Cal State Long Beach, along with Project On-Campus Emergency Assistance Network, is advocating for lower suicide rates among students and increased awareness regarding mental health and illness. Project OCEAN will be hosting its second annual Light the Night with Hope event with a “glow-in-the-dark” theme on Tuesday from 5:30 –[Read More…]
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Vote 2016 forum tackles gender and race issues
About 100 people packed the Anatol Center Wednesday night, with attendants standing in the back of the room and sitting on the floor to join the Vote 2016 forum on race, gender and the presidential election. This forum, the third in the Vote 2016 panel series, featured anthropology graduate student[Read More…]
Students and community honor AB540’s author
This year marks the fifteenth anniversary of AB 540 — the California assembly bill, proposed by Marco Antonio Firebaugh, that exempts qualifying non-resident students from paying out-of-state tuition even while living in-state. On Oct. 13, Future Underrepresented Educated Leaders , described on their website as an organization that aims to[Read More…]
CSULB ASI clears the smoke
The Associated Students, Inc. Senate clarified that students will not be cited for smoking on campus in Wednesday night’s meeting. “We are trying to create a supportive environment,” ASI Senator-at-Large Samuel King said. “Not a hostile one where students will be punished.” The smoking ban is not being enforced for[Read More…]
CSULB’s not clownin’ around
For the past few months, creepy clowns have been appearing all over the country — now, the sinister trend has spread to Southern California, according to multiple local media outlets. In the past couple of weeks there have been multiple reports of clown sightings in the Southern California area, leaving[Read More…]
CSULB fights AIDS through education
In hopes of fighting high HIV infection rates in the Latinx community, Cal State Long Beach’s Salud a la Vida will host its second annual National Latinx AIDS Awareness Day Thursday. CSULB’s Center for Latino Community Health, along with Bienestar Human Services, has partnered up with Salud a la Vida[Read More…]
CSULB students network with Fortune 500 companies
With internship opportunities in mind and a well-written resume in hand, approximately 200 Cal State Long Beach business students will attend the sold out 45th annual Meet the Industries Expo — creating networking relationships for potential careers. The event will take place from 8 – 10:30 a.m. Thursday at The[Read More…]
Highs and lows
Over 200 attendees filled the Beach Auditorium in the University Student Union as a three-person panel tackled the controversial topic of legalizing recreational marijuana Monday evening. The panel, titled “The Pot Perplex: Would Legal Marijuana Be Good or Bad for Southern California,” was hosted by Cal State Long Beach, the[Read More…]
Preserving Peggy’s memory
Cal State Long Beach students and faculty will have the opportunity to honor late physical therapy professor Peggy Moyer with sweat, tears and music by participating in a 5K run on Oct. 22. Moyer, a CSULB professor in the physical therapy department for 31 years, died in August of this[Read More…]
ASI discusses graduation rates, preferred gender
The Associated Students Inc. Senate announced that it is working on a plans to increase four- and six-year graduation rates at its meeting last night. In January, Governor Jerry Brown released Initiative 2025, a budget plan aimed to help the Cal State University system improve said graduation rates by the[Read More…]