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…]
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Newly received or noteworthy information, especially about recent or important events on campus and around Long Beach.
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…]
CSU, CFA wrestle over pay raises
Editors Note: This corrects a previous article which incorrectly stated the time frame in which faculty received a number of pay increases. The Cal State University and the California Faculty Association remain at odds over two separate faculty pay raises — one for the 2008-09 academic year and one for[Read More…]
Campus MovieFest challenges students to create original films
Representatives from Campus MovieFest (CMF) distributed film equipment to students at a stand in the University Student Union on Wednesday for use in a week-long challenge that invites students to show their film-making talents. The challenge is to produce and edit a five-minute film in seven days with an Apple[Read More…]
University catalogs sold out this year, 49er Shops still cites low demand
Although 49er Shops is citing low demand for printed school catalogs, the physical copies are sold out and students are no longer able to buy them. The 2,520 copies of the 2011-12 catalog that were printed this year have all been sold, according to 49er Shops Director Fred Neely. Last[Read More…]
Steve Jobs dies, students react
Steve Jobs, the face of Apple, died Wednesday in Palo Alto, Calif. — a day after the iPhone 4S announcement was made. He was 56. Jobs had been battling a form of pancreatic cancer known as islet cell neuroendocrine tumor. He announced for the first time that he had a[Read More…]