Students registering for fall classes will pay $90 as part of the campus quality fee, that will increase to $100 for the spring semester, as per the fee proposal, according to the CSUN Student Affairs Office. William Watkins, vice president for Student Affairs and dean of students, does not believe the overall tuition fee increases will affect the campus quality fee. “There will be no additional increases,” Watkins said.  “None that I have heard of.” The campus quality fee was… Read more

Among the newspapers and periodicals with titles like “American Aphrodite,” “Screw” and “Fag Rag,” are diaries, photographs and flyers.  These items are rare.  They draw researchers to CSUN’s Oviatt Library from around the country. “There are three places for anyone that’s serious about transgendered research in this country,” said Jacob Hale, philosophy professor.  “The Kinsey Institute, the University of Michigan and CSUN.” Hale is the director of the Center for Sex and Gender Research, a faculty research institute housed in… Read more

The Oviatt Library at CSUN is a source for providing academic resources for the student learning process, and in the past year it has updated and created several of its services, like text-a-librarian and expanding student lounges. The library has been in the current location since 1959 and it continues to serve students through its five essential benefits: research consultations, borrowing privileges, reference services, and online resources, said Coleen M. Martin, coordinator of Outreach Services. “We have many services from… Read more

Whatever their background, non-students being in the library is not a crime. In the six years that Gabriel Castaneda, assistant supervisor and former CSUN student, has been working in the Oviatt Library, he recalls about five community members, assumed to be homeless, that came into the library weekly. None of them gave him much trouble, he said. “They keep to themselves. They are quiet most of the time and don’t really bother anyone,” said Castaneda. “After a while, we even… Read more