News

• Students share reactions about Alexander
  Students and faculty have good things to say about F. King Alexander of Murray State University in Kentucky, chosen by the California State University Board of Trustees and Chancellor Charles B. Reed to be the next president of Cal State Long Beach.
  
• CSU student budget protest ends in defeat
  Over 200 students gathered from all 23 California State University campuses at the Office of the Chancellor Thursday to protest the proposed 8 percent student fee increase which was later approved by the CSU Board of Trustees.
  
• Chicana activist speaks at CSULB
  Students, faculty and staff gathered in the Karl Anatol conference room to hear civil rights activist Elizabeth “Betita” Martinez speak on issues of race and gender Wednesday night.
  
• Academic Senate endorses student enrollment fee
  A new president for our campus and discussion of a possible enrollment fee were on the agenda for the Academic Senate at its Thursday meeting.
  
  

Opinion

• Our View: Halloween greatest holiday of the year
  Of all the holidays on the greeting card list, Halloween beats them all. Yes, you get presents on Christmas, and Hanukkah and Kwanzaa are of religious significance, but what other holiday allows you to simply enjoy yourself without any hang-ups?
  
• Rosa Parks’ impact lasting, important for all
  The 1950s and 1960s were a tumultuous era for blacks. The civil rights movement was a decades-long struggle, fought both in the courtroom and in the streets.
  
• Bible usage incorrect
  In the Oct. 25 edition of the Daily Forty-Niner, in the column titled “Bible not valid source for logical reasoning,” Sterling Harris uses arguments in his editorial on the Bible that were laced with typical, unoriginal and ill-thought through slogans.
  
• Strippers deserve respect
  Near the end of my freshman year, some friends and I decided it would be great fun to go to the SuicideGirls’ Burlesque show. And, other than the possibility of being caught on the Sunset Strip while the Los Angeles police were enforcing anti-cruising laws, it was exactly that — fun.
  
• Corruption abounds in nation’s capital
  Wednesday, Oct. 26, the federal grand jury met with special council Patrick Fitzgerald about the leak of covert CIA officer Valerie Plame’s identity to reporters. They adjourned the meeting without announcing any indictments or requests for an extension to the investigation.