President Barack Obama ain’t doing right if you ask me. He promised change, but not much really has. Clinton, Bush, Carson and Rubio are

just more of the same. If I were you I would vote real change

in 2020. I’d vote for Kanye. Rapper/entrepreneur/designer/father/

inspiration Kanye West announced his candidacy for president of the United States in 2020 during his acceptance speech for the VMA Vanguard Award at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards.

Who is better fit to be president than

a man who stands on a platform that prohibits hate and bad self-esteem? Who wants to fight a man that wants to teach your kids to stand up and believe in “theyselves”? A country under Kanye’s leadership would be exciting and spon-taneous.

That is why we need to put him, and his stunner shades, in the oval office.

If you are terrified about mad genius Kanye starting World War III or anoth-er Great Depression, then you are being ridiculous. All Kanye has to do is drop a brand new pair of

Yeezys every six months and price them at $5,000 a pair, and people will actually buy them. Then he can distribute the profits to education and healthcare. Boom, economy, education and health-care in one fix.

As far as Kanye’s foreign policy, who doesn’t want to be friends with Kanye? Even the people that Kanye has embar-rassed on national television want to be his friend.

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Three weeks into the Long Beach State women’s volleyball season and freshman libero Mykah Wilson has al-ready made her presence known on the court for the 49ers.

Wilson earned Big West Defensive Player of the Week on Aug. 31 for her debut performances in the 49ers’ first three matches against Alabama, Duke and St. Mary’s. Wilson totaled 58 digs over the three matches and averaged 4.46 digs per set in the opening week-end.

While attending Southlake Carroll

High School in Southlake, Texas, Wil-son was an All-State selection her se-nior season and the District Defensive Player of the Year as a junior and senior. Wilson ended her high school career by leading the Dragons to back-to-back area championships and a third-place finish at the State tournament.

The Texas native talked to the Daily 49er about her decision to attend LBSU and seeing so much time on the court as a freshman.

What’s it like for you, as a freshman, to get playing time and earn Big West Defensive Player of the Week?

It’s been awesome and honestly, I owe it all to my team. I had goals for myself coming into this, but I never thought they would come true this fast. I just think that with the support system I’ve had behind me that it’s been great for me and I’m excited to see where we go as a team from here.

With temperatures rising across the Southland, the National Weather Service sent out a weather advisory across the Los Angels County warn-ing about hot, dry conditions and ele-vated fire danger.

“Some kids are hiking all across campus in the heat to get to class and all they want to do when they get there is sit in some nice air condition-ing, but it’s not happening,” freshman child development major Elizabeth Rundles said.

Paul Wingco, the energy and sus-tainability manager at California State University, Long Beach, said that the university would keep campus buildings cool to tide students and faculty over, but that high tempera-tures outside may mean slightly high-er temperatures inside as well.

“We try our best during the hottest summer days to maintain the same level of comfort in all campus build-ings,” Wingco said. “But occasionally we are asked by state energy officials or the electrical utility to reduce our electrical load to help avoid disrup-tions within the regional electric grid.”

Sophomore chemical engineer-ing major Urias Alvarez said that the majority of his classes are in the engi-neering buildings and that they have been very hot lately.

“It’s tough to pay attention… when you’re sticking to your chair,” Alvarez said.

According to the National Weather Service, Long Beach residents should expect to see peak temperatures in the low 90’s throughout the rest of the workweek, after which it will drop back to the mid 80’s.

Alvarez said that to remain sus-tainable during heat waves, the uni-versity should consider putting ener-gy efficient shades over the windows to prevent so much heat from getting into the classrooms.

In the case that CSULB is asked to reduce its energy usage, Wingco said that the university opts to reduce electrical loads that have little to no impact on campus operations.

Wingco said that that the campus would only adjust room temperatures above normal settings in the case that their first attempts at power reduction were not enough.

CSULB has an average electricity bill of about $600,000 a month in the summer, but only $300,000-400,000 in the non-summer seasons, Wingco said.

To help minimize the cost impact, Wingco said that we can reduce en-ergy waste by keeping windows and doors closed, lights turned off or down whenever possible and not run-ning electrical equipment between noon and 6 p.m. in the summer.

Conserving energy when heat strikes

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Fur coats, drama at the U.N. and reality shows are some of the reasons you should vote for Kanye West in 2020.

