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College students have risen in solidarity across Southern California and joined the Occupy movement, albeit in small numbers.

“It’s my life right now,” said USC student Alexandra Howland.

Howland lives on campus, but has taken up a temporary home outside City Hall at the Occupy LA encamp-ment.

She sleeps in a tent on the lawn, wakes up every morning at 6:30 a.m. to drive to school, and comes back in the early evening to protest with fellow Occupiers.

She starts homework around 11 p.m., goes to sleep and repeats

the routine.“It’s the most exciting thing I’ve

ever been a part of for a very long time,” she said. “To have the youth and the American public finally waking up and rejecting the system that’s been forced on us, it’s amazing.”

Ankur Patel, a CSUN graduate stu-dent, said this is a time for students to be more aware of their world.

“We want people to start paying attention. We want people to know who their city councilman is, who their state assemblyman is, all of their elected officials,” said Patel, a commit-tee member of Students Occupy Los Angeles. “Most people know more about American Idol and the Dodgers than they do about elected officials.”

Occupy CSUN has gathered an average of about 50 students to its weekly rallies, said student organizer

James Ackerman, larger turnouts than USC or UCLA have had for their movements.

Howland said 40 students showed up for USC’s first campus rally in late October, but the numbers decreased to about a handful the second week. There aren’t any more currently sched-uled.

“People got sidetracked with school and with their lives, I guess,” she said.

The Daily Bruin reported UCLA’s Occupy movement has been slow to take off as well. Still, students part of Occupy UCLA participated in a rally that included 200 protesters against tuition hikes on Wilshire Boulevard last Wednesday, resulting in 11 arrests.

Authorities have had to take action in Northern California as well.

On Nov. 9 at UC Berkeley, police in riot gear moved in when protesters

refused to leave the encampment they had set up on campus. According to the school’s student paper, 39 people were arrested in a demonstration that was reportedly in the hundreds.

At Occidental College, in Eagle Rock, student Guido Girgenti repre-sents his campus in Occupy Colleges, a virtual network working in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street.

About 100 participants showed up at Occidental for the Nov. 2 National Solidarity Teach-in – a protest for cam-puses nationwide that brought students and professors together in an open-ended discussion about their school’s issues, Girgenti said.

He called Occidental’s teach-in attendance “very surprising,” con-sidering its student population hov-

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CSUN’s Middle East-ern and Islamic studies (MEIS) program is hosting the second part of their symposium today at 2 p.m.

MEIS hopes to learn from experts and scholars from other universities that are speaking at the event with the intention of add-ing to their curriculum.

“Listening to what the

scholars have to say will help us develop our curric-ulum,” said Nayareh Tohi-di, CSUN professor of gen-der and women's studies. “They will help us enrich the courses we’ve already developed for the minor.”

The proposed minor should be approved by Fall 2012, and will offer courses in Middle Eastern languages, history, gender studies, sociology, political science and religion.

Tohidi said the addition

of this minor would edu-cate the student body about the Middle East and break stereotypes surrounding its culture and religion, Islam.

The event is invite only and organizers hope to have interesting conver-sations between audience members and speakers.

“We only expect about 50 people,” Tohidi said. “We made it invite only to have engaging dialogues between scholars and audi-ence members.”

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Fashion industry front-runners will be passing along knowledge on their competitive field to the CSUN community during the TRENDS Career Sym-posium on Friday from 10 a.m. -1 p.m. at the Grand Salon.

TRENDS, a student organization focused on all things fashion, offers its members opportunities to network and acquire experi-ence and expertise on the ins and outs of the fashion business. The symposium

is one of the group’s annual events that provide a real-world connection to fashion students and their potential careers. They also hold weekly meetings on Tues-day afternoons where they continue to arrange opportu-nities for students to expand their fashion enterprises.

“We’re all students with different interests in the industry,” said Charlotte Armstrong, TRENDS vice president.

