Beach.

During the Associated Students Inc. senate meeting Wednesday, the creators of ParkFindr presented their solution to the overcrowding lots on campus.

CSULB would be the fi rst of the 23 California State Universities to have the app if ParkFindr is allowed to be installed on campus. Having ParkFin-dr at CSULB would mark the prod-uct’s fi rst trial run.

“Our idea will bring parking to your smartphone,” said Gadier Uriate, co-founder of ParkFindr, during his presentation to the senate.

Sensors would be placed on each of the entrances of the parking lots or structures and act as a gate. The sen-sors would be able to count how many vehicles have left the parking lot or structures and show the app users the

number of spaces available.“Geofencing detects people

through their phone on GPS to let oth-ers know they are in the area,” Uriate said.

The app is combined with sensor technology and computer technology which would allow students to know what parking lots have available park-ing and which ones are full.

“The app is free to the school and [the] students,” ParkFindr co-founder Fabian Aoun said. “If after a year it has added no value to the school, then there is no charge [to students and CSULB].”

The app would also be able to let users know how many potential park-ing spots are available by counting how many people have entered the parking lot or structure, if they are connected to the wireless internet on campus.

“The hardware is minimal,” Park-Findr co-founder Dennis Chiang said. “One entrance and one exit will have sensors, making it economical.”

The parking lots and structures would be colored based on availabil-

ity. If a parking lot or structure were full, the lot would appear red on the user’s screen. A lot that is colored yel-low indicates there are a few poten-tial spots available and when a lot is colored green it indicates many spots available.

The app is essentially hands-free because it will verbally tell drivers how many spots are available in cer-tain lots and structures, Uriate said.

Depending on the app’s success with the school and students after the free trial is over, the app could poten-tially cost a dollar.

“Maybe we can even fi gure some-thing out with the parking department and charge it through the parking per-mit,” Uriate said.

The founders said it could take 60 to 90 days for all the hardware and sensors to be installed in all of the parking lots and structures on campus.

Although the app is only available on Android-based devices right now, it could be available through the Ap-ple store in the next couple of weeks if CSULB agrees to the app, Aoun said.

The founders of the app said that they know it could be successful and helpful to CSULB if the Parking and Transportation Committee fi nds it necessary to combat the parking prob-lem.

“All we need [for installation] is a yes and Wi-Fi access,” Chiang said.

Parking and Transportation will meet next month to discuss the imple-mentation of the app at CSULB.

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to make a recommendation about what the school’s smoking policy should be. Conoley charged a group of 23 stu-dents, faculty and administrators with the development and implementation of the policy.

“I cherish and respect every member of our community,” the statement said. “While some may feel that I’m limiting an adult right, I am actually trying to ensure our shared right to breathe easi-er by creating the best environment for the well-being and longevity of all.”

In March 2013, the CSULB student body voted to recommend the campus adopts a smoke-free policy. Roughly 64 percent of 6,500 students voted in the Associated Students, Inc. election, according to ASI.

The smoking task force recom-mended the school adopt a 100 percent tobacco-free policy in addition to elim-inating the use of cigarettes on campus.

Conoley adopted the resolution to also prohibit the use of e-cigarettes, chewing tobacco and all other products derived from tobacco by the fall 2016 semester.

According to a draft of the policy, it will extend to all indoor and outdoor areas of the campus including campus housing, Blair Field and in any vehi-cles on campus property. As part of the policy, the school plans to remove all ashtrays around the university campus.

The policy adopted by the State of California in 2003 prohibited smoking

within 20 feet of doorways and build-ings. That same year, CSULB extended the policy to prohibit smoking within 20 feet of all entrances, exits, windows and air intakes to all buildings and within specifi ed walkways, such as the path from the library to the Student Union.

In addition to the ban on tobacco products, the task force also recom-mended that the school “provide and/or promote cessation services/resources for all members of the college/univer-sity community.”

Violators of the policy will be given “policy awareness cards” for the fi rst three years of the new policy, with the school reserving the right to implement fi nes or order one hour of community service after that. According to Cali-fornia Assembly Bill 795, universities have the option to use fi nes to enforce smoking policies, provided the fi nes do not exceed $100.

“It’s our hope that individuals will abide by the university policy and re-spect the wishes of the great many who want to learn and work in a healthier environment,” CSULB Executive Di-rector of News Mike Uhlenkamp said via email.

