Remember the 1969 Woodstock music festival? Yeah, we don’t either. That particular music festival, characterized by overwhelming crowds, sex and drugs, was way before our time. The same sizeable audiences characterize some of today’s bigger music festivals, but drug use is not a free-for-all like it may have once been.[Read More…]
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Presidential Candidate: Agatha Gucyski
Name: Agatha Gucyski Running for: President Year: Junior Major: Finance and Human Resource Management GPA: 3.45 Ticket: Gucyski/ Tran/ Clark Q: How is your candidacy different from that of your competitor? A: We’ve been in ASI for the same length of time, but the amount of things I’ve been able to[Read More…]
Presidential Candidate: Joseph Phillips
Name: Joseph Phillips Running for: President Major: American Studies and International Studies Year: Senior GPA: 3.8 Ticket: Phillips/Baghdassarian Q: How is your candidacy different from your competitors? A: We don’t have these lofty words in our platforms; we have very solid ideas. The 13 of us, all have this set[Read More…]
Vice President Candidate: Anh Tran
Name: Anh Tran Position: Vice President Year: Junior Major: Pre-medical GPA: 3.0 Ticket: Gucyski/ Tran/ Clark Q: If elected, what do you hope to achieve as vice president? A: I want to continue to support sustainability on our campus. I want to have more events like the farmer’s market, to[Read More…]
Vice President Candidate: Nayiri Baghdassarian
Name: Nayiri Baghdassarian Running for: Vice President Major: Political Science Year: Junior GPA: 3.3 Ticket: Phillips/ Baghdassarian Q: If elected, what do you hope to achieve as vice president? A: One is the Long Beach business pledge, which is agreements with local businesses in Long Beach that require them to[Read More…]
Treasurer Candidate: Kalien Clark
Name: Kalien Clark Running for: Treasurer Year: Senior Major: English GPA: 3.6 Ticket: Gucyski/ Tran/ Clark Q: If elected, what do you hope to achieve as president? A: I hope to develop a relationship with organizations that aren’t directly involved with ASI. I’m coming from outside ASI, so I have[Read More…]
Treasurer Candidate: Elizabeth Espinoza
Name: Elizabeth Espinoza Position: Treasurer Year: Freshman Major: Civil engineering major GPA: 3.0 Ticket: None Q: If elected, what do you hope to achieve as treasurer? A: As treasurer, my responsibility is to revise the budget and make sure we don’t go over our budget. I just want to make[Read More…]
Treasurer Candidate: Dominique Noble
Name: Dominique Noble Position: Treasurer Year: Junior Major: Political science major GPA: 2.9 Ticket: Independent Q: If elected, what do you hope to achieve as treasurer? A: I hope to work with the [University Student Union] Board of Trustees to work out contracts with the city to make sure the students[Read More…]
Our View: Facebook shouldn’t censor neknominate
Facebook is currently being scrutinized for its inaction with regards to a barrage of “Neknominate” posts, videos that feature individuals completing outlandish drinking challenges and then nominating their friends to one-up their performances. Headlines across the media have been reporting, since February, that at least five men under the age[Read More…]
Blotter: Domestic violence at Beachside College
A noise complaint turned into a possible domestic violence dispute at Beachside College Sunday around 2:46 a.m., University Police Lt. Richard Goodwin said. University Police arrived on scene to find a male walking toward the front of Beachside, when officers made contact, Goodwin said. The possibly intoxicated male would not[Read More…]