Family Planning Access Care Treatment, a state administered program, now offers family planning services at the Klotz Student Health Center for low income students. The Family PACT program at CSUN provides students with free or low cost services. Students who are enrolled in the program can gain confidential access to many types of sexual and reproductive services. According to the Family PACT website, some of the services that are provided through the program are include emergency contraception, STI testing and… Read more

Antoine Abou-Diwan Contributing reporter In an address to American Society of Newspaper Editors in 1925, President Calvin Coolidge said, “The chief business of the Americ an people is business.” This succinct statement defined America’s strengths for decades.  Unfortunately, the idea behind Coolidge’s brilliant statement has been hijacked by business interests whose mandate to enhance shareholder value overshadows any sense of ethics that they may once have upheld. Plenty has been written about what led us—and the rest of the world—into… Read more

Harrison Leonard Contributing columnist In 2005, Senate Republicans threatened to employ the “nuclear option,” a crafty procedural rule that would allow the Senate to pass bills without the traditionally required supermajority. Democrats summarily denounced this tactic. Barack Obama said the plan “would change the character of the Senate forever” and would result in “majoritarian absolute power on either side, and that’s just not what the founders intended.” Joe Biden called it “an example of the arrogance of power. It is… Read more

President Obama addressed the nation in his first State of the Union speech  last Wednesday. I anticipated another moving speech by the current champion of oratory and public grace. I heard the man talk; now I’m waiting for results. It’s been more than a year since his inauguration and campaign for hope and change, but not much has changed. In fact the only thing that has changed is the heated rivalry between our nation’s two parties. Second only to “Jersey… Read more

If a person is in a hospital or a nursing home, the last two months of life are the most expensive. Medicare paid $50 billion last year for the last two months of patients’ lives, more than the government spent on education or the Department of Homeland Security. It is also estimated that 20 to 30 percent of these expenditures had no significant impact on the patient. Dr. Ira Byock of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire said that… Read more

President Obama is a making a mockery of America’s priorities with his visit to Copenhagen, Denmark today. His visit is for one reason and one reason only, to bring the Olympics to Chicago in 2016. The Olympics are one of the most anticipated and celebrated cultural events in the history of the world. It brings the world together for two weeks to celebrate and support different nations and athletes representing those countries. I hope that Chicago hosts the XXXI Olympiad… Read more

While reading through the Daily Sundial Web site, I came across an article that got me thinking. “Green Paper or Green Thumbs?” is a piece that proposes a solution for obesity, at least on our campus. What caught my eye, however, were the staggering statistics cited and it led me to do some of my own research. “Green Paper or Green Thumbs?” begins by introducing students’ issues with weight and diet; it struck me, however, that this is not a… Read more