Union Weekly spoofs Daily Fourty-Niner... again

If you read the March 23 Daily Forty-Niner and are psyched for your $200 stimulus check, you might want to think again before you do your money dance.

The Union Weekly spoofed the Daily Forty-Niner's March 23 issue. It looks exactly the same as the regular newspaper, but contains fake articles, absurd advertisements and a plethora of editorial errors.

If you haven't gotten your hands on the spoofed issue, you can view it on the Union Weekly's site. It is quite a humorous read.

Links:
The Union Weekly
The Union Weekly's Spoof Archive
Daily Forty-Niner
(* Photo courtesy of www.asicsulb.org/unionweekly)

Eta Sigma Phi 8th Annual Guest Lecture: Sexuality of Pompeii

A lecture will be given by Sarah Levin-Richardson, a PhD candidate of Stanford University, who was chosen by Eta Sigma Phi for its 8th annual guest lecture.

It is titled "Sex and Sexuality at Pompeii: A Re-examination of Pompeii's Brothel".

"I felt that this was a great way to get people interested in the Ancient world and their many diverse cultures and costumes." said Christina Dorso, the Eta Xi Chapter President.

Richardson will lecture on the graffiti and frescoes found within the brothel as well as the building itself to establish her interpretation of the sexual norms of Pompeiian society.

The lecture is free and will be held Tuesday, March 24 at 1:30 p.m. in the USU Beach Auditorium.

Sources:
Sarah Levin-Richardson's Stanford webpage
Eta Sigma Phi website
Lupanar (Pompeii) Brothel Wikipedia page

(*photo courtesy of Wikipedia)

Parking Permit Design Competition awards winner with $250

The Parking Permit Design Competition is exclusively for all CSULB students and will be judged by a select panel of students and staff.

The winning design will be used for the next two semesters. As for the designer, he or she will be awarded $250 dollars (enough to pay for parking for a whole year!) and a credit line on every single parking permit.

The entries will be accepted until noon March 20 and the winner will be announced April 10 on the beach pride website.


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* Photo courtesy of CSULB website

Beach Legacy Referendum

The Beach Legacy Referendum is to be voted on this week and with it's approval will increase tuition costs of all students by $95 each semester.

The proposed fee of $95 per semester ($70 in summer) will go to the Long Beach State Athletics program. In which, it will directly fund full NCAA scholarships for 18 intercollegiate teams, develop current CSULB athletic facilities, and increase available funding for 35 club sport teams and Intramurals.


The LB State Athletics program already gets it's main financial aid from the Beach Pride Fund and the existing "Instructionally Related Activities" fee of $25, which every student pays each semester.

The pro Beach Legacy Referendum website, run by Wayne Stickney the 49er Athletic Club development coordinator, says that the passage of the fee will free $1.6 million, originally given to the Athletics program by ASI, to be spent on other school programs. It isn't clear that this funding would actually be funneled away from the Athletic's Department.

"I would hate to spend an extra $95 per semester because I am not involved in sports, and I don't think I should have to." says Michelle McDonald a CSULB engineering student.


*The above video is taken from a pro BLR Youtube account.

With the passage of the Beach Legacy, CSULB's Athletic program will get $7 million a year, this is up from it's current funding of $1.6 million.

Even with the potential addition of the Beach Legacy to student's 2010 tuition costs, CSULB's tuition is still the lowest for any public, four-year university in the state of Calif.

The poll will take place online from Wednesday, March 11 through Thursday, March 12 2009. If passed the fee will begin Fall 2010.


Sources:

.doc of Beach Legacy Referendum Details
^ this is the .doc file of the Beach Legacy Proposal from the CSULB website.
BeachLegacyReferendum.com
^ A Pro Beach Legacy Referendum site ran by 49er Athletic Club development coordinator, Wayne Stickney
Soccer team one beneficiary of Beach Legacy
^previously published 49er article by sports editor, Tracy McDannald
Without a Legacy to stand on
^Student Union Weekly article by Joe Bryant

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