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• Volume 49 • Number 11 Since 1957 Monday,October 30,2006 sundial.csun.edu A financiallyindependentstudent newspaper Recent crimes in dorms prompt police alerts DANIELANTOLIN from a male friend who told her he had DAILY SUNDIAL been approached many tii:nes by people asking for any loose change they could SUN police released CWocam- use on a parking meter. pus alerts for crimina1 inci- Mallory Fry, a deaf studies major Cdents that occurred within the who lives in Building 6, said people residence donn areas on Oct 19 and usually wait on the bottom floor of her 24, .posting them in mail and laundry building for someone to let them in so rooms, Neither crime was reported in they can pull the fire alarms. the daily crime log that is released by Jason Stoll, music major, said, "1 see CSUN Police. it happen all the time. I'll let someone The first campus alen released waiting outside in who gives me a look shows that on Oct 19 at 1:45 p.m. an because it's awkward just to rush in and unidentified African American suspect slam the door." allegedly followed a female resident Ashley McConnor, a cinema and into her dorm room and committed sex- television arts major who lives in Bay- ual battery, having asked her for money berry Hall, said it is a common occur- to use on a parking meter. The suspect is rence to see people hanging out out- reported to be driving a white aid model side of her.donn building, waiting for Ford Thunderbird, the.alert shows. someone 10 let them in. Most recently, The second campus alert released McConnor said she walked out of her NQlUG T...... "_ I tMll.Y SuNOW- shows that OR Oct 24 at 1:50 p.m Business ..... or EfraIn CUlllas walts for the tram near his donn, Oct. 24. building ill 7 am. and found a girl police receive a phone call from a resi- waiting for someone to let her In so she dent who said two groups of individuals could visit a friend. were allegedly having a "verbal alter- McConoor said her friend, who 'Staffing issues' slow down tram service cation." Some of the people involved lives in Building 10, told her that a were reponed to be carrying firearms. female resident in her building was YOLANDA BECERRA been running more sporadically !his Tiana Tan second-year business Within the course of the investi- raped last week, which she was told DAlLY SUNDiAL serne:ster." major. "I've had 10 walk: five times gation, university police found that it prompted a floor meeting. Some tram. drivers have had to this semester and l.hate thai: shit. .. was two groups of African American Sasha Alonzo, an undecided major, popuIat"'l' student service pick up extra shifts and have had their Broadcast journalism maio' Om- students who were not CSUN students. said that she was in her friend's dorm has been ftieing ..staffing bows _to holp cope _Ihe dice: Rander said that she bas. been The investigation found that at least room on the second floor of the same MJ'. .. which have caused "staffing issue." late to class eight times and has had one suspect pulled out a firearm and building last Wednesday while her several stUdents 10 be late to class ilolh _ and Logan said to walk three times to class but th3t it threatened the other group. Police then friend was in class. Alonzo said she and made COUDlIess oIbcrs face the that they are in the precess of hiring doesn't bother her. chased two unnamed suspects on foot walked' out of the donn room to see dreaded walk ftom the donns to the more drivers and that the issue should 'Ibere are also those who say l:hat and arrested them. The matter is still police rushing past ber with rifles. They _US. be resolved by the middle of Novem- the ttams have ~ been a problem for under investigation. told her to leave the building, she said. ApproxUnalely SO,OOO to60.000 ber or December. them. Kazumi Matsui., a transfer stu- CSUN police did not return repeated The second floor's resident adviser later tram trips are taken tvef}' month. This proVides little comfort to dent frorit San Jose, said lhat she has calls made by the Daily Sundial for told her and her friend that a girl was according to tranSpl:lItatio coonlina- $tUdents since it m.eans !hat they will not been affected by the delays but additional information, assaulted by a guest outside ber dorm tor Astrid B. Logan. have to pottntiaUy bear the situatiQn that she is aware of the problem. Samantha Hannati, a magazine jour- room and that the perpetrator was alleg- "It is a very popular service," said the entire semester. j) na~ism major who lives in Building 11, edly canying some kind of weapon