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Week of WelcomeDAILY 49ERCalifornia State University, Long Beach

Money madnessWith the cost of living at an all time high in Southern California, students turn to part-time, and sometimes even full-time, work to help support themselves. The Daily 49er took a look at the numbers to see just how many are simultaneously emplyed and full time students.

71% of U.S. college undergraduates also work during school year. 51% of U.S. college

undergraduates working part time, work over 20 hours.

1 in 5employed U.S. college students are working full time.

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Benefits of working while in college: Challenges of working while in college:

— Source of income

— Builds time management skills

— Basic training for professional job market

— Working over 20 hours can decrease academic success

— Limits opportunities for extracurricular activities and building friendships

— Hinders intellectual and emotional development

Source: CollegeBoard

At the end of school I’ll have less debt, that’s one of the biggest benefits.

-Skyler Cox, senior theater major andOlive Garden employee, 20 hours per week

“ “ Sometimes you don’t have enough time to study so you have to cram it in one day.”

- Marsalis Saafir,sophomore civil engineering major and Lifeguard at Pools of Hope, 17 hours per week

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Bicycle thieves may be finding it hard-er to spot “easy pickings” at bicycle racks on campus as University Police are taking extra measures to educate students.

Sgt. Keith Caires of the University Po-lice noticed a spike in bike thefts when he began working at CSULB in 2013 and began making efforts with his team to combat it.

The measures included increasing foot patrols, educating students on locking up their bikes and applying for a grant to help students and faculty offset the cost of buying a U-Lock.

“[Community service officers] go on foot patrols and look for at-risk bikes, like bikes with cable locks the size of my mouse cord,” Caires said. “They’ll put a pamphlet on the bike and circle the U-Lock.”

Caires worked the Sustainable Trans-portation Program and the Cycling Club

to obtain a grant of $1,500 to offset the cost of 100 U-Locks for students or fac-ulty who registered their bikes in the month of August.

The lock costs $5 at the bookstore for the first 100 buyers. The Abus U-Lock usually retails for about $35 according to Caires.

In fall 2013, 41 people reported their bikes stolen from around the CSULB campus. The subsequent fall, campus police had 22 people report a bike theft, a decrease of 47 percent.

The property loss in fall 2013 was $20,819 but only $6,960 in fall 2014, a 66 percent decrease.

The efforts that led to this decrease focused on educating cyclists about se-curely storing their bicycles and encour-aging them to register their bicycles with the police.

Registering a bicycle on campus is free of charge and ensures that the police have its serial number. If it’s stolen and recovered, they can return the bike to the rightful owner and the police can charge the suspect with possession of stolen property.

“Just having it on your bike can be a deterrent for a thief,” Caires said. “They might think, ‘I don’t want to try to sell that bike, the police have its serial num-ber.’”

At this year’s campus housing move-in, University Police brought their mo-bile command unit and issued 94 licens-es that day, Caires said.

University Police and bike enthusiasts alike suggest a U-Lock as the best option for securing bicycles.

“Buy a quality lock, not a skinny cable lock, because those ones can get cut real-ly easily,” said PJ Alvarez, bike mechanic at Out-Spoke-n bike shop. “Especially at Cal State, a U-Lock is best.”

As a sponsor of the CSULB Cycling Club, Out-Spoke-n helped choose, order and deliver the locks for the program.

“We did this last year too, just getting more locks into people’s hands I’m sure has slowed down bike theft,” Alvarez said.

Catherine Bustamante, senior public relations major, hasn’t yet registered her bike, but does use a U-Lock.

“Honestly, what makes me feel safe is the lock because I know that people do steal bikes,” Bustamante said. “So for me, what makes me secure is the lock, because I know that it’s a good lock. I wouldn’t use just the extension with a padlock because I know those get cut all the time.”

Caires added that the “hotspots” for bike theft seem to be at the library, Liberal Arts 1 building bike racks and near the tennis courts.

