• Conference prepares youth for future
  At a conference in the student union Friday, students from Sherman Indian High, an off-reservation boarding school in Riverside, listened attentively to the bitter-sweet story of survival and success told by Cal State Long Beach alumna Sonia Johnston.
  

• Media promote distorted body images
  Health: Studies show women fear being unattractive or old, while men and boys try to attain perfect body figures too.
  
  
• Impact of leaving home, making waves at CSULB
  Leaving home is an adjustment that most college students must make at some point in their lives.
  
  
• Night escorts provides student safety
  That is the only thing psychology major Freda Robinson can say about the night escort service provided by University Police through the Community Service Officer program.
  
  
• Author visits campus
  Eve Bunting, an award-winning children’s literature author, made a come-back to University Library’s Children’s Literature Collection at Cal State Long Beach Wednesday, speaking to more than 200 enthusiastic students, faculty, staff and members of the community, including children and educators.
  
  

Opinion

• Prop. 49 protects resources
  After-school programs have been shown to reduce gang activity and drug use while improving children’s overall academic standing.
  
  
• Studying is important, so is living
  Midterms are here. No matter how much we all try to avoid thinking about it, they are inevitable. Or am I the only one trying not to think about it?
  
  
• Letters to the Editor
  In response to Joyce Kelly’s opinion piece, “Teacher Should Leave CSULB,” I have to speak in defense of free speech.
  
  

Diversions

• ‘Red West’ show promise of hitting it big
  Red West performed in Laguna Beach a few weeks ago causing a pseudo-punk explosion .
  

• Center provides unity, creativity
  Last year the Families United Performing Arts Center, a non-profit organization in Long Beach dedicated to family bonding through artistic expression, suffered a damaging blow.
  
  

Sports

• Gimmillaro wins No. 500
  The Long Beach State women’s volleyball team head coach Brian Gimmillaro reached a career milestone by earning his 500th career victory in a win over the University of Connecticut on Saturday in Storrs, Conn.
  
  
• Beach splits a pair of North Cal games
  It was a weekend of highs and lows for the No. 9-ranked 49ers men’s water polo team as they competed in northern California, falling to top-ranked Stanford on Saturday, but defeating UC Santa Cruz on Friday.