News

• Students seek to stay in United States
  Graduation: Many look to gain acceptance for Practical Training in order to remain in the U.S.
  
  
• Outstanding graduate - Gregory Maldonado
  Yehudi Menuhin once said, the violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency — half tiger, half poet.
  
  
• Outstanding graduate - Aleksandar Stanojevic
  Aleksandar Stanojevic, the most outstanding graduate of the College of Business Administration this year, was part of a project that examined post-Sept. 11 financial issues in commercial aviation this semester.
  
  
• Outstanding graduate - Gail Van Vraken
  Amid working as public librarian at the Torrance Public Library the last four years, raising two daughters and fulfilling the role as a wife, Gail Van Vraken also pursued a master’s of education with an option in school library.
  
  
• Outstanding graduate - Heather skow
  Senior Heather Skow, electrical engineering major, did not originally plan to attend Cal State Long Beach.
  
  
• Outstanding graduate - Rachel Wales
  She has never given up a challenge. She makes impossible things possible, and she has proved it.
  
  
• Outstanding graduate - Rocio’ Leo’n
  She was the first member of her family to attend college, and has engaged in research and educational activities on HIV/AIDS in the Latino community across the United States and Puerto Rico.
  
  
• Outstanding graduate - Amy Cucinella
  Accepted to Cal State Long Beach as a President’s Scholar and being involved in several activities throughout her college years has not kept senior and double major Amy Cucinella from maintaining a 4.0 grade point average.
  
  
• Outstanding graduate - Lisa Pinley
  College of Liberal Arts outstanding graduate Lisa Pinley had a great Valentine’s Day.
  
  
• Outstanding graduate - Larissa Balogh
  She has co-authored many papers for professional biology publications, will begin a doctorate program in the fall and plans to be a pharmaceutical scientist, and she is only 22.
  
  

Opinion

• To my cheering section
  Well, five years, 40 final exams and four semesters of the On-line Forty-Niner later and I will finally be accepting my diploma.
  
  
• My life, my love, my Forty-Niner
  Generally, I struggle with social acceptance. I listen to ‘N Sync for crying out loud.
  
  
• Remembering college, Thursday nights
  The day has finally emerged; I don’t have the luxury of saying that I am an undergraduate college student at Cal State Long Beach.
  
  
• Epilogue: the end is the beginning
  This is the end, but I do not exactly know what to say.
  
  
• ‘What do we do now?’
  I remember seeing a poster with the three stooges in their graduation caps and gowns standing bewildered with a caption below that said, “What do we do now?”
  
  
• Graduating with Beach Pride
  Congratulations to all of our graduating students.
  
  
  

Sports

• Year at The Beach
  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.