the union weekly has been a staple of the cal state long beach campus since its inception in 1977, when it was formed as a response to the students’ increasing contempt for the school’s official mutant of a newspaper, the daily 49er. the students, fed up with the daily 49er’s ineptitude and corruption, demanded a paper that was run solely by students, for students, without the slimy influence of the journalism department. out of this eruption of displeasure and cynicism, the union was born.