Op-Ed: The Orange Fury in the White House – as seen from abroad
Katarina Machmer, Contributor
October 26, 2020
As I am writing this I’m sitting in my backyard in Munich, Germany, far away from the U.S. and yet so connected to it because of all that is happening in this country where I lived for half a year as a student and have close friends. Here in Germany I am breathing clean air — although the smoke...
Op-Ed: Artsakh is under attack before our eyes
Levon Satamian, Reporter
October 12, 2020
Once again, the world is looking away while atrocities and war take place in a faraway land. More than 100 years ago, Turkey killed over 1.5 million Armenians while the world did nothing. Today, backed by the Turkish government, Azerbaijan is bombing Armenian churches and killing native Armenians...
Mastering makeup: From hiding insecurities to making art
Belen Hernandez, Contributor
October 8, 2020
As Frankie J’s “Canciones Que Recuerdo” plays in the background and I light my spearmint candle, I sit at my vanity and slowly feel the stress of the day fade. I take out my eyeshadow palettes and start creating. With every product applied step by step, an artwork is created, thus making me feel...
Column: Tracking Trump in 2020
Michaella Huck and Orlando Mayorquin
August 27, 2020
The country is in flux as it reckons with long-standing racial injustice while experiencing the worst handling of the coronavirus outbreak in the world. Surely, this is a moment for the president to attempt to pull together a polarized nation? Well, not if your country’s president is Donald J. Trump. ...
Column: Could a bubble work for college sports?
Mano Baghjajian, Assistant Sports Editor
August 24, 2020
With the fifth month of the COVID-19 pandemic coming to a close, attending Zoom meetings and wearing masks out in public have become normal parts of everyday life. However, some sectors of old life are starting to return. Although mass gatherings are still prohibited, one of the main comebacks in recent...
Op-Ed: Fail fall 2020
August 22, 2020
For college students across the country, the memory of spring 2020 is now fading away as we face the beginning of fall 2020 online, in-person or some strange hybrid of these. But let us not allow that chaos, those struggles and even the failures of the COVID-19 half of the spring semester fall too far...
Op-Ed: Void for its vagueness: CSU Board of Trustees passes social justice requirement, ethnic studies community stands in support of AB-1460
August 3, 2020
On July 22, 2020, the California State University (CSU) Board of Trustees passed Chancellor Timothy P. White’s “Ethnic Studies and Social Justice” (ESSJ) requirement (Board of Trustees, July 21, 2020). The Chancellor’s Office developed its own proposal that allows undergraduate students to fulfill ES...
Editorial: CSUN needs more diverse faculty that reflects the student body
July 22, 2020
In 1968, students of color led strikes across California campuses, from San Francisco State University to CSUN, to demand the establishment of ethnic studies departments and to hire faculty of color to lead those departments. The fight to have faculty of color in universities continues today, as students...
Op-Ed: We can’t and we won’t stick to sports
Andres Soto, Sports Editor
July 9, 2020
In early June, right-wing political commentator Ben Shapiro went off on a rant against professional athletes who have used their platforms to speak out against racial injustice. Shapiro lamented that sports were no longer an escape from reality for him. “It’s getting to the point where I don...
Op-Ed: Why Does California Need AB-1460 (Ethnic Studies Requirement)?
July 8, 2020
When the California State Senate voted in favor (30-5) of Assemblymember Shirley Weber’s bill AB-1460 — a state law that will require every California State University (CSU) undergraduate to take an Ethnic Studies course in Black Studies, Chicanx/Latinx Studies, Asian American Studies, or American...
Opinion: Being a Black journalist when Black lives finally start to matter
Michaella Huck, Opinion Editor
June 29, 2020
My whole life being Black and being a journalist remain in sync. I was a strange child. Some kids watched the “Teletubbies,” I watched the 5 o’clock news. My mom calls me nosy; I’d say I’m curious, especially when it comes to issues that I care about. I was raised in a household that taught...
Column: Is it the right time for sports to return?
Mano Baghjajian, Reporter
June 26, 2020
It has been over three months since the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic. As lockdowns began to set in all over the world, normal parts of everyday life started to disappear. Schools, restaurants and local businesses all began to close their doors as fear regarding...
