Playing on his Nintendo Wii and listening to NPR instead of the video game sound effects, 25-year-old Jabbar Magruder is the face of the anti-war movement on CSUN's campus. For Magruder, it started one day while he was sitting in a music appreciation class.

Originally Published November 15, 2007 I saw what most of us did when I woke up that Tuesday morning. One tower of the World Trade Center was already crumbled in the streets of Manhattan. Smoke billowed from the windows of the other. One thing was painfully clear to me that day; nothing was going to be the same after that.

Originally Published October 15, 2007 An Associated Students Senate meeting became the platform for a heated debate on immigration between senators and students as a resolution to support legislation making financial aid available for undocumented students was denied. SB1, also referred to as the California Dream Act, would allow California grant agencies to set up financial aid programs that would be available for AB-540 students, college students who attended a California high school for three years and graduated with either a diploma or the equivalent, show documents produced by Dreams to Be Heard, an immigrant advocacy group, and the Movement of Chicano/a students of Aztlan (the native word for Central and parts of North and South America) or MEChA.

Originally Published September 17, 2007 A young couple sat in the corner of the room, next to a vacant disc jockey booth, immersed in conversation as they wait for their dinner. "I have to bake more bread," the burly man with dreadlocks behind the counter said as he rushed from one end of the shop to the other.

Another reporter's name was added to the Fallen Journalists Memorial Wall in CSUN's Manzanita Hall on Thursday. Chauncey Bailey, the editor of the African-American Bay Area weekly, the Oakland Post, was the latest journalist to be assassinated in the U.S.

I saw what most of us did when I woke up that Tuesday morning. One tower of the World Trade Center was already crumbled in the streets of Manhattan. Smoke billowed from the windows of the other. One thing was painfully clear to me that day; nothing was going to be the same after that.

In 1991, a German couple hiking in the Alps, between Austria and Italy, found a mummified human corpse laying face down in a glacier. Other than being Europe's oldest mummy, the 5,300-year-old body bore signs that help us understand more about our own past.

The large scope of the Southern California wildfires was what humbled most residents in San Diego County. An eerie red, glowing sky gave insight into how widespread the fires actually occured. Just outside the cities alongside Interstate 5, the back country was ablaze in a massive display of the power of nature.

San Diego residents recuperate after witnessing their beloved properties in flames. For the full story, read this coming Tuesday's issue (October 30, 2007).

San Diego residents recuperate after witnessing their beloved properties in flames. For the full story, read this coming Tuesday's issue (October 30, 2007).

An Associated Students Senate meeting became the platform for a heated debate on immigration between senators and students as a resolution to support legislation making financial aid available for undocumented students was denied. SB1, also referred to as the California Dream Act, would allow California grant agencies to set up financial aid programs that'd be available for AB-540 students, college students who attended a California high school for three years and graduated with either a diploma or the equivalent, show documents produced by Dreams to Be Heard, an immigrant advocacy group, and the Movement of Chicano/a students of Aztlan (the native word for Central and parts of North and South America) or MEChA.

The U.S. State Department's political officer to Uganda visited CSUN classes on Thursday, encouraging students at his alma mater to consider careers in diplomatic foreign services. "I remember what it was like sitting in those chairs," Jarahn D. Hillsman said.