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Too Late: Loan costs are on the way up

DANIEL ANTOLIN • June 19, 2008

While many CSUN students were enjoying summer days away from the joy and toils of university life, their financial future may have become far more difficult in the course of a single day. For many, college became dramatically more expensive. That fateful day having come and gone, those who failed to consolidate student loans have to pay higher interest on loans borrowed before July 1.

Students face Web portal hacking charges

DANIEL ANTOLIN • June 19, 2008

George W. Bush is the president of what country? How many U.S. states are there? It was apparently as simple as answering secret password questions like these to hack into the personal network account of a student or faculty member last semester. CSUN students Lena Chen, 20, and Jennifer Ngan, 19, are charged with infiltrating the campus account of a political science professor late last May, changing their grades and those of about 300 classmates.

Same-sex couples should not settle for court’s pyrrhic nuptials

DANIEL ANTOLIN • June 19, 2008

It is not for the state's supreme court justices to decide whether same-sex couples should be allowed to legally marry. State justices were never elected to their posts, and it is not for them to legislate willy-nilly the interests of?Californians. Even if these justices were elected officials, they could not enact laws for intentions that have again come into question.

Campus police tackle suspect to ground

DANIEL ANTOLIN • June 19, 2008

Two Cal State Northridge police officers tackled a suspect to the ground on a grassy patch outside Manzanita Hall on Friday afternoon, eyewitnesses said. Josefina Martinez, a Cinema and Television Arts major and cashier at the store across from the Matador Bookstore, said she was walking to work when she saw a female running into Manzanita Hall with two bookstore employees chasing her.

Internal campus audit finds accounting errors

DANIEL ANTOLIN • June 18, 2008

Cal State Northridge has misreported financial data to California State University auditors for the last four years, a recent state audit report shows. Student-related fees were not reported on time - sometimes not at all - and the collection of service bills and overpayments made to current and former employees were not actively pursued.

Koester says campus needs national recognition

DANIEL ANTOLIN • June 18, 2008

CSUN is at a crossroads, said Jolene Koester, the campus president, as she delivered her eighth annual convocation speech on Tuesday on the front lawn of the Oviatt Library. Her speech, "Cal State University, Northridge: Regionally Focused, Nationally Recognized," emphasized broadening the campus' academic appeal and success to a national level, as the school will have to compete for what will gradually become a limited pool of students who are reaching the age in which they start applying to colleges.

CFA president comes to campus

DANIEL ANTOLIN • June 18, 2008

California Faculty Association President John Travis said "we are reluctant to put faculty salaries at risk by accepting an offer that is built on a lot of contingencies" in a speech on Wednesday, informing CSUN faculty in attendance about the progress of negotiations for their contracts with the California State University.

State gives CSU full control of student fee revenue

DANIEL ANTOLIN • June 18, 2008

When California State University students pay fees this fall, a portion of this money will be put into fixed-interest government bonds and all earnings will go toward increases in campus budgets, as the state has allowed them to keep this money in their own bank accounts.

Campus continues tutoring

DANIEL ANTOLIN • June 18, 2008

A student enrichment program that just one year ago was unable to have its funding renewed at campuses within the CSU system will continue on at CSUN. The Center for Academic Preparedness has partnered with Monroe High School and Sepulveda Middle School to provide its students with tutoring as part of the Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs initiative.

Radical preachers come to campus

DANIEL ANTOLIN • June 18, 2008

Students walking out of class noon Friday were greeted by itinerant preachers proclaiming they are sinners and that abortionists, Catholics, homosexuals and Muslims are going to hell. Sarah Mitchell said she and Paul Mitchell, Jeremy Sonnie and Robert Breaud have also spread their message at UCLA and UC San Diego, and were heckled by CSUN students.

Discrimi-Nation: Other Americans

DANIEL ANTOLIN • November 26, 2007

It's nobody's business but my own. Why does it even matter to people? Why do people who never say more than three words to me at a time want to know? Why do they ask me what I am, not who I am? People are often curious to know from which part of the world my family descends.

Surviving in the ‘infantile zone,’ also known as the dormitories

DANIEL ANTOLIN • September 13, 2007

Freshmen come to campus every year looking forward to getting away from home and living on their own. And when they first move into their dormitories, the new students take their first few steps into adulthood. What they don't realize is that they're actually walking into another realm of existence, a dimension full of whines and frowns.

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