CSUN President Jolene Koester will retire by the end of Fall 2011. Koester sent out an email earlier today announcing her plan to faculty and students. Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs Harry Hellenbrand who has worked with Koester said she will be missed. “It’s a big loss to us all – personally and collectively,” Hellenbrand said. He said Koester’s “legacy” would be the philosophy she has established on campus. “It will carry us through,” Hellenbrand said. He added… Read more

A.S. election results are in. Amanda Flavin and Sydni Powell from Strength in Diversity won the bid for the presidency. Along with deciding who their new representatives will be for the 2011-12 school year, students voted and passed the sole constitutional amendment on the ballot, which proposed to move the A.S. elections from twice a year to once a year in the spring semester. The amendment was passed 1,537 to 683. Elections were held April 13 and 14. Students were… Read more

The start of the new semester brings changes to the Daily Sundial, but our commitment to the CSUN community remains the same. We are dedicated to accurately informing students, faculty and staff about issues that impact their lives. We often get questions about how the Sundial works. The Sundial is a student-run newspaper where students make the decisions. Our staff reporters are journalism students, who are enrolled in Journalism 397, a required class to graduate. Editors are students who apply… Read more

Update: The fire has been knocked down. (3:03 p.m.) Two to three acres are burning in Chatsworth. Matt Levesque, an inspector with the Los Angeles County Fire Department said no homes are threatened by the fire. Both the L.A. county and city units are on scene. Levesque said the county fire department dispatched three helicopters and two Super Scoopers that are dropping water overhead. The fire was first reported at 1:51 p.m., Levesque said. The fire is on light grass… Read more

The California Faculty Association (CFA)  has released a report that shows public and private funding, such as those generated by revenue operations like auxiliary organizations, have been mixed. The report states the CSU Chancellor’s Office, including the CSU system’s executive vice chancellor and chief financial officer, were aware that public money was being improperly deposited in auxiliary organizations, according to the CFA. The report is based on minutes from a series of closed-door meetings of CSU executives that were discovered… Read more

UPDATE: The memorial service honoring Piper will be held Monday, May 17, 2010 at 2 p.m. on the Manzanita Hall Lawn. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Terry D. Piper Endowment. Dr. Terry Piper, vice president for Student Affairs, who had taken an indefinite leave at the beginning of the spring semester to focus on his health, died Thursday, May 13. Piper, who had been diagnosed with melanoma, a malignant type of skin cancer, was expected… Read more

A CSUN student and alumna have been identified as two of the four victims of a fatal crash. Danielle Wolf, 22, and Kristin Norris, 22, were in a yellow 2007 Chevrolet Corvette that crashed at high speed on Thursday. Two males accompanied Wolf and Norris. Det. Bill Bustos of the LAPD’s Valley Traffic Division said the driver of the sports car was speeding as they headed east on a flat, S-curve on Roscoe Boulevard between Balboa Place and Hayvenhurst Avenue…. Read more

 SACRAMENTO, Calif. – CSUN students along with other students and faculty from across the Golden State who rallied on the steps of the Capitol against budget cuts were encouraged by speakers to continue their activism even after the March in March event was over. The event’s master of ceremonies Reid Milburn, student senate for California community colleges president, said change depended on the more than 15,000 students including CSUN students that marched to the Capitol on March 22. “It doesn’t… Read more

Sacramento – Students and faculty from across the Golden State who rallied on the steps of the Capitol against budget cuts were encouraged by speakers to continue their activism even after the March in March event was over. The event’s master of ceremonies Reid Milburn, student senate for California community colleges president, said change depended on the more than 15,000 students that marched to the Capitol on March 22. “It doesn’t end here. It’s up to each one of you… Read more