By: Vincent Medina and Azzan ShyInfrastructure and accessibility problems continue to plague the University Student Union, as the Future U Project continues development and plans to address the issues. The faulty escalators, elevators and leaking ceiling are visible issues in the USU. However, additional infrastructure issues continue in the 51-year-old building. The student union building was constructed in 1972, and...

Associated Students Inc. will complete their proposal for the University Student Union renovations, The Future U Project, before the end of the semester. The new Future U Project is in an alternative consultation phase, according to Shannon Couey, the ASI communications director. Couey said ASI is gathering feedback from students and staff to consider what to prioritize when building the...

If you ask a typical student at Long Beach State to imagine their graduation, most will picture walking across the stage and being handed their diploma. Some of us have been dreaming of that moment, and it's something we will remember forever. I don’t graduate until next year, so I still have hope for that dream, but to the students...

Accepting that I'm autistic over the last year was challenging. I first had to understand that almost every stereotype I knew about autistic people was wrong. Often in the media or in Autism Speaks commercials we are portrayed as people who struggle with communication, have high support needs, minimal facial expression and lack empathy. As a journalist, my career depends...

Local small businesses displayed hand-made, original products during the 562 Flea market at Long Beach City College Pacific Coast Campus on Sunday. The 562 Flea is held two to three times a month with free admission for all guests. The event days are continuously updated on 562 Flea social media pages. Most of the small businesses were started last year,...

On Wednesday Long Beach State's Catholic student organization, Beach Catholic, held its annual Ash Wednesday mass in the University Student Union to mark the start of Lent. Lent observes six weeks of penitence before the start of Easter, where a person would fast and make a Lenten sacrifice for 40 days. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the organization hasn't held...

The Organization of Historically Oppressed Students will be displaced following the Cultural Resource Center’s planned demolishment in the summer of 2024. A new building for the College of Health and Human Services is in the works. President Jane Close Conoley said the CRC building was constructed during the 1960s and was meant to stay up for only a decade. Instead,...

Long Beach State offers resources to help students and Long Beach residents who are in toxic or abusive relationships. In the United States, incidents of sexual violence, intimate partner violence and stalking are frequent. Approximately one in there women and one in four men have experienced sexual violence, according to CSULB's Student Disclosures of Sexual Assault, Dating Violence, Stalking or...

Associated Students Inc. shared plans for student food programs on Wednesday in response to food insecurity at Long Beach State. ASI President Isaac Julian introduced the matter to his colleagues when he was the first to speak at the podium."We noticed that housing and food insecurity was among one of the leading issues across the CSU system so we're looking...

California State University students, faculty and staff expressed their thoughts and recommendations for a new CSU chancellor at the CSU Chancellor's Office in Long Beach. The Implementation Committee for the Selection of the Chancellor held an open forum where people from different CSUs can participate in-person or online to speak on behalf of their campus about what they expect from...