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The California State University sys-tem last Wednesday rejected a proposal from the California Faculty Association that called for a 5 percent General Sal-ary Increase for the coming academic year.

The CSU had slotted a 2 percent sal-ary increase for all employees into its latest state budget, representing $65.5 million. According to the CSU, a 5 per-cent increase would call for an addition-al $69 million for Cal State faculty.

“Despite the past several lean budget years, we continue to try to improve compensation for all employees, said Toni Molle, the director of public affairs for the CSU, via email. “We agree that faculty should be properly compensat-ed for their service and contribution to our students. We are doing what we can, within our fiscal means, to address compensation concerns.”

Last week, the CSU Board of Trustees approved the 2 percent salary increase for the 23 university presidents and CSU executives, a move that has been criticized by the CFA.

“It is not lost on us that a 2 percent pay increase for a president earning in excess of $400,000 equals $8,000, while a 2 percent raise for a faculty member earning $40,000 is $800. Don’t kid yourself,” said Lillian Taiz, a member of the CFA bargaining team, in a release. “There is no similarity here.”

The CSU and CFA bargained for a 3 percent General Salary Increase for the 2014-15 academic year. That agreement was reached for one-year contract. Ac-cording to the CSU, the current contract being negotiated will also be a one-year deal at the request of the CFA.

The CSU currently spends 59 percent of its operating budget on its employees, Molle said. She also said that the CSU had 740 new tenure-track hires in 2014-15 and expects to hire another 800 this year.

The average salary for CSU faculty is $45,000 per year, according to the CFA.

“It is absolutely disheartening that Chancellor White and his management team doesn’t value the faculty enough to invest in us, and, by extension, our stu-dents,” Jennifer Eagan, the CFA pres-ident and a professor at Cal State East Bay, said in a release.

Over the last two years, the CSU spent $129.6 million in increased com-pensation with $65.2 million specifical-ly for faculty, Molle said.

The CFA, in its “Race to the Bottom” series examining the CSU system, said that as of fall 2014, more than 50 percent of CSU faculty earned less than $38,000 per year.

Negotiations for the current CFA contract began in May. At the latest meeting between the CFA and CSU on July 22, both sides decided that no fur-ther progress could be made and the State Mediation and Conciliation Ser-vice would appoint a mediator, the next step according to the California Higher Education Employment Relations Act.

Negotiations are at an impasse on a new contract for 2015-16.

CSU at stalemate with faculty

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Hands up, Long BeacHKayak medal winners hold their hands up for Long Beach in front of the podium at the Marine Stadium. The Special Olympic World Games

kicked off in Los Angeles Saturday with several events, such as sailing, cycling, open water swimming, beach volleyball and a half marathon, taking place throughout Long Beach. The largest humanitarian event in the world this year, and the largest event in Los Angeles since the 1984 Olympics, will be concluding on Sunday at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

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In 1986, Long Beach State athletics inducted the first hall of fame athletes to be remembered for honoring the tradition of LBSU.

This year, seven individuals and one championship team are to be in-ducted and remembered forever for all they did as a 49er.

The hall of fame induction takes place every other year and is a way for the LBSU athletics program to recog-nize the athletes who helped sustain the 49er brand.

Vic Cegles, LBSU athletic director, said that students and student athletes come to Long Beach for the brand of a successful athletic program.

“I think it’s really important for the athletics department here at Long Beach State to acknowledge such a great and rich tradition that we have,” Cegles said. “We have such a rich tra-dition, if you look back at basketball and baseball and all of our Olympic

sports and athletes, it’s a pretty special place, and we’re proud to acknowl-edge the success of these people.”

Many 49er athletes who have been inducted into the hall of fame have had great success as professional ath-letes. Misty May-Treanor has become

one of the most recognizable names in volleyball; Troy Tulowitzki and Jered Weaver are two of 33 Dirtbags who are currently playing in the MLB or minor league affiliates.

