A Day in the Life of a Palestinian

The Muslim Student Association (MSA) at Cal State Long Beach will be hosting a series of events for Palestine Awareness Week starting today.

The group has three events this week that are aimed to educate people on what it's like to live in occupied Palestine. Today's event, called Checkpoint, is on the Friendship Walk from noon to 2 p.m. Members of MSA will be re-enacting the daily struggles Palestinians face with checkpoints in occupied Israel.

There will be between 10 and 15 actors involved in the event.

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Worldwide rally against violence and sexual assault localized by CSULB feminist organization

Both women and men will Take Back the Night at this evening's rally against sexual assault, hosted by the feminist organization at Cal State Long Beach.

Take Back the Night is a worldwide rally designed to spread awareness of rape and violence against women. Colleges all over the United States participate in Take Back the Night throughout the year. Every campus has a different message for its students. This year, the Feminist Organization Reclaiming Consciousness and Equality (F.O.R.C.E) wants to make sure men get involved and that they know there's an important role for them in this issue.

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ASI uses online voting for this year's election

Instead of heading to the voting booths, Cal State Long Beach students will be voting in Associated Students, Inc. student elections on the Web starting today through Thursday.

Assistant Director of Student Involvement and Leadership Kim Hinckson said that the online polling will be more cost-effective.

"Our paper ballot cost was about $10,000. Our online poll cost is about $5,000," she said.

Hinckson said that she expects voter turnout to be much higher than in past years



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Competitors Step it Up at Dance Competition

More than 5,000 students and alumni from campuses across the country attended this year's Stomping on the Yard step competition at Cal State Long Beach Saturday.

Celebrating its 18th year, this year's show attracted competitors from as far as Queens Village, N.Y., with nine different sororities and fraternities competing for the grand prize of $3,000. First-place winners also qualified to compete in the national championship show in September.

This year's winners included CSULB and UCLA's chapters of Sigma Gamma Rho and Iota Phi Omega, respectively. The prize money will be used to help each fraternity and sorority give back to its community.



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Miner bestows knowledge on next generation of 'Niners

Cal State Long Beach students got a crash course in classical Latin poetry on Monday when former teacher Mark Miner came to perform classic Latin tales to Latin students.

Miner, who left his job as a Latin studies teacher in 2005, has dedicated the past three years of his life to making sure young people have the opportunity to hear classic poetry in its original language.

Miner made it his mission to travel through all 50 states to recite classic tales such as Apollo and Daphne, Orpheus and Eurydice, Pygmalion and many others. He does most of his performances in the restored classical pronunciation of Latin, but he's also recited stories in Old English, Norse, Medieval Welsh and Japanese.

The performance took place at 3 p.m. in CBA Room 112. Students were provided with a manuscript of the stories with Latin on one side and the English translation on the other.


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Students and Faculty Protest Budget Cuts for the CSU's

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Hundreds of students and faculty gathered in front of the Cal State Long Beach University Bookstore Wednesday to protest Gov. Schwarzenegger's proposed budget cuts to the California State University system.

CSULB President F. King Alexander acted as the master of ceremonies for the event. He started by urging students and faculty to sign the CSU Alliance petition, volunteer, write letters to local newspapers and send messages to state senators and assembly members. He said that the upcoming budget decisions will affect everyone in the state of California.

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Resolution against budget cuts passed

ASI senators passed a resolution against recently proposed budget cuts on Wednesday.

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