Associated Student Inc. Sen. Mar-vin Flores reported Wednesday to the Senate that the Parking and Trans-portation Advisory Committee may be raising the price of parking per-mits because of the high demand on

campus. Flores said that he and ASI Vice

President Miriam Hernandez are working with the committee to see if there is something additional students can get, should the prices go up. The committee has not yet confirmed that the prices will be raised, or what that would do for the parking situation.

“They didn’t tell us what issues exactly they would be fixing,” Flores said.

The topic will be discussed again at next month’s committee meeting, Flores said.

Also during this week’s ASI meet-ing, Dhushy Sathianathan, Interim Vice President of Academic Planning, brought his proposal to the ASI Senate to change about 100 sections of Mon-

day and Wednesday classes into Mon-day, Wednesday, Friday classes. He cited concerns about space for classes and services and has brought his pro-posal to the Academic Senate.

Classroom availability is at capaci-ty Mondays through Thursdays and at 30 percent on Fridays. Sathianathan said that he feels that the space is be-ing underutilized.

There is a policy in place that has been ignored for several years due to low enrollment that states that classes scheduled for Monday and Wednes-day in the hours of 8-11 a.m must also be scheduled for Fridays, Sathiana-than said.

Move over Walt Dis-ney Concert Hall, a new architectural masterpiece moved in across the street

in Los Angeles this week. The Broad Museum on Grand Ave-

nue opened its doors Sunday, ushering visual arts connoisseurs in to view its 250 masterworks of contemporary art, according to a press release.

Art collectors and philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad founded the self-titled museum to share their per-

sonal collection with the public. “Edye and I are delighted to wel-

come the public to our museum,” said Eli Broad. “We built this collection and this museum so that contemporary art could be accessible to all. We cannot imagine a more fitting home for our collection and our museum than on Grand Avenue, where we join some of the world’s leading cultural institu-tions.”

In collaboration with Gensler rchi-tecture firm, Diller Scofidio + Renfro designed the museum to house over

2,000 pieces of art in total. Nicknamed “the veil and the vault,” the museum provides not only gallery space (the veil), but also extensive collection stor-age (the vault) for lending activities, according to the press release.

“Our goal has been to honor the responsibilities of the museum as a collecting institution by making the curatorial functions visible front and center,” said Elizabeth Diller, the prin-cipal-in-charge of Diller Scofidio + Renfro. “The porous exoskeleton that we call the veil admits filtered natu-

ral daylight, channeling light into the public spaces and galleries.”

The main exhibits house pieces from the 1950’s and 60’s through the 1990’s and includes works from artists like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein.

The Broad Museum is free and open Tuesday through Sunday. Visitors can reserve advanced tickets online to en-sure admission during their preferred date and time.

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Patrons visit the newly opened exhibit “Under the Table” by Robert Terrien at the Broad Museum in downtown Los Angeles.

Los Angeles’ Broad Museum opened up this week.

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Sathianathan said that tutoring and research support classes are usu-ally the last things to get scheduled in, causing cancellations.

“What I’m suggesting is that, I don’t want to fully change every-

body’s lifestyle, but at least from 8 to 11, we must follow the policy and have at least Monday, Wednesday, Friday [classes] so that we can keep some room for these other activities that we need in the primetime,” Sath-ianathan said. “Because right now we have absolutely no elbow room for any of that space.”

Sathianathan mentioned that the Chancellor’s O� ce thinks California State University, Long Beach has suf-� cient classroom space and does not

need to expand, and that the school only needs to manage and optimize its space better.

ASI Treasurer Wendy Lewis brought up during public comments that the Academic Advising and Resource Center for the College of Health and Human Services is inef-� cient in how they schedule appoint-ments and work with students. Fatima Hasan, senator for CHHS, echoed her comments.

“Everyone is kind of stuck scram-

bling to get appointments. It’s a night-mare,” Hasan said. “Maybe next se-mester you can get an appointment.”

Sen. Kimberly Krezen from the College of Education also reported problems with CED’s advising center later in her senator report. She said that students can no longer do walk-in appointments or call in for appoint-ments. � ey can only make appoint-ments online, which many students are having a problem with.

Krezen indicated that she may work

with Lewis on a solution to the overall problems with academic advising.

