Friday’s headlines should have read something like, “College students celebrate education cuts.” This isn’t an indictment against the estimated 3,000 activists that showed up at Cal State Long Beach for Thursday’s nationwide “Day of Action for Public Education.” Many of the demonstrators recognize that what is happening to education at[Read More…]
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Our View- Progress found in the lab not the legislature
Public policy is sometimes dictated outside the House and Senate’s walls. Sometimes the most powerful change comes not from the mouths of politicians or their constituents but from laboratories and pharmaceutical buildings. Science, not politics, is the greatest proponent of change. From the railroad to the nuclear bomb, science has[Read More…]
Letter to the Editor – SeaWorld is about profit
I wholeheartedly agree that compassionate people should boycott SeaWorld as stated in the Daily 49er’s March 2 “Death of Dawn Brancheau Points to Inhumanity of Orca Captivity.” For many years, PETA has been calling on SeaWorld to stop confining ocean-dwelling mammals. In 2007, the California Division of Occupational Safety and[Read More…]
Letter to the Editor – Sex can be a thing of beauty
An unexpected trip to California resulted in my being able to visit The Beach after an absence of many years. I enjoyed walking around the familiar campus, and marveled at the new building additions since my tenure as a student. I picked up a copy of the Daily 49er (February[Read More…]
Derek Zoolander example of how confidence creates success
From health care reform to gay rights to peace in the Middle East, the concept of reaching middle ground ends up being an issue in and of itself. Far right and far left, white collar and blue collar, lover and fighter, are contrasting extremes that push people away from settling[Read More…]
Our View- March 4th protest calls for support of education
If you’re at all a fan of politics, you quickly learn that a war of words is won or lost in picking what issues to debate. We see this in the case of recent activity by the Republican Party, which has framed the upcoming November elections around our government’s supposed[Read More…]
Israel’s Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh assassination is undemocratic
With perpetual political turmoil in Lebanon, Shiite theocracy in Iran, United States occupation in Iraq, monarchies in Saudi Arabia and Jordan, and a dictatorship in Syria, Israel may very well be the Middle East’s only functioning democracy. Israel may boast this title, but it’s relevance has been limited to the[Read More…]
Our View- Alameda judge orders back pay for furloughs
Here at Cal State Long Beach we have all experienced the consequences of required furlough days. While there is a sigh of relief when our 8 a.m. class is furloughed, there is an even bigger sigh when midterm weeks roll along and our professors fit in one more chapter before[Read More…]
Shutter Island, Scorsese demonstrate what movies should be like
I am a cinephile. I understand that there is so much more to a well-made movie than just the story presented. To truly appreciate a film, one has to look deep within the context of a movie, searching for subtle clues that tell what the story is truly about. This[Read More…]
Our View- Patriot Act focuses liberal, conservative failures
In an effort to thwart terrorism Thursday, the House passed a bill extending the provisions of the Patriot Act another year. The bill, which passed in the Senate on Wednesday, will presumably be signed into law. The passage of the bill, in its form, is yet another political blow to[Read More…]