News

• Murray State University’s Southern charm
  Murray State University is the kind of campus someone might expect to see in a Normal Rockwell painting.
  
  
• CSULB clothing subject to fair labor laws
  As Cal State Long Beach students proudly sport their Beach attire, many are unaware of the requirements necessary to create the apparel, including obstacles in ensuring it is not created in sweatshops.
  
  
  
• Court holds Pollock guilty of byline violation
  In a ruling posted Friday, the Associated Students Judiciary found Associated Students, Inc. President Jamie Pollock guilty of restructuring the executive branch and giving Chief of Staff Robert Godina an unauthorized stipend.
  
  
• UC Santa Cruz civil rights activist encourages diversity
  UC Santa Cruz professor and activist Angela Davis spoke at Cal State Long Beach Saturday on Civil rights, the Iraq War, activism, diversity and prison systems.
  
  
• Despite obstacles, parking structure to be built on time to be done on time
  As temperatures crept into the mid-80s last week, crews were hard at work on the parking structure being constructed on campus.
  

Opinion

• Our View: Horrible grammar detrimental to grades
  Technology has created a plethora of benefits for human existence. Communication is immediate, complex mathematical equations are solved in seconds and tons of information is accessible with the click of a button.
  
  
• Stratification in on-campus gym perplexing
  To my right is an 80-year-old man with an oxygen tank and a walker. To my left is a cute blonde bouncing up and down in spandex to her pink iPod. And behind me I hear the loud crash of two hundred pounds slamming to the ground.
  
• Hypocrisy in France unfair toward Muslims
  They said, “Oh, no. The Muslims did it again.”
  
  
  
• United States censorship methods not effective, useless
  So is it just me, or has censorship in the media gone overboard?
  
  
  
• Black Entertainment Television lacks variety, style
  Shows like “Comic View,” “106th and Park,” “Rap City” — these are some shows attracting teenagers and students to Black Entertainment Television (BET). These programs show the most popular videos, with “Comic View” making audiences laugh with comedians.
  

• California special election wasteful, money can be spent elsewhere
  I agree that the simplification that “Arnold equals bad” is ridiculous but the simplification that the Our View section on Nov. 10 of the Daily Forty-Niner that implies “change equals good” is just as ridiculous.
  
  
  

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• Behrendt’s ‘Uncool’ packed with comedy
  Greg Behrendt, the co-author of the bestselling books “He’s Just Not That Into You: The No Excuse Guide to Understanding Guys,” and “It’s Called A Breakup Because It’s Broken: The Smart Girl’s Breakup Buddy” has released a new DVD of his stand up comedy.
  
  
  Sports
  
• Lift with your legs not with your knees
  A male senior citizen grabbed my buttocks earlier today.
  
  
• A few oddities in the world of difficult extreme sports
  There are some extreme sports that are a little strange and difficult at the same time.