CSUN students received tools for coping with stress and anxiety as they prepared for finals week on Thursday at the USU as part of Beat the Blues Week. Vaheh Hartoonian is a graduate student at CSUN and assistant coordinator of peer program at University Counseling Services on campus. He is not the only one familiar with anxiety, which was the motivation to host the workshop. “We have been there, we have seen it either in ourselves or in the people… Read more

A LinkedIn expert taught the CSUN community how to efficiently use the social media website as a tool to promote yourself and find available jobs. Stuart Fried has been an active member of LinkedIn since 2006 and worked in the recruitment industry for 30 years. “It’s a professional network society with over 175 million people so whether you are a job seeker, own your own business or if you just want to do professional networking you have to be there,”… Read more

The Daily Sundial got to interview Rich Moore who directed the new hit Disney movie “Wreck-It-Ralph.” The Cal. Arts alumni who studied character animation has previously directed episodes from the Simpsons and Futurama, “Wreck-It-Ralph” being its first blockbuster animated feature. Daily Sundial: What is your favorite part of being a director? Rich Moore: Being a director and working in animation is something I have always dreamed about since I was a kid. The first movie I ever saw was “The… Read more

From current president of Egypt Mohamed Morsi to System of a Down frontman and activist Serj Tankian to urban studies and planning professor Raul Bocanegra, CSUN has a tradition of graduating  students and providing a home to faculty that have a passion for politics. Morsi, before becoming Egypt’s first democratically elected president since the Egyptian revolution, enjoyed a short-lived stay at CSUN as assistant professor from 1982 to 1985 after graduating and earning his Ph.D. in engineering from USC. Some… Read more

The Faculty of Color lecture explained the importance of having ethnically diverse professors to diversify the campus, Wednesday. Students of all backgrounds attended the lecture and expressed the need for having a multiracial faculty to serve as their role models. Lexa Palvszewski, senior film production major, has several mentors that are faculty of color, which is why she thinks it’s important to have them on campus. Palvszewski believes they do more service, are more relatable to students and more approachable… Read more

The traditional Cinderella story was performed at CSUN with an unusual twist in the opera “Cendrillon” directed by Maurice Godin. The student production of Cinderella, performed in French, was accompanied by an English translation on a projector. The play was limited by the audience having to choose whether to focus on the screen or the performances. One would not make sense without the other. Some may feel the Cinderella story has been performed too many times. The director Godin didn’t… Read more

Writing workshop turns brutal in the Award-winner and Pulitzer Prize-finalist Theresa Rebeck’s new comedy “Seminar.” Famed author Leonard uses unorthodox methods to instill in his pupils the importance of true writing. Alliances are made and broken and sex becomes a weapon in manipulating your way to literary fame. The comedy was praised as the “funniest show on Broadway,” by WOR Radio. Rebeck’s fast paced dialogue creates a few funny moments within the story. It gets repetitious and at times tedious… Read more

CSUN presented “Orchestra of Exiles” to the community Sunday explaining the connection between Jews and music. Jessica Kaplan, a senior English literature major, comes from a Jewish musical family and felt a personal connection to the documentary. “I started to play the violin when I was six years old,” Kaplan said. Kaplan attended the event to receive extra credit for her Jewish Studies class. “Orchestra of Exiles,” opening Nov. 2, is about the Polish Jew Bronislaw Huberman, a known violinist…. Read more