CSUN academics will operate within an annual schedule of classes that will be accessible only through the Internet beginning with the Summer and Fall 2006 and Spring 2007 terms, according to university officials. “(We want) to give students a chance to look at the longest possible arch,” said Jerry Luedders, assistant provost, who along with Eric Forbes, director of Admissions and Records, announced the schedule change at a recent Provost Council meeting. Luedders said online technology is more dynamic than… Read more

The Automated Storage and Retrieval System, tucked underground on the east side of the Oviatt Library, is a man-made archivist with six electronically-operated limbs that help locate aged, used and unused materials by request and transports them to a pickup station for campus usage. A student interested in a certain book or item not available on a shelf would go to the library’s online catalog to locate the material by utilizing its barcode. The requested item is tagged with a… Read more

CSUN dorm residents could see a new Living Learning Community established in the University Park Apartments next year as Student Housing officials plan for the future of their “learn where you live” residence hall model. Student Housing officials are in discussions with the Music Department to potentially bring a new music-themed LLC to the dorms by 2006-07, said Melissa Giles, associate director for Residential Life in Student Housing and Conference Services at CSUN. “It will be similar to (the) CTVA… Read more

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A group of students who called themselves Be Educated handed out fliers, free candy, condoms and water bottles to students who passed by the Student Services Lawn on Nov. 11 to educate about and help prevent sexually transmitted diseases, especially HIV/AIDS. The group and the activity are both results of an assignment in Professor Gigi Hessamian’s Communication Studies 323 class (Small Group Communication) in which students were told to pick a topic of social concern and do something positive about… Read more

CSUN alumna Denedria Banks’ physical struggles could not hold back her determination to reach her goals, and she has written a book to prove it. Banks recently came back to her alma mater to speak to students from one of her old professors’ Pan-African Studies writing classes about her life, her work and what writing her autobiography, “Melodies of My Life,” did for her. “My biggest struggle in writing (my story) was just coming to terms with things that happened… Read more

About 120 CSUN students participated in the 10th annual Student Research and Creative Works Symposium Nov. 11 in the University Student Union Grand Salon. Mack Johnson, associate vice president for Graduate Studies, Research and International Programs, said 10 winners from the event are expected to go to the CSU Student Research Competition next April to compete with other California students. The symposium is organized in the same format as the CSU Student Research Competition, where students make oral presentations to… Read more

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