Spirit • The
most aesthetically pleasing improvement
to the campus since spring semester
is the new CSULB emblem at the fire
truck turnaround between the business
building and the parking structure.
What used to be a dirt-covered open
area now boasts a very nice symbol
of The Beach. Marianna O’Carroll
/ Daily Forty-Niner
Campus
experiences makeover for fall semester
By
Marianna O’Carroll
Daily Forty-Niner
Contributing Writer
The new fall season brings visible and practical changes to the Cal State Long
Beach campus. A new change in scenery can be found at the Social Science/Public
Affairs Building, where new furniture was installed in every classroom; the
Education Building, where a new roof protects the building from rain floods;
and even the lecture halls in the business building, where comfortable and
upgraded seats have updated old and out-of-date chairs.
The music department has also received its share of improvements, apparent
in the men’s and women’s bathrooms. Brotman Hall has removed old
cooling towers and is about to complete a new seating area for students and
visitors to the campus. Parking lots 7 and 8A have also been upgraded with
additional parking spaces.
The new fall season also brings a rough road for those who park on campus.
“[CSULB has] lost approximately 700 spaces during construction of the new
parking structure that is underway in lot 11 off of Palo Verde,” said Thomas
Bass, senior director of Parking and Transportation Services.
The Beach Cruiser, a new shuttle service from Veteran’s Memorial Stadium
parking lot, will be available to all CSULB students from Monday through Thursday
during the fall semester. The new parking lot, located at Conant Street, was
leased from Long Beach City College and offers roughly 1,000 free parking spaces.
The Campus Connection, another in house shuttle bus, will continue service
as scheduled for those who live off campus. Bass warns that parking officials
will be tougher this year in enforcing the use of a special Campus Connection
ID for off-campus locations.
There are also carpooling opportunities and bus routes that will ease the pain
of parking on campus.
Administrators this past summer have also taken on the task of providing students
with a safer environment for everyone on campus. Old and deteriorated light
fixtures in engineering, fine arts, language arts and liberal arts buildings
have been replaced. Friendship walk now has a repaired and trip-free concrete
surface.
Upper campus has been upgraded to improve water pressure, and many buildings
have received an overall summer cleaning, with shiny floors and working window
blinds. |
