Go big West

Basketball • Val Willhoit (12) and Mary Has (21) of Long Beach State look on while teammate Crystal McCutcheon goes up for a basket. McCutcheon was selected as Big West Conference player of the year. The Big West Conference Tournament begins Friday for No. 2-seed LBSU women’s basketball. The women play’at 2:30 p.m. at the Anaheim Convention Center against the highest remaining seed, which is not yet determined. The 49ers are 18-9 overall and 10-4 in Big West with a 13-2 record at home and 5-7 on the road. Tracy Roman / Online Forty-Niner

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• Pollock signs destroyed, stolen
  Associated Students Inc. President Jamie Pollock suffered a minor setback in her campaign for reelection Wednesday when she received notice her campaign posters, posted all over the CSULB campus, were destroyed and in some cases stolen, as pictured above.
  
  
• Senate revisits Puvungna, plus-minus grading
  Associated Students Senate passed two Puvungna-related resolutions Wednesday, one calling for the protection of the land, and the second calling for open, student-involved discussions on the fate of the land.
  
  
• Expert suggests alternative remedies for depression
  Depression affects more than 19 million Americans ages 18 and over each year, and college students are no exception.
  
  
  
• Illegal downloading strangles small business
  “Download Legal,” a Web site started by Brook Burgess, a law student at the University of Alabama, aims to educate the public and end the illegal act of stealing products off the Internet.
  
  
  
  
  

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