Love, happiness, sadness, anger—these are not only the stages of a break-up but also some of the expressions intricately por-trayed in the figurines playfully arrayed throughout the “So Many Me’s” student gallery.

California State University, Long Beach ceramic arts student Kathy Yoon exposes her innermost self to gallery visitors in her exhibit. The gallery is a self-portrait of Yoon as she conveys sentiments and past experi-ences through 3-D figurines she best describes as “characters.”

“They are all representations of me, so they’re not the same but they’re not all different either,” Yoon said. “The different gestures and the positions they’re in, they’re all representing either a moment in my life or an emotion

during that time.”With button eyes, stitched mouths and crooked smiles, the characters

possessed a similar appearance to one another but each bared a unique emotional weight.

Although Yoon’s gallery artwork is a representation of herself, she said that emotions are a universal one-size-fits-all characteristic and hopes that everyone will be able to identify with one of her ‘me’s.’

“I want [the audience] to get an idea of who I am or who I could be within my work,” Yoon said. “I want them to possibly relate to one or two pieces. Everyone has felt sad or happy at any point, so I hope every person connect-ed with one piece like, ‘Oh yeah that’s how I’m feeling right now.’”

Gallery visitor and freshman psychology major Katelyn Nguyen said that she connected with one character in particular.

“I really liked the figure that was holding a heart balloon,” Nguyen said. “It very much reminds me of young love. Although you might keep your crush a secret, everyone knows something’s up with you. Almost as if you have cupid following you around everywhere.”

Associated Student Inc. Presi-dent Jose Salazar’s push for schol-arship-based compensation made headway in an Ad Hoc Board of Con-trol meeting Monday.

“We’re satisfied that we’re moving forward on the issue of compensa-tion,” senator Carlos Vegara said at the meeting’s conclusion. “The past two meetings we’ve been pretty stuck now were confident to move forward on classifying executive pay as a scholarship.”

The ad hoc committee was spe-cially convened to address the issue of executive compensation after it was revealed that Salazar, the uni-versity’s first undocumented student president, was not being paid due to failing to submit DACA paperwork before the deadline. The meeting on Monday was the third meeting held to address executive pay. Any changes are pending senate approval and will take not effect until the next academ-ic school year.

New to the table was financial aid specialist Nick Valdivia who provided clarification about classification, en-couraging the committee to seek the guidance of a tax specialist to mini-mize risk.

“Classification is paramount sim-ply because if you misclassify an award, the IRS can collect back taxes against the grantor and recipient and they can levy fines against the institu-tion,” Valdivia said.

Valdivia also provided clarification on financial aid questions, specifi-cally the impact on taxation and aid amount.

Since scholarships have no auto-mated tax withholdings a reclassifi-cation to scholarship will likely result in students either making quarterly tax withholding payments, or a lump sum tax payment when filing, Valdiv-ia said.

A reclassification to scholarship will also impact financial aid, Valdiv-ia said. A student who receives the scholarship would not be eligible to receive any other forms of Federal, State or Institutional financial aid. Students would be ineligible since ASI policy stipulates that the schol-arship meets the estimated living expenses for a student and the presi-dent’s office covers mandatory tuition and fees.

ASI presidents receive $29,442 for the academic year to cover the $23,712 estimated attendance and

According to the Census Bu-reau, there are about 21.8 million veterans in the United States. But only about 26 percent of veter-ans 25 and older have obtained a bachelor’s degree.

Leading up to Veterans Day next Wednesday, the Daily 49er will be publishing a series of features on various veterans at California State University, Long Beach to share their stories.

Meet veteran Derek McGraw, an organismal biology major at

California State University, Long Beach. He spends his free time working to get more veterans into higher education to assuage the previously mentioned statistics. The Daily 49er talked with Mc-Graw about his involvement with aiding veterans.

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SEATTLE — Health officials in two states aren’t yet reporting how many people have been sickened in an outbreak of E. coli food poisoning that shuttered Chipotle restaurants in Washington and Oregon, saying more investigation and testing need to be done.

