Year
at The Beach
Big West Champions
By
Michael Bower
On-line Forty-Niner
Jered
Weaver reared back and fired a 97-mile per
hour fastball to strikeout Richie Burgos
in the bottom of the ninth inning Saturday
to give the Dirtbags its first Big West
title in six years.
Weaver pitched a complete game, and John
Bowker provided two RBIs as the Dirtbags
celebrated a 4-1 victory over the Cal State
Fullerton Titans on Saturday at Goodwin
Field in front of a sellout crowd of 3,501.
“[Weaver] just dominated,” said Todd Jennings,
who extended his hit streak to 22 games
with a 3-for-5 night. “That is the most
fun I have ever had.”
Abe Alvarez led the charge out of the dugout
as the Dirtbags celebrated the title on
the mound of their rivals to the chants
of “Long Beach State” from the crowd.
“Oh my gosh,” Mike Hofius said with a huge
smile on his face. “It feels so awesome.
Words can’t describe how I feel.”
This article originally ran on May 19, 2003.
Students
rally for peace
By
Mike Parker
Special to the On-line Forty-Niner
They
came, they saw, they marched. And marched,
and marched, and marched.
A huge crowd of anti-war student protestors
met on upper campus Thursday to show their
contempt for the escalating conflict in
Iraq, encouraging the rest of the campus
to “walk out for peace.”
The protestors, led by the Campus Progressives,
circled Cal State Long Beach, waving anti-Bush
propaganda and chanting “No blood for oil.”
“It’s repulsive when a country like ours
defies international law and defies its
allies,” said Campus Progressives co-founder
David Murray. “There has to be a compromise.”
Murray, a fourth-year political science
major, fronted the protestors as they circled
around campus. The protestors quickly made
themselves a daunting presence of about
300 to the student body, as well as the
police. A Long Beach Police Department chopper
passed overhead as the protest began, but
did not return.
This article originally ran on March 24,
2003.
Maxson
proposes parking plan
By
Brian Brannon
On-line Forty-Niner
For
a couple of hours every Tuesday and Thursday,
there are no parking spaces available to
students on the Cal State Long Beach campus,
President Robert Maxson said Wednesday at
an Associated Student Senate meeting.
Maxson went on to present a plan that he
hopes will provide more than adequate parking
by late summer or early fall 2005.
Until then, parking problems will likely
get worse, as construction will take place
where 500 to 600 spaces currently exist,
he said. The two proposed structures will
be four stories tall and provide more than
1,500 spaces. They will be located next
to George Allen Field, along Palo Verde
Avenue.
Though parking fees will technically be
raised this spring to cover construction
costs, Maxson told the Senate the increase
will not be enacted until 2005.
“It’s always bothered me to charge students
for something they don’t get,” he said.
This article originally ran on February
27, 2003.
Senate
to postpone center
By
Todd Leland
On-line Forty-Niner
The
Senate approved the motion to suggest postponement
of the student recreation center to the
Student Fees Advisory Board by a vote of
17-1-2 in the wake of a proposed 10 percent
increase in student fees for all California
State University students.
John Papon, secretary of internal affairs,
recommended to the Senate board that it
vote to suggest postponing of the recreation
center to the Student Fee Advisory Board,
which oversees the project.
“Due to the proposed increase in fees planned
by the CSU system, it is the recommendation
of the University Student Union Board of
Directors that you postpone the recreation
center referendum indefinitely,” Papon said.
The Senate seemed to be in total agreement
with Papon and the USU board.
“I think it would be a mistake to put this
out right now,” Sen. Adam Anderson said.
“With the fee increase at 10 percent and
possibly going up to 30 percent we have
to postpone this.
This article originally ran on December
12, 2002.
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