ASI Senate voted in Vrinda Bhuta as the Government Elections O� cer and con� rmed two other positions. Yael Jimenez was con� rmed as As-sociate Justice and Susy Cuevas was con� rmed as the new ASI Attorney General.

� e Senate also nominated and vot-ed in Sen. Nikki Estanol and Richard Borjas onto Lobby Corps, a sub-com-mittee of ASI Senate.

Long Beach City Council will move forward on the issue of medical mar-ijuana, dra� ing a provisional ordi-nance regulating dispensaries prior to the Governor’s expected signing of state legislation.

State Legislators recently passed a trio of bills, SB 643, AB 243 and AB 266. � ese bills provide comprehen-sive medical marijuana regulatory guidelines. � ey now await Governor Brown’s signature before becoming law.

Long Beach Vice Mayor Suja Lowenthal, who presided over the meeting in Mayor Robert Garcia’s ab-sence, brought the motion to the � oor.

“[City Council] would like direc-tion on if the majority of this coun-cil wants to move forward with an ordinance in place while we wait for the state framework to be developed and be in place,” Lowenthal said at the meeting. “I think that would be the right thing for the council to do tonight.”

At the Sept. 22 City Council meet-ing, the council voted 6-3 to approve a motion to dra� an ordinance a� er almost two hours of public comment and competing motions.

� e vote directed the city attor-ney to dra� a medical marijuana or-dinance taking into consideration eight items. � e items are related to limiting the number of dispensaries to nine by district or citywide, bu� er zones, cultivation, delivery, timing of implementation, labor agreements

and the allocation of medical mari-juana tax revenues.

District 3 Councilwoman Suz-ie Price, who has long maintained a stance against allowing medical marijuana dispensaries to operate in Long Beach, voted against the mo-tion.

“� ere is no doubt that dispensa-ries require city resources to support their function,” Price said. “� at is concerning at a time when we have limited resources and are approach-ing de� cit years, to once again try to

incorporate into our city an indus-try that has failed us before, because of quality life issues, is taking a huge risk.”

Price cited quality of life issues and a lack of consistent regulatory guidance from other governmental agencies, motioning to direct sta� to report back in 30 days with alterna-tives that allow patient access without a storefront.

Councilmember Stacy Mungo voted against allowing the dispen-saries, but instead motioned to con-

tinue the medical marijuana ban altogether.

� e citywide ban followed numer-ous legal lawsuits against the city due to a lack of state regulatory guidance. Since the ban, the city council has tak-en several steps to readdress the issue of medical marijuana.

In February, a city planning com-mission submitted a dra� medical marijuana ordinance and in August the Medical Cannabis Task Force sub-mitted its recommendations. Most recent the city’s legal team submit-

ted a report all-encompassing of city commissioned � ndings and new state guidelines.

Also apparent was the opposition to medical marijuana including that of Chantry Yee, an 8th District resi-dent who expressed concern that re-tail sales of marijuana can provide easy access for youth.

Once approved by the City Council, regulations would be provisional until state laws are operational. Governor Brown has until Oct. 11 to act on the bills before him.

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DON BARTLETTI | LOS ANGELES TIMES | TNSLonnie Painter, right, director of the Laguna Woods, Calif., retirement community’s medical marijuana collective, checks the freshness of a marijuana bud as he prepares a prescription for resident Benji Johnson. Johnson, 62, smokes marijuana to relieve discomfort from breast cancer chemotherapy and for stomach and spinal pain.

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Vice Mayor Suja Lowenthal brought the motion for an ordinance to the City Council floor.

The California Faculty Association is seeking authorization from union mem-bers at large to take concerted action and strike until their requested 5 percent salary increase is accepted.

In the midst of a campaign trail to raise support for “The Fight for Five,” CFA rep-resentatives touched base with Califor-nia State University, Long Beach staff on Wednesday to share new information on the faculty salary mediation process and solidify commitment to a potential faculty strike.

“We are not the enemy,” said CFA As-sociate Vice President Cecil Canton as he addressed the faculty. “But if they want war, God d-mn it, they will get war.”

The California State University Board of Trustees has offered a 2 percent General Salary Increase for the 25,000 state faculty members in the 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 school years, but the CFA has declined the offer.

