The crowd of supporters bowed their heads in prayer, raising cardboard can-dle cutouts to the sky as a tearful father addressed the growing crowd from be-hind the podium.

Long Beach community members held a prayer vigil on Wednesday for the recovery of Claudia Sanchez, who suffered a coma after working a 14-hour shift at the Long Beach Renaissance Ho-tel.

Claudia, a 20-year-old dishwasher, collapsed while leaving her shift at the hotel in April. An ambulance took Clau-dia to a hospital, where a CT scan re-vealed a cerebral hemorrhage, said Adan Alvarez, a communication specialist for the Los Angeles Alliance for a New

Economy.Fernando Sanchez, Claudia Sanchez’s

father, said that she is out of a coma but cannot walk on her own or say more than just a few words. Fernando also said that Claudia remains immobile on the right side of her body and is in great pain.

“After all Claudia has been through, after all the hard work she gave to the Re-naissance, we feel the least we can ask of them is that Claudia receive the care she needs to recover,” Fernando said tearfully.

According to a press release from LAANE, the Renaissance has currently denied all claims for workers compensa-tion for Claudia’s injury. The press release called on hotel administrators to “do the right thing” by taking responsibility for her injuries and reverse its decision.

Following the prayer segment of the vigil, the crowd marched into the Re-naissance to deliver a letter to the hotel administrators.

“Our hearts are with Claudia, but we should respect privacy, and this is a pri-vate matter,” said Renaissance Gener-al Manager Pam Ryan, addressing the crowd. “At the Marriott we take care of our people, and as much as I have empa-thy, I cannot comment on that.”

Among the supporters and colleagues, 13-year hotel employee Jose Diaz public-

ly expressed his solidarity with Claudia.“We love her and we miss her,” Diaz

said standing at the podium. “It is not the same to be here without her happy attitude.”

Wednesday’s vigil is only one of a few recent events organized in order to bring attention to the issues hotel workers face

in Long Beach.In July, protesters marched Down-

town to pressure officials to do more to protect hotel workers. Attorneys for employees of the Westin Hotel also filed a lawsuit against administrators in Au-gust. This month, Long Beach Coalition organizers hosted the Pillowcase Project,

an art event displaying pillowcases with expressions of support for hotel workers.

The hospitality industry now employs approximately 10 percent of the working population, not the largest, but still a size-able, growing portion of the community said California State University, Long Beach Sociology Professor Gary Hytrek.

The leisure and hospitality sector of Long Beach has grown partially because of changes in the city’s economic struc-ture shifting away from manufacturing, Hytrek said.

Leisure and hospitality workers aver-age payroll was $20,812, the lowest among 12 other sectors listed in a 2011 report on Long Beach’s economy by CSULB’s Of-fice of Economic Research.

Hytrek noted that publicly funded policy initiatives has repositioned the city as a tourist destination.

“I don’t think anyone has a problem with that,” Hytrek said. ‘What we are concerned with is if taxpayer money was used to pay subsidies those firms ought to be held to a high standard such as liv-able wages and work standards.”

Protesters are set to gather in front the Renaissance Hotel again on Thursday from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. to support hotel employees entangled in labor disputes with hotel administrators.

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The Associated Students, Inc. Senate voted in a new senator for the College of Health and Human Services at their weekly meeting Wednesday after going through four run-off votes.

ASI held the run-off election was between Jesus “Kyle” Martinez and Jeffrey Ferguson.

Martinez had the senate position last year and cited his previous ex-perience with ASI as a qualification for the position.

The initial roll-call vote came to 10-6, in favor of Martinez, which ASI Vice President Miriam Hernan-dez said was not enough of a majori-ty to make the vote. ASI bylaws call for a minimum requirement of “50 percent plus one” of the entire sen-ate. This led to a total of four run-off votes throughout the Senate meeting.

With multiple abstentions, the senate had a difficult time moving forward with the election because they could not come to a majority vote.

