• Beach treatment levels upped
  Health: New facilities being constructed to remove more pollutants from the water.
  

• Prop 47 to provide more money for CSUs
  Proposition 47, on the ballot Nov. 5, would provide $13.05 billion in general obligation bonds for the modernization and construction of schools from elementary, K-12, to higher education, like the California State University system and University of California system.
  
  
• Dance flexes muscle for new option
  Curriculum: Schedule less strenuous than before, with more focused classes.
  
  
• STARs share awareness in classrooms
  More than 30 students at Cal State Long Beach gathered for a day of training Sunday, at the Students Talk About Race workshop, preparing them to be placed as facilitators of multicultural awareness in middle and high schools throughout Long Beach.
  
  
• Library online service guides students
  This semester Cal State Long Beach students, faculty and staff can receive guidance or an immediate answer regarding University Library information thanks to a new online service called 24/7 Reference.
  
  

Opinion

• Blame shared in murder
  “Kids are going to be kids.” Said the father of one of the boys involved in the fatal beating of 36-year-old Charlie Young Jr.
  
  
• Religious ads too intrusive
  Yellow signs conveniently placed around campus read “we are not” in small type and “Atheist” in big type.
  
  
• False display cheats patrons
  A while ago I decided to eat at the Press Room on campus. I planned to order a salad, but just before I ordered, I noticed some wrapped packages.
  
  

Diversions

• Director discusses first play ‘Blue Room’
  “Restlessness, longing. These things haven’t changed all that much in the name of what we call progress.” - Hugh O’Gorman quoting “The Blue Room”
  

• Professor seeks to change world with book
  “I want this on my tombstone, ‘Things are the way they are because you do nothing to change them. Do yourself a favor and question everything,’” said Kanaan, a communications instructor at Cal State Long Beach.
  
  

Sports

• Water polo takes ninth in NorCal
  The Long Beach State men’s water polo team racked up some impressive wins this past weekend, claiming ninth at the NorCal Tournament in Berkeley.