Wayne Stickney, a staff support member for the hall of fame, said that

the group of people who started the hall of fame decided that the school had something special going on and that they should celebrate the athletes

Seven individuals and one team join the ranks of 49er greats.

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Kayak medal winners hold their hands up for Long Beach in front of the podium at the Marine Stadium.

By Kayce ContatoreAssistant Sports Editor

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Over 100 students from Los Ange-les and Riverside counties have been spending the week on campus for a program about pursuing higher edu-cation.

The program, Pursuing Academics Through Higher Educational Studies (PATHS) @ the Beach is in it third year at California State University, Long Beach and is designed to give participants a “college experience,” a CSULB Media Relations press release stated.

There is an estimated 6,400 undoc-umented students in the California State University system, with about 650 attending CSULB, according to the university.

There are nearly 500,000 students overall in the CSU system.

Participants enroll in academic and college prep classes.

About 120 students are in SAT and ACT tests workshops, as well as class-es for essay writing, science, Algebra and geometry.

The program also provides pre-sentations on college admissions, financial aid, gender issues and the DREAM Success Center.

CSULB’s College Assistance Mi-grant Program is hosting PATHS @ the Beach in conjunction with the L.A. County Office of Education Mi-grant Education Region 10 and the Riverside County Office of Education Migrant Education Region 7.

The program will conclude Friday.

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Due to high humidity, Long Beach resi-dents are cautioned to take it easy Thursday and Friday.

“Our big concern is that the humid-ity this week is forecasted to be relatively high, which makes it feel hotter than the temperature might suggest,” Long Beach Health Officer Mitchell Kushner said in a city press release.

The temperatures will be in the low to mid-90s, with humidly of about 60 percent. The average humidity levels in Long Beach this time of year are roughly 65-70 percent, according to WeatherSpark.com.

“Certain groups such as the elderly, those with chronic illnesses, infants and young children are at greater risk for heat-related illness,” Kushner said in the press release. “It’s particularly important for individuals to seek air-conditioned envi-ronments during peak heat, such as stores, malls, libraries, park centers, and theaters.”

During combined high temperatures and humidity, people a re prone to heat cramps, heat exhaustion and heat stroke, especially those working or playing outside during peak temperatures.

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The Obama administration is con-fronting a tougher than expected fight with Congress over the Iran nuclear agreement and is scrambling to muster enough votes to ensure it survives, U.S. officials said.

White House officials are increas-ingly finding themselves on the de-fensive against criticism from Re-publicans and some Democrats, as well as vehement opposition from Israel, according to three officials, who all spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal politi-cal deliberations.

That battle will continue through the congressional recess in August. One of the officials said the adminis-tration is bracing for an all-out effort in the home districts of lawmakers by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the leading pro-Israel lobbying group, to press for rejection of the deal.

Congress has until September to review the accord struck by the U.S. and five other world powers with Iran on July 14. If lawmakers pass a resolution of disapproval — the likely outcome in the Republican-controlled House and Senate — Pres-ident Barack Obama can veto it. Ad-ministration officials are counting on having enough Democrats back-ing the president to sustain a veto, which would stand unless two-thirds of Congress voted to override it.

Officials are delivering assurances

to Congress that the administration is prepared to offer additional as-sistance to Israel and Persian Gulf states and to respond militarily to Iranian misbehavior.

Defense Secretary Ashton Cart-er told the Senate Armed Services Committee Wednesday that the U.S. retains all its military options in dealing with Iran under the deal. He said U.S. military options would be “marginally better” with the deal in place because of the increased intel-ligence gained from international in-spections of Iranian facilities.

Secretary of State John Kerry, Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew and Energy Secretary Earnest Moniz also have testified before congressional panels.

The White House sought to proj-ect assurance in public.

