Daily Sundial

Matador boxing team is getting ready to rumble

Debby von Winckelmann • November 26, 2007

Excited and nervous, that's how members of the Matador boxing team describe their feelings toward stepping into the ring for the first time. The boxing team is in its first semester of existence as one of the Associated Students' sports clubs. The team consists of 22 members, five of which are female.

Lecturer says early man coexisted

Harriet Miranda • November 26, 2007

The Department of Biology at CSUN hosted one in a series of seminars on Friday at which it was suggested that humans, from their evolutionary beginning, had the capacity to coexist. Alan Shabel, a Ph.D. candidate at UC Berkeley, lectured on the "Paleoecology of Plio-Pleistocene Hominins ' The Long-Term Coexistence of Homo and Paranthropus.

New student senators pledge more outreach

J. Alfredo Santana • November 26, 2007

Newly elected representatives to the Associated Students Senate pledged to increase student outreach to programs and services provided by the student body and to take a different stance on issues regarding statewide and national programs to support legislation that would help immigrant students earn a college education.

Discrimi-Nation: Other Americans

DANIEL ANTOLIN • November 26, 2007

It's nobody's business but my own. Why does it even matter to people? Why do people who never say more than three words to me at a time want to know? Why do they ask me what I am, not who I am? People are often curious to know from which part of the world my family descends.

Letter from the editor

defaultuser • November 26, 2007

I hope everyone enjoyed and gained some new information from the "Discrimi-Nation" series that ran in this section for the past few weeks. My intention in creating the series was for people on this campus to gain a better understanding of the many different people around them.

Always rooting for the home team

Tiffany Kelly • November 26, 2007

He stands in a shiny purple dress shirt and slacks, his warm smile greeting the loud crowd in the Matadome of students, parents, volunteers and players from the men's basketball team. He is not a CSUN alumni or a parent of a student, but yet Alan Zinsmeister has become more involved with CSUN is a few short years than most students do their entire stay at the university.

CSU trustees call for fee increase in budget to the governor

Nicole Wilcox • November 26, 2007

The Board of Trustees sent the California State University budget to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger with a 10 percent increase in student fees despite the efforts of Lt. Governor John Garamendi. What this means for full-time students at CSUN is a $169 increase in tuition fees for a total tuition cost of $1,842 per semester.

Professor talks about Judas’ role in Jesus Christ’s ascension

Talynn Soghomonians • November 26, 2007

Although the "Gospel of Judas" was discovered near the middle of Egypt in the 1970s, the National Geographic Society published the first modern text of the gospel in April 2006. It caused a stir among biblical scholars and the general population, to say the least.

Encouraging culture one customer at a time

PAUL CASTILLO • November 26, 2007

In Lake View Terrace, at the very north of the San Fernando Valley, not 200 feet from the 210 freeway, there is a mini-mall with a liquor store, two equestrian supply stores and a small, non-profit bookstore and Internet caf'eacute; named Tia Chucha's Centro Cultural.

Matador Nights held by USU

Maria Martinez • November 21, 2007

The University Student Union held its biannual Matador Nights festival this past Friday at the Satellite Student Union. The circus-themed event was free to CSUN students with a current student identification card and they were allowed to bring one guest with a current college identification as well.

State assemblyman proposes bill to thwart Web predators

Tiffany Kelly • November 21, 2007

Jack McClellan started a Web site in Washington called "Seattle-Tacoma-Everett Girl Love," where he posted photographs of young girls in public places, which served as a directory of sorts for pedophiles. Upon moving to Los Angeles, McClellan, 45, also created a second Web site called "Los Angeles Girl Love.

A.S. Senate discusses elections, tuition hike

Melissa Mills • November 21, 2007

Associated Students senators spoke about the recent senatorial elections and how to improve future elections, opposing a proposed tuition increase and other items of business at their Tuesday meeting. They unanimously approved an action item to appoint Samer Habib as Senator for Engineering and Computer Science 1.