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VOLUME 53 ISSUE 10 • A FINANCIALLY INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER
CSUN gets new facultyMADISON KAUFMANNDAILY SUNDIAL
Nearly 100 new ten-ure-track faculty have been appointed to run depart-ments and committees and head classes for the 2011-12 year, according to officials in CSUN faculty affairs.
“I think that it is a tre-mendous boost to what we
can offer our students,” said Stella Theodoulou, social and behavioral sciences college dean. “It shows a commitment to this institu-tion, to our students and to the growth and future of this university.”
Social and Behavioral Sciences, which has the larg-est number of enrolled stu-dents, received a quarter of the 97 new faculty, said Ili-
U.S. looks to increase engineering by 2012CAITLIN MARTINDAILY SUNDIAL
President Obama plans to increase the number of graduating engineers in the U.S. by 10,000 a year, and the number of hands-on train-
ing and internship opportuni-ties by over 6,000 a year, in order to stay competitive in the global market, accord-ing to an Aug. 31 state from Obama’s Council on Job’s and Competitiveness.
Engineering is the fastest-growing program at CSUN, according to the department’s
website. The American Soci-ety for Engineering Educa-tion also ranks CSUN’s pro-gram as one of the highest in the country as far as ratios of bachelor degrees to faculty members; meaning that the department produces a large number of graduates given its size.
“Our economy is based on technology,” said Dr. Robert Conner, engineering profes-sor.
Concepts and ideas that go along with engineering transcend through many dif-ferent professions, and the
Mental ailments may get more insurance coverageKARLEE JOHNSONDAILY SUNDIAL
Medical insurers may be required to cover mental health disorders the same way they would cover physical ail-ments after a federal court of appeals ruling on Aug. 26.
The ruling came after Blue Shield denied to pay for a Northern California woman’s anorexia treatment.
Judge William A. Fletcher of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that while the woman’s insurance plan with
Blue Shield did not cover her treatment, the California Men-tal Health Parity Act does.
“The law signifies a same-ness,” said Dr. Nikki Saltzburg, staff psychologist for CSUN University Counseling Servic-es. “It will reduce the stigma placed upon mental illness and puts it on the same level of a physical medical issue.”
Under the Mental Health Parity Act, medical insurance companies are required to cover nine mental health disor-ders: schizophrenia, schizoaf-fective disorder, bipolar dis-order, obsessive-compulsive disorder, autism, serious emo-
tional disturbances in children and adolescents, eating disor-ders, panic disorder and major depression, the ruling decided. Blue Shield can still attempt to appeal the court’s decision.
“All of these mental health disorders have some biologi-cal component to them,” said Heather Kolesar, senior psy-chology major. “Passing of this legislation would help researchers to figure out what causes these disorders.”
But a potential downside to this legislation could mean people with men-tal health disorders may receive medication when
therapy would suffice, Kolesar said.
This decision would allow insured people to access medi-cally necessary interventions for their disorders, said Dr. Debra Malmberg, assistant professor of psychology.
“Earlier intervention for individuals for some particu-lar diagnoses can mean impor-tant cost savings to the state, schools and insurance compa-nies,” she said.
Children with developmen-tal disorders who receive early intervention and treatment show notable growth in social and behavioral skills, thus sav-
ing money in the long term, said Malmberg.
While depression and anxi-ety are among the most com-mon mental ailments for col-lege students, counseling cen-ters have seen a growing num-ber of students who suffer from eating disorders, substance abuse and self injury, accord-ing to the National Survey of Counseling Center Directors.
The survey also found that 44 percent of clients at college counseling centers have severe psychological problems, up from 16 percent in 2000.
CSUN counseling services see about 1,750 students every
year, according to Dr. Mark Stevens, director of University Counseling Services.
“The law will be helpful for students with insurance,” said Saltzburg. “It gives people continued access to care for long term and chronic issues.”
Student health insurance provided through CSUN does cover mental health disorders, but does not cover rehabilita-tion or counseling.
