Boo! It’s that terrifying time of year again, where haunted happenings and eerie events are in high demand, and I’ve got just the petrifying places to be this year. With such spooky suggestions, you won’t have a moment to spare. Get ready for alarming atmospheres full of wicked wonders and terror. First up, Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios. Featuring six sinister mazes, including themes like Saw, Friday the 13th, and House of 1000 Corpses, you’re sure to have some… Read more

Approximately 62 to 65 percent of the CSUN student population are only able attend the university through various forms of financial aid. Currently, close to 23,000 students have been awarded with financial aid this semester, said Lili Vidal, director of the financial aid and scholarship department at CSUN. “As the fees get higher and the economy gets worse, more students who were barely able to make it on what they could do at their jobs, they are slipping over the… Read more

A study shows that polling stations, where citizens are assigned to go vote during election season, are not as neutral as the public believes them to be. CSUN professor Dr. Abraham Rutchick, who conducted the study, found that a citizen’s vote can be impacted by where he or she goes to vote. “Our usual assumption is that it doesn’t really matter where you vote,”  Rutchick said. “It matters what you’re thinking and what the candidates said and various other things(…)so,… Read more

CSUN’s Teenage Drama Workshop has won an award for cultivating  theatre programs at local high schools for budding theatre majors. The California Educational Theatre Association (CETA) awarded CSUN’s Teenage Drama Workshop (TADW) with the Professional Artist Award at their annual conference in Long Beach, earlier this month. Doug Kaback, executive director of the TADW, said the Professional Artist Award was presented as a result of CSUN’s assistance to the theatre community. “This year the drama workshop at CSUN was singled… Read more

After spending 26 years at CSUN, Maureen Rubin has stepped into her fourth, and probably final, role in the university as the associate dean of the Mike Curb College of Arts, Media and Communication. “I’m getting close to retirement age and it’s nice coming full circle and ending where I started,” Rubin said. “It’s like ‘The Lion King.’ It’s a nice ending.” Rubin joined the university in 1984 as a journalism professor. In 1997, she formed the Center for Community… Read more

A four-car crash outside of campus left one injured, three startled and a traffic nightmare at the intersection of Nordhoff Street and Etiwanda Avenue Monday afternoon. The collision, caused by the driver of an older Ford Bronco truck when he rear-ended a stopped Lexus Sedan, resulted in a domino effect damaging next-in-line drivers of a Nissan Sentra and Honda Accord.  The driver of the Nissan was rushed to the hospital after declaring serious back pains from both the front and… Read more

Tucked away in a brick building near the Orange Grove, a group of toddlers sit in a circle and begin the day by singing songs. They are part of the CSUNFlowers preschool program, which is run by CSUN’s Speech, Language, and Hearing Center. They meet Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m in Monterey Hall. The program is language based and is geared toward children between the ages of 18 months and 4 years. “It’s great support for… Read more

It is now easier for students to learn about upcoming events at CSUN’s Marilyn Magaram Center. The center has established a Moodle website to keep in contact with students and Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program participants, said Jenna Jackson, project manager for the center. The Marilyn Magaram Center focuses on food science, nutrition, and dietetics. The center helps with community service events and projects and offers internships to nutrition majors, Jackson said. Jackson said she created the Moodle site to… Read more