California public universities are faced with a dilemma: lose their carbon and greenhouse gas emissions or lose their green. Assembly Bill 32, also known as the 2006 Global Warming Solutions Act, set a goal to reduce California greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to 1990 levels within the next eight years. Campuses,[Read More…]
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Cal State Long Beach senior chosen to work on Capitol Hill for fall 2012
John Sellers isn’t old enough to work in Congress, yet the Cal State Long Beach senior will be able to work on Capitol Hill with the House of Representatives this fall. Sellers, a 23-year-old senior who left for Washington, D.C. on Aug. 27, will spend 11 weeks working full-time in[Read More…]
CSULB ranks among the top for awarding degrees to minorities
Cal State Long Beach ranked ninth in the nation last week for awarding baccalaureate degrees to minority students. In the year of 2010-11, minorities earned 54 percent of all bachelor’s degrees awarded at CSULB, according to this year’s listing of the “Top 100 Degree Producers” by Diverse: Issues in Higher[Read More…]
CSULB shuttles change route
Editor’s Note: This article has been edited to correct the misspelling of CSULB Alternative Transportation Coordinator Elissa Thomas’s name. The shuttle services may not be a group of young British boys with charming smiles, but they have all started to go in one direction around campus. In an effort to[Read More…]
Weight lost, money gained
Two hundred pounds ago, 24-year-old Cal State Long Beach engineering graduate student Edgar Ortiz never thought he would be a healthy man with $10,000 in his wallet. “I’m literally half the man I used to be, but twice the man I was,” Ortiz said. In November 2009, Ortiz’s best friend[Read More…]
Foreign students struggle for classes
Growing up in Sweden, journalism major Kim Nordlund always dreamt of living in Los Angeles. As a member of the Cal State Long Beach’s University Study at the Beach program, Nordlund got her chance this year, but the struggle to find classes may force her to return home earlier than[Read More…]
California public university system shows support for affirmative action
The University of California abolished racial preference from its admissions process in 1995, and a year later, the state of California followed suit with the passage of Proposition 209, forbidding the consideration of race in operations of public education. Now, 17 years later, the UC has changed its mind. A[Read More…]
Study: Hispanics more likely to enroll in college than other minorities
Families like Sarah Coromina’s are relatively new to the textbooks and classrooms of a university, but her father would like to change that. “My dad would tell me, ‘you can’t mess up, you have to do it, you are the last chance we have of one of my kids graduating[Read More…]
Parking makes students late for class
Senior art education major Faith Lee spent 30 minutes trying to find a parking space yesterday, making her late to her art 387 class. “It’s always like this,” Lee said. “It’s always bad.” She is one of many students who found it difficult to find a parking spot at Cal[Read More…]
California Universities may become anti-social with new legislation
The California State Senate voted unanimously last week in favor of a resolution designed to ban all California universities from asking for access to students’ social media accounts. Senate Bill 1349 is designed to allow students to maintain their privacy, the bill’s author Sen. Leland Yee (D-San Francisco) said on[Read More…]