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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Long Beach Student as Supervisor?

Cal State Long Beach student decides to run for LA county supervisor.

Twenty-one year old art in education major Marylou Cabral, made the decision to run on behalf of her political party. Cabral and several other members of the socialist party are running for several offices in this year's elections. They hope running will bring more attention to their party and help clear up misconceptions of what it means to be a communist.

Cabral, who grew up in Cypress, says she's seen the struggle between the working class and the elite first hand.

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Meet the Industries Expo exposes students to the business world

More than 300 Cal State Long Beach students attended this year's Meet the Industries Expo at the Queen Mary in downtown Long Beach Friday.

This year was the 36th annual Meet the Industries Expo, put on by the Associated Business Students Organization Council. The event was advertised to business students, but all students were welcomed to attend.

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No gun resolution gains support in ASI senate

ASI takes a firm stance after news that three CSU's are now considering allowing guns on campus.

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Things to do

For all students whom are not aware of what there is to do on campus, ASI posts a calender of every event or activity happening on campus.  Take a look at this and you'll never have a chance to be bored while at school.

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Ludacris speaks to naysayers

This weekend’s Ludacris concert proved to have a low turnout of protestors and large amount of energy.
Ludacris addressed students and the protestors in a press conference prior to the concert. Most questions were geared towards the protestors but questions ranged anywhere from upcoming movie projects to the importance of protestors to rap music. The rapper also spent some time talking about his nonprofit organization, The Ludacris Foundation, which is geared towards helping underprivileged kids. He wanted the protestors to know that he does not try to demean women and that he’s not trying to send that message across in his music.



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Daily 49er story

Causing confusion.... disturbing the peace?

Students at Cal State Long Beach are organizing a protest before and during the Associated Students, Inc.-sponsored Ludacris concert on Saturday to demonstrate against the rapper they believe has offensive lyrics



"His lyrics are misogynistic, racist, homophobic, they glamorize capitalism and overconsumption, and promote violence against women," said Marina Wood, a junior women's studies major and organizer of the protest..

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Student Government Intro

My name is Frances Vega and I am a student at Cal State Long Beach.  Throughout the next twelve weeks I will be bringing CSULB students all the news involving ASI and student government.  With a campus as big as this one it's hard for people to know what's going on and who's making all the decisions, and at a commuter school such as this one some people just don't care.  But if everyone knew all the interesting and sometimes scandalous things that went on behind the scenes, maybe they'd be more involved.  That's why I plan on putting the information out there for those who want it. I will go to senate meetings, talk to administrators and students involved with government, and I will go to events.  There will be pictures, audio clips, surveys, links and much more to keep you updated on what's going on.  Maybe you'll come back... maybe you won't, but the information will definitely be here.  Enjoy.