Artistic expression Photos by Sonia Smith The Cal State Long Beach Capoera organization showed off their Brazilian martial arts on the Southwest Terrace Wednesday. The organization is made up of CSULB students as well as some non-students.

 

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• Emergency poles service campus
  Code Blue Corp., manufacturer of the emergency phone poles on campus, boasts that calls from the phones activate a 15-million, candlepower-blue strobe to identify the location of a caller and scare off would-be attackers.

• Campuses battle suicide rates
  Over the past 50 years, colleges and universities have seen a dramatic increase in the number of student suicides.

• Senate passes transition period
  The A.S. Senate met Wednesday to discuss recreational sports, hear a proposed bylaw amendment and announce upcoming Cal State Long Beach events.

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Opinion

• Our View: What now for the Gold State
  So it is finally over. For months California has been alternating between being the laughing stock and some sort of freaky sideshow of the nation.

• Stick it to harassment
  In January 2001, republicans around the country rejoiced as Bill Clinton, the infamous womanizing democratic president, left the Oval Office, making the position available to someone who would "restore honor, integrity, and decency" to the nation.

• Voters blind to truth
  I am sitting here tonight in sheer disgust as I watch the recall election with 9 percent of the votes counted with the Terminator in the lead with 50 percent of those votes.

• Letter to the editor: Catholics not anti-womyn
  Many people, including Ms. Sawyer in her Sept. 18 editorial "Open Up the Priesthood," are strongly misled in what the church teaches and believes.

• Putting the real back into reality
  Go ahead. Admit it. You watch MTVs the Real World. As an avid viewer of the juggernaut's most prized possession -- with the exception of its drug-overdosing, sympathy-yearning, scum-with-money Osbournes -- I cannot say that this is, in fact, a world of reality.

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