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INSIDE | NEWS | P. 3 | features | P. 3 | opinion | P. 6 | sports | P. 8 Eating Disorder Young feminist perceives An independant Valley is Column: Jerry Buss is the Awareness Week seeks infl uences of gender in a happy Valley greatest sports owner of to improve body image societal interactions all time CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, NORTHRIDGE TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2013 | VOL. 54, ISS. 80 | WWW.DAILYSUNDIAL.COM New athletic director named Former director Rick Mazzuto’s successor joins CSUN after leaving University of Oklahoma opportunity that I worked hard for for the past 13 years, and quite frankly I’m CASEY DELICH ready to get to work right now. I was SPORTS EDITOR ecstatic to get the news from President Harrison.” A search committee welcomed five candidates to campus in open forums with faculty to understand and gauge Dr. Brandon Martin, a former each of the candidates’ goals for the athlete with ties to the San Fernando campus community. President Dianne Valley, was named as the new athletics F. Harrison, who announced Martin’s director at CSUN on Monday. new position, said he stood out among Martin assumes his position April 1 the other candidates. and will be among a small number of “We had a very strong pool,” Har- African-Americans, 7.4 percent, who rison said. “To Brandon’s credit he rose head athletics programs at a Division to the top of that pool. For his passion, I school, according to a press release. for his enthusiasm, for his ability to Martin held the position of senior asso- bridge athletics and academics. For his ciate athletics director for administra- energy and his focus, his integrity and tion at University of Oklahoma prior to his values, his desire to win on the field, his hiring at CSUN. on the court and in the classroom, those “This was an opportunity to make are the qualities. His hunger, his hunger history, to leave an indelible print on to put CSUN on the national map.” the Northridge community, on the San lOREN TOWNslEy / PHOTO EDITOR Fernando community and the people Newly hired Athletics Director Dr. Brandon Martin says hello to CSUN student-athlete Celena Photopulos, a junior attacker on the in this room,” Martin said. “It was an See DIREcTOR, page 7 water polo team. Clubs get new anti-discrimination rules After UC students brought litigation against clubs, CSU takes preventative measures to stave off possible court cases recognize any fraternity, sorority, living student organizations to limit member- MICHELLE REUTER group, honor society, or other student ship and who could run for officer DAILY SUNDIAL organization that discriminates on the positions,” said Ray Murillo, associ- basis of race, religion, national origin, ate director of student programs. “For ethnicity, color, age, gender, marital example, it was open for a student status, citizenship, sexual orientation, organization to say, ‘We only want or disability.” students who wear red shirts in our Last fall, a small but significant An accommodation was made for club.’ The “all-comers” policy protects change went into effect concerning how fraternities and sororities to accept everyone, not only protected groups, student clubs in the CSU function. members based on gender in Title 5 of but everyone.” Executive order 1068, known as the California Code of Regulations. The new policy ensures that any- the “all-comers” policy, is an addition The new anti-discrimination policy one can become a member or an to a provision from Jan. 30, 2006 that addresses who can run for office in CSU officer of any club. No one can be made the university’s inclusion policies student clubs and organizations. It also excluded, even if they are not a mem- official for all clubs. expands the non-discriminatory policy ber of a protected class. The original rule (executive order into an open membership requirement. 