Temperatures inside classrooms may rise with heat.

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Freshman Mykah Wilson finds home at LBSU on the volleyball court.

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Lights outLong Beach

A series of power outages throughout Long Beach leave many in the dark.

7/15/15 — First power outageApproximately 4,800 customers went without power. The num-ber was reduced to 2,700 by the next day.

7/18/15 — A majority of power restored Southern California Edison and the City of Long Beach distrib-uted nearly 8,000 water bottles, 2,100 meals, 500 flashlights and bags of ice to those affected by the outage.

7/30/15 — Second power outageThe blackout affected approx-imately 30,000 SCE customers and was caused by another vault fire underground.

8/01/15 — Power restored to all SCE customers The remaining 260 customers affected by the blackout were provided power through tempo-rary generators.

8/04/15 — SCE restores grid power to all customersSCE officially committed to teth-ering all 307 manhole covers and vault locations in Down-town Long Beach as a safety precaution.

8/15/15 — Third power outage Roughly 19,500 SCE customers were without power until about 1:30 a.m. the next day.

8/30/15 — Fourth power outage Extreme heat damage of the SCE underground grids left hundreds without power for approximately 10 hours.

9/5/15 — Fifth power outage A broken cross arm on an SCE grid left approximately 824 customers without power over the weekend.

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Following the fifth power outage to

hit Long Beach in two months, the California Pub-

lic Utilities Commissions re-cently called for an investigation of

the electrical grid under the city.Early Saturday morning a broken

cross arm on one of the city’s power lines at Hackett Avenue left 824 Long Beach resi-

dents in the dark.Several explosions and fires in underground

vaults caused the first two incidences in July, leaving many areas of Long Beach in a complete blackout. The

first outage took five days to restore power; the longest Long Beach has gone without power in 60 years.The other outages in August are due to various causes, but

are most likely weather related, according to Southern California Edison officials.

SCE officials said that they are trying to understand the root cause of the July events and are taking measures to ensure something like this does not happen again.

“We acknowledge we’ve fallen short of the expectations Long Beach residents have for electricity reliability,” David Song, a spokes-person for SCE, said. “We apologize and recognize the inconvenience the outages have caused.”

Aleksey Volchek, a graduate of California State University, Long Beach, said that the power outages affected his work at We Labs, a collaborative business space in Downtown Long Beach. Volchek said that the outages prevented businesses at We Labs from accommodat-ing clients and set some of the start-up companies behind on their business models.

“I was out of work for days because the lab wasn’t able to accom-modate [due to] the outages,” Volchek said.

Jamie Cueto, a senior recreational therapy major, said that the out-ages left his entire neighborhood in total darkness.

“That moment when you’re playing Amnesia [a video game] and the lights go off in the game and in reality is pretty scary,” Cueto said.

The investigation process behind the outages will involve investi-gations by three different companies – CPUC, SCE and an indepen-

dent consultant.“The next step is trying to understand why we even got to the point of these extended outages,” Song said. “Was it an is-

sue with process, training or maps? We don’t want to miss anything.

SCE hired Davies Consulting, a Maryland based consulting firm, to help in their investigation of the

city’s power grids. SCE officials said that Davies Consulting is helping to look into why the net-

work protectors were not configured proper-ly.

SCE said that the investigations will hopefully lead to a comprehensive un-

derstanding of why the consecutive outages unfolded as they did.

Song said, “[That under-standing] will allow us to

make meaningful and sustainable changes

in our operation so these incidents

never happen again.”

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Sexual assault charges dropped

The main suspect in a sexual assault case investigated by the California State University, Long Beach police in August will not face charges due to the victim being unable to give testimony.

Lt. Richard Goodwin of the Uni-versity Police said that the suspect was originally detained by University Police, but was ultimately released be-cause the victim moved outside of the country. Goodwin said that suspect was subsequently banned from the CSULB campus for seven days.

In the original report filed, the suspect approached the victim in the campus library on Aug. 12. The sus-pect, described as a 50-to-60 year old man, assisted the victim in operat-ing the library’s photocopy machine, during which he asked the victim if she wanted his cell phone number. When the victim declined, the suspect al-legedly fondled the student’s buttocks, arm and leg.

