In a stroke of symbiosis, a partnership between Long Beach Organic and Cal State Long Beach’s ASI Beach Pantry has been helping fight food insecurity since April by providing fresh, donated produce for students in need during the pandemic.

Now that CSULB classes are online-only and nearly all in-person gatherings are banned, both students and faculty involved with Associated Students Inc.—the campus’s student government—were left with the daunting task of recreating the Week of Welcome experience online. Their answer? An app.

Club sports, community services and university resources host their virtual booths for day three of Week of Welcome.

Cultural and religious organizations host their virtual booths for day two of Week of Welcome as interested students pop in and out of sessions throughout the afternoon.

Week of Welcome at Long Beach State will take place virtually from Aug. 31 to Sept. 4 for the first time in the campus’ history, causing many changes for the event.

Associated Students Inc. leaders have decided to close the on-campus recycling center after finalizing the budget for the upcoming fiscal year.

The resolution looks to help students whose parents claimed them as dependents for tax purposes and are not eligible for the federal stimulus checks. 

One by one, students pulled up in their cars, parked and waited on masked-volunteers to pack their trunks with bagged groceries Friday in the parking lot in front of Brotman Hall

Associated Students Inc. gave positive feedback on plans for a potential virtual celebration targeted for early summer.

Associated Students Inc. gave positive feedback on plans for a potential virtual celebration targeted for early summer.

Since the suspension of in-person classes and closure of some facilities at Long Beach State due to the COVID-19 pandemic, students have taken to social media to voice concerns about where tuition and enrollment fees are going.

Associated Student Inc. passed a resolution that would allow the Social Justice and Equity Committee to give more of a voice to students.

As Long Beach State continues its transition to alternative teaching methods, some sense of normalcy was returned with the ASI elections.

The resolution disapproves of any financial ties or support of any companies or organizations which were complicit or profited off of the Chinese government’s oppression of the Uyghurs, Taiwan and Hong Kong.

The Associated Students Inc. Beach Pantry hosted a one-day pop-up market Tuesday to offer assistance to students after President Jane Close-Conoley sent out an email calling for the reduction of use to the University Student Union.

Associated Student Inc. passed a resolution in support of Jewish students and against anti-Semitism, following an increase in anti-Semitic hate crimes in the United States.

Associated Student Inc. voted yes on a resolution that would make it so ASI institutionalizes the practice of acknowledging the Native land that CSULB is built on.

In this episode of Beach Weekly, host Aubrey Balster gives you the lowdown of upcoming campus events and recent news, including the sentencing of former ASI employee Jamie Williams.

Students were able to receive assistance for food and education on how to eat better as a part of the outreach program sponsored by CalFresh.

After weeks of debate, ASI ruled in favor of lobbying on behalf of the ethnic studies requirement resolution.