The number of carpool permits registered for this semester currently stands at 1,012, an increase from last semester’s 947 permits, according to Elissa Thomas, sustainable transportation program coordinator. Most often, the increase in carpool permit registrations is attributed to the rise in gas prices and the instability of the economy.[Read More…]
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Newly received or noteworthy information, especially about recent or important events on campus and around Long Beach.
NAACP president talks stereotypes
Benjamin Todd Jealous, president and CEO of the NAACP, encouraged blacks to acknowledge that they are people who understand the pain of slavery and forced migration, in his speech for Black History Month on Thursday. “Let [our future generations] understand how you and those who came before you confront struggles[Read More…]
Turnitin provides additional services
Besides screening term papers, some departments at Cal State Long Beach use Turnitin.com to check originality in graduate admission applications. “I can’t speak for the other departments, but I use Turnitin a lot when looking at applications, since it catches more [plagiarized material] than I can at times,” said Elaine[Read More…]
CSULB students take the court as Laker Girls
Cal State Long Beach senior Lindsay Riley balances school with long practices and tireless dance routines every week so that she may appear on the Lakers’ court come game time. “You really have to learn to manage your time,” Riley said. Riley, a health science major, is on the Laker[Read More…]
Graduate student’s research may provide link to diabetes study
Cal State Long Beach graduate student Melissa Kaye Jones recently received the 2012 Don Eden Graduate Student Research Award for her work with fruit fly genes that may provide a link to diabetes research. Jones used fruit flies as a model organism because the genome has been sequenced, which allows[Read More…]
CSU students banned from note-sharing site
Notehall.com, a note-sharing website owned by textbook rental company Chegg, shut down its service to Cal State University students after its parent company received a cease-and-desist letter from the 23-campus system. The CSU Office of General Counsel sent a cease-and-desist letter to Notehall on Jan. 4, citing violations of the[Read More…]
Oil trucks block East Campus Drive
Vibroseis trucks conducted geophysical surveys on and around the Cal State Long Beach campus on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, causing surface ground vibrations and backing up traffic on East Campus Drive. According to Debra Russell, director of community development, the geophysical survey trucks send minor vibrations into the earth in[Read More…]
ASL professor delights without speaking a word
Students could not stop laughing during William Rennie’s class. And it’s not a giggle here and there, but a plethora of my-belly-hurts laughs. Often spotted wearing a gray fedora, Rennie, who’s deaf, teaches classes without speaking a word. Still, he’s a comedian. He was the first-born child in a hearing[Read More…]
GE reqs to require only one lab class
Students entering the fall 2012 semester will be required to take only one laboratory science as opposed to two, as part of their general education. The change is part of the new GE policy that passed the Academic Senate on Jan. 26. The new policy will immediately affect all new[Read More…]
MTV’s MADE audition draws small turnout
MTV’s MADE conducted a casting call on-campus Wednesday in the University Student Union room 304 from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. The audition produced a small turnout. Jay Lyons, MTV’s MADE casting producer, who has been working on the show for about 4 years, said more people usually show up[Read More…]