Students filled the room to engaged in dialogue over what they felt was mishandling by the CSUN administration over the “Snapchat incident.” CSUN Police Chief Anne Glavin, Vice President for Students Affairs, William Watkins, and Associate Vice President of Marketing and Communication, Jeff Noblitt, listened to students' shared concerns and questions in regards to campus safety and communication on Feb....

“We have always resisted oppression,” Black Lives Matter activist Melina Abdullah said in the panel of political activism hosted by CSUN. Over 70 students and faculty members attended the panel that included Abdullah, Harold Welton from the Black Panther Party and Kaya Tillery, president of BSU (Black Student Union). The panel was moderated by Africana Studies professor Cedric Hackett. Some...

In wake of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, President Trump said he believes video games are having a negative effect on the nation's youth. “We have to do something about maybe what they’re seeing and how they’re seeing it, and also, video games,” President Trump told Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi during a discussion on school safety at the...

After hours of debate, the CSUN Faculty Senate voted to not implement Executive Order 1100 Thursday afternoon. Students and faculty strongly oppose the executive order because it would eliminate "section F" of CSUN's general education requirement. Section F is the portion of the GE that requires undergraduate students to take 6 units in comparative cultural studies. Before the vote took...

In celebration of Trans* Awareness Week, the Pride Center screened "Becoming Johanna", a short film that follows the story of Johanna Clearwater and the struggles she faces every day last Monday afternoon. The film begins with Johanna’s transition and how she gets rejected and kicked out of her home by her mother and finds a foster family who loves her...

CSUN hosted its third annual Student Fast Pitch Competition Tuesday afternoon where sudents from a competitive field had the opportunity to do an elevator pitch of their business pursuit ideas to a distinguished panel. Each student had three minutes and three slides to pitch their idea to audiences and judges. The pitches were followed by a three to five minute...

Jeanine Canty, a professor at Naropa University in Boulder, Colo., spoke about issues relating race, social justice and environment at the Northridge Center. Canty is also an editor of “Ecological and Social Healing: Multicultural Women's Voices,” a book that describes the intersection between climate change and social injustice. “Oppression of people of color is inseparable from the oppression of the...

Venezuela is going through a deep humanitarian crisis right now. People are suffering from food and medical shortages. The capital, Caracas, was listed as the most dangerous city in South America with a homicide rate of 119 per 100,000 residents. In 2001, Venezuela was one of South America’s richest countries due to huge oil reserves and other natural resources. Unfortunately,...

Religion has been on a decline in the U. S. in the past decade, and according to the Pew Research Center, the number of Americans who are “absolutely certain” God exists dropped from 71 percent to 63 percent in 2014 and 23 percent are religiously unaffiliated. Despite these numbers, there are more than a dozen religious clubs and organizations on...

CSUN's Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) chapter hosted a meeting on Tuesday in Manzanita Hall 201 with special guest speaker Los Angeles Times sports reporter, Gary Klein. Klein spoke about his beginnings in journalism and also gave students some advice on how to succeed. Throughout the hour meeting, Klein talked about the importance for journalists to create good sourcing networks...