Approximately 2,000 fewer prospective first-time and transfer students may be admitted to Cal State Long Beach for the fall 2009 semester compared to last fall. The enrollment changes were planned to offset taking more students in previous years than the university can fund. “We’re kind of victims of being the[Read More…]
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Newly received or noteworthy information, especially about recent or important events on campus and around Long Beach.
Fiscal ‘stages of life’ puts economic crisis into context
While many hope the economy will soon reverse its downward course, one expert anticipates that our current situation will last into 2012. Harry Dent, who spoke at an on-campus economic forum on Tuesday, cautioned that it might not be until 2017 before we see major improvements in the economy. Dent,[Read More…]
Fiscal crisis threatens ASI positions
“First of all, I want you all to take a deep breath,” began Associated Students Inc. Executive Director Richard Haller at Wednesday’s Senate meeting. Some student-held positions that are funded by ASI are being threatened by a reduction of student enrollment and exacerbated by the current budget crisis, according to[Read More…]
A festival of Dostoyevsky literature
A panel of U.S. and Russian scholars will re-evaluate the impact of one of the most revered figures in literature this weekend at the Fyodor Dostoyevsky Festival at Cal State Long Beach. Dostoyevsky was a Russian novelist and philosopher in the 19th century. He is considered by some to have[Read More…]
Souper Bowl comes to CSULB
Protestant Campus Minister Adele Langworthy spent the previous night preparing three large Crock-Pots of soup from scratch. Now that the room was supplied with enough refreshments, bowls, and spoons, all that was left was to wait for students to come in for a bite to eat. It may sound like[Read More…]
Auctioning t-shirt art for a vision to help others
It started with a canceled trip to Kenya — 60-typed letters and $3,000 later, students Skylar DeVoogd, Stuart Wieten and Devin Week were on their way to Peru. After months of planning, civil unrest ended the trio’s original plan of going to volunteer in Kenya. Undiscouraged, they read up on[Read More…]
Large donations bestow ‘margin of excellence’
Despite the economy’s dismal state in the last half of 2008, Cal State Long Beach was able to raise almost $6 million more than it did during the same time frame of the previous fiscal year, according to Michael Losquadro, Associate Vice President of Development. During the months of July[Read More…]
El Reflejo gains readers among CSULB students
The staff members of El Reflejo, an alternative media outlet at Cal State Long Beach, work to call attention to issues and bring together the ideas and art of the community. The mission of El Reflejo is to cover news, politics, culture and the arts of the community and to[Read More…]
Beach Cruiser service possibly ending
Though no official dates have been set, the Beach Cruiser shuttles, which travel from the Marina Lot on Second Street to the East Campus Turnaround, may stop running in the near future, according to Mark Rudometkin, associate director of Cal State Long Beach Parking and Access Services. Students who continue[Read More…]
Parking permits stolen from three vehicles parked on campus
Three Cal State Long Beach students had their vehicles burglarized while parked on campus last week, and coincidently each case involved stolen parking passes. “We find it very interesting that each of these cases included the loss of the parking permit,” said Stan Skipworth, chief of the University Police Department.[Read More…]