Despite an eviction deadline of Monday at 12:01 a.m., Occupy L.A.’s encampment on City Hall lawn is still standing. The protesters, who have occupied the lawn for almost two months, filed a court order Monday morning requesting occupiers be allowed to continue camping. The court order, filed after protesters were not removed from City Hall lawn, noted that the defendants are in violation of the 1st and 14th Amendments by approving of the Occupy presence for 56 days then suddenly,… Read more

Nationally, college graduates have been shown to earn about one million dollars more than high school graduates over a lifetime. This factoid has been repeated to high school students since I was in high school, five years ago. Unfortunately, my counselors and teachers did not elaborate that not all degrees are created equal. In Payscale’s 2011 update to its ‘20 Best-paying College Degrees’ survey, the best degrees to invest in are business and engineering fields that require advanced levels of… Read more

Coming off back-to-back wins against Colgate and West Virginia to win the Woodland Hills Thanksgiving Classic championship, the Matadors (4-2) are off to their best start since the 1999-2000 season. CSUN has already matched its win total from last season and second-year head coach Jason Flowers attributes the improvement to the new recruits and the team’s hard work. “The players we recruited during the offseason and through the last school year came in with an attitude to get better and… Read more

Tired of the rising cost of education? CTVA major Marcos Castro said that’s why he’s looking for signatures for a petition demanding textbook companies lower their prices. “They’re the ones naming the prices, and the schools can’t do anything about it,” Castro said, as he set up his table along Matador Walk. “The bookstore has to sell at these prices in order to turn a profit, so changing the price at the textbook companies is where we need to start.”… Read more

CLARIFICATION, Nov. 28, 3:37 p.m.: The original article identified the program as the “Robert E. McNair Scholars Program,” rather than the “Ronald E. McNair…” It also noted that the program is funded by NASA, the CIA, the Hearst foundations and U.S. Department of Defense. But, according to McNair program director, is funded by the U.S. Department of Education. The program is one of eight TRIO programs created as part of the Higher Education Act of 1965, said Renee Moreno, program… Read more