Despite obstacles created by the decisions of the Associated Students finance committee, M.E.Ch.A. will go forward with the annual celebration “Day of the Dead.” Today is the date designated to remember the kids and infants who have passed away, and Nov. 2 is believed to be the day when the adult loved ones who have passed away return to life to visit their families.

Women’s Inspiration” is the new radio program at KCSN, during which women and men can learn information about women-related issues. The program airs every Friday from 6:30 to 7 p.m. The hosts, Dr. Erika Yomtobian and Dr. Joan Rosenberg, came up with the idea after their experience as guest hosts of another KCSN radio show.

Milton Folk recalls the fall 2002 semester, when students at CSUN wore green ribbons to show their support to the gay community. “I did not imagine that so many students were so open in their support,” said Folk, who graduated last spring with a degree in Family and Consumer Sciences, and was involved with and received support from the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Alliance club at CSUN.

The example set by Spain in prohibiting extremely thin models is the beginning of a social awakening in setting standards of beauty. It is about time that someone put a stop to this unhealthy image of women and its repercussions on society. Luisel Ramos died after a fashion show.

After 10 years of extensive research in Dakar, Senegal, Suzanne Scheld, assistant professor of anthropology, has seen it all. From poverty and corruption to hope and perseverance. Scheld recently won the Jerome Richfield Scholar Award at CSUN for her research.

On a quiet summer afternoon, a year after the 1994 6.8 Northridge earthquake, the walls of the College of Humanities began to shake. But this time, it wasn’t another earthquake. Cal State Northridge Philosophy Professor Jacob Hale recalls, laughingly, that the shaking came from an “out of control” tabloid reporter.