Taking the plunge Justin Diemert/Summer On-line Forty-Niner Tammy Trinh, bookstore employee and CSULB student, prepares for the worst as fellow co-workers try their best to knock her in the water. The dunk tank was part of a informational fair for all those employed by the 49er shops.

News

• CSULB offers new major option
  Cal State Long Beach students with a desire to pursue a career dealing with today’s environmental problems and issues now have the option of majoring in environmental science and policy.
  
  
• Festival to increase awareness
  “I wanted to go to Cuba and the only way to go legally is to participate in delegation, because there’s a travel ban on U.S. citizens,” said Jeff Kikawa, one of the delegates from Long Beach to the 3rd US-Cuba Youth Exchange and also a member of Cal State Long Beach Young Socialist Alliance that is sponsoring Caribbean Film Festival.
  
  
• Crime Log
  
  
• Learning to live with breast cancer
  “Sometimes in life we don’t get choices. We get dealt a hand we have to play it.” said Kathy Shaon, assistant to the provost in Academic Affairs, was diagnosed with breast cancer in January 2002. “I was given the [gift] of breast cancer.”
  

Opinion

• Student need to make their voices heard
  Every day change, challenges and events are continuously occurring on the Cal State Long Beach campus.
  
  
• Oil Companies and car manufacturers are responsible for the inefficient fuel economy
  With the summer sun finally here students are starting to take their summer road trips, but students are definitely feeling the squeeze from the still high gas prices. Have you ever stopped to wonder how we got to this present reliance on cars with inefficient fuel economy?
  
  
• Michael Moore is up to his old tricks
  It seems that all is finally well in the world.
  
  
• Do not patronize companies that profit from pain
  I recently came across some disappointing news about a Occidental Petroleum Corp., parent industry of Unocal 76, from which I purchased my gasoline.
  
  
• Same sex marriage should be a matter of church, not state
  With the recent Supreme Court decision that anti-sodomy laws are unconstitutional, people across the nation have been questioning whether the next big step for gay rights would be the legalization of same-sex marriage.
  
  
  

Sports

• Women’s hoops adds to coaching roster
  Women’s Basketball: Coaching staff is complete and getting situated at the Beach in preparation for next season.
  
  
• Los Angeles Lakers on a 2-0 winning streak
  Lakers’ summer league team is filled with both aspirations of success and NBA hoop dreams from draft picks of the past and present.