Grab a cup of coffee and get comfortable for your daily commute. Co-hosts James Chow and Hannah Getahun go over this week’s news topics featuring a heavily debated Associated Students Inc. resolution, a new Senate bill that could possibly waive tuition and the slippery hallways at Long Beach State. 0:19:[Read More…]
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Beach Weekly Episode 10: The search for a new mascot
For a special 10th edition in the news roundup, this podcast delves into all things related to the Long Beach State mascot, or lack thereof. Beach Weekly host James Chow interviews reporters Perry Continente, Rachel Barnes and Paula Kiley, who helped cover and contribute to the new mascot conversation. While Continente[Read More…]
Beach Weekly: Episode 9
James Chow and Hannah Getahun round up this week’s news content with special guests Opinions Editor Rachel Barnes and News Editor Austin Brumblay. Stories include the cancellation of Week of Welcome, the new Golden Girls class, a chemistry professor who received Wang Family Excellence award and a possible referendum on[Read More…]
Beach Weekly: Episode 8
On the first Beach Weekly of 2019, James Chow talks with Daily 49er reporters about construction updates from university administration to the Long Beach community, the CSU wide tuition freeze and the new Student Success Center. The special guests on today’s podcast are Hannah Getahun, Austin Brumblay and Paula Kiley.[Read More…]
LBSU updates community on housing and alumni center
Construction Long Beach State will undergo its first on-campus housing initiative in 30 years this summer. The plans for a residence hall along Atherton Street is expected to phase into construction this August. In accordance the campus’ 2008 master plan, LBSU officials are undergoing this housing initiative to double the[Read More…]
Beach Weekly: Episode 7
In this week’s podcast, Assistant News Editor James Chow interviews Special Projects Editor Carlos Villicana about the eight-story special issue on Long Beach State’s colleges. Villicana gives a sneak peak of each story, while giving his take on the process of putting the paper together. 2:24 College of Business 3:30[Read More…]
SPECIAL SECTION: LBSU history lecturers create on-campus video game center for study
From a young age in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Jeffrey Lawler and Sean Smith were immersed in video games. They each sat in front of their scan-lined cathode-ray tube television sets with a wood veneer black and brown box situated atop the TV set. Three lines and the[Read More…]
Beach Weekly: Episode 6
Assistant News Editors Hannah Getahun and James Chow discuss this past week’s notable news topics: LBSU mourns the death of two professors, the San Ysidro border closure and a flooded animation lab. 0:38 LBSU mourns the death of two professors 0:41 Math professor Kent Merryfield 1:20 Linguistics professor Alexandra “Misty”[Read More…]
LBSU loses accomplished professor
Faculty learned over Thanksgiving break that linguistics professor Alexandra “Misty” Jaffe died in her home Tuesday. Jaffe, who was in her 50s, started her career at Long Beach State in 2001 and worked as both a professor and a department chair in linguistics. She has taught courses spanning from introductory[Read More…]
Beach Weekly: Episode 5
News Editor Emma DiMaggio and Assistant News Editor James Chow give a roundup of this week’s notable news stories: California State University Board of Trustees meetings, Associated Students Inc. homelessness panel and the Imagine Beach 2030 initiative. Board of Trustees: 0:32 ASI homeless awareness panel: 8:11 Beach 2030: 10:10 Music[Read More…]