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.

New piping

Construction workers replace piping in the East Turnaround area on Tuesday. The workers are replacing the medium-pressure piping, which provides heating for upper campus, and high-pressure piping, which feeds the central plant. The medium-pressure piping will be finished today. The construction workers will connect the high-pressure piping on Monday, during a furlough day, to minimize disruption, said Pat Farrell, a DMCP worker. The piping was broken for some time and was last replaced more than 30 years ago.

Alone for art

Kimberly Zumpfe, a BFA sculpture major, and MFA photo grad student Nicole Sloan, back, do a performance "based on aloneness" inside a icosahedron outside the Fine Arts building on Monday. The performance was for Kelly Nipper and Dana Bauer's Intermedia art class. It was based off the philosophy of the dancer Lebon, who believed that the body had particular points of movement that were traceable in a geometric shape. Zumpfe described the experience as "movements in a space when you are alone juxtaposed with people around you."

Knott's Scary Farm

Cal State Long Beach hosted a Vendor Fair at the Southwest Terrace. Knott's Scary Farm was there, along with a couple of monsters to scare people. As I was taking this photo, a student came up behind them and screamed to try to scare them. "It doesn't work on us!" one of the monsters shouted. The other said, "You should try out for Knott's Scary Farm. You won't need a mask!"

President's Mixer

Isaac Choice, a senior accounting major and president of the Black Business Student Association, bowls a frame during the President’s Mixer at the University Student Union on Wednesday. Officers from campus organizations and clubs mingled, ate Sbarro’s pizza and salad, drank soda and bowled games. “It gives students a chance to come and network and go bowling, and to talk about what ASI can do for you,” Beach Pride Coordinator Chance Decker said in a press release.