• The Pyramid to be renamed at upcoming reception
  On Dec. 13, The Pyramid at Cal State Long Beach will finally be given a name. The official announcement will be made at a reception held in The Pyramid commemorating the seven families who recently donated $3.3 million to the university.

• REACH Project awarded grant
  This fall, the REACH Project (Readiness and Early Activities for Children from the Heart) at Cal State Long Beach was awarded a $50,000 grant by the S. Mark Taper Foundation.

• Toy drive overflows with success
  The Associated Students of Social Work (ASSW) held their third annual Coat and Toy Drive Nov. 29 through Dec. 10 at Cal State Long Beach.

• CSULB mentor uses life story to inspire others
  On a day like any other, 15-year-old Gabriela Alonso remembers waking up at 4 a.m., still shivering from the lack of insulation in her house. She calmly and routinely would insert a needle into her mother's arm that was bruised with repetition and connects the numerous, complicated wires to the life-prolonging dialysis machine to clean her mother's blood.

• Long hours of study while short-changing sleep hurts students
  With finals in full swing, some students are now faced with the prospect of dealing with re-learning (or in some cases, simply learning) a semester's worth of class material in the course of several days.

• Campus offers a wide variety of study spots
  After 15 weeks of dragging your feet, procrastination and making sure to do no more than the barest minimum to keep your grade afloat, finals week arrives and your GPA is teetering on the edge of "I've wasted all of my parents' money and all I got was this lousy hangover."

• New device detects cheating on mulitple-choice exams
  Student cheating has become such an easy task that a California State University, Sacramento professor, Robert G. Mogull, created a technique that will confirm instructor's suspicions of students who cheat on multiple-choice Scantron tests.

• Our View: California Gov. must control spending
  Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger waltzed into the state capital with an action-packed guarantee, but since fulfilling his first promise of repealing the car tax, which cost the California treasury a whopping $4 billion, Schwarzenegger hasn't done much more than former Governor Gray Davis to fix California's ever-growing budget deficit.

• Letters to the editor

• "Queen of Sheba: Legend and Reality" brings myth and folklore to Santa Ana's Bowers Museum
  For the first and only time in the United States, the "Queen of Sheba: Legend and Reality" exhibit is currently on display in Southern California at Santa Ana's Bowers Museum. Bowers has this exhibit exclusively; they signed an agreement to be the American partner of the British Museum, the origin of the exhibit itself.

Sports

• Last-second shot lifts Portland
  Coming off a pair of consecutive road losses and dry spell of perimeter shooting, the Long Beach State men's basketball team entered Saturday night's match against the Portland Pilots with a mountain to scale.

• Fall sports comes to an end
  Injuries and inexperience are two words that help sum up the entire fall season at Long Beach State; yet, the approach of the 2005 season equals a renewed sense of optimism.

• 49ers fall; Hollans shows she can fly
  The Long Beach State women's basketball team has found themselves in a peculiar situation – losing a game that was within their grasp.