After a winter hiatus, the BBC’s “Doctor Who” is back on air and in the swing of things with the second half of its seventh season. In the seventh episode, “The Bells of Saint John,” suspicious WiFi accounts have come to plague the planet, pulling unsuspecting users into a digital purgatory. Clara Oswald (Jenna Louise-Coleman), the girl twice dead (as an astronaut-turned-dalek at the beginning of the season and a Victorian nanny in the Christmas special), has mysteriously reappeared as… Read more

There used to be a time when, in college, if you told someone you watched a show about rainbow unicorns and candy princesses, you’d be stuffed in a locker and ostracized well-past graduation. Today, it makes you the coolest kid on the block. “Adventure Time,” a show about a boy and his elastic yellow dog, has taken hold of young and old audiences alike since its inception in 2010. In the ludicrous and post-nuclear war Land of Ooo, everything a… Read more

With all seats occupied and nearly half of the audience standing, the Gender Inequality and Literacy Campaign commanded full attention from CSUN students. A panel of faculty and guest lecturers discussed the issue of illiteracy in Central America and its effects on women, specifically among the Salvadorian population. The event, hosted by the Central American studies department on Wednesday, was aimed at promoting awareness of the problem domestically and abroad. Shartriya Collier, a professor in the College of Education, said… Read more

  Updated with additional information and quotes. After two years of student activism and planning, CSUN’s LGBTQ community has a new home. The USU celebrated the grand opening of its Pride Center Thursday with a ribbon cutting ceremony, making it the first official location for LGBTQ resources on campus. The ceremony began at 10 a.m. and featured speakers instrumental in center’s development. USU Executive Director Debra Hammond welcomed attendees, citing student effort as the key force behind the opening. “This… Read more

Amid protestors, promoters and political junkies, the four leading candidates for California’s 30th congressional district seat discussed the debt crisis and the outlook for graduates in the VPAC Monday evening as part one of three of the A.S. Big Politics series. Moderated by Bill Handel, the debate between Democrat Congressman Howard Berman, Democrat Congressman Brad Sherman, Republican Mark Reed and Republican Susan Shelly focused on how decisions made in Washington are affecting the San Fernando Valley, and more specifically, CSUN… Read more

It’s difficult to deny the fact that things are getting odd. To go from summer weather in the middle of January to looping bouts of chills in April is nowhere near ordinary. The dreaded “myth” of global warming appears to be becoming a reality, but the question is, have we attributed the crime to the right suspect? The generally accepted cause of climate change has been our oil consumption (darned be those rising gas prices), but this factor is only… Read more