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Lights Out
A look through Cal State Long Beach’s budgetary kaleidoscope has the university seeing only one color: red. That red, in the form of the $42 million that CSULB was asked to cut from its already-lean budget for the 2009-2010 academic year, has led to lower enrollment; cuts to classes, faculty and staff; a furlough system that forces professors and staff to take unpaid days off (along with a 10-percent pay decrease); and the suspension of a few of the university’s biggest campus-wide events. Continue reading The District.