Associated Students, Inc. hosted a wheelchair basketball game yesterday in the Physical Education building’s East Gym, as part of Disability Awareness Week. The wheelchair basketball game was organized by four students from Disabled Student Services and overseen by Brianna Huntsinger, ASI secretary for disability affairs. “There’s two distinct populations on[Read More…]
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Engineering department addresses water conservation
With only 1 percent of the world’s water readily accessible for human use, the challenge of conserving water is an ongoing effort. This issue was the subject of the Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series, which took place Thursday afternoon in the Pointe Conference Center at the Walter Pyramid. The event featured[Read More…]
CSULB program offers students financial advising
A new program is offering free financial advising to Cal State Long Beach students every Monday at the Career Development Center. Financial Advising, Counseling and Educational Services is a new program that deals with student’s most common financial issues, including student loans, credit card payments and savings accounts. “It’s mostly[Read More…]
CSULB program that helps grads find work receives grant
Cal State Long Beach biology professor Elizabeth Eldon approached fellow professor Lisa Klig in 2008 with a big idea that translated into a $1.37 million grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). Because of a push by Eldon and writing from Klig, CIRM is helping to fund CSULB’s[Read More…]
Chinese Film Festival opens with taste of culture
The American flag stood to the left of the stage and the Chinese flag stood to the right. The Ansai Waist Drum dance performers entered with a bang as they stormed the stage and brought life to the 2,000-year-old tradition. Cal State Long Beach’s inaugural Chinese Film and Culture Festival[Read More…]
Transgendered community speaks out
After the verdict, the judge approached Mia F. Yamamoto and gave her a hug. “When you said, ‘I would rather die a woman than live another day as someone I’m not,’ that really touched me,” the judge said. Yamamoto, an attorney and criminal prosecutor for Los Angeles County explained the[Read More…]
ASI makes its last effort to gain student voters
Associated Students, Inc. is clearing its last hurdle in the race to register more voters than Cal State Fullerton by Oct. 18. ASI will register students Oct. 18 during “Get the Vote Out.” The event will take place at 11:30 a.m. in the central quad of the University Student Union.[Read More…]
Forty-Niner Shops puts $100,000 in hands of CSULB student investors
Forty-Niner Shops, Inc. is giving $100,000 to Cal State Long Beach students, sort of. The Student Management Investment Fund program allows CSULB students to manage three portfolios that total more than $300,000. Among its customers is Forty-Niner Shops, which gave the student-investment advisers $100,000 in fall 2009. “The students were[Read More…]
CSULB students mentor local youth
Bridge to College, Trade or Technical School, a local program that helps disadvantaged students map out a plan for college, expects to expand its reach with the help of CSULB faculty and students. The program, founded in September 2009, specifically helps at-risk students who have a criminal record or are[Read More…]
CSULB student faces pre-trial hearing for battery against female
Cal State Long Beach student Avadhut Dipakrao Chaudhari attended his first pre-trial hearing today for two alleged battery charges against two separate females. According to the official CSULB website, Chaudhari is still an international exchange student, working on his master’s degree. Until today, private attorney Michael E. Kraut was representing[Read More…]