At least 22 people have fallen ill since Oct. 14 in the outbreak tied to the popular Mexican fast-food chain.

That includes 19 confirmed cases in Washington and three in Oregon, though officials there say another case is suspected.

Officials in both states say they expect to announce new case counts by midday Tuesday.

“We assume this outbreak is much broader than we’ve seen,” said Dr. Katrina Hedberg, Oregon’s state health officer and epidemi-ologist.

In Oregon, health officials say they’ve identified the outbreak strain as E. coli O26, one of sever-al types of Shiga toxin-producing bacteria that can cause severe illness.

E. coli O26 was linked to an outbreak tied to raw clover sprouts that sickened 33 people who ate at Jimmy John’s restaurants in 2012, according to the Centers for Dis-ease Control and Prevention.

Washington officials have not yet named the specific bug.

“Right now, we don’t know whether all of the cases identified are even going to turn out to be

the same strain,” said Dr. Marisa D’Angeli, Washington state medi-cal epidemiologist.

Some cases may turn out to be E. coli O157: H7, a strain often as-sociated with undercooked ground beef, while others may be E. coli O26 — or something else.

Among the apparent victims in Washington is Charmaine Mode, 41, of Kelso, who sued Chipotle on Tuesday, saying she contracted a Shiga toxin-producing E. coli in-fection after eating a burrito bowl at a Vancouver restaurant Oct. 21.

The complaint was filed in U.S. District Court in Western Wash-ington by Minneapolis law firm PritzkerOlsen.

It alleges that Mode began feel-ing ill with severe diarrhea on Oct. 25 and sought hospital treatment Oct. 27, where her infection was confirmed.

In Seattle, food-safety lawyer Bill Marler said he has been re-tained by a Portland man, a Seattle couple and the family of a young girl who was hospitalized, all in connection with the outbreak.

Eight people have been hospital-ized in the outbreak, including two in King County.

Infections have been reported in Clackamas and Washington counties in Oregon and Clark, King, Skagit and Cowlitz counties in Washington.

Investigators in Washington worked over the weekend to inter-view ill people and those who ate

at Chipotle restaurants and didn’t get sick, said D’Angeli.

But laboratory confirmation not only of illness but also of the particular strain of E. coli can take up to a week.

“It’s not only testing that takes time, it’s identifying anyone else who is sick, whether the lab testing has been ordered and what prelim-inary testing is available, who’s been interviewed and coordinating all of the information from the local health department and from Oregon,” D’Angeli explained.

Forty-three Chipotle restaurants in Washington and Oregon were voluntarily closed in the wake of the outbreak, said Chris Arnold, spokesman for Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc.

“Timing of reopening will be determined by the pace and the progress of the investigation,” he said in an email. “That’s the top priority right now.”

Anyone who ate at Chipotle since mid-October and has symptoms of E. coli infection, including bloody diarrhea, should contact their health care providers, D’Angeli said.

This is the third outbreak associ-ated with Chipotle restaurants this year.

More than 60 people in Minne-sota who ate at Chipotle restaurants last summer were sickened by sal-monella later tied to contaminated tomatoes, health officials said.

In August, an outbreak of norovirus sickened nearly 100 at a

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Tell me about yourself. What’s your major and why are you studying that?

I was a Navy Corpsman for eight years and I got out of the service in 2011. I am majoring in organismal biology because I have always been intrigued by the sciences. I am also on a pre-med track. My ultimate goal is to finish my degree here and go to medical school. If I am fortunate enough to make it into medical school, I plan on going back into the Navy and finish out my 20 years of service.

Explain what it is that you do for veterans on campus.