Canton went on to explain during Wednesday’s meeting that in all his years as part of CFA bargaining committees, he had never seen action from the CSU Chan-

cellor without being on the brink of strike.“We are giving them every opportunity

to say ‘we were wrong,’” Canton said. “[The strike] will cost them a lot more than 5 per-cent if they don’t settle.”

“The Fight for Five” campaign has been the backbone of faculty salary negotiations between CFA and the California State Uni-versity system for the last few months and references the 5 percent increase desired by faculty.

After a formally declared impasse and numerous mediation sessions still failed to yield a consensus on a set percentage increase, CFA dug their heels into the dirt and took to the streets with campus meet-ings.

Eagan and Canton are at the forefront of the campaign, and are working with individual chapter representatives on CSU campuses to reach as many CFA represen-tatives and members as possible.

CSULB CFA Chapter President Doug-las Domingo-Forasté and CSULB Li-brarian Kelly Janousek, both of whom are serving on the bargaining team, were also present at Wednesday’s luncheon and made personalized pleas to mobilize Long Beach faculty.

The only chance faculty have to secure a higher salary before 2018, when the next CSU contract begins, is through this nego-tiation process, and the CFA sees no better way to win than with a strike.

“Bargaining is not about reason or ratio-nality,” Eagan said. “It’s about power.”

Final courses of action will likely be de-cided October 19-28, when CFA is set to open a 10-day voting period as response to a failed mediation report.

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CFA President Jennifer Eagen from California State University, East Bay informs attendants about “The Fight for Five” campaign on Wednesday at the Chartroom.

C a m p u s V o i C eWhat are your thoughts on a potential faCulty strike

through the Csu system?

“If the professors go on a strike for something that is irrelevant, then I think it would affect how other people think about it. If it had something to do with the students there on campus, then I think that people would be more accepting about it.”

—Sabina Neal, junior political science major

“I think that teachers should be paid more ... by increasing their salaries you could potentially increase the level of education the we get. It would make our tuition more worth it.”

—Angelo Afable, senior business marketing major

“I would not necessarily feel upset about it. I would feel kind of indifferent because I have paid my tuition to have a professor to teach me. But I can also understand the constraints because they have to strike in order to get their equal pay.”

—Cynnamon RV Baker, senior communication studies major

“Teachers in general are underrated, but I think they shouldn’t. I think they are underrated while athletes are overrated. But it depends on the reason why they would go on a strike. It could be a good reason, or it could be a bad reason.”

—Gabriel Sanchez, senior psychology major

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live music calendarThe weekend is nigh, good people. And you know what that means: Time to close the books and burn a rug. I know you’ve all been waiting for this calendar all week, so without further ado:

Strange Lot Platonic The War ToysMoondreamzzzQue Sera 1923 East 7th Street, Long Beach, CA 908049 p.m.21+$10

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Cadillac Tramps”JoyrideAlex’s Bar2913 E Anaheim StreetLong Beach, CA, 908049 p.m.21+$13 – 15

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Yonatan Gat RUDY De ANDAPookie and the Poodlez MeltedForest of TonguePanaderia bobby blundersMedia JewelerMADE in Long Beach236 Pine Ave, Long Beach, CA 908026 p.m.All ages$15-20

Songwriters Unplugged:Cat TerronesApostrophe Books5229 E 2nd St, Long Beach, CA 908032 – 5 p.m.All agesFree

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The Cold ShouldersKing KangSuzys 11411141 Aviation Blvd, Hermosa Beach, CA 902548 p.m.All agesFree

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“Balloon Dog (Blue) 1994-2000” by Jeff Koons

The Broad Museum opened on Grand Avenue in Los Angeles this week.

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The Broad Museum opened in Los Angeles this week. “Double America 2, 2014” by Glenn Ligon

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Top 7 ethnic restaurants in Long Beach.

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5. 39 Degrees665 Redondo Ave

Long Beach, 90814Hours: Monday-Saturday

Noon-9:30pm, Sundays 5pm-9pm

Rolls on rolls on rolls. 39 De-grees is not your typical sushi spot. It’s better. Try the Sexy Girl roll, the deep-fried Philadelphia roll and the mussels. Besides the eclectic roll list and relaxing lighting, the space is the right amount inviting to get you stuck in your seat until the friendly staff closes shop.