In 2002, the CSU Board of Trustees gave authority over campus smoking policies to both the CSU chancellor and each campus’ university president. In 2013, CSU Chancellor Timothy P. White announced that the CSU system would establish a task force with the goal of eliminating smoking on all 23 campuses.

According to Uhlenkamp, the school will convene an implementation group early next month to establish a budget for the Breathe campaign.

The nightmare of finding parking at CSULB might be solved with technology.

Parking, there’s an app for that

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Stress is a feeling that college students are all too familiar with.

As a part of last week’s Health & Safety Week, the Student Health Center put on a Stress Less work-shop � ursday to help students control the stress in their lives.

“I usually think that I can han-dle my stress well but this work-shop has given me new coping mechanisms, now I can go and

share it with my mom,” junior po-litical science major Christina Ve-loz said.

� e health center provides many resources and support groups to talk with when a student is feeling stressed out about personal-, so-cial- and school-related problems.

“You can only control one thing in your life: your responses and reactions to incidents,” Health Re-source Center Coordinator Heidi Girling said.

Exercising is the number one way to relieve stress, so students should run, play sports, or even dance. Along with this, stressed students need to eat healthful-ly and get the proper amount of sleep. Smelling lemons, lavender, and peppermint are even things that help the body to relax and get rid of stress.

Stress less at The Beach

Over the weekend, the city of Long Beach celebrated the completion of the Green Terminal Island Freeway Tran-sition Plan with a free eco-awareness workshop open to the public.

A Saturday morning workshop marked the end of a yearlong e� ort implemented by the city to engage the general population in the planning

and construction of the TI Freeway alongside other e� orts of the city to go green.

� ree previous community work-shops highlighted progress and walked residents through the work being done behind the scenes to bring the TI Freeway to life.

Spanning a mile between Willow/Sepulveda and Paci� c Coast Highway, the newly unveiled freeway serves as an “eco-friendly corridor that better serves the community and enhances the quality of life” for Long Beach res-idents, said Long Beach Development Services Deputy Director Angela Reynolds.

Funded by a Caltrans Environ-mental Justice Planning Grant, the TI Freeway is designed to positively a� ect overall environmental reviews of the city, tra� c impact analysis for the area and more, said Reynolds.

� e redesign is the � rst of its kind to be awarded such a grant and has turned the stretch of freeway into an interconnected road paired with a greenbelt to maximize the green po-tential of the plan as a whole.

� e TI Freeway has been heralded by the city for its classi� cation as a top opportunity to redesign damaged highways and replace them with op-tions that better � t into the city’s plan to become as eco-friendly as possible.

On Saturday, residents had the op-portunity to provide personal feed-back and opinion on the project to help guide future developments over the course of the workshop’s duration.

Demonstrations, informational booths, interactive experiences, pre-liminary designs and refreshments were o� ered at no cost to any resident who attended the 10 a.m. workshop hosted on Webster Ave.

Going, going, green

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What originally lead you to high-lighting the life of James Donovan and why is this story worth telling?

Well, I think this story is only as relevant as the people who, you know, find that kind of story interesting. I don’t ever want to impose what I find relevant on others. I feel, just speaking personal-ly, that somebody that has the talent to negotiate and not intimidate; to cajole, not threaten; to basically compromise rather than [demand] is something that this world needs a lot more of but we’re just not getting.

We find ourselves in a lot of bad sit-uations diplomatically and with nations all over this world. I just find that Don-ovan, the real James Donovan, played very authentically by Tom Hanks, is a great example of what we need more of today not only in the diplomatic world but on Capitol Hill and just the way people would be, should be, more pa-tient with each other in trying to figure out or trying to celebrate what makes us different and not being so quick to judge someone who is not the same as us.

You have an impressive portfolio of tying in music to evoke the audience and enhance the brand of your films—“Jaws,” “Jurassic Park,” “Indiana Jones”—what was the approach for “Bridge of Spies?”

The music is really important. I’ve had a 40-year collaboration with the great John Williams and he’s done all of my movies except two: “The Color Purple” and this one. He only didn’t do this one because he had slight medical procedure right as he was supposed to write the music and he had to take a sev-en-week break before coming back to finish the score for J.J. Abrams on “Star Wars.”

