Cal State Long Beach might be one of the few CSU campuses to have a football team as early as 2012, at least that’s the mission of the “Bring Back 49er Football” organization. Jason Aula, a senior finance major and founder of the organization, and his lead team members Courtney[Read More…]
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Newly received or noteworthy information, especially about recent or important events on campus and around Long Beach.
Bruce Berg, 54, graduate adviser and professor, dies
Bruce Lawrence Berg, a Cal State Long Beach criminal justice graduate adviser and professor, died of a heart attack on Friday in Santa Ana. He was 54. Berg was born on Oct. 7, 1954, in Brooklyn, N.Y. He studied sociology, earning his bachelor’s degree from Brooklyn College in 1975 and,[Read More…]
CSULB pays to keep student cars off streets
While students pay to park on campus, Cal State Long Beach pays to keep students from parking on residential streets close to campus. Patrick O’Donnell, the fourth district council member of Long Beach, said the university agreed to pay up to $12,000 this year for residents’ preferential parking permits. According[Read More…]
A political pictorial: ‘Picturing Power’
Photographs of some of the most restricted areas and places in the United States hang on the stark, white gallery walls of the Cal State Long Beach University Art Museum. Paul Shambroom’s “Picturing Power” exhibit in the UAM displays portraits that capture stoic faces masked in hazardous material, assembly line[Read More…]
Calif. budget passes
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‘Black and Brown’ dialogue out to ease conflict
In the past decade, conflict between the black and Latino communities has escalated by 46 percent in the Long Beach area, according to Cal State Long Beach’s National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) President Trevon Williams. The CSULB chapter of the NAACP and the Latino Student Union[Read More…]
Vandalism suspected as an act of rivalry
The statue of Cal State Long Beach’s mascot, located on Upper Campus, was vandalized early Wednesday morning. Orange paint was found dripping down the right side of the 49er statue, known as Prospector Pete. Although the sculpture that personifies the 49er spirit was dumped upon, the culprit was not so[Read More…]
Super Sunday takes the university to church
California State University Super Sunday, a program that reaches out to the black youth about the importance of college education, is coming to local churches this Sunday. The CSU Super Sunday event started in 2005 with CSU presidents, trustees and the chancellor speaking at 24 churches throughout California. This year[Read More…]
Annual Jewish Film Festival at CSULB
Hoping to strengthen ties between the greater Long Beach community and its students, Cal State Long Beach will host Long Beach’s fourth annual Jewish Film Festival in the University Theater this weekend. The two-day festival will show four movies that come from a variety of backgrounds and cultures, all of[Read More…]
50th anniversary of Cuban revolution sparks film festival
With this month being the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, two Cal State Long Beach professors want to change the way people view the Cuban culture. Professors Bonnie Gasior and Nhora Serrano are hosting “¡Viva Cuba!,” a Cuban film festival beginning Feb. 19 which continues every Thursday at 7[Read More…]