and CaptainAlfredo Fernandez, but given ''I haven't been late but I've had said she heard about me sexual battery making verballhreats, Alonzo said the shortage in drivers, "trams have to walk, but l don 'I like that,": said See TRAMS, page 3 'Convergence' exhibition reveals Master of Fine Arts students' work equivalent of a Ph.D. to get some exposure, to Program The exhibit, which is strum up some interest," located on the second floor said Tim Forcum, a part- encourages of Manzanita, includes met- time painting instructor expression alwork, illustration, pho- here at CSUN who attended tography, video stills, and the event. DANIELLE R. SWOPES the designs for public art Forcum thought that the DAILY SUNDIAl. at the Sepulveda Metrolink use of Manzanita as the station. venue was a good idea, "so n exhibition of The exhibition is called the rest of the campus can works from Master "Convergence," referring start to see what's being A of Fine Arts stu- to the convergence of the done in the art department," dents in the art department different artists, different and possibly become inter- went on display Thursday art forms, and the partner- ested enough to take a night in Manzanita Hall, ship between Manzanita class. CARLA ACIlVEDD.ELDRIEDGE J DAllY $lJNDJAL and will be there until Nov. Hall and the Art and Design The art department has- CSUN photojournalism professor David Blumenkrantz: had his piece "]2 Reasons 6. Center. (to move to the country)" In the master of fine arts program exhibition, which The MFA is the art "It's a good effort to try See MFA, page 3 opened on Thursday • • INDEX OPINION SPORTS TODAY'S WEATHER Opinion 8 Secret service look Daily Spotlight 9 UCSB exacts its Classifieds 10 & II at MySpace revenge S"""' 11 Sunny SEE PAGE 8 SEE PAGE 12 HIGH 7S LOW S 1 1 • 'Daily Sundial· CSUN • Mooday, October 30, 2006 UIWS---------------------- EVOL ... Apartment management firm to pay $125,000 in lawsuit GARDEN GROVE, Calif. (AP) - An apartment mana- gement finn that fined tenants $25 when their children stepped on the lawn or played noisily will pay $125,000 to settle a housing discrimination lawsuit. Tenants of the Stuart Drive/Rose Garden Apartments said the fines were added to the rent and late fees were imposed on unpaid fines. "There was an incredible frustration on the part of the tenants. They didn't think it was fair that the'children couldn't play outside," said Angie Coronel of the Fair Housing Council of Orange County, which investigated the complaints. Without admitting wrongdoing, Laguna Hills-based Ber- tram Management agreed to pay $115,000 in damages, change its tenant policy and attend fair housing training for five years. Benram said in a statement that the cost of continuing litigation was the reason for settling. Under the tenant lease contract, according to former pro- perty manager Sorin Ghimbasanu, fines were levied for chi- ldren playing outside and for kids making too much noise. City leaders' 2007 raise increases by nearly 5 percent LOS ANGELES (AP) -Already high paid city leaders __ ~ I ONLY Sl.JNOio'IL are getting a nearly 5 percent cost-of-living pay hike on top IfaJ'ler &a.......... eo-tnr H..... try to'" t:hII word................... " of the 8.5 percent raise they get io2007. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's salary will jump from $195,904 to $223,141, more than Gov. Arnold Schwarze- negger's $206,500, if the governor obese to collect it, and Movie, television filming thrives on campus Vice President Dick Cheney's $212,000. "Angelenos get a meat value for their tID:: dollars from web site, the filming on cam- The fees for fLIming are $4 per hour per number of Mayor Villaraigosa. He's the hardest-working mayor in $5,350 per day pus should not interfere with waived for CSUN students spaces used. America," mayoral press secretary Joe RamaUo said. to use CSUN normal university business or who need to use the campus "The film industry works The California Judicial Council recently told city leaders previously scheduled events. for class projects approved so quickly," Evans said. they would soon receive an additional 4.98 percent coat-of- for movie Tbe specified campus by the director of the cinema In the movie "Sky High," living boost retroactive to July I. They get the~.5 percent locations will be approved for and television arts depart- starring Michael Angarano raise Jan. I. JILLIAN BALLARD specific date(s) and time(s) ment. A permit letter from and Kurt Russell, the Oviatt Already the nation's highest paid City Council, salaries DAILY SUNDIAL five days prior to the filming.