I am the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Essentially I am the veter-an student-body representative. If the veterans that make up a por-tion of our community have any issues, concerns, or even sugges-tions, I am the one they can go to as I represent them and can bring their issues to the ASI government. I also try to come up with events that focus on veterans. For exam-ple, on Monday the 9th of Novem-ber, I will be hosting a screening of a documentary called Restrepo about an Army unit in Afghan-istan and will have a Q-and-A with a panel of veterans after the

screening.What led you to help veterans?Being a veteran myself, I have

experienced some of the struggles that other veterans have when it comes to things like transitioning to civilian life, getting VA bene-fits or even just figuring out what am I going to do now that I am no longer serving. I am extreme-ly proud that I put on a uniform for eight years and I am fortunate to be in the situation that I am in now. However, some veterans struggle with transitioning or their past experiences and may feel like they are alone. So I feel that it is my duty to do what I can for those that share a bond through service to this country.

What are some of the biggest

difficulties veterans face when returning to school?

One of the biggest problems facing veterans, besides deal-ing with the VA for benefits, is the fact that most of the time student-veterans are a little old-er and may feel out of place in classes with freshman and soph-omores that are barely removed from high school. It is a feeling that most of the people in class, or at the school, don’t relate to veterans at all.

Why is it important to help veterans?

It’s important because transi-tioning for some may be a dif-ficult challenge. Transitioning to civilian life may seem trivial, but it can be extremely daunting

as there is a lot of insecurity as to what the future holds in store. It is a change in every aspect of a veteran’s life. Even now, there are 22 veterans that commit sui-cide every day on average. That is unacceptable. There needs to be help available for veterans to avoid that as one veteran suicide is one too many. Some veterans are also having difficulty find-ing employment because there are corporations out there that feel every veteran has PTSD, and there is an unwarranted stigma on those that do have it. This has increased veteran poverty and homelessness. This is something that needs to change as these vet-erans served this country with honor and don’t deserve to be pushed aside when they get out.

What would you suggest to other students who may want to help veterans as well?

Just being conscientious of what they are saying around veterans can help tremendous-ly. There are certain “triggers” that someone can say that could potentially bring up some bad memories, so it would help to avoid certain topics, unless the veteran is willing to open up. There are charities that help with disabled or homeless veterans that they can certainly look in to. Some don’t even need monetary donations, but things like clothes

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compensation for holding the posi-tion.

The question of accountability continued to linger, though Executive Director Richard Haller attempted to squash concerns, pointing to the fact that ASI has never had to withhold payment for an officer not doing their job.

“The recourse of someone not doing their job is political pressure,” Haller said. “That really is the bottom line, how they work with constituents and how constituents hold them ac-countable.”

Before Senator Dale Lendrum moved to switch executive pay to a scholarship model, undocumented student representative and anthro-pology major Erika Suarez stressed the importance of the matter at hand.

“We have more to gain than lose,” Suarez said. “CSULB can be an ex-ample to the other 23 campuses that more students can be included.”

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Derek McGraw

With “Slade House,” the latest thrill ride from the astounding David Mitchell, you really can judge the book by its cover.

True: At first glance, that cover presents as your standard cloth-bound board, colored in nondescript goldenrod. But there’s a dramatic, die-cut square carved through its front. This wormhole opens onto a floor plan of Slade House itself — a series of sharp, Escher-like turns leading to a central square, where the words “A Novel” invite us inside. In red.

All good novels lure us into what Henry James once called the house of fiction, where we surrender ourselves and lose track of time while wending through its narrative passages. Reading is all about desire, and fiction’s rooms give us ample space to fantasize selves and worlds entirely unlike our own.

All of which can make us vulner-able. When we read, we let down our guard and let ourselves go. And because the house we’ve entered is haunted, the dreams drawing us in can quickly morph into nightmares. Sometimes, we get so lost we even have a hard time finding our way back out.

That’s what happens to the char-acters — think of them as readers — who enter the Slade House located

within “Slade House.” It’s situated in Slough, a burg 20 miles west of Lon-don that endured particularly heavy Blitz bombing in October 1940.

All of “Slade House” unfolds during October — or, to be precise, the last Saturday in successive

Octobers at intervals of nine years, beginning in 1979 and culminating in 2015.

