• Coasters detect date rape drugs
  A young woman walks into a bar. She orders a Long Island Iced Tea and starts talking to the man sitting next to her.
  

• Study shows increase in obesity
  Health: Despite fad diets and promising weight-loss pills, experts still say proper diet and exercise are key to losing weight.
  
  
• Fall of goddess due to literacy
  Goddesses, once the sole recipients of worship, began losing their powers to the gods with the invention of literacy, according to an Odyssey Project lecture Monday titled “The Alphabet Versus the Goddess.”
  
  

Opinion

• Department ethics in jeopardy
  The journalism department has been in somewhat of an uproar during these past couple of days, and in light of all the turmoil, we, the editorial staff, have several concerns and issues which we would like our valued readers to be aware of.
  
  
• War may be the only answer
  President Bush wants to get Saddam Hussein and the rest of the world should let him.
  
  

Diversions

• ‘Real World’ personality gives hip-hop book signing
  Hip-hop culture is believed to be the dominant culture of America’s youth since it began in the 1970s.
  

• Band members gather support
  With only three and a half months of being together in a band, Long Beach’s Jack’s Smirking Revenge, or simply known as JSR is promoting themselves to clubs and fans from the Los Angeles and Orange County areas.
  
  

Sports

• 49er’s game has worldwide appea
  Kessie Doering first moved away from her family at age 17 to play for a more competitive German club team.