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+ SportS: Men’s soccer drops UCr
+ opinion: Debate full of malarky from vice president
California State University, Northridge | October 15, 2012 | Volume 54, Issue 29| www.dailysundial.com
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A.S. Finance MeetingWhen: 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.Where: Grand Salon (USU)Description: The A.S. Finance meeting will discuss current budget requests.
USU Monday Night FootballWhen: 5:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.Where: USU Pub Sports GrillDescription: Denver Broncos at San Diego Chargers.
Photo Exhibit of Dias de los MuertoWhen: 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.Where: Oviatt Library LobbyDescription: The opening reception for this exhibit will feature art work, some by students, and a musical performance by the Latino Student Ensemble.
The College of Engineering & Computer Science presents When: 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.Where: Jacaranda Hall Conference RoomDescription: In the “Brown Bag” research seminar series, CSUN is invited to come listen to faculty members speak about their research interests and projects. Emad El-Wakil, assistant professor in construction management, will discuss Construction Simulation.
Presidential DebateWhen: 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.Where: Hofstra University in Hempsted, New YorkDescription: Citizens will get to ask questions on foreign and domestic issues.
Women’s Volleyball vs. PacificWhen: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.Where: Matadome Description: Students get free admis-sion with their student ID. Regular tickets are $5 adults and $3 youth, seniors, CSUN alumni, CSUN faculty and staff, and military.
CSUN CinemathequeWhen: 7 p.m. to 9:45 p.m.Where: Armer Screening Room (ASR)Description: The Retrospective on Francois Truffaut films is screening “Two English Girls,” a film Truffaut considered his masterpiece.
Paul Appleby, TenorWhen: 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.Where: Great Hall, VPACDescription: The “New Artists, New Sounds” series presents tenor Paul Appleby who is described as an artist with a versatile range and vibrant talent. Stage seating is limited, so get your tickets today!
A.S. Senate MeetingWhen: 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.Where: A.S. Conference Room (USU 100)Description: Come see your representa-tives in action. Join us for the open forum to let us know how you are doing and to be heard
The MavericksWhen: 8 p.m.Where: Great Hall, VPACDescription: Grammy-award winning post-modern country garage band debuts at the VPAC performing songs from their new album “In Time” as well as popular hits.
4th Annual Research Fellows ColloquiumWhen: 2 p.m. to 4:15 p.m.Where: Jack and Florence Ferman Presen-tation RoomDescription: Distinguished faculty discuss their research projects.
Pride Center LGBTQ Coffee NightsWhen: 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.Where: USU Pride CenterDescription: Socialize and connect at the recently opened Pride Center at Coffee Nights.
USU ExpressionsWhen: 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.Where: Games Room, USUDescription: This expressions event is hosted by Danyial Motiwala and features the CSUN poetry slam team.
USU Craft CornerWhen: 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.Where: Plaza del Sol, USUDescription: In celebration of Interna-tional Drum Month, Craft Corner invites participants to craft and deck out a drum.
USU Noontime ConcertWhen: 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.Where: Plaza del Sol, USUDescription: Noontime concert featuring house, hip-hop and pop artist DJ VIP.
Department of Psychology Annual Talent ShowWhen: 6 p.m. to 11 p.m.Where: TBADescription: The annual talent show also includes a silent auction.
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A.S. Big ShowWhen: 5 p.m.Where: Oviatt Library LawnDescription: The 12th annual Big Show features Big Sean and Diplo and will also have food and merchandise available from vendors. Opening the show are DJ Mal-Ski and the winner of the Big Show Battle, The Bad Suns. Tickets on sale at the A.S. ticket office.
Women’s Soccer vs. UC DavisWhen: 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.Where: Soccer Field (SO)Description: This matinee game is “Senior Day” and “Fan Appreciation Day” plus $3 admission for fans wearing CSUN gear. Students get a free ticket with ID at the ticket booth.
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The Associated Stu-dents approved the allo-cation of $4,950 for the Central American United Student Association for its 2012-13 budget from the assigned contingency at its Friday meeting at the Satel-lite Student Union.
