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Student creates online community for budding writers

Cal State Long Beach student Cameryn Harvey created a free website, penpango.com, to provide budding and undiscovered writers the opportunity to showcase their skills, and possibly catapult a career. Harvey, a business management major, said he came up with the idea after noticing a multitude of websites like Youtube and[Read More…]

Students flaunt knowledge in engineering game show

Students of all majors gathered in the University Student Union Beach Auditorium on Tuesday to flaunt their engineering-related knowledge as part of The Engineering Game Show. Hosted by the Society of Mexican American Engineers and Scientists (MAES), the game show format was a combination of “Family Feud” and “Jeopardy,” pitting[Read More…]

Harambee celebrates African cultures

“There is always someone, someplace who does not have what you have,” said the storyteller Onochie, as he poignantly unraveled the “bees and honey” folktale at the University Student Union Council’s inaugural Harambee at the USU south terrace on Tuesday. The Cal State Long Beach event, named after the Kenyan[Read More…]

Free tax prep offered for those with lower incomes

Beta Alpha Psi and Accounting Society are offering free tax preparations available for all residents and nonresidents, student or not, with an income under $49,000. “VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance) is a program run by the IRS,” said Nathan Nguyen, a co-coordinator of the Cal State Long Beach portion of[Read More…]

Bicycles, wallets reported stolen

Bike thefts continue on campus Two reports of bike thefts occurred on campus between Feb. 8-14, University Police Capt. Fernando Solorzano said.  A woman reported that her bike was stolen from the south bike racks of the Liberal Arts 1 building between Feb. 8 at 3 p.m. and Feb. 9[Read More…]

Speaker to address role of gardens in wartime

Cal State Long Beach’s “The B-Word Project: Banned, Blacklisted & Boycotted” will kick off with a lecture about the self-empowerment of building gardens during wartime on Feb. 25 in the Daniel Recital Hall. Kenneth Helphand, professor of landscape architecture at the University of Oregon, will discuss his book “Defiant Gardens:[Read More…]

ASI makes media panel part of Board of Control

A resolution to change the Student Media Board, which is responsible for overseeing Union Weekly, KBeach Radio and Goldmine Yearbook, into an advisory board will be presented to the Associated Students Inc. Senate for its third and final reading Wednesday. The senate currently presides over four subsidiary boards: the University[Read More…]

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