Two months after La Raza Student Association received death threats through Facebook, a suspect was taken into custody. 40-year-old Christopher Cook of Fountain Valley was booked by University Police into the Long Beach City Jail on suspicion of five counts of felony criminal threats, 422 Penal Code, with a hate[Read More…]
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“Latinx” brings approval and criticism from campus community
A banner drop that read “Do you know the difference between Chicano, Hispanic and Latinx?” adorned the bookstore lawn at Cal State Long Beach at Latino Week of Welcome. For many students, this was their first time seeing the term “Latinx.” The term used to describe the Latino/a community has[Read More…]
La Raza brings Dia de los Muertos to CSULB
The University Student Union Ballroom was transformed into a space of cultural appreciation and celebration from 5 to 10 p.m. Thursday night for La Raza Student Association’s annual Dia de los Muertos event. The holiday is widely celebrated in Mexico, Central and South America and is meant to honor and[Read More…]
La Raza hosts annual Dia De Los Muertos event
Brightly colored marigolds and Spanish music filled the air for La Raza’s annual Dia De Los Muertos celebration that took place from 5 – 10 p.m. on Thursday in the University Student Union Ballrooms. The night included vendors selling homemade jewelry, clothing and paintings, music and dance performances from both[Read More…]
Topic of hate speech lingers back in ASI Senate
Hate speech became the recurring topic of contention during the Associated Students Inc. Senate meeting on Wednesday. In light of the racial slurs vandalised on a stall in the men’s bathroom and death threats made to La Raza Student Association, ASI senators have begun writing a reactionary resolution to address[Read More…]
Racial slur found in lecture hall bathroom at CSULB on Monday
Concerns about the presence of white supremacy at Cal State Long Beach resurfaced on Monday when a restroom stall was defaced with a composition containing the word “n****r,” targeting African-American students. The graffiti was written with a marker in capital letters inside a men’s bathroom stall in lecture halls 150-151,[Read More…]
ASI senate meeting discusses a potential football team, La Raza and new parking accommodations
The Associated Students Inc. meeting began with a moment of silence for victims of the Las Vegas massacre and Cal State Long Beach Student, Estephan Hernandez, who died during a drive-by shooting in Compton last Thursday. Football team on campus Today a proposal was drafted by ASI Senator-at-large Alex Trimm,[Read More…]
CSUF student goes to ASI meeting asking student government for help against hate speech
Hate Speech To combat hate speech within California State Universities and protest alt-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos’ roundup of campus visits, a Cal State Fullerton student came to the Associated Students, Inc. Senate meeting to beg senators to “step up” against threatening language. Liz Sanchez, a second-year graduate sociology student at[Read More…]
DACA students at CSULB
This week’s Associated Students, Inc. meeting began with a quote read by Sylvana Cicero, director of university student union, in regard to the rescission of DACA and its impact on the Cal State Long Beach campus community. Cicero read a quote originally said by Cesar Chavez. “To make great dreams[Read More…]
FBI joins UPD in investigation recent death threats
In the wake of death threats made to La Raza Student Association last weekend on Facebook, President Jane Close Conoley sent out an email en masse Wednesday to the student body in order to address student concerns and confirm the involvement of the FBI in the ongoing case. “This is[Read More…]