The student media organization of California State University Northridge

Daily Sundial

The student media organization of California State University Northridge

Daily Sundial

The student media organization of California State University Northridge

Daily Sundial

A.S. passes resolution to provide more affordable textbooks

Jessica Jewell May 8, 2012

Associated Students approved a resolution encouraging CSUN faculty and the Matador Bookstore to work together to provide more affordable textbook policies for students Tuesday in their final meeting...

Transfer assistance for students with disabilities helps them prepare

Jalima Maldonado May 8, 2012

Awareness of resources for students with disabilities is more important than ever for community college students, as transfer students make up one of the biggest groups using CSUN’s DRES, according...

Last DRES audit in 2003

Breanne Paskett May 8, 2012

CSUN has helped make disability resources more transparent, accessible and fiscally responsible since the university’s last campuswide audit, according to officials with the Disability Resources and...

Students registered with DRES

Tanya Ramirez May 8, 2012

>>Minor changes were made to the article on Madeleine Pumilia's story below. The stories shared below were chosen because the issues involved are representative of hundreds of CSUN’s Disability...

Increase in students with disabilities coincides with decreased funding

Ashley Soley-Cerro May 8, 2012

Looking back on Spring 2011, Quan Luong realizes now he couldn’t handle 18 units without help.   The former journalism major who has epilepsy registered seven classes – and six units...

Softball: CSUN to end 2012 with fewest victories since 1978

Alonso Tacanga May 8, 2012

In order to avoid a historically infamous place in the CSUN record books, the Matadors needed to do something last weekend that historically had been but routine for them. CSUN needed to sweep UC...

Not all private colleges and universities are cheaper than public

Fredy Tlatenchi May 7, 2012

CORRECTION: The original headline for this article, "Study that showed CSU cheaper than Harvard found inaccurate," was inaccurate. Last March saw California's higher education system under heavy scrutiny...

Budtender Cruz Juarez, 28, facing camera, prepares to fill an order for a patient at a medical marijuana dispensary in Long Beach, California, March 21, 2012. Photo courtesy of MCT

Medical marijuana dispensaries join United Food and Commercial Workers Local 770

Irene Nesbitt May 7, 2012

Dispensaries in Southern California joined forces with The United Food and Commercial Workers Local 770, the nation’s largest retail workers union, to fight for their jobs. The Los Angeles City...

CSU study abroad program to Israel reinstated amid controversy

Laura Davis May 7, 2012

The CSU Chancellor’s Office has reinstated its study abroad program to Israel, which has been suspended since 2002, and is currently accepting applications from interested students. The program...

Letter to the editor: In defense of Autism Speaks

Stanley Landes May 7, 2012

Jeffrey Zide’s opinion piece on Autism Speaks presents a false impression of the nation’s largest autism science and advocacy organization. Zide  decries supposedly “shady finance” but ignores...

Photo by Ken Scarboro / Editor in Chief

Creating change requires both your voice and your actions

Ken Scarboro May 7, 2012

Last Thursday CSUN hosted two events that should have gone hand-in-hand.  “Where’s the Money?” gave an opportunity to learn more about the CSU’s budget and the second Big Politics event provided...

‘Avengers’ pulls in records and ticket sales

Carl Robinette May 7, 2012

The Avengers pulled in $207.4 million at U.S. box offices for its opening weekend in what turned out to be the highest-grossing domestic opening in history, according to the Wall Street Journal. The...

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