Deputy White House press secre-tary Eric Schultz told reporters on Wednesday that the administration was “confident our argument’s go-ing to prevail.” He cited recent state-ments from Dick Durbin of Illinois, the no. 2 Democrat in the Senate, and Rep. Sandy Levin of Michigan, a vet-eran Jewish Democrat in the House, in support of the deal.

At the same time, Schultz refused to say he was certain that the admin-istration had the votes it needs.

“I have other colleagues who are better gamblers than me, so I’m not going to do the odds business,”

Schultz said.Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee,

chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee and a skeptic about the deal, has said opponents would have tough time overriding an Obama veto. On Wednesday, some lawmak-ers said that assessment still stands.

“You think people are going to run out on the president?” Democratic Rep. Jim McDermott of Washington said when asked whether Obama’s fellow Democrats would support him.

That’s because, “the bottom line question is what’s your alternative” to the agreement? Gerald Connolly, a Virginia Democrat and member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said. “So far a lot of the critics don’t have anything remotely to offer.”

Connolly spoke as he was headed to a meeting with members of AIPAC who fanned out across Washington on Wednesday to lobby lawmakers.

“The proposed deal falls short of its intentions to eliminate every Ira-nian pathway to a nuclear weapon,” AIPAC President Robert Cohen wrote in a July 28 letter to members of Congress. “We urge you to oppose the deal in order to keep the United States and our allies safer.”

Obama personally made his pitch Wednesday during a meeting with House Democrats at the White House. Administration officials said Obama was looking to aggressively

engage critics of the deal.Wednesday’s meeting is only the

latest direct presidential outreach to wavering members of Congress. Last week, Obama hosted a dozen House Democrats at the White House to discuss the deal. The administration has made more than 100 phone calls to lawmakers supplementing brief-ings with members of Congress, ac-cording to an official who asked for anonymity to discuss the matter.

Rep. Cedric Richmond, a Louisi-ana Democrat who was among about 20 lawmakers traveling with Obama in Africa earlier this week, said that while he isn’t sure how the final vote will come out, the president is deter-mined to wage the fight.

“I talked to the president about it yesterday on the plane, and I’ve watched him engage in it,” Richmond said, calling Obama “very involved.”

The president has also looked to build support by tapping some of his most reliable backers. Obama will join a conference call on the Iran deal hosted by the Center for American Progress on Thursday, and “discuss the historic deal and its im-portance to the country and the in-ternational community,” according to an announcement sent to mem-bers of the administration-aligned policy group.

The White House, State Depart-ment, Energy Department, and Trea-sury Department also have engaged

in what the administration has de-scribed as contacts with hundreds of leaders of groups representing the Jewish community and organiza-tions for women, veterans and young people. They’ve also enlisted foreign policy experts and former govern-ment officials.

The administration is working to assuage the concerns of Shiite Iran’s Sunni rivals in the gulf who, led by the Saudis, have questioned wheth-er Iran can be trusted to honor the accord and how it may use its new-found clout and revenue in a region torn by sectarian conf licts. Many of the same concerns are being voiced by Israel.

Earlier this month, Obama met with Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir. While the U.S. president doesn’t typically hold White House meetings with foreign officials who aren’t heads of state, he saw Al-Jubeir at the request of Saudi King Salman.

Carter was dispatched to Israel last week for meetings with officials including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Carter also traveled to Saudi Arabia.

The White House has attempted to put critics of the deal on defense. Obama has likened critics of the Iran agreement to backers of the U.S. in-vasion of Iraq.

— Justin Sink and John Walcott, Bloomsberg News

Obama facing tougher than expected fight to sustain Iran deal

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Asif Kapadia’s “Amy” reveals the harsh reality of the relationship between artist and fame.

Unforgettable

By Madison d’ornellasOpinions Editor

On screen we watch her looking painfully nervous. Awkwardly standing in a dimly lit studio next to one of her heroes and a legendary jazz singer, we watch as she stops her side of the duet abruptly. “I’m sorry…I’m sorry,” she says to Tony Bennett like a child in trouble. “I don’t want to waste your time.”

