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…]
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Newly received or noteworthy information, especially about recent or important events on campus and around Long Beach.
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…]
California Senate introduces transparency bill
Efforts to require financial transparency among Cal State University and University of California auxiliary organizations, which include Associated Students Inc. and 49er Shops, continued this year with the introduction of SB 8 in the California State Senate. The bill, a revised version of previously failed legislation, is intended to make[Read More…]
Students compete for $10,000 in innovation challenge
Aspiring entrepreneurs on campus are competing for the opportunity to start their own business in the first Cal State Long Beach Innovation Challenge. The College of Engineering and the College of Business Administration have come together to create a unique competition in which teams construct and market an original idea[Read More…]
New CSULB ASI group to lobby for higher ed
A resolution to create the third largest board under the Associated Students Inc. legislative branch was passed Feb 9. The Proposed Bylaw Amendment for Lobby Corps — sponsored by Vice President Lucy Nguyen — will form a lobby corps to represent Cal State Long Beach on local, state and federal[Read More…]