The first-person narrators entering Slade House during that span suggest or actually are characters from other Mitchell novels. Thirteen-year-old

Nathan, for example, is a dead ringer for the similarly aged Jason who narrates “Black Swan Green” (2006). Versions of psychiatrist Iris Marinus-Fenby made appearances in both “The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet” (2010) and “The Bone Clocks” (2014).

They enter through a hobbit-size door in the brick wall bordering a narrow, easily missed alley. Once inside, they encounter what a Slade House host refers to as “set designs for a theater” of well-played scenes, creating what the visitors want to see. In each of this novel’s five acts, those enactments involve some version of our hunger for what the world needs now: love, sweet love.

That could mean a Halloween party, in which a lonely and over-weight first-year college student is suddenly desired and popular. Or a chance encounter through which a divorced and embittered man finds a sexy companion. Or a cozy breakfast, in which a boy bonds with the father who moved away.

Are these theatricals make-be-lieve? When did you last attend a dinner party that wasn’t?

But why are these elaborate spectacles getting staged? And why are the creepy but talented actors mounting them so insistent that the show must go on — even when their

initially charmed but increasingly restive audience members get up to leave?

I won’t answer such questions; in any haunted house story, one must discover the special effects and encounter the ghosts oneself.

I will say that what’s often true of this subgenre is again true here with Mitchell: For some readers, it will be too far out. As with prior Mitchell novels, “Slade House” includes lacu-nae in time, transmigration of souls, mind control, wormholes, polter-geists and the equivalent of vampires and zombies.

But don’t run away quite yet.For here as always, Mitchell com-

bines such genre fiction staples with compelling, fully realized charac-ters. Propulsive narrative drive. An impassioned moral conviction that even his wildest rides are simulta-neously stories of the way we live now. And — most important — an accompanying belief that despite the seemingly closed and cruel system we inhabit, there’s still always room to make game-changing choices.

We read fiction because we believe such choices actually matter. If you haven’t yet read Mitchell, choosing this novel just might make a believer of you.— Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, TNS

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Eye surgery enables blind artist to see painting in a new lightMIAMI — When Selris James

painted a month ago, he held his face so close to the canvas his nose nearly smeared the paint.

But when he went to paint his latest piece, James, who was born blind and deaf in his home country of Trinidad and Tobago, was able to sit a comfort-able distance from the canvas.

Just two weeks before, Dr. Guill-ermo Amescua, a cornea specialist at the University of Miami’s Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, removed the cataract in James’ right eye, which he said had become ingrained behind the pupil.

The pro bono surgery, plus a pair of tortoiseshell and gold glasses, gave James, 41, sight.

“He was really excited when he re-alized it was working,” said Amescua.

James’ scarred retinas mean his sight will never be perfect, but for a legally blind man, sight in both eyes is a miracle.

An artist since childhood, James uses acrylics to paint colorful bursts of flowers, landscapes and scenes from his travels. He painted the American Airways plane he flew to Miami on, the Metrorail he rode, the giraffe he fed at Zoo Miami and a photo of himself, posing on the giant “U” at the UM Coral Gables campus.

His mother, Gwenie Go-mez-James, contracted rubella, a contagious disease caused by a virus, during her pregnancy. Her son was born with congenital rubella syndrome.

Doctors soon confirmed her son was doubly impaired. Eye surgery helped his left eye regain some sight, but after that, “he drew everything he wanted to say,” Gomez-James said.

When he was 3, James started watching “Sesame Street,” his face three inches from the television screen. His mother gave him a pencil and paper and he started scribbling, long, loopy lines that eventually turned into the alphabet.

By 7, James was communicating with cartoon strip-like art. He asked why he couldn’t hear or see, and

drew cartoons of himself with hear-ing aids and glasses.

Schooling presented a problem. The Trinidad School for the Blind rejected him because he was deaf, and a school for the deaf didn’t want him because he was blind.