Efforts to educate cyclists on bicycle security have led to a drop in thefts on campus, police say.

Bike thefts headed downhill

Justin Covington | Daily 49er

According to campus police, bike theft at California State University, Long Beach decreased by 47 percent last year, with 41 reported stolen in 2013 and 22 reported stolen last year.

By Valerie OsierStaff Writer

Before Marco Heid left Germany, the emails welcoming him to study abroad in California warned him that his first week would not be an easy one.

But instead of struggling to crash a class or two, the Open University program only allowed Heid to enroll in classes on the first day of school, forcing him to crash every single course he wanted to take this semes-ter.

“When they sent emails to us be-fore we came here, nine out of 10 of them included [a notice] that domes-tic students were preferred,” Heid said.

After a stressful week enrolling in classes and navigating through a foreign bureaucratic system, Heid got his 13 units and is now a full time student at California State University, Long Beach.

And the clock is ticking for the other 300 study abroad students who only have until this Friday to lock in all of their classes.

“You need to go to the professors, get their signature and sometimes beg,” said Danish mechanical engi-neering student Kristian Therkild-sen. “We have a deadline of Sept. 4, but some professors won’t add you until Sept. 7.”

Like any other full time student, study abroad students need to be reg-istered for at least 12 units. For them however, they risk of losing their vi-sas if they cannot get enough classes.

“You are not allowed to study here if you don’t have [12 units],” Ther-

kildsen said. “You can get kicked out of the country.”

Study abroad students pay $5,900 to study for one semester at CSULB, nearly twice the amount that Califor-nia residents pay. Yet that cost alone does not guarantee them a spot in any class, said Terrence Graham, as-sociate dean of the Center for Inter-national Education.

“If they do not find open seats in their desired courses, they will have to be as flexible as possible and open their mind to alternative courses… that would be enriching,” Graham said. “[Study abroad] students come here with the awareness that no courses are guaranteed.”

To fill the gap in missing units, study abroad students said they en-roll in courses that they do not fit in with their major. One option is to pick up 1-unit kinesiology courses, such as surfing, weight training or yoga.

Study abroad students say that they are also falling behind on their studies. Many of them are not able to access readings and assignments on Beach Board.

“We can’t log into Beach Board,” said William Sandt, a global business engineering student from Denmark. “We have homework for next week, but we don’t know what it is.”

Sandt said that he had only eight units by the end of the first week.

Yet the study abroad department has been working overtime to not leave their students behind, Graham said.

A team of three full-time staff members and four student advisors were working to make sure these stu-dents get to stay in the country.

“We are doing everything that we can to make this as smooth as possi-ble for our students,” Graham said. “Our team is working 8 to 5, but they are really putting in more like 8 to 8 every day for the past month just to get everything set up.”

Therkildsen, Sandt and Heid said that despite their stressful first week, they are looking forward to a semes-ter at CSULB.

“All of our [study abroad] stu-dents have been able to be regis-tered in 12 units and fulfill the ba-sic requirements of an F-1 student visa,” Graham said. “No one has gone home because they couldn’t find 12 units.”

Exchange at CSULB students struggle to get full-time status.

California stressin’

By Collin JamesSenior Reporter

Correction

Last Monday’s review of Mac Demarco’s newest album should have listed the title as “Another One.”

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With the search for a permanent chair still ongoing, Chris Burnett, a longtime professor at California State University, Long Beach, has readily stepped in to fill the void left in the university’s theater de-partment.

Burnett, a former chair of the journal-ism department at CSULB, took over as interim chair at the start of the month.

The Daily 49er spoke to Burnett about his new position, the crossover between departments and his goals for the 2015-2016 school year.

How did you become interim chair of the theater department? Was it some-thing you applied for or were you ap-proached about it?

I got a call in June from the College of the Arts, asking if I was interested in step-ping in. The department of journalism rec-ommended me and after some meetings and an interview with Dean Cyrus Park-er-Jeannette, I got the job in early August.

