For our last issue of the academic year, we as a staff have decided to look back and reflect on all that has transpired in the pages of the newspaper and try to capture some of the most important moments. In addition, we have included comments from the web and quotes from students and faculty members on the events covered by the Daily Sundial. We have written often in the pages of the Daily Sundial about the unique challenges our… Read more

When people ask what genre of music you listen to, the standard response is often, “anything, but country music.” While my music tastes can be described as eclectic, country fails to make an appearance. This is where Brandi Carlile comes in to the picture. At first listen, this female singer-songwriter may sound like just another country music singer. But she is far from it. Carlile has had a devoted following since her 2005 release “Brandi Carlile.” Her 2007 follow-up “The… Read more

Many of you probably picked up today’s paper expecting to read the next topic in our weekly sex column. I fear many of you will be disappointed. Instead, I feel this is a more appropriate response to the recent controversy that erupted over our publication’s decision to run last Thursday’s “Whose pleasure is it anyway?” sex column about oral sex and an accompanying photo illustration depicting the sexual act. As copies of the print version hit stands on Thursday and… Read more

About a year ago, Eric G. Forbes sat in the second car of a Metrolink train looking through a window as another train headed toward him. “I could see the train coming, had fewer than five seconds to do something, even though there wasn’t anything I could do,” said Forbes, CSUN’s director of Admissions and Records. “I was in complete disbelief and tried rationalizing what I was seeing but couldn’t, because I knew there wasn’t another train track and that… Read more

The ambulance lights die down, the wreckage is cleaned up and eventually the story moves its way from the front page to the back. But for the victims of the Metrolink accident, moving on is not defined in such black and white terms. Beatrice Watts, known to her friends as Bea, sustained severe and extensive injuries as a result of the train crash. Watts, an administration support coordinator for Admissions and Records at CSUN, had her spleen crushed, pancreas severed… Read more

With the onslaught of news this summer dealing with the budget crisis, it was a somber gathering at the annual convocation address to faculty and staff on Aug. 20. President Jolene Koester spoke of the challenges facing CSUN. “We have no file on how to do furloughs,” Koester said. “The only positive of furloughs is that they protect jobs, health care benefits and are more humane.” Koester also encouraged everyone to resist the urge to blame, calling it “easy but… Read more

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‘ Current Associated Students (A.S.) President Miguel Segura fired four A.S. senators last week. The positions included director of visibility, director of political awareness, director of finance and the assistant director of finance.

Michelle Obama has added an undeniable new energy into the evolving debate of feminism, motherhood and the traditional ideals of womanhood that still dominate our society’s consciousness.’ This is a rather predictable debate that has manifested itself in a variety of ways.