969) stated that “…no campus shall “There was still the potential of See clubs , page 4 ILLUSTRATION BY suNDIAl PRODucTION 2 News February 26, 2013 • Daily SunDial • CSun • [email protected] Gas, oil prices continue to skyrocket After oil refineries shut down to make the switch to summer gas, prices make record jumps for the last month price has gone up to $97.51 as zar said. “I’m also taking online $4.13 $4.33 MEGAN DISKIN of Feb. 12. classes, so that helps a lot.” Daily SunDial “Oil prices move gas prices, Laura Dunlap, 26, a second and whenever there’s uncer- year English graduate student, $4.37 tainty in the Middle East prices lives in Ventura County and $4.29 go up,” said Shirley Svorny, drives 50 minutes each way in a economics professor at CSUN. car she’s had since for 10 years. Gas prices have been Svorny went on to say that the “It’s a six-cylinder gas guz- $4.27 rising in the last few weeks United States actually has more zler,” Dunlap said. She tries to due to factors including the oil in shale, rocks containing fill her tank near campus because cost of crude oil and refinery natural oil, than in Saudi Arabia. it’s 10 cents less a gallon than in shutdowns. “It’s oil we didn’t know Ventura County. According to a news release we have. Now it’s a matter of Janet Tsay, 23, senior lib- from the Automobile Club of how to extract and refine it,” eral studies major, commutes Southern California, gas prices Svorny said. to campus from Rosemead, $4.35 have jumped by 57 cents in the Hydraulic fracturing, or where her boyfriend lives, or last month, one of the biggest fracking, is a technique used her home in Arcadia. jumps in a month. The average to extract petroleum and “I drive an SUV and I just price of regular gasoline in the natural gas from shale rocks. filled it up the other day,” Tsay Los Angeles-Long Beach area is Fracking is widely protested said. “It was 21 point something CSUN $4.33 $4.316 per gallon, jumping 11.3 by some in the U.S. because gallons, but it was $95.” $4.11 cents in a week. the process can contaminate Two years ago Tsay got into Several oil refineries are ground water supplies and a car accident and switched to shutting down temporarily to adds to the atmosphere’s car- a Mercedes SUV because she prepare for the switch to sum- bon dioxide levels. thought it would protect her, but $4.27 mer gasoline, and cost of oil is Mayra Salazar, 22, junior the price of gas has made her $4.27 going up. According to the U.S. business management major, has change her mind. Energy Information Administra- a one-hour commute to school. “It’s pretty much give or take tion, the cost of a barrel of crude “I commute with my dad so $100 a week,” she said. “I don’t oil was $93.09 on Jan. 4. That that helps me save money,” Sala- want to drive anymore.” gas price fun facts LEGEND 1. the u.S. consumed 18.8 million barrels of 3. increased use in domestic biofuels, domestic petroleum per day in 2011, making us the largest crude oil production and energy efficiency = Mobil = Arco = 76 petroleum consumer. reduced the need for foreign imports. = Shell = Chevron 2. u.S. dependence on oil has decreased since 4. Canada is the leading supplier of crude oil for its peak in 2005. the u.S. MAP BY JASMINE MOCHIZUKI/ aSSiStant ViSual eDitOr inFOrMatiOn COurteSy OF U.S. ENERGY INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION (EIA) Features 3 February 26, 2013 • Daily SunDial • CSun • [email protected] perspectives Feminist breaks down social norms Women’s studies major is attuned to the influence gender has on social interactions and communication she is also quick to defend light.” MICHELLE REUTER women like Sarah Palin and Her take on “The Hun- Daily SunDial Michele Bachmann. ger Games?” “Even though I don’t “Team Katniss, all the agree with them about any- way!” she said. thing really, I still don’t like Like many teenage girls, how they’re portrayed in the she read Sylvia Plath’s “The When people find out media,” she said. Bell Jar” in high school Skylar Grogan, 21, is a femi- She may not have voted for and identified with the nist, they often make assump- the McCain/Palin ticket, but main character. She finds tions about her and how she that doesn’t mean she thinks herself picking up autobi- sees the world. it’s fair to call Palin “Caribou ographies and memoirs by “Feminist” is a label that Barbie.” Belittling comments female activists like Elaine comes with all sorts of baggage and speculation about whether Brown’s “A Taste of Power: and preconceived notions. But a woman is fit for office based A Black Woman’s Story.” how does this CSUN women’s simply on biology hurts all Grogan said she’s also studies major really see herself women, she said. open to enjoying a good, old- and the world around her? “We should be criticizing fashioned trashy romance “Women’s studies has real- politicians on their policies novel or an episode of “Keep- ly opened my eyes to see how and what they’ve said in inter- ing Up With Kardashians.” people interact with each other views,” she said. “Not what “You can’t be a perfect on the basis of our gender and they look like or who they’re feminist all the time,” she said. how we communicate with married to. I wouldn’t want “Sometimes it’s nice to not each other,” she said.