“Amy” takes us inside the misunderstood heart and mind of one of the most famous British songwriters and vocalists, Amy Winehouse. Director Asif Kapadia re-moves the cloak of the jaded, sloppy image that plagued Winehouse during the last few years of her life.

The use of voicemails, early studio footage, faceless interviews, shaky paparazzi film and home videos gives “Amy” a raw feel. Throughout the film we are led mostly by Winehouse’s words, both played in the background and splashed on screen.

We hear it all; testimonials from her ex-husband, her

family, bodyguard and close friends, whom evi-dently were unable to help Winehouse during the peak of her downward spiral.

Winehouse’s reported substance abuse, alcohol addiction and eating disorder masked her critically acclaimed talent. Unfortunately, her bumps and bruises were the only way we could recognize her in the end.

Rough like Macy Gray. Deep like Ella Fitzger-ald. Smooth like Dinah Washington. Her voice emulated the richness of jazz and soul singers alike.

Winehouse first received her spotlight after the release of her debut album “Frank” in 2003. Named after Sinatra and the honesty of the lyrics, “Frank” introduced the world who Winehouse really was: a down-to-earth jazz singer.

Her sophomore and final album “Back to Black” skyrocketed her into a massive state of publicity, throwing her headfirst into arena gigs, front-page tabloid stories and talk show interrogations. Even from a distance, the world could see that she wasn’t handling it well.

This expertly paced biopic leads us slowly into the fire. Like “Lone Survivor” and “Titanic”, we al-ready know the ending. But with fluid transitions from one phase of her life to another, Winehouse’s life is displayed like an epic poem. With anticipa-tion, you watch and wait for the story to take its tragic turn.

To know the truth of this captivating artist, one should see “Amy.” We learn the meaning behind hits like “Back to Black,” “You Know I’m No Good” and “Rehab.” We also learn the affects of music manage-ment and quick success.

“Amy” is an example of how the lack of facilitat-ing an artist can help throw them into “misadven-tures.” Addiction and personal abuse were prominent at the end of Winehouse’s life, but her love of music and performing her written words breathe through the bad, and we are finally able see her, and hear her, clearly.

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Fans gathered and rumbled along the playing areas to cheer on the athletes participating in the Special Olympic World Games in Long Beach on Wednesday.

Alamitos Beach hosted volleyball and cycling; sailing competitions were held at Belmont Pier.

Special Olympics World Games has 165 countries represented and 6,500 ath-letes and 2,000 coaches participating this year, according to the Special Olympic games.

This will be the largest event in Los Angeles since the 1984 Olympic games, and will be the largest humanitarian event in the world this year.

John Nunn, an American rower who won a bronze medal in the 1968 Summer Olympic games said a few words before the kayaking award ceremony held at Marine Stadium Park. Nunn said he was excited to introduce the athletes that participated in the kayaking competition.

“One of the wonderful things about sports in general, is that kids can gain a whole lot of self confidence from participating in sports any sports,” Nunn said. “Especially for kids with more needs than others can use their success in a sports venue … to overcome other phases in life.”

The games will continue through Aug. 2 at various locations in Los Angeles and some of the contenders will return to Long Beach for other competitions.

Let the games beginPhotos and story by Jesus Ambrosio

Enthusastic fans cheer on the men’s beach volleyball bronze match between Kenya and Costa Rica. Representatives of Kaiser Permanente, a sponsor of the games, held up signs to encourage the athletes competing on the sand court. The fans cheered after every point regardless of who scored it highlighting the good sportsmanship the Special Olympics are known for.

Special Olympics volunteers row back to shore after helping four

teams from Greece and Norway get set at the starting line.