Gomez-James took her son to a parish priest, Father Eugene Dela-hunt, who introduced the pair to the local Rotary Club. From there, James was sent to Beth Harry, a special education teacher at the Immortelle Children’s Centre in Trinidad, a school for children with disabilities.

Harry said James was the only deaf and only visually impaired stu-dent, which led to some difficulties.

“We didn’t actually know what we were doing,” she said. “We did the best we could.”

He remained at the Immortelle until he was 21, where he fell deeper in love with computers. He’s adept at art he creates using Photoshop. Prints of his computer-generated self-portraits and images of flowers were among those included at his art sale in early October, an idea devel-oped by his sign language instructor

at UM, Kirsten Schwarz Olmedo.The communication therapy at

UM, as well as the surgery at Bascom Palmer, are possible because of Harry, now a professor at UM. “It was a great blessing in my life when I met Selris,” said Harry, who met him when he was 7.

Olmedo’s goal is for James to return to Trinidad with the ability to communicate and to make a living as an artist.

“I want to give him the gift of language,” she said.

James is learning to read, to use

sign language and to speak through an iPad app, where he arranges imag-es the app translates into a sentence. His family charts his progress from his Facebook page — The Selris James Fund.

Harry recently made a book from a collection of James’ drawings. She self-published “Deaf, blind, and smart as a whip” on Shutterfly and wants to find an international pub-lisher to take the book mainstream.

“We think it’s a universal story,” she said.— Alex Harris, Miami Herald, TNS

Carl Juste | MiaMi Herald | tNsDr. Guillermo Amescula, left, and Dr. Richard K. Lee, center, examine their patient, blind and deaf artist Selris James, on Oct. 27, 2015 at the Bascom Palm Eye Institute in Miami, where James received sigh-restoring cataract surgery.

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PHoto Courtesy of PeNguiN raNdoM House | tNs“Slade House: A Novel,” by David Mitchell.

When asked to offer advice to other incoming art students with reservations such as financial con-

cerns surrounding an art career, Yoon was not short of answer.

“... instead of thinking too much about it, if you really love what you do and your process of making your artwork, it kind of disregards the whole financial aspect,” said Yoon. “ You [have to] love what you do. The people that might make the most money but don’t like what they

do, their life is so mundane.”Sophomore psychology major

Brenda Coronado shared her opin-ion on the matter.

“Coming to these galleries and seeing all this art and watching the reactions it brings out of people, it kind of makes money simply irrel-evant,” Coronado said. “The artist seems really happy, and I’m sure I

too will be with my major because I love psychology.”

Yoon went on to further advice any doubters: “I’ve come across more artists that are not making that much money but really, really love what they do. My advice for students who are kind of on the fence about whether they want to do art is that they gotta keep in check

[whether they] really want to do this, to take the risk.”

The CSULB School of Art dis-plays student galleries in Fine Arts building 2-4, with new exhibits each week. Yoon’s “So Many Me’s” exhibit can be experienced from noon to 5 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday, and from noon to 7 p.m. on Wednesday.

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It has been 23 years since Ash Williams last took on the evil hoard of Deadites in “Army of Darkness”; twenty-three long years without Ash’s boom-

stick, his evil twin, his one-liners or his “hand that went bad” that got re-placed with a chainsaw.

Except none of that is true. Because while it has been a couple

decades since the last in the Evil Dead series was released, Ash has been

fighting the Deadites on VCRs, DVD players, Blu-ray and streaming on the Internet over and over.

While “Evil Dead” certainly isn’t the first horror film to spawn multiple sequels, there was always something very different between it and horror franchises such as “Halloween” and “Nightmare on Elm Street.”

So much of the horror genre lives or dies on our desire to see the worst monsters of our nightmares killing expendable leads. But Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell created something very different, building a horror fran-chise around a hero that we want to see live.

Campbell so embodies the square-jawed, wise-cracking Ash that even though it has been 23 years since he last strapped a chainsaw to his arm, he slides right back into the role with tremendous ease (with the help of a tight-fitting girdle).

