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Daily Sundial

The student media organization of California State University Northridge

Daily Sundial

The student media organization of California State University Northridge

Daily Sundial

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No on Prop 46

Calvin Ratana October 29, 2014

  Let’s put it this way, no one wants a professional healthcare worker to be drunk or high off drugs while on their shift. Also, in today’s society financial compensation for wrongdoings...

Illustration by Sarah Casscaden / Contributor

Addiction to pills for depression needs to end

Calvin Ratana September 16, 2014

  “I don’t know what I’m doing anymore. There’s no purpose to this, I just want to die.” I know, that’s such a cliche line to introduce the topic of depression. But everyday...

Illustration by Kristine Delicana/ Illustrator

Let’s end the cycle of student debt

Calvin Ratana August 27, 2014

    College is expensive. Well, no shit. By today, college is now being associated with rising tuition and an ever-increasing mountain of debt. The topic of student debt has become...

The stark contrast between the affluent businessmen and those living in poverty in Los Angeles can be seen literally across the street from each other. Photo credit: David J. Hawkins/Photo Editor

Promise zones don’t seem to be much of a promise

Calvin Ratana April 30, 2014

Remember back in February when President Barack Obama said in his State of the Union address that he would find a solution to the problem of poverty and homelessness in America? Well, Obama’s...

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Race still matters in the college admissions process

Calvin Ratana April 16, 2014

“Affirmative action was the government’s first and only program that attempted to combat institutional racism.” Those words rang loud in my head, as my high school teacher taught my class the...

Jesus Martinez Ramirez, president candidate for the Student Success platform, speaks during the A.S Presidential Debate, Monday, in the Flintridge Room at the USU. Election days will be on April 1st and 2nd, and there will be on-campus polling locations. Photo Credit: Lucas Esposito / Daily Sundial

AS presidential debate brings pretty words but no answers

Calvin Ratana March 25, 2014

One of the most remarkable ironies I see around the CSUN’s campus is Associated Students (AS). Bluntly put, we as students know that AS exists. We know they deal with the decision-making pertaining...

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DACA is only a bandage for a gaping wound in America

Calvin Ratana March 19, 2014

Imagine being forced out of a place you have called home for the past several years of your life. Imagine that in order to stay in your home, you must apply to stay there every two years. Imagine feeling...

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America should stop meddling in Venezuela’s affairs

Calvin Ratana February 25, 2014

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is anti-democratic and the protesters are facists. Those are the words being thrown around by both sides in the hazy situation that is happening in Venezuela. To...

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Apologies are needed from both sides of WWII in order to move forward

Calvin Ratana February 25, 2014

America Needs to Apologize War is never a pretty picture. As countries fight each other, atrocities are committed by both sides for the sake of achieving victory. These wars are then written...

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End the injustices in America, end the prison industrial complex

Calvin Ratana February 19, 2014

After years of violating human rights, California’s prison addiction has been called out by the United States Supreme Court. The Supreme Court found that California’s overcrowded prisons violated...

Illustration by Julie Salvaterria/Contributor

Raise your voices: Ethnic studies needs students to stand up

Calvin Ratana February 17, 2014

Cal State Los Angeles’s Academic Senate meeting last month must have had a tense atmosphere as over 100 students, community members and activists jammed the room. But why are so many people attending...

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Obama calls 2014 a year of action, but will it be one?

Calvin Ratana January 29, 2014

As usual, Obama began his sixth State of the Union address with a bunch of uplifting and tear-jerking stories that will eventually connect to his main points in his speech. But like any major political...

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