When it comes down to it, I believe myself to be a fairly generous citizen. I hold the door open for old ladies in the grocery store, when friends come to visit they are welcome to stay over and I turn lost dogs into the shelter when they roam the busy streets.
Local organizations gathered in Hollywood last week to protest the United States’ involvement in several areas of the Middle East. In particular, the focus was on the peace talks that were to take place in Annapolis, Md. The event drew more than 30 protesters and was comprised of various non-profit activist organizations that shared the same frustrations with the George W.
A drop in college tuition doesn’t look too promising for the near future, but this upcoming election Texas Senator Ron Paul is fighting on the side of many students who work in the service industry, as he introduces the Tax Free Tips Act, a law that would exempt all workers from being taxed on the tips they receive.
Travelers in the Los Angeles area were pleasantly surprised this week as LAX travel proved to be nothing short of smooth flying, even on November 21st, the day before Thanksgiving, which is considered the busiest travel day of the year. Many thought traveling Wednesday would be an absolute nightmare.
CSUN’s Civic Engagement Community hosted a panel comprised of both students and faculty members on Oct. 24 to inform fellow colleagues about the benefits of community service-learning. The Civic Engagement series was formed so that CSUN students could go to their neighboring colleges and communities and share their expertise, while helping them develop the skills, values and motivation that it takes to make a difference in their community.
My dad is Jewish and my mom is Christian, which makes me exactly half Jewish. Even though my parent’s were divorced when my sister and I were very young, they still held strong to their spiritual beliefs, and raised us accordingly. I guess you could say that I am literally half Jewish, and traditionally full, which basically means that I got to celebrate all of the fabulous Jewish feast’s and holidays, as well as attend a bar mitzvah or two every now and then.
Because of rising tensions between the United States and Turkey, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other congressional supporters of the Armenian Genocide Resolution were forced to delay its progress again last Thursday. Turkey denies responsibility for the massacre of 1.
The reward a crook gets for stealing your stuff these days goes far beyond mere cash, and as students become more comfortable and careless with their valuables, thieves find more clever ways to steal their identities. Like most college campuses, robbery, burglary and theft are commonly committed crimes, and at CSUN, the number of these crimes has gone up since 2004, many as a result of students’ absent-mindedness.
CSUN mourns the death of beloved English professor Gloria Gross, who took her own life last Monday in her Granada Hills home, the Los Angeles County Department of Coroner Investigations Bureau confirms. She was 59. “She was a very fine scholar and a very fine teacher,” said George Uba, chair of the Department of English, who received a phone call late last Monday night from a family spokesperson notifying him of her death.