News

• Senate helps team stay afloat
  After almost two months of dealing with what seemed to be an irreparable boat, the Cal State Long Beach water ski and wakeboard team finally received funding for a new one.

• Revised bill raises student awareness
  Recent Medicare legislation in Washington, D.C. has created a new bill that will benefit the elderly by lowering the cost of prescription drugs and widely expanding the role of private health care providers.

• CSULB Opens Habitat for Humanity Chapter
  Students and faculty at Cal State Long Beach have joined together to build affordable housing for the less fortunate by opening a new chapter of Habitat for Humanity on campus.

• CSULB parking structure still in design stage
  The recent budget cuts have not affected plans for the new parking structure, according to Tom Bass, senior director of Parking and Transportation Services.

• Local church remembers AIDS victims
  Banners of quilts adorned the aisles of the First Congregational Church in Long Beach Monday, commemorating its congregation's loved ones who have died AIDS.

• Man arrested in connection with missing student
  GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) -- A man described by authorities as a predatory sex offender was arrested and charged with kidnapping in the disappearance of a college student. But authorities said Tuesday the young woman was still missing.

Opinion

• Our View: Senate Bill 2, good for you
  Two days before the recall Gov. Gray Davis signed Senate Bill 2, a health care initiative that would require small business owners who employ 20 or more workers to provide health insurance for them.

• Big Brother says fasten your seatbelts
  Reading John McQueen's response to my column on the Patriot Act (Nov. 12) you would think I'm confused because I "demonize" liberals as hypocritical and uninformed.

• Free us from Iraq
  It being Thanksgiving, I took time to think what I was truly thankful for.