Armstrong said the three-hour Symposium will fea-ture a range of guest speak-ers, including Marc Perez, human resource director at Saks Fifth Avenue, Dr. Vera Bruce Ashley, fashion advi-

sor at El Camino College, and fashion designer Evelin Skoroff. Each speaker will address students about their career options and how to break into the various fields in the business.

Previous symposiums have provided opportuni-ties for fashion students to network and apply for jobs and internships within the industry. There may also be a special surprise guest this year, Armstrong said.

“We are opening up to so many different people and anyone can come,” she said. Anyone in the CSUN community is encouraged to attend, regardless of their fashion experience.

ers around 2,000 and the school generally brings in higher-income students.

The website occupycolleges.org had 87 schools registered in the U.S. for the teach-in, includ-ing 12 in California, and had helpful guidelines on how to handle the event.

The 2008 financial crisis “has made tons of students’ mid-dle-class living standards very precarious,” he said.

Recent UC Irvine graduate Brendan Rosen attended the campus teach-in and said about 40 students showed up.

“Indirectly, we’re protesting tuition increases,” said Rosen, who cited unfair government

spending as another problem he and Irvine students have voiced.

The question now is where to go from here. USC and UCLA are not fully mobilized for the time being, and the main hub for students still seems to be down-town LA.

“It’s easier for us to organize off-campus,” Girgenti said.

Patel said different factors play a role in whether certain ral-lies or marches can be successful for students.

“In some places they’re not going to run into police oppres-sion, in some places they’re not going to get their permits,” Patel said. “In some places they’re not going to have enough people.”

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa told the LA Times that the City Hall protests “cannot continue indefinitely,” and he has told

city officials to draft a plan to relocate demonstrators.

Rosen said he feared the long-term status of Occupy LA could be up in the air, so his goal is to further strengthen the campus protests.

At Northridge, Patel said Occupy CSUN is taking “baby steps.”

“No one ever knows how movements are going to end up,” he said.

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The way students talk around school may be fine for now, but when they begin to interview for jobs they may want to watch what they say if they have any hope of landing their dream job.

Filler words, such as “like” “actually” and “you know what I mean,” are commonly used during conversations.

“I know I do it,” said Eng-lish major Kara Keans, 20. “I don’t notice I’m doing it most of the time and I only some-times notice other people, only if they do it a lot.”

Keans said she tries to talk to her professors and manag-ers in a different way than her friends, but it can be hard.

“I try to think more about how I say things (when I talk to people of authority),” Keans said.

Words such as “like” and “actually,” along with slang terms, are listed on various interview advice websites as ones to avoid during job inter-views, and college and gradu-ate school interviews.

Brad Remillard, a found-ing partner at Impact Hiring Solutions, told The OC Reg-

ister that a crucial aspect of interviews is how the appli-cant speaks and whether they use proper sentence structure. He said avoid using the word “like.”

CSUN's Career Center also offers advice about interview language.

“You can always pause,” said Dorothy Chien, a peer educator who works in the career center. “This way you can avoid saying too much.”

The Career Center offers mock interviews so students can practice speaking in that

situation, which could allevi-ate the nerves most people get when it comes time to find a job.

“I think it’s more of a thing that girls do,” sociology major Deron Mitchell, 19, said.

Joseph Galasso, a CSUN English and linguistics profes-sor, said fillers may be used as a way to keep the conversa-tion rolling while the speaker forms their next sentence and may also be used as a way to avoid a lull or silence during a conversation.

“The filler ‘like’ saves our

place in the turn-taking round-robin of conversation,” Galasso said. “One thing about fillers I notice, it sucks up the silence, and for many, silence is a kind of death for conversation.”

Interview and employment websites, such as Monster.com, list listening as a key part of a successful interview, and thus filler words may be taking away from this.

Mitchell said he doesn’t find himself using many filler words with the exception of “um” and “you know what I mean?”

“I definitely change how I speak when I am talking with friends and when I talk in class or other places,” Mitch-ell said.

Political science major Irene Soto, 18, said using fill-er words could make a student seem unprofessional and hin-der a job quest.

