Ludicrous Lines Jennifer Camacho/Daily Forty-Niner The University Bookstore was the epicenter of the massive back-to-school rush Tuesday. Along with long lines to pay there was an extensive wait to check-in backpacks.

News

• Schwarzenegger to talk, address CSULB students
  Republican gubernatorial candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger will address Cal State Long Beach students today at 12:30 p.m. on Upper Campus
  
• Design students win awards
  The design department at Cal State Long Beach designed and conquered at the Institute of Store Planners Student Retail Interior Design Competition, taking home more awards than any one school has done in the competition's history.
  
• Proposition 54 debated
  Proposition 54, also known as the Racial Privacy Act, has sparked conflict throughout California.
  
• Calendar of Events
  
• New file-sharing program promises to hide users' IDs
  TAMPA, Fla. (U-Wire) -- With the dubious threat of prosecution by the Recording Industry Association of America becoming a reality, many users are turning to new file-sharing systems that will allow them to keep their identity anonymous.
  
• 'Freshman 15':Avoidable or inevitable?
  BERKELEY (U-Wire) -- As a college freshman there is a lot to look forward to -- meeting new people in the dorms, scheduling classes after 12 p.m. and no more curfews.

 

Opinion

• Big business much too costly
  With the California economy slumping big time since the crash of the dot-coms, every politician this side of the Colorado River seems to think that what we really need is to bring big business back.
  
• Eco-terrorism harms public good
  Imagine, for a moment, that you have a job at a car dealership. You go to work day after day and sell cars, making a decent living in this great country that we live in, to provde for your family and make sure that your kids are well fed.
  
• State populism good for privacy
  BERKELEY,  (U-Wire) --
  For the past two months, California's appearance in the national spotlight has been anything but glamorous. Its citizens, the consensus seems to be, are willing to throw the state into chaos in order to exercise their unusual power of recalling the governor.
  
• Economy shows improvement, hope for students
  ANN ARBOR, Mich. (U-Wire) -- Many readers browsing through recent newspapers consider the national economy to be still in a recession. Journals report that unemployment is at a 10-year high -- about 6.5 percent -- with growth averaging less than 3 percent since fiscal-year end 2001.
  

 

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