Painting pumpkins Jennifer Camacho/On-line Forty-Niner Ravy Sok, computer science major, and Lorena Porqueras, a double major in biology and Italian, paint pumpkins in the pumpkin contest.

 

News

• A.S.I. officials reveal reasons for involvement
  Associated Students Inc. Treasurer Mike Johnson ran for office to "positively affect students." Students elected him. Johnson is a student. Put all this together and it spells government for the people, by the people and of the people.

• Library hurt by state deficit
  Due to the California budget crisis, the Cal State Long Beach library is being forced to significantly reduce spending on books, media, journals, and electronic information resources that many students, faculty and departments currently depend on.

 

Opinion

• Our View: Some profits damage businesses
  How could that be? How could the self-centered quest for one more dollar possibly harm anybody else? After all it's the American way, right? We are all about capitalism, right, and that means we go for the goods, no matter what.

• Bush and Co. out for the green
  Bush Sr. started the war with Iraq that killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and totally destroyed their infrastructure; Iraqi cities did not have any clean water supply or sewage.

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