All CSUN students are eligible for a free evaluation, eight free individual or couple counseling sessions and unlim-ited group sessions from Uni-versity Counseling Services.
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Andres Resendiz and Rena Tran work on their senior project in the mechanical engineering HAAS Laboratory.
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NEW HIRE. Newly hired assistant professor, Debbie Ma, is on her third week of teaching for the Psychology Depart-ment at CSUN and says she’s not only “really enthused to be here,” but also really excited to get the job.
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Quickly rising gas prices expected to drop soonABBEY SELTZERDAILY SUNDIAL
What have been steadily rising prices at the pump are expected to decrease by the end of the month, giving the wallets of CSUN’s commuting population a break.
Average retail gas prices in Los Angeles rose last week to $3.96 per gallon for a monthly increase of about 4.5 percent, and up nearly $1 from the same time a year ago, according to the website Gasbuddy.com.
Fuel prices are soaring in Los Angeles where the cost of a gallon rose 23.4 cents in the past month. The national average increased 5.1 cents per gallon, accord-ing to Gasbuddy.com.
Cooling temperatures will likely mean customers won’t get burned when buying gas.
“In winter, consumers aren’t travelling as much for vacation, demand drops so the product is cheap-er,” said Gregg Laskoski, senior petroleum analyst at GasBuddy.com. “We’ll see a decline after Sept. 15 when gas refineries can start putting out their ‘winter blend.’”
The winter blend, which can be sold Sept. 15 through April 30, is cheaper for refineries to produce because there is more butane and fewer additives, Laskoski said.
Environment Protection Agency (EPA) requires certain additives be in the summer blend, available May 1 to Sept. 30, to help the fuel burn cleaner, and heavily regulates the summer blend due to increased driving, Laskoski said.
The lowest prices of the year are during the fourth quarter from September to December, he added.
Parking lots are full of commuting CSUN students,
and more than 70 percent of them drive to campus alone, according to a 2010 survey by CSUN’s Institute for Sustainability.
Although 6 percent of students carpool to school, 66 percent would be willing to carpool under certain conditions, like compatible class schedules, proximity to their home, driving style
and personality of the carpooling partner, accord-ing to the survey.
“If I could find someone with the same schedule, I would consider carpooling,” said Max Beaulieu, senior English major from Santa Clarita. “I only go to school twice a week this semester, I can’t afford the gas to get here otherwise.”
Beaulieu’s car gets about 25 miles per gallon and uses more than one gallon each day, he said.
With fuel prices high, Beaulieu said his alternatives
were slim and chose classes that met twice a week.“I was able to make it work,” he said. “But I’m
here all day.”Géna Williams, a fourth-year biology major
who commutes from Long Beach, gave up her Mustang for a Honda Del Sol.
“I had to sell my first dream car in order to get a
more gas efficient car,” she said. “Before, my com-mute was costing me $25 each trip. Now, I get 40 miles to the gallon.”
Williams has classes four days a week and works in the valley, but plans to transfer soon.
“I tried to construct my schedule this semester so I was in the valley as little as possible,” she said.
On a good day, Williams said she can make the 50-mile drive in an hour. With traffic, it can take two hours to get to school.
materials are in everything, Conner said.
A multitude of jobs and positions can come out of studying engineering, from civil engineers who work on the country’s roads and bridg-es to electrical engineers who develop and test computers, lighting, and other electronic equipment, according to the U.S. labor bureau.
Engineers are curious about how things work and how they are put together, they solve and create concepts that have changed the world, Conner said.
“As a kid I was always interested in computers and how they worked,” Philip Abellanosa, 20, electrical engineering major, said.
The U.S. has reached the point of being the world’s leading innovator, but this sta-tus is at risk if new opportuni-ties are not created, according to the Job Council.
Civil engineering major Farnaz Vakili, 22, said an increase in graduating engi-neers and opportunities for engineering majors is a great thing and something to be excited about.
Engineering careers are among the highest paid in the country and are also among the most plentiful in the coun-try, Conner said.
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Local CSU hires dwarf in comparison to CSUN’s. CSU Los Angeles brought in 14 new faculty for the Fall 2011 semester, said Gloria Mendoza, assistant to CSULA’s vice president of academic affairs.
