Question: Dear Life & Style, My friend has been seeing their significant other for a while, and I don’t want to judge their relationship. However, my friend constantly complains to me about how their significant other does not treat them respectfully or lovingly. They are always ‘taking a break’ and getting back together. It is clear that they do not have a healthy relationship. How can I tell my friend that they are better off without their loser significant other?… Read more

Halloween is coming up and carving pumpkins is a tradition along side dressing up as a favorite character. Pumpkins serve as an important part in the environment and spirituality of Halloween, as well as the history. Scary, funny, goofy or traditional, each pumpkin has their own character and it is up to you to decide what kind of character your pumpkin will be. Carving a pumpkin is not as hard as it seems. There are also kits that are available… Read more

When rushing in between classes, we often  grab a snack. Many of us try to stick with the healthy alternative. However, are the ‘healthy’ options as healthy as they claim? Many snacks that are marketed as being ‘healthy’ actually aren’t that much better, than say, a chocolate bar or bag of chips. The more obvious ones include protein shakes and anything claiming to be low fat or sugar free. Here’s a list of some surprisingly unhealthy snack foods: GRANOLA/ENERGY BARS-… Read more

It’s the beginning of the semester and some students are still in that summer mode. This can affect your sleeping pattern and down the road, have bigger side effects such as depression, lack of concentration/memory, weight gain and stress. Roughly 30 percent of adults have symptoms of insomnia or sleep deprivation. This is not a good way to start off the semester. There are many ways to relieve the lack of sleep. Here are eight: 1) Read a book. Grab… Read more

  Each year an estimated 800,000 to 900,000 human beings are bought, sold, or forced across the world’s borders. The U.S. government estimates that 50,000 women and children are trafficked each year into the United States. LA is one of the top three points of entry into the country for victims of slavery and trafficking. About 10,000 women are held in underground brothels in LA. This does not include, however, the thousands of women and children being forced into domestic… Read more

and Kristin Hugo/Special Contributor The U.S. is the number-one trash-producing country in the world, at 1,643 pounds per person per year. In 2008, only a third was recycled, reports the Environmental Protection Agency. With this year celebrating the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, there is no better time to do some good for the earth. To help in celebrate this event, here are some of the many ways in which you can ‘go green.’ Think cold Wash clothes in cold… Read more

Point Blank Los Angeles is an up and coming fashion line by LA-based fashion designer Donna Adi Yehuda, a 19-year old fashion design and marketing major. Yehuda has loved fashion since the very beginning since she was very young. “I was scarred as a child by the way my mother would dress me, she would make me wear the most ridiculous clothing and so I rebelled against her awful fashion sense and developed a style of my own,” Yehuda said…. Read more

Mix rapper and actor Common, a panel of music industry executives and a crowded room of CSUN students to create an eventful evening. A panel of music industry executives spoke to students about the change in the music industry and offered advice during an event in the Northridge Center in the USU. Common hosted the student showcase where students performed in front of a panel of judges, while Ernie Singleton, the head of Singleton Entertainment Corp, moderated the panel discussion… Read more

Quintuple threat Brian Tran, 22,  screenwriting major, sings, acts, directs, plays the saxophone and does magic. Tran fell in love with film in the 6th grade when he had to do a project and didn’t want to write an essay. “I made a film instead, with my family; a documentary,” he said. From then on, Tran continued to work on films and later, through working on films, started acting. Tran has many films on his resume and is currently working… Read more