• Graduating seniors get a green light
  According to statistics released this month, students at Cal State Long Beach are on average taking more than five years to graduate. This has raised ongoing concerns of retention and graduation rates and efforts have been made within the past two years to relieve problems of retention among seniors.

Opinion

• Our View: Roe v. Wade in jeopardy
  The sneaky politicians are at it again, slipping an anti-abortion clause into a must-pass spending bill. Congress, due for winter recess, passed this $388 million bill. When Congress returns, this bill cannot be allowed to pass intact because it will undermine the rights of all American women.

• Moore And Bin Laden – What A Team!
  I think most people have come to accept Michael Moore as a ranting and raving piece of slime, but every once in a while he says something that is just so repugnant it deserves to be brought to the attention of the general public.

Diversions

• CSULB dancers bring light, themes to the stage
  Dancers performed premiere works inspired by Martha Graham's "Helios from Acts of Light" from Nov. 17 to 21 at the Martha B. Knoebel Dance Theatre, reflecting Graham's themes of love, death and rebirth.