The Student Recreation and Wellness Center at Cal State Long Beach will be hosting its second annual push-up contest on Oct. 26 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. in Main Gym A. The goal of the contest is to get people to participate in activities at the SRWC, according to[Read More…]
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Newly received or noteworthy information, especially about recent or important events on campus and around Long Beach.
Man caught masturbating in library, police say
Inappropriate behavior, phone calls bother students A man was found masturbating on the second floor of the University Library on Oct. 17 in the evening, Brown said. However, the woman who saw him did not contact the police until noon the next day. The man was in his 30s, wearing[Read More…]
Students differ on Obama’s performance
As the economy sputters and the war in Iraq continues through the end of the year, many young Americans appear to be losing hope in the president they helped elect. Some students at Cal State Long Beach, however, are holding on to the hope roused in President Barack Obama’s campaign,[Read More…]
Sailing team rebuilds, improves
Cal State Long Beach’s Sailing Team is making a comeback after 25 years of inactivity; most recently, it took first place in the Frosh/Soph Regatta at the Mission Bay Yacht Club in San Diego. A regatta is a series of boat races, and the CSULB team won by accumulating the[Read More…]
Police called to remove missionary preaching on campus
When cross-country missionary Mike Stockwell came to share the gospel of Jesus Christ at Cal State Long Beach on Thursday, he did not expect to be abruptly interrupted and asked to move from his stoop by University Police. Stockwell, a missionary from Long Island, N.Y., works with a Long Island-based[Read More…]
Psychology building to host haunted asylum
The Psychology building will transform into a haunted scare zone with an asylum-themed haunted house on the third floor on Wednesday. Cal State Long Beach’s Psychology Student Association (PSA) and International Honor Society in Psychology (Psi Chi) collaborated to display the school’s first charitable Psych Asylum on Oct. 26, from[Read More…]
ASI, 49er Shops agree on plastic bag ban
A ban on plastic bags at the University Student Union and 49er Shops may begin as early as fall 2012, after a unanimous Associated Students Inc. resolution recommending the ban was sent to 49er Shops Director of Bookstore Services Fred Neely. Sens. Lizelle Felix and Sagar Ramachandra expect the ban[Read More…]
Divided ASI Senate opposes GE humanities policy change
Associated Students Inc. voted in favor of a resolution opposing proposed changes to the arts and humanities category of the general education policy. The resolution, discussed on Oct. 19, divided the student government senate, with a 9-6 vote in favor of the resolution and four abstentions. Currently, the GE requirements[Read More…]
Alumna, LA Times politics writer talks 2012 election at CSULB
Cathleen Decker, a Cal State Long Beach alumna and 2012 political campaign editor for the Los Angeles Times, will discuss how the media covers elections in the 21st century on Nov. 3 at the Anatol Conference Center from 4 to 6 p.m. Decker attained her position as political campaign editor[Read More…]
CSULB receives cash for Latino science students
Cal State Long Beach has been awarded a $4.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education in order to increase the number of Latino students studying science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The grant money will be used to develop a program called Promotores de STEM, which will focus on[Read More…]