3. Dean’s Pizza929 Redondo Ave

Long Beach, 90804Hours: 11am-11pm daily

There’s nowhere else in Los Angeles County where you find a more unique food spot to get your pizza and Thai fix than Dean’s. They are experts at killing two birds with one stone, if you’re into deliciously crafted pizza and savory Pad Thai. Dean’s is an experience and a great place to serve a large group of friends with different food loves.

4. George’s Greek Café5316 East 2nd StreetLong Beach, 90803

Hours: Monday-Thursday and Sundays 10:30am-10pm, Fri-days and Saturdays 10:30am-

11pm

If you live in Long beach, you know about George’s. It’s home away from home. Classic Med-iterranean cuisine bleeds from this family-owned Greek-food mecca. Amongst the George’s scattered in Long Beach, the lo-cation on 2nd street is the most magnetizing; the open doors to a colorful street, the high, paint-ed ceilings and sidewalk seating are as delicious as the Saganaki, or “The Flaming Cheese.” Opa!

1. Callaloo Caribbean Kitchen4137 East Anaheim Street

Long Beach, 90804Hours: Tuesday-Thursday and

Sundays 11:30am-9pm, Fri-days and Saturdays 11:30am-

10pm

A burrito stuffed with goat meat? Mango hot sauce? Ox tail soup? Whether you are seasoned or new to Caribbean food, Callaloo will cement you into its spicy, genuine flair. The restaurant feels like your uncle’s house and feeds you like your grandmother. I recommend diving into unfamiliar names on the menu like doubles, plan-tains and roti. Callaloo will add Caribbean food to one of your favorites.

2. Monorom Cambodian Restaurant

2150 East Anaheim StreetLong Beach, 90804

Hours: 8:30am-8:30pm daily

Khmer food, or traditional Cambodian food, is found in abundance at Monorom. This tiny, authentic eatery is known for their simple yet delectable dishes and fantastic Phnom Penh noodles. Monorom is a di-amond in the rough among the several Cambodian restaurants in Long Beach and will turn you on to Cambodian food if you haven’t fallen in love already. Enjoy and slurp your noodles slowly, my friends.

7. Open Sesame5215 East 2nd StreetLong Beach, 90803

Hours: Monday-Thursday and Sundays 11am-10:30pm, Fridays and Saturdays 11am-

11pm

Holy Lebanese food Batman! Lines pour out of Open Sesame during 2nd Street’s annual Stroll and Savor. For a good reason. The Shwarma, kabobs and po-tatoes are as traditional Middle Eastern food as it can get. Open Sesame is both a 2nd Street go-to and Long Beach staple. The menu is easy to navigate and effectively educates anyone who has yet to dip his or her toes into the wonderful, garlic-filled world of Lebanese cuisine.

6. Alegria Cocina Latina115 Pine Ave

Long Beach, 90802Hours: Monday-Thursday and Sundays 11:30am-10pm, Fri-days 11:30am-2am, Saturdays

5pm-2am

If the entrancing inside, the merrymaking live music and mouthwatering plates of Alegria Cocina won’t captivate you, than get some coffee, go for run and pay attention. Alegria breathes traditional Latin pizzazz from the art lining the vibrant walls to the colorful tiles that cover the entryway and bar. Take a dip into the Dragon Berry Mojito and a bite out of the creamy Hu-mitas Chilenas. You’ll be danc-ing out the door.

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Efforts to halt the govern-ment’s mass surveillance of ordinary citizens have taken two forms: urging Congress to do the right thing (some-

thing it rarely does anymore) or suing spy agencies under the 4th Amendment (which prohibits most warrantless searches and seizures).

Neither strategy has been particular-ly effective.

Perhaps another route is available, using an amendment so rarely cited that the American Bar Association called it the “runt piglet” of our Constitution.

It’s the 3rd Amendment, which prohibits the federal government from lodging military personnel in your home.

Many Americans know that the 1st Amendment protects free speech and religious freedom, that the 2nd protects the right to bear arms and that others establish the right to a jury trial and freedom from cruel and unusual punishment.

Very few know what the 3rd Amendment does, and understandably so. Since colonial times and the early days of the republic, no one has been routinely forced to feed and house sol-diers. There has never been a Supreme Court case primarily based on the 3rd Amendment.

But let’s examine whether a case may be made.

