If it were up to Larry Jackson, CEO of Long Beach Transit, he would institute the U-Pass program between Cal State Long Beach and Long Beach Transit every hour of every day. Unfortunately, that is easier said than done. Faced with a $10 million loss due to drastic cuts in state funding, a decline[Read More…]
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Koi fish are healthy and thriving
About 300 koi fish have been replaced at Cal State Long Beach’s Earl Burns Miller Japanese Garden after a contagious virus killed off the garden’s entire koi population last year. The replacement koi were shipped via FedEx from Sacramento in February of 2009 and are adapting well to their new surroundings. Garden administrators[Read More…]
Graduate student chosen to study in Germany
Krista Lange had her first taste of life in Germany when she lived with a family in Hamburg for six weeks in 2002. Now, she will get to spend an entire school year there. Lange, a graduate student and teaching assistant at Cal State Long Beach, has been chosen along[Read More…]
Estimated 800 pounds of university catalogs get recycled
Due to SOAR no longer purchasing them, thousands of Cal State Long Beach 2009-10 catalogs landed at the campus Recycling Center. Students will now be directed to use the online catalog as SOAR will no longer be handing them out to new students. Rosa Hernandez, director of communications for Forty-Niner[Read More…]
Former Daily 49er adviser goes to a higher level
Wearing an old-fashioned sports coat, thin tie and thick glasses, it’s hard to believe that Dixon Gayer was considered one cool guy at Cal State Long Beach. “He was a real friend, a good professor … I think everyone on the [49er newspaper] staff was very fond of Dixon Gayer,”[Read More…]
Special Olympics come to CSULB
More than 1,100 athletes will participate in six different competitions at this weekend’s 41st annual Summer Games for Special Olympics at Cal State Long Beach, over the course of the two-day event starting at 10 a.m. on June 12. The event is expected to attract more than 6,000 people, including[Read More…]
Another complaint against student booked for battery
A second complaint has been made against Cal State Long Beach student Avadhut Dipakrao Chaudhari, saying that he “unlawfully” touched an intimate part of the woman for “sexual arousal.” According to Ranga Kandala, former president of the Indian Student Association Long Beach (ISALB), friends and family posted a $20,000 bail[Read More…]
ASI gathers for first summer meeting
Communication strategies and improvements are the main focus for the 61st Associated Student’s, Inc. Senate, which held its first meeting June 9. Leading up to the meeting at 3:30 p.m., the new senators participated in a day full of orientation, beginning at 10 a.m. The new ASI leadership took turns[Read More…]
A look back at the spring semester 2010 semester
Professor criticized for political views — Feb 1.By David Cowan Psychology professor Kevin MacDonald had his class interrupted by an organization claiming his views and recent involvement in a political organization, the American Third Option Party, are racist and anti-Semitic. MacDonald, a tenured professor at Cal State Long Beach, has[Read More…]