The bookstore now offers more ways to save money on books, and will have even more options in the coming semester. The bookstore is participating in a pilot program called Digital Marketplace, which provides a database of material for faculty to select books that are either free or very inexpensive[Read More…]
News
Newly received or noteworthy information, especially about recent or important events on campus and around Long Beach.
Students ask store for sweatshop-free merch
The International Studies Student Association (ISSA) has asked 49er Shops to purchase $250,000 worth of clothing from Alta Gracia Apparel, a Dominican-based company that aims to improve employee living conditions by paying them higher than average wages. On Feb. 22, eight students representing ISSA delivered preliminary letters to Don Penrod,[Read More…]
New health law to impact student care
A new Department of Health and Human Services regulation issued early last month designed to ensure quality care for college students will impact the Cal State Long Beach student health insurance plan. The regulation attempts to address the limits and flaws in student plans by allowing for protections under the[Read More…]
Meals to be more expensive for dorm students
Cal State Long Beach dining hall rates will rise for both returning and new residents this upcoming academic year, while room rates will remain at their current levels. The price of the meal plans for all residents will rise by 4 percent for the 2011-12 school year and by 3[Read More…]
English professor headlines campus poetry performance
Charles Webb, a published poet and professor of English at Cal State Long Beach, and Ron Koertge, a published poet and a former professor of writing at Hamline University in Minnesota, performed at a poetry reading held by the Hip Poetics club in the University Student Union Beach Theatre Feb.[Read More…]
Bike thefts continue to plague CSULB students, police say
Bike thefts continue Two reports of bike thefts occurred between Feb. 18-20, University Police Lt. Scot Willey said. A woman reported that her bike was stolen Feb. 18 between 11 a.m. and 12 p.m. at the science complex, Willey said. The woman was in class during the theft and left[Read More…]
Veteran and All-American fullback was a favorite professor
Larry Mai, associate professor of anthropology, died peacefully in his home on Feb. 12. Mai had been battling the effects of a severe stroke for nearly three years and was about a month away from retirement. He would have turned 68 this April. “He was the favored professor at [the[Read More…]
Fashion students compete to be Mai’s next stylist
More than 50 students and staff attended Jeannie Mai’s “How Do I Look?” Style Network designer challenge held at Cal State Long Beach Tuesday. Approximately 22 design students presented to a panel consisting of three Mai stylists and assistants, who judged the students based on samples of some of their[Read More…]
Students to decide if others can vote on ASI board
An amendment to the Associated Students Inc. Chapter 1 Bylaws, which would grant voting rights to its only two non-voting members, was placed on the Spring General Election ballot on Feb. 23. ASI, as a nonprofit corporation in the state of California, is bound under both the California Corporations Code[Read More…]
ASI changes policy to let president appoint students to committees
The Associated Students Inc. Senate passed a modification to the Policy on Shared Governance on Feb. 23, granting the ASI president authority over appointing students to Academic Senate and university committees. Previously, the policy called for the entire ASI Senate to appoint students to these positions. However, in the past,[Read More…]