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Left, Costa Rica’s Jesus A. Montero sets the ball over the net during his teams bronze medal match against Kenya. Costa Rica went on to win the bronze medal over Kenya two sets to none. Right, a Long Beach police officer presents Russian cyclist Marina Vakhrusheva the gold medal in the cycling 1K time trials at Alamitos Beach with a time of 1:50.49.

Right, Ariel Ary holds up the Costa Rican flag in celebration after winning the bronze medal. Left, Yendri Solano of Costa Rica lifts her arms in excitement after receiving her medal for the mixed pairs kayak race.

One of the wonderful things about sports in general, is that kids can gain a whole lot of self confidence from participating in sports any sports.

-John Nunn,1968 U.S. Olympic rower“

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Tension is rising on Capitol Hill among Democrats and Republicans, concern-ing President Obama’s current negotiations

with Iran. Whether there is public support or

opposition towards the Iran nuclear deal, the motive for our politicians is for United States control over an oil-rich middle east.

Iran, a categorized “rogue state,” has been in talks with the U.S. about curtailing its nuclear program, almost to nothing, for nearly two years. The primary action of the deal is that the U.S. will provide Iran with over $100 billion dollars through lifted sanctions

with the stipulation of Iran allow-ing the United States full access to its nuclear program.

Obama’s diplomatic efforts to increase peace in the Middle East are viewed by Republicans as a sign of weakness and ignorance. Republicans choosing to dictate what Iran will do as opposed to negotiating what it will do is your classic case of good cop, bad cop.

For Iran the deal is simple, lie down or be put down.

“Under this deal, Iran will allow ro-bust monitoring of all its nuclear facili-ties. IAEA inspectors have the right to a physical or technical presence in all of Iran’s nuclear sites and will conduct regular monitoring of Iran’s entire nuclear fuel cycle and supply chain,” the White House website stated.

What should be realized is that the devil is not in the details.

Currently the United States is

again engaged in a war within the Middle East due to an outcry for help

from countries such as Syria and Iraq against the terrorist group, ISIS.

Since the war in Iraq began in the

early 2000’s, which was an anomaly being that Iraq had no involvement with the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the U.S. has made it their mission to rebuild the Middle East with a state of democracy.

What most people do not under-stand is that controlling the Middle East also means controlling a steady flow of oil to keep global energy prices stabilized.

ISIS now threatens this mission as well as Iran. But Iran is a more critical piece to this puzzle, due to its stance among the United States and its allies, specifically Israel. Iran leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called for the elimination of Israel, according to a 2014 CNN report.

Khamenei has stated that he is opposed to “a massacre of the Jewish people,” but that for the time being, “armed resistance is the cure.” He has also put the U.S. on its heels by calling for the western nations to be “armed

like Gaza.”Securing Israel also means securing

Middle Eastern oil, since the two are hand in glove. According to Forbes magazine, the United States spends billions of dollars every year to support Israel, in terms of security, from the threat of Iran and Islamic terrorist. This security also protects other Arab countries that produce oil, which also help sustain America’s military pres-ence in the region. If the U.S. security diminishes in the area, Iran would be the beneficiary, being that they would have access to their resources, which are currently blocked by U.S. military.

Ultimately, the U.S.’s financial incentive and duty to protect Israel, along with terrorism, will keep the war in the Middle East going.

Regardless if a nuclear deal is agreed to or not, whether there is a democrat or republican in office next year, turbu-lence in this region will persist.

Coercion disguised as peace talksMichael Mendoza

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The primary goal for the United States is keeping the Middle East under control and producing oil.

Olivier DOuliery | AbAcA Press | TNsAn anti-Nuclear sign stands in front of the White House after an Iran nuclear deal has been reached in Vienna July 14, in Washington, D.C.

Trinidad and Tobago and the following year Haiti got to host. Back then, six different teams in a span of 10 tournaments earned the right to be called CONCACAF champions.