The National Security Agency is part of the Department of Defense and therefore of our nation’s military.

By law, the NSA director must be a commissioned military officer, and per its mission statement, the NSA gathers information for military purposes. That’s strong evidence that NSA person-nel would qualify as soldiers under the 3rd Amendment.

And why did the framers prohibit the government lodging soldiers in private homes? Besides a general distaste for standing armies, quartering was costly for homeowners; it was also an annoy-ance that completely extinguished a family’s sense of privacy and made them feel violated.

Sound familiar?The British could spy on American

colonists by keeping soldiers among them.

Today, the government can simply read your email. Centuries ago, patriots wrote angry letters about soldiers ob-serving the ladies of the house at various stages of undress. Now, as John Oliver joked, the NSA can just view your intimate selfies.

If you’re like me and you text your wife to pick up a gallon of milk, your smartphone is an integral part of inter-nal household communication.

And in an era when your refrigerator, your thermostat, your sprinklers and your TV connect to the Internet and gather data on your household habits, can it really be doubted that an intrusion into these systems is an intrusion into your home?

It is not a stretch to say that the military has lodged itself in your home when it invades your personal space on your devices. Indeed, if the 3rd Amend-ment only applied to real estate, it would be moot, since the 5th Amendment provides a mechanism for compensa-tion when government uses property even briefly.

Technical reasoning aside, when the Supreme Court has interpreted the 3rd Amendment, it has emphasized privacy and the constraint of federal powers.

In Griswold v. Connecticut, the court stated the 3rd Amendment evinced the founders’ belief that a person’s home

should be free from agents of the state. In Youngstown Sheet & Tube v.

Sawyer, the court mentioned the 3rd Amendment to support limiting execu-tive power, even during crises.

In Laird v. Tatum, the 3rd Amend-ment was cited to support the notion that the military should have a limited role in civilian affairs.

These themes remain relevant in the modern debate.

In the only case in which the 3rd Amendment was directly applied (to disallow stationing National Guardsmen in prison guards’ housing during a prison guard strike), a federal appeals court decided that the “prop-erty-based privacy interests protected by the Third Amendment … extend to those recognized and permitted by society as founded on lawful … possession with a … right to exclude others.” Well, your computer is your property.

You can exclude others from it with a password.

So we shouldn’t tolerate a branch of the military establishing itself there either.

I’m not alone in seeing the ev-er-expanding federal government’s military-run surveillance as a modern form of quartering troops in our homes.

Several mainstream but inventive constitutional law professors have ar-gued that the 3rd Amendment applies to surveillance.

Like me, they see that the ubiqui-tous incorporeal presence of a military agency in our household systems is as significant to us as the physical pres-ence of redcoats was in the 1700s.

Let’s dust off the 3rd Amendment to make this point, and soon.— Mike Gatto, Los Angeles Times, TNS

The redcoat surveillance solutionHow do you hit on people if you don’t know what

their sexual orientation is?

Sincerely,

Lost at the Bar

Dear Sweetpea,

Dear Lost at the Bar,

The quick answer is: By hitting on them—respectfully, of course.

Some weeks ago, a male friend of mine was at a bar when another friendly gen-tleman sat next to him. They struck up a conversation and quickly realized they had a mutual love of motorcycles. Before they knew it, they were taking turns buying rounds and swapping stories of the open road.

After a few glasses of Dutch courage the friendly gentleman asked if male friend wanted to take a ride with him on his motorcycle. It took a second for male friend to register the intent of friendly gentleman’s offer. When he did, he gracefully declined and said he had a girlfriend.

While “gaydar” is proven malarkey, we’ve all been endowed with intuition. Think of flirting as call and response in jazz. If you don’t hear beautiful music back, you can safely assume it means they’re not interested. Whether it’s because they don’t bat for your team or because they just don’t dig you like that, what’s the difference?

The trick is to ease into it. Start a conversation with the hitee. While that might not always give you a definitive answer, you’ve at least established some kind of rapport with them and it’s not a complete shot in the dark.

Just know, putting yourself out there is always a roll of the dice, whatever your

sexual orientation. And being turned down is just part of the game.

Lost at the Bar, no doubt it’s difficult to navigate the social wilderness that exists between us all in order to make significant connection with other human beings. But this is only made worse if we don’t break past our doubts and engage others.

