A second complaint has been made against Cal State Long Beach student Avadhut Dipakrao Chaudhari, saying that he “unlawfully” touched an intimate part of the woman for “sexual arousal.” According to Ranga Kandala, former president of the Indian Student Association Long Beach (ISALB), friends and family posted a $20,000 bail[Read More…]
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ASI gathers for first summer meeting
Communication strategies and improvements are the main focus for the 61st Associated Student’s, Inc. Senate, which held its first meeting June 9. Leading up to the meeting at 3:30 p.m., the new senators participated in a day full of orientation, beginning at 10 a.m. The new ASI leadership took turns[Read More…]
A look back at the spring semester 2010 semester
Professor criticized for political views — Feb 1.By David Cowan Psychology professor Kevin MacDonald had his class interrupted by an organization claiming his views and recent involvement in a political organization, the American Third Option Party, are racist and anti-Semitic. MacDonald, a tenured professor at Cal State Long Beach, has[Read More…]
Co-founder of women’s studies department remembered
Sharon Sievers, an activist and a co-founder of the Department of Women’s Studies, now known as the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, died on April 5 in Long Beach, Calif. after battling cancer. She was 71. Sievers was an author, professor and served as chair for the history[Read More…]
International students also feel economic stress
The down economy, cuts to the university’s budget and fee increases have affected students on many levels. Job-seeking international students have not been immune. Last summer, the state reduced the 2009-2010 California State University budget by $571 million. Cal State Long Beach’s share of the cut was $44 million. Faculty[Read More…]
U-Pass program suspended for summer
Cal State Long Beach’s joint U-Pass program with Long Beach Transit will take a summer hiatus and resume on Aug. 16, according to a recent press release. Effective May 29 to Aug. 15 all CSULB identification card holders will have to pay the standard Long Beach Transit fee of $1.25[Read More…]
International students feel the pressure
The down economy, cuts to the university’s budget and fee increases have affected students on many levels. Job-seeking international students have not been immune. Last summer, the state reduced the 2009-10 California State University budget by $571 million. Cal State Long Beach’s share of the cut was $44 million. Faculty[Read More…]
Colle Carpenter speaks out against hate crimes on campus
On April 15, transgender graduate student Colle Carpenter, 27, was reported attacked with a weapon at Cal State Long Beach. Using what police suspect to be an X-Acto knife, the attacker reportedly slashed Carpenter’s chest several times and carved the word “it” into his chest. “After my attack, an instructor[Read More…]
CSULB ‘Dad & Grad’ compete on Wheel of Fortune
Cal State Long Beach student Rachel Gibbs and her father, Paul, competed on Wheel of Fortune’s “Dads & Grads” Week, which will air on the American Broadcasting Company May 20 at 7:30 p.m. “Dads & Grads” week began as a way to acknowledge graduations taking place this time of year,[Read More…]
‘Boom box guy’ takes campus by storm
Among being a senior philosophy and psychology major at Cal State Long Beach, and a member of the Taiwanese Student Association, Japan Club and International Student Association, Kyle Durich may be better known as the student who wanders around campus in a loincloth, dancing to his oversized boom box. “It[Read More…]