June 2008 – Page 4 – Daily Sundial

Manzanita Hall fire alarm goes off, occupants exit

Denys Nazarov and Daniel Antol • June 19, 2008

Students and professors evacuated Manzanita Hall on Friday at about 1 p.m., when fire alarms started flashing white lights and advising people to exit the building. Fire trucks immediately arrived to quell any fire that might've occurred within the building, which is located on the south side of campus near Sierra Quad.

Campus police tackle suspect to ground

DANIEL ANTOLIN • June 19, 2008

Two Cal State Northridge police officers tackled a suspect to the ground on a grassy patch outside Manzanita Hall on Friday afternoon, eyewitnesses said. Josefina Martinez, a Cinema and Television Arts major and cashier at the store across from the Matador Bookstore, said she was walking to work when she saw a female running into Manzanita Hall with two bookstore employees chasing her.

Students face Web portal hacking charges

DANIEL ANTOLIN • June 19, 2008

George W. Bush is the president of what country? How many U.S. states are there? It was apparently as simple as answering secret password questions like these to hack into the personal network account of a student or faculty member last semester. CSUN students Lena Chen, 20, and Jennifer Ngan, 19, are charged with infiltrating the campus account of a political science professor late last May, changing their grades and those of about 300 classmates.

Too Late: Loan costs are on the way up

DANIEL ANTOLIN • June 19, 2008

While many CSUN students were enjoying summer days away from the joy and toils of university life, their financial future may have become far more difficult in the course of a single day. For many, college became dramatically more expensive. That fateful day having come and gone, those who failed to consolidate student loans have to pay higher interest on loans borrowed before July 1.

Alumnus, donor faces tax evasion charges

DANIEL ANTOLIN • June 19, 2008

A CSUN alumnus who built a manufacturing empire by making his own machine parts was indicted by the U.S. Attorney's Office for evading $20 million in taxes and intimidating a federal agent who was investigating the case. Gene Haas, who maintains his innocence, is currently working with his lawyers to prepare a defense against the charges and is scheduled in court next January.

Film to show violent history of campus

DANIEL ANTOLIN • June 19, 2008

Not many CSUN students know that when they walk through Bayramian Hall's doors to pay their fees that they are entering a building with a violent history. "Unrest: Founding of the CSUN Chicano Studies Program" is a student documentary which premieres today, shows how police beat up students in Bayramian Hall 37 years ago who were demanding that more black and Chicano students like them be admitted to the university and that classes about their histories be instituted.

Film shows fight for student equality in ’60s

DANIEL ANTOLIN • June 19, 2008

There were not enough seats in the University Student Union's Sol Center last Wednesday for CSUN students, professors and alumni who came to see the premiere of "Unrest: The Development of the CSUN Chicano/a Studies Department," a documentary about how black and Chicano/a students in the late 1960s fought for equal representation on campus and curriculums about their histories.

Religion experts debate the afterlife

DANIEL ANTOLIN • June 19, 2008

What happens after someone dies? What is the afterlife like? Is there an afterlife? These were questions panelists tried to answer Thursday in the University Student Union's Grand Salon during a public lecture called "What Happens When We Die? The Afterlife in Judaism, Catholicism and Hinduism," which was hosted by the Jewish Studies Program.

Internal campus audit finds accounting errors

DANIEL ANTOLIN • June 19, 2008

Cal State Northridge has misreported financial data to California State University auditors for the last four years, a recent state audit report shows. Student-related fees were not reported on time - sometimes not at all - and the collection of service bills and overpayments made to current and former employees were not actively pursued.

Campus clubs clamor for extra funds

DANIEL ANTOLIN • June 19, 2008

Club delegates were waiting outside of a conference room in the University Student Union's Sol Center last Wednesday to ask the Associated Students Finance Committee for a share of the extra $67,000 that Cal State Northridge received from enrollment fees. One by one, they pitched project ideas and addressed the committee's fiscal concerns.

A.S., clubs to discuss intercultural council tomorrow

DANIEL ANTOLIN • June 19, 2008

Associated Students President Adam Salgado will talk with cultural club representatives at a meeting Friday about his proposal to form a council that would allow them to deliberate on how to split up funding they receive from Cal State Northridge's student government.

Sex offenders should have equal protection under law

DANIEL ANTOLIN • June 19, 2008

Proposition 83, if midterms have kept you from reading about what you will be voting for on November 7, is a measure that would call for stricter punishment for sex offenders. While this sounds like a no-brainer since it involves what society considers sick perverts, - and this article is not suggesting that they are not - it prohibits some from being able to reenter society once they have paid their debt.

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