A witness reported a man who matched the description sent out via email by the University Police on Aug. 28, Goodwin said. University police then brought the man in for ques-tioning and confirmed that he was the same suspect in the sexual assault case, Goodwin said.

Goodwin said the suspect is neither a student nor employee of the universi-ty but was visiting the public facilities.

Goodwin also said that the suspect could be punished through the court system If he continues to harass stu-dents on campus following his ban.

Bikes, boards and backpacks stolen

A student reported a men’s GT white and orange bike stolen from the Lot 15 racks near Earl Warren Drive and Merriam Bridge on Wednesday. The police have no record of a serial number, which means the bike likely was not registered, Goodwin said. The bike was locked with a coil lock and is valued at $500.

Goodwin said that a stainless steel BMX bike, valued at $800, was stolen from the bike rack north of the Main Library on Thursday. The bike is de-scribed as a FIT Bike Co. with 20-inch wheels.

A male student reported a long board skateboard stolen Thursday. The 24-year-old reporting the theft did not give a description of the board and there are no suspect leads.

A 23-year-old female reported her backpack stolen from Lot 14 on Wednesday between 4 and 6 p.m. The backpack was blue and contained text-books and notebooks with a total ap-proximate value is $155, according to Goodwin. There are no suspect leads.

Bike theft suspect arrested

University Po-lice arrested Jo-seph Eberhardt after a witness saw him attempt-ing to allegedly steal a bicycle from a bike rack

at Parkside Commons on Tuesday. When Eberhardt noticed the wit-ness looking at him, he attempted to leave campus, Goodwin said. Police detained him and he was found in possession of a bolt cutter and a car tire jack, which is used to separate locks, according to a police bulletin. The witness positively identified him and Eberhardt was arrested with possession of burglary tools and was ordered off the campus for seven days.

By Valerie Osier and Ross SievStaff Writers

California State University, Long Beach remained on Washington Monthly’s “Best Bang for the Buck” list for its third consecutive year, de-spite a change in the ranking system used to rate the universities.

Under the new classification, Washington Monthly separated uni-versities by region. CSULB placed 11th across the Western schools. CSULB ranked 10th overall in the list last year, across 386 universities.

“The key [message] of the univer-sity’s mission is access and quality,” said Michael Uhlenkamp, executive director of media and digital news at CSULB.

Washington Monthly ranked uni-versities based on their student loan default rate, graduation rate, whether graduates go on to earn enough to pay off their loans, net price attendance and number of students receiving Pell Grants.

The university’s student default loan rate for 2010-2011 was 5.5 per-cent, Uhlenkamp said. That rate was 1.2 percent lower than the rate of the California State University sys-tem and 3.4 percent lower than the average national public four-year in-stitutions rate, according to College Portraits, a data collection website for financial aid at different universities.

International computer science graduate Meet Trivedi said that even despite paying elevated international prices, he still feels that he is paying less than a majority of international students in the United States. Full-time international students pay the non-resident tuition of $7,690.00 per semester, according to the CSULB website.

“You really can’t beat the price, plus considering the location and

facilities available to students, it is worth attending Cal State Long Beach,” Trivedi said.

Uhlenkamp said that about 70 percent of all CSULB students re-ceive financial aid in some form. CSULB students collected over $300 million in financial aid during the 2014-2015 school year, he said.

The average tuition fee in 2013-2014 for CSULB full-time under-graduate students was $6,240 a year. Students on average paid only a third of that price, about $2,644, because of the financial aid they re-ceived, Uhlenkamp said.

Uhlenkamp said that graduation hit an “all-time high” over the last decade, rising 20 percent, “which is unheard of.”

the systematic initiatives in place to help students with proper advis-ing are to make sure as many stu-dents as possible are graduating in as close to four years as possible, according to Uhlenkamp.

Duan Jackson, executive director of the University Center for Under-graduate Advising, said that the ad-vising center has made an investment on using new e-advising tools to help students with their academic progress.

“It’s a partnership that’s being developed between students and advisors,” Jackson said.

One of the online programs is called Predictive Analytics and keeps student records in order to alert advisors when a student sways off track, Jackson said.

“[The university is] making ad-visors more accessible,” Jackson said. “We now get to spend a little more time with students. We can do a 30 second ‘gut check’ to get an overview of where a student is, [al-lowing] us to have a little more in-depth conversation with students.”