It is no surprise that Campbell can still play the part, as he has been

playing variations of Ash in nearly ev-ery role since. However there was no guarantee that Raimi (who directed the first episode) would still be up to the task of creating a series worthy of the iconic character.

But through one episode of “Ash vs. Evil Dead,” it would seem that time away has been kind to Raimi as well. The first episode moves swiftly and deftly, setting up new characters and

diving right back into the gore and scares that made the series such a cult favorite.

The series acknowledges right from the start just how much time has lapsed since the audience last left Ash, who’s now looking much older and out of shape and yet no more wiser.

Now living in a trailer park, Ash is still working in a big box store and still making terrible decisions regard-ing the Necronomicon, or Book of the Dead for the uninitiated.

For within the first few minutes of the pilot, Ash has unleashed the Dea-dites yet again, this time the result of a stoned night with a young blonde.

The series would not be able to sustain 10 episodes on just the back of Bruce Campbell alone. Sam Raimi does an admirable job making the new characters seem relevant to the story and giving them personality within a 40-minute episode (future episodes will be closer to a half hour). Because that is the only way it is going to mat-

ter if they live or die by the end of the season; something that even “The Walking Dead” has not been able to figure out over 6 seasons.

Throughout the series, Raimi has been able to go back and forth with the Deadites, making them at times scary and at other times incredibly silly, and “Ash vs. Evil Dead” has both in spades. There is simply no other reaction but to laugh when the Dea-dites attack Ash with a doll the size of thumb. Yet, Raimi is also able to create a profound sense of dread with nothing more than a spinning flash-light in a dark room, some fake blood and monster makeup.

Raimi seems to recognize that what made “The Evil Dead” movies great wasn’t that they were campy or scary; it was that they could do both until you weren’t sure if it was safe to laugh, or you needed to scream.

But give “Ash vs Evil Dead” one ep-isode and one thing will be for sure: it’ll be difficult to actually look away.

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Ash and his boomstick are back to save the fall

By Greg DiazEditor-in-chief

Evil Dead is back after more than two decades since Ash fought the “Army of Darkness.”

Illustration by Emilio Aldea

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In today’s day and age of mu-sic, most of the “artists” that we listen to (Miley Cyrus, Kelly Clarkson, Rhianna and many more) don’t write

their own music. For those “artist” do we still call them artist even when they don’t write their own music? I say no.

According to dictionary.com, an artist is “a person who produces works in any of the arts that are primarily subject to aesthetic cri-teria.” The word that stands out in that definition is produces. Most of the “artists” out there today don’t produce their own material.

John Seabrook, author of “The Song Machine” said that it’s common for producers to send the same track to many topliners and then choose the best molody among all the submissions. For example, the hit song Rhianna’s

2007 hit “Umbrella” was actually written for Brittney Spears, but Spears’ management team turned down the track which then went to Rhianna and boost started her

career. On the other side, there are rap-

pers who write their own material who need a beat to go with the song. Producers are the ones who

would create a beat for the rapper to use with his lyrics. In this case, rappers are artists because they are

still producing their own material. That’s what it comes down to at the end of the day, if you didn’t produce something, then you are not an artist.

The reason performers are more prone to using a songwriter to write their material is because pop music is what people are listen-ing to in this generation. Writing songs for pop is more difficult than composing a song with emotion-al connection. Cue Taylor Swift.

She was known for writing her own material and was good at it, but once she converted to the pop scene, she has had artist help her or write her songs for her.

The reason performers who don’t compose their own mate-rial shouldn’t be called artist is because it is disrespectful to those performers who do write their own music. Artist like Ke$ha, Sam Smith, Beck and so on all write their own material. What’s worse, listeners don’t usually realize it and give them credit. It takes a lot of talent to be able to compose music and then perform it. Artist need to be recognized for the song writing ability, that’s why we need to not call performers who don’t write their own music artists.

