Geography; More than maps and capitals

A common perception of geography is that it mainly involves the memorization of capitals, rivers and countries, but in the CSUN geography department, students and faculty view the discipline in a number of intellectually stimulating and practical ways. “Originally I thought geography was memorizing place names and staring at wall maps all day long,” said Stephen Kallemeyn, geography major.

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Paved ‘art walk’ planned for historic orange grove

The Orange Grove, a rare remaining patch of the San Fernando Valley’s agricultural past, will be opened up to pedestrian traffic next year as CSUN proceeds with its campus expansion plans. The planned construction of the Orange Grove Art Walk, included in the campus master plan “Envision 2035,” has been portrayed as a revitalization of the grove, which is located in the southeast corner of campus.

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FBI secretly searches student financial aid requests

For close to five years, the Department of Education has been secretly searching their databases, looking for suspicious names provided by the FBI. The department’s student record database, containing the personal information of about 15 million financial aid applicants, has been accessed on behalf of the FBI without notifying the students or college administrators.

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Life is different for those in biggest and smallest majors

While 2,006 CSUN students have decided on psychology as a major, the “undecided” holds a strong second place with 1,829 indecisive but promising learners. According to enrollment data released by Institutional Research, the most popular majors at CSUN, as of Sept.

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Army recruitment harder than ever

After a whole day in the hot sun, the rock-climbing wall provided the group of camouflage uniformed Army service members with some shade as they concluded a day of recruiting at CSUN. The recruiters had erected the wall next to a shiny black Hummer on the lawn in front of the Oviatt Library.

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To snip or not to snip, that is the question

The two day-old naked infant boy was strapped down and spread eagle on a restraining board in a Marin General Hospital surgery room. He screamed and struggled as the doctor inserted a Plastibell without anesthesia, a surgical device used to forcefully separate the boy’s foreskin from his penis gland so that the targeted tissue can be cut off.

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