The Los Angeles City Council has recently approved a law that will fine residents who have dogs that bark a lot. Those who get a first offense will get fined $250, the second offense will cost $500 and the third offense will have dog owners paying a $1,000 to the city. A Department of Animal Services officer will be the one who decides if a person’s dog barks a lot. A lot meaning if a dog barks for more than… Read more
Correction >> Nov. 16 The Gluten-Free CSUN event on Thursday at 1 p.m. in Sequoia Hall 112 called “Gluten-Free 101” will discuss a gluten-free diet and celiac disease, and feature topics including disease causes, treatment, common misconceptions and current research. These topics will not be discussed at the taste-testing event Wednesday, as the article states. Take some time out of your day Thursday to learn about what is important about a gluten-free diet and the affects of celiac disease. A taste-testing… Read more
Associated Students senate members did not come to a complete agreement during their first reading of President Amanda Flavin’s proposed resolution opposing the 15-unit cap on spring registration announced last week. “It’s basically a response to the fact that students are being impacted by lots of different external factors,” Flavin said. “It shouldn’t be students who have to take the hit. Students shouldn’t have to have reduced enrollment in units. The university should find another way to deal with this… Read more
Middle Eastern culture has been a point of obsession in the United States dating back to the 19th century, said Jonathan Friedlander, former assistant director of the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies. “The Middle East has become a brand name in the U.S.,” Friedlander said during the second session of a symposium on Middle Eastern studies Tuesday. “You put the pyramid in front, the camel in front of it, and it will sell.” Friedlander presented the group with a… Read more
I have lived in Los Angeles my entire life, but it has never felt like my home. I’ve never really felt like I belonged here or like I was meant to be here. I have always felt a little lost or out of place. In fact, the only times that I have ever really felt at home were when I was traveling. I’m not sure how to explain it, but I have always been more comfortable in a city I… Read more
The free market is the great equalizer of man. It makes no distinction of his creed, race, or hair color, but rather ranks a man according to his ability to provide a good or service that his fellows voluntarily wish to purchase. It is protested at times that some of us are born with more ‘capital’ than others, but what is the real claim being made? Is the objection that man should be unable to inherit from his father? If… Read more
A weakened economy continues to drive the cost of public universities up, with California as the catalyst, a new report found. The national average for public four-year institutions increased 8.3 percent in the 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 school years, October report noted. But excluding California, the national increase was 7 percent. There are about 22.5 million students enrolled in post-secondary school in the United States, 2.1 million of them being in public California schools. “The past couple of years, California has… Read more
The NBA Players Association has melodramatically rejected every proposal sent their way by the owners since the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) expired, and its denial of the most recent one may have just axed the entire 2011-2012 season. Commissioner David Stern issued an ultimatum last week. He made it quite apparent: if the players declined taking a 51 (players)/49 (owners) percent split of the revenues, the owners would take the offer off the table and further proposals would be worse…. Read more
The CSU changed its presidential selection process in time for CSUN’s search, and students are demonstrating in opposition to the new method 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. today in Sierra Quad. Students for Quality Education (SQE) is hosting a mock presidential selection to highlight how the process to choose the school’s new president will work. “It’s a very undemocratic process in how the president is chosen and how there’s no input as far as students and faculty,” said Ashley Luke,… Read more