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partyrules

Nobody should miss a party because of class

University pressures call for some deserved revelry.

CARTOON

Dropout report paints hideous civil rights portrait

New data shows bad numbers for LA schools.

L.A.’s plastic bag ban plan bad for environment and economy

The plastic bags we all stock up on when we go shopping seem to have a funny way of ending up everywhere but in recycling bins.

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  • GIbill

    New GI Bill would provide veterans college full ride

    Recently, Congress passed a bill that would increase the amount of money soldiers receive for education after they leave the military. Proposed by Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA) and Sen.

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  • Coyotes, cats, children could benefit from grownup campus decision making

    Before Cal State Long Beach gets totally immersed in a highly charged legal and public relations quagmire over handling small campus critters, informed, responsible and humane options should be weighed.

    guerilla

    Guerrilla gardeners ‘Gung Ho’ for urban greenbelts

    The economy is struggling, gas and food prices are up, the water supply in California is down, many people are trying to go “green” and we are at war. It’s hard to find a solution that may help ease our problems on all fronts.

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  • Nuke power may offer cure for global greenhouse woes

    Exploring nuclear power and global warming.

    Bank

    Students facing budget cuts and growing debt, risk losing out on education.

    Remember when students only worried about starving? Now, some of us are forced to cut out more than just food. We have to work more and/or jump head first into a big fat vat of boiling debt.

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  • Gasoline crisis requires innovation

    The energy crisis is not an easy fix and will require collective thinking and time.

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  • L.A. teacher sacked for activism

    LAUSD teacher fired for being 'too Afro-centric'

    Federal government has no need for weed ad on beer bottle caps

    Beer bottle caps have caused the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau to go after Vaune Dillmann and his Mt. Shasta Brewing Co. for inscribing the words “Try LEGAL Weed” on the tops of its bottles.

    calif

    Other states draining California’s educational pool

    Teachers leave California for  career oppurtunities in other states and abroad.

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  • Grad day offers ‘circle of life’ moments

    A funeral and graduation remind an editor that the circle of life continues.

    No shame in loitering at The Beach

    Some students hang around after walking across the stage to take care of unfinished business

    This Week in Cartoons

    The pains of food preparation

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