Surreal ceramics Michael Watanabe/On-line Forty-Niner To help the ceramics department fund a trip to Italy, Chris Miller, a fine arts graduate from Penn State, front, and Vlad Basarab, a graduate ceramics student sell various work outside the Psychology Quad. The table will be there the rest of the week.

News

• Students rally over fee increase
  Rally: CFA comes to the aid of students in response to another increase.
  
  
• Campus groups preparing for commencements
  With commencement ceremonies beginning Wednesday, May 28, the various colleges at Cal State Long Beach are planning the various events that will take place during graduation.
  
  

Opinion

• Homeless should eat out too
  San Francisco has become the only county in California that will allow people to use their food stamps in restaurants.
  
  
• Bush should get his story straight
  Tax cuts, Social Security, deficit spending, lies, lies, lies. Instant gratification always comes with a price, and the price for Bush’s budget is too high.
  
  
• Affirmative Action corrects wrongs
  The New York Jets’ head coach, Herman Edwards, said that the worst thing you could do to a human being is not provide the opportunity to be successful. In other words, he feels that people need to be given a chance to succeed in life.
  
  
  

Sports

• Fee increases affect sports at The Beach too
  Next Wednesday the California State University system Chancellor, Charles Reed, will hold a meeting at which our student fees will rise by 25 percent.