Do you have a background in the arts or experience with theater?

My background in the arts is pretty dat-

ed right now. When I was in high school and college I played the trumpet in the marching band. I grew up in Ohio and in that part of the country being in the marching band is a big deal because it goes with football; it’s the unofficial sport and religion of the state... If can be modest, I was actually pretty good: first chair.

As interim chair of the department, what does your job entail and what are your responsibilities?

Basically, it involves serving as the one who advocates for students and works with faculty to keep the department running as best as possible while they do a national search for a permanent chair... This past week we had our first meeting, and I’ve been gradually immersing myself into it. I’m just trying to get to know people be-cause a big part of being chair or being part of any program is understanding the per-sonalities of those you work with.

Were you at all intimidated about the new job and do you find any similarities between journalism and theater?

I wouldn’t call it intimidation, more nervousness. I’m working in an area that I’m obviously uncomfortable with, but at the same time I’m really excited. The thing that helps anybody grow is taking on new challenges... Theater and journalism ac-tually have a lot in common. Journalists write about things that are occurring in the world. In theater you’re acting or working back stage and producing work sometimes about real issues. While theater is techni-cally fiction and journalism involves fact there is a lot of mix and ultimately both professions give students an opportunity

to learn through doing... It’s not the same sitting in a lecture hall, reading books and writing papers. Both have practical appli-cations and it’s going to be helpful for what-ever you end doing.

Do you have any goals as interim chair for the upcoming year?

I hope a lot of students take advantage of the theater program because a great thing about being on a college campus is that you have these cultural opportu-nities, so even if you’re not taking it as a class, I highly recommend students to attend. One of the best parts of being the chair and a professor is talking to stu-dents and not just in class. You know, not

necessarily hearing myself talk, but hear-ing what students have to say... This is go-ing to be a new one for me, but I think it will be memorable and help expand my universe. In journalism you get a chance to meet a lot of interesting people, and I feel that the theater faculty and students will be just as interesting or maybe even more so.

Incoming interim chairman Christopher Burnett discusses his new position.

New theater chairman opens up

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Former journalism department chair Christopher Burnett accepted the interim chairman for the theatre department at the start of the fall 2015 semster.

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Column LBT virgin rides hard Follow the tales of one inexperienced woman’s journey to downtown — hold onto your hats, it’s about to get bumpy.

Long Beach is a melting pot of a city, riddled with all walks of life — including the rare few who hold out until they are 22.

A lot of kids in the city have al-

ready had their first ride; teenagers all over town try it for the first time as they claim their independence, and young adults who roam the cam-pus of the local California State Uni-versity, Long Beach are well-versed in the various positions, varieties and routes—some even have a few favor-ites.

So where does that leave me—a 22-year-old with absolutely no expe-rience whatsoever—taking my first ride?

Here’s the thing. Public transpor-tation in the city is extremely self-ex-planatory.

There was ultimately no need for the wasted hours I spent studying the LBT website, learning the routes and watching YouTube tutorials on how to tap my free CSULB-provided tap

card. The random texts I shot to my

more advanced friends in the hours leading up to my first ride (for exam-ple: “hey bud, are there rules about eating on the bus?) put me to shame to say the least.

But guys, when you’re 22 and a Long Beach native like myself, you re-ally don’t want to look stupid climb-ing aboard for the first time.

So, in case you find yourself in the position like the one I found myself at the start of the fall semester—car-less, rideless and in desperate need of transportation—avoid these two things:

1. The line at the Cashier’s Office to pick up your tap card. I thought for sure that getting there a 20-30 minutes before it opened during the

first week of school would help me avoid the line… wrong.

I recommend getting it before the semester even starts if possible, or in the afternoon, when it’s hot and people have given up on the day and gone home.

