Detection • Heidi Burkey, a health educator at the Health Resource Center, gives a demonstration on how women should go about checking their breast for irregularities. Tracey Roman / Online Forty-Niner Awareness • Students attend a breast cancer workshop explaining the risk factors which can increase a person’s chances of getting breast cancer. Tracey Roman / Online Forty-Niner Elaine Chau Elaine Chau was appointed Wednesday to the Associated Students Senate, and will be representing the College of Natural Sciences and Math. Her appointment has filled the only vacant seat in the Senate. A second-year biology major, Chau describes herself as being “passionate about helping people.” One of the ways she hopes to help students at Cal State Long Beach is to increase student awareness of groups on campus. “I’d like to get a summer program going, maybe in addition to SOAR,” she said. It would be a chance for students to “get to know the campus a little more.” Ideally, the students would learn about programs, clubs, events and “get better adjusted to college life,” she added.

News

• Harris, Ameral elected to Academic Senate
  
  The Associated Students Senate again returned Wednesday to the controversial nomination of Sterling Harris to the Academic Senate.
  
• Breast cancer risk factors vary, experts say
  In celebration of October as National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, or Pink October, the Women’s Resource Center (WRC) held a Breast Cancer Information Forum Wednesday.
  
• Sexual assault agency gives self-defense training in safe setting
  Swift kicks accompanied with shouts of “kee-yah” pierced through the peaceful night as women gathered at Cal State Long Beach to attend a self-defense workshop Monday evening.
  

Opinion

• Our View: Hypocritical handling of Hurricane Katrina
  In the still-festering wake of Hurricane Katrina, an enormous problem has been laid bare. Our weak-kneed welfare-state government insists on giving handouts to people too lazy to help themselves.
  
• Getting all perspectives on President Bush
  I would consider myself to be a fairly conservative Republican, which often causes obstacles because I live in a democratic state.
  
• Campus stray cat problem given some clarification
  I was somewhat surprised to read the recent article, published in the Sept. 21 issue of the Daily Forty-Niner, on the “stray cats” at Cal State Long Beach.
  
• Avenged Sevenfold music reviewer unqualified
  After reading your reporter’s scathing criticism of the Avenged Sevenfold in the Sept. 26 edition of the Daily Forty-Niner, titled “Avenged: less solos,” I felt it necessary to write to you about my anger at his apparent lack of musical analysis.
  
• Society breeds picky, prickly people
  I work at Starbucks as a barista.
  
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Diversions

• “Waiting,” entertaining for both sides
  For anyone who’s ever been a waiter, short order cook, dish washer, bus boy or any other hard-working employee of the food industry, the new film “Waiting” was made for you through and through.

• Crow grows ‘Wildflower’s in her garden of newest hits
  Before breaking into the music business, Sheryl Crow was a music teacher and joined the ranks of aspiring vocalists in 1993.
  
• Groove Cruise set to sail new musical waters
  It seems every time you turn around, there’s some event trying to bill itself as the “show of the year.” Well, the real winner of that title is coming to Long Beach, and it should be the best $600 you’ve ever spent.