In the end, the male friend and friendly gentleman exchanged numbers and agreed to hit the road together, on their own bikes, of course. So even though sparks didn’t fly that night, a potential friendship was forged.

So take a risk. If you’re keeping it classy and they get sassy, make like a croc and say, “later ‘gator.”

Always,

Sweetpea

Yes, people still get upgraded just for being ‘nice’

Rude and uncooperative fellow-passengers make flying difficult for airline staff and fliers alike. And although there will always

be die-hards who insist that you can never get upgraded on a flight merely for being “nice,” I beg to differ. Consid-er my experience on a recent American Airlines flight between Los Angeles and New York’s JFK.

Lo and behold, the seat next to me in business class is empty as the door is about to close. With so many people at-taining “status” in American’s frequent flyer program, or paying $75 plus 15,000 miles for a one-way upgrade, it almost never happens on this route. Two minutes before scheduled takeoff and there’s a kerfuffle in economy. Someone is not happy with his seat and is letting the cabin crew know about it in no uncertain terms. Angry voices waft over the boarding music. Maybe someone wanted to sit next to a traveling companion. I was never able

to find out.A gate agent and a flight attendant

appear at my row. Gate agent: “Is this seat occupied?” Me (crestfallen): “Um, Noooo ...” Gate agent: “Well, I need to upgrade someone.” Flight attendant: “Shouldn’t we upgrade 12C?” (Row 12 is in the economy cabin). Gate agent, exasperated: “I an NOT rewarding that kind of behavior with an upgrade!” (Her exact words.) I’m guessing that 12C had some kind of status. Or felt he did. Or was the source of the problem.

So who got the upgrade? A young man who, I later learned, volunteered to change his seat to settle whatever dispute was going on back there. He had never flown in business or first class in his life. Young man, after the flight attendant pours the Lanson Champagne: “Dude, how much does this cost?” Me: “It’s free.” Young man: “Free? As much as you want free?” Me: “Yup, free. Enjoy!” A menu is handed out.

Young man: “Is this free too?” Me:

“Yes, everything is free.” I took as much pleasure watching him enjoy his well-deserved upgrade as he did experiencing it.

During the flight, a couple of flight attendants stopped by to thank him profusely for being such a trouper. “Things like that really do make our job easier,” one said.

Young man, sotto voce, as a passenger (tank top, tattoos, gym shorts, muscles, baseball-cap-on-backward) strolls past us to use the business class lavatory: “That’s the jerk who gave the flight attendants a hard time.” You guessed it, 12C. Al-though he didn’t get upgraded, he still felt he was entitled to use our lav, which he did several times during the flight.

Lesson: people really do get upgraded just for being nice. Sure, it doesn’t happen all the time but it does happen. And even if you’re not going be upgraded, be nice anyway.

— George Hobica, Airfarewatchdog.com, TNS

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Who: Cal Poly

When: Friday at 7 p.m.Where: Mott Athletics Center, San Luis Obispo

Need to know: � e Mustangs are heading into the 56th match-up with the 49ers, trailing in the all-time record 37-18. Cal Poly is looking to get their � rst win against the 49ers since 2013 at home this weekend. � e 49ers should watch out for sophomore setter Taylor Nelson who has made a name for her-self in the Mustang record books totaling 1,336 career assists and is averaging 10.60 assists per set.

Who: UC Santa Barbara

When: Saturday at 7 p.m.Where: � e � underdome, Santa Barbara

Need to know: � e Gauchos return home to the � underdome to take on the 49ers, which swept them in both matches last season. LBSU hitters will need to avoid freshman libero Emilia Petrachi who leads the defense for UCSB. She is averaging 4.38 digs per set and ranks second in the Big West. Petrachi recorded a match-high 19 digs against University of Hawaii last weekend.

Men’s Water Polo

Who: UC Irvine

When: Saturday at noonWhere: Anteater Aquatics Complex, Irvine

Need to know: � e black and blue rivalry continues as the Anteaters try and break a � ve game losing streak against LBSU. � e 49er defense will have to keep an eye on junior utility Kyle Trush who heads the Anteaters o� ensive attack with 18 goals and is ranked eight in the MPSF in goals per game, with an average of 2.00.

