Giving life Jennifer Camacho/On-line Forty-Niner Imelda Kartarahardja gets her fingertip pricked by Maria Ascencio to test her bone marrow. The Vietnamese Student Association and Asians for Miracle Marrow Matches sponsored the Marrow Donor Drive in the University Student Union.

 

News

• Greeks rely on competition
  Amidst all of the mid-semester pressures of being a college student lies unexpected changes for those involved in a fraternity or sorority at Cal State Long Beach.

• HIV prevention promoted
  A new HIV prevention method has emerged earlier this year that can indefinitely change the programs and types of funding that have traditionally been practiced throughout the nation according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

• Chairmen and women discuss departmental policy on retreat
  The College of Liberal Arts held itsannual chairman and chairwoman retreat in September despite major cuts in the educational budget.

• Annual college minority report heavily criticized
  This month the American Council on Education released its Minorities in Higher Education Annual Status Report.

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• Students participate in successful launch with experimental engine
  successfully launched the first-known liquid-propellant rocket ever by using an aerospike engine.

 

Opinion

• Our View: American Indians regain land
  You would think that after 250 years we wouldn't still be trying to take everything the American Indians have gained

• Fallacy of sacred bonds of marriage, hypocrisy
  On Sept. 19, Gov. Gray Davis came under fire from some of his already irate opponents when he signed a bill scheduled to go into effect in 2005 which grants same-sex couples registered as domestic partners some of the same rights given to married couples on matters such as health care, parental status and property ownership.

• Workers need education, not more pay raises
  The grocery worker strike has most likely affected everyone since we cannot go on living without food.

• Sororities not like MTV represents in show
  Lawrence, Kan., (U-Wire) -- Look for the word sorority on any major Internet search engine. The first thing that it finds?

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