Plaza Del Sol Stylish Addition to CSUN Athletics Separate from A.S
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California State University; Northridge Volume 49 • Number 19 Since 1957 Thursday, October 5, 2006 sundial.csun.edu A financially independent student newspaper 'The LADIES DIG MY eyes' Students to vote on :-------- big A.S. fee increases and there are detailed Yearly cost guidelines for what it can- could be $294 in not be used for. The A.S. fee is currently 2011 at $72 with a $2 set annual increase, but the referendum SAMANTHA WOMACK this year is for a one-time OAu..YSUNDIAL $15 increase to be applied in Spring 2007. In the 2006- the Associated Stu- 2007 A.S. budget overview, dents and Instruction- the total of student A.S. Elly Related Activities fees in the summer and faU fee referendums are passed of 2005 and spring of 2006 this November, then next was $4,716,000. Less than semester wilJ include a $15 half went to university pro- increase in A.S. fees and a grams, clubs and organiza- $1.7 increase in fall 2007 tions, while the rest went to (the extra $2 is the result A.S. government, programs, of a 2002 ..A.S. fees refer- services and support. endum). Meaning a year AccordingtoA.S. finance from now CSUN tuition director Adam Haverstock, will include $119 in A.S. without these fee increases, and LR.A. fees and will A.S. will be hard pressed to continue to increase until at offer the lillie support it has least 2012. been able to in the past. According to the 2006 Crandall said, though, voter pamphlet and A.S. "We're not going to dry General Manager David up and blow away if it's Crandall, LR.A. fees have denied." not been raised from $ I 5 A.S. senators, adminis- trators and advisers began EftNESTa ELlZAR"""RAZ t OAILr 5UNOlAl. per semester since 1979. looking for ways to gener- Lancer Maxwell Lavttch, nine ..week ..old undeclared mal or, checks out the campus. Companion of The fee is designed to spe- ate more money after the Brittany HobSOftt klneslol0D major. and Action Lavltch, CTVA major. cifically support student projects, productions, pub- creation and report of the lications and intercollegiate Blue Ribbon Commission of Plaza del Sol stylish addition to CSUN athletics separate from A.S. • government and programs, See FEE, page 3 about five hours a week in the view, Ikind of like things where roofs, gives a bitof relieffrom all Architecture cerne; the fann expresses the function," of the gray. said Dr. Roger Di Julio, professor "Ibegreen accents make itdis- Rl" ic\\ Once upon a time, three years of structurnl mechanics and civil tinct. more ootceable rather than ago to be exact, the space woold engineering. Di Julio and severn! just blending in," said Lozada DANIELLE R. SWOPES have appealed to Socrates. It bed DAILYSUNDtAL CSUN buildings ecrtainJ.y a sunken amphitheater am cov- of his colleagues go to the new Freudian Sip every day. "We aren't worried about blendingin. ered walkways WOUI.XI. with vines. always look forward 10 going Each one has a design all its own; Where once there was only Now, rather than looking to the Manzanita Hall was inspired by noise am dust of constJuction, past, the University Student Union lhere," he said there is a modern stOOent reaches toward tomanow. The outsides of the buildings the Titanic, the Art and Design . the Plaza del Sol. Glass, metal and concrete are painted inalternating dark and Center Is full of bright colin and angles, and Santa Susana Hall was "Futuristic" is how' Mitch make up today's USu. Large lightgrays, blendingwith the c0n- resigned by someone wOO usually who is majoring in infrr- green-tinted winOOws make the crete plaza On the walls of the worked with prisons (great court- . n Systems, describes the most of Southern California's, Sol Center itself, the paint creates yard, IOOugh). USu. ''The place is awe. abundant sunshine, while sheets of the illusionof shadows. aligning . "(The USU) fits in with the , very qx:n. It makes me dark coougated metal add texture with the palm trees planted right 'Wow, I'm happy 10 be at .to otheIwise t1aI surfaces. in fton~ Green trim, intended UN,"'~said Henowsp.::nds "From an engineering point of 10 match the green of the copper See SOL, page 7 ADRIANA green ribbons to show in Family and Con- tng to college and that and ridicule, but never OLIVAREZ their support to the gay sumer Sciences, and CSUN had an organi- to the extent where DAILY SUNDIAL community. was involved with and zation were he could it affected him emo- "I did not imagine received support from meet other people who tionally. Some people ilton Folk that so many students the Lesbian Gay Bisex- would understand and would giggle when he recalls the were so open in their