The student media organization of California State University Northridge

Daily Sundial

The student media organization of California State University Northridge

Daily Sundial

The student media organization of California State University Northridge

Daily Sundial

Enroll in college and dont ever enlist in the service

Enroll in college and don’t ever enlist in the service

Luis Rivas November 11, 2013

For this Veteran’s Day, I’d like to encourage everyone to honor the memory of fallen service men and women of this country by lighting the American flag on fire and burning down military recruitment...

CSUs need ethnic studies program

CSUs need ethnic studies program

Calvin Ratana November 3, 2013

Take up your picket signs, raise your fists and get your voices out, brothers and sisters; ethnic studies is yet again under attack and it is our responsibility to save it. According to an LA Times...

This year, don’t be a racist for Halloween

This year, don’t be a racist for Halloween

Calvin Ratana October 31, 2013

Oh, Halloween. They say it’s fun to dress up and go to Halloween parties. But it isn’t – at least not when there’s rampant cultural appropriation and people dressed up in racist costumes running...

Obama is not a sign that racism is gone

Obama is not a sign that racism is gone

Luis Rivas August 28, 2013

In commemorating the 50th anniversary March on Washington on Aug. 28, the role that race plays in the U.S. has come back into the spotlight. But, really, it never left. Many might like to think that...

Stop appropriating Native American culture

Stop appropriating Native American culture

Hansook Oh November 20, 2012

  There’s been much to be angry about during this year’s Native American Heritage Month. Victoria’s Secret got into trouble after consumers expressed anger toward the faux-Native American...

Illustration by Jeromy Velasco / Contributor

PRO/CON: Fisher v. University of Texas–does affirmative action work?

Aleksey Reshetnivov May 2, 2012

PRO Aleksey Reshetnivov contributor Affirmative action in the academic world means considering traditionally underrepresented characteristics (race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc.) in...

Destruction in 1992 L.A. Upheaval: How law enforcement let the largest urban riot/rebellion rage on

Hansook Oh April 29, 2012

Twenty years ago, our city convulsed with a tremor that could not be measured on the Richter scale. Fifty-three lives were lost, thousands were injured and property damage equaled $1 billion. The livelihoods...

One Asian’s thank-you note to UCLA student’s library rant

Hansook Oh March 22, 2011

By Hansook Oh Do you ever have trouble reaching epiphanies in the library because every fifteen minutes, an Asian suddenly screams out “Ching-chong, ling-long, ting-tong” into their phone? If so,...

Go racial or go home

Harrison Leonard August 30, 2010

New York City’s Staten Island borough is being plagued by a recent succession of hate crimes. National Public Radio reported on Aug. 20 of “at least 10 alleged hate crimes in the borough's Port Richmond...

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