California State University System

¡Ask a Mexican! Changing Student Lives!

[¡Ask a Mexican!] And should young Mexican students move out with their young gabacho boyfriends?

Merle Haggard

City National Grove of Anaheim

Brice Harris, New State Community Colleges Chancellor, and Timothy P. White, Incoming CSU Chancellor, Challenged from the Get-go

Brice Harris took over the California Community Colleges system as chancellor on Nov. 6. Timothy P. White will be installed as the California State University system chancellor at the end of this month. Both are being welcomed to office by a broad, nonprofit coalition of education, business and ci ... More >>

Sorry, Californians: CSU Plans To Only Admit Out-Of-State Students Next Spring

In their latest attempt to address massive budget cuts that have paralyzed public higher education, California State University leaders have come up with a plan that's pretty shitty for those who happen to live in this state.It was announced earlier that CSU would freeze spring 2013 enrollment on mo ... More >>

Pat Brown and Jerry Brown's Thorny Political and Father-Son Relationship on TV Tonight

Tonight, Southern California's PBS station, which is based in Costa Mesa, airs the broadcast debut of a documentary I found enlightening and warts-filled despite being made by the main subject's loving granddaughter.It's California State of Mind: The Legacy of Pat Brown, Sascha Rice's cinexamination ... More >>

Cal State Fullerton Spends $300K to Remodel Eight-Bedroom Home of University President

While Cal State Fullerton students have been suffering through funding cuts and tuition hikes (and making no secret of their misery), at least someone at the school seems to be doing okay.    Incoming president Mildred Garcia recently got her base salary bumped up 10 percent to $324,500-- ... More >>

Ron Thomas at CSUF Social Justice Summit: Defend the Homeless

"Here's that beautiful picture of Kelly on the right," said Ron Thomas, as he pointed to a portrait of his smiling son toward the end of his PowerPoint presentation on homelessness at Cal State University Fullerton's eighth-annual social justice summit on Saturday, April 14. "Right here, [Kelly ... More >>

Raising Salaries of Cal State University Execs is A-Okay, Lawmakers Decide

​We're beginning to lose count of the number of times public education advocates begin their "official statements" with something akin to "It's a sad day for education!" This time, the opener comes from Sen. Leland Yee (D-San Francisco), whose bill to curb pay increases for college administra ... More >>

Cal State Can't Afford New Students Next Spring

​In the wake of draconian statewide budget cuts, California State University is taking one of its most drastic measures to date. It is closing the door on spring 2013 enrollment at most of its campuses, officials announced on Monday. That means about 16,000 students who would have appeared in clas ... More >>

Poems to an Imaginary Friend: On Collier Nogues and David Hernandez

Stood in line with all variety of art lovers for the Richard Diebenkorn show at OC Museum of Art last Sunday, a long line, eager fans, and admission free that morning. We are meant to understand that RD's work is elaborate construction, puzzling out of forms, and that living in Ocean Park, CA has le ... More >>

CaliFire Grill Opens in Fullerton

Chris Kovach​In the eastern Mediterranean, meat wrapped in bread--regardless of whether it's called souvlakia or shawarma--gets sold from street vendors. In New York, too, such things are the demesne of corner khlav kalash carts (forever known as such by the moniker bestowed by the Simpsons), thou ... More >>

Cal State Fullerton Gets a Queer Studies Minor--And Its First Haters

​Cal State Fullerton recently approved a queer studies minor, and starting this fall, students will examine the culture of gender and sexuality in courses such as Queer Theory, Sexual Orientations and American Culture and The Psychological Study of LGB Experiences. The program was pushed for ... More >>

California DREAM Act Passes State Assembly

​It's a little confusing, but no less a victory for illegal immigrant college students. While the national DREAM Act, an immigration bill aimed at providing a path to citizenship for young people, died in the U.S. Senate--and possibly forever--last year, the California DREAM Act is very much alive ... More >>

Cal State Fullerton Activists to Protest Fee Increases by Serving Top Ramen to Starving Students

Flickr user Casey Serin​We've all heard the cliche of students being so poor that all they can afford to eat is instant noodles. Well, activists at Cal State Fullerton are bringing that truism to the next obvious level by hosting an all-day soup kitchen tomorrow where the soup of choice is--you gu ... More >>

CSULB Newspaper Apologizes for Insensitive 'Pow Wow Wow Yippee Yo Yippy Yay' Report on Native American Event

​Another one for the Bad Ideas file.  A student newspaper at Cal State University Long Beach is under fire for publishing what many are calling a racist review of a recent Native American campus festival. Noah Kelly, campus editor of the student government-funded Union Weekly, penned the Marc ... More >>

Cal State Fullerton Wrestling Pinned to the Mat

​Tuesday came and went, possibly taking the Cal State Fullerton wrestling program with it.The university in September informed Titans grapplers they would have to raise $450,000 by March 1 if they wanted their sport to remain on campus."It doesn't look like we're going to make it," head coach Dan ... More >>

Jerry Brown's Budget Slashes Higher Education Funding By $1.4 Billion

The Gov. ​The University of California president called it "a sad day for California." Today, Gov. Jerry Brown released his 2011-12 state budget proposal, one he described as "a tough budget for tough times," and higher eduction is feeling the blow.  Under the proposed budget, funding for the ... More >>