ual Transgender Alli- share experiences as passed by and give him fall 2002 support," said Folk, ance club at CSUN. well. looks, he said. Other CARl.A ACEVEDD_ISLDREDGE IlMllT SUNOIAI.. emester, when stu- who graduated last Folk said he knew Folk said he expe- The new University Student Union structure on spring with a degree he was gay before com- • rienced some rejection ents at CSUN wore See GAY, page 3 Sept. 28. INDEX OPINION TODAY'S WEATHER Opinion 6 Is America Arts & Ent. 10& 12 really safe? Volleyball Classifieds Il & I" Daily Spotlight IS Sporn 16 SEE PAGE 6 SEE PAGE 16 Partly Cloudy HIGH 74 LOW 54 2 • Dally Sundial' CSUN 'Thursday, October S, 2006 DIlWS-------------------- Foley's conduct reported two years ago -NEWS BRIEFS WASHINGTON (AP) "Rather than trying to shift Blunt said. "You absolutely former Capitol page. A day - A senior. congressional the blame on me, those who can't decide not to look into later, ABC news followed up aide said Wednesday he told are employed by these House activities because one indi- with a report that said the House Speaker Dennis Hast- leaders should acknowledge vidual's parents don't want Florida lawmaker had also RANCHO CUCAMONGA. Calif. (AP) - The possibility ert's office in 2004 about what they know about their you to." sent sexually explicit instant of threats against jurors prompted a judge to bar four gang worrisome conduct by for- action or inaction in response Foley resigned last week messages to at least one other members from receiving visitors and using the phone during mer Rep. Mark: F91ey with to the information they knew after he was reported to .male page. me remainder of their trial for the shooting death of an 11- teenage pages - the earli- about Mr. Foley prior to have sent salacious elec- He said earlier this week year-old girl. est known alert to the GOP 2005," Fordham said. tronic messages to teenage he asked Foley about the Superior Court Judge Shahla Saber said she was reacting leadership. A Capitol Hill aide for male pages. He has checked sexually explicit instant meso 10 a phone call made by one of the defendants to a family Kirk Fordham told The more than a decade, Ford- into an undisclosed facility sages, and the congressman member and a note found in a holding area for prisoners at the Associated Press that when bam said he resigned because for treatment of alcoholism, confirmed they were prob- courthouse-when she issued the order on Tuesday. The phone he was told about Foley's he did not want his role in leaving behind a mushroom- ably his. call and note both mentioned jury members. inappropriate behavior the Foley matter to harm his ing political scandal and legal "Like so many, I feel "It is my duty to safeguard the jurors," Saber said. toward pages, he had "more boss' re-election bid. investigation. betrayed by Mark Foley's Sabet instituted the ban on visits and phone calls after bait- than one conversation with "I have no reason to state Acting U.S. Attorney Jeff indefensible behavior," he ing testimony for the day and questioning jurors individually senior staff at the highest anything other than the facts. Taylor for the District of said. He blamed Democrau about whether they had been contacted improperly. level of the House of Rep- I have no congressman and Columbia sought protection for seeking to make a pohti- The four defendants are accused of killing Mynisha Cren- resentatives asking them to no office to protect,' Ford- of the records in a three-page cal issue of the matter in shaw on Nov. 13, 2004, when they allegedly sprayed her San intervene." ham said. leiter to House counsel Ger- Reynolds' re-election cam- Bernardino home with gunfire under the mistaken belief that The conversations took Before his resignation as aldine Germer, according to paign, "and I will not let someone they wanted to kill was inside. place long before the e-mail Foley's chief of staff, Ford- a Justice official speaking on them do so." Defense attorney Celia Torres said the ban was unfair and scandal broke, Fordham said, ham had been serving in the condition of anonymity. There were signs of con- unwarranted. and at least a year earlier than same capacity for Reynolds, Such letters often are fol- cern among Republicans, as members of the House GOP a member of the GOP lead- lowed by search warrants well. LOS ANGELES (AP) - A jury awarded $4 million to leadership have acknowl- ership who has struggled 10 arid subpoenas, and signal Sen. John McCain of Ari- the former hostess of a popular Malibu eatery who sued the edged. avoid political damage in the that investigators are moving zona called for a group of restaurant's owner for sexual harassment and assault Fordham resigned scandal's fallout.