Manzanita Hall was evacuated for 10 minutes around 12:40 p.m. Wednesday when the building’s emergency alarm went off.  Photo Credit: Sarah Smith / Staff Photographer

Miles Nevin, executive director of the California State Student Association (CSSA), made a presentation at this week’s Associated Students (A.S.) Senate meeting. One of his main objectives was to announce that the California State University (CSU) Board of Trustees is currently looking for a student to fill the seat of student trustee. “We are looking for someone who is passionate. We want someone to be proactive,” he said. “We are looking for a partner to advocate on issues.” General qualifications… Read more

CSUN received a $1.6 million grant from the Californian Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) that will enable the training of undergraduate and graduate students for careers in stem cell biology. The grant will give an opportunity to six graduate and four undergraduate students to intern at UCLA’s Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research Center, which is known for being one of the leading institutions in stem cell research in the world, said Cindy Malone,… Read more

CSUN President Jolene Koester has approved a change in a financial policy that will prevent students with more than 150 attempted units from receiving financial aid in the fall semester. In an e-mail sent to students last month, Dr. Terry Piper, vice president for Student Affairs said that beginning in the 2010-11 academic year, the Satisfactory Academic Progress Policy will not allow undergraduate students to receive financial aid if they have yet to graduate and attempted 150 units. Post-baccalaureate students… Read more

I just spent three weeks in Israel, the Gaza Strip, Jerusalem, and the West Bank. Many of my preconceived notions were challenged and discarded. I learned about people’s daily lives by staying with both Israeli and Palestinian families. I left the Holy Land with more hope for peace than I ever had before. One of the people I met was a young Israeli Navy veteran who agreed with a settlement freeze, and cited settlements as a main obstacle to peace…. Read more

CTVA professor, Tim Halloran, has brought back the event Thursday Nights at the Cinematheque — this time showing films of the famous Italian director, Federico Fellini. “I thought students were coming into the film department with a lack of historical background,” Halloran said. “It started last semester with the French films of Jean-Luc Godard. I was offered the opportunity to do anything I wanted. I chose to pick directors people knew who they were to generate some buzz.” Federico Fellini… Read more

Relationships are complicated and difficult, sometimes messy. The worst is when someone is asked  to  “start over.”  But what exactly does that mean? Theatre major Samantha Schwartz, 21, says, “I think people ask to start over because they want to believe everything will work itself out and that their problems won’t follow them.” Starting over can be good; you have a clean slate and can work out the things that didn’t work the first time around. Be thankful that you… Read more

A boy sees a girl on the playground at school and immediately says that will be the girl he marries. The boy is only 12 years old.  Kids this young usually don’t know who they will marry, let alone spend nearly a decade with. One lucky girl heard those sweet words. Jessica Zamora, a 20-year-old junior, has spent nearly a decade with her elementary school sweetheart. The two have experienced the many ups and downs a relationship can bring and… Read more

The No. 2 Matadors get ready to host the defending national champions No. 4 UC Irvine at the Matadome, tonight. For the second consecutive year CSUN is off to a 5-0 record, last year they started 6-0 before losing two straight matches in Hawaii. “Its still early in the season,” senior middle blocker Jacek Ratajczak said. “We were in the same situation last year, we were undefeated for a long time… We don’t want to make the same kind of mistakes… Read more