Despite an eviction deadline of Monday at 12:01 a.m., Occupy L.A.’s encampment on City Hall lawn is still standing. The protesters, who have occupied the lawn for almost two months, filed a court order Monday morning requesting occupiers be allowed to continue camping. The court order, filed after protesters were not removed from City Hall lawn, noted that the defendants are in violation of the 1st and 14th Amendments by approving of the Occupy presence for 56 days then suddenly,… Read more

Tired of the rising cost of education? CTVA major Marcos Castro said that’s why he’s looking for signatures for a petition demanding textbook companies lower their prices. “They’re the ones naming the prices, and the schools can’t do anything about it,” Castro said, as he set up his table along Matador Walk. “The bookstore has to sell at these prices in order to turn a profit, so changing the price at the textbook companies is where we need to start.”… Read more

CLARIFICATION, Nov. 28, 3:37 p.m.: The original article identified the program as the “Robert E. McNair Scholars Program,” rather than the “Ronald E. McNair…” It also noted that the program is funded by NASA, the CIA, the Hearst foundations and U.S. Department of Defense. But, according to McNair program director, is funded by the U.S. Department of Education. The program is one of eight TRIO programs created as part of the Higher Education Act of 1965, said Renee Moreno, program… Read more

By Jeffrey Zide For anyone who has never attended one of Martin Pousson’s classes, a typical first day of class looks something like this: “There’s two things about me that don’t change that students need to know. One is that I’m covering up a lot of ink and it’s permanent,” Pousson said. “The second is that I am an out and outrageous homosexual and that’s permanent, too.” Pousson, a CSUN associate English professor and member of the Queer Studies Program… Read more

By Erika Yasuo It’s been nearly five years since Gerardo Garay’s world was turned upside down after a major car accident that permanently affected his view of the world. On Dec. 9, 2006, Garay, a 24-year-old kinesiology major at CSUN, was coming back from Las Vegas with his friends when his best friend, driving 90 miles per hour, fell asleep behind the wheel. Garay was not wearing a seatbelt. He was ejected from the car more than 70 feet and… Read more