Hot for a professor Inflammatory • Chemistry lecturer Tom Gufrey ignites soap bubbles filled with gas as part of a show for students Tuesday afternoon. Guffrey is known among Chemistry 100 students and school safety personnel for similarly eye-catching demonstrations. Tracey Roman / Online Forty-Niner

 

News

• ASI Senate passes multiple legislation, creates "Maxson Day"
  In an active session Wednesday, the Associated Students Senate approved multiple pieces of legislation. The new amendments will have far-reaching effects, ranging from worker’s compensation and information security to the current case against ASI President Jamie Pollock.
  
  
  
• Signs to reduce pedestrian injuries
  The California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) funded $1.5 million to the city of Long Beach Oct. 1 in an effort to decrease the high rate of traffic accidents within the city.
  
  
• Student survey says yes to recreation center
  The Senate Chamber brimmed at the doorways as students and Associated Students, Inc. members gathered Wednesday to hear the Brailsford and Dunlavey company present the results of the Recreation Needs Assessment survey conducted by students last month.
  
  
• Embedded reports give take on Iraq coverage
  The Program Council, in collaboration with the journalism department, presented “Reporting on the War: What’s a Journalist To Do?” Wednesday afternoon to bring awareness to journalism.
  
  

Opinion

• California politics a prickly problem
  California is an odd place.
  
  
• Certain Christian groups preaching intolerance
  I am sure most people, at least once in their lives, have been misrepresented or misunderstood and are forced to face the effects. Lately, I’ve realized there are many detrimental representations of different world religions.
  
  
  
• Print journalism world not slipping down slopes
  If you listen to the standard Brandeis journalism professor, young people today are uninformed, apathetic and totally uninterested in the world around us. Their proof? Print newspaper readership is on the decline.
  
  
• Society’s dummies seek solace, advice from book series
  In this era of modern man, we’re getting mentally and socially lazy. Tools and services are replacing the knowledge we need to perform the basic tasks of living and interacting.
  
  
• Foothill-South toll road affects everyone
  The brief mention in the News in a Few section of the Nov. 7 Daily Forty-Niner about the effects of the Foothill-South toll road only mentions one part of the impact this roadway will have.
  
  
  

  Diversions
  

• Star chef creates quality kitchen line
  For many, the college experience includes a stint in the dorms.
  For students at Cal State Long Beach, the impaction in the dorms causes many first-year students to find housing off campus.
  
  
  
• Jamison Parker says goodbye in San Diego
  Pop-metal legend Def Leppard and Bryan Adams dominated the San Diego Sports Arena, yet several yards away, the Juliana Theory and JamisonParker performed remarkably well before their cult following at Soma Sidestage last Friday.
  
  
  
  
  Sports
  
• Terrell Owens and Eagles soap opera antics continues
  The soap opera never ends with the Philadelphia Eagles and the tyrant that is Terrell Eldorado Owens. As talented as this man is, he is that much more pernicious to his team and the organization.
  
  
• LBSU women’s golf dream team shows promise
  On the golf course, all teammates are equally important, said women’s golf Head Coach Sue Ewart.