Richard Haller, the ASI executive director, had to refer to the ASI by-laws and working rules to try and figure out if the abstentions should

be counted toward the number of voters. ASI Chief Justice Jason Jose made the decision to count the ab-stentions toward the total number of voters.

After the first two run-off votes, multiple senators moved to postpone the election until next week, which failed. The Senate then decided to temporarily table the election to stay on schedule for the agenda.

After seeing a presentation from “Not Alone @ the Beach” by sexu-al assault victim’s advocate Candis Simmons-Davis, the Senate held an-other run-off vote. When they still could not come to a majority, they ta-bled the election temporarily again. The Senate returned to the topic after the rest of the items on their agenda had been discussed and came to a majority vote for Martinez.

The ASI Senate deliberated on how to move forward after they were originally unable come to a majority vote.

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Valerie Osier | Daily 49er Jesus “Kyle” Martinez is sworn in as the new Senator for the College of Health and Human Services. He will be joining Sen. Fatima Hasan to advocate for their college.

LONDON - European Union leaders tried to restore some integrity to their group’s name by agreeing early Thursday on new measures to alleviate the conti-nent’s migrant crisis despite deep rifts that have opened up between member nations.

After weeks of name-calling and finger-pointing, the heads of government of the 28 EU countries pledged to allocate more than $1 billion on improving conditions at camps for Syrian refugees in the Middle East, to discourage them from coming to Europe.

The leaders also agreed to work on better securing the bloc’s perimeter and setting up EU-ad-ministered facilities in front-line countries such as Greece and Italy to register and fingerprint new arrivals.

The emergency summit in Brus-sels lasted nearly seven hours and was conducted in a “better than expected atmosphere,” European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said. But rancor remained over a contentious proposal to resettle 120,000 refu-gees across the continent _ barely a quarter of the total number of asylum seekers who have already crossed into Europe this year.

The plan was approved by EU government ministers Tuesday through a rare majority vote rather than the usual consensus, over the angry objections of four Eastern European countries. Prime Minister Robert Fico of Slovakia has openly vowed to resist the plan, though EU law requires compli-ance.

“We won’t implement this decision because we think it can’t work,” Fico said Wednesday before the emergency summit in Brussels. “We always rejected it as nonsense.”

Such defiance elicited a blunt rejoinder from President Francois Hollande of France, one of the EU’s founding nations. “Those who don’t share our values, those who don’t even want to respect those principles, need to start asking themselves questions about their place in the European Union,” Hollande said.

The sharp words illustrate the tensions that the migrant crisis has unleashed and that threaten

to unravel some of the EU’s most significant achievements, such as free movement across borders.

In the past few weeks, several countries, including Germany and Hungary, have reintroduced border controls to try to check the influx of asylum seekers. The flow of peo-ple seems unstoppable. As many as 6,000 people from Syria, Afghan-istan, Iraq and other war-torn nations are landing every day on a handful of Greek islands to begin a trek into the heart of Europe, an ar-duous quest for sanctuary through the Balkans to wealthier nations such as Germany and Sweden.

Nearly 500,000 refugees and migrants have arrived in Europe this year; almost 3,000 have died making the attempt. Germany, the favored destination of many be-cause of its welcoming attitude and generous benefits, expects to take in up to 800,000 and possibly even 1 million refugees this year.

To stem the tide of asylum seek-ers, European leaders announced they would beef up patrols along the EU’s external borders, to help front-line states such as Greece and Italy where the migrants first make landfall. “The current chaos at our external borders must end,” said EU President Donald Tusk. “Proper management and control of our external borders is our common responsibility. It would be unfair to put all the burden on Italy or Greece or other coun-tries.”

The leaders also decided to allocate about $1.1 billion in EU funds to help the Middle Eastern countries sheltering Syrians who have fled the civil war in their homeland.