Report: OC Kids Fatter, More Likely to be a Hoodlum

Sup?​The number of Orange County children living below the poverty level is down and their test scores are up, but more are living in obesity, illegally consuming alcohol and narcotics, willing to join criminal street gangs and relying on government-sponsored free or reduced school lunch programs. ... More >>

CSU Students Hold "Protest Carnival," Trustees Still Raise Tuition 15%

​Many college students will soon have to dig deep into their beer funds to pay for classes.The California State University governing board has approved a two-step tuition increase that will raise fees by 15 percent over the next year.Opponents didn't go down without a fight, albeit a rather friend ... More >>

An Evening with Leonard Nimoy

Carpenter Center

Local DREAM Act Students Continue Hunger Strike Outside LA Offices of Senator Dianne Feinstein

​While our local liberal pundits still continue to ridicule the protests of undocumented college to draw attention to their plight (with allies like those, who needs the Minutemen?), three members of the Orange County Dream Team (whose awesome logo you see at right) have been fasting outside the L ... More >>

Killing for the Cartel

Police believe East LA high-school dropout Jose Saenz has killed a good friend and the mother of his daughter

The Furries Fly at ESPN Zone

Will Peter the Anteater or Tuffy the Titan win the ultimate mascot-off?​If you've ever wondered who would whip whose ass--UC Irvine's Peter the Anteater or Cal State Fullerton's Tuffy the Titan--the answer may be fothcoming today in Irvine.

Marathon Party to Aid LA Jazz Institute Leaving CSULB

​ By Jack GrimshawThe names Cannonball, Coltrane and Art Pepper do it for you? Always wanted to see the Bill Holman Band, the Steve Hufstetter Big Band, the Carl Sanders Be Bop Band, the Gerry Gibbs Quartet and Frank Capp--on the same bill?   You up for 12 straight hours of straight-ahead liv ... More >>

Heath Insurance or Bust: Why You Might Want to Think Twice About Relying on that Student Health Plan

 ​They are nicknamed the "Young Invincibles." Thus tagged by the health insurance industry, they are the demographic of strapping 19- to 29-year-olds who, at 13.7 million strong, constitute the largest group of uninsured in America. Among the least likely to be able to afford coverage, Young ... More >>

Thinking Outside the Box for a Cal State Education

At 7:31 a.m. on the KTLA Morning News, reporter Jennifer Gould was at Cal State Long Beach talking with Students for Quality Education members who'd been camped out since 5 p.m. Sunday to protest tuition and fee increases university board members may implement Tuesday afternoon. To co ... More >>

It's a Quick Read 21

Orange County Register: It's not the happiest place on Earth today, as Disneyland begins laying off back-office employees and telling employees of a Paradise Pier Hotel restaurant it will close. . . . Motivational speaker Gary Shawkey was booked into Orange County Jail on murder charges after s ... More >>

As State OK's Tough Global Warming Rules Should Diesel Be Next?

As expected, the state this afternoon put teeth in its landmark regulations enacted in 2006 to combat global warming, adopting the nation's most comprehensive plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Such emissions must be cut 30 percent by 2020. But that is not enough for the editorial board ... More >>

The Weekly's Head Count of the 48 New Faces Who Want to Be Your Next Sheriff

Activists protest hate at Cal State Fullerton

At noon, the ho-hum shuffle of another Tuesday afternoon was interrupted with a jarring burst of voices. They echoed from the Cal State Fullerton quad in front of the Humanities and Social Sciences building. A noose was throw over a tree branch and dropped in the dirt. Today students from across L.A ... More >>

What you missed over the weekend: Part X

Cobra Starship landed at the Pomona Glass House Friday night for the closest-to-OC leg of their "Really Really Ridiculously Good Looking Tour." Christopher Victorio caught the main act and support band Metro Station (but missed out on We The Kings and The Cab, also on tour with Cobra). The venue was ... More >>

CSULB-Ludacris Concert Protest

Where Is the Kitsch?

Art of Advertising takes on Style of Country Musicand loses

Commie Girl

Make Levees Not War
We go a-visiting at the Nixon Library

Get Laid Now, Ask a Vagina How

Attention men of Earth: Vagina Monologues will get you in good with the dames

More Than Adequate

Cal State Fullerton’s Bus Stop is nicely done, if not groundbreaking

Fade to White

Cal State Fullerton does the shock of the sort-of new

Wheres the Crazy

Its college: Greater LA MFA should be more insane

Pay Attention!

"Exquisite Electric" demands you participate

Future Perfect

The vision of Arthur Millers American Clock

Cold Fusion

A hazy shade of Winters Tale

Postmodernity Means Never Having to Make Sense

University Players Playing With the Pieces

Luck Be a Learned Lady

Beer, Beer, Beer

Anthill Pub, a place to get beer

Fallin' Down Like Hail

Handicapping the Long Beach Blues Fest

Playing with Yourself

Play is art, but is it life?

Duck and Cover-up

"Atomic City" Doesn't quite reveal the whole truth of our curious relationship with Nukes

Train in Vain

Wayne Hancock still a genius, the Damned getting damned old