CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LONG BEACH
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midst the rush of the beginning of the school year, third year broadcast journalism major Laura Manriquez prepares for her classes at the library. Manriquez shares the pros and cons of being a foreign student at CSULB and explains why, despite it all, she’s stuck aound for three years. See page 6.
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I always wonder if I’m going to be accepted by my peers even though I come from a different background than most of the people in my classes. Although I feel most students are nice to foreigners, I can’t help but feel that some people don’t think I belong in this country.
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VOL. LXVIII, ISSUE 3 | AUGUST 30, 2016
STUDENT LIFE
FUNDING
Coming soon at The Beach: Week of Welcome
COTA cashes out
Students have the chance to get involved and enjoy food, games and fun on campus during Week of Welcome.
By Michaela Kwoka-Coleman News Editor
By Samantha Diaz Staff Writer
It’s that time of the year again. Week of Welcome, an event sponsored by Associated Students Inc., is returning this Wednesday and Thursday in Cal State Long Beach’s central quad from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. At Week of Welcome, students can learn about the near 300 clubs that CSULB has to offer and find one that piques their interest. Fraternities, sororities, cultural and religious organizations will put up booths and try to encourage students to sign up, participate in club events and create connections. The hundreds of tables and tents crowded with club-oriented memo-
CSULB’s College of the Arts’s students receive grant money for projects and equipment.
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Gamma Phi Beta member Alli Ramirez, junior, speaks to freshman Carley Sullivan about the benefits of joining the Greek system at CSULB.
rabilia and sign-up incentives may be overwhelming to new students; however, the purpose of Week of Welcome is to showcase all the extra-curricular activities CSULB has to offer. There is a wide range of clubs at Long Beach — from CSULB Beach Cats, a club dedicated to the humane care and management of the campus cat population, to Democracy Mat-
ters, a club trying to promote democracy in our political system and on campus. Taking place during the first few weeks of the fall semester, Week of Welcome gives students the opportunity to get involved on campus while still pursuing their personal
see WELCOME, page 2
The Hollywood Foreign Press Agency, which hosts the Golden Globe Awards, recently presented Cal State Long Beach’s College of the Arts with a donation totalling $105,000. According to Sandra Cuneo, the grant officer for the HFPA, the donation is specifically for the film and television division of the College of the Arts. The donation is comprised of three different funding categories: a one-time grant of $40,000, a HFPA Fellowship/ Scholarship Endowment of $5,000 and a Higher Educational Fellowships and Institutional Support of $60,000.
College of the Arts Director of Development Arlena Kauppi said in an email that COTA has been receiving money annually from the HFPA since 2005. This year’s donation was much larger than those of the past. In an article in Inside CSULB, Kauppi said that CSULB and HFPA have a strong relationship. “They love what our film students do,” Kauppi told Inside CSULB. “Our students write, produce, direct, and shoot fiction films and documentaries… Add to that the diversity all over the CSULB campus, which is especially so in our Film and Electronic Arts Department with students from all over the world.” The College of the Arts has many prestigious alumni including Academy Award-winning Director Steven Spielberg, Academy Award-winning Sound Editor Karen Baker Landers and Primetime Emmy-nominated Visual Effects Supervisor Ron
see GRANT, page 3