Incense smoke drifted in slowly from the corner of the room as students wiped away their tears and placed bouquets of orange flowers next to portraits of a fellow Long Beach State design student who was killed over the weekend. The LBSU Department of Design held a memorial Wednesday for[Read More…]
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ASI Board of Control uses spring semester funds
The Associated Students Inc. Board of Control was forced to pull funds from the spring semester in order to fulfill an abundance of student requests Tuesday. According to Jesse Luna, the BOC chairman, there are $1,521 left in the unallocated fund which is mostly used to fund student organization’s events,[Read More…]
New LBSU project to create a solar power residential hall
In the next two years, Long Beach State is planning to build one of the first net zero housing buildings in the California State University system, behind UC Davis’ West Village project which is the largest net-zero energy community. The Long Beach State Housing and Residential Life department has submitted[Read More…]
Tuesday classes are cancelled for the Veteran’s Day academic week
For this year’s upcoming Veteran’s Day, Monday classes held Nov. 12 will be moved to Tuesday, Nov. 13, while all Tuesday classes are canceled. Academic schedule decisions are made by the Academic Calendar Committee, which meets twice a year and is made up of students, staff, faculty and administrators. The[Read More…]
Climathon challenges teams to create sustainable housing solutions
The walls were plastered with water level prediction maps, whiteboards were covered with mapping diagrams and tapping sounds indicated the focused coding of climate hackathon participants at the second annual 24-hour hackathon “Climathon.” The hackathon took place from Friday to Saturday in the Long Beach State Duncan Anderson Design Gallery.[Read More…]
LBSU looks to ‘greener’ practices with new sustainability commission
With the new Imagine Beach 2030 initiative commencing in less than a month, university officials are looking at ways to increase sustainable usage on campus, one way being the creation of the Presidential Commission on Sustainability on Sept. 28. The commission’s role will be to help evaluate new technology or[Read More…]
22 West Media dominates CSU Media Arts Festival and escalator issues revisited
New genderless bathroom in progress and discounted faculty gym membership becomes official Maritess Inieto, University Student Union Board of Trustees chair, said that construction was underway on a new genderless, multi-stall bathroom in the USU. At the Associated Students Inc. Senate meeting Wednesday, she said that the stall is set[Read More…]
Green Games provides students with interactive approach to sustainability
There is no time to waste when it comes to providing sustainable solutions for our actual waste on-campus, at least according to the information provided at Green Games, an eco-friendly event held at the Speaker’s Platform Tuesday. The environmentally charged event provided students with a variety of interactive mini-games highlighting[Read More…]
New Student Success Center coming to campus by spring semester
An old building is set to receive a breath of fresh air as its renovations will provide a new hub for several organizations on campus. Peterson Hall 2, located on Long Beach State’s upper campus, will serve a new purpose in spring 2019 as the home of the Student Success[Read More…]
LBSU limits Prospector Pete merch after retirement announcement
Students will soon be seeing a lot less of Prospector Pete in the 49er Shops Bookstore after President Jane Close Conoley announced that the 51-year-old statue is officially retired, Sept. 20. According to Kierstin Stickney, director of marketing and communications at 49er Shops, the merchandise for the mascot has never[Read More…]