Associated Students Inc. is investing in KBeach radio station to proceed with a $40,000 HD project that will place the station on mainstream FM radio sometime in February. By switching over to FM radio, KBeach will be able to reach a wider audience, as well as generate more revenue from[Read More…]
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Newly received or noteworthy information, especially about recent or important events on campus and around Long Beach.
Brown vetoes race bill
Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed Senate Bill 185, a bill that would allow state universities and colleges to take into account race, gender and household income when considering applicants, on Saturday, citing Proposition 209, a 15-year-old state ban on affirmative action. SB 185, written by Sen. Ed Hernandez (D-West Covina), would[Read More…]
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GEOLOGIST: CSULB ‘relatively safe’ for earthquake
Cal State Long Beach geologist and assistant professor Nathan Onderdonk discussed the potential of Southern California’s next major earthquake at the “Anticipating the ‘Big One’” lecture. The Fellows of the CSULB College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics sponsored the event, which attracted a full house to the Pyramid Annex conference[Read More…]
Campus faces shortage of left-handed desks
President Barack Obama, Leonardo da Vinci, Jimi Hendrix, Marilyn Monroe and Kermit the Frog all face a common challenge that an approximate 10 percent of Cal State Long Beach students face as well. The trait that affects their everyday lives is left-handedness. For about 3,341 students at CSULB, being a[Read More…]
Smoking rules not enforced at CSULB
Cal State Long Beach calls itself a smoke-free campus, yet many students and faculty overlook the smoking policy every day. The smoke-free environment policy was adopted in the fall semester of 1989. The policy states that smoking is prohibited inside buildings and courtyards, within 20 feet of building entrances, windows[Read More…]
Walkway to bridge campus and parking lots
Cal State Long Beach’s parking and transportation services will begin a $1.3 million construction project this week for a new pedestrian walkway between Lot 17 and 18. Funding for the project, which is scheduled to end during the beginning of the spring 2012 semester, will come solely from parking and[Read More…]
CSULB students ‘Occupy Long Beach’ with protests
Approximately 90 people, including Long Beach residents and Cal State Long Beach students, gathered at Bluff Park at 6 p.m. on Oct. 7 to spend the evening protesting what they perceive to be government injustice and corruption within the American financial sector. The next morning, locals marched through the Long[Read More…]
Long Beach runners gear up for marathon
More than 25,000 people are expected to attend and participate in the annual Long Beach International Citi Bank Marathon on Oct. 9 Runners will compete in a loop, beginning at Shoreline Drive at 7 a.m. They will then pass the Pike in downtown Long Beach, through the Queensway Bridge and[Read More…]
CSU continues to mull online university program
An outside consulting firm presented the Cal State University with more than 10 ways to enter the online education market last July, including one called CSU Accelerator, which would offer “bottleneck” or high demand courses online to current students for a “premium” price. But, before the university can move forward[Read More…]