I decided not to have any music for the first 35 minutes of “Bridge of Spies” and I rarely do that. I usually have a lot of wall-to-wall music in my movies because I think movies tell a second

story. They help us perform our own emotions. The intention between John and myself was not to have music in the first half hour of this film so when I hired Thomas Newman to do the score, he agreed that we should see if we can allow New York City and the sounds of New York to be the musical score for the first half hour.

What was the most challenging scene that you had to film?

The most challenging film for “Bridge of Spies” by far was the scene on the Glienicke Bridge. We actually shot on the real bridge where the spy swap occurred all those many decades ago. That was the most difficult part be-cause I’m faced with a scene that must pay off, that must culminate in the dra-ma of everyone’s stories, especially on one location, which happened to be—symbolically—a bridge. There was a lot of pressure for me to perform and do a good job and get the actors to do equally good jobs because it pays off every sin-gle storyline we established in “Bridge

of Spies.” It was a difficult scene not just because it was so cold and we were all freezing, but because there was a lot of weight on all of us to make that the best scene in the movie.

How do you define a balance be-tween creative license and accurate portrayal when you make your films?

At the beginning of “Bridge of Spies” we don’t say that it’s a true story. We say “inspired by true events” and I make a distinction between a story like “Schin-dler’s List,” which is virtually true from cover to cover to a film like “Bridge of Spies,” where every single event is true and it actually happened, but in order to make it more tense and more suspense-ful I needed to take license with the or-der of sequences in order to truncate or to condense a five-year story into some-thing that only feels like it’s taking place over six or seven months.

The second we get involved in a movie we forget all the history. A movie casts a spell. All movies cast spells. All audiences, if they get involved enough

in the characters and the story, they sus-pend their disbelief; part of that suspen-sion of disbelief means cancelling what you know about what really happened in the world.

What do you think has changed about the types of stories and charac-ters that draw you in over time?

In the early part of my career, char-acters always drew me in. Everything I ever did was character based. All of my movies have really been about the characters but throughout my earlier concepts or big notions for movies in the ‘70s and ‘80s sometimes upstaged the characters that were really making those stories believable and yet a lot of credit was going just for the concept—you know, dinosaurs, aliens landing in Wyoming, sharks hunting the waters of Amenity Island. I mean, those were big broad movie concepts but none of those films would have succeeded without the characters that populated them.

My feeling today as I’ve gotten older, the concepts have maybe gotten

smaller, but they’ve only gotten small-er because the characters have gotten bigger and I’m much more interested in focusing my attention on really in-teresting people like the character of Rudolf Abel and the character of James Donovan. Those are the kinds of stories that really interest me today.

Given that you’ve been an ac-claimed director for nearly 40 years, how often do you have those “Wow, I’ve never done that before!” mo-ments?

Quite often I do a movie of a genre that I’ve never done before. I nev-er did anything like “Saving Private Ryan” before. I never did anything like “Schindler’s List” before. I never made a movie like ”Jaws” before or “Raiders of the Lost Ark.”

How do you manage to keep peo-ple’s attention without conforming to cookie-cutter style movies that are be-coming big?

Sometimes I will conform to it, like when I produced a movie like “Jurassic World.” For instance, we’ll conform to the first “Jurassic Park” and design a film which is tonally very much like the movie I directed in 1993 [to] trade up on the nostalgic factor. But for the most part, I never compare my stories to movies that are being made today or even were being made a hundred years ago.

If a story speaks to me, even if it doesn’t speak to any of my collabora-tors or any of my partners who look at me and scratch their heads and say ‘Gee, are you sure you want to get into that trench for a year and a half?’ I love people challenging me that way be-cause it’s a real test of my own convic-tions. The more I can stand up [in this way], the more I can be the standing man of my own life and take a stand on a subject that may not be popular. I see it in a certain way: that I would be proud to add that to the body of my work. That’s pretty much the litmus test that gets me to say yeah, I’ll direct that one.

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Steven Spielberg’s cold war-era drama “The Bridge of Spies,” starring Tom Hanks, premiered earlier this month.

Toxic Boy’s debut album “Trou-bled” opens with an eponymous force of fuzz full of slacker growls that verge on the Cobain-esque. While Toxic Boy, whose real-life name is Andy Groke, may at times exude punk bravado, in his quieter moments he reveals himself to be an introspective over-thinker.

