• CSULB a top employer
  According to the City of Long Beach, Cal State Long Beach is one of the city's top 25 employers.
  
  
• Engineers explain WTC collapse
  Questions answered: CSULB experts talk about the phenomena behind  that brought down a New York City icon.
  
  
• Maxson praises campus at A.S. meeting
  Cal State Long Beach President Robert Maxson praised the students, faculty and staff of CSULB for their cool and calm response to the events of last Tuesday in his address at the first Academic Senate meeting of the semester Thursday.
  

diversions

• Women's sirens to sound off today
  The first program of this year's Words of Wisdom series, "Sirens Between the Lines," will be held in the Informal Lounge in the University Student Union today at 7 p.m.
  
  
• Stirring up the kitchen with trumpet tune
  If you had asked Steve Geiger three years ago if he knew where he would be today, he almost positively would have answered no.
  

sports

• Pedersen's a natural for cross country team
  When Andy Sythe first saw Jaclyn Pedersen run at last year's Mt. SAC Invitational, he hadn't heard of her.
  
  
• 49ers second at SoCal tournament
  A second-place finish in a golf tournament would please most teams, but not the Long Beach State women's squad.