Spring Sizzle Jon Cook/On-line Forty-Niner Science students were served a barbecue lunch as a reward for voting in the Mayfield Awards which honor science teachers.

 

News

• Proposed cuts hit instruction hard
  Cuts to Cal State Long Beach will hit classroom instruction hard this year, despite proposed fee increases and a large decrease to enrollment.

• Software licensing costs skyrocket
  Technology: New campus software has helped advance CSULB in the computer age, but costs make future uncertain.

• A.S.I. strives for improved University 100 course
  Most students probably remember two things about University 100: it was one of the first classes they ever took, and they found it to be pointless after it ended.

 

Opinion

• Our View: Military not stretched too thin
  For more than a year scholars, pundits and politicians have sounded an alarm warning that American military forces are stretched too thinly across the globe.

• Right to serve, but not be served?
  As a 20-year-old citizen of this country, my age has granted me many privileges, except for one.

• Letter to the editor

• Israelis, Palestinians must work together
  For the past 56 years a war has existed in the Middle East, with occasional intense military actions, most notably in 1948, 1967 and 1973 — although, for the most part, there has been an underlying current of hostility brought to the forefront by terrorism.

 

Diversions

• ‘Salon’ brings poets and artists to LBMA
  While sitting in the Long Beach Museum of Art, a historic mansion located on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean, a lively audience was entertained by author, poet and Cal State Long Beach English professor, Gerald Locklin.

• Will fans see the likes of ‘Friends’ again?
  COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS (U-Wire) — “Friends” has had more jump-the-shark moments in its 10-year run than any TV show ever.

 

Sports

• Dirtbags swept, lose ground in standings
  The Long Beach State baseball team was off to its best conference start in the team’s history. That was before UC Santa Barbara came to town.

• Fourth place finish not good enough for 49ers
  While many people headed for the water in hopes to stay cool this past weekend as the temperature reached 100 degrees, The Long Beach State women’s water polo team headed to the Los Alamitos Joint Air Forces Training Center, in hopes to stay victorious in the weekend Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Tournament.