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News

• Professor receives grant for software
  A Cal State Long Beach State professor received a $60,000 grant to explore a new form of visual education. Assistant Professor of Education Technology, Ali Rezaei, in collaboration with USteach Inc. and consultants at UCLA and UC Berkley is developing a new way of teaching the Persian language through virtual reality.

• Special Olympics brings unity
  The Summer Special Olympics of Southern California (SOSC), for the sixth consecutive year, took place at Sports Expo Park at Cal State Long Beach June 11 to 13.

Opinion

• Our View: God In Pledge of Allegiance
  "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."

Sports

• Dirtbags fall to Arizona, eliminated
  Having the best college pitcher in the nation, home-field advantage and an early season sweep of Arizona weren't enough to get the Dirtbags over the Super Regional hump this year falling to the Wildcats in a best of three game series this past weekend at Blair Field.