CSUN hired more than any other CSU in 2010, but in 2009 the university only hired 12 people, antic-ipating worsening budget cuts, said Harry Hellen-brand, CSUN provost and vice president of academic affairs.
“We want to make sure we have enough people around to do things around
the university,” Hellen-brand said. “When less than half the people are around it makes it hard to get the job done.”
New faculty earn lower starting salaries than those they replace because they were hired in 2011 as opposed to the 1980s, said Hellenbrand.
“The salary isn’t as great as it used to be,” he added.
New-hire psychology professor Debbie Ma, Ph.D, submitted her application in September 2010 and was hired on tenure in Decem-ber that same year.
“Last year there were few jobs and I was glad to see Northridge had openings,” she said. “I wanted to get a job with a Cal State. I am on board with the mission at large.”
All of the new hires were taken on as tenure-tracked.
It takes six years for fac-ulty on the tenure track to become an associate pro-fessor, and five years to achieve full professor, said Nate Thomas, president of the Northridge chapter of California Faculty Associa-tion (CFA).
Many of the new faculty came to campus over sum-mer to work on their classes and create ground propos-als to bring research fund-ing to campus and involve students as their research assistants, Theodoulou said.
Ma said finding her way to CSUN will benefit her research and courses, which focus on stereotype and prejudice, she said.
“The diversity of CSUN will help shape my projects in the future,” Ma added.
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Hours go by under the hot summer sun, digging and screening for bits and pieces of archaeological gold. Fieldwork for the day comes to a close and team members, caked with sweat and dirt, seek relief from the desert heat with sun-show-ers, which are merely 5-gallon hanging solar insulated bags of water.
“We laughed about our mis-ery,” said Silva Boghosian, as she described the “full-on primi-tive camping” she experienced during her first archaeological fieldwork class in Utah this summer.
Boghosian, 35, senior anthropology major, has been in love with archaeology since childhood.
Born and raised in Glendale, she visited the Middle East dur-ing her youth where she grew an insatiable curiosity for the culture.
“There wasn’t enough infor-mation,” Boghosian said.
Every time she would visit a museum and ask questions, she said the only answer she
would get was that’s “how it has always been.” For Boghosian, who grew up favoring social studies and science, and “any-thing that related to true facts,” that answer wasn’t enough.
Boghosian, who has now dedicated all her time to going back to school, had spent about 14 years after gradu-ating high school in Fresno being a travel agent, book-keeper, and more recently, a licensed cosmetologist.
“It all failed me,” Bogho-sian said, describing her career-changing experiences. “So I went to my childhood dream.”
Before transferring to CSUN, Boghosian started tak-ing classes at Pasadena City College, which is where she signed up for the summer archaeology program.
The field program, conduct-ed by Mari A. Pritchard-Parker, took place on the Great Basin, where students spent about five hours a day in the field digging for artifacts and about five hours in the lab doing data entry, and washing, weighing, and analyz-ing those artifacts.
Between fieldwork and lab, students also had about five hours of free time to do laun-dry, rearrange their tents, go
into town, shop for groceries, visit other museums and mon-uments in the area, or drive about 40 miles to the nearby lake to take showers and use the facilities, where Boghosian joked there was only one park bench that you could get cell phone service.
“We went to the Fremont Museum, saw the frescos in Utah—there was a lot of driv-ing,” Boghosian said. “The days there was something to do, we drove about 320 miles.”
Though their main camp was about a half a mile from their field site, Boghosian and her fellow archaeologists also collected obsidian from near-by quarries.
Boghosian, who stayed in the program for both summer sessions, also had a chance to do fieldwork at one of the Japanese internment camps.
“It was the first time Mari’s done this,” Boghosian said. “We worked with the Bureau of Land Management and worked with real archaeologists.”
The entire experience, “allowed me to network with other archaeologists and work in a group,” Boghosian said, which she admits she was not used to doing.
“You have to draw the line yourself when you can’t find it,” she said. “My peers around me are going to be my longtime friends.”
