Remember all those Friday morning classes during your freshmen year? You’d walk through discarded party flyers filled with colorful pictures and half naked bodies promoting bars, clubs and social events. Well, times have changed. Text messaging and social media have become the new trend in advertising all over America. Many[Read More…]
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ASI president invites students to engage in wide variety of semester activities
Hello students and welcome back to The Beach! As your student body president, I would like to welcome you to a great semester at Cal State Long Beach and encourage you to make the most of your time on campus. Spring is in the air and with a new semester[Read More…]
Gaza peace not in near future
By now you’ve heard plenty about the ceased Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip that resulted in many civilian casualties. What you didn’t hear, however, is just as startling. The silence of protesters was deafening when Hamas was firing rockets on a regular basis into southern Israel, making life[Read More…]
Our View-State texting-while-driving ban sends weak message
If you’re reading this article while driving to campus, please don’t. It’s almost as dangerous as text messaging while driving, which is now illegal. The new California ban that prohibits texting on cellphones, laptops and BlackBerrys from behind the wheel became effective Jan. 1. Unfortunately, the new law’s claws are[Read More…]
Our View-President’s portraits need expanded color palette
From George Washington to George W. Bush, probably the easiest part of an artist painting the presidential portrait has been selecting skin tone for the canopies; until today that is. As President-elect Barack Hussein Obama II places his hand on Abraham Lincoln’s Bible, officially becoming the commander in chief, we[Read More…]
Archaeology unearths scientific secrets of often mysterious Bible
PBS recently aired an outstanding documentary on the current state of archaeology related to the Old Testament, or Hebrew Bible. Entitled “The Bible’s Buried Secrets,” the documentary shows that archaeological findings often contradict biblical texts. For example, there is no archaeological evidence for the Exodus from Egypt, nor for the[Read More…]
CSULB parking always a bad dream
I know the Cal State Long Beach parking nightmare has been talked about, written about, maligned and criticized, but I must have one final word to vent my frustrations. Who knows, incoming students may learn a thing or two about how to deal with this mess. To start with, a[Read More…]
Senior shares short-timer ‘tude
Here we go again; another semester at sunny Cal State Long Beach. With the start of every semester, sunny or not, we all endure no parking, long lines and high book prices. This is the last semester I will have to endure such hardships. After eight years of college my[Read More…]
Our View-Peace is more than a word
Peace. It’s one of those cool but strange five-letter words in the English language. Peace is one of those oddball parts of speech that serves as a noun — world peace — or as a verb, as in “Peace out, yo.” As an unusual part of speech, peace serves as[Read More…]
Latinos silver lining in economic cloud
There’s a silver lining in the recent report by the Public Policy Institute of California, in spite of its doom-and-gloom conclusions projecting a major shortage of professionals in California by 2020. While the PPIC’s “California’s Future Workforce: Will There Be Enough College Graduates?” study accurately predicts this phenomena, it reaffirms[Read More…]