The Daily Sundial reported last week that A.S. elections codes had changed and, pending an administrative meeting, more alterations may be coming. Elections Director Brittney Hoogervorst said the elections committee will meet this week to vote on additions to CSUN’s procedure. Hoogervorst said informational voter guides, presidential debates in lieu of candidate debates and an informational event are all on the agenda to be approved by the committee. A.S. senate has a reputation of having empty senate seats, unrepresented colleges… Read more

This season, the Matadors have struggled defending the Matadome. The Cal State Northridge men’s volleyball team has won just one game in their last five at home this season. Coach Jeff Campbell said it has been tough for his team this season, citing inexperience as the reason for the struggles. “We are an inexperienced team. We lost five seniors last year and now we have a lot of young players trying to adjust to playing at the college level,” Campbell… Read more

The NBA trading deadline has come and gone, and there were more trades this year than I could remember. Some teams filled their needs and some made trades for little more than what equates to salary dumps such as the Clippers and Bobcats. Others managed to trade its superstars in exchange for young talent, such as the Denver Nuggets and the Utah Jazz. Still, others managed to make trades that can actually bring home a title, if not this year… Read more

Republican lawmakers in Arizona have introduced legislation on a state level to end what they refer to as birthright citizenship. CNN reported that in addition to Arizona, legislators in 40 states are considering similar laws. They want to bring  this issue before the Supreme Court forcing federal authorities to re-examine what the 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause was intended to mean so the issue can once again take national stage. But the immigration problem isn’t going to be solved by changing… Read more

Women have played a variety of supporting roles in war for as long as people have waged them, but U.S. policy forbids them from serving at the point of the spear. Even so, two current wars with no real delineated front or rear and a foggy understanding of who and where the enemy is have repeatedly put women in combat situations. The question is not will they fight. A military policewoman in Iraq just received the Silver Star for leading… Read more

The Oviatt Library has a new dean. Mark Stover is taking over the position after former library Dean Susan Curzon retired last semester. Stover is the interim dean of the San Diego State University library and will begin work in July 2011. “I love libraries because they are a combination of all the things that I’m interested in,” Stover said. He said that his first love is books and reading, his second is technology and his third is working with… Read more

CSUN students are preparing to protest against budget cuts on Wednesday, March 2. The Activist Student Coalition (ASC) is organizing the Day of Action along with 13 other campus organizations that wish to further education. They plan to gather in front of the Oviatt Library at 10 a.m. and proceed with rallies and a march around the campus’ perimeter. A lecture by the Rev. James Lawson, a civil rights activist who worked with Martin Luther King Jr. will be held… Read more

CSUN professor Yohannes Shiferaw  received a grant from the American Heart Association to research the cause of heart attacks. The association awarded  the physics professor $76,000 per year over four years for the Stochastic Cardiac Signaling and Cardiac Arrhythmia project. Shiferaw has been working on this project at CSUN since January 2008 and three years prior at the cardiac department at UCLA. The grant for this project will expire in December 2011. “The heart is a complex system and most… Read more