No, and no. Karlesha Thurman, a recent graduate of Cal State Long Beach, posted a photo of herself breastfeeding in cap and gown at commencement on a Facebook page called Black Women do Breastfeed. Apparently, some viewers were not too pleased, and Thurman deleted the photo. We agree that breast-feeding[Read More…]
Editorials
Editorials are the opinion of the 49er Editorial Board as a whole.
Our View: Israel is an apartheid state
Yes, it is. It’s important that the international community recognize and acknowledge the situation of separation that presently characterizes Israel. Back in April, The Guardian, and many others, reported that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry had warned that, “if Israel doesn’t make peace soon, it could become ‘an apartheid[Read More…]
Our View: Russia’s ban on swearing is a power move
This just in: the U.S. is not Russia. Shocked? Don’t be, and the two countries shouldn’t be compared as if their social and political standards are the same. At least, that’s how we feel about the alarmed reaction that western world has had to the recent Russian censorship law. It[Read More…]
ASI executives’ sizeable salary increase raises questions
Two months ago, Cal State Long Beach students voted to approve a $16 Associated Students Inc. fee increase, and last week, the ASI Senate approved a 2014-15 consolidated operating budget that includes increasing executives’ salaries by 33 percent. If the budget is approved by Interim President Donald Para, the ASI[Read More…]
Our View: Death penalty can never be executed humanely
To hang, or not to hang? That is the question that revolves around the morality of capital punishment in the U.S. Efforts have been made to “humanize” the death penalty, but the alarming execution of Clayton Lockett in Oklahoma has the media and the president questioning the modern lethal injection.[Read More…]
FDA ‘cig-nature’ move is late, but welcome
Are e-cigarettes, a twenty-first century fad, really healthier than ordinary cigarettes? We find that hard to believe, and that is why we are glad to see policies finally falling into place to protect consumers, and minors, from the health risks popular e-cigarettes may pose. Last week, the Food and Drug[Read More…]
Anonymous 911 calls are more confusing than helpful
It took only four tries for the author(s) of the Bill of Rights to come up with the idea that individual citizens should be protected from unreasonable search and seizure of private property. After that, it took only five people to all but eliminate the word “unreasonable” from the Fourth[Read More…]
Our View: CSULB need to keep the DREAM alive
The Cal Sate Long Beach Assembly Bill 540 task force is working with CSULB administration to take the necessary steps in order to turn the Dream Resource Center into a reality, but it’s taking a bit of time. Some students backing the DRC blame the administration for dragging their feet[Read More…]
One alleged overdose doesn’t make Coachella the next Woodstock
Remember the 1969 Woodstock music festival? Yeah, we don’t either. That particular music festival, characterized by overwhelming crowds, sex and drugs, was way before our time. The same sizeable audiences characterize some of today’s bigger music festivals, but drug use is not a free-for-all like it may have once been.[Read More…]
Our View: News media should stop treating tragedies like murder mysteries
Monday marked the sixth day of the rescue operation in recovering bodies from the sunken South Korean ferry “Sewol.” Since the ship sank, the captain has been taken into custody and has been called a “murderer” by a number of major news organizations, including The Guardian, CNN and The Los[Read More…]