Remebering Former CSULB Professor, Thomas Trombetas

On behalf of the Department of Political Science, we would like to take this time to recognize the passing of a former faculty member, Thomas Trombetas. Below is an obituary written by Dr. Barry Steiner, Professor of Political Science at CSULB:

Thomas Trombetas, Emeritus Professor of Political Science, passed away in Greece on November 2, 2013 at the age of 88 after a long illness. A long-time member of the Political Science Department Faculty, he joined the Department in 1961 and retired in 1989.  He specialized in comparative government, teaching courses on Western European governments and Roman Jurisprudence and the Graduate Seminar in Comparative Government in addition to the freshman-level American Political Institution course. A native of Greece, he actively worked on the politics of his native country and, later in his career, European Union political and economic problems

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Moot Court wins upper Midwest tournament

CSULB’s moot court team of Krist Biakanja, IV and Kevin Poush, both political science majors, won the 2013 Upper Midwest Undergraduate Moot Court Tournament.  The tournament was held at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa November 8-9, 2013. Biakanja and Poush finished Friday night as the third seed and proceeded to win four straight rounds on Saturday.  All told, of the nineteen judges to judge them all but one voted for Biakanja and Poush.  One judge cast a ballot as a tie.This was the second event that this team has won this season — they also won the California-Texas Classic, which was held at CSULB in October of 2013. This was Poush’s first tournament.  Winning a regional in one’s maidan tournament is almost unheard of.  Poush has a career record of 6-0-1.

For Biakanja, this is his third tournament win and his second regional win, no other CSULB mooter has won two regionals or three tournaments.  His lifetime record in tournaments is 22-4-2.  In elimination rounds, Biakanja has a lifetime record of 12-1 (his one loss was on a technicality that resulted from a tie ballot that was awarded to the advantaged seed).  That is a remarkable achievement in a career that will take Mr. Biakanja to his second nationals in January of 2014.

CSULB will have five more teams compete in at the Western Regional held on campus, Dec 6-7, 2013.