Filipino fundraising

Nicole Biala, left, a senior health science major, and Alyssa Telado, a junior psychology major, sell snacks and drinks to fundraise money for the Filipino Christmas fest on Monday outside the Liberal Arts 5 building. The Pilipino American Coalition and Kappa Psi Epsilon hosted the fundraiser. The Christmas fest will take place on Dec. 5 on the lawn outside of the University Student Union and features entertainment, performances, an art exhibit, food, vendors and a kids’ area, Telado said. The event celebrates Christmas in a Filipino tradition.

You Break It, You Buy It

An untitled piece is on display in the Marilyn Werby gallery at Cal State Long Beach in Laurence Barnett Rubin’s “You Break it, You Buy It” exhibition. The piece features keys hung on pegs. Rubin, a senior sculpture major, explained that keys serve two symbols — that of security and safety. The piece, he said, is a safe zone between his destructive pieces, and also represents a state of mind, as one cannot lose keys.

Foundation drawing

Julio Cruz, a freshman art education major, sketches a tree for his foundation drawing art class outside the Fine Arts buildings on Monday. His assignment was to draw a landscape using ink on watercolor paper with emphasis placed on the “value,” or the shading, of the work. Cruz picked the tree to draw because he found the position, specific angle and the roots of the tree to be interesting. “It feels so alive and vibrant,” he said.

Eco-Fair

Senior ecology major Melissa Ramirez, right, looks at a working solar panel with Paul Wingco during the Eco-Fair at the Friendship Walk on Wednesday. Facilities management has installed solar panels on the Vivian Engineering Building, Brotman Hall and Facilities Management Corporation Yard, said Wingco, the facilities management interim associate director of sustainable operations. “I’m glad the school is trying to turn green and I hope they continue doing it,” Ramirez said.

The Next Episode

The piece “The Next Episode” is exhibited at the Marilyn Werby gallery on Monday. The show was put on by the group A-O and combines elements of sculpture and metal. “The Next Episode” is a mixed media installation by fine arts metals major Khadiga Razzak and fine arts sculpture major Marissa Johnen and represents a “view of your reality and subconscious,” according to Razzak. "The Next Episode" runs from Monday to Thursday from noon to 5 p.m. On Wednesday the gallery will be open until 8 p.m.

A poem penned on the wall leading into the piece is intended to “spark your mind” and connect the reader with words before seeing the piece.

Homecoming 2009

Homecoming 2009 festivities. This includes the Monson Maniacs sleep-out in the Walter Pyramid on Friday night and the activities Saturday afternoon.

Playboy Girls of the Big West

"We're the Girls of the Big West conference. There are 33 of us - and we're waiting for your call." (click for full-resolution image)

On Thursday, September 6, 1990 Playboy took out a two-page ad in the Daily 49er to advertise their Big West girls. You had to call a 1-900 number at a rate of $2 a minute to place your pick. People could enter a contest to win a 1990 GTI or a trip to a Spring Break Getaway in Daytona to meet the playmates. At the bottom in fine print, it notes that the contest was not endorsed by the real Big West conference.

Check out the Daily 49er 60th anniversary issue coming out Friday!

Studying

A CSULB student studies alone for a few minutes by the light of a walkway at the East Turnaround while presumably waiting to be picked up. I took this photo on the way to a panel and 15 minutes later when I came back down she was gone.

Cookies for Cuts

ASI President Chris Chavez takes aim to throw a pie at the Sacramento state capital during the Cookies for Cuts event at the University Student Union Southwest Terrace on Tuesday. Cookies for Cuts was part of a statewide bake sale event to raise awareness of the funding cuts to the CSU system. Event organizers said that the more money Sacramento takes from the CSU system, the “longer the CSUs will be in this cookie crumble,” according to a press release.