Vice gripped between sound bites from the film “SLC Punk,” “Trou-bled” is a rollicking track exploding with angst. The Long Beach native sings: “I look so young / but I feel so old.”

Youth rebels recklessly at the first

inklings of mortality. Sex, drugs and rock n’ roll are the cliché salves for the young, troubled mind. And while Groke doesn’t shy away from this tired trope, this isn’t an album about mindless hedonism but about the pains of being self-aware enough to recognize the heedless path of self-destruction.

“I think we have more time / So please give me peace of mind / May-be a drink of wine,” he solemnly sings on “Hungover Again.”

But if the nihilistic opening track serves as an exorcism for existen-tial demons, the rest of the album is about self-reflection and trying to reach a plateau of solace.

On the surface, “Troubled” is the soundtrack to the morning after, when the sun is too bright and the mind is still fumbling to piece to-gether the incomplete puzzle of an-other last night. It’s in these morn-ings that whimsical escape fantasies feel just as plausible as doom-and-gloom perceptions of ones life, and perhaps this is why the album has an all-over-the-place feel.

Stylistically the album is made up of a wide constellation of in-fluences. The album’s second track

“Let Her Sleep” has a Kinks sort of thing going on with the handclap-ping, trebly guitars and catchy-but-snarly vox. “Toxic Boy” resembles the quivery yet unabashed confes-sionals of early Conor Oberst. “I Got Shot,” a slow jangle-and-twang number, has intimations of Simon and Garfunkel as well as Nirvana unplugged.

Ultimately this is an album about waking up: whether it’s waking up from a night of carless revelry or from the innocent bliss of youth. In either case the hangover and self-loathing feels endless. But Groke isn’t a pessimist.

“Sometimes I wanted to die but then I said no / And there are days when we could feel alive but then we say no / It’ll all be okay,” Groke reassures on “Hungover Again,” re-peating the final line over and over like a mantra.

In the end, it’s these flecks of hope that glitter like gold through-out the eight songs that make the LP a safe haven for the downtrodden. The album ends with the sound of a beer being cracked open—as if to say, “Cheer up, man, here, have an-other.”

Long Beach musician Toxic Boy’s new album is hung up on hangovers.

By Kevin FloresArts & Life Editor

Restless and youngALBUM REVIEW

“Troubled”Weiner Records • October 27th, 2015

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Got brains?News alert: On Saturday, zombies broke free from the exclusion zone located at Rainbow Lagoon Park. The brain-hungry living dead stalked the streets in and around The Pike, searching for victims to infect.

For the unsuspecting shoppers and diners caught in the path of the annual Long Beach Zombie Walk, the horde of bloody, groaning corpses brought to surface fears of a zombie apocalypse. Participants, clad in tattered clothing and gory make-up, were encouraged to stay in character and many did, spooking the bejesus out of bystanders.

Here are the few surviving photos from the outbreak:

Attendees were able to get bloodied up by professional special effects makeup artists over the weekend during the Long Beach Zombie Walk at Rainbow Lagoon Park in Long Beach (top). Zombified participant descend from an overpass crossing at The Pike during the Long Beach Zombie Walk on Saturday (above). Barret Eugene, better known as Dr. De-mento, radio host extraordinaire, DJ’s during the Long Beach Zombie Walk on Saturday (right). A Michael Jackson im-personator leads a group through the “Thriller” dance during the Long Beach Zombie Walk on Saturday (above right).

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They say money can’t buy happiness, but a lot of money could buy you a ticket to the Happiest Place on

Earth.For the second time this year,

Disneyland raised their prices for admission and introduced a new

pass over $1000. It was definitely a far stretch from

a zip-a-dee-doo-dah day, but when taking into consideration the recent confirmation of a “Star Wars Land” and the gaining popularity of the park, a second price increase was 100 percent necessary.

Let’s look at the facts. Any busi-ness — yes, Disneyland is a business — that undergoes expansion has large costs to fulfill. It would be absolutely goofy not to raise the

prices. When Disneyland acquired 14.7 acres rumored to house the new Star Wars land, the park’s wallet may have become a small world after all. Equally as important to note, Disneyland’s attendance has been on a continual increase and the amount of annual passholders has increased by 250 percent, according

to an article published in the OC Register. Why should they increase their prices, you ask? Simply put, people will still go.

