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…]
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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…]
Visiting scholar brings taste of Kyrgyzstan to CSULB
Cholpon Bakirova is a long way from home. But the visiting 28-year-old scholar from the Central Asian state of Kyrgyzstan would make you think otherwise. Her articulate delivery of English would not be obvious because it is her third language behind Kyrgyz and Russian. Bakivora can be found around the[Read More…]
Online run-off election between Atkins and Chavez concludes
A run-off vote between Avis Atkins and Christopher Chavez began Tuesday and ended Thursday night in order to elect the next Cal State Long Beach Associated Students Inc. president, since none of the four candidates received a required 50-percent-plus student majority vote in last week’s election. Atkins received 38 percent[Read More…]
Comparative Literature Conference seeks student participants
This year’s Comparative Literature Conference is asking for students to contribute to the discussion of this year’s theme, “The Artist and War.” The conference will take place on April 30. Typically, only submissions from faculty members are accepted for the annual conference. But this year the Associated Students of Comparative[Read More…]
Bilingual poetry slam set to examine California diversity
Cal State Long Beach celebrates diversity April 15 and 16 through a bilingual poetry slam and writer’s workshop called “Todos Somos Califas.” Poet and writer Jesus “Tato” Laviera will be the key speaker for the event and will read excerpts from his books at the Karl Anatol Center on campus.[Read More…]