The CSUN community has about 200 recycling bins throughout campus and with a number of food courts and trash bins, this creates a draw for scavengers around campus who have become eyesores. Recycling has become quite a big business especially in larger communities and with the economy’s slow recovery, more people search for ways to make money. But they are not just in our neighborhoods but on college campuses, wandering around, digging in trash cans in search of aluminum cans,… Read more

  Light rain greeted the middle and high school students as they arrived for the on-campus 40th anniversary of Earth Day Celebration hosted by the Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Geology departments along with Noyce scholars. About 200 local middle and high school students were invited on April 20 to participate in science projects designed and implemented by CSUN students, including how to clean up oil spills in the environment, composting, chemistry reaction in Ziploc and pickle battery tests. Virginia Vandergon,… Read more

CSUN’s part in recycling aluminum cans and paper products today is commonplace and composting is not too far behind, as we see the benefits of turning once living things into fertilizer useful in enriching garden soil and houseplants. CSUN Director of Publications Randy Thomson’s colleagues hail him as having a “passion” for composting. Composting “contributes less to landfills and saves money,” Thomson said. “About 50 percent of food is thrown away. We can take this food and redirect it to… Read more

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A few years ago, Nelly’s “Tip Drill” video was quintessential of the depths an “artist” would go to create controversy while at the same time lining their pockets on the backs of women. Never mind anything that has to do with decency because the concept of right and wrong is oftentimes lost in the music industry in order to clear the way for profits. Times have not changed but rather have gone from one extreme to the other with Lady… Read more

Those with the “I just don’t care” attitude, who fail to return the 10-question, 2010 census form by the April 17 deadline, will receive visits in the upcoming months from enumerators, who will collect the data necessary to complete the count in person. Fortunately, some unemployed Americans will benefit from this nonchalant attitude and will find work as enumerators with the census in this high unemployment period. State governments’ grants will benefit from the responses the census generates, and for… Read more

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] [Audio clip: view full post to listen] As part of CSUN’s Richard W. Smith lecture series, Dr. James Fallon, a neuroscientist at the University of California, Irvine who studies the biological basis of human behavior lectured on the brains of psychopathic killers while revealing cases of murder in his own family, including his distant cousin, Lizzie Borden. Fallon said the combination of brain damage, a set of genes related to violence and aggression… Read more

The memories and special moments captured on film filled the sparsely occupied screening room in Beverly Hills as the audience gathered to see “Phyllis and Harold.” The opening animation and those sprinkled throughout the 84 minutes of this heart-warming story were precious. This engaging documentary of the filmmaker’s parents, Phyllis and Harold, offers an unobstructed view into a family’s life as seen through the eyes of a daughter. Writer and director, Cindy Kleine depicts the untold story of the lives… Read more

The Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center, in a necessary two-steps forward and one-step back approach, is sponsoring a charter school serving grades seven through 12. The school, geared toward providing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals an opportunity to obtain a quality education free from harassment and scorn is a solid idea, but a concern as well. Many things come to mind but the first is not segregation because this is not segregation. These young adults are being protected… Read more