Now that Mexico and the U.S. run the show, the only thing left to play for is bragging rights between the two. And there are some that accuse confederation executives of doing their damned-est to keep at least one of the powerhouses in the final, even if they don’t deserve it.

This year looked like that would all change. Ja-maica upset and moved past the U.S. in the semi-final and Panama was less than five minutes away from eliminating Mexico. One controversial pen-alty call in favor of Mexico later, the disillusion-

ment returned as Panama fell 2-1 in extra time. Once again Mexico lifted a trophy that didn’t

mean anything because it wasn’t snatched away from the United States. And yet, because Mexico is marketable to the 30 million people of Mexican decent living in the U.S., 68,000 people attended the final in Philadelphia and 6 million viewers watched from their homes.

The format looks like it will remain unchanged because in the CONCACAF executives’ eyes the tournament was a success. Even though Gold Cup masterminds Warner and Blazer are no longer in charge because they are facing jail time for cor-ruption, bribery and racketeering among other things, the next generation of executives.

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1991 Men’s Volleyball team

Evan LongoriaBaseball

Chris SegesmanWater Polo

Hannah GradyTennis

Stanford BrewerFootball and Track

Mark KerinsVolleyball

Keith GoldieTrack and Field

Craig DykemaBasketball

The Mexican national soccer team beat Jamaica 3-1 in the Gold Cup final on Sunday to lift a record tenth CON-CACAF regional tournament trophy that no one, not even Mexico, cares about.

Not Mexico, not the U.S. National Team, not CONCACAF and especially not the rest of the soccer world cares who the top team in the North Ameri-can, Central American and Caribbean region is.

Why? The tournament is a sham. The Gold Cup was established in

1991, around the same time that life was being jolted into American Soc-cer. Three years prior, on a very fit-ting Fourth of July in 1988, the United

States won its bid to host its first ever World Cup in 1994.

As a result, soccer’s popularity sky-rocketed in the U.S. for the first time since Pele joined the New York Cosmos in 1975. So much so, that Major League Soccer – America’s current professional soccer league – was created in 1993 and the CONCACAF regional tournament was revamped and turned into the CONCACAF Gold Cup it is today.

Also around this time, in 1990, Trin-idad and Tobago’s Jack Warner became CONCACAF president and the United Sates’ own Chuck Blazer became Gen-eral Secretary and Warner’s right-hand man.

The goal of this change was to build

up the United States National Team and hype the fan base in America in time for the World Cup. The first edition of the new-look tournament was held in the United States, and at first this seemed like a good idea. For the first time, the regional tournament would be held in a first world country, with first world facilities and in stadiums that could fit tens of thousands of fans.

No one knew that the tournament would actually never leave the United States.

Since 1991, the Gold Cup hasn’t left American soil. Twice, in 1993 and 2003, the hosting duties were shared with Mexico and this year’s edition featured two matches in Toronto giving Canada

its first taste of Gold Cup action.Also since 1991, The U.S. and Mexico

have won 12 out of the 13 Gold Cups played, the only exception being Cana-da’s triumph in 2000. This is hardly sur-prising when the U.S. and Mexico are virtually the home team nearly every Gold Cup match they play in.

Before the Gold Cup was created, there was an honest tournament that decided who the region’s best team was. It didn’t have a fancy name and the hosting duties were shared among the national teams participating. One year it was in Honduras, the next it was

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USA disappoints in a tournament where the real winners were confederation executives.

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The Long Beach State women’s basketball team unveiled its 2015-16 schedule on Monday.

San Diego State – The 49ers start the season off by hosting the San Diego State Aztecs on Nov. 13 at the Walter Pyramid.

LSU – LBSU defeated LSU at the Walter Pyramid last season 59-44, however this season, the 49ers must travel to Baton Rouge for a difficult game against the Tigers on Nov. 21.

USC – When the 49ers started the season last year 17-1, their only loss was a 90-85 overtime defeat against USC. LBSU will get its chance to avenge that loss when they visit the Trojans on Dec. 13.