“I know a lot of people who do it all the time,” she said. “It’s really annoying because it just sounds like they don’t know how to speak properly.

“No one wants to hire someone who sounds imma-ture or who doesn’t know how to speak properly,” Soto said. “When someone says ‘um’ all the time, they sound stupid.”

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The Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity held their first Watermelon Bust Competition to collect canned foods for The North American Food Drive.

With the help of sororities and generous donators, the philanthropy event raised around 200 canned foods, adding to the fraternity’s tally of about 1,000 collected cans.

“We hope to raise enough cans that will go out to families before thanksgiving,” said Vahan Khodanian, Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity president. “This event was just our last push to collect more cans to donate.”

Participating greek organizations included Alpha Phi, Alpha Xi Delta, Delta Zeta and Alpha Omicron Pi.

Trophies were awarded to the top three teams, with the first place trophy going to Alpha Omicron Pi after each teams’ scores were tallied.

“It felt great participating in another Greek organization’s philanthropy event,” said Rach-elle Bowen, Alpha Omicron Pi member. “Win-ning the event was just the cherry on top.”

The winners were chosen based on three com-petitions that included a watermelon-eating contest,

a watermelon toss and a watermelon roll.Winners were also based on who donated the most

cans, the best-decorated watermelon, and attendance of sorority members.

A raffle was held during the Watermelon Bust which winners were given gift certificates to H&M, Bath and Body Works, Forever 21, and Blooming-dales.

a melon!Students participate in the watermelon rolling contest during Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity’s Watermelon Bust competition. The greek organization collected canned foods for The North American Food Drive on Sunday.

Jaryd Tashiro, business management major, counts cans dur-ing Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity’s Watermelon Bust com-petition.

Brittney Hoogervorst, junior art major, tries to eat her watermelon quickly during the Watermelon Bust competition.

Alpha Omicron Pi sorority wins Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity’s Watermelon Bust compe-tition on Nov. 12.

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While all of her friends were getting ready to graduate high school, Jasmine Hart, 19 was in an induced coma struggling to survive a massive stroke.

May 21, 2010, just five days away from her high school graduation and a few weeks shy of her 18th birth-day, Hart felt a strange sen-sation in her face while at home in her bathroom getting ready for school. She did not realize that she was experi-encing the beginning stages of a bleeding stroke, also known as Brain Arteriove-nous Malformation (AVM).

Brain AVM is a rare stroke caused by the bleeding of poorly formed blood ves-sels, which is thought to be congenital. When it occurs in the brain it can cause severe damage including permanent paralysis, according to the Toronto Brain Vascular Mal-formation Study Group.

“At first it wasn’t pain-ful, it just happened and I couldn’t feel the right side of my face," Hart said. "I tried telling my family what was wrong but my throat began to

paralyze, a few minutes later it felt like someone hit me in the head with a baseball bat. Once I collapsed my family called 9-1-1 and that is the last thing I remember."

Hart had been awaiting her first day of CSUN since May 21, 2010, when she nearly died from a stroke.

When she awoke from her coma she was confused. She had to be retold every day what had happened to her, due to temporary short-term memory loss.

She said that one of the hardest things she had to deal with was waking up and looking at the calendar on the wall realizing she had missed her Hesperia High School graduation. Then she began to suffer from depression.

“I was like, 'Oh wow, why me? I am only 18, I thought strokes could only happen to old people,' ” she said.

Hart was in the hospital for four months battling her way back to normalcy and although she had to postpone her col-lege plans, she finally made it to her freshman year.

Before her stroke, Hart was just like any other healthy and active teen girl who loved sports. She played basketball, soccer and did shot put in track. She can

no longer run or be as active as she used to be and misses that ability.

“I was an athlete, I was a strong girl,” Hart said.

Ironically, Hart had decid-ed to become a kinesiology major and been accepted to CSUN before her stroke.