Malek Al-Marayati, sci-ence and mathematics sena-tor, said he supports the organization but also said it was a lot of money.
“We should consider that at this point, allocating this amount of money would bring assigned contingency under $10,000,” he said.
A contingency fund is a fund for emergencies or unexpected outflows.
Allocated funds would be used for guest speak-ers, conferences, equipment rental, and facility use, among other purposes.
The student government also appointed engineering major Sean Leverance as a senator of engineering and computer science.
Fabian Cook, a transfer student from Pierce Col-lege, was appointed to the finance committee for busi-ness and economics.
Other items discussed included hazing in campus organizations and amend-ments to the budget lan-guage.
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Vice President Joe Biden and Wis-consin Congressman Paul Ryan met for their first and only vice presidential debate for the 2012 campaign Thursday.
The debate took place at Centre College in Danville, KY, and was moderated by Martha Raddatz of ABC News.
After Gov. Mitt Romney held the upper hand in last week’s debate with President Obama, the pressure was on Biden to retrieve support for the Democrats. Ryan faced the task of gaining national support for the GOP after his nomination by Rom-ney in August.
The debate covered both foreign and domestic policy and was divided into nine 10-minute segments. Topics covered for-eign policy and the war, health care, the job market and abortion.
Unemployment, tax cuts and mathematics
In response to Raddatz asking for a plan on how to get unemployment under 6 per-cent, Biden compared the current economy to when the Obama Administration first took office and noted the rescuing of Gen-eral Motors and middle class tax cuts.
Biden said although he doesn’t know how long a 6 percent rate will take to achieve, he and Obama “can and will get it under 6 percent.”
Ryan refuted his comment.“This is not what recovery looks like,”
Ryan said, referring to 23 million people without jobs and 15 percent of Americans living in poverty, although the most recent
figure from the Bureau of Labor Statis-tics reported about 12 million unemployed Americans in September.
He also spoke of Romney’s donation of 30 percent of his income to charity last year as stated on his now public tax return.
Biden demanded that Romney and Ryan “get out of the way” so the Obama administration can pass the tax cut for the middle class.
“Stop talking about how you care about people. Show me something,” Biden said. “Show me a policy where you take respon-sibility.”
The two argued back and forth about whether a 20 percent tax cut was possible while still keeping middle-class taxpayers happy.
The argument continued with a verbal ping-pong of “not possible” and “possible.” Biden smiled through much of the debate and referred to some of Ryan’s statements as “malarkey.”
Religion’s Effect on Abortion Legislature
Raddatz later asked the candidates what role religion plays in their decisions regard-ing abortion. Romney said although he per-sonally believes “life begins at conception,” he refuses to impose that belief on others.
“I do not believe that we have a right to tell other people or women that they cannot control their body,” Biden said. “I am not going to interfere with that.”
Ryan said he and Romney would make abortion illegal with the exception of rape, incest or risk of the mother’s life.
“All I’m saying is, if you believe that life begins at conception, that doesn’t change the definition of life. That’s a
principle,” Ryan said. “The policy of a Romney administration is to oppose abor-tion with exceptions for rape, incest and life of the mother.”
The Supreme Court makes the final decision on abortion legislature, but the next president will be able to appoint one to two new Supreme Court judges. The Supreme Court currently has five Republi-cans and four Democrats.
Getting the Troops HomeAnother focus was the possible removal
of all troops from Afghanistan by 2014.While Ryan voiced concern on whether
a timeline of military removal made public would possibly tip off plans to enemies, Biden was adamant about training the Afghan military to take over their own ter-ritory while American troops vacate.
“We are leaving in 2014, period,” Biden said. “And in the process, we will save over $800 billion dollars. We’ve been in this war over a decade.”
Ryan argued he and Romney do not want soldiers to stay but added it might be possible.
“We want to make sure we give com-manders what they need, but we don’t want to extend beyond 2014,” Ryan said. “We will assess the situation in 2013 on how best to complete the timeline.”