Given, it takes a lot of talent to be able to sing and I’m not saying it’s wrong to have songwriters write your materials, I just believe that they shouldn’t be referred to as an artist, I would call them perform-ers or entertainers. Artists create the lyrics; producers create the beat; and entertainers perform it.

Desecration of the term ‘artist’Jenny ReiderContributing Writer

Despite popular use of the term, musical entertainers are not artists.

KC Alfred | ZumA Press | TNsTaylor Swift performs during her 1989 World Tour at Petco Park on Aug. 29 in San Diego.

When I started teaching environ-mental law and policy, I thought I would work with

the next generation of extraordinary environmentalists. I don’t.

My students are extraordinary, but many see themselves as “corporate social responsibility consultants,” “ecosystem service managers,” “sus-tainability leaders,” “industrial effi-ciency experts,” maybe “clean energy entrepreneurs” — not environmen-talists. They avoid that label because they associate it with stalled progress on the issues they care about. But this reinvention is a losing strategy.

It is hard to blame anyone for shying away from the environmental movement. Many of my students were infants at the time of the 1990 Clean Air Act amendments, the last time there was national legislative success on an environmental issue. Without a long view, traditional environmental-ism can look like a failure.

But dormancy does not equal failure.

The kind of stewardship champi-

oned by David Brower, Paul Ehrlich, E.O. Wilson, Morris and Stewart Udall, Edmund Muskie and Richard Nixon reflected their awe at the grandeur, interconnectedness and unpredictability of the ecosystems and wild landscapes. That perspec-tive was transformative. It ushered in the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act and the Endangered Species Act, to name just a few successes.

This suite of laws produced real results and is still working, still protecting natural systems and the people who rely on them. After all, we have the hopeful and heroic thinkers who gave us the Clean Air Act to thank for the 2015 Clean Power Plan, the only tool the United States has to enforce national climate change action.

But from climate change denial to corporate malfeasance, resis-tance to enforceable environmental protection is rampant. Seeking any conceivable path forward, many young leaders are exchanging their sympathy for the victims of envi-ronmental damage for the concerns of the regulated community. They

turn away from enforceability-based approaches and promote more con-servative techniques that they hope will impress and persuade reticent and cynical policymakers and power brokers.

If this is environmentalism at all, it is “desperate environmentalism,” characterized not by awe, enthusi-asm and enjoyment of nature but by appeasement. It relies on utilitarian efficiencies, cost-benefit analyses, private sector indulgences and anthropocentric divvying of natural resources. It champions voluntary commitments, tweaks to corporate supply chains, protection not of the last great places on Earth but of those places that yield profit or services. From market-friendly cap-and-trade to profit-driven corporate social responsibility, desperate envi-ronmentalists angle for the least-bad of the worst options rather than the robust and enforceable safeguards that once defined the movement.

At best, the desperate form of environmentalism is a greyhound chasing a rabbit lure futilely around the track. At worst it is the ratchet-

ing of individually good policies into a sweeping, embedded ideology from which the movement cannot return.

The environmentalists of old in-sisted on transformation not margin-al gains. The Clean Water Act aimed to restore the integrity of all the nation’s waters by eliminating water pollution. Now we quantify whether such improvement is economically efficient, and we politely ask whether an industrial facility might consider reducing its discharge. Perhaps, desperate environmentalists suggest, such a reduction would improve the bottom line by reducing some costs. Suddenly, economic efficiency moves from being one in a collection of cultural values that drive decisions to the only relevant value.

And the ratchet turns in only one direction. Having conceded so much to conservative approaches, desperate environmentalists cannot advocate what is now a radical idea of the past: Government should force polluters to reduce pollution for the sake of healthy natural systems and human enjoyment.

The problem is, desperate environ-

mentalists strive for a mythical con-servative embrace but cooperation from the right is unrealistic. As they move right in an attempt to meet their opponents, the opponents will not, at some undefined threshold of compromise, consent to new policies of protection. Rather, desperate environmentalists could continue to erode their position until environ-mentalism grows unrecognizable.

