News

 

• Senate says ‘no’ to student lobbying group
  Associated Students Inc. President Jamie Pollock vetoed a change to the ASI budget approved by the Senate, and the Senate subsequently overturned her veto at Wednesday’s meeting by a two-thirds vote.
  
  
• MSA opposes Beach Hillel birthday celebration
  A group of students from the Muslim Student Association (MSA) silently protested a celebration hosted by Beach Hillel to celebrate Israel’s independence and its sovereign statehood Wednesday.
  
  
  
• C-SPAN book tour bus rolls into The Beach
  C-SPAN2’s Book TV Bus rolled into campus Wednesday as part of its nationwide library, bookstore and college campus tour seeking to give students an opportunity to learn about C-SPAN’s programming and encourage student to learn about history, politics and reading.
  
  
  
• MSA hosts human rights awareness forum
  Obi Adisa Asad, senior English major, read the defined Zionism as “an organized movement of world Jewry that arose in Europe in the late 19th century with the aim of reconstituting a Jewish state in Palestine,” during the Evening of Human Rights Awareness put on by the Muslim Student Association Wednesday at the Southwest Terrace.
  
  
  
• Pump prices strain CSULB students’ pocketbooks, nerves
  As gas prices continue to increase across the nation and reach all-time highs in California, students find themselves not only reprioritizing their budgets, but also finding alternative means for getting to school and work.