The debate ended with the majority of polls favoring Biden, but a winner was not as clear as the Oct. 3 presidential debate. CNN’s Wolf Blitzer said each candidate’s “respective supporters were pleased” with their performance, thus resulting in a draw.
Obama and Romney will have their next debate on Oct. 16 at Hofstra Univer-sity in New York.
Candidates spar for first, last time
A.S. contingency fund drops below $10,000
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sean Leverance, new senate member for engineering and Computer science.
Joe Biden and Paul Ryan debate both foreign and domestic policy
Wall Street goes up in flames at CSUN
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The “Burning Wall Street” instal-lation, a miniaturized “Occupy Wall Street” made of matchstick banks, twist-ties and candy wrappers, went up in flames at its closing ceremony Saturday.
Edie Pistolesi, art education profes-sor at CSUN, organized “Burning Wall Street” and worked on the project for more than a year with her students.
“We had to make our statement,” Pistolesi said about burning the exhibit. “The idea of burning something, an effigy, is very powerful, and burning this will be cathartic.”
This exhibit at the CSUN Art Gallery was dedicated to the “99 percent” and involved 200 students in its creation. Artist Alex Schaefer’s paintings of burn-ing banks inspired the project.
Schaefer said he loved the fact that Pistolesi was able to see his art on the Internet and get him involved.
“I’m honored to be a part of this,” Schaefer said. “This is the coolest thing I’ve ever seen.”
Students in Pistolesi’s art classes dec-orated the sidewalk with descriptions of bank crimes with chalk. Phrases like “bid rigging,” “drug money laundering,” and “loan application fraud” lined the pathway where people carried the dis-play to the burn site.
The entire installation was sprinkled with a souvenir bag of shredded money from the Federal Reserve and burned in less than five minutes.
Jennifer Perlin, a junior liberal stud-ies major and art minor, watched the art she helped construct burn to the ground.
“It’s kind of hard to see something we have worked for go down in flames, but the symbolism was awesome,” said Perlin, 20.
Pistolesi said she made her students research the Occupy Wall Street move-ment and the “99 percent” before they participated in the exhibit’s construction.
“They had to understand it before doing it,” Pistolesi said.
If students disagreed or did not want to participate in the project, they had the option to complete a different assign-ment.
Valerie Jauregui, junior liberal stud-ies major, said she enjoyed her art class uniting over such a serious issue.
“I am going to be a teacher, and I don’t want a pink slip just because our banks are greedy,” said Jauregui, 20.
Pistolesi said she and her students added more “occupier” figurines to the display after 20,000 California teachers were laid off earlier this year.
Tania Cora, senior art education major, is a student of Pistolesi’s who helped add more “occupiers” into the display.
“I know so many people who can’t get a job even with a master’s degree,” said Cora, 24. “We’re here to inform people on what’s going on in the government.”
Dr. Ken Sakatani, chair of CSUN’s art department, said he saw “Burning Wall Street” as a “valuable, collaborative, yearlong educational project.”
“This is something that engages stu-dents in political and social issues,” Sakatani said. “For students to question that through art is a great thing.”
Sakatani said the department went through all the levels of safety and risk approval for the burning, which took place in the outdoor sculpture area of the art department.
Art students created and burned an exhibit to show their stance on the Occupy Movement
photos by Loren townsLey / photo editor
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when Con-gressman Paul Ryan was selected to be Mitt Romney’s vice presidential candi-
date, Repub-
licans every-where collec-tively sali-vated over the notion of
a vice presi-dential debate between a young, intel-ligent Repub-
lican legislator known for his bold
policy crafting and mastery of informa-
tion and Vice Presi-dent Joe Biden, who
is known for his impas-sioned, yet earnest, ram-blings and numerous, but
always amusing, gaffes. It was to be the perfect storm: the quiet policy wonk versus
the loud podium thumper. It would be naïve not to
expect the usual theatrics from Joe Biden. After
all, it was a little less than two months back
that the vice presi-dent took fire from Republicans when
he announced at a rally in Virginia that Mitt Romney
would “put you all back in chains.”