The bait-and-switch has already happened. In the 1990s, Republicans helped develop the effective but also conservative idea of a cap-and-trade system for some air pollutants. Nearly two decades later, Democrats in Congress begged for just such a system to address climate change, but it was defeated as an insidi-ous, anti-business, overregulatory approach.

If desperate environmentalists continue to give up ground in pursuit of unattainable compromise, they will be left with nothing to offer but their opponents’ vision of the world.

— Joshua Galperin, Los Angeles Times, TNS

The trouble with ‘desperate environmentalism’

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The Long Beach State women’s soccer team starts as the No. 1 seed in Big West Tournament for the first time in seven years.

Grabbing the top seed in the tour-nament, which starts on Thursday in Fullerton, means that LBSU will avoid facing the host team and get a much-desired rematch with UC Riverside, the only team in the tour-nament that the 49ers failed to beat.

“[The loss] fresh in our minds,” head coach Mauricio Ingrassia said. “We’ll use it to motivate us.”

The Highlanders upset the 49ers 2-1 at George Allen Field on Oct. 16 thanks to two long-range strikes from midfielder Blanca Barrio. UCR got the win despite being outshot by LBSU 13-7. Junior midfielder Mimi

Rangel is convinced Thursday’s result will be different.

“It’s redemption time for us,” Rangel said. “And this time, when it comes around, I know we’re not going to let this opportunity go to waste.”

The 49ers will be wary of Barrio

when they meet her on the field at Titan Stadium. Ingrassia said they’ll keep an eye on her and senior forward Tyler Cunninham, but the majority of the focus will be on his own team.

“We just get ready for anyone that comes up,” Ingrassia said. “We’re real-ly just focused mostly on ourselves.”

Cal State Fullerton and UC Santa Barbara will battle it out in the other half of the tournament bracket. LBSU got a pair of 1-0 wins against both teams with sophomore striker Ashley Gonzales bagging both game winning goals.

LBSU claimed their victory over the Titans three minutes into overtime in the conference opener on Oct. 4. Gonzales netted her fifth goal of the season on her eighth shot of the game against Fullerton, and then she scored her sixth goal exactly a week later for the game winner against UCSB.

Titans’ senior striker Rebecca Wilson went on a tear after the LBSU backline shut her down, scoring eight goals in the next seven games. Wilson’s eight goals brought her season total to 18; the fourth highest goal total in Big West history.

Senior Christina Burkenroad also powers a robust Fullerton offense. The fullback leads the Big West with 10 assists and is second on the team with seven goals. Her and Wilson have set each other up for 11 of CSUF’s 38 goals.

The Gauchos have their own one-two punch in freshman midfielder Mallory Hromatko and sophomore

striker Amanda Ball. Both players have four goals with two assists each in conference play.

“When it comes to Santa Barbara and Fullerton, that’s just a game that is going to come down to ‘who wants it more,’” Rangel said. “We for sure do, especially if we play Fullerton again. That’s an emotional game for us.”

The 49ers didn’t allow a single goal or assist from Wilson, Burkenroad, Hromatko or Ball the first time around, but it’s always tougher to repeat great performances.

“Basically it’s going to come down to what we can do,” said junior goalie Ashton McKeown, who was the starter until she injured her shoulder earlier in the season. “We just need to control ourselves, it’s all we can really focus on.”

The biggest question surrounding LBSU is: how will freshman goal-keeper Imani McDonald respond to the starting role at such a crucial part of the season? She has two shut-outs and three wins in her first three starts, and Ingrassia said he feels good about his young keeper.

LBSU starts the Tournament against UC Riverside on Thursday at 5 p.m. in Titan Stadium.

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Looking ahead to the Big West tourneyThe 49ers kick off their quest to the NCAA Tournament against UC Riverside.

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LBSU’s forward Fatmata Kamara battles for the ball with UC Riverside’s Alexa Bustamante in the Highlanders’ 2-1 win over the 49ers at George Allen Field.