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New Site to Sell Textbooks Child Students Can Connect with Others on Campus to Bargain on Prices, Check out Book Conditions Found the Search for Suspects Continues INSIDE | NEWS | P. 3 | FEATURES | P. 4 | OPINIONS | P. 6 | SPORTS | P. 8 Defense of Marriage Act Kinesiology major heads Abortion argument should Men’s Basketball: could be struck down by a non-profi t organization be between pro-choice and Matadors end season in Supreme Court after fi nding his passion pro-life women only search of new coach FREE CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, NORTHRIDGE THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 2013 | VOL. 54, ISS. 98 | WWW.DAILYSUNDIAL.COM Missing New site to sell textbooks child Students can connect with others on campus to bargain on prices, check out book conditions found The search for suspects continues ASHLEY SOLEY-CERRO EDITOR IN CHIEF ILLUSTRATIONS BY JASMINE MOCHIZUKI / ASSISTANT VISUAL EDITOR A 10-year old girl was found in a Starbucks parking If there is someone on the website instead of the bookstore,” he said. “I’ll have already taken the class. lot Wednesday after she had selling the book, the user can click on probably get more money, too.” Student-to-student commerce and been missing from her home for JONATHAN DIAZ the link and see a description of the Users can pay cash in person or by the high price of textbooks at campus nearly 12 hours. DAILY SUNDIAL book, condition and the seller’s asking credit card on the website. If the user bookstores are exactly what PostYour- The girl was last seen by price. If the user agrees to the price they thinks the price is too high, they can Book.com founders Phillip Kravtsov her mother at their home on the can send a message to the seller and submit a counter offer. and Joshua Hiekali had in mind when 8800 block of Oakdale Avenue arrange to meet on campus. For some CSUN students, buying they founded the business. in Northridge around 1 a.m. Freshman art major Andres Cabral, and selling online does not trump the “The reason we made this was pure- The mother reported she tudents who are tired of dealing 20, became interested in PostYourBook. reliability of having the Matador Book- ly out of anger,” said Kravstov, a busi- noticed the girl’s bedroom door S with the high cost of buying textbooks com after receiving an email inviting store on campus. ness major at Rugers University. was ajar around 3:30 a.m. and and the low price of selling them back him to sell his books on the site at the “I bought a book online one time, “I paid roughly $1,300 for books, searched the entire house before have another option in the form of beginning of the semester. and they gave me the wrong edition,” and when I went to sell them back at calling 911. Capt. Andrew PostYourBook.com. He set up an account and posted said junior deaf studies major Amy the end of the semester, they offered Smith said police responded to This website, which launched about two books, an English book and a math Nakajima, 21. me $330,” he said. “The books were the call and arrived at the home a year ago, can be described as a social book, and set prices he thought were She also touted the bookstore’s brand new.” around 4:30 a.m. network for buying and selling text- fair. convenience on campus. Nakajima “(She) had no indications books. A user who wishes to buy a book “I prefer to sell my books to some- usually buys her books at the book- of being a runaway, no trou- can search for it by name or ISBN. one who’s actually going to use them store or from other students who See BOOKS, page 5 bles at home, no other issues or problems with the family, which kind of concerned us,” said Capt. Kris Pitcher. The young girl was spotted sitting in some chairs in front of a Starbucks on the southeast corner of Canoga Avenue and Oxnard Street by an unknown citizen at 2:50 p.m. The citizen then flagged down officers passing by. The girl was barefoot and had bruis- es and cuts on her face. “She was in shock,” Smith said. “We are caring for her physical needs right now. We have no idea how long she’s been here (the parking lot).” Suspects include an 18-year- old white male and a second See MISSING, page 5 IT’S TIME TO PUT YOUR BIG KID PANTS ON 2 News march 28, 2013 • Daily SunDial • cSun • [email protected] Students create award-winning mobile app As part of a coding competition, engineers develop program that helps the deaf and hard of hearing community danger),” Gonzalez said. During the group’s plan- hopes to broaden the use- BOB GARCIA Roz Rosen, director of ning time, they had help fulness of the application to Daily SunDial CSUN’s National Center from a mentor who had more people who are deaf on Deafness, said that the experience in the computer or hard of hearing. application has potential to science field to help formu- Rozen said the people help the university’s deaf late a plan for the applica- who are deaf and hard of community. tion’s development. hearing at CSUN are look- A group of five CSUN “As more and more deaf After SS12, the winning ing forward to trying out computer science students and hard of hearing people team had a week to make the application and being have won an international take advantage of technolo- changes or further develop involved in further tech- competition by creating an gy and handheld communi- their application and sub- nological developments as Android audio alert app cation devices, this app will mit it to Github.com, an consumers of these servic- that alerts those who are become more widespread, open source code control es. She said the community deaf or hard of hearing to more used and more appre- website, for the internation- may suggest other ideas to dangers. ciated,” Rosen said. al final stage of the SS12 CSUN’s computer students. The competition, known The competition’s web- competition. “This is not surprising, as SS12: Code for a Cause, site invited the public to The competition in San given that CSUN has had was held at the 28th Annual suggest new phone applica- Diego included three U.S. exemplary programs for stu- Technology and Persons tion ideas for students to schools: CSUN, USC and dents who are deaf and hard with Disabilities Confer- create. UCLA. Foreign universi- of hearing who are American ence. After the ideas were sub- ties that also participated Sign Language users for more The students’ winning mitted, the application to included University of than 50 years,” Rosen said. project “alerts a person who assist those hard of hearing Dundee in the United King- “We are delighted that our is deaf or hard of hearing or deaf became one of nine dom, Technical Universi- CSUN students and profes- of auditory disturbances, possible projects given to ty of Kosice in Slovakia, sors took an interest and pur- such as sirens and smoke the computer science stu- Johannes Kepler University sued this initiative to ensure a alarms.” The app alerts dents. Linz in Austria, Masaryk safe environment for every- them with vibrations, text At CSUN’s SS12 com- University in the Czech one, including people who are messages and flashing petition on Feb. 9 and 10, Republic and Utrecht deaf and hard of hearing.” lights. the students were assem- School of the Arts in the At the CSUN SS12 com- Ismael Gonzalez, one of bled into teams chosen by Netherlands. petition, students used free the five winners, said the contest officials. “After experiencing software provided by the app has the potential to help Gonzales’ team included everything in the competi- university such as Eclipse, KARLA HENRY/DAILY SUNDIAL many. himself, Matthew Newbill, tion, it opened up my eyes which is an integrated drive matthew newbill, computer science major who worked on “There will be times Kyeong Hoon Jung, Chris to the developer world,” electronics (IDE) that “is able the apps development, hopes to broaden the usefullness of when (students who are Cederstrom, and Joshua Licu- Newbill said. “Whenever I to compile and run Android the application to more people with hearing impairments. deaf or hard of hearing) do. The team was assigned to develop, I think about the programs,” and Android The winning mobile appli- Neither CSUN or the stu- will be alone and they will create the alert application. competition. Everything I do automated programming cation is only available on dents who created the applica- be able to use the app to be The group had 24 hours to now is based on access. It’s interface (API), which helps Google Play, which is the tion will make a profit from it, notified of their immediate create a plan before present- changed how I develop.” communication between Android application store. It since it was produced through a surroundings (for potential ing it to judges. Newbill added that he software components. is free to download. collegiate competition. It’s Our 50th Anniversary! Help us celebrate and win! 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