Union Weekly

A Brief History Of The Union Weekly The Union Weekly has been a staple of the Cal State Long Beach campus since its inception in 1977, when it was formed as a response to the students’ increasing contempt for the school’s official mutant of a newspaper, The Daily 49er. The students, fed up with the Daily 49er’s ineptitude and corruption, demanded a paper that was run solely by students, for students, without the slimy influence of the Journalism department. Out of this eruption of displeasure and cynicism, The Union was born. Now, over 30 years later, the Union Weekly still maintains its place as an alternative to the status quo.