Presidents prepare Meeting • Associated Student, Inc. President Jamie Pollock met with incoming Cal State Long Beach President F. King Alexander on his short visit to campus, Tuesday. The informal meeting gave the two a chance to discuss what students expect as well as discuss issues on campus. Tracey Roman / Online Forty-Niner

 

News

• Police pose as prostitutes to catch clients
  The Long Beach Police Department, in their mission to become California’s safest large city, hopes to stamp out prostitution through the implementation of the “John Program.”
  
• ASI tries to increase textbook requisitions
  With only 10 percent of Cal State Long Beach professors turning in their book requisitions on the Oct. 28 deadline for the spring semester, college deans, associate deans, chairs, departments, academic affairs and student government have rallied their efforts to get a higher requisition percentage.
  
  
  

Opinion

• Our View: Genderless word ineffective, superfluous
  The feminist movement has a colorful history.
  
  
• Organ transplant donation in dire demand
  In Brooklyn, N.Y., an ill 48 year-old woman hears the life-shattering words that if she doesn’t find a new kidney, she will surely die. This leads her to desperately seek a kidney for transplantation, by any means necessary.
  
  
• Romance in France surreal experience, similar
  After the initial shock of moving to France in the middle of high school, I gradually adjusted to a new way of life. I learned the language relatively quickly and found a group of friends to call my own.
  
  
  
  

  Diversions
  

• Hayes delivers hot buttered soul to Long Beach
  R&B icon and innovator Isaac Hayes was at the Vault 350 in downtown Long Beach Friday, spreading his infectious brand of soul throughout the venue.
  
  
• Rolling Stones too expensive for students
  The year is 2030 and Green Day is playing to packed stadiums throughout the world. Billie Joe Armstrong and company are all pushing 60, but the aging Cali punkers are still out there hammering out the chords to “Longview” in front of 50,000 fans.
  
  
  
  

  Sports
  

• Blalock inspirational force for LBSU’s cross country
  Injury and illness have not hindered Nicole Blalock’s spirit throughout the cross country season at Long Beach State.