• New policy seeks to prevent student drinking
  Last fall Adrian Heideman, a freshman at Cal State Chico, died of alcohol poisoning while trying to drink an entire bottle of brandy at a fraternity party. This fall, a new policy will go into effect system wide to prevent deaths like Heideman's from happening again.
  
  
• Recent U.C. fire raises concern
  Last week a fire ripped through the University of California Irvine science lab, injuring three and causing concern throughout the campus.
  
  
• HIV prevention offered by Long Beach
  The city of Long Beach in conjunction with Cal State Long Beach provides HIV prevention and testing services for the whole community at little or no cost.
  
  
• Henderson appointed to tobacco committee
  California Governor Gray Davis has appointed Dr. Alan Henderson, a Cal State Long Beach professor in the Health Science Department, as a member of the Tobacco Education and Research Oversight Committee.
  
  
• Interstate 710 construction, burden for commuters
  The 2.5-mile stretch of Interstate 710 between Pacific Coast Highway  and Interstate 405 is the first of three renovation projects for the 20-mile span from PCH to San Bernardino, which began on March 25, 2001.
  
  
• Crime Log
  The following incidents were reported by the University Police between Monday, July 23 and Wednesday, August 1.
  
  
• Davis signs budget amide controversy
  Creating much controversy, Gov. Gray Davis finally signed the state budget, which cut $300 million in education programs.
  

opinion

• Our view: Voting system needs fixing
  After the election fiasco in 2000 in which the U.S. Supreme Court appointed George Bush to the presidency, the prevailing sentiment throughout most of the country was that some sort of election reform is drastically needed in this country.