Until Hart could even think about going to college she had to get her life and her body back into order. She was under suicide watch and had to attend physical and mental therapy for what she had gone through.

While in the hospital Hart had a difficult time doing things she was used to doing with ease, such as eating solid food. She could not move the right side of her body and was at least grate-ful for being left handed so she did not have to relearn how to write.

She went from using a wheelchair to a cane and then to walking in less than a year, the doctors did not believe how fast she was recovering.

Although she took a year off to recover before starting her freshman year at CSUN, Hart still felt as though she was not completely ready.

“I had my doubts. I grew so self conscious. I felt like this is not my body,” she

said.Now, she lives in the

dorms, which has helped her feel more comfortable and accepted. Some people stare at her for walking with a limp, but she tries not to let it get to her.

Although Hart has made a progressive recovery after her stroke she has been pre-pared for complications. This semester Hart suffered from brain seizures but contin-ues to persevere and work towards her degree.

She said she tries to take the good out of all the bad in her journey and to live as normal of a life as possible.

Her plans for the future include becoming an athletic trainer or physical therapist specializing in sports injury. Someday, she wants to work for the NFL.

She feels that although she wanted to be a kinesiolo-gy major before her accident, now she has even more drive to do it. She does not con-sider her AVM as fate but it will benefit her relationships with patients in the future.

“I want to help people. My mom said that ‘No (phys-ical therapy) patient can now say I don’t understand what they are going through,’” Hart said.

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Mega-retailers such as Kmart, Walmart, and Sears are pushing advertisements for layaway plans to help consumers finance their holiday spending. in a layaway, consumers make multiple small payments on their bill over an extended period instead of paying it all at once.

are layaway plans a more reasonable alternative to racking up holiday credit card debt or are they only disguised as a convenience to push irresponsible consumer spending?

In the wake of the fall-out from the Penn State Football child rape scan-dal, I think many people are wondering if CSUN should have a football team.

The short and long answer is no. No, no, no.

Here’s why:1) If there is one thing

we have learned from the Penn State scandal, it is that college football makes highly rational people extremely irratio-nal.

I mean, it’s child rape that is alleged of Jerry Sandusky, who was the

assistant head coach of the Penn State Football team.

The president of Penn State resigned and the head coach who is, quite frankly, a legend in the history of college foot-ball, was fired because he knew what was going on and he, along with many others, did very little if anything to stop the abuse and alert the authorities.

This speaks of incred-ible corruption and is exactly why college foot-ball is racket in my eyes. The fact that universities will go great lengths to

cover themselves over a piece of pigskin is ridicu-lous.

2) The second reason why CSUN shouldn’t have a football team is quite obvious: Chronic Traumatic Encephalopa-thy or CTE.

Football players take a lot of hits, especially to the head, and it some-times catches up to them in regrettable ways.

Isn’t the point of col-lege and higher education to become more rational and civilized, not less? How can we do this if we are focused on watching

our students crash their heads into one another? All this stress over a piece of pigskin is beyond unnecessary. Pardon me if I think college should be about opening your mind and expanding your horizons, not killing brain cells or having a legend-ary school lose all cred-ibility over a stupid game.

Just a thought.

Jeffrey ZideJournalism major

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When I first saw news reports of civil unrest and violence in Syria when the “revolution” broke out in March, I was terri-fied for my family living there.

In May, I decided to visit my home coun-try of Syria to witness for myself what was taking place. As the captain announced our approach to the capitol Damascus, I peaked out the window thinking I would see sparks of bullets firing in the darkness, but every-thing was quiet.

I walked out of the airport expecting to see military forces and tanks everywhere, but instead I was welcomed with the sound of taxi horns and cheerful humming, and the smell of barbecue and boiled corn filled the air.

During the next month, Al-Jazeera and western media outlets reported instances of military violence inflicted on protesters in Damascus, although nothing of the sort hap-pened while I was there. I wondered why the reporting was not accurate and how that would influence what the rest of the world thought about my home country’s internal affairs.

