The Women’s Resource and Research Center will be hosting the 10th annual Take Back the Night rally on Thursday at 6 p.m. Students, student groups, and activists will meet at the University Student Union Plaza Del Sol where they will rally together to protest violence against women. As explained in a previous Sundial article, most violent acts against women happen between 6 – 10 p.m. The event, happening during that time frame, is put together so that women can reclaim… Read more

For 10 days CSUN student activists went without food, only consuming water, fruit and vegetable juice three times a day waiting for a list of demands to be met. Inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement, another group of students set up tents on the lawn in front of the Oviatt Library to educate the campus on the political process, national wealth inequality and corporatism. These are just two of the ways that student activism took form in the past… Read more

Ahhh! The Chick-fil-A debacle seems to be over. Now we can look back and perform a proper post-mortem of how and why both sides behaved the way they did, and whether those reactions were helpful, harmful, or mattered at all in the end. Just in case you missed the whole thing, here’s the backstory. Dan Cathy, the CEO of Chick-fil-A, a fast food joint with pickles as the secret chicken-flavor enhancing ingredient, decided to publicly weigh in on his company’s… Read more

Twenty to 30 CSUN students protested budget cuts by using theatrics to promote their message Wednesday afternoon. They stopped in the Marketplace at Sierra Center, in front of the Oviatt library, and the USU before finally concluding outside the bookstore. The group performed demonstrations with each member taking their turn to reveal to onlookers how the budget cuts have derailed their life. Monica Turner, a lecturer in the Pan African studies department, led the march that involved her students in… Read more

Hundreds of Los Angeles Police Department officers filled the F10 student parking lot on the northeast corner of Lindley Avenue and Lassen Street as a staging area for the March 2 protest against budget cuts and tuition increase. Gus Villanueva, Los Angeles Police Department public information officer and detective said the LAPD wanted to make sure everyone’s First Amendment was protected. “We’re under operations to ensure the safety of the protesters,” said Scott Vanscoy, CSUN Police Department captain of patrol… Read more