Sophomore fashion design major Haitanna Perez said that she really likes all the labs and help centers on campus.

“You’re getting a great education plus all the study help you need at such an affordable price,” Perez said. “We’re all going to have loans in the end. I’d just rather pay back $10,000 rather than $50,000.”

Washington Monthly states Long Beach as a pocket friendly university.

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The Art Theatre in conjunction with The Long Beach LGBTQ Center will be hosting the Qfilm Festival, the city’s longest running film festival, from Sept. 10 to 13.

Twenty-two years after the festival began as a one-night event at California State Universi-ty, Long Beach, it’s expanded to three days and has already sold 300 presale tickets according to Porter Gilberg, the executive director of The LGBTQ Center Long Beach.

“Our community is just getting stronger and stronger in realizing the value of investing in LGBTQ programming and LGBTQ organiza-tions,” said Gilberg.

This year the festival has not only added an additional night, but is also giving audience members the opportunity to vote for Best Nar-rative Feature and Best Documentary Feature, a first in Qfilm Festival history. The Audience Award winners will be announced on Sept. 14.

The Qfilm Festival will be presenting features that illustrate life within the LGBTQ communi-ty, with all proceeds going towards The LGBTQ Center Long Beach, an organization that offers a variety of health, social, advocacy and legal ser-vices to the LGBTQ community.

“We use funds raised from our festival to pay for things that are really the backbone of our or-ganization,” said Gilberg. “This year I anticipate we’ll raise about $15,000 to $20,000.”

The festival aims to appeal all audiences, re-gardless of his or her sexual orientation or gen-der identification.

“One of the biggest accomplishments of this event is we build community through film,” said Gilberg. “I think folks should be excited to come to an event where everyone feels welcome.”

More than 200 submissions were received this year from both professional and student

filmmakers. Out of that, 16 films were chosen to be screened. This year’s picks include “Tab Hunter Confidential,” about closeted, ‘50s Hol-lywood heartthrob Tab Hunter, which stars Clint Eastwood, Debbie Reynolds and Paul Newman.

Returning to the Qfilm festival, director An-drea Meyerson will also be premiering the final director’s cut of the documentary “Clambake,” which tells the story of Women’s Week in Prov-incetown, a grassroots gathering that has be-came the most popular weeklong lesbian event to date.

“We’re going to see a fully completed, mas-tered version of this film that no one has seen before,” said Gilberg.

The festival will also hold after-parties and Q and A’s, which will allow guests to interact and network with the creatives and cast members behind some of the flicks.

Tickets for the Long Beach Qfilm Festival are $12 for general admission, $50 for a 5-Film Block Pass and $140 for an All-Access Pass. For more information visit http://qfilmslongbeach.com/.

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755 Magnolia Ave, Long Beach, CA 90813Tacos: $1.25

This is a combo liquor store-taqueria you’d probably drive right past unless you were looking for it. More accurately, it looks like this place was once a liquor store when a tidal wave struck, washing up a taqueria and pulling most of the liquor store out to sea. The walls are mustard colored and the shelves above the register displays bottles of shampoo I must assume are for sale.

I order two asada tacos and a car-nitas taco from the lady working the plancha. Some minutes later I receive

a Styrofoam plate with four “asada” tacos. Whatever, I’m hungry.

The tacos are dressed with both salsa roja and salsa verde. From the first bite, I feel like my mouth has been flame-thrown. These tacos are spicy as hell and are not for the faint of tongue.

The asada lacks sear and char and its texture and color resem-bles stewed steak. The tortillas are dry-griddled but unfortunately of the machine-pressed, store-bought variety.

The tacos are overall pretty ho-hum and left me feeling like I’d been pepper sprayed in the face.

1473 Atlantic Ave, Long Beach, CA 90813Tacos: $1.00+

Inside of a bodega-slash-carniceria, the first thing I notice here are the heat lamps, under which sit pans labeled with meat varieties—bad news.

The system works like this: You give the taquero your order then walk over to the register where you pay and get a ticket to claim your tacos back at the grill. I order two asada tacos and a car-nitas taco.

