Community is a concern for us here at the Sundial. As numerous opinion pieces and A.S. presidents have lamented before, CSUN is distinctly lacking in community. To that effect we have created CSunSpot. CSunSpot is a place for you, the readers, to share your experiences with the CSUN community.
Community is a concern for us here at the Sundial. As numerous opinion pieces and A.S. presidents have lamented before, CSUN is distinctly lacking in community. To that effect we have created CSunSpot. CSunSpot is a place for you, the readers, to share your experiences with the CSUN community.
LONG BEACH – The California State University Board of Trustees convened Oct. 27 and voted again to increase student fees as university presidents and CSU executives received 13.6 percent pay raises for the next academic year. The 8 percent fee increase for undergraduates and 10 percent fee increase for graduate students was approved by the board as part of its proposed 2006-07 budget despite impassioned and often emotional pleas not to do so from CSU student representatives, who traveled from… Read more
During the first week of the semester, two individuals allegedly posing as students interrupted classes to sell tickets to off-campus events, according to professors in the Marketing and Sociology departments. He said professor Donald Robertson was teaching his Ethnic Diversity in America course in the Sociology Department on Aug. 30 when two males entered his class. They stated that they were from “Student Activities,” and in other classes said they were from “Campus Events,” promoting discounted tickets to an off-campus… Read more
The Fall 2005 Associated Students election, held Oct. 25 and 26, was the center of discussion at the organization’s senate meeting on Nov. 1 as members discussed low voter turnout. Although the total count of voters in the election has not been officially established yet, the number was about 600 students, according to A.S. President Chad Charton. “I am not pleased at this election turnout,” Charton said. “I feel it is a complete mockery of this organization.” As of Nov…. Read more
David Yohe is a businessman who wants to change the world. Yohe, a senior CTVA major, said he dreams of selling everyone in the United States a little black box that would bring any movie, television show, or video ever made to his customers anywhere in the world at anytime. And he’s starting with 70 channels of hardcore pornography. “You have to start somewhere,” said Yohe, a vice president for business development at Interactive Television Networks, a company that delivers… Read more
Kristin Mancina, an English major who recently transferred from Louisiana State University, had been at CSUN for one week when Hurricane Katrina hit her hometown and changed her life forever. “All I was seeing (on TV) were people digging themselves out of their attics with axes, and I couldn’t get in contact with my family,” Mancina said. “It was at that point where I began to get angry.” Hurricane Katrina ripped through the Gulf Coast Aug. 29, leaving nearly 500,000… Read more
Students from two Pan-African studies and two urban studies and planning online classes were left confused and without a professor when she stopped communicating with them after the fifth week of classes, according to the students and school officials. Lisa Richardson, professor of urban studies and planning and Pan-African studies, has not recently contacted either department after numerous attempts by their employees and university officials to contact her. These attempts were made following repeated inquiries by students in two PAS… Read more