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…]
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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…]
Senate bills would’ve had ‘chilling effect’ on higher ed, governor says
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed two Senate bills Sunday that would have limited pay for public higher education executives and unveiled financial records of campus organizations. Senate Bills 218 and 86 were introduced by Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, and passed by both houses of the state Legislature last month. They[Read More…]
Health services director finishes 100th marathon
On Sunday, Michael Carbuto made a run for it for the 100th time. And with a time of 5:01:18, he crossed the 100th finish line. Over the weekend at the 25th anniversary of the International City Bank Long Beach Marathon, Carbuto lined up at the starting line for the hundredth time[Read More…]
Students to aid victims of tsunami in Pacific
The destructive underwater earthquake with a magnitude of 8.3 struck the Pacific Ocean off the northern coast of New Zealand on Sept. 29, sweeping Faaputu Vaafuti’s uncle’s home away with its huge waves. Vaafuti said both sides of her family were affected by the tsunami. Moments later, a family member received a[Read More…]
Students take buses to local homes, mingle at end of festival
It was dusk when the yellow school buses pulled into the Alpert Jewish Community Center. The buses brought dozens of students from UC Irvine, Cal State Fullerton and others to meet the crowd already there. Overall, there were more than 100 people. Students greeted each other in English and Hebrew,[Read More…]