However, compared to Biden’s debate perfor-
mance, the gaffe in August might seem mild and tempered.
The vice president bickered while
Paul Ryan debated. Throughout the 90 minute long
ordeal Joe Biden smirked, laughed, scoffed, yelled and interrupted on numerous occasions as Ryan patiently attempted to make his best case to the American people. On the radio, Biden sounded aggressive and forceful while Ryan came off as bland, but it was only when audio was matched with video that the whole picture comes to light. Joe Biden was rude and condescending,
not just to Congressman Ryan but also to moderator Martha Raddatz, who he talked down to as well.
One might imagine that the vice president felt obligated to climb into the debate ring swing-ing after the undeniable shellack-ing President Obama took at the hands of Romney in last week’s debate. According to a CBS news poll, 46 percent of unde-cided voters said that Romney performed better at the debate while only 22 percent said that Obama won the debate. It is entirely pos-sible that Biden felt he needed to be particularly fierce in order to make up for the president’s abys-mal failure, but in doing so he only managed to come off as a crazy, angry, old jerk.
Not to mention the bald-faced lies. When discussing the gross lack of security during the brutal attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi one month before, Biden stated, “We weren’t told they wanted more security. We did not know they wanted more security.” However, according to CNN, the regional security officer in Libya, Eric Nor-dstrom, testified that he had ver-bally requested more security. In addition to that fib, Biden attacked Ryan for voting to “put two wars on a credit card,” while claiming that he voted against the Iraq and Afghanistan War. Biden, however, voted for both wars while serving in the senate.
If there were a criticism against Ryan it would be that he failed to effectively translate himself to the American people. As a policy wonk who drafts budget proposals, Paul Ryan is more of a meticu-lous legal technician rather than
a savvy political marketer, read-ing through hundreds of pages of bills while carefully strategizing how best to go forward. A techni-cian may very well be what this nation needs; however, it is difficult to explain complex policy deci-sions in a debate context, especially while being constantly interrupted by childish scoffing from an ill-mannered opponent.
As shallow as it may be, Amer-ica lives in the age of sound bites. Nobody has to like it, but it simply is what it is. Ryan had a difficult time cutting complex policies into digestible pieces, and that is part of the reason why he spent a consider-able amount of the debate on the defensive.
A CBS poll placed Biden as a winner at 50 percent with Ryan at
31 percent. However, a CNBC poll of uncommitted voters showed Ryan as the victor with 56 percent to Biden’s 36 percent and CNN
placed Ryan ahead of Biden four points at 48 percent, within the mar-gin of error.
Whatever point Biden intended to make was undermined by his impolite behavior. While it may be exactly what hardcore liberal sup-porters of Obama wanted to hear, the point of the debates is not to rally the base. The bases of both parties have already made their decisions. Instead, the debates are an opportunity to convince undecid-ed voters, the only voters who mean anything at this point, that you are the candidate for the job. Ryan did a much more effective job of outlin-ing the Romney Campaign’s plan, however vague critics argue it is.
Biden yelled a lot. Ultimately this is indicative of a campaign constantly fighting to steer scrutiny away from an appalling scandal infested record with far too few victories and many more defeats. The vice president resorts to this infantile display because in the end that is the best he can do when faced with the overwhelming failure of the Obama Administration.
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Matadors on � reCASEY DELICHDAILY SUNDIAL
The Matadors extend-ed their winning streak to three games Saturday night against the visiting UCR Highlanders, in a nail biting 2-1 double overtime win.
Coming into the game down two starters, the High-landers (8-5-0, 1-4-0 Big West Conference) had an uphill climb to overcome a red-hot Matadors (10-4-0, 4-1-0 BWC) team, a hill they were never able to climb.
Starting hot out of the gate, the Matadors put up their first shot 45 seconds into the game, and kept the Highlanders confined in their own half for the first 10 minutes. This resulted in multiple shots for the Mata-dors, but they were unable to put anything into the back of the net, shooting wide on all their attempts.
