Loss of value Photo by Jon Cook/On-line Forty-Niner At the close of the semester, students attempt to make some extra cash by selling back their used books.

 

News

• Library begins $15 million renovation
  Thanks to Proposition 47, which was moved into action by voters in 2002, Cal State Long Beach will have a giant robot in its library.

• Academic dishonesty punished more leniently
  On the evening of April 14, as he read student essays following a day of classes, Max Rosenkrantz came across an obvious case of plagiarism.

• Property procedures may alienate small departments
  In a time of class cancellations and cuts to operating budgets the faculty of the chemical engineering department seemed relatively unamazed that equipment from other departments was being dumped and discarded while they went without any computers at all.

• Senate approves Beach Pride resolution
  The final A.S. Senate meeting of the semester saw an approval of a resolution authorizing a new agreement on the distribution of student fees.

 

Opinion

• Our View: Honors for sale at CSULB
  When thinking of commencement ceremonies, one usually pictures a ubiquitous display of caps and gowns spread over a sprawling green lawn.

• What happened to the M in MTV?
  It’s been over 20 years since “music television,” better known as MTV, first graced our television screens.

• Hippie movement misunderstood
  Peering along the wall of the women’s restroom stall, I saw a message etched in pen that read, “You hippies are all the same.

• Campus Voice

 

Diversions

• CSULB Symphonies Play ‘Name that Tune’
  Last Thursday night, the California State Long Beach Wind Symphony and Symphonic Band performed an evening of music titled “Dances, Tunes and Songs.” The two ensembles, under the direction of John Carnahan and Joan deAlbuquerque respectively, played a variety of pieces with easily recognizable, and sometimes well-known, melodies.

• Movie review: Hudson glows in new romantic comedy ‘Helen’
  Kate Hudson has a wonderful life.

 

Sports

• Sportmanship may be gone, cost still high
  (AP) — Staging the Olympics is going to cost billions and there’s scant evidence it will bring the nations of the world closer together.

• Tennis gears up for NCAA Tournament
  There is a lot of excitement going on with the Long Beach State women’s tennis team and with good reason.

• Reynolds gives state of the hoops team address
  I will say this about Long Beach State men’s basketball head coach Larry Reynolds.