While Europe squabbles over how to deal with hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees, Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan have collectively taken in millions of them. “The measures we have agreed today will not end the crisis, but they are all necessary steps in the right direction,” Tusk said, adding: “Tonight we have a common understanding that we cannot continue like we did before.”

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Two suspects were arrested on un-related warrants after they were caught near the Beach Cart, near the College of Business Administration building after the burglary alarm rang early Saturday morning.

“They were in possession of some product that was said to be from the Beach Cart,” Lt. Richard Goodwin of the University Police said.

Goodwin said that University Police are currently investigating whether they were the suspects who set off the food stand alarm.

Phone grows feet

A student had his phone stolen at the University Library on Sept. 16 when someone asked to use his phone and “walked off with it,” Goodwin said.

The suspect left his backpack and some shoes with the victim. The student described the suspect as a 20-to-22-year-old Asian male, 5’ 6’’ tall with black hair and wearing a black t-shirt and dark jeans. There was reportedly nothing in the backpack that identified the suspect.

The victim decided not to file a report and said he would deactivate his phone.

Verbal argument elevates

Police were called to the Engi-neering Complex Sept. 16 at noon when two employees were having a verbal argument and it was stated that one person had a gun. Good-win said officers responded and discovered that the gun was not ac-tually in either person’s possession, but at their home.

“That’s one of those calls that gets your blood pressure up,” Good-win said.

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Originally a 2005 grassroots start-up established in its founder’s home, the Center for Latino Community Health recently moved into a new home in the basement dwellings of the Social Science and Public Ad-ministration building at California State University, Long Beach.

The Center will be celebrating its 10th anniversary and new home on Friday.

The celebration will begin at 10 a.m. with a guest lecture from Da-vid Hayes-Bautista, the director of the Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture in UCLA’s School of Medicine.

The celebration will also include a Mexica Folklorico performance, speeches from CSULB President Jane Close Conoley, and current director, Dr. Mara Bird.

It will end with a ribbon cutting ceremony and rededication to the new location.

The Daily 49er sat down with Bird to discuss the impact of the center’s impact on the community.

What is the primary focus of the Center’s research?

Our primary focus is on health. It’s health promotion and disease prevention… We’ve done a lot of HIV prevention, maternal and child health, nutrition, obesity preven-tion… All of our work focuses on Latinos… We also do evaluations.

Who do we do evaluations for? [Na-tional Council for La Raza], the larg-est Latino advocacy organization.

How do you choose which proj-ects to work on, how much time and money to spend?

All of our research is grant fund-ed. The grants usually come from the

federal government, which is a com-petitive process. So whoever has the best ideas gets the funding. Federal grants can range from six months to five years… And that’s where we get most of our funding from, and from national institutes as well.

What are some of the Center’s current projects?

All kinds of stuff! [The Hispanic Health Opportunities Learning Alli-ance] is going on, [the CSULB Hispan-ic Serving Institution – Science, Tech-nology, Engineering, and Mathematics Initiative] is still going on, [the CSULB Research Infrastructure for Minority Institutions] is still going on… And then we have things going on at our downtown location as well.

What happens at the end of the grant period?

Sometimes it’s published along the way, but definitely at the end we try to publish it. Like, Sanos y Fuertes is a childhood obesity prevention pro-gram, and it had a very strong com-munity component. So we wanted to make sure we shared the results with the community. So its not just schol-arly publications, its also “how do you share out with the people who par-ticipated, who are most affected, who want answers?”

How are you able to share that information?

We’re going to have town hall meetings… That’s actually something we’re working on, trying to figure out the best way to do that, and trying to be audience friendly. Because it’s not something that normally academics, just scholarly-based articles. When you look at community-based re-search, that’s one of the things to look at: the knowledge gained is equitably shared. If we’re not sharing with the community, then we’re not fulfilling those principles.

The Center for Latino Community Health celebrates its 10th year since opening at CSULB.

