On the first Saturday morning of every month, orange and white trash bags are scattered across the beach as volunteers gather to pick up litter for Onepiece At A Time. At a cleanup on Feb. 5, 175 volunteers huddled under a blue pop-up tent at the end of Termino Avenue[Read More…]
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Newly received or noteworthy information, especially about recent or important events on campus and around Long Beach.
CSULB Engineers Week to return
The first Engineers Week in more than a decade will feature activities such as cardboard boat races, popsicle stick bridges and an egg drop at Cal State Long Beach Feb. 21-25. “Engineers Week has not been held at CSULB in years,” said Daniel Hernandez, president of the Associated Engineering Student[Read More…]
Workshops connect with local business
Cal State Long Beach’s Center for Community Engagement (CCE) will continue an educational workshop series today as a means to encourage economic growth and contact with local businesses in Long Beach’s Anaheim Street corridor community. Partnering with the Regional Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, the CCE has put together workshops covering[Read More…]
Holocaust film offers first-person perspective
Representatives of The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum spoke about Holocaust misinterpretations and screened a groundbreaking documentary called “Witness, Collaborator or Perpetrator?” in the Karl Anatol Center at Cal State Long Beach Tuesday night. According to its press release, the film was a rare perspective from non-Jewish Holocaust observers who[Read More…]
Program aims to get high school students more prepared for university
A Cal State University program will aim to better prepare California high school students for college, and minimize the financial burden of remedial education on CSUs. The new program, called Early Start, will roll out in the summer of 2012. The CSU plans to utilize its Early Assessment Program, which[Read More…]
Student pushes to keep Cal States affordable
California State Student Association president Christopher Chavez testified in front of the State Assembly’s committee for higher education yesterday in light of increasing tuition and decreasing affordability within the California higher education system. Chavez, a Cal State Long Beach student and former ASI president, spoke on behalf of the Cal[Read More…]
Football to be on March ballot
The group Bring Back 49er Football has gathered the signatures needed to place a referendum to reinstate football at Cal State Long Beach on the March ballot. The students behind the referendum are proposing a fee increase to fund the program. The referendum will appear on the campus ballot March[Read More…]
Graffiti scrawled in men’s restroom
Graffiti vandalism in men’s restroom University Police received a report on Feb. 4 at 6:30 p.m. of vandalism in the men’s restroom on the first floor of the Molecular and Life Sciences Center, University Police Capt. Fernando Solorzano said. A police officer doing foot patrol through the building discovered the[Read More…]
CSULB student government applications available
The application period to run for Associated Students Inc.’s 2011-12 student government elections will close Friday. Open positions in ASI include president, vice president, treasurer, USU Board of Trustees member, senator, media board member and 49er Shops representative. Applications must be turned in to University Student Union, room 311 no[Read More…]
Sac State denied doctoral program
The California State University Board of Trustees denied Sacramento State’s nursing doctoral program proposal in January, while Cal State Long Beach was approved to start its joint nursing and physical therapy doctoral programs. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed Assembly Bill 2382, which allows the CSUs to offer a Doctor of Physical[Read More…]