The tacos are served naked, a hearty portion of meat on a double stack of tortillas. I like the DIY approach. The salsa bar has onions, cilantro, salsa verde and roja, limes, carrots—the works. There’s also a taqueria-style guacamole—emulsified and watery just how it should be.

The moment of truth: carnitas are dry and on the gristly side, a direct re-sult of the heat lamp. Any sign of the confit-style preparation that renders carnitas succulent is gone. The asada is sad, lacks seasoning and character.

The tortillas are mass-produced and decidedly not handmade. On top of this, they were heated in oil on the grill, imparting a greasy texture and giving the whole taco a funny canola taste.

The standout among the salsas is the salsa roja, which registers a slight kick.

I must unfortunately report that this is a classic case of quantity-over-qual-ity. Let this be a lesson to taqueros across the land. You will never ascend to the heights of the taco ranks using heat lamps.

We meet again taco-freaks. Worry not, mijos and mijas, for the gastro-quest continues. As I make my way through the vast landscape of Long Beach taque-rias—encountering the good, the bad and the ugly—I continue to contemplate the history behind this iconic Mexican finger food.

When we last left off, we’d travelled to pre-Colombian Mesoamerica in search of the origins of the taco. Somehow we ended up in the depths of 18th century Mexican silver mines, unearthing the taco’s etymology.

Today we’ll chart this most portable food’s migration across the border and find out how it conquered the palates of the norteamericano.

Now many may lay claim to being the

taco’s welcome mat in the states—I’m looking at you Texas—but according Gustavo Arellano book “Taco USA,” Americans were first introduced to the taco in downtown Los Angeles.

Olvera Street restaurant Cielito Lindo, started by Mexican immigrant Aurora Guerrero in the 1920’s, began selling taquitos—basically a rolled up taco that’s deep-fried.

Copycats took this recipe and ran with it, and thus the hard-shell taco was born. Soon the first Taco Bell was founded in San Bernardino and Americans went crazy for their appropriated fast food. It wasn’t until the 1980s that Mexican immigrants began pushing back against this abomination that had been dubbed “authentic.”

One of the first loncheras—or taco trucks—is credited to of Raul O. Marti-nez, according to Arellano. He modified an old ice cream truck, shoehorned a stove and a grill inside of it and began selling uncommon meat cuts such as al pastor and cabeza outside an East Los An-geles bar. So successful was this venture that he opened a restaurant, the first Taco King, and the rest is history.

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Throughout American history, many com-munities have been marginalized and dis-criminated against due

to their race, viewpoints or beliefs. Today, transgender people are the group that is the most misunder-stood and a victim of many hate crimes.

At this point in time, when acceptance towards the LGBTQI+ community is on the rise, so is the violence against transgender individuals. This year, Buzzfeed reported that hate crimes against LGBTQI+ people declined by 32 percent in 2014 compared to the previous year.

Unfortunately, hate-motivated violence against transgender people rose by 14 percent

How can we curb an alarming issue like this? Surprisingly, the answer may be education through reality television.

In so many instances it seems like reality TV shows like “Keeping up with the Kardashians” and such are anything but reality.

The amount of staging and script-

ing that goes into much of reality television is definitely contradictory to the word ‘reality.’

Fortunately this year, there have been a few reality television

shows that prove the genre can have substance.

They can create altruism, an ear-nestness in educating people about transgender people and present the issues they face.

The first reality television show released this year that highlights these issues is ABC Family’s “Be-coming Us.”

This show follows a family whose father has undergone a gen-der transition.

Another show that exhibits these qualities is TLC’s “I Am Jazz” which debuted in July. The show is unique because it follows Jazz Jennings, a teenager who was diagnosed with gender dysphoria at the age of 5, making her one of the youngest documented people with gender dysphoria.

Arguably the most notable of the reality shows following transgender people and highlighting their issues is “I Am Cait,” which airs on the E! Network.

This show has the potential for the most impact because it features a high-profile celebrity, Olympic gold medalist Caitlyn Jenner. The show follows Jenner’s transition into her new life as a woman, and while doing so highlights the issues that transgender people face in order to gain acceptance from their community.

“I Am Cait” opens the series with a serious tone, with the first episode addressing the very serious issue of the high suicide rate among transgender people.

The National Transgender Dis-crimination Survey reported that 4.6 percent of Americans have at-

tempted suicide, while 41 percent of transgender people have attempted suicide.

