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News

• Campus Catholic club hurt by Archdiocese budget cuts
  The Newman Club, a club that serves Catholic students at Cal State Long Beach, is still without a minister after the position was cut from the budget of the L.A Diocese last October.

• Bill to increase domestic partners' rights
  According to an analysis prepared by a council member of the Assembly Judiciary Committee of California, gay partners in the past have had fewer than twenty rights.

• Donated toys taken from Salvation Army storage container
  For hundreds of children in Long Beach, the hope for a joyous Christmas have been threatened after the theft of $20,000 worth of new, donated toys from the Salvation Army Long Beach Corps during Memorial Day weekend, said Captain Kyle Trimmer, head of that corps.

• Safe alternative to illegal street racing offered at Qualcomm
  SAN DIEGO (U-wire)  -- They storm across the pavement in their powerful vehicles, feeling the rush of speed and adrenaline run through their veins. This isn't some fast car movie -- it's RaceLegal, and it's making a difference.

• Despite recent economic swing default rates for college student loans remain steady
  (AP) -- The default rate on federally backed college loans hit an all-time low during the 2001 fiscal year, the Education Department said Tuesday.

• UC, CSU will switch to online-only applications
  BERKELEY (U-Wire) -- Hoping to speed up the college admissions process, University of California and California State University systems announced plans Monday to move their applications exclusively online by fall 2005.

• SPJ awarded highest honor
  The Cal State Long Beach chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists was named "Regional Chapter of the Year" at the national convention held Sept. 11 through 13 in Tampa, Fla. Out of the 12 regions in the United States, CSULB is a member of region 11, which includes Arizona, California and Hawaii.

   

Opinion

• Our View: No accountability
  In an amazing victory of justice over depravity, a U.S. marine was convicted of raping and brutally beating a 19-year old girl in Okinawa.

• Great right-wing divide
  Is the political right in our country divided? Now more then ever it seems that the Republican Party in the United States has become polarized.

• Iraq: guilty without association to Sept. 11
  A recent poll in the Washington Post stated that nearly 7 out of 10 Americans believe that Iraq played a direct role in the attacks of Sept. 11.

• Thinking outside the box with $87 billion
  Just last week, two years after Sept. 11, a man from New York encased himself in a wooden air cargo crate and shipped himself to Texas -- reason being he couldn't afford to fly coach.

• Letters to the editor: Biased Reporting?
  I was dismayed to read the one-sided, front-page article by Angelika Meyer, "Immigrant license bill creates controversy."

• Letters to the editor: The whole story
  Mr. Wachovsky based his low opinion of Gov. Gray Davis on facts. He knows what issues Davis backs that he disagrees with and he stated them clearly in his editorial.

  
  

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