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Watch out Caitlyn Jenner, Califor-nia State University, Long Beach has it’s own transgender firebrand.

As seen on the award winning show “Transparent,” Golden Globe winner and CSULB theater teacher Alexandra Billings stars in the theat-rical cabaret “S/he & Me.”

“S/he & Me” follows a particular chapter of Billings’ past that demon-strates her growth as an individual previously identified as “Scott” to the woman she’s become today.

The show uses Broadway musical numbers and spoken word to tell a non-linear love story, according to a press release distributed by Califor-nia Repertory.

“It celebrates the journey of trans-gender actress Alexandra Billings as she examines her relationships with her parents, her wife Chrisanne, and with herself – both as Alex and as Scott.”

The one-act autobiographical cab-aret is through the viewpoint of Bill-ings and portrays her life experience becoming a part of the transgender

community. Director and former CSULB the-

atre arts department chair Joanne Gordon worked in close collabora-tion with Billings in ensuring the message of Billing’s love story was presented clearly.

“One of the things about Alex’s life that is so inspirational is her relation-

ship with Chrisanne, her wife,” said Gordon in an interview with Chris-tina Ramos, the Director of Special Events at the California Repertory Company. “Chrisanne and Alex met in high school when Alex was Scott and Chrisanne has loved Scott and has loved Alex through a turmoiled life of great tragedy and great pain.”

Billings is no stranger to one-wom-an shows.

Previously, Billings appeared in the production of “Before I Disap-pear,” where audiences were taken through her complete life story. “S/he & Me” is set to hold different subject matter.

“It’s a memory piece about Scott,

which was my given name, a little boy, and me now, Alex, and what has happened to the two of us and what happens to us at the end,” said Billings. “Even in the awfulness of our lives, because it does get awful occasionally, that that’s attached to the great joy. And if you’re present in both of those things you are ulti-mately free.”

In the era of equal love and the breaking out of Caitlyn Jenner, the buzz around the transgender community is not a subject to be ignored. As the first transgender actress to portray a transgen-der on screen, Billings is no stranger to breaking societal boundaries.

“S/he & Me” threads together the mo-ments- dramatic and domestic that com-plete the vivid portrait of her triumphant self,” a statement on the CSULB theater website said. “Her story is our portal to un-derstanding and acceptance.”

The show also features an ensemble of CSULB undergraduate students, alumni and graduate students.

Audience members are encouraged to bring gently worn clothes as donations to the show.

Donations will be collected in the lobby and given to the Los Angeles LGBT center.

S/he & Me plays at 8 p.m. at the Cal Rep Studio Theater from Sept. 25 - Oct. 11. A preview performance will be held tonight at 8 p.m.

For tickets and more information call (562)-985-5526 or visit www.cal-rep.org.

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Greetings, Arts & Life devotees. This is your friendly neighborhood Spiderman. Just kidding, it’s the Daily 49er’s print managing editor, but like almost as exciting, right? I recently got a behind-the-scenes look at a bakery in Signal Hill, Rossmoor Pastries. The following was inspired by a delicate, oversized cupcake sitting in the back

of the bakery’s industrial fridge. Bon Appétit.

It’s cold in here. And dark. I don’t really remember how I got in here. I was feeling pretty mixed

up this morning. Now I’m chilling. Mr. Baker put me in the deep freeze fridge this morning… Wait, it’s crumbing back to me.

My peers like to get baked, so I did too. Hey, if everyone’s doing it, it can’t be that bad, right? Wrong. I’m a whole new me, and I’m not too sure how I feel about it. I feel denser, and oh so naked.

Everyone else in here is covered in pastel flowers and dollops of cream. And I’m sheet-cake-white. Gross. At least I don’t look like that ostenta-tious wedding cake. Fondant trim-

ming? More like fon-don’t! And don’t even get me started on Peachy, such a tart.

The days are short in these wintry hinterlands. The light bulb flicks on and off, night and day, on and off. Freezer burn is always a looming threat.

