Frightful Scare • Knott’s Berry Farm’s Monsters invade the campus to promote the discount prices of Halloween Haunt tickets offered to students available at the University Student Union ticket center. Top: Monsters wander through the food court areas sneaking up on, and sometimes imitating, unsuspecting students. Right: While trying to enjoy lunch, first-year psychology major Jessica Ayala is surprised by the creepy visitors. Tracey Roman / Daily Forty-Niner

News

• Karina hits LB pocketbooks with skyrocketed gas prices
  Analyst predict that Hurricane Rita, Katrina’s sibling will rip through Louisiana and Texas where many Gulf Coast oil refineries and offshore wells remain, which may increase the price of gasoline.
  
• Cancer groups spotlight Ovarian Cancer Month
  According to the American Cancer Society, ovarian cancer affects more than 22,000 women a year. This is why September marks National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month.
  
• CSULB generosity to Katrina victims recognized in ceremony
  

  Cal State Long Beach’s Army Reserve Officers Training Corps program presented the American Red Cross with a $2,708 check for the Hurricane Katrina Relief Fund during a special ceremony on lower campus by the engineering buildings Tuesday afternoon.
  
• Senate elects Student Media Board members

  In a marathon session Wednesday, the Associated Students Senate saw the bitterness and passion left over from the 2005 AS elections focus on appointing new members to the Student Media Board.
  

Opinion

• Our view: Make more Mozart music for masses
  The world is full of strange and exotic sounds, some of them pleasant, others mind-bogglingly annoying.
  
• Diverse stereotypes typical among students
  The prom queen, the jock, the nerd — these three labels run wild in every teen angst movie from “American Pie” to “Mean Girls.” But do they exist in real life?
  
• Some lessons learned from bread and airplanes
  The Bread Lady is one of the most compassionate people I have ever met, but I do not know her name.
  
• Housing market boom ending, profits found elsewhere
  On Tuesday, the Federal Reserve voted once again to raise lending rates by a quarter of a point to 3.75 percent.

Diversions

• Burton's 'Corpse Bride' does not live up to hype
  “The Corpse Bride” is about a wealthy young man, Victor (Johnny Depp), betrothed to a young woman, Victoria (Emily Watson).
  
• Pussycat Doll's Scherzinger should have own contract
  The Pussycat Dolls have taken their burlesque-style music and dancing to mainstream media with the release of their debut album.
  
• Art student wishes to create sculpture on campus
  Charles “Chick” Bragg is new to Cal State Long Beach, he’s new to the world of academia and he’s new to his chosen field of study – sculpting.

 

• Pennant race intoxicates baseball junkies
  As baseball season nears October, the smell of the pennant is in the air. For some teams, the last few weeks will be an easy ride, but for others every game will count.
  
• Bengals get stripes back, prepare to surprise NFL
  
  The first two weeks of the NFL season have been anything but prognosticative. We have observed melodramatic stories that the intellects over at Disney couldn’t have scripted better, like the New Orleans Saints emotional triumph in Week One.