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VOL. VII,  NO. 127 CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LONG BEACH  JULY 6, 2000
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Editorial Staff

Tracy Reynolds
Editor in Chief

M.A. Anastasi
City Editor

Chan Tran
Diversions Editor

Se J. Reed
Opinion Editor

Cristian Vera Aleman
Photo Editor

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[news]
  • Surplus trickles down

  • Cal State Long Beach's windfall from a record state budget should be nearly $22 million in additional funds from the prior fiscal year, making it the largest budget increase in at least a decade, preliminary estimates from the university's Administration and Finance office show.
     
  • Union debate over data

  • The union representing teachers in the Cal State University system has accused the administration of systemwide discrimination of minority and women teachers, said Jim Smith, union spokesman.
     
  • Tuition cheaper next summer

  • Summer school tuition fees will be cheaper for Cal State Long Beach students next year.
     
  • CSULB crosswalk potentially dangerous

  • Nearly 10,000 vehicles drive past it each day -- and while there have been only two accidents at the spot since 1994 -- Cal State Long Beach students and others say the crosswalk along West Campus Drive near Liberal Arts Building 1 endangers pedestrians.
     
  • Technology gets boost from budget

  • Cal State Long Beach received a $1.29 million federal grant to train teachers in the use of technology in the classroom, a university spokesman announced.
     
  • Libertarians' vision to influence political scenery

  • The Libertarian Party's presidential candidate for the 2000 election does not expect to win.
     
  • 49er keeps pace with technology

  • While the Cal State Long Beach journalism department closes its photo option, the Daily Forty-Niner is updating its photographic technology, including camera equipment.
     
  • Scholar's program not perfect

  • Out of 470 students who applied to Cal State Long Beach's President's Scholars program, 68 were accepted into the program, 402 were not.
     
  • Newspaper delivery crew hampered by tickets
    Despite several attempts to clear a parking ticket, Cal State Long Beach student Laura Head has been given the run-around by school officials.

  • Volleyball legend May and partner to play this weekend*
    Former Cal State Long Beach women's volleyball team legend Misty May is playing in the Seal Beach Open BVA (Beach Vollyball America) women's volleyball tournament this weekend at the Seal Beach Pier.
[Opinion]
  • Education policy not viable

  • If the Libertarian Party succeeds in its bid to appear on the ballots of all 50 states, it will be the first third party to do so in more than 100 years.
     
  • Cheaters never prosper

  • So, the Foundation for Academic Standards and Tradition issued its findings on student life in America recently, and we stand here shocked.
Punk rocks
Band
Cristian Vera Aleman/Daily Forty-Niner
Green Day front man  Billie Joe  croons to the crowd.  Friday's concert was the second day of the Vans Warped Tour 2000, an all-day punk rock festival in the Arrowhead Pond parking lot in Anaheim. The tour continues to Salt Lake City July 7 and Denver July 8.

[Diversions]
  • Designer finds role

  • Michael Pacciorini was playing the lead in a stage production of Molliere's period comedy "The Doctor in Spite of Himself" when his pumpkin tights broke and he lost the bottom half of his costume.
     
  • Shop showcases diversity

  • The diverse shops lining the block of Broadway and Redondo Ave.  in Long Beach sell a multitude of interesting merchandise, sure to interest fans of the strange.
     
  • OPENING PICKS
[Sports]
  • LBSU anticipation positive

  • Despite dropping 70 places in the Sears Cup from last year, Long Beach State athletic director Bill Shumard still felt it was an overall positive year for 49er sports with a promising future.


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