Daily Sundial

Frats leave contested houses

Iman Jafarynejad • October 1, 2007

Members of Zeta Beta Tau, Pi Kappa Alpha and the Inter-Fraternity Council said they were either already moved out, or in the process of moving out, when a city attorney announced at a Northridge city council meeting that the fraternities had to leave their homes.

CSU Board of Trustees to vote on executive pay raises

Iman Jafarynejad • September 18, 2007

It's the first week of school and students are frantically running to classes in which they're not registered, trying to avoid a six-year-long college career. They hesitantly ask if they can add the class. The professor answers, "No problem." Although this is a hypothetical situation, it's one way CSUN could use the $30,000 annual raise President Jolene Koester is scheduled to receive if approved at the Board of Trustees meeting on Wednesday in Long Beach.

Family makes music – and food – together

Iman Jafarynejad • 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.

PPM building subtropical rainforest on campus

Iman Jafarynejad • September 13, 2007

CSUN's Physical Plant Management is working on a project that will use waste products to create a subtropical rainforest environment on campus that will leave other universities green with envy. "We're demonstrating to the industry that it can be done," said Tom Brown, executive director of PPM and coordinator for the project.

Kweli bangs on ‘Eardrum’ in sixth CD

Iman Jafarynejad • August 30, 2007

Like an early autumn thunderstorm, Talib Kweli's latest effort "Eardrum" rips through the summer-long drought of decent hip-hop, elevating the BKMC to a new stratosphere of creative musical expression. Coming fully equipped with a rhyme book filled with new material, his sixth solo album radiates intense brilliance like lightening, striking fear in the hearts of weak rappers and sore critics.

Looking back on an era, LACMA represents the 60s ‘ 70s

Iman Jafarynejad • August 22, 2007

Acrylic paintings of sunsets over the Pacific ocean and collages comprised of things you would normally find in a dumpster made the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's new exhibit, a revival of Los Angeles art from the not so distant past. SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s is a collection of LACMA's own pieces from homegrown artists.

Palestinian, Israeli talk peace

Iman Jafarynejad • November 2, 2006

A former Israeli Air Force Captain and a Palestinian liberation fighter talked to CSUN students Monday about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and showed that enemies can be allies in the struggle for peace. Yonatan Shapira and Suliman al-Chatib are members of Combatants for Peace, a group that was created in 2005 and is comprised of former soldiers from the Israeli Defense Forces and Palestinians who have committed acts of violence for the cause of liberation.