Hawaii – LBSU will start league play by hosting the defending Big West regular season champions Hawaii on Jan. 7. At the Walter Pyramid, then again on Feb. 11 in Hawaii.

CSUN – The 49ers take on CSUN, the defending Big West tournament champions and the team that snapped LBSU’s 15 game win streak last season, for the first time at home on Feb. 4 and again on March 5 in Northridge.

Big West Tournament – The tour-nament will be held from March 8-12 with Irvine and Anaheim hosting.

Tip-off Date Opponent Location Time (PT)

11/13/15 vs. San Diego State Walter Pyramid 7:00 PM PT11/15/15 vs. Portland State Walter Pyramid 4:30 PM PT11/19/15 at Houston Houston, Texas TBA11/21/15 at LSU Baton Rouge, La. TBA

New Mexico State Tournament11/27/15 N.M. State Tournament Las Cruces, N.M. TBA11/28/15 N.M. State Tournament Las Cruces, N.M. TBA

12/02/15 at Pacific Stockton, Calif. 7:00 PM PT12/06/15 vs. Colorado Walter Pyramid 2:00 PM PT12/08/15 vs. San Francisco Walter Pyramid 7:00 PM PT12/13/15 at USC Los Angeles, Calif. 2:00 PM PT

Beach Classic12/19/15 Beach Classic Walter Pyramid TBA12/20/15 Beach Classic Walter Pyramid TBA

12/28/15 at Denver Denver, Colo. TBA12/31/15 at Seattle University Seattle, Wash. TBA01/07/16 vs. Hawai’i * Walter Pyramid 7:00 PM PT01/09/16 at Cal State Fullerton * Fullerton TBA01/14/16 vs. UC Riverside * Walter Pyramid 7:00 PM PT01/16/16 at UC Irvine * Irvine TBA01/21/16 vs. Cal State Fullerton * Walter Pyramid 7:00 PM PT01/28/16 at UC Davis * Davis TBA01/30/16 vs. Cal Poly * Walter Pyramid 4:00 PM PT02/04/16 vs. Cal State Northridge * Walter Pyramid 7:00 PM PT02/11/16 at Hawai’i * Honolulu, Hawaii TBA02/13/16 vs. UC Santa Barbara * Walter Pyramid 4:00 PM PT02/18/16 at UC Riverside * Riverside TBA02/20/16 at UC Santa Barbara * Santa Barbara TBA02/24/16 at Cal Poly * San Luis Obispo TBA02/27/16 vs. UC Irvine * Walter Pyramid TBA03/03/16 vs. UC Davis * Walter Pyramid 7:00 PM PT03/05/16 at Cal State Northridge * Northridge TBA

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who come through LBSU. “For us, the hall of fame is

very significant,” Stickney said. “It’s a hollowed group of people that we want to celebrate and recognize the contributions they made to the school. It’s an op-portunity for us to recognize our greats and to honor tradition.”

The hall of fame committee is made up of seven members who have a connection to LBSU and an extensive amount of athletic knowledge Stickney said.

Former Dirtbag and hall of fame committee chair Jeff Ta-gliaferri said the process starts with athlete nominations that come in three stages. The ath-letic department can submit names, then nominations are open to the public where com-munity members can submit anyone they think should be considered. The final stage is

the committee bringing people to the discussion table to put on the ballot.

From there, the committee members discuss the statistics of athletes and what they did for the school as well as for their team during their time as a 49er.

To be nominated for the hall of fame the athlete has to have been out of school for at least five years. Stickney said the de-cision-making process is a lot of dialogue and discussion about what the athletes did during their time as a 49er.

“I think it’s a testament to the athletes when you’re able to rec-ognize people who have put us on the map in athletics,” Taglia-ferri said. “When people bring notoriety to their school in their respective sports, I think it’s a big deal that is exciting.”