All 107 buildings on the CSUN campus were damaged, some beyond repair. But there was a silver lining in the midst of the dark clouds that defined this natural disaster: Students Robby and Melissa fell in love.

Although the status of the national and global economy has some experts predicting there is no light at the end of the tunnel, the future of the Cal State Northridge College of Business and Economics is looking brighter than ever.

With the stock market ominously free-falling and the major political parties trading barbs in a most impolite way, college students may suddenly be finding their classrooms and homework assignments to be a welcome refuge from the turbulent storm that is the outside world.