One of the other challenges Boghosian faced at the begin-ning of her first camping and archaeological trip was, “learn-ing to let go,” she said. “The first week I kept constantly checking my watch. This allowed me to view myself and let go and let nature take its course.”
Boghosian admits this was hard to do, especially since there was no television at the camp, and “my escape is TV.”
Next summer she hopes to do fieldwork in the Middle East, Boghosian said, but she wouldn’t be opposed to doing fieldwork again in Utah. In the meantime, she said she’ll con-tinue her studies in anthropol-ogy, tackling classes like lin-guistics and taking the GRE to finally earn her master’s degree.
“I’m crossing one thing off at a time that I fear the most,” Boghosian said.
“Taking this field class really emphasized that this is exactly where I want to be,” Boghosian said. “Even if I don’t get really successful, I fulfilled my dream.”
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Summer is over, and the Fall semester is in full swing.
By this point you’ve wait-ed diligently for your open registration, and wore out your mouse button attempt-ing to get your favorite teacher or filling a time slot in your schedule.
Next it’s off to the financial aid office to wait in a line that vaguely brings to mind a scene from "Beetlejuice." (If you don’t get the reference ask your parents or older siblings.)
Businesses see the begin-ning of school as an opportu-nity. Parents and students alike line up in droves to get their hands on bargain deals and stock up on pens and paper.
You’ve met your teachers who will, for the next few months attempt to saturate your mind with information. They have no doubt given you a syllabus with a por-tion that tells you the mate-rial that you will need for the semester.
This is where students are separated into two groups.
The first group, I fell into when I started going back to college. I figured, well I’m getting money from the government or have accepted loans that were meant to buy books and I’ll haphazardly do so. In my many years in college I’ve paid anywhere from $15-$30 for a used book all the way up to a couple hundred for a single book. I was leaving the bookstore having spent $500-$600 in some cases.
The second group of students have learned from their mistakes. They become members of half.com or take advantage of some of the rental opportunities that the
bookstore and other busi-nesses offer. They contact the professors of their classes in advance and find out if they accept the use of older edi-tions of books. Some profes-sors will not allow this and demand the new edition even up to the month school starts.
Junior communications student, Dana Allison, has had to put nearly $200 dol-lars on her credit card; she felt that she got off cheap this semester, saying that previ-ous semesters she’s had to spend anywhere from $50 to $200 for each book. When you’re taking five or six classes, it can get pricey.
Returning graduate stu-dent, Claudia Martinez, 2005 CSUN grad, cannot believe the inflated prices of books.
“Books are way too expensive. I’m taking four classes and I know I’d pay $500-600 in the bookstore and if I buy them off campus $300-400,” Martinez said. “I go online, download the syllabus and create a chart where I compare prices so that I get the best deal.”
Most professors have allowed her to use the older versions of the books, Mar-tinez said. But she has had professors in the past that have made it mandatory to have the most up-to-date edi-tion. When this is the case, her advice is to copy the chapters that you need from a friend.
Dictionary.com defines a monopoly as, "exclusive control of a commodity or service in a particular mar-ket, or a control that makes possible the manipulation of prices."
I took a health class at a junior college before trans-ferring to CSUN and my teacher had the students go off campus to purchase a “workbook” that was a print-
ed spiral notebook. In order to pass the class, we were forced to write in and tear pages out of it, taking the option out of reselling the book.
“I’m not taking away the teacher’s educational hard work put into their title, but a professor that writes their own material and uses it in their own class, I think can lead to a boxed in mindset,” Allison said.
Martinez remembered having a teacher that had written their own book but allowed students to buy older editions. In her opinion, her teacher was more worried about getting students to learn, not the money.
I bring this case up as an extreme example; most professors encourage sharing books or finding the cheapest deal. However, I do believe that it is a subject that should be discussed.
Even if the professor is the most groundbreaking and intelligent teaching mind of our time, It is not appropriate for them to make it man-datory for their students to purchase an item that they wrote and are getting royal-ties from.