When taking a closer look at the breakdowns and prices of the new passes, you might just want that spoonful of sugar -- make it two. Keeping within the Disney realm of

things, let’s break this down.Once upon a time, in the Happi-

est Place on Earth, people were able to visit Disneyland at relatively rea-sonable prices no more than $800.

For the extreme Disneyland lovers who wished to visit 365 days a year, a $779 Premium pass was granted. For the standard

Disney goers, a $550 Deluxe pass was granted, and for the ones who wished to visit not quite as often, a SoCal Select pass was granted for $299.

All were merry in the land of Disney, until overcrowding and the promise of a new land forced the Happiest Place on Earth to drop a bibbity-bobbity-bombshell on park guests and passholders.

What was once the $779 Premi-um pass turned into a $1,049 Sig-nature Plus pass, while the all-new $849 Signature pass emerged with blackout dates only during the holi-day season. With the Premium pass banished from the land and the dis-continuation of the SoCal pass, only the Deluxe and SoCal Select pass remained—but not untouched—of the original three passes.

Downtown Disney also shortened its hours of free parking from three hours to two hours with addi-tional rates going from $6 to $12. Validation in the Downtown Disney district offers two additional hours of parking from the movie theater or sit-down restaurants.

Nothing kills the magical expe-rience of Disneyland like getting clipped in the heels by vengeful strollers, waiting over an hour for attractions or spending $6 on a bottle of water. That being said, the Disney magic spellbinds the inner child in all of us and is something even Mickey’s sorcery can’t contain.

Park guests and their wallets now live not so happily ever after.

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After watching Hillary Clinton’s testimony Thursday to the House select committee investigating the 2012

attacks in Benghazi, I’m beginning to think I may have been wrong when I dubbed the inquiry the Committee to Perform Opposition Research for Republicans. Furthermore, Rep. Kevin McCarthy also may have been wrong when he implied that the point of the panel was to harm Clinton.

I’m now leaning toward an alternate theory: The investigation is only super-ficially related to the 2016 election and is unlikely to harm the presumptive

Democratic nominee. Instead, it’s a way of using government funding to furnish content for conservative media. That’s all.

There is general consensus, accepted by former Secretary of State Clinton and President Barack Obama, that the Benghazi attacks were a policy disaster. There’s a strong case to be made that the entire U.S. policy in Libya while Clinton was at state was a policy disaster, too.

And yet, the Benghazi commit-tee largely ignored those weak areas for Clinton, at least in the round of questioning.

Instead, the sharpest questions came

from Representative Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican, who rehashed the old “talking points” debate, and from the Benghazi committee’s chairman, Representative Trey Gowdy of South Carolina, who focused on emails be-tween Clinton and Sidney Blumenthal, her friend and informal adviser.

To say that neither topic is likely to have any effect on the 2016 election would be an understatement.

Take the talking points debate: We’re to believe that the Obama adminis-tration invented a false cover story for the attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi — that there was a demon-stration that got out of hand rather than a deliberate terrorist attack — because the truth would have derailed the president’s re-election campaign. This was already fought out before the 2012 election and it’s hard to imagine that it would still resonate with swing voters four years later.

But the bigger problem (apart from the fact that there doesn’t seem to have been a cover-up) is the internal logic of the argument that there was one. Within a few days of the attack, pretty much everyone, including the presi-dent, publicly agreed about what had happened — the supposed cover-up failed — and yet the attack still made zero difference in the election. It didn’t even change how the candidates talked about terrorism.

Or consider the Blumenthal accu-sations — that he wrote lots of emails to Clinton that included information about Libya he had picked up here and there. I’m stumped as to why anyone should care. Although his involvement does give the committee a way to focus on the Clinton Foundation — for which Blumenthal did some work — so maybe at some point, perhaps well into Clinton’s first term, it will give the committee an excuse to grill Bill

Clinton about his marriage.Anyway, none of this is likely to

have any effect on public opinion, except perhaps by dragging Congress’s approval ratings even lower. But it will provide fodder for conservative talk radio.

Granted, foreign policy isn’t usually a decisive issue in presidential elec-tions. Still, given that the presumptive Democratic nominee was secretary of state, it would make sense to hit her on policy disasters on her watch. I suppose if that’s the goal then we could argue about whether that’s opposition research to dig up items that could cause electoral damage, or just pro-viding content to conservative media outlets. Depends on whether or not they’re being realistic about what will move swing voters.