Since these protests against the govern-ment began in Syria, the nation’s struggle with discord and violence resulting in more than 5,000 in military and civilian deaths has become worse and worse.

The Arab League officially suspended Syria Monday, only three days after warning Syria they would do so if the country did not take immediate action to end killings of civilians.

Suspending the Syrian government, one of the most important members and founders of the League, is a reckless mistake caused by faulty politics, and is counterproductive to the nation’s safety.

The Arab League, also known as the League of the Arab States, is an alliance of countries in the Middle East, founded in 1945 by Egypt, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Jor-dan, Lebanon and Syria. The purpose of the League is to unify the Arab countries and establish their independence and sover-eignty, to better the Arab countries socially, politically, scientifically and economically.

The League holds member countries’ governments responsible for their countries and serves as a critical political watchdog, shielding its members from outside inter-vention.

Not abiding with any of the rules of the League can result in suspension. The league rationalized their decision using the continu-ation of violence in the country, blaming the Bashar Al-Assad government for not halting military violence against citizens.

On Nov. 2, the League gave Syria only ten days to pull back its military and tanks. On Nov. 12, the League warned the Syrian government of suspension if the violence did not end in four days, and Syria was sus-pended shortly on the 14th.

The League claims the suspension was inspired by great safety concerns for the Syr-ian citizens but, on the contrary, this action will cause more chaos and violence for the people. The cause for violence in Syria is more complicated than what western media outlets show.

Unlike in Libya, where Gaddafi and his government were the only force inflicting violence on the people, Syria’s violence can be attributed to armed forces causing havoc on both civilians and the military.

My 18-year-old cousin, who was fulfill-ing his mandatory military service, was shot and his body disfigured by armed forces. He was killed trying to protect civilians.

Without the League, the military will face no consequences if the violence against citizens continues, giving the armed rebel groups in the country more freedom to ter-

rorize.Syria will also lose protection the League

provided against international intervention and now the country will become vulner-able to invasion by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). They risk a fate like that of Iraq and Libya, two countries that were invaded soon after suspension from the League.

Both civilians in support of or in opposi-tion to the government will be negative-ly impacted by the suspension, especially financially.

Syrian businessman Rasheed S., who would not provide his last name due to safety concerns, lives in Damascus and opposes the current president. He thinks the League’s decision is not going to change anything for the better.

“The current decision of the Arab League towards Syria only has a negative impact on Syria in the country’s security and financial stability,” Rasheed said, in Arabic. “Their decision is a big threat. We have learned the lesson previously from what happened in Iraq and what’s happen-ing in Libya now.

“The near future of Syria is very unclear, terrifying and is promised of more blood-shed. Sadly, there is not a single country which sincerely cares about the well-being of Syria.”

Courtesy of Jeff Dahl / MaJMoet Shbabk Ya Watan

The league of Arab States emblem over map of Syria. After the league’s sus-pension of Syria, riots occurred at four international embassies within Syria.

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Second chances and points off turnovers gave CSUN (2-0) the win Monday night as it steamrolled Loyola Marymount (0-2) 79-62 at the Gersten Pavilion.

The Matadors capitalized on turnovers and offensive rebounds, scoring 14 points off throwaways and 18 points off second-chance opportunities.

With the win, CSUN start-ed the year 2-0 for the first time since the 1998-99 season.

“It means absolutely noth-ing,” Matador head coach Jason Flowers said in a post-game interview with the GoMatadors.com broadcast team. “It means we got to go back to practice tomorrow and we have to prepare for Oregon State. We just got to continue to get better.

“Obviously, our kids feel good about their efforts, it’s not to knock the accomplishment,

I just think our group has a goal, and part of that goal is to get progressively better as the season goes on. It’s not a two-game season.”

Northridge center Jasmine Erving’s double-double of 28 points and 14 rebounds led the Matadors’ offensive assault along with Janae Sharpe’s 11 points and eight assists.