WEEKEND PREVIEW

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Outside hitter Nele Barber and the 49ers hope to go 4-0 in the confer-ence for a second consecutive season.

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After losing three of their last four, the 49ers look to get back on track with another win against Irvine.

Big West play kicks off this week-end and the Long Beach State wom-en’s soccer team is primed to make a run for the conference title, starting with a matchup against rival Cal State Fullerton.

Head coach Mauricio Ingrassia said he knows what his team’s style of play is and has no questions about the 49ers’ capability to win the whole thing.

“I usually like to say that at around eight to 10 games you find the iden-tity of a team.” Ingrassia said. “I feel like we’ve done a pretty good job with that. We’re fine tuning things now and still trying to improve week by week.”

Ingrassia took a moment to look

ahead at the Big West opponents.

CSU Fullerton (8 – 1 – 1)Goals scored: 27 Goals against: 13

Player to watch: Senior striker Re-becca Wilson leads all Big West play-ers with 10 goals in 2015. Wilson also leads the conference in points (23), shots (42) and game-winning goals (5).

Ingrassia: “They’re an experienced group, a team that’s been there and knows what this is about. They’ll be very tough. Every game is big, but this one maybe has a little extra because it’s a rematch of the Big West Final last year.”

Cal Poly (4 – 2 – 5)Goals scored: 15Goals against: 9

Player to watch for: Goalkeeper Alyssa Giannetti is averaging a whop-ping 5.91 saves per game and an ex-cellent 0.75 goals against average. The senior also leads the conference with an average of 98 minutes and 38 sec-onds between goals.

Ingrassia: “Cal Poly is a very power-

ful team physically. They are physical and they are also very experienced. They’ve got a lot of seniors, seniors that are very impactful, [this season] is kind of like their last ‘hoorah’ in terms of getting it done.”

CSUN (7 – 5 – 0)Goals scored: 24Goals against: 18

Player to watch: Sophomore striker Cynthia Sanchez powered the Mat-adors with eight goals, four of them game winners. Sanchez’s scoring tally is the second highest in the confer-ence.

Ingrassia: “CSUN is a very fiery team. They’ve got a good goal scorer, [and] they also had a very good pre-season. They’ll be tough.”

UC Santa Barbara (7 – 3 – 1)Goals scored: 17Goals against: 10

Player to watch for: The multital-ented, freshman midfielder Mallory Hromatko leads the Gauchos with five goals, four assists and three game winners. Her 14 total points rank fourth in the conference.

Ingrassia: “Santa Barbara is a young team, but they’ve got good players and good pieces. They had a good presea-son.”

UC Davis (7 – 3 – 1)Goals scored: 14Goals against: 6

Player to watch for: Junior strik-er Rachel Smith has the second most shots in the Big West with 39 and is tied for fourth with five goals netted in. Smith also has the third most shots on goal in the conference.

Ingrassia: “Davis is a team that is on the rise. They had a great turn around this year; they already have seven wins in the preseason. So, they’re going to be a force.”

UC Riverside (6 – 5 – 0)Goals scored: 16Goals against: 10

Player to watch for: Junior Blanca Barrio runs the midfield for the High-landers. She has four assists, tied for third best in the conference, and two goals to lead UCR.

Ingrassia: “UCR have been our nemesis the last couple of years.

[They] are also athletic and hard to play against. We’re going to have to be on our game to beat everyone in the conference.”

UC Irvine (4 – 6 – 1)Goals scored: 7Goals against: 17

Player to watch for: The bright spot for the Anteaters has been sophomore striker Kiana Palacios. She has one goal and 20 shots and three assists to lead Irvine with five points.

Ingrassia: “UCI is our rival as of late. They can beat anybody.”

Hawaii (3 – 6 – 1)Goals scored: 12Goals against: 16

Player to watch for: After missing the 2014 season through injury, strik-er Tiana Fujimoto is back with the Rainbow Warriors. The senior has one goal and one assist after netting 10 goals in 2013.

Ingrassia: “I haven’t seen much of Hawaii, but they returned their lead-ing scorer [Fujimoto] from 2013. So, I’m expecting a tough match from them.”

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8 SportSWOMEN’S SOCCER

Big West futbol returns LBSU’s women’s soccer team gears up for the start of conference play.

By Josh Barajas Sports Editor

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