Commentary: Cal State Long Beach's 49ers have a complicated history, but it's one worth rooting for
by Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times
May 14, 2018
3 minutes
Let's play word association, California edition. The topic is "49ers." What comes to mind? The gold rush, of course. A football team in San Francisco, for sure. A grizzled prospector with a burro and a pickax, probably. "Oh My Darling, Clementine" for us old-timers.
How about "genocidal maniacs"?
That's the association the student senate at Cal State Long Beach is debating. Before the group is a resolution titled "Retirement of Prospector Pete and Dissociation from the Gold Rush Era" on which the student government
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