Matador forward Violet Alama’s back-to-back 3-point-ers in the middle of the first half gave her team the momen-tum for the rest of the night as the Matadors took a nine-point lead and never looked back.

Guard Kaitlyn Petersen contributed three treys of her own, her first giving North-ridge its first lead, 13-11, with 11:55 left in the first half.

Along with freshman Sharpe, guard Ashlee Guay had subtle impact on the court, adding eight points, five assists and two steals.

“(Sharpe and Guay) are fearless,” Flowers said. “They’re our two small-est kids, but they’re fearless. (Guay) came up with big rebounds, (Sharpe) came up with big rebounds when we needed them, and that’s been the case all year long.

“It makes my job a little easier to have players like that

in the program.”Defensively, CSUN held

LMU to 28.1 percent shoot-ing and nothing from deep. Lion forwards Alex Cowling and Emily Ben-Jumbo led their team in scoring, putting in 22 and 15 points respectively.

“It’s always coming down to defense for us,” Flowers said. “That was our Achilles’ heal last year, we had a tough

time guarding people, and I think with the newcomers that we’ve added along with the returners dedicating them-selves to being in better shape and dedicating themselves to the defensive end, it helps us to compete in every single game.”

Northridge forced 15 turn-overs with Sharpe leading the way with five steals. The

team finished the game with 12 steals.

LMU started by scoring the game’s first eight points, but CSUN kept it close as Guay scored her first points three minutes into the game, spark-ing a 6-0 Matador run.

Led by Ben-Jumbo’s 14 rebounds, the Lions outworked CSUN on the boards as they hauled in 50 rebounds to

Northridge’s 41, but the Mata-dors were more effective at moving the ball as they more than doubled Loyola’s seven assists.

LMU crept back in the second half, cutting CSUN’s double-digit lead to 54-46 with 9:56 to go in the game, but the Matadors held off the charge and pushed their lead back up to 20 in the last minute.

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FaVoritES Food: Macaroni and cheese Singer: Tim McGraw (country)Movie: "The notebook"Song: “any country song, i don’t have a favorite.”athlete: Misty May (volleyball)

liFEGreatest Difficulty: “Getting over injuries throughout the year.”Greatest Goal accomplishment: “i won the Junior Olympics when i was a junior in high school. i have a gold medal for volleyball.”Most embarrassing moment: “i was playing volleyball and i was running underneath the net, and the back of my shirt got caught in the bottom of the antenna and it flung me forward and straight on my back.”hobbies: Volleyball and beach volleyball

VollEyballbest part of my game:“Probably my court sense, know-ing where to put the ball.”part of my game that needs improvement: “My jumping.”best player i’ve played against so far: “Outside hitter alex Jupiter from usC.”player i pattern my game after: ali Troost (former

university of san diego player)pregame rituals: “i always drink an energy drink before the match. nothing caffeinated, just Crystal light or Zip-Vit.”Superstitions: “if we win and play good the night before, i wash and wear the same clothes all over again the next day.”

GoalSteam: “To get second in league and next year i want to go to the nCaa (Tournament).”individual goals: “Be the best."Future: “i want to coach college volleyball.”

ExtraSMy first sports: “Tee ball because i didn’t want to play softball because i thought the balls were too big and i wanted to be like all the boys.”other sports i played while growing up: Basketball, soccer, volleyball.When i started playing volleyball: “When i was seven years old.”What i do to stay in shape during the offseason: “i have a personal trainer at home and i run a lot. i come (to Csun) and work out here. We have printed-out workout packets that we have to follow during the off-season.”people i would like to meet: "My great grandparents."

Get to know ... #9 natalie allen reporting by anthony carpio / daily sundial

Full name: natalie allenDate of birth: June 13, 1992place of birth: Riverside, California

height: 6’1”position: Opposite HitterMajor: liberal studies

class: sophomoreavg: 2.49 kills, 3.35 digs per set

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Forward Jasmine Erving, left, had 28 points and 14 rebounds for cSUn. the Matadors beat lMU 79-62 Monday night.