Shady retreat Jon Cook/On-line Forty-Niner Monday’s high temperatures drove many students to find refuge beneath the trees.

 

News

• Professors refute claims made by former chairman
  The firing of Professor Lowell Runyon as chairman of the university’s finance department was warranted given a long history of abuse of power, several of the department’s professors said Friday.

• Longtime faculty member appointed college dean
  The College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at Cal State Long Beach has a new dean, Laura Kingsford, who has been a CSULB faculty member since 1980.

• Social work graduate students join to change thesis program
  Students earning their master’s degree in the Social Work department have advocated for and won changes to their thesis program.

• Conference helps students find a voice
  “Find your voice. Find your strength. Find yourself,” was the general theme of the La Raza’a 11th Annual Latina/Chicana Conference attended by many underprivileged high school students April 30th at Cal State Long Beach.

 

Opinion

• Our View: A good call on digital voting
  California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley on Friday prohibited four of the state’s counties from using electronic voting systems in the November elections.

• Fighting for the right to kill babies
  D.C. for a rally in support of abortion.

• Public drowning in shallow waters of smear tactics
  You know, I am getting very sick and tired of the current political smear campaign going on by liberals, the only aim of which is to defame President Bush and indoctrinate the uninformed in order to “vote him out” this November.

 

Diversions

• Ben Stiller, Jack Black collide in ‘Envy’
  COLUMBUS, OHIO (U-Wire) - When one mixes the comedic talent of Jack Black with the onscreen presence of Ben Stiller, a great recipe for cinematic brilliance seemingly exists.

• NBC pins hopes on new animated series
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jeffrey Katzenberg found his muses — some furry, some flashy — in a Las Vegas showroom.

 

Sports

• 49er volleyball advances to Final Four
  The 49ers, having been to the NCAA Final Four five times since the program began in 1983, are not exactly shoe-ins to hoist the national crown.

• Minnesota’s Kevin Garnett wins NBA MVP
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Kid is all grown up, and he has an NBA MVP award to prove it.