2. The handicap section: It’s the first section of the bus, and if you’re an oblivious LBT virgin like I was, you’ll be right in the way when some-one needs to lift the seat you’re sit-ting in against the wall in order to make room for a wheelchair.

It’s awkward, and chances are you didn’t do it on purpose, but you’re still a sitting duck when the bus driv-er needs your space.

I know… this is probably routine stuff to most of the experienced rid-ers in the city; I’m hoping this column

will be of some use to those out there, losers like me who’ve waited until they were way too old, way too awkward and way too insecure, to ride public transportation for the first time.

If anything, there will be stories and anecdotes to enjoy about the wonder-ful Long Beach natives aboard the city’s buses; like my new friend Charlie, a street-roamer who wears a thick brown jacket that has comfortably fit his wrin-kling body since he was a young man.

I met Charlie on my second ride. Catch the story of me and Charlie on the bus swapping stories of stars-signs and romance on the ride from down-town to CSULB in next week’s LBT Virgin Rides HARD column. That’s right… I may not have waited till mar-riage, but I sure waited a long time for that first ride.

By Paige PelonisMultimedia Managing Editor

Best known for his wild updo and panty-dropping voice, Abel Tesfaye reveals a softer and poppier side of his alter ego and stage name, The Weeknd, in his third album “Beauty Behind the Madness.”

Coming onto the scene in 2011, The Weeknd’s biography was origi-nally shrouded in mystery. Tesfaye didn’t give interviews and never di-vulged his personal life.

Instead, he communicated through his lyrics, singing about taking drugs like candy and treating casual sex as a pastime.

Although these themes still run through “Beauty Behind the Mad-ness,” The Weeknd has opened up in different directions, shedding some of the mystery and delving into the why.

In the album’s first track “Real Life,” he talks about his mother’s concern for him and why love has seemed so elusive for The Weeknd.

“Mama called me destructive / Mama talking that real life, oh oh oh.”

But it isn’t just the first song that narrates the struggles he’s faced with her and the difficulties he’s had with

falling in love. In “Acquainted” he sings about the

fear and emotional distress he feels over being attached to someone. Tes-faye again talks about his mother’s concerns over his inability to find love and happiness within himself because of the life he leads, but im-mediately softens up as he continues on about a girl in his life.

“Momma caught me cryin’, cryin’, cryin’, cryin’ / I won’t find somebody that’s real / She wants somebody that’s real / But ever since I met you / I can’t believe what you did.”

Although he constantly rejects love, he proves through this song that it isn’t about finding “love” for him; it’s just the process of “falling in love” and what it might mean for his career since romance and love is far from what The Weeknd stands for.

This seems to be a bit odd for those who have followed The Weeknd long before “Beauty Behind the Madness.” Fans of his music imagine The Week-nd as some guy chilling on a couch, stoned out of his mind while an end-less supply of women and drugs cir-culate around. It’s almost laughable to think that The Weeknd has gone soft for a girl.

“You got me puttin’ time in, time in/ Nobody got me feeling this way/ I’m used to bitches comin’ right ‘way”

Of course, there are certain songs that solidify the fact that he still remains “that nigga with the hair, singing ‘bout popping pills, fucking bitches, living life so trill.”

Songs like “The Hills” and “Often,” singles that came out before the al-bum did, made sure the public was still aware of his sex, drugs and hip-

hop lifestyle but after taking a closer listen to some of his other songs, it’s clear that an obvious shift has taken place, lyrically and musically.

His album has taken on a new, yet mainstream, tone that most art-ists seem to conform to once they’ve made it big in the industry.

According to the Billboard 100, “Can’t Feel My Face” is the The Weeknd’s first single that’s reached number one.

Although it’s a fan favorite, “Beau-ty Behind the Madness” certainly has a different feel than his previous al-bums and mixtapes, such as “House of Balloons” and “Trilogy.”

