While heavy competition and rigorous courses are an expected part of impacted majors, many students feel uneasy about encountering the chaos for the first time next fall. Starting fall 2010, 12 additional majors will be impacted at Cal State Long Beach. The majors are biology, communications studies, design, English, history,[Read More…]
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Newly received or noteworthy information, especially about recent or important events on campus and around Long Beach.
Latin festival spices up downtown LB
With the clouds hanging gray in the morning, the sky cleared up later that afternoon for the city’s first Latin Festival and Parade held Saturday in downtown Long Beach. A vibrant, diverse crowd gathered from all over Long Beach. Not one face looked alike, and many showed up with shirts[Read More…]
Read all about it – if possible
There may be fewer students cracking open books at the start of this semester — not because they don’t want to, but because there aren’t any left. Many Cal State Long Beach students are struggling to study due to the low availability of textbooks in the campus bookstore. According to[Read More…]
Report calls for student transfer process overhaul
Last year, less than half of new students in the California State University system transferred from state community colleges. But in light of recent budget cuts and enduring systematic flaws, it has become increasingly difficult for this large segment of the college population to attain higher education. The Institute for[Read More…]
Packs to protect against swine flu
Although bombarded with budget cuts, Associated Students Inc. still hopes to solve the health and budget obstacles the university is currently facing this semester. Dr. Michael Carbuto from Student Health Services (SHS) announced that it is fully prepared for any further H1N1 outbreaks on campus. In May, a student at[Read More…]
2010 budget looks ‘grim’
An additional ongoing 10 percent drop in enrollment and state budget cuts can be expected in the 2010-11 academic year at Cal State Long Beach. Warned by Interim Provost Donald Para with a PowerPoint presentation Wednesday afternoon at the Anatol Center, the faculty were visibly dejected after the meeting mapped[Read More…]
Bike shop owner helps CSULB go out for spin
It’s Labor Day at Jax Bicycles in Long Beach and Matt Gfell is greeting customers. Tall and friendly with close-cropped black hair, he greets customers with a beefy handshake where they see his pink breast cancer awareness bracelet. Jax Bicycles is the oldest bike shop in Long Beach still operating[Read More…]
Your major might not matter
Networking isn’t easy to do, but for those trying to find jobs after graduation, it just might be the one thing that can get you that paycheck you’ve been dreaming about, whether it uses your degree skills or not. Director of the Cal State Long Beach Career Development Center Manuel[Read More…]
With loss of shuttles, some students opt for sidewalks
There were a lot of confused faces on the first day of school as students awaited an off-campus shuttle that would never come. In previous years, Parking and Transportation Services provided Cal State Long Beach students with four Campus Connection off-campus shuttles. They would pick students up at four locations[Read More…]
SB 218 approved by Assembly
A landslide vote from the Assembly on Senate Bill 218 brings the spending and financial practices of California State University auxiliaries and foundations closer to transparency Thursday. Sen. Leland Yee’s (D-San Francisco) bill was approved in a bipartisan vote, 67-0, and the amended version will return to the Senate, which[Read More…]