The example set by Spain in prohibiting extremely thin models is the beginning of a social awakening in setting standards of beauty. It is about time that someone put a stop to this unhealthy image of women and its repercussions on society. Luisel Ramos died after a fashion show.

After 10 years of extensive research in Dakar, Senegal, Suzanne Scheld, assistant professor of anthropology, has seen it all. From poverty and corruption to hope and perseverance. Scheld recently won the Jerome Richfield Scholar Award at CSUN for her research.

On a quiet summer afternoon, a year after the 1994 6.8 Northridge earthquake, the walls of the College of Humanities began to shake. But this time, it wasn't another earthquake. Cal State Northridge Philosophy Professor Jacob Hale recalls, laughingly, that the shaking came from an "out of control" tabloid reporter.