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Newly received or noteworthy information, especially about recent or important events on campus and around Long Beach.

Robo death match

Cal State Long Beach student Justin Lanza will travel Tuesday to a warehouse in Vallejo, Calif., where massive machine death is a certainty. Lanza and other CSULB senior electronics engineering technology majors are looking to avenge the 2005 death of Stingray in this week’s BattleBots Collegiate Championship — a fight-to-the-death[Read More…]

Learning to be safe in the sack

April is National STD Awareness Month and the Student Health Center is using the opportunity to promote safe sex and emphasize the health impacts of sexually transmitted infections (STI). Student Health Services will have an information table set up at Maxson Plaza on April 22 from 11 a.m. to 2[Read More…]

Franchitti wins Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach

Dario Franchitti took first place in the IndyCar Series at the 35th annual Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach. Franchitti said at the press conference after the race, “that last restart we were able to get on it again, pull away, and the Target car, the pace was great all[Read More…]

Academic Senate postpones GWAR revisions until November

The possibility of further budget cuts has left Cal State Long Beach faculty members unsure of what to expect during the 2009-2010 academic year. During the most recent bimonthly Academic Senate meeting on April 16, CSULB President F. King Alexander and California Faculty Association president and Asian studies professor Teri[Read More…]

Building respect for the vagina

Women on campus will come together this weekend to perform a play about using the vagina as a symbol of female authority. The Women’s Studies Student Association and the Women’s Resource Center (WRC), located on campus, will be hosting “The Vagina Monologues” on Saturday. “The Vagina Monologues,” written by Eve[Read More…]

‘Union Vision’ panel discusses Africa’s next step

Bob Marley said it best – “Africa, unite! ’cause were moving out of Babylon…” After the liberation of many African colonies, leaders and political figures from across the continent found it in the collective interest to create an African Union to promote unity and prosperity throughout all the different countries[Read More…]

ASI backs state senate bill that may reduce textbook costs

Associated Students Inc. senators unanimously approved a resolution in support of Senate Bill 386 concerning faculty submissions for new textbook editions. “This is meant to discourage unnecessary new textbook editions,” said ASI President Erin Swetland at the Wednesday’s senate meeting. The resolution will mandate all faculty members to submit an[Read More…]

Creating LGBT awareness with silence

As the rainbow flags went up and the tables were piled with informational fliers, students began to gather around the LGBT Resource Walk at the Speaker’s Platform. Wednesday’s LGBT events began with the resource walk featuring gay-friendly resources both on- and off-campus. Off-campus organizations such as Comunidad, a Catholic ministry[Read More…]

Visiting writer says Zapatista movement leaves ‘shiny path’

Duncan Earle, the co-author of “Uprising of Hope: Sharing the Zapatisma Journey to Alternative Development” gave a lecture Wednesday on his research centered on the Zapatista movement as a form of alternative development. Earle, who specializes in working with indigenous people in Chiapas, Mexico, and Guatemala, has done field research[Read More…]

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