And I’m still here. Waiting. Is any-one there? I smell cinnamon. And happiness. The metallic racks are empty beside me and I’m wracking my white matter, wondering what I did to be put in this polar purgato-ry. I’m sorry for whatever I did Mr. Baker.

As frustrating as this is, I have no tiers left to cry.

Just a chocolately-mouse oo-ey-gooey center to keep me centered. Namaste.

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To be a black woman and discuss ra-cial biases takes courage. To discuss the biases of Hollywood in a sea of white fellow actors takes a queen.

This queen goes by the name of Viola Davis, who took the crown for becoming the first black woman to win an Emmy on Sun-day for a lead role in a primetime series.

As the 67th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards took place, there were several black women who took home the gold, including Regina King (American Crime) and Uzo Aduba (Orange is the New Black).

Opening her speech by quoting Harriet Tubman, Davis spoke on the hardships that Black women face in America when it comes to obtaining leading roles.

Before she gave shout-outs to other black ac-tresses who are currently dominating the prime-time television slots with shows like “Scandal,” “Empire” and “How To Get Away With Murder,” Davis touched on the divide between black women and the rest of the film industry.

“The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there,” Davis said.

It has only been within these past few years that we have seen black women come into star-ring roles on primetime television, and Davis’ win only speaks to the achievement that they’re coming into now.

In the shadows of so many hardships faced by the black community, it’s absolutely empowering to see this win occur. With this small victory, actresses like Davis are showing the world that black is as important as it is beautiful.

However, there were some who did not share in the joy of the black community. Namely Nancy Lee Grahn, a rather non-famous soap opera actress who took to Twitter to share her unwarranted feelings on Davis’ win.

“I’m a f*cking actress for 40 yrs.” Grahn tweeted on Sunday night. “None of us get respect or opportunity we deserve. Emmys not venue 4 racial opportunity. ALL woman belittled.”

While her comment does bring up a good point about women in the entertainment in-dustry, the act of her downplaying the point of Davis’ speech caused Twitter to go into a frenzy in defense of Davis and the black community.

Though Grahn has since apologized for her comments, her actions bring up another issue: diminishment.

In the age of social reform for people of color, the #BlackLivesMatter movement is continual-ly silenced with a proverbial white hand. This counter intuitively preaches that all lives should matter, which completely disregards the point of this movement.

#BlackLivesMatter ties a movement relating to societal acceptance of the black community and its place in society.

In this case, Grahn was the proverbial white hand trying to cover the powerful mouth of Viola Davis, and many other black actresses.

Of course I believe that all women should be respected more in the entertainment industry. But when a majority of women in the industry are white, it’s comically easy for a woman like Nancy Grahn to speak on how inclusive Holly-wood should be when it’s not her Hollywood is discriminating against. It’s this whiteout that endangers all that women of color are fighting for.

Realizing her wrongs, Nancy Grahn is currently living in slight shame and probably dreading articles like this that don’t contour her as nicely as Photoshop. Fortunately for you Nancy, some good did come out of what you said; people now believe more than ever that the black community matters, whether it’s in society or in Hollywood; and Viola Davis will probably win more Emmys than you’ll be able to count.

Hail to the Queen.

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Running since she was in the first grade, junior Kathleen Dunne is tak-ing her vast experience and using it to lead the Long Beach State women’s cross-country team in 2015.

Dunne set a personal best time of 21 minutes and 30.3 seconds in the 6K at UC Riverside on Sept. 12. A week before, on Sept. 5, she finished eighth overall in the 5K in a field of 140 runners at the UC Irvine Invitational.

The Camarillo native spoke with the Daily 49er about her career as a runner.

Is running still fun or has it turned into a job?

While I’m running it’s not like I’m having fun. But, I feel like the results are really worth it. What you put into it, you obviously get out. I consider [running] my job, but I like waking up and getting my run in. It’s my job, but I like my job.

