News

• Fashion struts into spring
  It was not Paris, Milan or even New York, but Cal State Long Beach, the site of today and tomorrow’s new fashion styles as the department of family and consumer sciences held its annual Spring Fashion Show at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center Tuesday evening.
  
  
• Weekend promotes diverse community
  Pride and diversity will be celebrated this weekend in Long Beach as the 20th annual Gay and Lesbian Pride Day shuts down Shoreline Drive.
  
  
• Maxson voted for top honor
  Cal State Long Beach President Robert C. Maxson was declared “University President of the Year” by the California State Student Association Tuesday afternoon.
  
  

Opinion

• Free needles mean real help
  Riverside County’s top health official, Public Health Officer Gary Feldman, is pitting his agenda against the sheriff and district attorney in a battle over a needle exchange program.
  
  
• In American we do not trust
  A faceless name has once again reaffirmed our collective progression towards a society based on mistrust. Jayson Blair, a reporter for the New York Times, lied in more than two dozen of his stories, and that is only the ones that have been confirmed so far.
  
  
• Letter to the editor
  Ignore Wachovsky and he will eventually go away
  
  
  

Sports

• Big West Championship next hurdle for 49ers
  Five personal bests and six seasonal bests were picked up by Long Beach State track and field at a successful Occidental Invitational track meet Saturday.