Continuing its serious tone, Caitlyn visits the parents of Kyler Prescott, a teenager who committed suicide due to transphobia.

Transphobia is an issue that is rarely spoken about, but thanks to “I Am Cait” and these other in-formative reality television shows, more attention is rightfully being drawn to it.

It is important that reality shows like these are on the air because they help educate society, lower the misunderstanding of the trans-gender community and increase acceptance.

By airing these shows and highlighting the prevalence of hate-crimes and damage caused by transphobia, real social change can happen.

Surveys chronicled in the book titled “The Lives of Transgender People,” which sheds light on the perspective of the transgender community, found that 60 percent of the transsexuals interviewed experienced violence or harassment due to transphobia.

Considering that many marginal-ized groups still face discrimination today, no one can expect the trans-gender community to be completely free of the hate that fuels discrim-ination.

With these informative reality television shows and other efforts, issues of transgender discrimina-tion will hopefully be less preva-lent, allowing the transgender com-munity to live their lives in peace as every human being deserves to.

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Reality TV may help curb transgender violence.

Alberto Reyes | Sipa USA | TNSCaitlyn Jenner is seen in New York City on June 30, 2015.

As far as Kanye’s foreign policy, who doesn’t want to be friends with Kanye?

Even the people that Kanye has embarrassed on national television want to be his friend.

Obama, to everyone’s dismay, actually took a step backwards from George W. Bush in regard to representing the nation with his fashion choices.

Obama is out there in the same, boring black and blue suits and those same, atrocious khakis and mom jeans.

At least “W” had his little air-force pilot outfit and initialed cowboy boots.

All this will change and more if you vote for Kanye in 2020.

Imagine, the most powerful man

in the world walking out for his inauguration on January 20, 2021, wearing the most dank fur coat ever.

Think about when President West walks out to the podium in his first State of the Union address, wearing a leather shirt with a feather scarf.

And you know Kanye will dress his cabinet on fleek as well.

What makes you think he won’t force his secretary of homeland security to wear one of his $120 plain white t-shirts?

And if you think for a second that First Lady Kim K will stop filming

her hit television show “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” upon her husband’s presidency, then you are sadly mistaken.

She can’t stand not being on camera, bickering with her mothers and sisters, and that means full, unadulterated access to the White House.

Sure, “House of Cards” and “Veep” kind of give us some insight to a day in the White House, but those aren’t reality television; and we all know that reality television is 100 percent real.

I’m leaving out all the other amazing events that will take place when Kanye is in office.

Who will Kanye have as his running mate? My guess is he will pick himself.

What will Kanye do at the United Nations meetings?

I predict he’ll take the microphone away from Vladimir Putin and say Joseph Stalin had the best oppressed Russia ever.

These are the kind of occurrences we will miss out on if you don’t vote Kanye for president in 2020.

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The Big West Conference revealed its fall schedule on Tuesday for games tele-vised on ESPN3 with Long Beach State featuring in four of the 15 scheduled matches.

The teams participating in this com-petition block will be both the women’s volleyball team and the women’s soccer team.

“The rollout of this fall’s ESPN3 schedule will showcase some strong ri-valries in both women’s volleyball and women’s soccer, giving our fans plenty

of opportunities to watch some intense competition,” Commissioner Dennis Farrel said in the press release.

LBSU will host three live-streamed volleyball games to be at the Walter Pyramid, all at 7 p.m., against UC Da-vis, UC Irvine and Hawaii on Friday, Sept. 25, Saturday, Sept. 26 and Friday, Nov. 6th respectively.

“I’m excited, I always feel like when-ever I turn on ESPN, it’s never volley-ball, so I’m excited for our sport to get out there,” Mykah Wilson, LBSU fresh-man libero, said.

The women’s soccer game at UC Ir-vine will also be broadcasted. The 49ers will visit the Anteaters on Sunday, Oct. 18, at 6 p.m.

ESPN3 will also stream both semifi-nal matchups in the women’s soccer Big West Tournament on Thursday, Nov. 5. The championship game will be tele-vised on Fox’s Prime Ticket on Sunday, Nov. 8.

The games will be broadcasted live on ESPN3.com, but is only available with a subscription with a cable provider.