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WOMEN’S SOCCER

49ers bounce back with a pair of winsA pair of wins put LBSU back in the driver’s seat in the Big West.

The Long Beach State women’s soccer team is back on track in the Big West after a 1-0 win at CSUN on Thursday and a last minute 3-2 win against Hawaii on Sunday.

The 49ers (11-5-3, 6-2-0) needed some heroics from sophomore striker Ashley Gonzales, who scored the game winner against Hawaii (3-13-1, 0-7-0) with 38 seconds to spare.

Hawaii opened the scoring in the fifth minute after freshman defender Sarah Lau scored off a corner kick.

LBSU equalized in the 29th minute when freshman striker Fatmata Ka-mara assisted Gonzales, who evaded a defender and put her shot between Hawaii goalie Monk Berger’s legs. Four minutes later, senior midfielder Hannah Sanders netted the go-ahead goal from sophomore forward Victoria Bolden’s cross.

The 49ers held the lead for 47 min-utes before Lau struck again to make it 2-2 in the 80th minute.

The game looked like it was headed for overtime but Gonzales stepped up in the 90th minute to score her second of the game and give LBSU the win.

Gonzales’ third career brace kept the 49ers in contention for first place in the Big West. LBSU started the weekend by bringing home an important win from CSU Northridge.

After dropping back-to-back games against UC Riverside and UC Irvine last weekend, LBSU needed a win against the Matadors (10-6-1, 3-1-1) in Northridge on Thursday to remain in the postseason hunt.

LBSU got the win they needed on a late goal from senior center back Mela-nie Fox. Sophomore Jessica Vincent got the assist after delivering a cross to Fox from a free kick. The defender headed in her first career game-winning goal in the 80th minute.

The goal was also Fox’s fourth of the season after netting a hat trick in the 6-0 win against Portland State on Sept. 6. She ranks second on the team behind Gonzales.

The 49ers play their final game of the regular season next week when they host UC Davis on Thursday at George Allen Field at 6 p.m.

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LBSU’s Hannah Sanders (13) attempts to keep the ball away from Hawaii’s Madison Reed (15).

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The Long Beach State women’s vol-leyball team needed all of junior out-side hitter Nele Barber’s career night to defeat Cal Poly 3-2 on Saturday at the Walter Pyramid.

The Mustangs (15-5, 7-2) got off to a hot start against LBSU (17-5, 7-2), jumping out to a quick 2-0 lead.

“Sometimes when you believe you should win the first set [and don’t], sometimes there’s a hangover,” Gim-milaro said. “And there was a big hangover there.”

Cal Poly won the first set 27-25 after the 49ers dropped a 24-23 lead. The Mustangs came out firing in set two and jumped to a quick 4-0 lead that LBSU never recovered from, los-ing the set 25-14.

Barber only had six kills and seven digs at the break before she erupted in the final three sets; she added 18 kills and 13 digs down the stretch and finished with career highs in kills (24) and digs (20). Barber said sticking to the game plan and playing harder were the keys to the comeback.

“I think we brought some more en-ergy,” Barber said. “ I can’t speak for [my teammates], personally I was just running faster.”

The 49ers took sets three and four 25-21 and 25-23 to silence a loud Cal

Poly crowd in the Pyramid. The Mus-tangs led 13-10 in the final set before LBSU scored four unanswered points to take the lead. Both teams traded points, and freshman outside hitter Carly Beddingfield and senior setter Jenelle Hudson strung together two points that gave the 49ers a 19-17 win in set five.

LBSU also swept UC Santa Barba-ra on Friday behind Beddingfield’s 12 kills.

UCSB hung around with LBSU who needed overtime to take set one, 26-24. Beddingfield led the team with 5 kills and hitter Megan Kruidhof led with 8 digs after hitting her career high last weekend.

“I don’t know how we pulled

off that first set, but we did,” Bed-dingfield said. “The hardest part of the game is getting out of runs. If you start losing points after points it gets hard to dig yourself out of that and get momentum going and I think we did a really good job of finally learning how to come out of that.”

Set two was tied up most of the match with no team leading by more than 2 points ahead of the other, how-ever LBSU was able to break away and take set two 25-18. Middle blocker Ashley Murray led the set with 4 kills and Kruidhof added 3 more digs in the second set bringing her total to 11.

