News

• Campaign tackles global warming
  Environment: Today is the last to gain information on campus about conservation.
  

• Blind at CSULB see brighter days with support group
  Support: Campus program lets visually disabled students discuss concerns.
  
  
• Writer of revolution speaks
  Poet: Writer recalls how dictatorship was while growing up.
  
  
• Hate crime case continues to linger
  The investigation concerning the allegations that Robbie Cardenas, a President Scholar and political science major, wrote a racial epithet on an erase board in a Parkside Commons Residence Halls’ dorm has been completed and the verdict is in.
  
  
• Campus collaborates with China universities
  International: Faculty may also discuss research projects, distance learning, application of educational technology.
  
  

Opinion

• Nigerian riots not surprising
  Organizers of the Miss World beauty pageant have moved the competition from the Nigerian capital Abuja to England after vicious riots erupted leaving at least 200 people dead.
  
  
• Letters to the editor
  This letter is in regards to the Nov.18 article, “Media Exploit Blacks’ Image.” Does anyone else find Ms. Kwesi’s lecture ridiculous?
  
  

Diversions

• Home facials work wonders for skin
  Being an exclusive patron to a beauty spa has a certain stigma.
  
  
• Disney modernizes classic book in film
  Cinema: “Treasure Planet” retells the story of “Treasure Island” as a space-age adventure.
  
  

Sports

• Big West boasts many tough teams
  Men’s basketball: Despite early predictions that LBSU is not among the top three in the conference, the 49ers are still considered a threat to claim the crown.
  
  
• Beach falls to eastern 49ers
  In a men’s basketball battle of 49ers, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte 49ers trounced the Long Beach State 49ers on Friday, 89-61, at Halton Arena in Charlotte, N.C.
  
  
• Women’s hoops lose to USD
  After a long and physical struggle in The Pyramid, the Long Beach State women’s basketball team lost its first game of the season to the University of San Diego Toreros on Saturday, 73-58.