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The one time that NFL commissioner Roger Goodell institutes a fair punishment and the case is thrown out

the window. That’s right, the NFL could not even successfully punish someone that they caught cheating.

U.S. District Judge Richard Berman dismissed Tom Brady’s case on Thursday regarding a four-game suspension issued by the league for his involvement in def lating footballs before the AFC Champi-onship.

Berman said that Brady did not have enough notice of the suspen-sion or investigation in that he would be punished for an act of wrongdoing. Berman also ruled that there was an unfair appeal process because Brady did not have prior access to investigative docu-ments or one of the key witnesses before Goodell suspended him.

What this case has revealed is that the NFL is completely inept at handling any issue regarding their athletes. Goodell had plenty of evidence to find Brady guilty, but mishandled the situation by not giving Brady notice of the suspen-sion or evidence used in the case.

It’s hard to say what is more upsetting, the fact that Brady is

getting off scot-free, or the fact that Goodell is so dictatorial that he can’t get even accomplish policing his own sport.

The public has seen too many

NFL players get into trouble. There was Ray Rice’s domestic violence case and Adrian Peterson’s child abuse case. There have been 87 arrests for domestic violence 80

NFL players in the past 14 years according to NBC news.

Sure, Brady’s case is different than the domestic violence issues that have plagued the league in the

past, but all of the cases should be handled the same way. With a fair and proper punishment issued.

But Roger Goodell has so clearly been ruling in such an arbitrary manner that he has lost all credibil-ity with his players and the fans.

Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger is on Brady’s side, saying that Goodell jumped to a conclusion with the punishment. Roethlisberger probably thought that Goodell made a mistake when he was suspended for his sexual assault case back in 2010.

The NFL is appealing the U.S. court’s decision, as they should, so that Brady can receive the proper punishment. However, Brady will still be able to play while the case is being handled.

And in the midst of all this, Brady has never looked more con-tent with himself than he does in every photo opportunity or meeting he is doing surrounding the case.

During a press conference on Sunday, Brady said he was awfully sorry for the two Patriots equip-ment management employees who were suspended indefinitely for being involved in def lategate.

“I think that, you know, it’s been a very tough situation for every-body,” Brady said during a press conference. “I certainly feel terrible for them that they’re not able to be with us right now.”

What Brady is really trying to say here is that he is ecstatic that he is not suspended for four games. Brady challenged Goodell’s law and managed to win, and he definitely won’t be the last.

And so it goes, Brady will step onto the football field Thursday night to play the Steelers in the first game of the NFL season. A symbol of everything the NFL cannot get right.

Another Brady bailoutPatriots quarterback Tom Brady is set to play season opener, but Goodell continues to fight for justice.

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Jeff Siner | Charlotte obServer | tnSNew England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, right, runs past a sign mocking the deflategate scandal at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, N.C., prior to a preseason game against the Panthers.

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LBSU ATHLETICS WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL

49ers to kill it on ESPNThe LBSU women’s volleyball and soccer teams will have games televised by the “world wide leader” in sports.

By Jordan DanielsStaff Writer

Why did you choose to come to LBSU?

The staff here is what really got me. I wanted to come to a winning program and I think that Brian [Gimillaro] obvious-ly knows what he’s doing, so I wanted to come out here. And I love California. I play sand [vol-leyball] too, so obviously Texas wasn’t the greatest spot for that.

How would you compare your freshman year in high school to your freshman year in college so far?

It’s weird how parallel it is because I was on varsity my freshman year. I went to a small country school so it was a small tiny town. The aspect of it is the same but here it is a much higher level. It’s the same jump just more stretched out and more difficult.

Any volleyball player you look up to?

I look up to April Ross so much. I’ve had the opportunity to meet her and talk to her. Her playing indoor, her four years at USC and then going out and doing what she’s done on the sand, that’s all I’ve ever wanted for myself. And I think she does a good job of carrying herself and that’s how I want to be.

How do you see yourself progress-ing over your time at LBSU?

I think if I’ve learned this much in the three weeks that I’ve been here, I think that the knowledge that [Gimillaro] is feeding into my brain, I think I’ll progress way more than I initially thought I would. From everything he is saying to us and drilling into us, I think eventually it will start clicking and I’ll just go forward.

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