LBSU was able to control the ball

in the third set with clean passing, taking the set 25-18 again. Bed-dingfield led the team in kills with 12 and right behind her was Murray with 11 kills of the night. Kruidhof surpassed her career high in digs with 15 and outside hitter Nele Bar-ber finished with 8 kills; it’s the first game the German native finishes with single digit kills.

“We put ourselves in a nice place in set one and we didn’t finish it out,” UCSB head coach Nicole Welch said. “We need to be sharper and more ag-gressive at the critical points.”

The 49ers head to UC Irvine and UC Davis on Thursday and Saturday respectively. Both games begin at 7 p.m.

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MEN’S WATER POLO

49ers drop thriller to CalLBSU wins three out of four matches this week, including its first conference win.

The Long Beach State men’s water polo team almost had a perfect 4-0 weekend, but let a late lead slip away against No. 3 California, 15-14, on Sunday at the Ken Lindgren Aquatics Center.

Despite losing a back-and-forth battle against Cal, the 49ers (9-11, 1-4 MPSF) did win games against Whit-tier College, Pepperdine and Long Beach City College.

On Sunday, LBSU was in front by one goal against head coach Gavin Arroyo’s alma mater, Cal, with 1:36 remaining in the fourth period.

But Cal’s freshman attacker Johnny Hooper scored a game-tying goal that forced the match into overtime.

“[The 49ers] are tough here; they’re tough, period,” Cal head coach Kirk Everist said. “We knew we were going to have a handful, and I thought we came out really well and set the tone.”

Cal (17-4, 3-1 MPSF) scored two goals early in the first overtime peri-od, going 14-12. But the 49ers quick-ly overcame the two-goal deficit, with goals from sophomores Lovro Miocevic and Jacob Fujioka.

In double overtime and with a six-on-five power play, freshman defend-er Odysseas Masmanidis netted the go-ahead goal that gave the Bears a 15-14 lead.

“It got close enough where it be-came a battle down the stretch,” Everist said. “It seemed like we were down a goal there pretty much the whole time after the fourth quarter started. We’d score, they’d score, we’d score, and we kept trading goals. But we had to make a play in order to

get out of here with a victory.”Sunday afternoon’s double over-

time game was LBSU’s second over-time game in as many days. Arroyo said the 49ers lost out on a good chance to take down No. 3 Cal be-cause of the fatigue.

“It’s a little bit of even-flow through the season,” Arroyo said. “Sometimes a win like yesterday’s [against Pep-perdine] can get you back on track or it can derail you. Cal’s coming off a tough loss to UCLA yesterday, so to-day was a good opportunity for us.”

LBSU ended the weekend with an 11-10 win over Long Beach City Col-lege.

In the first period, the 49ers showed signs of fatigue. LBCC’s freshman attacker Giorgio La Rosa scored five goals in the first half giv-ing his team a 4-1 lead at the end of the first period, but LBSU answered back in the second half by outscoring LBCC 8-4.

The 49ers overcame a three goal first-half deficit to get their first con-

ference win in Malibu, defeating the Waves 11-10 on Saturday. Redshirt freshman defender Austin Stevenson scored the game-winning goal, with 30 seconds into the sudden death overtime period.

On Thursday night LBSU defeated Whittier College (12-8, 1-0 SCIAC) 15-8 at the Ken Lindgren Aquatics Center.

Both teams scored four goals in the first period, but the 49ers took con-

trol of the tempo in the second period and added three goals. By halftime, the 49ers led 5-2. And they never looked back.

49ers redshirt freshman Chandler Kaltenbacch and sophomore center Duncan Lynde each had a hat trick in the game.

LBSU will host another dou-ble-header on Saturday against No. 5 Stanford and Golden West College at the Ken Lindgren Aquatics Center.

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LBSU’s Nele Barber (6) goes for the kill, attempting to spike the ball past the Cal Poly block.

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LBSU utility Dimitrios Lappas tries to keep Cal’s Johnny Hooper (12) from getting the steal.

By Will HernandezContributing Writer

By Josh Barajas & Natasha VitiStaff Writers

Barber carries 49ers LBSU extends its winning streak to three games behind Nele Barber’s 20/20 game.

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