Graduating seniors who have been involved with Disabled Student Services were honored for their accomplishments Wednesday as the program recognized notable students and scholarship recipients. DSS at Cal State Long Beach held its annual Awards and Recognition Reception in The Pointe in the Walter Pyramid on Wednesday afternoon, where[Read More…]
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James O’Keefe talks guerilla journalism to CSULB students
Journalist James O’Keefe greeted a Beach Auditorium full of students and faculty by quoting Kanye West, thanking the audience for their “dragon energy.” This term was introduced by West via Twitter on Wednesday, in which he tweeted: “You don’t have to agree with [President Donald] Trump but the mob can’t[Read More…]
Turning Point USA to host conservative author James O’Keefe
Move over Milo — American conservative activist and journalist James O’Keefe is coming to Cal State Long Beach Monday to speak to students about media corruption. O’Keefe is the author of “American Pravada: My Fight for Truth in the Era of Fake News” and founder of Project Veritas, an organization[Read More…]
CSULB vegans call for more food options
For vegan students at Cal State Long Beach, cruelty-free food is slim pickings as being on campus often boils down to either skipping a meal or skipping out on dietary standards completely. In the past few years, veganism, the practice of abstaining from animal products, has become a popular trend.[Read More…]
PAC presents annual Pilipino Culture Night at CSULB
Once a year the Carpenter Performing Arts Center is filled with Pilipino tradition, vibrant colors, music and dance presented by Cal State Long Beach’s Pilipino American Coalition. The cultural night will take place April 29 after three months of preparation from student participants. Members have been practicing since February and[Read More…]
Movie Star Danny Trejo shares experiences about incarceration with students
If you saw the toughest guy in the prison yard, you probably wouldn’t believe he was convicted for selling a bag of pure sugar to an undercover federal agent. However, this is exactly how Danny Trejo found himself serving a five-year drug sentence in 1969. “He asked me if the[Read More…]
CSULB political groups engage in a Marketplace of Ideas
Students clustered around tables in the “free speech zone” outside of the University Bookstore Thursday to discuss controversial issues and connect with people who hold different political perspectives. Marketplace of Ideas, hosted by Young Americans for Liberty, was created to bring people together and encourage them to engage in political[Read More…]
CSU confirms no tuition hike for next school year
Officials from the California State University system announced Friday that a tuition increase would not go into effect for the 2018-19 school year. Since November, the CSU Board of Trustees have been discussing a potential tuition hike to compensate for systemwide financial shortfalls from the state budget. Representatives attribute the[Read More…]
CAPS applies new funding to improve mental health services at CSULB
When Kelsey Wunder began her freshman year as a business-marketing major at Cal State Long Beach, her future seemed bright. Several months later, things had changed. She began to experience a disconnection from the world around her and feelings of intense anxiety set in. So she did what every student[Read More…]
Smokers continue to find places to light up at CSULB
Although smoking was banned from Cal State Long Beach in 2016, you wouldn’t know that walking through the campus halls. The Breathe Campaign was implemented at the university in 2013 in an effort to eliminate smoking on campus. In Fall 2016, the campaign officially banned tobacco and e-cigarettes from campus.[Read More…]