Governor orders L.A. County bars and in-door restaurant operations to close
Sloane Bozzi, Assistant Campus Editor
July 1, 2020
Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered the immediate closure of indoor operations at restaurants, bars, wineries, cardrooms, entertainment centers, movie theaters, zoos and museums in 19 counties, including Los Angeles County. The halt of indoor operations will be in place for three consecutive weeks. Newsom said...
CSUN announces detailed plans for fall 2020
Orlando Mayorquin, News Editor
June 30, 2020
CSUN President Dianne F. Harrison announced detailed plans for the upcoming fall semester Tuesday. The plans include limited face-to-face courses, reduced on-campus housing and self-screening protocols. Harrison also introduced a website, named CSUN as One, that lists specific procedures and requirem...
CSUN students provide free clothing for women in Skid Row
Samantha Bravo, Assistant Campus Editor
June 30, 2020
Associated Students President Rose Merida and James Mizuki, a CSUN alumnus and founder of The Giving App, provided nearly 100 women with outfits from iToo Fashion during a clothing drive at the Los Angeles Mission’s Anne Douglas Center for Women on Saturday. This is the first event organized by Th...
Los Angeles County beaches closed for Fourth of July weekend due to spike in coronavirus cases
Samantha Bravo, Assistant Campus Editor
June 29, 2020
Los Angeles County Public Health officials ordered the closure of beaches from Friday to Monday in an attempt to slow the community spread of COVID-19. L.A. County beaches, piers, bike paths and parking lots will be closed to prevent crowding and slow the spread. L.A. County is also prohibiting any...
Q&A: Melina Abdullah on student activism, defunding police, upcoming November election and more
Orlando Mayorquin and Michaella Huck
June 26, 2020
Melina Abdullah is a co-founder of Black Lives Matters Los Angeles and a professor of Pan-African studies at Cal State Los Angeles. She answered a few questions on topics such as student activism, the role of media coverage, defunding the police and more. What does it mean to defund the pol...
AS President Merida and The Giving App team organize event focused on giving back to community
Samantha Bravo, Assistant News Editor
June 26, 2020
Associated Students President Rose Merida, CSUN alumnus James Mizuki and CSUN computer science major Justin Punzalan, the creators of a community service app called The Giving App, are hosting a women’s clothing drive in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday. Mizuki graduated from CSUN in 2017 and is...
CSUN considers renaming Oviatt Library after students claim Delmar T. Oviatt was racist
Orlando Mayorquin and Gillian Moran-Perez
June 25, 2020
A CSUN working group hosted a meeting Wednesday, allowing the campus community to weigh-in on whether the university should change the name of CSUN’s Delmar T. Oviatt Library, after students accused former CSUN Interim President Delmar T. Oviatt, of being racist and an oppressive figure. The Ov...
Life during COVID-19: Danielle Feitosa, Brazil/U.S.
Jane Partizpanyan and Tiago Barreiro
June 24, 2020
Having graduated from CSUN this spring with a master’s degree in mechanical engineering, Danielle Lima Feitosa, an international student from Brazil, made the difficult decision to stay in Los Angeles in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, with hopes to continue working in the United States. Many...
LAUSD votes against defunding school police, Superintendent introduces School Safety Task Force
Sloane Bozzi, Assistant News Editor
June 24, 2020
The Los Angeles Unified School District board rejected three resolutions on Tuesday to reform the Los Angeles School Police Department. One of the rejected resolutions, proposed by board member Monica Garcia, would have defunded the LASPD by 50% in the 2021-22 fiscal year. The LASPD is the largest...
Ongoing coverage of protests in L.A.
Logan Bik, Samantha Bravo, Gillian Moran-Perez, Michaella Huck, Mano Baghjajian, Tiago Barreiro, Tyler Ridgle, Victor Rojas, Robert Gonzalez, Cristina Boktor, Chris Torres, Sloane Bozzi, and Orlando Mayorquin
June 23, 2020
Updates on demonstrations calling for justice, defunding of police.
Artists’ Black Lives Matter murals deemed “too political,” removed temporarily from Hollywood Boulevard
Sloane Bozzi, Reporter
June 23, 2020
As tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Hollywood on June 7 to protest against police brutality, artists lined the Walk of Fame on Hollywood Boulevard to paint murals on boarded up shops. Dezcjon Lathrop, a Black artist, had been working for hours on his mural in front of the ...
Cre8 The Change hosts Juneteenth Celebration Rally in Sherman Oaks
Samantha Bravo, Assistant Campus Editor
June 21, 2020
SHERMAN OAKS — This year’s Juneteenth Celebration Rally at the Van Nuys Sherman Oaks Memorial War Park featured music, spoken poetry and dance on Friday. Juneteenth, or June 19, marks the day the last slaves were freed from slavery in the United States. About a dozen performers entertained a...
