Sabotage is suspected in the death of over half the fish that were stored at Physical Plant Management in preparation for their move from the former botanical garden habitat to a new pond. Tom Brown, executive director of Physical Plant Management, was visibly upset as he described the circumstances surrounding the loss of the fish, some of which had been in CSUN’s care since before the 1994 Northridge earthquake.
Sabotage is suspected in the death of over half the fish that were stored at Physical Plant Management in preparation for their move from the former botanical garden habitat to a new pond. Tom Brown, executive director of Physical Plant Management, was visibly upset as he described the circumstances surrounding the loss of the fish, some of which had been in CSUN’s care since before the 1994 Northridge earthquake.
In the planning for nearly a year, some big changes at the Matador Bookstore Complex are nearing completion. Amy Berger, director of the Matador Bookstore for the past five years, is excited about the new bookstore. She listed the changes students can expect to see come fall, one of the biggest being the design of the floor plan itself.
Americans’ penchant for swallowing pills instead of pursuing maybe a more responsible and rigorous course of action in our race against disease bears little difference from our compulsion to pursue any number of less-than-rigorous choices in our search for happiness.
They’re seen all over campus. They’re usually chained up, caked with dirt, pathetic looking and abandoned. They’re not orphans left to fend for themselves though, or members of a lost colony of starving puppies. They’re bicycles, usually covered with cobwebs, whose tires have gone flat, that sometimes spend an entire semester languishing in various bike racks across campus.
The MTA’s recent fare increases have caused riders to grumble and authorities to brace for an increase in the number of people trying to ride for free. Effective July 1, the cost of a day pass rose from $3 to $5, a weekly pass from $14 to $17 and a monthly pass went from $52 to $62, according to the MTA Web site.
CSUN won’t be availing itself of the Copyright Clearance Center’s recently announced plan that would allow colleges to streamline their practice of providing course reserves to students, at least not yet. The plan would allow colleges to pay a blanket copyright fee for each student that would eliminate the current need for university personnel to obtain and pay for copyright permission for course reserves, either electronically or printed, on a case-by-case basis.
Bryant Street, the Pacoima Crips, San Fernando: all dangerous street gangs whose sinister monikers are seemingly everywhere defacing the walls, fences and public property on the mean streets of LA, but also more and more within the boundaries of CSUN’s campus.
As a member of our great, market-driven, consumer society, I realize there are certain messages that will always retain their urgency and obstinacy, one of the most important being: Time is money. This, along with “There is no justice,” is one of those lessons that we are expected to have learned on the playground in fifth grade, but seem never to have internalized sufficiently, as we spend our lives not only railing at injustice, but blindly squandering other people’s time.