It is 7:25 p.m. on a Tuesday night and Patrick Beck is preparing to do homework for Humanities 101 before his online chat session is scheduled to begin at eight. The chat feature that professor Nancy Taylor uses reminds Beck of AOL Instant Messenger (AIM). The chat room forum has all of Beck?s classmates on the right side of his laptop screen and the current conversation on the left side of the screen. The chat, tonight?s discussion on art during… Read more

The CSUN Formula-SAE ranked 12 out of 80 overall at the 2008 Formula SAE West Competition in Fontana from June 25-28. Project Manager Matt Powell, a 20-year-old junior business major, said the driving events are the team?s specialty. The team?s fastest finish was sixth place in the acceleration race. Though the racing team did not beat previous records, it placed in the competition?s top 10 percent. CSUN Formula-SAE highest clock speed was 88 mph, but the race car?s top speed… Read more

The CSUN Formula-SAE ranked 12 out of 80 overall at the 2008 Formula SAE West Competition in Fontana from June 25-28. Project Manager Matt Powell, a 20-year-old junior business major, said the driving events are the team’s specialty. The team’s fastest finish was sixth place in the acceleration race.

It is 7:25 p.m. on a Tuesday night and Patrick Beck is preparing to do homework for Humanities 101 before his online chat session is scheduled to begin at eight. The chat feature that professor Nancy Taylor uses reminds Beck of AOL Instant Messenger (AIM).

The Associated Student Senate approved the 2008-09 A.S. budget for the second time at the June 24 Senate meeting. University President Jolene Koester recommended 13 item changes to A.S. budget and the Senate voted in agreement, but made two modifications to Koester’s recommendation in her June 16 memo.

I magine if the waste, toxins and everything people have ever thrown in the trash covers the entire world, making it inhabitable for humans. Fast-forward to 2700 and you have the beginning setting of Disney and Pixar’s new animation hit “WALL-E.” Waste Allocation Load Lifter- Earth, also known as WALL-Es, are left on Earth to clean up the tremendous amount of waste left by humans after they departed for a five-year voyage into space.

The Public Escort Service, also known as Matador Patrol, may lose two new positions if A.S. eliminates their funding for the 2008-09 academic year. A.S. senators will meet to discuss the issue on Tuesday at 2 p.m. in the Grand Salon. The $15,000 budget account for the salaries and benefits of a new plan to station one Matador Patrol escort in the University Student Union and another Matador Patrol escort to drive a golf cart from the Oviatt Library with up to three students at a time to their cars, dorms and other areas on campus.

Soccer or taekwondo? The answer for six-year-old Markie Keelan was simple. Whatever Jodi, her older sister, chose was what she wanted to do. Thirteen years later, Keelan, a 19-year-old CSUN psychology major, has a third-degree black belt in taekwondo. Keelan won five gold medals, three silver medals and three bronze medals since 2003, the USA Taekwondo Web site shows.

Late nights and early mornings are spent in Jacaranda Hall as CSUN Formula-SAE, also known as Matador Motorsports, builds their formula-one style race car to compete in the Formula- SAE West competition from June 25-28. “Its pretty demanding,” said Matt Powell, 20-year-old junior majoring in business, who is the project manager.