The Cal State University unveiled, last Thursday, an executive salary comparison list, meant to put “downward pressure” on its presidents’ salaries, but the 23-campus system is still facing criticism on how it pays its executives. Executive compensation at the CSU became a hot bed issue last July, after the university[Read More…]
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Newly received or noteworthy information, especially about recent or important events on campus and around Long Beach.
Shooter may face death
Prosecutors announced last Friday they will seek the death penalty for a man, they say, is responsible for killing eight people, after opening fire in a Seal Beach hair and nail salon. Scott Dekraai, 41, protected himself with body armor and carried three handguns into Salon Meritage on Oct. 12,[Read More…]
Professor honored at translation program
More than 50 students, faculty and friends gathered at the Karl Anatol Center on Thursday for an afternoon of translation in memory of Cal State Long Beach professor Claudia Gosselin. The five-hour memorial featured several presentations conducted by students as part of a translation studies program offered by the romance,[Read More…]
Campus MovieFest winners to be revealed, screened
Teams of Cal State Long Beach moviemakers have worked together over the last two weeks to produce pieces for Campus MovieFest with the opportunity to display their films in the bright lights of a Hollywood premiere. A panel of students, faculty and staff has judged the 80 entries, and the[Read More…]
Festival to offer interaction with the arts on Tuesday
Associated Students Inc. will host a Festival of Art on Tuesday from noon to 2 p.m. at the University Student Union Southwest Terrace for clubs and organizations to engage students in interactive exercises and demonstrate how to create art in their respective mediums. Five aspects of art will be featured,[Read More…]
VIDEO: ‘Occupy Long Beach’ protesters faced police Saturday at Lincoln Park
Protesters gathered around Lincoln Park past its closing time Saturday. REPORTER: PALMER LUCKEY | PRODUCER: RON BAR-ZION Members of the protest movement Occupy Long Beach backed down in the face of police at their latest rally on Saturday evening in order to avoid arrest. About 300 of the protesters[Read More…]
Seal Beach gunman may face death penalty
Prosecutors announced Friday that the man responsible for eight deaths in a Seal Beach hair and nail salon shooting may face the death penalty. Scott Dekraai, 41, protected himself with body armor and carried three handguns into Salon Meritage on Wednesday, when he killed six people on the scene, according[Read More…]
City of Seal Beach mourns victims of salon shooting with candlelight vigil
About 100 members of the Seal Beach community gathered in the parking lot in front of Salon Meritage on Friday for a candlelight vigil to mourn the deaths of eight people who were killed there Wednesday, and pray for one victim still fighting for her life. After a man opened[Read More…]
Panama Joe’s is robbed by unknown suspect, students react
Panama Joe’s Restaurant and Cantina, a typical hangout spot for some Cal State Long Beach students, was robbed on Sept. 30 around 5 a.m. The restaurant’s general manager Fabius Rizk said the thief broke in and robbed its ATM at a time when the restaurant was known to be completely[Read More…]
RLC residents ‘resort to extremes’ with gate
Housing and Residential Life added a metal plate to one of the Residential Learning College gates after students held the gate open using cinderblocks. “We added the metal plate to prevent people from trying to ‘pop’ the lock, usually with a screwdriver, or jam the lock and thus get in[Read More…]