A 30-foot-wide inflatable turtle sat on the lawn outside Long Beach City Hall to protest against overturning the plastic bag ban March 24. Dressed up in green shirts and holding posters, 20 students lined up alongside the giant turtle likeness. Gov. Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill 270 into law in[Read More…]
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Students reveal ICE deportation, other fears at forum on knife incident
What was initially scheduled to be a 90-minute discussion between students and administration turned into a four and a half hour outpouring of students’ fear, frustration and demands for change March 23. “We need to be able to come to our own campus and feel safe and secure that administration[Read More…]
Fight for Five expects traffic
In the event that the “Fight for Five” strike occurs, it may be difficult to get on campus. While picket lines will be stationed at every entrance, the California Faculty Association said those striking will not physically block anyone from entering. Staff and students working at campus stores are expected[Read More…]
Gentrification: Boon or boogeyman?
Housing prices have skyrocketed; the city streets are always under construction; new and expensive businesses seem to appear overnight. Long Beach is becoming gentrified. “It’s easy to turn gentrification into the boogeyman, but it many cases it’s been a boon,“ Josh Butler, executive director of Housing Long Beach, said. “I’ve[Read More…]
Few students request knives on campus
University Police said they have no written record of giving permission to the 20-year-old male student who displayed a knife in a sociology class Feb. 25. “I have no written documentation concerning an approval to carry a weapon on campus by any student,” said University Police spokesman Lt. Richard Goodwin.[Read More…]
From one war to another
Emily was seeing brown sand. She was back in the war, and the enemy was coming. She found a weapon. She stood up and pinned the enemy to the wall. Her girlfriend still has a mark from where Emily held a knife to her throat in the midst of a[Read More…]
Column: The reality of being Greek at CSULB
There’s a lot of validity to the phrase “it’s all Greek to me.” In the world of fraternities and sororities, words like “rush,” “pledge” and “big” have practical definitions that tend to differ notably from what one could find in the dictionary. For those of us in the Greek system,[Read More…]
Long Beach Target aims to customize convenience
A “flex format” Target will host its grand opening Sunday at its location in the Bixby Village Plaza shopping center and officially opened Wednesday. Target spokesperson Kristy Welker said “flex format” Targets are named because of its flexibility of store elements like size and product selection in order to tailor[Read More…]
NAACP investigates CSULB knife incident
This story has been updated March 12 at 12:14 a.m. The NAACP’s Long Beach chapter announced Wednesday it will launch an investigation into the Feb. 25 incident where a student brandished a knife in a sociology class at Cal State Long Beach. “The Long Beach Branch NAACP is currently gathering[Read More…]
Cal State Long Beach student government adopts new investing policy
ASI senate members voted in favor of adopting Senate Resolution 2016-11, which advocates humanitarian and environmentally friendly investing practices, at tonight’s meeting. The Socially Responsible Investing resolution is a suggested investing policy from ASI to the 49er Foundation in regard to the corporations in which it invests. The 49er Foundation is[Read More…]