Last week I was riding with a friend and his wife and they were talking about Halloween. She was upset because there were not any kids that came to their apartment for candy. Her husband laughed and said that she thinks the neighborhood they live in is ghetto.
Sports reveal a lot about the human personality, character and psyche. A couple of weeks ago, my boss, a UCLA alumnus, gave me tickets to go see a basketball match between UCLA and Long Beach State at Pauley Pavilion in Westwood. Now, I am not the biggest UCLA fan, but they have a pretty good team.
It was around this time last year that I got engaged. I am married now and have been for a few months. I am here to bear witness to the fact that being a young college student and married is hard. Do not get me wrong, I love it. And I am not just saying that to bring equity to my statements.
As a Christian I have no problem with anyone choosing a political party to represent their religion. However, with the recent incidents permeating the media involving the Republican party and its Christian associates, I have found reason to illuminate a fallacy that many might not be aware that “red state-Christians” and their “conservative Christianity” is not truly representative of Christianity.
J-Hova, Hov, Jiggaman, Jigga or just plain old Jay-Z proves with his out of retirement release,”Kingdom Come” why he is considered one of hip-hop’s best emcees. “Kingdom Come,” which supposedly is titled after Super Man’s return to the world in the comic series in 1996 is also conveniently aligned with Jay-Z’s continuing infatuation with blasphemous references in his music.
Last week I was riding with a friend and his wife and they were talking about Halloween. She was upset because there were not any kids that came to their apartment for candy. Her husband laughed and said that she thinks the neighborhood they live in is ghetto.
Miami, Fla., a city known for its hedonistic lifestyle and its magnetic skyline was not always a city full of citizens and vacationers seeking fun in the sun. But in the late 1970s, Miami experienced an influx of immigrants and drugs that the documentary, “Cocaine Cowboys” argues made Miami the city that it is today.
On Nov. 8 a ceremony will be held in which the College of Arts, Media and Communication will be renamed the Mike Curb College of Arts, Media and Communication. The California State University Board of Trustees approved the name change in September. Curb, who was a former student at CSUN when it was known as San Fernando Valley State College in the 1960s, recently pledged to give a $10 million endowment to the university, with most of it going toward CSUN’s music program.
On Sept. 28, a panel that included local community leaders and a CSUN professor offered their viewpoints of the upcoming election and ballot in November. Shirley Svorny, a CSUN economics professor, former California Assemblyman Richard Katz, and Scott Harris, an executive director of a non-partisan, non-profit organization, discussed issues such as some of the propositions on the November election ballot and what the people in California need to be thinking when voting.