Unlike Associated Students Inc. elections, there are no set regulations for online student fee referendums, including the recent Beach Legacy Referendum, campus officials said Wednesday. When it comes to online voting, “you’re going to find there’s no way to get your arms around [the process],” said Doug Robinson, vice president[Read More…]
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Online referendum lacks regulation
Unlike Associated Students Inc. elections, there are no set regulations for online student fee referendums, including the currently-underway Beach Legacy Referendum, campus officials said Wednesday. When it comes to online voting, “you’re going to find there’s no way to get your arms around [the process],” said Doug Robinson, vice president[Read More…]
Cost of student housing rises
Associated Students Inc. President Erin Swetland addressed senators on the increase of student housing rates for fall 2009, at Wednesday’s ASI senate meeting. According to Swetland, Cal State Long Beach’s purchase of Brooks College has lead to the increase in student-housing rates. “Anyone who is a continuing student in our[Read More…]
Fundraising ’til dawn’
Students, faculty, staff and community members will have the opportunity to help save the lives of children with cancer at a letter-writing campaign hosted by Cal State Long Beach’s Up ‘Til Dawn. The fourth annual event will first be held Thursday in the USU Ballrooms and will later move to[Read More…]
‘Legacy’ loses in online vote
The Beach Legacy Referendum, a proposal by Cal State Long Beach’s Athletic Department to increase student fees by $95 per semester starting fall 2010, did not pass in the two-day online student vote. Approximately 18 percent of the student body voted overall. Of those students, more than 3,898 — approximately[Read More…]
Vehicles vanish as thefts rise
A wave of an “unusually high amount” of vehicle thefts and attempted auto burglaries, which included one car chase, recently hit Cal State Long Beach in a 14-day period. “There are times when all of the programming and patrol work … are tremendously effective,” said Stan Skipworth, chief of University[Read More…]
Blackboard will get beached by 2010
The platform that powers Cal State Long Beach’s online course and organization management system, BeachBoard, will soon change to improve functionality. Blackboard Academic Suite, which currently operates BeachBoard, will be phased out over the summer and eventually replaced by spring 2010 by a learning management suite from ANGEL Learning Inc.[Read More…]
Designing puzzle pieces
Cal State Long Beach’s annual junior design show, “Works In Progress,” features past and present concepts of 21 interior design, engineering and architecture students who were admitted into CSULB’s impacted interior design program last year. This year’s show features hundreds of puzzle pieces scattered around the design gallery entrance and[Read More…]
Student engineers place third in national competition
Cal State Long Beach’s Construction Engineering Management Design/ Build Team closed out this semester’s competition season by placing third at the Associate General Contractors National Student Championships. The team competed against six other regional champion schools from across the nation. The team trailed the Milwaukee School of Engineering and Clemson[Read More…]
Film studio deal falls out of escrow
The deal between The Boeing Company and Long Beach Studios LLC to turn a former Boeing manufacturing plant into a film studio has fallen out of escrow, leaving it incomplete and with the possibility of a sale by the end of the month. Long Beach Studios plans to turn the[Read More…]