News

• Senators kick rec center idea around
  A.S.I.: Organization to vote on potential recreation center at next week’s meeting.
  

• Chinese Society returns to CSULB
  The Chinese Society at Cal State Long Beach has finally reunited again this fall for the first time since 1992.
  
  
• Beach clean up attracts groups community groups
  Community: Day devoted to helping beach heal by cleaning up trash.
  
  
• Queen’s anniversary allows free admission
  The Queen Mary in Long Beach will hold its Second Annual Long Beach Residents Free Weekend, in honor of the Queen Mary’s 35th anniversary starting on Friday and ending Sunday.
  
  
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Opinion

• Budget religiously biased
  A mixed message is continuously sent to America’s youth. Images on television, movies, billboards and magazines show and tell people that if you are not sexy then you are nothing.
  
  
• Media needs globalization
  Globalization is a recent phenomenon that has quickly gained wide acceptance among the American public.
  
  
• Letter to Editor - Foster parents may still be insecure
  The On-line Forty-Niner staff editorial on Wednesday (“Sensitivity Training Unfair”) demonstrates that, not only should foster parents be required to take said training —editorial writers should be required to take it as well.
  
  
• Campus Voice - How difficult was it to get into your classes?
  
  
  

Diversions

• Student chosen to ‘Become’ video star
  A golden opportunity walked into Dior Winston’s persuasive speaking class last week when the crew from MTV’s show “Becoming” surprised her with the news that she was selected to be on the show.
  

• ‘Beauty and the Beast’ romances the audience
  It’s a tale as old as time: girl meets boy. Boy scares girl.
  
  
• Museum gains valuable modern art donations
  Contemporary Latin American artwork valued at approximately $500,000 was donated to the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach.
  
  
• Weekend Calendar
  
  
  

Sports

• Men’s golf takes 11th place
  The Long Beach State men’s golf team shot a final round of 299 to finish 11th at the Inverness Intercollegiate Invitational, which was held at the Inverness Club in Toledo, Ohio, on Monday and Tuesday.
  
  
• 49ers struggle in rain at OSU tourney
  After playing an intense three-round tournament in the rainfall of the Pacific Northwest, the 49ers women’s golf team finished in 14th place at the Oregon State Shanico Invitational.