Melanie Williams, depart-ment chair of business law at CSUN, said the process of assigning books is decided either by the professor, or the department.
“There’s a cycle for updat-ing textbooks, and I imagine that cycle differs in different areas; in many business books, that cycle is about every four years,” Williams said. “There are some topics, where the topic itself is rapidly changing, like computer science. There are topics that don’t change too much; in my department, faculty like to keep assigning the old textbooks because the basics are the same."
She explains that there is a limit to how long they can continue to use older books because the bookstore has to be able to get ahold of the book and the publishing company doesn’t continue to publish old books.
The business law depart-ment has created The Text-book Affordability Ini-tiative, where the entire department has agreed that for the core classes, they will only require textbooks that are available in an electronic edition, Williams said.
There currently are no laws against a teacher writ-ing a book and assigning it as mandatory material for their classroom, Williams said. It is her opinion that there
shouldn’t be laws against it. However she thinks that it could create a possibil-ity of a conflict of interest and in those circumstances, she would recommend that
royalties received in such a way should be donated to a worthy cause and should receive royalties only from other professors assigning the textbook.
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Can you put a price on getting your class? Appar-ently, it’s possible.
Some CSUN workers who are paid in stipends are unfair-ly compensated for the work they do. Students working for New Student Orientation as Resident Advisors in the dorm, and for the Academic Mentor Program receive a small stipend each month, but are not paid hourly.
Their only other payment is priority registration. While this may be a perk at the beginning of each semester, the rest of the time, they do not receive any monetary compensation except the sti-pends or a meal plan.
“The amount of work we
do varies each week,” said Destiny Lewis, a second-year Resident Advisor. “Weeks when the residents are par-tying can be a lot of work. When the students are more mellow, there’s less to do.”
In the housing department, RA’s are assigned to either apartment-style dorms or the freshman-only buildings, which don’t have kitchens. If the dorm has a kitchen, the RA can receive a $200 stipend for groceries. If there is no kitch-en, they get a free meal plan.
How much did you spend in the last month on groceries? Now add up eating out. Most likely, it was more than $200.
RA’s do have the benefit of not paying for their dorm, but if they have no other means of earning money, this sim-ply means they don’t have to work 30 hours a week to pay
the rent. There still isn’t any disposable income.
“The administration doesn’t care how many hours we work outside of being an RA,” said Lewis. “But it can be difficult with our schedules. On cam-pus, we can’t work more than 20 hours a week.”
At least the RA’s earn some kind of money in addition to free rent. The New Student Ori-entation volunteers must spend more than 75 hours working for the program and receive no monetary compensation for their efforts. If they have jobs, they must take time off to attend the trainings, overnight retreat and a week of orienta-tion. The reward? Again, prior-ity registration and a stipend.
See the pattern yet?The administration is
dependent upon its student workers but cannot pay them.
The only thing students want more than money is priority registration.
But with so many groups on campus receiving early registration, who is really get-ting the first chance to enroll? Athletes? RA’s? Note takers? NSO leaders?
In the end, it doesn’t matter who is registering first, just that there is an opportunity to get ahead of the rest of the uni-versity. Giving classes to those with schedule constraints like mandatory on-campus meet-ings, practices and games, and 12-hour days seems fair con-sidering they don’t get paid in any other way.
Still upset that so many groups on campus are get-ting priority registration but you aren’t? Join one of the groups. The perks are worth the free labor.
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The mere prospect of tak-ing a single set from a power-house had the Matadors chipper midway through the third set of their Monday night match-up against almighty, No. 6 UCLA.
Then, disaster. “UCLA woke up and it didn’t
end up being our best game,” CSUN middle blocker Casey Hinger said.
At times, it looked like it could be a match to remem-ber for CSUN, but “inconsisten-cies,” as CSUN head coach Jeff Stork deemed it, cheated the Matadors (6-5) into a 3-0 loss at Collins Court.
Following a block from Mat-ador middle blocker Sam Kaul which had CSUN up 9-4 and a subsequent UCLA timeout, the Matadors walked off the court with ear-to-ear smiles. Already down 2-0 and wanting to at least take a set from the Bruins, the moment was theirs to seize.
