News

• Alexander considered approachable
  MURRAY, Ky.—In a community like this, no one locks their doors at night—not even the president of the university.
  
  
  
• Student with cystic fibrosis learn from disease
  In many ways, Emily Haager is a typical Cal State Long Beach graduate student. She stresses over exams, ponders her future and struggles to balance an often overloaded time schedule.
  
  
  
• On-campus vehicle theft continues to be a problem
  Over the past three years, motor vehicle theft has been the most common on-campus crime, according to the Cal State Long Beach 2004 Annual Crime Statistics.
  

Opinion

• Our View: Punishment for misbehavior justified
  When some children receive poor grades, their parents take away privileges. Others are spanked. Still others are not reprimanded at all. In the news recently a mother made her 14-year-old daughter stand at a busy intersection holding a cardboard sign that said, “I don’t do my homework and I act up in school, so my parents are preparing me for my future. Will work for food.”
  
  
• Middle of the road not the place for pedestrians
  If you have ever been driving down Interstate 5 from San Diego to Los Angeles in Camp Pendleton, you may have noticed a large yellow sign with a family running across the freeway.
  
• Conflict costs sketchy, question democracy for all
  Imagine China stormed Long Beach Harbor. The Chinese invade California and seize the rest of America in the name of liberating disenfranchised Native Americans, detained Arabs, the two-thirds imprisoned black population and guest-slave working Latin Americans.
  
  
• Traces of discrimination, sexism still present in society
  I am so glad sexual discrimination is no longer a problem for women.
  
  
  
• Santa Claus’ holiday unfairly eats turkey, old holiday forgotten
  I was walking through the store the other day when I was shocked to hear a Christmas carol playing over the loud speaker, a real good old ringlin’ jinglin’ Christmas carol.
  
  
  
• Giving a year-long practice, not just during holiday season
  According to Charity Survey’s Metro Market survey, more than half of the $250 billion worth of charitable contributions acquired in the course of a common year within the United States are made in the weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
  
  
  
  

  Diversions
  

• CSULB graduate dancers perform on campus
  Cal State Long Beach, the College of the Arts and the department of dance presented, “The Spaces Between,” Friday at the Martha B. Knoebel Dance Theater.
  
  

• Harry Potter’s new composer meets listener expectations
  The most difficult thing when beginning an endeavor started by another is thinking, “Am I living up to expectations?”
  
  
  Sports
  
• 49ers crush Tigers, Matadors, win big West
  A fragile standing in the Big West Conference had the Long Beach State women’s volleyball team faithful on their toes during the weekend, as one loss would have handed the crown to the shunned conference arch rival UC Santa Barbara Gauchos.