Performance • Members of the Carpetbag Brigade perform their “Mudfire acrobatic stilt show” on the Southwest Terrace of the University Student Union Thursday. Jon Cook / Online Forty-Niner

News

• Campus participates in World Peace Day
  The world would be a more peaceful place in which to live if one day a year no one directed blame or took sides, and combatants, civilians and leaders lived without violence.

Opinion

• Our view: Great googley moogely, libraries goes virtual
  Ever since it was founded in 1998, Google has made improvements to several areas of the Internet.
  
• Beach bodyboarding best by far – surf’s up
  I’m what they call a “sponger.” Funny thing is, I don’t even use a sponge. I don’t swab the decks or polish tile, and yet this is the term someone came up with for people like me. So what exactly are “spongers,” anyway?
  
• Musical influence biased toward dark genres
  It is no secret that music is one of the most influential aspects in our lives. It is been that way since our ancestors banged rocks and sticks together as they danced around the fire.

Diversions

• Avenged: less solos
  Warner Brothers Records released Avenged Sevenfold’s new album, “City of Evil,” over summer 2005.
  
• Blue-Eyed Son calm, laid back
  Drew Heilprin, creator of Blue-Eyed Son, recently released a new album under Eenie Meenie Records.

 

• LBSU men’s water polo drowns competition at Slugfest
  The men’s water polo team won two games in the UC Santa Cruz Slugfest Sept. 24 against Airforce and UC Davis.
  
  
• Women’s volleyball overpower opposition
  
  The Long Beach State women’s volleyball team brought a new meaning to the term tomahawk Sept. 23-24 as they axed the UC Davis Aggies and the St. Mary Gaels.