Smashing the standard

Katie Gaston, a senior communications major and vice president of HeadSTRONG, smashes a scale Thursday afternoon during the HeadSTRONG “Smashing of the Scales” event at the Friendship Walk. HeadSTRONG’s goal for the event was to promote healthy lifestyles and awareness of eating disorders, said vice president Katie Gaston, a senior communications major.

Daring to DREAM

Tanya Alverz, a junior marketing major, makes a T-shirt on Wednesday afternoon to support the DREAM Act at the Friendship Walk. The DREAM Act would provide certain immigrant children to apply for a Green Card. Requirements include having entered the U.S. before the age of 16, having resided in the U.S for five years, and acquiring a high school diploma. Alverz said she supported the DREAM Act because "I think it would give the opportunity [for those people] to lead a normal life."

More Than Numbers Flashmob

ASI President Chris Chavez, center, and other students pose Wednesday afternoon for a photo during the “More than Numbers Flashmob” event in the University Student Union. The pose was in the shape of a number one (see above image). Chavez said that the flashmob was part of a larger campaign and concentrated effort with other student governments to mobilize students to rally against further student cuts. “We are more than numbers!” Chavez said to the crowd. “We are Long Beach!”

HeadSTRONG "Genes" Day

ASI Senator-at-large Isai Valdez, a senior criminal justice major, paints a pair of jeans during HeadSTRONG’s “Be Comfortable in your ‘Genes’ Day” event on Monday afternoon. HeadSTRONG displayed the pairs of jeans, which featured slogans like “Real women have curves,” on the Friendship Walk throughout the afternoon. “I know a lot of people who deal with self-image issues,” Valdez said. “This event is a good way to get [the message] out there that it’s not all about self-image.”

Chalk cleanup

Jon Root, a facilities management worker, picks up chalk outside the University Student Union on Tuesday afternoon. People drew pictures and wrote statements all throughout campus. Root said that he would have to file a work order to clean up all the chalk and did not know how much it would cost to clean it up.

Mold mission

Mark Farrell, a carpenter from Cal State Long Beach Facilities Management, cuts into the basement walls in the Social Services and Public Administration building Tuesday morning. According to Farrell, the walls had to be dried out to prevent mold after moisture seeped into them during a rainstorm that swept through campus last weekend.

Ready for rain

Hannah Paton, a sophomore and double major in communications studies and Spanish, waits in the rain for her friend to come to go to their next class. “I never think to bring an umbrella because I have an early morning class and the weather is never the same in the afternoon than it is in the morning,” Paton said.

Inflection Points

Katie Morlan, left, looks at a piece in Katie Reinman’s and Kelly Hamilton’s “Inflection Points” gallery in the Max L. Gatov East gallery on Sunday evening. Reinman’s purpose is to “emit the inner strength of women” and to show how “women portray themselves in a masculine society,” according to a statement by the artist. Morlan, a senior child development and family studies major, said, “It’s so beautiful; it definitely portrays women in a different light,” explaining that other pieces show women typically as thin and small.

Week of Welcome

Ian Sneed, left, a senior kinesiology major and dressed in a pink dinosaur suit, pretends to choke Steve Gray, a senior marketing major, during the week of welcome festivities. Sneed and Gray are part of Phi Kappa Psi. Sneed said he wants to "make sure everyone has a good time."

Three students work the Colleges Against Cancer table during the week of welcome festivities at the Friendship Walk on Wednesday afternoon: Kathleen Eirington, a sophomore chemistry major; Ashield Cabrera, a sophomore psychology major; and Paige Andersen, a freshman interior design major. Colleges Against Cancer’s mission statement supports and promotes American Cancer Society programs.

Nicoal Sheen, co-founder and co-chair of Cease Animal Torture, works at the CAT table. CAT seeks to educate people about animal cruelty and has an annual Animal Liberation Forum that features speakers, panels, and films. 2010 will be the second annual Animal Liberation Forum.

Computers? We don't need no stinkin' computers!

Connie Dong, a sophomore pre-nursing major, doesn't let the lack of a computer terminal stop her from getting online and using a computer on Wednesday afternoon in the University Student Union. Workers removed the computer terminals following the floods two weeks ago.

Music playing

Kenny Johnson, a sophomore theatre major, strums his Fender Stratocaster guitar outside the University Bookstore on Tuesday afternoon. Johnson says that he practices for 3-4 hours a day on campus and plays a mix of cover and original songs. “I’m not looking to impress anybody,” Johnson said, “but I know they appreciate it.”

Validating the velvet flavor

Joseph Andre Fabozzi, the store manager of YoGo Creations on campus, hands out samples of red velvet cake-flavored yogurt to students on Tuesday afternoon. He said they had just gotten the yogurt flavor that afternoon as a special Valentine’s Day flavor. Ten students participated in the test; nine liked the flavor, while one did not.

Tennis tests

Jasmine Wong, a sophomore liberal studies major, holds out a yardstick during an activity in an introduction to a physical science class lab outside the Peterson Hall 2 building on Monday afternoon. Students were dropping a tennis ball from the second floor and seeing how high it bounced, said Eren Karadayi, the teaching assistant. Earlier, he said that the class had measured shorter bounces and calculated how high it would bounce during the activity and would compare the two.

Juggling

Andrew Romero, a senior mechanical engineering major, juggles at the Friendship Walk on Monday afternoon. Romero is part of Cal State Long Beach’s juggling club, called the Beach Balls, and has been juggling for three years now. Romero said he likes the challenge of juggling and it gives him something to do.