Daily Sundial

CSUN offers HPV vaccines to students

Natalie A. Cole • September 20, 2006

As people become more sexually active, the risk of acquiring a sexually transmitted disease continues to rise. For women, viruses that affect the genital area have been linked to cervical cancer. Just the word cancer usually causes fear, but there are some new developments in the fight against cervical cancer and human papillomavirus.

CFA-CSU salary negotiations stall

DANIEL ANTOLIN • September 20, 2006

On one side of the table sat the California State University assistant vice chancellor and half a dozen other officials, with the CSUN president looking on behind them. On the other side sat senior and junior faculty members and librarians. After three days of negotiations, they all left the room, unable to reach a compromise.

Pakistan, living in the wake of destruction

defaultuser • September 19, 2006

I left Karachi on the day of the earthquake to collect my family from the disaster. I didn't reach my village in Dhara Khet, Balakot, until the following day because of the congested roads. It looked like everyone was trying to get up to the disaster area for one reason or the other.

Klotz offers meningitis vaccines

TASHIANA JEFFERSON • September 19, 2006

The Klotz Student Health Center will continue to give out free doses of the meningococcal vaccine, Menactra, during its scheduled walk-in hours until Thursday, Sept. 21. Until then, the vaccine will be free of charge for students 19 years of age and younger, said Sharon Aronoff, health educator for the health center.

Cigarette tax to benefit corporate health care, ethical?

Yolanda Becerra • September 19, 2006

I have great news, everyone. It is not often that somebody just swoops in and solves major problems in life for you. Do California a favor and smoke. When I say "smoke," I am referring to smoking tobaccocigarettes. Before you get soil in your underwear over this, there are many public service announcements that attempt to convince people to stop or, better yet, to not start smoking.

Matadors go 3-0 in Invitational

Debby von Winckelmann • September 19, 2006

The CSUN women's volleyball team won the SJSU Hyatt Invitational Tournament on Sept. 15-16 at Spartan Gym in San Jose, after coming back from a two-game deficit in the final match against the host Spartans. After sweeping Harvard in their opening match on Sept.

Rights of an American include equal education

Jessyca Dewey • September 19, 2006

The American stance on education today seems to be a huge stage and we are great actors. Our politicians have nice and neat little platforms on education and we make it seem like our schools are so important to us but really, on a day-to-day, show-me-the-money level, we simply don't care.

Letter to the Editor

defaultuser • September 19, 2006

I wanted to let you (Justin Satzman) know that your opinion piece on fear, brought up some valid reasons to question the information by the White House Administration. But you then use another false fear to make your argument. 1. If the US Military was not in Iraq, what makes you believe that we would have been in Lebanon, fighting along side with Israel? I was mentioning this because of your last name, because the IDF could wage a war and has before.

Matadors keep close but lose to No. 4 UCLA

Matt Crosson • September 19, 2006

The CSUN women's soccer team nearly played the fourth-ranked team in the nation to a scoreless tie on Sept. 15, but UCLA snuck one by in the second half to win the match 1-0. The Matadors produced their lowest shot output of the season, as they were outshot 18-4 in the game.

Fraternity, neighbors continue to clash

PAUL CASTILLO • September 19, 2006

Every Sunday, members of the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity put on clothes that display their letters and walk around their neighborhood, picking up trash as they go. They walk from their home on Halsted Street up Etiwanda Avenue and through the surrounding streets, "picking up anything, from something small like bottle caps to something big like a car battery," said Geoffrey Peterson, president of ZBT.

CSUN hired 56 new faculty during summer

Saharra J. White • September 19, 2006

The new school year has started at California State University Northridge, and with new students come new faculty. During the summer, 56 new faculty were recruited to teach at the university. Of these new tenure track faculty, 54 started this fall. One new instructor will begin in the spring and another in Fall 2007.

New organizations surface at CSUN

Melissa Chua • September 19, 2006

With the hope of new experiences at CSUN, this fall semester is ushering in about 20 to 25 new clubs and organizations in addition to the existing 240. "People need more clubs (to build) a community ? we have such a diverse campus, (so) clubs bring people together," said Yeprem Davoodian, activities assistant for clubs and organizations at the Matador Involvement Center.