The track “Can’t Feel my Face” has become the “It” song of the moment. It’s much more upbeat than what The Weeknd is known for and is reminis-cent of Michael Jackson’s “The Way You Make Me Feel.” The jam caus-es you to get up off your feet, even though you’re secretly lamenting the overly commercial sound.

Regardless, one thing can’t be questioned: The Weeknd’s vocals.

With every tone and every note, The Weeknd excels in his ability to become a different character de-pending on the theme of the song.

In “The Hills,” The Weeknd shows off the higher end of his vocal range, yet fluidly mixes in a soft-spoken tone creating a dreary and hypnotic atmosphere, which has become a sig-nature of his sound.

“Beauty Behind the Madness” also features guests like Lana Del Rey, Ed Sheeran and Kanye West, whose distinctive styles permeate the songs they’re featured in.

Sheeran adds a romantic touch to

“Dark Times” while Lana Del Rey’s entrancing voice wonderfully com-plements The Weeknd’s vocals in “Prisoner.”

Overall, the album still holds the grittiness and darkness of Tesfaye’s life, but it’s clear that the allure of

generating mainstream and poppy hits is slowly starting to show.

But with accessibility also comes the limitations of pop music. “Beauty Behind the Madness” might be more radio-friendly, but in turn, the dark depravity has had to be toned down.

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The Weeknd’s “Beauty Behind the Madness” brings on a soft approach to intimate topics.

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Let’s be clear on one thing; there shouldn’t be anyone left that thinks smoking is good for them. We no longer

live in an age where we can claim ignorance.

But that also means that the people who smoke tobacco are con-sciously making a choice against healthy habits. Yet next year, Cali-fornia State University, Long Beach will attempt to make that choice for them.

President Conoley broke the news at this year’s convocation that smoking will be banned from campus by August 2016.

This is clearly a noble goal on its surface, but also represents a broad overreach for the university.

This plan to eliminate smoking

will begin with the launch of the Breathe Campaign from CSULB, which will focus on encouraging students to quit their habit.

As if it were only that easy.

If smoking were simply a rational decision, then it would already be eliminated from campus.

But within the community of CSULB students, there are a great many who smoke because they either enjoy it or can’t live without it. And the school plans to tell that group to go elsewhere.

Where is that elsewhere? Well, imagine you are sitting in a long lecture in the Hall of Science and want to duck out for a quick stress-reliever. What once would have been a quick five minutes and back will soon require a 30-minute walk to make it to the borders of the campus.

The school can say that they are not making the decision for the students, that they are still free to smoke if they choose, but this isn’t a reasonable choice at all. Students will either need incredibly under-standing professors, or incredibly

patient nerves. This type of catch-22 illustrates a

lack of foresight in this plan. In an interview with the Daily 49er,

Conoley also added that ashtrays would be removed from the campus along with the ban. The school clearly won’t need them anymore once smok-ing is banned on campus. As long as every smoker changes their lifestyle accordingly.

But why would they? Also in the in-terview, Conoley said that the school does not plan on actually issuing cita-tions to smokers for up to three years. No reprimanding, no need to change.

The reality is that there will still be smoking on campus. In hidden pockets around the school, in packed parking lots and in at the bus stops there will still be smoking.

There just won’t be ashtrays, mean-ing there will be cigarette butts, lots and lots of them.

But along with angry adults lacking cigarettes, scattered cigarette butts in dark corners across campus and stressed-out smokers looking for another vice, CSULB will be a host to a lack of acceptance.

Yes, cigarette smoke is annoying when it’s blown in your face. And yes, cigarettes are not the only way to relieve stress.

But the choice to smoke is a human right. What we do to ourselves to relax and prepare for the next class is not the university’s business.

Again, students on campus are adults; if they choose and want to smoke, they deserve to. Sometimes you need a light in the darkness of your school day.

CSULB should ban the smoking banOUR VIEW

Public universities should not police the student body’s bodies.

