• Recreation center back on agenda
  Senate: Students must decide whether center gets approved on referendum, A.S.I. says.
  

• Campus offers right to vote
  Students have 12 days left to register to vote in California’s Nov. 5 general election.
  
  
• Maxson and May to be bobble heads
  Athletics: President and former star get dolls modeled after their likeness.
  
  
• Crime Log
  
  
• USU site popular among students
  Leisure: Nestled inside the USU, the strip of computers offers Internet access to check e-mail.
  
  
• Ports busy once again
  West Coast ports resumed operations temporarily at 6 p.m. Wednesday until a permanent contract can be negotiated between Pacific Maritime Association and the International Longshore Workers Union.
  
  

Opinion

• Bush manipulates emotions
  In yet another attempt to win the American peoples’ support in waging war against Iraq, President Bush tried to tie the Sept. 11 tragedy and the al Qaida network to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in his speech Monday.
  
  
• Philosophy and human life
  In our highly advanced society, where efficiency and results have more cash-value than reflection and contemplation, many people have come to consider philosophy - the love of wisdom or knowledge - as a useless endeavor.
  
  
• Letter to the Editor
  This letter is in regards to the fliers depicting images of a noose that have been disseminated throughout campus
  advertising the Graphic Design Junior Show.
  
  

Forum

• CFA, CSU discuss tenure-track faculty
  This week’s forum page is devoted to a resolution to hire more tenure-track faculty.
  
  
• Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 73 and Task Force Report
  There is growing concern in California and across the country that shrinking higher education budgets have led to an increase in the reliance on the services of temporary faculty as opposed to permanent tenured and tenure-track faculty.
  
  
• Funding key to hire permanent faculty
  If the California State University system is going to sustain high-quality education for its more than 400,000 students, including 33,000 at Cal State Long Beach, then we must continue to recruit first-class faculty members to teach these students.
  

   

Diversions

• Author, poet hosts event tonight
  The English department and the English Student Association are bringing a night of poetry to Cal State Long Beach today.
  

• Dance company to perform hula for Long Beach
  Honululu Magazine called the dances of the Na Lei Hulu I Ka Wekiu company, “hula charged with poetic potency,” and next week this Hawaiian dance company will perform its blend of traditional and contemporary forms of hula at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center at Cal State Long Beach.
  
  
• Weekend Calendar
  
  
• Porn ’n Chicken encompasses poor cliches
  Comedy Central is usually pretty funny. Reruns of “Saturday Night Live,” “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” and “Office Space” are just what people need when searching for a good time.
  
  

Sports

• LBSU manager has big hoop dreams
  Watching over players’ court-running practice with a serious look, he was standing among a group of Long Beach State’s
  49er men’s basketball team coaches.
  
  
• Phillips’ return boosts 49ers title hopes
  The Long Beach State women’s volleyball team received a big boost on Tuesday when the NCAA Division I Committee of Satisfactory Progress declared senior outside hitter Lindsay Phillips eligible for the rest of the season, including this weekend’s games against the University of the Pacific and Cal State Northridge.
  
  
• Golfer undergoes surgery
  Golfers are no strangers to injuries, but Long Beach State golfer Tyler Mays suffered one of the strangest injuries.