It’s not that Amanda Flavin and Sydni Powell, student government president and vice president, didn’t know what they were signing up for. After all, both served as senators for Associated Students last year. But the way Flavin describes it, she wasn’t fully ready for something like this. CSU’s 9 percent tuition increase for Fall 2012, on top of the 12 percent increase for this semester, has students frustrated, and some might turn to A.S. and question what it’s doing to… Read more

Like many others her age, 26-year-old Kristin Contreras can relate to the book’s themes of uncertainty and exploration after a whirlwind of travels in her early 20s. Newly enrolled as history graduate student at CSUN this Fall, Contreras has taken some detours on her path to get to this point and is determined to learn from her own history. Contreras spent most of her childhood in Sylmar, although her parents took her out of the local school system and into… Read more

Maybe the shadows were a sign. The ones that covered the Dodger Stadium field on a late Thursday afternoon on Opening Day, the ones that make it so hard for hitters to see the ball during start times at Chavez Ravine. Maybe the fans that attended the game and saw what was laid out before them should have known that this wasn’t going to end well. The Dodgers defeated the Giants that day in a low-scoring affair – a game… Read more

College students have risen in solidarity across Southern California and joined the Occupy movement, albeit in small numbers. “It’s my life right now,” said USC student Alexandra Howland. Howland lives on campus, but has taken up a temporary home outside City Hall at the Occupy LA encampment. She sleeps in a tent on the lawn, wakes up every morning at 6:30 a.m. to drive to school, and comes back in the early evening to protest with fellow Occupiers. She starts… Read more

Alumni, faculty and students came together to see how much CSUN has changed through the years and celebrate the fourth annual Founders Day, Friday. “There were no buildings, this stuff (today) is just amazing,” said Mildred Wells, 99, part of the first graduating class of San Fernando Valley State College. Wells, who graduated in 1958 at 46-years-old, said she had to wait to go to college because the Depression affected her family. After earning an English degree, she came back… Read more