While most college students were busy hitting the beach, or sleeping in past noon, Cal State Northridge student Devon Frankel did something a little different one summer. Frankel, a CTVA junior, accompanied his mother on a four-week vacation to South Africa in the summer of 2009. “My mom has a thing for helping people out, so she would go down there specifically to help kids. That would be my first time there,” Frankel recalls. Ten thousand miles and a 35-hour… Read more

The commute to school may soon be a little easier. A Metro bus transit center at CSUN will open this June, allowing students to be conveniently dropped off directly onto campus. Two bus lines, the 167 and the 741, will stop at the transit center on Vincennes Street, between Darby Avenue and Etiwanda Avenue, just south of the B5 parking structure. “We’re trying to facilitate people coming to campus not using single-occupancy vehicles, and we thought building a transit center… Read more

Colleges around the world will have to change their business and credentialing models to adapt to emerging technology if they want to maintain their importance, according to computer science professors at Georgia Institute of Technology’s Center for 21st Century Universities. Online learning is continuing to grow and develop within higher education, and it may be changing the value of a college degree, according to ongoing research at the center. “It was really convenient,” said Guadalupe Cascillo, senior art major at… Read more

Community members from and various Islamic groups protested outside the LAPD Devonshire division Monday, demanding an investigation into the police shooting of a 19-year-old man after a high speed chase last week. Abdul Arian was shot dead by LAPD early April 12 after leading police on a high speed chase down the 101 freeway. Initial police reports stated Arian was on the phone with 911 dispatch and told them he had a gun.  After pulling to the side, Arian got… Read more

CSUN students and other members of the community rode bicycles into downtown Los Angeles to participate in the city’s fourth CicLAvia event Sunday. The city sanctioned event shut down 10 miles of city streets from the east end of Hollywood to East Los Angeles, making way for cyclists, pedestrians and everything in between. “CicLAvia is an excellent event,” said Dennis D’Alfonso, a ride organizer and leader of the CSUN Bike Collective.  “It gets the community together and raises awareness about… Read more

In March, the group Fix UC announced they are in the process of changing their tuition deferment proposal to make it compatible with the CSU system. The first step to do this was to understand the difference in the funding systems of the UC and CSU, according to Chris LoCascio, president of Fix UC. “We understand that the CSU has an entirely different funding model than the UC and thus have to tailor the concepts outlined in the Fix UC… Read more