Pride of The Beach Karl Peterson/On-line Forty-Niner Cal State Long Beach graduates will be participating in commencement ceremonies Wednesday, Thursday and Friday in a culmination of their college careers.

 

News

• Jobs are out there; we just have to look harder
  Now that graduation is here, many graduates are wondering what’s next for them.

• President of the Year award honors Maxson’s name
  For the fourth year in a row President Robert C. Maxson has received the California State Student Association’s “University President of the Year” award, but this year is slightly different – the award’s name has now been changed to honor the Cal State Long Beach president.

• Summer travel can work on a student’s budget
  There can be more to plan for summer other than getting a summer job, internship or completing a summer school class With three months of freedom students are now able to look at economical places to travel.

• UC system regents approve $700 student fee increase for next year
  (U-Wire) DAVIS — University of California students can expect a rise in student fees for the upcoming school year, as a result of a vote by the University of California Board of Regents on Thursday to approve the 2004-2005 budget.

 

Opinion

• Our View: A few last words of advice
  Graduates, faculty, family and friends, it is a pleasure to be speaking with you on this day of commencement.

• Students should mock the vote
  It was fall 2000 and as a volunteer for the Ralph Nader campaign and a fresh Associated Student Government senator, I had been urged doubly to register my classmates to vote.

• Vote, and vote your conscience
  I won’t be wasting my vote. Not at the May 4 primary, and not in November.

• Bidding a fond farewell to frat parties
  You walk into a frat party.

 

Diversions

• Schneider goes abroad in ‘European Gigolo’
  After the great success of “Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo,” Rob Schneider and his team of talented writers have decided to do a sequel: “Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo,” set in Amsterdam.

 

Sports

• New coach brings junior college success
  The Long Beach State Athletics Department announced the hiring of Mauricio Ingrassia as the new women’s soccer head coach Monday.

• Men’s golf season ends in disappointment
  The 49ers men’s golf team played in the NCAA West Regional for the first time since 2000 and only the eighth time in the program’s history last Saturday and Sunday.