Daily Sundial

Deaf students debate ear implants

Sam Womack • November 30, 2006

Deaf and hard of hearing students at CSUN find themselves in the midst of a debate regarding the controversial procedure known as cochlear implantation. Cochlear implants are defined by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as an electronic hearing device that produces hearing sensations by electrically stimulating nerves inside the inner ear.

Prodigy headlines Rokout Festival in San Bernardino

Danielle R. Swopes • November 30, 2006

Bodies were moving at the Rokout Festival on Saturday: Shivering from the cold, dancing to the beats of featured artists, and vibrating with sheer volume and power of headliners the Prodigy. The National Orange Show Events Center in San Bernardino hosted the event, which featured artists on four stages.

Matadors lose first of three-game homestand

Ivan Yeo • November 30, 2006

It was Greek night Tuesday at the Matadome, where fraternities and sororities around CSUN were invited to a night of cheers and halftime fun while also cheering on the CSUN women's basketball team against the Pepperdine Waves. The fans were at their loudest and the Matadors did everything they could to feed off their energy and stay with the Waves, but in the end, Pepperdine was one better, as they led for all but the first two minutes of the game and weathered several CSUN threats and came away with an 84-66 win, giving the Matadors their fourth straight loss.

Web site offers low cost way to trade CDs

Jillian Ballard • November 30, 2006

Lala.com is a new online music site that allows members to legally trade CDs for $1, and become DJs (for free) by creating custom radio stations for anyone to listen to. Lala.com offers students on a tight budget the cheapest legal way to get and discover new music.

Art students without heat during recent cold snap

PAUL CASTILLO • November 30, 2006

Students have long taken refuge from the cold and the wind by moving inside, whether that is by moving into the library or into their classrooms. Right now, all art students can look forward to when they go into their classrooms is more cold. Those students, who have had their heating down since at least Monday, have been forced to do their work in the cold.

CSUN loses two in Thanksgiving Classic

Ivan Yeo • November 29, 2006

The CSUN Matador women's basketball team did not have much to give thanks for this past weekend in Moraga, California. The Matadors had a rough weekend at the Hilton Concord Thanksgiving Classic at Saint Mary's College. CSUN lost a tough overtime battle to the host Gaels 100-91, then crashed in its tournament finale, as they lost to the Alabama Crimson Tide 75-56.

CSUN biodiversity center remains unknown

Natalie A. Cole • November 29, 2006

Scientists who have a thirst for knowledge and a better understanding of biodiversity are doing studies all over the world. Biodiversity is the variability of living organisms on earth, including the variability within and between species and the ecosystem.

A winter breeze in late fall

Jacqueline Buda • November 29, 2006

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National rankings under dispute

Oscar Areliz • November 29, 2006

The college football regular season is close to the end, with bowl games coming in the approaching weeks. Last year, we had the treat of seeing the undisputed No. 1 team in the nation, USC, play the No. 2, Texas. There was no controversy, since it was the rankings that everyone agreed on, and the BCS actually got it right.

Professor’s travels in Iraq with Chuck Norris

Liana Aghajanian • November 29, 2006

When public relations professor Jeffrey Duclos went on a five-day United Service Organizations tour that took him all across Iraq, he encountered a country constantly brewing with violence, risky and sometimes dangerous situations and, perhaps most important of all, soldiers who in the midst of war were able to keep up not only their spirits but their humor.

Social hierarchy continues into college from high school

Natalie A. Cole • November 29, 2006

When I was preparing to go to college people told me that it was not a popularity contest like it was in high school. College is supposed to be free from the popularity rulebook. I have been here for four years and the more I am here, the more I see cliques forming in college.

Racism still takes place today, we just don’t hear about it

Melissa Chua • November 29, 2006

Growing up, many of us have been taught the saying, "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me." We can say that all we want, but names do hurt, especially when they are provoked by racism. America has come a long way in terms of striving to provide equality for all no matter the race, gender or age of a person.