The look on the jour-nalist’s face was pure confusion. He looked sincere as he inter-vened and asked again

and again to ask the man behind the podium a question about immi-gration proposals.

An interruption turned into a tense exchange between profes-sionals, as the journalist, to his surprise, was asked to leave.

Respected and prominent Latino journalist Jorge Ramos was forcibly removed from a press conference with presidential candidate Donald Trump last week after asking a question about Trump’s stance on

immigration without first being called upon.

This was not another profession-al-to-professional showdown. Both men would have needed to act as professionals first.

Both parties acted equally impolite and neither extended the professional courtesies that are ex-pected of seasoned professionals.

“I’m a reporter, an immigrant, a senior citizen, I have a right to ask a question,” Ramos said before being escorted out by security detail.

By talking out of turn, Ramos disrupted order and broke news conference protocol. Though it is reasonable to consider the likeness, or unlikeliness, that Trump would have dodged Ramos’s questions altogether, that possibility is now purely speculation.

“Go back to Univision,” Trump said, interrupting Ramos’s insis-

tence to be heard and referencing the Latin broadcast network that he is currently entangled in legal disputes with.

Trump not only continued to alienate himself from potential

Latino voters, he dove to new lows with his choice of rhetoric and proved himself to be incapable of remaining calm, cool and collected, the manner in which presidents are expected to conduct themselves during moments of distress.

Of the many occasions President Obama has been interrupted by a reporter, during his Rose Garden remarks in 2012 he politely shut down Neil Munro of conservative news site Daily Caller.

“In answer to your question sir, and the next time I prefer you’d let me finish my statement before you ask that question, is this is the right thing to do for Americans,” Obama said addressing Munro’s question at the end of his speech.

Yes, there is a difference in character between President Obama and candidate Trump, but a silent agreement is made during every

kind of press conference between the media and its subject: I got you if you got me.

Ramos was eventually allowed back into the news conference, and the two continued bickering and squabbling.

The competing values of each man’s brand and reputation left both fighting to speak the last word.

Interviews are give and take. It’s easy to blame Trump for throw-ing Ramos out because he did the throwing.

But Ramos too, as a seasoned journalist, should respect the guidelines of press conferences and how to engage in proper journal-ism.

Professionalism isn’t too much to ask from anybody, from our sea-soned journalists to our presiden-tial candidates.

Ramos gets TrumpedLynohila WardStaff Writer

Donald Trump and Jorge Ramos are both at fault for Ramos’s dismissal during a press conference on Wednesday.

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With the new season only days away, LBSU’s young, injury plagued men’s water polo team looks to make its first NCAA Tournament appear-ance since 1991.

The 49ers will return only two of their top scorers and their starting goalkeeper from 2014. Arroyo, who will enter his 10th season in charge, said making the NCAA Tournament is always the goal at LBSU regardless of health and inexperience.

“Obviously some years you’ve got better chances than other years,” Arroyo said. “But I think that the program’s goal is always to get a shot to go to [the NCAA Tournament].”

The 49ers finished fourth in the MPSF with a 5-3 record last year and compiled an impressive 20-7 over-all record. 2014 was Arroyo’s third 20-win season in a row; the most consecutive 20-win seasons in 49er men’s water polo history.

As the fourth seed in the MPSF Tournament, the 49ers defeated No. 5 seed California 9-6 in the quarter-final. Then, in a semifinal matchup with No. 1 UCLA, LBSU upset the Bruins 5-3.

The 49ers moved on to host the No. 2 Stanford Cardinal in the championship game. LBSU and Stanford were tied 8-8 late in the fourth quarter before the Cardi-nal threw in a goal with 15 seconds left that crushed the 49ers’ hopes of their first MPSF title.

“I think I’ll be thinking about [that game] for a long time,” Ar-royo said. “But, on the other hand you have to move on. Stuff happens, to use a euphemism. You can’t sit around living in the past.”

