Cal State Long Beach held its 18th annual Martin Luther King Jr. commemoration this Tuesday in the University Student Union ballroom. The event honored King and his role in the civil rights movement throughout the 1960’s. This year, the CSULB American Indian Community Drum, led by professor and chair of[Read More…]
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Muslim Student Association hands out hijabs
The Muslim Students Association was giving out free hijab headscarves at a booth near the Merchant’s Row thoroughfare between the campus bookstore and the Psychology building Tuesday. By the end of the event, over 100 people had attended and most of the hijabs had been handed out by the members[Read More…]
Second chances are coming to CSULB
Samuel Irvin spent five years of his life sitting in a jail cell for selling drugs. Now, he sits behind a desk in a classroom as a psychology major in his second year at San Francisco State University. After serving his sentence, a now 32-year-old Irvin was resigned to falling[Read More…]
Posters arrive to promote inclusivity
The black-and-white image of a smiling woman wearing a hijab dominates a purple poster that reads “Everyone Is Welcome Here,” has surfaced on the front doors of Cal State Long Beach faculty offices. The poster began to appear on campus about two weeks ago, after the California Faculty Association distributed[Read More…]
Students come together with graffiti
Cal State Long Beach students spray painted a large rectangular canvas wall on Monday, but it wasn’t an act of vandalism. The students were participating in the third annual “Artists 4 Israel” event, which was held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. near the speaker’s platform on campus. “On the[Read More…]
Latina students find connections at conference
Despite the threat of an oncoming rainstorm, Latina students met Friday at the Pointe to connect with students in their community, learn about resources available to them and network. The 16th annual Latina Connection Conference was an all-day event with the the theme “Uprising Women, Fuertes y Unidas.” Rosa Moreno-Alcaraz,[Read More…]
CSULB celebrates World Anthropology Day
The Anthropology Department organized an interactive event in a cross-disciplinary celebration of the human experience to commemorate World Anthropology Day Thursday. “The official theme of today’s event is a celebration of anthropology as a discipline,” Scott Wilson, an anthropology professor, said. “Another way of looking at the theme is diversity.[Read More…]
No debate among forensics team on travel ban
A recently enacted state assembly bill is preventing Cal State University Long Beach’s forensics team from participating in major competitions, and it’s absolutely fine with that. Passed last year, California State Assembly Bill 1887 prohibits payment or support for travel by state funded agencies, including the entire California State University[Read More…]
CSULB Academic Senate applauds new pay range agreement
California Faculty Association Long Beach chapter president Doug Domingo-Foraste announced to the Academic Senate on Thursday that the CFA worked out an agreement with the California State University Chancellor’s office to fix the range-elevation pay scale for lecturers. Lecturers are hired into a salary range: A, B, C or D,[Read More…]
Campus drills through evacuation
Audible alarms, visible strobes and flashing lights brought students to their feet Wednesday for the annual evacuation drill. A Beach Alert was sent to Cal State Long Beach students, faculty and staff at 10:29 a.m. informing them that there shall be an evacuation drill. Notification about the annual campus-wide evacuation[Read More…]