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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