No boxes? No problem!

The people in the lower floor of the SSPA show that they are awesome by disregarding the instruction – no boxes – with their own rule: let's put boxes in there.

Active shooter drill

Spectators stand in awe as armed and masked Cal State Long Beach police officers station around campus to do an "active shooter drill," primarily on the upper campus near the McIntosh building. This shot was taken as the police officer passed behind in front of the LH building.

Brian Cuaron wrote a story titled "Police perform school shooter simulation drill."

Kid Eco Fair

Kids were introduced and learned about the enviornment and why it was important to protect it. Here kids look at the bicycles that the police are now using for patrols.

The online edition of the Daily Forty-Niner has an article titled "Recycling Center Holds Eco-Friendly Fair."

Alexander arrives in newsroom

President F. King Alexander pays a visit to the Daily 49er newsroom. He stayed there for about thirty minutes, from about 2:41 p.m. to 3:13 p.m. (times are approximate), discussing the current coyote issue and other questions the Daily 49er staff had for him.

From left to right clockwise, top: Raul Reis, chair for the Department of Journalism at CSULB; Gerry Riposa; dean of the College of Liberal Arts; Barbara Kingsley-Wilson, academic advisor for the Daily 49er; Colleen Donnelly, editor-in-chief of the Daily 49er; Duke Rescola, opinion-editorial editor of the Daily 49er; my Nikon ED4800 Coolpix; and CSULB President F. King Alexander (sitting).

A heron takes flight

Over at the Earl Burns Miller Japanese gardens origami festival, a heron took flight today. Two Nikon shooters and me were taking shots and calling to the bird when it opened its wings and took off.

Fish at the Japanese gardens

Over at the Earl Burns Miller Japanese Garden, fish crowd at the edge as a man feeds them.

Outpost construction advances

Construction workers have advanced from digging out dirt and such to putting posts in, possibly to start laying a foundation down.