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Student tailgate highlights Homecoming Week events

Homecoming Week kicked off Sunday, and a slew of campus events will follow in anticipation of Saturday’s men’s basketball game against the University of Idaho. Long Beach State Athletics, Associated Students Inc. and the Cal State Long Beach Alumni Association are hosting the week’s events, which range from student art[Read More…]

Students audition for ‘Wheel of Fortune’

Students at Cal State Long Beach were treated to a special promotional audition session on Thursday in the Beach Auditorium for the popular TV show “Wheel of involved.” “Wheel of Fortune” is in its 29th season and has been doing promotional tours since 1999. According to David Strathearn, director of[Read More…]

LA Times editor discusses election trends

It was Halloween night and, at 3 a.m., she and a group of reporters were in a bowling alley, waiting to later board a plane on the campaign trail of a political candidate. This was Cal State Long Beach alumna Cathleen Decker’s idea of fun — working 20 hours a[Read More…]

Cal State Long Beach conserves energy, beats Fullerton

Residents of Cal State Long Beach dormitories beat those at Cal State Fullerton during the month-long second annual Energy Saver’s Do it in the Dark competition in which students battled to conserve the most water and energy. “We believe the competition has been a great success,” Green Campus team manager[Read More…]

Shuttle stop closes due to construction

The east campus shuttle stop near the Fine Arts buildings is currently out of service due to construction in Parking Lot 8A, leaving many students frustrated by the inconvenience. The driveway next to Faculty Office building 3 has been under construction since last week, and the east campus shuttle, along[Read More…]

CSULB to face likely $7.7 million ‘trigger cut’

A possible ‘trigger cut,’ based on faltering California tax revenue, is expected to have little affect on the Cal state Long Beach’s spring semester. According to Mary Stephens, vice president of administration and finance, the California State University system would take a $100 million cut and CSULB would share about[Read More…]

BofA scraps plans for debit card fees

Bank of America announced on Tuesday that they would abandon a plan to charge customers a $5 fee to use their debit cards. “We have listened to our customers very closely over the last few weeks and recognize their concern with our proposed debit usage fee,” said David Darnell, co-chief[Read More…]

California’s bullet train to cost more than expected

California’s bullet train will cost approximately $98.5 billion, more than double the initial estimated price of $34 billion, and will take nearly 13 years to build. Construction is scheduled to start some time in 2012, with its projected completion date in 2033. The California bullet train would run from Northern[Read More…]

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