Close to 300 people showed up to The University Student Union’s Northridge Center Wednesday evening to hear Naomi Klein’s lecture, “Playing it Safer: The Lessons of Disaster from Wall Street to BP,” a topic she was scheduled to speak on almost two years ago. Klein, a Canadian journalist, is the author of “Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.” Due to unforeseen circumstances, Klein was unable to speak at the USU’s world finance speaker series two years ago, said Brian… Read more

While the Asian American Studies program at California State University, Northridge is thriving, students and faculty at California State University, Los Angeles are baffled by the administration’s decision to suspend their program. On Feb. 2, students and faculty protested the suspension, which was initiated November 2010 hoping to add more names to an online petition that has gathered more than 1,300 signatures. “People think it’s not a big issue,” said Brian de Guzman, a CSUN student. “But when the ethnic… Read more