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Beach Pride Center
to open tomorrow
By Brooke L.
Nichols
Special to the On-line Forty-Niner
Free food, live
music and plenty of Beach Pride will be at the University
Student Union pool Wednesday from noon to 5 p.m.
To kick off the
festivities, Cal State Long Beach President Robert Maxson
and Robert Garcia, president of the Associated Students Inc.
will cut the red ribbon to open the Beach Pride Center.
The Beach Pride
Center is "a great student activity center for students
that promotes all student events, athletes, and up-coming
events on campus," Garcia said.
Free hamburgers,
chips and soda will be served at the pool. Five local bands
are scheduled to play at the pool starting with Strategies
for Hangman at noon, Hindsight at 1 p.m., followed by Nobody
Cares at 2 p.m., Hey Stroker at 3 p.m., and John Wilkes Kissing
Booth at 4 p.m.
"Lots [of
the band members] go to Cal State University Long Beach and
are giving back to the school," said Chris Dollar, A.S.I.
Special Events Commissioner and official planner of the event.
The Pool Side event
is funded and sponsored by the Student Union, A.S.I., Program
Council, KBEACH and the chess club. The Student Union is giving
students five free hours of games. A.S.I. and Program Council
will provide money for the prizes and food. KBEACH will broadcast
in between the bands. The chess club will provide chessboards.
A Belly Flop Contest
is scheduled at 1 p.m. The student with the best flop, the
reddest belly or the biggest splash will be awarded a $25
gift certificate to Warehouse Music.
Students can sign
up at the day of the event at the pool.
"The concert
was a grand ol' time," said Oron Maher, who attended
the concert last year. Maher said the best part of last year's
concert was seeing all the students with their beach pride.
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