When cross-country missionary Mike Stockwell came to share the gospel of Jesus Christ at Cal State Long Beach on Thursday, he did not expect to be abruptly interrupted and asked to move from his stoop by University Police. Stockwell, a missionary from Long Island, N.Y., works with a Long Island-based[Read More…]
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Psychology building to host haunted asylum
The Psychology building will transform into a haunted scare zone with an asylum-themed haunted house on the third floor on Wednesday. Cal State Long Beach’s Psychology Student Association (PSA) and International Honor Society in Psychology (Psi Chi) collaborated to display the school’s first charitable Psych Asylum on Oct. 26, from[Read More…]
ASI, 49er Shops agree on plastic bag ban
A ban on plastic bags at the University Student Union and 49er Shops may begin as early as fall 2012, after a unanimous Associated Students Inc. resolution recommending the ban was sent to 49er Shops Director of Bookstore Services Fred Neely. Sens. Lizelle Felix and Sagar Ramachandra expect the ban[Read More…]
Divided ASI Senate opposes GE humanities policy change
Associated Students Inc. voted in favor of a resolution opposing proposed changes to the arts and humanities category of the general education policy. The resolution, discussed on Oct. 19, divided the student government senate, with a 9-6 vote in favor of the resolution and four abstentions. Currently, the GE requirements[Read More…]
Alumna, LA Times politics writer talks 2012 election at CSULB
Cathleen Decker, a Cal State Long Beach alumna and 2012 political campaign editor for the Los Angeles Times, will discuss how the media covers elections in the 21st century on Nov. 3 at the Anatol Conference Center from 4 to 6 p.m. Decker attained her position as political campaign editor[Read More…]
CSULB receives cash for Latino science students
Cal State Long Beach has been awarded a $4.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education in order to increase the number of Latino students studying science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The grant money will be used to develop a program called Promotores de STEM, which will focus on[Read More…]
Students battle high textbook prices with piracy
Cal State Long Beach senior Julie Boll is $19,000 in debt. She had to sell her car and some of her wardrobe to pay her daily expenses. When the semester began, she realized textbooks were going to cost more than she expected — nearly $700 for the semester. With no[Read More…]
Change to GE system removes science lab course
The Academic Senate made a number of revisions to Cal State Long Beach’s general education courses, including limiting natural science laboratory requirements to only one physical or biological science lab, last Thursday. The current GE policy was amended with a 75 percent majority vote. According to members of the Senate,[Read More…]
Comic and Horror Con to be ‘more personal’ than others
The Long Beach Convention Center will host the third annual Long Beach Comic and Horror Con on Oct. 29 and 30 in celebration of comic books, horror and the people behind the productions. Events at the convention will mainly consist of Q&A panels, where fans can interact with the creative[Read More…]
VIDEO: Audience ‘Muzzled’ after speech
Fox News political analyst Juan Williams held a discussion entitled “Muzzled: Political Debate in America” about the polarization of free speech and media censorship at the fifth annual Distinguished Speakers Series at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center on Thursday. Williams drew from his life experiences throughout the speech, mainly detailing[Read More…]