The ongoing budget crisis in California has necessitated major academic reform on every level of education to save money and eliminate debt. As a result, some schools have been forced to lay off faculty, eliminate various courses, scale back on financial aid, and retool curriculum guidelines.

Recently, two separate protest rallies led by the students and faculty of Long Beach State (CSULB), and Long Beach City College (LBCC), were held in response to proposed cuts of various class offerings and academic programs.

Wearing a blue prison uniform, O.J. Simpson testified Wednesday in a Las Vegas courtroom that his former attorney advised he could use some force to reclaim personal items from sports memorabilia dealers as long as he didn’t trespass.

Simpson took the witness stand in an effort to get a new trial on his armed robbery, assault and kidnapping convictions stemming from the confrontation in 2007. He insists that his attorney in that case, Yale Galanter, didn’t adequately represent him during the trial a year later.