Nearly 10,000 people dressed in black holding flags, banners and signs marched in Little Armenia Friday morning in Hollywood in protest of Turkey’s failure to recognize the Armenian Genocide. Protestors also decried President Barack Obama’s failure to use the word ‘genocide.’

Obama issued a statement about the genocide saying his views have not changed, but refrained from using the word genocide. Instead he twice referred to ‘Meds Yeghern,’ which are words used by Armenians in reference to the events of 1915.

More college students are receiving financial aid, which can be either a relief to those who are eligible or a tragic reminder of missed opportunity for those that once were.

The CSUN Department of Police Services held an Emergency Preparedness and Crime Prevention Expo on Cleary Walk across from University Hall yesterday for students to come out and see many different crime prevention and emergency preparedness exhibitors and vendors.

What do you get when you put a soon-to-be-engaged debutant, public-enemy No. 13 and an evangelical nightclub singer on a boat? You would get the hilarious musical comedy by Cole Porter, ‘Anything Goes.’ On Friday ‘Anything Goes,’ Directed by Garry Lennon, opened in CSUN’s Campus Theatre in Nordhoff Hall.

So, your wife of 20 years kicks you out of the house and your two children hate you. You are then forced to move in with your nerdy, Darth Vader loving, Lord-of-the-Rings-obsessed best friend. What’s next? Making a wish to be 17 again so you can relive your glory days as a high school basketball stud, that’s what.

For those of you sick of being bombarded on campus with annoying fliers and their useless information, you might want reconsider paying closer attention to the ones that say ‘FREE BEER’ on them.

Dance is a great outlet for some CSUN students like Danielle Jarvis who views it as an art form.

‘It provides an opportunity to try something new and if it weren’t here or offered [a student] might not have discovered their love for it,’ she said.

As California residents prepare to vote in the May 19 statewide special election, one proposition among a cluster involving the budget has created concern among faculty and students within the California State University (CSU) system.

Fire stations have been used as collection sites in the past four years that the event has been held, said Matt Myerhoff communications director for councilman Greig Smith.