Despite the impressive finish, and being minutes away from a title, the 49ers missed out on a chance at par-

ticipating in the NCAA Tournament.This year, the MPSF head coach-

es didn’t give the 49ers much love in the 2015 preseason poll. They picked LBSU to finish in sixth place behind UCLA, USC, California, Stanford and Pacific.

A r r o y o summed up the team’s ranking to injuries and the depar-ture of key seniors. How-ever, he said he believes

that the MPSF coaches’ rankings might have even been generous.

“I don’t know if a lot of the coach-es even knew about some of the in-juries,” Arroyo said. “We’ll see how it shakes out.”

Arroyo wouldn’t comment on the injuries aff licting his team, but did reveal that he’s missing six players; some of them key figures. One con-firmed absence is senior attacker Nolan McConnell, who will redshirt

the 2015 season. Mc-Connell was second on the team last year with 47 goals.

LBSU will start three f r e s h m e n and two

sophomores in their first game on Saturday, Arroyo said. Yet he re-mains excited about the new season and his newest players.

“Usually younger players need some time to adjust and be success-ful,” Arroyo said. “We’re going to try and bridge that gap as quickly as we can. That’ll determine how well we do.”

The 49ers start the season this weekend with four games as part of the Triton Invitational in La Jolla. LBSU will take on Redlands and No. 7 UC Santa Barbara on Saturday, fol-lowed by No. 14 Loyola Marymount and No. 5 Pacific on Sunday.

The Long Beach State women’s vol-leyball team is making their way to prime time. Fox Sports Prime Tick-et will broadcast the 49ers’ match against Cal State Northridge on Oct. 17.

Fox Sports also added the women’s soccer Big West tournament champi-onship game and a men’s soccer rival-ry matchup between UC Santa Barba-ra and Cal Poly.

The 49er volleyball team beat CSUN in both contests last season, and will look to continue that streak

at the Walter Pyramid. Mike Villamor, assistant commis-

sioner of the Big West Conference, said with LBSU going 16-0 last season and CSUN finishing in the top spots in recent years, having the match-up televised was a “natural fit.”

The final Big West broadcast will unveil the women’s soccer champion for 2015 at Cal State Fullerton’s Titan Stadium. The LBSU women’s soccer team (3-1-0) hopes to return to the championship game after being nar-rowly defeated by CSUF for the title in 2014.

Villamor said that with an NCAA-tournament berth on the line for the Big West Champion, the high profile match-up is bound to rake in the viewers for Fox.

As far as compensation, the simple exposure is the only recompense that the schools will receive.

“The [Big West] conference has a deal in place with Fox,” Villamor said. “There is no pay out for schools.”

The TV schedule for Big West bas-ketball games will be announced at the beginning of October.

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LBSU hopes to break into the tourney for the first time in 24 year.

MEN’S WATER POLO

NCAA Tournament or bust

By Josh BarajasSports Editor

John FaJardo | LBSU SportS 2014Head coach Gavin Arroyo will attempt to lead a team full of young players to his fourth consecutive 20-win season.

Fox Sports announced three Big West matches to be broadcast in the fall.

LBSU ATHLETICS

Hi, Mom!

By Kayce ContatoreAssistant Sports Editor

Women’s volleyball

FridayLong Beach State 3Alabama 1

Women’s soccer

FridayLong Beach State 2Iowa State 1

SaturdayLong Beach State 3Duke 2

SundayLong Beach State 1Bucknell 0 (OT)

SundayLong Beach State 1Saint Mary’s 3

LBSU SCOREBOARD

Three quick facts about LBSU men’s water polo

wHead coach Gavin Arroyo was named MPSF coach of the year in 2014 for the third time.

wThree LBSU players, Troy, Garrett and Chandler Kaltenbach, competed in the Pan American games this summer for Ecuador; they are triplets.

wIn 2014, Zacchary Kappos ranked fourth in the conference with 63 goals.