Higher learning Jennifer Camacho/Online Forty-Niner Psychology major, Deborah Nelson, speaks with Dr. Fredric T. Wong at the South Baylor University School of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine table during Graduate and Professional Schools Day Monday.

 

News

• Governor-to-be faces daunting task
  SANTA CRUZ (AP) -- Whoever emerges as governor of California will have a tough time fulfilling campaign promises. The state faces an $8 billion deficit, persistent unemployment, struggling schools, and, as Gov. Gray Davis knows all too well, angry and mobilized voters.

• Graduation fees vary by each campus
  Waiting in long lines became a frustrating experience last week for many graduating seniors who hurried to make the filing deadline. Filing a $37 graduation check, a tedious hoop that every prospective graduate jumps though, is something of a mystery to some Cal State Long Beach.

• Vehicle registration fee significant recall issue
  One of the major issues up for debate in the recall election is the tripling of the vehicle registration fees.

• News in a few

• Meningitis causes concern in colleges
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (U-Wire) -- Five years ago, Lynn Bozof was confronted with every mother's nightmare. Her son was in the hospital, and the prognosis was not good. She needed to go to him immediately.

• Half of middle-income Americans worry about finances
  WASHINGTON (AP) -- Half of middle-income Americans are worried about their finances despite having built up wealth during the economic boom that ended in 2001, new research shows.

 

Opinion

• Our View: Nature versus nurture on sex orientation a redundancy
  So much time and research has been devoted to finding out what the truth is.

• The procrastinator's guide to the recall Election
  Well folks, this historic day has finally arrived.

• Letter to the editor: Students should prevent mishaps
  In response to a letter regarding an ordeal suffered in the math department written by Martha Lopez, I would like to present a point of view from the other side of the office window.

• Onstage suicide as an artistic expression
  AMES, Iowa (U-Wire) -- On Saturday night, a man in St. Petersburg, Fla., planned to take his own life. At the last minute, however, someone stepped in before he could follow through with his plan.

• Comic Strip

 

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