It may seem as if the school year has barely begun, but Cal State Long Beach is already preparing for possible solutions to solve a $20 million deficit the university will face upon entering the 2010-11 school year. Some reductions seen this year will carry over to the following school[Read More…]
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Newly received or noteworthy information, especially about recent or important events on campus and around Long Beach.
ASI working on ‘defending’ what students want
President Chris Chavez addressed the California State University’s unstable relationship with the state government in Wednesday’s “Confronting Crisis: The Student Defense Initiative,” the State of the Associated Students speech. “California has essentially said that they don’t care about our campus, our community, our future,” Chavez said. Chavez’s “student defense initiative”[Read More…]
Organization supports youth in New Zealand
The Pacific Islander Association and Pacific Wave Media Network hosted a seminar involving PowerPoint presentations, video clips and personal experiences. Four men from Otara, Manukau City and South Auckland, New Zealand, presented information to the Pacific Islander Association and the Pasefika Men Against Violence on Tuesday evening. The New Zealanders[Read More…]
CSULB to super seniors: Move on
As super seniors are being pushed out of Cal State Long Beach, other students are being told to make up their minds — and quickly. CSULB students with more than 140 units were notified last week that by today, they must file for either spring or summer 2010 graduation, according[Read More…]
Construction project closes lane on Atherton
Students driving past the Carpenter Performing Arts Center might want to think about new routes to get to Cal State Long Beach starting today. The start of a six-month construction project — known as the Atherton Storm Drain Project — will close an entire westbound lane on Atherton Street stretching[Read More…]
Exhibit recognizes Cesar Chavez’s achievements
The library is hosting an exhibit this month chronicling the life of Cesar Chavez. Biographer John Hammerback gave a lecture at Cal State Long Beach yesterday about the civil rights activist, whom he considers the Mexican Martin Luther King Jr. Chavez organized the National Farm Workers Association in the early[Read More…]
Statewide drill to shake up classrooms
Cal State Long Beach students, faculty and staff are being asked to stop what they are doing at 10:15 a.m. tomorrow and volunteer to drop, cover and hold on. California will be hosting the second annual Great California ShakeOut to re-enact the experience of a major earthquake. This year, about[Read More…]
LB film studio deal expected to be completed this week
Cal State Long Beach film students have a chance to use a near-in-the-future production facility — which is still pending on a deal agreement. The Boeing Company and Long Beach Studios LLC are in the process of finalizing a deal for a 77-acre, former-aircraft plant north of the Long Beach[Read More…]
Nursing department to get long-awaited building addition
The parking lot next to the Cal State Long Beach nursing building will soon be transformed into an addition to the existing nursing building to house classrooms, computer labs and offices. The groundbreaking ceremony will be held Oct. 28 for the new single-story teaching building, which is expected to be[Read More…]
More students applying to CSU campuses
After only a week of accepting applications, the number of prospective California State University students has almost doubled since last year. The official CSU application submission Web site, CSU Mentor, received 66,399 applications from Oct. 1 to Oct. 8, while last year, only 35,020 students applied during the same first-week[Read More…]