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Wednesday, November 7, 2001

News
Engineers one step closer to full-fledged program with new class offeringsRecently CSUB has joined forces with CSU Fresno and CSU Northridge to offer third-year engineering classes on campus and in Antelope Valley.

Student visas threatened by possible legislationHe was carrying a suitcase full of guns when he was apprehended in San Francisco. No, he was not a henchman of Bin Laden, but a CSUB student from Angola with a history of mental problems.

Judo Club takes six to Fowler tourney The CSUB Judo Club participated in the Fowler Invitational Judo Tournament held this past Sunday, bringing home some impressive finishes.

Children’s Lit class proves popular“Harry Potter”, “Anne of Green Gables”, “Little Women” and “Catcher in the Rye” are just a few of the great stories that will be explored in a new English course being offered in the winter.

Sports
Men’s soccer gets unexpected playoff berthCal State Bakersfield men's soccer team season was supposedly over on Oct. 27, but the team was given another chance.

Tip-off luncheon highlights season promises for CSUBThe 2001-2002 Cal State Bakersfield Basketball Tip-Off Luncheon yesterday showcased coaches and players from the men and women’s teams. Former Roadrunner men’s head coach Pat Douglass made a guest appearance.

Men’s basketball team to face former coach Pat DouglassThe CSUB men’s basketball team will tip off the 2001-2002 season this week with exhibition games against the Australian National Team and UC Irvine. The Roadrunners host the Australian team tonight at 7 at Centennial Garden.

‘Runner volleyball turns back Stanislaus behind Berntsen, SlaytonThe 22nd-ranked CSUB volleyball team made a victorious return to the Icardo Center Wednesday night, defeating Cal State Stanislaus

Volleyball team routs porous San Francisco State in home sweepCSUB’s volleyball team dominated winless San Francisco State 30-24, 30-13, 30-20 Friday night at the Icardo Center. The ‘Runners (17-7, 13-4 CCAA) made quick work of the CCAA’s worst team.

Top-ranked golf team wins second Elco tourneyThe No. 1-ranked Cal State Bakersfield golf team overcame unseasonably bad weather and a three-stroke deficit last Tuesday morning to capture its second consecutive Elco, Inc. Invitational championship.

Venezuelan swimmer Colmenares has been ‘en fuego’ in the poolManny Colmenares, a CSUB swimmer, has qualified for Nationals in Florida, even though the swimming season has just begun as of the middle of October.

Entertainment
Jet Li versus Jet Li makes for ‘One’ terrible movie"The One" fails miserably in its attempt to imitate the "Matrix." But what more can be expected from a movie that rubs your nose into the notoriously corrupt LAPD seal in the opening scene?

Disney does the ‘Monster’ mashIn all likelihood, “Monsters, Inc.” will be the recipient of an ogre-like beating when ballots are cast for the new Best Animated Feature Oscar at next year’s Academy Awards.

John Travolta drops another bomb in daft ‘Domestic Disturbance’“He will do anything to protect his family,” according to the plot of the movie, but it should be: He will do anything to bore the audience. John Travolta latest movie “Domestic Disturbance” starts pretty well, but as the movie continues, nothing of interest happens.

Arts

Jazz fans get treatJazz music fans came in from the chilly Saturday night to listen to the warm tunes at CSUB’s Jazz Coffeehouse in the Multi-Purpose Room.

Deluxe dinner salads are deadly in student one-actsBeigher Taylor, Robin Goodfellow, and Jeff Lepine have taken center stage of the arena theatre, with interestingly comical and slightly absurd one-act plays. All three have taken a playwriting class, which the criteria was based upon with an option of receiving credit.

Thespians invited to auditionAuditions begin next Tuesday, Nov. 13, at 7 p.m. for the CSUB Theatre’s Winter term production of Molière’s “The Misanthrope”.

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