Redshirt sophomore for-ward Edwin Rivas attempted the first shot on goal for either team, bringing Highland-er freshman goalie Ashkan Khosravi sliding to his knees for the save. Rivas had a game high six shots, but none accounted for a CSUN score.
Not pushing the lines up and not playing behind the Highlander’s defensive lines helped contribute to a slow offensive night for the Mata-dors, according to senior mid-fielder Rene Anguiano.
The Matadors were finally
able to breakthrough in the second half against the High-landers on a free kick. Red-shirt junior defender Yuval Barak touched the ball to red-shirt junior midfielder Chris Smith who kicked the ball in a curl over a diving Khosravi for his first goal of the season.
Smith’s goal seemed to ignite a flame underneath the Highlander’s offense, who responded by putting intense pressure on the Matador’s vaunted defense.
“I think we let down after our goal and they picked it up, it was a game of momentum and it shifted after the goal, and then they came at us,” said head coach Terry Davila. “We had a tough time getting the momentum back after the penalty kick.”
UCR was finally able to put up its first goal in the second half against the Mata-dors on a penalty kick after a foul by sophomore defender Mynor Giron who was bat-tling a bit too hard for a loose ball.
Taken by the Highlanders’ Julio Reyes, the ball sailed under CSUN’s senior goal-keeper, Michael Abalos, for his first goal of the season.
A slow moving first over-time culminated in the High-landers swarming the Mata-dors’ goal, leaving the play-ers and audience tense until the final minute.
“We believed in the game plan the coaches laid out, just stick with it, and luckily it worked out for us today,”
said Joe Franco, redshirt senior defender.
The Matadors were able to come through for the win three minutes into the sec-ond overtime on a corner shot from Barak to junior mid-fielder Carlos Benavides. Benavides then passed to Anguiano at the top of the
box, putting it into the top shelf for his first goal of the season.
“I saw the ball coming to me from Benavides and saw the frame open, I didn’t think about it. It was over-time, whoever scores wins, so I just saw the opportunity to shoot it and it went in,” said
Anguiano.A melee in front of the
Matadors goal resulted in head injuries for redshirt freshman midfielder Trevor Morley and Highlander sophomore for-ward Ulises Mosqueda. Both players returned to action in the second half.
A physical night on the
field resulted in nine yellow cards being issued, including six to the Matadors.
This win marked the first overtime victory at Matador Soccer Field since 2009 and with 10 victories in the season, Northridge is guaranteed its first winning season since 2009.
WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL
Northridge gets routed in Hawai’iANDREW CLARKNEWS EDITOR
The CSUN women’s volleyball team journeyed to Hawai’i to avenge a narrow conference-opening loss to the nationally-ranked Wahine but came up short, losing in four sets.
The Matadors were initially successful with a 25-22 first set win, but Hawai’i rallied for set wins of 25-18, 25-21 and 25-20 to send Northridge home with its third loss in four games.
Sophomore middle blockers Casey Hinger and Sam Kaul led CSUN in kills and blocks, with Hinger smashing eight kills and Kaul putting up eight blocks. Senior libero Cindy Ortiz led the defen-
sive effort with 31 digs, one dig shy of her season-high mark.
Emily Hartong had 21 kills to lead Hawai’i, while Alyssa Longo had 17 digs for the Wahine.
Junior outside hitter Mahina Haina racked up seven kills, six digs, and three blocks while playing in front of her hometown crowd. Haina graduated from Lolani School near Waikiki.
CSUN once again out-blocked their opponent, 18-10, led by Kaul and Gedryn, who chipped in with seven blocks.
The Matadors return home to play the Pacific Tigers on Thursday and the UC Davis Aggies on Saturday. The Tigers are currently 4-2 in Big West conference play while the Aggies are 4-3.
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Senior midfielder Rene Anguiano wrestles away a UCR defender looking to swipe the ball from him Saturday night
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After bringing down the No. 4 team in the nation, CSUN continues its win streak against the Highlanders
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