Cal State University Chancellor Charles Reed moved yesterday to keep graduate student State University Grants (SUGs) in place for the 2012-13 academic year, after speculation that some grants would be eliminated. Reed and all 23 CSU presidents met for their regular bimonthly meeting in Long Beach, where they discussed a[Read More…]
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Business student scores prestigious internship with Gallup Company
Cal State Long Beach graduate student Lucy Craig was selected out of almost 1,300 applicants from business schools across the country for an internship with The Gallup Company. According to Craig, she is one of seven applicants chosen to intern with the research-based consulting company. Craig will be working as[Read More…]
Bill to allow students to approve fees
The Cal State University system and Cal State Long Beach President F. King Alexander are speaking out against a new bill that could give students the final say in establishing mandatory fees on CSU campuses. Last week, the bill, Senate Bill 960, passed through California’s Senate Education Committee. It was[Read More…]
Professor overcomes obstacles to lose weight
Two years ago Nancy Adams, a high school drop out turned Cal State Long Beach professor, decided she had one more challenge to conquer: her lifelong battle with obesity. Diet after diet had failed, and she knew that losing weight would be a big challenge. But challenges are nothing new[Read More…]
Masturbator ‘yanked’ from library
A student was caught masturbating at a computer station in the Spidell Technology Center in the University Library on April 11 around 12:35 p.m., Brown said. The reporting party had described the suspect as an Asian man in his late 20s with black, spiked hair, wearing a brown striped shirt[Read More…]
Donate Life spreads awareness of need for organ, tissue donation
About 50 students gathered outside Peterson Hall 1 for an opportunity to win prizes and submerge volunteers into a dunk tank in between classes on Tuesday. Sean Pellerin, graduate student and host of KBeach’s 3Up 3Down show, created the event with nonprofit organization Donate Life, to spread awareness about the[Read More…]
CSULB students win Texas moot court event
Cal State Long Beach political science majors Ryan Chapman and Yasmin Manners won the Texas State undergraduate moot court championship tournament held at the University of North Texas on March 30 and 31. Moot court, also known as a mock Supreme Court and Supreme Court simulation, is the simulation of[Read More…]
CSU, CFA to return to bargaining table in early May
The Cal State University and the California Faculty Association will return to the bargaining table in early May, CSU Vice Chancellor of Human Resources Gail Brooks said in a statement sent to student media Tuesday. CFA spokesman Brian Ferguson said, although “any ongoing negotiation would be viewed as positive,” the[Read More…]
Paintball team wins championship
Beach Paintball, a Cal State Long Beach intramural sports team, took the cup at the 2012 National Collegiate Paintball Association (NCPA) College Paintball National Championships in Florida on Sunday afternoon. The intramural team defeated more than 100 other schools in the championships, becoming the only team on the West Coast[Read More…]
Resolution may save ASI fee revenue
Associated Students Inc. approved a resolution that may prevent student fees from increasing in order to cover the medical costs of benefits for Cal State Long Beach employees on its first reading last Wednesday. The resolution would make the student government organization no longer subject to the Public Employees’ Medical[Read More…]