It didn’t work out that way. UCLA scored 21 of the next 29 points, won with a sweep for the fifth time in 2011 and called it a night.
“It was a complete break-down,” Stork said. “It’s not UCLA or anyone else. It’s our team and how we handle our-selves in those situations. I’m not real happy right now.”
The breakdown seemed to come at the same time as the Bruins began to click as the sixth-best team in the country should. With CSUN leading 14-8 in the set, UCLA went on a 10-0 run to take back control and ruin whatever positive the Matadors could have taken from the match.
“It just got in our heads,” said Hinger, who led CSUN in kills with seven. “We made a mistake and errors just kept pil-ing on us.”
It wasn’t like that the whole game. The Matadors started the night with seemingly no respect for UCLA, getting out to a 5-1 lead in the first set while looking like the better team. They kept up the façade for m ost of the set, even forcing UCLA head coach Michael Sealy to spring off his chair and call for time after one of his team’s multiple first-set errors made it 13-9 CSUN.
Whatever speech Sealy had for his team, it worked. UCLA appeared to remember its pedi-gree and began to slowly chop at Northridge’s lead. A 10-4 run following the game pause had the Bruins up on top at 19-17 and in control for the first time in the night.
A few moments later, UCLA had won the first set 25-22.
Set No. 2 was more of the same, with the Matadors fight-ing toe-to-toe with UCLA until they transformed into a less-
than-capable team. CSUN was within 16-15 until a streak of errors allowed the Bruins to go on a 9-2 set-ending run.
“We still worked hard and I have no doubt we’re just going to go up from here,” Hanger said.
CSUN kills’ leader Mahina Haina took the loss gracefully and said that while she recog-nized they needed to “work on the inconsistencies,” that the Matadors will be “fine.” Haina had six kills, but none in the third set, when the Matadors had the golden opportunity of the season so far go to waste.
“It was a good game up until that point,” she said.
UCLA was led by outside hitter Rachel Kidder, who had 13 kills – six of them in the first set. Kaul chipped in with six kills while setter Sydney Gedryn had 25 assists for CSUN.
Defensively, libero Cindy Ortiz had 19 digs, but only four in the last set.
Now, with BYU visiting the Matadome on Saturday at 1 p.m., CSUN will have to regroup and hope for the mistakes to go down gradually before the conference season starts.
“We’ve beaten some good teams, but when we get up against a more dominant oppo-nent like UCLA and USC, we create too many errors and give a good opponent too many points,” Stork said. “We can’t do that.”
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Heidi FarranW-soccer, senior, forward
the Matadors (1-5-1) struggled offensively to start the season, only scor-ing one goal in their first four games, but Farran has helped turned that around. Farran, has scored three goals over the Matadors’ last three games, including two against princeton on sept. 4 during CsUN’s only win of the year to date.
Mahina Haina W-volleyball, sophomore, outside hitter
Last week’s Big West player of the Week, Haina and the Matadors (6-5) had a tough outing against UsC last tuesday, but came back to have a superb showing at the UNLV invita-tional. Haina recorded 40 kills in three tournament games, she also had six kills against UCLA last night.
the csUn men’s soccer team
in the last two weeks, the Matadors (2-3) have suffered two overtime losses at home and embarrassingly given away a late 1-0 lead by allowing New Mexico to score three goals in 70 seconds. CsUN’s collapse occurred sunday afternoon as New Mexico won their Lobo invitational’s championship game 3-1. the Matadors were seven minutes away from their second win in a row before the Lobos went on the scoring spree. the weekend before, at the CsUN Labor day Classic, Northridge sent two games into overtime with late goals, but ended up losing both home matches 2-1 (to Akron, sept. 1 and to UNLV, sept. 3).
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Matadors sam Kaul (15) and Una siljegovic (16) attempt a block from Bruin olivia okoro (7) during Monday’s 3-0 loss against UclA.
Matadors look great, then not-so-great in loss to No. 6 UCLA