Craig Smith, a former professor of communication studies at Long Beach State, has had a long, illustrious career crafting and teaching the art of speech. From writing for the late President George H. W. Bush to founding the Center for Free Speech at LBSU and teaching classes in subjects such[Read More…]
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Long Beach to move forward with legal defense fund with Vera Institute of Justice
The Long Beach City Council opted to move forward with a legal defense fund that will establish an agreement between the Safety and Fairness for Everyone Cities Network and the Vera Institute of Justice, a nonprofit corporation that will provide legal representation for low-income immigrants facing deportation in the City[Read More…]
LBSU mourns the death of mathematics professor
This story was updated Nov. 28 at 10:05 p.m. The Nugget Grill and Pub closed early Tuesday after mathematics professor Kent Merryfield lost consciousness and died of cardiac arrest around 2:30 p.m. He was 65. “From the start, I could tell he was a good-hearted man,” said third year Lynn[Read More…]
Professor dies in the Nugget Grill and Pub
Updated: 10:17 p.m. The Nugget Grill and Pub was evacuated and closed after a professor lost consciousness and died in the dining area Tuesday afternoon. Jeff Bliss, executive director of media and digital news for Long Beach State, confirmed that the professor died on the scene. Reporters from the Daily[Read More…]
Freshman physics student dies at hospital late Wednesday night
Freshman physics major Eve Khatami died at a hospital 2 a.m. Wednesday night, according to an email sent from the Housing Office at 3:19 p.m. Thursday. Khatami was found in her Los Alamitos Hall dorm room around 12:30 a.m. and transported to Long Beach Memorial Hospital around 1 a.m. She[Read More…]
The university launches two-day Imagine Beach 2030 online event
Posts varying from discourse over the introduction of an e-sports association to the appointment of a giraffe as the new mascot with the hashtag #LongBeachLongNecks filled the feed of users engaged with the Imagine Beach 2030 online event Wednesday. Through Imagine Beach 2030, students, faculty and community members all over[Read More…]
Results are in from this year’s midterm elections
All day, results poured in from all over the state for ballots cast in Tuesday’s midterm election. Items on the ballots included 11 statewide propositions and five measures in Long Beach. Only six of the proposed 11 ballots passed statewide, and all of the Long Beach measures passed. Statewide Propositions[Read More…]
Beach Weekly: Special election podcast
Daily 49er News Editor Emma DiMaggio and Assistant News Editor James Chow discuss the results of the 2018 midterm election. State representatives: 1:13 State propositions: 3:48 Local Long Beach measures: 11:55
A guide to the props on the California ballot
Prop 1 Prop 1’s purpose is to address the housing crisis by investing in existing affordable housing for low-income residents, veterans and farmworkers, among others. The investments will be paid for using obligation bonds which are seen as public debt. California already has $72.8 billion obligation bonds to repay, however,[Read More…]
Long Beach residents to vote on measures concerning their city
Long Beach residents will vote on five ballot measures that apply to the city in the Nov. 6 statewide general election. Four of these items are on ballots after a city council vote, while the one remaining item was added after a citizen’s petition gathered 46,082 signatures from voters registered[Read More…]