Be the Cause, an organization dedicated to service projects, is using healthy food and hungry bellies to spread the word of altruistic services. Every Sunday at 4 p.m. Zephyr’s Vegetarian Café in Downtown Long Beach closes its door and transforms into Seva Café. This café is entirely separate from Zephyr’s[Read More…]
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Political Portrait: Ricardo Linarez
The Daily Forty-Niner will be featuring profiles of ASI presidential candidates Christopher Chavez (Monday), Avis Atkins (Tuesday), Ricardo Linarez (Wednesday) and Raul Preciado (Thursday). The Daily Forty-Niner will also publish an ASI election guide on Monday, April 13. Ricardo Linarez ASI presidential candidate Linarez hopes to foster ‘easier access’ between[Read More…]
2010 Census begins in full force
Long Beach Mayor Bob Foster, community leaders and dozens of census workers marked the Census 2010 deadline countdown at the Centennial Plaza at Long Beach City Hall on Monday. The rally was a multicultural and multilingual experience. Sara Pol-Lim, executive director for the United Cambodian Community, and Amelia Nieto, executive[Read More…]
Cease Animal Torture holds weeklong events at CSULB
Animal rights activist group Cease Animal Torture (CAT) is hosting the Animal Liberation Forum 2009 this week to inform students about taking action against animal cruelty. CAT co-chair Nicoal Sheen opened the event yesterday stating that the group was created to discuss the animal rights movements and respond against attacks[Read More…]
Stem cell research expands at CSULB
After President Barack Obama’s March 9 executive order easing limitations on stem cell research, Cal State Long Beach received $1,337,700 for cell studies. Lisa Klig, a biological sciences professor and adviser of the biotechnology certificate program, said the program is glad to be awarded a Bridges to Stem Cell Research[Read More…]
UAW says strike may be something it has to do
An academic student employee union and the California State University are looking to the state to resolve their disagreements over the inclusion of fee waivers in their upcoming contract. The United Automobile, Aerospace and Agriculture Implement Workers of America (UAW) 4123 have been discussing the contract with the CSU since[Read More…]
Political Portrait: Avis Atkins
The Daily Forty-Niner will be featuring profiles of ASI presidential candidates Christopher Chavez (Monday), Avis Atkins (Tuesday), Ricardo Linarez (Wednesday) and Raul Preciado (Thursday). The Daily Forty-Niner will also publish an ASI election guide on Monday, April 13. Avis Atkins Avis says she is service-oriented. Most university presidential candidates come[Read More…]
Political portrait: Christopher Chavez
The Daily Forty-Niner will be featuring profiles of ASI presidential candidates Christopher Chavez (Monday), Avis Atkins (Tuesday), Ricardo Linarez (Wednesday) and Raul Preciado (Thursday). The Daily Forty-Niner will also publish an ASI election guide on Monday, April 13. Christopher Chavez As the current Associated Students Inc. vice president at Cal State[Read More…]
CSULB student dies from asphyxiation strangulation
Kate Yi, a 20-year-old Cal State Long Beach nursing student, was allegedly strangled to death by her boyfriend, 20-year-old Jonathan Huynh of Mission Viejo. Yi died from asphyxiation strangulation last Thursday, according to the coroner’s office, after an altercation with Huynh. According to a Long Beach Police Department press release,[Read More…]
Still recovering from hurricane, a New Orleans community gets help from CSULB
Approximately 30 Cal State Long Beach students spent their spring break in New Orleans, not to take in the ambiance of the U.S.’s Mardi Gras capitol, but to rebuild a community. It has been nearly four years since Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, causing more than $80 billion in[Read More…]