You were highly decorated in high school, but not as much in college. Was the transition difficult?

Oh, yeah. It’s just a whole other game. In high school it was easy to be success-ful, have a good time and be a standout. In college, all the best runners from high school are now here, so everyone once

was a standout runner. It’s just so com-petitive and I really wasn’t expecting that when I came to college. As a freshman and sophomore I could just barely be competitive in my races. I was just very average.

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from a standout runner to an average runner?

It was hard because you think, ‘oh, in high school I worked so hard and that’s why I was so good.’ But, I look back and I didn’t even work hard in high school. I really didn’t, compared to what I’m doing now. You just have to increase the

work you put in, that’s how you deal with [the switch].

Do you feel like you’ve finally adjust-ed this year?

Yes, it took a couple of years. My fresh-man year was a little rocky, even into my sophomore year. But, I think after two years of going through cross-country and track seasons, I have a routine now, and I’ve changed a lot since high school.

Now that you’re an upper classman, have you become a mentor to the new members?

Yes. [Head coach Tom Walsh] chose me to be team captain for the season. My biggest thing is you have to lead by exam-ple 100 percent of the time.

What’s been the highest point in your career as a runner?

You know, it’s weird to say, but I think when you set a personal record it’s your highest point because you’ve ran the fastest in your whole life. For me, for cross-country at least, the last meet we had at Riverside I [beat my personal record] by a minute and five seconds. I guess I’d have to say that’s the highest point in my career because I “PR-ed” and that’s the fastest I’ve ever ran in my life.

What about your lowest point?Probably coming to college and be-

ing thrown in a Division I race for the first time in cross-country season and literally coming in close to last. Just that change, I would say, from high school to college is really hard.

49ers Git ‘er Dunne!Cross-country star Kathleen Dunne talks about her daily routine, the tough transition from high school to college and her role as a leader at LBSU.

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Junior Kathleen Dunne has a pair of top-20 finishes for the women’s cross-country team this season. Courtesy of LBSU Athletic Media Relations.

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Freshman midfielder Rocio Rodriguez and the 49ers look to close out non-conference play with an upset of No. 6 BYU (above). Outside Hitter Nele Barber and the 49ers will look to start conference play by giving head coach Brian Gimmillaro his 800th career win at LBSU (left).

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WOMEN’S SOCCER MEN’S WATER POLO

Who: UC DavisWhen: Friday at 7 p.m.Where: Walter Pyramid

Need to Know: Aggies senior outside hitter Kaylin Squyres leads Davis into the match on Friday. Squyres leads the Big West conference in total kills with 228 and sits in second for kills per set with 4.38. She is also tied for fourth in the confer-ence for digs per set averaging 3.87.

Who: UC IrvineWhen: Saturday at 7 p.m.Where: Walter Pyramid

Need to know: In the black and blue rivalry, the 49ers have won 10 straight against the Anteaters and lead the all-time series 68-8. Freshman opposite hitter Harlee Kekauoha recorded her second error-free performance of the season when UCI took on No. 13 UCLA, hitting .571 percent and smashing 16 kills.

Who: No. 6 BYUWhen: Saturday at 7 p.m.Where: George Allen Field

Need to know: BYU leads the all-time series record against LBSU at 5-3-0, but the 49ers are 2-1 when playing the Cougars at home. BYU has recorded seven shutouts and has allowed only one goal this season. The Cougars are coming off of their third-straight win with their only loss coming at the hands of No. 2 Stanford.

Who: No. 2 USCWhen: Saturday at 1 p.m. Where: Uytengsu Aquatics Center, Los Angeles

Need to know: The Trojans are coming off of their tenth consecutive trip to the NCAA final match and almost half of last year’s team is returning to the pool in 2015. Sophomore goalie McQuin Baron returns in front of the cage for the Trojans after setting a school record for single-season saves with 288 blocks.

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