Hillel hosts celebration Culture • Getting a head start on Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year which begins Oct. 4, Beach Hillel put on a noontime concert and passed out food Tuesday. Top: Rachel Bookstein passes Shera Rosenthal a traditional taste of this celebration, apples and honey. Tracey Roman / Online Forty-Niner.

News

• CSUs become environmental example
  The California State University system has become a national environmental leader after the CSU Board of Trustees unanimously approved a university clean energy policy last week.
  
  

Opinion

• Our View: Europe takes steps toward world peace
  Too often peace is thought of as a privilege or some distant utopian ideal that can never be achieved.  These assertions could not be farther from the truth. 
  
• Laundry room etiquette, competence needed
  It appears some members of society were not equipped with what I call laundry room etiquette.
  
• California's gay marriage ban nonsensical
  Imagine for a moment you were told you did not have the right to love the person you love. Furthermore, you willl never have the right, if society has anything to say about it, to marry that person and have a family.
  
• Recycling this newspaper is a start
  The ideal attitude toward protecting the environment has always been, “Each of us can make a difference.” But the general attitude is more like, “What’s the difference?”
  
• Giving sobriety a chance, here's to loving some soda
  Turning 20 was a paltry victory for me. It marked a new decade in my meandering life, but it still wasn’t 21, the magic number for which every underage college student salivates.
  

Diversions

• Run-DMC: rereleased
  
  They are to rap what Elvis Presley is to rock—kings and trailblazers. Run-DMC may not have been the first rappers, but they were undoubtedly the first major stars to emerge out of the hip-hop scene.
  
• AFI honors film composers at Hollywood Bowl
  Opinion Editor Everyone knows movies’ tunes and melodies but few know the people who wrote these captivating pieces.

• 49ers
  Long Beach State had the fans rocking at George Allen Field as the women’s soccer team beat San Diego State 1-0 in double overtime Sept. 25. This was the 49ers’ third consecutive tie after regulation and their second overtime victory in a row.