• Graduates complete the walk
  The 52nd annual Cal State Long Beach Commencement ceremonies began with handfuls of confetti being tossed at graduates and loud cheers in the Central Quadrangle last Wednesday. More than 4,000 students walked across the stage at Cal State Long Beach.
  
  
• CSULB ranked 13th in Latino graduates
  Cal State Long Beach has proudly been named in the Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education's Top 100 list of four-year U.S. colleges and universities that conferred the most academic degrees of Latino students.
  
  
• Former Secretary of Army named CSU Vice Chancellor
  Former U.S. Secretary of the Army and former California Assembly Member Louis Caldera was named California State University Vice Chancellor Monday.
  
  
• Cheaper summer
  Though prices for summer school have dropped compared to previous summers, some students are still not aware that their classes are cheaper and that taking additional classes can lower prices even more.
  
  
• Bush opts not to recognize Gay Pride Month
  Groups on and off campus that support diversity, like the Women's Resource Center and the Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Greater Long Beach, are finding little surprise in President George W. Bush's announcement last week that he was opting out of Gay Pride Month.
  
  
• Online Update
  Graduates honored during Commencement
  Nine outstanding graduates were able to sit and share their accomplishments on a platform with Cal State Long Beach President Robert Maxson and other distinguished faculty during last weekís 2001 Commencement ceremonies.
  

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• Center stays alive
  Although the 2000-2001 performance season at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center is over, there will still be productions presented by two of the theater's resident companies taking place this summer, including one starting Sunday.
  
  
• Reitman adds twist to old formula
  The year was 1984 and everybody was walking around singing the theme to "Ghostbusters," the little comedy that could, which starred Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd fighting ghosts.
  
  

sports

• Crosby drafted in first round by A's
  Long Beach State baseball player Bobby Crosby was chosen in the first round of the Major League Baseball free-agent draft by the Oakland Athletics Tuesday.