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CSU student arrested after threatening murder on Facebook

Darya Riyahi • April 24, 2007

A California State University Channel Islands student who was arrested after threatening to go on a shooting spree last Thursday told the police she did not intend to hurt anyone and that her Facebook.com message warning fellow students to hide under desks was meant to be a joke.

A.S. committee recommending next year’s money

Hilda Yeghishian • April 24, 2007

The Associated Students finance committee has begun allocating money that should be set aside for next semester's unallocated reserves account, A.S. General Manager David Crandall said. Excess enrollment fees have added about $90,000 more to the unallocated reserves account.

CSUN re-evaluates public safety after Virginia Tech shootings

Kari Thumlert • April 24, 2007

CSUN's Campus Safety Department has been reviewing its emergency procedure in the wake of last week's Virginia Tech shooting. The campus is waiting to revise their emergency plans since the tragedy at VPI. Glavin said that revising will be done after the independent panel releases its report by the several law enforcement experts appointed by Virginia Governor Tom Kaine to evaluate whether school officials reacted appropriately to the murder spree.

Rock conspiracy uncovered by fans

defaultuser • April 24, 2007

Nine Inch Nails has produced a conspiracy frenzy of cryptic messages, from restrooms in Europe to NIN tour T-shirts. It's all a part of a very clever marketing scheme to promote their latest album, Year Zero. The conspiratorial spiral begun on April 19 with the release of their latest album.

Flasher seen twice at CSUN parking structures

Katie Sheehy • April 24, 2007

A crime alert has been issued by the Univer sity Police Department regarding a suspect in the B-3 and B-5 parking structures who has exposed himself to students on multiple occasions. The suspect exposed himself to one person twice while in the B-3 parking structure.

Activist brings light to lesbiphobia and religious homophobia

Kristen Whitehurst • April 24, 2007

On Wednesday students discussed stereotypes and homophobia in religion with a community activist during a discussion in a classroom in Jerome Richfield. During a discussion with a small group of students and faculty, Vianey Ramirez discussed how three issues act as forces in today's society.

Donating organs as important as donating blood

Marla Schevker • April 24, 2007

Seventy-four people receive organ transplants everyday. However, every day 19 people die while waiting for a transplant that will not take place because of the shortage of donated organs. That's 6,395 people who die every year because they cannot get an organ transplant.

Professor sheds light on global warming at screening of ‘An Inconvenient Truth’

Rafael Cornejo • April 24, 2007

Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" played to a full audience at the University Student Union's Northridge Center Thursday, followed by a question and answer session with environmental and occupational health professor John Schillinger. "This a very scientifically sound film, except for a couple words here and there," Schillinger said.

Audience sold on three muses

Danielle R. Swopes • April 24, 2007

The true measure of a band is their live show. Can they perform outside of the studio? On April 10, the band Muse answered this question with a resounding "Yes!" Muse sold out two nights at the Inglewood Forum earlier this month, and rose to the occasion.

Relationships examined in senior art show

Saharra White • April 24, 2007

Love was one of the themes of "Disenchanted," a graduate student art exhibit by Donna Hicks that opened April 21 in CSUN's West Gallery. The exhibit included 12 works by Hicks. Littia Peete, Hicks mother used to draw with her daughter when Donna was young.

Letter to the editor

defaultuser • April 24, 2007

Last Monday, 33 lives were siphoned off the face of the Earth, including the troubled shooter who apparently took his own life after unloading on 32 other people on the campus of Virginia Tech University. Sitting in a rather quaint office in downtown Los Angeles, I felt shocked and paralyzed for most of that day, my mind racing from asking why this happened, why I care, and what I would've done if I was one of those students who saw a man spraying gunfire from two pistols.

Immigration lecture series ends with talk by labor representative

TALIA HASSAN • April 24, 2007

An activist for immigrants' and workers' rights came to Cal State Northridge Monday to continue a discussion about undocumented employees' fight for citizenship. Maria Elena Durazo, Executive Secretary-Treasurer for the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, was the final speaker in CSUN's Speak Your Mind series.